skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So if you are going to limit the number of people who gets to enter the US, how will you rank them?
Oops, actually I meant conscientious. Thanks though!
For "Usability Testing", I would recommend Steve Krug's second book, "It's Not Rocket Surgery", rather than "Don’t Make Me Think".

"It's Not Rocket Surgery" is entirely about usability testing, whereas his first book only dedicates 1-2 chapters to it.
I think that criticism is just too easy to make, and suggests a lack of empathy for the realities of the gaming marketplace.

Everyone thinks pirates are fun and romantic until it's their stuff that gets robbed.
Thiel understands that because the world political system is far from equilibrium, in the long run it will tend towards one of two possible futures: extreme centralization or extreme decentralization. If you can assume the former is nwo-type scenario, then it's clear that he's hoping to push society towards the latter--paypal, seasteading, etc all create the infrstrucure for small-scale independence. I agree with him.
They do it all the time, even about things which don't actually cause them any practical difficulties, but simply resonate with their neuroses.
http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_releases/study_low_in...
"low income equals high obesity"
My biggest complaint about Flash is that it isn't truly part of the web. If you have a completely flash based site, all browser conventions go out the window: bookmarks, the back button, and deep linking. Sometimes even non-browser conventions are gone like cut'n'paste, printing, or saving to a file. If you're going to do that, you should have a good reason beyond "it's easy" and "you can have music"

Flash is most successful when it's used properly: for small regions of video or cool interactivity. It's least successful when it's used to replace a properly coded website.

I don't think the 'web elite' want Flash to die necessarily; they just want all the same cool toys but with something that plays nice with existing web conventions. And they also don't want to sharecrop on someone's proprietary platform. I'd argue the author has taken a very shallow look at the issues involved here.
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Dear Bay Area HNers: I will cook for you
Dear HNers,

I'm heading down to the Bay Area March 6th - 21st to start my job hunt (details here: http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/career-transition/).

Cooking is one of my huge passions* and I know from experience that every time I travel, I literally get itchy fingers if I spend more than 3 or 4 days not cooking.

So here's the deal: On the nights I have free, I will come to your house/apartment, we will go shopping together, you pay for the ingredients & I will cook you a 3 course meal based on what you like & what looks good on the day.

A couple of caveats:

* You need to be somewhat flexible on the date, I don't know what my plans are for when I'm down there so I can't guarantee anything.

* Groups of anywhere between 2 & 8 people are fine. If you have more than 8 people, I'll need a helper.

* I've produced some pretty tasty food in some pretty dire kitchens in my life but if your kitchen comes equipped with at least the basics, it's going to be much easier for me to produce something amazing.

* If you're interested in cooking, feel free to help in the kitchen and I might be able to teach you a couple of things. If you have no interest, that's fine too.

* I'm an inveterate meat lover but I can also do very tasty vegetarian food.

If this is something you're interested in, shoot me an email at hang@bumblebeelabs.com and tell me a little bit about yourself and we'll see if we can get it done.

Thanks HN!

*For my 21st birthday, I cooked 21 courses of food over 21 hours for 21 people. Pics here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2019448&id=219000104&l=9edeae22ea
Anyone care to tell me why web devs should want Flash dead?

Because it's broken and therefore a pain for users. Should something like Flash exist? Yes. But Flash itself is a bad implementation of a good idea.
For free ?

I paid $80 for a game and they turn it off when they have a more profitable replacement.
I'm not against the effort but in the real world the game will always be rigged because of "voting rings" that contain actual people.

I work with 4 other people who are on HN and we added it up a few weeks back and found we represent over 7,000 karma points. So we could easily get something on the front page if we colluded to do so. We specifically make an effort not to but I'm sure many (http://bit.ly/aUKFwc) aren't as honest.

To me that's no different than having bots do it for you.
This might be the truest description of American politics I've ever read. The only change is s/have the right to/are forced to/
Good to have the option, I know I'd prefer it to distributing and maintaining a known_hosts file to a whole network.

That said, I really prefer the idea of using DNSSEC with SSHFP records to CA infrastructure, but that's obviously not as feasible with VPSs / EC2 and the like. Revocation is certainly more straightforward.
They were just on Mixergy this afternoon, definitely worth checking out for those that missed it. Props to Andrew for getting this posted so quickly!
Yeah but in interactive Python, 60ms is not a long time.
Ask HN: Everyone-Must-Follow Blogs?
Are there any blogs that absolutely anyone (with a brain) could and should follow? Yea, there are the usual webcomics, but otherwise there are few feeds I keep on Google Reader for more than a week or two.
The point is that HARO was hardly an original idea (connecting sources with reporters). This is like saying that Burger King inspired my idea for a restaurant, then Burger King sues me for stealing their idea of 'a restaurant that mainly serves burgers.'

And WTF is the part about, "oh, by the way we demand that you hand your site over to us?" A C&D letter is to get him to CEASE and DESIST, you can't use it to perform a hostile takeover of a competitor.
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I think that he was speculating that since popular porn sites are already using flash that there is no need to switch.

Or that there is some unmentioned barrier to switching video formats that porn sites don't have the means or ways to overcome. Either way, his point is unclear and I agree; porn can switch to HTML5 <video> tags when/if there is sufficient browser support.
Meh bitching helps, if I mess up an exam I was supposed to do good on because of obscure notation I forgot to study but I understood the concepts and solution better than anyone damn straight I am going to bitch.

I can't change the past but I can remember what to do next time and that bitching will help me remember.

Though my form of bitching may differ from others.
I agree, A common line of questioning

Q: Have you ever worked with any design patterns

A: Yes

Q: Name a couple

A: Singleton, Decorator

Q: So, can you explain what's the decorator pattern and when it can be useful

A:...

Of course, the HR person was probably reading from a script, and he probably just had to humor him for a few more mins to get the next interview.
I posted some links in this recent thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1134392
The most interesting (and least shady) idea here seems to be paying for internal links. This could work in the local model: restaurants could pay for Digg links to their reviews for example. Sounds really promising.
As I was reading this article I kind of felt the urge to go learn flash (again, just for fun).
And given how irrationally people act after an attack the politicians are probably right. So we're stuck with the Patriot Act until politicians become brave or the public stops acting irrationally after an attack.

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
absolutely. For more minor tasks the point is more subtle- it forces you to make sure you're delegating because it is the best thing for the organization, and not because you simply don't feel like doing it and happen to be in a position to delegate.

Interestingly, even if you (as the delegator) aren't aware of the difference, the people you are delegating to are most likely picking up on it, and it will have an enormous impact on their motivation and trust.

There is a cumulative effect here. If someone who is consistent on that first point were to call you up and ask you to fly to a meeting on his/her behalf on a Saturday evening, you'll (emotionally, at least) have no problem doing it. If, on the other hand, someone who is _not_ consistent on this point asks the same thing (whether or not you've consciously realized it) you will likely have some degree of resistance or outright resentment.

You have a big potential investor coming over tomorrow and the office is a wreck. A poor leader would delegate the cleanup simply because he/she can, and people will pick up the psychological cues. A good leader will ask himself if he's willing to do it but can better the organization more if he does something else, and only if there is a positive answer will he delegate the job. And again, people will pick up the psychological cues.
I did both immediately.
huh. my concern would be 'what if I don't sell enough to make it worth putting in the discount codes in every product' - e.g. you're going to have to modify your billing system (and more importantly work it out with your partners) every time you put a product out. If you only come up with a few hundred dollars in discounts, that might not be worth it.
Interesting! I did not know that. Thanks for the explanation and link.
As long as we are on the subject of article content please please don't be one of those people who decides pictures are necessary in blog posts, especially in abundance.

Pictures should only be used sparingly and if they actually illustrate your point and or subject.
I don't understand what 'airbags' haskell inserts. Ok, it might be a bit trickier to write macros since it doesn't have
such uniform syntax, but can you not still express all of the same meta-programming constructs?
deep breath

The most fun I've ever had in programming was programming Flash. There, I said it.

Flash is an absolute blast. In my first experience with it, I was able to slap together a simple sprite-based game with basic physics, sound, and a video background. The whole project took about 10 hours, and most of that was learning the toolkit and ActionScript. ActionScript is still one of my favorite languages.

Yes, it's terrible for standards, has awful usability, etc. We should be pushing web standards hard. However, we shouldn't forget that Flash makes programming fun and accessible. That's pretty neat, and so I hope it never dies entirely.
"Loss aversion" at its best. I just use my battery how I please, and it usually lasts as long as the computer it powers is useful to me. If it dies, I just buy a new one for $50 or whatever, and then it's brand new.
the only problem is that this is just how women think.

they want to feel the problem for a while... not fix it.
notice thats how the post was inspired.
If you are going to refer to your competitors in public you may want to have a short (15 min) consultation with an IP lawyer.

There are issues that arise if you use other people's trademarks. But these can be avoided if you use the proper disclaimers. So yeah speak to a lawyer. Although, at this point it would probably be longer than a 15 minute consultation.
As to video: Flash pretty much replaced Real Player and HTML5 will replace Flash.
It's /conscientious about/, which you seem to have confused with /conscious of/.
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Here's one article about it. http://www.seattlepi.com/business/boe202.shtml
The cloud is not "storage", it's "sharing with your friends". What's the point of taking pictures if nobody ever looks at them?
Or to California, so that you can get invested in by YC.
Bedroom furniture, master bedroom furniture
The bedroom furniture and master bedroom in a house is usually meant for the husband and wife. The early concept of a master bedroom involved a simple room with a queen-sized bed and...
The point is to help a startup improve. That's sort of the M.O. around here.
still resting off the good pr laurels of free willy...
This is superficially true but I think ignores how usable sam is. The rationalized command language, the fact that you can see what you're doing, unlimited undo even across files (even across file I/O), and the ability to go to the file in question and just type make it a much more satisfying experience to do large amounts of development with than ed is.
OK, that seems nice.
> I wish I would've videotaped it, because the source code is long gone and wouldn't run on modern hardware anyway.

Emulation could have worked.
"he suggested that we take the average for all PSAT tests given tenth graders at each high school and compare it to their average SAT scores when they are in 12th grade. Subtract the 10th grade average from the 12th grade average and you see how much value that school has added."

Then schools would simply train kids for the SAT rather than actually foster the common sense it requires intuitively (I got a 2090, didn't study). The problem with these ideas is that the institutions affected by them have different goals than the people implementing them.
I also love good reading on Internet. I use Readability and Readable. Here is Readable project: http://readable-app.appspot.com/setup.html?better_web_readab...
UW-Madison physicists create quantum computing CNOT gate
Both "of" and "about" are correct in this case. See definitions (9) and (10) of the word, "of."

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/of

In the English language, "of" and "about" can be used more or less as synonyms with only subtle differences. E.g. "I heard about the play," or, "I heard of the play." "The play was about peace and love," or "The play was of peace and love."
Did you ever notice that a process running a single thread of execution can run multiple processes, apparently all at the same time?

Yeah, that. It's called a context switch. It works by "captur[ing] the state of a running application in such a way that it can later be restored". I personally have at least 20 friends who have implemented it, as I would assume most college students at strong CS school would.
Do you really know Lisp ?
Not really the same; the blue and green areas are mixed with other colors; its wellknown the eye sees finely mixed colors as different colors.
The greyscale illusion uses quite large areas which is remarkable.
Why do you think Yelp is actually erasing bad reviews? It seems most likely that this is sour grapes from business that are unhappy with poor reviews, rather than any wrongdoing on Yelp's part.
purpley not.
In your case, bitching is changing things then, just as the article mentioned. I agree that at times, bitching helps.
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Of course if any one of these animals could actually tweet, they would say "I am sick and miserable and slowly going insane in this small puddle, please let me out". But they cant tweet, so the only way they can communicate their displeasure is by dying early or killing one of their trainers.
I agree, this is a questionable policy. You should be able to "cancel" (i.e., stop paying) for a couple months and then come back later. This would cover cases where, e.g., people go on vacation, or take a consulting gig to pay the bills and don't need the service for a bit.
All packaged into a "Send to Kindle" Service on Snow Leopard = awesome++
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It's always going to be best to get a personal recommendation than trusting reviews on the internet, for anything.

This is precisely why many people expect social networks to play a larger and larger role in commerce.
My Gift of Courage
My little brother turned eight recently so to start him off on the right foot I sent him a Lemonade Stand business plan and $10 in Angel funding from family and friends (AKA Me).

After I sent him my sort of quirky gift I realized that the possibilities of a kid run lemonade stand are actually endless. His formula for running his small company could become so good that other kids want to copy his cart or his recipe and run their lemonade businesses just like him. Could he franchise out his business to run on different corners of town and take a percentage of the revenue? Maybe.

We'll see how creative he gets. Maybe me sending him this is a way for him to realize that having ideas is like having seeds and having money is like having water to help grow that seed. If he wants to. He can turn my Lemonade Stand Business Plan and that $10 into a lifetime of adventure and prosperity. If you're an older brother or a Dad. Find a small and fun way to pass on your passion to others in your family circle. You never know what a small gift of courage could grow into.

-Manasseh Israel
www.manassehisrael.com
twitter.com/manassehisrael
You can also add your own fusion rules, as far as I know.
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This is not a new phenomenon: JFK even wrote a book about it, titled "Profiles in Courage": The book profiles senators who crossed party lines and/or defied the public opinion of their constituents to do what they felt was right and suffered severe criticism and losses in popularity because of their actions. [1]

So sometimes the right thing to do is the unpopular thing. But that's not new. While democracy is great at preventing certain abuses of power which clearly hurt the populace at large. Hence, it is also good at preventing violent uprising. So while it comes up with good solutions to some problems, the democratic process we have doesn't come up with the right solution to every problem, terrorism being a good example. This notion is much older than JFK, of course. One purpose of the Bill of Rights was explicitly anti-democratic: put in a general way, it prohibits the majority from oppressing inherent rights of minorities.

In theory, it is the role of the courts to strike down such laws as unconstitutional. In practice, this doesn't seem to happen very quickly, Japanese internment serving as one historical comparison [2]. But the sky has not fallen, former transgressions were greater, and like them, this too, shall pass.

What is novel about the current political climate in the US, as far as I can tell, is the extent of the influence money has in politics, and the magnitude of such money being spent. The best chronicle of this I've read is "So Much Damned Money" [3]. This is a problem worth fretting over.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profiles_in_Courage

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment

3. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0307266540
What are some of the other bad ideas in this category?
I have a 1st gen unibody MacBook, about 15 months old. It's spent almost its entire life plugged in, but with occasional excursions away from power for the day.

These are the figures iStat gives me for the battery at the moment: 100% Health and 133 cycles. It still gives me 5+ hours battery life, enough to mean I don't usually take the power cord with me.
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Smart people more likely to be atheists, vegetarians
I'd be cranky if I were signed in to troubleshoot a busy production server and accidentally opened two hundred files because of one typo. Especially if it's uncommon stuff that probably isn't in the buffer cache.
Or more likely, they will roll out HTML5 video support and use Flash as a seamless fallback, like YouTube, DailyMotion, and Vimeo are publicly beta testing.
woot, I'll be there - so happy this came together!
If someone can create an instrument arranged in this form, it might help a great deal with music education.
It's too sad the region where Bach (and I!) lived does not produce such outstanding musicians any longer.
It's understandable that Shankman would get annoyed, but that doesn't justify sending a ridiculous C&D letter. Do you call your lawyers every time your feelings get hurt?
I would like to just add that your site (PRManna) does kinda have the same look and feel of Shankman's site (HARO). I don't believe this is a coincidence. And its not like this look and feel is common.
I did not get this line.

But we can't actually assign the result to a variable because we can't use alphanumeric characters.
Dude, you even named it after the parent site?

Poor form.
Frivolous C&D aside, I don't quite understand your logic. You seem to be trying to use the idea that he just started a simple mailing list as proof that his approach to the problem he was solving wasn't innovative, and yet you claim he was the inspiration for your product. So what was it about this particular person's approach that inspired you if you didn't think it was innovative?
You can have some real fun combining cowsay with figlet:

$ echo i am a cow | figlet -f small | cowsay -n

_________________________________________
/ _ \
| (_) __ _ _ __ __ _ __ _____ __ __ |
| | | / _` | ' \ / _` | / _/ _ \ V V / |
| |_| \__,_|_|_|_| \__,_| \__\___/\_/\_/ |
\ /
-----------------------------------------
\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||

BTW, both are in the standard Ubuntu repositories.

EDIT: Ha! That idea is already in the cowsay man page. GMTA.
Just for the record, all of that could be done better with HTML5.
An "about us" page is meant to be more informational than commercial, but I understand your point.
[~]$ cowsay
-bash: cowsay: command not found
[~]$ sudo port install cowsay
---> Fetching cowsay
---> Attempting to fetch cowsay-3.03.tar.gz
---> Verifying checksum(s) for cowsay
---> Extracting cowsay
---> Applying patches to cowsay
---> Configuring cowsay
---> Building cowsay
---> Staging cowsay into destroot
---> Installing cowsay @3.03_1
---> Activating cowsay @3.03_1
---> Cleaning cowsay
[~]$ cowsay moo
_____
< moo >
-----
\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||
Or he could 'accidentally' make a few typos entering the vessels name
Piracy isn't pushing anyone anywhere.

Publishers have it in their head that piracy equals lost sales.
It's this belief, that DRM can recapture those sales, that is pushing them in this direction.
That post is going to be very hard to follow for anyone who doesn't have the context of your comments on Dons's recent Haskell posting. (Also, saying over and over again that the people who disagree with you "don't know Lisp" is getting old fast. It may even be true, but just argue the facts, please.)
in this clip he learns that folks working at the stores feel they aren't really part of 7-eleven as a whole company and can't advance anywhere

Reminded me of http://www.theonion.com/content/node/38690

LOWELL, MA–Jeremy Novato, a recent graduate of a well-respected Lowell high school, has secured a position with the McDonald's Corporation, a high-ranking Fortune 500 company. "I'm tremendously excited to have this opportunity to work with the world's number-one restaurant chain," said Novato, 18, pouring ketchup into a large metallic pump dispenser at the $41 billion company's Exeter Road branch Monday."
Perhaps he means to pay back America by earning money and paying his way via taxes. Instead of taking all that education investment back home.
[~]$ figlet
-bash: figlet: command not found
[~]$ sudo port install figlet
---> Fetching figlet
---> Attempting to fetch figlet222.tar.gz
---> Verifying checksum(s) for figlet
---> Extracting figlet
---> Applying patches to figlet
---> Configuring figlet
---> Building figlet
---> Staging figlet into destroot
---> Installing figlet @2.2.2_0
---> Activating figlet @2.2.2_0
---> Cleaning figlet
[~]$ echo moo | figlet -f small | cowsay -n
__________________
/ \
| _ __ ___ ___ |
| | ' \/ _ \/ _ \ |
| |_|_|_\___/\___/ |
\ /
------------------
\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||