skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like a gap in the market!
Why no Flash on the iPad? Theories abound
Short term? (the "hookup phase") Maybe not, what with daily showers and deodorants and what not.

Long term? It likely plays an important role.
Indeed. And of course the real solution to point 1 is to design roads in residential areas so that reasonable drivers travel slowly. E.g. narrow the roads. There was an interesting article about these efforts on Reddit years ago. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_space has something on it.)
I think that the advertisers pay more for Food network airtime because Food network has repeat patrons. It's a little different for a one-off show than for an entire network.
This is a set of quick notes I made while testing a few options for Virtualization.

For my needs, it looks like OpenVZ will probably be fine- It's not nearly as powerful as Vmware or Xen, but it has nearly native performance.

I very well may start building my machines with OpenVZ even if they only run one VM- The flexibility for restarts, migrations, and backups is very, very nice.
Hot dogs? Why not just skip a step and sell beer and tequila shots outside of the conference?
Jesus effing Christ. It saddens me sometimes that my fellow HN'ers treat unpopular opinions the same way they treat trolls.
I want to run for governor on this platform: per-lane speed minimums

It would be hard to collect data to back up my hypothesis, but based on my observation on the highways, slow drivers cause the most traffic and dangerous situations. If someone is going slow in the fast lane, everyone has to pass them on the right. This causes a huge bottleneck of people merging into the middle lane.

If we need speed limit laws at all, they should define a speed for each lane: 85mph in the far left lane, 75mph in the next, etc. Pick your lane and go your speed. Everyone in each lane should be going the same speed. It's safer and more efficient.
Just because git gives you a method (hooks) to do stupid things doesn't mean they should be built into it. Pushing to a live site (or even just the implied case of pushing into a non-bare repo) is a bad idea. If you want to use hooks (or you own script, or scp, or whatever) to do it you can.
One of these weeks we should have a H+F Jelly-esque internal hack day
about time, this should have happened about 3 years ago
It seems my information was out of date. They used to have a total prohibition on it: "No ad is permitted to contain or link, whether directly or indirectly, to a site that contains software downloads, freeware, or shareware."

http://successfulsoftware.net/2008/01/23/facebook-dont-need-...
New Steam beta replaces Trident/IE with WebKit
Here's some screenshots of the new client.

New games list: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/506504/new_steam_ui_library.jpg

New store site: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/506504/new_steam_ui_store.jpg

New in-game overlay and browser: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/506504/new_steam_browser.jpg
You don’t drive in the left lane unless you want to pass. You just don’t. When you have passed you immediately switch back to the right or middle lane.

That’s not enforced as such, at least not that I know of, but nobody does it and that largely makes for a pleasant experience all around.

I have no idea why that is the case but it might be that stricter rules have something to do with it. You are not allowed to pass on the right – and that’s definitely strictly enforced. I have actually never seen anybody pass on the right in Germany. It’s consequently in everyone’s best interest to keep the left lane free.

(It’s also not that pleasant to see some lunatic driving 110 miles per hour approaching in the rear view mirror. Another reason to retreat to the right lane as long as you don’t pass.)
Thin slicing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_%28book%29
Conquered by some other tribe?
Augmented Identity
I'll send you a link when we're set to launch.
Internet Explorer gains modicum of HTML5
Expect service interruption on new years eve, football games etc when they use them as a giant screen... Or maybe they could just use them as decoration in a night club, or as lighting on highways...

Oh and it is forbidden to send sexy emails on you iPad mail server, it could be used to remove the software from the app store. That means you will have to unregister from that viagra mailing list that keeps sending you offers.
You might want to take a look at:

http://www.pentabarf.org/

I am not a user, but visited several events managed by with help of this software.

http://www.pentabarf.org/Conferences_planned_with_Pentabarf
I'll be there. This will be my first H+F meetup. Looking forward to it!
Nothing to demo here at the moment, but I'd love to see what folks are up to; I'll probably swing by.
"2. Since you don't have to edit any auto-generated file you're not interested in, the number of auto-generated files is irrelevant to you."

Not true. If you're learning the framework, or trying to figure out what's changed, you won't necessarily know which files are relavant and which aren't.
Intel Was Attacked at the Same Time as Google
I'd rather have a VPS on an extremely powerful box with redundant power, etc. It's like being mayor in a rich country instead of being a third world dictator (the dedicated low power box).

The problem is, there are no good standards on VPS provision of CPU time. Memory and disk space are easy to count, but guarantees of CPU are harder to come by and pin down.
Speed limits do exist on the Autobahn now. You usually see them in major city interchanges and also when bad weather strikes. They have a very impressive system of automated signals and signs that indicate the (temporary) limits in those cases.

(And I've done the FRA run in rented A-klasse autos as well. You're right...it's an insane experience the first couple of times. But eventually checking the mirrors at the right time becomes habit and you become more comfortable. Coming back to the States is more nerve-wrecking for me now)
Well, youtube will drop testing their site in IE6, it may still work just fine (unlikely though).
It's not enforced because NOBODY does it. I watched a "Cops"-like show where they followed the Autobahn police around and once in a while they did bust someone for not using the lanes properly.
"While 45,000 law students graduate from law school each year, fewer than 30,000 attorney positions are available for these graduates."

What a wasteful brain drain. How much better off would our country be if more of those students went into engineering or became entrepreneurs?
Don't forget it gives authorities a reason to pull over almost anyone without needing a reason (except speeding which everyone is doing)
If the startup is VC- or angel-funded, figure out what their runway is. You may just want to ask them what they think it is, the revenue assumptions they've used to understand that, and what kind access to funding they have beyond what's in the bank (don't count on this too much, however).

With this information in hand, estimate the Probability that they'll last as long as you'll need them, the Cost of switching to a different product down the line, and the Value you derive from going with a startup vs. the "safe" option. Pick the startup that maximizes (and has a positive) V - (1-P)*C. (Feel free to substitute your own more elaborate ROI calculation.)

You may be able to reduce your risk by adding a contract term to the effect of the following: if the startup goes out of business or discontinues the service, they'll agree to sell you at a specified price the relevant code, systems, license, etc. so you can continue operating the service in-house. Of course, this may not be relevant, depending on what exactly the startup's services are, and depending on your corporation's ability to support the service, and a lot of other legal issues worth examining with a lawyer.
There's nothing wrong with it as such; there's just no reason to bother with it. It's certainly better than Windows. Linux is just easier to strip down to a lean server configuration, and happens to be free.
http://strydehax.blogspot.com/2010/02/spy-at-harrington-high...

I can't find the official school policy from the school. But I haven't found anything disputing this either.
"You kids have it so easy these days with your fancy browsers. In my day, we had to wait 15 seconds for IE6 to start up from a cold boot, and when it finally got started, it could barely handle CSS selectors unless you stayed up all night coding around it, and it lasted 10 minutes before crashing! And we were grateful for those 10 minutes! But you couldn't wouldn't appreciate it, with your fancy SVG graphics and canvas elements. Canvas! Pfah! We never dreamed of canvas! Let me tell you about something called Flash...."
Rule of thumb:
Fat = 9calories/gram
Carb = 4calories/gram

The difference might be that you feel full quicker with fat - but in that case carbs don't make you fat, eating more makes you fat.

I just remember those numbers from a class, but here's reference.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbohydrate
i have a feeling that they'll be implementing a new feature on march 13th that is known not to work in ie6.
I think someone's read The 4-hour Work Week. This reads just like the PX Method site.

EDIT: the more I look at it, the more the "oh sorry, our course is sold out - sign up HERE to here about when it reopens" line sounds like a classic Tim Ferriss trick to gauge whether it's worth bothering with or not.
Unpolished site, but the backers are credible.
They Don't Make Computer Manuals Like They Used To
Apple ban of 'sexy' apps leads to Android promotion from startup
Agreed. Clear, real examples of abstract ideas are really important, and applies to much more than just monads. RWH's monads stuff (in particular its parsec chapter) is a good example of a concept in action, and its easy to see why you would actually use that model.

Some 'first principles' things are difficult to present like this because there are usually better ways to do it. The state monad is like this. Even in haskell there are more expressive (and easier to use) tools to do the same thing. In this case i think we can all accept somewhat ad hoc examples as long as they are disclaimed.
This is pretty much a non-event:

"[IE6 users] will still be able to watch videos after that date, but new features may not work properly."

What percentage of people use any YouTube features outside of the (Flash) video player UI? It's got to be very low. I bet it is extremely low for IE6 users, as IE6 users are typically people that don't keep up with new things and/or office workers at work.

YouTube could add new features all day, every day, but for the vast majority of users, video playback is all they care about anyway.
So this is great news, right?!? I mean, it's not even my business and I'm really excited for you. :D
yeah, if you have some sheet metal skills and a Chinese factory, it's definitely an opportunity. Note, though, the vast majority of people buying in this space are the large corps who don't care as much about money as your brand, so, uh, good luck, I guess?

Honestly, I don't know enough about the costs involved with making chassis to know if there is much margin in the conventional server chassis business.
5 Interesting Ways To Improve Your Health and Happiness
1. I use forms but charge you as if I did it from scratch.

BULLSHIT. You pay for a lawyer's time and talents. Using a form means less time, which means you pay less. It also means that you're using a document which was successful in the past. Let's put it this way: do you want your lawyer to try a novel legal document just for you, or do you want him to use the one that has survived the fires of litigation?

2. I hand off work to peons but charge you a lawyer’s rate.

That's illegal in every state. A lawyer cannot pass off non-lawyer's work as the product of lawyers. They can charge you a lawyer's rate for that work though, iff you agree to something that stupid.

3. My Ivy League education doesn’t make me a better lawyer.

True. Look at Bush.

4. I hope you don’t look too closely at the expense report.

Firms don't charge their clients for fixed overhead in expense reports. It comes out of the exorbitant hourly rates they charge (at large firms) or is swallowed by the firm as the cost of doing business (small-mid firms).
Here's a hint for your bullshit meter: the "source" doesn't work for a law firm.

5. You don’t really need me.

For any situation where you wouldn't normally need a lawyer, this is true. For any other situation, you can bet your ass that as soon as the shit hits the fan, the other side will have a lawyer.

6. My fee is negotiable.

Lawyers are required by ethical regulations to disclose their fees (and the negotiability) of those fees. At least they are in CA, OH, PA, NY, NJ, and TX.

7. You’re always on the clock.

You're only on the clock if you're discussing legal representation (advice, case status, etc). If your lawyer is billing you for chit chat, find another lawyer, and file a complaint with the bar. Lawyers are only allowed to charge you for actual work, and that's true in every state.

Lawyers are also only allowed to bill you for actual time put in to your case.

8. I don’t know much about the law.

A lawyer is required to disclose this to you. If he didn't, file an ethical complaint. If the violation (lack of knowledge is serious enough), he will get suspended or disbarred.

9. I don’t refer you to the best lawyers.

Bullshit. Lawyers depend on clients for referrals more than on referrals from other lawyers. If they refer you to a bad lawyer, they won't get your repeat business.

11. I don’t have to tell you how I screwed up in the past.

They do if you ask them.

12. I put on a tough act but that won’t actually help your case.

Depends on the situation on whether this is desired. You don't want a tough act for contract negotiations, but you do want a tough act for settlement negotiations.

13. Mediation might be the better choice.

This should be obvious. Your lawyer shouldn't need to tell you this. Getting along is always better than fighting.

15. I’m training junior attorneys on your dime.

This is true in a "biglaw" firm, and only in a biglaw firm. Its also true that firms discount the time charged by lawyers in training.

16. I’m a dime a dozen.

Most law school graduates drop out of the field by the 3rd year after graduation.
I wouldn't call the site unpolished. But it is sparse. Chicago's startup scene is growing perceptibly in the past few years. Groupon is a huge hit, there are numerous interesting startups surrounding our options exchange, and some pretty interesting stuff going on in real estate/mortgages. It's a nice change from the first part of this decade, when it was 37 Signals and then... nobody.
We can only hope.
If it's truly wonderful (useful, satisfies a need, fits into customers' lives), how could it be impossible to sell?
Does Quickbooks have a Linux based version these days? Shouldn't that be GNUCash?
It's like he's _why's godfather or something: "The Ancestral Territorial Imperatives of the Trumpeter Swan"
actually, the opposite is true. it's really easy for me to give you a certain cpu 'weight' that guarantees a certain minimum and defines who is allowed to burst when it's time to burst; see the free chapter of my book for more info http://nostarch.com/xen.htm - but disk usage, well, disk usage is much harder to limit. I can use IONICE to kindof manage disk bandwidth, but really it's seeks that are the problem, and figuring out who is using more than their share of those is quite difficult.

(Disk space, as opposed to disk performance, sure, that's easy. But space, without performance, is so cheap as to hardly matter at all.)
Show HN: Am I Haiku or Not?
I've been goofing around creating this silly webapp since seeing two of my favorite sites (who will remain nameless) publishing cute haiku that did not have the correct number of syllables. Have fun.
Is Social Networking Bad For You?
In the short-term IE6 users won't see much difference, IE6 won't be blocked, it's just that the youtube devs won't test against IE6 compatibility in the future.

But there's a very real potential not just for "new features" to be unusable for IE6 youtube users but for the entire layout of the page to be broken for IE6 users, rendering the site unusable. Who knows if that will happen but youtube (aka google) is saying now that they don't care whether or not that happens in the future, it's the users' responsibility to upgrade to a more modern browser if they have that problem.

That is indeed very significant.
Using s-expressions instead of XML
Ask HN: What should I do? I work at a tech company who sucks at tech.
I work as a web developer at a global, multi-billon dollar tech company. Sounds fabulous doesn't it? When I started it was. Then I started to get a peek behind the curtains and I'm starting to wonder how long the company can survive with some of the startling tech deficiencies I've discovered over the past few months.

For instance:

1) For the past five years one of our departments have scheduled client development calls by hand. Mostly on paper and and Excel spreadsheets. Not some advanced scheduling software - BY HAND.

2) I've been told we have several Petabyte storage facilities that our parent company uses, but we get an email every two weeks or so asking people to delete their files off the server which houses our websites because the storage on these servers are full.

3) Our client database is around 18 years old and has never been upgraded. It's impossible to run queries on the database (impossible as in not able to. Not impossible as in difficult to do). We were told they were going to fix the problem, but all they did was upgrade the interface, then told everybody they fixed it. It's actually slower now then it was before they upgraded the interface.

4) We have several developers who have built applications that have greatly improved the way we build our sites. Unfortunately, they don't train anybody to actually support the application. This means when the developer (the sole supporter) quits or moves to another department, there's no support for these applications - which has happened twice in the last two years. With no active support, we've had to abondon these applications or try and build new ones.

There's more, but I think you get the idea. So should I quit and try and find a company who actually has their stuff together, or stick it out and see what happens in the next few years?

Don't worry, it's only my career we're talking about.
Identical, small, and easily replaceable hardware for years on end?
Vimium - The Hacker's Browser
I would expect nothing less and would still give up almost anything just for the chance to present our startup...
If only the program was a bit more 'accessible' for those married with kids and a mortgage :)
#17 - "There's no legal risk in doing XYZ"
Microsoft browser lottery: a random algorithm that is not so random
Depends on the area of law. Divorce lawyers and corporate lawyers may be a waste, but what about prosecutors and defense lawyers?

And, if engineering is so much more important than law, why not pay engineers more than lawyers?
I agree, generally; it's a bit hard to write something better than RWH over a lunch break. But sometimes, breaking down the same problem from multiple viewpoints helps readers to understand what's going on.

My particular purpose in writing this is to demystify monads specifically, especially for people who are casually interested in learning Haskell but unwilling to read a few hundred pages on it. RWH is great, but it doesn't explain monads until chapter 14 -- that's a lot of material a reader has to understand before they can even parse the examples.
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About time! I always wondered how such a successful product could lag so behind in polish. That embedded IE control steam uses is an absolute pain in the ass.
The hardware is compact, cheap, reasonably powerful, efficient, and they are willing to colo it for a pittance. I would consider buying one of these, maxing out the ram, installing linux on one of these, and hosting it with them. It would pay for itself in less than year in terms of savings compared to a low end dedicated server, and have more firepower to boot.
YC did long interviews at first and they've evolved to the shorter form. Presumably this is because they're interviewing so many teams and don't want to change the interview-weekend format drastically to, say, span several weekends.

Plus, honestly, there are only so many hours of pitches the brain can endure before shutting down and wanting them to be over more than for them to be exciting.
This is perhaps applicable on interstates.

But not having a speed limit on other roads makes them completely impassable to bicyclists and pedestrians.
Crazy Chinese birds visiting YCombinator? Brilliant!

Rated A++! Would buy again!
This is just a theory about bad left-lane drivers in the U.S. - where I live - but here goes:

Many drivers in the U.S. are uncomfortable driving and using their mirrors, most likely due to how easy it is to get a license and not having to undergo the extensive driver training as is required in Germany.

If you have a 3 lane highway, the middle lane is scary because you have other drivers on both sides of you. The right lane is scary because on-ramps merge with your lane. The left lane is the most comfortable lane because you are buffered on your left side by the median and only have the lane on your right to worry about.

Hence, you switch to the left lane, drive slowly, and stay put. Not to mention - annoy every decent driver stuck behind you.
Cocoa + Quicktime provide very powerful APIs for video/audio processing. I don't know of any legally clean way to say, encode AAC files and provide them to your users without paying a royalty rate. You could just have the server run a script that passes it through Quicktime Pro.
You can get one for $39/month here:

https://interserver.net/custom-managed-dedicated-servers.htm...
Well, what I don't see there (and i didn't drill down) is what effect the different speed limits had on actual speeds traveled. I suspect that some people take the posted limit as a suggestion (plus 10 or 20%), whereas no posted upper numerical limit might throw people on their judgement, which might have a lower aggregate speed limit. Pure conjecture here.
Sears chairman takes aim at Amazon over sales tax issue
Law school and entrepreneurship aren't mutually exclusive. You learn transferable skills and knowledge. Beyond a gaining a familiarity with the basic legal landscape, in law school you hone your skills in dealing with big abstract frameworks. You also improve your writing and communication skills. With the right mindset a law degree can be great prep to tackle a startup. At least that's what I'm hoping. :)

-a non-practicing attorney, soon-to-be entrepreneur