skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally agree about the community.

There are a lot of times i see fellow HNers down-voting comments that are irrelevant and can hold themselves for not falling into the "stupid-war" like what usually happen in other discussion board.

That's the reason i'm here and not in Digg/Slashdot. The community are smart and critical.
Do you mean the dev phone is not available too? I have a dev phone if you want to buy it. Used it a couple of times, stickers still on :) Email me.
I always like to see people blending various disciplines to make a better product. I think that's how business should be done.
I didn't mean to dismiss the interview, just lower expectations that the page was about explaining the point in the title, it's not.

You're totally right that last 3 paragraphs are about education, but even most of one of them he detours into "You'll find the same thing with the press...," and talks about the media.

I don't want to tell anybody not to read it, but I'll just say I got really excited about the title, but then a little bummed out the link didn't necessarily defend that point very well. I don't mean that as a dis of Chomsky, it was a casual interview, not a vigorous essay.
Blue Ridge adds support for JavaScript unit tests to your Rails app
Not really. It was the original (joke) question that SO deleted, presumably on the basis that it went against their guidelines, but the submission here is not that question. It's an interesting response from some guy who chose to treat the question as serious and put some effort into identifying the logistics of programming full-time aboard a yacht.
I don't normally like Giles' stuff much, but I read this one and kept thinking to myself; "yep. Yep. Yeah, he's right there. Yep."

Nice one, Mr. Bowkett.
Blog suggestions on these topics would be handy, too... Also sales, marketing, accounting for topics...
How to get a girl to I love you
Hackers Temporarily Seize Control Of Google Morocco Domain Name
New Search Engine: Wolfram Alpha shows data in a way Google can't
Prototyping with the canvas element
I think we can forgive a sixteen-year-old kid for confusing "Hindi" and "Hindu".

By the way, self-esteem is not a conserved quantity. There's no need to tear an obviously talented person down to make yourself feel better.
This is my ultimate weakness. It's a pet peeve for most of my friends. I have such a difficult time focusing in on people speaking to me for more than 20 minutes.

The best remedy I have learned is honesty. Just telling people about my lack of focus helps others understand and adapt. Honesty also helps you address uncomfortable conversations or get to more important matters much more quickly.
Bibliography of Programming Languages Implementation
Four Alternatives To Google
How To Make A Klingon Forehead in 7 Easy Steps
This is a reaction to this presentation: http://blip.tv/file/2089545
Hackathon 7.0 Begins at Mailtrust
I think things like options and any other legal is a very delicate stuffs and better be done with experts (lawyer, accountant etc).

For resources, here are few that i have in the arsenal:

Marketing:
http://startup-marketing.com/
http://andrewchenblog.com/

Legal:
http://www.thestartuplawyer.com/

General:
http://startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com/
http://onstartups.com/

You can ask any topic:
http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?biz
http://news.ycombinator.com/

Hope it helps.
Rapid Learning in 24 Hours
I'm sure he has his own definition, it's just that the interviewer never bothered to ask for a point of clarification.
That's an issue with every single piece of technology (operating system, library, application, API, programming language, CPU, non-trivial function or macro...). As such I don't think it can be a valid statement against the adoption of any specific technology. Besides, this particular concept is really easy to learn.
Google To Air Chrome Ads On TV
http://pixlr.com/editor/ should be their home page. The information on http://pixlr.com/ is superfluous at best and a barrier to entry at worst!
I don't trust a scientist who's "usually fuming inside". People who fume inside are people who are already pretty sure they're right about everything, which is not an appropriate disposition for a scholar.
> the signal you're sending by pulling out a PC laptop is that you either can't evaluate good design or you don't see it as a priority.

You could also argue that by pulling out a Mac laptop, you're sending out the signal that good design is the only thing you're capable of evaluating.

I agree that Macs are good-looking machines, and that OSX is aesthetically superior to Windows and Gnome/KDE, but surely that shouldn't be the main driver for choosing an OS or a machine over another?

There isn't a day that I don't wish my Linux desktop looked better, but I still use that over the Mac because I find it a better development environment, even if it doesn't give me a warm glow inside each time I look at it.
Hand Shaking Is So Medieval. Let’s End It.
Here's the link for anyone interested: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=565186

Id be interested in the ebook too if you ever get around to writing it.
Aussie censors implement six degrees of separation policy - Links to links now banned
MPAA Proof of Concept: Copy DVDs by Pointing Camera at Screen
Consultants need to make a living somehow, just waiting for the next fad to come along. The most sane approach to TDD is by Cedric Beust (author of TestNG: http://beust.com/weblog/).
All programming is an exercise in caching.
They offered a couple hundred bucks and he thought fine, $250. Then he realized the pagerank, publicity, link backs, and worth of the domain far exceeded $250 after he sent the message. That's probably what he isn't telling us.
Elcomsoft makes a product that can do it. They charge money, of course. Free alternatives can be found, if you care to look for them.
Almost any problem can be solved by adding a level of indirection. Almost every program can be sped up by removing a level of indirection.
How France is surviving the economic crisis
Of course, if all you want to do is add hover effects to your app, it's always worth considering doing it in straight CSS:

.menu {
background-color: #fff;
}
.menu :hover {
background-color: #ccc;
}
Ask HN: Hacker News Digest?
It must have been done before, but I wonder about a way of reading hacker news just once per day. That is getting the best articles of the last 24h, possibly even by email. Is that available somewhere already.

If not, I suppose grabbing the articles from the last 24h and ordering by votes would be a valid approach?
Also http://startupcompanylawyer.com for legal.
Via comments like these. If you have some substantial criticism to make of the ideas expressed in the post, let's hear it.
I hate the "it's old, ergo it's bad" line of arguments. His hygiene argument, which seems to be quite secondary, is also bad. Being in the same room as someone who sneezes will also get you his germs.

The solution is not to end the medieval, heathen practise of interacting with other people in real life, but to stay at home when you're sick - parallel to keeping your hands clean, doubly so if you expect to be shaking hands.
Someone reading/modifying a program is never as smart as the person who wrote it, even if they're the same person.
Bagpipes from baghdad lyrics by Eminem
If you don't know the tradeoffs that you're making, how do you know that you're making the right ones?
Hackers broke into FAA air traffic control systems
New Bill Would Prevent Yahoo etc from Aiding Oppressive Governments Censorship
You wouldn't say Pownce tried competing with them head-on?
That would largely defeat the purpose of hacker news, if I'm not mistaken (only because I feel like it could easily become popular).

If you never see new unranked stories, how can you vote them up?
EU Wants Developers to be Liable for Code; Provide Guarantees That Software will Work
If you don't have the time to contribute to the article, but know about some source of information about him (required to add anything to a Wikipedia biography), please drop them here :

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Fravia&ac...

(link to the input form of the proper section in the talk page).
Seems to have alot of quotes and intention taken out way of context. I think Uncle Bob would agree with alot of the points you made had you not redefined and distorted what he said.

To take an easy example: "A high standard of professional ethics, behaviour and work activities while carrying out one's profession" is not the same thing as acting like Henry Rollins.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professionalism
"Whenever I do shake a hand I’m completely aware of it, can’t stop thinking about it, until I can wash my hands."

This seems to be more an article about Arrington than about social customs.
Even now I don't think everybody visits the "new" site. Maybe the digest could also include all submissions of the day (not sure how many there are on average).

I just imagine it could help with procrastination problems.
Overview and tips on due diligence
I passionately disagree that the intellectual must remain dispassionate. But what you are saying is in fact considered a rarely challenged truism in humanities departments. It is considered very distasteful for an academic to speak publicly about current events, politics, or really anything controversial. But I think, and I know there is a very strong anti-academic current here on HN, that the intellectual plays a similar role to the free press in a democratic society. He is morally obliged to speak out when he sees the society being duped, coerced by the powerful, or being robbed of its freedoms. The academic intellectuals repeatedly fail us in this in the United States, and I admire Chomsky because he is one of the very few with the integrity to perform his moral duty.
Mild hypochondria?
"Engineering Your Startup" is a GREAT guide to all of the nuts and bolts. From analyzing markets, to corporate structure and dynamics, to accounting- it covers pretty much everything.
If this becomes the standard way of working with jQuery in a future release, I'll likely switch to MooTools or another library. Code like that would be hell to maintain.
Arrington needs one of these:

http://store.pksafety.net/tycbrlevsuit.html

Problem solved.
I'm just curious: how does the man open doors?
Sorry, but that's wrong. If two people have read a book and disagree about the meaning of a given section, then it's perfectly reasonable to expect both sides to be dispassionate as they dissect the passage in question. But what Chomsky is saying (in the context of this article) is that it makes him angry when people disagree with his interpretations of books they haven't read.

When you say scholars should be dispassionate about this, you're basically saying that a book review written by someone who hasn't read the book should be treated with equal respect as a book review written by someone who has. This seems profoundly anti-intellectual to me.
Yup, agreed - he obviously has a particular neurosis, and seems to hope/expect that the population of the world will change their habits accordingly...
"Term Sheets & Valuations - A Line by Line Look at the Intricacies of Venture Capital Term Sheets & Valuations"
and
"Deal Terms - The Finer Points of Venture Capital Deal Structures, Valuations, Term Sheets, Stock Options and Getting VC Deals Done (Inside the Minds)"

Both are great books. I would read Term Sheets first, but Deal Terms has a lot of great information when you are getting ready to do VC funding. I guess that is if you do VC funding.
Only $856 in the sale! Bargain.

Perhaps a kind-hearted friend might consider it for his next birthday?
I think he makes quite clear that the main argument is that it is not hygienic. In fact his argument that it is an old practice plays into to his hygiene argument. I think what he is saying is that the practice was developed before the germ theory of disease; before people truly knew how disease was spread. With our "updated" knowledge, we should have an "updated" system of greeting. So, though I would usually agree with your point about hating "it's old, ergo it's bad" types of arguments, I don't really think it applies here.
It's got some good stuff, but it's a bit out-dated. Its mindset is maybe 2001-2002 and comes from the point-of-view that the days of the 2-3 person startup being able to compete with large companies is over. It also assumes you're going to want large amounts of capital, immediately, from VCs, and is focused on that process.
I'm keep my hands clean and happy to not shake Mr. Arrington's hand if the chance ever arises.

Sheesh.
Interns?

Edit: snark aside, this is a valid question. Especially bathroom doors, considering he admits to rushing off to the bathroom to wash his hands and his claim that people don't wash their hands after visiting the bathroom.

Edit 2: I'm starting to feel a little bad for joining in on the Arrington bashing, the guy sounds like he's got some form of OCD neurosis. Though I suppose calling for a ban on handshakes (unthinkable in many cultures) as a result of it strikes me as self-centred.
Ignore it. You might have a modest case for copyright violation for duplication of pages. However, prosecuting it would waste money and man-hours that are best spent elsewhere, and also possibly frighten them into aggressive improvement. "Winning" would likely be a net loss.

Your best strategy is to let them coast and hope they are gradually left behind. If they developed a habit of laziness, don't help them break it!
In my previous job whenever someone entered the open space office in the morning was giving a handshake to everybody that was already there. I think this is a french thing, there was a french majority, but eventually everybody (except me - I was just saying "hi everybody" when entering the room) was doing this. Apart from the fact that it was distracting (imagine you were first in the office, you had 25 people coming to shake hands and you couldn't concentrate from the moment someone entered the door), I find it also completely useless. What's the point in shaking hands with people you see every day? I find it similar to bringing flowers to your wife every day. After a while it will mean nothing but if you stop it she will wonder why.
Telekinesis
The authors admitted behavior reads like classic OCD. He shakes someones hand and he can't think of anything else but washing his hand, and he'll excuse himself from meetings often enough that it's drawing colleagues attention. He's quite possibly only a few steps away from ruining his own life with obsession. What happens when this obsession starts interfering to the point it compromises his output and quality? Well that's usually when people start getting fired.

The argument against shaking hands is absurdly stupid. The relatively few bacterial and even fewer viral infections that spread solely through contact, usually aren't going to put you out of work as to spread they cannot stop their host from interacting with other people. Then there's the whole argument about fungal infections being spread through contact, which I personally find hilarious as if you've ever touched the dirt growing up or pet a dog that's dug in the dirt then you're already carrying a huge swathe of fungals on your body. What happens, like in most common infections, is that something (usually the person being too clean can trigger it) causes an imbalance and suddenly you get a breakout.

The infections that affect us today, aren't spread how they were in the 2nd BC. Most major infections are airborne and can easily be caught whilst in a confined space (IE elevator). This is why winter is the major flu season, not because of temperatures and people getting 'cold' (incidentally, a colder body temperature would actually inhibit viral and bacterial growth) but because no one goes outside.
My mum learnt to program in Autocode at the end of the Sixties, and went on to do scary embedded stuff in fighter jets; when she went back to work after having kids, she wound up doing crypto. Me? I do web stuff.

There's only one badass programmer in my family and it ain't me.
Two halves of the value fraction
No, with mild hypochondria he'd be going to the doctors because he thinks he has a cold. He reads like borderline OCD, it hasn't quite had a complete effect on his life yet, but he admits to only thinking about washing his hands after shaking someone's hand and that even his colleagues have noticed he leaves meetings to wash his hands.

He's got something way more insidious than hypochondria.
I really like the the idea of star-rating "whiskers":

http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/#p115
So, you go back to the mid-nineteenth century and these so-called "factory girls," young girls working in the Lowell [Massachusetts] mills, were reading serious contemporary literature. They recognized that the point of the system was to turn them into tools who would be manipulated, degraded, kicked around, and so on.

Source? My impression was that the point of the system was to make money, and that the girls were adequately treated ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell_Mill_Girls ). The main thing that sucked was super long hours. Many of the Lowell girls came from family farms that had too many mouths to feed. If a family produces more children than the farm can support, there is no escaping the hard life, no matter the political or economic system.

It was done mostly by courts and lawyers and the power they could exercise over individual states. New Jersey was the first state to offer corporations any right they wanted. Of course, all the capital in the country suddenly started to flow to New Jersey, for obvious reasons.

The corporation is a construct of contract law. There is no reason for it to be ratified by legislation. And contract law simply allows for scalable, voluntary transactions. And scalable voluntary transactions allow people to build large productive organizations that make stuff people want - cars, lightbulbs, transistors, etc.

It was a conscious design which worked as Adam Smith said: the principal architects of policy consolidate state power and use it for their interests.

No argument here. But note that this is basically an immutable law of history. You'll have the same luck ranting against it as ranting against "death and taxes". That's why anarcho-anything is a dead end. If you write abaout political matters with a goal of influencing policy, you're best off coming up with ideas that are mutually beneficial to both the state and the public.

It's basically court decisions and lawyers' decisions, which created a form of private tyranny which is now more massive in many ways than even state tyranny was.

That's simply false. And the massive corporations that seem most soulless and Dilbert-like, often are basically arms of the state ( ie, government contractors like IBM).

A lot of the educational system is designed for that, if you think about it, it's designed for obedience and passivity.

Once upon a time the idea of the school system was designed for obedience and passivity. But Supreme Court cases in the 1970's have made effective discipline in schools impossible. As a result, the education system circa 2009 is Lord of the Flies.
My impression is that the French did not buy derivatives.
Guy Kawaski's Art of the Start is more practical than FaW but I'm not sure it's practical enough for you.
I guess the EU won't be using a whole heck of a lot of software then, will they?
Check out http://news.ycombinator.com/best

(via http://news.ycombinator.com/lists )
this is a tradition in the Emacs community: for each release, they publish "antinews", e.g.:

> For those users who live backwards in time,
> here is information about downgrading to
> Emacs version 21.4. We hope you will enjoy
> the greater simplicity that results from the
> absence of many Emacs 22.1 features.
> [...]

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ant...
As a fan of the TV show "Monk" the first thing I thought of was his catchphrase "Wipe! Wipe! Wipe!"

*from the article: "Whenever I do shake a hand I’m completely aware of it, can’t stop thinking about it, until I can wash my hands."
A Javascript-based Sound API (+ shiny demos)
Solid pre-HTML5 JavaScript API for audio control via wrapping hidden Flash 8/9 movie. Check the canvas-based 360° player UI demo (also some waveform + spectrum data visualization fun.)
As soon as they can guarantee all government services will work.
If you're sticking to rivers and lakes it not only solves the problem of internet access, but solves the increased corrosion from the salty air.

It might decrease your power production (if you're using one of the green alternatives other than solar). However, if you're running a diesel engine for your prop, you can probably charge your battery bank with it too.
This is almost sort of reasonable, until

>According to Mingorance, the proposed regulatory extension would cover all software, including beta products, and would cover both proprietary and open-source software.

So I'm now liable for that project I wrote in one night for myself that I released under the MIT License if anyone from the EU finds it, uses it, and runs into some security hole?

That's going lead to a whole new brand of licenses that say, "Anyone may use this, unless you're in the EU, in which case I can't handle the liability. Sorry, your parliament sucks."

In fact, I would argue that this law would void open source licenses in the EU anyway.

From the MIT License:

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
THE SOFTWARE.

Doesn't that imply that the software can't be used anywhere where a warranty is mandatory? The license states that there's no warranty, so you're violating the license by having a required warranty.
Personally, if it was my first start up, I would sell and test the waters over at MegaCorp and if it's not how I like it I've always got the money (and possibly some extra contacts) to jump ship and start my own thing again.
Although I'm certainly not sold on this idea [1], I find it amusing that the BSA representative is against it; after all, one of Microsoft's main arguments against F/OSS is that there's nobody liable for its correct function. Maybe because the EU laws covering warranties only apply to consumers, not businesses, and Microsoft would have to offer consumer-level customer support of some kind as part of the license. (as far as I know you currently have to pay per issue for support unless you have some kind of contract with MS)

[1] I don't see how someone writing open source software in his or her spare time in any way deserves to be liable for malfunction, for example; another worry is the amount of ambiguity involved at all stages, from "intended use" to the definition of "efficacy and security", along with the technical complexity and explosion of possible combinations of software on the average computer
Cars do tend to come with a guarantee of some kind, and I'm pretty sure EU consumer protection laws do extend to them. That doesn't extend indefinitely, of course, but this article says nothing about the duration of liability.
If he knew how many germs are on everyday objects, I don't think he'd be so worried about shaking hands.
For many start-ups, not being sold is synonymous with failure.

I think it's more like being bought to be shut down is synonymous with failure.
I must be new here, this is first time I've seen a post [dead]. Does this count as "the community defending itself"? This article was the top link when I first saw it, I found it a good read. Not even any distracting ads.

Anyone have a link to the list of [dead] articles?