skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It worked for downforeveryoneorjustme.com -- the inspiration (can you tell? ha) for didtheywinornot.com.
The reasoning in this article is pretty specious and circular. Some of the author's arguments can be summed up as:

* Diaspora will fail because it sounds similar to something someone else tried one time that failed.

* Nobody will use Diaspora because it will fail.

* Diaspora will fail because nobody will use it.

* Nobody will use Diaspora because it will never ship.

* Nobody will want to pay for Diaspora because nobody will want to pay for it.

* Diaspora will fail because the creators are young.

I don't know whether or not Diaspora will succeed. The old school cypherpunk in me wants to see Diaspora, or something similar, succeed. I would be more curious to see a well reasoned article on the obstacles Diaspora has to face with getting traction, and finding a viable business model.
There's only one thing worse than silly "FUNNY PICTURES!!! LOL!" posts and that's posts complaining about submissions of said fluff being deaded.

We all know how to use the Internet here, so we can go to any of the millions of places where that would be considered a top contribution any time we want.
I don't see a draconian future ahead of me as an iPhone owner. I just installed Android on my 3G last night (as a test; it's nowhere near ready for day-to-day use yet, but it dual-boots, so you don't lose the iPhone OS), and can see a very nice option for my "outdated hardware" coming in the next year. :)

Ref: http://linuxoniphone.blogspot.com/
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Where you stand is kind of irrelevant without a complete picture (such as margins, traffic sources, customer acquisition costs, etc)

You should always be trying to increase conversions and trying/testing new ways of making that happen.
OneSocialWeb (http://onesocialweb.org/) is XMPP/Jabber based,I haven't evaluated their offering yet.

Also, TechCrunch did a story on them recently; http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/13/onesocialweb-were-ahead-of-...
Ending the Era of Patronizing Language Design
What would be nice is a feed of Yes's and No's to go along with each page.

Something like http://www.didtheywinornot.com/mlb/new-york-yankees/feed.rss to go with http://www.didtheywinornot.com/mlb/new-york-yankees/
The word "bit" is crucial to the understanding of my post.
Planned for this weekend.
I think we are all missing the point, that its <b> Pac-Man's 30th anniversary </b>. But yes the playable logo, just adds to the awesomeness
No prob. I used http://jsbeautifier.org/ - the first google result for "Javascript Reformatter". It's a pretty spiffy little tool.
Note that I didn't list Theora. The excuses that Apple came up with actually worked with Theora, but I did list Vorbis and FLAC where it becomes obvious that they're just that ... excuses. Both have amazing hardware support and have done so for years ... in everything but iPods and Zunes. It's been pointed out before that both the Beatles and Metallica sell music in the FLAC format. It's not a weird freetard thing like Theora, it's the standard format for lossless music.

Lack of Vorbis support you can just about give a pass on since it might confuse users and spoil the Apple vibe. Not implementing FLAC in favour of your own homebrew ripoff that you don't licence out is just unforgiveable. Again, I've said before that, for me personally, was the point that Apple jumped the shark.

Sansa's the number two in the iPod/DMP market, one of their latest models drops AAC support, while retaining mp3, WMA, Vorbis and FLAC. If the web follows Youtube to WebM I can see similar playing out for H.264, though more realistically it's H.265 that's been strangled at birth.

edit: The first paragraph above may come off as too harsh on Theora, and too easy on Apple. For what it was proposed as, a baseline web format that would be guaranteed to work everywhere for your cat videos, government speeches, educational content, wikipedia footage of rare animals etc. Theora was and is perfectly suited just as gif and jpeg get the job done today despite better alternatives. It was Apple and their supporters that framed this as "there can only be one" codec and I guess they're reaping the whirlwind on that now.
The Pentagon’s recipe for brownies is 26 pages long
I used the word draconian because that is how Google's Vic Gundotra phrased it. Had he not used the word, I would not have either.
I imagine this could work if a third party steps in as a seed hosting service. Perhaps how domain registrants or OpenID services work. "I have my seed through SeedFactory" but it shouldn't really matter who's seeds are through whom, much like the way DNS works today.

The article is correct. Not even nerds are going to install their own nodes, if that is the model they are relying on.
How is it ever a waste of time to read source code?
May be Google will dish out there own anti spyware & antivirus for chrome next.

I liked the plain old google page .. simple
> Could be more fun if I wasn't an Indians fan :(

Question here from non-jerk Red Sox fan - whatever happened the Indians? I look at all the talent that club had over the last 10 years and it doesn't make any sense. Sabathia, Carmona, Lee, Hafner, Martinez, Sizemore... how come the Indians never got more done?

...oh, and at least you've still got Shin Soo Choo. That guy's a hell of a player. I'm visiting South Korea and everyone's crazy about him, I see more Indians hats than Sox or Yankees even.
If you want omega 3, it's far easier to get it by eating 1> Grass fed beef (Didn't you know? Our beef is only missing Omega 3 because we feed them corn instead of grass) 2> Fish, 3> Flaxseed (or flaxseed oil)

It quickly goes rancid out of food, (and hell,we keep flax oil and flax seeds in the fridge). Every pill of it is going to be rancid most likely.

Uncle Sam's Cereal (which I believe was the inspiration for the SNL skit "Colon Blow", is full of flax): http://www.usmillsinc.com/usmills/productview_description.ph... (manuf website, sold in many grocery stores).
This article is actually by Daniel Lyons. It's true that Daniel also writes parody articles as FSJ, but this is not one of them.
What Wall Street needs is a http://linerider.com/ style game on the graphs at http://finance.google.com/.
my eyes focussung on my surroundings says: nope, windows software actually is the big thing when it comes to email stuff. I am a german (most germans just use windows) just beeing on exchange in china (nobody here even can pronounce linux, some special hackers excluded). I love mac and linux and always look for other people who share this interest. Can't find many in both countries.
When our department was buying a moderately large cluster I remember being surprised by the fact that one of the considerations for the server room was that in the event of cooling failure you had to make sure there was enough time for the 1600 cores to shut down before the temperature went totally through the roof. I guess the power density of these packed installations is something not easily imaginable if you don't have experience with them...
You do realize you're allowed to frequent more than one community website right? IMHO, I like that HN is kind of specialized on specific types of content. When I want more general stuff, I'll hop over to Reddit, Digg, MetaFilter, etc.

The nice thing about HN though is that we have great discussions around topics that are specialized enough they'd never get "upvoted" enough to be visible on "those other" sites.
I find it very useful to use as a search destination for the address bar.

For example, in Chrome, add this as one of the Search Engines in the options dialog: http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&btnI=Im+Feeling+Lucky

I've associated that with the keyword "gg"

Now, when I go to the address bar and type a query whose first Google result I am confident will be the destination I want, I've got a great way to get there.

Example:

"gg imdb Forest Gump"

Will get me to IMDB's Forest Gump page. So you can pretty much imagine the power here, especially for reference sites. Type the site name and the query, and you'll end up where you want to be.
Btw, is there a GCC specific way to disable warnings for some portions of code?
If we could only channel all the pointless effort that went into writing this article, and others like it, into some way to contribute to projects like Diaspora, we could actually accomplish a lot.
Dropbox most definitely backs up your files to their servers as well, even for free accounts. For paid account's, it's perpetual.
To allow a meter of incongruity with the current culture would result in a mile of abuse. I would prefer a humorless HN than a 4Chan style ego trough (for the lulz) to satisfy people that should not be here.
25 charts: The state of the U.S. wireless industry
Don't panic, and a ship powered by an infinite improbability drive will pop up. Happens all the time...
I come to HN to get away from being spammed with picture posts I've seen a dozen times before.
Such is the result of the continuing polarization in the 2 party system; in order just to pass ANYTHING the center gets stretched so thin as to be nigh invisible.
Stephenson got closer to the mark; the world described in Snow Crash is more accurate, more believable, and more fun than Gibson's self-absorbed, nihilistic works.

In addition to various technical details (like showing effects of latency and jitter over real-world network links in the Metaverse), Snow Crash presents a confluence of the culture of technology, the culture of the arts, and punk/skater culture that is a reasonable extrapolation of what we see today.

It is a marvellously prescient work, especially when you take phenomena like Second Life into account.
Surely it's relevant to point out that those are from a month ago, during their fundraising push?
Cavemen, exploding nails, and software development
I thought about 4 out of these 6 ideas myself over the years and that makes me realize even more that a truly unique idea is a very rare thing. Ideas are so worthless, unless they are related to HOW you go about implementing one of these obvious already-thought-of ideas.

Does anybody know of a site where you can go and find out what apps already exist that implemented your idea? I'm sure that a lot of people wouldn't use it because you have to divulge your idea to find out whether it's been done before, but I for one would find it incredibly useful. If this doesn't exist, I'm going to build it. Wait a minute, forget I said that.
The zillions of little companies with this kind of problem disagree.
Would be awesome to see a high score list.
"need to" points to biz opportunities.

If people actually care, there will be a number of services providing "servers" under various conditions. Some will be advertising supported. Some will be for-pay. Some will be subsidized. Some will be shared. Some will be virtual. and so on.
Electronic mail and shared screens will eliminate the need for many meetings.

This is totally coming to pass, now that we can Pass the Ball™ with WebEx!
Not really. In the future there will be a whole crop of system administrators who don't ever deal with hardware and data center issues thanks to cloud computing. There will still be plenty to do and plenty to worry about.
I'm all for sharing web app ideas (and ideas in general), but I get the feeling this person didn't Google for any of these ideas before posting this. Reading through, I had at least one existing website come to mind for each one.

1. Carpooling: zimride.com

2. Comments Aggregation: backtype.com (sort of, perhaps this is one not actually done)

3. Social Goals: 43things.com

4. Feedback for Startups: could be done with getsatisfaction.com and surveygizmo.com (in fact I've used surveygizmo.com's API to offer incentives in RateMyStudentRental.com for completing the survey, took about 15min to setup)

5. Food photos: there are actually many more than I came up with initially, just scan the rest of this thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1366785)

6. Integrated Blogging Environment: Tumblr.com does most of that, then there are also apps like the ScribeFire extension for Firefox
I don't know about the merits of or prospects for Diaspora one way or the other but I have dealt with founders of every stripe for years and understand how people can get carried where money is involved.

If a nascent founder group raised $170K from hundreds or thousands of small and unsophisticated investors by traditional means (i.e., by offering them stock in the company in exchange for their small investments), and if those founders did so based on public advertising and without offering those investors any opportunity to learn the material facts about the startup's finances, product plans, founder backgrounds, etc., such an offering would be illegal, plain and simple, and every investor would have a right to get his money back not only from the company but also from each of the founders who controlled this offering. There is a valid reason why securities laws exist, and it is precisely to protect innocent investors from being induced to part with their hard-earned money based on fast and loose pitches that may or may not correlate with reality.

Now, I am not saying that Diaspora has done anything wrong here, or has misled those who have contributed, or any such thing.

My point has to do strictly with the crowdsourcing funding model as a legal tool for raising money. That model attempts to bypass the securities laws by using a donor model, and the key to its attempting to remain legal is to avoid at all costs having the contributors be characterized as "investors." I think that Kickstarter does this legitimately and appears therefore to be operating well within the bounds of the law.

But here is the Achilles heel of crowdsource funding: if the cause being supported does amount to some sort of hustle job (hypothetically speaking and not intending to impugn Diaspora), crowdsource funding enables those who might operate with less than pure motives a loophole by which they can make a mass appeal to potentially thousands of unsophisticated persons who might fund a venture without having to be accountable to those persons in any significant way. In effect, it is like an open ticket (legally speaking) to take their money and do what one will with it.

When there is no legal accountability ultimately for how such funds might be used, that means that the founders of a crowdsource-funded company basically are telling the public "trust us, we're good for it," which may or may not bear out in reality. This is a genetic weakness with this model of funding that is bound to lead to problems at some point down the road, however well it might play out in the Diaspora case.
Misleading headline -- GCC is behaving according to spec. It would have a bug if the output had been 5.7 in both cases.

Arguably, allowing procedures to be called without prototypes is a bug in the C spec, but I doubt it'll be removed any time soon simply due to sheer volume of extant legacy code.
I've tried various vitamin pills in different countries. All the same.

Now I just eat lots of different fruit. No more supplements unless my doctor prescribes.
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Yes indeed. Additionally, people forget with app sales: There aren't that many potential clients. Even if they get everyone who'd buy their app if they knew about it, they still don't top out at silly amounts of money.
Only Google would write 3,162 lines of source code for something that would be on their site for 24 hours.

EDIT: You wouldn't happen to be Rodger from the nonlogic community, would you?
It's strange, though. He includes stdlib.h, and according to my man pages:

NAME
strtod, strtof, strtold - convert ASCII string to floating-point number

SYNOPSIS
#include <stdlib.h>

double strtod(const char *nptr, char **endptr);
float strtof(const char *nptr, char **endptr);

Furthermore, here's stdlib.h:

extern float strtof (__const char *__restrict __nptr,
char **__restrict __endptr) __THROW __nonnull ((1)) __wur;

Perhaps it works on my machine because I'm not using an out-of-date version of GCC (gcc (Debian 4.4.4-2) 4.4.4)?
Ask HN: any writers want to offer critiques?
Hackers,

After years of pulling scripts and tutorials off the internet to improve my own skills, I want to try to return something back to the community. I'm not selling anything or asking for a review of my start up, I'd just like maybe a critique of my first tutorial, or general comments, or actually really anything would be awesome. The subject is late static bindings in PHP. My writing always looks bland to me, and I'm somewhat insecure about it, which makes this a bit of an absurd proposition on my part. I figure this is the only way to really improve my writing skills, and if I can help some people pick up good programming habits then I will consider it a job well worth it. My site is also going through big changes, so unfortunately commenting is not enabled yet on the tutorial itself. Anyway, the URL is below, thanks for reading and I am looking forward to all questions and comments. I'd also be happy to discuss anything related to my blog set up. Thanks!

http://danmunro.com/Article/View/Rockin%27+with+PHP%27s+Late+Static+Bindings+
Quick, add NHL teams before the playoffs are over.
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I'm a HUGE fan of Microserfs
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Like others have said, I believe that having a focused remit is critical to maintaining a community. I don't want to see jokes here just because they are funny, and possibly a little geeky. And I say this as someone who loves to tell jokes. (See http://www.google.com/profiles/btilly for proof that I tell lots of jokes. Just not here.)
Akka: erlang-ish actors for scala
I usually just do this:

http://www.google.com/search?q=phoenix+suns

But I like how straight forward your approach is. It's a good link to send to a parent.
What is your impression of the mountain bike community in general? do they like spending money?

I'm thinking about writing an iPhone app for WA state mountain bikers with trail info, but there is only so many of them (e.g. 2300 registered here http://evergreenmtb.org/) and I wonder how many would actually pay for apps.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-stocks-march-higher-bols...

It's working!
I love pacman, but still the game should NOT start automatically (the sound is really irritating).
PyFaceGraph: A Facebook Graph API Client in Python
I think the key points here - that it won't get critical mass and that people aren't going to host their own are both demonstrably solvable. Hosting: there will be an open market for people to set up hosted seeds of every level and flavour and Flickr showed that people will pay for a social service. There's nothing stopping someone offering free seeds with advertising. And nothing stopping someone selling pre-configured VMs with gobs of storage.

The network effect is more interesting. Diaspora is designed to hoover content from other networks, I can see how I could use it as much as a distribution and management system as a network in and of itself. It's a meta-network, an identity framework on which services can be built. That mechanism will hopefully provide base utility from day one, as well as an open platform on which people can easily build new and innovative services without those ideas being dependent on either a 3rd party's infrastructure or building one themselves.

I'm not convinced it's going to succeed but I'm hopeful.
Appscale - open source Google App Engine
http://iamgoingtomakeawebsiteforeachofmyhackernewspostsnowju...
Anybody know how to save the page off for posterity? A simple "Save Page As" didn't seem to work.
I never forgot his wonderful book Principles of Mathematical Analysis, which I read from cover to cover as a grad student in the late 70s.
Does anybody know of a site where you can go and find out what apps already exist that implemented your idea?

Google?

(Obviously this isn't ideal because the person who implemented your idea may not have implemented SEO to target your idea in your words, but I couldn't resist.)
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I like it :) The search box usability would be increased by a slightly more friendly 'quick search' function. I'm not a sports fan but typing 'Rangers' produced the following output: http://i49.tinypic.com/2e5s746.jpg

One more small piece of feedback: The 'Check Another Team' would be much more compelling if it was a live search box rather than just a link :)
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Nope. Unless, of course, you're googling "Do you feel lucky, punk?".

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=&q=do+you+fe...
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I would guess that the job changes from managing people to managing managers.
Man, Fake Steve Jobs is going to be pissed about this article.
You're certainly right about Snow Crash but in Gibson's defense his book came out 8 years earlier.
Opera to Build Green-Powered "Data Center in A Box" in Iceland
Basically, this sums up to two things criticized:

1) the decentralized architecture: people won't install servers

2) not concrete enough: they only pile buzzwords and money for now. See also the 37signals criticism http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2330-diasporas-curse

While I mostly agree with (2) I think that we can't criticise (1) based on the current situation on the web because the whole innovation -- if it happens -- is precisely the way all this will be done. Just saying "people having servers? crazy!" is just as pointless as saying "people having personnal computers? crazy" was 3 decades ago ago: people sort of already use servers all the time: DSL boxes and smart phones on the hardware side, bittorrent on the software side. So of course it is not easy, but don't forget that if there is a need for such a thing, it will eventually made easy to use. And concerning diaspora, it's not even about servers, it's about standards: think rather about something like email. The question is rather if will we go towards more decentralisation of the data and more autonomy for the users on the net.
That you consider trust a genetic weakness is more than a little sad. There will be problems but there have already been fantastic projects that wouldn't have happened any other way.
It will probably show up in the archive at:

http://www.google.com/logos/index.html
Ask HN: Etsy for hobby electronics hackers?
Hi

I've always been in love with electronics and do small electronics hacks once in a while and wanted to sell some of them. But not finding a dedicated community for hobbyist electronics hackers wanting to sell their stuff online.

So I planned to make an app for this niche audience.

What features would you like to see in an MVP if it was some sort of Etsy for electronics hackers (or indie guys building cool electronics stuff)?
How to Avoid Some Startup Danger Points
Metafilter saves two Russian students from NYC sex traffickers
If there's a 30 day backorder on the HTC Incredible you might as well check out the HTC EVO when it hits the streets on June 4th.
Microsoft Files "Click Laundering" Suits
SoundManager2 now with HTML5 Audio
I seriously doubt that they have had remotely the number of skilled man-hours as the most popular open source codecs. The source code would back that assertion up, if they're doing things like simply groveling through 2^16 combinations of things looking for the best.

Either they weren't skilled or they didn't have time; I favor the latter theory. Feel free to advocate for the former if you like. But you can't have it both ways, because the results were clearly not well-skilled people spending lots of time on the problem. One or the other is not true.
This is great, except for that some element of Google (address bar search?) is running in the background of my firefox browser and the siren audio is on a continuous loop even after leaving Google. No add-on or plug-in I remove helps.
Unless you don't want to be on Sprint of course. Some people really want to be on Verizon.