skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The text in your jpg picture doesn't look huge to me. I think people have widely varying taste in font size. I don't really know what I should set the default as. Anyone got general advice?

About the structure, they are vaguely intended to be read in order, and they are grouped into related topics, but it's not especially important which is why I didn't emphasize it more.
wow what a great idea! nowhere close to getting married, but i'd love to have this at my wedding.
I appreciate all the thoughtful tax discussion, but I probably should have chosen a less contentious example. This was a specific comment I had made awhile ago on Reddit that was down-modded severely. What was odd is that I took no stand on taxation itself; I had simply asked the OP to explain his definition of the word "fair" which had been used to support the validity of such a tax policy.
This looks like an organized collection of bash scripts with standard libraries for basic configuration processes, much like the fundamentals of Puppet and Chef.

This is great for simple initial setup (I'm sure a lot of us already have some short bash scripts to similar effect). However, Chef is great for maintaining multiple similar servers and keeping things standardized across machines with minimal effort. Chef also gives you some handy tools like automatic deployment and ERB templates.

I'm using Chef with 7 servers on Slicehost right now, and it's easy as pie once the recipes are set up and your server is deployed.
I actually thought his comment was moderately insightful (ie: it's not totally original, but in the context of the hype around Buzz, it's a question worth pondering).

The iPod was not a me-too product. It was the first digital music player that took a more comprehensive approach to solving the problem around finding/getting music content from the "cloud" (back when "the cloud" was just simply called the interwebs) to your player. When the iPod first launched, many people did not initially look any deeper then the surface.

Perhaps once we look past the surface of Buzz, we'll see that it brings something to the table that has been missing in social status sites. Or, perhaps Buzz is Google's Zune.
Absolute junk journalism from a jealous and insecure author.
Isn't this the Intel chip with 48 non-cache coherent 32 bit only processors? Intel calls it a "cloud chip" because in style it's a bit like current cloud computing, but the extrapolations in the submitted article are way way off (as the linked Intel press release indicates, this is to do far out (HPC) computing, not build a better AWS EC2).
What I don't understand is how people seem to be okay with Buzz being built into gmail. Don't we have enough of social networks that steal our time? Now we have one in or inbox? Not super excited about that fact.
I'll post here the same thing I posted there (only with more characters, damn Twitter response mechanism)...

Yes, it looks similar, but y'know what it looks MORE like? EVERY other mobile google app. If you compare it to Gmail on Android, it's damn near identical. I haven't followed it long enough to know when the current mobile gmail was launched versus Brightkite, but honestly, if there was 'design inspiration', it wasn't done in this app.
Doing consulting in insurance companies, I can tell you Facebook have been banned for a long time, and twitter more recently. As an outside consultant I have gmail, but the employees sometimes don't have it.
i've mostly seen similar, though they tend to block webmail and social networking sites. data leakage through people sending out confidential documents via webmail is a real concern for big business.
Most of those products where purchased by Google.

See for yourself:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Google
Can the YC/Ron Conway investment strategy work for smaller angels?
Am I missing something?

From those numbers it appears that the iPhone accounts for merely about half of North American traffic. The point of the original article wasn't that sites shouldn't run well on the iPhone, it's that they shouldn't ONLY be locked into the iPhone.

Those stats seem to back that up. If your going to toss half of the potential user base over the side just to support the iPhone... well that would be a huge mistake from what I can see.
That being said, the Google Buzz app is just using the same UI library that Google has developed for all their other mobile offers (Gmail, Calendar, GTalk, etc.).

I think you have two things:

1. Google developed their library of UI elements that looks a lot like the iPhone ones.

2. Using that library, they made a new interface for Buzz. It does look very similar to Brightkite's, but only the location part can be really argued as "inspired", the rest is pretty standard indeed.
Actually, I think most people would chose themselves over the idea of an infant in a far off land. impersonal association usual leave one with a stronger self-preservation response, over electing to sacrifice oneself for someone else. Most are either more tactful or self-delusional to not voice it out-loud.
They may not have invented web-based maps and email, but the functionality of Google Maps was leaps and bounds better than anything else out there. Before Google Maps, you had to click and reload to move around or zoom. Similarly, while there were web-based email providers out there, none of them approached webmail the way Gmail did. Abandoning folders for tags and search? What webmail system was that a clone of?
Psychic Substrate Drugged Neural Nets Communicate/Create on w/ Electable Effects
Lean Startup meets Dr. Seuss
Most people can't figure out RSS readers, and twitter lets you read and write in the same interface. Everything else about twitter is an anti-feature, including the post length limit.
G1 won't run it, needs Android 2.0+
I guess it's good that they're not letting old platforms slow down development, but FFS, a bit over a year and the G1 can't run any of the new stuff. They should never have sold it with such weak hardware...
Still waiting on an 850 Nexus :(
They can't take over your house painting business, because that's outside-of-work labor, which they don't own under that clause (some businesses do forbid side gigs for money).

But if you patented something related to house painting, they would own that, even if their business is completely unrelated to painting.
Ask HN: What web hosting do you use?
I'm considering getting hosting for something like a blog, so I'm wondering: what do you use?

I want to pay in GBP, but it doesn't really matter.

Edit: I won't be able to reap the comments till tomorrow; that is, the 10th of February, 2010.
Convicted in 1976. My entire adult life, buried under a prison wall. So many kinds of people I've been, lives I've lead, so many people I've known, things I've done.
More a note to myself than anything: check out http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1112543
If you use the mobile UI and have someone comment on your post, it will send the thread to your inbox. Trying to reply to that thread will then force-update your gmail to include Buzz (or at least, it worked for me.)
I ask that because with iSCSI support, I can easily run all my VMWare ESX servers off the device. The VMs aren't that big (20-40GB each) and if it mirrors block-level to a remote location, then it saves small biz the cost of buying a SAN (20k-100k) expense. If it did iSCSI, I would buy this in a heartbeat.
Your site is missing a "Take a tour" page. You need to at least include some screenshots of the product or a video. Also, how is your product different from other task managers like Remember The Milk?
This and unenforceable noncompetes are probably the two biggest things in California's favor.

It's amusing how much lip service politicians give to the importance of small business, when protecting these two rights would promote them more effectively than any tax break.
You need a larger sample size before being impressed or unimpressed. If it's 74% sure of something, it should be wrong a quarter of the time; if not, its confidence estimate was too low.
Are you serious? Not much to be said about a play by Shakespeare? Maybe you should try re-reading one.
Myriad brings 3x Faster Applications With New VM To Android
the dirt cheap processor is not reflected in the price of a roomba. i enjoy mine, but it has issues still (and it is the latest rev) that smell of vacuum 1.0. I hope the neato is a step towards 2.0. As a side, I think this is great. Competition keeps innovation rolling.
easiest but most expensive: buy tons of banner ads that get people to search to find out more about your product.

hardest but least expensive: get people talking about your product so that others start searching to get more info about it.
Dude, you get it.
article says "magnetic tape" - should prove better than those battery killing lighthouses.
It's pro-rated to the day - so if you add a Linode for the month but remove it after one day, you've ended up being credited back all but $0.67, in the case of a Linode 360.
Further, was Google Search a clone of Altavista?

What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
I wonder if, when a company crosses a threshold we all think violates a Nash equilibrium, we start to oppose the company. With this move, Google is declaring war on a host of web companies that are heretofore thriving and collaborating and making tons of money.

Every dollar of advertising that Facebook makes is a dollar or even more from Google. Every minute that facebookers facebook, google isn't showing them ads and isn't getting click throughs and this amounts to a vastly larger sum of money than any new search engine or aggregator or individual media company which google has already rendered moot to a large extent.

This is real time search which everyone has been asking for with all the data stored on google's super voluminous uber-fast lightning machine with its neurons and axons keeping the world connected and communicating.

Here it is and we don't want it.

The competition is for virtual real estate. Everywhere there is blank space on the screen or blank time in the consumer day or a blank wall in the virtual world, there will be an ad on it, just as today there are ads in nearly every physical space: Public transportation, Bar room mirrors, big screen tvs... Nothing is safe. No one is safe from Google and they have crossed the nash equilibrium where everyone is competing against them, including the websites where they get their content and the websites where people go to pass time.
tarball?
i hope they don't release something stupid like this. yay, more ways to waste time online.
Yes that could be it, but I can tell you in new cities incentives are not big. When I see Buzz with Google Local Listings (with coupons), and place page I feel like I will not be using Foursquare that much. I'm probably wrong though, I was excited about Wave too.
>You're usually better off using coroutines for this sort of asynchronous programming in Lua.

Macros and coroutines don't solve the same problem here. Macros provide wrappers that make "callbacks" implicit; coroutines provide scheduling.

>Also, Lua doesn't have macros, at least not in the sense that Lisp and Prolog do. It just has eval.

http://metalua.luaforge.net/

I object!
- tight email / reader integration, of course. For non-geeks, one communication center is enough, and GMail is the right place: most won't setup a combined IM + Mail + Twitter + FB + RSS desktop tool.

- lower barrier to entry: many people don't consider they have enough interesting things to say to make it worth creating a twitter account. They would more easily buzz it, since it's there in their mail account.
The interaction options for this are what I like the most.
In my mind, Burrows-Wheeler is a clever trick, but it's not clearly superior to dictionary-based methods. bzip2 beats gzip on compression not because B-W is better, but because it has a larger window size and because of the entropy encoder at the tail end.

7Zip builds on gzip, greatly expanding the window and using an arithmetic encoder at the tail end. It performs better in both time and space over bzip2, making both gzip and bzip2 obsolete
I'm going to be synical first, and it may come across as mean, but it's the honest truth in my opinion...

Yes, if there's one more thing I wish I had to do at my wedding, it would have to be tech support for the web cam that wasn't working properly on the Guestbook Mac.

I also wish that every one of my guests put their hands all over my computer as they walked in and out the door.

Also, when they get drunk, I don't want them trying to film something for me while they stumble over my expensive computer with an open container.

Now, enough being a jerk.

I think some kind of mashup between live streaming and wedding templates is more appropriate since people already have video recorders in their pockets on their phones now.

Why not setup a public DropBox folder that everyone can drop their iPhone photos into while at the wedding?

I just don't think this idea was very thoroughly thought out. Putting your expensive Mac at the front door of the reception hall just seems ridiculous.
Well, that's what Palm did, and it did make for a lot of apps. They were slow about opening up the platform to the public, but the homebrew apps took off, and there are now something like 1,500 in the app store and hundreds in the homebrews. That's not insubstantial given how few users they have relative to the iPhone.

But still, it felt like something was missing, because what these devices, like all sufficiently popular platforms, are really used for is gaming, and the quality of games you can write in C++ is still vastly ahead of what you can make in HTML/JS.

I could see the iPad eventually being more of a gaming device than anything else.
What's the reason behind using the motorola phone? to avoid distractions?
Realtime LiveJournal/Buzz updates with PubSubHubbub
very cool!

The music on the video threw me a little bit, maybe I'm just too much of an english centric guy. Also, I'd love to have heard the voices of the people come through a little bit. Maybe as a sample, but maybe just because if someone is talking at a camera I want to know it they are saying for some reason?

Again, very cool!
Early web GIFs: Where are they now?
Of course they cannot take over the house painting business! You did not invented any of paint, brushes, ladders or walls.

If, on the other hand, your painting business is about creating works of art rather than home improvement... they will leave you alone until some magazine labels you as "the next Picasso" or something. Then they come and sue you into oblivion, since they will out-spend you 50x in court, regardless of who is "right".
Here's another.

http://www.tineye.com/search/50e877ce68b44445cd67010b2db7541...
I've had great success and ease-of-use with Bluehost (bluehost.com) and its subsidiary Hostmonster (hostmonster.com). They are an affordable shared host that do all the domain stuff as well. Their support is great and they have the latest version of CPanel. If you wanted to make LAMP or Rails applications they have support for that as well. Overall with domain, connersc.com was $120 for two years.

Sometimes when the shared server is getting pounded, remote-ssh development can be a little laggy but if you are running Wordpress (which is in CPanel as a turnkey installation), you should be fine.

There are probably other hosts out there, but as far as service and price its been working for me so far. I even put clients on it (before moving the others to rackspace).
I used HostGator until I wanted root access, then switched to Linode. Both are excellent.
OffsetTop calculation problems in IE8. The solution
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976948/

"Important Do not install update 976749 if you have not installed cumulative security update 974455. If you install update 976749 without first installing cumulative security update 974455, Internet Explorer may not work correctly. If this occurs, uninstall update 976749, install cumulative security update 974455, and then reinstall update 976749."

Simple.
First, it costs a lot (accounts and attorneys) to game the tax system. So only "the rich" can afford it. The net result is progressive taxes wind up hurting the "doing well but not rich yet". Second, if I go to a store and buy a chair the sales tax rate is flat. Everyone pays the same rate. That seems fair. But if I make a chair and sell it, the income tax I pay on the gain depends on how much income I've made that year. Thus two people making the same chair and selling it for the same gain would pay different amounts of income tax. That unequal taxing of the same gain is what is unfair about a progressive tax rate.

It's much harder to split up personal income.
The flat tax is not an income tax. It is a tax on the creation of wealth. Most people think a flat tax means just changes our current tax system to have just one tax rate. The Flat Tax is a complete re-architecture of what and how to tax.
If you decompose the interface we see in the screenshot, it's difficult to make a strong case for theft. Maybe they were inspired, but it's hard to call the Brightkite interface innovative.

At the top you have the navigation bar with Cancel on the left, "Post" on the right. Very standard given the iPhone's UI (again, Google is using a library they developed for mobile products that reproduces the iPhone UI, though it is a webapp).

Below that you have the place to type your status. There isn't many ways to do that.

Then comes what is, to me, the only arguable point: the location part. But again, it's not very far off from what other things Google has done in other mobile products. Plus, keeping in mind how the iPhone UI works, there isn't that many ways to do it: you can't go to the left to see more options, so the arrow goes to the right. You could put the cross on the right too, but it can get error-prone. (and the iPhone UI puts the delete button on the left too)

Finally, you have the toggle Public/Private. It makes sense to have it after you type your message, so at the bottom. And in terms of design, same thing: standard iPhone UI.

I think the issue is that they have the same functionality. And it's not super complicated functionality. Given the fact that they use a similar UI library, you end up with similar designs.

(NB: you're saying they have similar wording, but that's disingenuous: you have Cancel/Cancel, Post/Post, Public/Everyone, Private/Friends. Difficult to pick widely different words for such similar meanings)
Q/A with Al-Karim Versi, Inventor of the A-Kar electric vehicle
Lisp machines were big in the 80s. They died with the AI boom. They're not going to take off again any time soon because Lisp as a platform is no longer nearly as important as it once was. The ability to target Unix/Windows, and the ability to run software to run and interact with software targeting Unix/Windows, is too important to let novel platforms really take off. There are 'Java machines,' for example, which are commercially viable so I understand, but how common are they?
In tests I've seen, LZMA -1 is even slower than gzip -9 so I wouldn't say gzip is obsolete in situations where compression speed matters.
C as a programming learning language
When you are in multi-million dollar negotiations with another company you don't go writing on twitter about it.
I hate to be that guy...

... but my mac's camera has always Just Worked.
I like this so much. $99 is a drop in the bucket for most weddings, it's a big market, and this seems so much less intrusive than the traditional "Aunt Ethel with a camcorder" approach.

One thing that stuck out to me was that the guy in the purple tie was a little out of frame. That would have made my wife object to this idea for fear that everyone would end up with their heads cut off. FWIW, I'd maybe move that part to the end or cut it altogether.

Like the music, too.
I like WebFaction a lot. It's shared hosting and you don't get root access, but their servers are set up such that you can basically install anything you want. They are also a UK company.
In-page search for Safari on iPhone
Suprised to see an HSBC website in that list
http://online.hsbc.com.mt/html/borrow/lr.htm
Wow. Lookout lots of web companies. You're wallowing along in the middle of the road and this huge truck is barreling down on you at 100 kph. The truck's name is Google.

For the less metaphorically-inclined, Google has so much money and is doing so much development that they've reached the point that they are actively trying to obsolete hundreds of companies. You can certainly argue that perhaps these companies deserve to be replaced. Google is becoming the Wal-Mart of the web.
Musik - swadba.de: Musikband Night und Tamada
can i buy just a diff between the two editions?
What does the size of the government have to do with breaking up monopolies? Does a multi-billion dollar expenditure on the Department of Education somehow make it easier to break up monopolies?

It needs power to break up monopolies, and a certain minimum size to be able to function effectively in this capacity, yes, but performing this function does not require massive staffs of bureaucrats making tons of regulations on every conceivable industry and thus being susceptible to capture in so many places. These two things are totally orthogonal; you can easily have either of "massive regulation" and "monopoly busting actions" without the other. Minimum size for monopoly busting would not be very large; monopolies aren't that tricky to detect.
you have to be very careful here, but in a nutshell: if you are hired for "inventive job" than probably yes. If you are hired for "non inventive" job (this is not typical for hackers) than it yours. But the details are hard.
"Does this mean the capital markets knowingly take extraordinary risks fully expecting a government bailout if they fail badly enough, but pocketing the profits if luck goes their way?"

No. But if you had a large sum of money in the financial system, would you have felt more secure if the government did or didn't bail out Lehman?
Musik aus Nürnberg
Hochzeit in Bayern. Swadba, Tamada und Video.
They're not necessarily barreling over other smaller companies; sometimes they buy them which is a welcome exit for the founders.
The clue is here...
""...To the extent any of the foregoing is not deemed to be a work made for hire, ..."

Write an spec of what your idea is. Find a friend or relative you trust. Have him/her "hire" you to implement "his/her" idea. Pay taxes on the "fee" you "charged" for your work. Better off, have the friend write checks to "pay" you. Actually cash those and and keep the bank tickets.

Later, when you are no longer working for that company, "buy" back the rights of your works. And don't forget to pray for the friend does not stab you in the back. Good luck!
I just feel like these products just aren't there yet. If I showed this video to my wife the first thing she would say is that it missed 1" around the wall and it didn't do under the couch.

For someone living in the city in a small apartment this really isn't worth it yet.
You are talking about "enlightenment" in reference to participating in an organization that kills people; your priorities are maybe screwed up.
Yup link broke
Depends on your risk profile, but in general if you update once a month you're probably ahead of 95% of the servers out there.
Listia (YC S09) needs a great Rails Developer/Hacker
The FPGA is for development. When the design is ready for RTM, it will be as a custom ASIC. http://wiki.opengraphics.org/tiki-index.php?page=FrequentlyA...
SUPERCOMM Shelved: More Death of the Landline?
"...I don't think I've ever seen an in-depth interview with PG. ..."

I've seen one. The interview was by David Weinberger and you can see it here (16:52) ~ http://media-cyber.law.harvard.edu/VideoBerkman/paul_graham_... Interesting & talks about YC, Taste for makers.
I've been fortunate enough to never have been employed at a company where the employer things its good practice to ban certain websites. How common is this? What field do you work in?
Python improves at multi-core and seven other crucial areas