skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, I know it's violently tangential and pretty silly, but I noticed this in the article too. I thought it was interesting because (I'm guessing) it's not a case of the author not knowing the grammatical rules you've just described, but of his not knowing the saying he's quoting.

The phrase is "no wine before its time." Not as in "before it is time", but as in "before that wine's appointed time." It was the slogan of the Paul Masson winery, though I can't find a great source for that. (Maybe this one: http://wineeconomist.com/2009/02/10/no-wine-before-its-time/)

So we do want the possessive here, not the contraction.
Its all kind of boring.
As usual, a lack of transparency allowed the spread of misinformation which created an overreaction to something simple.

Fixed that for you.

AT&T could have nipped this in the bud if it hadn't taken nearly 24 hours to respond. It could even just publish an RSS feed listing actions like this.

When you are already somewhat infamous for wiretapping and being a government stooge, and you don't provide any information to the contrary, people are going to generally assume the worst about your intentions.
Electricity has only been widely available in the last eighty years or so, and the internet the last fifteen, but neither of those obstacles prevented great accomplishments or happiness to flourish. I'm guessing that the limited social interactions, movement, and separation from loved ones are all worse on the inhabitants.
Why not lend only to people who have already shown that they can handle money? In other words, why not mandate large annual fees for credit cards and VERY high down payment requirements for mortgages?

And yes, in fact, I AM suggesting that we only loan money to people who already have some.
anontalk. http://insurgen.info/wiki/AnonTalk for some (biased) history. Btw, that guy is probably DoSing 4chan. He also constantly spams it with stuff for anontalk. As the link might illustrate, he doesn't have any friends on the *chans. Suspect #1?
Agreed.

Of what use would be a 5 year old version of Firefox? It would be covered in security holes and missing many modern features.

Of what use would be a 5 year old version of the Linux kernel? It would have root exploits all over the place and be missing support for lots of modern hardware.

Of what use would be a 5 year old version of mplayer? It wouldn't even be able to play Youtube videos.
Apple Yanks The Cord On GV Mobile, other Google Voice integration apps
> I believe that it is actually better not to have the option to borrow at 25%.

I can think of thousands of reasons why I'd like to have that option.

On example:

My dog gets hit by a car and it will cost $4k to save her life. I have an extra $1k in my budget each month, but only $500 in cash reserves.

I'd pay 200% annual interest.

If I lived in a paternalistic "aarongough knows best" society, my dog would die.

Please don't be so quick to imagine that your preferences and resources (parents, friends with money, etc.) apply to everyone else.
> Name a major piece of software for which the source isn't leaked

Mathematica. Even Microsoft Office hasn't ever been leaked.
What keeps people from starting startups is the fear of having so much responsibility.

I'd use Occam to narrow that statement down even further: "What keeps people from starting startups is fear".

I think Paul might have a bit of a selection bias because of Y Combinator. He spends a lot of time with founders that are weighed down with all the responsibility of running the company. And, after you start, that's a big problem, but you don't realize how big of a problem the sense of responsibility is until you've already jumped off the cliff of founding a startup.

I spend a lot of time at Hackers and Founders meetups, talking with people who are very nervous about jumping off the corporate bandwagon and founding a startup. One of the biggest reasons that they don't is fear. Fear of being irresponsible. Fear of seeming irresponsible to people around you. Fear of going broke. Fear of failure. Fear of being inadequate to the task. Fear of not having the support of your spouse (which is generally the spouses version of fear of being broke, I suppose).

But, in all our Hackers and Founders meetups, I've never heard anyone say, "I want to start a startup, but I'm scared of having so much responsibility".

We're arguing a very small point of the essay at large. Over all, it was a great piece of work. Keep em coming, Paul.
The world is complex. Even if Chinese manufactures are not exploiting cheap labor, the computers that we are using also includes materials from Africa, where warlords sell minerals for making our phones and computers.

We live in North America, Western Europe and Japan are all similar to ancient aristocrats in the world economy. We are spoiled to death compared to people in country side China, Africa. While we sometime sympathizes their hardships, but we are unable to break free from the way we are living now. It is a big problem and I suspect we are unable to find out solutions.

This doesn't mean we can't try to solve it. But I guess after thousands years of inequality in different economic/social class separations in the world, I suspect we can reach a peaceful solution that may against something that are deep inside our genes.
The sperm race isn't 50/50 either. The y-sperm is slightly lighter than the x-sperm and thus slightly faster. On the other hand, women tend to live longer.
Saying that there is a vulnerability is nowhere close to revealing it. For example, I can say that Windows has a vulnerability allowing me to crash the system. If you are a Microsoft developer, does that information help you track down the issue? Not in the least, as you don't have any idea where to look
My solution to this problem (in addition to Akismet) is just to manually moderate all comments; it works for smaller blogs like mine ( http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/ ).

This prevents pointless comments and flamewars--of course, it also means I probably won't let you flame me baselessly in my blog comments, but there's no free speech on a private website anyways.
Not exactly, he was involved with (not an inventor of) a decedent technology of IBM's GML called SGML. A more fair attribution would be that he inventor a precursor to AJAX.
It's never exactly 50/50; generally more males are born but die sooner every step from there.
My hopes of mentally writing this off as a straightforward implementation exercise of well-known optimization heuristics have been spoiled. Maybe I couldn't have just sat down and banged it out in a few days with a little Googling and going over old college lecture notes. Damn you, Hacker News!
Who's to say that aliens will even be matter-based?

It doesn't seem to imporbable to me that life forms, for example, on the surface of stars, where energy is abundant. Self contained, self replicating energy patterns are just as much "life" as bacteria, and I don't see why they can't evolve intelligence either.
A more comprehensive tutorial for programmers:
http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/R/RProg.pdf
Microsoft used GPLd code which it shouldn't have used in the first place. That's the reason why they released the code for some linux drivers. They did a mistake, but corrected it anyways.
Berkeley sex bias case, an example of Simpson's paradox
Formal Language Processing in Scala
World-wide there are 107 men born for every 100 women. As women tend to get older the overall difference is 101/100. It also differs per country, and possibly other groupings.

Some numbers are in:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
The advice I took away from this was:

Ask for what you want,

When they say yes, shut up.
A pressure cooker also helps speed up the cooking time for dried beans -- and saves energy, too.
Previous articles have been killed when similar Twitter campaigning led to a swarm of upvotes from brand-new accounts:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658620

Of course, if Chen's followers are already HN readers, that may be a salient difference.
Paul, your second footnote is a surprising idea with huge consequences. How about you expand it into an essay?
But to an observer, a "longer" meter is sill a meter.
I think that a pressure cooker also might reduce the need for soaking.
I'm not sure what you're talking about. Yes, Tim Bray was involved in the development of SGML. But he's also the first-listed editor of the XML 1.0 specification.
I went last year, and I'll probably be there next year, but I won't be there this year, sadly.
Excuse me? Tim Bray and C. M. Sperberg-McQueen were the editors of the first XML specification, and their names have been on every edition since then. See http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/ all the way back to http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-961114 .
I have GV Movile on my iPodTouch and I use it for a lot of my calls. AT&T shouldn't be able to make Apple remove apps solely because of feature redundancy on one of the two platforms.

What about the skype app(s)?
That's interesting. Maybe King Henry VIII was on to something after all.

Plus one
Ask HN: PHP Job in Central Florida?
From previous Florida centric posts I can assume our state has a pretty small involvement with HN, but I was just let go from my job and am currently seeking employment elsewhere. If able to help or you are looking to hire, please contact me: pjarrett@gmail.com
Bear in mind that western Europe != the EU.

In 2004 and 2007 12 countries from central and eastern Europe joined the EU, with lower standards of living and (presumably) healthcare. The western EU countries are more comparable with the USA, since they have a more similar standard of living.
More like "the crow fascination". I thought this was going to be related to the parable of the crow at least (not really a paradox either) in which the crow wants to get water from the bottom of a barrel which her beak can not quite reach. Being an engineer she realizes that she can raise the level of the water by dropping stones in. By the time she has dropped enough stones in the water has actually just moved to fill the voids between them. She continues to drop stones on the now overflowing barrel of stones unwilling to admit she should have just broken the container open in the first place. She dies of thirst shortly there after. Hows that for a kids book?
>>We believe that time emerged during the Big Bang, and if time can emerge, it can also disappear – that’s just the reverse effect.

From what I can understand, it reminds me of the Richard Feynman's QED theory where he says vacuum is not really empty but particles with opposite charges get created and nullify each other in a short time.

Forgive me, i may be naive.
Ask HN:  Rate my project: (moreofit.com)
What do you think of this?
http://www.moreofit.com/

It's something I've been working on recently. You give it a URL, and it gives you the most similar websites. You can then filter the results based on tag, and sort between popularity and similarity.

I personally think it blows the competition out of the water... but I'm not so sure how big of a market there is for this type of thing. Business model ideas, anybody?

Thanks for checking it out... and please, provide feedback.
If you cook rice more than once per week, and you're doing it with a pot, you're a masochist. A rice cooker makes the process dramatically less error prone, and the resulting rice is better: fluffier, more consistently cooked, etc. A girlfriend bought me a fuzzy logic rice cooker (about $150, I think) a few years back. Best kitchen device ever. It cooks brown rice, oatmeal, etc. in addition to white rice, and it gets it right every single time. The pan also has measurement marks inside so I don't even have to measure the water.

The big problem with a pot is that you'll often get the temperature wrong, and end up baking the lower layer of rice onto the pot bottom, or not quite cooking it fast enough and end up with mushy rice. I only get great rice from a pot about 75% of the time. It's 100% of the time with a rice cooker.

So, yes, not having to pay attention to the rice while I work on other parts of the meal is a huge bonus. If you only need white rice, you can get a basic rice cooker that will work very well for about $25 (I've heard brown rice is possible with the lower priced devices by giving it a bit more water, and leaving it to "warm" for a few extra minutes, but I've never tried it).
I've been an FD customer for 3 years and I am pretty impressed with their operation as well. The usability of their site is very good and they have a lot of innovative ways of doing business.

- Their sliced meats and cheeses usually have a sticker on them containing the slicer's number and an e-mail address asking for feedback on the slicing.

- They recently switched their egg carton packaging from a plastic bag with foam sheets to shredded, recycled cardboard.

- Their delivery trucks recently switched to all use biodiesel only.

- As this article states, they've cut down their packing and boxing materials and I expect it to get better as they switch to the returnable plastic containers.

- Throughout all of this they remain very competitive in terms of produce quality and pricing. It's cheaper and better quality than the grocery stores in my area.
As long as you conduct all of your experiments locally, it would be difficult to detect. However, if things that vary with time (frequency of oscillations; photons, for example) are emitted in the past (say, from very far away), you would detect them as being different from what you expect. You "know" what to expect because you know the physical processes that cause them. (However, your calculations of these things depend on "constants," and if the constants aren't really constant-- why should they be??-- the whole issue is a mess to determine.)
Agreed, software patents need to go. I'd also throw in business method, and biological (dna) patents out too.

If we step back and look at intellectual property, I think it can be safe to start arguing against all intellectual property other than trademarks.
I'm not that old - 23. I agree that I was much more sensitive to prices during college, before I had a full-time job, but that's pretty natural for someone who doesn't have any money :-P

I suppose that does add a clause to the motto "make something people* want"...

* but not broke college kids
Yes, and a "longer" second is still a second.
During the Great Depression there was significant public sympathy for bank robbers as the banks were seen as having taken advantage of common people. I hope we're not headed for a similar breakdown in social order. Intentionally defaulting on a debt is one thing, but sticking a gun in a teller's face is something else altogether.
Chrysler Destroys Its Historical Archives; GM to Follow?
I'm glad that some of the more extreme conclusions of evolutionary psychology are being challenged, though not for political reasons. Their conclusions never really bothered me, because I never thought that an evolutionary incentive for immoral behavior gave a "free pass" in any way whatsoever.

What I dislike about evolutionary psychology is that it often tries to use the word "scientific" for explanations that are really "just so." I suppose it's an improvement that the explanation made to fit "just so" fits with a vaguely scientific worldview rather than consulting the bones, tea leaves, tarot, or astrological charts. But a just so explanation that fits with science is not! scientific reasoning, and that's where the evo-pysch folks got themselves in trouble.

I think evo-pysch is a great idea, but it needs to be scientific. And you know, some of it probably is - though those studies probably haven't produced the same sensationalistic headlines, and as a result aren't defining the field. "Just so" isn't scientific, but evo-psych certainly could be.
But if you create something where a meter is shorter, then move it to where a meter is longer, you will have, for example, a photon whose wavelength you think you know (because you understand the process, say a hydrogen transition, that created it) have a slightly longer (red-shifted) wavelength.
The most successful startups are disruptive. How can someone be disruptive when they're worried about keeping up appearances? To my mind, worrying about what others think of you starting a company might just mean you shouldn't do it at all.

Obviously there's a big difference between whether you are perceived as responsible and whether you really are.
Mmm, I loves me some dal. If you get tired of Asian-themed food, you can make similarly healthy and cheap fare using black beans and assorted Latin American spices (cumin, chile powder.)

Both these are way better for you than ramen, which is basically just bleached flour and MSG. If you're making just enough to afford Ramen you need to work a little harder, because that is not a sustainable diet. :)
There is free speech, it just belongs to the publisher :)
This is good! http://www.tbray.org/atompub/ouch (refresh it to see a new message)
Misled by the headline, I thought copylefters might have foundational objections with the short copyright terms affecting copyleft. Rather, RMS just wants a tweak to ensure proprietary source, and not just binaries, become available at the end of 5 years.

I think in practice, the point is minor. If arbitrary reverse-engineering and distribution of patched copies is allowed after 5 years, disassembly tools will get really good, really fast. The meatiest bits of public-domain but source-hidden binaries will quickly get source-equivalent coverage; creating such would be a fun/easy/legal exercise for students and hobbyists.
Wolfram Alpha - A Force To Be Reckoned With
At some level, rape is absolutely a product of evolution, unless you don't believe in evolution. The desire for a male to have sex with a female is so strong that it approaches a need. Acknowledging this doesn't condone rape, but it does allow us to not be morons.
The problem is that a well-mowed lawn and a flag in front of a house is 'responsible', but the overgrown lawn of a teacher who volunteers her free time is 'irresponsible'.

A pizza profitable startup founder can manage nine employees, but that doesn't mean anything for 'responsibility'. A BigBoxCo manager can manage eight employees and be 'responsible'; if he weren't responsible, why would BigBoxCo pay him a salary?

The trouble is that few people "measure" responsibility, they just look at the signals that have become associated with responsibility.
For a year I had about 30 spam comments a month on my Wordpress blog. I added Akismet a month ago and I've had 1 this month. It really does work and there's no need to bother users with a captcha.
Django - chained views
I am using Django for a personal project (because of its awesome admin app). However I have some gripes with it (mainly features I'm missing from the other frameworks I've worked with ... especially perl's Catalyst ... this could also be because I'm not familiar with its best practices).

And because I was bored last Sunday, I fixed one pain I had with it. Fortunately it was just a quick hack, but I thought others may find this useful ...

http://code.google.com/p/django-catalyst/
Clickable: http://www.moreofit.com/
"I completely disagree."

Did you read the article? You are completely agreeing with RMS, who recommends that an extra proviso should be added requiring proprietary source disclosure at 5 years.
The story broke on a Sunday. As for lack of transparency, do you really expect any company to keep us all apprised of every routine decision that's made? That's right- routine decision. It was probably made by a relatively low level employee to whom it never occurred there might be some sort of uproar worth responding to. I don't like ATT either, but be realistic.
He's actually just DoSing 4chan. That 4chan ACKs the SYN (making it look abusive) is just added lulz.
Wait, who cares about seeming irresponsible? Unless it's to one's family, in which case pg's argument holds.
I've been thinking about the same subject the last few months, and I think Andrew's spot on about the problem, but less so about the solution.

I live in SV, but I visit fly-over country every couple of months. When I'm in non-costal parts of the US, I spend a lot of time researching what other people are doing with their computers.

It's been enlightening: Most people use XP or Vista. Apple is for rich people or designers. Facebook is the hot new hotness. No one has heard of twitter except if they watch CNN. Smart phones are for the rich or business types (they use blackberries). Everyone loves their iPods. No one gets twitter. Even among non-SV geeks, using Python or Ruby is pretty rare, and no one has heard of EC2, although they vaguely know about "cloud computing" and virtualization.

The problem that Andrew brings up is very real, but there's an easy solution to the problem: get out of town and visit family for a while.
Verizon takes AT&T to court over claims to be "America's Most Reliable"
It's worth noting that a single beautiful mother does not birth the whole population, nor does a tall mother.
Someone should make a ramen-profitable cookbook. I'd buy it.
I wonder if it's an issue of variety as much as environment size.
Journals don't take up that much bandwidth-- someone just needs to get around to launching thepiratejournal.org.
CSS3 Properties You Can Use Now
Perhaps her resume isn't very good. Has she had it worked on by a professional recruiter? She's using a professional recruiter right?
Consumer software might upgrade rapidly, but business software would probably take a hit. At $10,000 a license per year times multiple licenses, a lot of business software vendors might find themselves losing clients after five years.
If you can have the discipline to rinse and soak, dry beans are usually cheaper and tastier than canned. (And lentils don't need to soak at all)
I think people will be unwilling to pay at all, or the price will be driven so low that it is negligible. I can only think of a handful pay-for-answers services, and all of them have failed.

Furthermore, 140 characters is quite a restriction. By allowing only simple questions, the payments will be respectively low. Getting 10% of $0.10 questions isn't a way to make money - even at high volumes. They could have easily used their large user base for something that is much more profitable.

I don't believe Twitter has problems thinking of monetization methods. It's a specific problem where they want to 1) not alienate their existing users, 2) scale to their entire user base or large subset of their user base, 3) and make enough money that it's worthwhile. The sheer scale of the number of users makes it difficult to navigate, since any change will probably piss off large groups of users (look at fb, and the recent @reply fiasco).

Personally, I don't feel like a premium answers system will fulfill 1) or 3).
Ask HN:  How do you prevent a window from being moved on a Mac?
This would be useful for screencasting live an area over the window. The problem is that you might accidentally move the window, thus potentially revealing private information during the live screencast.

I'm already using a utility to make the window always stay on top of other windows.
I'm hoping this means that Apple is planning on adding native Google Voice functionality in the 3.1 release.

A man can dream, right?