skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/05/30/Feelings-A...
"What About Apple? · Hating (or loving) them seems about as equally unreasonable. I’ve been vocal about my loathing for their app-store regime but they’re my favorite computer manufacturer ... Apple as a whole? I look into my soul and honestly can’t scare up much in the way of feelings, positive or negative."

Kontra responds: "This, incredibly, is the same man who started his Google “evangelism” gig with the words “I hate it” referring to Apple" -- a deliberate misquotation. Here's the phrase in context:
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/03/15/Joining-Go...
"The people who create the apps serve at the landlord’s pleasure and fear his anger. I hate it."
Credibility dented.

It appears that Google's twin hats, advertising (from which it profits) and software distribution (from which it doesn't, significantly) make it difficult for critics to 'play the ball' in arguments over software distribution. Sure, it's easy for Google to take the perceived moral high ground in a space that is not seen as crucial to its success. That's a legitimate argument (although it contributes nothing to the actual debate). Drawing analogies to its other businesses such as search, advertising and maps, and sneering about how those are not 'open' is not legitimate argument. It's distraction.
Thank you. I have added your question to the list.
> just get with the program and learn to appreciate Lady Gaga.

I know it's a little off-topic, but I don't find Lady Gaga to be all that 'new.' She just reminds me of Cher.

[Further off-topic: Chromium's dictionary didn't think 'reminds' was a word]
I'm not seeing it, and the fact that I have to search for it isn't exactly encouraging.

I start on this page: http://magcloud.com/browse/Issue/88360
I click Buy Issue. I click Sign Up Now. Still haven't seen it. Even on the magcloud.com homepage I don't see it. Maybe I'm crazy/blind.

The site has my IP address this whole time and could use it.

Visitors from outside the US will feel my pain on this one - it is a common and maddening frustration.
Just hit checkout - you don't need an account, that takes you to the shipping page where it tells you (thinking about it I can see how it is a bit confusing how they ask for an account, not sure how you got to the payment page though, it is on the shipping page)

People elsewhere have suggested as a solution btw: http://www.shipito.com/
Hacker News is taking down its paywalls? No one told me!
Just a suggestion - Use a "Pay as you want" model for the downloadable pdf, which will enable people to give you donations.
The interviewer here is astonishingly bad. He seemed deeply uninformed (about Yandex, "that's a Google clone, right?"). And there's this constant, "Russia is a third-world country" vibe from the interviewer. For example, "Can you tell us how you actually made money on Russian companies?"

Blogger journalism makes me miss real journalism.
The comment "hopefully encasing the oil" doesn't inspire much confidence either.

As a solution it has all the air of "give it a bang" and see it if fixes it.
Wow...I was skeptical at first...but this is pretty epic.

God I LOVE HN!!!
Lorem ipsum is valuable precisely because it is meaningless. It is designed to fill space without distracting a pedantic reader who will inevitably find misspellings and glitches in any preliminary body copy.

It is also really easy to find out if you've left lorem ipsum in your production directory -- one line of grep is all it takes. If you use any other form of fake copy, good luck to you making sure it's all gone before your site goes into production.
> Isn't Foxconn interest to keep their workers happy ?

No. As the saying goes, "Work hard today or work harder tomorrow looking for a new job".
Tokyo Japan Hacker News Meetup #2 – Friday 18th of June
And this time we're going to find a nearby place that's open for an after-party.

(I should say that last time it we weren't planning on as big a crew sticking around)
Google to employees: 'Mac or Linux, but no more Windows'
Sure they are.

They're saying "Windows has nothing to offer us, and there is no Windows software that our developers might want that justifies having Windows machines in our offices." If you work at Google and want to use, for example, CodeSmith, you have to get special permission from the CIO to build a Windows machine to install it on.

Clearly CodeSmith is a good tool that developers might want to use, but because of management's vague fear of "security concerns", it's now off the table for your average dev.
PyPy in Google's Summer of Code 2010
I ordered one because I can’t wait to find it lying around a couple of years from now. Seems like this could be awesome bookshelf material.
Lim Cheng Soon, the creator of the Hacker Monthly, deserves a good deal of credit for securing the rights to reprint all of the content in this magazine. I'm sure that was the most time-consuming part of putting this together. In the Curator's Note on the second page he says, "I've also exchanged near hundreds of emails asking for reprint permissions."

Projects like these make a good case for open-content licenses like Creative Commons' and the GNU Free Documentation License. If all the articles included in the magazine used the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license (which allows content to be reused as long as any modified versions are available under the same terms), Lim could have saved countless hours by not having to explicitly ask permission for each piece he included.

Lim, if you're listening, perhaps you would consider encouraging the people you talk to to license their works under a Creative Commons license. This could make things a lot easier the next time around if you pull material from the same blogs, etc.
Sounds great. I'll try to make it if I can come to Tokyo around that time...
6 Essential Android Apps for Expecting Mothers
Pregnancy has never been so modern. Here are the top 6 Android Apps for pregnancy.
Great work!

For someone who claims no prior knowledge of print you've created something that looks pretty good, chunky selection of articles as well.

I noticed something interesting, I recognized some of the articles, but in this format I read them more thoroughly. It's as if content on the web is more "disposable", whereas in printed form it feels more permanent, and you feel obligated to give it more time - as another poster said, less distracted by the comments.

Might I suggest using a different monospace font though? I found the code font you used in JWZ's article to be much less readable than my typical code window (e.g. Consolas).
I loved Gibson at the time, but it seems he doesn't really have the passion of a futurist, like my personal fave Greg Egan. I've always thought that writers who use SF merely as a trope to talk about the present sort of miss the whole point. Yes, the present is the launchpad; but what is interesting is to speculate about the possible futures any particular now might imply.

I have to assume PKD would find something to write about, were he alive today.
OK, if I explain the let syntax with some examples before demonstrating with fst and snd, will that be OK?

Actually it just checks the type of the result on that step! I'll do a syntactic check to make sure you have to type it out in that step.

Thanks for the feedback, I'll fix this today!
So now we know who they will blame for the next security issue. :p
I admit - I overreacted... Sorry Magcloud. You can cancel my support request (seriously, which is kind of embarrassing).

Anyway I've had dinner and can now speak calmly. The feature that I described (a preemptive suggestion of the inability to ship to the visitor's country) is not common on the web. In fact most online retailers really suck at it. I still haven't found a decent solution for quickly checking whether Amazon items can be shipped to me without adding to cart and proceeding to checkout. However, it would be a welcome feature for most online retailers, and would definitely stop visitor's like myself from getting a nasty first impression.

I guess it's not implemented well because, by definition, if I'm outside your shipping area than I'm outside your target market. However you can see how this is short sighted, and keeping me happy might be a good idea for the future.

So those are my $0.02 on the issue. I guess this is what happens when a company makes me angry ten minutes before dinner :D
Yep, that seems to be everyone's main complaint! I should've known it wouldn't be intuitive. Oh well, lesson learned. Hopefully this is the only step like that! Cheers!
Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/) Is a good one - choice is narrow, but a lot of important stuff in there!
Yum. Hacker Monthly is the old Wired.
Hey, I will explain fst and snd. In fact I go into them in some detail in later chapters, but I'll mention their use and why they're short at this step too!
Intel puts x64 in a parallel universe - Larrabee gets commercialised
Oh yeh I totally agree. The worst bit for me is that, living in the UK, sometimes you can get lucky (as in this case) but it is completely non-obvious...
Somehow I missed this - thanks much for putting it together!

Noisebridge is one of the things I miss about the Bay Area.
I have to second the parent on the comment comment. :) I've seen this done superbly in Snob magazine (www.snob.ru), which is a relatively recent Russian-language project also featuring both an online community (subscribers only) and traditional printed issues. I think it's a very interesting model for the new media, and Snob executes it very well.

In any case, what they do is they have a few pages in the printed edition where they just reprint interesting comments from the online discussion. The comments are shown as thought bubbles next to user icons from the online community, and they are selected such that they make sense standalone without the original article text. These pages are surprisingly fun to browse, and they also work as an ad for the online portion of the magazine and the discussions taking place there.
I'm interested in "plastic rose syndrome" but google isn't giving me anything that seems relevant. Happen to have a link to some info?
Hackers don’t want to sift your personal data for the most part (unless the sifting can be automated). It’s botnets that make them money.
Falling out of love with the iPad
Yes, I'd do that as I don't care about a printed version and kinda feel like cheating when downloading the free pdf.

It's a great idea, very well pulled off!
Great! I'll make sure to come along again!
Last lights on
I don't think you can do away with five hundred or so years of typographic history that easily. The use of Lorem Ipsum and the first Oration against Catiline came through need, not through a desire to flaunt random Latin texts. There is a definite need for filler text that doesn't distract as one finishes a design. If leaving lipsum text up in a live design is a problem, the solution is to replace it with real content, not replacing it with more dummy content. At least lipsum is recognisable as such. Wouldn't it worse if a user took the content for real?
There are two sides to this. One is that pain can be a severe impediment to living your life; I'm currently laying in bed, typing this on my phone, because my neck (which I injured last week) hurts too much to do much of anything else at the moment. I'd welcome pain relief in a heartbeat.

The other side, though, is that pain is often a sign that something is wrong. If you're simply getting rid of the pain, you may very well make the issue worse unintentionally, or not notice it getting worse.

So yes, pain relief is not necessarily a good thing in all cases, but it's not necessarily bad either.
well done, cheng soon. pass me the hard copy when we meet again :)
Great work, Lim.

Everyone else: Live in the Netherlands or the surrounding area? Want a hard-copy of Hacker Monthly but can't get it because they don't ship to mainland Europe? Willing to have an impromptu meet-up in Amsterdam to get hold of your copy of Hacker Monthly?

I do, and I still have a UK address that I visit semi-regularly. I'm sending my copy there. Email me if you're interested (see my profile). Depending on the interest (up to a point, obviously) I'm willing to bring them over and sort this out.
I think the ads were fine.

I think the reason he did not include comments is the lack of a way of contacting people on HN. Very few people include an email address in their profile.

HN could help him a lot by adding a "email me" link on the profile page - not an email address, but a forwarder, HN will send the email.

I don't think spam would be much of a problem since you would need to be a registered user to send an email, and you could require 3 karma or something.
Indeed, in '98 our application was put onto an IBM demo disk of Java applications - we were a VC funded startup and I was the CTO.

After we had sent them the stuff to include on the disk a very worried developer came to me and told me that "some of <deleted>'s test data went to IBM". The test data in question had been sourced from some particularly unpleasant alt. newsgroups.

I had a genuine "my career is over" moment...

Turns out that the only data that got sent out was a reference to the word "sheep" in an search index. That was all.

I've tended to be quite careful about test data since then.
And truly smart people are too busy taking over the world to find time to listen to music anyway.
> The main reason a Mac user is more secure than a Windows one is because a Mac system is running on a sounder security architecture (not administrator by default, etc.)

In specific ways, how is OS X's security architecture more sound than Vista or Windows 7?
If the product is easily reproducible then perhaps you should consider going for the premium end of the market - retail that "home made" image even if you have to locate some premises and take on an employee or two to produce the quantities involved.

Branding may be important here - you need to establish an image for the product and then sell that. You will also need to deliver the product to your trial (hopefully later paying) customers in a format that fits in with their processes. So we are perhaps talking packaging of some sort here - at least for hygiene and probably for safe (perhaps stackable) storage.

Try looking for a nearby packaging manufacturer (not too large perhaps turning over less that $10M) with experience in the food market and ideally the catering market if that is where you think your product niche is. They will know a lot about how to manage their side of the business but will also have lots of contacts that could be invaluable to you in the supply and processing areas. They would be less likely to "rip off" your idea and could help a lot in bringing your product to market.
Nike Dunk High LE 3M Reflective Croc
JD Edwards Vendors Lists
Each record in our database has in-depth segments like title, location, SIC code, volume, revenue and other key business demographics. Our clients use our data to communicate directly to C- level decision makers, technical professionals, who have already expressed interest in JDE application/ consultancy services.
Is it actionable? No? Then get rid of it…
I'll be there again.

God willing, I'll have a rough demo of Appointment Reminder to show off if anyone wants to see it. (Memo to self: whitelist calls to Japan for the weekend.)
Great. Looking forward to making this event as much fun as the first.
You don't have to sign up to checkout. It's mentioned just below the "checkout" link.

However, I agree with you. They can make it easier. It's a good idea to use GEO-IP location to track the country and let users know right away.
I think there should definitely be a free version at least until it gets established. I simply wanted to check what it is about without any commitments including the hassle to go through a payment processor.
Web Design – Open Source Vs Commercial Software
Web design industry has been influenced significantly by open source software in recent years. The last few years has seen a shift from static websites to the design of dynamic Web sites and web applications powered by powerful content management systems and other useful features.
Hey, great, sign me up!
It seems to be about allergies, so add that to your search.

From what I can tell it's the idea that someone allergic to roses would also be allergic to plastic roses, if he thought the roses were real.
Oh I agree, the current ads are fine, I just hope they stay that way and don't infiltrate the contents in the future. Think of it as a pre-emptive suggestion. :)
You measure it like this: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/05/mouse-pain-express...

Basically rate the pain level, 1-10, then see how it changes.
To us - IT guys - they look alike, and we can stay away from dangers quite easily. To an average user - and I know what I'm talking about, since I've taught IT security to those average users - Windows' security architecture - UAC, applications (badly) designed to run as Administrator, ecc.- is full of pitfalls. I guess not everybody at Google is an hacker.
I think that "pay as you want" means that you can pay if you want, or you can just take it for free.
Web Applications with Django on Jython
I guess this is a case where you choose not to buy a restaurant because you happen to like a specific dish ^_^

My understanding anyway is that Windows is allowed, if you can demonstrate a strong enough case for it.
Beautiful Geek Poetry
The 4 Strangest Cryptids
Cryptids are any sort of animal or creature that has not been proven to be real.
He used "digital" means to create the circuit. He even said it would've been easier and simpler to create a mechanical version.
Maybe it's obvious to some, but not to me: what are some applications of algorithm X?
Or just add a link to the HN thread?
The reason she was let go had nothing to do with her lying, it had to do with her doing a good job for so many years.

Some first-year employee with little visibility might be forgiven for lying about academic credentials on her resume. Sweep it all under the rug. No harm, no foul. The Dean of Admissions with a wonderfully effective career and lots of praise could not.

(Actually, after I wrote that I had second thoughts. The fact is that any challenge to the idea that college credentials are critical to job performance in an academic setting must receive the most severe punishment.)

I think there is a bit of populist rabble-rousing going on, but that doesn't detract from the fact that there is a serious point here as well. In my opinion, after that much service to the university, somebody should have cut her some slack. Surely MIT is big enough to let in the occasional person of competence sans degree.
so you used Dropbox/Growl to still pull him out of his concentration, something he even quit IM to prevent from happening.
China surely.
Taiwan was the 'almost slave labour' go-to place decades ago; now it's developed. That's the evils of globalisation for ya.
yepp. Works fine for me. No auto deletion going on here.
The article makes the following (rather weak) points against Lorem Ipsum:

1) Nonsensical Handwaving such as "you'll feel more inspired with real content" and "Instead of your design enhancing the meaning of the content, your content is enhancing your design."

2) "it will take 5 minutes to explain to confused team mates and clients".

3) You might forget to replace the Lorem Ipsum dummy text

The tool doesn't seem to fix any of these. Instead it makes them worse, because it makes the dummy content look like real content.
And yet, when you looked at e.g. the web server data back in the early 2000's, you had 70% apache 25% IIS -- and yet about 20 times as many exploits (and much more effective at that) for IIS.

The reason was, to put it bluntly, that IIS was designed without any regard to real security, whereas Apache had _some_ regard to security.

That's also the case for Windows through its history; it has been making leaps recently, but doing things more securely requires it to become less convenient / not backwards compatible, and therefore it is still, relatively speaking, way more vulnerable when used by your average user.

I'm not up-to-date, but up until 2007 or so, a significant number of web browser vulnerabilities were directly or indirectly a result of Windows and Explorer's love of executing files after wrongly identifying them as e.g. wav or doc files.

The single Unix design decision that a file must have an executable flag out-of-band, and the convention that by default this flag is off, both of which date back to 1970, have kept Unix safe from these kinds of bugs. Sane default permissions on system directories are another decision; the latter has been adopted by Windows in XP SP2 IIRC, the former still hasn't.
He's a few weeks away from getting his degree, I think he's probably made the right call here - Take site down. Get degree. Put site back up.
the thing about rhino is, that it already is a mature js implementation. it has the most modern js support of all the engines out there (the version shipping with java is sadly quiet old) and it's battle tested. we have it in production since 8+ years.

i can see how it might seem rhino has "little active development" because we are comparing it to js implementations that just started and of course have more "going on" then the old horse.
Google - the content producer?
Google Code Blog: Chrome Extensions for Web Development
The page that features Chrome extensions for web development:
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/featured/web_dev
Deploying DNSSEC: Lessons from Domain Registrar Implementation
Junk. Not worth watching.

This has virtually nothing to do with "Investing in Startups in Russia". It is basically Esther Dyson, whoever she is, enumerating her successful exits and plugging several of her new ventures. That's it.
I think that has something to do with the quality of the design and typography. This is a gorgeous publication!
I've never been to Japan so I can't comment on $800 US-made jeans. However, there are many high end japanese brands, and a lot of the ones that aren't use Japanese denim.
Lorem Ipsum = fake content.
Lorem Ipsum Tool = fake content.