skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that external forces (patent restrictions) are as much an issue as internal forces. Choosing to adhere to Free software principles and avoid legally risky (for Firefox), patented technology is just as valid a strategy as licensing the codec and using closed source bits (Chrome).
Innovations in Text Editing and IDEs
Asker.
Pessimistic? I'm looking forward to it :)
Ask HN: Which Firefox addons you can't live without
I was reading the discussion on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1359220 and found that I had never heard of the Tree Style Tab and some other addons a few people were talking about. SO I was wondering what all great addons I might be missing.

I have flashblock, delicious, IE Tabs, Firebug and JS debugger installed on my firefox.
LOL, I am going to remember that one.

Anyway, I have access to the SSN of just about everyone in the army over the last five years. The do give the special forces people substitute SSN numbers but other than that it's fairly easy information to get access to if you if you are doing any sort of analysis of army trends.
Dell: Smartphones CAN Never Upbeat PC
Sounds exactly like Jeff Bigler's concept of Tact Filters (1996): http://www.mit.edu/~jcb/tact.html

>So, nerds need to understand that normal people have to apply tact to everything they say; they become really uncomfortable if they can't do this. Normal people need to understand that despite the fact that nerds are usually tactless, things they say are almost never meant personally and shouldn't be taken that way. Both types of people need to be extra patient when dealing with someone whose tact filter is backwards relative to their own.
I am not sure that it is stats that make most other sports more popular than Soccer, in countries like Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand.

For some reason, soccer nations seem to enjoy the fact that any team can win any game, due to the nature of the game. It is such a low scoring game, that one goal can decide the game. So all it takes is an incredibly lucky kick, or cheat, for a side to win.

You don't see this in many other sports.

So while the Premier league the result is certain (either Chelsea or Man United), the World cup, where in the later stages one game decides whether you move on or not, anyone has a chance.
cache size, something close to about:config would be nice
When hitting the up arrow it should go to the last line, not the first.
Please don't feed the troll.
I really like Xobni, guys. I'm seriously thinking of dropping Gmail for my day to day use, and using Outlook + Xobni. Gmail's contact management sucks after you pass 200 or so contacts. Your contact management is really really cool.

If you guys built an Android app, I'd eagerly pay $15 bucks or so for it, and I'd happily make the complete transition from Gmail to Outlook + you guys. Just a thought.... Feel free to ping me if you are interested in talking to a motivated customer.
I was skeptical at first too, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who doesn't already have a pretty good understanding of JavaScript. But I'd urge you to try it for a week or so. It's not a layer of abstraction like GWT; it's just a nice, succinct syntax that compiles statement-by-statement to JavaScript.
A fascinating book to read as the World Cup nears:

http://www.amazon.com/Soccernomics-Australia-Turkey-Iraq-Are...
If you use a bluetooth keyboard, it does some basic stuff (c-f, c-b etc)
CTR is 0.2% not 20%
thanks, but now I use Duck Duck Go and bangs for the same functionality, and I love it, I also use it as my main search engine
My school still does. I believe you can get it changed, but its a PITA
Chrome subjectively feels snappier

Right, and why would anything else matter for a web browser?
Heh. If you have a procedure that's that simple, please blog about it.

Here's what I had to do:
- Download the lein script and put it in my PATH

- Download package.el and put it in my .emacs load-path

- lein self-install

- make a project directory, and 'lein new projname .' inside
it

- modify the resulting project.clj to add
:dev-dependencies [[leiningen/lein-swank "1.1.0"]
[swank-clojure "1.2.1"]]

- lein deps in said directory

- Install package.el, and then install slime, clojure-mode, slime-repl, and swank-clojure with it (and fight with it and get confused about why it didn't know about slime-repl until I installed it several times but then noticed it when I restarted Aquamacs)

- lein swank in said directory

- M-x slime-connect from Aquamacs

Am I doin it rong?
Thanks for that. The missing link here is having the tutorial and the editor together for the maximum user benefit. What would be really cool is if the online copy of RWH had this editor embedded in it. What would be even cooler is if it had some basic menu features that allowed you to save module files, compile them and execute them along with the HUGS/GHCI integration.
Consider consider all the various tournaments (Cup, FIFA, UEFA etc) soccer teams play.

The NFL season feels like it's over before it began. I guess the nature of the game is such that very few players could last much longer anyway.
My N800 manages to be an "Internet Tablet" and have XTerm installed by default. Using it isn't necessary but it's nice to be able to run command line programs when I want.
measureit
I really hate to not search directly on the service that I need, such as gamefaqs, jstor or arxiv
Your American "identity" is a very cheap business expense if you know you have an "offshore" ID, accounts, and private Island. Cash out, burn house and move out.
Yahoo buys freelance news site Associated Content
Forgiving: What, Why, How (A Practical and Theoretical Approach)
Note that you can bootstrap your way into this sort of effect by figuring out what your influencer of choice (blogger, NYT journalist, whatever) is likely to be searching for and then putting AdWords against it. Since they're often a bit smarter than the average bear and using longtail or obviously non-commercial queries, these are generally cheap as sin.

Then, rather than a landing page for a commercial service, you direct them to a page designed to elicit coverage of whatever it is that you're offering.

An example that I don't know that any SEO did so they won't be POed if I mention it: you know all the Facebook privacy hubub right now? I think it is quite likely that someone is out there looking for [facebook privacy quote]. If you're going to spend thousands on PR, why not spend a few tens on AdWords and have something responsive to that. It is very, very cheap if your page influences coverage at the NYT or pulls in links from bloggers.
Facebook privacy controls don't work even when you use them
Firebug and Download Helper are my two must haves. TamperData is a good one too, when Firebug isn't quite giving me enough information about what's crossing the wire. Also if you're using a proxy server I'd recommend FoxyProxy.
Suddenly, things make sense. My bad. :)
Why a Sudden Surge in Tech M&A? Startups Pay Attention
hardly, I do not see why google would prefer that a large chunk of the web users do not use its service, google still gets more money on adwords and adsense, I dare say google would pay MS to be the defalt engine on IE if this was possible, for me chrome is much more a vision of how google thinks a browser should be, lean, stable, fast and extensible
Tethering, as a first-class iPhone OS feature that works seamlessly with AT&T, has been available for over a year. Anyone who didn't upgrade to OS 3.1 still has it (so-called "samizdat tethering"). AT&T may be choosing to launch tethering formally alongside OS 4.0, but that has nothing to do with Apple.

I've given up on AT&T. In Chicago, we have Clear, a WIMAX service. That's what we use to get our computers on the Internet outside the office.
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Our Solar System in CSS3
Why just don't answer "No?".

As a German citizen, I find this whole matter very weird. I don't understand the need for the social security number system you have over there.
Xpresser: Python library for GUI automation with image matching
As a caveat, it should be noted that John Bogle, founder of Vanguard (and the whole index investing movement, for that matter) is not a big fan of the ETFs.

Check out http://www.indexuniverse.com/sections/news/6012-bogle-invest... to see how Vanguard's ETFs performed against Vanguard's index funds (in short, not well).

I agree with Adams that index based investing is a great idea for hands off people, but do yourselves a favor and read Bogle's seminal book on index investing: http://www.amazon.com/Little-Book-Common-Sense-Investing/dp/... first.

It's very concise but it will serve you well.
Djangozen: app
Spain had the biggest number of players on last year best player in the world election, I'm brazilian but I think Spain or the Netherlands will win im Africa
1. I installed ELPA from here: http://tromey.com/elpa/install.html

2. Ran "M-x package-list-packages"

3. Installed clojure-mode, slime, slime-repl, and swank-clojure.

Then I rebooted emacs and "M-x slime" just works for me (aquamacs).
Nightly builds of Firefox for Android (Fennec) now available
IPad Video Converter for Mac available for free until May 31st
Awesome! Also noticed that it retains your session (at least for a while) even if you close the browser windown.
It seems however to give up when trying to write code on multiple lines.
For most investors, rather than the ETFs you'd be better off waiting until you had a few thousand and then buying the equivalent index funds from Vanguard. The reason is that most people will be adding to retirement investments on a monthly basis, and if you do that with ETFs your transactional cost to buy shares will dwarf the ETF's management fees for quite some time.

Although if my memory from several years ago is right, Vanguard charges a sale fee for the fund equivalent of their emerging market fund, to discourage people from trading into and out of it frequently. You can check that on their website -- it would tend to change the above result for most people here.

Disclosure: Upwards of 60% of my retirement accounts are ETFs, including the Vanguard ones mentioned. They most important thing, far more important than specific allocation, is that you contribute regularly and do not trade.
It's not first-class if you can't do it in the most recent version of the OS and even in the version it is "supported" it requires a download from a 3rd party site to enable.
I kicked myself so hard when I realized that OS 3.1 ruined my tethering. I will be frustrated if OS 4.0's tethering comes with additional fees... on top of the fees that I already pay for data. Rate limit me, bandwidth cap me, whatever, but if I'm not using my ~5 gigs a month (of "unlimited data"), please don't make me pay more for the modality by which I choose to consume that data.
Sharethis: I like using the bit.ly integration

Rapportive: Great Gmail plugin that replaces the ad area with information on who e-mailed you / scrapes their online profile and twitter feeds.
I first heard about index funds from "The Motley Fool Radio Show." Figuring I have the choice of dedicating at least a good chunk of my free time to understanding financial markets and trading stocks, or just dropping my money into index funds until I decide I want to play games with my money and then use that time to surf the web and peruse Hacker News, I chose the later.
Addons.
"morals have no scientific foundation"

Your consequentialist philosophical views also have no "scientific foundation". Science reveals the world as it is, not as it should be.

You claim that somehow you are beyond values by applying this crude calculus of "lives saved". The truth is that you have not provided a foundation for your ethics. So what is it?

I agree that you do not understand what I'm getting at. Maybe we should just table this.

edited to add:

"what exactly has been justified by the "ticking time bomb" experiment?"

If you read The One Percent Doctrine, you will learn about the people the United States tortured to try to get intel about terrorist attacks, using the ticking time bomb justification. And hello, "we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." We invaded Iraq using similar justifications about the risks of WMD.
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Don't forget these are adword results and not organic. If I were researching a piece, I likelynwould steer away from "inorganic" results.
Seems that while MA is not as hostile as CA to non-competes, I vaguely remember from my business law class that they are still generally weak, and this article confirms:

"Having been involved in counseling companies on noncompete issues for 20-plus years, I have to admit that I am suprised to read this. While noncompetes are pervasive in Massachusetts, many judges are unwilling to enforce them, or will enforce them only in part (i.e., “you can’t work in this particular area for a period of time”). The sense of lawyers in Massachusetts is that absent theft or trade secret misappropriate of some sort, enforcing a noncompete is an uphill fight, so better to negotiate than attack head-on. Most noncompete disputes are negotiated to a private resolution."

http://masslawblog.com/noncompete-agreements/why-has-silicon...

And what's the basis for thinking the second one is not true in MA? What legal theory would hold that IP developed with your own time and resources not be yours, unless you signed away that right explicitly (and even then, if there's no consideration...)
A/B Testing with A/Bingo
Vimperator - gives me vim keys on FF.

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"Emacs was written by Richard Stallman, and it practically defines the Free Software movement (in a manner of speaking at least). Stallman's vision for the future of computing is very open, and Apple's vision for the future of computing is very closed. Hence, it's ironic that Emacs, which is such a profound part of Free Software history, can't ever run on the iPad."

I fail to see the irony.
The option is available if you "clean-installed" the iPhone to iPhone OS 4 beta 4. Once you restore from backup, this option to tether disappeared.
You're comparing Usenet to The Pirate Bay? One is one of the oldest communications standards on the Internet and the other one is The Pirate Bay.
The real question is: Is Mark Zuckenberg smarter than 10,000 angry nerds?

He needs to be. The nerds are only screaming about privacy and more privacy. Facebook's main problem is many people use it to post trite, uninteresting crap. They use it to rage against the boss, gossip, do stupid things no one wants to know about. It's because the site is based on real life friendships, not because they heard it's private somewhere.

The etiquette on Facebook is to talk to people you know through real life friends, but on other sites you can follow and talk with people who you find interesting. Sites like Twitter, Flickr, Github where connections are based on activities, interests, not personalities are in a better position. That type of content doesn't need to be private. That's where Facebook wants to be, but they have to fight the current perception of what Facebook is for to get there.

I think a few UI changes could alleviate a lot of the problems. They need to have fully private messenging like Inbox and chat but which connects to more than one person at a time. Google Wave has a good UI for that part.
They only have 30 days to investigate any dispute. If it is for an adverse item more than a couple of years old they may never even try. I would urge everyone to go to annualcreditreport.com, get the report, then dispute every single item!
Bumping for Earl Grey.
Also, niacin counteracts any mild anxiety from caffeine for me. Probably why its also found in red bull, drinkers having panic attacks on their massive amounts of caffeine would be bad for sales.
Here is the full reasoning in a nice story-format: http://www.rps.psu.edu/jun95/odds.html
Wish more blogs do this.
http://750words.com/ seems totally awesome - I'm definitely going to do that once summer starts.

Also, there's a good list of distraction free writing editors (my personal favorite is http://internettypewriter.com/ for it's free-ness and simplicity).
You are demonstrably savvier than some employees at the Grey Lady whose names you would almost certainly recognize.
Help me keep the shell people alive.
A Visual Guide to Cognitive Bias
Seems like using a monopoly in one market to force another market into submission.
There was actually an analysis done a while back of the outcomes of every game in the last world-cup that showed statistically just how unpredictable soccer games are. The punchline is that soccer is very unpredictable, especially given the bracket setup of the World Cup.

I can't seem to track down the article now, but I sort of remember the logic...

If Team A beats Team B, then Team B beats Team C, then Team C beats Team A, then you've demonstrated at least a 33% probability of a fluke outcome in the soccer bracket. This is highly simplified of course, but repeat this analysis over a much larger sample size, and you get some pretty convincing results (and I really wish I could find that paper now).
In the case of alzheimer's, the benefit is most likely from the fact Caffeine is a stimulant that affects the acetylcholine system.

In that sense it is similar to nicotine, and NON-smokers are 50% more likely to develop alzheimer's (controlling for increased mortality).

One current alzheimer's medication is Galantamine ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galantamine ), which also increases acetylcholine levels and nicotinic acetylcholine receptor activity specifically.
I really dont think that many people are surprised by this. When Facebook launched their new API's, they did it hastily, and in a sudden move, rather than rolling them out slowly. In doing so, several things were borked, such as the dev forum, a lot built on the old api, and all semblance of privacy.

While this is bad, it is also a huge privacy shift. Anyone remember the old Wired interview with Zuck, where he explicitly said that he was making it private, and a walled garden, on purpose, to get people to share more? Now, that has basically been reversed, and the communication from FBHQ has been sparse and done little to reassure or fix things.
That's still not an Apple problem, in Europe are tethering with no problems and now 3rd party downloads.
You have part of the solution already. If you know sales well and are good, you have a valuable skill that you can barter with an independent programmer for instructions. Heck you could even end up making some money together. FYI, I'm in Seattle and would barter instruction for some sales help! PM me nm1161 (at) gmail if you're interested
Yes, when you download it. Specifically, when you acquire possession of the material. If you steal someone's money, but don't spend it, you still stole it.

It's not a victimless crime. The victim is the artist who should have received compensation for your acquisition of the material.

Some laws do outlive their relevance, but these laws are just as relevant today as they were when the printing press was invented or audio recording devices.

Guns made murder easier, but not more legal -- or more moral.
Yeah, mild levels of caffeine (<200-300mg for me I'm guessing) give me a barely noticeable but consistent boost. Anything more and I avoid lethargy but i also sacrifice attention which has its own pros/cons including the ability to enjoy repetitive but boring work.
Creativity linked to (lack of) mental health
Wikipedia Redesigned
yes I guess I conveniently ignored your point, I guess I was just trying to add in my part about making a living as an artist.

Ultimately, I think, that any type of creative work needs validation by others, even if it's not of the payment type. I think few people are driven enough to create without at least some positive feedback from people whose opinion they respect.
ASk HN: Whats your favorite startup quote?
Some new ones have come in. Care to share what resonated with you the most and why?

http://startupquote.com/
This article is poorly written and flat out wrong. His second example simply shows a public post of his on a public group. His statement "Facebook makes public EVERYTHING about its users via its search API" is just incorrect.

But of course, it's filled with lots of capital letters, so he must be right.
I just watched the video of the interview on the bottom of the page and to be honest I really dislike his tone. The extraordinary gift part just topped it all of. How do you expect a user of your service to respond to that? Should I say thank you Facebook and overlook all your other shortcomings?

In fact the way he answered those legitimate questions about Facebook policy is similar to the way Facebook treats its users.
He is comparing torrent indexing sites to usenet indexing sites.
Rikaichan - if you're not fluent in Japanese but use Japanese sites, it's a lifesaver
seems like a less useful version of http://www.FollowUp.cc which has way more features and is still simple and flexible
This is what I did too. It works, and is simple and easy. The downside is that it sort of "takes over" SLIME and prevents you from easily using other Lisps with it. As a frequent SBCL user, I found this annoying. I ended up putting a switch in my .emacs which I can turn on and off depending on whether I want my SLIME to use Clojure, or some other Lisp. Suboptimal, and someone really needs to fix this Clojure-SLIME integration problem, but it serves my needs.
This is so good that I hope to steal it for my documentation page.
Somewhat related video from Paul Solman at PBS Newshour, on motivation and money:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGyhaZnPtC4

(An interview with Dan Pink, author of A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future)
Is it just me, or is this guy actually wrong (and contradicting himself)? From his article:

That is not what I expected because I explicitly said that ONLY FRIENDS could see my bio, birthday and posts by me. I never authorized FRIENDS OF FRIENDS but so long as I have a shared friend with someone, they get to see my sparse profile.

When he stated earlier:

If a person has a mutual friend with me, they will find pretty sparse results searching me and should find NO results from any post I have made.

If you look at the posted image in the article, his birthday, bio, and posts are not showing (correct behavior). I think he may just have his terminology mixed up. The "posts" he is referring to google indexing are posts on the wall of a group or event, which aren't covered under "Post" privacy settings (which refer to your own wall posts).

I am all for some Facebook bashing, but reading this article makes my head hurt, probably because privacy settings can just get complicated.
Desktop software will be irrelevant shortly

Desktop software will never become irrelevant.

I will continue to choose MS Word for the foreseeable future because the documents are on my machine, and not on the web where it is vulnerable to MITM attacks or the whim of Google employees and government agencies.
Unless it runs on OSX, in which case it's cool and edgy, right?..right?
Ok, so you see the iPad as a "a specialized device for a specific set of activities", whereas I and others see it as a general-purpose computer, that is artificially restricted. An iPad could technically run Emacs, but won't due to policy restrictions.

> it's best that us hackers get used to it now

I'd rather not, and I'd rather complain about companies that push computing in that direction. It seems to be a philosophical difference between us.
that reminds me of the girl who takes advantage of the zappos free returns policy and gets 5 new pairs of shoes every singles week only to mail them back a few days later. but zappos doesn't cut here off -- she is important evidence that they are serious about their policy & for zappos there are enough honest people out there to more than make up for her.
The pirate catching puzzle (and solution)
Mono on Android: State of the Union