skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Miguel never ceases to amaze me on that front. Given he's not a stupid person I have reduced it down to a psychological explanation regarding his early days - getting denied after an MS interview and it turning into an obsession to prove his worth to them or something. But even that feels weak to me even if it is plausible. But weak is better than nothing, because there seems to be no other reason to be so credulous about their good intentions.
But you want to control the weight of a rank for an aging product, no?

Let's say you are ranking cellphones that a store sells and someone has a fond memory of a cellphone they used a few years ago so they vote it up. But the phone itself was posted years ago, compared to the newest phones that came out this year. You don't want their vote to have as much weight because of the product age.
Since my transmission is stick shift, I'm not worried about Toyota floor mats, accelerator or brake pedals, or software bugs. I've never had a problem, and I would reflexively respond in a safe way were something to occur.
You're getting into a market rife with competitors, and they're all offering the same product for free, or more value for less money.

Plus, no one like NDA's and they've very hard to defend legally. That product is designed for big business, who already have lawyers drafting NDA's. Not regular consumers.

Selling legal opinion (and it's _opinion_, not fact) is a valid business model, but there's no real accountability. How can one defend a contract when you never met the writer?

My 2¢: Start a blog, give away (free!) a template contract a month, along with regular postings of explanations of the legal areas your covering along with further research. Start a dialog with the public about what they need and tailor your products to the market.

Get subscribers to your legal opinion, be the expert, and find new legal business by simply being the best at what you do.

Also, your domain name sucks.
Wax iPhone Framework Seriously Rocks
Anyone:
1. with money
2. who owns a computer
3. located in the US
4. willing to give mint.com access to their banking credentials

I don't know if Dropbox or Mint are reporting active users or just sign ups, but I'd think that those that sign-up with Mint put in a great deal more time and thought.
ah. Makes sense, thanks for clarifying.
Challenging SO is not about technology, it is about the number and quality of users. Metcalfe's law wins the day here.

There are a lot of good discussion sites running terrible software, like LtU and Perlmonks. This would allow them to keep their communities intact but actually run software that doesn't actively discourage contributions. (Ever use Perlmonks? That's why people hate Perl!)
wow, i've never seen that before, thanks!
Seems very similar/identical to Magic Whiteboard - http://www.magicwhiteboard.co.uk/ - a UK product that was featured on the UK version of dragon's den - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QvguJJNilA - is Whiteyboard a completely separate company or have Magic Whiteboard not yet got a US patent?
maybe not the best words but ... policy to control everything is simply evil.

What Apple is doing (kills concurrence) is evil in the purest sense of word 'evil'
The Newscred guys are based in Geneva and are active participants on HN. There was also cocomment but I don't know what's their status now...
If chrome uses webkit, I would expect vulnerabilities there to affect chrome as well.
Spot on. There has to be other geological reasons for the island subsiding. A ripple has a wave height of 5mm.

I don't know how these stories are getting past editors and into news reporting. It's like their brain switches off whenever they see something remotely linked to 'global warming'.
Any privacy policy that includes "we can change it anytime" is essentially no privacy policy. They could just change it to "we reserve the right to sell your data" and people who signed up under the old policy have no recourse.

All privacy policies are basically moot. They mean nothing. They're as valid as those "checked secure by verisign" icons that are just there to make people who know no better have some sort of "trust" in the company that has it there.
Advertisers Show Interest in iPad
Sounds like some people still haven't learned NetBeans or Eclipse.

Takes some time getting used to, -just like vim or emacs, but once you get used to the keyboard shortcuts you get everything the author asked for. No mouse needed: check, fuzzy search: check, paths: check, metadata: check, beautiful: check
Art of the VC Pitch: Advice from 6 VCs
Yes. It's no joke. The company that your livelihood is tied to seeks profit as their number one goal (above all else). You have a stake in C# succeeding it seems (based on your website).
How you deal with that level of cognitive dissonance is your own problem. I will not make any assumptions or judgments of you as a person because it's possible that you may be forced to deal with the situation for personal reasons (which should probably not be discussed in a forum such as this). That or you may just care nothing for true openness(and the ability for people to learn freely) when it comes to technology.
"confirmed" by who? every blog post I see titled "the fold is a myths" follows the same path where there author lays out a bunch of opinion of why they think it is "honestly people scroll fine, honest"

every empirical study (like the one linked) seems to confirm that there is an obvious bias towards content above the fold.

Dont think its particularly important here, I was pretty impressed by his design and not everyone needs to stick to strict usability constraints, but still handy to know what they are.
thats why you chose the AGPL license! ;)
I think the background grid is just supposed to be an aid to align things properly when they're creating the content, and not really meant for readers to see.
To select a word. For example I double-clicked to select 'TextMate', so you search and find out what it is. Turns out it's a Mac text editor.
The reason I use the Letter is the point MLK makes is that it will always be "too soon" for democracy. I can't think of a single democracy that had an easy or peaceful transition. About the closest I can think of is the short-lived "Prague Spring".

I'm not a complete stranger to China. I've heard this same slow progress argument before. 10 years ago, "China's making progress", 20 years ago, "China's making progress". There's that horse and buggy pace. If China had made that much progress, they'd be there already. People in China in favor of democracy should have support, and "you're not ready for it" isn't support.
What I would like to know is where to buy 3M VHB double-sided stickers. They're much better than the crap 3M and others sell in supermarkets, which can't hold an asthenic gnat.

Judging from the peel-off paper I saved, that's the stuff our local highway-toll radio-pay company uses to hold the transceivers to the windscreen. One nearly needs a crowbar to pry them off the glass.
Another vote for including the IP address.

Facebook too. In fact, I think all apps should start displaying the IP addresses of the last FIXNUM attempts to log-in, successful or not.
control-option-command-8 is your friend

Ditto for if you go to Best Buy or any other non Apple store that sells Macs. They never know about this delightful key combo. </8 year old level of humor>
It is fairly difficult: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/certs/policy/
I do this as well.

I do it so, when my attention gets diverted, I can quickly start from where I left off since it'll be highlighted. The obsessive clicking is because I'm obsessive.
Prizewinning math could reveal hidden patterns in primes
Note the footer :-)
Same here - I've been using Sphinx quite a lot for geospatial stuff before. This feature was the only reason why I was still using it instead of MongoDB for some projects.

I'm already gone :)
i pulled out! you should too, be selfless, support ethics (heh)
From this one ill-behaved goroutine could take down your program.

I'd like to see a mechanism where you could launch a goroutine such that it, and any goroutines it launches, all have a top level defer. That lets you launch potentially questionable third-party libraries in a goroutine safe in the knowledge that they will not take down your whole program.

Otherwise I like it.
Googling, I think a "composition interface" is an interface like Ommwriter, which shows a screen blank except for your words to allow you to write without distraction. Seems like this could be a plugin for a standard wordprocessor but some people like software dood-dads like this the way other people kitchen dood-dads like lettuce dryers.
The Wired Tablet App: A Video Demonstration
I was thinking exactly the same thing. It is going to be very inconvenient if you feel the texture when writing. All my walls are textured as are the walls in most American offices.
Because I'm unemployable.
66% of server time, not 66% of traffic. I am not a web developer, but my guess of what's happening: active pages get cached, so 500,000 page views to the homepage uses as much server time as a spider coming across a dead link from 2002. The Onion updates frequently, but not hundreds of time a day, and there's only a (relatively) small number of 'current' articles at any given time. It wouldn't take that many dead links to dwarf the server processing time, as long as they were all distinct links.

As a web analyst, I can tell you that in general old, deprecated content does not get very many visits except from spiders. I would not at all be surprised if the marginal ad revenue is break-even compared to the extra server load.

Note also that they're not just throwing the traffic away. It's a decent 404. It's not the best I've seen, there's room for improvements, but it's directing people straight to the archive so they can look for the story they were linked to.
What turns a bull market into a bubble: Testosterone?
Exactly. What matters in a Q&A site like shapado is not the features, it's the community. So we might as well share the features and make it the best Q&A platform as possible so we can focus on growing our own communities on it.
I wish I could say yes. I found the color scheme interesting and a nice refreshing change from "Everyone's Posterous."

But I guess there are people who will complain about anything that is different. The slight irony of posting a complaint against orange while you were surely looking at a band of electric orange is not lost on me.

(At least, I assume you're with orange. Has pg lifted the karma restriction from the custom color preference?)
That particular post was born out of a frustration with the disbelief about not being for sale and what I consider an infatuation with flipping companies and serial entrepreneurs.

I don't think the language is any more colorful than it's always been. I prefer to put my writing in strong terms with clearly marked boundaries. I'm usually just writing a handful of paragraphs, not a dissertation. So the "ifs, buts, and maybes" have to be read between the lines.
ps. why is my account ( _ck_ ) so slow when logged in and my comments marked as "dead" ? Was I flagged as a spammer by mistake?

Looks like it. Looking at your posting history on _ck_, though, I don't see why you'd be auto-deaded. I suggest emailing pg about it.
Yes! SE starts at $139/month...pretty expensive in my opinion.
So how do you explain Jim Jagielski joining the board of the CodePlex foundation? Does he also not get it?

There comes a point, when you see many smart people doing something that you think is a mistake, that it is time to ask if maybe they know something you don't.
Yes. In fact, I embrace confusion here: http://kirindave.tumblr.com

(Go on a windows box, see how authentic the busy cursor looks!)
Anybody using IdeaPaint? --> http://www.ideapaint.com

Rust-Oleum sells a product too. --> http://www.rustoleum.com/CBGProduct.asp?pid=128
You don't need fuck you money to do that. I do that and I don't have fu money. I volunteer lots of time and create websites that don't make money or aren't intended to make money.

If you are really productive, live a frugal life, and create a little residual income you can work on whatever you want.
Not to go off topic or anything but is this kind of an unfortunate name? "Whitey" has pretty negative connotations here in the US anyway.
Why PushPress Plugin Is A Must Install For Your Wordpress Blog
also, shapado is able to import SE sites, check this question out:
http://shapado.com/questions/can-i-import-a-stackexchange-du...
Everyone wants to be Dustin Curtis. Still, the author calling HN posters Neanderthals was a nice touch.
I'm not honestly sure they have the wherewithal to do so anymore.

They're not exactly in their acendency at the moment. More and more people are buying macs, linux servers are often just the assumed technology (they had to release a cloud competitor, Azure, to even stand a chance), I mean, they may be doing this OSS push because they think they have to.
A window that displays filenames next to a larger-font-version of their extensions?
I'm pretty sure "The Telnet service" refers to the telnet server, not the telnet command (client). It does seem feasible that you could overflow a buffer or affect the terminal window by causing telnet to output special control characters, etc. of course.
Jason-

You've got a few issues here. I'm only buying it because you're on HN, otherwise i'd have run away, but:

- Your paypal integration is busted. I can't complete checkout.
- Your billing page seems to still display http - i know you're using an iframed wuform-- but it's not going to cut it. People want to give money. You're not helping them do it.

makes a billion times more sense to give up on the iframe and direct straight to wuforms. If you would rather a more integrated e-comm experience, i suggest shopify or similar.
There are a bunch of websites that are frequented by expats in various parts of China (like gokunming.com), so any kind of advertising, either through forum posts or traditional ads might get you some trafic. But apart from that I can not think of anything easily done to advertise to the English-speakers in China.
Joy Division was a great band, although I thought the lead singer died in the 80’s.
Is that really the case? I'm not saying they're not trying to kill some popular open-source projects, but I've also seen a lot of cases where they did publish some good research cases out of goodwill.

Notable examples include (just stuff I already knew about - I'm sure there's lots more in areas I'm not interested in):

- all work by http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/simonpj/

- Haskell ThreadScope: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/threadscope/

- Singularity, process isolation and language research: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/singularity/

- Hyper-V patches for the kernel (ok - they were ugly, etc. - but they were submitted in a working state, so they tried at least)

I really wouldn't be surprised if a lot of bad moves coming from MS were just caused by the legal department not understanding the FOSS issues and writing a new license that is "good enough" for them, then forcing the developers to use it (why would a developer be allowed to question their licensing decision?). There are loads of other projects and papers published by MS which are of a great value to the FOSS community - sometimes they just carry a stupid license. That can be solved by reading the documentation and writing a clean-room implementation where needed.

I definitely disagree that any free software strategy connected to MS is doomed.
Twitter has a limit of 140 "codepoints". Not bytes. Not glyphs.
This is the most useful post I've read in a long time - AWESOME.
Yeah, you're right, you pretty much have to cook your own food if you want to eat the good grains. Steel cut oats are not so bad; just soak them the night before in a pot of boiling water, cook for 10 minutes in the morning, add some cinnamon and chopped apples and you've got a great healthy breakfast.

Beans and other good carbs are also difficult to cook on your own, but you can get canned ones.
The brightcove player seems to be problematic on my system. If I try to rewind by clicking on the slider thing on the bottom, it seems to get stuck on rebuffering forever, unless I reload the page.
If you're happy with a frugal life, then your 'little residual income' effectively IS fuck you money.

Fuck you money doesn't have to be hundreds of millions of dollars, unless you want to support a wealthy/extravagant lifestyle. Then again, maybe you want an extravagant lifestyle and your own submarine. That's not any better or worse in itself than just wanting a frugal life.
Native Django on App Engine
Also, scaling for mass, the rats are given the equivalent of 3000 kcal (more than most humans eat in a day) in pure HFCS.
When I click on the play button, a new window opens, but it's blank... Put up some photos maybe?

I'm on FF 3.5.8
Fruit does have a lot of sugar, but it also has a lot of fiber in it which causes your body to process the sugar in a different, slower way. Drinking fruit juice, however, is just about as bad as drinking HFCS soda.

Berries are truly awesome fruits. I eat blueberries almost every day, although it can be pretty expensive, especially during the winter when they have to ship them in from the southern hemisphere.
The larger, closer an item is to your cursor, the easier it is to click on
Until recently, I worked for a major retailer of online legal forms. You can get in touch with me if you'd like to learn more about the landscape. To answer the questions:

1) I'd expect my attorney to react like my doctor would if I brought him a kidney in an icebox and asked him for a transplant. The kidney might be good, but how does he know?

2) If you're giving away a usable product, don't plan to sell much of it -- even if the full version is better in some significant way. If the freebie is good enough, why buy?

Overall, I think you're going to find that you have tough competitors -- huge document libraries, low prices, and solid marketing. Have you surveyed the competitive landscape?
Coming to a P2P network near you: your medical records
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Looks nice. I'd use it for a game of Memory instead. Sponsors would probably much prefer a simple click-through.
That's right- we're (NewsCred) here in Geneva! The scene is small but I love it. Drop me an email and I'll be happy to share details and help.
Anyone found some simple steps to upgrade?

Surprised they didn't include it in the post.

I installed the previous version using these instructions:
http://shiftcommathree.com/articles/how-to-install-mongodb-o...

EDIT: Figured it out.

The release notes provide a few more details.
http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/1.4+Release+Notes

I pasted the steps I used here: http://www.pastie.org/887556
ideapaint is expensive!
To provide an earlier example (2001):

Conker's Bad Fur Day (NWS for language, I guess):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w5neFPat1w

Pretty much anything you can find out about that game is along the same lines.
There is quite the difference between a little bar of orange and a whole screenful of it.
> there's a Russian proverb saying "Don't divide the skin of a bear you haven't killed yet"

I believe the English one is "don't count your chickens before they've hatched" (i.e. don't count unhatched eggs). My local one is about the same, but more graphical: "don't count on the egg in the chicken's ass" ;-)

(Yes, I do have a weakness for proverbs.)
There's also quite a difference between the orange on this site (a harsh electric orange) and the relatively mild and somewhat popular shade of orange on the article, so I think it's a wash.
Exactly. There just isn't browser support for clipboard access right now.

However, it's not like clippy has any impact on CPU performance or usability (it's only added functionality, not blocking content for people w/o flash) so there's really no downside to it being in flash.
Could U.S. Push on Internet Freedom Backfire?
ditto, ditto
No. Don't do that.

The data in your computer program needs to be in a format that's easy for your program to use.
Electronic Voting and Human Error
Ahem, "Fluff Busting Purity"... you could also call it
"Fluff BP", but then British Petroleum might get upset too.
Perhaps the liver or some part of the digestive system can only handle a certain amount of HFCS per hour.
Mass media sucks. Hooray for Internet and "amateurs".
Is this solution better than using RDS?
I'm doing it because I love working for myself and I believe there's an opportunity for what I'm working on to help a lot of people. And get paid.
I'm learning git right now and that little site produced a big increment in my comprehension. Still at 'grasshopper' stage, but now I'm doing stuff, rather than scratching my navel and drooling while looking at man pages and Stack Overflow answers.

Most importantly the man pages are more comprehensible now.
Sean Ellis on Building a High Growth Startup
Notice that it turns blank in rotation.
Constantly mentioning how you're using a tiling wm is the new constantly mentioning you don't have a TV.
That's exactly right. People whose fat metabolism is in working order tend to have more energy, simply because their fat cells aren't soaking up the glucose in their bloodstream and are able to release free fatty acids to power their muscles on demand.

There's good evidence that while the equation:

energy consumed - energy expended = energy stored (as fat)

is true, tinkering with the left hand side is likely to leave you hungry, lethargic, or both.

If you can keep your insulin levels in check, you can manipulate the right hand side in your favor, allowing you to eat less, have more energy, or both.
i've written a plugin as well. it's extremely simple: it uses find (or globpath() if you do not like external dependencies) to build a local cache. matching isn't approximate but you get results on partial matches and can browse files in directories (something i really missed in some other solutions).

i recorded a quick screencast: http://pipsq.com/s.mov

note that i'm matching against the linux source; searching smaller source trees should be a lot faster.

you can try it out by downloading the following files:

http://github.com/strange/dotfiles/blob/master/.vim/plugin/p...
http://github.com/strange/dotfiles/blob/master/.vim/autoload...

launch with :Pyxis or create a map:

noremap <leader>e :Pyxis<CR>
noremap <silent> <leader>E :PyxisUpdateCache<CR>
Not quite answering your question, but worth noting that C++0x supports various unicode encodings for string literals:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B0x#New_string_literals

There's also a link to a proposed boost solution here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/511280/is-there-stl-and-u...

Doesn't quite sound like the standard way that you're looking for, but moving closer.

Edit:

"ICU today is de-facto standard Unicode/localization library" from a mailing discussion of the boost solution. And http://art-blog.no-ip.info/cppcms/blog/post/43 has an interesting comparison of a few libraries, but not too comprehensive.
I'm not sure this matters for what I do mostly: Use Rails.vim where you are moving around typically with :Rmodel or :Rcontroller and splitting windows to see the implementation and test side-by-side.
> "The party in china does not kill people. You say it does, but there are no reports saying that. You've just bought into propaganda."

I really didn't want to get into politics today, but this single line contains so much ignorance it's impossible to ignore.

I have family, close friends, and other people close to my life who've lost family members to the CCP - dragged out into the street and shot, in extreme cases. I think they would take extreme issue with your fluffy portrayal of the CCP.

Even disregarding large scale policy fubars that resulted in the deaths of millions, the CCP has directly killed (e.g., shot, beaten, stabbed, etc etc) millions of its own people.