skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dear Apple:

Once upon a time, your products were brutally expensive and while your engineering choices were sound in isolation, they were so idiosyncratic that no industry-standard accessories or peripherals were compatible with your hardware.

Note of shame: I once paid $3,000 for an 80MB hard drive with your logo on it.

Developing for your platform was a monumental challenge. Every tool cost money and I remember having to pay actual money to obtain xerographed development notes from your developer connection or whatever it was called.

I even purchased the worst product you ever made, a 1x CD-ROM player that was actually a rebranded Phillips reject. One thing led to another and it wasn't long before your stock cost a few dollars and Sun Microsystems was thinking of buying you. Then everything changed.

I don't miss that incarnation of you a bit.
Furthermore, select, right-click, "copy" uses a different clipboard from select (the latter is what other X11 software uses and the "http:// is never put there).
Especially, if you post pictures of the deed to your blog and it shows up on Hacker News! :)
Books Bring Bookless Future
a) The barriers supporting Ticketmaster's current monopoly are pretty significant - mainly, exclusivity deals with venues. Ironically, the most successful challenge thus far has come from LiveNation... which managed to one-up Ticketmaster in some markets by owning both venues and artists. (And is now trying to merge with Ticketmaster, pending fairly blatant antitrust issues).

b) Interesting sidenote: in its day, Ticketmaster was the tech-savvy upstart, aggressively competing on both the business and tech side with the then-dominant Ticketron. (That's not to say that they're not a monopolist ripe for the picking...)
I like not seeing the http. But I hate that now when you copy-paste, it doesn't do plain-text anymore. When you paste the url in email, it shows a hyperlink to example.com/page while linking to http://example.com/page. I would love it if onfocus event for the address-bar shows the http and selects the full address and copy-paste just copies the plain-text url.
The software prototyping toolbox
I think I've said this before, the keys to successful telecommuting for me are:

* get up, shower and get dressed like I'm driving to work
* Office with a door that closes and family that acts like you are not there.
* good communications with the rest of the team (IRC, IM, Phone)
I'm currently working my way through his financial/banking series. Although he doesn't delve much into detail, he does a really great job at explaining general concepts and how systems work.
I found that running

lein deps
lein uberjar

Resulted in a clean build for me. I guess you could also stick the JAR in the local maven repository too - flyingsaucer lives at https://xhtmlrenderer.dev.java.net/
They do, in either red or blue depending on the SSL state.
Sorry, I accidentally hit the down arrow on your comment when I meant to hit the "reply" link. :-(

Could someone reverse my mistake? The parent comment does not deserve downmodding.
I wrote a Python port which I used to create a version of the HN rss feed with the content of each article embedded into the feed itself. It became too popular and caused my server to crash.

However, Andrew Trusty put a wrapper around my code so that you could use it with any website. It's written in Python and runs on Google AppEngine. Check it out: http://andrewtrusty.appspot.com/readability/

If my host was again acting up, I'd link my port.
Well , listen, you're wrong - that's why you should read the book. Say you sleep 7 hours a night instead of 8. Brain keeps track of the sleep you take. If you miss some, it adds it to your sleep debt. Then after a week you got full 8 hours extra sleep debt and even if you sleep 8 hours the night before you drive, you'll feel drowsy very soon after you wake up.

Researches have been conducted which proved that the condition after a lack of sleep 1 hour each night during a week would be equal to the condition when you haven't slept through the night.
And still. Does anyone except military use in-flight refueling? Is every attempt of in-flight refueling successful? If you suddenly lose some speed or something (unfriendly wind or whatever), you have plenty of space to maneuver, and even in the worst case, you should have rather good chance to survive hit by that pipe.

ICE train in Germany got derailed by few sheep two years ago…
> Since 99.999% of the people only ever encounter http://, ftp://, and https:// (did I forget any?), why not create a standard set of easy-to-understand icons to replace them, in cooperation with other browser makers?

For me at least it's a lot harder to memorize the meaning of a 16x16 pixel image than a four-character string.

Also, we have exactly the same problem that Google's having with this, which is that it's difficult to copy/paste, to speak nothing of entering in a url you have written down.
Usually, corporate lawyers are unavailable on short notice to work weekends. When a company or individual receives a subpoena or lawsuit on a Friday, they are left to stew in anxiety over the weekend until Monday, before their lawyers can appropriately advice them on how to respond to the SEC.

Wow, so not true at major law firms! Partners and associates at such firms are ready to drop everything, anytime and anywhere, to accommodate their premier clients, and especially over something so important as this SEC complaint.

In essence, the author contends that Goldman has exacerbated its problems by issuing a press release defending its general legal position in the case. I am not as SEC expert, though I used to do "Wells submissions" back in the day at a big firm, but I am dubious that this constitutes 10b-5 violations of any sort.

The author is a former CPA who was himself convicted of a felony in this area.

Very strange item, to say the least.
When Jobs retires it's all over for Apple. At least the honey-moon phase we're all in that assumes every Apple decision is a sound and wise one. When new leadership takes over Apple will just be another Sony.
how do you copy/paste a 16x16 pixel image + half of the URL?
Yikes! I keep getting the same errors:

Allow dev_appserver to check for updates on startup? (Y/n): ERROR 2010-04-18 16:51:50,678 appcfg.py:195] Could not find version file at /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/google/../VERSION

ERROR 2010-04-18 16:51:50,678 appcfg.py:195] Could not find version file at /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/google/../VERSION

INFO 2010-04-18 16:51:50,679 appengine_rpc.py:159] Server: appengine.google.com

ERROR 2010-04-18 16:51:50,679 appcfg.py:195] Could not find version file at /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/google/../VERSION

ERROR 2010-04-18 16:51:50,679 appcfg.py:327] Could not determine if the SDK supports the api_version requested in app.yaml.
Sure.

ps <processname> | kill

You piped the object to kill, not the text, so you didn't need a regex. Kill takes an process object as input and kills it. You could probably do that with a subshell on a nix box, which is only a little more ugly, but what about getting processes that have an RSS above a certain size?:

ps | where-object { $_.WS -gt 500MB } | kill

where-object is a filter, WS is the Windows equivalent of RSS. You've just picked only the objects with an RSS greater than 500MB. No regexs turning text into numbers, no math to turn KB into MB. Just filtering the content based it's properties, not its presentation.

I actually don't use Windows for development as I don't like the languages or the lockin (I've never been able to find something as good as Python on Linux, including IronPython) but I quite like Powershell.
Two things:

1- as someone who is more or less in the job/contract market in SV, I can confirm that the past two months have seen a dramatic rise in hiring. The past two weeks have especially intense compared to the past months.

2- startups may be somewhat squeezed, but an improved job market is really better for everyone. The right people will still prefer to work at startups over large corporations. Desperation over money is never a good driver for the job market.
The Key to Internet Success: Create Value
I'm the same way, I usually don't hit the shower until lunchtime. The place I work makes it pretty easy to work remotely. All our meetings have WebEx sessions that you dial into, there is a culture of group IM usage, my voip phone makes it so people can't tell if I'm at my desk or at home. Like others, I rely on having an office at home with a door I can shut, which I think is really important.

I don't worry too much about if other people think I'm slacking off (sometimes I really do) because my productivity can be measured by the number of billable hours I generate.
Bad news for JDK 7's lambdas
What is the Secret of Mobile App Success?
Poweroff landings are part of all flight training, even for a simple flight license. Any commercial pilot can handle it adroitly.
I often put my dell D620 in the fridge to cool it down if it overheats and starts running slow.
It's a lightweight implementation of X500 DAP. Compared to a full implementation, it is indeed cut down.
Claim on your insurance and then buy a new one
No, but it does mean finding out what those conditions actually are (using satellite images and volunteer pilots) rather than relying computer models (guesswork at this stage).
I'd disagree with "desktop software is dead", but I'd sound more credible disagreeing if "A/B test: remove desktop software -> sales increase??" wasn't on my list of things to do this week.
The difference is here, that you can tell if something has been opened, but it is nearly impossible to tell if something has been 'friged.' Apple can only void your warranty if they can catch you. And please don't mention that he 'posted on the internet' so the Apple store will catch him; we all know the prob of that is zeroish.

So, I think it is safe to say for all intents and purposes refrigerating your computer doesn't void your warranty.
A few years ago, I was about to go on a car trip. The hot/cold selector in my car was broken, and my mechanic had ordered the part, but didn't have time to put it in. I knew him pretty well, so I borrowed a screwdriver and took apart my dashboard. The broken part was 3 pieces of injection-molded plastic with a quarter sized circuit board in the middle. 20 minutes later, I had it installed, and went inside to pay for the part. "How much?" I asked.
"A buck twenty-five," my mechanic responded. I happened to have exact change, so I pulled out a quarter and a dollar and laid it on the table. "That sounds about right, I said."
"Uh-uh. One hundred twenty five." He was an honest guy, and showed me how much Acura had charged him for the part.

I look forward to the day when instead of car companies and other large manufacturers holding us hostage for pennies in injection molded plastic, it's standard practice for the mechanic to download and print out a part off the internet. I'm joining http://techshop.ws/ next month. I'm a software engineer, but I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty. Viva la industrial revolution!
Or just stop processing....

You're picking nits frankly. The system can be useful. But it does deadlock and/or cause delays if your output program stops reading from the pipe temporarily or permanently. The deadlocked secondprogram was just a simple example of when this happens.

This sort of behavior is a rare case. It is far from rare though in a less degenerate form. In the very simple case of displaying text on the command line you will fill your output buffer all the time, but with the flushes, you'll vastly slow the program down to the speed of text display in your terminal as you make all text output every time, as opposed to just when the buffer display program runs.

Which do you think will run faster: Cat without those flushes or cat with those flushes?

This technique is not universally applicable, as the article says. It does not fit all cases. It has costs.

It does also have applications. But it's not the suggested universal technique.
"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I'll quote Jamie Zawinski.' Now they have two problems."
Suggestion to Adobe (or others) about iPhone/iPad
A suggestion for Adobe: Make Flash available for all jailbreaked iPhones/iPads. (For other companies the same thing in case they got something rejected.)

By doing this, probably more iPhone users will get interested in jailbreaking their iPhone and using it. At some point, the pressure for Apple will become high enough about closing old jailbreaks and about the AppStore as a whole - much higher than it is even right now.

I also assume that this is actually not that much work for you to do. Assuming the Flash codebase is already pretty much portable and you have already the MacOSX port, maybe use the Chromium code base and the recent work about embedding Flash in there to do the actual port to the iPhone.

Maybe even go so far as providing all the jailbreak tools and an easy description about how to get the jailbreak and to install this.
I think i don't have to ask you this, but please, DONATE if you can. This site brings the real value, and Salman quit his job just to do this.
Thank you, your response managed to be completely useless while being simultaneously condescending and making you look like an ass who is incapable of grasping a simple point; that I have no experience in statistics, but a great deal in programming, and don't know where to start.

Here, let me rephrase it monosyllabically so that you're capable of understanding the question:

Which "FM" would be good for me to "R"?
Sigh.

And the difference between "stop processing" and letting the IO block is what?
My wife is currently stranded in Germany. As much as I miss her and want her home, there's no way I'd want her to fly through a potential ash cloud given that it doesn't show up on radar and the high risk of engine failure when you're over the North Atlantic doesn't sound like a good plan. A couple short range test flights do not mean it's safe to fly trans-Atlantic routes. When you're 40,000 feet up over freezing waters, you need to play it safe.
associates working weekends? all the time.

partners? not so much.
I think that's overly-optimisitc and only covers intra-European flights, not trans-Atlantic flights.
The world's first super light electric folding bike
Using the latest daily build of chromium I couldn't reproduce a single one of the "issues" that the post presented.

It seems they've all been fixed before he wrote the post.
Ask HN: Review my Web App: Making it easier to find Restaurant Discounts
I like to make webapps around affiliate programs that help people save money. My newest one takes all the restaurants that offer coupons on restaurant.com and sorts them by customer ratings from other third party sources. I am looking for feedback on how I can make the website more useful. If you follow this link it will try to detect your location and give you the top rated restaurants within 10 miles. http://restaurantcoupons.us
My girlfriend has been helped so much by Sal's videos on calculus. He explains things VERY well.
I'm pretty sure it ruined the weekends for the partners at Sullivan & Cromwell too :)
You can do other things....like say, print out on stderr that there is a problem after a certain timeout, email technical support, or restart the second program.

If you use blocking IO, you just silently fail.
http://restaurantcoupons.us
False environmental consciousness isn't even a virtue.

See also: DDT, GMO, vaccines, and irradiation in the context of food safety. I really don't care if recycling becomes a secular religion even if it is a net waste of energy, but deeply held beliefs about the above four kill people.
In the late 80's Apple faltered because they had a closed system, while Microsoft's products worked on every important platform and thus quickly became ubiquitous. I am simplifying things a little but it seems to me that history will indeed repeat itself.
I love the fresh thought here on how to best present problems to students. I wonder how much work it takes to redefine each problem in the textbook.
As of a few days ago now the videos are also free (not just gratis) released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, the same one used for Wikipedia, see http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/1378
SEC Fraud charges timed to mask more damaging news?
In North Korea, Juche Iron vs. American Crows
I hate rich text copy/paste. I probably only want to copy formatting 5% of the time. Do any operating systems provide ways to configure how copy/paste works?
I'm sure he's just trying to help Mr Friedman out by demonstrating the final point of his essay for us.

Our national debate today is dominated by the ignorant
ramblings of Sarah Palin, talk-show lunatics, tea parties
and politics as sports — not ESPN but PSPN.
It's time for an open database of places
Oh -- still, that doesn't seem like something that can't be fixed with minor tweaking.
Building Evernote for the iPad
Is this localized in the Silicon Valley area, or is it more widespread? I live in Michigan and haven't seen much of a difference lately.
Has anybody made an Android-based git client? Preferably with a text editor.

In theory, JGit could be used (not sure if it'd have any problems on Dalvik). Conflicts would be a pain to handle, but other than that...
To be fair, given the state of media coverage (read: Fox News), I wouldn't be surprised if someone legitimately thought it was named ObamaCare ...in which case the use of pejoratives on HN is the least of that person's problems.
He has a good frame of reference: “I see this as an opportunity for academics in New York to contribute to start-up culture,” says Wiggins, referring to the pivotal role that Stanford’s dean of engineering, Frederick Terman, played in the rise of Silicon Valley.

Stanford is what it is today thanks to Terman's meddling and the army (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo). If Wiggins is NYC's Terman, what's NYC's army equivalent?
First, let's kill all the angels: Congress takes aim.
It seems we agree. I just called you sloppy because it's not the first time I see that shorthand statement (whether it comes from you of from others).

I feel that many people take it at face value and actually think that "the GPL forces to share modification", unconditionally.
" For example, an assertive woman in a workplace may be viewed as a "bitch" but an assertive man in a workplace may be viewed more positively. They can each be sharing ideas of the same merit, but our cultural conditioning evaluates them differently."

Or not. Assertive males are often called "dicks". Assertive women may be admired. That's the other subtlety of it. People trot out vague anecdotal "explanations" that are merely begging the question.

"Discussions about gender would do better to have more hard data and scientific thinking."

Exactly.
I assume you want to visualize the data but don't want to do any fancy statistics:

1. Tutorial

2. Language definition

3. Import/Export + sqldf or rodbc

4. Either Lattice[1] or ggplot2[2], and [3]

I'm glad I could be of help. :-)

[1] http://lmdvr.r-forge.r-project.org/figures/figures.html

[2] http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/

[3] http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/
I had a drive that was clicking and was completely unreadable. I put it in the freezer for 45 min and was able to read the drive for about 10 to recover a few files. Then it died and the trick didn't work again. But when all else fails, try the freezer or fridge!
Posterous is pretty good. I believe your docs get pushed onto Scribd. But, then again, you can download it as PDF probably from there.
Hmm. Perhaps the army is...FourSquare?
This is why you typically leave the hard drive (or in this case, the laptop) in the freezer for atleast a few hours. Doing this allowed me to copy a 60 gig which windows couldn't even mount to work no problem - which took well over a couple hours, all in one shot.

Using this method, the electronics don't need to be kept in your refrigerator or freezer.
Well, I suppose the army was like a wave and the initial startups surfed that wave. FourSquare is surfing alright, but which wave?
HN might be interested in one of my projects, http://coclass.com, a website for people to meet up in real life and use open courseware materials together. The class we've been doing has been great. A small group meets once a week, we watch videos on a big TV and have good discussions afterwards.
"Building a good product doesn't mean you have to be a hypocritical bunch of assholes, building a good product means creating a compelling product that people want to use."

I understand what "partisan politics" is. I don't, however, understand the above. What makes something compelling? Hurricanes might be compelling to me, but that doesn't make them good.
What would you say about "www.", then? Shouldn't that be removed as meaningless, as opposed to the protocol prefix which a) identifies something as a URL, b) makes it detectable and parseable?
I thought the article was quite clear on this. The more important point is: _Probable causes? In fact, there's no scientific evidence that cellphones, pesticides, global warming or the alleged insufficiency of wildflowers are linked in any way to CCD._

Not knowing recent research on it might be fine. Maybe the articles were in Spanish and hard to find or something. But if the lesson ended up with kids getting concerned and writing letters, and they say "yea we're not sure, it could be some stuff that's unrelated", that sounds like a missed learning opportunity, maybe.
What exactly do you expect? Some of those old documents they're trying to digitize are in such bad shape that you practically need an electron microscope to decipher them. Document recognition in its full generality is still an open problem. The examples shown on that page constitute highly adversarial challenges. For simpler examples of the kind that would prevail with recently printed material, much better results can be achieved.
As far as I know, no. reCAPTCHA specifically focuses on challenges that are likely to be incorrectly processed by existing document recognition systems.
Dictionary of Programming Languages
Shelf life of business school students
Dupe (222 days apart): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=810787

Accomplished by appending "/site/" to this submission.
Maybe the army is the shrinking of the financial services bubble?
Most people are not going to miss Flash on their iPhones/iPads. All the major sites will soon offer HTML5 for video and there will be 250,000 apps in another year. I think it's the idea of Apple forbidding Flash more than actually really needing Flash this is annoying some people.
Not quite: "The real test is whether you can create an acceptable development environment on something small enough that you'd be willing to use it as a phone."
Not really www.foo.com is distinct from foo.com. http:// is pretty redundant - you usually only want to specify the protocol if its not http.
The job market is like the ocean itself and there are obviously different wave conditions. In a good one, the waves will lift all sorts of vessels, but how you want to surf it is entirely upto you. I daresay with the advent of the YC era, I wouldn't be surprised if more grads interviewed at startups first.
It seems to me that stating opinions as if they are flat facts presented by an authority is as good a recipe as any to create needless drama, tempests-in-teacups, which in the end amount to nothing.
Comparison of DVCS hosting - Github, Bitbucket, Assembla, Unfuddle, Kiln & more
Harder to do when you're a one-man shop (although in that case the problem might not be the telecommuting but the lack of coworkers).
That would be 1 cuil, I believe.

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/7da5i/police_raid...