skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've already feature-frozen v0.7, but I'm going to look into this as a plugin for 0.8 - potentially very cool idea.
Woops. Sorry, updated.
Everything you need to know about cryptography in 1 hour [slides/audio]
Sounds like it could be fun, but I just can't cut my possessions down that much. My passion for motorcycling (bikes + tools) books (I have a kindle, but textbooks are heavy) and electronics (more tools) pretty much sees to that.

A small truck bed more than suffices, but not one suitcase.
This was discussed earlier (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1346711), but the audio was not available at the time.
Saving Icons for Snow Leopard (managing color spaces)
An interview with Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians
A hometown lesson in marketing to a niche.
I assume by this you mean that they are independent implementations without a common ancestor, right? They seem to target the same thing, even though they don't share a common ancestor, so I would imagine that there is still a lot of potential for cross-pollenation.
Looks nice, although the changes are given away by hinting problems on my Linux box: http://ploader.net/files/92540a2c2b68cfe8b49f2301f628f860.pn...
(I've no idea what it would take to fix this but I can provide more info about the system on request.)

Here's a nice oddball coding font for you: http://www.dafont.com/monofur.font
The Mac OS X version is 64 bit, which means it'll work with 64-bit HandBrake. Previously you had to use an odd prerelease build. This is what I was waiting for!
Not true. Calculus would be the same (a radian is a radian). sin(pi + x) != cos(x) in the new system, though.
The innovation revolution - India could be 2nd largest R&D hub after USA
It's interesting how almost every aspect of life in India is eventually spun and attributed to the caste system - kind of like Godwin's law.

I think the reason for a rigid career path is simply that economical safety is generally encouraged over risk taking.

Possibly because people value having a stable family over becoming successful by other means (not saying you can't have both)
Yes, but >=kiloamps and <=milliohms are that rare, which makes it seem like the whole scale is off by a factor of 1000 or so.
There's nothing stopping you from working for 1-2 months, launching, and then getting reviewed by a panel of customers.

Heck, if you win that, you'll basically get a free ticket to fly to the Valley and join the current YCombinator class, permanently.
Ask HN: Tips for Speed Networking?
I'm going to be attending my first "speed networking" event tomorrow. I've done some research on tips but most of it seems generic and not a lot of help. Does anyone who's attended this or any networking event in the past have tips on what specifically local business owners may want to hear about website creation?
AppKit runs on Windows, Foundation on Windows, Linux and Solaris.

Translation: No GUI on Linux or Solaris.
No anti-virus software? No Internet connection
I want inline previews (first paragraph) or the full text for every news, so that I can read the stories without leaving HN. It can be a GreaseMonkey script that adds a "show full text" button, and, when you click on it, shows the full text.

Not sure, what is the legal status of such previews, though...
Now some of them will be forced to buy hardware whose profits will subsidize the upgrade for those who have newer models.

There is no way to spin this in a nice way.

And, for the record, I would be perfectly fine to buy this upgrade.
No Dogs and Israelis
Chain rule:
Let x be angle in radians, y be angle in diameter-ians (2pi)
x = 2y
d/dx sin(x) = cos(x)

d/dy sin(y) = d/dx sin(2x) d/dx (2x) = 2 cos(2x) = 2 cos(y)

It's the same reason why you use radians for angles in calculus: degrees mess it up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigonometric_functions#The_sig...
Why publishing exploit code is generally a bad idea if you're paid to protect
Lines of code vs. Lines of test
The original DejaVu Sans Mono it's based on does, so I would guess this does too.

In fact DejaVu includes pretty much all of unicode.
I like it, except for the 3.
I can't imagine Cocotron being so dependent on its internals as to make reusing parts of it on other projects impossible.
Avoiding Second Startup Syndrome
Er, I'm not saying that changing pi would mess up calculus. I'm saying that changing the unit we use for angles (in such a way as to make the existing pi "right") would mess up calculus.
"Don't cry on HN that something needs to be done."

I read nothing in that comment that sounded like crying.

As to your first suggestion about the Co-Founder-Wanted-Meetup: Am I such a cheapskate that $65 in advance/ $125 at the door to attend a meetup sounds a bit steep? Perhaps I can't see the forest for the trees and the opportunity cost of missing a meetup like this is way greater than the attendance fee. So for anyone who has attended this meetup, is it worth the fee?
GNUStep is licensed under the GPL and has not implemented as many Cocoa features.

Cocotron is licensed under MIT. Assuming that the GNUStep authors want to maintain a stricly GPL codebase, they would not want to borrow anything from cocotron. The authors of cocotron chose MIT specifically to be friendlier for commercial developers.
I left out 'in the eyes of others' because I didn't want to have to bring up a second false dichotomy you were implying, namely between 'success in the eyes of others' and 'success in your own eyes.' I mean most people have pretty similar ideas about what constitutes success.

If you try to make the most of yourself and feel you've succeeded, and you are still not 'good enough' for someone else, then I don't think that would make you unhappy. At that point you'd probably peacefully accept that something wasn't to be and that you were not to blame. On the other hand, if you never fulfill your potential, if you never really give it a try, and are left wondering what might have been, that seems a surer root to unhappiness. Though it will creep up on you after years of just having 'enough' money and maintaining the same relationships.

Value isn't just the domain of money, it's also the domain of creativity and of personal qualities/virtues. Relationships, self esteem, etc, are not exempt from the concept, recognition and exchange of value. Although a lot of people talk like they are, which I think is at the bottom of this argument here.
I promise that you will have a surprise quite soon :D

And the lua extension framework already let's you get it back.
I don't know, typing two zeroes in a row gets a little eyeballey.

And, unrelated, if you are thinking the serif font for the prose on that page looked like some ghastly font from the early days of printing. It is!

Legitima is the digital revival of a typeface used in Cicceide Legitima, a book written by Francesco Lazzarelli and printed in Venice, ca. 1694.

To be fair, Legitima is designed to work in smaller sizes and going smaller than the 19pt on the page makes it look much better.
...and according to coinmill.com, 1 crore Indian rupees is roughly US$220K, or €175K, or £150K.

I never realized that my in-laws were so cheap. :-)
definitely refreshing to see an indian start up on this list with a respectable list of hackers. looking forward to seeing what you've got cooking..
From my reading, it seems that the complaint is that ATI doesn't support hardware video decoding properly.
At least one of the problems, IME, is that salary ranges are rigidly determined by the employee tier.

The tiering system goes something like this:
Software Engineer -> Lead -> Architect

Without advancing through the ranks, it is well nigh impossible to get reasonable increases in pay; so people (even those who may wish to write more code) strive to climb up the ladder.

Not saying it makes perfect sense to everyone, but there is some logic to making sure people climb up the ladder quickly (if they are capable) in large corporations.
Sorry, you're right about the refined carbs. Also, going further along the meat lines, there was also recent research differentiating processed meats (e.g. bacon, sausage, lunch meats, etc.) versus unprocessed meats. If I remember correctly, the unprocessed meats had no real links to heart disease and cancers (in moderation). However, the processed meats did show some links to those health problems. The researchers speculated that it was probably either the high salt content or the nitrates in the processed meats that were the culprits, but the study didn't actually look at that.
Very much almost exclusively my knowledge of programming comes from reading books and 'pootling' around (and I started in 2000). I think it's more a matter of where you live than what age you live in.

In the early 2000s you only read books and experimented and didn't use the Internet for help or as a reference at all? That would strike me as unusual, though not far fetched.

My point was merely that the Web is an amazing resource for new developers now that we didn't have in the 80s. (Or Usenet - in the 90s. I got access to the net in 1995 and my programming abilities shot through the roof within a few years merely by conversing on newsgroups.)
Well, those are pretty simple.
For many reasons (that are debatable, but maybe this isn't the right place?), VLC can decode on the GPU and then gets the data back from the GPU to filter/restream/reencode to finally display it. Even if this isn't the fastest way, there are good reasons for it (I can explain if needed...)

On ATI drivers, the data back path is slow, and you need a special GUID that ATI doesn't want/cannot to communicate.
Adobe uses it, we cannot yet.
I believe this will be fixed in the future.
No, it is doing it fine.
The irony is that if you have an Intel SSE4.1 chip, you can use a special trick to work-around this "bug".
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"...there is societal pressure for more money, higher status, fancier cars and bigger houses."

And this doesn't exist in the US (and everywhere else)?
Are you saying people confuse charged ions with flowing current in a circuit?

My view of the problem is that it's hard to grasp what current actually is. The water in a pipe analogy works, but it's confusing because the electrons flow in the opposite direction of the hcurrent, making the "water" positively charged electron holes.
This seemed pedantic and silly to me until I read the reasoning in the wikipedia article. After all, we use numbers to do far more things than division, don't we?

However, I was impressed by the far-reaching implications of this fact. The regularity of the base 12 times table was particularly compelling. You know how easy the 2's and 5's row is to learn on the times table, right? There's an obvious pattern that's easy to memorize? Lots of numbers are like that in base 12.
The single largest hurdle for learning on your own is knowing the right questions to ask and how and where to ask them.

That's an interesting point, though pre 2001-ish I'd suggest this was easier. Usenet was the obvious destination. Groups like comp.lang.c, comp.lang.basic.misc and rec.game.design were popular and easy to find. Nowadays, there are 1001 different sites (many with poor traffic) for every topic imaginable.

Sadly, Usenet seemed to fall on its ass and be usurped by the Web somewhere between 2000 and 2003. A shame, that.
"Those of you who are physicists, I hear you rolling your eyes..."
Foundations of Computer Science (free ebook)
The title seriously undersells the essay, which is an exhaustive examination of why the US IPO market has died.
Pure speculation. Since the device and firmware are not open, you can't say there's no technical reason.

WWDC keynote, 1:41 "because the hardware just won't support it".

But don't late that get in the way of your put downs, eh.
Welcome to the club. With OS 3, Apple broke the cable I used to watch podcasts on a TV (at the time, I spent a lot of time in hotels and the cabe was very handy). Now, with iOS4, Apple broke the whole iPod. With iTunes 9.2, BTW, they also broke the iMac I used to sync my iPod (a beautiful bondi-blue one), kindly informing me it wouldn't run after installing it, making me have to chase down a copy of iTunes 9.1.

No. I won't buy a new computer just because Steve thinks I should.
I think the perfect complement to a self-taught web programmer is something like SICP. (Google knows what that acronym is.) I'm actually not necessarily an "SICP lover", I don't think it's perfect, I just think it's pretty much the perfect complement to a self-taught web programmer.
Frankly, I have always appreciated that Ohms are almost never partial. milliohms are a rare occurrence, and I just think that's great and works out well, IMHO.

Amps being too large is unfortunate, but it's not a big deal.
Engineering researchers achieve organic laser breakthrough
The iScam (or why mobile ads don't make sense)
That should have been the best reason to switch.

I'm pretty sure most early Linux adopters switched from whatever proprietary platform they were using for political reasons (i.e. freedom). I'd argue that without the people who switched for political reasons, Linux would never have acquired its current level of awesomeness.
And, being the firmware source closed, you trust, without any means to verify it, when someone with an interest in this matter tells you, that, despite the nearly identical specs (same amount of memory, same processor), revision 1 can't run the software that revision 1a can. The only difference between a rev1 iPhone and a 3G iPhone is the cell radio. The application processor is exactly the same.

If you really believe there is a solid technical reason for it, I have a nice bridge to sell you.
> The apartment room he used to stay in probably cost him $800, so it's about $1000 more expensive to use Airbnb.

You can't rent an apartment nightly.
FYI,

http://cocoawithlove.com/2010/04/options-for-porting-objecti...

http://cocoawithlove.com/2010/04/design-of-multi-platform-ap...

http://cocoawithlove.com/2010/04/porting-mac-program-to-wind...

edited to put links in chronological order
I freely give my email address out, but change it every year to avoid spam.

my system is to use the current year...

i.e.
currentyear@mydomain.com
so, 2010@ycombinator.com
Do something that makes $333,333.33 a year.
I stand corrected.

In any case, is this supposed to be a given to a javascript programmer? I don't think anyone in my company would see a .K() and go "oh, that's a combinator", for instance, and most programmers there have CS degrees. I'd say that even asking for a definition of combinator would be pushing it, in fact...
I've used VLC player for a while, for playing both DVDs and downloaded videos. It's a very versatile package.

It does not have the sound bug that causes Windows Media Player(with codec) to make the background loud, and the main track soft.
How to Write a Term Paper, with self-confidence
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Why can't system apps go in the app store? They could be installed by default, but able to be uninstalled and then reinstalled from the app store. Think Apple's Remote app.

What Gruber says makes sense for apps like Mail and Safari, but Stocks and Weather feel so grandfathered in.
(take 8 (david-edgar-liebke))
Great article for folks that aren't physical in which case the only way to loose weight really IS to just manage what you eat -- this has never worked well for me.

This can also be a dangerous path for people that are not great self-starters. Using the scale every day teaches you to become obsessed with your weight. A lot (not all) make the association of:

My weight == My self worth

So if they slip up and put on 3 pounds, they feel horrible about themselves. I also think this doesn't promote a healthy long-term method of thinking because at some point you will stop loosing weight. At some point you will have that beach body you wanted -- and then what? If you were obsessed all along with the weight of BF measurements, then you can potentially loose your cause to continue.

This happened to me when I lost 30 lbs. I was so obsessed with the weight, I took it off in 2 months, and kept it off for about 6... then gained it all back + 10lbs over the next 2 years due mostly to being "bored" once I was "done" with the diet and had been at my goal weight for so long.

Again, this just happened to work for me.

I actually like excercise, but I liked food more. So without giving up the good quality foods I liked (eating fast food for every meal doesn't count) I upped my activity level to compensate and have enjoyed a much healthier method of taking off weight for my personality type.

I still have a bit of a gut, but I'm stronger, faster and cardio is much better with better blood work -- and that is what matters to me long-term. These are the type of habits I want to carry forward... needing to work out every day, enjoying what I do.

I want to pass good habits to my kids some day, and that all starts with learning to love physical movement I think (unless you are a phenomenal eater, then that's good too... but most of us aren't)

If you don't mind playing sports or exercise and LOVE food, then try and play with upping your activity level instead of dialing back your diet.

Fight 1 battle at a time.

The pride and confidence you will gain from feeling better will naturally translate to not eating so much of the really terrible food (drive thru) and instead replacing it with something slightly worse... maybe a veggie pizza or something.

That being said, I'm by no means a guru, I just know for 10 years I've tried everything and this is the only thing that worked for me.

Also, if you are the type that likes to push yourself and kick your own ass to see if you can take it -- you need to look into CrossFit, it's awesome.
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Yeah, girls are probably even more programmed with this idea than I am. I gather from your comment that it's not a requirement for you?
Beyond Compare. Done.
Jason you're so full of shit it's not even funny anymore. Stop playing innocent, you're a fucking content stealing spammer who has the good luck to have enough connections to prevent you from being de-indexed by Google. The whole we de-index crappy pages stuff is beyond old, don't index crappy pages in the first place and don't steal content from other sites, that's what an honest person would do, but of course you're not, you're just full of shit.
WinTheTrophy's New API Service Lets Developers Hack Sports Betting
Does this exist because someone wanted an open source version of the Cocoa apis that isn't GPL'd? Otherwise, I don't understand why they wouldn't just direct their energies into GNUStep.
Finance is one of the most heavily regulated industries in existence. To hold it up as an example of the pitfalls of unregulated free-markets goes way beyond dishonesty and into the realm of outright stupidity.
Afraid of what? What is you want them to do?
Oh very nice... didn't know of that one.

Have you considered making a thread of it here? It's a nice list.
I got a kick out of the post, how he starts off with the intent of fixing the "0" and then I quick-scrolled down to the screenshot and noticed there were a lot more corrections than just the "0" -- that's totally something I would have done too once I had the font opened in an editor :)

Either way, really like the widened GT and LT chars for coding, thanks!
> You can't really optimize, in the A/B-testing sense, an entire design.

That's just crap. You can test anything, including entirely different versions of an app. The idea that you can't test good design is what designers tell themselves to justify their operating on gut feeling and pulling opinions out of their asses.

There isn't anything a user does that you can't come up with a way to test, designers are just afraid of actual data showing them they're full of shit. They don't want their ideas challenged democratically by users, they want their own ideas used instead because of some misplaced sense of taste. Engineers do it right, test, iterate, improve, follow the data wherever it leads regardless of your own ego.
"The company says the data is anonymous and does not personally identify users."

Yeah except, you know, when a user is in the exact same location every night for ~8 hours.
For people looking at the torrent, Rob's talk is the one named "The Next Big Thing Or Cool-Kid Koolaid Slicing Through .mp4"
Was it installed during that preview? If the font isn't installed, the font viewer can't do the hinting.
A for effort, D for presentation.

C'mon guys, you have the bar charts already. Would it be too much asked to combine them into one so we can compare them without scrolling four screens up and down?
I would definitely write the whole blog post in this font.
iOS asks you each time though. So Apple is erring on the side of caution, if anything.
Please do. That'll be nice.
Anti-virus software is not going to fix the problem when the users are the problem, mandating it will just annoy more advanced users who find anti-virus slow and unnecessary. Australia really needs to back off their internet regulation ideas, they're terrible.
Indeed, and this book takes account of that. The recipes I've looked at have pretty quick, straightforward preparation and don't use many utensils.
I'm seriously impressed with how far VLC has come in the span of a few years. Crud files go in, perfection comes out. I wish more software was this robust.
Carroll Quigley,who Bill Clinton called "his mentor", spent much of his great tome "Tragedy and Hope", http://www.amazon.com/Tragedy-Hope-History-World-Time/dp/094..., writing the history of the intertwined relationship of the ruling and financial elites. Skip the second-hand histrionics you may read about the man and the book, and go right to the source.
One word. Travel.
Giving away domain name (sitegarden.com) free I don't want squatters on it
I'm giving away sitegarden.com for free which I think is a nice domain name. I can't be bothered selling it but I don't want it in the hands of the dirty domain harvesting squatters. Domain goes to whoever gives the best reason that they should own it. email andrew.stuart at supercoders com au
Looks pretty obvious to me. My first reaction was "I'm not a Mac user, I don't want this"
this is very cool, can't wait to do some damage
Hmm. That is a very natural way to count quite high on your fingers.

But it seems unlikely as the origin of the Babylonian system cited. The 60 symbols are written in base 10; if it grew out of a culture that counted to twelve on their fingers, I'd expect to see five groups of twelve, not six groups of ten.

I can think of a more natural explanation. When I am counting something on my fingers (in the conventional way), I often want a way to store the tens digit. Perhaps the Babylonians did, too. That the tens digit is drawn as two groups of three is suggestive that whatever method they used stored a trinary and a binary state.

So, when I count off (palms up), I get to ten on the thumb of my right hand. It has a little more dexterity than my other fingers and can store more states. It's pretty straightforward to get to six by leaving it bent/straight and pointing out/up/in. It's natural to do while counting, too. (Bent and pointing in is a little uncomfortable if I want to use the other fingers, but then . . . you don't ever need to actually store 'six').
You are upset your twelve-year-old computer won't run a version of iTunes released days ago?
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Did not know that. In that case, what's the big deal?
Where did the article do this?
He doesn't care, he's a scumbag spammer and will endlessly play innocent no matter what facts you present him.