skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having said that, if you look at a genuine result from twitter:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://a1.twimg.com/p...

google doesn't detect or stop that breaking out of frames. But maybe twitter are just managing to avoid detection by google's code..

The code on that page is:

<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
if (window.top !== window.self) {document.write = "";window.top.location = window.self.location; setTimeout(function(){document.body.innerHTML='';},1);window.self.onload=function(evt){document.body.innerHTML='';};}
//]]>
</script>

which doesn't seem like it would be too hard to detect.
Pretty much the same with google.de/google.de (36%), my blog (52%) and xkcd.com (44%). This killed it for me actually.
Another observation is that the right window is always faster at my end. Can anybody else confirm this?
Columbia Scientists Prepare for a Threat: A Dirty Bomb
If you're more intelligent, you'll choose to stay up later :)
My first daughter did that. Only for 3 months, but for that entire 3 months she was either eating, sleeping, or wailing. (shudder)
It's deliberate. I believe pg said it's to stop people effectively giving themselves the top comment on a link. Which is exactly what the submitter is trying to do here. Of course, he's the author of the link so it's fair enough. I guess pg would want him to add his comment like everyone else; or put the comment on the webpage itself; or put up with a unlinkified url.

Personally, I think it's a bit of overkill for a specific problem (and I don't know if it actually occurred in practice, or it was only predicted that it would occur). Maybe the HN community can be trusted to not abuse linkified links? OTOH, it's an extremely minor niggle, and I agree that pg's time is better spent on preventing spam and keeping the community civil etc. That's way more important.

Meta-discussion like this is frowned upon, but I wanted to answer your question and also offer a solution: I solve this problem with a customable dictionary lookup addon for firefox, by adding a rule that just opens the highlighted string directly. I come across unlinkified URLs quite often.
I know they say they are but Flattr isn't a micropayment service, it's a microdonation service. It's more like an "upvote" than a paypal payment. It's also about recognizing that most Internet users also are "content creators". One examples that comes to mind is social news sites. While people might like what you're doing, generally you get a lot of traffic that is notoriously hard to convert. If donating were as easy as upvoting maybe things could change.

While signup is a challenge, it will be as hard as getting someone wanting to donate the minimum amount (currently €2 I think) to someone. Also it's still in beta and hasn't been "out" for very long.

Last. While I think this "thread" is somewhat decent, could people please minimize the negativity. When it comes to entrepreneurship it's very easy to be right, as most things fail. This describes what I mean better than I can: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/09/the-problem-...
Ask HN: Executive summary for early stage startup - resources?
Hi All,

I need to write an executive summary for our startup but I don't really know where to start. The audience for this summary is going to potential advisors for now and investors in the future. It is not for clients, users etc.

Any links to blog posts etc which have some ideas or examples would be greatly appreciated. If you all have some thoughts on what should/shouldn't be included, that would be wonderful as well.

Thanks
Feature suggestions for Gmail for increasing speed and ease of email:

1. Send subject-less email only.
2. Send plain-text email only.
The article isn't trying to argue the causes of the low female:male ratio. It's just setting a context for why it's necessary for there to be organizations to address the problem.

There are LOTS of articles that try to figure out the cause. This isn't one of them. It's a useful list, instead.
They're actually pretty much required to do this; Boies Schiller signed an agreement with SCO to cap legal expenses way back in 2004, thinking they'd be able to litigate this quickly. Bad bet on their part; they're still on the hook to faithfully defend their client in this case until all options are exhausted, without additional compensation. I almost feel sorry for them.

Almost. :)

Groklaw link covering the appeal: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100707202429776

Groklaw link from 2004 covering the fee cap: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20041104173931772
That's largely because Java aims for cross-platform compatibility. It doesn't have to deal with nearly the rats' nest the autotools do. Note that I still think they suck and would probably use CMake if in the futuer I find myself working on a C or C++ project of any size.
I've worked with browser development and testing for the past six years. Each part of the development chain has its interesting parts. Getting the browser engine to work and giving it a usable UI for an exciting new platform is great fun. Working on the browser engine itself, taking part in developing the web standards of tomorrow and making the stuff hundred million people use every day, is even better.

Commenting on whether or not the particular position in question would be good fit for you is however impossible without knowing more about your background, what you like and what you'd be doing, however. Let me know if you have any more specific questions.
But...if you have the self-control to not cheat, then you have the self-control to get the dang chores done. So who's the target demographic? People who don't need the app.
You are very different from the bulk of GED takers, and thus your experience isn't really helpful as a basis of comparison.
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middle of no-where.... geez :)

I live in Iowa. Des Moines to be specific. And our start-up community, IMO, is rock solid. We have a number of organizations who host regular events (http://www.technologyiowa.org/, http://smcdsm.ning.com/, etc...) along with a very good supply of technology user groups covering all of the major techs (.Net, Ruby, Java, etc).

As for finding people to bounce ideas off of, attending those events, meeting new people, and just talking about what you're doing has worked well for me.

We also have two (that I'm aware of) co-working locations. These are great because it groups together like minded people who are always willing to listen to ideas you want to bounce.

Starting a blog to bounce ideas off of your users doesn't sound like a very good way to go to me. It would take a really long time, and would be a lot more work. I'm not saying it can't, and shouldn't be done. I'm just saying getting out and meeting people will be better.

We're also in close proximity to larger cities too, so we often get talent coming in to work for start-ups here.

And we have a news site to keep tabs on all of this, http://www.siliconprairienews.com/. This basically allows a one stop shop for seeing what's going on, and where you might be able to meet new like-minded people.

I guess this turned into more of a pro-Iowa post, but I think it gives you some answers :)
Slightly off-topic, but if you're installing ODE on Windows, you're in for a world of hurt. I never had the chance to try any other dynamics packages that build on Windows, but I'd recommend shying away from ODE; this is a "devil I know, devil I don't" situation where the devil I know is pretty evil.

You'll find that ODE can be downright Windows-hostile in pieces of its implementation that have nothing to do with GNU toolchain issues. Take a look at http://www.ode.org/old_list_archives/2003-October/010046.htm... for the most common problem; they don't care that the stack has different restrictions in Windows and Linux. You'll also find ODE to be downright thread-hostile; the entire library is non-reentrant (they built their own non-threadsafe layer on top of malloc inside the engine; you can't trust any two functions to be callable from separate threads, even if they have logically nothing to do with each other).

ODE is the first physics package most people seem to suggest, but I think it's more trouble than it's worth.
A judicious use of commas helps to avoid misinterpretation. I'd also hazard to note, at the risk of sounding like a get-off-my-lawn prescriptive grammarian, that many garden path sentences achieve their ambiguity via hanging prepositions, e.g.:

>The cotton clothing is made of grows in Mississippi.

Yet the most general pattern seems to be a simple matter of loading too many words into the subject clause [1], e.g.:

>The car driven past the barn crashed.

We don't reach the verb until the last word, which not only opens the door to ambiguity but also produces flaccid prose. You will produce tighter, sharper sentences by front-loading the predicate verb.

[1] - edited from "too many clauses" as per telemachos's astute reply.
You should be able to drive it to a power outlet or docking station for charging. Or maybe it should drive there itself?
I just wish that clients pike Gmail would drop the stupid truncation at 78 chars for plaintext emails.
Far be it for me to defend US high schools, but being on time is very much a skill that people lack - and it so annoying, not to mention a sign disrespect for the other peoples time, to be later for appointments.
Luddite.
Could not agree more. MacRuby exists, it's great. Use it. Who cares whether or not it will replace or complement Obj-C, sliced bread or even the internal combustion engine. GC is the key to the iOS port. Not there yet, so no option at the moment. Of course the future (maybe distant, maybe near) will bring GC to iOS and MacRuby with it. No need for reinventing the wheel.
3D printed full size self-replicating makerbot
Flights diverted, delayed as UFO detected hovering
So, either a) the proton is a different, size, b) the muon is a different weight, c) the 'electron shell' relationship to the proton size is not what they think, d)...
Modern Male Sati
Industrial cleaning. Enjoyed it much less than what I do now.
How does any of that contradict this being NIH? Just because it's ken's NIH doesn't change that that is what it is.
Thanks for correcting me. Hvernig datt mér þetta í hug?
Lots of question marks. Let me help you with that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(programming_language)
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Of course it is - it is marriage in California - properly the most loopsided situation outside family court.
Rage, rage against HTML emails like it's 1999.

But since GMail already supports rich text emails, this seems like a pretty obvious feature to add.
get a video camera and a tripod. or use the simulator so your fingers/hands don't block the view.
My question: Does forcing oneself to get up early lead to stupidity?
HN can be a very interesting place:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1496772

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=158450

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=661907
A judicious use of commas helps to avoid misinterpretation.

Killjoy.
"..opens the door to ambiguity but also produces flaccid prose."

You wouldn't make friends in Germany :)
I can't help but feel that this would be a really beneficial innovation in the way content is provided on the Internet. Every other video distribution site (except Netflix, whose online business model I still can't comprehend) has gone back to ads. Hulu+ is essentially Cable: the Revenge, but with more commercials than on-demand.

Being able to "subscribe" to a favorite show for $4 a month, in HD, without commercials, would be fantastic. I hope there's something to this rumor.
I'm not convinced that abolishing marriage would end the wealth-redistribution system.

I'm not worried about the external social part of it, but the personal part of it is that many people (including myself) enjoyed both getting and being married. Obviously, YMMV.

I guess that marriage has some "legal framework" but I've never even thought of it in that way. To me it is a personal declaration of two-way commitment, made in front of friends and family, and it's worth as much, and as little, as how you live by it. Same as any commitment, I guess.

I like being married. It's not a charade to me. If you don't like me being married, because you don't like divorce lawyers, so be it.
I don't see this feature yet, is it perhaps enabled for a select number of accounts?
It's works only for amateurs - mature people love to wake up with sunrise and emptiness and clearness of an early morning. ^_^
"Finally?"

"Finally," Gmail introduces rich text signatures?

Not, "Finally, America Gets Out of Debt" or, "Finally, a Global Inter-Cultural Renaissance" or hell, even "Finally, a Fast T-Mobile Android Phone With an Effing Slide-Out Keyboard," but, "Finally... Gmail Introduces Rich Text Signatures?" This is what we were waiting for, with bated breath and Cheetoh-dust-encrusted fingertips?

I'm not angry, internet. I'm just disappointed.
Warehouse stocking, nearly got pneumonia from working in a -20F freezer.
From RFC5322, Internet Message Format:
"Each line of characters MUST be no more than 998 characters, and SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding the CRLF."
These guys definitely have a political agenda to push, so take their conclusions with a healthy dose of salt. The Wikipedia entry has more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation
You should probably attend this event in NYC later this month: "Find a co-founder Night II" http://www.eroundtable.net/2010/07/07/find-a-co-founder-nigh...
Reforms in U.S Immigration
The intermediate steps of development were as follows:

1. Draw a big rectangle of flat-shaded ground (no textures, no heightmaps) tiled into triangles of equal size. Mouse navigation to fly over it.

2. Move the vertices vertically according to a formula - a procedural heightmap - e.g. a sine wave.

3. Add subdivision of triangles into smaller triangles as needed, like in ROAM (http://www.llnl.gov/graphics/ROAM/roam.pdf).

4. Solve hidden surface removal. This is easy because the triangles form a bintree-like structure, treat it as a BSP and draw back to front.

5. Implement loading of texture tiles. (Do you have those?) The scale of the texture to load for each triangle depends on its transformed Z value.

6. Implement loading of heightmaps in your preferred format.

7. Debug, optimize, debug, optimize, debug, optimize.
The kill-switch URL isn't exactly secret: https://iphone-services.apple.com/clbl/unauthorizedApps

Note the lack of any applications being listed there.

Seriously, this is an easy one to verify; a reporter wouldn't even need to call Apple for a response. I'm no Apple fanboy, but there doesn't appear to be much to see here.
Ask HN: What would make a great customer support tool?
Hi,

I keep seeing posts on HN about customer support (email support) tools. We have been using Fogbugz for a couple of years now and I know that there can be a better solution. I have looked at a few other solutions (for example zendesk and RT) but I am wondering what a great customer support tool for a small team should be like. I have a few ideas

* Ability to reply/close/assign and do other stuff through email (RT does some of this but its extremely hard to setup)

* A very simple and usable web and mobile interface with a clean API

* Pricing based on number of tickets and not number of users (not all developers are support agents but you still want a login for them to see/respond to some tickets)

* Hooks to provide more information about the user, making it easier to provide a more personalized response. Basically making it easier to wow people who write to you.

I feel a lot of solutions out there are pretty complex (in terms of features, integrations etc) and quite costly for small teams. Do you think there is scope for a new product here? What would you want to see in it? I am going to start working on something very soon and would appreciate any feedback or ideas. Also, would love to find some beta testers :)

Thanks!
What's interesting is that by looking at how many nested levels are still understandable, we can also make a guess about the stack size of our brain. (short term memory (?))
Although car manufacturing (in a GM factory) was up there with worst jobs, but it paid well. You think repetitive strain injury in desk jobs is bad? Try putting the same screw in a car for 10 hours, for months.
Internet investment's new champions
If a SCO appeal surprises anyone, they haven't been paying attention.
Pure speculation but maybe NDrive is improperly licensing and distributing the map data?
As a warning to other entrepreneurs: you can either get married or make a company, but dammed is the poor fool who does both.
I launched my company alone. My partner read about it in a magazine article.

If you have the gumption to go it alone, you may be able to attract a partner more easily down the road; traction has a way of turning heads and opening doors :)
Yes, but then why does he say 'keep in mind that the robot can be used by multiple people'. Is this any different than, say, two people sharing a pencil?
or as Twain said:

"Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth."
Facebook ditches virtual gifting
Apache Web Server: Install
The problem with this approach is that it immensely devalues non-knowledge-based jobs, which still very much serve as the backbone of our infrastructure.
When Startup Founders Start to Flounder
A true guru just accepts things as they are, especially those which are the product of an evolution.. ^_^
Hum, when I went to look I got a blank box - wth? - errrr......
These guys definitely have a political agenda to push, so take their conclusions with a healthy dose of salt.

Good advice. Could be usefully applied to just about everything ever written on the subject of global warming, unfortunately.

(...except this comment. I am untainted.)
Jobs outlook for small businesses may be getting bleaker
Crockford: The Theory of DOM
You could write the same article about almost any plan we've tried to end some social ill. America's social problems run deep and would require a massive reorganization of society and existing institutions along with widespread cooperation and participation for them to be fixed. I think our only hope is to take the long view and try to institute policies that will change people's attitudes and behaviors over time.
ParrotVM internals with Allison Randall [video]
Yeah, great idea. Formatting never adds information to plain text.
I stopped reading this after the first paragraph. Who puts their article in a small 5x5 inch box?
This very much reminds me of the "America Speaking Out" initiative by the Republicans at http://www.americaspeakingout.com. As you are saying, simply letting anybody say anything doesn't produce results or encourage intelligent conversation.
Yay Google, can you hear me clapping all the way back in the nineties ?
Automattic caught A/B testing pricing for Vaultpress
I noticed the Wikipedia page had no mention of the oil funding they received?

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heritage_Foundati...
My apartment does have a hallway, in addition to a bedroom and a kitchen. Unfortunately, they're all the same room.

I'd have more space if this place said 'Adidas' on the side.

That said, of course I'll meet you up in Tokyo and show you the city! As long as I'm in-country, of course; I'll be back in the US for August, and I'm not sure where I'll be for October and December.
Treat Your Mind as You Would a Private Garden
So if there's eventually an HIV vaccine that's 91% effective should everyone take it just in case? Even if you never expect to contract HIV this seems like a bit of a Pascal's Wager situation. Why risk it when there's a vaccine available?
Finally only means that someone has been waiting for the mentioned stuff for a long time. It doesn't imply that it was the most important thing for the person.
Mistakes in programming language design
Disappointed this doesn't seem to work for Google Apps (yet), as my work account is where I'd benefit most from including working links in the signature.
The Mythbusters checked the increased viscosity myth (opposite presumption, same speed is possible) and found it plausible.

http://mythbustersresults.com/swimming-in-syrup
I don't see why my loved ones need to be on the internet.

If they have to be, the main value is long-term-ness. Whatever info/pictures I put out there, I'd likely want that to still be there in 10, 20, 50 years. Nobody has done that type of long-termness well, so far, that I know off.

What I might want to put online is their digital archive: the stuff they chose to share online while alive, archived for a long time.
Thanks for succumbing to my charms and delurking, haha. Really though, I appreciate the thoughts.

You could say I'm making up for lost time since I did take a couple of years completely off of programming to do a few things, including a lot of voice study and some semi-pro paying operetta gigs. That left me nearly unemployable for about a year, and I'm just really starting to re-establish myself career wise, and I am more dedicated to programming than I've ever been before, and I'm enjoying it a lot more than ever before. I'm also far less interesting to women than ever before:) I can handle it though, since I'm becoming the person I want to be which I have decided is more important than meeting a woman, at least for a few years.

Yes I'm monotonous. I pretty much have nothing in common and nothing to offer a woman, yes I seriously believe this. If I were a woman I'd honestly want to pick a taller, more attractive, friendlier, and much more charming guy like you. I'm fierce, I'm driven, I'm focused on tunnel vision, and right now I don't give a fuck about trying fake some stupid personality full of flowery feelings. This thread has given me enough anger to want to code for about 50 hours during my four day weekend and I'm quite thrilled by this.

I'm fascinated by all ideas, especially the ones that bore the shit out of women. (Math, hard science, programming fundamentals, nerdy trivia.) I've tried travel and it's not just that I'm not interested, I actively dislike it, and don't want to do it. I don't need to actually be in a new place to discover new ideas. I don't need to try new foods either, I eat to have a killer body right now. But really I'm an interesting person, and I make friends very easily, but generally only with nerdy men who are also chronically single, heh.

There are a few things I've learned trying different approaches on online personals for almost a year. (In addition to making up desperate ways of trying to avoid the yawning cataclysm of misogyny:) ) One is that for a man in his thirties, potential doesn't mean shit, and underachieving is repulsive. I need to fix that, I absolutely do.

Again this is who I am, and it's who I enjoy being, and I am quite conscious that any personality I would craft myself toward to be attractive to women would be nearly the complete opposite. But one thing is for sure, I may be frustrated (and man oh man am I frustrated), but I'm not average, and I sure am not a chump.

In ways I envy you that the person you are and want to be is someone women are interested in, so that you don't have to face this conflict of interest every day and can do what is naturally invigorating to you, without being like a modern day monk who trades off discipline, enlightenment, and intellectual invigoration for years of complete involuntary celibacy:)