skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now replace "touching my laptop" with "urinating in my car".

It won't ruin the car. And it's just an object after all.

If you urinated in someones car and they were upset, would you tell them they were being irrational or to get over it? Maybe tell them they should keep a towel in the car in case the passengers urinate? I mean, if you think it's ok to urinate in a car then it's not really your problem if they seem annoyed by it...

For me, that attitude is heading beyond rude and into the realm of sociopathic.

Seriously, are you really saying that you think it's irrational to try to set the boundaries on how other people interact with your own personal property?
Synethesia is a very common (temporary) effect of psychedelic drugs. This means that most everyone has the ability to sense synethetically. It's just a matter of somehow triggering this experience in one's brain.

It's a pity that research on psychedelic drugs is so difficult to do legally in the US (where the overwhelming majority of research money is spent). Otherwise, it might have already been possible to develop drugs that target just the synesthetic experience without bringing on a full psychedelic trip (not to mention the many other benefits that scientific research in to psychedelics would very likely have had).
What info is in their database besides these torrents that would be valuable? They don't touch the actual files being shared. I doubt they log anything interesting; if they do, no one's ever going to see it. It would be a huge mistake for them to hand over visitor stats.
Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Mechanics
It'll never fly, but the one I'd like to see is: http://girlgenius.wikia.com/wiki/Spark
Ask HN: Aggregator for interesting papers?
Often interesting research floats to the top at HN. Is there a site like HN for papers (specifically computer science, but even other subjects would be nice)?
Is Bit.ly's Twitter advantage unfair?
Fallacies of the Negative Income Tax on http://mises.org/story/2406 as a counterpoint to Friedman's proposal.

I thought it is improtant to understand both side of the debate.
I am in an almost identical situation, also out of LA.

I am wondering where people would recommend looking for a co-founder if you are in an area where the startup community is hard to find.
Facts are not copyrightable. Compilations of facts may be copyrightable. Feist Publications, Inc., v. Rural Telephone Service Co., 499 U.S. 340 (1991).
You call it linkjacking, I call it content agregation (or filtering).

How is it any different than Digg/Reddit/HN?
I'd react roughly the same way if someone rubbed their genitals on my screen while I was using it. It's that offensive to me.

Really? You'd politely say "Please don't touch my screen with your genitals"?

I don't know you or anything, but it seems like life is too short to get this worked up over something so trivial.
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Thanks for the info. I'm mostly more concerned with privacy laws than copyright, since I think those laws are much more applicable here.
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I liked the idea behind http://twi.bz/, which at least shows the domain name behind the link. It doesn't make for quite as short links as tr.im &c though.
Wouldn't all of the torrents be more-or-less useless without the tracker?

And by "more-or-less", I mean "completely".
Ideas are cheap and I'm already committed to a project, so here's my take on the RFS. Imagine a site with the following attributes:

- Anyone can submit content in any language.

- Anyone can translate any content.

- Editors (initially the founders) select content that meets topic and language standards.

- Editors independently vote on content priority; site layout adjusts automatically based on editor consensus.

- Content authors (and translators, if any) get points proportionally to the editorial vote.

- A certain (large) number of points grants editorial access (having proven that they are invested in the site and get the standards).

- Points can be exchanged for world currency in either direction (bought/sold).

- People pay in points to access content (per article or per month).

- People start with enough points to give them access for a month or so.

- Eventually there would be editorial boards in different languages and ideally with different topics.

--

I know newsvine is kinda like this, but without the monetization. Newsvine also seems far more editorial than factual, and doesn't have the same "gotta earn editorial access" feel. Graduated karma-based community systems like stackoverflow (and HN) keep quality high longer. What do you think, would something like this offer a viable alternative to the journalistic status quo?
From the description on TPB:
"Remember that all torrents from TPB now have the new tracker openbittorrent.com included, so they will continue to track even after the TPB tracker shuts down."
You also pick up a new programming language or framework much faster if you are forced to learn it for work or study than you do by choice.
You should focus on tech then and find a co-founder who focuses on either of the other two areas I mentioned.
Some feel that having a mediocre co-founder is better than having no co-founder at all, which I wouldn't agree with at all.

Let me say that I think that having a co-founder is great, so if you can find someone who:

1) Has passion for the idea and concept and is willing to share in the risk.
2) Is a hard worker and someone who can bring talent to the table.
3) Is someone you get along with but can have fruitful discussions and respectful disagreements with.

Then I would encourage you to bring that person on as a co-founder. But I would not settle for anyone who lacked any of the above traits because you're worried about not having a co-founder.

So, in summary, co-founders are great if you can find one, but certainly not essential to startup success.
Sounds like an aggregator/CMS hybrid, a purely technological solution to the problem. EveryBlock does something similar (http://everyblock.com).
It sounds like this is 10 miles past the spammy line to me.
Writing the tax code to have the correct effect on the economy, and writing it to be easily navigable by normal people, are two separate problems. It's better to use software to decouple them (if you have to) so you can focus on the first.

Not that I wouldn't like it to be simpler. I would. But even with a completely optimal and just tax system, there still might be a place for such software.
Isn't this also in a public github guide? http://github.com/guides/put-your-git-branch-name-in-your-sh...

Been using it for a while now. ;-)
It's pretty clear that your taking a scientific-materialist stance. So, my question to you is how do you explain qualia?

Qualia is a term describing the actual _feeling_ of something as consciously perceived. Wikipedia explains it better: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia

The problem is this: Consider perceiving the color red. An outside observer can explain this as photons hitting my eye and me reacting. The only problem is, I can actually see the color. How can a series of chemical reactions cause me to feel?

The irony of this is, of course, that pzombies (philosophical zombies: beings that don't feel anything but act exactly as though they do) would come to the same conclusion.

Since it is impossible for anyone other than myself to verify that I exist as anything more than a series of chemical reactions (ie. I actually feel), it is a difficult problem to work with.

I, for my part, was led to the conclusion that the scientific-materialist perspective was wrong, or at least grossly incomplete. It seems logical as science is essentially the art of useful fiction: we make up the simplest story that predicts the right answers and use it until it breaks (and sometimes beyond that and just avoid the points we know it breaks at).

I'm very interested in hearing others' views.
Tweet your friends a job
Ask HN: feed for private blogs?
Has anyone figured out how to combine privacy and exclusivity with a passive feed? Many friends and family members have private blogs. They are a huge pain to follow because I can't get feeds for them.

I know I'm not the only one who has this problem. Has anyone figured out a solution?
If the Apple tablet is real, it will most likely come with that fancy-schmancy oleophobic screen they put on the iPhone 3GS. So, no problemo: put it in your oversized pocket, take it out, and "boom" (tm) it's clean.
Inventing new words works so rarely it's a wonder people keep suggesting it. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun#Invented...

I think hacker is a great term. I don't particularly care how people perceive it. If someone wants to know what I do, I explain it in terms that will make sense to them. Sometimes that will include the word hacker, sometimes it won't.
git-completion.bash has the added benefit of giving you tab-completion on git commands, and arguments to git commands.
One thing I'm seeing more of lately are internet-isms in comments like "Fail" and "2. ??? 3. Profit!" It seems to dilute the quality of the comments for two reasons - first, they themselves aren't that insightful. But more scary is that like five other people typically jump in and reply with more internetisms afterwards. The comments here have historically been the best I've seen, but seem to be slipping just a touch lately.

I don't know how that would be tackled exactly. I suppose just introducing new people politely to the culture here, and for current members to refrain from upvoting comments that are ok but have the pseudo-clever semi-snarky internet vibe to them.
This is a half-thought-out and cynical musing, but couldn't you use something like this as a honeypot to weed out the people who are less likely to succeed and thus give them less scrutiny?

I'm guessing YC gets a LOT of applications and going through them has turned into something of a burden, a problem not easily solved without adding more staff or lowering standards, neither of which is probably attractive. So how can you use the process itself to get people to sort themselves somewhat?

Hypothesis: you come up with a bunch of startup ideas in big spaces where no easy solutions exist, but many many startups have gone and failed. These apps go in the "paint-by-numbers" pile and get less scrutiny, because you figure two things:

1. For someone who doesn't have an idea or a problem to solve, they'll look at YC and see this list of pre-existing problems that need solutions. They could learn a domain or a space really well and organically come up with their own idea, or they could use one of these. We assume that people in that situation who pick the easier path will probably come up with solutions that suck, but that's ok, because it keeps fewer apps from the "artisan" pile, which get much heavier attention.

2. If someone does submit an app to the "paint-by-numbers" pile that is truly novel or brilliant, it'll probably leap off the page, so all is not lost.

I guess my overall hypothesis is that people who need to pick an idea off a list like this and/or don't know enough about a space to come up with their own idea are probably unlikely to succeed. This just gives them an opportunity to declare so more readily :)

I'm sure that YC isn't doing this, but would it be useful?
Django on LAMP is the obvious answer for an open source social network? Um... why? What is wrong with Ruby or the 6 trillion other Python web frameworks or Lighttpd or CouchDB or... the list goes on and on.
Make your Arduino sleep to save batteries
You don't need malloc, then? Please explain.
Yes, you can travel two seconds forward in time for what appears to be one second to you. It depends on reference frames and velocities.
Well, this is the problem. There are really not any good reasons for believing most of what you said there, but people seem to think that no arguments for these positions are necessary: it's enough to state them forcefully and claim that anyone who disagrees is an idiot.

>It's a basic fact that science is the study of reality by any effective means;

I guess you could define science that way (although it hardly seems like a "basic fact"), but I'm not sure that it would do anything useful in this context. The whole question at issue is what constitutes an "effective" means of studying various topics of interest. For example, what are the effective means of studying moral facts? You seem to think that they are limited to brain science, but why do you think this?

Incidentally, your proposed definition of science is clearly at odds with most standard conceptions. For example, it might (hypothetically) turn out that pure intuition is the most effective way of studying reality -- we might turn out to have incredibly good intuitions about how the world works. According to your definition, pure untested intuition would then be "scientific". As it happens of course, intuition isn't very effective. The point is that all kinds of crazy methods might turn out to be effective, but we wouldn't therefore want to call them scientific. The methods used in science have to be in some sense rational as well as merely effective, although no-one has ever quite pinned down the precise nature of this additional constraint.

>We've prodded the brain enough to be reasonably sure your psychology (purpose, meaning, morals, values etc) is in physical atoms & not in a soul.

Maybe you should refer to some specific results in psychology, neuroscience or phsyics that back this statement up. For example, an explanation of how facts about purpose and morality could reduce to facts about the primitives of physics. There are a few explanations on the market, but you might at least be specific about which one you are buying into. Here's an exercise. Explain how the moral fact in (1) reduces to physical facts:

(1) It is wrong to kill someone for no reason.
The Paper That Doesn’t Want to Be Free
One of my pet peeves about Twitter is that conceptually, it hasn't embraced the fact that most of its users don't Tweet by SMS.

I'm all about using a restricted message format to encourage spontaneity and focus the message, but if I want to @reference more than like three people I have very little room for what I want to say - and if I have a URL as well, I have almost none.

Keep the system as-is for SMS-based tweets, but for the rest of us don't count @names or URLs in the message length.
If you don't think comments are necessary, see how long it takes you to find the sections of this article that deal with exercise:

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/freshman-15-copin...

There are two of them. I found them in under five seconds.

Now find the section of this article that talks about stock options:

http://joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000056.html

Which one took longer? Which one had comments?

QED
Then I'm sure you won't mind me down voting you for being ridiculous (since "x points" is the first thing at the beginning of every comment/submission)
... it's the number in parenthesis next to your username.
Personally, I'd say that #3 gives you the best option to open up a new lifestyle for yourself. $3k profit is nice, but $30k would allow you to travel the globe while still being able to work on the website when you needed to - you and your partner both, likely. Work from the south of Spain or France, then head over to Hong Kong for a visit. Just take your laptop.

The other options leave you static in lifestyle - or at best, without personal growth.

Of course, #3 is likely the most risky as well, because you'd need to find an honest and reliable partner that complements what you put into the business well.

I've done (and still do) PM work, so I know what you mean by needing such skills to direct one's vision.

Best of luck - take advantage of your website creation! Use it to build up an envious lifestyle! ;)
This sounds great, you learn how a machine could be programmable, and how existing programmable machines operate; but the question mostly under dispute here is whether C brings out the nature of 'programmability' -- i.e. whether it brings out very clearly the purpose that all these strata serve, namely general programmability. --And thus whether a C-only environment is missing something essential. Myself I would think it does, and that for example Lisp and Haskell and ML help bring this out more clearly, and so, in another way, do the happening scripting languages. Your experience with with assembler seems to me more important than experience with C -- though of course everyone has to learn C. In my own case, for what it's worth -- I wouldn't think everyone else would need this -- it's only when I saw that a properly assemble machine could compile Haskell that I really grew to respect the machine...
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cool I can save a ton of money on a used shipping container. Do these guys not realize that HN is no-follow?
$100 for a referral bonus is hilariously low. If I get close to a normal recruitment amount - I may spam my friends.

edit: This is in context to it being a contest. Your odds of winning are probably tiny.
Post your HN tricks.
Seems like there are a whole bunch of features that a lot of people don't know about. So I'd like to get a list of everything in one place.
Yes, much of this guide is spent being snide about how others are using scarce disk space.
To start off:

Search: http://www.searchyc.com

Submissions by new members: http://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories

I know there is one to only see submissions by old users but I don't remember the url
Personally, I'd argue you do want to keep track of whether you are in a repo or not, since including that pipeline in your PS1 always forks three processes on every prompt. And if you're going to do that in your shell, it's good to have separate commands for each task.

For the case of not being on a branch, the output of 'git branch' is not very useful. I am currently using 'git name-rev --name-only HEAD', but the contrib script has an even fancier mechanism (via 'git describe') for coming up with something to display when HEAD isn't a symbolic ref.
There was a post on Hacker News quite a while back about it. I wish there were another option for members over 2 years too so that "classic" remains "classic".
I've a print copy of this, the content is quite good but rather marred by the annoying typsetting everything is all jammed in right up to the marigns (something which is sadly true across this whole series of great books).

The problems however are absolutely fantastic, a great mix of computational and theoretical which go from half an hours fun to really unanswered problems. Fun fun fun! I highly recommend trying them and referring to the text as needed.
Well, that's just neat on it's own merits. But I think I got off on a tangent and lost my point. Basically what I was trying to say is technologists shouldn't try to redefine journalism they should be focused on building solutions that will empower the journalists to reinvent their industry in a way that makes sense.

So everyblock.com seems to be a statistical listing of things happening but what I was trying to describe was a system that feeds relevant info to the journalists so they're able to focus on writing articles that add insight to that news (which is really what a news organization is for)
Oh, OK. I can't comment on your facts specifically, so the links below just deal with privacy in general.

For an introduction to the issues and the laws, read this law review article.
Michael Froomkin, Cyberspace and Privacy: A New Legal Paradigm? The Death of Privacy?, 52 STAN. L. REV. 1461 (2000). http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/privacy-deathof....

This case deals with exceeding authorized access on a website:
Konop v. Hawaiian Airlines, Inc., 302 F.3d 868 (9th Cir. 2002) http://www.internetlibrary.com/cases/lib_case32.cfm
Funny, I wrote this .bash_profile script (http://gist.github.com/168286) just the other day because I wanted...
1) Minimalist colors
2) Stripped down CLEAN prompt
3) For GIT folders it will display the current branch.

It was based on this which I thought was too ugly: http://www.simplisticcomplexity.com/2008/03/13/show-your-git...

Also, if you use git+github+capistrano, I wrote a bash script where you type "tap" and it will add all new files, commit, push to github. If you type "tap /d" it will also cap deploy it to the server and reload in nginx passenger. For small projects I'll push something and then have to make a small change. Now I can just edit the file in textmate and can add-commit-push-deploy with one command.

http://gist.github.com/168589
I searched searchyc.com for about 10 - 15 minutes to give a link to the post where pg mentioned that he created "classic" view and that classic and regular are not much different - which means growth hasn't harmed us much. Sorry I couldn't find it. (Usually I'll obsess over it until I do find - but I have to change this habit)
Revenue on websites
What's the best method to create revenue on websites. It seems like the norm usually respond with advertisements - but how far can you really get solely with advertisements when the website doesn't sell a specific product nor take a cut for any sort of transaction? I guess you can say I'm new to this, so any feedback will help.