skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fortunately it still remains easy to convert almost any blogger/blogspot blog to a simple HTML file with no gratuitous Javascript or CSS.

Then open the file in your browser of choice.

Here is one quick dirty way using only shell, sed, nc and the openssl binary:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7367156

Example:

Copy and paste the script into a file and save as some filename.

Then

filename adrianchadd > f.html
browsername f.html

It is still an annoyance to have to do this; I wholeheartedly agree with your comment.
Yes, and you should expect some news from Museopen soon :)
It doesn't have to be untrue at all. If you only have two classes then there is no middle class.

If the trend is that the middle class is moving toward size 0 while the upper and lower classes are growing or staying the same size then the middle class is indeed vanishing.

It's not hyperbolic it's a statement of the current trend. Will the trend continue? Maybe. Maybe not. But pretending the trend can't exist is literally denying reality.
The line between "upvote for good point" and "upvote for agreement" can be blurry, same for downvoting.

In either case, both are accepted uses. PG has said as much:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
As another music academic, I can only agree with everything you said. IMSLP is, indeed, an invaluable resource to music teachers and students.

Also, congratulations to the MuseScore team and to the pianist Kimiko Ishizaka for completing such a beautiful project!
How Non-Profits Can Use Content Marketing. The Buyer's Journey to Grow Donations
How to Protect Your Ideas (and How I Stole from James Altucher)
Wrong.

It was called "XMLHTTP", created by Microsoft for Outlook Web Access 2000. Mozilla implemented it as XMLHttpRequest JavaScript object in Gecko.

The main reason of XHR/AJAX was XML, but Text and HTML are supported too.

See Wikipedia for the correct history:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest

Microsoft never implemented the XHTML standards in Internet Explorer. IE cannot open files with .xhtml file extension and with .htm(l) extension the page is rendered with HTML quirksmode.
Would you be able to help me understand your reasoning? From my perspective, "torture vs dust specks" doesn't seem to be a thing you can just "shut up and multiply" on, because the impact of torture vs the impact of a dust speck seem fundamentally different. To me the negative impact of pain is not just the sensory experience on a purely linear scale, but the effect it has on a person's life even afterward. It seems an overly simplistic model to put it on a linear scale, when there seem to be negative experiences that we easily "bounce back from" and others that we don't.

When measuring the negative impacts of a speck in the eye, regarding its impact on any individual's ability to achieve their goals in life or forget about the discomfort in the future, I have trouble seeing how a dust speck is anything but zero in those regards.
NZ Customs seeks power to get people to disclose passwords or face prison
Note taken Sir. But I cannot edit the title anymore. Sorry!
> Am I doxxing myself by using my last name as my username, or by putting my real name, current position at my company, and my email address in my profile?

No.

But it's clear that the term "doxxing" (which I've never used before and apparently can't even spell) is a giant distraction. How about we just stick to the point about no personal attacks.
I have this idea to use technology and excellent customer service to be a sort of agent in the skilled labor market (painting, landscaping, masonry, etc). My wife is fluent in Spanish and English and I am good with web technologies.

I though we could build relationships with some of the lower cost skilled labor providers in our area. They are on craigslist or we know them in other ways. Unfortunately, their English and their customer service skills are often lacking. I've seen where they don't follow through to make the sale, or don't give nice estimates/invoices, etc.

I really just want to be a middle man for this market, using Twilio (IVR), invoicing software, the phone, etc, to give clients a warm-fuzzy. Yeah, my wife or I may have to drive around, and make sure the jobs are getting done well, but I want it to be as low touch as possible.

What forum can I research this on? Any one know or have experience in the same thing?
I think throughout the last 40 years or so we've gradually become so accustomed to the diminishing size of the middle class. We don't realize what it used to mean. We forget that a time existed where a family with a good budget could live on one income and still afford a house, two cars, college funds for the kids, vacations, and savings.

The middle class has "diminished" in large part because more households rose into higher income levels[1][2].

Many households could still live on one income, but choose not to because the opportunity cost of not working is too high: Mom and dad would both rather have the money, go on international vacations, eat out more often, take yoga classes, buy more gizmos... All stuff that people did much less of 40 years ago.

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/id/48754974

[2] http://www.aei.org/publication/yes-the-middle-class-has-been...
XHTML is XML
Tomatotim: advanced Pomodoro time management app
Yeah, that argument doesn't work for me. Creating arbitrary, unnecessary inefficiencies in the market does not benefit a society economically in the long-run – and is bad mechanism for wealth redistribution.

Why not ban ATM's to provide bank teller employment? Or ban self-checkout at grocery stores? Let's not forget all of those poor elevator operators out of work.

Maybe we should go around breaking windows to create work for local glaziers? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window)

I appreciate the sentiment of wanting to provide low-skill employment opportunities, but this is not the way to do it. It's provably bad logic.
>Why would I want to spend 1200$ on some vodka?

Why would you spend 2300$ on some laptop?

Could be value, status, money to splurge? Different people different preferences. To a millionaire there is little difference between a 1200 bottle and a 500 bottle, yet for 'regular people' there is. Perspective ...
To be fair I did point out that blowing the money was an obvious mistake on my part. Those numbers don't include expenses either. Actually most of the money was lost to testing new ideas.
TFA claims it's 6 times the size of NYC but cost only $4 billion dollars to build. How is that possible?
Guy on Motorcycle Is Taken Out by a Bull
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=betteridge&sort=byPopularity&p...
"I believe this story or comment contributes to the community good in some way, and I would like to see more like this."

I think comment downvotes are supposed to be the opposite of the above, but in practice it seems to be used to say "I don't agree with you," or "you don't know what you're talking about."

Mere agreement or disagreement should probably be handled with a comment, to further the conversation. You could easily disagree with a comment, but upvote it, if you thought it contributed something worthwhile.

There are Guidelines and a FAQ at the bottom of most pages.
I enjoy reading `The Downside of Becoming “Rich” Suddenly` since it teaches a good life lesson on spending wisely.
That's actually the Google Analytics Reporting API's formal syntax:

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/...

It's pretty handy, since queries are so commonly exactly that: "the last 30 days" or whatever, and it saves the client from having to perform date calculation code to figure out just what that is.
Thanks, I've long wished there was a well-informed contemporary reappraisal of Henry George. There were a few municipalities in the U.S. that went to land value taxation in the late 19th century, but their economic history is not especially remarkable. Most, IIRC, have shifted to conventional property taxes, mostly because the original impetus for Georgist taxes are now obscure and out of fashion, and there is a perceived value to having tax structures common to other municipalities (easier to attract businesses and professionals if taxes aren't unusual).
Essence# – A Smalltalk-based language for .NET
How to Make Stuff Go Viral Every Single Day
Without being judgmental, the author has been under the influence of "Hit n' Run", "Dine n' Dash", "Pump n' Dump" on all his investment decisions and business operation.

Like they say, you can get a man out of the bad neighborhood but you can't get the bad neighborhood out of a man, and this is coming from your typical low middle class guy.
The reason for the contradiction between belief and behavior arises from lack of principles. Most people will decide on a per-issue basis how they feel about it, and then rationalize their sentiment.

The truth is intellectual property is not real property, and therefore has no legitimate claim for protection in a capitalist society. That's the principle, property rights for property. Be it Disney or whomever.
"If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not. Let not the royal bed of Denmark be a couch for luxury and damned incest."
Well, the HN guidelines[1] do not mention any rule as what constitutes 'right' voting criteria. As a regular HN user of over 6 years it feels even surreal to be in a discussion about the basic features of this wonderful platform. It's never wrong to question the basic premises of life, though(;

I do believe we have the a similar kind of understanding for when to up-vote. What is a 'nice contribution to the conversation' other than arguments or facts that 'I do agree with' in them being a nice contribution to the conversation.

I fear we would have to have a meta-discussion on the concepts of good and bad and how they are flawed in that there are no montains without valleys^^

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Your settings are showing... Don't forget to change your secret key if this is the one you've deployed:

https://github.com/johndavidback/can-i-wear-shorts/blob/mast...

Neat site though :) You could "maybe" wear shorts here (Cork, Ireland) today, it's not warm but sunny. A Celsius option would be nice btw
(Different person here.)

The most common example I see is the dust-specks vs torture thing[1], where Eliezer thinks increasing dust specks eventually outweighs the torture and various other people think torture outweighs any number of dust specks. Eliezer is basing his position on taking a few decision theory axioms as obviously true, and others are basing their position on taking their moral intuitions as obviously true (i.e. a "One's modus ponens is another's modus tollens" situation).

1: http://lesswrong.com/lw/kn/torture_vs_dust_specks/
It's the same way that I can't understand how an NBA player can go bankrupt.
That simply isn't reasonable. Name one business other than maybe network providers who's revenues grow in direct proportion to incoming packets, regardless of content?

You can't disregard any business that doesn't fulfil that property as being "eventually unsustainable".
Quite interesting to read. The Penguin and Panda updates did a lot of damage to my legitimate business (which was slowly but steadily growing until that point) and many others, so there have been a lot of victims of Google trying to kill off these spammers, collateral damage I guess.
Keyboard shortcuts are definitely in the roadmap. Thanks for the rest of the suggestions, I'll consider them.
Elixir is not homoiconic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7623991
Y Combinator's Winter 2015 Batch
I thought there were two fundamental ways to make a business: 1) You build a product/service and sell it. You sell the company for market share and revenues. I think everyone understands this.

2) The second way is more like a financial derivative, it's a bit more risky, a bit more complex, a bit more limited in terms of exit strategy, but you build a technology company and you sell the company for the technology itself and team that invented it. In this world, patents and actual IP matter more. It's a technology play, not a product play.

Apple and Google buy these companies, ARM, Qualcomm, Rambus are some examples of big ones.

I could see Hippy positioned 2 ways, 1) product, it's going to take 2 years to build (and that's probably really ugly to most of the hipster/cool kid VCs right now) it's going to be some kind of proprietary PHP VM that's 2x to 10x faster running unmodified code. It's going to cost $x per core or host or something. You're going to build it, you're going to market it and you're going to sell it. Maybe there will be a free community edition to help market it. I don't know, but that's the rough outline of the story. Hopefully PHP is still really popular in 2 years... Long lead time, product, then presumably you'll know how to market and sell it. Maybe my cold meds are fogging things, but that's kind of ugly but it seems almost palatable, these guys build compilers, without Pypy it's super ugly.

Alternatively you could position it like a technology company. This seems a lot more compelling, these guys have a great track record of doing great technology. They're doing legitimate cutting edge compiler stuff, routinely delivering it, routinely making improvements.. Tackling hard problems (like the GIL) and making headway. If you've got technology to make unchanged php 2x to 10x faster, you can't tell me there isn't a market for that, Facebook is building that for themselves. I'm sure Yahoo and others would be interested. There are existing php accelerators on the market. Plus, you're only funding the development team so it's a bit more inexpensive. What you need is like a VC backed by Facebook or Yahoo one of those interested parties already looking at this stuff or a VC with the right kinds of connections with other tooling companies that might be interested in buying this kind of technology. With their track record, it seems like a fairly safe technology play, they just need to find the right investors. Now asking them why Pypy doesn't accelerate certain types of code would be part of the process, perhaps understand their strategy to avoid that problem with PHP would come up.
And the linked video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsgOmiStJ04
Frank found the final solution for erasing business data from hard drives
Tangent: why do we still say "set top?" Where can you buy a TV, or "set," that you can put anything on top of? They're all flat screen by now.
> Elixir is a pure functional language

No, it is not.
> That $250k couple likely has little or nothing to their name.

I don't even make half that and I have six figures in savings. A $250k/year DINK couple should most definitely have very much to their name.

The only reason people could ever trick themselves into thinking $250k is merely middle class is because they assume that one simply must own a huge home to be middle class. This is a notion which I challenge. The middle class has never predominantly owned homes in major cities. The vast stretches of middle America have long been and continue to be the haven of the middle class, and this DINK couple should be able to buy a ranch home in that haven for cash.

This "middle class" family with the $2M home and the $250k income could sell that home, move to middle America, get a ranch home for < $200k with $1.8M left over, and retire, never working again. They probably have investments and retirement savings on top of the home, but even completely ignoring that they could get a $70k annual income just off 4% of that $1.8M. That already puts their passive retirement income above the median HHI in the US. And that's ignoring social security, which when they come of age soon they'll be able to draw at the maximum possible amount.

They're not going to do that, though, because they enjoy the power, status, and income of living in the heart of one of the nation's richest and most powerful industries and working for its top companies.

They paint themselves as victims, like they're doomed to live in a horrid one-story home. They chose that. They prefer the perks of living where they are over the perk of having a huge house in a cheaper part of the country. The fact that they were even able to make that choice makes them not middle class.

Whether they're "upper class" is another discussion. One can easily see various tiers in the upper class, with this family occupying the lowest one and billionaires on the highest rung. You'd need to throw in political luminaries somewhere as well -- the President should probably get on the highest rung even if he's not a billionaire, for instance.
more than 1 pipe?
Apigee S-1
Maybe we can change that to: there is no money in general purpose programming languages?
>while that's might be true but it also means that the password they use for the PWM is not complex enough to be used for say online banking in their minds which makes the fact that they use a PWM a bit ironic.

No it doesn't; use a passphrase. Mine is a sentence I will never forget, but you're never going to guess/brute force it. You mention this yourself at the end. If only all (any?) web services would allow it.
The implications are really scary. Im the first one to applaud the new digital office initiative and the talent behind, but when it comes to third party software the government should trust no one, not matter their competence.

Scary scenario #1: All of my interactions with the government are known to google.

Scary scenario #2: Google CDN is compromised and malware is served to everyone!
I'll give it a shot, but first, a list of disclaimers: Yudkowsky gets a ton of unjustified internet hate and scorn, and I disagree with a lot of it. I read a number of the sequences, and quite enjoyed them. I also think his reaction to Roko's Basilisk was pretty reasonable: someone on your form comes up with a way to basically guarantee eternal torture for anyone who reads it, and then posts it, thus guaranteeing eternal torture for your forum readers? Who cares that the idea won't actually guarantee any such thing, Roko _thought_ that it might; I would be pissed as hell.

Anyway, my point is, I'm only offering a gentle and hopefully reasoned disagreement with someone I regard highly. I'm not jumping on the "fuck that guy" train. Moving on.

There was a post that boiled down to the question "Would you rather 3 ||| 3 people (where | is an ascii stand-in for Knuth's up-arrow notation) get a mote of dust in their eye, or one person be horrifically tortured for 50 years?" and his conclusion was basically "you can use math to assign some incredibly small epsilon of suffering to getting a mote of dust in your eye, but eventually, if you sum enough people, it's more suffering overall than one poor person getting horrifically tortured". My problem with his post was that I think that any morality scheme that results in the person getting tortured is fundamentally flawed, and I don't care how much math you throw at me to try and "prove" that it's better.

I don't think I've ever heard of an attempt to rigorously derive morality that I agree with. Morality is too contextual, too messy, for us to perfectly capture in those sorts of models. It's especially bad when we try and model morality mathematically, and then take as gospel the result of that model, rather than say "oh, um, that's not a great result, the model must be wrong".
Google claims not to, that they anonymize the IP before it ever hits disk:

https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052?hl=en

You have to trust Google to follow through, but my understanding is this was originally implemented to satisfy German privacy laws, so there's reason to think they take it seriously.

How that impacts logging at their outermost network edge, and whether logs at that level could be feasibly correlated with anything at the application layer, I have no idea. It'd be nice if they clarified that.
I enjoyed reading this because it's not something you usually see publicized. And as a single data point leads me to believe that there are some people really doing well with these sort of tactics - just not talking about. It's like the blackjack card counters in 1980's and 90's. They were successfully employing a system to pull money from casinos - but weren't talking about it. It was only when the MIT Team started publicly talking about the strategy, that it made it into the open. And that was at the time that the casinos made it not a really viable strategy.

So it seems likely that there are successful strategies for using these affiliate tactics for profit. I know that Wired magazine profiles a few of these people every once in a while. There was a Canadian entrepreneur who was big into the diet pill scheme and made millions (he, too, would fly down to Vegas with friends). And here is a link to another scheme that used scareware:

http://www.wired.com/2011/09/mf_scareware/
This is the secret lab where Apple has been learning about personal fitness
In this case, the tenant isn't a party to the transaction, the tenant can't afford to be a party to the transaction at $8,000+ per month, that's my whole point.
All of them.

But the one I like the most is Parametric polymorphism because it tends to make algorithms generically available to anything.

And the one I like the least is subtype polymorphism due to it's reliance on inheritance with all it's attendant problems. The exception being for the sub-genre of "interface" polymorphism. Which doesn't really exist in C++. However when it does exist such as in languages like Go, Java, or C# then it fixes almost all of the problems that tradional subtype polymorphism has by taking inheritance completely out of the picture.
I think that the similarities might be a form of the Texas Sharpshooter fallacy. That is, there are many millions of creative works in existence throughout all time. With that many, you are bound to find multiple examples of pairs of works that have similarities, even if the creators were unaware of each others' works.

Non-creative works of the same fallacy include the Lincoln/Kennedy comparison, the one book (can't remember the name) that seemed to predict the sinking of the Titanic decades earlier, and the various Nostradamus "predictions". Also see the Birthday Paradox.
It's used to upvote. People upvote for many different reasons. On average the aggregate of upvoting improves HN without worrying about why.

The same is true for downvoting. Downvoting becomes available above a certain karma threshold.

Abuse of either, i.e. using them in ways that are known to be detrimental to HN historically can result in various sanctions by the moderators (none of which are explicitly stated).

So vote something up if you think it should be voted up. It's that simple.
> The truth is intellectual property is not real property, and therefore has no legitimate claim for protection in a capitalist society.

This is true in the sense that intellectual property is a subcategory of intangible personal property which is a subcategory of personal property, which is a different and mutually exclusive subcategory of "property" from real property.

But I suspect that you are using "real property" to mean something other than what that term means in discussing categories of property (since otherwise you'd be arguing that all personal property is inconsistent with capitalism, which only makes sense if you've gotten capitalism confused with a particularly extreme form of communism.) But I don't know exactly what you do mean by "real property", and I think you would do well to define what you mean by it (and maybe choose a term that doesn't already have a clear and well-understood meaning in the context of property) and explain why that thing is the only thing with a "legitimate claim for protection in a capitalist society".

(And then, for bonus points, explain what relevance being the only thing with a "legitimate claim for protection a capitalist society" should even be relevant in any modern mixed economy, all of which have made the conscious choice to deviate in some important ways from pure capitalist notions of property rights.)
Just a long wire would work.