skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, not worth the time/effort. I highly doubt anyone will give me $100+ for it. Plus I hate domain-squatters. I don't want to do anything remotely similar to them.

Lots of folks here on HN make phone apps. I've had onyourcell.com for 7+ yrs now and many of the things I originally wanted to do with it are being done by Google for free (restaurant listing, directions etc.) So if someone wants to do anything interesting with it, you are more than welcome to take it off my hands at no charge.
Could you be more specific instead of just saying some vague statements without giving any information? What problems have you encountered on *BSD systems?
Just make sure you pay by google checkout or paypal. I'm surprised people don't seem to be angry about the way they've handled the data breach issue.
each software package that uses autoconf prior to compiling writes their own set of tests.
(1) Whoops, bad example. I suppose this is because of patents? (EDIT: this is a genuine question, I really don't know)

(2) In that case, I have limited options: either I ignore the document, or I keep my (more important) freedom. If you sent me an open format, I could have my cake and eat it too, which ultimately results in more freedom.
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Because it wouldn't get voted up if it was just "Javascript function for crashing IE6"?
I own slickforms.com. You're welcome to take it for free.
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The "somewhere" metric is different for everyone. Aspiring towards different things doesn't mean you went nowhere. For instance, I just released my first bit of open source code. I feel like I've finally reached a goal. Hence, I went somewhere.
Great. We can afford fancier toys, but otherwise how does this differ from pretty much any time in the past or anywhere else? Were we less violent before mass schooling came in after 1848? Somehow we managed to make our writ run from the Alleghenies to the Pacific, partly by purchase, largely by violence. Were we less conformist? A reading of Tocqueville would suggest not.
Are you looking for something different than http://www.mint.com ?
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I have skype, gmail and google talk accounts enabled and also screen locked with password. Often times UI becomes so unresponsive, that I'm not able to use it at all and have to restart (sometimes by taking out battery). Today someone called and screen didn't light up for quite some time, then it lit up but didn't respond to my input until caller gave up finally.

And this happens all the time.

My mobile phone bill shrank significantly with n900 - I'm just not feeling like using this device.
There are standard ones you can pick up for many things, e.g. http://ac-archive.sourceforge.net/
FreeBSD is actively trying to get to POSIX and C99 conformance, see http://www.freebsd.org/projects/c99/index.html
Don't most people on BSD also use GNU tar, coreutils, etc?
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Except the use of parameters for resource identification both breaks REST and isn't SEO-friendly. Forms somewhat break this for GET submissions, but do at least adhere for POST.
True, but the most relevant part for POSIX is always GNU/Linux, which is always the same in each of the Linux distributions.
So, am I reading this right, in that someone can create a profile for you without your consent, and you can't stop it from appearing?
My patience for the line, "It is digital. It either works or it doesn't" ended a long time ago.

"Digital" signals are analog signals, but the only difference is that they are restricted to being above or below some threshold. But around that threshold there is a gray area where you can't really tell whether your signal will be interpreted as 1 or 0.

I am not defending the need for high-end HDMI cables. But saying "It's digital so don't worry" is wrong.

There are reasons that "digital" cables use twisted pair. Wow, even some "digital" cable standards specify the number of twists per inch required for reliable operation. And wow, some cable standards even specify shielded cable is required. I wonder why.

Here is a fun exercise for those that think "digital" signals don't need engineering steps to protect signal integrity: build all of your cables (or PCBs for that matter) with straight signals and you will have an excellent time trying to debug why your communications don't work. Bonus fun for making the cable length 1/4 of your signal wavelength.
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nit-pick: shouldn't it be "I.B.M.'s Bid..." ?

Also, who on earth still writes I.B.M. ?? The company itself certainly doesn't.
Can't agree more. It's all about following your heart.
Grow up. C programs are ported painfully to each operating system. This is the reality programming in C. If the author does not support your system, he simply has not spent the time to port it. Proper autoconf tests isn't going to magically make software run on BSDs because the proper test won't be apparent until the author attempts to compile on BSDs. Does it suck? Yes. Has it ever been any different? No.
Wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-end_audio_cables
There is a nice quote on it: "no other product is as shrouded in hype and mystery as the audio cable!"

I also like high quality audio. But most of the time just a good thick electric copper cable will do the job. Also saves you a lot of $.
I know this might sound odd, but I'd like a "privacy policy" and "terms and conditions" generator that doesn't suck.

I'd be willing to part with cash for something where I just tick off the various things I want and it would generate those documents for my site.

Better yet, it would be nice if it was able to make these documents be localised to be legal in whatever jurisdiction (of my choosing) at creation time.
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Because IE6 has stolen hundreds of non billable hours of your life you'll never get back?
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Shame! I thought we were going to get analytics from Mint showing their users net worth closely correlated with purchasing low-price HDMI cables.
There's a bit more to it than that. An HDMI cable contains three serial data links, each operating at roughly 1.5Gbps. At rates that high, some shielding is required, or the cable will pick up enough noise to damage the signal. The HDMI link has some error correction (contrary to a comment on that site) whereby 8 data bits are transmitted using 10 bits on the wire, so minor errors are tolerated.

The important thing, and the central argument of that article, is that with a digital link, once there are no bit errors, no further improvements can be made, and even a cheap cable is plenty good enough for a short HDMI connection. Gold-plated connectors are still a good idea. Corrosion is as much of a problem there as anywhere.

Should you use a truly awful cable, and those do exist, you will probably notice an occasional "spark" on the display.
You're doing it wrong..
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A little light heartedness is never a problem IMO.

I disagree. I come here for things that are interesting, not lighthearted. Things that change my model of how the world works. As the concentration of interesting stuff goes down, people who only want to expose themselves to interesting stuff will turn elsewhere, resulting in a further decline of the ratio of interesting:funny on the site.

No funny!
Ask HN: Feedback on Genie Timeline 2.0 Please
If they're non-billable hours, you're missing a 'Full IE6 support is a chargeable extra, not core functionality' bit to your agreements ;-)
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Genie-Soft - a Jordan-based startup I'm currently working with - has just released Genie Timeline 2.0 Free, which is a comprehensive backup solution for Windows.

I'm not sure if anyone else has had a similar experience, but before working with Genie, I could never find a free backup product that didn't suck to recommend for family and friends that don't realize the value of backups enough to shell out for a backup program.

I'm really excited about GTL2 because it takes many queues from version control systems. It actually monitors your system for changes to protected data in realtime, and queues the files for backup. The nice thing about it is, you just configure it and forget it, it'll perform automated near-realtime backups on its own. You only use it when you need it: to revert changes and undelete files.

Anyway, I'd really appreciate any feedback you guys can give on the product. There's a lot going on behind the ostensibly simple UI, and sometimes focusing too hard on the core means missing out on the big picture. Any feedback/critique fellow HNers can give would be very much appreciated!

I know giving feedback on a software product is a lot more involved than doing so for a webappp, but it's very much appreciated.
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There are some problems with this. First, it assumes you know up front the best way to solve the problem. Second, it assumes that the problem doesn't ever change. Third, it completely ignores a suprisingly common issue: the tradeoff. By this I mean: sometimes modularity/flexibility in one area requires being unflexible in another. Guessing wrong requires a big refactor. There are good arguments for both -- sometimes you just have to do one and find out if you were right.

The problem comes when management says "how come you didn't do it right the first time?" and refuses to accept that thier three sentence change of spec requires serious redesign.
The scheme breaks down in practice at the resource point, and even before then is a stretch in some cases. But at the resource point it's all over. There's no agreement about "mysql". And...

"Just because some libraries have chosen to create things that resemble URLs (such as MySQL, as you mentioned), does not mean that they are URLs as the term is descriptively, not prescriptively, defined."

As it turns out, that's a key part of the point I was making. This is why the original article is silly.
You mean the fact they store your password in their database as plaintext? Yeah kinda scary to be honest.
jQuery is sexy? Its like a nerdy but hot chick that carries a shotgun in case of zombie... err... IE6 attacks.
A) Not everyone is going to use a HDMI cable. (Wrong length, already have one etc. EX: How often did you use the phone line that came with a new phone?)

B) It costs them money.

C) It helps suport big box retail.
Summary of New Features in Sass 3:

* New CSS-Based Syntax called SCSS is available
* Full CSS3 Support
* New Color Utilities and Support
* Variable now start with $
* No more Scripting context.
* Dashes in variable names
* Firebug Integration
* Watcher for files and directories
Ok honestly, while you may lol, this is just a IE6 bug. I have a more generic function that will guarantee to crash ANY browser... Ok won't crash it, but it won't be responsive for a few days.
Agreed, however I haven't seen anyone mention the more obvious (or maybe not so obvious) point. That sort of disguise might evade the algorithms, but it would be glaringly obvious to any person. It's rare to have surveillance 100% managed by cameras and computers alone, there is usually some amount of physical guard presence. Even a semi-catatonic guard would likely investigate a person made up like that moving through a crowd. Especially if they were male.
Having to support Firefox 2 is just as awful as having to support IE 6 (no inline-block). Just wanted to share that. Yes I have to support Firefox 2 where I work. Safari 3 is also a pain.
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This absolutely depends on the nature of the content in the site. Is it user generated? Are the users of the different sites the same people?

In my opinion, you're not giving out enough information to get back valuable advice.
I think "It is digital. It either works or it doesn't" in the context of A/V refers to the quality of the converted analog signal - what comes out of the speakers or is visible on the screen. And the signal getting through can either work or not, no matter how well engineered the cable is, isn't that correct?
Not very realistic. If you put it forth like that 1-3 years ago you would have the argument, "we want IE6 support, skip the others, and of course this will not cost extra".

Edit: I'm surprised to be down-voted. Many clients that have standardized on IE6 still exists. 3 years ago there were even more clients that used IE6, and probably forbid other browsers, including IE7/IE8.

I've personally fought for making my web apps work on every reasonable browser, and gotten the arguments that the client will not pay for anything but excellent IE6 support.
FYI there was a three-hour interview with JTG that was just posted on Gnostic Media:

http://gnosticmedia.podomatic.com/entry/2010-03-05T00_01_15-...

http://gnosticmedia.podomatic.com/entry/2010-03-15T00_11_48-...

I haven't listened to it yet, but most of his podcasts are really good.
Here's the actual slides to my talk:

http://www.slideshare.net/argv0/distributed-erlang-systems-i...

The video should be up sometime soon on http://erlang-factory.com, or you can follow me at http://twitter.com/argv0 and I'll be sure to link to the video of the talk when it comes out.

There's also a lot of similarly interesting content on http://blog.basho.com
Oh yeah, jQuery is far sexier than plain ol' Javascript (look at the amount of tutorials on sites like Smashing Magazine), because messing around with jQuery is far easier for the beginner than playing with Javascript
Its true. We pitched this exact thing. You want IE6 support, we need 30% more time on UI work at least. They either agree or take away IE6 support. And I don't make this crap up.
bc; dr (browser crashed; didn't read)
I think it's mostly a combination of B and C. I have enough monitor and pc power cables to last me the rest of my life at this point but they still package new ones whenever I buy a power supply or monitor.
at least the uptake of new version is a lot faster with Firefox users.
Not in low light conditions, or when surrounded by a distracting background.
To be honest, I'd rather not support IE6 than getting paid for supporting it. No (realistically paid) amount of money can offset the pain and frustration of supporting the browser-like piece of near-software that is IE6.
This is why you use monoprice.com. Every time you need a cable, you actually order 4. It's still 1/4 the price of buying it from a retail store, and then when a friend needs a cable for that new tv he just bought, you can hand him one, for 1/4 the price of what he'd pay in stores, and he thanks you, AND you've just paid for your own cables.

Really, just don't ever buy a cable in a store. Ever. Getting a TV? Plan it ahead of time. Buying new tech? Make sure you have the cables already.

We're talking about an average 20x price markup on these cables, and sometimes significantly more (network cables I'm looking at you!).

Knowing your options is the first step in not getting screwed.
A life is mediocre or not based on the conditions and constraints within which someone lives.

Someone who has to put off a vacation for 5 months because he only has 2 weeks' vacation each year, instead of going when he wants to, has a mediocre life. Someone who moves out of the city into a boring suburb because he can't afford a place in the city where he can raise kids is living a mediocre life.

It's not about money per se. There are people making $500,000 per year who live mediocre, depressing, subordinate lives. And there are people making a small fraction of that who have great lives. It's about having the resources and access to live life on your own terms rather than someone else's.
Ask HN: Would you use a service like this?
Im thinking about creating a search engine that crawls the web looking for code snippets on websites from certain services like CrazyEgg, MixPanel, and other tools to help site owners look at their usability/analytics/marketing/etc. You would be able to check off boxes for the types of services you are looking for, then define the types of sites you want (.com, org, edu, .co.uk, etc).

Basically, the idea is to let people find other sites that are using certain services to show the maturation of the service (how many sites use that service) and possibly see how other sites have implemented those services.

I, personally, would use something like this. Would you guys?
OK, off the top of my head (not all apply to all forks):
- The math library (libm) is incomplete.
- The 'nm' command has non-standard syntax.
- The 'od' command has non-standard syntax.
- System headers require -D_BSD_SOURCE or similar.
- System headers disobey standards in other ways.
- Not using -fPIC on OpenBSD gives unusable executables.
The unfortunate thing with this IE6 bashing is that not everyone can upgrade. There are still people out there running legacy systems at their workplace. I, for example, am still running IE6 due to it being the standar at work. Why should I not be able to read websites?

Just don't style for IE6 anymore, there is no reason to make sure your website won't work on IE6!
I used to like using a stylus. They are not so bad.
For my usage, I've found that it's really fast, crashes are isolated, and the developer tools for JS/CSS are fantastic. Good for endusers and hackers both.
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Interesting. Is it possible to share it here?
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The dead ends of the first design usually inform the design decisions of a major rewrite/refactoring. So, in that way the line of evolution is unbroken. Even moreso, if you expand the metaphor from the evolution of an individual or a species to the evolution of an ecosystem, which is really what a software project is - the code, the libraries, the deployment environments, the containers (hardware, databases, app servers, etc), etc.
I have edited the post and made it more descriptive.
(1) Good point. We should actually ask them.

(2) Sorry for the confusion, that was careless. Of course your using proprietary software doesn't restrict me directly, unlike your sending me documents in a proprietary format. Now you should still ditch them, because once you're hooked, who knows what evil scheme they could put upon you? (like expensive updates, or even spying)

Now, to make it clear, I still use proprietary software (mostly games). But when I do, I am not proud of it, and I tell myself I should stop, eventually.

All this is just a lame attempt to replace quality with politics.

I am not sure I follow here. The FSF has been about politics from the very begining. From the begining, the FSF asked everyone to ditch proprietary software, even in favour of worse alternatives (quality wise). Quality always came second. What did you mean?
This seems to equate "smart" with academic success. What about the smart people who are not academically successful? Some of them go somewhere; others go nowhere, but they'd have a different profile.

One that I've seen all over the place:

10. A smart person with the misfortune of ending up in the average class is likely to be noticed by a teacher and put on the honors track. A smart person who ends up in a mediocre department of a mediocre company (lack of ambition, poor interviewing skills, geography, low self-esteem) is likely to fail out, and have a damaged resume after doing so. He's now competing against fresh 22-year-olds, and he's a 24-year-old who worked some unimpressive accounting job and got fired.

School is designed to notice and nurture talent. Sometimes it fails, but it makes a solid and noble effort, and probably succeeds more often than it fails. By contrast, the corporate world is much less interested in, or capable with, this process, because business people are generally bad at telling apart the few who actually are talented from the many who think they are. Also, the corporate world is only interested in nurturing talent that satisfies an immediate need of the business.
No, BSD has it's own toolstack. It's marketed as a complete system (FreeBSD anyway.) That, in theory, is one of it's draws.
POSIX compliance is much better in Linux than in BSD. End of story.

If you stick to standard POSIX features, your code will work without change on any modern Linux distribution.
One of the things that I'm not looking forward to about Rails 3 is overcoming the Google Juice of all of the Rails 1.2 and 2.x stuff. I'll know if a code snippet is 3.x or not, but new people won't. I started using Rails right after the release of 2.x, and my first few projects were certainly doing things the old 1.2 way.

Then again, at first, everyone will say "Rails 3" in their titles, so maybe it'll be okay.
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Tread carefully, as mentioned on HN before, Apple has recently started filtering for apps that are "repackaged websites"; I couldn't find a great article on this but here's something close:

http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/07/apple-cookie-cutter-apps/

...anyway if the level of scrutiny they are currently applying to iPad app submissions is any indication (under which I'm suffering at the moment) they may be getting a lot more selective in the near future.

I'm not saying it's not worth a shot, but I wouldn't bet the farm on it.

That said, there are distinct advantages to bypassing the App Store altogether, which is one of the advantages of the Web App approach. You just need to use the app to drive revenue generated elsewhere instead of charging for the app itself.

(although a clever fellow could find a way to charge for web apps as well...hmmm)

Anyway the biggest challenge apps outside the App Store face (and this includes Web Apps) is discovery, and I'm hoping that I can have a hand in addressing that shortcoming as well.
I'd like to use a service like this. It sure sounds interesting and somewhat similar to http://builtwith.com/ which is only about frameworks that are being used on one particular website.
I honestly believe that too much is being made of the supposed work involved in supporting IE6 theses days. Granted I would rather not have to support older browsers for a number of reasons but the fact is that supporting it hasn't been terribly difficult. With the javascript and css frameworks that are available, compatibility is much less of an issue. We recently rebuilt our site and had to include support for IE6. While developing the site we mainly looked at IE8, Firefox 3.5, Safari 4, and Chrome. Only at the end did we look at IE6 and I believe I had to create 1 stylesheet that has probably less than 30 lines of CSS to fix a few minor visual issues (mainly dealing with widths, margins, and paddings). It took me less than a day. Yes I wish IE6 would fade much faster than it seems to be but I think it is overblown on how hard it is to support.
The point is not that you can use anything, the point is that you only need a certain level, and then it's good enough. All my HDMI cables are from monoprice.com, I don't think I paid more than $4 for a single cable, and I can't imagine what kind of EM interference I'd need to mess with them. I have so many electronics in my house I'm probably on a watch list.
"you can’t work on luck directly. You can work on everything else and improve the chances of getting lucky."

Well said, reminds me of a nice deconstruction of luck by Marc Andreessen:
http://pmarchive.com/luck_and_the_entrepreneur
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I used to be mostly pen and paper for capture and on-the-go lists, with a little bit of RememberTheMilk for larger lists (like the GTD someday/maybe lists, etc).

Now that I've got my Nexus One, I'm using Shuffle (http://code.google.com/p/android-shuffle/). Although I still haven't migrated everything out of RTM.