skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am personally obsessed with lists, rankings and statistics in general so I do not know how universal my desires are... but:

Try making a weighted list of your dearest possessions. In as much depth as possible to its dearest extent. Not the "true wealth" things such as love, family, friends et cetera, but instead your physical objects like laptop or favorite books.

I found that the objects low on the list I didn't care so much about and did not use too often. It was easy to get rid of them then. Putting on paper what my unconscious already valued made this process much more comprehensible and satisfactory to me.

I find that the more I eliminate in excess the more I can love the things that I do care about. Maybe that is true for you as well.
pacman stuff aside, there isn't much specific to Arch Linux in there. Might be useful for some, though.
yes, but if having stuff is what works for you or you want to make sure responsibilities are attended to even if you're not around, you probably need insurance.
Indeed. The sheer dumbitude of this astounds me. The lens that Gizmodo must have been viewing this whole event has to have been so incredibly bizarre. It makes you wonder how much you can trust anything else being emitted from their little bubble of unreality.
Engineers vs Philosophers
Guess I need to start brushing up on C/C++ now
Meilingmizuki
Experimental Security Analysis of a Modern Automobile [pdf]
I moved to Europe for a two year post-doc with nothing but a suitcase. I left absolutely everything behind --- people included. I learned things about myself and the world that I could never have imagined.

That said, I should have at least brought a damned book.
First, let me say that I really like your design.

Having said that, when I read "badass developer and designer" and then when I see your design, the first thing that comes to my mind is: "He/she must be really expensive". People here most likely are bootstrappers just like you.

By no means I'm saying your services should be cheaper. My point is that you should offer some kind of service or product that is more targeted to HN readers.
Short excerpt:

Even at speeds of up to 40 MPH on the runway, the attack packets had their intended effect, whether it was honking the horn, killing the engine, preventing the car from restarting, or blasting the heat. Most dramatic were the effects of Device Control packets to the Electronic Brake Control Module (EBCM) — the full effect of which we had previously not been able to observe. In particular, we were able to release the brakes and actually prevent our driver from braking; no amount of pressure on the brake pedal was able to activate the brakes. Even though we expected this effect, reversed it quickly, and had a safety mechanism in place, it was still a frightening experience for our driver. With another packet, we were able to instantaneously lock the brakes unevenly; this could have been dangerous at higher speeds.
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Caring for Your Introvert (2003)
Ah, I'm sorry I made that impression =/
I'm charging 30-40 an hour right now(a lot of designers charge $70 an hour) since I know that HN is filled with people bootstrapping their company.

That being said, I'm willing to adjust the price depending on the situation.
Ask HN: Movies that motivate you?
The title says it all. I finally watched Boiler Room and it motivated me in a weird way; specially the group interview scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvICN8DNMpY
I've done the same, except in one of these

http://xtbuy.com/image/album/Toyota+MR2/Toyota-MR2-SW11-Mk1-...

The trunk is the size of a bag of golf clubs.

It is a fantastic feeling. For me it's a sense of freedom, knowing I can cut loose and move at any time, anywhere.
The first you want to do is add your email to your profile.
"but the approach implies that gravity is nothing more than the result of a system maximising its entropy, or disorder.
...

Smolin, a long term proponent of loop quantum gravity (LQG), believes that Verlinde’s work is not only compatible with LQG, it could even help to explain how familiar Newtonian gravity might emerge in this picture. According to LQG, spacetime isn’t the smooth fabric that Einstein envisioned; rather, if you zoom down to scales of 10^-33 cm, the fabric turns out to be woven from quantum threads. The key point for Smolin is that the holographic principle is also valid in this framework, allowing him to apply a version of Verlinde’s argument to demonstrate directly for the first time that loop quantum gravity has a limit that yields Newtonian gravity."
It's difficult to simplify past a certain point. I want to reduce more, but I'm at the point where I have:

1: Some clothes

2: Tools

3: Key things (laptop, vehicle, phone)

4: Books

5: Food and some dishes

I know tools and books are the next in line, but I value books highly and tools just as much. I haven't got a tool I don't absolutely require at least occasionally.
I agree with all the points raised in the article, but I couldn't help thinking that the level of investment suggested is a no-brainer for most technical types. Of course you should invest in your personnel! This is a missed opportunity for every firm that works on a "pump and dump" model.
We've come oddly full circle over the course of the industrial revolution. Once upon a time no human owned more than they (or their mule/ox/wife) could carry, as by necessity we were nomadic. Agriculture caused us to settle, industrialisation brought us to cities, and with a few notable exceptions, all our lifestyles adapted to suit 'settledness'. Now, as we're moving into the post-industrial age, a return to mobility seems to make more sense, and with it new attitudes and beliefs about property.

Steve Roberts ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDaz8vaKzdQ ) is a bit of a hero of mine and I think the first person to really figure out the physical implications of internetworking for the knowledge worker. Steve took his first voyage a few years before I was born, but in that short time we've seen unbelievable changes in society, the economy and of course technology.

I struggle to think of somebody I know personally who couldn't do their job from anywhere in the world, if only they had the courage to demand it. The whole economy seems to be disappearing into the ether and the workforce seems to be slowly following, albeit largely via Bangalore and Beijing. Perhaps most extraordinary is the technological change. I recently built a modern version of Steve's Winnebiko, but I quickly realised that it was a largely pointless task - twenty-odd years of miniaturisation and a whole heap of bandwidth have shrunk almost all of his 125kg trailer rig into an ordinary smartphone. I still get a little thrill every morning at the marvel of technology that lives in my left pocket. Every record, every book, every photograph, a telephone, a camera, a television and much more besides in what previous generations might have described as "something no bigger than a pack of cigarettes".

It is so easy to forget that we already live in the future.
> Cricket is a lot like that, actually.

Including the often very dicey performance metrics. My favourite example is batting average(total runs/total dismissals), which is skewed in favour of lower-order batsmen, who are more likely to record not-out scores.

I'm more interested in their median score (or better yet, median partnership).
Freedom in the cloud
"... Maybe when you create an account, it takes you to "here are the 5 main norms" page and then you can start posting? ..."

HN user @epi0Bauqu (Gabriel Weinberg) also has just the thing - a list of quality topics for all new users to read ~ http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive
Double Sense Photos
Awesome collection
Whoops! Thought I had it on, my bad.

I've updated my profile with my email(hajrice@gmail.com). I'll send you an email right now. :)
Link to your post?
Yes, it's obvious they simply saved all the unencrypted packets they were able to get. If your your e-mail server didn't have encrypted communication, they saved your mails and your passwords.
And yes, anybody else could have done that with your unsecured WiFi packets. The difference here is the large scale of collection and the power of the collector.
The chance for misuse would be mostly by having it in wrong hands, but there's already immense amount of data on Google that would be of the same nature. If you use them you better trust them.
My much bigger worries are that people don't see problem in sites like Facebook asking the passwords of your e-mail accounts to "connect you with your friends." And people do this gladly!
Horowitz referring to the example PDF he links to -- which internally contains Netscape branding and a 'Summer 1996' date. The blog post is all new.
Five Sources for Early Stage Funding
AmpliTube iRig- A Portable Effects Pedal
In this case it should be the PA-DSS. From the PCI page: 'Payment applications that are sold, distributed or licensed to third parties are subject to the PA-DSS requirements.'
Gta Sanandreas Cheat Codes (Grand Theft Auto Sanandreas)
How to generate a ul li tree without recursive using python or other language ?
tree:

class tree:
def __init__(self, name='a', childs=[]):
self.name = name
self.childs = childs

output:

<ul>
<li>
Introduction
<ul>
<li>Sub Intro</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Module 1</li>

</ul>
You kids these days with your unbridled wonder. Back in my day the future had flying cars!
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Thanks bro!

You recognized my Singaporean accent eh? :D
I guess he means this:

http://blog.steveklabnik.com/where-there-is-no-property-ther...

Also available via http://flavors.me/steveklabnik#dd8/feed
Shawshank Redemption. Never give up.
Word v Open Office.

I think it's been 2 or 3 times that I didn't have Word installed. And it's been the same dance each time: Look up prices for Word. Run to download Open Office. Spend about an hour doing something that would take 15 minutes in Word, despite the fact that each has the same menu and supposedly most of the same features. Go back to looking up prices on Word. Spend about an hour and a half playing other open-source word processors. Going back to looking up prices on Word. Getting Word and uninstalling Open Office and all the other useless time leeches I've downloaded, thinking that I'll never, ever do that to myself again.
Sort of off topic, but:

What technologies would I have to learn to design and create sites that look this good, and use databases/querying facilities?

I continue to see sites like these, but think it's a lot more than the HTML I barely even know :)

Thanks (for reading, at least, even if you don't respond)
For designing, I use Photoshop to create a feel of the site, then I render the CSS and XHTML.

For programming, I use Ruby on Rails(check out their website) and PHP. PHP is very easy to pick up, the learning curve is lower but in my opinion Rails is the way to go.
Wait, he missed a step. Since when was MS Office the same as OOXML?
More info: http://www.aldha.org/larry05.htm
Say a prayer for the guy. He just got in a car accident. He's okay, but says his neck hurts....

http://twitter.com/jeff/status/13961812597
Your work looks great, I'd love to have you help me out. I don't mind seeing these types of posts on HN, as long as they have the skill to back them up.

Rock on.
It seems that people have no problem with lock-in if it means convenient solutions or as long as it stays convenient.
Damn! All this time I've been charging $20/hr, and I thought/felt I was overcharging. Where are you located? I'm sure cost of living is a factor. I live in central California and $20 has been okay, but I might reconsider my per hour rate. Nonetheless, nice designs. :)

EDIT: gansonproperties.com (in progress)
hubblet.com (my pet project)
watchdoit.com

I have more, if interested just shoot me an email.
I love that man! I feel pumped :D I'm emailing you right now!
I don't know why moot didn't chase anon out of town and turn 4chan into a halfway legit community

Some month ago he had a talk at TED on the importance of anonimity on the internet.

http://arstechnica.com/staff/palatine/2010/02/4chans-moot-ta...
The Pursuit of Happyness Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xcZTtlGweQ
You've just given me an awesome idea for a startup.
Any chance a non-YC company can attend?
I'm going to presume that they know what they're doing rather than pretending I know anything at all about operating a 30 year old interplanetary spacecraft.

What I would guess is that it's a bit tricky to "just diff" an entire live memory dump (voyager doesn't have a hard drive, just ram and a no longer used tape drive), they basically need to debug the whole thing and figure out exactly what code lives where in memory, down to every last bit. I imagine this might be a non-trivial task.
I was disgusted with my experience with 1and1.com.

Payments to them were not going through, despite me repeatedly trying and contacting them about this. They ended up getting a collection agency to handle the money (assuming that I was refusing to pay, not unable to. Clearly their admin sucks) and I paid double what I should have once debt collection fees were factored in.
From the 1996 PDF:

"Good product managers send their status reports in on time every week, because they are disciplined. Bad product managers forget to send in their status
reports on time, because they don't value discipline."

I can't help reading 'TSR Reports' there.
I don't like how advances in theoretical physics are now being sold directly to the public. First E8 ("surfer dude stuns physicists"), and now this.
Even if they did, it might prove challenging to feed it exactly the same input as Voyager 2 itself in order to ensure it's in the same state.
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The Wifi channel was changing 5 times per second. The microscopic fragments they got weren't usable. The tiny possibility that you were sending sensitive data, multiplied times the tiny possibility that it wasn't SSL, multiplied times the very small possibility that it was grabbing enough information to get a full frame, let alone a handshake seems very unlikely.

If Google had this massive mountain of my personal traffic lying around, I think they'd have a hard time "accidentally" stockpiling all of it.

I was mostly mocking the word choice anyway. "Web Usage". The worst allegation is that they logged actual packets or traffic, which I still find unlikely. I did find it interesting that that particular part of the detail was left out of Google's otherwise very informative blog post about this incident.
Because your wife might just make you cook for her?

(I love how both your comment and my retort are obviously sexist. There's gotta be some paradox about this.)
I think that people seem to be turning away from science and the scientific mindset, and the more that the scientific community engages with the public, the better.

Who (or what) would you suggest as an intermediary between the public and the scientists?

I believe that this is exactly what the web is for.
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Agreed. One that has bulleted, clearly defined bright lines is better for user peace of mind and, you know, for the main reason Privacy Policies are written: legal liabilities.

More imporantly, I'm not interested in just "trusting them or not trusting them". I'd rather trust a privacy policy. Although Facebook has taught us that changing them silently, creating new privacy settings and defaulting them to open, and opting people into Instant Personalization and just HANDING OUT their information is... well, one way to do it.
Do you know if Google does this with products other than AdSense?

I guess for search ads a user's intent is more explicit, but it's probably still a useful signal.

Analytics in particular seems like it could provide a lot of data to them. I hope they're not doing that.
On a side note: Am I the only one who struggles reading these articles made of one-sentence-paragraphs? I completely lose the flow and the structure of the argumentation (Is there any?).
Nothing beats the feeling of a good "format c:"
So, I need to learn HTML/XHTML/CSS/PHP/RoR ? :/
I am also enjoying the irony of SM writing an article on minimalist design, when their site is the complete opposite.
"Imagine you would not see this ad! That's right, the iPad does not shows content like this."

I am flash-free for a year now and don't regret it the slightest.
Haha, I did the same thing and on a Honda Civic too. Charlotte to Chicago. The feeling of mobility and adventure and an open future was fantastic. By the next time, I'm hoping to cut my "stuff" down to just a carry-on and a laptop bag.
What is a Computer Athlete?
Unfortunately, most people are either not aware of, or simply take no steps to avoid, the painful problems that await them. It is akin to a man who jumps off a 40-story building and, as he passes the 10th floor, says, “I’m doing fine. I haven’t hit the ground yet!”
Well what do YOU design?
post some samples
and feel free to contact us too info-at-orioneweb-dot-it
How long did it take you to create these pages?
"From what we see, Google is planning on enabling additional compilers and plans to support LLVM in time."

They haven't done it yet.
Same here. I'm 31 and can hear that sound as well.
Your design looks like a 37signals clone.
Mazmoz
Sure, but the point I'm trying to make is that Wayne Seguin was using the word "interpreter" colloquially to refer to the whole program, in effect saying that the whole code base is C++.
300 - just something so aggressive about that movie. It's like cinematic Sun Tzu or something...
The "Tin" open source SFNT C++ library
The problem isn't lock-in, it's lock-out. Closed source desktop software and file formats can lock you in as tight as any web app, but at least they don't spontaneously change or disappear entirely.

In either cases, the issue comes down to data portability. If you can get at your data, in a reasonably convenient format, you're not locked in. This can and should be provided in any application model and I am relieved, as of late, to see awareness of this spreading fast.
In Germany at least there are lot's of options. I am currently on a contract with no recurring fees that can be canceled at any time. Prices for telephony and data connections are cheaper than most other contracts, too (so they don't make up for the lack of recurring fees with higher rates).
I think the idea is to find a way to have access to those items (that you need only occasionally) when you need them. Something like zipcar (for those who need vehicular transport only for weekend groceries for example). IMO on-demand is the way to go for nearly everything.

Also, http://unclutterer.com/2010/05/11/evicting-justin-case/
Bruce Sterling wrote about simplifying possessions a couple years ago on signaling the end of Viridian Design.

Basically useful, sentimental and beautiful things make the cut. Everything else goes.

His unique recommendation was to photograph and meticulously document everything you got rid of and generate a database of your former possessions. Quite useful if you find yourself missing it in the future, and a pretty cool personal history project to boot!

The essay is on the main page: http://www.viridiandesign.org/
Add a web page / some examples to your bio
"The future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed." - William Gibson
JavaScript + Go/NaCl seems like a pretty sweet stack
Ah yes, the venerable "come on It's Apple" defense.

If this ever goes to trial the lawyers will demand a change of venue out of the bay area, they'll never get a fair shake with the serious infestation of Apple fanboys around here.
Is selling a house in this market a good idea? The important thing is to not let your possessions tie you down. If you own it outright, maybe you can just rent your place out while you check to see if that sort of a life is for you or not?
Why do these businesses not charge for missed appointments?
Thanks! I'll be sure to check it out.
It depends on what "engaging with the public" means. I think what the parent to your reply was driving at was that there are a lot of pop-articles that are constantly trying to have the most far-out, crazy idea about our universe. Often the articles aren't "This is what happened" but instead have a form like, "This weird thing might be true but we aren't even close to knowing for sure, yet." They are going for the "Whoa!" reaction. One of the comments a user left on the article's page used the phrase "theoretical one-upmanship," which I think kinda fits.

In short, I contest that these articles, though this one is WAY better than most since it is not written for the public at large, aren't actually engaging the public in science.

(I feel like your username is actually really relevant too, but I can't quite put my finger on the reason. I hope that my post is cromulent enough to embiggen our discourse on the subject, though.)
I used to date this girl who would tell me I was too serious... It was hard because I didn't have the words at the time to explain myself... Now I do.

Just... Thank you for sharing this.
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appengine runs jruby, that is good enough :)
Really nice design work!

For someone like me who hasn't had much experience with this kind of design work, could you (or someone) give me a ballpark feel for the length of time needed to implement, say the examples that you posted?
How did you estimate the market for this product by the way?
Only /b/ is impossible to monetize, the other boards are interest specific and so I'm sure there are companies who would want to advertise to those market segments who like video games (/v/), fitness and exercises (/fit/), hunting and firearms (/k/), etc... 4chan actually has several partners already like porn sites and J-list.
Let's hope this can be an open standard, otherwise Steve don't like it.

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/

..HTML5, the new web standard that has been adopted by Apple, Google and many others, lets web developers create advanced graphics, typography, animations and transitions without relying on third party browser plug-ins (like Flash). HTML5 is completely open and controlled by a standards committee, of which Apple is a member....
Being more straightforward about Internet privacy
I'm sad to find this out. One thing I know is cycling is dangerous! I road my bicycle 10,000 miles around the perimeter US and loved it but everyday on the trip I would hope that I would not get hit by a car. Had a few close call on the ride, but I made it home safe.

Here is a video of my ride:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8Uht3DnbOQ
They neither claim to have a minimalist website nor do they claim that being minimalist is always right.
No, I'm on the East coast. I have friends that live out there though, and I love Montana and try to get out there every chance I get. It's one of the last best places in the US!
I tried clicking your bookmarklet when logged into your site (http://www.reclaimprivacy.org)-- that is to say, I ignored your directions on purpose, just to see what would happen. It wedged up my firefox and I had to kill it off.

So, maybe some error checking there?
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100329 Firefox/3.6

When logged into facebook, it worked fine.
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I thank you, and the Internets thank you.
Living in a cooperative - or at least taking inspiration from them - helps a lot with this problem in my experience. When you don't need, lend. When you need - borrow.
Mobility also requires 'the cloud' - that cloud is a society you are well connected to. Hence cooperative living.
But would anyone show up at the "Introverts' Rights movement" ?

Or would we just stay home? (lol!)