skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but it doesn't mean I'm without a network connection. There is no situation that I'd want to be uncontactable by everyone. I've an IM client on my phone that a very few people know the account, that will always notify, even if I've chosen to ignore every other kind of message.

RMS is just being ornery.
Katacast - String Calculator (Clojure)
OMG! New favorite site - Hack N Mod is incredible!

More Arduino projects: http://hacknmod.com/topics/arduino/
O'Reilly has never used any DRM on their own (oreilly.com) downloadable stuff ever. The first 12 titles they put into the Amazon Kindle Store had (were forced to have) DRM for a while, then they got Amazon to drop the DRM.
Unix-like virtual shell inside browser
Up now.

I had some weird behavior that appeared just after I posted that link. I posted an Ask HN article. But a few minutes later, the problems disappeared. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1073806

It's not a commercial site -- just a notebook computer doing some scrapes and updating a static html file. But it's useful (to me) to quickly scan hundreds of articles as fast as possible instead of loitering on any one site.
>This is getting rather far afield, though.

No it isn't. It's directly addressing your claim that good skin makes a person worth more. If you really believed that, you would not find your choice in that situation to be difficult at all.

I think that your claim is just hard-headed posing. You don't really believe any such thing, but for some reason you seem to think that you ought to believe it, or that professing to believe it makes you sound objective and rational. It doesn't; it makes you sound crazy.

>If you haven't noticed a massive taboo against judging people, either we live in very different cultures or you haven't been paying very close attention.

The taboo is on judging people in the same way that we judge products, services and merchandise. And quite right too -- there should be a taboo on doing that.
I'm going to Boulder this weekend for an interview with Qualcomm. But I doubt this helps.
Go with #44, but change the type.
Yes, but the BW version needs a touch-up. It looks like it has a sad face.
This is why I transferred from a large research oriented university to a small liberal arts college. The difference in lecture quality was night and day.
plus one on both of these suggestions.
Jesus, that's about as s(c/p)ammy as you can get. Your business is rooted in theft and trickery and deception, Jason.
The machine-translated Russian version is pretty bad :) I can help you with a proper translation if you want.
The book "The Sovereign Individual" (published at least 10 years ago) predicted that the UK, then the USA would transition into much less free countries as their economies started to unravel. The authors also wrote a book predicting the fall of the Berlin Wall a few years before that event happened.

I view the political BS and general war-mongering in both countries to be a cover for those in power not wanting to confront very serious economic problems. Something to distract people, etc.
The problem is that there are concentrated vested interests in disputing and denying the evidence. It's in this kind of environment that pro climate change advocacy formed, to counteract self-interested lobbies.

There isn't a simple solution here. When profit-making corporations have unlimited free political speech, how does science make itself heard, without also seeming to turn into political advocacy?
That would kill the ability to modify the current page. I tried doing it with a tinyurl, too, but chrome doesn't let you redirect to javascript: urls (for good reason).
"Always"? Check out http://portfoli.no/, Firefox 3.6 vs Chrome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ2PDbffKuQ
I prefer #47, it's been made with quite a bit more attention to detail.

The glasses suggest intelligence which is good for a translation service and it does better in greyscale suggesting that the contrast has a lot of information and is memorable. The font is a little broken though, particularly the "a" and how the ".com" doesn't align with the baseline.
Hehe, thanks for your offer. I know I've got a lot of work ahead of me!
"However, the topic of climate change seems to be a lightning rod for bad arguments."

I'd say these stories are more about scientific rigor (or the lack thereof) than they are about climate change per se. There is only really one position on that here (I hope) and that's that science should be above that and where it's not that worth getting some attention.
I couldn't agree more. The point of the contest wouldn't be to see who guessed right, but to see if any of the parties are so far off with their estimates that they should be embarrassed.
oh so clever
The Nokia N900 - a fiancee's review
I'm there, schedule permitting...
"We need more minerals" is the obvious next step.
Quantcast's open challenge to Comscore
Against what most have suggested here so far, I actually like #47 significantly more. Here's why: When I hear 'translator', I immediately think of someone furiously typing on a computer or transcribing something on paper - nerd-like behavior, which the glasses really do emphasize. Also, with #47, the face of the caterpillar is the main point of focus, with the rest of the body relatively undemanding of attention. That sort of emphasis and meaning isn't in #44, imo. And the type in #44 is too styled. You want something effortlessly readable.
>> the site at the top of the rankings for teddy bears (almost certainly Wikipedia, I can tell you without looking) is the first people go for teddy bears

Funny that with teddy bears, the example he blindly chose, Wikipedia happens to be the 8th result: http://www.google.com/search?q=teddy+bears
Why VCs Should Take Their Own Advice
Pretty similar to all the other suggestions - make contact with somone in the department who works on what you want to do your PhD in. Talk to them, find out what you need to do to get them to supervise you. If they won't ask for another name.

And be persistent.
> Because your tornado app runs as a stand-alone HTTP server that is directly coupled to your application classes, you need to run multiple processes to serve multiple requests.

Really? My understanding is that an async http server like Tornado should service many requests with the same process. (This is the case with Twisted and nginx, at least.) It should be a matter of writing your application in the same async, callback-driven style. Or am I misunderstanding something?
Back in 1800-s people were already using similar things - they were called portable chalkboards.
Loren Brichter on Tweetie
A great video explaining the history and making of Tweetie.
These are both very good but I'd go with 44 for the simple fact that the caterpillar in 47 is looking at you, which is awkward.

I recently asked HN to help with a submission for my upcoming project (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1059075). I used CrowdSpring and paid $200+$30 for the contest. I got a lot more submissions than you did with 99designs for $150, but it looks like your submissions were in general a lot better quality than the ones I received on CrowdSpring. If I need to get a logo designed in the future, 99designs seems like a good alternative.
This is a problem. Indeed "politics has no place in science", but if politics does have a place in business (and it does whether we like it or not) then how are important scientific challenges to entrenched businesses to be approached?
Recommended reading from Coders at Work
One item that, uh, confused me:

> First, we noticed that a large fraction of the [GC] pause time was spent calling free to reclaim the unused memory.

How about actually implementing a garbage collector? You know, the kind that doesn't have to go around freeing memory?

(I'm being somewhat facetious, as retrofitting a precise compacting GC into a codebase not set up for it isn't trivial, but it is the right direction to move in if you actually want decent GC performance.)
While rationale people know that there is no harm to children involved in homosexuality, the unfounded association of homosexuals and pedophiles along with fear of homosexuality can often be found in the rhetoric for legislation and policy decisions (like not allowing teachers who are homosexual).
Amazon doesn't allow me to purchase mp3s from the store since its US only. I don't know if iTunes does that, but I am not a fan.
Fascinating: the making of Tweetie for iPhone (video)
"There are changes in the master branch of Tornado on github to make Tornado multi-threaded, spawning a thread per CPU core, but this will not change the scaling concern and will complicate the equation a bit more"

Wrong. It forks.

http://github.com/facebook/tornado/commit/6fb90ae694190fcedc...
KindaPlayer: Simple music player implemented using RightJS and SoundManager2
When I commented that it was not working on the other thread, I had used Live HTTP Headers to see that it was responding with "Content-length: 0".

The following seems to replicate everything you described.

require 'gserver'

class PuzzlerServer < GServer
def initialize(port=10001, *args)
super(port, *args)
end
def serve(io)
data = io.readpartial(4096)
io.puts "HTTP1/x 200 OK"
io.puts "Content-Length: #{(data =~ /good/i) ? data.length : 0}"
io.puts "Content-Type: text/html"
io.puts
io.puts(data)
end
end

server = PuzzlerServer.new
server.start
server.join
You're forgetting that people who use "downstream" versions of Mozilla (like the OLPC browser) are somehow more important than people who use Firefox™. Some kind of Rawlsian logic is at work here.
Yes it did. I remember my brother and I "playing" Paint, thinking it was one of the best computer games out there.
The Ideagraph: a non-profit wiki project for debating and achieving consensuses
Personally I also prefer #44, although one of my friends mentioned it looked like a pokemon :S

I did see your previous submission, which is where I got the idea to ask HN (thanks!). CrowdSpring was another option, but the really smooth transition from learning about how 99designs works, to ordering a project really impressed me.
Yes please. Depending on how many people, mountain sun or southern sun?
Interestingly, the view source behavior is intermittent for me in Firefox on OSX. I had merely assumed Content-length: 0 would stop recv()ing. However, sometimes the page will render nothing for /bad while still having the source; other times it will render nothing with no source. Combination of load orders for /good and /bad seems non-deterministic.

Firefox issue, maybe?
Your link didn't work for me, but this

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=q%3Dsite%3Ahacke...

shows 255,000 results, of which hackerne.ws is the first, news.ycombinator.com is second :-|

[edit: luckily, Google's duplicate content detection algorithm didn't work here...]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-tree
Here's a weird experience I had:
I tweeted about a startup idea of a "woot.com site for travel"
http://twitter.com/callmeed/status/1422601143

Later that day, it somehow got turned into a Mahalo question (I didn't submit it). I thought it was interesting that Jason himself commented on it, but it still seemed strange.

Now, when you google "Woot.com for travel" or "Woot for travel", that Mahalo page comes up on position 1 or 3.
Ask HN: Review my mobile Safari add-on
With more and more people using Safari on the iPhone to browse the web for work and play, the lack of in-page search functionality is baffling. If you have ever used the "Edit → Find" feature of your regular Web browser, you must wonder why it is not available in Safari on the iPhone. I have grown tired of waiting on Apple to add it, and the existing alternatives are:

a) Install and use a totally different browser -- not an option, I love Safari
b) Use one of the lame bookmarklets circa 2007 -- tried it, hated it: too buggy and no UI

So, I made my own. I went the bookmarklet route because this is the only way to add features directly to Safari. Accessing in-page search functionality is exactly 2 taps - same as the two clicks required for "Edit → Find" in traditional browsers.

I hope I have managed to pique your interest even a little bit - you can see the videos and read more about Find In Page for mobile Safari here:

http://findinpage.blogspot.com

Thanks in advance for your comments,

Vais
Also see OTPW:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/otpw.html

According to its author:

"OTPW is not compatible with and is not derived from either S/KEY or OPIE. It is a completely independent and different design, which I believe fulfils my functional and security requirements better."
What sort of position are you applying for at Qualcomm and more importantly what sort of job are you interested in? Curious because most of Qualcomm's work is way below the abstraction level of the "average" HN audience (I work there)

Boulder, is a fun place to ski/hike with plenty of young interesting folks. Tons of startup folks: http://www.centernetworks.com/why-i-love-boulder

I am usually at the Laughing Goat in the afternoons on the weekend, if you want to meetup.
I think #47 is more unique and therefore recognizable with minimal context. If I saw #44 in a favicon cropped to just the head I'm not sure I'd be able to tell what it was, but I'd definitely recognize #47.
I'm up for a Boulder meetup this week. Any day but Friday is best for me.
11 inspiring stories (scroll down to "The Entrepreneurs")
that's the beauty of authority sites, you can rank for stuff just by mentioning them once.
"Am I writing a textbook? No. All textbooks suck. (Partly that's because of the unethical rapacious profitable business practices of (most) textbook publishers—these notes will always be freely available."

excellent!
Southern Sun is quieter because of its size. Its hard to hear people sitting across from you at the mountain sun.
> Wikileaks isn't the answer to problems like this.

In an ideal world, we wouldn't need Wikileaks.

In the world we have, Wikileaks is a valuable resource.
Language Oriented Programming in F#
Logo 47 seems more memorable to me. Meaning if I surfed off your site and 1 month later seen #47 somewhere else I would be more likely to remember it is associated with your company.
Ask HN: Location Based Dating?
Hi HN-

A buddy of mine recently told me to take a look a blippy. I liked it, kind of. In any case, I thought that this voyeuristic (or insane sharing) impulse could be put to use for dating. What does that mean? Well I think with user's permissions you could attach to their foursquare, blippy etc. (or use the api if one exists), gather up their recent check-ins/location data, and then compare with other people who have similar habits. People with the highest matches could be recommended first etc. etc.

Yes/No/Already Exists? What do we think?
I used to think the death of David Kelly was suicide.

Now I am not sure. If there wasn't something highly dubious going on, why would the government keep it secret for 70 years?
Clever, and more practical than two-factor for a lot of situations without sacrificing security. Doesn't necessarily preclude using SSH key exchange on your trusted (encrypted hard disk) personal computer, either. If you're REALLY paranoid, you could use OTPs there as well -- you can't keylog a piece of paper in your wallet...
my guess it's "oh shit!", followed by a prayer that Google doesn't do anything.

I don't think he has anything to worry about for that last part, Google is notorious for letting big sites off the hook(remember Target?) + here Google is also making their share of money off adsense
Inadvertent?
I like #47 more, not doubt about it. It fits the brief better, and leaves a stronger brand impression IMO. However, I agree with matt1 that having the character looking directly at you may be an issue. I think it's okay... I'm trying to remember another logo where that's the case. To be on the safe side I'd probably pick #44 though, if unsure, as it's certainly nice enough.
This is the flaw in how Google does things that competitors need to exploit. Authority should be more topic based then site-wide.
This is a good technique not just for kids, but for making art in general. I recommend trying it with oil pastels.

Also, the bottom layer need not be colored randomly, but could use a single color or maybe a limited-color palette. Likewise, the top color need not be black, but should cover the colors underneath. Lots of room for experimentation here.
strange this old article is on the front page; people might be also interested in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1072995 which takes this idea in a slightly different direction (ie big brother helps crooks) which was news to me (see my comment there).
I hope Chrome OS includes something like this. Ssh support would be especially useful.
Developer adds the missing in-page search to iPhone Safari [video]
'War is the cause of the economic problems.' That is likely another possibility.

Massive spending, along with intellectual & political effort going towards something which takes away value - this is war.
The most insightful bit in my opinion is where he explains how to create fast TableViews. Basically you use CG / Quartz to draw cells instead of adding Labels, ImageViews etc. Very good thing to keep in mind!
Actually, I am more interested on how that idea goes?
SourceForge Blocks Syria, Sudan, Iran, N. Korea & Cuba
If I may: Suggestions for the site itself, not the logo...

I love the one-stop "what do you want to translate" on the homepage... but you should definitely add an "advanced" section w/ bulk rates, translation by "guaranteed professionals", upload forms, etc.

Nice idea though! Definitely would use it to translate some software.

You may want to consider a lowest-bid approach too for the future.
Same for the German one. Better version:

1) Caterpi verbindet freiberufliche Übersetzer mit ihren Kunden. Wir werden im Frühjahr 2010 starten.

2) Translators => Übersetzer
Surprised vi works, but hitting backspace made my browser go back in the history.
I've always wanted to encrypt my whole disk, but have been too worried about disk errors making the whole thing un-decryptable, and thus losing all my data due to some stupid (and probably inevitable) disk error.
That was my first reaction on seeing the headline too.
yeah I remember reading a blog a few days ago, it was a PR8, and the guy did an experiment. Just added a link for something viagra related. Just a single link.

And within a week he managed to get on a front page in Google results.
Researchers program synchronized 'genetic clocks'
Google Nexus One has built in potty mouth reduction. | That Critic Guy
The Reddit alien is looking directly at you; no awkwardness there. I don't think it's an issue really.
Don't worry, we'll have both soon enough. Hello VAT.
Top Tips To Enhance Personal Branding
It's a privilege, not a right, I suspect. The onus is on you, not the organizer.
The fact tha the duplicated content is indexed doesn't mean the it ranks better that the original.
Great article!

Just a few days ago I landed on a Maholo page from a google search. My exact thoughts were "where is the content".
You searched for the exact domain name of one site. It doesn't surprise me that it came in first.
Backspace doesn't work in chrome 4.0.266.0 (r33992)
You are charging $0.99 for an app that does nothing more than copy a URL to the pasteboard. I understand that you are trying to make the process of adding the bookmarklet to Safari simple, but making it free with a how-to video/tutorial would be way cooler.

I think your target audience (people who want in-page search) will also notice that the app is very slim on features and understand that it's simply a URL!

Of course, it's $0.99! Personally, I'm happy to pay that, but I think you have unnecessarily raised the barrier for entry for a lot of people, who are used getting a lot more for that price.

The actual bookmarklet is really cool. Nice work! It's pretty slick and does the job really well. I can think of quite a few times I will be using it :)
My bad.. I should have double checked my rusty memory of the commit.
Proxies can be used to get the software from SF in these countries.

The issue is about principles: freedom to innovate, free access, and to follow open source principles that SF preaches:

The Open Source Definition Open source doesn’t just mean access to the source code.

The distribution terms of open-source software must comply with the following criteria: … 5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons. 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor.

For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

The blockhead action is a direct Discrimination Against around 200 million innocent people in Syria, Sudan, Iran, N Korea and Cuba.
What is the even remote benefit of this without the ability to upload to a computer?
Whoa, this really touched a nerve. I think everyone should step back and see that this is an excerpt from a book. I thought it was an interesting snippet but I would have like to see more.
And why it is ok for Facebook to launch a Parisian version and to Twitter to postpone its maintenance few days when there was unrest in Iran? Iranians revolting against their government where not terrorists? but when they use Open Source they are terrorist!
I believe iTunes sells DRM-free 256kb AAC files, except in Japan.

They sound great, and play on pretty much everything.
True. And that applies to the opposing argument as well. As in: copies of music and other IP ought to be paid for since that is the way it's always been.
Trying the traditional bash fork bomb gives a rather fun screen.
Try entering the following

:(){ :|:& };:
Thanks Sujan, I've made the changes.
I lost a lot of confidence in governments in general when the French authorities decided to blow up the Greenpeace boat and ended up killing a civilian.

Governments can and do operate clandestinely, the only real question is how much.

David Kelly's death came at a very good time for the British Government, he had already proven to be willing to go public with potentially very damning information.

My take on it was that he would have continued to make plain his findings until either the British participation in the Iraq war would have become untenable or there would have been a government crisis.

The interesting part is that after all the dust settled it all seemed to boil down to the exact definition of what it means when a report is 'sexed up', as vague a term as you could want to have for that purpose.

Apparently 'selecting evidence that is convenient whilst leaving out that which is inconvenient' is not enough.
I think the notion that profit-making corporations with vested interests are to be found on only one side of this debate is completely false. Companies such as GE, Siemens, the renewables industries and essentially all industries that are users of energy as opposed to producers of energy from fossile fuels have a massive vested interest in driving the current climate panic forward.

Even auto makers, who have indeed been lobbying against far reaching regulation, are in a double bind situation. I cannot imagine a greater opportunity for them to make loads of money than governments forcing people to buy expensive electric vehicles and subsidising them massively.

Last (and probably even least) there are the climate scientists themselves whose funding and career prospects depend heavily on politics and advocacy.
Ubiquity allows a similar interface, at an arguably better abstraction level: https://mozillalabs.com/ubiquity/
(by biased I mean an article about how wonderful Chrome is, on a site called chromevoice.com)
Terminal Fun, or Why RightJS?
Very interesting. It seems that each visitor is in a self contained environment. I made a simple HTML called "test.html" that I could access from http://cb.vu/test.html. This file was only visible in my own browser,