skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That page sold me to find an old PC and install Qimo for my 4 year old godson. Doesn't say if there are any translations though. But if nothing else, it might be a good way for him to start learning English.
The hacker in me feels great sympathy. That is a painful bug. The software engineer in me cringes at the thought of upgrading a production system without testing in the lab first.
Seconded. Is there a list of local HN meetups anywhere? Or an informal process for announcing or setting one up?
Yes. And buses only stop at their designated stops; you can't hail a bus like a cab. And you're being dense, which is worse.
People go on and on about CO2 and global warming because they are a huge problem that nobody can directly tackle. Environmental issues like the one you describe exist everywhere, but they are (perceived as) too expensive to fix so nobody wants to acknowledge them.

One thing that really pisses me off is people using petrol-powered leaf blowers. They are loud and obnoxious, and incredibly wasteful. Whatever happened to the simple broom? To me, the leaf blower is emblematic of this issue. Nobody really cares enough to actually do anything about the insane wastefulness of our society. (And I include myself in that - I utilise way more resources than I really need. At least I don't own a car.)
Like Google isn't going to buy/license Wolfram Alpha...
No, land mass means a lot. A dense population is well-suited for mass transpo as the primary option. A relatively sparse country cannot pull this off. Pull out your globe...here are other actual, large countries:

* Ukraine
* Congo (DRC)
* Argentina
* Mexico
* Chile
* Turkey
* Iran
* Colombia

As you can see, in addition to those you listed, there many. Korea's freaking tiny. It's not an insult, it's a geographical fact. Also, by their very nature, there can only be so many large countries, so I don't know what you were getting at in the first place.
Have you ever actually met Andrew?
It's interesting to watch it go up and down when you say something controversial. I agree with you. It's childish and reflects poorly on the BitTorrent community which is already treading water.

Anyone who has produced anything of value wants to protect that thing of value. If the value of products can't be protected, then people will stop taking the big risks they need to take to produce the products.

People who steal movies and music and other digital content need to give up the delusion. BitTorrent is a great system, unfortunately, leeches on society have destroyed its reputation and value to the world by using it to steal people's hard work.

Just stop doing it. Do you really need 1,000 movies? Do you really need 10,000 songs? Just stop stealing stuff. There's plenty of great free content on the web.
One way to cut expenses - don't mail renewal notices for drivers licenses: http://www.snopes.com/politics/traffic/massrenewal.asp

It sounds like a joke, but it's real. You might thing they could take some of the money from the renewal fee, but nope.
Your first point is spot on.

Your second point is a separate issue - it's more practical to get people to fix the things that can be fixed before asking them to change the way they live and go back to this unrealistic ideal world of no machinery etc.
I've been using this in my Emacs setup for a while now. It's really nice, and works like a charm.
This seems like an overly reactionary response to me. It's like saying, "Don't invent YouTube because it will almost certainly be used to upload illegal videos." You don't block something because it might be used maliciously. You simply work to prevent misuse.
But is there any reason I couldn't run it in plastic tubing along the bottom of my fence for instance?

Only thing I can think of is below freezing temps, which you wouldn't get when below the frost line.
As much as I love free software, free media, and freedom in general, the idea of downloading a non-trivial drug from the internet, ./configure, make, make install, and consuming it sends shivers down my spine. And if it doesn't send shivers down yours, you've got about ten to fifteen more years to build up some more life-saving paranoia.

Chemistry is not the blocker on drug development; testing is. Our system isn't perfect but I can't see how open source can improve anything. Open source can barely scrape together the resources for a usability test and that's orders of magnitude easier than a drug safety trial.
You would have thunk Google would have bought loopt, too.
And you're just pushing your tiresome agenda and boring everyone else on the site. Yes, cars are great in America because it's spread out and public transportation sucks. The point of the article was to illustrate an experiment with something new (a suburb designed for bikes and peds), which was interesting. Nothing you've said has been new or interesting.
Ask HN: What's a good job for someone who likes "making order out of chaos?"
Looking for cool and offbeat ideas!
They bought a startup in that area a while ago, Dodgeball.
First suggestion, network to find a lawyer you like and trust. They'll help you far more than any HN advice will.

Going against that suggestion, my next suggestion is don't register in California, as you'll pay the $900 LLC tax each year just to exist. The $900 varies based on how much the corporation earns each year, but that's the minimum.

That said, you don't have to live in the state where you incorporate, but it does make things easier, as you have to have some place with a physical, non-P.O.Box-like address to send corporate documentation to. If you are not located in the state of incorporation, you'll need to have a registered agent. This agent will receive your corporation documents and forward to them for you. Most agents charge about $200 for the service -/+.

Since you move frequently, having a registered agent will probably work just fine for you, as your corporate mailing address wouldn't change unless you change agents.

You file taxes in the corporation's state, then apply the profits to your own taxes, as a pass-through. Note that, if you set up the corporation with pass-through taxes, you'll pay taxes on the corporation's profits, even if you don't pay yourself the money (as in, if you end up with $20k in a savings account at the end of the year, you'll pay taxes on that $20k, even if you aren't paid the $20k).

Hire an accountant, too. And a bookkeeper who can show you the books at any point (say, using a site like http://netbooks.com/ ).

I've used http://mycorporation.com/ a couples times in the past for incorporations, one S corp, one LLC. They've since been bought out by intuit.com, so I don't know how they are now, but I was good with the service I received.
Thanks, I wish I'd caught Steve Blank's talk, reading his book right now.
Great list of books! How great is this book from 1984 - Creating Adventure Games on Your Computer (http://www.atariarchives.org/adventure/)
Rebellion, dont we need it?
Which makes me wonder if 2009 twitter will work out and become profitable.
They seemed more concerned about user interface decisions and whether it would be launching at IO than the actual technology behind it. I suppose that's a valid angle, it's just not one that appeals to me. And yes, they were quite rude.
What's common about the hackers?
Are they all nerds? Dont they have life beyond computers. Ofcourse generlisations are for the noobs, but there still will be lot of "commons".

1. One thing i noticed common among lot of hackers is that they all have profound views about things sorrounding them, but they never let it out.
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What's your point? That they must buy one startup in each area in which they are interested? They don't have to buy anything.
I'm not opposed to technology. Because of population density we need technology to survive. What I'm opposed to is the wasteful use of the precious resources we have. We need to utilise modern technology's wonderful potential to get the most out of what we have.

When you consider that so many people (in Sydney, where I live) commute to work on their own in their cars, and that every 30 of those cars could be replaced with one bus, you can only conclude that it's madness.

Similarly that we're still using incandescent bulbs. Or that many office buildings leave their lights on 24 hours a day. Or that people here run air conditioners 6 months of the year (we are not living in the tropics - I'd say there's probably 10 days a year here where aircon is necessary for any healthy adult - obv the sick or the elderly are another story).

Everywhere you look there are gross inefficiencies, things that could be fixed with a little planning, expenditure, collaboration, and compromise. It saddens me that we seem to be too selfish and disorganised.
The video demostrates some decidedly non-Googly slowness. If it takes 10+ seconds to load, I don't think very many people are going to be using it...
It's a normal company now, with big titles, offices and support :)

The fun is gone.
Turning the Web into a giant database will crush any attempt to segregate the “best” information into a separate database so that it can be processed and searched more deeply.

This is pure speculation, and I personally doubt its true. First, much of the content of on the web amounts to echoing, filtering, and distorting high-quality source data. If you can tap that source data, are the gains you realize from what's been derived from it worth the extra cost of going out and doing the work to acquire it and then separate out the noise?

Second, there is a lot of real or perceived value in knowing where your data is coming from. Tons of companies pay tons of money to get data and statistics from sources that they can trust. Until Google's willing to vouch for these results beyond "we tried", the bespoke curatorial approach is going to keep capturing these dollars.
Kanye West throws a temper tantrum on twitter...in all caps
Delaware. It's the friendliest state to "foreign" companies (companies registered in the state but headquartered/operated out-of-state).

You have a nexus with any state in which (1) you are registered or (2) are physically located (employees, offices, facilities, leased real property etc, but not including contract workers or leased equipment). You have to pay income taxes, social security, etc, in those states.

Any law textbook on LLCs.

IMPORTANT: An LLC alone will not shelter you from legal liability. The "piercing the veil" doctrine disregards the LLC and allows someone to go after the owner if the LLC is not sufficiently separated from your personal assets and control. For a sole proprietorship, the control part is already met, so you have to make damn well sure that you keep the LLC assets separate from your personal assets. Log and track EVERYTHING.
No, setting a variable to undefined doesn't delete the object contained in that variable (and I never said it did). Neither does calling delete. Delete gets rid of the variable itself, not the object it contains, which is precisely what I did say.

JavaScript is a garbage collected language. As such, you, the developer, have no control over when an object can be ejected from memory. When a reference to your object no longer exists, it can be considered for collection. Until then, it can't.

In your example, the number object (123) is eligible for collection in both cases. The difference has nothing to do with 123, but instead relates to the test object.

In the first case, test will still have a foo property, which won't point to anything. In the second case, the property itself will be removed from the test object.

It's (most likely) true that leaving the foo property intact means using more memory than if you delete it, but the memory used is less than actual object, and whether or not this qualifies as a leak is debatable. Which leaves my original statement:

delete's only purpose is to remove a property name from an object

This is particularly relevant when you iterate over the keys in an object for some reason. In the case of a global variable, this is just an implicit removal from the global/window object.
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Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Pullman WA. It's got its pluses and minuses like anywhere else.
The problem is there isn't much legal use for an online wagering facilitation service. This is more akin to saying "don't start an ebay for illegal drugs".

If you think it's overly-reactionary, you don't know anything about online gambling law.
Can you give advice on how to "log and track everything?" I was thinking just separate banking accounts and keep all expense receipts. Is that enough?

Also, how much do I have to separate things like e-mail and server-usage? Do I need to pay for a separate server for my personal homepage and my company's page?

Does your Delaware recommendation include LLC's? I was under the presumption it was mostly advantageous for C-Corps.

Thanks!
by social links if you mean links of your site in search engines, than the answer is obvious
You must pay taxes in every state in which you are incorporated/organized/chartered AND where the corporation actually resides (headquarters, major offices, etc).
For the love of all that is good, do not ever use Legalzoom for a legal document.

Pay a lawyer $200 to draft the documents for you, or do it yourself. Either way, your documents will be superior to the shit they sell at Legalzoom.

Wyoming's not a bad choice for LLCs, but the corporate tax bit is irrelevant if you choose pass-through taxes.
How is it determined where the corporation "resides"? I know for a physical company, it is where ever I am physically located. But what about a purely online company?
I wish I could pay that someone to clean up my home office. There is a line of business for home organizers, but maybe this is not what the person has in mind.
Useful utility for multiple monitors (Windows only)
They are almost universally dudes.
Actually SHA-1 has been broken -- nomenclature alert! -- but not yet cracked.

Mathematician and cryptologist Bruce Schneier reports on it here: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/sha1_broken.ht...
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Open Source God - over 480 open source applications and resources (2007)
So what happened to the back out plan?
Hacking Scala Actors
I think the problem is that the semantic web is fundamentally very similar to the sort of 'logical ai' (Prolog, Cyc, etc) that is often blamed for the AI winter.

Eliezer made a fairly convincing argument that a lot of this is the result of clever marketing campaign a few decades ago (http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/11/logical-or-conn.html)
How long do we have to wait for the filing of a high-profile celebrity/corporate lawsuit over the use of trademarks or names in twitter accounts? Or has there been one already? I would think that twitter names are a bit like domain names so won't courts probably rule that twitterers will have to give up names like theRealKanyeWest or whatever?
They aren't so quick to label themselves
The system administrator in me cringes at the thought of having a production server running a hodge podge of random from-source builds of apparently everything in the stack. That's just asking to suffer. And all for the sake of maybe a 5% performance gain by having it "optimized" for the workload (and maybe a performance drop because you do something stupid, or you don't understand the software in question as well as the package builder for your OS).
they all fix
While I think he has a legitimate complaint, he would probably be taken more seriously if he didn't sound so much like a 12 year old.
Seems Eric has kinda missed the point. From what I've read, Wolfram Alpha is:

- get a bunch of structured, verified, curated data
- use mathematica to understand and reason about the data
- use NLP to expose mathematica to the web surfer.

What google wants to do is get a bunch of structured data from unstructured data. Great, but competition for Wolfram Alpha? Doesn't look like it right now.

But I guess we'll have a better view of this in a few weeks.
No, that's not what I mean. I'm comparing the growth rate of traffic coming via "passed links" (twitter, facebook, email) vs the growth rate of traffic coming via search.
While I don't think he sounds like a 12 year old I think this is a very appropriate place for the 'internet, serious business' meme. But if they are defacing him and he ACTUALLY filed a complaint of some sort I see no reason for those accounts to still exist.

But I highly doubt any complaints were filed and I don't think quality control of usernames is the highest priority on twitter right now.
Is that long-hand for "you were right, I was wrong, but nobody cares"? If people were bored by this topic, it would not have generated so many replies while being voted to -2 in the root comment.

Also, it's intellectually dishonest for you to claim that these discussions have offered nothing of interest, especially given your propensity to engage in them.

"Nothing you've said has been new or interesting."

A fixation on novelty in discourse is not a good thing. Defending a conservative belief is no less valid than championing a new, liberal one (I use these terms apolitically).
The law firm could have chosen not to take this stupid case.

Everyone deserves good lawyers. Even people you disagree with.

What if it was the other way around and the MPAA was hassling law firms who defend file sharers?
Who cares? Is he a hacker?

Or is this just another twitter submarine?

(there are four of them right now on the front page)

((enough is enough))

Drop a depth charge then!
There's actually an interesting nugget in that borderline-illiterate rant that he posted: "Everything that Twitter offers I need less of." Hmmm...
I get the strong feeling that this Google vs Alpha silliness is a manifestation of the internet media.

Google is likely carefully studying their competitors continuously and taking prudent actions as necessary. This product doesn't seem like an answer to Alpha as much as it does an interesting 20% project growing up.
I've found a lot of startups seem to think that support is a lower level task and should be outsourced to the lowest bidder. The thing is, your customer support is your company. It's how your customers interact with you as a company, and it's how they form opinions of whether they like you or not.

In my experience, great customer support is often far more valuable than a bug-free product. Bugs happen, but if a customer runs into a bug and then gets great support from your support staff -- they switch from a skeptic to a passionate customer who tells everyone about your product.
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Yes. You win.
A complier using LLVM for the esoteric language Whirl
Hypothesizing: it's doing things which require decidedly non-BigTable-like architecture. Most other Google apps in their alpha stages can just take advantage of running on, basically, App Engine; this seems like one of the ones that can't, so it has to run on a separate architecture that hasn't been scaled yet. That would be alright for some other company's demo—if they were anyone else, they'd just use limited, cached, pre-defined data sets. But they're Google, they have the raw data, and they wanted to show off the possibilities of working "from scratch" on anything they like in realtime. Thus, it was similar to an app without any scaling consideration as-of-yet (consider a normal startup webapp) drinking from the entire search index firehose on each query. Ten seconds is impressive.

Once it's deployed across Google's entire cloud it'll speed up nicely.
For a completely different take on happiness (24x7 happiness, not the typical affective pleasure), see:

http://actualfreedom.com.au/
Tell HN: Being Interviewed Tomorrow, Soliciting Questions
Hi, I'm being video interviewed tomorrow mostly about my digg experiences and the guy doing the interview asked me to solicit questions at any social networks I hang around on, so.... He recently interviewed Calacanis and Seth Godin, so it seems pretty high profile.

http://blog.mixergy.com/owen-byrne-digg-co-founder/

Feel free to start by questioning the bogus $200 claim, though I may plead the 5th (also know as the Proprietary Inventions and Information Agreement) on some questions.
In my experience public libraries subscribe to many of the academic databases. Often you are able to use them from home by first going to the library's web site and clicking the link to whatever you want to use, rather than going to the publisher/database website directly. Maybe you will have to enter a library card number. Some university libraries also provide services to alumni, either free or for a fee (in the case of my university's library, I believe it's an annual fee rather than a la carte).
At a first glance, this seems to help take 'Google-fu' to the unwashed masses.

If I ever do a search as generic as 'camera', it's very closely followed by a more detailed search (eg, camera olympus "flash time"). Usually, however, my first search is the most detailed, and I become more vague if I require more results.

As I'm sure most of us are aware, this helps quickly deliver the outcome / answer we seek from searching, but I'm continually surprised at how many people bang a series of vague search phrases into a Search Engine and spend time sorting through the chaff.

Google Squared seems to prompt the sort of thinking I either do before hand, or as an immediate result of seeing 8.6M results. Google-fu enhanced.

(My favourite evidence of this is from Allyn Gibson's blog, which is routinely located by people Googling the phrase "things that happen on my birthday". Think about it, or read #5 on this list http://www.allyngibson.net/?p=1686 )
That seems to be the conventional wisdom. The conventional wisdom is probably right for teams that haven't specifically prepared to constantly press.

Are there any statistics on the effectiveness of a full-game full-court press done by a team that has conditioned itself to press for the entire game? I'd love to see some actual data on this.

The key here is that the data must be only from those (few) teams that have conditioned themselves appropriately. Otherwise, it's measuring the wrong thing.
Paul,
Please place links in your footnotes that take the reader back to the corresponding text.

After reading nearly thirty of your essays, this is one of the only few negative comments I have.
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The idea of putting something into my body, which I know nothing about or the ways in which it was synthesized or processed, sends shivers down my spine.

How much do you really "trust" pharmaceutical companies, whose sole mission is to profit at the illness of others?

I hope the same thing happens for drugs that happened to encyclopedias. People nowadays trust Wikipedia just as much as Britannica, if not more in some cases.

As for testing, that is indeed a trickier issue. But I guarantee you that if a person is suffering from an illness and cannot afford the drugs for treatment, they'll be willing to try any sort of chemistry that may help.
In some areas, it is common for the researchers to put their papers up on their web pages or on the ArXiv. Alternatively, just write to the author. They will send you a copy.
The Myth of Code Construction
Why continue to punish ourselves with comparisons with the construction industry. Maybe its time to focus on a different role model.
29 / ? - Jimmy Hoffa.

Good little article that has made me think about what might be lurking, hiding, or waiting in a waterway closer to my home.
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Very cute. Reminds me of a cross between Ruby's Sinatra (http://sintrarb.com/) and Ramaze (http://ramaze.net/) without obviously being inspired by those :)
I wonder when google will publish the energy requirements of a google squared search.
Could somebody explain what this is without the "last.fm" analogy, since I don't have the foggiest idea what "last.fm" is.
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