skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
posterous' strength is in its ability to post via email and its streamlined integrations. its just easier, you don't have to log in to an admin panel or do any of that sort of thing. just send it what you want it to post, and it posts it for you.
"How does one find information on climate change that isn't politically motivated?"

As for as the facts are concerned, the idea that all information on climate change is poltitically motivated is itself a lie spread by certain forces within society.

As far as policy is concerned, the role of environmental groups is to create recommendations on how to manage limited resources among multiple stakeholders who want to use them. Some of the more leftwing environmental groups believe that their job is just to protect the earth, whatever that means, but the more mainstream ones are in the business of solving tragedy-of-the-commons problems like climate change. They are probably you're best bet for sound policy advice, albeit they often on specific tactics.

edit: @EnvDefenseFund has some good tweets about what is going on today.
Years ago, when computers were $1000 or more, it seemed plausible to charge $200 for an OS.

Nowadays, with netbooks around $250 it is not such a good idea.

Much worse during a recession.
"Worse, what if I see a comment from the same person saying one of my posts is absolute garbage and that I'm an idiot? Now I may have compromised my impartiality."

If you're a good manager, you should be able to stomach having an employee tell you that. After all, what if your opinion is absolute garbage and you're an idiot? Do you want people working for you who won't call you out when you're wrong?

The right question to ask there is why your posts is garbage and you're an idiot. See if they can defend it. And if they can, and can convince you that your own post is garbage, that's someone worth hiring. If they're just ranting, maybe it's time to look at another candidate.
Didn't Kramer try this and fail?
Because certification of journalists is contradictory to freedom of the press.
Your problem is that "cheap place" and New York are incompatible. How much do you consider cheap? I'm moving to New York and I haven't seen an apartment for less than $1800/m. I don't think you'll even find a share for less than $1000 a month and if you do, it's going to be way out in deep brooklyn, or up in the bronx, or weird (sharing a bed with two albanian guys) or random luck.

Also, craigslist is really the only way to do it.

airbnb.com has good places to crash.

maybe consider new jersey if cost is the biggest issue.
You're correct that 60 is more useful when dividing,

BUT:

Say we had 32 hours in a day, 64 minutes in an hour, 64 seconds in a minute... You could do date arithmetic simply. You could work out the number of seconds by simple bitshifts, rather than having to multiply and divide by 60/24.
If I made a practice of asking candidates to list every example they can find online of me being idiotic, my interviews would all be 6-8 hours long...
Regardless of whether you believe global warming is real or bullshit, isn't there a geo-political argument to be made that we should simply be using less oil and trying to become more efficient so we don't continue to prop up monarchies and radical theocracies in the Middle East who are wholly funded by their oil businesses?
It stopped being "your private life" when you published it.
Freedom of Press is guaranteed in the constitution. Freedom to be a Pilot is not. Countries that seriously consider journalism a potential threat DO place severe limitations on who can publish things.

Also, if a journalist screws up, they lose credibility. If a pilot screws up, there's no second chance for anybody on board, or anybody who owned the damaged property.
Wow. This is the first time I've seen a video of _why. Its good to know hes just as wacky and cool outside of the internet too!
Personal liability for corporate salary claims is psycho.
Well, unlike the newspapers, they are actually profitable.

They did not have the mindset for innovation in my time there. That said, almost everyone I knew there has left; I wonder if the institutional residue (lack of investment in innovation; lack of trust in the front-line troops; lack of ability to proactively plan ahead) has remained.
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I believe that is very much not the case, but I'd welcome a credible citation to your claim.
But it didn't stop being your personal life.
so, then, where do you draw the line between the responsibility of a professional and another's personal responsibility?

just because i suggest that you go jump off a bridge next month doesn't mean that its my fault for you doing so.
You can still have freedom of the press, but additionally have journalists who are certified in a topic indicate this so that their articles on that topic are taken more seriously.
You've lost me, huhtenberg. What are you getting at?
I actually agree with the grandparent comment, while reading your essay I was thinking very much the same. You - and many people on HN, I suspect - have the luxury of turning down job offers you don't like, because you know you have other options. What happens when you DON'T have options? What happens when not only your house but your ability to support your kids is on the line, you've applied to hundreds of jobs with no responses, and this is the first solid lead? What happens when you're NOT a highly competent IT professional in a position of strength?

I completely agree that the practice is wrong, but I don't think that "fine, don't hire me, I don't want to work there anyway" (with the implied "because I have choices") is the most constructive approach.
I would say that it depends on your budget. If you are willing to shell out some money for your blog, then go for third party hosting. Otherwise, if you are looking for a medium to communicate with users with update, then go for Wordpress/Blogger (similar platforms).

Startup Linkspank.com is having their blog on Blogger - http://linkspank.blogspot.com/

(It seems to be dead now!!)
You're looking at this backwards. Current pilots love the certification process, it is a barrier to entry and a way to achieve seniority faster.

See http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01... for the story about how the pilots union hated the retirement age limit until a bunch of younger pilots started joining the union. All of a sudden the upstarts had the majority vote and lo and behold, the age limits are imposed.

Certification of pilots is not imposed out of a desire to assure safety; it's because the lawmakers are lobbied by the pilots themselves.

Journalists would also love to be licensed, that way that upstart rapscallion Drudge and those dastardly blogs would stop eating into their business.

Ask Richard Jewell if misguided/malicious journalists matter.
Siemens should already know this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2233890.stm

It's particularly disappointing for a company with that kind of history to continue unethical behavior.
This is Stephan Di Paola's "Prototype Hijacking" attack, and it's more than 2 years old. We wrote it up here:

http://www.matasano.com/log/672/di-paolas-prototype-injectio...
It depends on who you are. Are you a psychologist? A priest? A competitor?
Ask HN: Review part of my startup 
My startup (excycle.com) recently launched a new health food recipes section. It's for people who exercise and would like a place to find mostly healthy foods to help them reach their goals.

You can see it here: http://www.excycle.com/recipes

I'd love any comments/feedback

also, the site has changed a lot since the last time I posted it - so any overall feedback would be awesome too!

-Thanks
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The fastest MACs use AES themselves, usually with the same key as was used to encrypt.

I am asking for examples of the above. I don't understand how you arrived at "usually".
When I started blogging I made a conscious decision to make everything public and put everything in one place. You go to my blog and you see my opinions about computer programming, Judaism, economics, sex, whatever.

I wonder if my descendants will consider this kind of behavior quaint if not dangerously naïve. Of course, they might say (might will say?), you maintain multiple online identities and even if everything posted under them is publically readable, you give one URL to the guy interviewing you, and then a different one to the officemate who has become your friend, and maybe you keep your really emotionally sticky stuff on a third site that only two or three people know is connected to your true identity. And it would be an extreme social gaffe--a sort of electronic peeping-tom-ism--for anyone to reveal "the guy who posts here also writes this blog" to an unauthorized party.
I went on an MJ youtube bender. Not as likely to happen after a terrorist attack for example.
i'm not saying that malicious journalists don't matter. i'm saying that it is substantively different. i'm also not saying that the certification process isn't something pilots like, i have pilots in the family.

journalists do have certifications and credentials that prove their worth. its a lack of care on the part of the industry and a lack of care in the consumer base that is causing a problem.

i want the best pilot to fly my plane, because if they mess up, i die. i have a lower barrier of entry for where my information comes from, because if they mess up, i might look dumb, might make a few mistakes but i'm almost definitely not going to die.
I was working on something similar a while ago.

I bought the domain twitchboard.com (Like a switchboard for twitter, harhar ^.^ ). I cobbled together a proof-of-concept on it. Since I'm not a hacker I can say with certainty that the backend is janky at best, and I am much more comfortable doing design work and marketing, but all that is to say, if anyone is interested in putting 2-and-2 together we could use the Twitchboard domain name and I'd be more than willing to help with graphics and marketing. I also have a lot of feature ideas that I have outlined which could really make something like this a worthy tool.

So maybe between the work Sam has done, and the domain name/design I could add we could get something going. If anyone is interested let me know.
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I always had this attitude about certain things, even when I was much younger and had far fewer options. For example, although it is far less of an issue today, when I started in my career there was a lot more overt racism in play. I refused to work in places that had a racist culture, and in fact I did quit at least two jobs I can recall over this, and at that time quitting cost me serious money and security.

Now I have kids and a mortgage, but let me look you (virtually) straight in the eye and tell you: No way am I ever going to tell them that I got down on my knees and sold my dignity as a human being "for their sake." That isn't a value I want to pass on to the next generation.

My rant is definitely not constructive, I agree with you there. But it is passionate, and I am far more interested in persuading fellow hackers to start their own businesses or seek more enlightened employers than I am in persuading employers to change their ways.
Unless you produce one of the very few 'hits', you'll lose money developing a $1.99 application.
I wish wefollow/twibes would provide an API where you pass the Twitter username and it would return tags.

This will be very useful to easily group Twitter users.
"the familiar format that uses 30 black and 29 white lines to convey 12 bits of data in binary code."

In Soviet Russia, there's only 4096 possible products. Luckily for us they're actually decimal digits:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Product_Code
The Details Are Not the Details
How "User-Selected Content" Can Increase User Engagement
Motivations are unimportant as long as the result is desirable. Having a certification process that results in highly qualified pilots is a good thing.
you lose even more money developing an application that costs more than $2.99 - because nobody buys them.
I remember reading a story about a company who was advised by its lawyers to simply never look for stuff online, for reasons close to yours.

The off chance that you could read about someone's pregnancy (something that you should not ask in a interview) was enough for them to ban the practice.

I don't agree, but it's a good argument. Very protective of the lawyers.
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That seems to be a rather ostrich like approach to what's supposed to be a rather big important issue - particularly one that could result in a rather large "climate change tax" scheme that's being voted on today. If they're wrong on the merits, then have it out, but the article only points out the growing skepticism within the scientific community for anthropogenic warming. So the question becomes more about what should/can we do about it since if it's going to cost the world that much in money surely we should have an expectation that these efforts will have an impact?
Openfund - A terrific example of a self-organising industry
Yeah, XSSI has been well known for a while.

This article's argument against using custom headers is a bit bunk. If you're not properly disabling proxy caching for sensitive data, you're asking for trouble anyways. Disabling caching properly is a bit tricky, but there are some useful details here: http://code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Part2#Document_cach...
That's why it's illegal to represent yourself as a doctor when giving medical advice through a publication, unless you actually are a doctor. That's why the FDA has to approve medical advertisements. That's why people take CNN more seriously than they take the National Enquirer.
I very much disagree. There is still a lot of contention over the basic science. See this article for the best critique I have found of the science behind global warming: http://commentlog.org/bid/4409/The-Case-for-Global-Warming-S...
I would second the idea of looking for part-time or full-time work as you continue to develop the project. That way, when you do hit launch you can quit the job and have money on hand to see you through the marketing and launch phase till hopefully hitting profitability.
This stands as much chance of happening as licensing or certifying software developers.

And news agencies have long since stopped caring about "the better public good" and caring only about quarterly numbers of their stock prices. Even if there was some sort of "certified" journalist, an uncertified editor could easily truncate or otherwise alter an article into unintelligibility.

Furthermore, this won't stop news agencies from suppressing news. For example, The State had copies of Sanford's emails to his mistress for 6 months, and chose to neither publish them, nor question the governor. As another example, newspapers such as NY Times and Washington Post chose to conceal the warrantless wiretappings for more than a year. If they had released the news when they got it, in Oct 2004, there would never have been a 2nd term for bush. Likewise, the news media in the US chose to conceal the Abu Ghirab torture abuses for more than a year. What are they hiding now? How would "certifying" or "licensing" them force them into revealing news that they don't want to publish?
Why Saints Sin and Sinners Get Saintly
Psychologists and priests do get certified to give people advice. If your competitor tells you to jump off the bridge and you do so, it's your own fault. If a tabloid runs a story and it's false, you shouldn't have fallen for it, anyway.
I think it's a positive good that the Internet allows me to hear about the private lives of people who are otherwise (and may forever be) strangers to me. If for example I was struggling with depression or alcoholism or some other issue that I didn't want known to the public, it might help me to read blogs by other people who are dealing with the same problems. In order for such communication to happen, though, people need to feel free to publish private stuff anonymously and rely on a social norm that discourages potential employers from snooping.
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While you're worrying about Web standards or clean code, your users dont care
I'm an undergraduate college student currently working as a code monkey (pity me) for a New York City startup. I tell myself every day I am going to quit and work on my own project -- but I can't think of a project idea. Though the idea needs some refinement, I'd love to talk to you about it and take over.
if a psychologist told me to jump off a bridge, i would not do it, nor would most people (despite the fact that they are indeed certified by a board)

it depends on a lot more than simply "who you are".
Well, for cheap I mean $1200/month maximum, for a private room in a shared apartment.

I'd have to work in greenwich village, so distance is to be considered; airbnb seems pretty nice with some good offers, thanks!
Perhaps there are some interesting corner-cases where the browser will locally cache the JSON. Time to go play with it...
Many of those regimes are funded directly by US taxpayers in the form of foreign and military aid. It would seem more rational to stop that before using force to interfere in the choices of private individuals.
Seriously, one day we read an article saying a diet "near starvation" will help us live longer and the next we read "excess pounds" is the way to go. The key is doing everything in moderation.
Whenever I'm at a party facing the choice of reorienting the conversation towards either the weather or calendar reform, I inevitably go for the latter. Chicks love it.
4chan is taking over the world. Surely the apocalypse is near.
And with so many free alternatives especially Ubuntu, its going to be a bit tough for Microsoft. We might see a considerable amount of people willing to try Ubuntu or other alternatives.
Ask HN: Best Job Posting Site for Hiring
What is the best job posting site (e.g. CareerBuilder, Monster, Craigslist, etc.) for hiring a new developer? I'm thinking in terms of response rate and quality of applicants.

I know I read an article where some software company blogged on the subject with their results and metrics, but I cannot find that post to save my life. I thought it was either 37Signals or FogCreek.

Anyone have any insight?
the reporter however never made it back from columbia, where she is now seeking permanent residence
Thanks so much for Andrew, James and Mixergy. If they didn't cover this topic, I don't realize so many sites are using this under-the-radar tactic so successfully.
What are the other best ways to get your apps on peoples phones without going through the apple app store?
This is what I was looking for on the site. I think the site should explain why people would want to use scripty2 versus the original.
ICFP 2009 Problem Statement [pdf]
I highly doubt people will be (jail)breaking their phones for it.
The trick in defining moderation is knowing what the extreme values are, which is why I find reports on optimal body mass indexes interesting.
In his book The Millionaire Course, Marc Allen writes that "Your business goes through the same three stages that all living things go through: infancy, adolescence, and maturity".

"When your business is in its infancy, have you to care for it constantly. You expect nothing from it, and have to support it completely. Care for your infant business as you would care for your infant child -- with loving attention, with no expectation of any reward... your infant grows at its own pace; sometimes slowly, sometimes instantly, in a quantum leap. As James Allen says, Be not impatient in delay, but wait as one who understands. Your infant business will soon grow to adolescence."

"The adolescent business can take care of itself, but it certainly can't take care of its owners. In fact, the owners may still need to come in with some additional support if the adolescent stumbles for some reason, maybe because it's trying something unproven or risky or new..."

"If you keep focusing on your dreams, and if you're patient and persistent, your company will grow into maturity and be able to support you and many others abundantly."

In the comments people are doing the math to calculate that you need 2K a month to live on. Whatever the amount is, it is then your job to provide yourself with that income to support yourself, separate from your business. You shouldn't expect or depend on your infant business to provide you with that 2K, because you don't know how long it will take for your business to grow up. That your infant business isn't yet supporting you isn't a reason to give up, it just means that your business hasn't grown up yet.

In http://www.paulgraham.com/relres.html Paul Graham writes: "A couple days ago I finally got being a good startup founder down to two words: relentlessly resourceful."

Being relentlessly resourceful means that you come up with the 2K a month. Get some investors. Do some contracting work. Work nights and weekends. Hold a yard sale. Deliver pizza. Do whatever it takes to make 2K a month, separate from your startup.

Your other question was should you sell your 10K of stocks to support yourself. Because you're in the B2B space, you're doing sales. Dave Ramsey notes that people don't buy from a desperate salesperson. Desperate salespeople smell bad. People buy from relaxed, confident salespeople. So, the answer is, in your particular situation, you should start making the 2K a month to support yourself before you need to sell the 10K of stock. Because, with the 10K in reserve, you won't be feeling desperate, you'll be feeling confident. And with that confidence you'll be able to make sales.

How to succeed in your business is fairly simple :-) do what your business needs you to do. If your business needs you to make 2K a month to support yourself, then go do that. If your business needs you to make sales, then do the things you need to do for yourself so that you can be a confident salesperson. And sooner or later, your business will grow up, and you'll reap the benefits.
Startuply is pretty cool
If spending and revenues were any further separated, even more US states would be bankrupt.
No, but people who have already jailbroken their phones will use it.
we're _all_ code monkeys somewhere.

_all_ = undergrads w/ summer jobs
well I was 15 years old when my dad bought our Mac, the Mac 512k. I thought it was a brilliant design, it easily fit on a desktop, was portable from room to room, it had a gorgeous display (compared to other computers at the time), and it came with a good word processing (MacWrite) app and a fun graphics app (MacPaint). I think making the computer small made it easier to approach for a lot of other people. You know, less intimidating. I've read quite a few books about the Mac, and they had their eyes on IBM, not Atari, as their primary competitor. And I think we have to credit Jef Raskin for a lot of the design decisions, after all, he was the one who started the Macintosh project in the first place, although his original vision for it was more like a netbook than what it eventually became. I still have my Mac Plus at home, sitting in a box, and it still works perfectly as it has since 1989 when I got it before entering university. It's the same form factor as the original Macintosh, and it's a design icon in the computer world.