skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New Zealand not environmentally progressive? Oh come on. Who else spends so much money to protect a stupid parrot that lives on the ground and can't fight?
If you have an if, and ifequals and their functions are such that if you need to do a combined if something and something > somethingelse you have to resort to either duplicating a bunch of code or including small fragments of html in order to avoid the duplication severely decreasing readability then your design is simply lacking.

There is an outstanding ticket on adding boolean functionality to the ifequals conditional. The argument that others 'should learn to cook' can be countered with that if you're a cook you should cook what people like to eat, not to dictate your taste to others.

The if, ifequals and other animals in the conditional zoo could be replaced with a single multi purpose and powerful if statement such as listed in the link above.

You either have an if or you don't, if you have one it might as well work.

There is not much 'bad' about an if statement that would be worse than the endless duplication of template code that the current construct forces you to adopt.

This is a problem because any django apps that are going to be released using the more powerful 'if' statement will immediately have an extra dependency.

I have yet to see a single good argument about what would be so dangerous about having a more powerful if statement in the template language.
I'm not sure this would make a difference. Even the largest companies generally only have a couple hundred external lines.

(internal office phone systems don't give each number it's own dedicated external line for those who don't know)

So if you can manage to infect just a very small amount of people you can wreak some pretty serious havok. And since the iPhone will return to the program once the line is disconnected you could launch a pretty effective attack against a companies phone lines.
"You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned me lesson, sir. I've seen now what I've never seen before. I'm cured! Praise Bog! I'm cured!"

- Alex
My previous schedule meant that I was able to go to bed ~ 1:00am, and get up ~ 9:00-9:15am. With that cycle, I never had caffeinated drinks for any reason other than taste.

Now that I'm on an 11:30pm-7:30am schedule, I find myself having a coffee in the morning and then a can of soft drink in the early afternoon specifically to get the effects of the caffeine. Very annoying.
I agree there...Google probably figured there must be a cheaper way to get Google Voice to VOIP than spending $3 billion.
Currently it looks like the only keyword you're targeting is "tumblr". If you're going that general, why not try "blogs", or even "RSS"?

Another tack, since it's a personal blog, is to target people based on similarities to you, rather than interests. "Founder" as a keyword targets 22,000 people in the U.S. "Robotics" targets 13,700. "Startups" + "startup" targets 4,700. If you add age-targeting on top of this, I bet your conversion rate from click-through to follow / RSS subscription would rise.
Hackers use a Unix.
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Computer Science with as much emphasis on video encoding and streaming media as you can. I'm a freelance Digital Archivist and one of my clients (a multinational telecommunications company) cannot find anyone to fill the position. They have one guy who has been with them for 8 years, but need another.
"Hence you can not ask the author to get a spare cd."

That's not really the question. The question is, now that I have this scratched CD, why is it wrong for me to hop on a torrent and replace my scratched bits?

Obligation to produce a new CD would indeed require an actual contract, but "new CD" is not the same as "replacing my music".

The real problem this exposes is that the law has a concept of "source of the bits", such that "bits from your CD player" are different from "bits from a torrent you downloaded", even if they are otherwise identical. Standard reference to the "color of bits" essay: http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/lawpoli/colour/2004061001.php ... and I'll basically defer the rest of this comment to that essay since I doubt I can improve on it here.
I don't think the content on your tumblr really has enough meat to it to get you startup advisor roles, or public speaking engagements. Start another company that has a successful exit and then go the route of EIR and you'll end up in advisor roles, board seats and speaking at SXSW...
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i'll take one,

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The point that we are must deal with multiple metrics is crucial.

However, the metric of how everyday life has changed is one important metric.

One part of this, however, is that one doesn't know at what point a technology will become disruptive to either daily life or to another technological area.

Computers made great progress from 1950-1980 without really impacting daily life directly. They also made great progress from 1980-2009 and vastly impacted daily life.

Biological progress has been pitifull in comparison to the complexity of the human body and in comparison to the progress of information systems. But information systems have the ability to produce tools which in and of themselves create vast progress even as biological understanding otherwise continues make it merely incremental progress.
I don't know if there is a tool to check every ISP, but this one checks about a dozen different cities:

http://www.alertra.com/spotcheck.php
This guy has integrated it with org-mode for Emacs: http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#sec-13.1
Happenstance in the case of OpenLDAP I could accept, though again I'm totally unfamiliar with the project. For all I know they were big Waldo fans and were promised signed first editions of the latest book.

It definitely wasn't happenstance with Netatalk though. Why? Because the community (not just devs) felt some of Netatalk's corporate users had taken advantage of them, and avoiding a repeat wasn't considered a wishlist feature, but a must-have. In that light, simply sticking with the BSD license wasn't an option for them. Switching to the GPL broke the logjam.

You can't just decouple the developer's contributions from the community's determination to address the behavior of the storage vendors. A fork and a license change was a foregone conclusion at that point, the only question was whether it would have bothered the BSD-ites enough for them to keep the UMich tree alive. And the answer was a resounding "no."
What is the use case for something like this? I just can't imagine spending enough time in my car to warrant having a computer in there.
The Turkish bombing of Kurdish targets at the same time is more of a complicate issue than you think, spanning 3 countries (Turkey, Iraq, Iran) with all of the regimes and local Kurds playing each other's strengths and weaknesses off against each other. I'm not saying what the Turks (or any other nation involved) did was right or wrong, just thought I'd add some context so people know that it wasn't just a straight Turks vs. Kurds (as a single unified entity) issue.
I think the point is that the article is talking explicitly about how to "turn a profit" and using, as an example, a company which does not turn a profit.
Doesn't exactly fit your criteria in terms generating revenue, but I wrote a plugin for TiddlyWiki (http://www.tiddlywiki.com/) that allows you to store your address book inside a TiddlyWiki file. It includes import and export, and since TiddlyWiki is JavaScript based you can fully script your address book to your liking. It's called TiddlyWiki Address Book (i.e. twab, http://www.tiddly-twab.com/). It's fairly popular among those who use TiddlyWiki and more importantly is something I'm proud of for a number of reasons.
Neat, although I was hoping this was going to create ascii diagrams from a GUI editor.

Edit: might be a good feature for this project
Industries where the resources of the participating companies produce IP, not products (or products where the marginal cost of production is insignificant compared to the cost to design).
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YC Anybots meetup / screening around September 25 ?
Let them learn about what they want to learn about, and you know what? They’ll actually care about what they’re learning, because they chose it themselves.

I think that's the key to motivating students. I've seen teenagers who hate picking up a book, but spend hours reading Wikipedia articles.
I've gone the opposite route. At first, I was skeptical. But it has become an invaluable resource especially in areas not covered by traditional encyclopedias (e.g. popular culture).
Hi Ivan,

It would be interesting to see what would happen if you turned on comments for your blog. You also mention creating a "proper blog" which I think would bring something new to the mix as you build your brand. Right now your Tumblr theme is limited to what you want me to focus on at that moment, with little ability to get to your archives or see what you are all about (tumblr view) vs. a blog or RSS readership will know who\what they are subscribing to.

I think there is rationale to keep both, but you should try to build RSS audience at the blog vs. followers and tumbularity on Tumblr.
Yeah, I think I agree. Investing / advising looks fun and interesting, so it is a long term goal of mine. The funny pics I sometimes post on Tumblr are largely unrelated. I need to build a blog.

The comment there is really about others I've seen who, imho, aren't that talented, but get attention before they are good bloggers.
Thanks to #startups, I ended up contacting http://www.moglenravicher.com/ about this--they're apparently the for-profit arm of the SFLC and provide legal services to for-profit FOSS projects--exactly what we need.

Hopefully they will be able to help.
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As an Albanian, I take offense at what you are saying. Serbian regime has always been represessive and very similiar to the Apartheid, where 10-15% of the population (Serbians), rule with the iron fist over the majority.

If you were albanian, you couldn't go to school were you could learn your own language, you couldn't get a job a state industry (except for crappy jobs), you couldn't go to college/university where you can study in your own language. You even needed a visa to get out of Kosova!

BTW, Albanians there have been trying to secede peacefully since 1990, where they formed their own goverment. They had their own parallel structures, schools, etc.
Slovenia split, got attacked, then Croatia split and endedup with war, then we all now of the Bosnian massacres.

It seem in all these, the common denominator is Serbia, and Slobodan, using vapid nationalism for his own purposes.

Kosova was going to end up just like Bosnia, where over 200k people were massacred if the west didn't intervene. he was doing the exact same tactics that he did during the previous war.

BTW, the Albanians in Kosova got armed after 1997, when there were trouble in Albania, and all the army depot got emptied, and you could find a Ak-47 for less than $100.

There were no american weapons in the region.
I'm at ad:tech. There was an amazing session yesterday that I had no business sitting in on, but did, and oh yeah, it was amazing. I'll try to regurgitate the ideas the smart folks on the panel shared. And I'll bring my drinking hat.

http://www.ad-tech.com/chicago/session_detail.asp?refad=1...
Argh...again with the questions.

Yes, "hackers" use Unix-based operating systems. Great hackers also generally insist on using open source software. Not just because it's better, but because it gives them more control. Good hackers insist on control. This is part of what makes them good hackers: when something's broken, they need to fix it.[1]

[1] I copied this from my essay, "Great Hackers" (http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html).

Thanks to Jessica Livingston, Robert Morris, and Sarah Harlin for reading earlier versions of this comment.
> It's an ideal country sized energy suicide weapon though.

You couldn't do anything to a country. You could damage a small area if you concentrated it.

If the capture area is 4km, then anything on the ground larger than 2km x 2km would not even notice you doing anything (since it gets basically that much sun anyway). And with the losses (I estimate only 25% of energy is captured). You can radiate an area 1km x 1km without anyone noticing (which is about a city block).

To do damage you'd have to a go a lot smaller. It would take a very long time to do anything to something even city sized.
Rats. My son's birthday tomorrow.
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> I don't get why they do this at runtime instead of at site push time.

Convenience. I'm sure the extra stat(2) has a measurable cost, but your js files are almost guaranteed to be in cache and linux should be able to stat 1M files a second in that case.

perl -MBenchmark -e 'timethese(3000000, { cached_stat => sub { stat("/etc/passwd") } })'
Wallah! Task lists.
I can understand leaving out the accent on voilà, but "wallah"? It's not even pronounced like that.

If you Americans insist on writing French with such a horrible accent, I'm going to start raiting English vit my Finnish äksent. Rivendz vil pi sviit.
I've been playing around with FB Ads doing some affiliate marketing stuff the last few months.

1) I think your target demographic, looking by the # of impressions. Try to go a little bit broader than just "tumblog". Try "tumblr", "blogging", "rss", .etc to reach a bigger audience

2) Your CPC is way too high. With FB it's best to go below their suggested bid, and gradually up your CPC amount until you start getting the desired impressions.

3) I'd gather a lot more data before making any kind of analysis on the data you're gathering.

4) Your CTR looks to be on the right track, although still probably not enough data to tell if it's stable yet. 0.1% is alright for a display ad on a social networking site. I'd still try split testing a couple different versions of your ad to see if you can up that. You always want to be split testing, constantly cutting the weaker performing ads, and making a variations of the better performing ads.
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Why would it blow up? Nuclear bombs don't blow up when they get hot.

All that would happen is you would make a hole in it, but since it's on a ballistic it would keep on going. (Ballistic means gravity is controlling it, it's not powered.)

Even if you blew it up, at best you would spread nuclear material all over the target area.

You need to hit these things during the boost phase, where a: you can stop it from going ballistic and make it fall back into the launching country, and b: you have something volatile to blow up (the fuel).

Also, it's easier. When it's at the apex it's moving horizontally very quickly, and it's at it's closest to you. Which is the most difficulty when it comes to aiming (since the angle of the shot is moving the fastest at that point).

When it's moving vertically toward you is much easier to aim, since you barely have to move the laser.
It's very difficult to setup a gentoo box without python installed. (maybe impossible?)
Also most Americans are un-ware (again very good propanda efforts were made), that Serbian atrocities started after the bombings.

I'm pretty sure that is a blatantly false statement. But if you would like to convince me otherwise, please show me some sources.
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"Since the US dominates the world's oceans, that means that Japan has to keep the US happy. Sucks strategically and politically."

It just means Japan can't get saber-rattly in the US's direction. There isn't a huge impetus for them to do so, so...
This is proposing a $21/W solution

How did you get this number?

I'm thinking $21 billion / (30 years * 1GW) is a little less than $80/MWh [1], which between two and three times the market price [2].

The way to look at this is that the electricity produced is expected to refund one third to half of the investment. I'd imagine the IP created will be worth a lot more.

1. http://www06.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%2421+billion+%2F+%28...

2. http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/commodities/energyprices.ht...
Good for Twitter, not so good for the Chicago tech/startup scene. Dick was an inspiration to many local entrepreneurs, and the Feedburner exit is often cited as evidence that "it can be done here."
We've also increased the value of "owning" congresscritters. Before, they were good for arranging contracts and screwing competitors. Now they're also a line of credit.
Seriously, we already have too much cure for cancer
You're assuming that the govt will bail out investors. GM proves that it won't. It can't even be relied on to guarantee that lenders keep their place in line.
On the other hand, it might be easier and cheaper than purchasing a Mac and a copy of OmniGraffle. And you have to admit, it's a pretty lovely hack.
Tumblr is social. I don't really care if it stays really small. Opinions are more valuable the more people read them, so I'd like a "proper blog" to grow.

The reason to keep both is to keep things properly categorized. Pictures of cats -> Tumblr. Thoughts on a market -> blog.
Refernce to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity_2000#Scenarios_Vol._I:_...

Silicon Valley: The high-tech society of the 2010 Silicon valley is hit hard when its futuristic power source goes awry - microwave beams transferring solar energy from an orbital satellite miss their intended receiver and instead incinerate many businesses and people in the area.
I started at $0.10 CPC, but bumped it up to see more traffic faster.
Considering where our cars and gadgets come from, I don't think Japan or the US would benefit much from cutting off oil shipments to Japan ;)
In 1909 the Model T was already in mass production. I think that represents a huge shift in day-to-day life that happened between 1900 and 1950 but not 1909 and 1959.

On the other end of the timeline, I think Google going from a $25 million funding round in 1999 to a $100+ billion market cap in 2009 represents major changes in how society works.
Is the oil used for electricity? If not, this will not (directly) replace it. Also, you only need one nuclear reactor (of which a powerplant has many) to make up for the energy produced by this thing.

That said, I totally support this way of bringing science fiction a little closer!

> It is very difficult to cut off, regardless of the size of your foes' navy

Would it be that to hit it with a rocket? (Or a stone thrown really hard?) I assume it's quite vulnerable.
Anthropomorphism of regions, nationalities of states in a conflict is a very very bad way to look at things clearly. Thee is not always a clear line between all these groups. Not everyone in these groups thought the same, not everyone in these groups had the same information or perception.

It may be simple, its often used for political or manipulation purposes because it is emotionally charged but it is never an accurate way to assess the situation. And it annoys me very much.
I think the multi-select in the grid view is what you're looking for to make that easy; both shift-select and control select work when clicking on grid rows. Not the easiest thing to find, but really useful.
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This would be an interesting way to choose a startup name. E-mail gathering splash-page targeted to keywords within your industry.

[Name 1] - The service that helps you [solution to problem].

[Name 2] - The service that helps you [solution to problem].

[Name 3] - The service that helps you [solution to problem].
The comment is mean. It's not intellectually stimulating. I meant I don't think it belongs here. Downmod me if you like for expressing that opinion.
I upvoted you, because you're generally correct, so much so that it's worth saying.

However, it is an oversimplification. As stated, it doesn't account for externalized costs, that is, costs of the product that are not borne by the seller.

For example, the energy industry has historically benefited because part of the cost of their product -- that is, the damage done by pollution -- is not paid for in the sale of the energy, but is borne by the public at large. Thus, the cost of pollution has gone into the coffers of the energy suppliers (and their stockholders). This is the inequity that legislation such as cap-and-trade try to alleviate (not that I'm a fan of this legislation by any means, the gov't is just as bad).
it looks like http://phpanywhere.net/ is down right now.
FYI This is the same program that funded EveryBlock
Lol, I commented from my sock puppet account.
If he is going to gain any traction with this, it needs to be some sort of web app where people can vote and collaborate on what the day is. Just having people email him suggestions probably isn't enough.
This argument sets up a false dichotomy. Comparing the internet to the app store and claiming that just because the internet is a free for all, every service that is built on top of it 'should' also be a free for all is simply illogical.

Because the internet is as free as it is, we have the fortune of being able to choose between a heavily curated store - the apple app store, and some competitors who claim they will be more open - e.g. the Android Market.

This is analogous to what happens in the high street. I could rent a retail space, and then allow anyone who wants to come in and set up a table selling any legal goods, or I could rent the same space and carefully choose products that I think my customers will value.

Some people will prefer the trading hall, and others will prefer the department store.

The point is that it's a good thing that Apple can provide this more curated option for those of us who want it, and that others can provide alternatives for those who don't like Apple's approach.

The real tyranny would be if Apple were forced to stop being the gatekeeper for the iPhone - that's when a choice would be lost to us.

For right now, I think Apple has the best model by a long way, even though it's not perfect.

I'm quite prepared to believe that I'll be buying an Android phone in a couple of years if the more open ecosystem turns out to be better at producing useful applications, but I'd like to see that determined empirically - by allowing both approaches to be tested, rather than having the App store torn down or undermined because of ideology.
Around 30 minutes after I eat dinner, which I usually do around 8:00 PM, up to or through midnight, thereabouts.
Might I humbly submit that it would be better to make one's own money (no matter how small the amount) and use it for what charity one sees as most appropriate, rather than criticize what someone else chooses to do with the money they've earned.

Allowing people to earn money means accepting the fact that they may use it in a manner that seems sub-optimal to you.
New Napster: $15/month, gigantic library with every well known artist. Download it and play on your MP3 player. Stream it from anywhere with no software to install.

This is a solved problem--it's legal and fairly priced.

The only problem is that Apple is using its huge market share in portable players to keep subscription music from getting a foothold. Spotify's iphone app is approved, so hopefully they can start to crack this market open.
yeah, i was hoping to try it out today, but i think it must have gotten brought down recently. I'll finally be able to sneak in some work on my pet project while I'm at real work, lol