skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't buy a company with stock as weak as Yahoo's lately without paying a disgusting premium.

I have no idea if the guy is right or wrong on his premise, but his analysis of their business isn't too far off from how I see it.
All that language fluff and I bet you still can't write assembler.
These were a big part of how I learned git. Do check out his git internals book; the material in it is basically what's in the 'casts, structured along the lines of his RailsConf talk: http://gitcasts.com/posts/railsconf-git-talk

The approach he uses is very similar (a little bit more detailed) to this tutorial ("Understanding Git"): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=531517
Yeah, exactly. $360 per year for two servers is really expensive.
I noticed that heysan didn't mask the password on their login page when using my nintendo dsi, incompetence or usability?
Has the heroic connotation that the word 'slacker' was imbued with during the generation-x heydays of the 90s completely eroded now? This must be what it feels like to be past one's prime. Linklater, help me.
No, no he can't.

You clearly do not understand hate crime legislation.

I am not gay. If the Matthew Shepard Act became law, and someone calls me a fag, and then beats me up, such a case would STILL be prosecutable under hate crime legislation, because of the INTENT, not because of the actual target.

They would be perpetrating a hate crime, because they are trying to beat me up because they think that i am gay, regardless of how good they are at actually determining whether or not i am actually gay.

If someone beats up a gay guy, unless there is SOME evidence that they were beaten up because they were gay, a prosecutor should not be able to bring hate crime charges (this is why we have grand juries after all).
Splash a convincing photoshopped picture of Mayor Daley having sex with Mrs. Blagojevich across your front page. Problem solved.
Ask HN: Buying a Website on SitePoint; Good way to bring in Monthly Income?
The sites on there look like good deals, $4,000 for $1,000/month and such. Has anyone bought one? Are there any catches?
Reminds me of body-controlled sports, like hang-gliding, snowboarding and motorbike riding: the way the craft responds to body placement really makes it feel like it is part of you.

I'm sure that this effect is separable from human intelligence, and tool-using animals (like chimps using sticks and beavers building dams) feel the same way, because it seems like the simplest way for the mind to integrate tools: after all, a stick behaves as if it were an extension of your hand, so why not reuse existing perceptual and motor control circuitry, rather than constructing entirely new subsystems.

(I'm not saying it's designed, but reuse is more probable than parallel reconstruction from scratch).
I agree 10,000%. But actually calling someone a jerk takes a bit of legitimacy off of your post. The cluebat is best served cold and dispassionately, IMHO.
This is a very old idea. It's been given various names: FriendRank, PeopleRank, PersonRank -- many, many hits on Google.
Yes, hidden by default would be better, even when the password is only protecting photos of my cat.
Oh I see - you are right, I was completely missing the essential intent part - mens rea and all that.

Just the fact that I put out such a misunderstanding reveals something - the question is if only about me or if more about society.
Emacs users may wish to check out this hack (reload browser via MozRepl on save): http://hyperstruct.net/projects/mozrepl/emacs-integration

It's quite neat, but very easy to get confused: if you switch to a different tab to read documentation for example, then make an edit and save, it will try and load into the new tab (usually with strange results!)
Fivethirtyeight.com took a look at this, and found some oddities: http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/06/karroubis-unlucky-7s....
Nice try..there is zero incentive for me to email you my phone's serial number, and a possibility (even if remote) that giving it to you might come back to bite me.

I checked the risk/reward ratio, and came up with a number that approaches infinity, so I'm not real sure how to break the news to you, but ummm you cannot have my iphone 3GS serial number
You need a more compelling story. "Cool new website" isn't a story that works on traditional media. Try to find a way that the Windy Citizen is helping the people of Chicago's real lives.

Consider these headlines:

Local Website Rallies Community In Search For Missing Boy

Mayoral Scandal Galvanizes Citizens Against Corruption

School Redistricting Plan Draws Fervor, Online and Off

All of these stories could be largely or entirely about WindyCitizen.com, but are interesting to a larger demographic.

Once you've found your story, write the article yourself, then break it down into bullet points, anecdotes, facts, and statistics to send to reporters. Writing this article should be as easy for them as paraphrasing a Wikipedia page.

Be direct in your request, and make sure they know that other news outlets are interested in the story. Local news won't want to miss anything their competitors will be covering, even if its a dog show.

Good Luck!
I saw photos of Wozniak ostensibly (?) wearing heart-shaped glasses at the time, that left me with impression the logo could be intentional.

I've read up on this just now and it seems that logo indeed had nothing to do with commemorating Turing's oppression. The rainbow was due to a design trend at the time, Commodore and Atari logos sporting rainbows too.
Driving is regulated just like prescription drugs.

It is the government’s job to protect people.

Mixing the drugs people take for fun, with drugs people take for their heath is a straw man argument.

Total heath care costs in this country have little to do with how doctors prescribe drugs. Changing how that works on a fundimental level is a high risk change for little payoff.
Have you tried IRC? (freenode, etc.)
wait, if facebook becomes the internet, will i be marginalized for not having any friends?
Fair enough:

If my parents owned slaves, and I'd benefited from it, I'd like the disclaimer.

If my parents were slaves, and I'd had trouble because of that, I'd like the reparation.

I don't think either would be a racket. Ultimately it's unlikely a court would extend reparations inmto the present for an event so far in the past, although this does occasionally happen.
Thank you for your reality check. Many people I know keep friends in the same social circles, and have little to no direct exposure to this perspective.

Not everyone has the strong safety net to fall back on, so not everyone can risk the long break; due to a variety of reasons.

He's right in that some people are afraid of risk and don't have much to lose. You're right that some have done a realistic risk analysis and decided that other things, especially children, are more important than optimizing their immediate happiness.

Appreciate all that you have already accomplished, and take advantage of the opportunities presented to you.
I saw that Benjamin Zepheniah on TV, saying the Monarchy should be abolished because the Royal Family had blessed slave ships.

What he didn't bother to say is that pretty much the entire world (including Africans) participated in the slave trade at that time, and that Britain had taken the lead in the fight to stamp out slavery. The first time in history that former slave-holders had fought to free slaves. Literally fought, with warships blessed by the Royals.

So yeah, we've done some terrible things - but on the whole (even under New Labour) the UK is a powerful force for good in the world, and we deserve credit for that. And we're to "undo" the effects of everything we've done... Well let's say that Zepheniah wouldn't be sitting in an air-conditioned TV studio wearing a handmade suit, hatin'.
Have you ever heard of Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged? He had the same mission ... with negative sign.

(Just kidding.)
I see your point, but Peter Andre's actually Australian.
Have you seen our Daily Daley blog? http://dailydaley.windycitizen.com

Enjoy!
doesn't it say something about git's usability that there are so many help guides, tutorials and screencasts just to try to show its basic functionality?

it's a revision control system for pete's sake. it should track revisions in your code and let you get back to work.
Of course you're competition. Would you like your page to be the first place a local goes to find out about Chicago? So would the local newspapers.
The killer use case is when your traffic is large enough that you have to shard across many machines.
Sadly, my employer is going the opposite direction and planning to implement "strong user names" and mask both fields. This is in response to users with access to sensitive information leaving passwords written down near their workstations.

Clearly the answer is another password.
They could record the sound of the keypresses too. They may be impossible to discriminate subjectively, but they all have a distinct signature...
I've found that http://wormly.com works very well - no false positives and if you enable the "agent" monitoring you get all kinds of nice graphs about MySQL performance too.
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Yahoo stock was over $100 in the year 2000. Did shareholders ask to sell the company then?

The DOW was above 12K last year.

The DOW right now is around 8K.

Nobody foresaw the economic recession.

If your opinion can be so easily manipulated by throwing numbers out of context then I can not be of any help.

As a shareholder you should know that.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what it is you're trying to do, and I may be misjudging your approach entirely (so forgive me if I'm way off the point), but I would recommend trying things yourself more. That is, ultimately, a huge aspect of "hacking". It's also, IMO, a much better way to learn most of the time, than being taught by someone else.

Another reason I say that is that, as someone who helps run a programming-focussed forum, I can tell you that hacker's generally help other hacker's once they've seen some of their work. I'm sure the bloggers you have contacted get a ton of requests for help by people who have made no attempt to solve their own problems - naturally they might assume the same of you, and thus gave you a rude response. When you've contacted these developers, have you shown them what you have so far? Have you asked very specific questions about the things they talk about in their blogs? If you haven't, and if those aren't the kind of questions you want to ask, I think you should try another medium. Forums, IRC, etc...

edit: There's also a huge amount of discussion on this site about start ups, independent projects, hacking, etc... Just be a regular reader - you'll learn a lot!
Depends what you compare it to. If you're looking at the "free" products like Nagios etc, then of course it's more expensive. But Nagios and the like require a lot of time and effort to set up, have ongoing maintance and require their own server (no point installing on the same server you're monitoring).

It's therefore about the value the service gives you i.e. support, ease of use, fast setup, easy alerting (e-mail & SMS) and so on.
I generally like the layout.

I assume the tabs on a story are to represent duplicates? You might want to make them more subtle or not make them at the top. When a tabbed link is shown first on the page, it looks like the entire page is tabbed, and it also makes the site confusing (e.g. is the entire site about Dinosaur comics?).
I'm not sure why you're being moderated down. The conditions causing the Potato Famine to have such devastating consequences are known to be a political issue rather than than an ecological one.

Wikipedia has a fairly extensively referenced article on the issue http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland). See 'Causes and contributing factors'.
Thank you.

Whenever I have doubts about my work (which isn't often), I imagine I was born in any other century. I'd probably be digging ditch or milking a cow instead of making something cool out of nothing in my air-conditioned office. It's pretty easy to stay positive with that perspective.
Social Darwinism at the Soup Kitchen
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Hey, that's great feedback, thank you!

The tabs show you the same story from different sources. Dinosaur Comics appearing twice with the same content is a bug, oops. :) I agree they can be confusing, and I'm trying to figure out the best way to represent this information without being as confusing.
I disagree completely. Those styles you mention are all completely different. You can still split these down further and still be able to tell the difference.

e.g. tech-house, progressive-trance, progressive-house, hard-house etc etc.

The list goes on.
Slackers are now hipsters; same basic sense of entitlement.
If you put the "tabs" at the bottom of each story instead of the top, or even on the side, it would probably avoid the confusion.
Yes - suggesting that your product might "replace" HN creates preconceptions in my mind before I get there. I see the link, I imagine startup relevant topics, I see dinosaur comics. WTF? Fail.
The problem with that assessment is the more tests you do the larger your chance of finding something odd.

In isolation you can look at the odds for 17+ and 4-, but two <5, or two > 16 would also look odd. As would a single >20 or <4. And, they started looking at 2 digits but the pattern is only in the last digit so there are looking at 3 groups.

PS: Also how did you calculate the odds? A single number of 17 or more increases the odds of a number of 4 or less. I am not really sure how you would calculate the odds outside of a simulation.
I don't feel comfortable posting code from my employer here, sorry. But let me address your counter-argument on its own: Saying you can write bad Ruby or Python is a turing tarpit argument. You can write bad code in any language, but I've seen a lot more bad shell script code than I've seen bad Python. Add to that that shell scripting languages are very irregular and I can't see why anyone would use a shell script for something that they actually relied on that was more complicated than invoking a few commands in sequence.
In their defense if they are active developers or entreps then they are likely extremely busy. As much as they'd love to help you, there are a lot of people like yourself asking for their time too, you're not the only one. So don't take their response too personally, you can likely try again later.

Egotists aside, I think you should evaluate their response and you might considering changing your approach if they are active and not retired. Being a mentor takes time, so think about ways for it to be mutual. Can you provide knowledge or assistance to their current goals before asking for it back? You may also try to show what you've done and that there is more substance to you than just an email talking about lofty ideas — ideas are a dime a dozen, it's all about execution.

Another general rule of thumb, don't send a 4-paragraph email professing your admiration or telling them things they probably already know, do your research. Sometimes this is received well, sometimes it is not. I had someone approach me recently, sent 3 paragraph email suggesting & instructing me how to embed an iPhone bookmark icon into a clients' website; I've been making iPhone apps for 8 months. I've made this mistake a few times trying to prove my smarts, use your Draft folder which is a good habit to get into anyway.

Sometimes you need to get in front of them. If you see them at a happy hour or developer meetup, approach them. Seeing people try is a lot more meaningful, it improves your odds and first impression. Twitter is great for this, follow people that interest you — they'll often RT developer meetups and speaking events.

Lastly, pick a mentor that compliments you and do your research. Finding a good fit should naturally improve your chances of connecting with them.
It's not disinformation: it was announced at WOWODC in a demo given by Apple staff. It's just under NDA, so public details are very thin on the ground.

Wolf Rentzsch tweeted about it after a demo, though:
Blown away by gianduia. Cappuccino, SproutCore and JavascriptMVC have serious competition. Serious.
http://twitter.com/rentzsch/status/2060613851

Gianduia essestially is browser-side Cocoa (including CoreData) + WebObjects, written in JavaScript by non-js-haters. Jaw dropped
http://twitter.com/rentzsch/status/2060717454

As for the name: yeh, I wouldn't be surprised if that turned out to be a codename.
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Hrm. Alan Turing was definitely a hacker, and so is jgrahamc, but the resulting discussion here isn't particularly hackery...
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"...surprised at the unfriendly responses I have received..."

It's hard to comment on responses I haven't seen, but let me take a guess.

Perhaps the responses aren't so much "unfriendly" as "tough programmer love". They already know something you may have not learned yet. That all the mentoring in the world will make little difference. What really makes a difference is rolling up your sleeves, jumping into your work, and figuring it out. That's probably how they got to be where they are, and I'm guessing that's what they want you to do.

I'd be less concerned about finding a mentor than finding a place to go with questions, if you ever need it. For now, be your own mentor; find your own programming voice first, then the questions you ask may get "friendlier" responses.
The economy can suck it
Nope, not going to happen.
I don't get it. Why does the possibility that you may not wake up be terrifying? If you're dead, you're dead. No less dead than a dead chicken. A peaceful death while you're unconscious is one of the nicer gifts a human can get in life.

That is not to say you have to consciously injure yourself, of course.
As the others are saying it's not clear what your trying to achieve when getting in touch.

For example if you ask a direct question in a field they have experience I am sure they would help!

You talk about experience and skills: I assume your looking to learn such things from them. Perhaps your askign for them to send you some general tips? That is likely to get you a stock rejection (indeed the fact they reply at all says a lot about them - in a good way :D). It's the kind of question you should probably ask somewhere like here (or similar places more specific toyour field). Giving general help is a pain.

For example I often get emails asking for my advice on entering the forensics field. Most I send a very quick stock email (along the lines of - no time to write much but here are a few pointers). Those that show an actual interest by having done some background reading / having worked on some code or something get something more meaningful and personal (and usually a whole conversation).

Why not post the sort of thing your sending and we can give you some pointers too :D
"The probability that a fair election would produce [these number distribution disparities] is less than .005."

Careful with that reasoning. Suppose there are four candidates, and the last digits of their total vote counts are 8,7,2,8. Fewer than 1 in 9999 fair elections would produce a vote count with exactly those digits!

Does this mean that the vote was rigged?

Post-factum searching for (perceived) oddities and calculating probabilities of their occurences in uniform distributions shows some misunderstanding of statistics.
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The CAP email will never result in anything good, but yes #3 is how those of us not lucky enough to work at google can implement our own 20% time policy.
That's a bold statement. Knowing nothing about Parrot, could this someday replace Phusion Passenger, i.e. any chance Ruby will run on Parrot any time soon?
Why does it seem that political gays are all about the feds? One would think they'd be in the states rights camp by now and pursuing things at the state level.

That said, hate crimes legislation is a horrible, destructive idea. Any deviation from the idea that we all are equal individuals with the same protection under the law is bound to lead to bad things.
Direct link:

http://predict.i2pi.com/
At this point it doesn't matter if it was rigged or not. The regime has voided the social contract with the people of Iran and is therefore illegitimate.
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Wicked. That is a much better considered solution to the problem.

That I think is the problem with the original message - the problem IS sort of there but the solution is just too readical for it :P
I'd argue they become an unconscious synapse to the tools we perceive in the machine. Avatars in games, the cursor in editors, these are what we feel as the extensions of our will in their environments.
Uh, forgive me if this doesn't make any sense, but why would the numbers of the actual votes be generated fradulently?

Wouldn't it be easiest to say, "Okay, Ahmadi is going to win 57% to 65% in all reporting districts," and so on and so forth and then use those fractions and the known eligible voter numbers to come up with the actual counts?

In which case, shouldn't we be looking at the last digits of the percentage of votes won by district?
Let's be realistic, now. In practice it would afford extra legal weapons to gays.

The whole idea is stupid. Assault and battery is assault and battery. Why the heck complicate things?
Thanks, that comment looks much less fishy than the original article. I wonder whether the Washington Post authors tried to run their test on past known rigged and non-rigged elections. If not, that would be a good idea.
Thank you for your comment. In retrospect I may not have adequately detailed the work I have done so far, so that explains the responses.On the other hand though,sometimes its not just about the programming aspect of a project,for instance, if I have an idea for an app that I want to develop, but my technical skills limit me, it would be nice to have people to bounce the idea off and have it implemented. In short, great projects are made up of good product vision and adequate technical skills to implement it, some people have the two skill sets while in other cases its not that easy to bring two different people with the complementing skills together.
There are a number of causes for caution here, such as the possibility of publication bias. There could be 100 other statistical tests that the election passes, but who would publish those boring results?

Another problem is how reasonable the null hypotheses are. Should we really expect Iranian vote counts to fit Benford's Law in a fair election, for example? I don't know.

I have no reason to believe the election was fair, but I think any scientific results reported directly in news media without peer review a week after a very controversial election are highly suspect.
No problem for this. And I know a straight figure head is much better for this purpose.

At the other hand. The UK government can always say those standard lame excuses such as "because of cold war, we have to prevent Turing to be used by communists spies".

At the other hand, I wonder why gay right activists ignore Turing's story for a long time. I learned Turing's story pretty early on (I am just always curious of private lives of great minds since I was a kid)
I think programmers are often "maximizers":

http://journal.dedasys.com/2006/02/18/maximizers-satisficers...