skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if farmers, who have to pay attention to their use of daylight hours, shift milking hours, feeding times, etc.. based on DST, or whether they just do stuff when it makes sense for the animals based on the season?

I.E. "Milk at Dawn + 30 minutes" because that's when the animals are ready. (Substitute actual optimal time for milking for "Dawn + 30 minutes".)

It's unfortunate so much of our time at work is centered around meetings at particular times, otherwise we could all just ignore the machinations of the government, and just do stuff when it makes sense to each of us based on our own circadian rythm and the season.
Which is sad since HTC has been making very good phones even before the whole iPhone craze started. Their windows mobile phones were by far the best in my view before the iPhone came. (I never owned a Windows Mobile HTC but have had experiences with a few of them through friends). HTC seemed to work hard on creating better interfaces for the Windows Mobile platform and it does so again with Android. Their sense UI is quite nice and I believe has many things that put it above the iPhone. The widgets on the home screen they provide are awesome.
New Version of Digg Revealed @SXSWi
I personally think it's sad that hardly anybody mentions OCaml or F# as alternatives to haskell. For a while I had the impression that OCaml had the potential to become really big but now it seems to have slipped people's minds. BTW it sounds odd to me that the author wasn't able to compile a hello world program and that he calls the error messages of the OCaml compiler incomprehensible. I could understand calling OCaml's type system complex (in comparison to the usual suspects).

And I still don't get the clojure hype. I probably would change my mind if there were a native clojure interpreter (like jruby for ruby) but the way it is you're tied to the jvm which precludes clojure from many use cases where a dynamically typed language would be preferable.
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/4652.html

Zara supply chain --->
mass-manufacturing * lead-time
Vs
lean manufacturing * cost

Applies to almost all industries. Difference is if you want a million of the same thing, or thousand of a thousand things.
haven't ordered one myself, but my boss stated that he ordered three of them. I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing that I'll be getting one of the ones he ordered so I can evaluate it for our clients.
I experienced precisely this effect, in a before-and-after style, as a gameplay element yesterday. The game started with lots of visual detail, but began to "degrade" as you advanced through it, and at 100% completion every tile was replaced by a single-colored block.

(The game was "REDDER": http://www.auntiepixelante.com/?p=540)
What kind of company are you cofounding exactly where your ideal partner steals iPads ....
Why don't you just edit the port to add a variant that lets you opt-out of those dependencies?

Poor package management isn't the fault of MacPorts; a Homebrew port could be just as poorly designed.

The "variants" infrastructure of MacPorts is one of my favorite parts of MacPorts, it definitely makes it easier to manage interdependencies IMHO.
As one who has taken taxis on a daily to weekly basis for the last ten years, I've never understood how on earth a Taxi Driver can pull scams on their passengers. I flag locally, call for a pickup, as well as take cabs from airports.

I've done this thousands of times in ten years.

In _all_ of that time, the closest I've seen to an errant fare (keeping in mind, I make the same trip hundreds of times with dozens of taxis drivers, as well as having Google Maps give me detailed distance information) is low tire pressure on a Taxi that took what should have been a $35 taxi fare to $38. It's amazing how little the "waiting time" charge varies a ride taken at a particular time. It's usually within 30-50 cents on a $40 ride at most.

I've never had a taxi driver try and determine if I was a "regular" or "out of towner" - and I rarely do more than just give them an address.

So I find it, based on my own experiences, very, very hard to believe that Taxi Drivers are engaging in any kind of widespread scam - unless they pull it on the blatant foreigners.

If I ever had a Taxi driver charge me the wrong rate, I wouldn't even dispute it with him, I'd just call their administrative oversight (which, in most cities, is the local police) and let them deal with it.

So, as much as people want to suggest "GPS Logs" are uncovering something - I'd have to suggest that by and large there is nothing to uncover. I'd be interested in seeing further details on these taxi drivers who have supposedly overcharged 100s of times - People like me would have flipped and/or called the police if they tried it even _once_ on us.

Color me dubious.
I just did a simple search for Mahalo on the article. I didn't find it, so I'm assuming my questions aren't going to be answered. fail
Ooh -- if that works I could do my dashboards in HTML/CSS, print them to PDF, convert the PDF to an image file, and use that. That would make my life much easier, as producing the PDFs directly is a bit of a kludge. Thanks, I'll have to look into that later.
It would be great to have some feedback (unpolished notes) along with a rejection. That would make it worthwhile.
The new Chumby makes me think of the monitor Riker and Picard used in TNG. I shall make me a captains chair as soon as I can get a chumby.
If they were clever enough to do that, they probably would've handled the situation better so far.
I had this same thought during my twice yearly meditation on Daylight Savings Time. I concluded that most peoples' jobs do not allow them to leave an hour earlier merely because they want to.

DST is probably the least disruptive way to keep everyone on the same page, and give them that extra hour of daylight per night (or dark in the morning). And at $3.29 per year (in Indiana) it's a bargain.

I guess we could stay on DST year round ...
ATSC in the USA is 19.28 Mbit/sec.
All done! Thanks so much HN- I will be sure to post the report here once I've gone through the data!!
Even better than a bookmarklet, make it so that anyone can type your URL in front of the one they want PDFed, and it will do so automatically. e.g. http://pdfmyurl.com/news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1190151

Aviary.com does this for site screenshots, and I love it.
That sounds perfect. Thanks for the tip.
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While the social side has commercial applications I am more interested in creating a ground level validated voting system that can link community involvement on a local, national , global level. If the registration of users is secure similar to domestic financial transaction level it can become a valid tool for relevant comments on a vast number of issues. I don't have sufficient resources to build it myself however.
From Punched Cards To Flat Screens
Re: #6

When I hover on an item in the list pane, on the right I see the bubble over the pin. The bubble contains the picture of the auction item but does not contain the ebay link. Now if I click on a pin directly, I see only one or more ebay links without any pictures. Just make both of these views of the bubble a bit more similar.
How to Design a Good API & Why it Matters
No, it is much more complicated than that, depending on if the host of a Chatroulette clone is defined to be a porn producer.

Again, my point is that hosting an unfiltered Chatroulette clone is not safe without receiving a great deal of legal advice.
The Bush VSE (Vision for Space Exploration) was actually about directing money to Texas (JSC) and Florida (KSC), two key electoral states. (Ex-Majority Leader Tom Delay's home district in Texas includes JSC, e.g. http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/11/23/delay-at-jsc-and-oth...). This calculus explains why, as I think you note, they didn't care about actually getting to the moon. ;-)

In particular, the VSE was not about using upstart private launch companies (such as SpaceX). It was about JSC, KSC, and the large prime contractors (USA aka United Space Alliance, and ULA = United Launch Alliance, both Boeing/LockMart joint ventures) that are associated with them and that together employ over 10K people. I believe SpaceX employs substantially less than 1000, even today.

In typical Bush fashion, the VSE was all slogans and no substance. The officials involved believed in what they were doing, but there was not a coherent plan (actually there have been at least two phases of the VSE, with distinct strategies). And of course, as others above have noted, not enough money. The slogan for that approach was "go as you pay". (I.e., we will do the best we can with what you give us.) Sounds cute, but does not get you into orbit.
Yup, advertising or getting acquired is the typical Web 2.0 business. There could also be some freemium options.
Yes, but when it's a parent talking to a little kid, the formal address can mean one of two things:

a) they are being funny, in the "look at you being all grown up" sort of way;

b) the kid's in trouble.

Funny how some things are international that way :)
Wil Shipley on TED 2010: Wolfram uses conversation tracking numbers
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1179745
The main reason DST was enacted in the US (and I suspect in many other places) was to save energy during WW1, WW2 and the OPEC oil crisis.

Now that we know it doesn't save money or energy, the government has no reason to be imposing an erratic clock on society that costs more money and pollution.

If you want to get up earlier to benefit only 1 extra hour of dim daylight, that should be my choice, not yours. Not to mention that most people would probably be inside watching TV or eating dinner around 6:00-9:00 PM anyway.
This is impressive. If there was an option to have the link destinations on the requested page also included in the PDF, that would be even better. That way we could specify hacker news as the site, then all of the comments pages and stories would be included in the PDF as well.
Instead, he can now see that Clojure is the more enlightened JVM language.
Holy crap, nice game! Hats off to you.
This is a repost from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1181742
line dropped
http://www.omghowmuchtimeleftforycdecision.com/ now with social features
Boy, This is awesome !!!

This guy is awesome.

Love the part "We are building businesses here....this is not about parties"
Congratulations to both you guys and the applicants. Being overwhelmed with quality is certainly great for YC, and it is good news for the founders, too: if they're knocking your socks off with an application/video then they're probably going places even if they don't quite make the cutoff for this particular opportunity.
:)

I mostly mean downvotes without an explanation, which you discerned. Technically, a drive-by downvote would be a subset of "downvoting without an explanation," since you're not always drive-by downvoting if you're not giving an explanation. Some comments just don't belong, and those comments are normally obvious.

I often get the impression that the downvoters did not read a comment too carefully, quickly passed judgment without thinking about it too much, downvoted, then moved on. Hence, the other reason I call them drive-by downvotes.

It is annoying to see a reasonable comment downvoted to 0, or less. I feel like I'm missing something and what I'm missing is an explanation. Why was the comment voted down? Then the comment gets voted up. I'll never know why the comment was downvoted, and it feels like a small loss. What's happening here can play out in different scenarios. So, that's it. I wish there was more explaining going on, and perhaps people would be less disposed to pass thoughtless judgment.

It is what it is. The submitter asked for our thoughts about the downvote system, so if there's one thing that I'm going to complain about -- and I don't mean to say that this is a horrible, horrible phenomenon -- it's drive-by downvotes.
Did you know that clicking on the item in the list pane opens the eBay item page ?

But yeah, I'll make browsing the map-side a little more intuitive and have it popup images on the left hand side.
I gave up MacPorts after several install failures, notably gtk after about a 1 hour compile, and switched to development in an Ubuntu VM. Have not had a problem since.
That's why Apple (so far, at least) talks about iPad exclusively in the context of being an addition to a PC or Mac. In fact, it requires a computer for backup and OS upgrades.

The fact that your mom can't run her quilting software on it (so far) doesn't mean it can't do all the other things well and be a very welcome addition to her life. It just means she has to keep using her PC for quilting. At least until somebody realizes there's an opportunity for a good quilting app.
I think there are very few companies where recognition on HN could possibly matter. For me there is (afaik) only one user on HN who might be interested in my little startup.

Long term I think it's imperative though, the personal interactions and feedback and direct relationships I've been building with my clients does not scale so well to a wider audience.
Actually, we build our own reality.
So in the life of the OP him buying the iPad is more significant an event than SJ conceiving it or Apple making it.

Besides his grandkids would be far more interested in what he did and chose.

We are the stars of the movie of our lives. Unless we choose to make someone else the hero.
ZuriHac this week. 70+ Haskell hackers converging to hack at Google in Zurich
Yes please. email in profile
I await his responses to my questions. My posts are stuck in the moderation queue. Not sure how it works, but the timestamps on mine come before two he's already approved/posted.

If he doesn't post my questions and address them, I'll share them here (via screenshots). I am not attacking Google or him, I'm asking legitimate questions about their opt-in by default policies, which I think do sacrifice a privacy in the name of profits.
http://ycombinator.com/whynot.html
Oh and the part where he says
"We are sitting where the gatekeepers are no longer in control" is awesome too.

Seriously guys, anyone (including me) who is killing his dream or slowing down on it, because no one gives a shit, and isn't working on building a brand equity, and is on the verge of giving up, or at least even thinking about it, is missing out big time.

We have this gift to make and build stuff which don't exist, to make a dent in this universe.

And the best thing is, no one controls stuff anymore. We need to remember that. We need to remind ourselves that. We control a big chunk of our destiny.

Remember the time when all the companies and all the politics and everything was hierarchical. When sons got their big ass companies from their parents.
When it was so hard to make stuff and actually claim and launch it.
When we were just used, and never given their worth.
Let's not be one of them.
Let's realize we have something great inside ourselves.
We have the ability to take risks, to claim our worth.

I keep forgetting this, as I keep hearing things from family and friends, how it might be better to keep it part time, and how it might be a good, better and easier life.

I hate myself every weekend for not going out so much, I feel I am and always have been working, first student worker work , then research, then studies, then startup, and job.

And every once in a while, I keep reminding myself that probably this is a mistake. Maybe I am just being stubborn. Maybe I should just do a normal job, and just enjoy life after hours.

But the good thing is every once in a while, I keep coming back to my senses and realizing, bars and chicks, and friends' "outings" and "fun times" and "watching games" is not what I want.

I have found meaning in my life, I have found purpose, and I feel ALIVE when I am working on my startup and dreaming about how one day a butt load of people would be using something I made and how I might be able to live my dream.
That I want to change this world, for better or for worse.
I want to make a difference.
That I want to help make other's lives better/easier because of what I have done.
Compare:

"Hey driver, 30th and 3rd please."

"Hi, umm, do we want to go the Empire State Building next? Umm, okay, yeah, Empire State Building please." -> Flip into doubletime.
why does she talk like homestar runner?
Is Apple Entering An Age Of Empire? [audio]
That's why he tried to crush all his competition - to remove sin.
Subversion to GIT Migration: A Tale of Two Gotchas
Amen to this comment. I have three engineers who I'm personally awed by. One of them was a graduate student at my university, two of them work for my current employer. You could hire all three for the cost of one definitionally average engineering employee at Google or MS. All three are well-educated, well-credentialed, experienced engineers from two nations that virtually define Rich First World Country.

I'd be honestly embarrassed to tell you what I make at the day job. When I told my bosses I was quitting to pursue other opportunities, they tried to convince me to stay, and the insanity that is salary negotiation reared its ugly head: the value of my labor has increased by easily a factor of ten in the last three years, the best offer they could possibly give was +N%. This follows standard economy-wide employment practices where we pretend that almost everyone (with the exception of salesmen, finance professionals, and very few other white-collar jobs) is an 18th century water loom operator and pay them in, essentially, the same matter as we paid 18th century water loom operators.

I think one of the major Big Ideas of this century is that the economy is being dragged kicking and screaming to where salaries converge closer to actual value faster, rather than being tangentially sorta-kinda arranged in rough proportion to expected value. That's exhilarating and terrifying at the same time.
It's not sexy, but if you have the space for it, picking up a long term supply of necessities isn't a bad place to put your money. Various sales and firesales happen, picking up canned goods, toiletries, and so on is a decent hedge against inflation and the bulk savings from buying a year's worth is probably going to exceed anything you'd get on the market. Of course, this is more for people with low tens of thousands of cash around, not quite as applicable to people with hundreds of thousands and higher in cash trying to figure out what to do with it.

But if I had a house, I'd go pick up a year's supply of the basics whenever I saw them come moderately to deeply on sale. It's going to save more money than you'd make on any bond in the near future.
Sorry, I got late in replying.
I really wanted to make a good video and/or write a good concise description to tell you about my product.

Well, I just got too busy.
So, here it is.

In short, my software solves the "university course scheduling" problem.
This problem is one that occurs on a department level.
Basically, department heads/ registrar's office need to decide every semester which class room assignments for various courses.
Now, there are rules about which courses can be scheduled together, and then there are preferences for each professor and then there are only so many number of classrooms available at any given time.
My software takes in all those constraints /rules, number of rooms available and also serves as a collaboration tool to collect time slot preferences from professors and solves the problem.
Currently, among the departments we have surveyed, it takes anywhere from 50-100 hours every semester, for each department head to solve this problem, since there is no tool for this.

Also, this is a NP-Complete problem. So, there are good chances of errors, and/or unhappy professors. There is no flexibility in hard coded tools.
This tool confirms to your rules. There is a lot of things that you could change and the tool solves the problem for you then.

I only have a crappy demo right now, since the tool is only 99% complete still.
But it does the job.

www.skejulers.com/demoing

So, please let department heads in your college have a look. I think they will be able to make sense about what i going on here.

Or, I can make the demo better, and the tool a little better and introduce some description as to what is going on there.
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Sorry but your application was rejected. The reason is there is no reason. Just keep reading HN. Cheers, p6
Yes, it was me in the video: Swami Nityananda
>Materials that we take for granted, like hydrocarbons and plastics, are unobtainable off-earth.
Yes, plastics are useful, but they're not a necessity for very many things. They were invented in the past century. In the short term, many things are unobtainable, but longer term, space contains a hell of a lot of material in a large variety. If there's a reason to figure out ways of doing things in space, we will figure them out.

>More seriously, the moon and Mars have almost no native sources of energy.
Solar cells work well in space for small needs, and fission provides great fuel energy density for larger needs. Both of these work fine in an environment bereft of oxygen.

There's no reason they couldn't be self-sustaining long-term.
Postponement: share your feelings on #OMGHowMuchTimeLeftForYCDecision
I love hn. Especially because I do have the resources if you wanted help starting something along these lines.

I'd love to chat if you wanted to talk it over, feel free to email me at nbrendanpickering@gmail.com
And, since it's FDIC insured, it's as safe as treasuries as long as you keep below $100k in the account (or was it $250k? I don't remember.)
Odds are, it's wrong
This is my favorite genre of HN post: news you can use backed by real experience. I don't necessarily agree with all of the advice but a few bits in there are eyeopening for me. (For example, I had never known that the newsletter was a key channel for getting your project seen. That's the sort of non-obvious insight that is worth its weight in gold.)

Thanks Max.
Just a side note but /usr does not actually stand for /user (although I often pronounce it that way when speaking). It's actually an initialism standing for UNIX System Resources.
Berlusconi,mafia,toto' riina e papello
The MyCam
How to build the worst place in the world (a revision)
It was easy, it was cheap, go and do it.

Ooooh I like this line.
You're right that gigs asking for your kind of skills are not as common as ones asking for php development or web design, but those don't pay very well either. Its a supply and demand thing.

The only strategy that I used was to show that i know what I'm talking about in my replies. So don't just say "Yeah, I can do that" or something similar. Ask questions, tell them why what they're asking for is easy or hard or how it will work. Even if they were non-technical folk, just make sure you can get the message across.

Again, just how you would behave in real life.

(If you're just starting out, take one or two jobs at a reasonably low rate to get the ratings before you ask for your desired rate. Its a compromise, but it will get you there.)
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Well, not just newsletters. I still subscribe to the RAC RSS feed even though I haven't done any RAC work for quite a while. It was easier to just skim the headlines in my reader and tag the ones i replied to for later reference.

It has nothing to do with the newsletter. But setting too low a price gives the message that you're not serious about the work or are just trying to find someone to take advantage of(and you will if that's what you're looking for).
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Funny, I don't think I've ever written it that way before (/user/local), though I do say it that way. At the time of that writing I was highly caffeinated, which might have something to do with it.