skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hi Renai,

Since you're the writer of the original article, why did you choose to use the British Nationalist Party remark (which according to the article was an aside) as the main title here instead of the real title of the article ? ("Charles Stross slams 'tainted' US politics'")

It seems that the latter was the more descriptive title.

As for Charles' criticisms of US policy, the quote you make:

"There is a cancer in the collective American soul — a mercy deficit that has in recent years grown as alarmingly as the budget deficit. Nor is it as simple as a left/right thing: no political party has a monopoly on merciless behaviour. Rather, a creeping draconian absolutism has cast its penumbra across the entire arena of public discourse, tainting every debate, poisoning and hardening attitudes across the board."

Like all generalizations, it isn't perfect, it paints with too broad a brush. But the essence of the remark remains unanswered by your writing. I know plenty of great Americans as well, but on the whole they'd find themselves in agreement with Charles Stross more than they do with you.

By denying a problem exists you make it worse.

If Americans think Texas has a appalling record on capital punishment (your words) then they should do something about it.

"which paint all participants in the political process, even the self-sacrificing ones with everyone’s interests at heart, as cynical, cold-hearted and without mercy." Is a far cry from what was actually said.

I interpret the 'no political party has a monopoly' to mean: You can't hide behind saying it's the others, there is plenty in your own ranks. It does not address any individuals.

Anyway, I read the whole Charles Stross posting, not just your 'excerpt' and came away with the idea that he's got a lot more balance than what you suggest.
Maybe I'm being naive here, but why are you quitting Gmail, when the problem is clearly with Adsense. I understand that you are furious at Google, and from what you've said you have every right to be; But why stop at Gmail, why not quit Google Search as well :).

I hope Google gets back to you with a more reasonable explaination.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSL_acceleration
> He's from an inferior, dangerous, poisonous group ...
> Christians, I'm afraid, are one of these groups ...
> they are continuing in their insane anti-science,
> anti-education campaign to throw the world back to
> the dark ages.

Wow, where to begin.

I'm afraid you are lumping lots of people into a single group, and many of those people don't have the characteristics you claim. I know many, many, many Christians who are active scientists, who not only accept the fossil record but actively argue that it, and evolution, are correct, who do not deny equal rights to individuals whose personal choices they disagree with, ... the list goes on.

In short, you appear to have the rabid, indiscriminate anti-something-I-disagree-with stance of which you accuse them. Many Christians do not hold the beliefs you ascribe to them, and you are largely demonstrating your ignorance.

There are several things in main-stream Christianity with which I do not agree, but I have at least investigated enough to know that your views as expressed here are very wrong. It's almost as if you have got all your opinions from the tabloid headlines.
What about those stuck on Tiger (my gf)? Buy Leopard and Snow Leopard update or buy a full version?
It's industrial design or product engineering, not science. They applied a known system of using "phase change material" to regulate the normalisation of the temperature of the contents of a vessel, in this case coffee/beer in a mug/stein.

Interesting though.
looks like they're recommending the 'Mac Box Set' http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MACBOX-101801
I'll buy a full version if I were in Tiger.


Edit: Mac Box Set seems a better choice too, US link: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MACBOX-101801 169$
6,631,327
What's with the query string on the link, is that an affiliate identifier? The link works just fine without it, in either case.
May I ask how it is "now available"? From the site, it says that it will be delivered Friday. Did Apple not update the page this links to? Is this an "it's available for purchase now for delivery later" post that the headline is misleading me on?
Smackdown Vs Raw 2010 : 10 Reasons
I think nVidia's OpenCL compiler is still in beta, which means it's only available to "registered" developers. Though if you want to register, you just need to fill out this form:

http://nvdeveloper.nvidia.com/content/GPUComputingDeveloperA...
http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=CubeGuy

cubeguy = examiner spammer.

he's tried this one before anyway...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=719505
windows, coding PHP.

You can see the code in entirety too when I get back from Holiday :)
And now for some unsolicited "advice":

Pitch it to your clients; i.e. start selling to buyers, cut the funding phase out.

My family and friend have contributed money to my project, but nothing gave me the boost in confidence and the rush of excitement as that $95 I got from my first user (I charged my second client $950, btw.) I had to look at it several times, iterating between my spartan 'admin panel' showing one registered user, and my paypal account. I was so alpha I didn't even have a thank you message template, I wrote it with all my family sitting behind me.

If you start your business while consciously looking for funding, you will optimize for fund raising instead of turning profit.

At the risk of sounding snobby/trollish, I am a bit dismissive of funded startups. I treat them like trust-fund kids. If it is worth doing, it's worth keeping it all to yourself.
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YC is great. But I would think with all the smart people here, if the market was efficient in fields with high barriers to entry, Tesla Motors would have a few more competitors.
I started to try to write something deploring the incessant use of the word "intelligent" to things that are basically a good implementation of a clever idea, but gave up.

Your point is exactly right. The coffee mug isn't intelligent in any sense, it's the result of clever insight, followed by excellent implementation.
It's Time to Redesign the Product Page, Part 1
Fair point, I've updated the headline to reflect the delivery date.
The Bing Approach
It has its foot in the door but no body to walk through.
it's not as bad as asking what ^H stands for :)
Gaytes Information Systems Private Ltd 
Gaytes Information Systems Private Ltd is providing telecom products, range starts from Call Accounting, Operator Console, Voicemail, IVRS, Call Center Solutions, Dialer Solution, Meet-me-Conference, Voice Loggers, FAX Servers, SMS Solutions, Screen Pop-up Solutions, captive bpo and other CTI Solutions.
No, not an affiliate id I simply copied the url straight out of my address bar - I'm guessing it's a session id or something.

Here is the id-less link for anyone who doesn't believe me (I can't change the url of the post unfortunately): http://store.apple.com/us/product/MAC_OS_X_SNGL
Hmm, not exactly convincing. Leopard brought stuff like time machine, this smells more like a big service pack. I mean, OpenCL and some of the central applications running 64-bit? Better Quicktime and a new Safari? I don't even use QT and Safari.

And it's $29? Too little to be too much, but still a lot for a service pack.
Please could someone elaborate on how "me" is a fuzzy concept or provide a link?
Identity of 'skank' blogger revealed and she's suing google
In the description it says perfect way to upgrade for tiger users, does it not?
"At a bail hearing three days later, a federal prosecutor asked that Mr. Aleynikov be held without bond because the code could be used to “unfairly manipulate” stock prices."

Yet somehow we trust that Goldman isn't doing the very same thing with this code? C'mon...
Nice to see Apple shipping before their publicized time frame (September). A rarity.
I suddenly feel so productive...
Also, there is some software that needs an update to work well on Snow Leopard, for example MacPorts.
Poll: Are you a Hacker ? Really ?
Have you recently programmed something non-trivial ? Have you ever programmed ?

What even defines a hacker on HN ?
have never programmed anything
have programmed, but nothing serious
have programmed, but not recently
hacker, but have a life too
either on HN or hacking
just ordered the family box set. better deal, imho.

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MACBOX-101801
click the family pack option...

Also, there is no difference in price when purchasing under the education store, afaik.
I finally got around to updating the Rails version as well: http://antoniocangiano.com/rails-books/
Experience Switching From Ruby 1.8 to Ruby 1.9
Printer-friendly is more human-friendly than the original...

It ain't funny
And getting the exact number is already a linear problem.
You may need to reevaluate what's possible in Clojure.

(def fib (lazy-cat [1 1] (map + fib (rest fib))))
Yes. I sometimes take care of a half Shepherd/half Collie, and when I take him to the off-leash park, he and his fellow dogs run themselves to exhaustion. I can say this with some confidence because of the way he staggers back over to me after his romp and flops down dead at my feet.
I strongly recommend you read 'Four steps to the Epiphany' by Steve Blank. As a business focused founder, you need to be handling customer development - really going out there, talking to customers, understanding who is your core market, getting paying customers, validating this into a proper scalable business, and developing your company positioning. That's a LOT of work - but it's ESSENTIAL for the success of any company. I'm on my 3rd business, and the 2nd one crashed because I didn't understand this. No business exists in a vacuum - what your product-focused founders are doing is important, but your role in developing the customer understanding and scalable business model is equally so.
I'd like to read about the impact "Joel on Software" and his celebrity has had on his success/sales though.

within epsilon of 100%. I love Joel, his articles, and the Stack Overflow podcast, but nobody would have heard of him (or FogBugz) if he weren't such a brilliant marketer. He established FogBugz and Joel Spolsky as pretty big brands in the programming community, and made a previously unknown software company into what is now seen as one of the elite places to work in the industry.

He's got the technical chops to back it up, but that doesn't matter - he is amazingly good at marketing, and he really gets the power of brands.
While I agree it wouldn't work in an urban area...

The reason it wouldn't work in most suburban areas is because most people have these weird ecological disasters they call "lawns." They fret over them. They urge them to grow, and then mow them down (reminds me of one of my exes.. ha!). And they poison the local water with their fertilizers and pesticides. If they just grew some natural areas with large flowering shrubs, trees, and so forth.. having a house with windows wouldn't be such a problem.

The problem is everyone wants to pretend they're in a house out in the country, with rolling fields. Unfortunately, what they get are facsimiles of rolling fields; facsimiles of forests and streams. And day after day they trundle on, with their houses that only face forward (you don't see windows on the sides of houses in the 'burbs... do you? I haven't ever), like blinders to the reality of the fakeness they live in.

Of course, I live in post-industrial bushwick, so I can't really say my surroundings are more natural. But at least they aren't a caricature...

Besides, trailers/double-wides are typically in more rural areas, like the outer rims of suburbia.
Recommended Ruby and Rails books
Overall the letters sent to the FCC doesn't not explain why Apple removed other Google Voice 3rd party apps from the app store around this same time. They were approved and in the store to use in the Spring, but once all this Google Voice hoopla occurred they were removed?

Still fishy to me!
What kind of a thing is Krishna?
That would be: Ruby on Rails Power!: The Comprehensive Guide by Aneesha Bakharia. Its currently rated 2/5 on Amazon.

For my 2 cents, I'd second both of Peter's suggestions - Foundation Rails 2 and Simply Rails 2 - though I do tend to like the former a little more. The latter is better if you have absolutely no prior web dev or programming experience.
I'm still on Tiger and I'm probably not going to upgrade. I have a first-gen "lapburner" MBP which works just fine. Leopard didn't really offer anything ground breaking and it doesn't appear Snow Leopard will either. And I figure anything ground-breaking will require newer hardware, so I guess I'll stay on Tiger until the machine stops working. Which coincidentally is also why XP users don't upgrade either.
Just yesterday somebody asked about this very questions, which I'm sure interests many people. I finally got around to updating my list of recommended Ruby and Rails titles. I hope you'll find it useful.
(Commenting here since the text doesn't seem to appear with the URL)

I am a Hindu (but an atheist). I was reading a bit too much Vedanta recently and thought it might be interesting to give an atheistic twist to the idea of Krishna. People waste a lot of time on Krishna in India - why do they do so? What is the attraction in what is clearly a character in an epic/purana? That was the question I wanted to answer.

It's supposed to be a fun read. I am not scholastic or anything!
I've gone through periods of life where this was true. There were reasons - truly bad boss, problems in my personal life, etc - but eventually I realized that slacking off had started to become the primary cause of my depression.

So I did what I had to do to actually start getting things done at work. (In my case, I did an end-run around the truly awful boss who was going through a nasty divorce and taking it out on me.) And it didn't take long before I stopped hating life and myself. And I left that job with my head held high. (Because once I was useful, why have a truly awful boss?)

I can't say that I go full steam every hour of the day, but I like to go home at the end of every day knowing I accomplished something real and useful. There are days where the answer is no, but they're the exception. And since I started actually working, I've gotten good, my salary has gone up, and I'm much happier. And I just recently got a great job offer in the middle of a recession!

So, believe in the two-hour rule at your own peril. There's a sweet spot between this, and married to your job. (Workaholics really are a drain on morale too, but that's a different post.)
Nokia to Launch a Netbook
Nokia Booklet 3G Netbook. HD-ready 10-inch display, Atom processor, GPS, 3G, HDMI, OS: Windows.

See also HN thread from 5 months ago: "CEO: Nokia Considers Entering Laptop Industry"
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=496375
I frequently wonder how ParrotVM will be affecting people's decisions when it comes to choosing high-level languages in the future.
Things about radeology and prices:

Many people are not aware but it makes a BIG difference what radeologist you go to. The radeologist is the person who distinguises between a normal and abnormal growths. This is the specialist that can spot a tumor in a haystack! So you are paying for skills just like you pay for a surgeon, and no less important.

In new york I haven't seen 1500 radeologists unless I go to some rich-people places. I pay about 400 bucks for my brain mris. Fortunately the insurance covers most of it. The price is for the doctor, the machine time (hey its an expensive machine), operator time, etc. Though some machines work much faster than others. (a 5-10 minute procedure vs a 30-50 minute one).

And don't forget, lots of the great prices of lawyers suing doctors for everything are passed right on to you. And the fact that some americans are uninsured and have to be treated at hospitals means that those who are paying get to be charged extra to offset the problem.

So yea a universal health care system would benefit everyone and drive down prices.
Yeah this article requires registration anyway...

Are you sure? Because, I didn't have to login/register to access the article.
Why is Nokia entering crowded Netbook market? The carrier subsidy merry-go-round
Sounds to me like this quote (which I've only read out of context) can't possibly characterize very well Google's choice of Python as one of their main languages. Sure, it may have started as a coincidence, but how likely would they have been to continue using it so extensively if it didn't work out very well for them?
That's ambitious. Especially considering that they aren't making money right now. One would think that Facebook would be looking to cut costs rather than take on new costs.

Facebook has some really impressive technology behind them, but they keep expanding in a way that doesn't generate positive revenue. As Facebook becomes more popular, it's likely to need more staff, but at some point it's also just losing more money.
Why Nokia is releasing a netbook
In any event, its unlikely that all the code is even necessary/helpful. Probably a lot of it is just to use the Goldman infrastructure to connect to markets, etc...

If you were going to steal code like this, you'd just want to steal the basic logic, not all the details (that is, to minimize chances of being caught).
I'm sorry for the late reply, hope this reaches you anyway.

First, the point of this is the decouple addiction from money, and with that from crimes of enrichment. I'm sure we can agree that addiction is the root of this issue?

Second, this would only be offered to those already addicted. Once the illegal drug trading collapses, so will the "first hit for free" offers, since those are based on the expectation that the receiver will become addicted and be a returning customer. This is, as I understand, the primary way of getting addicted (very few would-be heroin users sit a home Thursday afternoon and decides that today is the day to try a hit).

I agree that drug usage is destructive in so many way, and I've come to realize that my solution isn't really to help the users -- strategies to help the users have failed over and over again -- but rather to contain the problem, and cut the causes as close the root as possible. Once that part is complete, we can look at getting people into rehab -- which should also be more effective when you old neighbourhood isn't full of pushers whose business depends on getting you back in the habit.
Yes, there is UV hardening resin - but this is just a slightly improved version of the old amalgam fillings - and does the same job: drill hole, fill with stuff. It's considered better in that it doesn't contain heavy metals, but worse because the silver in amalgam prevents bacterial growth under the fillings and the resin is harder to apply properly.

Maybe the issues with dentistry are just because of the financial incentives. The UK NHS used to pay dentists per treatment course but have recently changed to some kind of per patient/treatment hybrid system (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7485012.stm). The old pay-per-treatment system was a) complex and b) unsurprisingly, led to a 'drill and fill' culture of lots of treatments, most of which tended to be fillings. Things have changed and got much simpler, but it's arguable if it's 'better' overall.

Maybe it's just because dentists are on piecework? If A&E/ER/emergency medicine departments were paid so much per stitch, then I guess everyone would come out looking like Frankenstein's monster.
We have an app for sale on the Android Market (which uses Google Checkout for transaction processing), and it seems like every week we have a support email claiming we charged them twice.

We always apologize (even though it's not our fault), explain how the authorization charge works, assure them it'll be gone in a day, and point them to Google's help (bottom of): http://market.android.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an...

I do wonder why it's done that way on Checkout and not other payment systems, or why it seems more noticeable there; it seems to cause an awful lot of confusion.
PhD students (the ones I was referring to) don't pay tuition and get stipends of about $20k/year. The real cost is about $30-50k/year.

Even students who pay tuition are not paying the full cost of their education in most cases. College is highly subsidized and 'in-state' tuition breaks comprise only a portion of that subsidy.

It's bad enough that we subsidize college. It's even more wasteful to funnel money to colleges as an alleged way to recruit high skill workers. It's simply not necessary; if we want high skill workers, all we need to do is pick a number and issue that many visas. We can probably even make it revenue positive by issuing visas by auction, rather than by queuing.
Did you even read link?

Here http://www.apple.com/macosx/technology/ are the new features that went into this release. And your comment doesn't even make sense, first you say it's a service pack than you rattle off a short list of new and upgraded items. These things do cost money to develop. And I'm pretty sure $29 barely covers the cost of it. I don't remember anything new being in Windows when a SP rolled out except a new browser. (There was the uPNP browser that popped up in SP2 I believe)
I tend to think that 'hacker' is like 'philosopher': something other people call one, not something one calls oneself. This implies that these terms are honorifics, not mere descriptions.

That being said, there are clearly plenty of people who disagree. For some philosophers (or perhaps merely academics who do philosophy!) see this discussion:

http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2009/05/who-is-a-philo...

And of course there's the Jargon File entry for the term 'hacker', which states that

It is better to be described as a hacker by others than to describe oneself
that way. Hackers consider themselves something of an elite (a meritocracy
based on ability), though one to which new members are gladly welcome. There
is thus a certain ego satisfaction to be had in identifying yourself as a
hacker (but if you claim to be one and are not, you'll quickly be labeled
bogus).

http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/H/hacker.html
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Nokia Launch Booklet 3G Their First Netbook