skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
voxli.com could help, I bet. :)
Ok. I didn't really understand that they were charging so much for playing the game. I'm happy to be wrong.
By doing what he does best, hacking on what he loves. The rest will fall into place.
I do that for most of my sites but there are many things that require pixel-level adjustments. If all I'm making is a blog with headers and p, span tags, nobody cares if things don't line up exactly the same on my browser vs. their browser. However, take a look at: http://bulletxt.zetabee.com/demo - not everything that is created using HTML/JS is a basic page. If you're trying to make even slightly complex web-apps, one extra pixel width will move things into the next line.

It's very easy to say "design for standards" or "design for fluid layouts" but when it comes to actually coding it up, it just doesn't work like that. My point wasn't that I don't know how to make things work. In the end, all my finished products work well. My point was that it's a pain to make everything work nicely across all the browsers and that inconsistency causes headaches.
"Your web broswer connecting to a linux powered website isn't you "using" linux, it's you using a web browser."

Why would you think a web browser connecting to website is a user using the OS of the website? Why would you make that connection?

Why?

Anyways, back on target. Users choose to use Linux all the time. Countless people choose Linux over other OS's for hosting their websites. Even people with little technical knowledge choose Linux over other options out there as their OS of choice.

And then you have Linux on mobile devices. Android isn't doing half bad, last I checked. And Android is based on Linux.

While your original argument is sound, your conclusion about Apple and Linux is off the mark.
any guesses as to why they made a 'slope mower' with such a high center of gravity?
What are the freelancing expenses for? (Customer support and creating new card categories?)

Side note: you might want to change the color of the "payments processing" slice of the expenses pie chart, since it's pretty impossible to see with the current background. But anyways, this information is really cool.
I'm waiting for an good Android tablet.

I'm waiting for a regular ChromeOS computer for parents/in-laws.
The proposed solutions to GW are [government plans]

Supposing that AGW is real and a problem. It is then a global collective-action problem. What options are there to solve something of that scale that doesn't involve governments? I'm genuinely curious.
Why don't they change the price for new users, and leave the price for existing customers? Seems like the default way to increase your prices with minimal friction.
An interesting collection of articles. It's worth noting (as they do in the preface) that the research symposium was sponsored by the Portuguese Coffee producer's association, but the research is none the less interesting for that. I'd certainly rather spend $1/day on coffee as a gentle prophylactic than on what is now still experimental Alzheimer's mitigation medication.
If we're gonna farm fish, we best do it right: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EUAMe2ixCI
Dear Wakemate, WTF is up?
Dear Wakemate,

Since I know you Wakemate folks frequents HN, let's talk. I really want to like you. I love your product and can't wait to get my hands on it. I recommended you to anyone that would listen.

However, we have a problem.

Your last twitter message was on march 19th, promising shipping details soon. Your last e-mail to me was on the first of April, telling me you are shipping (to who? not to me!) Your last blog post was on the 26th of April, promising us all more updates (and photos) and clarity. That means your last effort to communicate was almost a month ago, and you were claiming 'updates in the coming weeks', no less.

This is a reminder: You still have to do so.

I gave you 5 dollars on the promise of having the Wakemate in my hands in January. No, it's not about the money. It's about trust. Now, I understand hardware is hard, and I understand if demand requires you to retool some stuff. That's okay. Just let me know.

Let me repeat: we have a problem, now what can you do about it?

Yours,
A disappointed customer
I disagree. I think given the choice to do only one thing out of the two, browser vendors should focus on things that fundamentally improve users' experiences with what they already have than implement random specs. I think the lack of canvas is disappointing too, but I think if the IE folks had decided to implement Canvas but not use Direct2D I'd be much more disappointed.

(Of course, you could be awesome like Mozilla and do both, but that's a different matter.)

This difference of opinion is exactly why the argument is invalid unless engine A is strictly better than engine B. WebKit is not strictly better than IE9 Trident.
15%. I think that's what Zynga was expecting internally.
It definitely will have some effect, but man is that hard to predict. I think we won't see information on that for a while, we still barely understand the currents of the ocean to begin with.
Same here. But I am beginning to change my mind on whether or not the ipad has its uses, I've had a chance to play with one and I've seen people use them for entertainment purposes.

The 'kids computer' angle is interesting (if a bit pricey) and there are some music applications that are really interesting. The ipad as a user interface to other stuff is really neat.
Did they hire an industrial designer to do the design and shapes? I've always wondered how you make physical things aesthetically pleasing.
I have, but decided to stick with EditArea.
I love sensationalist titles. Bluefin tuna are not the only fish in the ocean.
You can still experiment with pretty much everything except the API using the basic (free) plan, as long as you crawl fewer than 100,000 pages per job.
"I'm not sure how applicable this is to 37signals, but in general I think it is a good idea to separate people who are on the phone all day (sales, customer service) from people who aren't (engineers). We worked fine with 15 people in an open plan, but as soon as we threw in 1 guy on the phone all day it made the open plan annoying at times."

We agree which is why we have the big empty room top left that will be used if/when we offer customer service/support via phone. It's isolated from the rest of the space. Right now we only provide support via email so we don't have phones ringing. When someone does need to use the phone they can use a sound-isolated phone booth room.
That's a good example of having too much time but quite funny to watch.

In other news, windows 3.11 still looks better than Windows mobile ;p
I'm well aware of inspectdb and migrations. The OP however stated that he didn't want to use an ORM.

And what if you need to support composite primary keys ? The ticket on that is 5 years old with no fix in sight:

http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/373

Frankly, the more I've used Django the more I've run up against it's limits. One of these limits is that the apps such as auth and admin are tightly coupled to the ORM and template engine.

I've given my experiences with different frameworks, the pluses and minuses of each. It's up to the original poster to decide naturally.

However, yet again any criticism of the One Holy Web Framework brings ad hominem arguments and angry rebuttals.
We used Zendesk over a year ago with about 4-5 agent accounts. We cancelled it because no one wanted to log into it and we were having a lot of support issues. Fast forward some time and we start up an account again because our support definitely grew beyond a shared support Gmail interface.

We're still using it now but we're also using Assistly.com in tandem. Assistly is in beta but there are great guys behind it and they listen very closely to product feedback. I absolutely expect a full transition from Zendesk in the near future.
I can't help suspecting that the first Chrome OS netbooks are going to 'show potential' but have various niggly UI / design issues. Perhaps best to wait for the 2nd or 3rd gen?
I worked on Wonder Wheel, though on the frontend and not the backend. Drop me an e-mail with the queries. I don't know enough about the backend algorithms to guess what may be causing this (nor do I know if I could reveal them if I did), but I may be able to route this to someone who has a better idea than I do.
All of those problems require one very important thing: an assessment of the prospective employee, car, or woman. I'm sure Dr. Norvig has plenty to say about evaluating prospective employees, but it is still the hardest part about hiring better employees (my opinion, but with no actual hiring experience).
Yep, I think people severely underestimate how much gaming is a contributor to technology adoption. Mac OSX could have gained a lot more market share had Steve not been so stubborn. Case in point, iPhone app popularity is heavily skewed toward games.
I sent ErrantX the list of names via email and he has independently confirmed the results.

Looks like it's definitely not a personalized result.
Well, the backslash against Invision Board was mainly because the main guy that was working on it had promised that the product would stay free forever, and suddenly he started charging for it.

I have two licenses from 2005 and 2006 respectively and each one of them was fairly cheap compared to the $149.99 that it costs now, also I've got a perpetual license meaning I get free support, and free downloads of the latests versions for life, whereas the new ones are for 6 months of support, and for 6 months of new downloads, after that you are stuck on whatever version you happen to have purchased.

$149.99 is pretty expensive for a piece of software, considering I can get an entire OS upgrade for $129 from Apple, which does MUCH more than a forum. I'll just keep my luck and my grandfathered accounts alive, knowing I am going to get the value I want out of those accounts.
How do you find blogs you like to read? Google only gets you so far, so you come to places like HN. You still have to know where to look in order to wade through the masses of crap. "Low signal" is just a fundamental characteristic of the web at this point.

I read CS papers. If that's what you're interested in, too, CiteSeer's Most Cited will last you years: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/stats/articles
Virtual reality used to transfer men's minds into a woman's body
I don't think it's 0%. That would imply that Facebook has no negotiations power in this dispute. But I think quite the opposite is true: Zynga cannot really afford leaving Facebook platform right now, so they don't have any credible threat, other than creating more bad publicity for Facebook.

Based on how things are evolving recently, it doesn't look like Facebook is paying too much attention to it.
Yup, but it is still very much in its in infancy as far as features are concerned.
Yep. I was tweaking you. You seem easily trolled and sensitive.
He's not the typical MacBook user; he's worried about speeding up compiling.

I recently switched out to a fast SSD and I can say this with certainty - compiling was and continues to be CPU constrained, at least for the code I spend the most time compiling.
You're right - meat was highly desirable food and eaten whenever possible, HOWEVER - up until the 19th century, unless you were in the very small percentage of rich/privileged, you got a chance to eat meat once a week - tops. And in the agricultural societies, commoners wouldn't even get to eat steak and all the nice parts - when a cow was slaughtered, all the premium parts went to the lord.. all peasants got was some entrails to put in soup.

It's only when the 20th century rolled around, and meat became cheap/available everywhere, that people started eating meat once a day, leading to a spread of all kinds of diseases, heart attacks, cholesterol, cancer, etc.
How many colleges still run their own bookstores? I just checked six in Washington, DC: four stores are run by Follett, one by Barnes and Noble, Howard runs its own. Of course, I have no idea how many the schools get. But it was my impression long ago that many college bookstore managers are happier selling sweatshirts and mugs, and regard books as a nuisance.
Raven DB - .Net document database goes live
http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2010/05/18/ravendb-goes-live.aspx
If 'he' were that good 'he' would know.

But assuming he is that good and through some freak of history perceives (1) through (5) as being exactly equally applicable I'd take (2).

Because that's the best place to learn that you're really not that hot after all. Some humility goes a long way towards becoming better, it will help you find teachers instead of thinking you know it all already.

Just speaking from personal experience here, when I got started in this field in the land of the blind in my backwater the guy with one eye was king. I had two eyes, and was considered a pretty hot coder by those in my environment and I started to believe it.

Then, after another decade or so I met a couple of guys that really could program and in a year I learned more than in the 18 years or so preceding that.

Now, with access to the vast repository of source code available on the internet you'd have to be either out of your mind or an undiscovered genius of very rare quality to describe yourself as such.

Most 'fucking good coders' aren't. They just haven't been out much yet, or they've just been writing and have not been reading.
I'm tired of reading the same thing over and over. Before you decide to enter a public forum and argue, at least you should research the oppositions argument. I'm not going to rehash it here. It's already taking up to much space on the internet. Please read "Free Software, Free Society" and then make your argument. You sound silly comparing stealing to copyright infringement.
QA had two big problems. First, it looked too much like a sci-fi robot and people wanted to interact with it rather than the guy controlling it. Second, it was heavy (65 lbs) and fragile. After a couple of smashups we found ourselves just picking up the phone instead of using it.

We redesigned QB to look more abstract, so it doesn't seem like a 3rd party in the conversation, and it's light (35 lbs) and padded so we just drive it full tilt all over the office without worrying about the robot or furniture.

We originally thought the main use case would be avoiding trips overseas, but we find ourselves using it to ask questions of people in the next office. Email and IM went through the same trend, so I guess that shouldn't be surprising.
Heh, that article is crazy. Have fun with your 20 acre plot 3 kids and pony... Who wants to get married in today's society? Your kids will just send you to an "adult home" anyway. I'd rather be driving a high end bimmer/mercades and be dating a woman 20 years younger than me when those years come around. The "American dream" is a fabrication, have fun with your 20+ years of kids leaching off you, 9-5 job, and all. How about legalizing prostitution, drugs, getting rid of speed limits, compulsory education (12 years of brainwashing) -- then there might be some fun.
Is there anything you'd invest $10k on a $4mm pre in that you wouldn't invest $25k in on a $4mm pre? Assuming a $500k-1mm raise.

i.e., do you invest within your range based on your feelings about the investment, or just how oversubscribed the round is?

For me, a $10k investment and a $25k investment would take roughly the same amount of thought and time, so really it's just a 2.5x bigger payoff if you win.
Its funny as we move to SAAS models this seems to be a bigger issue. With Desktop apps you could just stick people on a version and let them keep their existing pricing plan with some sort of dedicated EOL. Anyone wanting a newer/better/prettier version would need to pay for the upgrade.

This breaks down severely on these web models, where you're more inclined to start out with a lower price and feature set while you gain customers, but want to increase the price as you add features (and value)

Its sticky and makes setting your first price point a more critical game.

I wonder if people have thought about "versioning" their SAAS apps. (do they? I don't have a ton of familiarity here). Personally I think Zendesk has to reward their early customers by keeping them at their current rate.
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The first step to Happiness is admitting one's neuroses.

The second is admitting that the first didn't make them go away.
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This is rightfully to the point. But my experience has led me to believe that it doesn't end here. With time and practice we can learn to gradually replace our "neuroses" with different kinds of thinking patterns.

Although it is true that there is no binary switch, there are ways to start training new neural pathways which gradually alter the patterns that we end up following in given circumstances.

To make it short, I'd just add these to your list:

The third step is to decide whether you want to commit to the process of changing yourself on some particular area even though you are bound to face setbacks on the journey.
It's so weird that a guy who makes an online bingo card generator is openly publishing sales stats and releasing an a/b testing gem, but I like it.
I think you're over-analyzing. For me, the best summary of the debate comes from a ridiculous anti-piracy ad that used to play before movies in theaters here in Canada.

The ad said "You wouldn't download a car, would you?"

To which my reaction, and probably that of most people in the audience, is "Are you kidding me??? Of course I would if I could!"

Most people have an aversion to physical stealing, but most people are also happy to get a COPY of something for free, even if it's illegal. That's what reality boils down to, and I can't see anything changing it.

I understand your moral argument, and I don't disagree - there's nothing ambiguous about it. But if you could "download a car", for free, with no fear of repercussions - are your convictions strong enough that you would still choose to go out and spend tens of thousands of dollars on a "real" car?
While interesting, I wanted to point out that this is very old (2006) and may have changed somewhat since.

Now that they've grown to a certain size and have offices in different places, I would imagine they (just logistically) have to hire at the "site" level rather than at the company level now, which would encourage each site to bring in employees at a different mean than the entire company itself (i.e. like the hiring manager issue).
I'd all but forgotten about WakeMate, and they too have my 5 dollars. Here's hoping they get their act together soon, because my sleep cycle is still quite bad.
Has it ever gone down? I remember people talking it was closed and stuff, but I'd go there to test and it'd always be online. Did that just apply to some servers or what?
Though I disagree with jdietrich's analysis of the rest of the article, I agree with the thing about age-appropriateness. I also think he showed pretty clearly that he remembers his own childhood, and uses that to validate his feelings about "age-appropriateness", rather than parenthood.

I am not a parent, and I had a good enough childhood (though I think I could have been given better schooling), but I have a four year old niece and she definitely is a person with her own worldview and her own feelings. I can have a conversation with her as I can with somebody else, regardless of age.

If you take people seriously, no matter what they look like, I promise you that you will have a richer life.
"That argument holds true for a literal florist but as an analogy to filesharing it really breaks down pretty quickly, after all the garden would never empty of flowers 'taken' if they were copied."

Since copying is okay, is it okay to copy currency? After all, it's just a bunch of paper and ink and only a perceived value. If you look at the damage this causes the economy, you can directly see the damage it causes a content creator.

"Go read Janis Ians writing on this, or Courtney Love, or countless of other artists that have spoken up about this."

Boo Hoo. They signed a contract that gives the record companies their souls and are now complaining about it. This argument is bullshit. The creators of the Pirate bay don't really give a shit about the rights of anyone. They freely admit that they believe in sharing of everything, just like when they were children.

I find it a little ironic that many of the same people that are pro-piracy get all in a tizzy when companies decide to sell their information, which is just a copy (you don't actually lose anything. It's not like stealing a physical copy of something).

"Times are changing, we'll find a new equilibrium and those that had a free ride for a long time will have to find a different racket at some point. Technically speaking they're already dead."

Really? Create a full Metallica album from your house. How about Photoshop? If you can't, it means there is still a value for content creators. Copying us much different than creating. You seem to be equating them, which is just ridiculous.

Piracy pushes artists toward big corporations because they have no other way to make a living.

"Artists that make music for the love of their work will continue to do so, and will find a way to make money. Artists that are creations of the media machine will have a problem, but then again, most of them weren't in it for the art to begin with so there is probably not much lost there."

Right, because people that love art don't need to actually make a living.

It is my belief that piracy has made many markets stagnant. When you blur the line between losing sales due to piracy and losing sales due to a shitty product, content holders just increase copy protection rather than trying to innovate (because there is really no way to see the difference).

A real revolution would be creating a way for Indy artists to make a living and sell their music without a label.
The design is by Scott Wiley. If you've been to the Anybots / Y Combinator offices, the oil paintings on the walls are all his. He's also a mechanical engineer who has designed space station lasers &c.

Modern 3D cad software & stereolithography are amazing. You can get a student edition of SolidWorks, upload the 3D files to stereolithography.com, and get parts back in a week. Cost for smallish parts is tens to hundreds of dollars.
The first chapter is available at A List Apart:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/a-brief-history-of-markup...
Beautiful presentation of a presentation! If you are like me and usually just scan the comments of HN, don't miss this one!
From the order page: "We're not asking for a password now because your Wakemate isn't ready to ship.".

So apparently they are not shipping at all yet, or maybe they are, see:

http://wakemate.posterous.com/
When will people realize that ideas aren't as important as they believe?
I don't think a monoculture has to be a bad thing when it's not backed by an associated monopoly. WebKit is used by Apple's Safari, Google's Chrome, and almost everybody's mobile browsers, but they all have different goals and requirements. They share code where it makes sense, but add to it their own GUIs and other innovations. Competition on the basis of performance is as healthy as ever, and the WebKit world has a lot going on in the way of new features and security.

I think that the benefits of standardization and code sharing have far outweighed the "monoculture" dangers for UNIX, and I see no reason why a similar balance between diversity and compatibility can't be achieved for web browsers.
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