skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thing is, while Spook Country and Pattern Recognition are not groundbreaking the way Sprawl Trilogy was, Gibson still remains a truly gifted writer who has a way with words.

Too much of sci-fiction has been written by people with great ideas, but inferior way of writing them down.
C++ to be used in GCC itself.
I'd be extremely surprised if Google didn't have access to the Windows source via Microsoft's shared source programme.
Chinese Edge Closer to Supercomputing Record
IPhone Grid System
Anything that decouples styling and formatting from the actual document is great. Mainstream users moving away from the MS Word way of doing things will make the web much more usable. Tools like these that bridge the gap are refreshing to see.
What can I say, after C every other language is just adding idioms.

You never forget your first love. Oh others came before her, and after, but no one can replace her or what she taught you.
I wonder why WYMeditor (http://www.wymeditor.org/) is not in there. Is it officially abandoned? I implemented WYMeditor for a couple of customer sites and liked it because it makes it really hard for editors to screw up the site layout.
Why not submit it?

Of course, you'd better check it first, since it doesn't actually work.

EDIT: Ah - I see you've edited it, but without saying you've done so. It still doesn't work.

EDIT2: It's also bad form to put code here when others might want the challenge of trying it themselves.
It's really beautiful and brilliantly laid out, congratulations!
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More to the point than buying his way out of a legal requirement, is that he parks in disabled bays as a matter of course. Could all the people who have ever told me that he's not a tosser please gather round? I have some bad news for you.
Depending on the child and age, you could get away with buttons just fine, rather than a touch screen. My daughter started wanting to play with phones at about 1. She just liked to push the buttons and probably wouldn't have cared much about a touch screen, but did drop the phone we gave her a lot.
In a libertarian society, BP would just need to compensate the owners of the properties directly affected (ocean and shoreline).

Fishing business would then not pay those owners to operate in their property and lose an opportunity, but they are not owed anything, since those owners have no obligation of letting the fishing business operate in their property.
Despite that, it's a better review than all the reviews that came out before the iPad launched. Almost two months of use for a review is far better than describing how it feels when you first hold it.
Nice Memory Game built using HTML, Javascript
Wikileaks founder Assange: ‘To be completely impartial is to be an idiot’
The ability to print, e.g. drawings. Nothing too elaborate, screendumps would be fine.
Yeah, I've been employee < 10 at 3 startups, too. I know exactly what you learn at startups. :)
Functional Programming – Crossing The Chasm?
It's ancient. Maybe by now it's retro and making a comeback.
Website Maintenance - Developer's Liability For Ever
I don't think that any content should be modified, even if it means that it's long for a magazine article.
It's the first review that has really mirrored my experience with the iPad. Although the blush wore off in a week for me. Different usage patterns I expect.
Erm... If I were to license my content under a creative commons license, it would be a non-commercial one. If anyone wants to republish my work, fine. If they want to republish my work commercially, that's a whole different ballgame. I don't like the idea of others (like this magazine) making money off of my content without giving me a cut.
Why not? It's entirely standard practice to edit for length, style and spacing in magazines.

It makes things a lot more readable and if you have a good editor it can mean the difference between good content and great content :)

(take the first article; it could have benefited from some slicing/reorganizing, but most of all from good sectioning (particularly headed sections)
Wow. I'm moving to Tokyo on June 19th. Have fun.
What constantly seems missing is a way to change the user agent header. There is User-Agent Switcher for Chrome, but it only changes the Agent for JavaScript on the page - the header sent to the server is still the original one.

Presumably this is a limitation of the API provided to the extensions.
Just attach it externally. Do something like this:

<a href="URL_TO_PDF" onclick="registerConversion()">Download</a>

You can put a minor 500 ms pause so that event gets registered.
I didn't mean comfort (although I suspect that it may come into it more than you give credit for).

I meant hassle; effort - should I just scribble notes, or will I spend a couple of minutes thinking about what info I want to record before I see it on screen? I could knock up a quick spreadsheet of the relevant comparison points pretty quickly, but I wouldn't bother if there was a pen and paper in sight. If I already had a spreadsheet that I'd used previously, though, I'd use it again. I'd use the website in question if it was equivalent to that, and free. (Sorry OP, I can't think of anything you could add that would make it worth coughing up for, for me at least.)

It's fickle, sure, and it's a very minor difference in effort. That's what people do when they're not really giving much thought to what they're doing, IMHO and IMHE.
I am using it for GUI layout management. jquery based. still hacking on it though.
This is the first time I've seen Ninite, and indeed it seems truly handy for those on Windows.

(of course on Debian/Ubuntu one can use:
dpkg --get-selections | grep -v deinstall > prevpackages.may10
sudo dpkg --set-selections < prevpackages.may10 )

How do I remember the site name next time I am reinstalling Windows at my mother in laws?..

Ninite - what mnemonic device shall I use to refresh my old grey cells?
Yes, to the point that PSN had to take down a bunch of maps for blatant copyright infringement (to say nothing of trademark). http://g4tv.com/videos/37442/GDC-09-LittleBigPlanet-All-Acce...
My ability to compete in a 5k changes from one day to the next. I don't run 100m sprints, but would guess that the same situation applies there.
You could use a higher-end analytics service. Localytics is real-time, provides dynamic segmentation analysis and provides an API for the export of the full session-level data (not just aggregated charts), including events: www.localytics.com
The Neurogenesis theory of depression and a little guy called CREB
GDB: Debugging multithreaded applications
I've fallen out of love with mine... although I still do think it is a cool device. The issue I have with the iPad is you can't really chat with friends online and do anything else at the same time, which is pretty much what I use my computer for when I'm not at work. It's now been relegated to being a portable TV.
Maybe PG would agree to put some text to the effect that "by posting this comment you give permission for it also to appear in Hacker Monthly unless you opt-out" on the comments page. I can't imagine many people having a problem with that but tracking down people after the fact is always going to be difficult.

I do think it's going to need comments to be worth while. I have just bought a copy of the first issue anyway though :)
Agile is Fragile
On AppengineJS
Thoughts on the App Engine JavaScript SDK
After submitting, I was embarrassed when I compared my solution to other people's elegant 4 liners.

But then I had another look at my code and it captures exactly how I thought about the problem. I think I would be happy to write code like this in an interview.
Unfortunately, I have the same problem. I have two PCs that I am always sitting at when I am home. I rarely use my couch. And the PCs are just a little bit easier to use and faster to use than the iPad, so I can hardly use it for that.

The one thing I used to use the iPad regularly for is as a todo list with "Things", but this has a minor problem that is very annoying to me - when I lay the iPad under my head, I can see the reflection of my face. This makes me feel self-consious, so I don't like using it.

I would not get rid of the iPad, I like having it around (and it was absolutely brilliant for travelling), but I hardly use it when I am around my PCs, which is most of the time.
Submit it where?
Important Universal Codes For Mobile Handset / Service Provider
Sounds like nontransitive dice: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontransitive_dice

Still a helluva lot easier to understand than Parrondo, here; at least for me.
Here's conway's game of life in LittleBigPlanet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13GOFa1C4e4
The only meaningful edit I made was a ; after the do{}while(). All of the other edits were just for formating sake. Didn't think it a bother.

Where should I submit it?
That's quite poetic considering your C is far from idiomatic.

Surely manipulating pointers would be the expected way of doing this, and probably easier to optimise for the compiler.
Is Amazon's Mechanical Turk a Failure?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1383596
Ok, nice to see you here (sorry for even more OT).
Quick typo feedback on your site: 'We accept donation now' should be 'donations' :-)
It's worth noting that this is a UK site, and the UK iPad launch just happened, so it's not just beating a dead horse, or headline trolling, this is relevant, timely reporting for its intended market. I also thought it was a far better review than most I'd read.
What really turns me off to StackOverflow is how much the ads flow into the content and are really difficult to ignore. I know that they've got a user-base that needs some extra coaxing to look at ads, but it really diminishes the site's utility, and fundamentally I think this sort of thing should be an open repository of knowledge like Wikipedia.
Fantastic work. =) I humbly offer my free time as as a proof reader for future issues(noticed some minor grammar mistakes).
I'd forgotten just how good the dismal guide to concurrency is. Thanks for producing this!
Going off topic now, but nice to see that someone who doesn't have to, still teaches.

From wikipedia: "University of Waterloo announced that Cheriton had donated $25 million to support graduate studies and research", "Cheriton donated $2 million to the University of British Columbia".
Diabetic Emergency: Prevention and Cure - Health and Financial Freedom
Why not index and present Sushikartan's hard earned relevant information and reward them. Perhaps with something like content revenue for click through traffic from the search results page. This would benefit Google's search results by producing the relevant and local aspect of a review. If Google had ad placements on the destination site the concept of content revenue could pay a better rate.

As an aside I expected to see some form of ad placement on the Sushikartan site that would help support my concept. No such luck. Not sure how it generates revenue.
Read a few articles so far and really enjoying it. Great companion to my new iPad! Definitely going to donate; it feels like stealing otherwise.
Tablet + Android + PixelQi = iPad + eReader
Would your prefer that they starve in unseen rural poverty instead? Poverty is bad but it comes in different degrees and depressing factory work is not the worst one.
The Media and the real reasons Foxconn workers are jumping off buildings
Ads do suck, but it is a small price to pay, and for us, the end user, that price is free, for the service the site provides.

I see this article follows typical codinghorror-notation.

EDIT: I think SO and reddit are "ads done right". Anyone remember '97?
Tech.view: A robot in every home: Helping hands
Because array syntax is clearer (to me), does the exact same thing, and the speed of a computer doubles every 24 months but programmers don't.
Henry Ford paying his workers enough to buy his own products transformed an entire nation. Foxcon and Apple's profits are big enough that they could actively try and raise the standard of living of their own employees instead of joining the race to the bottom. Shareholders will need to be mollified but maybe Apple could be on the right side of history if something big is going to change in China's worker relations in the coming years.
Check out the Notion Ink Adam (http://www.notionink.in/adamtechspecs.php). It's supposed to come in at between $300 and $400.

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Sounds like another name for a nocebo.
Thanks.

Perhaps those people use different definitions of "charter schools", because they do not know about the legal definition?

I for one, would like to see schools in general given more autonomy to experiment and responsibility. Of course pupils should be free to choose their school then, too.
That we all know. What we (I) don't know is why such an obligation will be unappealing to service providers.

I understand that service providers could just be morons who needlessly cling to their "intellectual property" for the sake of it.

I don't see, however, where a company's changes could be both differentiating and difficult to reproduce when everyone else is collaborating.
The Speak & Spell returns!
I have two PCs that I am always sitting at when I am home.

One reason I bought the iPad was to very deliberately force myself to stop sitting in my computer chair all the time. I can use it in bed, I can use it on the couch, I can carry it from room to room, I can prop it on random objects.

But maybe that's not for you. Everyone's life is different. At last we begin to glimpse the future of computing, the one we have been waiting for: Where recommending a computing device to someone is going to be like recommending a brand of underwear. There are going to be special-purpose computers for everything. Already we have special computers just for music (the iPod Shuffle), special computers just for reading (the Kindle), special computing hardware just for making you exercise (the Wii Fit)... if anything, the iPad may be more of a general-purpose computer than one can expect to see in the future. It's like a device for prototyping the single-purpose computers -- which will, of course, no longer be called computers -- that our grandchildren will use.
Seconded. Also, the answer to the second question ("is Diaspora portable") dodges the actual question, and makes me wonder what the Diaspora team actually want to accomplish. An answer like "portability is not an issue, we plan to sell you fully configured plug computers anyway" would be much more reassuring.

I suspect they don't plan to sell such devices. And I totally don't understand why not.
>>I call this, cat-like, brain-and-body kind of tacit knowledge "somatic tacit knowledge": it is knowledge stored in the muscles, nerve pathways, and synaptic connections.

Knowledge "stored in the muscles" is probably more like procedural memory than tacit knowledge.
London Met Police lab uses "electrical network frequency analysis" (ENF)
Quick repair of Unix directories with too many files
Have you been following the announcements at Computex?

http://Armdevices.net has some videos with various Pixel Qi prototypes and apparently "several" actual products are due to be announced by various manufacturers today. They also do a iPad versus Pixel Qi in sunlight demo, but it doesn't tell you anything you don't already know.

There's also a bunch of tv-connected HD media players running Android, with one priced at $40.
300 seems rather high for kids toy. I am thinking it probably would have to break the sub $100 barrier.

But then again everything have to start somewhere.

Any reason you went with the 1024*600 px format?
I don't think you realize just how far we go. :) Do you have products with more artificial flavoring than actual food? Use very large amounts of preservatives to make the food last several times longer than it should? Inject your cattle with steriods? Genetically alter crops to give them certain traits (e.g. larger)?
Get Some brand new Ideas for Your Research Paper Political Science
Writing a political science research paper is not an easy task. There will be much research and writing which needs to be conducted. Your paper will be judged by how it is organized, and how you have written the content. With the proper understanding of how to write it, you will be able to present a successful research paper.
Fail.

Ever seen those psychological tests that have word "RED" printed in blue ink, the word "BLUE" in yellow ink, and so forth? The test is to say the color, not the word. Most people find it difficult and irritating, because the verbal parts of their brains hijack the process and insist on reading the words.

The point of using meaningless text is to quiet the verbal parts of your brain, so you can become conscious of the abstract visual and aesthetic elements.

The converse is also true. Design of the verbal elements has to use meaningful text, preferably in a context where the visual and aesthetic design has been toned down to not distract. Hence the popularity of monochrome wire-frame mockups for document design.

Edited.
Could something as niche as StackOverflow be supported through a donation system like Wikipedia?
World’s Biggest Supercomputing Superpowers [INFOGRAPHIC]
Sounds fishy enough to me that I'd back out of this transaction and book with another company.
Nicereply.com private beta launched
I was talking about among humans. Obviously brain size has a direct relation with intelligence. Are you suggesting that people like the lady in question have smaller brains?
Pakistan restores access to Facebook 
Pakistani authorities today restored access to Facebook on the orders of a court that had blocked the popular social networking website nearly two weeks ago for hosting a page with blasphemous caricatures of Prophet Mohammed.
Agatha Christie And Nuns Tell A Tale Of Alzheimer's (2010)
I second that - I'd gladly buy a subscription if it could be sent to Europe.
But we're not talking about mental handicap here. We're talking about normal functioning people who make stupid decisions. I don't think genetics has anything at all to do with that and I've never seen anything that would make me believe it does.

Given that, the only negative influence such people have by breeding is the influence they wield over their children (which can be a lot, but can also be overcome).
http://blogs.wnyc.org/radiolab/2010/05/05/vanishing-words/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/apr/03/agatha-christie-...
CSIRO to reap 'lazy billion' from world's biggest tech companies
Even better, use unobtrusive js to do that: $('your element').click(function(){//put calls to mixpanel here; return true; });
A space odyssey of the mind
How to pick the perfect name for your blog or startup
Cucumber for iPhone Development = iCuke
Althoug it's not built directly on top of jquery but only has integration with it I think CKeditor deserves an honourable mention.
loved it!! Thanks for putting in all the effort.
This looks absolutely great, and I'm so happy to see someone try out a business model that I've been thinking about for years.

There's just no reason why we shouldn't have editors and publishers whose job it is to find good writing on the web and mark it up decently for reading. It is certainly a service I'd pay for. Already I spot several articles that I didn't see when they appeared on HN in the first place.
Remote control house and appliances with Android or Iphone
Wow, that was really beautifully copy-edited. Damn, guys.
Once you get 200 reputation, I believe the content ads that appear inline disappear.
Long story short: It depends on what you're designing.

There are times when using Lorem Ipsum hurts you. There are many times when it does not.

God save us from designers and developers who suddenly realize that maybe not everything they do is ideal, and then feel the need to crusade to bring the unbearably terrible designers/developers up to nearly-palatable mediocre, instead of focusing on their own work to improve it from pretty good to excellent.
The SR-71 story was worth it alone!
Exactly this happened at a company I worked for! The engineers were too snobbish to use Windows, sticking with their Solaris and Linux boxen instead. Result? Windows user experience sucked. Further result -- Windows workstations forced on the engineers. Further result -- "Hey, this thing really does suck on Windows!"
May be they'll outsource it.
That’s just so wrong. Line heights, line lengths, fonts, font sizes and margins are vitally import visual properties of your website. If you want to make sure that you picked the correct values for those properties and if you don’t yet have copy, you should use Lorem Ipsum. Text is certainly not just a visual element but it is also a visual element.

The important point is that lorem ipsum is not content, rather, it is a tool for approximating the aesthetic of content that might be placed there in the future.

Nobody is saying that design begins with fonts/layout/color (although that does happen at times), rather, that when you get to a point where you need to decide how bodies of text will look, you use things like lorem ipsum to approximate how other text will behave within that field.

The other thing about lorem ipsum, which you may be missing and the op certainly misses, is that by not actually being english, you don't get hung up on the meaning of the content, rather, you can pseudo-objectively evaluate the aesthetic choices used to set the text. again, the whole point is to create a template for setting actual text very well.

the largest problem with lorem ipsum is people using it who don't understand why they are using it. I think that using dummy copy that looks like legitimate content is more harmful than using random latin. At least with real latin, you don't delude yourself into thinking that it's anything other than text used to decide formal typographic or layout choices.
This isn't true. Off the top of my head, Google could replace the executables (incl. DLLs) with ones that do nothing but throw up a "disabled" sign. (Which would also take care of OLE/ActiveX embedding of IE in other apps.) I see below that there are better ways of doing this from more Windows savvy folks.
A friend once told me the the cure for this: hum the introduction to Led Zeppelin's Kashmir inside your head. Gets rid of anything :)
Guess it depends on what you're going for! If you want a digital sketch specifically, then it seems worth it to try with a stylus and a doodling or sketching program.

But Omnigraffle is not for drawing, it's for formalizing. Just like an outlining tool is not for thinking, it's for expressing what you've already clarified in your head.

Computers require you to formalize -- make decisions, order, and choose form -- totally prematurely.

I find pen & paper to be the best thinking tool there is because it's completely free-form.

If you want the next best thing to paper, try that stylus hack and a doodling program, not a tool like Omnigraffle.
IBM releases DB2 Express-C 9.7.2
I don't necessarily have anything against ads, but less obtrusive ones would be nice, and more importantly the core data should be free.

I don't see why something closer to Reddit (but with a slightly more evolved interface) couldn't function as a non-profit in StackOverflow's place.
I agree - but given Google's scale, managing the relationships with these kinds of third party sites could be challenging indeed. Perhaps they could set up a system similar to Webmaster Tool's sitemap submission where you could upload structured data to Maps including links back to your site?

Regarding Sushikartan's revenue, it's not entirely clear but I believe there is no direct revenue from Ted's map sites (he has a lot of similar sites to Sushikartan). He has a few maps sites with partners which probably brings in some revenue, but I think it is a traffic and reputation that is the main goal. Ted already had an exit a few years back, moderately sized but very good for a one-man shop.
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