skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also have a look at my blog where I link to a series of post about the creation of the service from the initial idea to the final push live:

http://www.gnegg.ch/2010/04/announcing-tempalias-com/

The project took 44 hours from start to finish and it's both a nice study in node.js and of actual use for the public (I hope)
Agreed. Management uber alles is a mistake of our culture. Not everyone wants to or should be a manager, just as not everyone should be or wants to be a pro basketball player.
> Everyone I know wishes they had better control over their privacy on Facebook.

Sure -- everyone you know. However, the average person has little or no interest in learning about and/or configuring privacy features.
Since I am in deciding stage of pricing for my application, I studied the market and researched how pricing plans evolved for a SaaS startup. Shall make a blog post soon.
New Education Loan Repayment Scheme in the US
I really liked the slides, but I'll always associate Powell's leadership abilities with this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_weapons_laboratory

He's apparently gone on record as admitting "It's a blot. I'm the one who presented it on behalf of the United States to the world, and [it] will always be a part of my record. It was painful. It's painful now." Yet the damage is done. Did he have people who could speak up at the time with contrary evidence? Did he make himself available to those people?
Yes. SimCity is not really a `game', but more of a sandbox, where you set your own goals. Of course you can set your own goals in more traditional games as well, but they tend to come with a pre-defined one.
There is also a company named Invention labs which has developed a product named Avaz for people with Cerebral Palsy

http://www.inventionlabs.in/avaz/aboutAVAZ.html
A little quality time with searches like http://www.google.com/search?q=redefine+peer+review+site%3Aw... will provide all the citations needed.

Here's the ones I can find in a few minutes with just the phrases I can remember off the top of my head and one or two leads from those:

Phil Jones to Michael Mann: "I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will keep
them out somehow - even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is !" http://www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php?eid=419&filen...

From Mann (http://www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php?eid=295): "The Soon & Baliunas paper couldn't have cleared a 'legitimate' peer review process anywhere. That leaves only one possibility--that the peer-review process at Climate Research has been hijacked by a few skeptics on the editorial board. [...] The skeptics appear to have staged a 'coup' at 'Climate Research'...."

[...]

"This was the danger of always criticising the skeptics for not publishing in the 'peer-reviewed literature'. Obviously, they found a solution to that--take over a journal! So what do we do about this? I think we have to stop considering 'Climate Research' as a legitimate peer-reviewed journal."

The end result was that half the editorial board resigned, I think all "non-skeptics".

Two quoted items in one email (http://www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php?eid=484); first this from Mann: "It's one thing to lose 'Climate Research'. We can't afford to lose GRL. I think it would be useful if people begin to record their experiences w/ both Saiers and potentially Mackwell (I don't know him--he would seem to be complicit w/ what is going on here)."

Followed by a Tom Wigley writing to I think Mann: "If you think that [GRL editor] Saiers is in the greenhouse skeptics camp, then, if we can find documentary 1evidence of this, we could go through official AGU channels to get him ousted."

And then nearly a year later Mann reports Mission Accomplished: "The GRL leak may have been plugged up now w/ new editorial leadership there...." http://www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php?eid=591

Saiers was in fact removed from dealing with the paper in question, although he insists he wasn't himself ousted: http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2009/11/grl-and-james-saie...

Anyway, that's what I can find from the original sources in 15 minutes. There's a lot more, "The Truth Is Out There".
"private sharing via Dropbox"

Wouldn't that expose your passwords to a prying DropBox admin? I don't use DB, so I'm not sure whether you generate your own key to encrypt data at rest.
If you're a startup and someone needs a 6-month vacation for mental health reasons, you need to cut him loose. If he's done good work and is willing to leave in a way that minimizes damage to the company, try to leave the door open and give him a good reference. You're right, of course, that startups cannot afford to have important people become nonproductive.
feature creep much? :)
If six people have died from this, is it really a cause for alarm? I'd be more concerned with falling down the stairs honestly, not to mention that this is treatable (the fungus that is, not the broken neck.)
> I do not understand why such a large piece of a person's life would be spent doing this.

You can share your digital artefacts with people all over the world. Isn't that much better by your metric than a model railroad?
I can see the following as a logged-in facebook user, which is identical to what the graph api returns: http://imgur.com/8y8hf.png

I'm not seeing a discrepancy here?
Like I said, the discrepancy is if you're NOT logged in.
"The Unix model is so successful that it's been adopted by FreeBSD and Linux and is arguably the most successful operating system design ever1.

Windows, on the other hand, remains stubbornly expensive to develop, weak in terms of security, reliability and performance"

I work every day with Linux & Solaris, and much prefer them to Windows. However, one should probably start Googling for terms such as "Morris Worm" before one goes too far down this road.
Breaking an essay into paragraphs and posting the paragraphs on slides does not a slide show make.
"Gen X’ers who are running for the door at the first sign of trouble"

I am sorry but the author supports a very prejudged and one sided viewpoint. The converse of the above quoted statement is: employers who enact massive layoffs at the first sign of trouble. The dynamics of the American work force have changes, many companies are no longer loyal so many employees are no longer loyal.
From the title, I thought this was going to be more like "how to arrive at the price for your SaaS Application" but it's more like "how to choose the price model for your SaaS Application" which I think is actually easier and less interesting. Still a good summary for anyone interested in this topic who's been living under the ocean for a few years.
The real issue is the separation of Arts from Science. The best artists are scientists and the best scientists are artists. Was Da Vinci any more into liberal arts than science.

Anyone who specialises in a single viewpoint and is unable to compromise probably isn't a candidate for saving the earth.
Didn't have much time to actually check it out, but the "What is this good for?" link on the front page doesn't seem to be working for me (Chrome Dev Channel on Win7).
Collaborative consumption
I paid cash for my iPhone and they did the gift card thing. I did some reading later and surprisingly it is legal to not accept cash:

http://www.ustreas.gov/education/faq/currency/legal-tender.s...
I wonder how would go about buying iPads for your company... One of my clients is going to need ~6 for his sales staff.
That's interesting, but it perplexes me as well. I have an iPad/Wifi, and I believe that means it has no GPS. However, Google Maps is able to pinpoint my location almost perfectly, despite the closest mapped street view being more than a mile away on any side.

I suppose it's possible that the mapped my street but didn't publish it for some reason, but that'd be odd.
yeah. it's the same link as about. I fixed it just now.

I had to change the ajax/hash based url schema to match Google's proposal here: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/10/proposal-... and I seem to have overlooked that one link.
Was sad to see it run Windows
Pardon me, that answer was for 'The Last Question' (also a truly awesome short story). I'm sure I read this one in one of his collections but I don't remember which and Wikipedia is no help in this case.
The advantages of programming on a small netbook
We've started to collect "pricing urls" on Cloudomatic.com I've been thinking of doing a few things with all of these pages. One is: how many plans are there on average? How many have a free trial and average length? Average price for a saas app.

Another is talking to a good chunk of startups and doing a: this is how you determine pricing white paper.

What would be useful to you guys?
I agree with you. As of now, your only option is to not use fb.
If by armchair commentary you mean 14 years of using and administering every major Linux distro, including a couple years of mostly Ubuntu, and having something to say about it, then you're right on the button.
There's a topless woman in that source code.
If your senior developer has something horrible happen to him* , and you then immediately cut him loose because he's of no use to you any more, what happens to your product? You're a startup, so you're unlikely to have huge amounts of redundancy to cover for them when they refuse to train their replacement or answer support questions about your complicated 6 month time-critical project from their dying, dysentery-stricken family members' bedside.

Also, taking that sort of hard-nosed attitude will make the other developers on your team more wary, which will result in higher salaries, more turnover and (if you're a real idiot) no new staff, since word gets around. Ultimately you depend on your staff, so if you play hardball you're likely to reap the 'benefits' further down the track when you need them.

* - this was your original point, not some "meditation trip to Tibet"
Indeed. He might have been a decent man, but following the orders of a Bush administration basically ruined his credibility. In light of this, the quotes like "You don't know what you can get away with until you try" just doesn't taste that right...
These "data analysis techniques to correct for a false decline" at best consisted of substituting thermometer readings for tree ring proxies. I wouldn't call that a "data analysis technique".

They also "improved" the curve for the 1930s as ESR learned from the code and data (http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1447): "This, people, is blatant data-cooking, with no pretense otherwise. It flattens a period of warm temperatures in the 1930s — see those negative coefficients? Then, later on, it applies a positive multiplier so you get a nice dramatic hockey stick at the end of the century."

Also note how this meshes nicely with the paper that started this thread that did not until it was corrected show that 1934 was the hottest year in the 20th century.
But this is my point: for a lot of professionals who probably rely on Creative Suite, there is no difference, because they work freelance. For people in that position, buying a whole extra workstation just to run some drawing software is a significant expense. So the point of view you suggested on Adobe's behalf in your earlier post still doesn't really make sense, because all of those freelancers would potentially switch to a competitor product of sufficient quality and save hundreds/thousands in hardware costs regardless of the price of the software.
Adobe AIR on the Android Platform
See also: John LeSieur builds simplified web browser (Zacbrowser) for his 6-yr old autistic grandson, Zackary

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlife/2008-06-0...
My Personal Nokia X6 experience
Check on my personal review of Nokia X6 at http://livinonprayer.blogspot.com/
It improves usability for you, perhaps largely because you've internalized the mental model that it instills ("there are two places to minimize applications to: one is the regular task list, and the other is this tray thing"). That doesn't mean it doesn't ruin usability for lots of other people, especially those new to computing.
> Under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997, employers have a legal obligation to prove they are taking all reasonable practical measures to protect staff from inappropriate material. Companies and individual executives can also face criminal prosecution if employees are found using the company’s IT infrastructure to distribute porn, or they fail to prevent employees from downloading child pornography into the workplace.

It seems like the author is concerned mainly with a company's criminal liability for allowing access to porn. The solution to this is a political one: in a free society, people should not be criminally liable for exchanging offensive information.
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Linking to K&R and calling it "Introduction to C" is a bit sloppy and worth editing, it really threw me off track.
Surprised that http://graph.facebook.com/phpinfo.php isn't taken.
I just realized that if you supply an access token you have access to even more information for record.
So bots get some non-standard file for robots.txt.

Guess no one at facebook has noticed the vulnerability exposed with pretty usernames on facebook & ignoring "." in a different framework. (probably just following gmail usernames.)
UI Design: Forming paths
This article was written by someone who sells email utilities like spam blockers, etc. This is his proposed solution to the problem:

"This non-confrontational approach can be achieved by using an e-mail monitoring tool that will not only monitor activity but can also be set to automatically respond to the activity in a variety of ways."

It doesn't look like he has a specific porn-filtering utility, but overall I think his opinion is a little biased.
What is the definition of "porn" in "one in five men admitting to accessing porn at work"? I'll freely admit to having looked at an image of a scantily-clad woman at work (from a major news outlet of all places), but is that... "inappropiate material", "porn" or what?.. I can see it being brand damaging if (female) customers had seen me watch it.
I don't get how they reached the broad-sweeping (and inaccurate IMO) conclusion:"The merging of the home/office world is complete." and "From personal e-mails to social networking and downloading porn, individuals will continue to exploit the corporate network for personal use if they can" ("exploit"?). I try to keep a degree of separation between work and home, and I believe most do the same (though "home" can be the laptop I bring with me to work) - I don't use my work PC for downloading porn or dating - I do use it for personal email or some kinds of "socialization" like HN.
They are banned now...

So anti-phishing folks got accused for phishing. Looks it was technically nice idea but terrible user experience.

Unless of course there WAS a hidden agenda here.
Logo Design - What is a Logo Design
Many of the subscriptions reported directly by WP are bots / spiders. Feedburner attempts to filter many of those out.
Ask HN: Tool for graphing my algorithms?
I'm looking for a tool that can graph my algorithms in lisp. Or any kind of language really. It should visualize the order of growth for time/space complexity.
Very similar to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1287513

kristiandupont even pointed out the link in that thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1287688
Did you read the document? They use psychological tactics combined with an outrageous amount of your personal data in order to market to you. Let's supposed you just had a child or spouse die, more specifically, you were just widowed. They will be able to garner that fact from your spending habits or public records (or perhaps FB data) and combine it with all the other info they have on you, and then might try to sell you some shady investment or insurance. Their job is to get you to buy something you don't need. They're working on it while you sleep. Many people are not adequately equipped to resist their tactics.
Presentation Hacks: Less Words, More Power
Once you accept the idea that all climatologists are partaking in a global conspiracy, then yes, peer review means little to you. You're stuck referencing emails from people you trust, which in your case consists of a mining executive and an economist. I prefer to get my climatology from people who study the climate.

For folks out there who aren't conspiracy buffs, there's a good article on this 'controversy' at http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11646-climate-myths-th....
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Both have horizontal bars underneath. I prefer my knees and shins nonbashed when I have the choice, thanks.
It reminds me of a similar service many years old, which eventually got shut down by the authorities because some very bad people was using he's service.

I can't remember the name of the guy or the service, but you should be careful such a service.

Other than that, it's really cool and useful!
What Can You Learn From The World’s Best Brands?
Interesting. Cryptococcus neoformans is a relatively common cause of fungal infection.
I emailed the company and got the following reply: The official (i.e. conservative) maximum recommended regular lifting weight for the frames is 176 pounds
well... it's hosted in switzerland which usually has friendly authorities in such matters. Additionally, I'm not logging anything.

But it's a fun project after all - the second I get an official complaint, it's gone.

In the mean time, my next step would be to implement a bookmarklet that fills out any field on any form on any webpage so that you don't even have to manually go back to the tempalias.com site.
Looks pretty neat! Tried it out and took a quick look at the code. If I ever need a temp alias I will definitely use this. But, one thing I didn't find any info about anywhere.

Do you keep track of the deleted alias "keys". That is, if I create a mail and the key is m4m2 or whatever, I want to make sure that m4m2 will never ever lead to someone else (as well as not to me). If i register an account somewhere I obviously never want the mail going to the alias to end up at someone else either.
I am not sure if it is my background in planning or my enjoyment of beating puzzles, but I think this subject matter is exactly on par with this site. Watching the videos, you realize someone perfectly reversed the algorithm that makes Sim City 3000 run. Through trial and error this guy beat the system. I think it takes a lot of intuition to get this completed.

Granted, from a purely logical viewpoint this city wouldn't work, but that's not the challenge. The challenge was to beat Sim City 3000 and he did that. Think of it as trying to get the highest score in Pac Man or Super Mario Brothers. There are competitions on that! And from one screenshot from the videos, it seems as though there are competitions for Sim City 3000 too.

Yes this city wouldn't work in real life. The subway system would be prohibitably expensive; getting all the power from neighboring cities wouldn't work; having groups of buildings to satisfy a citywide requirement wouldn't work. Yet he beat the game. That is all.
It gets tough to debate life values, because we all come from a different place, but I'll take the question as just for me. I can't answer for this other guy. His reasons are his own.

The problem with spending so much time optimizing an artificial mathematical model (game) is that less work and time is required to create the model than to optimize it. Therefore (to me), it's the losers than spend time working on other people's problems that never move up to the next level: being creative. It's just a mechanical process. (and yes, I'm aware that some creativity is involved in the optimization)

My value system is in creating something for other people. So creativity and value to others, are the metric I use when allocating my time. I guess if such a electronic work could benefit people -- by making them happy for a bit or providing them with information they needed or something, it would be worthwhile. I mean heck, under my value system you can stretch a lot of things to make them work. The question (for me) is whether or not those 3 years could have been better spent.

Yes, at the end it's all gone anyway. That doesn't mean piss away your life. If anything, it means you only have a certain amount of time to do things you find valuable.

My opinion only. To each his own.
That's an interesting point. Right now I'm not keeping track of used aliases and I'm even pruning used ones after some time. You are right though. I should fix that, even though it's not likely that the same ID is given out twice.

Edit: Reported as Issue #7: http://github.com/pilif/tempalias/issues/#issue/7
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I agree with the premise, but article doesn't at all seem to substantiate it.

coding on a train? coding in your head while shopping for groceries? how is that related to notebook at all? same can be done with any laptop. no?
No, it really wouldn't.

Take, for example, the idea that Honeywell was trying to sell mainframes to house wives. They did -- everybody did in the 70s, because they were dumb as a box of rocks.

Take the same mainframe and sell it to a bank.

The data for the first attempted sale (housewives) would make you think "Gee, that price is too high! They're not selling."

For the second, the price could be the same, but the audience would actually buy it.

If you don't qualify whether a business is doing a shit job of targeting, your market pricing data is absolutely worthless.
Feels like a less anonymous version of mailinator.com.
Forwarding to my own email is a very useful feature if I'm not so concerned with privacy.
One of my favorite articles on HN thus far.

I have struggled with a few of these notions myself. It's nice to see another humble perspective.
Perl 6 is Dead anyway.
Unchecking that box only stops the personalization from happening automatically. The floating toolbar still appears asking if you'd like to opt-in (at least on yelp.com)
Have a look at my privacy page (http://tempalias.com/#!/privacy). Do you find something that's not to your liking? Are there still concerns left? I'd gladly update the privacy page.

Also, the code is open. If you want, you can even register your own domain and run thing thing yourself.
I couldn't agree more with this article- I've found myself doing the same with an even older Eeepc 701. It's far less distracting to work on a netbook. You simply don't have the horsepower or screen real estate to waste on non-essentials, and the tiny keyboard makes you think before you type.
This also seems a perfect fit for FPGA.
Problem: board members want to pretend the problem doesn't exist.

Solution: install token software and pretend that the problem is solved.
Fedora does!

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010

Remoting is mandatory. The payment rate is fixed at $5000 (or $2500 for half-projects). You decide when you work, who you work with, how much you work, what you work on, what tools you'll be using etc. You decide everything!

I can help with more info if you ask.
So, Jeff Atwood comes before Jesus and Ghandi?
Yes because a lot of start-ups have no margin for error. Not only will that developer loose his job should he not perform, but in the case of bootstrapped start-ups it could take everyone else out too. All the same, if the company does not get the next round of financing, they should duly expect defections and not piss and moan.
Such an inaccurate article from the get-go. Original source and discussion:

http://design.canonical.com/2010/04/notification-area/

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1286346
End of the world is nigh -- Netbeans is being referred to as 'lightweight IDE.'