skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, you just create a "body {display: none !important}" stylesheet externally, and @import it in your client's CSS? Set to a blank file normally, and the above when you "kill" it? And the site just offers hosting and the ability to throw the switch? (I could be missing something, as I haven't signed up for it, so this is just from reading their site & site's code)

An interesting idea, and could definitely work with some clients. If nothing else, it could temporarily damage them, which if they haven't paid up, they deserve. It does seem like something they could pay a web guy a few bucks to diagnose and fix, though.
Wow, as a non-native English speaker, I think those are some really bad spelling failures.
If you dealing with maths in your webpages the newest additions include TeX. My life just got simpler.
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For whatever class of company, I am puzzled why is it wrong to assume marketing and sales cannot be outsourced. Marketing allows work to be done in flexible timings, for sales and support one will require employees to be awake at odd hours, specific to their customer's time zone.

And, I have personally seen it being done successfully - not in an outsouring company, but in an India-based product company.

I believe that as long as there is going to be considerable cost arbitrage to be taken advantage of, there will be outsourcing. Development / sales / marketing - anything that does not require direct visit to customer premises.
My comment wasn't the people should know about the bookmarking system, just that the concept of the bookmarking system is less complex to people than the concept of URLs and the location/address bar.
The majority of people are incapable of producing anything that anyone would care about or watch. Adsense revenue is finite. No matter how much automation you add to the production of physical goods, natural resource constraints will prevent the price of essential goods from dropping significantly.
We're working on making local classifieds not suck.
You can use SWIG with Lua.
He's creating jobs for graphic designers. :)
I'm using the "Tabularisationifier Plugin" for all my table layouts for now on. Brilliant! ;)
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I'm with you on that. If everyone presented their opinions with as much thought and research as she has here, we'd all be a lot more informed.
I think I'm missing something. Wouldn't DNA be quickly eaten by outside forces like single cell organisms or destroyed by background radiation?
In order to use the tools, I think you'll need to understand some basic compiler theory. I can't say for certain, since I only looked at various compiler-related tools after taking a compilers course. But any tool is going to introduce some incidental complexity, and it's having a grasp of the basics that will let you realize "Oh, this is just how the tool does ___."

The good news is that the basics of compilers theory and implementation isn't that difficult. You should be able to learn a lot just through some Googling and some time spent on Wikipedia pages.

With that said, a tool such as ANTLR should handle all of step 2, and part of step 3. The biggest step, though, is step 1, and that's all you.

Since you're a math person, think of this in terms of functions. You need to write a function that takes Basic code and produces semantically equivalent JavaScript code. The bulk of the work is in determining the semantic JavaScript equivalents to all Basic constructs. This also implies that you need to have a deep understanding of the semantics of both languages.

edit: It just occurred to me that I don't know if you want to do this for your own edification, or for a practical purpose. If you have a practical reason, there's probably an easier solution.
Oh, come on. Saying that a job is created by "growing existing businesses" or "creating new businesses" isn't insightful or useful; it's a tautology. It's like saying that winning a war is simply a matter of killing more people than the other side. Easy as pie.

I know that we all like to get huffy and pretend that our favorite ideology is the one that has all the right answers for making jobs, or eliminating poverty, or creating world peace, but ultimately, adults have to acknowledge that there are going to be problems in the world that politicians can't solve.

Obama can't make your startup succeed. Congress can't make someone want your product. But they can do more basic things, like making sure that you won't starve to death when you fail, or ensuring that falling ill while starting your company won't bankrupt you (or kill you). They can make sure that the lights turn on, that clean water comes out of your faucet, and that you're reasonably safe at home and work. You've got to take it from there.
You have absolutely no clue about this person

If someone makes a public comment that is illegible [1] or incomprehensible, then I have a pretty good clue about that persons inability to write. Considering how close the ability to write and the ability to think are, you also have a pretty good clue about their ability to think. Of course, this all depends on the assumption the comment wasn't just a troll.

[1] Or can you say that only about handwriting?
Can we please get some compression here?
Yes we do.
Yes I read Clayton Christensen. But it applies primarily to physical products like hardware. I am not sure you can make the same extrapolations in digital.
If Google Wave Is The Future, Google Buzz Is The Present
Yes, somewhere between that and an unselfconscious Dadaism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada
Okay I try to bite:

Say I'm a "novice" user who starts up the web browser. If everything else works, then here's what I'll see:

A screen with a textbox that says "Search: [ ]".
This textbox is at my eye level - I'm likely to see this before the "address" bar on top - which in a lot of computers isn't even labeled anymore.

So delightfully enough I search for something like "facebook login". If the first result isn't something I'm looking for, then I might get angry.... in some cases, at the person who authored the first result .. "hey jackass, I came here looking for the facebook login - whats going on? stop advertising as something you're not!".

What can I say, I'm just a spoilt baby boomer, and you want my money.
What (whom) women want
http://www.panic.com/goods/

This is the most awesome shopping cart I've ever seen online!
Interesting thoughts about memory. My early memories aren't quite that good.

I never found school particularly difficult, and I didn't learn how to read or do maths until school. There is a good chance you wouldn't have found it difficult either - even without the flash cards. Perhaps you are just smart.

It sounds like your childhood was still fairly moderate, it is not like flash cards is the only thing that you did. My main motivation for commenting at all is that I don't want any other parents to get weird, extreme ideas.

Anyway, I think I better gracefully bow out of this discussion before I step on any nerves.
Discipline * Skill = Craftsmanship
Yeah, right. As every day their are more revelations of corruption and incompetence in 'Climate Science'. There is really no such thing. Anyone who says they can build a computer model of the climate is either stupid, ignorant or corrupt. The CRU code is laughably ugly and sloppy, yet they would have us believe that they have made an incredible breakthrough in Computer Science - they can build an accurate model of the climate !
I'd love to see a pre-emptive iSupply costing for that one!
Could do. They share the same screen resolution (1024x768)
So, a 3rd party says the battery lasts 4 hours, while Lenovo claims 10 hours? Holy crap, that's an excessive difference.

Well, under his real-life workload. There are probably people that can get to 10 hours, if they only type some documents, don't view any flash/movies, etc.
Trolling can make an otherwise dull day, more.... entertaining.
Styling needs a bit of work, but textile is up and running. See http://modernballots.com/photo/vote as an example. Enjoy!
Well it's already happening and going to happen more and more. Take a look at Etsy http://www.business-opportunities.biz/2009/04/29/etsycom-is-...

Total Members: over 2.1 million
Total Sellers: over 200,000
Items Currently Listed: over 3.4 million
Total $ sold (Gross Merchandise Sales)
2005 = $166,000
2006 = $3.8 million
2007 = $26 million
2008 = $87.5 million
2009 = $32 million (through March)
What's the purpose of the text-indent: -9999em?
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Writing object to object mapper: my mapper vs AutoMapper
Absolutely. Creating a better safety net WOULD really help innovation -- being terrified of not having health insurance is a huge barrier to joining startups for many people. And the current government has so far done nothing to help that, and the republicans even less.
What I want to know is how symmetric it is. 1gb/s down is great, don't get me wrong, but can I get 1 gb/s up too?

That would make me happy. :)
Well as far as phone apps go, there is also the Google Android app store. Smaller market, but fairly large and growing rapidly, and less crowded as far as app-selling competitors go (so far). Also, developing for it is free and doesn't require Apple approving your app.

For games in particular, there are a number of other indie-distribution channels, like XBox Live Arcade. For other kinds of software, there's the traditional "sell shareware over the internet" approach, which is declining for the most part but still relatively robust on OS X. There are also web apps, which can be supported either by ads or by selling premium add-ons, among other possibilities.
I've been using an x60s as my only machine for 3.5 years now. Been pretty happy with it, although the fan had to be replaced and I think my system board is having issues (I get the dreaded ThinkPad beeps sometimes). I've only got 1.5GB RAM though (max on the x60s is 2GB). Perhaps I'll follow your route and eBay myself an upgrade?
Or eye-care professionals.
This isn't silly. Compared to 100 years ago a much greater number of people are already successful artists, musicians and yoga instructors. These people sit across the IQ distribution. Many do not have high IQs many do not have low IQs. But thats okay because a HUGE % of the population sit between 90 and 110.
Your prejudice is my Bayesian inference.

In any rate, judging someone based on how they communicate is morally very different from judging them based on who they are. Communication is action, and if one cannot form opinions based on the actions of others, then indeed, what may we do? Passively observe the world go by?
My bad. I had a brain fart. He wrote a web framework (not server) for Io, not Lua.

http://github.com/whymirror/yown
Yes, Basic Auth is ending in June. Most recently documented today: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/brow...
I just got the HP Probook 5310m (http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/thinandlight/5310m...) yesterday. It's .9inch thin, 3.7lbs and has a more powerful Intel Core 2 Duo 2.3ghz for under $800 (http://www.costcentral.com/proddetail/HP_ProBook_5310m/FM997...).

It's thin and light like the ThinkPad x301 but more powerful, and costs less. I recommend checking it out, I couldn't be happier.
I can't really tell what it does just by glancing at it.

The name implies that you track movies somehow, don't know what that means. "About" says you recommend movies. That's not the same as tracking movies, but maybe you recommend them by tracking them. I'll try to log in and see.

Tried logging in with facebook connect, it just brought me to another login page. So I created an account. I liked the are you human thing.

I did NOT like being confronted with an upgrade to premium proposition as the very first thing I saw after logging in the first time. Presumptuous. Let me use the thing at least once, so I can find out what it does, much less do I want to pay for it.

I added one movie. When the popup disappeared, my dashboard still said I haven't added any movies yet. Disconcerting. Had to click Movie Log and come back to Dashboard before my newly added movie showed.

What's that box with the string of blue pearls at the top of the dashboard?

I clicked Recommendations, and based on one movie entered I got recommendations. I think it's fair that the recommendations appear random, since I only entered one movie, but you do mention "secret sauce" as part of your methods. Based on your recommendations I think your secret sauce is a RNG; I entered Casablanca and you recommended Forrest Gump, Vertigo and Watchmen, among others.

That sideways Facebook thing over on the right is irritating, it covers up your Secret Sauce speech and I have to scroll the page around to move it away from the FB tab.

Signed out.

Clicked Sign In Using Facebook at the very top of the front page, and got ... a giant pixelated blowup of the Despicable Me picture that you feature on the front page, at this url:

http://test.themovietracker.com/iphone#home

None of the links do anything useful (because I'm not an iphone?).

Clicked Sign Out and I get a blank page and no page ever loads.

Back button to front page.

Clicked Sign In top right, and just for fun clicked the fconnect button in the popup. Same result as above, some kind of iphone-centric page.

Filled in my email and password, clicked Go Inside and got a blank page at this url:

http://test.themovietracker.com/process_ajax_login

Clicked on Create a New Account, and instead of creating a new account I filled in my email/passwd. Clicked Go Inside and was informed of bad login credentials. Tried again, and got the iphone page.

Went back to the create account page and tried logging in again. iphone. So I can't get in anymore.
If I am ever successful, this is my dream -- having money to sponsor people to make my dream apps like this [and open source them for the community].
Agree, we need a minified version, also remember to turn on gzip in your server.
One of the ways that you can create a good looking button or clickable image is to set the background image of an element so that you can take advantage of features like :hover pseudo-classes. Sometimes you don't want the text to appear inside of that element, like if the text for your button is inside the image. The solution is using a huge text indent number (-9999, to take it off of the left side of the page). It's basically a trick. An em is just a measurement, equivalent to the width of the letter M.

You'll notice sometimes when clicking a link that you'll see the dotted outline text extend all the way to the left side of the page. That's because the text inside of that element is actually way far off 9999em's to the left of your display. Like a bad act getting pulled off-stage by the big long hook around the neck.
Serious question: who did the voiceover for the demo video: http://vimeo.com/7193701 ?
Just installed it, `sudo apt-get install lua50`. It's 352kB - smaller than most unix utilities.
This really does make life a lot simpler for displaying data of pretty much any sort.

On a side note: it would have been awesome if they offered the charts with the XKCD look to it.
Your prejudice is my Bayesian inference.

+1 for a great quote xD
His point was a very simple argument, based on plain old common sense. It was intended to be simple.

It becomes insightful when you take his point and put it next to the jarring inconsistency in our reality. Fact is, nothing done by Washington has done anything remotely to help this in a meaningful way.

Jobs aren't created by legislating them, as is currently fashionable in believing. Jobs aren't created by shoveling truckloads of money to special interest. It is the people "in the trenches" who are trying to get stuff done that create jobs.

Sometimes it is worth repeating the common sense truths as we often tend to loose sight of them.
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A similar barrier exists for many people with simple math. As a tutor, it's incredibly frustrating when I introduce a simple algebra expression (plus, minus, maybe even multiplication) and a grown person shrieks "No, I don't understand math. I just don't get it" without even spending a moment to see if they can understand.
Why not `sudo apt-get install lua5.1`? 5.0 is rather old.
If you need boost.python-esque interface for Lua, use Luabind.
I'm always wary of founders that say "we want to be the next [large company name]". It immediately identifies them as followers rather than leaders and shows their focus is on making money or achieving status above solving problems for customers.

No wonder he's asking for a handout.
I would like to pass along congratulations to Michael Yuan. This site is beautiful and inspiring. Would you guys mind sharing the tools you used to produce it, and how long it took?
What a strange fear -- being afraid of not having health insurance. I haven't had a "real job" or health insurance for about a year now, and I don't care at all. If something bad happens to me, I'll put the bill on my credit cards. I doubt anything will happen though. I'm young, healthy, and don't get into car accidents by being stupid. Statistics are on my side here, and I feel completely comfortable living without health insurance for awhile.

Unless you have some kind of condition, is there any situation in which the fear of not having health insurance is actually justifiable? I mean, if you want to avoid paying off a huge hospital bill over time, then ok... but come on, if you're starting a startup, gambling a 0.001% chance (or whatever) that you might have to pay 4-5k off over a few years seems like an insanely good bet.

Also, I heard from a friend (who is very probably wrong about this) that you don't actually have to pay off a hospital bill. It won't count against your credit score. Is this true? I would never do something like that, but... if not paying the bill doesn't count against your credit score, then I can see why people might not pay it.
You do not apply bit operator patch, you do use bitop library.
While you have a point, Obama isn't going to make anyone's startup succeed, you are off base. Saying that a job is created by "growing existing businesses" or "creating new businesses" is insightful, as it gets back to the core of what is needed. As far as the private sector is concerned, jobs are created by growing and new businesses.

With the massive amounts of cash that has been thrown at shrinking big businesses in the recent past, it is important to recognize that over half of Americans work in small business, and it is the small businesses that are having the most difficult time accessing capital. Not just in the valley, but the mom and pop, brick and mortal business that should be considered the bread and butter of society.

Yes the author is focused on his own plight, in a slightly whiny and entitled sort of way, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have a point.
I wonder how they're going to deal with people recording credit card numbers off the website, e-mails or phone, then typing them into Square to charge the customers as if they were handed the real card. That's not allowed by the card brands, and it's Square that's at risk of being terminated if they let it happen.
Here's a wonderful data visualization site: http://www.gapminder.org/

I know it through a few TED talks: http://www.ted.com/search?q=rosling&x=0&y=0
STOP chasing Consumers. Collaborate with your Customers.
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I read it as an argument that to reach truly obscene, globally recognizable levels of achievement, you need talent, determination, discipline, and luck.

It kind of makes sense if you think about it, since achievement typically has a log-normal distribution with a long right-hand tail, which implies that it's based on multiple normally distributed underlying factors.

Take away any one of the factors, and you rapidly approach more "normal" levels of achievement.
The second half is well said.

I'm also thinking of producing something for mobile users. Does it make sense to just stick with a web app or a mobile app is the way to go? (In my case I need the gps of the phone)
1 Gb/s, like 125 MB per second? Whoa.
>> Unless you have some kind of condition

Apparently, a lot of people do... otherwise the nation wouldn't spend such a large percentage of the GDP on medical care.

Be thankful you're not old, yet.
Lua data structures and builtin functions are ones of the most consistent sort I've seen around — if you get the whole picture.

They are just a bit unorthodoxal.
Yeah very good, not wire good, but so far I'm liking it.
> "I’m trying to create jobs so hard that I work without a salary. Not only that but I invest my life savings into the cause of creating jobs. I also work harder at my job of creating jobs than most people work at their normal job."

I found this bit quite disingenuous. Yes, he is a business owner, and yes, he is part of the demographic of job creators - but "job creation" is not his title nor his primary intent (unless I've grossly misunderstood his startup idea).

Founders are in it to create a product and get rich - some have higher-order ideals for what they want to do on their road to riches, but to pretend that you are not acting out of your own self-interest is disingenuous.

Maybe I'm reading this all wrong, but that bit sounds to me like trying to appear as a populist folk hero when you're really not.
That would obviously depend on many, many things, but when I was in Japan I regularly uploaded at 60+Mb/s on a 100Mb connection, which basically maxed out my CPU. I assume that, given reasonable contention ratios, you'd be able to upload at a good proportion of the 1Gbps to any peer, over any pipe, able to accept it. I wouldn't count on being able to get anything like that over an international link but to your friend in the next suburb, sure.
We use Lua for embedded scripting in my current project. First I wanted to use Python, but I couldn't figure out how to build our app with MinGW while our Python is Cygwin's.. Lua is very easy to embed, but I think it should be easier to do error handling. We still fail silently on syntax errors in the script..
I don't think that was his point. His point was just, "Hey, government, you know who created a whole bunch of jobs? Google! I'm trying to also grow into becoming a giant company like Google did."

In this context, saying "I'm trying to be the next Google", is just like an NFL team saying, "We're trying to be the next New Orleans Saints." All it really means is, "I'm trying really hard to succeed."
"Also, I heard from a friend (who is very probably wrong about this) that you don't actually have to pay off a hospital bill. It won't count against your credit score. Is this true? I would never do something like that, but... if not paying the bill doesn't count against your credit score, then I can see why people might not pay it."

Your friend is wrong. Google "medical bankruptcy".
This is Oz's set of primary datatypes: http://www.mozart-oz.org/documentation/tutorial/node3.html#l...

This is a god damned nightmare if you want to actually use the language. Why? Because each of these types has separate methods and syntaxes that are used for manipulation.

Go on, try to write something that is generic, I dare you.

Oz is, without a doubt, the best example of why you should not try to be everything to everyone that I have ever seen.
I'm 23, healthy, and took a bad spill a few weeks ago. Nothing too serious, but it did require some stitching.

Total bill? $1553.

This is a very significant sum for people with regular, consistent income. For someone subsisting on ramen to launch their next great idea, this is crippling.

Also, I highly doubt the credit score thing is true.
Creating a better safety net WOULD really help innovation

This seems remarkably unsupported. I don't think of Europe as being very innovative, despite their impressive social safety net. And I think of Asia as being very innovative and entrepreneurial, despite their lack of much of a safety net. Hmmm...

The reality of a great safety net is that someone has to pay for it. Who is that?