skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, or you could give things some thought, find out for yourself, and join the choir. Instead, you're proudly taking in the scenery inside your rectum.

I was just trying to spread awareness. It feels weird to even say that, but something has to be done. Of course, it could be argued that this is not the place for warning the world about the insanity that is Islam, but what is?

There's no forum in the world for talking about how dangerous Islam is, where people wouldn't already agree.

HN on the other hand, is full of intelligent people who certainly should be able to handle coming across material that is unpleasant to digest, and adjust their world views accordingly.

There really was some kind of protest full of enraged muslims in London, who were pretty much saying that they'll destroy Europe, and it sure wasn't the only enraged protest they've made. They really genuinely did kill a man for making a short movie that talked about Islam. Shouldn't this kind of stuff at least raise an eyebrow or two? Can you really dismiss all of this as Crazy Talk? Should you? Or should you maybe find out for yourself? Go on, confirm that I'm crazy. I dare you!

There's a blogger in Finland who's been talking about Islam & (muslim) immigrants for years, but only became famous last year when enough people noticed. He became the victim of a nation-wide witch-hunt lead by the local media, and eventually even got fined for something he said on his blog. You see, in Finland we have freedom of speech as long as we're careful not to say anything unpleasant. I was somewhat surprised he didn't get thrown in jail.

What the blogger has done requires giant balls of steel. What I'm doing here is the only thing I'm aware I can, however misplaced or aggravating it might be.

Also, "hitler".
It doesn't make me vomit, but I can still taste bile in my mouth. This is still a very intrusive form of advertising that destroys the usefulness of linking within content (everything is assumed to be an ad), and also ruins the trust between content producer and consumer.

I don't like it - it's an improvement on the status quo, sure, but merely having an eye poked out instead of being decapitated is small comfort indeed.
32/100 is a little underwhelming. If it's a focus on standards then it's still dreadful. Am I missing something?
Steps 2 and 3 sound like a great phishing opportunity.
Playgrub and Playdar have the potential to bring music to all sorts of sites that currently only talk about it or offer it in somewhat tedious ways. Much recommended!
Curved folds in flat paper
The guys at Atma are building an innovative app that should shake up the in-text advertising market—a market that has earned a bad rep due to companies like Kontera, which often deliver spammy ads. Atma’s app eliminates the spamminess and delivers ads that are actually useful.

The Atma guys hacked up a way to integrate their in-text links with SeatGeek. Thanks to Atma, select words in this blog will now link to SeatGeek event pages. Let’s say, for example, I’m talking about the Cleveland Browns. Whenever you roll over the Brown’s name, you’ll see a small popup that links to the SeatGeek page for the Brown’s upcoming game.

Translation: all those other in-text links are spammy, but the ones that point to our service are tremendously useful!

Come on. How is this different from any other in-text advertising scheme?
did not see this in time, too bad...
Ask HN: How to write a Memorandum of Agreement between founders?
As part of starting up (and in order to get a commercial bank account), my partner and I need to provide a Memorandum of Agreement regarding our involvement in the company, our ownership, our responsibilities, and so on.

Most of the MoAs / MoUs that I'm finding online don't pertain to startups, and I figured that this must be something that other founders here have had to work out.

Are there any things you'd suggest that we pay careful attention to? Would you be able to share your paperwork where you lay out ownership / responsibilities? Any suggestions for places to find sample MoAs?
Not that rewriting NotePad should ever be any daunting task.
Yes, every year will will be pretty interesting without "mystical interpretations of the celestial."

I guess I failed to ask myself if 2013 will be more interesting than 2012. And the answer is, yes.
OS X has been leading Unix into the desktop as well for the last 8 years.
Some people have a lot of time on their hands! Seriously though, this is classic. The source looks nice, and OO as well. Nice job Quentin!
Publishers with a good reputation will likely continue to act as a combination of editor and gatekeeper. Anyone can put something out now, but saying that it has been edited, approved, and possibly marketed by a major publisher will likely to carry some weight.

In fact, there is a possibility some publishers or indpendent editors functioning as publishers will begin to take that on as a primary role and become very selective in what they attach their name to.
That's probably not the primary reason to use 80legs - but avoiding to implement a whole crawler.
I find it sad commentary on the state of our educational system that this might be news to the average student at Duke.
That would be great. I'd love to hear their opinion on the UK vs US.
Perhaps the difference is the fact that in this case, the site owner gets to choose the exact words that are linked. With traditional in-text advertisers the site owner doesn't have that control.
The NSA has long advised MS about what crypto systems to include in Windows. In particular, I heard that MS was advised to support elliptic curve cryptography within a two-year timeframe, which is shorter than usual, leading some to speculate about undisclosed flaws in other systems.
Exploring Built In Functions
We need is more "push" payment systems. They are inherently more secure than "pull" since the customer controls the process.

This is how it works in Germany. You order something and the merchant provides their account number and an order number. You login to your online banking, and send the money. Done.

Fast, inexpensive, simple and secure. One big reason why PayPal and credit cards aren't popular in Germany.
For me, the most important thing is to stick to my daily schedule. Every single day of the week.

Once I skip one or two meals, work long hours, or stay up late, my life starts spiraling out of control. So I live on a fixed schedule now, which includes three hours of exercise per day:

* One hour of swimming at 7AM; this forces me to get out of bed on time, and makes me hungry for breakfast.

* One hour of rowing at 5PM; this forces me to stop working, and makes me hungry for dinner.

* One hour of running at 11PM; this forces me to stop whatever I am doing that evening, and gets me tired for bed.

(In addition I have hundreds of small rules: never go shopping alone, the bed is only for sex and sleeping, dinner must take at least fifteen minutes to prepare, ...)

It does take a lot of time and self discipline (and monitoring by others), but it sure helps me to keep my life under control.
I wanted to say some "sweet" words about this iPhone propaganda, but on second thought I decided to refrain myself.
"I am not sure how this is true. Look at past serial writers and they all seem to be making a better living then $25,000 a year."

Serial writing is practically dead. Short story rates have stayed constant in nominal terms for decades, soinflation has eaten them.

"Stephen King, John Grisham, Dean Koontz, Harry Potter lady, they all have done very well for themselves."

Those authors combined are less than 0.0001% of the professionally published novel writing population but I would be surprised if they took less than 5% of all US author royalty dollars. Very, very skewed distribution.
comparing SV and the UK (where I live atm), it's very different.

in SV you will be meeting people working on a startup idea of some kind literally everywhere, people are focused on maximizing potential upside rather than minimizing downside, employees are willing to take some risk, and you have an actual market for investment (i.e. there is a sizable number of equity investors who will compete). i also think that UK people lack the level of passion and greed I have seen in SV.

while there are other good reasons to be in the UK i would choose SV over the UK for a startup anytime, especially if you are US based at the moment.
This was a good quote:

"All you can do after a failure is get up and try again. If you keep doing that, one of two things will happen -- either you will succeed eventually, or you will die. And if you die, then you won't care anymore."
I can't wait, especially for the pig-like flying robot I'm sure we'll all see in 2015 as well..

There is no impending robotic revolution, there is a gradual shift in what kind of work people do as there has been since the dawn of the industrial age.
I agree. It's never been a problem of aesthetics to me; it ruins the relevance of inline links. If the link said something like "Buffalo Bills ticket trends" then linking to somewhere like SeatGeek would make a lot of sense. That's not what's happening here.

Honestly, I hope this sort of subversive advertising never takes hold. If it does, Web users will lose faith in the relevance of inline links and will stop using them. And right now that's pretty much the only place you can find outbound links that aren't ads!
Yeah sadly they don't have the publishing rights to that book. Actually I should reread my copy at some point, seems like every time through something new sticks.
Content? I did mention a few examples, didn't I? Well then, would you care to tell me why they're all invalid?

They are invalid in a discussion about IE9 developments because they aren't about IE9. They are valid in a discussion about web development in general... except they are arguing against your citing 'netscape' and 'holding back web development' because this blog is about MS not holding back web development and not destroying a competing browser. In other words, Microsoft has moved on from those (e.g. this page) so those aren't good support for your complaints anymore.

People in this page are saying bad things about Microsoft, about their javascript interpreter speed, their lack of canvas support and rounded corners and font handling and they aren't being voted down. Any guesses why?

I am an MS apologist. I have worked with their stuff for the last six years and find it (mostly) better than I previously thought, and not deserving of quite as much of the mudslinging as actually happens online.

Islam

Don't know anything much about Islam and couldn't give two whoots. Particularly don't want to discuss religion or country/world politics on HN, even more so in a thread about an IT topic. By the way, I also don't want to discuss dishwasher detergent, pie recipes, good books on optical illusions or how to build a canoe.
Another vote for programming clojure if you are interested in it. I also have Prag Thinking and Learning and the book on web GIS but have not had time to read those (was from their black friday deal last year).
On the other hand, consumers have superpowers for chargebacks. If you call up your credit card company and complain you didn't receive a product or you got charged for something that you didn't order you get a refund at the merchants expense.

I have heard cases of merchants that delivered products personally & received signatures getting chargebacks. If the transaction happened over the internet then police, CC companies & banks guaranteed to side with the customer.

It is at the point where it just stops a lot of commerce dead. For many companies fraud is far more expensive then credit card charges. Ironically, this is more the case in commodity industries where margins are pretty low anyway.

Just try ordering some easily resalable product (EG a phone) from an overseas merchant. I know one merchant who throws away any order that come in over the net & retakes the order over the phone because (a) it throws off a lot of the fraudsters & (b) phone-credit fraud goes to a less crowded desk then internet-credit fraud. He is willing to work hard & throw away 1/4 of probably legitimate orders to verify authorisation. There is no way for them to accept money in a way that is guaranteed to stay in their account.

Fraudulent merchants may have a lot of power in this situation but honest merchants are screwed.

If your bank 2.0 was real, you would have the support of most small-medium online stores of you had a logical trade-off in place: Consumers must verify payment / Payments are verified, they can't claim this transaction is "unauthorised".
Microsoft's efforts towards (de facto or de jure) standards compliance are dismal.

I've been working on a client-side app since before IE7 came out. The much hyped IE7 release gave us some performance benefits, but apart from that it just added another IE release that had to be tested and tested.

IE8 made things even worse.

We now have scenarios that work fine in all recent (going back 1 to 3 major versions, you know, everything over the last few years) of Opera, Firefox, Chrome and Safari, but IE? Hahaha, you must be joking. It works in IE6 and IE8, but not IE7. Or just in IE8, or in IE6 and IE8, but not IE7...

And now they're threatening to unleash yet another IE version.

Why couldn't they just stick with IE8 for the time being and fix things there? (And don't tell me 'the version number is just marketing', we all know that major releases entail lots and lots of changes and 'fixing things we messed up before').
The easiest way is to simply find a way to make one dollar (anyone can make one lousy dollar), find a way to automate that (hire people, code something, yadda), and repeat a million times (assuming the original process is scalable).

Simple, and effective.
Ask HN: Rate this Start Up - SourceCow
Wow, seven deadly sins is one of the best pieces of advice I've read.
Labor as a Service
There are already a couple of ways to help prevent charge abuse by merchants.

Several card issuers already support either single-use numbers, where you get a number issued that works exactly one time for a maximum amount you specify, or enhanced authorization, where you have to verify through the issuers website every time an online charge is processed.

Oddly, almost no-one I've talked to is aware of the programs that already exist (and often for free) to help with fraud.
So far, I've only had a chance to scan this paper, but it looks like it address a remarkably broad number of the issues surrounding operating and growing large clusters.
Hi, I'm the guy who developed the in-text plug in for Seat Geek...

I honestly see this type of reaction as more of an opportunity than a problem. This really shows how horrible an impressions in-text ads have made on us, and I think that reaction is totally appropriate.

I'm trying to go into this endeavor with an open mind and create something that can respect user content and yet give people the option to monetize. We're okay with Google scanning our personal emails to serve relevant ads on Gmail... I think with enough experimentation there is a solution here that will work out and convert some extremists.

Chris
Most people know about the "work hard" part, but they try it within the system as employees. They somehow trust the system to reward them, if only they work hard enough. I think that is a part where education is still necessary, because I don't think the system really works for you.
>I cannot see how that is different than someone throwing a stone at another person just because they do not agree with them.

Can you really not see the difference ?
Probably not. I suspect that as long as IE is the default browser on Windows, their revenue doesn't change that much year over year. People who don't change their default homepage don't change their browser either.

What is a compelling reason is revenue loss in their cash-cow franchises like Office. If they come to believe that they need a version of Office that works in the browser or they will lose revenue, then developing a fast version of IE is very important. If they believe that people won't use a computer that doesn't provide them with great experiences on the sites they love right out of the box, then developing a standards compliant version of IE is important.
Memory Barriers: a Hardware View for Software Hackers
The RSpec book. It's not done, but it's pretty good. Cucumber/RSpec helps you think.
Also check out Singularity:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_(operating_system)

And Midouri:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_(operating_system)

Two cool projects that are part of Microsoft's research in managed code operating systems.
With the right link this time. (I submitted this earlier with a corrupt URI and didn't notice until it was too late to edit/delete.)
Based on his notion that airline pilots will be one of the first professions that will be replaced by the robot job-stealers, I'd venture a guess that this guy knows just about nothing about robots, pilots, or human nature in general.

A textbook case of "nothing to see here."
This is a hot space, note that Gartner just released a list of the top 10 consumer mobile applications for 2012 and Money Transfer via SMS is #1: http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1230413
Oops. Thanks. Resubmitted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=949503
Creative Destruction: How Entrepreneurs and the Internet Disrupt Old Industries
Federal officers use video game console to catch child pornographers
Paranormal Activity | Online Media - OnMe
From the comments:

Thanks for sharing this. As a writer, I still don’t understand why we receive such a small pay check when the publisher reaps big profits. Yes, they take the chance, put up the money, and promote the book, but they would have nothing to sell if we didn’t write the book. Because of that, I’m self publishing my next book. I figure that I only need to sell 10% of what I would through a publisher to make more money than I would receive from them. With the internet and a modest fan base I think this is possible.

This is the correct mindset. Currently publishers take 90%+ of the revenue. They also take all the risk & also fund the unsuccessful publications. Authors are trading risk for stability at (what seem like) a high exchange rate. I don't believe that today & into the near future publishers really have such a monopoly over the distribution & promotion of books that no one else stands a chance of succeeding.

If the commenter is wrong & can't sell 5%-10% the number of books on his own, then the publishers are adding the value that they are getting paid for.

They could try to do what the publishers do. They could promote & sell direct to public online (I imagine >10% of all book sales are online, so if you can keep the number of online sales consistent while writing off brick & mortar entirely, you beat your goal). 1K true fans (or maybe 10k true fans) may be a viable approach. Maybe the author can do the direct to public thing & sell books at a fraction of normal retail price. I'd order a lot of books if they cost $3.

The problem with all this is obviously that the author then needs to be good at both writing & "publishing." For this to be scalable, there needs to be a wider structure that works for writers that are only good at writing. Then again, maybe that kind of structure exists and costs 90%+ of revenue.
They are invalid in a discussion about IE9 developments because they aren't about IE9.

Well then, why did you insist that I should "support my whining"? I'm pretty sure my "whining" was just as not related to IE9 as it is now.

Besides, if you squint and look really hard, you'll notice my goal here was not really to discuss the finer points of IE 9. You've obviously got a problem with that, but how much would you surmise I care?

They are valid in a discussion about web development in general... except they are arguing against your citing 'netscape' and 'holding back web development' because this blog is about MS not holding back web development and not destroying a competing browser.

I take it that MS discussing IE 9 on a blog means that they actually never did any of the things I listed?

People in this page are saying bad things about Microsoft, about their javascript interpreter speed, their lack of canvas support and rounded corners and font handling and they aren't being voted down. Any guesses why?

Wouldn't this be related to "holding back web development"?

I am an MS apologist. I have worked with their stuff for the last six years and find it (mostly) better than I previously thought, and not deserving of quite as much of the mudslinging as actually happens online.

Glad you came clean. Even I realize that they've been working hard to improve the .NET platform. They have to, because their grip on the world is dependent on developers, developers, developers.. Did you see what they did to improve IE while they weren't worried? Oh that's right! -Nothing.

Don't know anything much about Islam and couldn't give two whoots.

See, now that's the exact same problem I'm trying to solve. You should know that there are people following a 1300-year-old sacred manual on how to behave that says "kill everyone who's not a muslim", and it's happening in 2000-fucking-9.

You don't see Christians going on Crusades anymore, but you do see enraged muslims shouting that they'll destroy Europe. And Europe's collective reaction? -To apologize, look away, and hope that they calm down.
HP Worst In Laptop Reliability Study, Apple Laptops Fourth
Cool! I'd love to see what you come up with.
What? You say that software with tests is more reliable, and then give an example of reliable software without tests.
Your looks and your inbox
You say "Steve, how can I be a millionaire and never pay taxes?" First, get a million dollars. Now you say "Steve, what do I say to the tax man when he comes to my door and says, 'You have never paid taxes'?"

Two simple words. Two simple words in the English language: "I forgot."
It's just so fun to watch the time tick.
Battery-less remote gets power from button presses, aims for production in 2011
Oh no! Sorry I missed that. Did you meet anyone from HN? Where in UK are you based? It would be great to meet up some time.
i stopped reading at 10% for 42 years
Can anyone recommend a vc or angel that invests in gambling startups?
Will society accept relationships between humans and robots?
best...and worst...
A list is an odd creature
HP avoided the battery problems that effected a lot of other laptop makers.
Problem is, a lot of custom software depends on ActiveX controls and other plugins that work in IE but not anywhere else.

Until WebKit or Gecko start wrapping activex (not likely and doesn't seem like something they should be spending time on anyway), IE will continue to have significant usage - at least within companies.

Also, there's the pride issue of dropping their own rendering engine for one sponsored by Apple.
I do believe that was what the parent said. There's no best bridge (or, say, best hash data structure), but there is a best procedure to create a given one.
YouTube Direct
Actually, from this description, it sounds like any sports team names are linked. So I guess you have control in the sense that you know that if you type the name of a sports team, it'll get linked. I still think it's essentially the same thing.

So from a blogger’s perspective, adding a few lines Atma JavaScript gives their site a new feature and an additional revenue stream.
Longevity, yes:

'The Very Hungry Caterpillar,' a popular children's book has sold 29 million copies, and according to Newsweek, does $50 million in licensing deals a year. (yes, year)

http://www.newsweek.com/id/189230
You've obviously got a problem with that, but how much would you surmise I care?

I guess I'll say the same about your terrorist scaremongering and call it a day then. Nice talking with you.
Can you please explain what makes this different from all other in-text advertising? The article did not make it clear if there's any difference at all.
strip joints. i mean seriously - $30 for a bottle of water? i went there for a bachelor party and walked out.