skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clickable:
http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id=11

While I agree that this is a serious issue, and I applaud your concern, I question whether it truly belongs on HN.

Also consider, those parents that mistakenly bring back plastic to feed their chicks, will have no offspring. Those that instinctively bring back real food will have offspring that survive. Perhaps it can be considered evolution in action.

Even so, it's deplorable, something should be done, but it's not really Hacker News.
More like: "The lack of testing which cost me a month's salary".
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I suggest reading Morgenstern's document; short and interesting. It was especially amusing to see Einstein trolling Gödel. As the author says:

It's only three pages long, and it paints a fascinating picture of both Gödel, who is exactly the sort of obsessive geek that you always imagined he was, and of Einstein, who had a cruel streak that he was careful not to show to the public.
And silly stuff too :-) His http://youlooknicetoday.com/ podcast makes great background listening, if you haven't come across it yet.
Also wanted to let PG know to change the link for this article at http://ycombinator.com/lib.html

The current link is broken and it should be changed to:
http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/200502/google-lar...
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Ask HN: Which of you are incorporating oauth.net? why(not)?
I don't find (google) much discussion about oauth security issues/concerns since the April 2009 event. And even back in April, there doesn't seem to have been much heat/light here about oauth's problems.

Does this relative quiet on HN mean that few app developers here feel the need to tap oauth? or don't trust it?

As a young developer, I'm trying to figure out if it's worth doing my own test-run with oauth... but don't want to spin my wheels on something for which most of you have found a better alternative. Gracias!
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>> But before I let you get too excited about this, a warning: Morgenstern doesn't tell us what Gödel's loophole was!

Wow, that headline was quite a tease!
AFAIR/CT the following paper might be of interest to you:
Jeremy Siek, Walid Taha: "Gradual Typing for Functional Languages", 2006

http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~siek/pubs/pubs/2006/siek06:_grad...
Gödel and his girlfriend at a U.S. airport security check:

http://xkcd.com/651/
“...the man who came up with the idea for a network of hyperlinked, consistently formatted electronic documents”

Actually, Ted Nelson came up with such an idea decades before TBL.
You can use asterisks to get italicized text: http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
In case you read French and want to see how it's been done on the other side of the pond, check out Agoranov: http://www.agoranov.com/

It's designed to incubate faculty or student projects from the Paris metro area. They're 100% seeded with public funds (from the Regional, National & European levels). They incubate software, web but also electronics, green tech and life sciences projects.
They're not run by faculty or students but by a dedicated team with professional and entrepreneurial experience.

Now, to be honest, I'd probably say they have had mild success so far. I know it's far from being a true indicator of “success” in this field but for example, they haven't incubated a company anyone would know about outside of the local start-up scene. But they've been at it for 9 years and they're still growing. They offer real workspaces in a handful of offices they operate around the Paris area.

If you have any questions about them, I can try to answer or put you in touch with the team.
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My daughter uses this type (Lessig-style?) of presentation in middle school. The class and teacher love it. Every other kid has about 30 minutes of unbearable, traditional Powerpoint slides filled with text that they read.

It's great practice for her. What surprises me is that even after seeing and appreciating this style of presentation several times the other kids persist with the old way.
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This means that there is a glass ceiling of abstraction; your designs can only get this abstract and no more. This is reassuring to Joe Average, because he knows that he isn't going to see any code he can't understand.

That's the intention, but the reality is quite different. When smart people really need to write more abstract code in a weak language they will go to great lengths, including on the fly byte code manipulation and all kinds of weird proxying hacks. Or look what they do with CSS.

So, the abstractions are always possible, albeit in a way that is even more complex and definitely more brittle than if they had been implemented in a more powerful language.
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I have posterous so don't need a service like this. If I did there are better alternatives.
perhaps this is already posted, I couldn't find it. I'm curious as to HN opinion on this. I'm excited to see this as an application using CouchDB but beyond that I don't get it and wonder what problem this solves that can't already be managed with existing features in mail clients.

Is this just hackers thinking up cool shit they can do?
I guess it's in vain to ask people to stop calling feeds 'RSS' when there's a better format we should all be standardising around...
It works here and on Amazon, etc. because there is so much noise that most people only want to see the highlights. On Facebook, most people want to see every update from the friends (except all the junk apps like Farmville). I'd rather have a feed that shows me everything except stuff that's been downvoted by people picking "hide this".
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This is almost flaggable.

The title doesn't represent the article, The article just points to a bunch of other stuff (linkbait), and I was left no better off at having spent time visiting the page.

I think the author himself realizes how lame this is, because at the end he says something like "read this other article for a sense at the personalities involved!" but doesn't really go into that, either.

Not so good.
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FierceMarkets, and we're in a bunch of industries. For example: http://www.fiercebiotech.com and http://www.fiercetelecom.com
One interesting thing to note is that pretty much everything that's in the email newsletter is also posted to the web (and there's even a full text feed!), but lots of people prefer getting it as an email anyway.
We now obviously make money from web ads, webinars, conferences, etc. But for years we were only an email newsletter company.
Incidentally, we're one of the very few media companies (let alone b2b media companies) making money right now.

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Microsoft to help move Canvas 2D API out of HTML5 spec?
Go read an old unix source and tell me if you think it's just the four wheels and the headlights that were common.

Sure there are details, lots of them. Many of those were copied.

And linux didn't even get all of them right, even copying is hard work.

So it's an evolution of the original design.

Especially now, two decades later.
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My local library in Germany had some of his translated books when I was a kid- Those books, along with my TI99/4A, had a greater influence on my intellectual life than anything else in my past.
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"YES! You seem to have gotten a lot of disagreement here"

Yes and I am somewhat regretting stiring this up, but I understand it, I was on that side of the fence for a long time, until I was dragged over to the other side.

The other posters are being very pragmatic, and that is a good trait to have. The problem is that we are creatures of habit and when we find something that works no matter how efficient we are hesitant to discard it.

I will tell you that when rich internet applications first came into popular use, I was one of the biggest detractors for the exact reasons that I am defending it's use today.

My initial reaction was that we have just added more convolution to the mix of technology soup that ASP, JSP, PHP have become. Now, not only does a developer need to know a server model but they have to understand a client model.

I thought to myself this is the worst of both worlds. It was not until someone more visionary than I, explained to me my wrong headed thinking. In that you have to abandon the server model for the picture of rich internet applications to become clear.

In the end we have had years of indoctrination to a certain model and it is hard to reason outside of that known reality. I was one of the most guilty of doing this, given that I have been doing this since the beginning.

"To all the doubters, you need to open your mind about this. I'm guessing most of you just don't like JavaScript"

This is a huge concern that I see time and time again, but what is funny is that this liberates the technology selection for so many other systems. No longer do I have to worry about trade-offs like Rails is faster to market but Java has a bigger library. With this form of architecture those decision decoupled. Services can be implemented in whatever language best fits the problem domain. You can use one or you can use many, it is a choice of each development house. Further, you can chose to third party provide whole sections of your application. This works very well at Google some systems are provided in python, some in Java and yet other are implemented in that team of choices language.

As for JavaScript as of now this is a limiting reality. Many of the browsers are working on alternative languages and there are converter that will allow you to write Ruby or Python or whatever and have it converted into JavaScript. But the reality is, yes web client programming is done in JavaScript. For me, it is not a big deal, as I find that UI development is best supported by a rapid prototyping language and JavaScript fits the bill. I am continually amazed at the flexibility of the language. Conversely, I prefer strong typed languages for services.
Who is actually saying RSS/Atom is dead? I use it heavily - via Google Reader. I even have feeds of certain Twitter users, bypassing the need to follow via Twitter.
Why the sudden interest in FXRuby?
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If anyone could find such a path through the Constitution, it would be Godel. I wonder if he encoded the Constitution into a bunch of long numbers first and then used some properties of them to find out his dictatorship process.

Maybe George Bush just found his notes: Declare war against unknown group of people (102030301020), seize power (202030320231), continue to have 'war' as long as needed. (1111111..)

As I read that, I think I can safely say that's not a new plan, actually.
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I have my Facebook statuses feed piped to RSS and then filtering out the people that write the most useless stuff. That folder in my mail client currently has 1347 unread statuses, and that's just since the last time I marked "set all as read" a couple months back. I seriously question if people want to see everything. And I have a lowly 115 friends. Now take into account that more and more data is being pushed through that channel and I think it becomes obvious that eventually "show me everything" becomes virtually useless at some point in the future.
It is flaggable. It's garbage. Even if the link had any substance, so what? It's not like the US Constitution is thought to be self-consistent. It didn't take any geniuses to figure out how to erode its principles over the last 200 years.
Techcrunch said it...morons (them, not you).
Wow, I thought I was the only person that does this. Google Reader makes viewing older tweets much, much easier than twitter.com (or ÜberTwitter for that matter).
I have a collection of Scientific Americans dating back to the 60's, there are lots of nice pieces by him in some of those issues.

Recreational Mathematics is more or less his 'invention', and I'm sure that through his column he managed to engage lots of people and got them to play with numbers.
I use RSS/Atom all the time from an API standpoint. It's an excellent starting point for publishing data to an external 3rd party.
This has made my day. The perfect balance of absurd patience and dedication to accuracy with a playful, irreverent attitude. Lovely.
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This isn't new at all. They're just bringing it back. Facebook used to be entirely like this, with popular items reappearing in the news feed, before the switch to the strictly chronological stream of updates. Am I wrong?
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Design Patterns 15 Years Later: Interview with Gamma, Helm, and Johnson
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=667689

It's an interesting article, and worth a repost.
Please summarize what's better about Atom for me, I'm interested. (I assume you mean Atom, as the other respondent did).
Google Wave: The Emperor’s New Clothes?
For the latter: http://www.chromeextensions.org/appearance-functioning/adblo...

Best I can find for the former: http://www.chromeextensions.org/appearance-functioning/lastp...
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Something that struck me about these is that they are for twitter but still relatively long url's in themselves. longreply.com is 13 characters, twitlonger.com is 14, and the last mentioned in this discussion logilogi.org is 12. For me, that alone makes these not worth a second look.

I realize that if you're using this, you likely have room under 140 to post the URL, but I believe that in practice many will use this to continue posts -- I'd still post the beginning and then finish in one of these pastebins, rather than just post the URL. People are not going to just click on a rogue URL but they are more likely with a bit of an intro.
Give so little back? Really?

libdispatch was something purely in-house. They're giving it away. Same for launchd, although other groups inexplicably feel a need to recreate it from scratch. They're employing major contributors to LLVM/clang and having them work fulltime on those projects. CalendarServer is a fantastic CalDav server, which they're giving away.

Don't say they give "so little" back to the community. While I may really hate what's going on with ZFS right now, your statement wasn't really fair to them.
perhaps this will help:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_%28standard%29#Atom_compar...

but the most important, for me, is that Atom is a group effort under the IETF rather than an ad-hoc spec in one person's head. All other benefits are the result of that.
For people who want to learn more about why this is occurring.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch

Basically there's an area of the Pacific Ocean that's twice the size of Texas riddled with plastic trash. There are some investigations into potential cleanups, though it's a really big problem and somewhat dwarfed in importance by other ecological issues.
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Atom was created because the RSS people refused to fix the ambiguities with RSS. Almost immediately after Atom was finalized, the RSS people changed their mind and fixed the big issues. So now there's really not much reason to choose Atom instead of RSS. Atom ended up being a big waste of time; actually, it wasn't a mere waste of time, it is actually harmful. Now everybody who deals with feeds has to deal with 4 kinds of RSS + Atom, instead of just 4 kinds of RSS.
It should be a problem, otherwise the new OS would be so similar there would be little point in it existing...
Writing a file system isn't the hard part. Testing and verifying that it actually works under all kinds of strange scenarios and to make really really sure it won't corrupt your data, no matter what. That's the hard (and expensive) part. I seem to recall reiserFS being plagued with a number of bugs that only showed in uncommon corner cases that trivial testing wouldn't find.
It takes some time for a post to be voted over another one. So you don't have to propagate it immediately when it is first published.
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is this like aol or something?
kk if you answer this is so cool i think!!!!!!!!!!!!
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1) This is why people end up writing server emulators. All the major MMORPGs have at least one.

2) I agree. This goes along with the booming micropayment systems.
hey what is this wesite for?
"Hacker News is a social news website that focuses on content hackers might find interesting. It also differentiates from other social news websites in that there is no option to downmod submissions; submissions can either be voted up or not voted on at all. In general, content that can be submitted is defined as "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity"

via: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News
its for te news a little bit!
Not so much a Windows fail, as someone forgetting to turn on the touch screen apparently.
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Here's another report, this time from July 2009.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8133890.stm
What are you going to do with the Kindle when there's a competing reader that you like better, but you're saddled with DRM'd content?

I agree with you that putting value in the server is good for businesses, but the corollary is also true: it's bad for consumers.
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I'm ashamed to say I do an awful lot of administration from the Rails console. "Oops, I botched my email address, can you help me?"

c = Customer.find_by_username "wrong@example.com"

c.username = "right@example.com"

c.save!

I know, I know, I could do it with SQL but I have noted a remarkable ability at the day job to forget to include the where clause after a week of crunch. That can have remarkably negative consequences, particularly since the Rails DB doesn't have any particular constraints on it. (It has ActiveRecord validations and, beyond that, you typically have to type more stuff, rather than less stuff, to cause massive screwups.)
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This is just one of those coincidences you find in logo and identity design, especially when you’re building a logo out of simple shapes.

Not sure what's being suggested here. Is the implication that the logo is a ripoff or that the logo wasn't properly vetted against existing IDs?

Out of a bajillion logos, there is one that looks similar to the new haskell logo. WOW.
Yeah I agree. I was expecting a bunch of utf8 ligatures (or maybe emoji!) used to condense the text.
I have to agree, if you've a throwaway comment you want to make that's too long for twitter, then I can't imagine anyone's that interested anyway. Learn to shorten yourself, or make a comment you don't mind being a little more permanent on a service like posterous (that then posts to twitter in an identical way to these "paste bins", but with hashtags and a shorter url (post.ly))
um i thik it is interesting!
Perhaps in part because it's now working with MinGW for Windows and Snow Leopard, though the official release for these platforms is yet to come out.

http://lylejohnson.name/blog/2009/10/20/newly-supported-buil...

Many Ruby developers are so Mac-centric that they don't realize how popular Ruby is on Windows. The Ruby One-click installer is the single most downloaded archive on RubyForge, with more than twice the number of downloads than even Ruby Gems.

If FXRuby works with the Ruby provided by the One-click Installer, then it's going to get a lot of downloads, because while Windows may not be the ideal platform for Ruby server apps, it's a good platform for desktop apps, at least if you want to have a lot of users.
this doesn't really comapre the two forces qualitatively I think..

Suppose you did the same experiment on Jupiter; you would fall a lot faster but the speed of decelleration wouldn't be affected. Perhaps on something like a neutron star the two times would even be similar, leading you to conclude the two forces are similar in magnitude...

Incidentally, it's for a large part statistical mechanics, not electromagnetism which would halt you fall - the hardness of solid material is due in a significant part to the electrons not wanting to share orbitals, and not just to them repelling each other.
"But it’s a cop-out to blame the economy and a lack of customer demand. Many organizations, unfortunately, simply aren’t executing on all cylinders when it comes to sales and marketing."

It's a cop-out to say "there's no point in trying because of the recession". But it's silly to imply the recession is completely unrelated to flagging sales.

"Do you sound desperate?"

I agree with this point, though I think it goes a lot deeper than the remarks he makes. A sale is based on meeting the needs of the customer, not on the customer meeting your (desperate) need for money. Keep your eye on the ball and keep working on offering something of value. Fortunes are made and lost during both busts and booms. During The Great Recession of the 1930's, car sales were down but bicycle sales were up. Second-hand stores thrived. If I recall correctly, frozen french fries and dried onions were invented and were a hit because they offered cost-savings to the customer. People still had to eat. Helping them eat adequately for less cost was a good market to go after.
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Yes, Sony is the classic example of this. A company like HP ought to be capable of it, tho'.
A POSIX compatibility layer should be enough. You can easily run UNIX programs on Windows using Cygwin, for example.
Im waiting for the full release- have you tried chromium- is it worth it?
I kinda like it. Its nonglossy and simple, opposite to most amatuer stuff these days. But i like the amtrack one more which is kinda similar in shape but tries to visullay communicate something completly different - so whats the point of comparing these two?! They are not very much alike if you go into the details.