skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
isn't that quite circular, in a thread about minimalist living?
I can see that their could be a problem in that hypotheses/theories which might more quickly have dissipated in the past now could hang around because they have been marketed better to the public and so the proponents win more public funding because their work seems more important to laymen when the scientific establishment have largely rejected it.

[Wow, that sentence was long.]
This is a great idea, to have a full powered language running in a VM in the browser. All we need now is to have a more developer-friendly language with a richer VM and framework, like Java.

Err....
You're confusing privacy with propriety.

Privacy is more than just avoiding embarrassment; it's about control over how our own information is used.

Consider a simple case -- people don't want information about all their movements available to everyone. Stalkers, ex-spouses, business competitors, or paranoid acquaintances. We're not talking here about concealing any shameful acts, just quotidian activities.

Also consider how Facebook allows users to authoritatively link a person to an event, by tagging them in a photo. So whether the subject might want it or not, that leaves a trail for others to follow. If they don't follow their Facebook account closely, they may never even know it's happening.

You may be interested in the excellent paper "'I've Got Nothing To Hide', and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy", by Daniel J. Solove.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565
I'd say good design. Refactoring has known benefits, but good design is similar to refactoring while skipping the middle step of having a cruddy design to start with. Developers who tend to write better designed code may not be appreciated for it. Consider that better design often requires considerable forethought and may take longer to implement than a typical "first thing that comes to mind" satisficing type design.

Also, the lack of future bugs and lack of future difficulty in expanding and adapting good code may result in a lack of attention for that code (people may not appreciate its subtlety and elegance and merely think it solves an easy problem to start with).

The end result may be that the developer takes longer to resolve fewer bugs and implement fewer bits of functionality than other developers while the benefits of higher quality design and code might be largely invisible.

Discerning developers may be able to recognize and appreciate higher quality coders, but in environments with short-sighted or overly bureaucratic management I'm sure this sort of problem exists.
EU privacy watchdogs say Facebook changes 'unacceptable'
Linkbait title.
I'm no expert, but I was under the impression that EU citizens are free to live and work in Switzerland under bilateral treaties anyway ?
I don't know about it being circular, but if someone decides they need a particular thing, making provisions so they can keep having it makes sense
Bear in mind, I'm not using the "come on It's Apple" defense in terms of all of their actions; I don't know enough about this case to say anything either way, and really don't care enough in general. But I think it's a pretty fair assumption that if they're calling someone and saying "uh, hey, you have our phone", it really is their phone.
http://imgur.com/nEahg.jpg

But, it does look like 37signals. There's nothing ostensibly wrong with that but I don't understand why bertm would be downvoted for pointing it out, it's relevant and informative.

I too feel I've seen this style a lot recently. It's not bad, it's just the zeitgeist in startup websites IMO. I like it.
Good discovery by Jesse and great detective work by yourself Jimminy.

This would have been much more interesting had it shown flash on ipads/iPhones.
Bohemian Mechanical Rhapsody
A Bootstrapped Startups Guide to Conferences
”You know, I do get a personal call from my dentist, carpet cleaner, and my kids' doctor before an appointment. I call my customers before meeting with them too.”

You do? Must be a American thing. I never ever heard of that.
That, and, very frequently when I'm looking to purchase something, I go to google, do a search find a vendor on the advertisements and go purchase from them. I suspect there is a not insubstantial part of the Google Community that uses their advertisements as a form of Yellow Pages. On my iPhone, I use searching in Google Maps all the time as though it were the Yellow Pager.
In what way does Boiler Room motivate you? It seems to me like it say make money the only thing in your life, destroy all your relationships and screw over those who have loved and cared for you, do everything to get money. Is that it?
I charge $300/hr.

Granted, there are very good reasons I charge so much, but you guys are both screwing yourselves.

That said, if you want to charge more, OP hajrice: please fix your spacing. If you're gonna rip off 37Signals' standard landing page, do us a favor and rip them off WELL, okay? Your button text looks like it's sagging there at the bottom of the bottom, and generally speaking, your text is very poorly handled.

If you read a couple books on typography, and spend less time on shiny background images and stock icons and more learning about what makes design effective, you could double your rate in a couple months, minimum.
Ah, the oddities of CSS. The first issue is because I'm using custom fonts via @font-face. Firefox has made some... design decisions... that cause the effect you're seeing. I've actually just recently discovered a way to reduce the number of dynamic fonts I'm loading, but the underlying issue is still that Firefox wants to paint the page before the dynamic fonts are finished loading.

The second issue is CSS generated content. I honestly don't remember why I chose to put chapter numbers and appendix letters in CSS and the rest of the title in content. Purity? Really? That doesn't sound like me. ;-) It would probably be simpler to move it all into the h1.
Sify.com Architecture - A portal at 3900 requests/second
The Guidelines For Marinating Fish, Steak and Poultry
Maybe he was microwaving leftovers that the chef made last night.

I'm with you though, when I can afford one, I will have a raw food chef. I guess I need to figure out how much they cost.
- Get a cheap development box (Linode, Slicehost, etc.)

- Set Firefox to use Socks Host 127.0.0.1:8080

- Open up your terminal and enter this: ssh -C2qTnN -D 8080 your-user@example.com

Et voilà, you're tunneling all your browser traffic through the development box.

Note: I'm on a Mac, so things might differ under Windows.
Hah, I'm going to port WebKit to NaCl SDK. :)
Be aware that if you are doing this because you are (putatively) allergic to dust mites, which is triggering breathing issues:

Breathing cold air, especially through the mouth, can exaggerate breathing problems.
So I contacted this guy via email, and he's now offering to design for me at $50 an hour
I like, personally, to go by the "what goes around comes around" rule and would probably return the lost prototype, because if I ever misplace a prototype, I would like it back.

I don't, however, like when the press offers some favor to a company in return for future favors. The press has certain obligations that are frequently at odds with simple courtesy.

Imagine, for a moment, not a phone, but documents proving "Apple Energy" bribed government officials in order to build an unsafe nuclear power plant and Gizmodo offering to return then in exchange for monetary gain.

There was a line crossed somewhere between these points.

Also, this whole idea the press should be friends with the subjects of their reporting is pretty much everthing that can be wrong with the press.
This is in bad taste (imo). Advertising your commercial services is not "helping" others. "Tell HN: I am looking for work" would be much more honest.

At this rate soon we'll have all kinds of self proclaimed "bad ass" developers and designers offering to "help" HN readers at x$/hr. I am rather surprised 21 people (as of this writing) thought this blatant marketing ploy worth upvoting to the front page. Or maybe it is some kind of voting ring put together by the person peddling his services?

EDIT: ok now there is a "I am charging x $/hr" addendum. Better. But still inappropriate for HN imo.
I don't believe they had that much fun, but the quality of the legal advice seems comparable.
Apollo 13, mainly because of scenes like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTGiLVj9r2g
It's the same "problem" as with Internet-age privacy—information just tends to be stickier and longer-lived now. It's not really a "problem" in the sense that it's solvable, though; it's just a fact of life, now. If we want scientific positivism to continue to march forward, we're going to have to find some workarounds for the high memetic potency of protoscience.
"There isn’t a fundamental gravitational interaction. Is that crazy enough?"

A decade ago a physicist who would say something like this would have been dubbed a "crackpot" by his colleagues.
Is your @m.facebook.com email wierd too? Bug?
Mine says:
Upload via email
Use a personalised upload email address to post status updates or send photos and videos straight to your profile. Your personal email address is:
shaves219weensy@m.facebook.com

Is it totally random or a bug?
Eclipse.org home
Why LegalZoom Fails Startups
Mine says:

Upload via email
Use a personalised upload email address to post status updates or send photos and videos straight to your profile. Your personal email address is:
shaves219weensy@m.facebook.com

Is it totally random or a bug?
We've gone through all the options. We don't own it outright and renting in this market isn't that great either.

It took us a long time to come to this decision. We'll see...
i'm interested, has anyone else got a different take on cable management? surely other HN readers have their own solutions?
The should expect Apple doing that and should treat the matter with utmost care. Theydhould never refuse to return the phone promptly, nor damage it. They could film it, photograph it and then return it.
Glory http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097441/
Charlie Munger on Greece, idiot bankers, accountants and more...
LET This be your Most Important Up vote EVER
http://www.matchdevan.com/
Please register as a bone marrow Donor!
You will not need to pay anything, and you just need to provide them with swabs which will be sent to your home directly!

Considering Multi Ethnic nature of hacker community this would be really significant!

Please do it , It takes hardly 10 minutes!
Related links from Lifehacker (these are great)

Cable Management:

http://lifehacker.com/search/cable%20management/

Clutter:

http://lifehacker.com/tag/cluttercleanout/

EDIT:

http://lifehacker.com/search/desk/
They are press (for some values of "press", at least). They should not take item 3 in consideration. Having your secrets leaked is a risk Apple has factored in their processes.
Excellent article. Hits the right note.
I wonder what is the ratio of intro/extroverts among programmers. Something like 90/10 I guess.
Stay at Home Introverts' Rights Movement, SHIRM.
"Too much money is a greater problem than too little"
Test: How do you go about implementing those transparent backgrounds in IE6.

If you choose the correct method, I may contact you.
The best kind of move is when you can keep your old apartment for a while.

You just relocate stuff on a when-needed basis and eventually the old apartment is full of crap you haven't missed once.

Figuring out what to keep and what to give away is an easy problem at that point.
Granted, this is on a massive scale that I have a hard time even imagining...but Paul Stamets has shown phenomenal results using oyster mushrooms to do mycoremediation.
Go already works in NaCl
Still, I remain skeptic of the concept. I think it is not even very good to have too much warmth while sleeping? If the blanket is waterproof, what about sweat - can it evaporate?

And what about the body regulating it's own temperature? It seems better equipped for that than an external device.

Also the thought of sleeping with electrical wires leading into my bed makes me uneasy.

To be honest I haven't really considered the pros and cons, though. I am biased.

If it is too cold for going to bed, how about a hot-water bad or cherry pit pillow?
"Sen no Rikyu" ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098287/ )
She also mentions that not making your bed could make you feel more happy, because it is resistance against your parents rules.
I'd call that a cacophonism, though, unless you truly prefer that they get hit by a bus.
Growing Facebook Privacy Concerns
These designs took you a week? Are these saved from photoshop or screenshots of actual html and css layouts?
If browser compatibility implementation is your only criteria for hiring designers, thats a warning sign for good designers to stay away.
How Alan Turing's Pilot ACE changed computing
http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Near/far_thinking

Programming puts you in near mode. Socializing requires far mode. When you talk to strangers, a short adrenaline boost acts as a "clutch" to allow you to switch fully into far mode (you introduce yourself from the start, talk about general ideas and things you did in the distant past/hope to do in the distant future, etc.) When you talk to your girlfriend, however, the comfort creates inertia you have to overcome to switch into far mode. A specific, sharable accomplishment is a bridge, halfway between near and far.
Honestly, just buy a theme from http://themeforest.net for $20 bucks and edit it.

The designs are pretty much on par, if not better (simply because there's more to look through) than what is being displayed in this post.

I am not bashing on OP's work, just trying to be (economically) helpful.

I do know design is important. When one of my projects takes off, I'll be the first one to invest $5k on a custom designed UI from an awesome designer. Till then ...
For books, get a Kindle. I did that 2 weeks ago. Since then I have sold or given away most of my books. It took 1 more thing away.
This old chestnut. You are perhaps inexperienced in this area (or have had terrible luck in the past)

At my company we do not employ designers (we call them front end developers) who can not code css / javascript and design. Every person who works on a site, must have an in depth understanding of exactly these things. How can you design a site if you have no idea how its going to go together ?

Thats why our designs are pretty good.

There, who needs luck.
I'm roughly at the same point. Ultimately for me I need to decide if, on a deep level, having these things are worth more then maintaining these things.

I found that the answer was deciding what is the simplest version of my life that reflects goals, dreams, values and makes me happy, and then to live out those facets with a simple mindset.
How many customers are we talking?

If you get 10 customers a day, you treat each one like they're a duke; if 100 a day, each one is made to feel like a person. 1000 customers per day are a vague blur, an avalanche of humanity of whom only occasional glimpses are clear, 10,000 customers a day is statistics, and 10 Million per day is an abstraction.

Different businesses deal with different customers and different customer volumes change the shape and functionality of the organizations that serve them.

The question for you is, at what scale does a business built on somewhat random customer service experiences work?
He's the technomadness guy, here's his recent stuff: http://microship.com/
Didn't we all think that ActiveX was a bad idea? Why is Google reinventing it?
Someone over on Reddit claims that the source they have released does not match the binaries they ship:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/c46i2/hey_reddit_pl...
What's the benefit of using CACert when browsers don't include those?

https://cacert.org gives a big fat warning in chrome.
HTML/CSS is easy, any designer can pick that up in a year.

There are far more important skills that a designer should have over understanding browser quirks. Those are the questions that good designers look for in clients.

For ex. Do you have examples of sites successfully deploy that customers are interacting with on a daily basis? Do they believe in a/b testing + iterating or doing huge lengthy "expert" driven projects? What are your favourite sites designed by other people?
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Encryption software, Encryption utility, secure Encryption tool
I'm a birds nest man myself. My needs are constantly changing so I just leave them in a giant tangle on my desk. It may not be aesthetically pleasing but its extraordinarily functional-I can grab any cable at any time, and making room for another project is as simple as shoving the pile of cords into a denser pile.
One thing for me I guess would be phone calls, pretty much don't like phone calls unless it's from a small select group of people or is something that would take many messages to resolve. Which kind of puts me at odds with those who like to call no matter what over messaging.

It's just those formalities of phone call that put me off, unless your close to a person focusing just on the question you have can come off as rude.
This article gave me the wrong impression that introverts are geniuses.

They are not, I know, I'm an introvert.

Of course a lot a people here are going to say that this article rocks, because I guess many people on HN are introverts.

I see no proof, no figure, no statistics on this article, at first I thought it was some blog post but it seems to be a real article in an actual newspaper. That's a shame.
I'll publish my shootout soon, and it will include Rubinius 1.0.
The West Wing. It's not a movie but it has the same motivational impact on me now that Star Trek had on me when I was a kid.
This last suggestion is illegal. Lawyers generally counsel to not say much in email because email is subject to discovery in legal proceedings. Many laws also require retention policies that are subject to audit, which makes shredding problematic.
Smokey and the bandit
A Beautiful Mind
They are building up the hype nicely, but will ordinary people be interested in this or just keep using Facebook?
WP Stats on Android
Trouble is, "good design" is pretty hard to quantify. It's much much harder to quantify than things like LOC, or whether this milestone or that was reached.

Another difference is that a basketball game has a definite, qualitative outcome. That, at least, can be measured. With software development you don't even have that luxury.
Any feedback welcome and very desired!
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what i'm trying to say is Gizmodo could have been humble and got more in return from Steve Jobs ...
5 Movie Videos that Breach the Monotony of TV
A friend of mine gave up drugs completely after watching "Requiem for a Dream"
The same argument could have been made about people buying Windows in the 90's. If everyone was so pissed about what MS did to Netscape they could have simply chosen another OS, but they didn't. Consumers don't realize the issues at hand, they just want a cool device, just like they wanted an OS that worked and couldn't care less about who got screwed along the way.
My friend is the author of JNext library (http://jnext.org/) which is the same concept implemented for all major browsers.

When he got an email from Mountain View which offered him a Job and working on a similar project it was clear Google is pushing hard into this direction.
Pirates of Silicon Valley, Iron Man, and I, Robot (I'm a robotocist).
No, more importantly are the users who don't have a clue how privacy works on FB or even why privacy matters at all. Diligent users like you who review their privacy settings a half-dozen times a year are in the vast minority.
Whats with the spammy ads on the blog?

Do you get enough traffic for that to make money? I closed the site as soon as I saw that.

Edit: I understand it's adsense, I was questioning why put them on a blog, not what links the ad contains.
Cool. Haven't tried the app yet, but I was looking for something like this. Browser interface is really cumbersome, so any alternative interface would be an improvement.
If you stand in the street and tell your secrets to a close friend standing on the other side using a megaphone, don't be upset if someone records it. Sending anything private over unencrypted wireless networks is no different.

If Google was using the data, I might have a bit of an issue with it, but they're not. They recorded it by accident and they're going to delete it. There's really nothing to see here.
Do you mean adsense ads...?
According to one of my profs, something like 80% of programmers are INTJ in the Meyer's Briggs scheme... the I stands for introvert. I don't know what the other 20% looks like but there are probably a lot of I types.
Thanks! Hope you will try and like it :) I am already addicted to my own app as i check stats a few times a day ;)
I've had the exact same problem with payments not going through, which has become rather frustrating.
I'm sorry but if you don't have a clue about professional basketball you really can 't appreciate this article. Not every piece of writing/reporting can be framed in a "gee-wiz" manor. Go do your "more important" things and we'll all enjoy the article.
It's not X, but how you Y
Agreed. Either get busy livin', or get busy dyin
I love how this article is 7 years old and it keeps getting reposed time & again. Classic stuff.
If I feel extra contact with someone is inevitable, I usually try to request that the person email me some helpful info that I need. If they say they'll "just call," I point out that [list of people] might find it useful, and joke that I can't forward them a phone conversation we've had. Some people still insist on calling, and I let them.
I think he have not much control over what adsense display to you...