skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll have to make this a shameless plug, but it's probably the only way any of you will get to know about this.

My startup, Qaym.com is a restaurant rating site in Arabic. We're located in Saudi Arabia. April fools isn't a big thing here or in the Arab world in general. But people know the concept. Today we announced that we're changing the site to become exclusively a camel rating site.

We even made a logo:
http://blog.qaym.com/2010/04/blog-post.html

And a homepage to boost:
http://www.qaym.com/

Most people got it off the bat. Many were confused. And a couple were actually upset, even after they've figured out it was a joke!
The Collapse of Complex Business Models
So is HTML5 now synonymous with video player? That's pretty much what most of the sites are advertising.
Why Your Computer is Better Than Your Girlfriend
i wish the iCade was real
well ghee whiz cowboy - let us know when poor people no longer need to die of treatable illness in your country...

I think part of the UK silicon valley is called the M4 corridor - the other part is in Scotland. With a country with fast internal communications (partly but far from wholly a function of size) location is less important. You can find great software developers and great engineers just about anywhere.
Perhaps HN should learn via your upvotes which articles to show you.

And the same principle could be used for comments, too.
A fully functional Windows 95 emulator that runs right in your browser
Perhaps we can also limit the complaints about april fools on HN. There are several of these as well. :)
I basically don't pay attention to stories on April Fools day - to the few I do, I just wait and see if there is any follow up the next day.
I do believe he meant Software as Service (aka, Software As A Service aka SaaS), not SAS Institute, Inc.
Misunderstandings Around Taking in Friends & Family $$$
decent article about taking in a FFF round & some of the regulations around it
haha, topeka.com was just loading a blank page for me.

Now there's a link that just says "google" xD They didn't get Slashdotted, they got Googled, probably a few orders of magnitude worse.
IPad as an Arcade Machine
Probably not. I doubt you'd get sufficient speeds even if they allowed it.
You mean it's just a prank? I was kind of hoping it would stay.
Microsoft promoting one of its proprietary file formats as a “standard” when politically expedient, and then ignoring that “standard” after the moment of expedience has passed? Shocked! Shocked, I am!
Congratulations on the book being published.

I didn't know there were so many versions of Casting Spels (Emacs Lisp, Common Lisp, Clojure, Haskell). Do you have any plans to do one for Scheme?
I never understand how this happens. The one reporter sees the other article and thinks "hey, I just have to write the exact same story, but in different words!" Then they probably go home to their wives and complain about the massive downsizing in their industry.
They do log them, via a GET request to /unixkcd/missing
I think the rover itself is making an April fools joke. I fully expect it to reconnect tomorrow and say "Gotcha".
Some of the problems are inherent in having multiple trusted CAs, or third-party CAs. These can be mostly solved by merging the CA function into DNS, or (almost) completely solved by something like Perspectives.

Problems being:
* someone who wants a fake cert, can go shopping for the worst CA available. You as a site owner cannot specify a CA.
* in order to have a cert on your site, you have to pay off a third party. Otherwise the browsers will scream at your visitors that unknown https is more insecure than plain http. ubiquitous encryption requires that certs come "for free" with what you need to just have a presence (such as being bundled with the domain name because they're just an extra DNS record).
So has it helped you get a decent job? What do you do for a living?

Also, you mentioned that some upper division undergrad CS courses can transfer to the Master's program for credit. Does this mean if I look into, say, Stanford's program and take as many of the courses as I can as an undergrad, then I'll be able to transfer those over (assuming I go to Stanford for graduate school)?
These two details are really quite scary.

"Engines are sometimes leased separately and shuffled around within an airline’s fleet . . ."

"Cut-rate Tower Air kept its wide-body fleet flying by quietly dismantling a trio of 747s leased from GMAC and dispersing the components among its 18 other airplanes."
Carpet in the datacenter
Yes. The entire appeal of the iPad isn't, 'This can do a great many of the things that my computer can already do!' it's, 'This makes it so much more pleasant to do [X] than it is on a computer!'

So every new feature that we see demonstrated isn't just filling in a little bit more of the difference between an iPad and a netbook; it's bringing the experience of the iPad to the tasks and behavior we're looking for.

This is the way that innovation happens, even though a lot of people don't realize it. They're stuck in the old mode of innovation, the King's Quest VI mode. The first time I saw a CGI video playing off a CD-ROM I was blown away by the capabilities of computers. By now I know what computers can do, and I have seen enough CGI video to be pretty well-convinced that anything I want can be rendered by it. Likewise, we have enough technologies at our disposal right now that we could spend a long, long time improving the software that we use simply by designing better interfaces for it. If you wait around for an entirely new technology—something that isn't possible on your laptop, like Star Wars-style holograms—you're gonna miss several boats.

To put it more directly: there's surely some people who have already ordered the iPad who will be thinking, 'Oh, nice. There's another thing I can use it for.' But the story here is the many, many more people who are thinking, 'I love Netflix/Hulu/[whatever pre-existing service will be replicated next week], and if I could use it on a magic ultra-light wireless multi-touch slate, I'd buy one in a fucking second.'
Video: MIT Students' DIY "Minority Report" Glove Mouse
yes, that is a given. I've released an app for the iPad :)
schacon says in the comments on the linked post that they plan to have write too, although that might be a subtle April Fool's joke.

That said, schacon has been working on increasing compatibility between VCSes like producing hg-git. It'd be great if a site like Github that was significantly more agnostic about VCS.
Yes, the best way to deal with irrevocable actions is ... to make them as revocable as possible. Switching from deleting files to putting them in the trash is a classic example.
Okay, I've said multiple times that I won't be getting an iPad... but this almost changes my mind (assuming this is real and not an April Fools joke). I still won't get one until v2 ships though.
Kernel.org and their upsidedownternet. ¡unɟ sʎɐʍןɐ s,ʇı
Postfix Notation
The 8 most important Haskell GSoC projects
Hacker News really sucks for quoted point-by-point responses. I don't think that's an accident. Try writing standalone comments.

After more than 13 years of failed attempts to secure the DNS, you need to better than "we haven't actually tried it yet". DNSSEC enthusiasts could have made the same argument 8-9 years ago with the "original" DNSSEC protocol, which ended up being scrapped.

Meanwhile, the operational problems DNSSEC will cause are, I think, entirely relevant to DNSSEC's role in web security --- both because of the weaknesses in DNSSEC that would directly impact its utility as a CA (for instance, the role of stub resolvers), and because of the damage it could inflict on the rest of the stack.
Tweet File Transfer Protocol - Spec and Ruby Implementation from NYTimes
The iPad is the first time I've ever bought a v1 of anything in my life. Can't wait.
I laughed at the reply to "cat".
There are development boards that come with a ipod connector. http://hackaday.com/2010/03/29/microchips-pic-development-fo... Combine with some buttons and wood and it doesn't look like it would be that hard of a project.
Inside AdSense: Announcing Wingdings as a new font
F5 Releases APM Configuration Guide for IBM, Oracle and Microsoft
Pageview billing encourages publishers to distract you while reading
This is really awesome. Contains a lot of good stuff.

I also really like the 'Found an error? Fix it in your browser!' thing they did. You can edit the document inline and then save it. That is very nice.
Walt's iPad review video is in Flash. Slightly ironic but the bigger question is what is Apple doing about so much video content being in Flash? It's an issue for many.
How to Build a Six-brained Blogger
This is a guest post by Dave Thackeray – a copywriter, podcaster & communicator specialising in technology and travel – fuels ordinary people with extraordinary ideas to be the best.
You don't want to listen to your partner, so why would you want to listen to us?
I never knew this domain name existed. Thought others might like this shortened version.
How Does Education Level Affect Starting Salaries?
Design says a lot about your company, so I'd go for the professional one if you're truly committed to this AND can afford it without sacrificing other areas of the business.
It is, I think, a little crazy to suggest that a very simple configuration problem with the best-tested security protocol on the Internet should be solved by a complete overhaul of a different core Internet protocol.
Well, I grew up under US Gov health care (IHS), and I'll take private practice anytime (they almost killed my Dad (too much blood thinner) and mis-diagnosed my and my brother's backs among other things).

Check your tax structure, it doesn't help.

This whole tax versus no health care is such a crock. The high taxes don't buy good health care - heck - they don't even buy decent social services. I am neither a Republican or Democrat (shame the US only has two parties of note), and really didn't like how Pres. Bush spent our money nor am I happy about the current Pres. Government needs fundamental restructuring and barring that - cutting off most of the tax money at least keeps it from interfering too much.

//cowboy - that really makes me less of you....
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Filter has been done by many a GM script.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039

I realize that only helps if you have a browser with GM (like Firefox).
Well, I'm skeptical whether one can abstract form away so much...

If, just supposing, an item which seems amazingly functional and compliant after five minutes gives you a headache, a sore write and pain in the lower back after twenty minutes ... then would there still be none of the hindrance?
Synesthetic Time-lords Discovered in California
I can't remember where, but I remember reading one piece where the person said making eye contact with Steve Jobs was like looking directly into the sun.
If anyone in the Western Canadian area wants to help make "Programming For Managers" a real course, let me know. I don't how much easier my life would be/have been if some of my previous superiors knew what the hell they were talking about (it would have been a lot, I suspect).
He's being irrational because it involves his brother's work, and HN usually offers sound advice.

I don't care what happens, as long as it's best for the company.
Not everyone has the same worth, but that wasn't my point: my point is that by judging someone without any substantial information, you're committing the same fallacy that this woman probably did.

People have patterns - sure - but you don't really know this woman. You're writing her off as a spoiled, entitled princess after reading only a single, brief description of a single action.

It is the same as her writing off all of those men as losers without any examination.

It makes you feel better - I don't care if I'm judged by some spoiled, entitled brat, right? But how qualified are you to make this call? I'm inclined to think that any such judgments are really made for one's ego rather than based on rational observation. Now, if you've had a chance to actually talk with this woman for any substantial amount of time, and you come to the same conclusion, then fair enough.
A new and novel high-performance atomic resonantor/clock
Let me Google that for you (lmgtfy.com) links point you to Bing search results.
I almost want to volunteer to do the one for Scheme, but I don't know if I can commit to it.
If you go there with an iPhone or iPad (on simulator), then it plays in quicktime.
ODF is the preexisting ISO standard that OpenOffice supports, and that's clearer and more open.
They also support older .doc files quite well.

By adding OOXML support they would shoot themselves in the foot, mostly because OOXML is neither a de facto nor a proper de jour standard.

So why help with "standardization"? Patches are welcome btw.
I use this in a project I'm working on. The comment and post delete buttons turn into deactivatable countdowns when pressed, so if you misclick you can click again to prevent the transaction. So far people have responded positively, but your mileage may vary.
Youtube's video page redesign
Is visiting a svn repo via a web browser really supposed to do anything?
Kohana - Swift, Secure, Lightweight, and Easy to Use PHP Framework
Top iPad Apps (iTunes link)
Your partner appears to have an eye for design.

Here's a thought: insist on writing a contract with your partner's brother to pay him the $600-$1000 after the company starts bringing in revenue. That way you both win. :-)
I'm presuming this is a joke, because given the restrictions Apple has stuck on emulators, I can't see them letting a version of MAME (presumably with illegally copied ROMs?) through.

That said, it's a killer idea, and I think it might well do very well if Apple would allow it.
Intel Introduces Value SSD for Consumer Market
iPad Mega Meta Review: Works Great, No Surprises
The New Paradigm of Advantage
Clarification would be good, here: what is the point, exactly, that you'd be missing?
A potted guide to stackless coroutines
Funny !
The article "Orthographic Correlations in Astrophysics" by Zuntz, Zlosnik, Zunckel, and Zwarf on the arXiv.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.6064
Um...it's April Fool's day...fools.
And if you say

light lamp

before you go south, you don't get eaten :)
Gmail was announced on April 1st, 2004. :-)
I haven't had a chance to dive in and start a project with this yet, but it looks like a dream come true for people want a slimmed down version of Rails but don't want to sacrifice all of the helpers and goodies that Rails offers. In fact, it looks pretty comparable to CodeIgniter in terms of it's approach to how you use it.

And their docs look great! Super stoked, looks like I have a new weekend project
I thought Monk already did a pretty good job of extending Sinatra without going overboard.

http://monkrb.com/

I'd be interested to know how Padrino compares to Monk.

At first glance Padrino seems closer to Rails in scale - which seems to defeat the whole minimalist mindset behind Sinatra. I mean, if I want Rails, I'll use Rails.

The extensive community support for Rails in combination with the improvements in Rails 3 already makes it difficult to justify using a smaller framework like Sinatra.

Many of the questions I have asked in the Sinatra community have gone unanswered so I imagine using Padrino (or even Monk) would simply add to that problem.

On the other hand, with Rails, the combination of StackOverflow, Google Groups and a plethora of Googleble web resources means you are never far from resolving a holdup.
Kind of a frightening photo of Jobs with that story, too.
Once you have a SSL cert for a domain you don't own, to use it you'd need to be able to host content on a domain you don't own. Surely this makes this kind of attack less viable?
"One melancholy thought occurs as my fingers glide and flow over the surface of this astonishing object: Douglas Adams is not alive to see the closest thing to his Hitchhiker's Guide that humankind has yet devised."

I find this pretty touching, when I first read the hitchhikers guide I remember the excitement of owning a guide, while I doubt I will get an ipad, if I do, it will certainly have a "dont panic" cover
A graph theory book
I Still Want Linear Media - Real Premium Content
I tried for three seconds and realized I can't use a command line without tab-completion.
I'm impressed. I've been using Sinatra and a bit of Monk, and I have to say the bundled helpers are very nice. One problem I have with Sinatra is sometimes extensions are fairly sketchy. :/ So I like that more the boilerplate here is somehow "official". Sinatra can use a dash of opinion without losing its ease.
April Fools Geeks turn boss's room into Dexter kill room [NSFW]
Software startup AIMcrm employees turned their boss's office into a Dexter kill-room. Their attention to detail in making sure everything is wrapped is impressive. Video in HD.
I'm afraid I'm at the center of the known universe (Toronto), but it you're actually up for a collab, ping me at stan decimal rogers at gmail. I may be a workaday hack at coding (at least by my own reckoning), but I have some teaching and course design in my pocket and an intense hatred of impossible schedules, surprise last-minute spec changes that mean re-architecting everything, et cetera, et cetera (in a Yul Brynner voice).
In Which I Become a Mashable Writer
Please please do. I would love to hear about it.
Switching from Scheme to Python
Exactly. If you can afford it without an issue, then I'd go for it. A good design can help quite a bit.
Person recognition by Pictorial and Contextual Cues
Person recognition by Pictorial and Contextual Cues
I like Tremulous Exclusively Going to Xbox Live: http://tremulous.net/
We didn't anticipate hiring someone as dangerously insane as Scott Chacon willing to actually build this for us :)

To answer the other question below, we will be rolling out write support in the future. The idea that millions of SVN users can start using GitHub with zero effort is a really big deal for us.
The thing about monk is that you can use each particular section individually on Sinatra as well.

IMO, this is a simpler rails that works the way I like it.
The Learjet repo man
I'm going to get my mother one. She only uses email, Facebook, and Bejewelled, and is often mystified by her PC.
In passing, it contains a great description of why "creative destruction" is not merely an interesting sidebar to our economy, but a critical element to our continued success. Which is more disruptive, "creative destruction" or "societal collapse"?

Efforts to politically block creative destruction out of economy should be fought as if it were the matter of life or death that it is.
That is the most poignant cartoon I've ever read (and that includes Maus), and ought to be a Pulitzer winner if there is any justice in this ol' world.
Rails 3 is a simpler Rails that works the way I like it. But with the added advantage of massive community support.

Sinatra (and Ramaze) also have the advantage of having been thoroughly tested and have a lot of eyeballs on them. Using Padrino (and perhaps Monk) creates the risk of (a) encountering framework boilerplate code that is buggy and (b) not having enough help to fix those problems because of insufficient resources on the part of the creators or insufficient community support.

That said, the documentation is impressive and attractive. The only suggestion I would make is the reduce the size of the downloadable screencast - no need for a 210MB video file for 12 minutes of video. Also, the version on Vimeo is unwatchable because it's not HD - it's difficult to read the source code on screen.
Nissan LEAF Creates a New "Anchor" for Electric Car Pricing
Or this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_Special_Air_Service
"Beautifully retro styled, handcrafted wooden tabletop arcade cabinet and MAME emulator for your otherwise useless iPad"

"Availability: 80's"

These things say parody to me, but if it was a real idea, I think it'd make money. Which says bad parody to me. It's like saying, hey look, here's a plausible and possibly even moderately good idea. Isn't that silly?
I am assuming that the design at http://licead.com is your partner's brother. Based on that I think with a little editing and some input from everyone that you can have a good starting point. I can appreciate you wanting the best design for your company and do believe that a website says a lot about the company, but it sounds almost as if you have "site envy". "Site envy" is when you look at designer's portfolios and say "WOW" I wish my site had that, looked like that, or did this. "Site envy" can lead to an endless cycle of designs and redesigns because you keep finding things you like "better". "Site envy" can stall a business.

With an unproven business venture without revenue you should evaluate your spending carefully. A website does not have to be AND should not be a static piece of your business. Like your business your site should evolve as the business evolves. The cost of $600-$1000 now may seem like a little money now, but three, four, six months down the road if you are struggling for revenue to pay bills that money will seem like millions to you.

You and your partner are a team and as such should work like a team. Although the designer is his/her brother, most likely your partner is only looking out for what is good for the business now and in the future. You should treat the relationship with his brother as if it were a professional designer. Create a contract, lay out terms, clarify expectations, maybe even throw a little equity his way upon completion. Do all this even if he is creating the site for free.

Going back to the initial design at licead.com, like I said, I don't think it looks bad at all. It could use a little cleaning up here and there, but I think that by sitting down with your partner and his brother that you can probably come up with something that has a professional look/feel that will get your started without looking like crap.
Your partner is an idiot. Even if his brother is a great designer, if he makes a mistake, both of you will be hesitant to say anything.

It sucks, but clients are supposed to be tough on designers so that they get whatever they want.

There's also a reason people go to school for design, or have years of experience. An "eye for design" is not enough for a professional site. UI design and efficient navigation don't just happen by drawing a pretty-looking menu.
Yes, they should. Programming languages have these mysterious features called "loops", "conditionals" and "recursion". Without an intimate knowledge of these, you just can't understand why your subordinates do what they do, and you certainly won't have the ability to judge the accuracy of estimates.

Does this mean that managers should be promoted from within the ranks of programmers? Yes, that's exactly correct. Should managers be "non-technical"? Absolutely not. It just doesn't work.
The government is like a train going full speed to their doom as chaos is introduced into their system. When they die, they often explode spectacularly, like a violent revolution in China.
The title was originally Google Maps 100M years from now
I address your safety concerns in the README.

But seriously, how would you have designed this more Pythonically? It's an easy criticism to make, so back it up!
People often confuse creative destruction with societal collapse.
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What's great about this is that you can spoof your own Mac's user-agent string so that you can get flash-free video.

I just uninstalled Flash (http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/141/tn_14157.html) - why keep that garbage on your computer if you don't need it? -- and now my computer doesn't overheat when I watch a TED talk. This is great!
agreed, ThinkGeek often manages to make some of the coolest April Fools joke. I want some tribbles and bits. And the iCade would probably sell like hot cakes if it was real.
Granted, but having seen it, I'm sure there are at least a couple people who are going to build the thing themselves.