skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue with at least the #lisp community is that they are nice so long as you go along with their ideas. As soon as you suggest anything might be done better some other way, out come the thorns.
Why iPhone and Nexus One are not competitors
"Prepare to lose the rest of your day to awesomeness."

Indeed. I think I will start with "Secrets of New Color Movies"
Looks like they still run it

http://www.cnr.com/

Actually that fixes the UI problem quite nicely. I have some engineering gripes too... :P
Thinking some more about this, I come to the conclusion that there is only one way to incorporate civil liberties into nowadays world: We need an international tax that companies and organziations pay whenever they prune civic rights. Hard to get that one through all kinds of legislature, but I think it might work, once done.
Should you pay employees for better customer service?
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Direct link: http://www.fuelyourapps.com/behind-the-app-freshbooks-painle...
Focusing on your second paragraph, yeah, all that would work fine. The key is not to store the CVV or use it. The degree at which you encrypt data is dependent on your needs. All that encryption you are talking about sounds good, but I'd question why you need the CC then? Indeed, encrypting it with the users password presents another obstacle should the user forget his password.

Getting someone to re-enter credit card data isn't as bad as many might have you think. People are used to it. They know it. In many ways, it makes them feel better.

Of course, let's not get started on another problem: A user tries to make a purchase with a credit card that has already been used on the system for another account. Do you let the user make the purchase? Do you deny him that ability?

Oh, the usability and privacy implications for that is insane.
Yeah, it used to be that it would check for a period in the users review and prevent them from entering any more text once that was encountered but people started getting around it by-writing-their-reviews-like-this or using commas everywhere a full stop should have been, in the end I just went with the 140 character rule ala twitter. This made more sense since we would be heavily integrating with twitter.
How do they do that 'progress bar' on the links I open in new tabs? That effect really impressed me.
Eye Tracking Study: Users Largely Blind To Real-Time Results In Search
Wow thanks, just upgraded to those. Now downgraded back to _21
Thanks for this. I can't see the woods for the trees having worked on the site morning, noon and night so it's easy for me to miss these kinds of things. To me they seem obvious, but then they would since I implemented it. I'll be changing this very soon.
If a MacBook Pro takes up "part" of your refund, you really need to modify your exemptions and stop letting the IRS hold your money all year long.

The IRS even gives you a handy calculator to figure it out: http://www.irs.gov/individuals/article/0,,id=96196,00.html
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> Even the most ardent defender of the Supreme Court's commercial speech jurisprudence -- which is in my mind largely mistaken -- would have a hard, hard time finding against a private citizen for political commentary of that nature.

Huh?

The commercial speech argument is that folks who gather together for commercial activity have the same free speech rights as other folks in other circumstances. That argument doesn't imply anything about stopping other people from saying things.

Here's the difference. The commercial speech argument says that any company can say "nike sucks", that the govt can not impose anti-disparagment rules. It doesn't say that Nike can insist that other folks not say "nike sucks".

I'd like to say that I don't understand how anyone can confuse the two, but we do have lots of folks who think that their free speech rights are being violated when someone else criticizes them. (If you're one of those folks, you're wrong. Your right to speak does not restrict my right to speak.)
I had ordered a bespoke desktop. It took a little while to procure, build, test and ship, so in the meantime I got everything ready in anticipation :)
This power was also given to police during the Vancouver 2010 games. It isn't about personal posters, more about large banners hung over buildings which are promoting competitors or anti-olympic protests.
The 'enter private homes' makes one think they mean 'remove from the interior of private homes', but in Vancouver it meant 'remove from private buildings'.
The wording is of course vague enough to be used for purposes other than the intention, but I never actually heard of somebody having a problem in Whistler or Vancouver.

At the same time, it is a HUGE civil liberties issue, and I with there was another way to handle this. Nobody should really have the right to take down a massive pepsi flag if I feel compelled to cover my building with it.

As far as 'non-sponsored items', I don't recall that being a discussion at Vancouver or Sydney, but you couldn't bring food or drinks into a venue, so that pretty much took care of that 90% of the time. If Omega is the timing sponsor, and I'm wearing a Timex, I can't imagine security is going to take my watch.
Let's be honest; if Atlanta, on its own, dumped billions into revitalizing itself, no one would care except residents. Having a stage like the olympics to draw the world in, however, shows people the city and makes it more likely they will return.

Likewise with Vancouver; one of our major downtown streets, Granville, got a complete overhaul. Gone were the old, broken stones, the cracked sidewalks, the run-down streets and sickly trees. It's now a much better place to walk around and explore.

We also have a new mass-transit line connecting our downtown core with South Vancouver and Richmond, as well as the airport. Catching a flight used to be $25-35 by taxi, or god knows how much in parking. Now, it's about $4 per person, and that gets you there and back if you're dropping someone off. The project was a public-private partnership that was within budget and opened fifteen weeks early, and has made Richmond far easier to travel to and from (making everyone's life easier). The project was a no-brainer improvement to the region, but I doubt we would have had as much support and funding if we hadn't had the olympics coming to town.

Whether the other renovations to the city will prove useful, it's hard to tell yet, but I'm cautiously optimistic that they will.
(Re-)Introducing the Heron Programming Lanugage
it's not about reclaiming attention, but eliminating distractions -- in fact it recommends limiting distractions from blog posts just like itself.
It's worse than that. This is a candidate for a marketing position at a leading technology company who, when she flunks an interview for clearly never having even attempted to do a calculation marketing people do constantly, writes a blog post making it clear that she thinks the interviewer was at fault.

Math illiteracy may not be a dealbreaker for a technology marketing role (hey, I've managed OK), but marketing illiteracy clearly is.
Just to update -- if you are buying a card now, ATi is quite probably the better choice, at least until NVidia gets GF100 and it's derivatives out.

Unless you're planning to run Linux, in which case the Nvidia drivers are still far and away better than any of the multiple offerings for ATi chips. Even though the Nvidia drivers are closed, they're extremely reliable and feature just about everything but Kernel Mode Setting, which is honestly not that big of a deal.
This person probably needs more experience at interviewing. There's absolutely nothing wrong with bringing a pad of paper and a pen to the interview. He should have solved the answer on paper rather than trying to think it through out loud.
Some how doesn't work for me. I get:

"There was a strange value in some of your form responses. Please select from the available choices and try again."

I'm answering LCD, Don't Know, Blank, Yes, Yes, Spanish
This. Not my finest wording, but as an unbiased observer, that is how it looks. And you can be sure that if the IRS is going to be biased, it sure as hell isn't going to be in your favor.
> I wish I could make Beer part of my ideal diet.

You could make the result of a beer diet your ideal.
In Vancouver, people "associated" with the olympics and such could not bring Pepsi products to the office, only the officially sponsored drinks. They had to put tape on gear to hide logos from nonsponsoring companies -- including laptops from HP, IBM, or Dell.

Because much of the funding comes from the tax payers, hundreds of millions of dollars as it turns out, the people are subsidizing the erosion of their freedoms.
I actually really like the design. Sometimes too minimal can be... too minimal when you are talking about very small pieces of content like a once sentence description and a one sentence review.

As far as one screen barely holding 3 reviews, I don't want to see much more. I don't want 10 reviews stuck into a small space. The layout with a good sized picture and an acceptable amount of space around everything is really nice.
If the OP was referring to iHandheld devices, then it makes sense for anybody but Apple to support multiple host development platforms. For example, a lot of people are crazy enough to do embedded Linux development entirely on Windows. Plus there's no native advantage anywhere, so any host CPU type is as good as any other.
Its basically a weasel strategy to keep "civil rights" on the books, yet practically emasculating those same rights in the courts. Welcome to global fascism.

(Remember fascism means the union of the corporate and the state. Egomaniacs in funny uniforms and goose stepping is optional.)

[grammar]
So what you're saying is that you already knew that OpenSSL had a glitching-style side channel attack, and that you're waiting for someone who has never assessed OpenSSL's code to shut down news stories about it?
To reply to your question about legality directly: I don't think the arrangement as such is illegal [1], rather, the fact that the corporation hasn't paid taxes on it's income is what the problem is.

I'll give you my gut feeling here (and please take it as just that--instinct. You really must see a professional expert on this matter): I think you're OK. You'll probably fly under the radar, and I don't think there is enough money here to justify a huge investigation. Your likely worst case scenario is a bill for back taxes with some interest.

[1] I am not a lawyer, accountant or tax expert!

[edit]: Oh, and good luck! As a non-US citizen who has had to deal with the US tax system, I'll vouch for how easy it is to make a mistake.
Just a guess but it is probably just eye candy that starts on click and ends on blur.
How many 'web designers' are actually print designers who have converted to web, and haven't grown with the web?

I think this should be a non-issue these days. If a designer has been working consistently for the past 15 years, I suspect they would have transitioned from print designer to a web designer.
Either that, or if they are newer to the field, wouldn't they have learned web design.

UX is a completely different animal, though I see many designers who like to get involved and understand UX because it has a huge effect on what and how they design.
He also had a very interesting follow-up series "Nerds 2.0.1" http://www.pbs.org/opb/nerds2.0.1/ which is the history of the early internet. Make sure to watch that too!
I agree that the design is a bit overdone, but I don't think it's too bad.

The most annoying thing to me is that several of the snippets are more than one sentence long. :(
Similar over here: tried "IVV" but didn't get the ETF I expected
I'm starting to wonder if it would be prudent to pursue a law degree in the interest of defending my own civil liberties.
Google Chrome Becomes Location Aware
I tend to skip right over the "real time" Twitter results when they show up in Google. When I'm on Google, I'm looking for websites, not tweets.

And who thought sticking an auto-scrolling iframe in the middle of the search results page was a good idea?
Yes. Unnamed sources are a necessary evil of journalism. But they are abused too much right now, although some companies (i.e. the NYT) are claiming to be pulling that back with newly improved policies, after all the fiasco of the last decade or so.
Yes, on personal and enterprise. Mostly just used for releasing the UI while the app is doing the dirty work...but on several occasions got lots of speed boosts by pooling db connections and shredding complex files on different threads, also doing image generation for video by hijacking 100% of my CPU to build frames as quickly as possible. Not for the impatient -- No room for progress bars :)
> Do it a couple of times and key revocation becomes infeasible because of the cost of replacing hardware.

Who bears the cost of replacing hardware when a Blu-Ray key is revoked?

That's a serious question. If the key used by my Blu-Ray player is revoked, who pays to fix things so I can continue to use it to watch new movies?

Not to be cynical or anything, but I'll bet that I'm the one on the hook after the warrantee period, and maybe even earlier.

If I'm correct, key revokation is a public relations nightmare waiting to happen.
My wife "reviews" movies in a different fashion, and as a loving husband, I've learned to adjust.
Me: What's the movie about?
Her: It's starring Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts.
Me: Oh, who's in it?
Her: It's about them having to crack the code to some....

Anyways. I've learned to ask "Who's in it?" first. And it works like a charm.
NB: They may accept returns as written, but if your returns are inconsistent with someone else's returns (someone's usually giving you money and telling the IRS why), you'll get a bill.

They're also not going to ask you to justify your return, so much as they're basically going to invoice you and leave it to your and your tax professional to wriggle your way out of it. If you don't respond, they'll suck the money directly out of your bank account.
Poll: Which HN-community app will you vote for in PayPal's $50,000 contest?
Voting closes at 11:59pm Pacific time tonight.
Mixcloud
Next Sprocket
OurDoings
None of the above because I don't want to create a paypal account
None of the above for other reasons
Use functional programming in the real world? Present at CUFP
"In the general case, if n is the fraction of the company you're giving up, the deal is a good one if it makes the company worth more than 1/(1 - n)." http://www.paulgraham.com/equity.html

you took money because it made your smaller % worth more. so why are we even talking about %s?
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Here are the appeals for votes I've seen. Please let me know if I left any out and I'll add more choices, so long as they are by developers who participate on HN.

Next Sprocket: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1143229

Mixcloud: http://blog.mixcloud.com/2010/02/25/mixcloud-wants-you-to-vo...

OurDoings: http://ourdoings.com/ourdoings-startup/2010-03-01 and http://ourdoings.com/2010-03-05
Some of these articles are alarmist. It remains to be seen how the police or the government will enact any of these powers.

It's not clear what the criminal activity would be, the law is often made to allow the police to act quickly. Say the Olympic brand were used in some sort of con, the police would have powers to disassociate that activity from the Olympics.

To assume this is to be used to create a monopoly could be cynical at this point.
So, basically you should go paleo, but that varies depending on what's your ascendance
Shouldn't they? If your building isn't supposed to have advertising on it in the first place, why wouldn't the municipality have the right to remove the advertising? This is not merely a question related to Olympic powers, but if your Pepsi banner is an illegal advertisement, it should come down. (Frankly, not enough of this is done here in Toronto.)

Where I'd have a problem with this is if you had a LEGAL advertisement space in the Olympic area and they prohibited you from showing whatever advertisement would be permitted in your space regardless. If Pepsi were willing to pay your normal rate for a billboard that you legally have on your building, the city should not be able to remove it under any circumstances.

It's worth noting that cities DO occasionally enforce outdoor advertising regulations and that some folks (e.g., http://illegalsigns.ca/) think it's a good thing. I happen to agree.

EDIT: Added link to the Illegal Signs blog.
At the moment we're only doing FTSE 350 (London) and S+P 500 (US); we'll be adding more stocks, instruments and ETFs soon. What ones would you all be most interested in?
Google AI Challenge post-mortem
Never to Fart?
It's not the first time something like this has happened. My brother got a 9800GX2 from EVGA, and due to inadequate fan settings programmed into the card's BIOS it overheated and destroyed the thermal interface between the GPU and heatsink (though the GPU didn't seem to be damaged -- the computer would boot and run for about 2 minutes from a cold start). After getting a replacement, he uses Rivatuner to force the fan to 100% when doing anything 3D. He still gets occasional frame rate drops on one of the two GPUs, though it claims its temperature is fine.
A Pragmatic Discussion on the Economics of TDD
If your goal for now is to let us give you feedback, you should put in some reviews for movies that everyone has seen.

I haven't seen those three movies, which makes it harder for me to gauge whether the reviews are any good.

On the other hand, some of the music reviews are transparently bad.

I'm not sure if the ratings apply to the movies, or to the reviews. And since the people doing the rating are probably also not sure, that makes the ratings less useful.

Will you have the ability for multiple users to compete to provide different reviews, which then are ranked as they (the reviews, not the items being reviewed) get rated by the community?

I could see this evolving into a cool resource, but it's hard to tell from what you've got so far.
> Fielding, along with independent Nick Xenophon, hold disproportinate power in the Senate.

Isn't this (parties with a couple of representatives holding the balance of power) a consequence of proportional representation?

I mention PR because it is often touted as a solution to US problems.
All IP always takes precedence over civil liberties in all cases. It is an anti-right by its nature.

There's a similar but less extreme generalisation to be made about its effect on cultural inheritance.
In defense of walk ups NYC
Thanks for checking it out. Sirius isn't an S+P 500 stock (we started it with a pretty restricted universe of equities, the S+P 500 from the US and the FTSE 350), but we'll see if we can get the autocomplete to behave a bit better; it's pulling the top element off the list when the autocomplete closes.
Cool url. Loads slowly. Visually a little too shiny for my taste (can we bury the wet look already?). I'm not target audience so I didn't really know what it would be useful for.
Anatomy of Apple Design
Writing a Cocoa application in Haskell
Not quite. A single school board modified the science standards for a year (2005 - 2006). They were promptly voted out the following election cycle and the previous science standards restored. Evolution is very much a part of the curriculum.
You know what I think is hillarious? Let's say Nike is an official sponsor for whatever event. Let's say I go there with a different brand of sneakers, underwear, pants...everything!

What are they going to do? Strip down! You are wearing a non-Nike pair of undies! REMOVE THEM AT ONCE!
Your shoes are staying with us! They are NOT NIKE!

And then comes the other hilllarious part. The mobile phone. Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Apple, Motorola and such are probably always sponsors everywhere. What if I get some obscure brand of mobile phone - Alcatel and Sagem are two easy examples, but think REALLY obscure:

BenQ, Sharp, NEC, Sendo, Pantech, Innostream, VK Mobile, Xcute, Haier, Bird, Eten, Qtek, iMate, WND or Mitac...

Actually, I think people will make a purpose out of going there with the wrong items. Saying loud and clear that people are supposed to "preserve the monopoly" and "stop people carrying non-sponsor items" will really top people's bull!@#$ meters. They might organize groups of such people.

After all, no matter how private it is and how much money sponsors put into it, the audience paid for the ticket. That means they have the same rights before the check-in gate and after it.

This is probably long past the old purpose of the Olympics. It's probably about luring people into forceful submission to corporate fascism. I might be wrong, though. I mean maybe the police won't "police" people into obedience toward corporate interests. I wouldn't know.
I recommend chapter 5 of Parkinson's Law, titled "The Short List, or Principles of Selection":

Only a little thought is needed to convince us that the perfect advertisement would attract only one reply and that from the right man.

If not informed, you'll at least be amused.

(Search is your friend, but I recommend buying two copies of the whole book - you'll want a loaner. There are sequels, nearly as good.)
James Cameron's excellent TED talk
It's notable that every degreed UX person I've worked with has been incredibly good. By degreed, I mean a MS in HCI or similar, not "I got a MIS degree and couldn't write code." The percentage of people with respectable CS degrees who are good coders is much lower in comparison. I guess HCI isn't an obvious life choice, so those willing to invest in graduate school programs are pretty passionate about it.
That is a really, really good demo video. It helps that it's a really good looking product as well.
It did require some imagination. I ended up putting in "vomit green" for one, and "mango" for another.
Valve Time
Right, I think that is part of the survey, to come up with interesting names. Some of the saturated ones are extremely hard to name.
UTF-8: Bits, Bytes, and Benefits
That's not the winning attitude.

We shouldn't have to beg to have our rights (back). Just remember how you got those rights in the first place.
Talk about burying the lead - I can't understand how this part of the story doesn't merit it's own article.
Everyone in the study was on a diet, but they put some people on the "wrong" diet for their genome. They were the control. The 2-3 times more weight lost was comparing those two groups in the study, not comparing to people outside of the study.
A very cool product with plenty of real business uses!
Well done!
The reality is that most people don't even know what a UX designer is-- so they get the designer, programmer, and biz guy in a room and mangle their way through it. The real problem is that there are not enough UX designers out there. UX is inherently multi-disciplinary. You have to have understand how business objectives interact with design interact with code. Our education system doesn't teach people to think holistically so most UX designers just stumbled into it on their own. Some come from the design side, others come from web-dev, but you can't fault them for trying.
1) At first, the Clear Button is at right and the Create is at left. When you click "Create" you have a popup. The cancel is at left and the Create is at right. You should try to put all your creation button at the same position... all right or all left and not changing them because it's confuse and error prone.

2) Font is very weird here : http://goo.gl/wFyS
This is nonsense, what people choose to call themselves changes all the time. When hiring you ought to look at people's qualifications and experience, not what they choose to call the job they do. This is trying to put labels onto the complex job of finding the right people.
it's not hard to invoke whatever compiler you want. when i write python in eclipse using pydev, i get build errors when i save (though i run the programs from the command line for various reasons).