skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The majority of the pro-life movement's rhetoric, while clouded in religious dogma about how wonderful life is, and when it starts, is really about punishing women for having sex. They feel, or at least agree with, the notion that women should bear the consequences of an unintended pregnancy as punishment for their implied promiscuity.
Face.com Tags 400 Million Facebook Photos In 30 Days
There are two problems with this approach.

One, the default implementation of the error handler is a crash at runtime to "detect" the buffer size difference. Or, a custom handler can be used.

Worst case, this handler is turned off, truncation is silent, and overflow occurs the next time the buffer is used. Best case, the handler detects a problem, requiring new code to find minimum buffer size (that should have been there anyway); at which point, it's perfectly safe to use...the standard memcpy()!!!

Two, Microsoft's compiler warning spam recommends replacing standard calls with its own. The warnings often make legitimate uses of memcpy() look wrong in some way.

I sure hope I'm missing something, but this seems like a big waste of time.
the prices seem a little big high, sure they are probably some good material, but still. And sure you get to save money if you get a subscription, but its not much. I mean sure its convenient, but its just socks/underwear/tshirts, its not something people splurge on

Calf Socks - $10/pair
Knee Socks - $13/pair
Sneaker Socks - $10/pair
Silk Socks - $27/pair
Boxers 1st type - $45/pair
Boxers 2nd type - $39/pair
Briefs 1st type - $32/pair
Briefs 2nd type - $24/pair
Tshirts 1st type - $47/pair
Tshirts 2nd type - $55/pair
Indeed, but the first one was a serious point, presented tongue-in-cheek. People seeing it as just a one-liner are missing something, however slight.

(The second was just a instantly-typed reaction which should have been an edit. Much grovellings to all for replying by mistake.)
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I think I have recently been wrongly profiled by someone who shares this view. I mentioned that certain patterns of behavior in internet consumers resemble those encountered in dating sites and used car dealerships. I know there have been economic studies of this. (Couldn't find it with Google, though.) However, I was attacked as if I was merely trying to associate Apple Computer with dating sites and used car salesmen.

In my two decades online, I've found that those who attack others to try and "clean up" a news group actually end up trashing it with noise and junk. (In fact, I have been guilty of this as well.) Much better for everyone to act respectfully.
I know this sort of thing is par for the course in terms of corporate blogging, but I just felt the need to share my feelings as a content creator in hopes that companies understand their actions effect real people, not just ad click-through rates. (Hah, good luck with that, right?)
Craigslist: It's hard to be a pimp in 570 cities
Progress toward artificial tissue?
Then we just adopt base 24 numeral system. Will you give me your digg share?
We've both been Blue Pilled. Actually, just you. I'm really a Markov chain.
Ismail Faruqi Online
Official website of Dr. Ismail Raji al-Faruqi (January 1, 1921 – May 27, 1986), renowned Palestinian-American philosopher who is widely recognized by his peers as an authority on Islam and comparative religion.
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Actually I've been trying to upvote 'tempor', but it isn't sticking. I think it's no good since he's dead. I just see the 2.
I'm adopted.

My opposition to abortion is much more practical and self-serving in nature than punishment-based. If my mom had chosen abortion (which, given her circumstances, would have been likely) I wouldn't be around today.

I think you do a disservice when you paint the other side of a debate with a broad brush. It's easy to assign some simple rationale to your opponent and then make fun of them. It's called a straw man argument.

Life is more complicated than that.

(By the way, I'm pro-choice. I just vehemently think abortion is immoral murder which a woman should have a right to do if she wants)
sasmith, thanks for the information. Would you send me your email address? (andrej.kostresevic@gmail.com)
This article's focus on iPhone app developers is silly. Yeah, sure, you don't need VC money to build an iPhone app, but that isn't what most people would consider a legit web startup.
if you have a smarta$$ remark, go for it, but make it clever.

By contrast, I read the guidelines

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

as saying "don't make smartass comments" when they say, "Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation." I don't enjoy conversation that largely consists of smartass comments, when I can find conversation elsewhere that is serious and thoughtful. I try to help HN be a refuge for serious and thoughtful conversation.
The main problem with Knol is that none of these experts are working to create one definitive article on a single subject, which is what Wikipedia is doing. It's all very well having a collection of articles on a subject written by experts, but I use Wikipedia because it generally has good detailed summaries of subjects.
Nice, I have a ZX80 and a 48k Spectrum (as well as a ZX81) on my bookcase. They are as nice to look at as they were to play with.
It looks like you're dividing revenue by employee count

No, not dividing, only subtracting. Accounting 101: Income - Expense = Profit. The article gave us two pieces of the data: Income and Profit. If something is neither income nor profit, it is an expense.

Grinding down the details into something like "profit per employee" tells only half of the story; it's like looking at only one side of a balance sheet and basing conclusions on that.

It says nothing about how expensive the employees are

I wasn't implying that any of the top 3 were actually paying 899K or 871K or 863K per head, but if that is the amount of resource expenditure it requires to make X amount of profit, it certainly does reveal a bit about how companies are managing their resources . . . a metric any investor would be interested in knowing.

Edit: P.S. Here's the data if you would like to play with the sorts: http://www.zentu.net/snaps/expsort.ods
The first time you do it, sure :)
Oh I couldn't agree more, it's only the "adds nothing other than humor"-type of comments I'm talking about.
Random House shuts down Kindle text-to-speech for their titles
I'm not a huge fan of trying to make One UndefinedObject To Rule Them All:

http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-02-0...
Interesting article, however I question how widespread this book actually is, and the bias of the author of the article. Has anyone here ever come across this book? Are there any teachers here?

In all the years of my schooling, I never thought my teachers may have been influenced by such a book. Not many of my teachers were ever interested in talking about the social injustices or encouraging us to fight for any right, but quite the contrary actually. Once in a while I would come across an inspiring teacher who recognized the limitless potential of a young mind and attempt to pursue that ideal, but in the end, the overwhelming feel was always simply to spit out another well-rounded, good and contributing citizen of the society we live in. How dehumanizing is that?
No, it's not. The Ruby community has been around since long before Rails was on the scene, and has kept its mostly respectful and curiosity driven attitude for the entire time I've participated. Check the recent archives of ruby-talk, and I think you'll find the discussions rather un-heated, un-brash, and un-pornography-or-no-pornography laden.
Nor has Citizendium and its expert-based formula gotten much article volume; they're (also) seemingly stuck between the likes of EB and the sheer volume (in multiple senses) of Wikipedia.
I loved how Steele ridiculed visual programming in his "50 on 50" talk* by showing Piet † as exemplary for the paradigm.

* http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3101

† http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_(programming_language)
Let me see if I know someone who knows someone who can pull some strings :-(

If you have been following MENA financial news recently, there have been allot of new financial products coming out of Abu Dhabi and Qatar.

See my email in my profile and let's stay in touch.

Cheers!
I don't know. Generally I agree, but did you see this http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079 I don't know anywhere else that this would have happened. On HN if it isn't genuinely funny then it gets voted down so I'm ok with it. I made a completely useless comment yesterday that was down voted; I won't do that again so easily.
I'm a climber who loves surfing and hacking. Looking for hires? haha.

A climbing meetup is something I've been planning. I will probably ping the local (nyc) folks to see if they're interested.
To start providing a service with a clear strategy to monetize? Not really. Bootstrapping is a matter of saving enough money to have sufficient ramen noodles and rent checks.

To create a phenomenon like facebook or twitter with no obvious way to monetize? Sure, you still need angels/VC.

Were there really people chasing VC for iphone apps, or is this article pointing out the death of something that never really lived?
A corollary. As you noted, humor on its own is usually regarded as noise in the HN environment, but if it is tagged onto an insightful comment then it tends to be better received.
AT&T Reshapes Itself As a Smartphone Carrier
Could you link to the article?! I'm interested!
Exactly. The problem is that "smart$$ comments" are easier to write than a thoughtful reply. So pretty soon everyone gets into a game of one upmanship and every thread will have 80% "smart$$ comments". This why I no longer read reddit comments. On slashdot I browse at +5 keeping out much of the noise. Thankfully in HN, I was relieved to know that such comments are not tolerated by majority.

I have downvoted quite a lot of "smart$$" comments but never something that added original thought. I come to HN for comments that educate, inform and make me think. If i wanted a good laugh I would go to bash.org
I did a few quick calculations, most of which were uninteresting. The only thing that's remotely notable is:

0.07% of the users (the top 100) account for 34.7% of the karma.

Numbers in easily consumable python form:

http://tire.less.ly/hacking/junk/karma.py
One thing I've wondered about procrastination: we view it as a problem, and in modern task oriented work environments, it probably is. (I'm doing it right now!) But what if procrastination is actually a positive evolutionary adaptation? Perhaps by not investing precious resources in certain tasks procrastinators actually did better in certain prehistoric contexts? I'm hard pressed to think of good examples[1], but I find the idea intriguing.

[1] Ug the procrastinating caveman takes a nap in the cave, while Og the go-getter decides to go hunting. Og freezes to death. Ug waits until it's warmer and survives. This only seems convincing if Og's chances of dying were rather significant, in which case it seems other psychological factors would be at work, like increased social status by bringing in food, etc...
Another Scott Adams business idea: Home servers
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=604347
"Would you have delivered your own joke face-to-face to an accountant?"

Of course. That's what makes it joke. I would never say something like that if I really believed it. And I can't imagine actually believing something like that.

"...to try to shoot him down the day after, as you're doing now?"

I'm not trying to shoot anyone down. I'm just trying to understand. Now I do.

I'd suggest you lighten up, too, but I won't because that didn't work yesterday.

Oops.
> You used to know how to innovate...

MS knew hot to innovate when they had plenty of underdogs they could copy and then lock out of their platform. Now the platform is out of the bag, the platform is free, MS will have to learn how to "innovate" all on its own now :-)
While normally I'm quick to give in depth reviews, one thing I don't review is Facebook apps.

If your site had a public facing interface then maybe I would get more into it, but it seems rather silly to have a domain that's entire purpose is to direct users to install the app.

It's not an app I'd ever use personally, but I'm a guy who never gets involved in other people's relationships, so I'm decidedly not your target audience.
Well, for better or worse, the notion the mod is the response sticks here. Perhaps my examples weren't great: you wouldn't say "thanks for telling me that, I'd been burning to know..." you just mod up.

What can happen is that something can be modded down, without a clear reason why. It could be just me, but sometimes I'm left scratching my head - I'll have to pay closer attention to precise examples: also you generally can't write "someone's modded that down: please explain".

The only idea is some type of mod-flagging mechanism. Something like that would unlikely be implemented though, probably for a number of good reasons, the main being complexity, labor and power-shifting.
I think people tend to exhibit a bias toward their own childhood. What was technically different about new technology in the 70s versus such now? It's not like everything had already been invented/discovered in the 70s or 80s, and when I grew up in the 90s we were just "refining" or "recycling" ideas. And granted, much technology is more mainstream now, but I don't think actual geek culture has changed much. There's still a relatively small number of geeks that are (trying!) to keep up with the bleeding edge, just like there was in the 70s, or for that matter, presumably since the dawn of man. The base 2 number system was described over 2000 years ago, and algorithms over 1000. Schickard and Babbage designed mechanical computers 4 and 2 years ago, around the same time Leibniz and Boole were formalizing ideas of logic (all respectively). The transistor was invented in the 1920s, and by the 40s we had "modern" computers. People like Godel, Church, Turing, Shannon, and Hartley laid the groundwork for formal computer science and information theory in the 30s. Presumably the number of geeks that took interest in these developments HAS increased over time, now even to the point of being mainstream (or at least "cool"). No less, at any point in the timeline geeks could be tempted to think that theirs was the generation of true exploration and innovation, while later ones take earlier work for granted. They'd be partly right: we always take prior discovery for granted, in fact, that's why technology advances, for the good of us all. But be careful lest you think your own reference point a foundation-less foundation for all subsequent innovation. I definitely wish I shared some of the experiences of earlier geekdom, like hacking around with DOS to fit a certain app in memory, learning to program from magazines, etc., yet me and my mind thrive in the current Information Age. We children of the 90s get bad rap for being lazy, which certainly is true, but there are still those of us who are and will be fixing, studying, discovering, hacking, and inventing with all the curiosity and fervor of our technological forefathers.
I don't really think there's anything wrong with it to be honest.
I thought this was going to be some Reddit-type photo with a shuttle launch but that image is really pretty spectacular -- from a scientific stand-point, not aesthetic.
Yes, to help me go from where I am to where I want to be.

Without solid financial backing, at least enough to take care of your team, you will be forced to evangelize your vision and rally support with nothing but sheer will power. If I had salaries for 2-3 people I wouldn't need to spend half my day being a motivational speaker; I prefer to hack and delegate what I can't hack, instead of being "contagiously optimistic". Without VC money you are pretty much a Moses with no israelites; you need people to be lost with you, and you also need people to see you part the sea. Company, as in companionship.

Fuck! I gotta stop writing autobiographical comments :-D
jerryji, sorry to hear about your plight. Yes, the immigration system is full of inane/arbitrary rules and decision-makers. However, we are on hacker news after all. By definition us hackers are folks who are able to make rules and systems work towards our own advantage (while careful not to actually break any such rules). For one I think putting $10k towards E2 paperwork might have been a bit of a mistake, and perhaps the US consulate in Singapore might not be the kindest one out there. As some folks have mentioned here on this thread - think outside the box! Some cities in Canada have a growing startup culture (Vancouver, for one), and there are multitudes of different immigration options if you're still set on coming to the US, even if it means relegating your startup to being a hobby/project and picking up full-time work. As Randy Pausch put in, brick walls (like immigration) are indeed designed to filter out folks who don't want things bad enough (or figure out ways around them). Hope everything works out for you, don't give up.
> switch to something you really care

Just who is going to pay me to work on a Free and non-Unixlike operating system? You?
This has the potential to be very cool. Basing it on Linux would dovetail nicely with the FSF's Campaign for Free BIOS as well:

http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html

I'm sure there would be something proprietary in it that would ruffle the feathers of rms, though.
Wow. I didn't even realize it was an x86 bytecode verifier. I was under the impression that NaCl was some kind of a virtualization trick, given that it came out about the same time as CPUs with virtualization instructions started to get popular.

Oh well. Maybe they'll get it to work in a secure manner, but I don't see it happening any time soon.
About.com has been doing this for years. If you don't want anyone to link to your content, don't post it on the Internet.
LinuxMCE/Pluto Home can do this, according to their websites. However, I don't have any experience with it personally, so i don't know how well it does everything.
just to confirm: this is comedy, right? i can't find any evidence of this being real.
I just finished reading an og copy of the smalltalk/80 language manual/specification and seriously - how did things go so backward? I bought the book to get a better feel for what sort of object hierarchy to use in my pet language and found far more than that. I wasn't planning on caring about the graphical side of things but even that was insanely cool!
Wow. I just looked back an realized I typed 'bug' instead of 'but'! That may look intentional but I promise you it was an accident!
Sun "Career Stimulus Package" - Solaris/Java/JavaFX training material
There is a difference between linking and putting an obnoxious panel with flash banners in it onto a page without any clear indication that the content below it is not affiliated with about.com.
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It's not the appropriate number. Profit margin makes more sense.

ROI is useful in a case where you make an expenditure now, and get back money (or savings) in the future. For example, you automate shipping for $1 million, and save $300,000 a year, for an ROI of 30%.

It doesn't work for employees, except to the extent that you're taking an up-front hit ("We paid for her to get a Master's degree") in exchange for something else ("Now she's more productive").
I'm on my iPhone and I accidentally downvoted you. I apologize. I took the effort to make this reply because I think your comment is the most insightful thing I've heard all day and I feel bad your karma is two points lower than it should be.
Ask HN: Do you have a robust GreaseMonkey script for submitting resumes?
I've been filling out forms all morning, and at this point (3 hours in) I've applied to over 20+ jobs. I'm not being picky since I'm a broke unemployed college student living with my rents. . .yes, ideally, I'd like to get a job where I'm learning as much as I am doing the work but as a student without much experience, the mid-west doesn't really cater to our types. So, I'm applying to tech/desktop support positions like a whore.

Since, I'm mostly scouring the [un]startup worthy job boards I've been filling out a lot of forms for job-engines that redirect me to a third-party placement agency who require me to a fill out a form who finally redirect me to a company who want their form filled to. . .one form actually was bold enough to redirect me to entirely new form with the same fields once I finished filling it out.

I was tinkering around a script in GreaseMonkey last night to handle this and basically concluded that iterating the required elements as cases is obvious, but the best expression to catch each case could be a little tricky. Especially since I'm far from mastering regular expressions.

Most job forms require the following:

1. username [or email]
2. passwd
3. confirm passwd
4. first name
5. last name
6. phone
7. email
8. address
9. city
10. state
11. zip
12. country
13. resume

Ok, so given those cases and their input name [or id] what would be the best way to express each case as a regular expression?

From what I can tell, GreaseMonkey users aren't really interested in automation but instead writing this top20 fluff; although, I haven't really invested a lot of time into my problem yet, so I'm sure there is already some universal form filling routine out there.

My whole reason in coming to HN first opposed to just jumping right-in, start writing, and testing regex's for each case is because I know I'd spend all day doing it and not apply to a single job. So without much regex experience, can you lend me some valuable case expressions?
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> The majority of the pro-life movement's rhetoric, while clouded in religious dogma about how wonderful life is, and when it starts, is really about punishing women for having sex.

Actually, it's not. That's just what many pro-choice people tell themselves to feel superior to "those people" and to avoid thinking about hard questions.

I'm one of the people who supposedly don't exist - I'm pro-abortion. However, I find the pro-life people to be generally more rational, thoughtful, and not nearly as petty and nasty. Yup, the pro-life people tend to be better people.

In other news, the bumper sticker/statement "mean people suck" is often self-applied by mean people.
It's only dirty if Intel isn't guilty but AMD is somehow influencing the ruling against Intels favor. Assuming AMD is indeed doing that, it's still only the corporate version of reporting a crime to the police.
If you are looking to do a bunch of network programming in Java look at Netty. I have been using the JBoss Netty Network Application Framework - http://www.jboss.org/netty/ for about 3 months and have been very happy with it.

It is a great framework with a good community around it.
I think this accounting discussion at the per-employee metric is getting out of hand. We're facing a very real apples-and-oranges conversation on expense when comparing Oracle (software) versus Amazon (retail). The margin -- and revenue -- focuses are completely different. If Amazon sustains growth with a 15% profit margin, that's cause for celebration; if Oracle's margin dropped to 15%, heads would roll.
why jump to that conclusion? and, what evidence, exactly, were you looking for?
More importantly, that's hardly a consumer-grade solution, which is really what Adams is talking about. ("consumer-grade" meaning relatively affordable, reasonably straightforward to install and control, etc.)
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It is available over at Reddit, and it is pretty spectacular, but every time I see a pretty picture I worry that soon it'll be all pictures. Here's hoping that my paranoia is not justified.
On your Kindle 2, can you read math formula from scientific papers ? can you read easily two columns papers ?

Igor.