skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that it's also useful but this is not black and white. It's not one ore the other, it should be both.
Because when your flying into a storm front in the middle of the atlantic you are on your own and it's not that interpreting a satellite picture is a black art like radar. Besides that's why there are 2 of them in the cockpit. If a pilot can't handle that he shouldn't be flying a plane.
It's like saying we shouldn't invest in new CT machines or other better medical imagery, doctors have more than enough data to handle.
A software equivalent could be a GUI program which steers the mouse pointer to the close-button in the window's title bar and synthesizes a click there.
despite the consensus among professional economists that a gold-standard prevented governments from responding quickly to monetary crises; when an economy faltered, treasuries couldn’t easily manufacture gold bars to stimulate it.

this is a feature not a bug. the economists who support government monetarism are shills.
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Misleading title. This is just a standard USB memory key decorated with some parts from a mechanical watch.
Nice craftmanship though.
Oh, I think I know what you mean. We used to have one, a Peugeot. Something like this: http://www.vintagebikeguys.com/images/OurBritBikes/pages/pgo...
This story is a good example of naively believing that law is about justice. It doesn't matter whether or not you're technically breaking the law. If the powers that be take a dim view of your outfit something will be drummed up.
nevermind, you apperently can already do that. ( http://www.symantec.com/connect/articles/custom-firefox-inst... )
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If you liked that, you'd probably enjoy the steampunk laptop.

http://www.datamancer.net/steampunklaptop/steampunklaptop.ht...

Personally I prefer functionally tactile artifacts to imitation tactile artifacts, but both of them do look pretty cool. (Imagine the difference between a mechanical wristwatch and an electronic wristwatch which has an internal speaker emit a ticking sound. The electronic wristwatch keeps better time, but if you're going for extravagantly wasteful obsolete technology, then go for the freaking gold.)
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Sorry, I just took the title from the page.
If it's long, but the questions are mundane and trivial, is it still brutal?
I knew a kid in high school who used to buy marijuana from Amsterdam over the internet using e-gold
I once hacked together an automatic e-gold payment system for some guy in Egypt who had to do thousands of tiny payments in the next 24 hours (must have been some kind of pyramid scam or one of those 'high yield investment' schemes popular among a certain e-gold public - I didn't realize this when I took the job, I just saw the cool challenge). Of course I got paid $2000 through e-gold, all very hush hush.
At first I thought it was just another of those 'ask the intarwebs!' sites where people just twitter or post to each other, but on further inspection I was very taken with the scoring system and the ability to rate the poster's good and bad reasons.

It looks like quite a bit more work to create the question than is usually the case, which might be a disincentive for some - although it will also help them to focus on the issue at hand. The layout is a little confusing at first and god only knows why you made the search box background color to dark grey against a black background - I found myself wondering why there was a search button with no search box until I looked more closely. I think you could use a one line explanation like 'Our members help you rate and discover your options' on the landing page, because it took me a couple of minutes to realize that the stars and ratings were functional rather than mere window-dressing. your 'about' page does this very well, why not use the top two elements from that (title and icons)?

It also wasn't obvious to me that the 'good/bad because...boxes were text fields at first. Stick a flashing cursor in them or something, because they look like headers.

For a site with so few questions and needing a network effect to take off, I'm already impressed and think you're onto a winner here. I would even suggest spinning off a 'pro' version aimed at business or other markets so that professional users who could really gain from this won't have to encounter questions of the 'how does I shot web' variety. Also, find some way to embed it besides the x-posting to twitter, FB and LI. And why aren't you posting 'How can we make CrowdMind better?' as one of your featured questions, you silly-billies!?

Overall, excellent: simple but not shallow.
I find this USB stick distasteful. It's not mechanical, all the gears do nothing. The designer took parts that had a precise function and rearranged them into something useless for appearance's sake.

This is probably a weird reaction, but maybe other hackers felt the same way.
I'm told our pedestals are in the mail
Excellent analysis!
There are also people buying solely on price, who after comparing it against a free flip-phone, will spring for the $99 iPhone as a (relative) luxury.
I thought the questions were fun, I would have enjoyed answering them.
Your reaction makes sense to me. I did cringe a little bit when I read that he took some of the parts from watches that were over 100 years old.

It still looked pretty cool, though. I'm curious to see what else could be done along these lines. The laptop patio11 posted looks incredible.
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I think the worst part is that he was cooperating with them, and trying to do the right thing, but instead of them helping him to obey the law they were carrying out an investigation.
And HN policy says this is right, doesn't it? But perhaps we should allow editorializing titles when they are misleading or sensationalist.
Very impressive! Thanks. Most mods don't hold my attention for very long, but that just looks incredible.
What a gorgeous piece of craftsmanship. I would love a gift certificate to etsy.
I am amused by the tutor's use of the construction "would have went with" in his response. Someone who charges money for his English instruction should probably proofread his email (or learn grammar).
I think the best punishment would be letting them keep that awful logo.
We do have walk-only zones in most inner-cities in Germany. They are called Fußgängerzonen (pedestrian areas). They are usually the main shopping avenues.

I am surprised that something as everyday as these gets suggested as an outlandish experiment. ;o)
Really? I think the worst part is that he operated his business without regard to either government regulations or his user's TOS, and seemed to think it would all work out ok for him because he meant well.

I'm amazed the word "hubris" didn't come up in every second paragraph.
E-Gold was Paypal... minus a few hundred million in VC funding and savvy.

Paypal actually spent a few hundred million on savvy -- in learning to defang fraud and abuse of the system. They also gave the finger to financial regulators for a few years, a decision which would probably have resulted in monitoring bracelets for all concerned if they had not been funded and then acquired. (If you have $200 million, you are ipso facto not a criminal enterprise, right? Even if money launderers happen to use your service.)

The protestations of ignorance on the part of e-gold are, ahem, a little rich. Crikey, I was in high school back when they launched and I understood they were a hive of scum and villainy with one look at the people advertising them -- how could they possibly not have understood that?
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That's stirring and all, but notice that Munroe is not in the habit of pissing off his fans/customers (nor should he).

Me, I like having business guys drop tough problems and big checks in my lap, and it's worth being nonthreatening to have that. Flying my freak flag just means I'd have to be self-employed, which involves spending a lot of time not coding.
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I keep hearing "meat racks" in my head. Not sure if anyone else will, perhaps I'm just hungry.
Some cheap and healthy things: Oat meal, beans, tea / water, fruits of the season, yoghurt, rice, pasta, potatoes, sweet potatoes, cabbage.

I can easily imagine eating for around 2 Euro a day or even less. It just would not be as much fun. So I get around with 5 to 7 Euro, that allows me to add delicious ham and some other meat to my diet in small portions.
I think it should really be a personal decision.

Maybe you're luckier than he is in other ways. Maybe he'll create something great by using the knowledge which will benefit everybody. Maybe he can't buy the book at all, so downloading might not have that bad an effect.

I personally feel all creative content should be through some sort of a rental model (e.g. pay per view) that takes into account lots of different details like affordability, amount of use, importance, relative importance to other content etc.

In this way, if I still get to keep every book on the planet, but if I just spent a few seconds on it browsing the pages, I'm not really going to get charged for it.

Although, a lot of popular books make money because of their popularity and the big names associated with them and not because they get read so much.
Question 1 sort of feels like another essay question where the good answer [to "which viewpoint is best"] is "it depends," but the "correct" answer is "let's see how well I can support one of these viewpoints by selectively ignoring scenarios when the others are more applicable." Which reminds me of the SAT. Seems like there's some consistency between standardized testing in the US and in China -- it's crappy everywhere (although certainly done with more style in China).
Math test (in Chinese) if anyone is interested

Version 1 for BS
http://edu.sina.com.cn/shiti/2009/0607/1750010465.html

Version 1 for BA
http://edu.sina.com.cn/shiti/2009/0607/1930010486.html

Version 2 for BS
http://edu.sina.com.cn/shiti/2009/0607/1958010489.html

Version 2 for BA
http://edu.sina.com.cn/shiti/2009/0608/1416010515.html

English test

Version 1
http://edu.sina.com.cn/shiti/2009/0608/1916010543.html

Version 2
http://edu.sina.com.cn/shiti/2009/0609/0010010616.html

See rest of the tests (History, Geograph, Chemistry, etc) here, all of them are in Chinese through.
http://edu.sina.com.cn/gaokao/2009gdgaokaoztjdp/index.html
I'm not sure I should admit this, but I was fired from a job (while I was in college) in rather similar fashion. I don't think it's even that unusual.

Think about it. The boss KNOWS this guy is making fun of him in a very public way. He's calmed down (he thinks), he's going to have a really rational conversation with this guy. He's going to work with him... and then the guy starts smirking a bit, starts sort of mocking him a bit. The real anger comes out.. he gets pissed... and great drama ensues.

It happens.
Did he sell it for only $10??
This reminds me of the writing section of the SAT2/GRE. I'm more curious about what high scoring answers look like in relation to what a high scoring answer might look on the SAT2.

For example, does basing arguments around an obscure (but not pretentious) chinese proverb/idiom net you points in the same way you get bonus point for alluding to a literary classic here? Do long winded arguments ding you?

The other funny thing is that I hear lots of stories about how kids literally study themselves to death for these exams, yet writing an essay is an art that benefits from exactly the opposite: instead of studying hard, having lots of life experience outside the classroom almost always helps more.
I think it was a passage in Chinese that needed to be translated into English.
No, it's not just you. Mrs Browl and I felt similar disappointment...as she said, he only had to get one wheel to move and then connect others. Which would still have been aesthetic rather than functional, but would have served the function of showing you it was alive.

Perhaps in version #4.
No, that's shipping.
It's hard to tell from the article if this reflects the overall reality in the Manhattan real estate market, or if this is just a real estate industry PR piece.
The main page is pretty slick, though you might want to think about using at least slightly different styles for the "Considering" and "Looking for" sections.

The "get a bigger crowd" options are a really good idea.

However, the question/answer pages are rather crowded. A clearer seperation of elements would probably make it easier to see what's going on where. Also, the "Reason (intellect)" section has good functional elements for rating/feedback, but the "Attribute Ratings (feelings)" part doesn't. Why a drop down menu? That's an extra two clicks for every rating I want to give.

EDIT: And the "0" button for a 0 star rating doesn't feel intuitive and I don't see why it's even needed.
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My parents are cleaners, but I'm not sure how much knowing me helps my peers at Princeton talk to them. It definitely helps, but the extent is hazy enough and more importantly my situation rare enough that I understand his point. Moreover, many people don't have any idea the backgrounds their friends come from: they can simply assume their friends are in a similar situation, since this assumption is right in a vast majority of cases.
No, but it does look that way at first. $10 was just the shipping cost. The key sold for $165.

The idea of selling that for $10 seems almost criminal! Actually, even $165 sounds low, considering the time and parts he put into it.
As I'm sure you're aware, http://ask.metafilter.com does the same thing. I use it because of the MetaFilter community: I have a general understanding of the demographic, morals, values and politics of the people I'm asking questions of. I also know that people's answers must be posted with an account they probably value because they have paid $5 to create it.

Do you plan to foster a community with certain features? Or are you looking for a broader range of people?
The UI needs some work. The Viget Labs page looks really slick, so whoever did that should take a crack at crowdmind. I won't sign in to sketchy looking websites, even if it is with OpenID.
And here we have a massive movement from programmers saying "how come ? You are wrong, I communicate well. If you communicate bad, you are bad programmer."

Well, that sounds like healthy putting yourself in question, and healthy communication "You're wrong, because you are".

About me, I don't think I'm an awful programmer, but I see many valid points in this (mostly about the "i explained it to you once, how come you don't get it !" :P).

Quite interesting read, not especially to take as a direct truth, more to lightly smile about it.
Obviously, the "better you program", the less you are open to light criticism.
When I see stuff like this on the main page, I wish to have a downvote button on the posts!
Paper computing (video)
I agree entirely! I see a lot of 'steampunk' thinks like this pop up on the MAKE Magazine blog (and similar) and have always found it somewhat onanistic, despite the face-value beauty of some of the pieces.

In the end, I feel that form should follow function. Making something like this look like it should be functioning in ways that it never will perhaps just serves to outline its mundanity.

(Ooh err, I've probably gone and thought about it too much again.)
It depends on many things, such as whether or not you believe in intellectual property.
Agreed, breaking his TOS was wrong; but without regard to government regulation is how almost all businesses start & with its ever growing size it becomes harder and harder become and maintain compliance. I believe early paypal was also operating without regard to government regulations for quite a long time.
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Er .. why should the pilot interpret it, can't we have a specialist inside the cockpit to interpret the meteorological data ?!
location is important. our location is the mission district of san francisco.
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I have a pretty niche taste in music, so it might be worth my while uploading all my music so I can access it from anywhere. However, if I had a normal taste in music, why would I not just use Spotify?
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> He maintains that he would have done what authorities now want him to do, if they’d just worked with him to devise a plan, instead of treating him like a criminal.

Given the depiction of this guy's persona, this statement seems accurate. Why would the Feds nail him like this?
It's all integers, man!
It would be possibly to make them deployable, but use of an application would require pre-installation of the rather hefty SDK install.

Kind of like a ".NET" scenario.
To set an example?
Please advise that I need to be logged to have an aswer, because with the Back button I need to rewrite the question.
Illegal numbers! :)
Datablindness
A web app is a product. A startup is a business. A business can field one or more products or services in an attempt to make money. In the case when a startup has one main product, a web app, the terms are sometimes conflated (which I don't really like).
Like it, but the interface is a bit confusing. At first I did not even see the options in the side bar, which are actually the main thing to decide upon? It wasn't clear to me where to enter stuff either.

I guess the actual options should be more prominent than the "feeling aspects" of said options.
6 the airplane came apart from being oversped, overstressed, etc.

7 but it all happened so instantaneously that no distress signal was given. An oversped, overstressed plane does not come apart instantly.

8 both pilots of an Air Comet flight from Lima, Peru, to Lisbon, Portugal, sent a written report on the bright flash they said they saw to Air France, Airbus and the Spanish civil aviation authority, the airline told CNN.

"Suddenly, we saw in the distance a strong and intense flash of white light, which followed a descending and vertical trajectory and which broke up in six seconds," the captain wrote. http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/06/04/plane.crash...

.

In other words, we don't know. Repeat after me: We don't know.

I've been seeing explanations since the event, from the storm to a "computer glitch" to this, and it's starting to wear on my nerves. Let's get all the evidence in, including the black box, and only then try to figure it out.
From what I recall, being a ninja was about being sneaky and undignified enough to succeed. Being a ninja was about dressing up as a gardener so nobody would suspect that you were about to shiv them with an abnormally pointy trowel. Being a ninja was about setting off firecrackers as a distraction -- people assume that explosions are important, and ninjas knew this. Being a ninja was about hiding in an outhouse so you could assassinate some dude from inside of his toilet (holy shit!). Ninjas were clever bastards, not necessarily badasses.
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Hmm. Python has been available for Symbian/S60 for at least five years. Surely there are interactive scripting environments on Windows Mobile as well. What makes ASE special?
OK, but... aren't they sure of the quality of work in RMH?
Why near the box to collect money there isn't this alert?
it feels good to be out there!
Songkick's a YC 2007 Boston graduate. Version 2.0 just came out of beta an hour ago. Come and build your gigographies!
Hah, it seems silly when it's about Americans, but I remember having a bit of a jingoistic world history high school teacher (in America) who upset me very much...
To cut costs, California moving to digital textbooks
Both pilots of an Air Comet flight from Lima, Peru, to Lisbon, Portugal, sent a written report on the bright flash they said they saw to Air France, Airbus and the Spanish civil aviation authority, the airline told CNN.

"Suddenly, we saw in the distance a strong and intense flash of white light, which followed a descending and vertical trajectory and which broke up in six seconds," the captain wrote.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/06/04/plane.crash

I think you were voted down unfairly. We don't know what happened, but whatever it was, it was instantaneous and caused a bright flash.
He doesn't really talk about how these digital textbooks will be accessed.
What are your reasons for considering it wrong? Not saying it is not wrong, but all the laws are man made. There is no absolute way to decide. Personally I like to think at the possible outcomes of policies. and decide which outcome I would like best.

Free books could lead to more reading, but less books being written. On the other hand, they could even lead to more reading and MORE books being written (because authors would have more readers, which might matter more than the paltry income they get from book sales). Who knows, they could even lead to LESS reading, because the perceived value of books could go down. It is not so clear cut to decide...

One thing I am 100% sure about: libraries and the "free" books they provide are very important for a society. At least for me, being technical minded and entrepreneurial minded, they can make the difference for me between being able to create a viable business or not. Also I am quite certain that for technical books the motivation to write them is not the money - it is very hard to make any money with technical books, so I think they would mostly be written to boost reputation.

For fiction books I don't know. Clearly a lot of them were written regardless of the income they might generate, but probably hoping for riches and fame motivates at least some authors.
because you can't fit in the extra guy in all cockpits :-)
Would be unpractical and expensive to put a 3rd person there just for weather.
Good updated meteo from the specialists on the ground, and basic training in and availability of satellite images in the plane.

Like it's said you might loose contact with any ground station when flying in the middle of nowhere or you might lose imaging data of the storm.
So both should be there to provide a better standard than the current limited info of printed weather maps in preflight briefings, especially for long flights.
DeskAway - kinda like basecamp, google docs , twitter apps like twhirl and tweetdeck
Can you write Python/S60 programs on the phone's keyboard? (Honestly, I don't know)
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can I upload my FLACs over there?
They are "letting" them, or "helping" them? Firefox has always been open source, after all.