skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have first hand experience, but from what I understood, yes. Particularly in monitoring devices: "Shut this off if you haven't received a signal in x minutes". That sort of thing.
No bombast intended. Chill out.

This type of question has NOT confounded philosophers for thousands of years. Moral relativism -- the idea that everything is just about the same, depending on how you look at it --as a popular meme is very recent in the historical record.

Look. It's lazy thinking, that's all. I'm sorry to have to say that. Critical thinking requires of you to make moral choices. So make some. I've made mine in the matter. Nobody is saying your thinking skills or any better or any worse than anybody else. I'm just asking you to use them.

If you're still having problems, try a little Kant: only do those things that you would want the rest of the world to do. If your code says it's okay to attack sites because you "think you are in the right", whatever that means, then you should expect everybody to do that. If your code involves other things, then formulate your rules and stick to them. But don't sit around saying it's just all kind of the same. That's the starting point: without your brain analyzing it, yes, it's all kind of the same. But that's why you have a brain; its to tell the difference.

Look I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings or was rude or something. I really am. But there's an important point here. So I'll bow out now and perhaps the next time you hear it you'll get it.
Does Mosso cloud mix into Rackspace? I've been quite happy with my Mosso Xen VPS.

I pay like $26/mo. for my 512MB VPS. It's $0.03/hr which is $21.90/mo. but you pay $0.22/GB out, and $0.08/GB in. I don't use a whole lot of bandwidth though.
You are defining consent in a different way than I am.

Implied consent can be unanimous, of course.

I was referring to consent on matters of policy.
True. They're linked in the FAQ:
http://ycombinator.com/faq.html
You'd be surprised. Aside from myself, I know at least two non-techies who use Opera from their own accord.
I'm a little surprised this update makes it compatible with Python 2.5. Didn't that come out in 2006?
Has anyone ever tried to lay out a minimal standard for English spelling and communication? That sounds like an interesting idea to me, and it's also kind of funny that almost anyone who has a violent dislike for Java's verbosity would also violently resist the suggestion to make their written communication more efficient.
You forget. Apple's whole strategy is to remove features in order to focus a product. Apple wins by doing less than everyone else.

Who else sells a computer with only one mouse button?
Who else sells a phone with only one button?
No copy/paste?
Awful APIs that prevent you from really reading camera data?
First iPod had less disk space than any other player
First iPod had no windows support
Safari's extension support are crappy relative to FF or even IE
OSX dock can display 1/100th the apps of menus on other OSes

Apple's strategy is to cut features. This is roughly equivalent to asceticism: finding enlightenment by doing less. Like asceticism, this seems a bad idea on the surface, but some people really seem happier doing it.
I didn't downvote you, but your comment doesn't have much content. What makes you think they are going to run it like a startup? Why is that not a good sign?
Inspiring words. The full quote is actually by W.H. Murray, inspired by a couplet of Goethe's (roughly the last two sentences).
Thanks very much for that feedback. I added additional details below my comment.
The placebo effect only works if you have a false belief, though, and spreading false beliefs is generally something to be avoided.
YUI Dialogs, IE z-index and Tragedy
To me calling it an argument implies that there could be a winner. Arguing is not just two people shouting their own opinion repeatedly, it's a reasoned process of establishing a universe of discourse and then evaluating propositions in that universe for validity and truth.

Anyone entering an argument should wish that one participant leave the argument with his/her opinion changed. A rational participant would not be biased about whether he or his opponent ought to be the one to change.

Arguably, the beneficiary is the one who does change his/her opinion, since he/she is the one who has gained rationality as a result of participating in the argument.

I think the blog post mostly critiques bombast and verbal swagger. Nobody who truly enjoys argument enjoys such things.

Much of human verbal communication uses what I'd call an argumentative trope but does not actually constitute reasoned argument. I think the author of the post confuses argument with argumentativeness.
They may feel that, but they never really got that right in the first place. Twitter has a 140 character limit. SMS has a 140 byte limit. There's a 7-bit GSM character encoding which gives you the 160 characters, but that only covers basic English, select bits of other Western European langauges, and some currency symbols. So beyond those characters, you have to go down to 140 characters, and if you're in non-Latin land (like Chinese or Arabic), you have to use UCS-2, which only gives you 70 characters.

The simple Twitter 140 limit doesn't map to that at all, and coupled with the fact that Twitter SMS is disabled in a good chunk of countries, it seems silly to think of it as an SMS publishing system.
Yes, but "we're trying to shut down all means of communication within and out of Iran, but those damned Americans are trying to keep Twitter up" is a hard propaganda message to pull off.
The pertinent part is at the bottom of the post...

Finally, some of you have asked when Native Client will be ready for end-users. In this context, we recognize that there is well-justified resistance to installing browser plug-ins. For this reason we have a strong preference for delivering Native Client pre-installed or built into the browser, and we'll be focusing on that as our main strategy for delivering Native Client to users. Careful readers may have already noticed evidence of integration into Chromium <http://dev.chromium.org>; in the Native Client source. Recognizing the many technical and non-technical challenges to browser integration, we will continue to support our NPAPI plug-in until we can deliver the system via a better alternative.
Great to have you on board! Compass was definitely one of the inspirations behind Less. Unlike Compass, though, I'd like to keep it small, as it is and as close to CSS as possible, so the more complex features of Compass probably won't find their way in Less, unless they fit the ideal.
For those of us not using Ruby frameworks, that's a definite plus. It's nice to have a simple standalone tool that does this.
Have a prosthetic arm? Don't expect to work at Abercrombie.
Ask someone on the street how Advil works. Just because a placebo works only because of a false belief and not just in spite of a false belief does not make those who take it any dumber. :)
The theory surrounding homeopathy would suggest that would only be useful for curing extreme and persistent drunkenness.
Ehm, I'm by no means a security expert but Matasano's overview [1] of the security model seemed to throw some sizable monkey wrenches into the works. Has Google addressed those criticisms?

[1] http://www.matasano.com/log/1674/the-security-implications-o...
Being centered around user and product is business. Just because startup is your favorite buzzword does not mean it's applicable. I believe that would be Jon's inarticulate point.

Granted layoffs themselves do not lead to innovation, but they get more visibility to people like us (not in the know) than the likely new hires (fresh ideas) that accompany them which may lead to innovation.
I remember a post that CPython 2.6 was still in development when they started Jython 2.5. They were making the leap from 2.1 or 2.2 so they didnt want to add an undefined release to the pot.
Its not really fair to talk about US meddling in Ukraine during the Orange Revolution without mentioning the overwhelming Russian meddling in Ukraine that it sought to oppose.
Given Germany's prohibition on Nazi expression, it seems likely this will also be used, in the near future, to block white supremacists.
I partially agree on this.

I believe it depends how a person values the opinions of friends and families.

If I care about what they think, I will be accountable and try to reach those goals.

If I announce my goals and do not deliver, my friends and families would stop believing in and listening to me.

I'm very selective on the plans I announce. I only announce those that I think I can achieve.
It's a lot of work, and 2.5 is still the most used. I think the plans are to go straight to 3.0 from here, rather than release a 2.6 version.
"Arguably, the beneficiary is the one who does change his/her opinion, since he/she is the one who has gained rationality as a result of participating in the argument."

This is a great comment about an awful post. Arguments are about the process of finding self-bias. People see things on TV, or their only knowledge of arguing is when they're a teenager and they have to "score points". They have no idea what rational discourse is about.

There's a long history of reasoned debate being used, sometimes at length (Lincoln-Douglas) to determine policy.

Most people are emotional thinkers and use rationality to justify, sure. But that's all the more reason to engage in debate with your fellow man: it takes somebody else to untangle the mess you've made out of your reasoning. If we all just throw our hands up and say that debate is pointless, we're giving up our one chance of changing our programming and working and thinking in a truly free manner.
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From what I can tell, Justin.tv and us (Weebly) are the only ones on that list who own their own IP blocks
This might be a little bit off topic, but I've always thought that it could make some sense to have a YC colocation. With enough companies, it could be more cost-effective than everyone getting their own slicehost. Of course, there would be a ton of other headaches involved like backups, outages, etc, but a lot of YC companies seem to be doing just fine administering their own boxes in a colo. I know it wouldn't be for everyone, but maybe a standard stack of software/configuations could be readily available for new YC companies. We all seem to have had the same frustrations with configuring webservers, mail servers (ouch!), tweaking database servers, etc. It could be yet another benefit of joining the YC mafia =)
New Startup Trend: Naming Your Company After 90s Juicebox Drinks
extremely well said!
I find it interesting that these tools are targetted at developers when designers could easily benefit from these even more. What would be interesting is if someone could build this into a Javascript library that compiles and converts the Less/sass/Compass code into CSS on the fly. If Cappuccino can do it for executed code written in an entirely different language, I don't think CSS would be that hard either. Of course, it's been a long time since I wrote a lexer/parser from scratch.
Where is the include coming from? (PHP)
Hi, you must be new here. Hacker news is about news that are interesting to hackers as well as startup-related news as per ycombinator and not infact about hacking news.
Sort of unrelated but why does Facebook not co-opt Twitter. It does not seem to be all that hard. Problem with Twitter is that there is no way to verify identity. I always have a suspicion that the tweets from guy in Iran is really just some bozo in the state dept or the Iranian revolutionary guard.
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I didn't downmod you either, but I think that in general people don't like comments about mod points. Although you weren't complaining, from the guidelines:

Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
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Except that I doubt that anyone not using Ruby is going to install Ruby just to run this. It looks very promising, but without a standalone compiler it is useless to me.
A feed of tweets where people have basically "snapped" as in "lost their mind". LOL
"P.S. No, we haven't forgotten about the security contest, but we really
don't like to rush the jury. Please watch for a related announcement in the
coming weeks."

I would assume the security issues will be mentioned or addressed in their upcoming announcement.
I've noticed a number of other non-spammy comments being killed lately for apparently no reason. Granted a lot of them aren't what I would consider excellent comments, but it would be nice to know what criteria is used for killing comments.
I meant to say, in the last paragraph, that I'm also not sure about AD(H)D being a real medical condition. Doesn't really change the sentiment of my post, though.
You can use Compass/Sass with non-ruby projects. I do.
That pretty much describes Google Wave...

Oh, and I agree about Basecamp. I've only ever seen it used for message archive and the odd file sharing task.
How did I miss that?

Even granting the benefit of the doubt that they have solved the issues raised this still seems like putting the cart before the horse to me.
Actions Speak Louder Than Words
What I was trying to say was that MySpace has always run like a large faceless corporation, and that trying to move to run like a startup will not work because the precedent just doesn't exist.

Sure you can argue that "Tom" was the face of the corporation, but we all know that to be a ridiculous lie.
"Except that I doubt that anyone not using Ruby is going to install Ruby just to run this"

I don't see why not. Most developers depend on tools written in a variety of languages.
Adobe versus the ‘Open Web’
I know the distinction between Sass and Compass is blurred for many folks, much like ruby and rails.

Compass is libraries and tools to provide project management and community features, sass is the syntax that makes compass possible. Compass could be built on any css syntax with a comparable feature set to sass.

So my point was that until you provide those more heavyweight features in the core language, you cannot have a framework like compass. Frameworks drive adoption, so think about that decision carefully. Having powerful features doesn't force them to be used, but not having them, creates limitations.
Somehow his account got banned, but I'm not sure how. It may be a bug.
You transfer to me, I sell at auction, realize 1000% ROI. I kid, I kid :)
What are the chances of this being adopted anywhere else (leaving IE out, of course)?
People you know. People you know who know. Fellow alumni.
Local meetings: Python, Java, Ruby, entrepreneurial groups. If none, start one.
Craigslist? I find clients there. I dont know how good it works the other way.

Talk to other entrepreneurs. Maybe they have good candidates that didnt fit.

Does telecommuting work for you?. Then you have a much larger pool of candidates. You may have to go on a contracting basis to avoid HR hassles.
Doesn't every venture backed startup hire ahead of their growth? If Facebook only "ran" since 2005 the site would lack a lot of features.
I think he means reconstructing a conversation by looking at quoted text (all the "On XYZ day, Joe Shmoe said:" stuff). If one person had been getting all the reply-alls of a conversation, he could create a discussion on your site, and forward a few of the emails. Your site would then reconstruct the quoted conversations.

It's quite a fuzzily-defined feature, because people don't always quote entire messages, they can change messages, and the characters used to mark off quoted text vary between email clients. However, it would be a cool feature to implement, maybe as an optional thing.
Python 2.5 is a good baseline, since that's what a lot of distributors are shipping.

Besides, the syntactic additions made to the language in Python 2.6 are almost all meant to provide a first step toward Python 3.0, or make standard things that were available as future imports in 2.5. So you're not really missing anything there.
Hey man, Tom is my friend...
I think the headline is a bit optimistic. NaCl will be built into Chrome after they fix all the security holes.
Differences between Jython and cPython:
http://jython.sourceforge.net/docs/differences.html

Can anyone tell me where they find it preferable to use Jython instead of cPython? Also, is there anybody running this for production?
You can seamlessly accept credit cards and use PayPal as your backend processor. To your customer, it looks like you jumped through all of the hoops of a merchant account, but you're really just interacting w/ PayPal's API.

They also provide a virtual terminal so you can accept credit card payments via phone//fax.

I think they call it website payments pro and it costs ~$30/mo depending on volume.
Let me play devil's advocate here:

So now chrome contains means to call native code. Isn't that what we initially used as a reason to move away from IE which also allowed to do that via ActiveX?

So if IE allows native code to run, then it's bad.

But if Chrome does it, it's cool.

Just because one is sandboxed and the other is not, does not mean that it's inherently more secure. Sandboxes can be broken out of.

In IE, I can at least turn this crap off.
By the time it's commercialized you've forgotten the original announcement (and the terminology may have changed). Wasn't the memristor announcement less than five years ago?
All that new stuff that never goes anywhere. e-ink, new lithium-polymer batteries, OLED displays, pocket size projectors, multiple cores, GPGPU and OpenCL, ethernet-over-power and power-over-ethernet, fibre-to-the-home, ADSL2+, VoIP, motion sensitive controllers...

Lots of stuff hasn't appeared yet, but lots of stuff has.

[memristors] were supposed to be easy to produce with existing fabrication processes. Why don't we have any yet?

To do what? Where are you feeling the lack of memristors most?
How come no one is making these things for Java? Do people just use Ant to do the same thing?
And now short urls with a twist... ahh, so cute :)
- http://www.socuteurl.com/
Possible UFO caught on video (cnn.com video)
Does anyone believes in this?
Lovelorn Programmer: Should you date someone from the office?
Perhaps social media tools are amplifying dissenting voices in Iran, but I'd argue it's more of a consequence of the Iranian government's policies than anything else. Skepticism of the electoral process wouldn't have arisen in the first place if it were open and there existed institutions (i.e. free press) to protect against exploitation. If there was more independently verifiable information provided by the Iranian government, rumors and exaggerations wouldn't explode through these communication mediums. Data wants to be free. Let it :)
As someone who loved the StatTweet service this past college football and basketball season, it's a shame to see that Twitter has done this and refuses to communicate effectively with you. Best of luck with http://stat.us/, I'll be certain to check it out.

And let me also plug the OpenMicroBlogging/Laconi.ca platforms. They are an excellent step forward for a standardized API with all these similar services out there.
That is amazing. Anyone who does ironman is amazing.

> It's kind of cheating

If you ran, swam and cycle the distance you made it, no cheapting about it.

Amazing - nice work!
Why? Sane regexes aren't all that inefficient, and here efficiency doesn't matter much anyhow.
Hampton Catlin invented Sass. Nathan Weizenbaum is the primary maintainer now, and I'm just a newbie, only around since Sass 2.0.

Everyone seems to give designers an insultingly small credit for their ability to do development. But the concepts behind CSS and Sass are the hard parts (flow, positioning, block, layout, etc), the syntax is easy in comparison. Every designer that I've worked with who knew css took 1 hour to learn sass and fell in love.
You can copy and paste the link into google and try "cached". This link worked for me:

http://74.125.153.132/search?q=cache:3eeGFk9AvA8J:www.sdtime...
No homeopathy is bunk. The placebo effect is psychological in the sense that by unwittingly taking a sugar cube instead of an advil causes your mind to ignore the pain. While homeopathy may induce some wellness via the placebo effect the premise of a former solute having an effect on a solvent is ridiculous.
I do not think any authentic protesters would be using Twitter if their identities could be "verified".
I don't think so.

Who was it that said that one of the forces keeping an entrepreneur going was the embarrassment factor--having announced the plan, then being committed to prevent the shame of failure.

Studies of this sort leave me questioning the true amount of science in social science. The business about "symbols in the brain" is pretty lame. (As if that is where the mind is--but that is another discussion altogether.)
I think simple solutions work great when you are not at scale. But to achieve greater scale or quality (or in the case of computing, reliability), you need to delve deeper and deeper into the nuances and make things more complex. It's kind of like when you know more about something, the bigger picture isn't as important anymore when you can focus deeply on the specific problem.

In this case, he's arguing that we are just trying to create a better mouse trap, whereas in reality we've hit that 80/20 rule and to get that last bit requires making some big changes, disproportional it seems to what it took to get the first 80.
I'm not convinced that announcing plans causes people not to fulfil them. The studies may show correllation, but I wouldn't assume cause and effect. Another explanation could be that the people who keep their plans to themselves are the kind of people who are more likely to carry them out.
The Open Fund
It matters a whole lot what sort of payments you need to take. Is your payment model a sale (one-time transaction) or recurring billing?

If you're going to take credit cards and/or do recurring billing:

I've built two recurring billing payment systems (braintree and paypal express checkout) and maintained a third (paypal payflow pro gateway) and am most impressed with braintree's api thus far. http://braintreepaymentsolutions.com/ My braintree-based system hasn't gone live yet, so I can't say anything about long-term service, but their api was far more sane than the other two. That said, when we added express checkout to the payflow pro gateway, purchase rates increased substantially.

There are monthly minimums with braintree and a good bit of paperwork, but being able to directly take credit cards might add some degree of "seriousness" in the consumer's eyes.

If you're rolling on rails, you might want to check out http://railskits.com/saas/ (although I have no personal experience with them) and http://www.activemerchant.org/ (a payment library extracted from shopify).

If you're just doing one-time sales, you have a lot more options and the accounting is a heck of a lot easier.
Just remove the %20 and it'll wget it.
I agree that the bulk of this article is speculation. "Identity symbols" and a "premature sense of completeness" may be one possible explanation, but the article presents them as the only explanation of the correlation shown in the studies.