skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't buy that theory. I'm fairly sensitive to intonation, and have never heard it intoned in the manner you suggest.

I think it's more likely that people parrot the sounds without thinking of the words and/or the meaning. Compare to "for all intensive purposes", for example.
I would love an invite, and be sure to share it with my friends and the rest of the internet!
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One invite please! http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01scJxUkYbEiucSpzR2yB5_g==...
You're absolutely right. But when the OP stared about 'keyloggers' and stuff like that I assumed a technical environment comparable to the stuff he'd be doing for himself.

Bad assumption, I should have asked. Thanks for pointing it out.
Cory Doctorow writes:

This isn't capitalism, nor is it socialism. It's a kind of corporatism in which the risk―the money spent speculatively mapping Britain, arguing in Parliament, drawing up postal code boundaries―is entirely assumed by the public, but the reward―access and profit-taking―are entirely given to the private sector.
There used to be all those advertisements that had a common plot, the dumb person and the wizard.

- Mary! How did you get all those clothes so white?

- I use XYX washing powder. Oh! I have to do that!

Articles like the above remind me of this. If your time is valuable don't waste reading it!
Gmail, at least, forces you to use a SSL-encrypted SMTP server, so it's possible that the entire system of servers all communicated with each other securely. Not likely, though.
Nor do all LCDs have the same pixel arrangement.
Login doesn't work for me after creating an account. Neither in Opera nor Firefox; rejects my login and password. Case sensitivity problems maybe?

Also: Before clicking through, I was hoping to see that this was done without Flash.

Having multiple colours show up would be a great next feature. Also: Some people might find utility in a version that doesn't record or playback any audio.
authlogic is great. Used it recently in an app I worked on. After doing a bit of research on all of the rails authentication options, I'm really happy I went with it.
Yikes. I think your best bet would be to individually shoot some video and splice it together -- even though the app specifically discourages that sort of thing, it would probably be better than no video at all. That is, assuming the two of you can't somehow get together for a day or two.
I feel like anyone working in a startup needs to type out the phrase "You don't know shit" and tape it to their monitor.

Then get back to work.
The mistake you made here was commenting on a topic that involves Apple fanboys and Open Source Zealots. It is a thread where the stupidest among us converge. You were just asking for down votes

(and Yes, I'm probably going to get downvoted too but it was soooo worth it)
Constitutional reasoning for the win!
Maybe it's regional. Regardless, Stephen Pinker discusses the intonation of "could care less" in The Language Instinct.
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thanks in advance
That's not very inspiring
Spot on sir.

I up voted the both of you as this is a huge irk or mine as well.

Say what you mean, don't just rehash phrases you've heard before! This says a lot about how much thought we put into what we're saying and hearing, as I've seen and heard this on all types of media, from TV, movies, radio, books...
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I tend to visit the comments on HN before clicking through to the link. Especially from link bait sounding titles. Depending on the comments reaction, actual discussion vs bashing the article, I'll click through the link.
Having just finished the book this week... those of you commenting based solely on the interview are missing the point. The author is not advocating that everybody should skip high school. He is advocating that everybody should lead a life of adventure. For a lot of people, school is enough adventure for them, and that is fine. The book speaks specifically to those kids that aren't getting satisfaction following the standard path. He is laying out an alternate path, but not the only path.
Post here because you enjoy it and love the community. Odds are if you come here to just "look smart" or increase your odds at getting into YC you will be sorely disappointed.
Just another vote for keeping the name. I smiled when I saw it.
This has always been my understanding. Why would I state that I could care less about something which I am trying to express that I don't care much about at all?

There's the theory that it implies you could care less, but that would require effort. I don't buy it. It's pretty easy not to care about something, in fact, I think it takes no effort at all. It's not like I'm straining myself by not caring about Joe Smith's new job in northern Minnesota. In fact, I couldn't care less.
So, it's not pointed at Zed.

Who else?
store the password change history...
Me thinks we call this irony: the first two posts in this chain asked whom this was pointed at, and suggest Zed Shaw. You make a good point that it might be he who wrote it. ;)
Invites are coming later in the day according to Stephanie Hannon (Google Wave team member):
http://twitter.com/twephanie/status/4497929072
Woah that third point got me totally swayed.

Edit: Just noticed that dragging the Boomtango icon into the customize box puts an entire iconset in the box rather than the boomtango icon.

Also, does Boomtango change the default throbber???
ooh ooh pick me i will be your friend
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I'll jump on this bandwagon! Thanks to you if you send me one! (If you're in San Diego, I'll buy you a beer)

andy at andyleclair dot com
So the proposal is to prebuild subpixel-smoothed images of your text for the web?

Not everyone can read subpixel rendering correctly (CRTs, LCDs with weird subpixel orders, people with rotated screens.) You can't increase or decrease the font size in your browser, and you can't wrap it on a smaller screen. Plus, the text isn't selectable or searchable, which is a showstopper. That's why things like sIFR exist.

What is the point? I completely disagree that this is pretty cool. This sucks (compared to other solutions, including not doing it at all.) It is the ultimate triumph of form over function. It is like something someone would have suggested in 2001. If you want something cool, check out modern solutions to this problem like Cufon, which generates fonts that can be rendered as real text with Javascript.

That, or, you know, let the user decide how he wants to read your text instead of trying to control every last pixel on his screen.
You can do that too -- Weebly has "Advanced Editing" functionality to let you fully customize the HTML/CSS of your site, and a "Custom HTML" element to let you place any HTML snippet directly on your page -- everything is fully customizable.
Are they providing a "We verified that these things are okay to not register." list or are they saying "If it's a free version of a proprietary program, you don't have to register". If the latter, how do you know that something qualifies? Or rather, what guidelines did they give you for making the decision.

Note that the answer to the latter can not be "you know what we mean".

Note that there's potential liability for proprietary software if you get this wrong while there's no liability for free software if you make a mistake. (The only liability for free software is if it turns out that it's actually proprietary.)
This is the sort of attitude that kills people. Years ago I saw on a Seattle news station an "investigative" story about how easy some cars to damage.

As part of their "investigation" they took a bunch of SUVs and backed them into poles (something they claim was easy to do by accident). They then asserted that the big dents in the bumpers were a sign of shoddy engineering and cheap products. Even being a young middle school whipper snapper I knew bullshit when I saw it.

This sort of thing saves your life.
I've gotten all my jobs by word of mouth. The first person that didn't pay me, I found out that he has a long list of people that he hasn't paid so I let it go after several months. Since then, I've always limited how much I would do for someone until there was a long term business relationship.
individually shoot some video and splice it together

I did this because my co-founder was on tour in the Cayman Islands when we decided to apply for funding. I do not like being on camera, so we were not going to submit a video at all. Pg emailed us and suggested we complete the video. We got an interview, but were not accepted, for reasons which have proven to be painfully prescient.
Which NoSQL database were you using and what were your particular problems?
It's like a HN version of the recent Reddit exploit...
Cool, I hadn't heard about the AKS primality test before: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKS_primality_test
I don't think the current one looks bad. I would even say the design is great. Maybe not aesthetically, but its very functional and is consistent with the purpose of the site.

The proposed redesign has too much transitional volatility associated with it. Although functional, subtracting from the current width makes the site look weird. Theres also too much text on the front page which is a departure from the way forums typically work with just the thread title (submission) and other essential info (comments, etc.).
I'd love an invite too if someone has one to share.
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Thanks!
Mike
Was just about to post this same comment. RAM is like telling someone to remember a 7 digit number -- they could probably repeat it to you right away, but remembering it in an hour, or a day, is a lot harder.
There's a nice big spam button on each wave in the sandbox. I imagine they'll be able to handle it in a similar way that Gmail handles it, with perhaps some added functionality to handle spam at the wavelet level, control for public vs private waves, etc, etc. I don't think it's a deal killer, but it's also pretty funny to see "DON'T ADD BOTS" in huge, bold, red print in some waves.
I can understand why spam might be low (although it is interesting it has not gotten more visibility especially on the protocol group).

The Wave team has been trying to just get it work. They are not too sure of all the usecases for wave so they're in more of a discovery mode. The priorities for them is probably to get a minimum product out to users and developers then worry about spam.
Building the Data Warehouse
You could be more anal about this issue.
I'll bite: I couldn't care less about anyones irk's - You get the point of what he was trying to say .... so why point out the difference? - I think its a smug ass hole thing to do.

edit: This comment also puts me in that category.
Ask HN: how to buy a domain name from a squatter?
I've grown frustrated with the process: I've been sending emails to whois contact info but haven't managed to get a single response.

The squatter's main intent is to squat on domains to sell them for profit, right? Why, then, is it so hard to reach them?
According to google's official blog (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/surfs-up-wednesday-go...):

- They're sending 100.000 invites starting from today

- They'll ask some of the invited users to nominate others to also receive early invites

So they're probably not giving all of them away today, not everyone will get invites to share and if you do they won't be direct invites but nominations.
This is really just a design philosophy: http://damieng.com/blog/2007/06/13/font-rendering-philosophi...

PDF (technically Quartz PDF) is the native format for OS X, so that may be part of the reason why it seems like their text rendering attempts to mimic print like this.
And that's the point of this list.

One can argue against some or all of it's points, but overall message is unarguable.

We are not our own target group. It's very difficult to look at website using mindeset of these people.
Randomness and Mathematical Proof (1975)
I would love an invite if someone has one to share, would be happy to let you in on our beta (http://ridewithgps.com) if that is of any interest to you: zackham@gmail.com
My skills in stats aren't quite current but this was from a large sample size - covering 500 schools and more than 55,000 students.

From the wikipedia article on statistical significance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_significance): "Given a sufficiently large sample, extremely small and non-notable differences can be found to be statistically significant, and statistical significance says nothing about the practical significance of a difference."

This isn't even "extremely small". From the report: "The mean treatment effect of 0.22 SD is equal to 9 percentile points at the median of a normal distribution. We find a minimum average treatment effect of 0.1 SD at every percentile of baseline test scores, suggesting broad-based gains in test scores as a result of the incentive program."
An invite would be much appreciated. Please send to mshafrir @ gmail.com
Or just do a video with one of you. That's what we did, and like rdouble, got interviewed but not accepted.
And all you need is a Mac, OSX, Ruby and some Ruby package, and then you can have really cool imagetexts on your relaxed ROR web app that you generate from the command line! But it's on github!
If you're starting a new company, though, you might actually want to consider solving a problem that good hackers would find interesting, in order to better recruit them.
Success = achieving/exceeding set goals.
Yes. If you do not defend a trademark you run the risk of having it deemed abandoned, after which people can use it freely or even re-register it for themselves.
Lose/Lose, a game that deletes files as you kill aliens
yegg@alum.mit.edu Thx
I upvoted you because it is a smug, asinine thing to do, but I disagree with your implication that he thus should not have done it. However, because this is One Of Those Issues, I have split my reply into two conceptual sections:

Objective:
It seems that the world is largely organized into two classes of people: those who care about precision of speech beyond the simple need for making someone else understand your point, and those who believe that as long as everyone is on the same page, then for God's sake, it bears no further discussion. "I could care less" apologists are in the latter group, clearly, but it is important for both groups to exist and speak up. Of course, this means that while I disagree that he shouldn't have mentioned it, I agree that you should have criticised him for mentioning it.

Subjective:
My disgust with "I could care less" goes beyond mere imprecision of speech. There are people in this HN thread claiming that when someone says "I could care less," they mean "I could care less, but it would require effort." I think that this is definitely not what most people think they are saying when they say "I could care less." I think most people are trying to express, "I couldn't care less even if I tried," but are failing to express that because they are simply regurgitating things they have already heard. This is a pernicious habit indicative of a deeper lack of thoughtfulness and creativity in our society, and it drives me completely crazy.
A better way to implement this would be to append the comments page of HN to the linked article. Should take very little JS Kung Fu.
You know many people actually try to intentionally not become something like the intended audience of that article. People around us can be really dumb, you know like in a high school (or like in my case even college). Now the key here becomes not to let yourself be pampered by such pseudo eliteness. I always try to be with people who have a greater intellect than me, just so i can beat them. but when i cant help it, i make it a point to keep reminding myself this is not the crowd i can judge myself with
Not "adds", but "provisions". Personally I provision instances for less than 1 hour, which would still increment server ID that was used for analysis in the article.

Also "instance" != "server". 1 server = "x" instances, which might be provisioned "y" times a day.
My most recent computer purchase was a modest dual-core PC with 350 GB hard drive. It cost only $350 CDN without an operating system - but it was surprisingly difficult to find an assembled computer for sale that didn't come bundled with an OS.
Aside from functionality issues mentioned elsewhere, you have some problematic UI issues to work through.

For one, it took me 3 tries to click "expand" in the little preview box. I kept overshooting with my mouse, and then the box would close. More padding around the expand link or a 1 second delay on closing the popup would probably help a lot.
I learned scheme through SICP, so I guess I can't relate. However, there is tremendous value in being able to do practical things with a language. While SICP is fun, it won't ever teach you how to use push JSON from one HTTP server to another.

I disagree that these languages are impractical, though.
Last year I was in a similar boat; after getting no response from the domain owner via email and postal mail (the phone number was either out-of-date or bogus), I enlisted the help of a domain brokerage service (Sedo).

The way it works is you pay for an "appraisal" of the domain, then they work on commission (a percentage of the eventual selling price of the domain).

The broker I worked with was able to get ahold of the domain owner, but the price they wanted was way out of line with reality. The broker claimed to have aggressively negotiated, and went back to the domain owner several times over the following months, but no sale was ever made. The commission-based compensation model seems to me to be an inherent conflict of interest, but my impression was that the broker was negotiating on my behalf in good faith.

Would be curious if anyone has a success story here. I know someone who used a different brokerage service (BuyDomains) to attempt to purchase a different domain, and were also unsuccessful - in that case the broker was also unable to reach the owner listed on WHOIS.
Well I must be a weirdo then, I prefer to at the very least glance at the source before seeing opinions on the source. I do check the comments immediately afterwards because some of them are pure gold! :)
"no text selection (IMHO a feature, not a bug)"

How is that a feature?
Introduction to Java Programming  (book review)
If that is your definition of success than aren't you already successful?

What about the degree of success? Are you more successful if the most people possible are crying with the greatest passion?

Shouldn't success give you a more enjoyable life while you are still alive?
I'm in: http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01WPnhCByvoC3ga_XHOsFoYg==...
Convicted Hacker Left In Charge of Prison Computer System
An invite would be greatly appreciated. http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01-_WebRSHMdzL2-lbg_DB9g==...
You're right. Now I am casting suspicion on you without facts, and that's just stupid. I'm sorry.

Thank you for discussing this with me like an adult. I commented publicly because I wanted to discuss it, and you made fair points. It's too bad this was our first encounter with each other.

P.S. I hope your efforts to fight for better privacy rights are successful. That's something I care about deeply.
I'm up-voting this article just because it's aimed at Zed ;)
Wow! The Jaynes book is on the order of 3,000 pages! Looks like a potentially comprehensive reference for all things probability.

Can anyone comment on the quality of the writing?
Are you sure? I don't know if this applies in the world of startups, but in the broad world of "business", having a pigheaded belief in your own talent is almost necessary.

I don't see why it wouldn't be an asset for a startup founder to be brimming with confidence in his own product.
Easy: encrypt a random encryption key with password (I mean, with a key derived from password). Then encrypt content with this random key. When user changes password, re-encrypt the same key using a new password. No need to re-encrypt contents, because it's still encrypted with the same key.

This is how it's done in most disk encryption software, for example, FileVault.
Does this imply that success without goals is impossible?
[username] @ [username] .com

Don't have an invite yet. I'll help out if I get one.
Apple Tablet To Redefine Newspapers, Textbooks and Magazines
For $100 I could see this gaining greater adoption. I think one thing that would be beneficial, that they probably have considered, is making the dev platform easier. I'd love to have one and hack with it and even use it as a learning tool, if I wasnt restricted to using Flash Lite 3. (Just looked into it and they have ported a bunch of languages over - maybe the price drop will make this a platform of choice to hack on)

EDIT: Link for reference to what I found: http://forum.chumby.com/viewforum.php?id=7
I will state here-forth that I am prepared to perform such deeds, to go lower than man has ever gone, to plunge the depths of degradation just in order to gain an early invite to Google Wave.

Thank-you.

andybak@gmail.com
Once you reach number 30 or 40 in this list, you get a lot more leery of takeaways.
Five Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make in Dealmaker – Part I
In that case, what would you measure success against?
I considered using a domain broker but thought that they would take it for themselves if it was cheap.

I was not able to locate the owner because he did not answer emails to the whois address but he had the same whois info for other sites that were active. I went to one of those sites and was able to go get in contact with him. Price was ten times what I was willing to pay so I passed.
Don't forget the other million dollar grant, from the Takeda Foundation.

All Stallman's economics make sense when you realize that he's quietly sitting on a huge pile of cash.
Facebook Offers Translation Tool to Other Sites
This is equivalent to the old claim, "Since an attacker can only write a 0-byte somewhere in memory, this is a crash-only bug."
Huh? I took conanite to mean newer cars are "tanks," only in the sense they survive crashes better than old cars. He was saying that it might not be a relative advantage if the other car hitting you is equally impervious. Irresistible force, etc. etc.

My only point was that you are much better off in a modern car striking a telephone pole than you would be in a 1959 car, even if it is true that you are somehow worse off when two modern cars strike each other (although I doubt that also). Nothing about literal tanks intended whatsoever.

Your comment seems to take the exact opposite meaning from what I intended to say, so I must have expressed myself poorly.
No, Zed is being sarcastic. The post was written by Chris McDonough.
Why YC couldn't let startups apply yearlong instead of only twice per year?
Shit, negro, shit, negro, shit negro sheeee-----e---e---et!
But they called themselves dynamic, not "NoC++" or "NoJava". That is, it was described by its intrinsic properties instead of as not "a specific instance of a something that implements what they don't like."

SQL is a way to interact with a relational database, but it is not itself a database. But "NoRDBMS" still isn't as good as saying what the technology is - there are an infinite number of things that are not relational databases.
The Year of X, Y, Z and Q
Would really appreciate an invite.
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Thanks
Abusing Amazon Images
I was surprised that both flaws they exploited were mentioned in the talk I gave at Yahoo back in June. One of the researchers that found this attack informed me that they independently found this in Flickr, not as a result of my talk. Interesting coincidence!

http://rdist.root.org/2009/06/10/when-crypto-attacks-slides-...
13. "Ignore your instincts...consciously decide to go harder
on the people [you] like and easier on the ones you don’t"

that doesn't sound like ignoring your instincts!