skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you seen the Ruby "cheat" gem?

http://cheat.errtheblog.com/

It outputs cheat sheets to the command line, and allows people to edit them through a wiki. Might be a good source of cheat sheets for your site?

Also a command line tool to pull in cheat sheets from your site would be useful, although automatically converting them to ascii might be tricky.
I've ran into losing domain names before when searching on GoDaddy, what are some small WHOIS providers that you trust?
After the second ad rolled out in front of the article in less than ten seconds I left the site. So, I guess I won't find out how to live forever.
Dupe... See previous discussion here [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1056665] [I think it has a forward slash at the end of the URL, so it got past the filter]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet
Jonathan wound up at Sun through an acquisition of Lighthouse Design
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighthouse_Design. The software from Lighthouse Design turned into a dead end (Java won out over OpenStep). Based on that experience, he has this quote:

"And the most effective mechanism I’ve seen for driving that commitment begins with a simple, but emotionally difficult step.

"Upon change in control, every employee needs to emotionally resign from Sun. Go home, light a candle, and let go of the expectations and assumptions that defined Sun as a workplace. Honor and remember them, but let them go.

"For those that ultimately won’t become a part of Oracle, this will be the first step in a new adventure."

Poignant and disturbing.

A very sad day for Sun. A very sad day for the tech world.
The real cultural hurdle isn't the indirectness in Japan, it's the burdening sense of obligation Japanese people who are connected socially feel to one another. Facebook already feels like a part time job to me, but transplant an urban Japanese's persons relationships as well as their loose ties onto a social networking site...that would be a lot of work for them to maintain that sense of equilibrium in all those relationships.

But if they do try, they should totally get Joi Ito's help.
I have found what appears to be a bug. Putting "algorithm" as a tag to search for it returns:

1 Computer algorithm to decipher ancient texts (reuters.com)
(1 point) (discuss)(tag)tags: hacking algorithm

2 Computer algorithm to decipher ancient texts (reuters.com)
(2 points) (discuss)(tag)tags: hacking algorithm

The discuss links, however, go somewhere weird and apparently unrelated.
For that kind of money you could easily outfit an existing room with a top-quality computer, comfortable desk and chair, office supplies, whatever you need to work.
Top article there right now: "Country's first legal gigolo starts work in Nevada"

Unless he's the gigolo...
nice, but orange and green are only distinguishable if you know the orientation. so the wrist tags used in the example are orange/green ambiguous (i think there might be some text below that provides a baseline, but it's very difficult to see in the photos and shouldn't be necessary).

it wouldn't be quite as pretty if it was asymmetric, but it would remove that problem and so be easier to use.
I prefer to conduct my business dealings with non-nitwits.
But if they use a two way hash and the server is compromised one would presume the mechanism for un-hashing the passwords would also be compromised meaning it is almost as bad?

(? as my knowledge on security is somewhat limited)
Crap, I guess I missed that, happened over the weekend when I wasn't living on HN. Being fairly new to HN, anything I can do to undo the submission?
Dang, when the thing people complain about in an OS is the "math input panel" and the "sticky notes" apps, I'd say the OS must be pretty freaking perfect.

I can't believe you couldn't think of anything more substantive to mention.
Yah, but how many digits is your ICQ number?
First thought: I think it would be great if Hulu offered expanded offerings for a monthly price while keeping the current service free.

Second thought: As much as Netflix is great, the library available for streaming still is very sparse when it comes to movies, and even televisions shows Hulu has a lot of shows Hulu doesn't.
Windows 7 security primer, part 3
It probably wouldn't have taken so long if you weren't distracted by the dancing :)
I wasn't so much interested in differentiating the switches as I was in eliminating the need to touch a switch using dirty hands, especially when I have been preparing raw meat.

I usually end up washing my hands a half dozen times while preparing food just to avoid spreading bacteria to switches, faucets, and surfaces. I've had food poisoning a couple of times (from restaurants), so I might be a bit germophobic. :)

Anyway, as several of you have pointed out, the possibilty of spurious activation is a real safety concern, so bad idea.
I agree. Maybe you should reply asking them do they want to buy a spell checker.
Parrot 2.0.0 "Inevitable" Released
because they are not always mass produced in the start. Look at the price of ipods, mobiles and our good old computers for a reference.
Nice idea in concept but with all that glass going on I don't see how it can heat very well in the UK winter.

It doesn't include the cost of running power / network / phone line to it either - which if you want it done properly and done underground is not terribly cheap.

Lastly it just looks like a magnet for burglars to be breaking in and stealing stuff
I see it a little differently. There are only so many viable opportunities available at any given time to invest in. Even if you believe the number of good opportunities is limitless, number of capable people who can act on them isn't. As the amount of money chasing deals goes up the competition for good deals goes up and VC suffer because they end up with worse terms. Many stupid deals also get funded. Both of these are bad for the VC industry, both are bad for their limited partners (including our pension funds) both are probably good for entrepreneurs.
This got submitted 8 months ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=623266

It didn't get a very good reception then, either.

EDIT: Sorry, looking at the wrong article. Last time it got one comment, and that was negative.
UnPython: convert python to C, numpy-aware
I don't follow your first point, would you mind breaking it down? Governments are scared of a lot of things, but swelling their own ranks by creating more civil service jobs usually isn't one of them, is it?

There is definitely some serious game theory afoot; states have a perverse incentive to not spend on important things, lest they not receive federal money to cover those things. It is similar to the perverse incentive in large companies and government to spend one's entire budget at all costs, lest you get allocated less next time.
GKG - http://gkg.net/whois

They've had great customer service in the past and have solved a number of domain name issues for me.
AT&T raised/raising their game? As one of their customers, I don't see it. What I do see is a company that's milking a golden goose (US iPhone exclusivity) for all its worth, doing nothing to advance its customer's network experience as network performance degrades.
As a sole developer and at this point making no money from my ventures, i can't afford to throw down the big bucks for normal domain buying services. This seems like a good alternative.

Are there any good services that will either list expiration dates en-mass or send you some kind of a notification if a domain you are interested in is going to expire?
I got back a friend's domain through GoDaddy's backorder system. He'd let it expire and someone else held it for a year. I tried to buy it from them for $100 but they wanted more. In the end, I got it for a $20 backorder fee.
#718 here.
So adding VAT at 17.5% that's £2,616.25
Bringing the total up to £17,566.25
Which is about $28,276 (USD).
That's before you pay for installation too.
CSS Paper Bird
Pure CSS effect. Changing images with scrollbar position.
0 should be root, not 1.
Monorail, monorail!
Facebook privacy fail?
Hopefully this will get fixed before it goes live for everybody, but check out either of these links:

http://www.facebook.com/apps_preview
http://www.facebook.com/games_preview

assuming you logged in to Facebook. No way to opt out of what gets displayed yet, so you will see what your friends are using, maybe even potentially embarrassing apps. Whoops?
There already is a visual scripting environment--its called LabView and its terrible. LabView is used mostly by scientists who want to control their experiments but don't want to learn how to program. It's very effective when dealing with hardware and you just want to get it working. But if it doesn't work, you're screwed because its very difficult to debug.

That's actually the problem I forsee with the visual scripting environment. There is no better single point of instruction than a compiler error or syntax error highlighting. If you try to circumvent that process to make it more "accessible" to the public, you're going to keep your visual programmers in the dark as to what is actually occurring.
De-chunkifying Sequences in Clojure
In the U.S.A, public transit is not feasable. I was in Texas a while back - compared to Europe, things are just way too far apart to make trains or subways feasable.

I also lived in China for a while, and in China you mostly travel by bus. And it is my experience that the Bus is very inconvenient transportation mechanism.

If it does not make sense to build a local train transportation network, then build the highways, because the people will use cars.
It has the word "pod" in it, so it must be true.
What is Haskell’s primary feature?
Subversion in 2010 and Beyond
It's not bad, but due to memory access latency, keeping a short list of "rabbit droppings" is going to be faster on long lists.
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The basic premise, the government can create jobs out of thin air, is flawed. Rest is gravy.
If you care about 200 megs of RAM, you have a hardware problem, not a software problem.

If you care primarily about speed, you're using the wrong program entirely. Google Chrome is significantly faster than Firefox.
Okay, someone a bit more intelligent than me should correct me on this:

Are most poisonous plants not bitter or foul tasting? Also, apart from mushrooms, don't they usually signal their poison?

Why does a plant develop poison if not to discourage animals from eating it : and if it does not signal through taste or look, how would an animal know?

I know nothing about this topic, I'm actually curious.
> Haskell’s evaluation model and its implications is perhaps its most widely misunderstood feature. While the benefits are (enormously) enormous, they are far too deep to consider writing a short article about.

That strikes me as... bad marketing. You have to have an elevator pitch for your language, or at least a concept that you can use to win people over.
Ok so another question for sandal.
How do you begin to work on a pdf gen library in your favorite language? read the pdf standard?
The alpha version:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/apollosputnik/2447744070/
Lisp Quotes
Great Domain Names = Great SEO
I lurked for a while, my account is 1054 days old, but I'm #2685.
I'd be interested to hear the opinions of HN'ers. Is there any reason these days to choose SubVersion over git?
#20515

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I guess that's what I get for lurking...
It looks like the study just analyzed the direct employment effects of the construction projects -- how many ditch diggers, bus drivers, etc. would get paychecks either from the project or from the system the project creates.

The headline numbers, 16,000 job-months for transit, 8,000 job-months for highways (per billion dollars spent), show how small the direct employment is -- 16,000 job-months is about $60 million, or 6% of the investment.

The real question, which is apparently unaddressed, is which transportation infrastructure produces a greater benefit for the regional economy. The economic differences there will likely dwarf the direct effects.

But the Wired article doesn't even go there. There's a statement that transit "allows people to get to work", implying that highways don't, but that's all.

But that's okay. We know cars are evil and transit is good, so there must be numbers out there somewhere to show it.
" Is there any reason these days to choose SubVersion over git?"

Well sometimes your co workers are too .... old fashioned... to grok git. Work in a large enterprise sw company to see this at full effect.
Are things better these days? The way pool.com operates seems extremely seedy.

The name is/was newsvine.com they got acquired by MSNBC a year later, so I guess the name was worth it.

Still, I feel picking an uncontested two word name might be cheaper, less nerve wracking than going through the process described in the article.
I use the soon-to-be integrated yob-templates_2010 fork to fill in existing PDF forms. All you have to do is add a ":template => filename" in "pdf = Prawn::Document.new()". You can also supply the template name to the prawn document instance after creating it: "pdf(:template => filename)". (see the prawn forum for details I posted there)
6 Pirates Fight for 1 Gold Coin
So bad nobody will use it. Many enterprise firewalls only allow port 80 today and a bunch of well know applications.
In order for that to happen, then we need a lot of growth of Lean Startup-type startups who inexpensively validate a business model then go to VC for scaling money. This would reduce risk for VC and make less talented VCs more able to invest more money. But this is all on the entrepreneurs and entrepreneur-trainers to implement.
How fast can you drive? Even on the open highway in Texas, it's probably unreasonable to assume you'll be doing more than 90 mph. A train could easily do 200 mph over the same terrain and probably push 300 mph if we put in the effort. If you could get from Dallas to Houston in an hour on a train, why would you want to drive?
For most of the land area of the US, indeed population density is probably too low to support any meaningful public transit, at least for commuters. I tend to think that public transit in the city with spokes leading out to major suburbs (with park-and-ride lots in the suburbs to account for the sparsity you mention) should be applied more widely. I've only been to New York a couple times, but I'm a big fan of this model there.

What are your thoughts on high-speed rail between major cities?
I also wonder if the drama due to non-payment would be considered part of the art piece.

This was my first thought here too -- perhaps his goal is to get someone not to pay and thus violate the contract, and then try to sue them in civil court and have it officially determined to not to be a work of art anymore.
Thanks for this - The last I had heard about Qi was its demise, so I was confused to see the dates in this posting.
Notmuch: Not much of an email program. Even if you receive 12000 emails a month
The big problem is that most cities, states, and the US are bankrupt. The amount of money they are in debt is ridiculous and way out of proportion to the services they provide and the taxes that they can collect. For instance the city of cambridge, MA has over 1.2 Billion dollars of debt/unfunded liabilities for 70,000 people.

http://www.forbes.com/2009/09/30/cambridge-massachusetts-ope...
Building transit doesn't fix the trade imbalance.
Irrelevant... neither does building public roads.
Processing for Android
Microsoft Reveals the Science Behind Project Natal for Xbox 360
Keeping computers from ending science's reproducibility
> If you could get from Dallas to Houston in an hour on a train, why would you want to drive?

Because once you got there, you'd need a car again.

Texas is a bad example though. I think public transportation can work just fine if you look at where it's being applied. It's insane, for instance, that the BART stuff in the bay area (which is fairly densely populated) doesn't go down and around through San Jose.
Schneier on Security: German TV on the Failure of Full-Body Scanners
Some interesting data from a survey: http://www.ddj.com/architect/222301141

Quote: "More than one-third of developers use Subversion for source code management; that's almost triple the share of the next most used SCM tool, Microsoft SourceSafe"
Yes and no. Here's how it works:

If you buy a domain and don't renew, theres a ~45 day "redemption period", during which you can pay a fee to get it back (GoDaddy charges $80 for this). If you don't, the domain is released back into the wild by Verisign, and all registrars get an equal crack at it. The reason Pool has such a good chance is that they own 80 registrars, so they have 80 horses in the race. That's what the original article discusses.

However, in the last few years drop-catching has become largely irrelevant. Here's why, using GoDaddy and TDNAM as an example:

During that 45 day redemption period, GoDaddy auctions off the right to buy the domain via the TDNAM. If someone pays the fee, they'll renew it themselves to sell it, it never hits the wild again, and the drop catchers never get a shot.

This is how I got GeorgeWBushLibrary.com for $15 (paid TDNAM fee), which I then sold for $35,000 less than a year later.

Network Solutions has NameJet, enom has one too (forget the name). Between those 3, most domains are covered, making drop catching a dying art.

Edit: Its important to note that each aftermarket can only sell domains currently registered at their registrar. So TDNAM only sells domains regged @ GoDaddy, NameJet only sells domains regged @ NetSol, etc.
I've spent some time studying domain names as I found the topic interesting and I have seen the value in a good domain name. Several of my software programs and websites target the agriculture industry. The whole web 2.0/misspelling/non-.com extension/drop-the-vowels doesn't work well there as it just confuses people.

As far as the players, SnapNames, Godaddy, and Pool still are still around. Enom's Club Drop is now NameJet. As mentioned in the article, Network Solutions had an exclusive agreement with Snap (now they are using NameJet). In the past few years, many more registrars have adopted this strategy where they partner with an auction service and make money when the domains are sold.

Most names with these partner agreements become available around 35 days after expiration. These names do keep their original creation date so it's as if the original owner transferred it to you rather than it actually deleting and being re-registered.

If the name is with a registrar who does not have a partner agreement or a name that is not backordered during the auctions, it eventually deletes around 75 days later where the actual dropcatching referenced in the article picks up.
Actually, as long as the US is importing oil it does in part.
Jobs are created out of debt, not thin air. The gov't does indeed have the ability to create more debt and more jobs.

We're betting that the stimulus' net effect on the economy is more growth than the debt's interest, so it'll be more productive to borrow, spend, and repay than not to.

You'll note that the private sector does this all the time. Student loans are a perfect example: create a professor's job today for a higher salary tomorrow.
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This doesn't look so intuitive. Why not use three circles with an orientation indicator? Or words?
"The Supreme Court has just predicted the winners of the next November election"
i used info in this article to buy digitalnomad.com in april. it ended up going to an auction on pool.com with one other bidder, which i won for $170. i had emailed the original owner about a year before and he wanted a couple grand for it.
Why would you want a car there when you could, from anywhere, hop on a train or bus and get where you're going without having to worry about parking in the city?
I don't think that can be entirely placed on Jon's shoulders Sun was on its way down before he took the helm. He just never pulled it up from the dive.

He did however, under his watch transition Sun into having an exceptionally integrated software stack, which was something they (and everyone else) where always missing. The latest generation of solaris / netbeans / glassfish / etc. Is by far the best Java development platform I have worked with.

It rivals the integration of Microsoft products. Say what you will about Microsoft's products the integration of their languages IDE's, servers and databases is phenomenal. It is the main advantage of developing on their platform and Sun's newest stack was the only alternative that I have seen that was not a convoluted mess.

It is my sincerest hope that oracle does not screw that one up as after using it, if I where forced to go back to something else, it would be miserable.
You make a lot of interesting points.

It's teaching us to hate the 'mandatory' subjects, because everyone has to take them, and thus the teachers can't teach it well because 3/4 of their classes are utterly uninterested.

I ran into this as well. I was fortunate in having a high school with a high percentage of AP classes and those were much closer to collage classes than high school classes. But remember in college they have mandatory courses too.

If a course in high school is mandatory it means that someone has decided it is beneficial for most of society to understand that subject and I disagree with some of the details, but there is obvious benefit to having an educated society.

One way to at least help alleviate what you are describing is to offer more classes, more AP style classes, develop cooperatives with local community colleges so some students can take classes there instead of at the high school, and to let people test out of classes if they have already mastered the subject.

This is even harder to argue with, because of the "most". I guess it's that old argument: would you rather allow the more gifted to excel, or everyone be held at the same level (with that level being slightly higher than had you went with the other option)?

You can allow the gifted(loaded term, but that is a different topic) to excel while ensuring everyone has every opportunity and incentive to meet the minimums. They are not mutually exclusive.

The sticking point of course is that to do that we would need a lot more resources in the education system than we have now, but I think that as a society we should spend a lot more on education.

My point: in almost all places in the USA, other languages are useless.

I think that is going to far, but I would agree with in the US another language is of limited value. And for an English speaker, you will find a relatively high percentage of people in most other countries speak at least some English.

But, as the original article pointed out, learning a second language helps develop your mind. It can also give you better perspective on another culture.

It is the ancillary benefits that are highly valuable rather than the skill itself for most English speakers.
WebGLU update, some 360 degree video, and that's just for starters
I noticed an assumption that he makes that's worth pointing out. All the examples he gives where overly realistic elements are distracting are interactive ones, things you're supposed to click on, switch off, etc. However it can enhance things that are read-only so to speak, like information dashboards.

For example, Lexus's new LF-A sports car has digital gauges that sport very realistic-looking dials that imitate the analog ones they replaced, with a few enhancements like turning the face white for sport mode, turning it red when the RPMs hit the redline, etc.

Quick video clip of it in action:

http://paultan.org/2009/11/13/lexus-lf-a-has-one-really-cool...
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