skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do I ever encourage a near party atmosphere because of my comfort with using humor?

How many points do I get for encouraging near party atmospheres because of my comfort with using alcohol?
That's assigns a pretty absurd amount of cynicism and mustache twirling to Jason Calacanis. Doesn't really fit Occam's Razor.

Simplest explanation: dude thinks that paying to present is bullshit; dude says so.
Plus, it fixes a few of the odd tautologies in there.
"I wish [Bill Gates] the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger." (1997)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/7213848/Apple-v-Micros...
I'm not convinced that they can crank out a webOS tablet before the second generation iPad arrives. At that time it will be too late.

While it seems reasonable not to ship a table with Windows 7 this may just as well have been a deathblow to the Slate altogether.
you should be able to do that today. If you're logged in and haven't finished your list you should see a + that will let you add that item to your list straight from the explore page. there's definitely a LOT more work to be done there, though! thanks for the feedback!
Apple could buy Adobe. They have more than double Adobe's market cap sitting around in cash. Forgetting Flash, Adobe is a cash cow, has a lot of great engineers, and some amazing software I'm sure Apple would love to brand as their own.
Ask HN: Hacker news source code?
Is there an up to date copy of the Hacker News source code floating around anywhere? It'd be cool if it was thrown up on some place like GitHub so we can keep up with latest developments and hack on it easier.
BTW going to a page with SSL (like "Try for Free") makes the chat area show "Olark: Upgrade your account". Could be a bit confusing.
Habits of the World's Healthiest People
Did anybody else misinterpret the phrase "creative coding in C++"?
"Index of Economic Freedom." http://www.heritage.org/index/

Methodology is explained in detail on the site.
Bingo. I spoke with an entrepreneur at PyCon who started his company in Singapore, not only because of the IRS, but because Singapore is happy to give a visa to anyone in the world he wants to hire.
RealPlayer? In 2010? Ick ick ick ick. I'd love to watch, but no.
If Jobs could sneak in a waiver for functional languages like Haskell and Scheme in the app store all will be forgiven.
... and the other, in Apple's implementation at least, uses H.264.
I signed in expecting a demo. It looks like it activates the service straight away when using the sign in button. I couldn't see any information or way to deactivate it, so I revoked the oAuth access from twitter.
The economic freedom of the world reports by the Fraiser institute provide rankings based on things like costs of tax compliance, respect for contracts, legal systems, etc.

The country tables can be found at: http://www.freetheworld.com/2009/reports/world/EFW2009_ch4.p...

All chapters, including collection methodology can be found: http://www.freetheworld.com/release.html
NJ Supreme Court Judge: "New media should not be confused with news media"
http://www.theapchannel.com/accounts-payable/node/522

From above:

Although these changes were passed in the new health bill, they are not new ideas. The White House and Congress have been trying to require corporate reporting for years. The measure was included in budget proposals issued by Presidents Bush and Obama.

"This has bipartisan support," says Doug Rogers, director of consulting services at IRSConsulting. "It was never a matter of if, but when."
Awesome, thank you.

That looks like it's a pretty good starting point. I just get nervous when I see articles talking about the impacts of a bill and their only sources are other articles talking about the impacts of a bill, and not the bill itself.
Twitter power user here and.. I signed up. Nice and simple. I didn't set up any responses but if it works as described, excellent. Nothing confused me, even though it lacks the "gloss" of a finished product.

All that out of the way though, I didn't set up any responses because I can't figure out any use for it. I looked through my recent @replies and there's no pattern to any of it. I just couldn't figure out any interesting way to use this (beyond mere testing).. sorry :-)
The View From The Dark Side: #1, Why VCs Are Greedy
You already have circular buttons, how about a smiley face on top (upvote + bookmark), a frowny face on the bottom (dislike), and a "meh" face in the middle (skip)? It's a lot more intuitive than what you've currently got, I think. Your current ordering doesn't map to what I think it means (the current order seems to be "meh" on top, "like" in the middle, and "boo" at the bottom). The "like" action should be at the top.

Also, I'm not in love with the "next" rollover text. I assume it means "skip", but a user could interpret that as the only way to go to the next item, and upvoting or downvoting before ey're ready (for example, if ey read the first paragraph and like it). It's not horrible, since ey can hit the back button of eir browser, though.

Also, I can never decide whether to separate the "upvote" action from the "save" action. Reddit currently has separate functionality for those; HN has them in one. It's a simpler design to combine them, but there are times I want to save things on HN on a smaller list than my upvoted stories list. Ah, for now stick with them being the same; if it becomes a problem, add it later. I'm sure there are much more important things you could be doing on this site. :)
Not interesting enough to your average American cable viewer, no.
Just a small correction (I'm a Microsoft employee). I've played on Project Natal, and (pardon my french) it's pretty fucking awesome. You've got to see it to believe it.

Can't say when it will ship (not sure if they announced that date yet), and I'm not sure how hardware constraints will make it different than what I played on, but if it's anything close to what I experienced, it'll be a major game changer (no pun intended).
All Natural Weight Loss Plans - Beneficial Or Harmful?
Um, I think I DOSed you. Sorry. I ran ab to stress-test your server, and I guess it didn't handle it all that well. I wonder how HN handles excessive traffic?
I'm not prepared to trust Techcrunch on this. Is this the same source that told them Last.fm gave listener data to major labels when the last U2 album leaked?

edit: is Techcrunch considered the Holy Bible around here? I'm a bit new.
I raged against the fonts for a long time, but I actually prefer the Gnome ones now. You might grow to love them. You probably do want the fonts from Windows though (just put them in ~/.fonts)

Window borders as in colours? Or window borders for resizing & moving? Alt-L/M/R is much more usable. I reassigned to Win-L/M/R also.
+1 for that. If I were published as much as Calacanis is (on HN, anyway), I would find a way to conduct myself in a manner that displayed at least a hint of tact and professionalism.

That still counts for something, right? There's got to be a way to still make a point and not look crazy.
1) Understandable; and I'm learning through feedback from the comments :) Let's see if I understand you. The response will be whatever you specify it to be.

@cmercier said "@jaysern hi !!!" to me http://twitter.com/cmercier/status/13104066344 and in response, my Twitter account responded automatically with "@cmercier hey there!" (I had specified that it should auto-respond to with exactly that response): http://twitter.com/jaysern/status/13104120410

2) I apologize for the confusion. RSR scans the tweets from 3 sources: from people you are following, tweets that have @mention'd you, and tweets from public_timeline; if something matches from those 3 sources, it will respond. Whether the person is a stranger or not. What I was explaining in [2], I now realize I didn't explain well.. is that the system does not explicitly search for keywords to respond to, outside of the 3 cases I mentioned above. Let's say 'blah' is a rare word. If you set a 'filter' (as you call it) to respond to a tweet containing 'blah', it will only respond only if that tweet was seen from those 3 places. In other words, if there's a person X who tweets "blah", but you're not following him, X does not @mention you, and X's tweet does not show in public_timeline, then there will not be an auto-response. (let me know if that is still confusing).

3) Yes, it's at http://www.rapidsocialresponse.com/user/your_username_here - but that's good feedback for me to know (that users prefer that it not be displayed)

4) I didn't add a 'count', but I can do that from the back end so that users know exactly which entry auto-responded the most, and which didn't, and so forth.

I can certainly understand it comes off spammy, but would like to know the reasoning behind that, if you care to share more. It's definitely ripe for abuse .. which is something I will have to pay attention to.

I appreciate the feedback, quorge!
gconftool -s /apps/metacity/general/button_layout -t string "menu:minimize,maximize,close"
It's odd to see so many countries rank higher than us that are normally thought of as having significantly higher taxes than us.

(Fair amount of "socialist" in that list, too)
Immediate solution: Scan your signature and use an email/web - fax service

Better answer:
I've thought about this problem a lot. I think the concept of the fax machine itself isn't really the issue, it's the fact that it hasn't evolved from communicating via a 19.2K modem over POTS lines. All the alternatives are replacement technologies that don't offer a migration path from the established standard and make it harder to replicate a physical document from A to B.

- The fax via email/web alternatives are harder to use because scanning and printing are separate and often difficult steps.

- FOIP isn't trivially backwards compatible - you need a gateway provider and a service agreement to send to existing machines.

I think Google's cloud print service need to extend to cloud scanning. As a first step you could then have multifunction scanner/printer/copiers that attempt to contact the recipient via IP first and then either fall back to regular fax or use a proxy fax service. IP connections would offer: higher speed, higher resolution, colour, encryption and wireless connectivity.

The key is something that's still as easy as a fax machine. Any solution that doesn't focus on copying physical documents is solving a different problem. We already have email for that.
The demopit is more like exhibiting at a conference, the 50 companies present for free.
Maybe decrease the number of goals. 101 is a lot - both to accomplish and even just to think about and write down.
Does this really need to be explained?

You went a little bit overboard on the rhetoric. The analogy between Android vs iPhone and McDonald's vs Jean Georges is over the top. It comes off as snobbery.

'Fundamental sense of taste'? really?
People don't like hypocrites. Like it or not, the Apple brand is strongly associate with Jobs.

Even here, on HN, an Apple friendly site, many people have announced an end to their support for Apple products (or at least it's giving them some serious pause) both as consumer and as developers. Android is about to get a whole bunch of app developers purely because of this issue.
I'm wondering why on earth, literally, I would want to start another one in the U.S.

The US is still in the top 10 list of countries with the fewest headaches for starting a business. In addition, it's the biggest market for almost everything. If you want to sell in the US (which you almost certainly do) you'll have to establish a business entity there, anyway.
Just go to Hong Kong.
Yeah, my guess is you're being downvoted for implying that anybody who doesn't agree with you is showing a fundamental inability to perceive taste. That implicit value judgment really weakens your argument.
> Yes, the spec is technically open, but there still haven't been any players that work as "well" as Adobe's.

It's a valid point, but a lack of good competition doesn't make the standard any less open; published is published. Consider 2002-2004, when Internet Explorer had nearly 95% market share [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers]. HTML was an open standard, but no viable competitor existed until Firefox was released.
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Looks like it's down.
Help a Startup Out - Get feedback, find co-founders, find advisors, etc.
I don't see any reason why HTML5/Javascript apps couldn't be in the App Store as some sort of "featured" section, with a means to install them as icons on the home screen, except that Apple would be diluting the market for the native apps. That's not in the developer's interest, but it might well be in Apple's interest to have more decent free stuff on the iPhone.
In the US, calories on a package are always reported as kcal, so they are approximately equal.
Why bother with a "country"?

Remember this global networked communication thing we've got going?
Printing shit out to sign it and fax it just to capture a signature is bizarre, especially for documents that were created/revised via email.

I just feel absurd for doing this while I work at the epicenter of technology in order to put a little cash into a startup that wants to go revolutionize some other part of the internet or technology or whatever.

I may as well be rubbing sticks together to start a fire.
I think Symbian (S60) devices have had flash since 2004 or something and they've shipped tens of millions of devices since then. Also at least Nokia's Symbian devices are OMAP based like iPhone.

I'm not saying that Adobe's Flash has had a huge impact on the Symbian world, but just to get the facts straight.
I wanted to reduce the signup friction as much as possible, but a few assumptions of mine that perhaps you debunked:

(1) I thought the front page and the image of the 2 tweets was the demo (at least it was enough to describe the benefits of this service/app to the prospective user). If you try to add an entry, there are examples to guide you. When you say a demo, do you mean a YouTube clip showing how it works? Specifically, did you want to know (a) what this does and/or (b) how to use it ?

(2) Technically, if you click 'sign in' from the main page for the first time, you're then showed a 'sign up' page (which if you leave the site at that point, your account is not created. But then again, it's what the user thinks happened that matters :)
In this case, the primary source appears to be indecipherable to anyone except for a lawyer who already understands section 6041 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and all of the amendments that have been applied to it since it was enacted, so I'm not sure what good you're doing by quoting it.

Maybe we should try to have them put the statutes into git so we don't need to waste lots of time looking at the diffs.
> At that time it will be too late.

The HTC Dream came out after iPhone 3G, and Android seems pretty alive on phones yet.

The slate market won't settle in a year.
I've been through this before and it does offer a lot of good advise but I really feel like it isn't describing how to be a programmer but just some tips for issues that programmers face. Being a programmer requires things like creativity and curiosity as well as experience with these things.
Plenty of people believed it would be a real product, they were also very excited about it. It looked like something very innovative from Microsoft. Why produce such a slick looking video for vaporware?

But just like Cairo with is object file system, Microsoft got us again.
Has anyone actually given it a shot? the current tokyo tyrant sources don't appear to be buildable?
Yeah.. not to pick nits.. but the removal of Scratch was the removal of a Scratch player, not an actual programming environment itself..

.. I for one would love to see a Scratch development env on the current/next gen of mobile devices, though.

Your point stands, though.
Visual Basic - VB .Net - Verwendung - Apple QuickTime Player
Mario Games
It's more to out words.
I like this. Good interface, I think.
That's true, but making a sales tax progressive creates the same complication that exists in the current system, only with even more incentive for corporations to lobby for special exemptions, reclassifications, credits, etc., for the products that they produce.
It's intended as a subsidy for accountants and tax lawyers. Congress is the biggest example of regulatory capture anywhere: the lawyers always win.
Hey Jay, thanks for your detailed response.

1) The problem is this:

If I set up a new "filter", I have to wait until someone triggers it to see what my response will look like. In my case, that could be days or weeks. So it would be great to preview this in some way - ideally, it would scan the timeline and show what I would have responded to, were the filter already engaged. Does that make any sense?

2) public_timeline is the same pool as search.twitter.com, right? I'm interested in Twitter's policy here, as I could see them disapproving of my sending messages to strangers in response to keywords. OTOH, I see people do this all the time, so maybe its a non-issue.

3) Thanks. That would be a great feature. I know my tweets are public anyway, but I'd like to avoid displaying that I am using an automated service.

4) A count would be great, maybe even rate limiting per response (e.g., don't send this message more than once per hour).

Regarding spamminess, I definitely agree that its all about usage. For instance, if someone mentions my brand, I don't think an auto-response is spammy at all. If I'm scanning for anyone mentioning DVDs so I can push my affiliate link, that's entirely different.

For my brand specifically, my concern would be that the responses were so generic that they would come across as spammy. Basically, I'm nervous about automating any part of my communications with my customers.

Note: even though this might not be a fit for my small business, simply because we don't have that much twitter volume, I think it would be really useful to many others. There is a definite need for this product.
At happy hour nearby, chatting with a new coworker.

"So, why do you get to come to work so late?"

What do you say to that?
Evolutionary Timeline, to scale
No need for apologies, and I thank you for the feedback :) From the start I knew that this wouldn't be useful to everybody. Truth be told, even for myself, it's not like there's many 'patterns' for me to auto-respond on.

On that note, I have tried a few things that worked and were entertaining for me:

(1) I had it respond to "good morning *", and whenever I woke up in the morning, the first thing I'd do is check my @mentions to see what stranger in the world responded to me, like this one here: http://twitter.com/NinaCinspires/status/10222932469 - I even had a "good night" one too.

(2) the public_timeline hits a few times if you try to match on a top trending keyword, example: http://twitter.com/jaysern/status/12618345889 (#itsbetterwhen was a top hash tag a few days ago)

Thanks for dropping a note :)
Ask HN: Is Ad-hijacking or Ad-injecting legal? Or just frowned upon?
I see a lot of hotspots around these days offering free or paid for usage. Is it legal to hijack ads on websites and replace them? I've looked around and have only found this article (http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/041608-isps-meddled-with-their-customers.html) which doesn't mention any legal action.
Does HN have any other information to support that it is legal/illegal for hotspots that offer internet access to hijack or inject ads?
Using a 1964 modem and acoustic coupler to browse the web
Hewlett-Packard has killed off it’s much ballyhooed Windows 7 tablet computer, says a source who’s been briefed on the matter.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/29/hewlett-packard-to-kill-win...

Anonymous source of course, but still.
Those quotes just make me want to watch Pirate of Silicon Valley again.
I can't really see how apple is hypocritical with this issue. I quote the text below from my last comment.

"Apple is not telling Adobe, Microsoft or any other corporation to open up their platform. They are only stating that they believe web standards should be open and not controlled by a single party."

If someone got a different impression from Steve's letter I think you should read it again. If you think I got the wrong impression I beg you to point me towards the parts of Steve's letter that will help me see my error.
I had originally made a comment about rtmpdump, but I realized that my logic was a bit silly, so I replaced it with something slightly less silly.

My point (that I didn't really make) is that Adobe and Apple are both equally proprietary. Trying to argue either side will be a loser's game.

(I offer as an illustration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-ENUWAxzc0 [audio's NSFW])
So Congress can't be trusted to pass simple bills, but they should be trusted to amend the Constitution?
Devil's advocate, I'm not a big fan of Flash, but: with the exception of touch, this is exactly the diverse situation Flash has dealt with -- and partially derived its popularity from -- on the desktop.
IPhone prototype finder regrets "mistake"
Nhua composite
The Wired article on this book makes it sound completely absurd: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/04/cyberwar-richard-cl...

Has anyone here read it yet and willing to add their own two cents?
I don't see a way to divine loyalty information from the survey questions asked.
From the article, there’s http://www.livestation.com/channels/3-al_jazeera_english_eng... .
...and only because it serves Apple's interests for web standards to be open.
http://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/master/news.arc

I'm not sure if this is the latest version, but should point you in the right direction. My understanding is that pg keeps some aspects (eg, the hellbanning protocols) out of this code to prevent the system being hacked and overrun by spammers.

There are also other sites running versions (Markenomics.com comes to mind; News Mogul is no longer with us). Not sure how many of those have published their changes to source code.
The Wired article and Clarke's book are wrong in completely opposite directions, but the Wired article is more wrong than Clarke is. "Chinese hackers" don't need secret backdoors; 15+ years of shoddy engineering have created all the secret passages anyone could need.

The power grid, in particular, is not a fantasy scenario.
What was he supposed to say? Get up on stage and tell everyone PowerPC chips were crap? During the PPC days, there were many times where PPC had a significant lead on Intel, especially early on, but towards the end, most notably the G5 days, Intel's lead just widened so far and PPC's got so expensive, that it made the best business sense to switch.
I thought the summary of the article was absurd on its own. Require the ISPs to monitor the internets for a "logic bomb"? wtf do you mean by that? We can't even stop botnets from DDOSing whoever they wish. This sort of thing just reeks of Hollywood fantasy talk.
No user benefit. But there's nothing stopping advertisers from making crappy HTML5 canvas ads, and those are guaranteed to burn even more of your CPU cycles. So I call shenanigans on that argument.
Cyberwar? I still don't understand what that would be. Dueling TCP stacks? Bluetooth snipers? DDOS?

The word gets used as if it's well defined, but I have never heard a non-metaphorical description. "A war fought in cyberspace"? That means nothing. "A shootout on the info superhighway"? That means even less.