skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The terms of service privacy statement looks pretty good, except for this part:

"In some cases, we may choose to buy or sell assets. In these types of transactions, customer information is typically one of the business assets that is transferred. Moreover, if Hunch, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, customer information would be one of the assets that is transferred."

Anyone know if in contract law, there is a way to infect all future contracts with certain stipulations, such as, `user data will not be used to spam said users until the end of time`

It's conceivable that if a marketing agency were to purchase hunch, they'd have the ultimate weapon for targeting consumers.
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Google Wave is like SharePoint then?
I have.

I had a small team that needed to share documents related to a consulting project. Everybody needed to use MS products, access it from the web, be able to check-in/check-out files, have a common calendar, a team blog, and a quick wiki for client-related information.

Sharepoint did all of that, in an integrated fashion, right out of the box. We got it hosted for about 30 bucks a month.

In addition, everything is an RSS feed. So as people change things on a thread you're watching, you can catch it right in your RSS reader.
+1 for the Computer History Museum. That place is amazing! They have one of two working Difference Engines (reconstructed, as Babbage never quite got it built) plus tons of old hardware that's fun to check out.
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Not Hacker News, and the article is not consistent with the title. Come on people, Hacker News is supposed to be at least a year behind Reddit.
Wordpress. I don't know of anything you can't do with wordpress that you can do with other mentioned CMS here. Wordpress is extremely flexible with the largest user base and community support (among the CMS mentioned here). Depending on your speed of learning you can take it apart and put it back in a matter of days and can virtually do anything you could possible want with it.
Pet peeve: never ever use ls that way -- it's extremely brittle and completely unnecessary.

$ for f in ${BINPATH}/*; do whatis "$(basename $f)" >> funs; done
Ask HN: Does HN need a dupe link detector? A better one?
I was experiencing whole lot of dupes on HN lately.

Here comes a dupe, then someone comes and comment about the dupe and normally gets downmoded. But in my opinion down moding is not the answer. It's not gonna do any good. Dupe links shouldn't come on HN.

I have a few reasons for not liking dupes.

1) It might take away some good content out of light. Yes you can avoid up modding dupes but hey it's not just you and me on HN.

2) It might hurt some enthusiastic submitters. Yes there are people who love to take great news early on HN. And they are the people who provide good stuff for the great people who upmod _new submissions_. They are the spirit of HN quality apart from great commenters.

If their submssion goes stale while some others' go shining, it might discourage them. Especially people who are looking for some karma just for being able to be a full HNer.

3) New on HN: Sensational headings.
The first days I came here, I learned that HN is not digg and sensational headings are not really welcome unless it adds some value (maybe like humor). But lately I learned it's not the HN I started with. Same story with a sensational heading goes up.

4) It encourages only mainstream blog/site content submission. (Did anyone notice that variety is one great thing about HN?.)

I've noticed this happening several times. Someone posts an article from a lesser known site. Nothing happens. Same news on techcrunch, wired or somewhere like that and gets upmodded. (Well this is not about dupe links but it counts).

I saw a comment suggesting to merge similar threads. Maybe after merge request from users.

Last and yes least, I feel like some old great submissions being resubmitted by karma whores. But this is just a feeling :).

PS: All these mean that HN is growing. And as I believe we are getting more an more normally distributed. And also, I didn't see an Erlang week recently.
The article focuses on Coburn's response to the transparency measure being dropped, but I don't think that's totally inconsistent with the headline. The HN headline is sort of the upshot, probably more interesting and relevant to those who aren't really interested in the intimate details of Congressional procedure and dickering.
"An editor's job is, ultimately, to properly vet information"

Considering the job they did during the Bush years, I'd gladly point out that there are still a few empty seats on that bus full of lawyers.
The link is getting a 403 Forbidden. Any ideas, where I need to be watching for updates from BASES?

Cheers.
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I'm having trouble coming up with a legal theory where users could sue the 3rd party acquirer under contract law.

As an alternative, how about IP law? The user could own the information, and grant a nonexclusive license to hunch.com to use it strictly for running hunch.com and no other purpose. If hunch.com later sold that information to a 3rd party, one could go to the 3rd party and get it back, because the property was never hunch's to give.
Come on, it's bad enough that we have articles like this on HN, but comments like this? Bad form.
It will be interested to see how Bluetooth 3.0+HS (Bluetooth+WiFi, backed by Broadcom/CSR) and WiFi Direct (My WiFi, backed by Intel) compete with each other.

But I think Bonjour may be the biggest winner if WiFi Direct wins since, unlike Bluetooth profiles, WiFi Direct doesn't include any application layer. Bonjour will fit in the need of service discovery protocol.
It would be worthwhile for anyone seriously concerned or interested in transparency to write or call their Senator--particularly if you have one on the Appropriations Committee--and let them know your feelings.

Coburn may be a Republican, but I think this is an issue that transcends party affiliations. In this case, you're either in favor of transparency or you're in favor of backroom deal-cutting. It's unfortunate that Coburn is being left to hang over it.
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The article is about Coburn's amendment to require that reports from the Executive branch be made public, not anything about not putting bills online. The title is not what the article is about, and it is not related to hacking.
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yes please: http://[www.]somedomain[:80]/somepath[/][index.html][#someanchor]

Otoh the ever shorter 'history' of links that you can see through the 'more' links makes it very easy to miss stuff.

On the new page it is 13 hours long, on the 'main' page it is only about a day.
I'd love to but I can't commit weekends. You can hold your own, though. Just pester your friends and commit to be there every week.
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This is fair. But much of the value of good software design is sensible defaults. If you need to twiddle 8 different inscrutable, independent knobs to just the right settings in order to make a default installation usable, that's not a good user experience. Most users will simply give up when faced with that level of UI hostility, which is hardly good for business.
And this promotion is only for a week. It's quite different.

The stupid thing is that this has nothing to do with the promotion. Bad title.
Yes, I think a better one is needed. HN only seems to detect duplicates when a new submission has a URL that is identical to a previous submission.

The idea of pattern-matching URLs could help, but a lot of times the problems are due to links through blogs, etc. that have completely different URLs. So in addition to automatic detection, there should be a way for users to specify which HN pages belong together.
Little bit of devil's advocate and a little bit of wrapping my head around the issue.

provision requiring reports that agencies are required to send to the appropriations panels be made available to other lawmakers and to the public.

This provision doesn't seem to require that potential bills be posted online but that all reports be put online. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to assume that if someone wants to write a report with a controversial but accurate conclusion, they might decide not to if its going to be public.

Unfortunately, privacy is often necessary for honesty.

I think this is an issue that transcends party affiliations

I agree. Edit: However, for HN, I hope we can keep party politics out of this.

you're either in favor of transparency or you're in favor of backroom deal-cutting.

I'd agree with this to some degree if the provision said something like "any bills that are proposed to be voted on and all ammendments, etc... should be posted online." In any event, I'm not convinced that anyhthing will change the way laws are made. If the rule is "anything official needs to be posted online" then more will go through unofficial channels and we'll still be in the dark.

That being said, I wish I had a better way to truly increase transparency.
As long as there's a preference to have it off by default I'm happy.
I'm curious, is there a reason the apps need to be standalone (e.g. performance)? A modern web site could do a good job of displaying the kinds of data you mentioned.
Hey, he didn't ask anyone to die in a fire, and he even capitalized the right words. This automatically makes the post better than anything on Reddit.
That's exactly right about Drupal.
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As a content creator, I feel copyright as we know it is flawed, and hinders the virility of content to gain exposure. The world is filled with wholesomely good people,and artist will always be compensated one way or another. Artists convey feelings and emotions that offer each individual a unique interpretation. The movies I love, you may hate. Some people would pay thousands for a specific painting, that may be worthless to me. The variable pricing model that Nine Inch Nails made popular seems more in tune with the 21st century.
I'm unsure of the advantages you describe in your second paragraph:

1) Seasonal isn't an advantage; I'd much rather be able to enjoy broccoli (or whatever) all year round rather than have to make do with it for a quarter of the year.

2) Local food doesn't have a lower environmental impact. The argument made is that food isn't being transported as far, hence their is less fuel burned in delivering it. However, the energy cost of moving food around - in trucks and on container ships, is remarkably low compared with the other costs in growing food. Much more energy is expended getting the food home to the consumer than getting it to the store, regardless of where it came from. As people often travel further to get to farmers markets than supermarkets (not to mention getting food home delivered) this causes local food to have a bigger environmental footprint.

3) I dont' have a problem with any of the other things in my life being "arbitrated by huge multinational corporations", so I'm unsure why I should care when it comes to food. As long as the "huge multinational corporations" aren't large enough to form a monopoly (or oligopoly) I'm not disadvantaged.

4) I don't want a relationship with my food supplier beyond them giving me food and me giving them money as I don't really have time for this - and if I had the free time I'd rather spend it on something else.

5) Traceability is a good thing, however large companies are making progress in achieving this through RFID. Systems which make use of this have been in place for a while on some products, for example meat in Japan.

6) I've had food from farmers markets and from organic suppliers. In both cases I heard people promote the food as 'tasting better', however I found it tasted the same in the former case and worse in the latter. I suspect that this is more a psychological effect, if you're ponying up twice the cash for bananas you might experience them as tasting better. Taste is, after all, subjsective.

7) Finally, your post seems to be predicated upon the idea that corporations are evil (TM) while small farmers are honest salt-of-the-earth types. Neither is true.
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Of course you can build an entire application within CouchDB, with just a tiny bit of bootstrapping. It ships with a very nice browser/editor, so you can store server-side JS as documents in the database, and have a stub that evals them.

All that's missing is 280North's Atlas.

Also, as someone who has to maintain such a thing, Access is a mediocre interface for putting frontends on databases.
What interests me most was the comment about the pivot away from compliance to Moore's Law. Could it be that we might be nearing the /commercial/ limits of Moore's Law, where the consumer-level demand for more speed and power has tapered off? Or is this merely a reflection of the increasingly green-friendly market?
I think if you build a product that 50 million people love, or that 10 million people have downloaded, that would be considered to be a home run. If that isn't, what is?
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Doing it Javascript, I am not sure if that's even possible. Java applets are... lets face it, not cool.

Since you already know php, doing it server-side using ImageMagick would definitely be a possibility.
...man, I've no idea how to take "slightly better than a Reddit poster."
Ah! Somebody published a timely list of high quality rails apps http://jetpackweb.com/blog/2009/10/14/high-quality-ruby-on-r.... Discussion here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=882071
What's up with all the MS hate? This thread reads like a Slashdot thread and not an HN thread. Pardon me, I feel that the OP is not sincere. He already has a preconceived notion (OP quote, 'it seems to be pretty crappy and hard to explain') about the product and wants to reinforce it.

Sharepoint is first and foremost, a document management platform. Ever worked in a company where important documents are kept on a network share? Sharepoint can replace those network shares, provide web based access to all shared company documents. It also supports versioning and users can checkout/check in documents from within the Office application. E.g. if I open a Word document from Office and start editing it, it will be checked out and when I save it, it will check in those changes. It is completely transparent (you really have to try it to appreciate the seamless way it works) and non technical users don't even notice it. In fact, dare I say that Sharepoint has successfully solved the 'checkout/check in' problem for non-technical users.

Sharepoint offers wiki/group calendar as others have mentioned.

Sharepoint offers something similar to Google Spreadsheet where multiple users can update a web based spreadsheet simultaneously.

Sharepoint is also a collaboration platform where you can plugin your custom code to customize the Sharepoint portal. In fact, at my last company, a Fortune 100 company BTW, they customized Sharepoint and used it as an Intranet. The Intranet was a huge improvement compared to the existing manually maintained site they had. I think they developed the Intranet in around 3.5 months using 2 developers which is very impressive. The best part is that if you know .NET framework and ASP.NET, you only need to learn a little bit before you can start customizing the portal.

Name me a single product which provides seamless integration with Office applications, versioning, wiki, group calendar and above all a platform on which you can build on to streamline your processes. Additionally, it's easy to find Sharepoint developers OR train your existing staff to learn and modify it as it uses .NET/ASP.NET framework. For a company which already uses Windows platform, I think Sharepoint is a complete no-brainer.

If you have further questions, ask away.
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I agree. I would hesitate to work with such a company.

On the other hand, usually it's enough when you talk about design decisions or details that only the author would know.

If the person doing the interview is a technical person, then he should already know how to distinguish real from BS. Otherwise, run...
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I tackled this for a YC-funded company in the recent past, and it's fundamentally trickier than you might think.

If filtering out duplicate urls isn't good enough, matching copied content is the next easiest way to solve this, but it requires analyzing/storing/indexing relatively massive amounts of data. And even with that cost, there's the question of how much overlapping content actually makes something a "dupe". Overlapping subjects?

Crowdsourcing gets into merging comment threads and system gaming.. and the end result is still that one URL (probably from the most popular, "trusted" source) ends up on the front page anyhow.

So.. lots of messy boring work and higher server expenses, for .. ?

I'd call it good enough, myself
Slashdot doesn't get its name from the web, it's just that Taco wanted something "unpronounceable", so he came up with "/." (perhaps influenced by the unix "./")

http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/02/1553218
HN doesn't need a dup detector - it has that, humans.

It needs a better policy/idea of what to do about dups.

My suggestion:

Merge the comments, have a mod pick a title and url for the main view. Show the other/alternate titles and urls on the comments view.

The mod ranking is whichever is higher, and any future mods get credited to all submitters.

Have a flag called dup, which asks you for the id (or url) of the dup, and notifies a mod.
Yes, or pay someone to do it for you. That's another complaint - it's really consulting-ware, but sold as end user installable.

(And I didn't have admin rights, so I did what I could to work around the problems)
"Green Friendly" also equals laptop friendly.

As cool as something like the IBM Power7 chips look - I'm not sure I want one of them sitting on my lap..
Even SharePoint services built into server 2003/2008 is pretty usable out of the box. You can spend a few hours to a few days to get it configured depending how much tweaking you do (and how screwed up your servers and environment are already :-p). The newer version has pretty tight integration with office. It beats throwing everything in public folders since they are less flexible and harder to manage. It also beats people emailing big files around saying "Here, print this 20MB PowerPoint for me."

If you have a few offices or remote users it is really useful. Probably not even worth considering for less than 15 people and only if you have some existing infrastructure. For smaller teams a hosted solution or some of the other products mentioned might be a better fit. (123together.com and intermedia both are OK for hosted SharePoint/exchange etc) Also, the blog and wiki stuff is still sub-par but the check-in check out stuff for documents does work pretty well.
I envision a future where fields are filled with these black holes and an area of a couple of square kilometers is completely and utterly blacked out.

Really adds drama to the post-apocalyptic scene.
People are really grasping on to the live typing. You'll be able to turn it off shortly. Let's not all get our panties in a bunch!
http://www.sitellite.org/ ?

(self-promotion, but hey, it's open source! :)
No, it doesn't, in my opinion.

I almost never see dupe links here, and I don't think it's a problem at all.
Agreed. I thought the most spine tingling part of the trilogy was at the end of the second movie when Neo uses his powers in the real world. This is reminiscent of my own hacking experience, albiet far less dramatic, where successfully gaming the rules of one system gave me a whole new perspective and level of confidence to manipulate another system. It helps to broaden your horizons, so long as you eventually hone in on one thing and give it all you got.
I'd say if the dupe hasn't been submitted in a long while then it should be accepted. A link should be added to the story pointing to the old discussion thread for that link.

This way if the community finds an old topic/link interesting again for some reason there can be a lively discussion with participants that may not have been around previously.
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May be a flag duplicate will help. Its easier for us to tell some duplicate post which comes as blog, different url, different site etc, compared to filters.
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I see your point. But still there are times that people submit dupes just because they do not know. I think they need a little help (I'm in this category).

Yes the humans filter well. But loads of links on new submissions page drags things out of attention of humans. Dupe links only help very little in this case. But spam does. I don't know why I see so many mozilla start page submissions in new submissions page (for example).
These are the exact sort of comments up with which I shall not put.
I remember when desktops cost $5,000 about 20 years ago.

Call me a young whippersnapper if you like, but I am not paying anywhere near $1000 for one now. Same idea with SSDs.
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Agree. User confirmation for the submission over a dupe detection would solve this easily.
This is the first Discworld release since I've left the UK, I think. Why are the American covers always so terrible?
Very cool. Imagine wrapping a jet with the black hole stuff -- great for stealth technology.
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What does Google have to gain from trying to hide Chrome OS at this point? They've announced it. It's open source. I don't understand why they're treating it like some super secret project now.
i will not agree here... The battery life is incresing at a very fast pace and it wont be long when the amount of power wifi sucks will be very small when compared to the over all battery life.
I would guess March 18 and 19 but this isn't guaranteed.
Does anyone know how this will work in practice? Will I have to disconnect from my WLAN to connect to the device's? What's the benefit compared to an ad-hoc network, in the peer-to-peer file transfer case?
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And of 'urgent need'. Instantly knowing the name of a song is pretty low on the hierarchy of human needs.
Atlassian Confluence or whole Atlassian suite.

Which does most of the stuff done by SharePoint much better (office integration is obviously much better on SP). Also you can get pretty impressive Confluence/Sharepoint integration.

Also if you're already using Domino platform in house - you could go the Lotus Connections + Quickr way - getting full Open Office (Symphony) integration.

Both these solutions being much cheaper AND more extensible than SharePoint. Plus collaboration capabilities of Atlassian or IBM solutions being much better than SP's

Don't get me wrong - I believe that SP is pretty good - just not for an IT company with tech savvy users - it would be probably better to look somewhere else.
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I've downloaded the Shazam iPhone app -- and have always been disappointed with the results.

When Shazam was featured in an iPhone commercial, I actually tried identifying the exact music in the commercial with Shazam. Couldn't get it to work on multiple tries (replaying the commercial online).

I hope some of those 10 million lookie-loos had better luck than I did.