skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it is your dream job why don't you accept the offer? If you don't like it, you can still start your own business after a year or later (I don't know how old you are).

If you like it, you can also start you own business, maybe a bit later, but with enough experience and an established partnership behind your back, if the two is not competing with each other.
This might have been the worst possible way you could perform this experiment. What if he accidentally drew over the same line twice? What if there are uneven darknesses of the filled-in letters? What if one pen has a lower flow of ink than another? What if he left a gap somewhere?

Why not just use calculus to determine the area inside each of the letters?
Code me self: Clojure Start Again
I think this is more of a display of art than science, lining up the pens as a benchmark of a digital font modeled after an analog font - once made with ink. The journey of type.
Someone from another country not only did not sign any contract, but have different copyright laws applying to him or her.

Also getting something is not distributing, it's causing something to distribute.
Good design isn't what most people think it is. Good design isn't about bells and whistles, fancy doorknobs and thick carpets. It's about making something that works just like you expect it to. Apple and dropbox know this and it's a large part of their success. It just works. All the fanciness in an apple computer or an iphone is there for a reason, there are no equivalents to fancy doorknobs or thick carpets.

This is also why Scandinavian design seems to be held in such high regard - it's very simple and works like you expect it to.

This wikipedia should be compulsory reading for industrial designers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_follows_function
Mustache.erl, a template system for Erlang from the creator of Jekyll
The people who develop for the browsers that your family is using do need a debugger.
If anyone else is wondering, I think http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=913946 was the thread the music is from.
I don't have have much to add here (downvotes accepted), but I love that this post was made by someone called phren0logy.
If you don't have write privileges into the SVN repository, you have no ability to revision control your changes without creating a tracking repository of your own.

This is fairly unique to open source software -- it's not something that occurs in an organization, and should only occur when a user without commit access is doing large-scale modifications to a project.

Unfortunately, the functionality often used to maintain divergent forks where individuals fail to push small hacks/changes immediately back to their origin project.

Creating a SVN branch for every experiment rapidly gets out of hand.

Out of hand how? I've worked in organizations where every single feature received a developer specific branch (eg, branches/tolenka-feature-xyz) and never ran into trouble.

The big difference with DCVSes is that scaling across lots of developers is not a problem, branches are strongly encouraged, and merging works really well.

Given merge tracking, merging works more or less the same as a DVCS.

As far as scaling across developers, I'm not sure what the issue is.
The website is painful to look at. We really need to nip the whole rotated screenshot trend in the bud. Here's to 2010.
New tennis racket.
For Christmas I got an ESX losing power and bringing ~10 clients down with it. Merry Christmas!
try Canada.
Get to $1 million in revenues, get an office, start hiring employees.
In my rural area Verizon stopped adding new DSLAM capacity shortly after rolling out service, and refuses to add more despite a deep waiting list of new customers. Instead, they are focusing on adding FiOS to areas which are already well-serviced by both DSL and cable, and trying to stop the county government from running it's own fiber.

So, I pay $60 a month for a Sprint 3G connection thats run at about 1mbps for my home network.
Wireless Security
If you consider the denial of anthropogenic global warming to be an "idea such as creationism", there's ample recent evidence that many people here are part of that audience.

(FWIW, (1) I think it's clearly less crazy than creationism, (2) I think it's somewhat crazy none the less, (3) I think the overblown rhetoric from the anti-AGW camp around "Climategate" is an indication of the weakness of their actual arguments, and (4) I've now said all I'm going to in this thread on that subject.)
I've played several other games from Rio Grande (though not Dominion) and their standard is generally very high.
Javert, even the Objectivists ackknowledge that their first principles ("axioms" in Objectivist parlance) are not so much proven truths as they are necessary assumptions for the pursuit of cogent knowledge.

"Certainty" is a relative term; it describes a state of mind rather than an objective truth. I can be 'certain' of something without it being true. I am certain of my own consciousness and existence, not because I can prove them, but because I must be so in order in order to live and function. It is a simple 'faith' everyone must simply accept, but it is no more than that.
My mother got a netbook and I told her chrome was her new browser because it was faster.

(No lies and No IE)
+1 for the tarkovsky. and the landscape. and the torment. Damn I want your presents!

To stay on topic I got a Michal Palin book signed by himself! :)
Looks great!
Does it work with jQuery?
Yeah, I picked that moniker when I started doing some fMRI research. It's been criticized as "the modern phrenology" so I thought I would l33t it up a bit.

The history of phrenology is actually really interesting. Gall made some genuine contributions to science regarding the localization of brain function. It became what we now think of as phrenology, the wild and bizarre pseudoscience, when cranks came crawling out of the woodwork offering simple answers to hard questions and miracle cures in a bottle. Which brings us right back to the OP...
O'Reilly Android Apps Gaining Ground on iPhone
Being John Malkovich?
The Law of Least Astonishment is also a good one.
I didn't RTA, but I find it interesting you compare science and democracy.

In a good democracy, the politicians are assumed to be gaining the system for personal power. That is, the political system is built up to make it extremely difficult for power to centralize in any one spot for a long period of time. There are lots of ways to do this, checks and balances, term limits, parliamentary systems, etc.

However in the current "scientific" system -- the system that allocates political and monetary power to scientists -- none of this seems to be in place. It's much at the same place democracies were in the 1600s or so; there is a lot of reliance on the "right" people being in power.

I'm not at all trying to slam science -- it is truly the best thing we have -- but I found your metaphor very enlightening, perhaps in ways you didn't realize? Thanks for sharing it.
Puerto Rico is indeed amazingly chess-like; deterministic to a point where you start to pull your hair out because you didn't take the corn field in the beginning when you could. It also has the nice point that the situation can turn extremely quickly and your opponents start pulling their hair :)

I would also add Agricola which is similarly deterministic but notoriously diffucult to develop a strategy for!
Temptation certainly seems to creep up at the most inconvenient moments.
Ask HN: Did the colour of the header bar change?
-_-
Oddly, the demand to trust science is itself not a scientific claim.
I'm also wondering where my tax dollars are going, if they aren't going into consumer loans [...]

Is this some young geeks joke that old geeks don't get?
Actually, I just came from the same situation.

I applied for a job at company X, at Facebook, at Google, and I also applied to YC. After interviewing at company X, I thought this is the best job ever, I would love to do this.

I then got YC, so cancelled the Google and Facebook interviews. I told company X, who took it well. So well they offered me the job anyway---to take in the likely event of my startup failing. They also started my visa paperwork---an $8-15K expense---and said they'd just absorb the loss if my company worked out.

There isn't really a point to this, except that maybe you can have your cake and eat it. Also, if you find an amazing company, maybe they'll prove to be even more amazing than you thought.
I've worked at Facebook, and have a pretty strong relationship with the people at Palantir. I can outline some of the differences.

1. The food is much better at Facebook, but there's a much wider variety of non-perishable foods and drinks at Palantir.

2. Palantir has multiple game rooms with every piece of equipment possible, including the high-end Rock Band kits and dual projectors. Facebook has a 60" monitor and a Roland electronic drum kit hooked up to the X-Box, and is mostly community-maintained.

3. Facebook has parking, and a San Francisco shuttle.

4. Facebook's standard issue computer is the high-end Macbook and a 30" monitor. Palantir's standard issue is a desktop with multiple (3-4) monitors.

5. Palantir has a team called "Ops" that basically does any non-engineering grunt-work that helps your job, like moving your desk or equipment, getting snacks, etc.

6. Both offer free dry-cleaning.

7. Palantir has a lot of comped off-site events, like spa treatment, movie nights, and so on.

I couldn't say I could choose one over the other. In my opinion, the differences are relatively minor compared to whether you want to work with Enterprise vs. Web, large vs. small, evil vs. slightly less evil, or the company you'd keep.
On my mac, it looks like black on dark red. I have difficulty reading this, and recall old games with code numbers with this color scheme so they couldn't be xeroxed!
I don't understand why we need to "compile" everything, computers are fast. I made/use Simple Web Schema (http://bennewhouse.com/open_source/simple_website_schema) which generates pages on the fly from an XML document using PHP - sounds nasty but it's quite elegant (imho). It does require PHP (and what cheap hosting doesn't provide PHP?) and response time for a reasonably sized site (mine) is around 7ms single threaded, and scales well because no locking is needed - no compiling needed.
It does every year at this time. It's a seasonal change that will be rolled back soon. Oddly, I had just set a user-configured topcolor for the first time just as the site topcolor was changed. Now I get to observe which HN pages don't display the user-configured topcolor.
sorry!
that sound is awfully ridiculous.
Agreed. In addition, you don't need much sun exposure to get satisfactory vitamin D levels.

From the article:

"""
Sensible sun exposure (usually 5-10 min of exposure of the arms and legs or the hands, arms, and face, 2 or 3 times per week) and increased dietary and supplemental vitamin D intakes are reasonable approaches to guarantee vitamin D sufficiency.
"""
It's interesting how things change. "My" awesome sound system was a Dynaco 400W in front, Hafler 200W in back, 6 Large Advents split 4/2, and the usual assortment of Audiophile Grade B equipment generating and controlling sound. If I was in the back of the house, I merely turned it up...

Now, the talk is networking, syncing, ... Hopefully, people keep in mind things like "overdriven amps clip", speaker headroom, etc. Underneath all the neat technology, there's still sound that has to come out with good dynamic range, clarity, etc.
Me too. It's my second one now. I already had one, so I'll use this one at the office. I think the Magic Mouse is the best mouse I have ever used. I love it!

Also got Fire Emblem DS and $100 check from my Grandpa.

I got my dad the Star Trek Blu-ray set.
Awwww. I made a serval ethogram in my animal behavior class. =(
Paying $100/month for 50mbps boost. Drops to 30-40mbps after a minute or two. Using Comcast, living in south San Jose.
>"If you consider the denial of anthropogenic global warming to be an 'idea such as creationism'"

No, I don't.
Possibly related: http://ctrloptcmd.com/archives/989/open-letter-to-oreilly-yo...
I don't think it was H&FJ. http://clearviewhwy.com/, http://www.meekerdesigns.com/
Long-term sunscreen use has been shown to decrease vitamin D levels by more than half, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3190255?ordinalpos=1&...
Great, so far. I haven't used it much as I promised the wife I wouldnt get on the computer today :)

But so far, it seems like a keeper. And this comes from a guy who has never liked any of Apple's previous mice. (using a logitech until now)
don't forget the URL shortener
my dad uses firefox, mum chrome
My car's turn signals are frustrating as hell. Normally, when switching lanes, I don't push the signal lever all the way over, so that it locks; I simply push it and hold it, so when I am in the moved-to lane, I just let go, and the signal turns off.

However, the designers found a way to trick me, making my attempts at signaling useless. When I push the lever over, the point at which there is significant torque pushed back also turns on a faster-than normal click of the turn signals. However, the signals do not turn on until I push past this; there is a further point where the turn signals actually turn on.

My instinct is to push the lever until there is audible and felt feedback, but this doesn't work, since that point does not turn the signals on. Very frustrating.
Kitchenaid mixer. Totally awesome.
early prodigy is not what you think it is
I've got one, the home Blendtec, it has yet not to blend.
I think it is more likely that the credit analyst determines who has to pre-pay for Facebook ads with their credit card in advance and who gets to pay via a purchase order, net 30 terms with 2% cash discount, in chunks of $100,000.
That article looks a little bit tongue-in-cheek to me.
Exactly. I expect them to be symmetrical, just like double doors, and would be surprised if they both turned in the same direction, because hands turn naturally in opposite directions.

What's really annoying, though is when the faucets (or light switches) in a place are not consistent.
Explosive device set off aboard US airliner
That is the part I'm not understanding. What does using one of these "static site compilers" save me from?

I guess being able to use layouts that get "baked" into each of the final static HTML files would be handy.
Or the demographic of the purchasers changed.

The early adopters liked the product, it's novelty for first time ebook buyers is a grand feeling, When I got my ebook I used it every day for a month.

The positive reviews generate good press for v.2 so people are attracted to it. Not being early adopters the customers are a bitr more critical but overall are satisfied with the product, it still has a buzz.

The DX is a new format and is deliberately marketed into a smaller niche - this time to academics. Smaller niches and the buzz from the first two products mean higher expectations from a more demanding audience.

The room is filled with cats minus their skin, some of 'em aint happy.
Cash towards a Canon 500d. Really looking forward to getting into photography.
Interesting yes, but dynamic to static generators/caches are plentiful. Almost every framework/cms has something like this. I'm the current maintainer of Boost - file caching for Drupal. IMO Boost offers more to the site admin then Nanoc: it supports Apache, Nginx, Lighttpd, & IIS; Caches HTML, XML, CSS, JS, & JSON. In a test, the Nginx version of Boost is faster then Varnish. Boost is also tightly integrated with Drupal, offering smart flushing of the cache and a multi process crawler.

Nanoc in comparison seems to add more administrative overhead to your sites work-flow; it should try to be smarter to make the web admins life better. Also, not having a dynamic language on the web server severely limits what's possible; a simple contact form has to be handled separately, thus making any site built with this even more complicated IMHO.
Ricochet Robots is a great game that requires lots of thinking but is not too hard on time pressure.
I guess being able to use layouts that get "baked" into each of the final static HTML files would be handy.

They all do that.
Not sure about the law in the US, but I suspect serving free food could be a way to pay employees tax free? That is, the costs for the food will be losses for the company, but not taxed as earnings for the employees?

I think in Germany at least there is a limit as to how much a company is allowed to pay for food per employee, but I am not sure if it would also apply if food was completely free (I only know models where the company subsidizes the food).
I'm certainly not saying don't use something other than IE. Just some people won't. IE8 is better than IE7.
At the risk of beating a dead horse,

I think we could be making much more advances in robotics if we dispense of the notion that robots should be bipedal and look like humans.
I think he is referencing the fact that politicians gave money to banks to encourage loans to consumers and it apparently didn't help this case
This would be a valid critism of the article if you weren't taking that quote out of context. The author was pointing out how heavily politicized the argument it is and why that should make us carefull about picking sides. He's very explicit in pointing out that motives of a scientist does not necessarily make him right or wrong. He also mentions that climate-change skeptics have their ulterior motives as well.
One of the most successful projects I worked on used static HTML generation. It was a company-wide system status site, so it needed to be up no mater what, no matter what type of issues we were experiencing. Using this approach we didn't have to worry about database issues or anything. Just static HTML hosted by a CDN offsite.
People will pay for content
Hopefully you'll get the knife set either for your birthday or next year?
Yes, you want the Plastic Logic Que reader when it releases next month.
Please disallow submissions that link to private ip addresses.

For example, the submission at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1015536 links to a page on 192.168.0.1. In this case the link appears to be benign, but a link could be crafted that changed security settings on a router, or even routed the router.

It seems that links to private ip addresses on HN could be harmful and could never be legitimate.
Damn kids get off my lawn! The problem with "audio" is all this recorded music stuff. Real music is played by musicians. Why do people think that a shiny little disc or (even worse) bits on a hard-drive could ever replace that.

:)
I chose following my dream. To me, it was 100% worth it.

"Happy those who dream dreams and are whiling to pay the price to make them come true."
(From an old skydiving movie)
Is the link number a joke or is there something I'm not getting? (192.168.0.1 being a standard address to log into your own home router and set it.)
Sports Illustrated Tablet
Geez, talk about taking a few words a little too literally and blowing it up.

I believe pg was arguing about the majority of newspapers and books that are struggling to survive with the advent of Internet.

He was looking at the empty majority of the glass. You are looking at the fraction that isn't empty(ie. parrot book that is selling). That doesn't change the fact that majority of mainstream newspapers and books are struggling to survive.

Also, you cite numbers and go all gaga over them without really telling us why the numbers are relevant or advance your argument. I don't care if Clickbank has done a billion in sales if, say, the overall industry has shrunk over time.
Probably not. Most people have better things to do.
One guy made all the best Zeldas
That would involve a move to a different country. What country do you prefer on that basis?
And if you like it check out boardgamegeek.com for more ideas :)

Dominion isn't really my thing, but there's masses of really good games around these days.
"handwritten sign inside urging me to 'MAKE BABIES!'."

Oh, nice; a start-up idea!
For the faucets to be consistent, they need to behave like every water bottle, valve etc.: righty tighty, lefty loosy.

@ojbyrne: It does not matter how they work from an engineer’s point of view: Design needs to be user-centered.
Musicality
yeah if you don't like the luck factor as much - Puerto Rico is the best board game IMO

Power Grid and Caylus are also pretty close
Structured Machine Learning: Ten Problems for the Next Ten Years
How's this:
$40/month for 1500kbps (With a 2GB! download allowance. and excess downloads charged at 15c per MB after that!)

http://www.bigpond.com/internet/plans/adsl/plans-and-offers/

* That's about $36USD
Simplified Explanation of Computing the Complexity of Nash Equilibrium
maybe i'm mis-reading, but isn't your dream job, by definition, one of your dreams? so shouldn't you always take your dream job no matter what?

could you give an example of a dream that you cannot pursue because you were taking your dream job? it seems like any reasonable non-work-related dream can be pursued while you are working at your dream job. or maybe not, i dunno, i'm confused.
I got a book on making pop-up books and cards, and some glue sticks.

Time to make stuff people can touch!
HP -Trợ Lý Kiêm Phiên Dịch
CÔNG TY TNHH RORZE ROBOTECH là công ty công nghệ cao đầu tiên tại Việt Nam, 100% vốn đầu tư nước ngoài, là thành viên của tập đoàn RORZE Nhật Bản được thành lập từ tháng 10 năm 1996 chuyên sản xuất, lắp ráp các loại thiết bị điều khiển động cơ và rô bốt cho ngành công nghiệp sản xuất chất bán dẫn.
I'm not talking about an engineer's point of view. In fact "righty tighty lefty loosy" is an engineer's point of view. When taps are presented in pairs users expect them to open "away" from the central spout.
Well, I know that the point of the article is not "Does Paul Graham Read Hacker News?" The point is more "Content is worth money," though it's argued badly.

But, if you want to know if PG reads Hacker News. Yes, he's a heavy reader and contributor:

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=pg

He would have to be of course, since he is a moderator.
Dominion is one of the only games I know that's as fun for two players as it is for 3 or more players. Everyone seems to love this game - it appeals to non-gamers even more than Settlers. It's been out only 2 years, and it's already won 7 awards (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_(game)#Awards) including Mensa Select and German Game of the Year. You can play online for free - just the basic set, with only a few cards from the expansions (http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/348956/play-dominion-onl...)

As an aside, I was shocked when I saw the name "Donald X. Vaccarino" listed on the cover of Dominion, because I remember that name. Back in 1998 or so, he maintained a page of original aphorisms. I can't find the page any more, but one of them realy stuck in my mind, to the point that I remember it word for word, along with his name, to this day. It was "any action you have to rationalize the morality of is evil".
Yes. And the numbers next to submissions are alternating green and red. Merry Christmas!