skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These sites always leave me with a bad taste in my mouth.

The whole website 'flipping' business seems shady and geared towards maximising referrals or ad clicks through the use of splogs or other grey area techniques.

My main disappointment however, would be that most of the sites listed on flippa (or sitepoint marketplace) add little or no value to the Internet, but instead make it a more cluttered and confusing place for non-technical users.
Yes, but you're responsible for creating all of the graphics for it. Including the keys, and the background of the keys.
I really enjoy reading Derek's posts. The culture that surrounds starting a company is often negative and requires a lot of effort to really push through. It's always nice to get a reminder that there is some hope and to get a refresher that has some broader perspective.
I'd rather join an already established community than spend a lot of time building up a culture.
By "means," I didn't mean "money", but rather specifically "a credit card." Parents don't like to let their children have them here—they forsee bad spending habits and debt; that's why "reloadable" service-specific gift cards are so popular.
The only reason Fox News has the numbers it has is because it is the only channel that panders to the lowest common denominator of idiots. Every other major channel has some moralistic sense, so all of the smarter people on the curve get spread out amongst them.
That's great to hear! Please let me know if you find someone through the site - that would be awesome.
I think we read two different posts.

"Including political information is a complete pain in the arse for any company with global reach, for practically no benefit."

All the post asked was for capitals and city/township/county borders to be added to the maps. I'm not really sure what's so complicated about that.

Also, Kashmir, Gaza, Taiwan, and Western Sahara are already on Google Maps.
Good advice! Maybe avoid the phrase "pick your brain" when you ask, though. It's much more mutually-beneficial to offer up an interesting two-way conversation about a subject you're both interested in.

("You're doing some fascinating things with crowdsourcing. It's something I've been diving into as well, and have some ideas for you. At very least it'll be a good conversation. Can I treat you to a quick after-work drink at Tres Agaves across the street from your office some day next week?")
Article Summary:

“A group of House Energy and Commerce members are urging the FTC to investigate complaints that Google’s Buzz social networking service and some of its other services may harm consumer privacy.”

One of the goals of the proposed probe would be to determine how much data Google gathers from it’s properties such as Buzz, and how it uses this data to target ads to users.

Google counters by saying ”user transparency and control are very important to us, and we review all products carefully before we roll them out. When we realized that we’d unintentionally made many of our users unhappy, we moved quickly to make significant product improvements to address their concerns. Our door is always open to discuss additional ways to improve our products and services moving forward.”

I suspect Microsoft is behind much of the increased government scrutiny over Google.

http://hnsummary.com/2010/03/29/house-lawmakers-voice-concer...
I've definitely thought about that, but decided that it was too much work relative to the gain it would bring. Maybe I'm wrong, though...
I remember well the "static object initialization segfaults" valley.
Keyboard shortcuts is an awesome idea. I'll add that to the backlog.
Public non-virtual functions may be useful. For example, to provide alternative API functions. Something like:

virtual public setOrigin(const Point &p);
public setOrigin(float x, float y) { setOrigin(Point(x,y)); }

Someone inheriting from this class will know that all the customization is in one function.
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Yeah - I'm not big into this industry either (one of the guys I built the site with is) but I basically think of it as a resume.
<i>441,541</i> parking stalls private and public in the 49 square miles and how many registered vehicles? About 500,000 isn't it?

Buy a Fast Pass or learn to juggle.
These numbers feel more realistic:

http://www.permuto.com/blog/2010/02/27/what-are-people-reall...

Maybe I'm interpreting the Milo graph wrong.
This kind of comment makes me wish we had a moratorium on signups or a $5 fee.
Cars, food, clothing, electronics, misc(???), hobbies(???), and furniture. Let's see, that amounts to duh, duh, duh, duh, huh?, huh?, and duh.

Hmmmmm. Let's see. Something is missing here. I can't quite pin it down. What is it? Oh right! Music, books and movies!

Convenient to just have blinders on to Amazon, iTunes, NetFlix and the like.

Oh, this chart must be before 1990. Aha.
Fox's demographic is known to be older, hence they are less experienced than younger computer users. This falls in line with Apple's general selling point for products and software that "just works".

That may or may not be the correct answer, but there is a zero chance Apple was running those ads if they weren't backing out for them one way or another.
I sit on a swiss (or exercise) ball most of the day. I'm not sure how the ball intersects with hemorrhoids but it's great for staying active while sitting down and also for posture.

When not on the swiss ball I use one of these: http://www.thehumansolution.com/ergohumanmeshhi.html. It's less expensive than an Aeron and it has a head rest. I've had it for a couple of years now. It's been a great chair. I'm not sure why the head rest thing was so important to me but it's very comfortable for coding.
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I think the last part is really important. Even when a horrible system works in your favor, it behooves you to do what they can to improve the system, or at least prop the door open for others.
There are conservative folks with plenty of expendable cash... it's not like Apple caters its products to liberals. In many ways Apple tries to position itself as a BMW or Mercedes Benz of the computer market; think of the target for those products.
I could quite happily purge the majority of my rss feeds and not miss them, but I wouldn't remove 'The Old New Thing' (Raymond Chen's blog) - it's got great anecdotes, insight into MS, and some very good technical content.
I've made the counter a lot darker so it's visible but not dominant, the text at the top isn't blue / so bright now, also I made those thumbs open up some screenshots.

The counter I think is important, some people have very popular games and it's a very common question... "can you handle my traffic?". The counter helps them see I'm tracking lots of popular games, at once.

Thanks for all your feedback.
Sounds like a sane judge.

Software patents might be brought down this way too. Koza used genetic programming to build circuits that were patented (butterfly filter IIRC).

I wish the software patent nightmare would turn itself inside out and morph into a contributors authoring papers (not patents) and submitting them to relevant journals. The result might be more alternative approaches, prior examples that perform better, etc. I think it would change the industry and the products it builds. Just a dream maybe.
The logos I've been linking to their specific section, for instance the registration page links to my.swfstats where it is located, the logo on the blog links to the blog home page etc.

I'm not sure if either approach is 'more' right, but I have those WWW / MY / etc links up the top (except on public reports, seems I forgot to put them there heh) so people can still get back and forth between the various sections.
Peter, as a daily user of your site, (PBH), for over 5 years, I cannot understand this unannounced decision. The site is an unexplained winner, a freak, or in other words; you struck lucky.

The whole thing has been a glorious mix of debate, idiocy, playground banter, wit and solid information for a long time. In my view, you could have solved the obvious problems by simply having delayed registration, anonymous moderation, deleting rogue users' IP addresses, offensive comments and threads without explanation. But I know nothing of these things and I pretty much stopped posting some time ago because I realised I ended up much happier not doing so.

Many saw the site as a democracy when that should/was not the case.

You have allowed this to become personal, and the trolls fed on that and in a way, (many ways), made it a success; the whole host of satellite sites you allude to was sparked by your suggestion. I agree, they are nasty, dysfunctional, needy people the likes of whom you should have never bothered yourself. Their efforts will now flourish, (briefly), an essential tool and meeting-place for many will disappear. You will have gained nothing and the response from the peanut gallery on going back would be terrible, I suppose ;-)

I fail to see how just throwing it all away solves things, or is it a posture? I would gladly buy it off you if I knew how to run it, technically.

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Sitting in a chair should be considered harmful. This is a very recent practice that we have not evolved to handle well. I know few adults that can still sit comfortably in a squatted position. Almost everyone has sore hip flexors and poor hip mobility. Try pressing in on yourself in areas around your hips- it is not supposed to hurt.

Alternatives:
Standing. Standing still in one place for a long time can have its own problems. But when standing it is much easier to have some amount of movement- the minimum is just shifting your weight from one leg to the other. The treadmill desks are an interesting concept to keep you moving.

Lying down. These positions are usually difficult to work in.

Sitting (not on a chair). Sitting on your bed or on the floor. There are a few possible positions here.

Squatting. This has to be done with assistance (raised heel and butt) until you gain the strength and flexibility required to do this.

Sitting and squatting tend to put you in a hunched over position though.

Ultimately the best thing is going to be to move around between different positions as much as possible, along with taking as many breaks as you can and making them as physical as you can.

I am trying to combine these concepts with some amount of working outside also. I would love to hear from anyone else working at this.
Climate Change Search Trends Visualized
I think it is due to flexible http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility
God's Debris. Available in pdf here:

http://www.andrewsmcmeel.com/godsdebris/

Its written by Scott Adams, the guy who does Dilbert, but its completely different from Dilbert. Its basically an exploration of one theory about where the universe comes from, the nature of god, etc... A thought experiment in conversation form, if you will.

I like it because it brings up some neat ideas that may not be obvious.

Side Note: He gets some of the science wrong in the book, so if you do read it, make sure you fact check any science before you believe it.
what Fortran compiler(s) do you use and recommend for things like this?
I think http://isbn.nu/aisbn/auletta%20ken
books provide insights to 800 pound gorilla businesses
Meters make great bicycle parking spots :)
The most important information I found on your site was the comparison chart between your service, MochiMedia and HeyZap! - is there any way you can put more focus on that, or mention the comparisons on the homepage?

Otherwise, looks good and I wish you the best of luck. It seems like it will be hard getting traction against the giants but even a small slice of the pie could/should be worthwhile.
Yeah, I saw that just after I sold my Aeron. But, within a couple of weeks of living in my RV I realized I got the wrong one (nothing wrong with it, I just realized my priorities are different than what I thought they'd be; I was warned numerous times that your first RV is not the right RV, and you'll want to change within the first year, but I didn't believe it)...so I'm just passing through this one, and don't want to make any major changes to it that would effect resale value. The next RV will be getting an Aeron.
Possibly, or it could be an attempt to soften the negative reaction one might have by viewing the following statements.

It's kind of like a disclaimer for stupidity.
Video Summary:

San Francisco recently counted all of their parking spaces in preparation for the SFPark system which will dynamically adjust prices based on demand. There are a total of 441,541 parking spaces, 280,000 on street parking spaces, and 25,000 metered spaces.

The new parking system will have electronic parking sensors in each of the spots and will feed this data to an intelligent traffic routing system to direct drivers to the open parking spaces. During peak parking hours the system will increase parking prices to encourage people to run their errands during other times if their schedule is flexible. Also by making the parking data available online it will help people make better transit decisions and possibly take public transit if no parking is available. The goal is to make more land area available for urban living rather and less land wasted on parking.

http://hnsummary.com/2010/03/29/san-francisco-counts-its-par...
The excellent book by Guy Kawasaki, "Rules for Revolutionaries", has examples from lots of industries over various periods of time.

I'm confused by what you mean about "business models", here. I doubt that you could say that Henry Ford had a "business model" when he went into business; what he had was a mechanical knack, and the idea that cars should be manufactured the way that guns were at the time. That turned out to be a great idea -- and one that pretty much all automotive manufacturers today have completely forgotten -- but I would hesitate to call it a "business model".

Business strategies, however, are pretty damn useful, and Guy Kawasaki's book is about nothing but. It was the first book I read, years ago, that turned me on to the idea of having a business.
You could add RFID to all the new licence plates. Then hire kids to steal the old licence plates off cars. (The second part is optional)
This is quite old, but still fascinating.

Aphex Twin and Plaid are great bands and even took the time to include easter eggs in their songs.
An app that let's people perform Mechanical Turk tasks in their spare time. Your job will be to find tasks that are easy to do on a phone and streamline the process. Tasks like deciding if a picture is NSFW comes to mind.

The app would be free, but you'd charge some percentage of Turk wages.

With this app, people can finally earn spare change using a $200 phone and $30+/month data plan!
Wouldn't this ruling mean that NO discovered genes may be patented?
A chair really can make all the difference. I was having severe back problems until I bought a Steelcase Think. My problems went away overnight. Every chair won't work for every person. I suggest that you buy a good chair, try it for a week, then return it if you don't get great results. Repeat until you're successful. Good luck.
Derek is among my favorite motivational gurus. And I mean that in a good way.
I'm not sure if this person is looking for work.

The site doesn't have an easily accessible 'about' section, a CV, or any way to contact the author. Just 3 pieces on the homepage that could be considered a portfolio.

Edit: I went ahead and googled 'email' within the site's domain. The content I was looking for was hiding under the link 'social interaction designer'. The 'about me' pages are blog items that one would find by chance using 'related posts'. The author ought to make these important posts much more visible...
That's pretty cool.

But I wonder what would happen though if this sort of money was put into improving MUNI instead (rather than cutting budget/service like they did this year). Might even go towards solving the parking problem too.
Interesting, the article mentions that ads from smaller companies have been running in place of the boycotting corps, didn't a HNer get his Google TV ad run on Beck's show a week or so ago?
Yes, the Go Rin no Sho is excellent. This is my favorite quote from it:

"The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy's cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential to attain this. If you think only of hitting, springing, striking or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him."
Always trust a graph that has no numbers or points to compare scale!
The people behind Color of Change (they do a lot of other projects too) are hiring python/Django developers in the bay area by the way, full time and contract. If you forward me your info I'd be happy to send it upstream. My contact info is in my profile.
Do you mean I shouldn't trust http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarne_Stroustrup
>At the time the email was written, Linus was 30.

I don't see what your point is. I clearly didn't mean that he was literally a child.
I'll see if I can work that table into somewhere more obvious.

I've got incredible traction! I expect April will see me becoming the leading analytics platform by whatever number you want to judge by. While I was in San Francisco I had the opportunity to meet with most of the largest portals and everyone's very excited with what I'm doing... some of the biggest portals are using or testing SWFStats right now and others I met with should start their testing in April.

I've also got a great selection of the biggest/most popular developers as well!

All up I've been just insanely fortunate on that front. To really put it into perspective ... when I posted here 5 or 6 weeks ago asking how to launch a beta I'd done about 200 million events over several months of private beta testing.... this week I will pass 2 billion. During peak hours now I'm receiving close to 900 events per second!
What about

SomeComplexObject b = new SomeComplexObject()

This should probably be

SomeComplexObject* b = new SomeComplexObject()

since the former news up an object and then invokes a copy constructor before losing the original reference and leaking.
If what you have to say is a little trite, then why repeat it here? You even acknowledge this in saying "we all know. . . ." So. . . .

I suspect you think that your comment was worthwhile, in which case I don't get it.
Not with the style -webkit-user-select:none; or equivalent.
Yup, I had a couple of friends go through this. Saw the post-op photos one of the guys took - at least from the external viewpoint, they literally 'tore him a new one'.

At least they didn't have movements through the wound though, I suppose.
The sample Themeroller themes look goofy for a few reasons:

1. they all seem to be catered to show off the glassy/noisy textures

2. they all use the more ugly fonts. Verdana/Arial for great joy.

It is in fact possible to use Themeroller to make a good looking theme, you just have to compensate for the above two tendencies when working off of their samples.

You have to tear apart Themeroller CSS to see why Aristo is not possible (and probably not desirable) to integrate into jQuery UI. Aristo uses a lot of sprites for things like corners and shadows; jQuery UI instead does everything with border-radius and clever transparent background images. The downside is you can't make every little corner and shadow in Themeroller beautiful, but that should be mitigated as box-shadow and border-radius appearance improves across browsers. The upside of more CSS-based styling, however, is that you can very quickly prototype new widgets that fit into a Themeroller theme and can be styled just like everything else using the Themeroller CSS class framework. (I would like to see somebody make a custom tab or toolbar panel that can be styled by vanilla Aristo CSS -- not possible.)

The real benefit of jQuery UI that I've experienced is not just using the existing widgets but prototyping new ones that fit the jQuery UI "interface", both programmatic and visual, using the $.Widget factory. For this reason I'm glad they have made Themeroller easy to use and as broadly applicable as possible. This has required some concessions in the visual capabilities of the themes, but CSS will soon catch up to fix that.

tl;dr I think Themeroller and jQuery UI should continue to focus on progressive enhancement more with CSS and less with images, and let things get fancier via the newer CSS properties.
That's great to hear, congrats then!
Jeez! I would love to see that power-point deck
Ask HN: Opinions for my ChaCha mashup (like Vark?)
My friend and I have just put together a ChaCha mashup. We seek your opinions to improve further.

The service is built on Appengine using ChaCha API and Imified API. Of course, much inspiration is drawn from Vark.
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Beyond the Hype of Skype
There are many brand names that have become synonymous with products. Everything from Kleenex. Band-Aids, and Scotch Tape to Post-its, Legos, and Jell-O have been etched into the colloquialisms that most of use every day Even in the fast-paced technology market, there are brands that have inched forward into becoming genericized trademarks.
No, just look at that bottom picture. He looks suspiciously a lot like Dr Robotnik (with a shaved moustache)

http://bit.ly/dbWcWv
Or email two or three people in your town that can help you, figure out how you can help them, and do that.

Reciprocity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cialdini
Yes, I mean business strategies. Thank you.
He's just saying that 100 TB = 100 * 2^20 MB = 104 857 600 MB. Since the original storage device (the link posted) was 200MB in the same volume, that means we've improved by a factor of (104 857 600 MB)/(200 MB) = 524 288. So hard drives are now ~524288x denser storage devices than that spool.
I omitted the lines that were completely wrong, like that one. That assignment wouldn't compile at all.
You're downvoted not because you're right or wrong, but because this is not a political discussion forum. (This whole post is borderline, but at least most people have stuck to talking about the Apple/Fox News issue, not which side is destroying the country.)
I wonder how many cars are driving at a given moment.
> During peak parking hours the system will increase parking prices to encourage people to run their errands during other times if their schedule is flexible.

Doesn't this mean that people with inflexible schedules (i.e. people who are in lower income brackets) will be charged more?
That's for each one. Apparently I'm a little behind the times, because they dropped to $2K recently: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/sony-introduces-a-new-ps3... IIRC they were originally ~20K and the military-industrial complex kept trying to buy them but Sony refused because they didn't even have enough for the real game developers.

I've read that many console games are developed simultaneously on PC and console so that the developers who don't have a devkit can run the game.
In jQuery UI 1.7.1, there was a function $.fn.disableSelection() that would toggle all the right browser-specific CSS and attributes so that text selection would be disabled. I would recommend that the author use it during the instantiation of these buttons...
I've always assumed that Fox (News Corp) made it's editorial decisions based on the interests of it's owners. As far as I can tell, it's profitability comes second to it's function of being able to drive the news cycle and move public opinion.