skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Turkey is irrational. Maybe not that much but very irrational. Blocking site access to Turkey for any site governmental organization TIB - Telecommunication Communication Presidency (Yeah I don't know what it means either) reviews and decides outlaw without even court decision. Also there is a blocked site list only shared with "certified by TIB" blocking software developers.

Youtube was blocked beacuse of some obscure videos nobody knows over a year. Google sites are blocked. With Adnan Oktar's Lawyers' unbelievable effort Richard Dawkins' site is blocked. Blogger is blocked. Wordpress... And counting. Some of them managed to "obey law" and unblocked some of them could not. But the insanity continues.

Well years ago we had a news groups moderator jailed for two years because of a post that he had not managed to "know" is outlaw.
I guess suggesting to read http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1555-learning-from-failure-is... would not count as a good answer :(
unless, of course, they didn't do everything by the book, in which case the corporation could be found null and void and both could be personally liable.
Thank you for that link. I'd never heard of that term before, but that's a pretty fascinating mechanism.
First off, great design and layout, very clean and pretty too. It compliments twitter well. However, it's not clear to me what the service does. The first feature listed on the 'what you get page' says: PubliciTweet is a social media marketing tool that helps you leverage those followers with unique campaigns and tools to track your success.

This works more as an opening tagline and might be better suited to the homepage. From the homepage, I get the idea that PubliciTweet is a service where I can queue a series of tweets at various intervals . PubliciTweet then tracks and graphs which tweets by measuring clickthroughs perhaps. When I click 'learn more' - I don't learn actually learn any more. Maybe an in depth description could go here explaining the guts of it or a video demo.
KQED (9) 10:00pm - 12:00am Pacific

The National Parks: America's Best Idea: Great Nature (1933-1945). The years 1933-45 are recalled. Included: the Civilian Conservation Corps are created during the Depression to undertake renovation projects...
Why Better Languages than Java are a Startup's Secret Weapon.

There, fixed the title for you. ;-)
The dropbox forum (which I'm staring at as I write this) seems to be mostly an informal bug/feature request tracker, with a few notes of appreciation thrown in. It doesn't seem like any of the posts would really be useful for anyone who doesn't have an account. Most of what people "are saying about Dropbox" doesn't go on the [relatively unknown] internal forum, but rather into public sites that mention it—like this thread :)
Maybe in the future the Police could give you a commission for selling them footage of traffic violations. evil laugh
Alternatively, people living in Italy can post up scandalous videos to all the video sites and shutdown all the video internet companies in Italy.
Malcolm Gladwell, modern problems, and the analytics age
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An Engineer with Too Much Free Time: Street-Legal Jet Powered VW Beetle
Google "Windows VPS", or get VirtualBox/VMWare and all the x86 OS disks you can get your hands on and have fun.

How did you write a 3D app without knowing about virtualization software is beyond :-P
Since the cost of the app is so low, along with the barrier of entry to buy it, this data suggests to me these people must be discovering it through the piracy community (peer recommendation basically) If they've already learned how to pirate iPhone apps it's probably just easier for them to use a process they're familiar with. I'm guessing the ability to do batch installs of many apps at once is a big selling point of the iPhone piracy community so maybe Apple can learn something from that.
Open source window manager behind Cloudera Desktop: MooTools ART (http://github.com/anutron/art).
And EA and the other big game companies aren't just like them?

The people that I know that pirate the most music do so off independents more than mainstream.
Short answer is no. Most of the "slow" queries that happen in databases are usually complicated select/join/update statements -- the same can happen for key/value databases. Even with TC, you're still programmatically writing the code to do the query and if you write slow code, your query will still be slow. The sweet sweet technology isn't going to magically solve anyone's problems.
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This has been retweeted by @tomhuxley repeatedly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Henry_Huxley
Did either of you read the interview? They both graduated from the University of Michigan...
A great list of Pattern Recognition resources
I guess I only read it early on and didn't see the change. Building a totally new payment system is actually rather impressive.
Ask HN: How would you tunnel through GFW?
I think there would be thousands of hackers who're working from Mainland China. So, I'm wondering how could you get through GFW?

I've known that GFW has been upgraded recently, and it becomes more sophisticated in filtering the web. Tor nodes, lots of vpn networks, as well as SSH don't work around now.

I (or we) appreciate if someone here could come up a good and reliable solution.
No need to be torn, it's both (and more). Obviously, it's sad when your venture fails; writing a long rambling missive (in the third person) about how you called your partner's parents and how everyone should sue your partner, though, is pathetic. Could have simply said the company is shutting down, that one of the founders is no longer able to work on it and provided a contact address for people who need to recover their money.
He's looking for hardware configurations. Different video cards, etc. You can't really get that from virtualization software.
This saddens me as well, as I was hoping this independent financing model would succeed.

But I definitely see a few lessons here:
1. The need to have performance/milestone based equity sharing vs blindly giving a person 50% based on their POTENTIAL.
2. The need to have a checks and balance system that places control of the domain/trademarks in hands other than the programmer or developers. That way the person controlling the domain can have some control, while the developer has other control (passwords, access). And a third party/person who may control the finances. (Domain/Trademarks/Copyrights)+technology+finances. Like the checks and balances of Legislative+Executive+Judicial systems.
3. The need to repair or remove faulty systems/people at the first signs of unreliability.
I hate to be the guy to say it, but this isn't an engineering novelty, it's duct tape. I was expecting to see a jet engine or turbofan used for driving the drive shaft rotation. Instead, this is just as novel as putting a jet engine on a dog sled. And it's not "street legal"...it'll fail inspection as soon as the inspection comes up, whether it "was built to look as if VW delivered the car this way" or not.
Lately I have been showing a lot of younger kids how to program in scheme. This means I have been setting up a lot of older laptops with linux + dr scheme as that is the ideal environment for books like the little schemer, how to design programs etc. I have to say that it feels like there should be a MUCH lighter way to accomplish this. I understand dr scheme can do a lot of cool graphical stuff too but I would LOVE it if there was a linux distro that had nothing except for a lisp/scheme interpreter like this + ncurses dr scheme type interface. This way it would run on next to nothing hardware and not run into so many strange hic-ups w/ x on spurious hardware.

A moleskine tablet like you mention with an external rollout keyboard would be so ideal. I'm not asking for a lisp-all-the-way-down (well I would like that too) OS but it would be rad if someone rolled a x-less version of ubuntu or what not w/ the exclusive purpose of teaching/learning scheme.
You'd be surprised. The last few candidates I interviewed claimed never to have failed at anything. They also never had a time when they felt unmotivated at work, and had never argued with their manager or cow-orkers, and never made a mistake that affected a production system.

The real value of the question is that it tells you if this is the sort of person who only says what they think you want to hear, not the truth.
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I'm using Clojure for both my PhD thesis project as well as a musical live coding system. Coding in Vim with vimclojure. Yeah! It's a blast, and the Clojure community feels like the olden days of the Ruby community, but smarter.
I agree with this poster - it looks great, like something I'd want to use, but I read the whole landing page and still didn't know what I could use it for.
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Ask HN: Concentrate on work when you have personal problems..
Hi

I was just wondering if anyone has any techniques that they use to concentrate on their work/start up when their personal life is sort of a mess and the mind keep drifting to all sort of problems you have.

Cheers
Setup OAuth, ClickPass, Google Friendconnect, OpenID, or some other registration method.

http://apiwiki.twitter.com/OAuth-FAQ

I run a Twitter tool that started out using Direct Messages, but found that CTR in DM's are horrible. I had to switch to public status updates with @username.
I did upvote it, but I guess somebody else downvoted it again. Sorry!
I'm not sure if you'd have to pay some people to report things like like 'going slow in the passing lane', 'tailgating' or other annoying and dangerous driving. Heck I'd like to be able to perform a citizens arrest on people for not indicating.
Code quality vs profit
These guys are really providing a lot of value.
uhm, if we browsers do owe something and then all ads business shifts from pay-per-view to pay-per-click model does that mean that we will be obliged to click the ads?
I do not use ad-blocker (to be fair I do use clicktoflash plugin but the main reason is subpar flash performance on OS X) but I don't click on ads either.
Hi.

I have been through this myself. It's not easy concentrating on work when something really messy has happened. I started to exercise a lot. Really pushing my body. That was good for me and kept me on the right track.
I don't know of any such service, but the same task can be completed by allowing a select set of users to test it. Have users sign up for the alpha/beta tests and ask for their hardware config, out of the ones that apply, select a set that best diversify the configurations.
Hello everyone. I am new to this, and I want to share my thoughts through this blog. Hope someone will take advantage of it
Sony dives into wireless power game, makes it way more interesting
You weren't kidding, just saw it and they killed:

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2163590
As someone who (fortunately) doesn't have to write a lot of Java any more, but does have to read and understand Java source code upon occasion I have to say that this is a totally bogus attitude - when I read Java code I seem to spend a great deal of time playing "hunt the code that actually does something".

I accept that things like Eclipse are essential to write Java but I still have to read vastly more code.
I know what you mean... take some time off and do something new, DO NOT overwork to get your mind off things. It will be good for you and what ever you're working on.
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It depends ... say you've got a nice project going on, still in infancy, and you post its link on sites like reddit and HN to get feedback. 2000 visitors instantly hit the link and your site crashes exactly when you need it more to stay alive.

Premature optimization is the root of all evil and all that, but going at the other extreme is equally not the smartest thing you can do.

An application like 37signals Basecamp can grow organically over time as the application is maturing and more and more users discover it and start paying for it. But if your project's success depends on the number of users you have (e.g. a social app), it makes sense to think about scaling and reliability a little beforehand.

Remember Twitter? It's still a mystery to me how this app survived having so many outages. Maybe they where lucky, maybe the social aspects where worth it for its users, but that doesn't mean your application will survive if facing such problems.
Google Wave's chat.

I remember fondly the joy of getting access from a family friend to a Internet-connected VAX account in the early 90's so I could use the 'talk' command to chat in real-time (see characters typed).
My brother was in Beijing for the summer, and he said the SSH tunnel I set up for him worked fine. It's possible that things have changed in the couple months since he's left, but I'd be surprised ...

If you want to go really overboard, tunnel IP over DNS, ICMP, or some other common protocol ;-) (e.g. http://thomer.com/howtos/nstx.html)
Once a new method is found, people will flood to it, then it will be noticed, and banned. Since GFW was created, this process happened repeatedly. So IMHO, there's no silver bullet.
I agree, but what you are talking about is enterprise culture. And in fact, the title of this enitre thread could be: How not having an enterprise culture is the secret weapon of startups. But that would be a useless tautology :-)
> rather than just soaking in that brief moment of illumination, I want you to do something about it because…

Well-stated.

My favorite example of inspiration meeting implementation is Dave Troy who wrote the initial Ruby on Rails code for TwitterVision in a few hours. I love the melding of art and technology. TwitterVision was featured recently in a MoMa exhibit.

"Steve: How did you get the idea for TwitterVision?

Dave: I literally wanted to know who in my area was using Twitter. They had an API that had location information, and I had recently completed some other work with Google maps, so within a few hours I had a working mashup that would show me the Twitter activity nearby. I then had the idea that it would be cool to animate the map, and set out to do it. Within a few short days, Twittervision was born."

http://blog.networksolutions.com/2008/secrets-of-serial-entr...

"It's not important to get it right but to get it going." -Mike Litman
TOR still works fine -- you just need to configure it to use bridges. https://www.torproject.org/bridges
Their blocking vpn and ssh even on non standard ports?

Don't know much about the Great Firewall, but I usually keep a SSH server listening on port 80 on a box, sometimes those hotels and company networks don't let anything other than port 80 outbound, and it has yet to fail me.
All bypass methods can be categorized into two:

1. Methods that requires a 3rd-party server

2. Methods that do NOT requires a 3rd-party server

Currently mainland underground hackers focus on methods #2, and as far as I know 3 POC works fine through GFW on OSI level 3, 4, and 7, unless the target is an IP ban.
Theoretically GFW can do that, because SSH handshake has fingerprints that can be identified. But it will irritate every administrator on this world.

From a reliable source I heard they only ban SSH/VPN service if they can get a free account for testing. So if you are going to use SSH/VPN, make sure the provider do not serve free trials.
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Thanks, I will try this if I get free time, but Tor is difficult to configure.

And I can not even access the bridge link you gave.
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Yes. Especially running. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15769301

Also, if you take an hour to just write it all down, often that is enough to cease rumination. Another technique is to identify what is going to change before you can do something about the problem, and then when it comes to mind, remind yourself that you can do something when x happens.
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C# 4 is very interesting. I also like Python a lot and so far I liked it better than C#, but C# is evolving quickly and in the right direction.

In 4 we get the dynamic invocation, multimethods and the equivalent of Python's getattr/setattr (or ruby's method_missing) functionality.

I have ported a small project back from Python to C# 4 and there are very few places left where the Python code is more concise. In some places the C# is much clearer than Python, so it's a bind I would say.

For most of my projects I cannot use Python anyway because it's simply too slow and uses too much memory, so I'm glad that there is a fast statically typed language that I actually start to like.
A while ago there was some discussion about some custom OS designs, I remember one with a relatively modern looking gui that fitted on a 1.44MB disk - http://www.menuetos.net/

Wonder if that could be fitted with a scheme version to get something near what you want - but being a custom OS, not sure how that will affect things.
Wow, that's not "EE vs SO", that's "how I attempt to run an mISV by running code I get from Q&A sites."
I use witopia.net - great service - but make sure you get the more expensive ssl package (and play around trying the various nodes). As others have said, it is truly the best $60 bucks I've ever spent if you're a frequent traveler in China. I use it to watch hulu, youtube, facebook, etc. Sometimes it's a bit slower than I'd like but I often find that using it I can get foreign sites faster than even going direct.
I'm not sure if that's nepotism though. When I think nepotism I think of people getting hired purely because of their relationship to the boss. If I was doing a startup I'd be hiring people I knew could do a great job because I'd done good work with them in the past.
I don't watch TC50 videos, so maybe it's just that I am unaware of the typical presentation quality there, or maybe it doesn't come through on video for me. His presentation was confident and well-rehearsed, and his startup was pretty cool, but I wasn't incredibly impressed by his presence.
I am not a lawyer and I really have no idea how these things work...but wouldn't Google's stockholders sue the executives if they made a decision like that? It would surely harm their profit and the stock price, so wouldn't it be a breach of fiduciary duty?
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Yeah, the TOR website is blocked by GFW, I believe. Basic idea:

1. Email bridges@torproject.org ; the body of the email should contain the line "get bridges".

2. In Vidalia Network Settings, click "My ISP blocks connections to the Tor network", and add the bridge IPs you got via email.
ssh tunnel always works for me
Fixed goals, foreign aid and entrepreneurship
I have found that things can be distracting when you don't really have a strategy for dealing with them and have not taken any action on that strategy. So:

Step 1: Come up with a strategy (a bunch of steps to take to address the problem)...

Step 2: Take action on at least one of the steps. The more steps you take action on, the better you will feel.

Step 3: Vigorous exercise and plenty of sleep.
Maybe this link to a PDF version of the info will work: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/34019/tor-bridges.pdf

If it doesn't, I'll send you the stuff per email.
As someone bootstrapping a company that has no chance of getting funded by doing consulting - and having started from next to nothing in savings + high living expenses inherited from salaried days - I couldn't agree more.
wow. "At EE, usually I lay out the logic, specs, and dummy data and someone does the programming for me then I just copy and paste and test out their code. Once it works, I mark their response as the answer in EE, massage the functioning code into my source and continue with my project."
If one of the officers of the corporation told paypal to lock the account that could be enough to pierce the veil of corporate liability if any of the parties owed money cannot retrieve their funds because of that.

This just sounds like a bad deal all the way around. If the two partners are as erratic as they now appear to be. I can't imagine that they were particularly fastidious when money was flowing in.
My dad was a workaholic, he dived into work instead of working stuff out with me and the rest of my family. Maybe he could give you a few pointers.
Great idea for a plugin.

One feature I'd really like to see, is the ability to selectively delete history entries, both in Firefox's regular history database and Boomtango's enhanced database.
We have cars that drive themselves!
Talk to someone about it. I mean just really vent. Doesn't matter if what you are saying makes sense. You will feel better for getting it out. And if it does make sens eyou may even learn something.
I'll second the flot recommendation. I recently started using it on a hobby side-project (http://www.gdpinbananas.com/) and am enjoying it.

It's dead-simple and doesn't require a lot of tweaking to make the charts look decent. Check out some of the author's examples here: http://people.iola.dk/olau/flot/examples/
I don't know if a bear mounting the planet is a proper logo for a web browser.
> found some photos

You could also skim the article on the page with the photos and look for any biographical information...

The Fundable team is made up of Louis Helm and John Pratt.

Louis, Fundable’s software architect, studied Computer Science Engineering at the University of Michigan. He is co-author of the Seventeen or Bust distributed computing project (seventeenorbust.com), which recently discovered the largest known non-mersenne prime number with the help of 5000+ users. He worked as a software engineer at Jabil Circuits before leaving to work on Fundable full-time.

John graduated in Political Science at the University of Michigan last December, where he worked for the university’s paper as a photographer. He also studied at the University of Havana, Cuba in 2003. John programs, designs and writes documentation for Fundable’s pages.
http://www.howtousetwitterformarketingandpr.com/
Gee, someone has some pent up teenage angst...
Agree, don't bury yourself in work. The problems do not go away, they just fester.
i was hoping that this was submitted so we could all gawp incredulously. but checking this person's previous submissions, i see that the submitter is the same person who wrote the article. scary.
If they left then that's a sign that they had less interest or was less invested in the company.

You can't have two people trying to dominate. Unless both founders have perfectly matching visions, their joint command will be as bad as design by committee. Someone is bound to leave or become somewhat subordinate to the other. In the end one person will come out as the main visionary guy for a specific company.
A new house number ...
I am completely surprised no one has linked to technomancy's emacs-start-kit: https://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit

Clone that as your emacs.d, add a .el file named the same as your logged in user, and add your specific preferences there. (I like to have it include stuff in a jmhodges directory in emacs.d, of course.)

On that note, my own fork of it with very minor personal changes: https://github.com/jmhodges/emacs-starter-kit
In theory given enough time you could go to investors and raise cash (binding in the event that your bid wins) backing a bid. It's the job of investors to allocate capital, after all.

Of course, I realize that theory does not always match reality.