skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moreover, when running on a 64-bit OS nspluginwrapper is mandatory, so I have pretty much forgotten how bad Firefox stability used to be.
Your relationship with your friends will change because of something like that, it is very very nice of you to want to share the wealth, but someone that has a sense of honour themselves will either have to refuse your offer or they will accept and it will hurt their sense about themselves.

That depends very much on the way you bring it. Indeed, if you offer to pay off their debts, of course it will hurt their ego.

But if you bring it like "here's 50 grand, i don't need it, i care about you, do with it what you want", well, most people will have a hard time rejecting it. Since they don't associate it with their debt, but rather as part of sharing in your success.
Don't Rely on Conversion Rate Alone
Ask HN: How does one log in to Facebook with OpenID
I've set up (or so I thought) Facebook to use my openid address, but I can't find any details on how to actually login with it
I have NoScript and, when I browse, it says, "This text will be replaced" in the top bar.

It says, "Use any email program" but all screenshots are from a Mac. Would suggest a few screenshots from Windows if that is also your audience.

Good luck!
You can obviously still work (as I mention), but the point is you can work on whatever you please for whoever you want (including yourself). And most importantly, it doesn't have to be monetizable - that's one of the biggest limiting factors out there.

And Mark, I know your situation, you're more fortunate than others :).
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"Fuck You money" is not a myth. I know a fair few that have accepted FU money and built companies specifically to get FU money. Hell, I'd sell up for $170 million.

I'm shocked at how arrogant your comment comes across. Different strokes for different folks.
I just wish all the good things were a little bit more memory efficient. Maybe we're getting there eventually...
One genuine full-entropy bit of information on an important subject can be very valuable. You can double your wealth with one bit. (Toy example: you know whether a roulette wheel is going to come up red or black next time. You stake everything you own on the outcome. There are of course less-toy examples and less hair-raising ways to make money out of bits.) It doesn't take all that many bits to state (e.g.) Maxwell's equations.

I largely agree with you about this post, though I don't mind its being here and I read it with interest despite not living anywhere near Silicon Valley. And I agree that PG gets much more karma than a clone who happened not to be called PG would (which suggests an interesting experiment...), and that that's kinda silly. But don't disparage bits.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_and_Reality
I'm not sure I'm making my point clearly enough, sharing in the success of someone else is not the same on a satisfaction level as achieving your own is.

By giving that money you are denying someone the chance of achieving that on their own and keeping parity with you. Especially if you say 'here's 50 grand, I don't need it', as though 50 grand should be peanuts to them too.

The asymmetry of the situation is what causes these problems.

The reverse also happens, plenty of people may assume that because you go back a long time they have an automatic right to whatever is yours. This is also not a healthy point of view.

There is nothing more poisonous to a friendship than to have one party suddenly come in to a lot of money. It takes a lot of tact (on both sides!) to get through that without getting peoples feelings hurt.

The best way to avoid this problem is to earn the money together with your friends.
R4 software
http://www.r4-ds-carta.it/spedizione - I tempi di consegna sono calcolati in giorni lavorativi, ovvero da lunedì a venerdì incluso. Se effettui il tuo ordine dopo mezzogiorno, ti suggeriamo di calcolare il tempo di consegna come se avessi avviato l'operazione il giorno lavorativo seguente.
Did anyone ever offer $170 million for 37 signals? I can guess that the answer is 'No' just by knowing that it wasn't sold.
Eh even when you're doing a startup you're still working for your investor :).

Ha I never said their families would starve. My point was most people are beholden to many debts, people and obligations that prevent them from doing X.
R4 carte
http://www.r4-ds-carta.it/privacy - Le informazioni raccolte sul tuo conto ci consentono di elaborare gli ordini e fornirti servizi della migliore qualità possibile. Inviamo e-mail promozionali solo a seguito del tuo esplicito consenso e ci impegniamo a non comunicare i tuoi dati a terzi senza la tua previa autorizzazione.
I use a combination of files (.sql files, .cs files, etc), OneNote, and Google. Not very elegant, I know, but it works.

I tried this one out once upon a time: http://www.snipitpro.com/. I didn't buy - it was $40 at the time I downloaded it and then they raised it to $50 IIRC. I see now that it is back to $40 which, to me, is too much. I'd pay $20 max for such a system. I've survived 12+ years without paying money for a standalone code snippet manager so to get me to pay money, your system has to be great (which, IIRC, this one was) but it also has to be so cheap that I think to myself, "You know what? It's actually worth the $14.95 to replace my text files and OneNote combo."
Ask HN: Why can't I delete my own posts?
Hello HN. Yesterday two posts of mine have been changed by HN moderators in such a way that I can't support neither of them anymore.

With one of them the source has been changed to an URL that only remotely has something to do with what I posted. Also the new URL is a wacky blog post with sparse information and almost no value while my original submission contained a huge report on the same topic.
See:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=827719

The headline of the other submission has been changed in such a way that now it's basically a lie. It does not reflect the post anymore.
See:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=827821

I don't want to be responsible for such low quality and low value or even misleading submissions. I can't delete them though. Why can't I?
Given that nutrition is a very complex science and heavily dependent on the state of your digestive system and particular combinations of foods, I don't think there's any one-stop solution for all your nutritional needs. The #1 source of advice should be to listen to your body following a meal. If you feel worse, for any reason - tired, unfocused, unwell - then something about that food probably hurt you.

That said, some arguments are definitely stronger and better researched than others, so it's worth seeking them out.

One good read I discovered by accident is Jonny Bowden's "The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth." It contains a lot of surprisingly positive stances on foods with poor public image.
Govt of India is risking $30 billion tax payers money on Multi-purpose National Identity Card project. http://www.no2id.net/

I think it is prudent to issue PASSPORTS to all Indians at a subsidized nominal fee of 10 rupees.

30 million Non-Resident-Indians have sent $10 billion to India last year.
Well, there's multiple flash traders. If you're trying to buy at $21 and sell at $21.01 you have two trades you need to make and you run the same risk as a regular old non-flashing market maker: that you get one leg of the opportunity and your competitor gets the other, then both of you are stuck with a position that you trade out of at a loss.
There's a balance to everything. I don't think your issue, though, is having too much freedom. I think it likely has a lot more to do with not knowing what's right for you. If the right choice for you is to travel, you have the freedom to do it; if the right choice for you is to settle down, you have the freedom to do that too.

Freedom of choice without knowing the right path to choose can feel awfully non-free, though.
I always thought that "fuck you" money meant never having to work again, and thus being able to say "fuck you" to a nasty boss, followed by "I quit".
There's been plenty of talk of "libel tourism" in the UK. The economist wrote something about this at the start of this year: http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cf...

As one example, this tourism hurts human-rights NGOs that have to prove their reports, which often endangers their witnesses, if indeed they will even testify, and threatens to bankrupt the NGO.

Singh's case is just an example of a much wider problem. It's not even that what he said was definitely not libellous--although I am no expert on libel law, far from it.

The problem, in a nutshell, is that it's far more costly to defend than bring about a libel case. And only the rich can afford to defend themselves properly. Anyone else may well have their career financially wrecked.

It's a limit of freedom of speach through fear of the financial costs of criticism--even if that criticism can be backed up with hard-evidence.
http://clojure.org/state
http://clojure.org/rationale
Heh ... For some reason I mis-remembered, and expected an article about the profound impact of the classic arcade game http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q*bert ... Not at all what I got, but a good read nevertheless.
I was leading a development team in .Net for a Norway Automobile client and I must say .Net is a big PITA.
The incompetence of India's Intelligence Bureau knows no bounds.

Anyone remember last year's Blackberry ban fiasco ?
and before that, the blogger block (revoked after an uproar. there are some advantages to living in a democracy).
No.

There is always something new to be learnt. New books to read, new knowledge to obtain, new culture to imbibe, new things to say, new experiences to be had.

Wait a minute, he answers it himself:

I'm definitely happy and complete, so there's no sense of longing or lacking. Just a constant pursuit of learning and experiencing all I can before I die.
Wow. That's the first time I've ever even heard of moderators editing a post, other than at the request of the poster or to correct a broken link or something like that.

Are you sure it was a moderator action and that your account was not compromised somehow ?

edit: it looks like you're right and people have been messing with your submissions.

That sucks.

Prediction: this post will be 'dead' soon.

edit2: I looked at the original submission, I think the 'tablet' moniker is a bit heavy, but if it allows you to log in to facebook it certainly is more than just a photo frame.
Typographic town logos in hiragana/katakana
Usually the policy is to change links to link to the original source. Probably the mod didn't look too closely in this case, but I can't see your original post to see what you added to it.

You can only edit/delete posts for one hour, to prevent various kinds of abuses.
This list is incredibly convoluted and redundant.

Memorizing 4 variants of the perfection loop, which really isn't a general purpose knot is just plain silly.

Wikipedia is a much better resource for finding out about the different types of knots and how they relate to each other (for instance, loops and bends are usually related), and has good descriptions and interlinking so you can easily find the a handful that is easy for you to remember.

If you are more of the geek then understanding the taxonomy of knots and their engineering principle is a fun hobby (and it's much easier to remember a knot if you understand how it works). For that the Ashley Book of Knots and a few other websites are a much more interesting resource.
How is it different from http://www.sec.gov/answers/insider.htm
Well yes, probably everyone on HN is computer-savvy enough that when they type some input into a general consumer application, they damn well mean what they said, not what the application thinks they meant.

I wonder if there's cases where this has degenerated into a game of "guess two-thirds of the average": your app starts out with a level of automatic input cleaning which is not enough to catch all the mistakes of the least savvy 1/3 of your users, is mildly helpful to the next 1/3, but annoys the top 1/3 enough that they switch to another product. Then the least savvy users are half of your userbase, so you lower the focus of your product to account for them ... (this assumes that the least savvy users don't know how to switch products, since if they knew that much they wouldn't belong in the "least savvy" category).
"One genuine full-entropy bit of information on an important subject can be very valuable."

Oh, it sure can! For instance, suppose that we're back in 1986. The Microsoft IPO has just taken place. I ask God if Microsoft will ever be a huge success, and God tells me: "yes". There you go, 1 bit of information that would have made me very rich. However, despite the worship, I have doubts that PG has become himself God. Hence, his 1-bit answers are less valuable than God's 1-bit answers ;-)
It seems logical that pissing away all of one's £1.9m prize money would make one unhappy.
Oh, I'm not at all worried that Steve Woziak would be anything but an inventor. It's just that he seems to be the kind of person that might get taken advantage of a lot easier in the world today than back then.

It's not at all rare to see posts here on HN about uppity founders that want to 'ditch' one of their co founders, and not always for the right reasons (it gets presented one sided and usually in the form of an Ask HN post).
As a general principle, I guess that I want my software to be smart and make suggestions in an unobtrusive way. It shouldn't make the decisions - just show me what it thinks I might want to do and make it easy for me to accept that suggestion.
I resubmitted the original source later on after my URL was changed:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=828216
I've seen many post headlines or sources changed afterwards. In most cases the decisions were right. Two false edits on one day are a little too much.

That's why I want to at least have the ability to delete posts that were formerly mine.
After 20 hours:

310 unique visits / 22 addresses captured (7%)

50% of traffic from news.yc - and generally didn't leave an email address at all.

Users from other sources were 10 times more likely to leave an addresses if shown the pop up on page load.
If you need to run your blog post through a markdown filter, just send it to garry@posterous.com. It might take a few hours, but it will eventually get done.
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There is a time limit on that. Maybe it should be set up in such a way that if someone edits your submission you get to yank it if you disagree with the edit. Right now if the edit happens past the point where you can delete words can be put into your mouth that you never would have spoken and that is just wrong.
> Mint is now going to die.

Doesn't always work that way (NeXT, Apple).
That's the idea of Clojure's persistent data structures. Values share the parts of themselves which haven't changed, so they are not copied.

"All of the Clojure collections are immutable and persistent. In particular, the Clojure collections support efficient creation of 'modified' versions, by utilizing structural sharing, and make all of their performance bound guarantees for persistent use." http://clojure.org/data_structures

What this does to cache locality, I do not know.
While I haven't had the opportunity to watch the talk, those slides are fantastic.

I think the key to Rich's ideas is to realise them on non-volatile storage. This could revolutionise filesystems and databases.
Ok here goes an answer on this.

The first instance the link died possibly because lots of people flagged it.

With that said I was a bit confused too. Your original link read like a blog - of which the first post was about that one form of traffic calming. I think it was an easy mistake to make thinking it was blog spam because that other link posted is apparently the original source of the photo's/story.

The fact you had additional content was less clear and probably was missed by some (especially after the blogspam comment was added). According to the guidelines: Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter.

If people thought it was not original source they might flag it.

The second one is a bit more complicated. It was a somewhat over the top title (and I know it comes straight from the source link). Personally I would have supported editing it - though I do agree the title chosen was somewhat dull and misleading too!

With all that said there has been a marked increase in active moderation I noticed since being back from holiday this week. Notably the Eddie Izzard topic was killed off despite being top of the front page for a while (probably rightly killed off but I havent seen that happen much before).

New mod? or stricter policies?

At the end of the day I dont think it will reflect on you much :) I've found people dont care too much about a feww seeming "indescretions" (valid or not)
In fact, server-side developers are likely to be short on CPU, so lots of clever inductive strategies that are viable on the desktop won’t work in Web apps. Well, they’ll work in beta, and for the press briefing when the system has maybe ten users. Once things get built out? Fail whale.

Sigh, that is a vast oversimplification. I love it when non-programmers debate each other over programming.

Counterexample: Google Search. My desktop does not have enough CPU or disk to analyze the entire Internet and suggest spelling corrections for me. But Google does.
Not to take anything away from Rich's wonderful presentation, but Chapter 3 of SICP covers a lot of this with great clarity and in depth, specifically the OO and functional nature of time and associated subtleties (SICP does not deal with persistent data structures etc).

It needs some deep thinking and slow and careful reading to understand all the implications (most students rush through these sections imo), but it provides a good foundation to understand what Rich's talking about.
Reading Kafka 'enhances cognitive mechanisms', claims study
It's not the student's responsibility to protect the teacher's ego, it's the student's responsibility to be reasonable. Standing up and yelling because the teacher forgot a semicolon in some example code, for instance, is a waste of everyone's time, not just the teacher's.
Wow, it seems I have underestimated Clojure! Thanks for enlightening me :)
There is a saying: if you achieve your dreams during your lifetime, you aren't dreaming big enough.

Sivers has achieved a lot. But maybe he just needs to dream a bit bigger for himself?

Everyone should have a Polaris that guides them. An unmovable object / idea that helps in making life decisions. Because an aimless life won't be satisfying.
I'll stick with the minimalist default.
That's what it does mean.
I downloaded a copy of SICP last week, and I was thinking about that chapter as I read this presentation. I haven't had a chance to give that section full attention yet, but have the ideas expressed there had much influence on language design? Is Rich's presentation representative of some ideas more advanced than that section of SICP? Or has it been largely ignored over the decades?
And the mosquito is exploiting your exposed blood supply and acting rationally. So?
Study links 45,000 U.S. deaths to lack of insurance
Heh ... I'm certainly not into "US-bashing", but I can't help think that someone could do quite a lot of that fueled by that particular quote. The City of P.A. thinks it needs to protect its residents from the tripping hazards of ... acorns? Hilarious. :)
> I'm not sure I'm making my point clearly enough, sharing in the success of someone else is not the same on a satisfaction level as achieving your own is.

> By giving that money you are denying someone the chance of achieving that on their own and keeping parity with you.

I don't refute the fact that it's a tricky situation, but I think you and the OP might be talking about different situations.

There is a big difference between a fairly well payed programmer that needs to pay $20k of student loans and might take a while to do so but still live comfortably, and someone who is unemployed, the bank just repossessed his car and his family is about to be thrown out of their house due to unpaid mortgage.

There were a few years when I was growing up when my parents' business was going under (and bleeding money like nobody's business) and things looked very bad.

They managed to get out of that by their own eventually (at a significant cost, not just financially), but a lot of people don't.
Meh. Who cares what Sarah Lacey says. I don't see her changing the world.
Eyeballs... Our problem with action for eyeballs is when you have nothing to sell the brains behind the eyeballs. Just building an audience with nothing to sell (beyond ads) is what we rail against. But building an audience that could also be your customers is something we encourage.

Sorry, Jason, I think you're being disingenuous again.

Did you come up with the idea of writing Getting Real and then try to market it and sell it to web developers? Or did you gather the content of your book from your blog posts, bundle it into Getting Real and up sell it to your readers?

Did you start out with the idea of having a job board on a popular blog? Or, did you have a popular web developers blog, and then decide to monetize those eyeballs by selling to people looking for developers on your job board?
Makes me think of this great talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_ch...
The original HP "tablet" headline was also a "lie". It's not a tablet. It is a photo screen, but a significant evolutionary step in that market with some tablet-like features.

http://h71036.www7.hp.com/hho/us/en/pclc/articles/series-dre...
When people don't read my submission it's not my problem. When they flag it for the wrong reason it shouldn't be my problem either. It should be checked whether it's OK or not.

In case you change my submission to the worse due to false flagging don't make me responsible for that.
This one made me wonder: "Moreover, English libel law favors the claimant — the person who says he or she has been defamed — in several ways. [...] in English libel cases, the burden of proof is effectively on the defendant. In other words, the defamatory statement is presumed to be false unless the defendant can prove it is true."

Is there really a law system where it's the other way around? This would be slanderer's paradise. One could write libelous articles as long as one made them hard to disprove.
Does a Dynamic Infrastructure Need ARP for Applications?
No, it supports photos, video, music, Facebook etc. so It's a multimedia device and certainly no digital photo frame but I'm not here to discuss that. If someone else thinks it's a "digital photo frame" it's hers or his responsibility not mine.

I want to be able to at least delete this submission which is allegedly mine.
> Wow. That's the first time I've ever even heard of moderators editing a post, other than at the request of the poster or to correct a broken link or something like that.

Happens quite often actually. Fixing blog spam for example, but also to kill editorializing in the title. One argument is that the title and submission should represent all of us, whereas comments can be used to voice your opinion on the matter if you want to.

> Prediction: this post will be 'dead' soon.

I hope so. I've flagged it.
Maybe each comment should have a list where you can mark posts using that system.