skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great idea. I had a similar idea not that long ago, but did not execute. To build a good system for teachers to find and review lesson plans and teaching techniques. To build a productive social networking site for teachers to share experiences with other teachers.

The freemium model would work great here, if a few teachers gain a free foothold, and find the service useful, they can then go to their district and request to upgrade to the paid version for all to use.

Now it all comes down to execution.
The example is that just putting a bunch of the best basketball players on a team doesn't mean they will succeed - the 2004 USA Olympic team had some of the best basketball players in the world on it, and they still only got 3rd place.

The common thinking is that each superstar on the team wanted/was used to being in the spotlight and was unable to share/coordinate their efforts effectively.
Nor for copyright, but having copyright does not guarantee legal protection for copyright. If you can't prove that you have it and had it first, you may as well not have it at all.

The site you linked to says quite clearly that you should register to get:

"""
# a legal presumption of the registrant's ownership of the mark and the registrant's exclusive right to use the mark nationwide on or in connection with the goods and/or services listed in the registration;
# the ability to bring an action concerning the mark in federal court;
"""

So in other words, if you don't register, you don't have these things. Yes, you have a trademark, sure... you just can't do anything about it.
I would pay someone like me to assess your code and pentest your site :)

If you're planning on doing this yourself, OWASP (www.owasp.org) is a great resource.
Social Safety Nets Mask Deflationary Depression
"Accidentally, but relentlessly, America has built a health-care system with incentives that inexorably generate terrible and perverse results."

The author supports this point in rich and irrefutable detail. Read it and weep.

This article is indeed "not political" but ONLY in the sense that none of the efforts at a solution being debated even slightly address the crucial considerations that he makes. Shame on the solvers...
$2,000 is the projected price, I don' think it is all that close to coming to market.
Tyler Brulé of Monocle did an interview with Alain covering his recent book. Typical of Tyler it isn't the usual puff piece but he actually pokes for real substance.

http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/Alain-d...
PyCon 2010: Call for Proposals
Ah of course. Facebook isn't realtime! ;)
yeh. As i said the main thing I took away was a heightened awareness of these little "tics" people employ naturally.

It also means I actively remember to smile widely now.

Eye contact is a big thing in the book: I usually maintain strong eye contact anyway but this has encouraged me to push that further - with mixed results. I've found that it works better socially than it does at work :)

Im also actively trying to use more positive language when chatting to people. That's hard to do but it seems to be effective as well. i did a lot of work on my language and body language a few years ago because I was having trouble interacting with people so possibly Im not seeing as many benefits as someone who hasn't ever needed to look at this stuff before. i think for that type of person it will be the most benefit - even if it is just a couple of tips to use when chatting up clients.

As I said it is sort of simple stuff: the value, I feel, is in how it is broken down and discusses the "why".
That maybe the reason. The notifier not the fact that gmail users maybe more web savvy or anything else like that.
Thank you for defending me :) Your explanation is correct and the deleted post was referring to copyright, not trademark.
I have been thinking for a while that it was only a matter of time until bands started moving towards recording and publishing a fewer number of songs at a time due to digital sales. Albums make sense when you have to press a physical medium and distribute it across the country/world, not so much with a purely digital distribution.

The making of individual tracks also works well with pop music and its mentality, actually, it makes tons of sense, cutting costs by only writing and recording a few songs and spoon feeding it to the radio stations and the general public. The move away from albums is a total shame from an artistic view point. You'd never end up with masterpiece albums like "Dark Side of the Moon" with bands recording a few tracks at a time. I also connect so much of a band and their era's by albums too. Metallica and their change with the black album and everything after that. Even when I download new music today, I acquire full albums to hear everything else the band has made. I'm not looking forward to the day it's mostly individual tracks!
Remembered something by Tolkien. "Death was a gift to men. Though elves did not die, as they aged they became more sorrowful". [paraphrased]. I don't think that living forever is a good thing.
Currently the entries for Hacker News, Jessica Livingston, and Trevor Blackwell are all flagged as insufficiently notable:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Livingston

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Blackwell

Trevor's entry is a particularly interesting case of the pathology. Originally his bio talked about how he'd made the first dynamically balancing biped robot. That set off a firestorm about priority. One nutter got so mad that for a while Trevor's bio read as if the most significant thing about him was that he'd falsely claimed to have made the first dynamically balancing biped. Eventually the Wikipedians solved the problem by deletion, so now his bio simply says he's some guy who builds robots. Which of course wouldn't be notable, if that's all he was.
Again, you should read the Crosby et al. paper (http://www.cs.rice.edu/~dwallach/pub/crosby-timing2009.pdf) and the Brumley & Boneh paper (http://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/papers/ssl-timing.pdf). However complicated you think the infrastructure is, you're radically underestimating the power of modern statistical analysis.

Crosby et al. conclude:
We have shown that, even though the Internet induces significant timing
jitter, we can reliably distinguish remote timing differences as low as
20µs. A LAN environment has lower timing jitter, allowing us to reliably
distinguish remote timing differences as small as 100ns (possibly even
smaller). These precise timing differences can be distinguished with
only hundreds or possibly thousands of measurements.

If you'd like to bet that this sort of statistical analysis will get harder to perform over time, I'll take your wager. I'm not willing to wait until someone is publicly compromised before I fix security vulnerabilities—I do not work for an employer who's willing to tolerate a few break-ins before fixing the locks.

I'd also argue that a) a timing attack vulnerability is "weak/poor crypto," b) I don't need to write about the importance of other attack vectors (XSS, CRSF, social engineering, telepathy, bats, etc.) while writing about timing attacks, and c) if timing attacks are easy to understand and fix there would be less of them.

(Edit: fixed the B&B paper link. Derp.)
How efficient is charging one of these from the grid? Charging the battery at night and using it during the day could help with peak use overloading.
Agile Album Development.
You should ping the guy that made Lamson, I hear he's looking. Email-related product.
You have to first quantify whether or not the deletions make the information that is there more or less accurate. That's not an easy issue to decipher, as is evidenced.

There's also the fact that we, as humans have a finite amount of knowledge and it appears likely that much of the low-hanging fruit has been picked in the sense that all the 'easy' articles have been written.
Hooray for subcultures of internet sites and factionalization! Computers have created a bunch of strange new semi-political beliefs.

"We believe that storage is essentially free and more information is almost always better."

"We believe that maintaining quality SnR is most important in group editing situations."

"We believe that fair use extends to sampling and remixing but copyright holders maintain most other control."
Heres one: http://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/papers/ssl-timing.pdf which is rumored to have been used a couple of times "in the wild".

(edited to have the link i meant).
This is the type of information you can use to good effect for making your website stickier.

At the same time, you need to be careful to make sure you don't abuse the power you gain from these techniques.
Tell the website first. Always.
My brain must be off because I hate the latter two.
Yes, I love to hire a guy who's first priority is to tell me why I am wrong. ;)
John Gruber says it's going to be 2010 and gizmodo is wrong claiming it will be released soon (http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/08/13/insider-eh)
You must be really good at differentiating that which cannot be changed from that which is ingrained.
Invitation cards printing, party invitation cards, folders printing
From the article Thom says they are going to release single songs and EP's
And if he was operating under the assumption that the first few articles were just "tests" (as he refers to them repeatedly), why is it suddenly so hard to change the name of the section?

According to the e-mail log, he introduced the new "programming praxis" section name mere days after Phil asked him to stop using the term. That strikes me as needlessly antagonistic. He could have avoided the whole issue by simply picking a different name at that point, but he instead chose the one name that would sabotage the work of his former collaborator.

While I'm sure TDWTF will triumph legally, I can't help think that the incident will influence their relations with any future collaborators.
The US Olympic team for basketball started using all-stars in the mid eighties (I think). When that happened, you had a bunch of high priced guys who were used to being the stars on their teams trying to play together. That doesn't work very well. Even if they are collectively the best athletes on the planet.

The Soviet hockey team from the mid 60s to 1980 were unbeatable. They all played together, some for as many as 15 years. Chemistry matters. Knowing that your team has your back, and make reasoned predictions about what you are going to do, and act before you need them to ensure success, matters. Hugely beneficial to have people who want to be part of a team not a bunch of people who are used to being individual standouts on teams.
But then you get into the dark and murky anthropological waters of the separation between religion and society.

For example, the law currently disallows polygamy - but if you look at all the cultures around the world you will find that monogamy is somewhat of a Judeo-Christian idea to begin with - at the very least there are many societies where it is perfectly acceptable.

So now the question must be asked: is our desire to have a monogamous society coming from our Christian roots, or is it something that transcends religion and becomes a shared ideology?

There are a great many issues where it's not easy to say "this comes from religion" vs. "this comes from our social order".
I'm inclined to agree that they are not "generally notable"

The entire HN entry is 4 sentences long. All of the footnotes are sourced from either blogs or YC itself. If HN must be included in Wikipedia, it's probably more appropriate as a mention in the YC page.

The individuals are in the same boat. All the references about Trevor are either from his own site or his company site. The footnotes for Jessica are largely sourced from blogs and videos.

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia of general information. The fact that they are involved with YC or have a company that builds robots is not inherently notable or of general interest.
Yes, the whole discussion is about that. Apparently only marketroids are able to handle multiple layers of abstraction -- yes, you can take a percentage of percentages, just like you can take a percentage of dollars or a percentage of conversions.
Radiohead has proven to be ahead of the curve in the music industry, yet frankly I'm surprised to see this coming from a "real band" first.

Pop artists generally pay big name producers for 2 to 3 tracks per album, which they plan on releasing as singles. The rest of the tracks are more or less filler so they can justify charging $15 for a long play album.

With digital distribution becoming more popular and consumers buying more singles instead of full albums, I thought pop artists would be the first to stop releasing full-length albums. I guess this is just another example of the music industry being unable or unwilling to adapt to the changing landscape.

I really do hope, though, as you mentioned, that real musicians continue to put in the creativity and hard work it takes to produce full albums. The result is just far better than a collection of singles.
∴ means therefore.
As someone who certainly "cries wolf", I'll go ahead and ask: how are we to judge "good" politics articles from bad ones?

I read The Economist, and think they occasionally do some pretty good politics articles, and having an on-line version, it would be easy to post them here.
Ask HN: What can't you buy online?
What have you actually tried to buy, but could not find for sale?

Bonus: For the merchants here, what have you been unable to sell online, for whatever reason?
It's interesting that many alternative energy related ideas tend to emphasize more localized facilities whilst computing moves to huge centralized data centers.

It gets even more ironic considering that one of the popular examples for the long term trend towards outsourcing/centralization is that auto makers stopped generating their own electricity long ago :-)
I don't believe a word of it. These kinds of announcements tend to show up every few months, and none ever make it to market.

"There are a handful of small hurdles yet to cross in the science, but nobody seems terribly concerned."

If they were so "small" they would be solved. No, they are massive hurdles, and they have no clue what to do, so they put out a press release hoping for more money.

Plus solid sodium in your house? Talk about a fire hazard. You have an external fire which melts the casing, you dump water to put it out - and fireball.
http://marklaw.com/trademark-FAQ/benefits.htm

"The owner of a federal trademark registration may sue in federal court more easily. It is worth noting that even without a federal trademark registration you still may be able to sue in federal court, but it may be more costly when proving jurisdiction (i.e. diversity of citizenship & amount in controversy over $75,000). Even if you can't sue in federal court, you can always sue in state court. However, attorneys usually prefer federal court in trademark cases for perceived procedural advantages."
Well, it's really a new product, from the ground up. Somehow calling it "reMail 2.0" caught on.

We're working on multiple accounts. Should have that in a few months. That'll be a free upgrade :-)
what product would you search for on both craigslist & amazon, or craigslist & amazon & ebay?

the sites are very separate for me, craigslist is for apartment hunting or free junk i don't want, amazon for books, and ebay for some really niche thing.
And From / To. The "All" button in iPhone Mail refers to "From + To + Subject" - it doesn't mean "body" :-)
So, the question remains, how is the fact that those articles are on wikipedia harming you in any way?

Even before this article came up, I've searched for and read those articles, and found them helpful. It provides a succinct overview of the individuals, with links if you want to pursue futher. What difference does it make where the links are sourced from?

And who determines what 'general interest' is? It's of general interest to me!
i believe that the key is no to not be in excess, to truly be minimalistic about it, and not a slave to impulse.

here in california, we often expend more energy in our daily routines, rest less, and use up more mental energy doing all our problem solving and anxieties and such, than would be the case if we were practicing mindfulness most of the day, instead of feeding into our concerns (attachments) to the various things we do. during mindfulness and zazen, the mind goes into a different mode, which is in many ways, rejuvenating in itself, but this is not the case with how we - or at least i - approach problems at work.

comprehending why a practice is done, and then being true to your comprehensions is where it is at, and it is not in mimicking the implementations/practices of others.
In programming, there is a VAST difference in productivity between great and mediocre programmers. That's because programmers create tools that do work. Bad programmers create shovels; great ones create fleets of bulldozers. Bad programmers create buggy, slow code; great programmers create fast, working, robust code and meet deadlines to do it.

I know this, because I'm a mediocre programmer. I struggle for a couple weeks to build something, and I talk to my Rock Star Programmer buddy, who immediately suggests a better solution. At his job, he creates stuff in a week that I couldn't create in my whole life (or at least it feels that way).

So yes, I think he'd definitely be a bargain at twice my salary, and probably he makes more than that, and should. If I were going to start a company, I would definitely want some rock stars like him.

The trick is, you almost have to be one to know one.
For people using Rails, sanitize all input before it goes in. Here's a library for web params.
http://code.google.com/p/sanitizeparams/
the page has no links to all the resources (new projects) they reference in the audio stream.
To me, the author and commenters are missing the point of hiring "rock stars". The point is sort of the reverse. If your company was able to attract a "rock star", it probably makes something very interesting.
This just -in the eyes of VCs and other companies- makes your company more interesting.
The same applies to the times, where employees with PhDs made the company worth 70 mill$ more each (back in 2000).
This is no longer useful as an optimization technique (loop unrolling makes things slower these days), but I believe the device get use in state machines, and libraries for making multithreading apps in a single process.
New games at used prices: Best Buy's Utah plan starts a feud
... in New Zealand.
Govt could make monetization even harder for online publishers
Will Microsoft “subsidize” Zune HD pricing?
The 3 Rules are great advice. Simple and to the point. And any entrepreneur can relate to them. Marc Andreesen is doing it again. First Netscape, then NING, and now a VC, with a bunch of other stuff along the way. My venture plans to easily work these three rules to the fullest.
Thanks for the feedback pradeepgatram. We are planning to add the ability to integrate PagerDuty with external products (most likely products in the monitoring space). Please send me an email to alex[at]pagerduty[dot]com if you'd like to know more.
I want to be able to build my release log and release notes into my analytics tool. If I'm looking at a graph of page views per user and I see a spike, it would be great if I could hover over the day before that spike and see that it's when I pushed out a new feature that apparently increased engagement. It puts everything in context.
You mean not finding online something that one can buy in a brick-and-mortar store? Never. The only time I can't find something online is if I am mistaken about its existence, or it is a discontinued line, or is a rarity.

Of course, there are many, many things that are uneconomical for me to buy online because of the shipping methods offered.
Twitter getting retweet API
A guy at a conference once called Marc 'Loudmouth'! As a joke on 'Loudcloud'.
they discovered that people vary in how much and how quickly they share information, and they also discovered that people who share information quickly and most of the time (infectious people), spread memes faster.

they might as well have discovered that water is wet.

i say this in reaction to the information in the article about professional people being surprised at this, and those being surprised that the data shows that people who spread information more so, spread memes faster. that's not a surprise at all.
Twitter Announces A Retweeting API
Third parties have the ability to "mess up" code only in so far as code written to those APIs use syntax that Perl 5 cannot resolve statically. In other words, Perl 5 encapsulates those messes unless you choose to spread them.
I don't think mncaudill was confusing a secure microkernel with a realtime one. Rather, I think he was (correctly) thinking in terms of the reliability requirements those industries have.
Let's write a C implementation of SHA-1
Here's the answer: No one wants politics articles here. You can tell that this is not a politics article by 1) reading, instead of ignoring, the multiple assertions in the comments that this is not a "politics" article or 2) reading it.
I think the examples in SICP works fine in any Scheme, at least if it's R5RS-compliant.
Not to turn this into a Slashdot thread, but I find it puzzling that the article fails to mention Linux till the final paragraphs, then quotes someone who is either being taken out of context or is a moron: "Khokhar says it's no magic solution. "If you suddenly had an increase in Linux or Mac use in China, you'd find those two platforms are just as vulnerable.""

Er, no: if you compile from the source or use well-known downloads, it's pretty damn unlikely that you're going to have the same problems you have getting CS 4 from a Warez site.
That kinda bums me out to hear. I know Radiohead's m.o. lately is revolutionizing the process of music production, and maybe they think albums are a relic of the old regime and passe or something. But can you really imagine if OK Computer was released one iTunes download at a time? yuck.
Early developer preview: Twitter Retweeting API
If I have a code base of over a few thousands lines (yes, even when that small), changing the language is just a dumb thing to do. It requires a complete rewrite, while changing a language that your team has experience in for one it doesn't. And of course, the usual rewrite problems also apply: killing a fully battle-tested system in favor of one that has not even seen a strong discussion...

And all that because one new hire couldn't get to grips with the fact that the organization didn't use his favorite language.
Mark Cuban: The most patriotic thing you can do is "get rich"
That's why the higher-ups need to be open to disagreement and be able make decisions based on information. At the same time, the young hacker should have enough communication skills to be able to convince the higher-ups that it is in their interest to use a new technology. The higher-ups should be able to convince him why that may not work, either for tech or business reasons.

Seems there are a lot of "shoulds" in there but that's why management isn't easy.
Why write a 5 paragraph email that can be expressed in 3 lines? Why waste your coworker’s time with a 2 hour presentation? It’s probably because your email is garbage and your presentation sucks.

Or, you know, you might have a complex point to put across. Otherwise we might as well throw email out and stick to twitter. Throw out books, and stick to blogs,

Minimalism is not its own reward. Seek neither to minimise nor to maximise; aim to optimise. There is a sweet spot for everything. Why should I only have one bank account? The problem would not be having three bank accounts, but having more than I needed.
Let’s see if there’s an apology coming from Phil now that Alex has changed the category name (and after he gave a reason for the delay) and whether it receives as much attention as the attention*ring post on the site.