skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw you mention http://whichtestwon.com on a different interview you did. I spent literally the whole day going through it and picking it apart. I know you frequent HN, BoS, and SeoMOZ. Do you have any other websites you'd like to share?
Thank you, this may work better: http://books.google.com/books?id=DeYw_wMlwqoC (page 25, etc.)

(for some reason, my use of your link only gets something about limits.)

The bit about Ford making watches but not going into it is curious - two dial ones, to boot ...
"... So whenever I use a free service, they are basically entitled to do whatever they want? What kind of logic is that? ..."

Share cropper mentality.

As much as I agree to with your sentiment by not owning the server you post on this is what happens. Eben Moglin has delivered a great speech on the lack of "Freedom in the Cloud" ~ http://www.meetup.com/ny-tech/messages/boards/thread/8486342... The stand out quote:

"servers have gained freedom & you have not. welcome to the cloud!" - eben moglin ~ http://twitter.com/noneck/status/8700276388
Quoting the article...

"I try to remain calm as a vision of dangerous flying dildos passes through my mind."
There was a story similar to this on Freakonomics and they had the same result - "Honesty is inversely proportional to income".
Not so sure about this; I have WiMax at home, and it's significantly cheaper than DSL or cable.
Minimalist version of Google Reader
Make sure when you use the bookmarklet to have a folder open in reader and not the home page of google reader.
So I'm supposed to believe that Apple was prepared to force all its developers to do two complete rewrites (os 9 -> os x, carbon -> cocoa) and port to a new ISA and break compatibilities across every one of its 10.x releases but they're just too polite to tell a bunch of Flash developers to get stuffed if their Flash app breaks in the next iPhone release. Remember, these will, by definition, be apps of inferior quality since they're not Obj-C so it's even less plausible that Apple will worry about breaking them, if you take them at their word.

Ask any developer of audio units, for example, how worried Apple is about forcing them to rewrite code every time there's a new Logic release.
At which point Google gets to find out what patents VP8 infringes.

Ballsy move.
He is implying it could be compatible: "Flash’s cross-compiler, we know, is explicitly ruled out by the new Section 3.3.1. Where MonoTouch stands, however, is not yet clear."

Or isn't he?

How is Flash explicitly ruled out and C# is not?
Overall, I think you handled this well, but...

> Our goal is to be 100% transparent with everything we do at Posterous, especially when it affects your blog and content.

I'm sure users will be forgiving, but your credibility may be blown (re: transparency) by not announcing something like this. Why is it so trendy to be 'transparent'? Why claim to adhere to principles that you clearly didn't follow?

(Sorry to nitpick! <3)
How could the app store not be profitable? They are getting at least 30 cents of every dollar at almost zero marginal cost.
Squanderville vs Thriftville - More relevant now ?
Producing Wrong Data Without Doing Anything Obviously Wrong
Exactly. This whole video-codec business is a nice bit of deflection on Jobs's part.
The two things hard in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things.
I would very much like a very simple, basic, tail recursion to be available in Java. Not tail call elimination in the same way as is specified by Scheme. It doesn't even require the a JVM change, it can be done by the compiler: Scala does this. You could use an annotation (@Tailrecursive) to verify that it happens (or error out).

C does this with "-O2" (factorial is a bad example, unfortunately as there are algorithms that are much more naturally defined in terms of tail recursion):

long factorial_helper(int n, int acc)
{
if (n==1)
return acc;

return factorial_helper(n - 1, n * acc);
}

becomes:

factorial_helper:
.LFB16:
jmp .L8
.p2align 4,,7
.L6:
imull %edi, %esi
subl $1, %edi
.L8:
cmpl $1, %edi
jne .L6
movslq %esi,%rax
ret

Looks very similar to what my own assembly would look like. Now with -O4 the assembly becomes completely unrecognizable (which is why higher level languages may be faster than lower level ones).

Continuations would be another improvement possible at language rather than VM level, with same effect (allowing efficient and elegant implementation of some algorithms).
Of course. Reality is a bitch.
You're probably thinking SEOBook (where I am a moderator), although SEOMoz's blog is great and responsible for about half of my "book learning" on SEO. (SEOBook is the other half.)

Most of the HN crowd probably already knows about most stuff I read, considering y'all introduce me to so much of it. Nothing really jumps out aside from those sites. Besides, at the end of the day I actually have to do stuff rather than just reading and commenting about it. :)

Oh, one thing: Slideshare. If you get interested in any sort of technical topic, and you don't have infinite budget to attend conferences where people drop their secrets about it, go to Slideshare and view the slides instead. I've learned so much there is is incredible: everything the YSlow guys have said about front-end performance is solid gold, the recent Startup Lessons Learned conference was a veritable bonanza of good information (expect me to steal more ideas from it), etc etc etc.
Ummm, what magic set of legislative rules would allow this bill to get a single up or down, no amendments, vote?

There's also the inconvenient fact that no Congress can tie the hands of a future Congress.

The only way to accomplish this in our system would be to get a single amendment to the Constitution that would simultaneously repeal the 16th Amendment and replace it with the FairTax, and then get 3/4ths of the states to ratify it.
Don't think so, it was clearly marked with price list and everything.

I imagine it's more along the lines of "I'll pay them all by the end of the week/month", and then they forgot about it. Or perhaps sales grabbed a bunch to hand out to potential customers, assuming that the company would reimburse any losses.

Either way I don't think the high-income earners were deliberately cheating more than average.

But I think it is a point that the price of a candy bar looks like smaller and smaller change the more you earn, perhaps to the point were it seems irrelevant.
I have to admit to not having read the article, but I would be interested to see how many upvotes an article of the same flavor about male orgasms would get.
It reminds me a lot of Google Reader Play (http://www.google.com/reader/play/)

I agree with the comment saying that the star icon should be replaced with a thumbs up.

It's not beautiful ;
Jason Calacanis's Thoughts on the Stolen iPhone Prototype
jeresig kicks ass :)
If this becomes big enough of a revenue model for enough companies, the big affiliate payors will change their TOS and refuse to pay third-party hosters. They're trying to pay the people who promote their content directly.
Not quite sure why you were down-voted; you make a perfectly reasonable point.
Unless you establish a "business", however that's defined by the Congress and IRS (Schedule C at a minimum? It's been too long since I filed one.), and it pays for the computer, no.
I ran into him once in an elevator and said I really dig his work. I think he was a bit surprised that someone recognized him in public. Pretty humble fella. Definitely kicks ass.
According to the article, a portion of his research focuses on lessening pain. The patenting of the peptide would probably be for pain-reduction application (big money in pain meds), rather than creating an orgasm pill.
If it isn't profitable they are doing something horribly wrong.
Someone definitely cares about what you highlight in the Communist Manifesto, if you are arrested for a crime. Why give the authorities fodder to build their case?
I like 'bashing' IE like the next guy, but IMHO time scales of Far Past/Past/Present/... tags are different per browser...
This might not be a test of "honesty", but simply a test of the relative value of money.

The price of a candy bar is more significant to a low-income worker than it is to a high-income worker, and thus the weight on the conscience when "stealing" one necessarily has different impact.

If something doesn't seem valuable, it feels "less wrong" to take it.

If the items placed in the high-income workplaces had proportionately higher value, would the "honesty" increase?
Re: 4) Links are changed if you copy them. I went to the linked article, right-clicked the "Google" link and clicked "Copy URL". I went to gedit and pasted this:

http://api.viglink.com/api/click?key=8eb8c964d427e97a1567cec6532655f0&v=1&libId=1272676171565&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fshamrin.posterous.com%2Fposterous-silently-changes-all-external-links&out=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&txt=Google&title=Posterous%20silently%20changes%20all%20external%20links%20on%20users'%20posts%20-%20Alexey%20Shamrin&format=go

This is in Chrome under linux. no extensions or adblockers running.

If there's a way for copied URLs to remain unchanged, I would have no problem with the viglink stuff.
If he publishes and doesn't file a patent, no one can.
You need sleep or hibernate. It'll be faster than any sort of bootup. My laptop wakes up from sleep in less than a second.
Linode has a datacentre in London nowadays.
"Founders believe in a vision; maximizing their personal wealth is a side-effect, not a primary purpose. Being an entrepreneur is not a good way to make money, even though some people strike it rich."

I think there is something wrong with that statement. Being an entrepreneur is not a certain way to make money, but a feasible way to become rich.
Getting all the applications that work with any given middleware piece is easier than getting all applications working, which each use their own idiosyncratic home-baked middle layers. These common bits of middleware reduce the number of moving parts.

That Apple needs to work hard to keep applications working - well, that's what it's like when you're a popular platform vendor. Ask MS how hard they had to work to get DOS and Win 3.1 apps running on Windows 95. That's the way the game is played when you're playing in the major league.
A good metric for measuring shell script infestation of the boot process is the PID number of the first process you can start after the system is fully booted up. Boot up, log in, open a terminal, and type echo $$. Try that on your Linux system, and then compare the result with MacOS! (Hint, it's something like this: Linux PID 1823; MacOS PID 154, measured on test systems we own.)
Let me ask you guys something: would you be upset if HN did this?
He said it's not clear, that it's a different shade of grey.

But it's not. It's clear as day, it's black and white: MonoTouch is not compliant with 3.3.1 in so far as MonoTouch is used with a language that is not C, C++ or Objective C.
Einstein's Annus Mirabilis Papers
Unfortunately, it's kind of a deal-breaker that each Mac OS X guest burns 100% CPU all the time. This is mentioned in the new user guide as something which will be fixed in a future release.
From the Posterous Terms of Service:

"You shall retain all of your ownership rights in your User Submissions; however, by submitting material to Posterous you grant Posterous the irrevocable, fully transferable rights to use, reproduce, distribute, modify, transmit, prepare derivative works of, display and produce the material in connection with Posterous and Posterous's business, but solely in accordance with these Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy." (emphasis mine)

I don't know, legally, whether they are allowed to do whatever they want. But it doesn't appear that they broke their terms of service, what more do you want?
Congratulations to John. He has definitely made a huge impact on the web. I hated Javascript before jQuery came along. Now it's probably my favorite language to work with, and a big part of that is because of jQuery!
Don't try and click the link as I tried out of curiosity. It simply submits the bookmarklet page to HN.
How can I remove a phone number from DirtyPhoneBook?
Is there a way to remove a phone number from http://www.dirtyphonebook.com

I'd think there should be a way?
Good find - thanks!
It was about a bagel-schlepper:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/06/magazine/what-the-bagel-ma...
Which superhero is your phone?
Ŕohan Đey » Reply from Steve Jobs About Fake and Real Apple Products Sold Online
"... The quality of the linked content is what matters, not whether the submitter took the extra 30 seconds to copy and paste the title. ..."

But @jknupp has a point. Simple tools in the hands of the responsible if fine. It only takes one or two irresponsible users.
but they're just too polite to tell a bunch of Flash developers to get stuffed if their Flash app breaks in the next iPhone release.

They don't give a damn about most developers: what they don't want is a whole bunch of pissed-off customers whose games (and other apps) broke when they upgraded to iPhone OS 5.0, because Adobe didn't get around to it.
I've often wondered if there wasn't some way to make it illegal to create riders on bills. I realize we're talking about lawyers, but not even a lawyer could realistically claim that this 1099 crap has anything to do with health care. It should automatically be thrown out, and the person responsible for slipping it in should be automatically barred from penning legislation.
I think this is less an honesty thing and more a usability thing. People are as hidebound and pattern driven in real life as they are on their computers, right? When you're poor, people don't give you free food. When you're rich, you get free food all the time.

If you're a Wall Street banker, you could probably never pay for a meal in a week without even trying to. It is always "Thanks for coming to our conference: lunch is being served, just walk over to a table", "Don't worry Bob, the firm has got this dinner.", "Before our meeting, please help yourself to coffee and snacks.", etc etc. Social food freebies extend pretty far down into the upper middle class, too: if I walk into any glasses shop in town and ask them to rebend my frames for me, they'll bring me a coffee and cookies so I don't get bored while waiting for my free repair to complete.

So when you see a basket of donuts at the office, you assume it is like every other basket: free. The jar next to it with the sign you didn't read because no one reads anything? Tip jar, obviously, like it was the last 42 times.
Babushka. Sane deployment.
"Nostradamus of Asia" Jojo Acuin died of cardiac arrest
Rebutting myths on "bleeding" edge
In SV, who isn't hiring? The general job market is hot, and startups are springing up and hiring.
This is somewhat true. I farmed a few hundred karma last week combining the HN bookmarklet with Reddit's new+rising search to pick up a handful of promising headlines on a weekday morning.

I felt smart until I realized that HN karma is its own reward. Now I'm back to mostly commenting.
Academia.edu is hiring http://academia.edu/jobs. Academia.edu helps academics follow the latest research in their field. Here are a few bullet points that sum up the atmosphere in our team:

- obsession with exceptional engineering

- obsession with building a great web product, and a great user experience

- intellectually inquisitive - we like delving into ideas, whatever the ideas are about

- fun and friendly - we enjoy each other's company a lot, and have a great deal of respect for each other. We want to continue this atmosphere through the people we hire.

Here are some of the technologies we work with: Rails, Nginx, Node.js, Redis, Memcached. We are based in downtown San Francisco. More information about the team, and about how we think about software engineering and product development, is here http://academia.edu/jobs
deviantART.com is looking to hire a senior developer. Work in Hollywood or telecommute. Details/submit a resume at http://deviantart.theresumator.com/apply/XtBsCW/
My takeaway:

http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/ is waaay better than Google Website Optimizer.

Can anyone besides pat verify?
He's a pithy writer, and he's probably right about Jobs' intentions. I do wish he'd drop that annoying British habit of referring to a company in the plural ("HP are ..."). It's distracting and flat-out bad grammar.
To clarify the point with an example, a one line hello world python script when compiled down to an executable on Windows takes about 7 mb of space because of the runtime payload. But, a more complex 1000 line script wouldn't take up much more space - maybe 7.2 mb
More on Video Codecs, by Mozilla's general counsel
Hard to believe it's only compatible with Android 2.1.

http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-ve...

Only 27.3% of Android users.
Mixx Launches New YourMixx Homepage Features in Beta
You should read the pg's essay about PR
http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Any startup want to give us a try. I am leading a very small team of 4 people in one small town in India. I want to work in my own ideas, as apart from consultancy there is not much happening in some part of India. I am not getting the real experience. So want to be part of a startup to learn, work harder and deliver. This way I think I will get some confidence on my ability and my team strength. We can work on PHP, CakePHP, XHTML, CSS (hand coding), GIMP/Photoshop (basic photo editing stuff.. not professional logo or graphics design), JavaScipt/jQuery.... Learning Ruby on Rail too!!! Anybody interested can drop a few line to my id.... prasana.mishra at gmail dot com We would like to work for free till you gain confidence on us and we work upto your expectation....
Regarding the 3.5 musd each figure... I just want to point out that the industry, err, bought, err, judges was much sneakier than that.

Only one person behind the pirate bay actually has any assets worth seizing. So they made the fine collective, if one person does not pay his part the others have to fill in.

In effect this makes three already poor people bankrupt and one quite wealthy also very bankrupt :)

The pirate bay will have a new trial in Sweden conveniently scheduled after the elections in a higher instance.
Go to your molecular biology department. Talk to them about what research they're doing and what kind of data they're getting. There should be a lot of publishable thesis you can find (either building a new bioinformatics tool or figure out new algorithms to make sense of their data).
Collection of best practices for front end devs
Insightful - I would say that in the past, however, on OSX, Apple LET metrowerks get that popular, rather than keeping their own IDE and build system take over.... they're trying to counter that this time.
Cool graphic. They misspelled 'attorneys' though. Also, Valve doesn't use bittorrent, they just have a bunch of servers.
I believe the answer is yes in this case.
Apple's non-compliance with USB standard example:

http://blogs.consumerreports.org/electronics/2010/04/chargin...
Flash may have killed Safari but OSX keeps working as if nothing happened. That alone should say something about the OS.

I've seen flash take out Windows XP. Not a blue screen but destabilized the system so badly it needed to be rebooted and it promptly froze halfway through the shutdown process. I'm still curious how flash was able to do that because I could repeat it by visiting the same website.
I'm interested too
Everyone (businesses and individuals alike) who contributes to open-source does so because it benefits them.
But the influx of crappy iFart apps is O.K.?
The coolest thing about John is how much stuff he does- he has his full time job at Mozilla, works on jQuery (he plays a huge part in the code, community and conferences) and has posted over 100 projects (http://ejohn.org/projects/). And, he mentioned yesterday he now spends a lot of his time doing art.

I was lucky enough to have dinner with him last night. He said he cares more about making stuff people can use than he does about money- and it definitely shows in all the work he puts into projects.

If anyone deserves this award, it's John. He's really made RIT proud.
If a mobile platform running Clojure-flavored HaskellLisp is the Silver Bullet, can you show us an example of its unique value?

Of course he can't, because it hasn't been invented yet. But that's the point. Apple is trying to make sure no one can ever invent it.
Congratulations jeresig!! I am so happy for you!
I've look around shortly (github page, website) and I couldn't find anything so I'm going to ask what I think is the obvious question here:

Why not Chef?

Why not Puppet?

Why not X?

Babushka looks very cool, don't get me wrong. But I'm curious about the above questions.
They are usually the last Friday of every month. If we move it to another day, it will be mentioned on our mailing list.
To me, this just illustrates the old maxim a fool and their money are soon parted. In that sense it is more a measure of monetary altruism than honesty. No surprise that people who value money more than others--Wall Street Bankers--are less altruistic with it.
IE9 is still alpha, so why compare it to Chrome 4, FF 3.6 etc instead of Minefield, Chrome 5 etc. ?
The best way to keep in sync is to remove the need: just publish everything live and unfettered to a public repository.
It is a bootable livecd and an autorun wubi cd at the same time.
Kind of silly editorializing in the headline, no?
Apple kills Lala music service
You don't often get the chance to build the infrastructure for a site that will (re)launch and have to immediately serve two million-plus users, handle a never-ending influx of real-time data from those users' actions, and support commenting, moderation and relationships across all of them and their actions.

That's the web site for the new Star Wars MMO. Integrating live game data. Feeding it to the web. Letting people go crazy with user-generated content on it. For the two million players that EA wants, just to start.

The community is already huge. It's one of the biggest Drupal sites ever, and it's getting bigger every day. Come help me work on it.

BioWare is still hiring for senior Java and senior Drupal or PHP developers, as well as a graphic artist and an HTML/CSS/JS developer, in Austin, TX.

I'm an interaction designer for the web team, and the three jobs are here, under "Marketing:" http://www.bioware.com/bioware_info/jobs/austin_jobs/

They're contract jobs, so no relocation is provided for, but they're a year long, so you wouldn't have to look for something new right away.

Let me know if you have any questions, or if you apply and want me to put your name at the top of the list.
I still, after many years, do not understand why so many developers insist on using spaces instead of tabs for indenting code.
Nothing's wrong with it.

My point was that the original poster paid money to listen to some music, but then the service closed. Therefore he has a moral right to use technical means available to him to continue to listen to it.
Online tool to detect photoshopping (Error Level Analysis)
just got here last week actually, i work downtown at 4th and madison.
The high earners have learned that honesty is for suckers, you have to step over a lot of people to make it to the top. and the easiest path is to be an A-grade sneaky backstabbing asshole. (see Bill Gates, the Zynga guy, Goldman Sachs)
Thought I'd point out that Babushka means "grandmother" or "old lady" in Russian.

Based on your logo, you were thinking Matryoshka. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matryoshka_doll

It's also known as a "Babushka doll" (because it features a grandmother-like image) but the doll is definitely not the first thing that comes to mind when hearing "Babushka".

I have no feedback on the actual product. Looks fun, best of luck. :-)
مرحب بكم في موقعكم سوداني - home
OS X saves a log and sends (or asks to send) the report back to Apple the next time the user logs in.
At least show the authors, so that they can decide how much to disclose to their readers.
oh awesome - I live in San Diego.
True islam
islam aldjal has landed wake up muslim