skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just thought I'd mention a project I've been working on related to this thread called MapThatPad (http://www.mapthatpad.com) that helps you save apartments you find and stay organized while you hunt. Helped me quite a bit when I was looking with my girlfriend.

Having been in the same boat many times, I got tired of spreadsheets and hacked up this site. Would love any feedback or comments.
A/UX 3.0 on a Mac II is what I used to run my BBS on. Everyone else was using a PC with DOS or some QNX or BSD...
Adapting to a DIY treadmill desk
Some IPO Speculation
Why You Should Not Integrate Game Mechanics Into Your Service
Record-Breaking X-Ray Blast Briefly Blinds Space Observatory
Whom are you talking about? James Patterson?
Steve writes, for example: "She was pulling out a giant needle as she told me this. It just sort of materialized from under the table, the way a knife appears in a bar fight. It was a very large needle."

I'd say that's some rather good writing right there.
My big issue is that he comes across as an ideologue... I want flexibility from developers, not someone who makes very specific demands of our methodology.
It's a sliding scale. For example, compare to the audiophile cult^Wcommunity. Most people don't know what good headphones are until they put on their first pair, but then they do there is no going back to the old, muddy $10 pair from Target. But then a select few take it to ridiculous levels and spend thousands of dollars on de-oxygenated, cryo-treated ethernet cables with electron flow arrows and ceramic ground plane spacing pylons. Don't let the fact that these weirdos exist (and the businesses willing to bilk them) fool you into thinking that most people couldn't tell the difference at the low end of the scale though, where each additional dollar goes the furthest. But most people never buy any headphones other than at the low end, so they don't realize that a modest increase in price can provide a substantial gain in quality.

The same thing is true about coffee -- supermarket beans are cheap and stale. Starbucks is substantially more expensive (mostly because it's sold by the cup) and significantly better (mostly because of copious quantities of sugar), but still not that great. Beans fresh from a local roaster sit on a critical point where more money creates a similar increase in quality. Below that point, a dollar produces many dollars in value. Above that point, a dollar produces less than a dollar in value. Putting a three-stage reverse osmosis water filter on your $4000 double-boiler, gold-plated, hand-operated espresso machine is way off into "pleasant waste of money" territory.

As for hot water specifically: hot water does in fact change taste because A) hot water dissolves things faster (like the insides of your pipes) and B) tanks tend to concentrate and add to the impurities. See http://everything2.com/title/Never+drink+or+cook+with+hot+ta... for some examples. Whether your hot water has perceptible taste differences depends on your hot water heater and the piping around it. Cold water is best not because it is cold but because it has less crud in it. Of course, the cold water may need filtering too if it doesn't taste relatively neutral out of the tap, like many municipal supplies.
I think Mixergy does this but I think there's room for more.
Check out the book if you have the chance. A very quick read. A bit sensational, but a nice distraction.
A given prediction can only be considered impressive in relation to the predictor's track record. If pg's made a thousand similar public predictions and this is the only one to come true, then it's not impressive. There is insufficient evidence presented in TFA to judge whether or not this prediction was "particularly prescient" or not.
It's to bad that there is a glaring typo in the first sentence.

If you are reading this, fix the spelling!

(sorry, cheap shot!)
I found Beaker, which looks pretty nice. http://beaker.groovie.org/index.html
Do programmers need gimmicks? Last time I looked for a job, it took 1 week. Certainly I'm no one special either.
Regardless of whether or not Thesis and other WP themes are actually legally required by the GPL to be distributed only under the GPL, if one believes at all in the concept of copyright, it's ethically, if not necessarily legally, important to consider the intentions of the developers of WP in using the GPL.

It's clearly the case that both Wordpress and the FSF believe that programs which link or include GPL-ed works are derivative works. Even if they're wrong, isn't it somewhat unethical to agree to an agreement and then violate what the other side of that agreement have told you from the beginning they believed it means?
I love coffee, but that is way too much frickin' work for me to invest. Sorry "coffee snobs" I'd love to join your ranks, but there are really just other pressing priorities right now.

Maybe after I get "FU Money." :-)
So you're suggesting that semantic meaning is not important? :)

Most incubators explicitly state "no lifestyle businesses." I don't think it's that ludicrous since the term startup is often misunderstood, much like the concept of lean.

I agree that working a lot isn't necessarily working smarter, that was not the point.
Secrets of Simplicity: rules for being simple and usable
Apple outbid by HP to buy Palm
Even more damning, one of Thesis' developers just admitted to copying the code from WP:

http://ma.tt/2010/07/syn-thesis-1/#comment-481846 [source]

http://imgur.com/jNs7c.jpg [screen shot]

Chris could definitely make his business work by embracing the GPL rather than fighting it. Cut some sort of deal with Matt, accept code contributions to decrease development time and, generally, use Thesis to launch a million other non-GPL products.

He also seems worried about others stealing/selling his work, this is over-stated. Couldn't he just trademark the Thesis name to mitigate most of this risk? I would also bet that most of his customers would prefer buying the real thing over some unsupported knockoff. GPL or not, people who don't want to pay will find a way to get it for free.
There are some good points here - and this is coming from a founder of game mechanics platform (iactionable.com). Like any piece of a design, you can't just throw it in blindly, you have to approach it with a well thought out plan and goals. Some sites are a better fit for game mechanics than others. Even when it's a good fit if the system is designed poorly it can do more harm than good. It will be fun to see the ideas behind game mechanics mature over the next year or two.
It is a fantastic book! And the setting of the film is different, but the story is surely the same: an emotionally immature protagonist gets swept up in an ever-expanding and quasi-supernatural game. The emotional crimes he plays out on others are played back on himself through this game, causing him to eventually achieve self-realization through a sort of emotional catharsis and resurrection (metaphorically in the book, quite visually in the film with the white suit and the graveyard and all).

Replace Greece with San Francisco and the sexual crimes in the novel with the film's emphasis on corporate greed. Still not convinced? The icing on the cake for me is the fact that both film and book end identically, hanging on a moment of choice in a situation which leaves it ambiguous if "the Game" is still ongoing.

I don't think Fincher really nailed the movie the way he did with Seven and Fight Club, but the connection to the Magus seems obvious for another reason as well: the weak points of the film start making sense if you think about it as an adaptation. The major point of the Fowles novel is in its Eliot quote that, "the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time." I don't think the film is as convincing as the book in part because the romantic relationship it uses to do this is incidental to its preoccupation with corporate greed and is not very believable. But the intended structure helps explain some of its weaker dramatic moments, the biggest of which for me was seeing Michael Douglas running around a corporate cafeteria with a gun shouting about the need to protect his employees and their pensions.
I agree with what you say. I really hope that law makers dont always want to be law enforcers. Let enforcement be done by the concerned.
Paperduino: Arduino built on paper circuitboard
Everybody has opinions. Some of them become true, most don't.
Some of these senators are becoming real twats in getting caught up in what are frequently high-vis, low-impact issues.
I use a Pezzetti which sits on a gas stove. It makes about 1 cup in about 5 minutes. Also, I buy 500g of ground-from-beans coffee at a proper coffee store in town, and put it in the fridge so it doesn't go stale (I can't get to town that often). Works fine for me so far!

Even with all that, each cup is only about 10 pence.
"They"? VimClojure seems to be pretty popular. Most people who use Clojure and Emacs combined already used Emacs for other Lisp programming projects before, so it definitely depends on the direction you're coming from. Java refugees tend to stick to Eclipse.

The real irony is that there's barely any distinction between vim and emacs. The "editor wars" included a lot of size arguments, but with the rising popularity of vim as the de facto default vi (and increasing memory capacity), this is a pretty moot point. Vi have become ze enemy.

(The number of people who stick to a smaller vi is probably the same as uemacs users)
This update failed and left my phone unusable. Had to restore and resync from scratch.
This is a better analysis than most, but it is unlikely that a court analyzing this would stop there. The court would probably use the Abstraction/Filtration/Comparison test.

Take the code, filter out the abstract concepts, the purely functional expression, and finally the short words and phrases in what was left. Some other courts would impose a further filter based on fair use and interoperability.

Take a look at the diff and apply some of those filters in your mind. After all those filters, I am unsure what, if anything, would be left.

EDIT: I had thought that this might be a case of parallel development, but Rick Beckman (former dev for Thesis) just posted that there was copy-paste from WordPress core - he did it. (http://ma.tt/2010/07/syn-thesis-1/#comments, Rick Beckman @8:41) Although that doesn't make it completely open-and-shut, it makes it significantly more likely that Matt/WP would prevail.
Howard Lindzon: Startups Are Safer Than Stocks
I'm from Vancouver, it has a huge tech scene. But mostly in games. I too would like more money/talent pouring in for the web industry.
Ugh, he uses Yoda conditions. If two, the value is less than, Jedi you will become.
When to raise money - Tip from a VC
In my understanding, they could not, just as they could not force any other software pirate to do what they please.

It's just tht opening GPL-violating code is probably a cheaper alternative than paying damages (and as far as I know, there's a legal precedent for a GPL violator paying damages to the authors of the pirated code).

Alternatively, a GPL violator could negotiate a proprietary license for the same code from the author(s) of the GPLed code they used - it's questionable whether (a) you can hunt down all the authors, since open source licenses specifically enable collaborative development of software and (b) whether all the authors would agree to such a deal, especially after the company in question tried to pirate their code without giving anything back in return.
The tests passing is apparently necessary, but by no means sufficient.
For UK based hacker coffee addicts: I recently discovered Has Bean which seem to tick all the boxes in the OP -> http://hasbean.co.uk/ (no connection). Good blog too.
Lindzon's background:

http://www.techstars.org/mentors/hlindzon/
Except that sometimes differences only exist on a slightly more expensive scale.

If you can't tell the difference between 6$ Cab and 6$ Merlot, it is likely because at this price range there is very little difference. Better wines are better at expressing the differences between the grapes. Cheap wines are all fruity and alcoholic.
I don't think I'd say misled, I've never home roasted but the difference between french press and drip brew is night and day even if using (Bog forbid) Folgers in both.
I'm sure home roasting make a hell of a difference too, but it isn't a sole key.

That said, assuming you're not just a sweetmarias pitch man, anything in particular you recommend?
ITunes App Store hit by developer and account fraud (July 4th, 2010)
I swear by the Aeropress:
http://www.aerobie.com/Products/aeropress_story.htm

I brew it a little differently than the instructions -- I use 2 scoops of coarse espresso, fill the canister, let it drip halfway out (about 2 mins) then top it off, wait another 30 secs, then use the plunger. Makes a perfect 12oz cup of coffee, every time.

I also have a hand-pull Gaggia espresso machine from Italy. So it's not like I'm comparing it to crappy drip. With the same beans, I get equal quality, and the aeropress is faster.
The Da Vinci Code is cheesy, but otherwise well written

The Da Vinci Code is so poorly written, it's spawned a minor cottage industry of amusing commentary about how poorly it is written. A good place to start is here:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000844.h...

[heh, I wonder what refined consumer of English literature and fan of Dan Brown was so upset by this so as to downvote it]
I'm not sure if this was ever posted. I didn't find it on SearchYC. I was out of town and missed this story.
I would be more impressed by a CV submitted in Brainfuck.
> Why would a theme be beholden to the software's license?

Well, because there is WP PHP code in it. Once you do that you become a "derivative" and you take the license.
I'm not sure about the "off the boil" advice for temperature. I read in Cooks Illustrated recently that boiling temperature water makes coffee taste bitter and that it's best to use water between 190F - 205F. I tried this recently, with my usual pour over cone, and found that 190F water made the coffee delicious!
Perhaps, and thanks for pointing out a fallacy I didn't know about, but in my defense I did say 'mostly.' ;)

We all know how that community acts compared to how this community acts and it's no secret that many of their users like to stalk our hallways when they get bored of lolcats.

"Oh look, a thing on the Internet that is getting attention but isn't read-only. I'd better jump in a troll it up before it gets locked down." I won't welcome their userbase here until they can learn to act like adults when the situation calls for it. They're just a different breed and while I don't mind going onto their site to enjoy the humorous comments, you won't find me trying to have an actual debate on there.
Not before time.
Don't take this the wrong way, but you sound pretty arrogant. Why is your SAT score relevant - To prove to us that you're smart? You want a tip: forget about it. You're worth the value that you bring to the table right now. That value is based on how smart you are AND your hussle. Based on getting "kicked out of college for not attending class", I would say you've got no hard-work skills at all.

Why not find a better job, or one working a startup? Why not go back to college? Why not start your own business on the side while you work? You say "I've been wanting to do this for awhile" but it sounds to me like you got fed up with people telling you what to do and gave up, instead of fighting for something better.

A business plan is worth nothing. A drop-out with no execution skills, no prototype and no team is not going to get funding.

You put yourself out there with this post and exposed your fear and that's commendable. I would say: step 1 of 100,000 in the right direction.

1.) Get over how smart you are.

I'm sure people told you how much potential you had as a kid, but that's over now. In the adult world, potential doesn't count for shit. The guy who got a 950 is kicking your ass right now because he got up and did something. (Just FYI, I had to do this too, it's humbling but necessary)

2) Go get a job NOW to pay the bills

Living with your parents is for kids. At least your expenses are low so there's no reason you can't make enough money to support yourself AND build your business (assuming that's what you want to do). Go hussle up a job that can pay your bills. Mow lawns, wait tables, build websites, WHATEVER. By staying on your own you're increasing your odds for success and, you know, being a grown-up.

3) Build something SOON

Bootstrap a very small niche business that can bring in $100 a month. And do it in the next month. There are a zillion resources out there to hold your hand through doing that. If this is unpleasant for you or if you can't make that happen, DON'T start your own full-fledged startup or waste time looking for funding because that is a million times harder.

4) If you're interested in the startup scene but aren't ready to start your own, get a job with a startup. With your history it might be that all you can get is an equity-only position. So you work there and work on the side to support yourself.

5) Hussle. Rinse. Repeat.
We used to have these at my workplace. It was terrible. But still better than the drip they had.

One guy would open and dump like 20 of the vacuum packed capsules into the drip machine, and we'd have the only decent pot for a week.
How about comparing apples with apples.
from what i understand of the credit card system, the name featured on the card is not checked at all -- at least that's the way it works with our Authorize.net install.

if this is true for everyone, that means that the person who decided to implement the system to "check your name" is in for a big surprise when they realize any name will work with a valid credit card.

someone please correct me if i'm wrong...
I am not questioning the quality of the magazine, just saying that only a small number of people read it. 99% of the customers just look at the phone, think it is cool, and buy it.

Moreover, even if you read the magazine and see the negative recommendation, I doubt you wouldn't buy the iPhone just because of that.
1) Adapt yourself to what everyone else does initially.

2) Build some successful relationships with advertisers.

3) Experiment with the most adventurous one in the future.
Congress Passes Financial Regulation Bill
Thanks Couchdb for the comforting thought :-p Man, I didn't know BBC used you - awesome!
GNOME 3: The Future of the Desktop
perhaps you could create a polyglot resume:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyglot_%28computing%29
Nat'l Academies Wants Input on Framework for Science Ed in the US
This is not entirely true. The seal in place is considered temporary until a pressure test can be completed. This is expected to be completed within the next 48 hours. If that test is not successful, then this seal comes straight off and the leak resumes.
I got this Nespresso machine few days ago:

http://www.amazon.com/Nespresso-D120-US-BK-NE-Automatic-Sing...

It just simply makes awesome expressos.
My treadmill desk, built from a $400 walmart treadmill, pieces of my former Ikea 'Jerker' desk, and a $30 metal shelf from Costco.

http://letterblock.com/images/treadmill_desk.jpg

So obviously I can do walking at various speeds and inclines (usually 2 mph at 4 degrees) or standing. I have an ergo standing mat that I put on top of the treadmill if I'm going to be standing for a bit. Whenever I get the rest of this office cleaned up enough, I'll look for a small easy chair for occasional resting or iPad use. Off camera there's also a stand fan, which you may need if you walk for hours and your office window faces south in Florida. (My office has always been hot, and I find that moving actually makes it more bearable.)
I make essentially the same compromise. If there is a big quality jump for minimal effort/cost, I go for it. My natural instinct is to try to find the 'perfect' cup of coffee/glass of wine/pint of beer, and I can easily obsess over it. However, it's not something that makes me happier or more fulfilled in the long run.
Software patents no longer allowed in New Zealand
More information about the test from Bloomberg: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-07-15/bp-halts-gulf-of...
A Best Place To Die Is Britain
Try http://buysellads.com/
Very cool. I would like to see the implementation if you still have it.
You might be right about that. The only information check I've encountered that consistently seems to matter is the zip code.
Ask HN: Is there a site which aggregates karma like scores
Thinking of building one, or possibly a mobile app which will look at sites like HN or SO and pull together a listing of all my scores.
Integrated search of popular torrent websites.
A Kozinski opinion. Those are always entertaining. Most judges write very dry and formal opinions. Kozinski opens with "Duke Nukem routinely vanquishes Octabrain and the Protozoid Slimer. But what about the dreaded Micro Star?"

A key point from the opinion:

"Micro Star further argues that the MAP files are not derivative works because they do not, in fact, incorporate any of D/N-3D's protected expression. In particular, Micro Star makes much of the fact that the N/I MAP files reference the source art library, but do not actually contain any art files themselves. Therefore, it claims, nothing of D/N-3D's is reproduced in the MAP files. In making this argument, Micro Star misconstrues the protected work. The work that Micro Star infringes is the D/N-3D story itself--a beefy commando type named Duke who wanders around post-Apocalypse Los Angeles, shooting Pig Cops with a gun, lobbing hand grenades, searching for medkits and steroids, using a jetpack to leap over obstacles, blowing up gas tanks, avoiding radioactive slime. A copyright owner holds the right to create sequels, see Trust Co. Bank v. MGM/UA Entertainment Co., 772 F.2d 740 (11th Cir.1985), and the stories told in the N/I MAP files are surely sequels, telling new (though somewhat repetitive) tales of Duke's fabulous adventures. A book about Duke Nukem would infringe for the same reason, even if it contained no pictures."

They use that same notion, that the MAP file is encoding a D/N story, in dismissing the claim that it is the user making the derivative work, not Micro Star. It doesn't seem to be the artwork per se that's the problem for Micro Star--it's that it is telling a D/N story.
Many of the problems of Java are inherited from the JVM: poor performance compared to native code, long load times, funky classpath issues. Hell, Java could even be a better language if it didn't require a JVM (this is probably what the Android guys think, too). I don't see why a Lisp needs to use it, if is not for compatibility with existing Java code.
That was fast.... I wasn't singling out Techcrunch incidentally. I've noticed this in most of the articles about the film I've stumbled on, that's all. I suppose it's the power of Facebook.
> As most software and creative professionals know, coffee is an important technology for boosting mental acuity and maintaining peak on-the-job performance.

There is good evidence that caffeine can increase human performance, but the human body also builds up a tolerance for caffeine very quickly. I wonder how much of the boost people believe they get is from caffeine and how much of it is a placebo effect. According to Wikipedia, 300mg 3x a day for 18 days (approx. 5-8 cups of drip coffee per day) is enough for many individuals to no longer experience any effects of caffeine at all.
Yup, another maserati problem at hand judging from the prices. But, yeah an ergonomic workstation does make all the difference.