skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Superior. Thanks for this.
That's exactly my point. I will never understand God's plans (because there is no feedback from him, or I can't sense them), so I should be focusing on the problems that face me everyday.

Thus, I don't think God (if he exists) wants us to believe in him. (The same way, I don't care if a program or and ant worships or believes in me).
No worries - and good luck. We Europeans look forward to joining the party :-)
I think it is part of our human nature to try and contain a tragedy by labeling or attributing some cause to it.

Are you implying that tragedies have no cause.

It seems like human to try understand tragedies as they are significant part of our human world. Moreover, tragedies usually do have causes.

Claiming that there is no cause to an event may serve some psychological purpose...
This is really great. It gives me a lot of the information I like to see in a clear and concise manner. A link to twitter+blog would be nice. Also questions that are similar to what you see on the YC app would be cool ie- "tell us about the time you successfully hacked a non-computer system".
"...business owners or those wanting a logo will try to do it themselves. I highly recommend against this and suggest you leave the design to a professional, much as you would leave your dental work to a dentist."

Did they just compare logo design to dentistry? This blog post reads like an advertisement for a logo design firm.
I like your idea, but having spent a couple of days on ChatRoulette (and having seen the lack of success Seesmic has had in the blog comments sphere) I'm wondering whether there's really an appetite for video amongst strangers beyond seeing crazy/sick stuff or a gutter level of curiosity.

Even if you play ChatRoulette legitimately, the number of people who will actually talk back to you is ridiculously low. You can get into typed conversations with people and they won't open their mouths a bit. People also seem OK with just staring at each other. It's like an awkward subway ride.
Its not a dumb question, and I hope you haven't been discouraged from future participation. The advice you've been given here is excellent though. If I could add one thing, it would be this:

In your first paragraph, you've already made 3 excuses about why you haven't released anything:

- "I'm busy on other things in my life"
- "I chose some wrong technologies to get started with"
- "I'm not the best developer in the world"

You've got to cut that shit out right now. Let this be the last time you got jumped on an idea because somebody else was working his or her ass off on it, while you were making excuses.
> What gave her the idea that being a tenured professor is better than a founder of a successful startup?

The same thing that gives HNers idea that starting a startup is better than being a tenure professor -- personal choice and personal set of goals and motivations.
Or ask WA:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=7Gb%2Fs+to+TB%2Fmonth
Yeah, that blog post seemed out of touch to me. Sure, if you're going to redesign the McDonald's or Exxon logos you're going to want a professional and there is a lot riding on the logo. But for everyone else the logo just isn't that important.

A logo is something that won't make or break your business. It's the icing, not the cake.
You have a good point, but it does not negate the Author's point that wave requires people that you can collaborate with.

If they wanted to go with this limited technology preview, I suspect the launch would have gone much more smoothly if people who got the initial invites had the ability to invite (a limited number) others in their group. That way the people they did want to collaborate with would be on wave.

Also, I think the author has a good point with how Buzz was released. I use social networking (facebook), but I use it cautiously. I may have ended up using Buzz, but I would have been much happier if it had been opt in. As it is, I can't even find a good way to entirely opt out.
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"help the victims grieve"... maximal moral unction...

When an event like this touches your life, very few stimuli from outside your own personal bubble of pain and confusion have any chance of registering with you [1].

But having the national paper of record print headlines half-excusing your friend or family member's killer [2] because she's the right kind of people would definitely do it.

[1] Some people express surprise that there are other people "out there," still going about their lives as if nothing had happened.

[2] allegedly.
If this isn't an argument for removing commenting capability from all blog software, I don't know what is.
These Battle Lines Are Drawn in Yellow
That would be my point.
Among the many reasons this will never happen: the italics in real typefaces are extremely intricately designed around their specific angle. Which is among the many reasons that type specimen looks awful.
If OneNote is anything like Word you can use LaTeX notation once you are inside an equation environment (Alt + =).

For example in Word typing
Alt + =
\int^1_2 \sum^x_(x+1) \ge \sqrt(25)

Would produce exactly what you would get in LaTeX.

You can even copy/paste between applications that support MathML.
Barbara Rechterman (my right hand person to this very day) and I were in my office. Someone said "How about Big Daddy?" A quick check revealed that it was taken. Then I said "How about Go Daddy?" And by golly, the name was available, so we bought it.

Of all the company name stories I've heard, this was the most anticlimactic.

Cool list of company name etymologies here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_company_name_etymologie...
Why will this suceed where tipjoy didn't?
name.com: simple interface and free private whois - domains are 8.99 and they almost always have a discount code on their facebook group
That's the Microsoft approach to building products, and while they meet all of the "feature check-list" of the product they're cloning, they usually somehow fall sort on execution. There's something a bit ineffable that comes with the people who truly grok the problem being solved and pour their heart and soul into solving it.
The comments he quotes sound most likely to be fake rather than genuinely confused people. "I got the Internet from my dad so I can get the pokemons" is the sort of thing an internet denizen is more likely to say sarcastically, than an internet newbie is likely to say genuinely.
Others have suggested NearlyFreeSpeech.net here and so I signed up with them a while ago (switched from GoDaddy). I've been using it for domain registration, DNS, and web hosting. Since I have ~0 traffic, it's dirt cheap.

It's ideologically the polar opposite of GoDaddy. And the web interface is so much easier to use.

There's no reason not to switch.
I liberally rewrite my history; this is why I push --force. I don't view version control as an auditing tool, I view it as a debugging tool. YMMV.
Well, it's better than the company that is trying to sell you their sarcasm punctuation mark: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/7035351/SarcMark-...
It seems like there are many situations that will require a good monitoring solution on their end. Also if they want to make the payments available via a simple page-embedded button - it just invites cross-site request exploits and js auto-voters embedded on the same site. But monitoring / fraud protection applies to any (micro)payment service, so it's not something new or unknown...
I've seen no more evidence for your guess than I have for mine.
Inching toward a virtual new Detroit at $1 a square
Awesome. Should get more and more useful as we approach the singularity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity :)
My thoughts exactly :). I treat marketing surveys and loyalty card application forms similarly, unless I really really like the company.
Irony is no fun if it's clearly marked.

In fact it completely defeats the purpose of irony. It's like explaining a joke until you've completely killed it.
light-weight reminders: http://www.rememberthemilk.com

everything above that: 3banana - https://snaptic.com/corp/products/ (but I'm biased as you may infer from my username vs the guy posting about his company above).

full on docs: google docs
That's the part that I didn't study, it's the Christian part. It has no Hebrew source/prototype; the original is in Greek (AFAIK), and not taught in the Migdal Emeq boarding school for boys (as it is a jewish school).

EDIT: I read some King James for the shear lulz. And lulz to deliver it has.
While we're at it, we should all put our heads together and figure out ways to screw all the YC/HN/etc startups and use their services without paying their premium fees. After all, if I want something, I deserve it, right?
Where Can a Teen Find a Job?
I am not sure the TB/month figure quoted by others is a price that would scale to this level.
As a new start-up without the ability/desire to commit for a year or any credit rating, you are likely to be paying about $6 per Mbps per month. As a reference for this price in July 2008, Cogent took the bottom out of the transit bandwidth market by offering $7 per Mbps (dropping to $6 for 1Gbps committ) - (see http://connectedplanetonline.com/mag/telecom_cogent_throws_d...). Prices may have dropped a bit in the last 15 months, but not by that much.

So at 7000 Mbps/second - I'd put the price at more like $42k per month.
More importantly, is anyone working on an app they see suggested here already?
namecheap is highly regarded, and I've had good experiences with them myself. (In the interest of full disclosure: I'm not associated with namecheap or any other registrar.).
i prefer .~
You don't have to think about the amount... just pay monthly and click when you like something. You know you can click whatever you want and will never run over your spending limit, because you're paying flat rate. At least that's the main reason I like this idea over all the other micro-payments, or paypal.
Synch-ing utility between OmniGraffle and Django models.
I can't tell if the comments here taking this seriously are being sarcastic or not.

Ok, brain hurting like recursive Lisp macros now.
I just wrote this python utility for keeping OmniGraffle diagrams and Django models in synch.

Anyone else like to keep object model diagrams of their database tables? Or of architecture or dataflow?

I'm currently scratching my own itch, but I'm looking for feedback and feature requests to see where this might lead.
With the general level of discourse on the internet, it's hard to be sarcastic and not be taken as a troll. There are subtle intonation cues when speaking face-to-face that can't really be translated well to text. So I would say that the sarcasm is ruined if it is too clearly marked, but it helps if it is marked in some way.
The effect is more subtle than that, and hard to explain. The iPod Touch seems relatively primitive to me now. The screens are miles apart, while the Apple device has smoother scrolling etc.

The best way I can think of to describe it is like a Mac vs PC, except with the Unix subsystem made completely locked-down on the Mac. PCs are just better and more productive machines for my way of approaching the world. It just feels more industrial-strength, more adult, less toy-like, at an emotional level that's very hard to express concisely.
The funny thing is latest client is worse than the last client for Windows. Previous client was quite good actually, new one doesn't even look like a native Windows app.

I think they fall into "Let's rewrite this and make it better!" FAIL. You need to be pretty stupid to rewrite something that's actually working unless you got a great confident, team and time, and final client of them proves that they sucked, and now it's going to take them another 6 months to come up with something as good as their previous client.

When startups are going to learn to not to do obviously stupid like "OMG, our client is not good enough, instead of improving it, let's rewrite it, yay!" ?
how do i post an idea? would be nice to have an input box on the website.
I remember seeing that page the other day during the RWW facebook thing and being pretty sure it was going to fill up with those sorts of jokes.

Real users are way funnier than troll-wannabes could ever be, because they sometimes manage to mangle and misunderstand things in a way that reveals that they live in a completely different universe than you do.
http://meet.tinychat.com/put-anything-here (check back in a few hours)

Using nothing but the tinychat API to do it.
"They're profitable because they make products that people like and buy. If they weren't profitable it would because people don't like their products and don't buy them."

I agree with the "buy" part: that's obviously necessary for them to be profitable. Not so sure about the "like" part.

There are many reasons to buy or not buy a product apart from liking it.

You could buy it because that's what's used at work, or because that's what all your friends have, or because they have a monopoly on interfacing with other products you need to use (like games, or photoshop, or tax or music software), or because that's what you've been using all along and it's just too much of a pain to switch, or just because the product is marketed so well that you feel the need to buy it without having any sort of clue as to whether you'll like after you've bought it (or any sort of clue as to how good the competition is).
Like the troll article the other day. It was very hard not to write a troll acting like it was trying not sound like a troll.
BTW open sourcing their app wouldn't make a difference at all, actually it doesn't even make sense.
As always my computer science forefathers were more manly than I am. It really is fascinating how these clever mechanisms can be used to solve a dynamic problem such as fire control.
You are so cool. (I'm actually not being sarcastic.)
I didnt' see these mentioned:

Ditto Clipboard Manager

http://ditto-cp.sourceforge.net/

Winsplit Revolution

http://www.winsplit-revolution.com/

And ToDoList is the best lightweight, local list/project manager I've come across. I've read that it runs fine under Wine, and it writes to a usable XML format.

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/applications/todolist2.aspx
> There are many reasons to buy or not buy a product apart from liking it.

But most of those are statistically insignificant or temporary. Apple has sold millions of iPhones, for example, year after year.

You sound like you are desperate to make a negative point about Apple without actually having something meaningful to add to the discussion.
No, Stevens was mocked because he rambled like Grandpa Simpson about how staffers sent him "an Internet" that took 5 days to reach him because the tubes were clogged. "Series of tubes" is merely the most memorable quote from that bizarre stream of consciousness.

And, he was the guy in charge of regulating the Internet in the Senate.
I'm guessing children's names.

A quick check of popular baby names in the US (here: http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/) shows Michael and Daniel to still be quite popular. All four names mentioned appear several times in the top 15 baby names for years between 1979 and 2000 or so. Nicole averages around the 7th most popular name for the 80's.
Would you mind backing up that assertion? I would argue that technological advances are a large part of what makes the west's standard of living greater. Just look at the huge leaps in GDP made by the Four Asian Tigers, China, India, etc, for examples of how technological inflows have increased standards of living.

As an example, inventing a cheaper, scalable, and distributed (unhindered by corrupt central governments) way to sanitize water in the third world seems like a pretty good technological challenge to me.
Is there a free version I can download? I couldn't find one.
How to Write a Blog Post
Google changes Buzz to be opt-in and adds easy delete button
The irony of this is the fact that I had a lecture that very day across UAHuntsville's campus in which my literature teacher said often times, when a person murders someone, there is a significantly higher chance they will do it again. I'm not saying that the death of her brother was indeed a murder, but I couldn't help but get a chill when I found out the news later that day. All of the teachers at UAHuntsville have passion about what they do; this is evident especially in the passion that the teachers seem to imbue in us as students. It is saddening to hear that three faculty have been killed, especially since one of those teachers was my own this past semester.
The problem is that sarcasm or ironic speech is meant to subvert the listener's expectations. You say something, people initially hear it straight, but then realize it's ridiculous and you're not being serious, and they find the juxtaposition amusing.

If you demarcate such language beforehand with backtalics or <sarcasm> tags, then there is no such juxtaposition and thus no realization.

Plus, while difficult, there are ways to hint an intonation in text.

I mean, hel-LO, it's so OBvious.
"Instead, the web will be a meta-platform of content flows, unencumbered by actual applications."... that's what she said.
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Looks like this was interesting enough for the New York Times Magazine to take your idea and report on it as their own: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/magazine/14fob-medium-t.ht...
I don't see any evidence that the reasons I cited are statistically insignificant or temporary. They clearly do happen, but to what extent? I don't know of any large-scale studies that show why people buy iphones or ipods.

As for not adding anything to the discussion, the same could be said about your own comments. Or you could also be accused of being "desperate to defend Apple".

But I wouldn't accuse you of that because I don't think that's a very constructive way of having a discussion.
Why do you say that? In theory much of their value is actually in the sharing/networking aspects. Since they control the backend service and the API, I'd say it could reasonably be a win for them to open source all of their client variants.
I'm in the US, and I've seen them (here's one at Target: http://www.target.com/Haier-Front-Load-Washer-Dryer-Combo/dp...). From what I've seen, they're more expensive. Also, if you're doing N loads, it takes longer if you have one combo unit (2N time) than if you had a separate washer and dryer (N+1).
So you can’t think there is high probability god doesn’t exist and still be open-minded and a skeptic? Perfect 50:50 agnostics as the only bearers of skepticism and open-mindedness? :)
Fascinating. I've often wondered about the old mechanical fire control computers. According to a TV show I saw, the fire control computers on US WWII submarines were so top secret no good documentation on them has survived, and I believe the only (or one of the few) fully intact examples left is on the USS Pampanito in San Francisco. Once the bugs were finally worked out in the Mark 14 torpedo US submarines were a hugely effective a weapon in the Pacific war.
Indeed. It's like having to point out irony. The subtlety of well-played irony and sarcasm are part of what makes them so great.
You'll notice I said that I mentioned protecting the perpetrator from society... Killing them kind of defeats that. Also, they can't achieve rehabilitation if we kill them.

You focus on the single exception I mentioned to a retribution-based system as though I had not mentioned it as an exception at all. Why is that?
We should remove commenting capability here as well while we're at it!
Oh man I was loving the css work on the site until I hovered over What is Wappr?...please please tone down that blue drop shadow when you hover, it looks like a bad mistake because of the amount of blur.

Otherwise, great design!
Let's say you believe that our existence can be attributed to a 'divine engineer' who developed said program and our physical laws are a by product of his engineering. How do atheists respond to such an statement? I am just having a hard time defining myself spiritually (not that I feel the need to).

Atheists seem to say "there is no God", but the 'divine engineer' theory would say there is a God, just not one in the traditional sense.
There's a difference between sites designed solely for commenting on arbitrary articles, and comments sections tacked on as an afterthought.

Have you ever seen an intelligent, multi-comment discussion in blog comments? What about here? That's the difference.
I've got an Intel DX58SO (the only core i7 from Intel I could find at the time). Usually Intel motherboard "just work" with Linux...
He says that he deleted the original comments, but then realized it was too funny to keep deleting them.

So most of the legitimate ones are in the bit-bucket. But keep in mind that this happened 3 years ago.
Still, I liked his can opener analogy. Yes, robot can openers might help the disabled, but I bet that was not why they were invented. Let's call robot can openers for the disabled a completely different product than robot can openers for non-disabled. Then his point still stands.

But: nothing against tinkering, a ka creating robot can openers just because we can.
I Would have to agree with Ryan on the "fixed pie" thinking. This isn't an allocation issue, its based on productivity.

In the book "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People," Stephen Covey explains a great theory called the P/PC ratio (production to production capacity). In other words, take care of your physical and mental self, and you will produce far better results in your work related endeavors.

People don't realize that not exercising and not eating healthy will severely limit your ability to work productive 40-100 hour work weeks.
I'd like to second the links idea. Let me link to my blog, twitter, github, etc.

Looks pretty interesting; I signed up to see what happens.
Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?
Apple has been making software for their hardware from day 1.

No user (statistically) cares about GPL 1, 2 or 3 or the possibilities some modular design opens for either hardware or software developers. They care about the UI not sucking. At the end of the day, that's the gap Android has to bridge.

The first leads to the second. I would hack on Android if I could actually use my changes on my own phone, which I would be able to do if Android were GPL 3. If I could hack on Android, the UI would be better. Multiply that by 1000+ other people in a similar situations, and you can see that GPL 3 would lead to what users actually care about.
Amazing! If true, this and the similar article about Facebook login (http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/02/11/facebook-login) are mind openers. Pure gold.
The image I'm seeing is not subpixel rendered. Amazing how that sticks out if you are used to nicely rendered text.

Personally I'm looking forward to 150dpi+ displays so Linux displays will look good even for those of us who live in the US.
I realised that a few weeks ago, without reading the article.

Somehow, I'd rather suicide than give up.
Points 4 and 6 are pretty good.
Good work! I suggest you have sections for NorCal and SoCal (not just states -- CA is a big state!)
ScummVM will let you play a lot of old games in that style. You will have to "acquire" the data files for it.

http://www.scummvm.org/
as far as Schafer games go, it was much better than Psychonauts and a true classic but not as good as Grim Fandango.
Out of curiosity, does anybody here know of a concrete example where a Linux user actually paid money for Linux software?

I think that might be part of the explanation.
Are you really incapable of understanding that other people may value something like tenure more than you do?
The Quiet Energy Revolution
Does anybody have an alt link? These look like they died:

"Sorry, Service Temporarily Unavailable."