skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been checking Flippa from since it was still a part of SitePoint, and about 80% of their listings are those "turn key" sites. Of the remaining ones, there is usually something fishy, like selling copyrighted content etc. Occasionally there do seem to be legit sites for sale as well, and having a separate category for "premium sites" has helped.
You could print text files, postscript files, screenshots, graphics and also program your own output.

Genera has markup language based on 'Scribe'. You can print formatted text to the printer.

It has a Document Examiner for online documentation. You can print the documentation.

The documentation is created with a software called 'Concordia'. With that you can create books, manuals and online documentation. Obviously it can print, too.
http://lispm.dyndns.org/news?ID=NEWS-2005-06-10-1

A video showing some bits of Concordia:

http://lispm.dyndns.org/mov/concordia.mov
Does the web site also list class schedules? Because that is also a source of “when she is not at home”, as someone else already said, most people who have a job are out during the day, so finding “empty homes” is not exactly rocket science.

Also, in addition to “empty home” you also want a place where no-one hears you if you break a window or similar, a place where it is easy to leave with the stolen goods without being noticed, and a place that has stuff worth stealing.

Given the variables, were I a professional thief, I would scout for locations first, then find out when the residents were not at home second, which is probably fairly simple even without the use of Twitter.
Regarding motivating people to consume less, maybe there are some people for whom this is the equivalent of a blue law (i.e. don't drink alcohol on Sunday and you'll be a 'better' person), but that's really not the common case. The motivation is sustainability.

Sure some people really don't care whether this level of consumption is sustainable on an equitable basis worldwide, and are willing to use military might to hold that position, and you may be one of those people, but sustainability is the basis for these considerations, not random do-gooder pronouncements.
I've spoken with Seth a few times and like the guy. He even endorsed some software I helped build. (http://countdowncart.com/)

But as is his normal MO this is a half baked post thats heavy on sizzle and woefully light on steak. It rings true to a certain part of me. At the same time I have the little voice in my head I almost always hear when reading his blog. It says, "What insight! but.. but... all these ideas without execution or data are worthless."

Anyway, I like this point, and he makes many good ones, but without more information or exploration most of his posts like this seem like platitudes.
Yes, frankly what you are proposing is the only viable solution I can see.

The Chinese government can now man-in-the-middle any SSL connection from a browser that has their cert. Be it at a café in the U.S. (by having an agent sitting along side you) or any connection that goes through a router they control.

In case you didn't know, this has already been the case for the U.S. government, the Taiwanese government, etc. because SSL root certs (at least the ones in your browser today) know no boundaries.

SSH is secure because presumably you know when a certificate should be changing and are suspicious otherwise. Today's browsers don't warn you when a the root cert for a domain changes, but they could.
The top 25 errors from last year: http://www.sans.org/top25-programming-errors/

Detailed list: http://cwe.mitre.org/top25/
I was replying to the comment above mine...

A dark matter universe would be a pretty bleak place because ther would be no ordinary matter, no galaxies, no stars, no planets, no me, no you,
Tablets and e-readers could influence online news consumption
WOW maybe that can go on the Ipad
Can't believe I forgot this one:

Don't just read code, reanimate it!

Find a large and dead (abandoned) body of code, one where you're not in a position to get much if any help from someone who had a hand in writing or maintaining it, and bring it back to life (e.g. get it running on current systems or a different system).

That makes the difference between simply reading code and really learning the code. Do enough "software archeology" and you'll be able to do all sorts of things: figure out within a few minutes the likely quality of a large body of code, recognize the different people who wrote or changed different parts of it (as in person A, person B...), learn that comments are at best what someone hoped at one point in time what some code would do, etc.
I got answered this kind of puzzle questions when I interviewed with Google.
Yelp for iPhone (and Pre, and Android) will do that. You can filter your search results by "Open Now". Of course, we don't have perfect data, but we're trying. (I'm a Yelp developer)
Ubuntu emacs on laptop and emac, RoR,R,Javascript
How to recruit a hacker partner
I'd like to apply to one of the various startup programs like YCombinator/SeedStart/TechStars, but I don't have a partner. I'm more of the business type, so if I could partner with a hacker type that would be great. What would be the best way to go about recruiting and evaluating a partner if your not close friends with someone like that?
This is the best summary of the fundamental problem with the git UI that I have ever read. I'm feeling exactly the same but never managed to put my finger on it as perfectly as you just did. Thank You!
Yes, and a lot of people upload embarrassing pictures to the internet or write sensitive information on their blogs. I always thought that you'd be safe anyway because the stupid stuff you put out would drown in the mass of information people post all the time.

But this little website shows that with some simple datamining and aggregation, you can dig out the nuggets of valuable information and make it searchable or target it to the people that can do most damage with it.
Why Arthur Sulzberger of NYT is an Idiot For Giving Their Content to Steve Jobs
For samples, see: http://liveink.com/.

I find it somewhat disingenuous that they use a more readable font in a larger text box to show off their supposedly more readable format.
The opposing argument is: "If a company making a toaster can get sued for not putting in adequate security measures (such as a fuse) and hurting someone, what makes software so special that it is exempt of such responsibility?"

On one hand I like the fact that it's so easy to create software without having to deal with any bureaucracy other than itself (and I agree that a lot of security problems are very subtle and easy to miss) but on the other hand I see the mistakes some companies make that end up in, for example, the exposition of private information for some 50000 customers.
[Webinar] Make subversion agile
This is how it's done in my countries in Europe, especially eastern europe.
Twitter comes to Commodore's VIC-20 (it's about time).
This is what I did through the TAMS program in Texas. I highly recommend it!
(a lot) OS leopard 10.5 still, windows XP, ubunti 9.04 workstation and server; FreeBSD

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stalwarts: C, python, ruby, perl, awk, javascript

adopting and loving it: clojure, scala, erlang,

assessing capabilities/complexity: ocaml, F#, haskell

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editors of choice: vim, komodo, Jedit, gedit

cause clojure and erlang encourage it: emacs
Well, first off, (no matter what your possibly very good intentions) saying that you're a business type looking for a hacker type to do a startup is kind of a red flag.

It sounds to hackers like "I've got a great idea, all I need is for some one to do all of the work for me, preferably for free, kthxbai."

The best way to attract a hacker type is to build something insanely cool (or at least make a good start of it) and project a trajectory of much more where that came from. Without that, I don't think any idea is cool enough all by itself. I admit, its kind of a chicken and egg deal but there it is for what its worth.
holy smokes that's hard to read. i waited a few seconds for the styling to finish... but it never did.
Yes, my reply wasn't as smart in retrospect. They seem to have about 350 machines [1] so maybe moving to the cloud isn't as easy as it seems.

My remark was mostly triggered by the fact that here you had Google with a big cluster, a cloud offering and tons of bandwidth paying money to Wikimedia so they could buy their own hardware and bandwidth at a worse price probably. A direct deal would have looked better.

1. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_servers
Some companies have a cultural need to give IBM thousands of dollars and employ multiple professionals to keep their VCS working. I will say ClearCase can intelligently handle branching, to a point. But it mostly exists to fill that cultural need.
The Clueless Young Entrepreneur
I find it interesting that starting from complaints from two Apple nerds (i.e. usability/design/aesthetics focussed people) you've judo'd their Flash criticisms into a defence against hardcore open source, utopian-technowizard, nice-typeface-hating, usability-means-ugly, aspergian HTML5 zealots.

I'm sure they hate Flash too (don't we all?) but for entirely different reasons from those discussed in the submission.
It adds bug tracking and project wiki to your DVCS.
You're talking about Google Buzz, right?
As an aside, I'd rather focus on having more people exposed to fresh stories; that'd make "cabal upvoting" much tougher.
My point is that domains are an internet namespace controlled by someone else. When buying a .dk domain, you apparently enter into a contract agreeing that they can do this to you (not that I've read the contract any of the 60-70 times I've purchased a .dk domain)...
haha, thanks :) didn't catch that
I've spent probably way to much time thinking about this as well. I'll never forget the looks I got on the train when I was laughing hysterically at those article comments :)

It seemed that a lot of the confused were older judging from their profile pics. I know when I've shown my grandparents how to navigate the internet it's a lot easier to just set Google as their home page and tell them to type in what they want to see.

On the surface it seems to be a usability issue, but there's only so much you can do to help people who don't even really understand the internet and computers.
Debian stable (x86-64 workstation I build) / C, Scheme, Clojure / EMACS
He is comparing Google not providing an API to AT&T redirecting google.com to bing.com or apple blocking the voice app? Lost his argument, right there.

Wish he provided more technical details instead of just just ranting. What is the "uper easy access number" and whats with the headline ?

I understand he is frustrated but he is trying to reverse engineer a product. It is rarely easy. And since google voice has a mobile version, it is not even that webOS users are locked out.
Knock! Knock!
Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject. So you know you are getting the best possible information.
Ask HN: Does anything like this exists? 
I am a n00b when it comes to web development. I want to know if some web framework to do the following exists or not.

1) I want to create a site where users can decide, from where do they want to buy a particular service. I wont be selling any service but only showing them the lowest prices from particular firms selling that service. Just to give you a better idea, I will have an excel sheet with the prices from each firm.

2) Users on finding the best prices for the service can select and make the payment online through some payment gateway.

This is all that I want. Or if there's any script already out there which takes care of data retrieval of prices for each firm as well as payment gateway.

Any input that you might provide will be greatly appreciated.
You must work for Google to know this. Given that, your answers are bias toward Google.
Dropbox coverage in Forbes
Where are the references? Mostly I just see links to other lesswrong articles.
The biggest advantage that Perforce has is better performance with large code bases than subversion, git, or mercurial.

My guess is that most of us don't work with large and active enough code bases for this to matter. But if you do, consider Perforce.
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That begs the question... if there is a CA on there I do not trust, how do I remove it? In Chrome I'm having trouble finding the list of root CAs.
That is why developer is complaining. Using that used to work but does not anymore, possibly because of security protocols.

Also it seems like Google is using a secret api in the Android app. Why not just slap the tag 'Beta' on the api and publish it? It may suck when an api changes but at least it is in the developer's control to get his app working again.
Worth skimming for comparison to HP's profits in this area and others.
Introducing Clearmaps: A Thematic Mapping Framework for Data Visualization
I think Google Products (http://www.google.com/products?hl=en) is pretty similar to what you're looking for. I'm not sure if you can purchase the products through it.
Sure, for added risk.
I just tested FF3.5.7 and it's noticeably smoother than FF3.6.
I'm not sure I get the complaint. It's Google's service, it's never been free software, and clearly they're going to exert some control over what clients get to connect. That's clearly within Google's power and rights to do, and it doesn't hurt anyone but competing voice app vendors who want to use Google's (!) service.

How does that compare to banning a Google Voice app from the iPhone store, which while also within Apple's power and rights, is clearly harming consumers who don't get to use the service?
They seem like a bunch of people who have no idea how to run a business. They have spent a year trying to raise enough money to run for a year? That does not make sense.
Wait for Eben Moglen to free the spectrum, and the bandwidth will get past the chihuahua.
The problem with traction interviews is that they rarely explain what really put them over the top.

i.e. This is how Reddit gained traction:

"Reddit seeded the initial content on Reddit almost exclusively through the efforts of the Reddit team in the early days. For the first few months of Reddit’s life, Reddit co-founders Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman scoured the web to find interesting articles to post to Reddit. They were able to create the illusion of more contributors by submitting articles under different user names. As Reddit developed a loyal readership (due to the content hand-selected by the team) other users began to submit links, although the Reddit team was still responsible for 80% of the submitted links for many months. "

http://www.startup-review.com/blog/reddit-case-study-how-per...

So for months, 80% of the content on Reddit came from just two people using several fake accounts. It wasn't SEO, it wasn't design or a specific feature, it was misrepresenting themselves and their product to the public.

Now, clearly that worked and they went on to do some neato stuff. The ends seem to have justified the means in the hearts of Redditors.

But when you read an interview like this with Jimmy Wales where he says he doesn't know how or why his site took off, that's pretty hard to believe. Perhaps he just doesn't want to be forthcoming with some of the things he was doing. Understandable, it just means you won't get much out of the interview.

So if you can get folks to speak about what they REALLY did to gain traction, that'd be great. I read very few interviews that get into the real stuff though.
I think the Google Base Data API[1] can give you access to the price information from Google Product Search[2]. But I'm not clear why I would go to your site instead of just using Google Product Search directly...

[1]: http://code.google.com/apis/base/

[2]: http://www.google.com/products
Go become close friends with "someone like that". Turns out hackers are people too. A solid partner isn't someone you recruit and evaluate. A joint venture isn't going to succeed if one person in it forms an entitlement complex wherein "it was my idea, and I brought you on, so you should be grateful", or "that is your job, so don't complain to me, also I need you to change all the underlying structure in a week."
Ask HN: Small A/B tests impractical?
I was playing around with numbers to see how many experiments I need to get a statistically significant A/B test result. I used to think that I can solve any small issue in my app by just A/B testing which way is better (patio11 influence), but now it seems that I can't do any tests in a realistic timeframe unless they have more than 2.5 percentage points of effect.

If you have a landing page with 10% conversion rate and want to see if your change improved it to 11%, it seems that you need 8000 people in group A and 8000 people in group B. I'm getting about 400 new people daily to try it with, so it becomes impractical to do small tests like these. If I can improve conversion from 10% to 12.5%, then I only need 2600 people, which would mean I could run one test per week.

Am I kidding myself if I run tests that aren't statistically significant? Of two options, even if the difference isn't significant, it would still seem the odds are in your favor to pick the one that performed better.

I didn't do the math, just used a random calculator I found: http://www.prconline.com/education/tools/statsignificance/index.asp
I read they've had $2.5m in investment. I'm sure their board is loving this right now... must have been a fun meeting to attend.

As for the discussion about how many customers they have etc.. Would you continue using a service like this that was just sold on eBay? They're not going to have any customers by the time the auction ends.
Thanks I do know about that but I am pretty certain it wont work in my case. Plus Google is also selling this particular thing to ecommerce companies at a very high premium.

http://www.google.com/commercesearch/
If you are involved in advertising, marketing, and branding at all, you begin to realize that advertising is really taking all the weaknesses of a product and making them strength of the product.

So, with Google, the engineers realize that it is impossible for a company with that much power and investment capital involved to avoid evilness, thus, they take the opposite of the company and make it the slogan, thus an evil company becomes a company with slogan of "do no evil."
The Park Paradigm - Kublax (RIP)
A Course in Universal Algebra
Yeah, it's all a cost/benefit analysis. When I'm choosing which house to rob, I always try to decide if it is worth the risk of someone hiding in the closet with a gun.

So far the risk has always too high :)
This essay is particularly on my mind after writing about "The Validity of Grades" at http://jseliger.com/2010/02/17/the-validity-of-grades .
I should have mentioned that i want to sell a service not product.
School grades are hopelessly broken
Algotrading Mythbusting
Not exactly. I'm friends with the owners, and when they wanted a website, I handed them off to a designer friend of mine who I know does good work.

I do host the website and keep the menu up to date for them, though.
The puzzle questions do give the feeling - I (interviewer) am intellectually superior than you (interviewee).
The Habits of Focused Entrepreneurs
Thanks for the concern about it. I am still waiting to receive my xkcd book! :)
I thought it was pretty obvious that only the first few pages of comments were even remotely real. Then the internet lolmachine got a hold of it and went nuts.

Still, it saddens me that people are still just typing random shit in the address bar and expecting it to work.
"burglarized" still makes me chuckle when I see it written.

(It is not a valid word in English).

edit: Yes, I know it's valid in American.

Burgled (English), Burglarized (American English).
But the Copenhagen Climate Summit/Council/Conference was not called the Copenhagen Sustainability Summit. I think some people are suspicious of the larger green movement because it seems so shifty. Basically the conversation between "earthers" and "doubters" has been going like this:

Earther: global warming is bad.
Doubter: if the planet is warming, why is it so cold?
Earther: actually it's climate change.
Doubter: what's so bad about changing climates?
Earther: actually it's about sustainability.

The message needs to be consistent and clear. Snapshot of earther and doubter sentiments in time:

1970 Earther: Split wood, not atoms.
1970 Doubter: I like big cars.
1980 Earther: There will be no oil in 20 years.
1980 Doubter: I like semi-big cars.
2000 Earther: There will be no oil in 20 years.
2000 Doubter: I like big cars.
2010 Earther: Split atoms, save the trees.
2010 Doubter: I like semi-big cars.
So then don't use a mailing list or make it possible for everyone to read the list, but not contribute to it.

Why can myriad algorithms and websites exist that successfully filter noise and the organization that is controlling the direction of the web can't?

Use a forum. Use a upvotes and downvotes. Works really well.

The reason they don't do that is because powerful people don't want the world to know how they subtly change the world toward their selfish betterment at the expense of the rest of the world -- exactly what adobe is doing.

And it is in all their best interest. It's the same reason the democrats want closed door meetings and the republicans do too. Because somewhere down the line, that secrecy benefits both parties. If they take that from the dems, they also take it from the reps.

In this case, if the other orgs involved in the W3C expose Adobe, then at some point in the future when they want something kept secret -- it too could be exposed through the same channels.

It's a tactic of the elites.
Am I alone here in thinking how troubling this is? Many products are started for a few hundred dollars by people just getting started in programming. Financially punishing them does not solve this problem because they just fold up and shut down, leaving only the more wealthier organizations, which, of course, kills innovation. The other day, FEMA (a US Gov agency, for your foreign to that term) put out a contract where they want to hire an organization to help it with social media distribution of news, and one of those networks was Twitter. Think of that -- a massive government institution receiving millions every year, depending on code that is relatively simple in concept. Twitter was started on a prayer and a song. The idea of Twitter is one I cannot say a behemoth like Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, Cisco, etc. would have created out of the blue. They don't think in these terms unfortunately, but boy don't they run to these companies to use them or to buy them up when they have a major "we should have built that" moment, don't they? If SANS/Mitre reviewed Twitter in its infancy and filed a lawsuit against it for security flaws, or if we web developers have to fear a class action suit every time we code something, then things like Twitter would never happen.

Instead, organizations like this would better spend their dollars working on education of the developer community on building secure, bug-free apps, where support is possible. This is one of the reasons why the GPL is fantastic. You can still make a profit from your software, yet the code is freely visible, can be changed and upgraded, and most often is community-supported and outstanding. When more developers can see the code, all bugs are shallow. Although this is changing in the past 6 years with companies like IBM and Novell taking the lead, the GPL is something that usually most behemoth software companies do not want for their code. So think of that, if lawsuits stifle innovation such that only the big behemoth companies are who we turn to, then this most often means proprietary code you cannot see, cannot fork, and cannot have widespread community-support for where code can be altered or improved. And that makes the problem worse.
How not to get satisfaction?