skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how they will brand this? Use HP or Palm?

Subjectively both brands are a little stale comparing to Android and Apple. Maybe they could work with Nintendo and use WebOS to create a Nintendo branded IP/Phone device.

Id buy that and download many of their games onto such a device. Games are the biggest draw on Apple, a Nintendo phone would probably be huge!
The Road To Burn-Out: Impacted by Discussion on HN
What made this illegal before?
Money, and lives ("blood and treasure").

Also note the 23 US WIA and the ANA/etc. WIA, of which 5-10 are going to be permanently disabled, and all of which together probably cost more in medical treatment than the munitions expended. Plus of course all of the time spent training those people to do an inherently negative-sum task.

This is why the decision to go to war should not be taken lightly, and why it is important that if you do go to war, you fight it to win as quickly as possible.
http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2010/07/26
Rulemaking on Exemptions from Prohibition on Circumvention of Technological Measures that Control Access to Copyrighted Works:
http://www.copyright.gov/1201/
Begun, the watching has.
Big Brother, Redux
Eliminating negative thoughts is unlikely to make you happier. The world is a complicated place. The appropriate response to problems is sober assessment, not positivity.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/10/books/excerpt-bright-sided...
The invite-a-friend form is broken on Firefox 3.6.8. I only get a text field with an URL in it by default (http://www.endants.com/?r=42), and no way to submit the form even after I enter an e-mail.
Unless you're Jon Skeet.
Peace is not as much fun as war.

Why not a Middle Way :-) We can start off by acknowledging that you can write good code and bad code in any language; and different languages have different strengths (and weaknesses). However I don't see what's wrong about preferring certain languages out of personal inclination and want to advocate (politely) about the thing you love. You should be able to make a case for why language X really rings your bell without needing to say that language Y is crap.

It's like eating snails. I really don't want to eat snails, but I am perfectly happy to acknowledge that there are a lot of people out there who consider it the height of gourmandise and as far as I am concerned, they are welcome to keep eating them. The choice isn't either for me to eat snails, or for everybody else to stop eating them; the world is big enough for all of us.

De gustibus and all that.
A person that I know who most assuredly isn't me has a policy that the kid doesn't touch original DVDs. That in the process of making non-original DVDs, you can set the DVD to automatically start right at the movie upon insert is just a bonus. (There's an age where setting the DVD to auto-loop is useful too.)

It's just too easy for original DVDs to get destroyed. Also, this person has a car DVD player that this person doesn't really trust not to destroy the DVD on a particularly hard bump. (Ironically, this person's DVD player finds it easier to play the burned DVD copies; the player refuses to play about 10% of the original DVDs this person has put in it.)
Question: what if you have a launched business + the trademark to the name and someone still owns and won't sell the .com URL? We own the .co and all other extentions but the .com is preferred, would you go about thr same way groupon did it in this case?
I question whether SVD would yield good recommendations.

In any case, co-voting data is not scrape-able from the public HN site, so I think using keywords and urls is really the only realistic filtering option at this point.
LearnBoost Raises $975k
Poll: Do you agree with this life philosophy?
I am curious about whether this resonates with programmers in general.

http://www.writesomething.net/post/1260672/
I think it's kind of sad that they don't have bots, usually (they rely on humans to transcribe from voice radio to IRC and back again), and use mIRC vs. something like irssi or even BitchX.

Also I doubt people do channel takeovers, banning, amusing hostmasks, etc. Warrior using IRC != IRC Warrior.
I also lived in HK a number of years ago for 5 months but I didn't have much exposure to the business environment. IMO, HK is definitely more by the book and easier for foreigners to do business there. These elements exist but much, much less than mainland China.
I lived in Tokyo for a year. However, most of the stuff I remember was outside of Tokyo. Tokyo was like a giant urban blur. The main thing I remember in Tokyo as a tourist destination was the Tokyo Tower. The rest of the time I just randomly walked around. If you can get out of the city, go to a hot spring bath, Kyoto, Kamakura, and the beach. This might sound lame, but I thought the shopping in Tokyo was amazing. So many little custom boutiques. Also, Tokyo Hands was cool.

Tokyo is weird in that there aren't really a bunch of specific tourist destinations. It's more like a non-stop hallucinatory experience.
Bashing other languages is a lot like bashing other musical styles. People love what they emotionally connect with.
WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange on the 'War Logs'
> “We can restore the life and habits of the sea because it is in everyone’s interest that we do so.”

If that's the best reason he's got, the ocean is doomed. It's in everyone's best long term interests to do so, but quite a lot of countries are convinced it's in their best short-term interest to overfish, and they will not think about the long term.

There are two reasons for that; profit and preventing starvation. There are areas of the world that would not have enough food to survive if they stopped fishing the way they do. The only solutions would be to send them food, or implement population control.
Top countries by robot density (Graph)
It still sounds like a pretty cool idea to me - I'd certainly check it out if something like that existed.
Seems like the story of a brave woman. I am not sure how this addresses the NY article however.
Google gets federal certification for Google Apps for Government
I think someone manually POSTed to my registration form and created an account with a ''/'' combination. Good thing I have input sanitization in my MySQL or the DB could be dead by now. Anyway, I deleted the account and added some server-side sanity checks.. nice observation
Does anybody have details on what security requirements remain to be met? I've always thought of Google as being pretty good with data security
Why does Quora use MySQL rather than PostgreSQL?
I think far more US university students, especially the top 10%, are going to have worked on projects semi-independently or independently. Either "group projects" in software engineering, or maybe personal outside projects.
To plug my own project, I've also been developing a lisp dialect that compiles to JavaScript. I plan to announce on HN when the docs are complete. It's fully self-hosting, runs in the browser, and comes with a repl/compiler that runs on node.

http://github.com/jbr/sibilant
http://sibilantjs.info/
Agreed with the cost of living. No matter where you go in the world, if you want to live an American lifestyle - car, big house/apartment, western products - you will pay just about the same as living in the US. However, if you can live like a local, your cost of living will drop dramatically.

I never had a problem with street food.
Ron Conway And Paul Graham Kick Off the Social Currency CrunchUp On July 30
Porsche to "Definitely" Offer Electric Sports Cars, According to CEO
I agree. I would like to see a couple bullet points or sentences explaining how the site will end "ANTs" for me. I don't want to sit through a demo video.
Yes it will be cheaper, but you do need people that know how to use the cloud, which is getting more expensive in my experience. Supply-demand and all that. The good news is that you're less likely to hire poor coders if you're hiring people that already know how to use AWS.
effective trial strategy does not involve any super-secret coca-cola formula strategems - the secret is exactly as described in steveblank's post: this lawyer is very effective b/c he manages to apply strategy at all in a trial setting and his opponents typically do not - mainly because it's hard.
Yeah, but after reading your bug report it turned out to be a feature for me. Because there's no way I'm registering for an app if I have no idea what it does. Thanks Zack, this is a brilliant idea. Now just listen to the other comments about how your front page should give an idea of the mechanics of your app.
I kind of see the truth to that comment but you're missing the larger picture. There really is an entirely different world in the games industry. I haven't worked in it myself but have had friends in the industry since the late 90's and my fiance has been in that industry since the mid-2000's. Everyone in the industry loves it, but you're constantly going through the layoff/buildup/crunch/layoff cycle with long, long, long hours. Did I not mention long hours?
Can you supply some more details on this? The radio in the iPhone and T-mobile's 3G spectrum range are supposed to be incompatible (in other words the two operate on different ranges).
Curious, considering that T-Mobile's 3G network is on a frequency that iPhone hardware doesn't support. (U.S. iPhone, U.S. T-Mobile.)
I suspect that what he is implicitly saying is that at 14 billion dollars EMC is in the league of the top 25 Silicon Valley firms whereas much smaller success stories like Akamai just aren't in that league.
Indeed; I too believe this is not a small thing. Based on my knowledge of the cultures and decline and fall of Route 128 and the mini-computer companies it could well have been a critical factor there.

See this which I just dug up today: http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2007/12/30/why_nonco...

As far as Boston vs. Austin and the Triangle, Boston is much stronger academically and has some history and what goes with that (like this VC firm). Has Austin produced any really big companies besides Dell? As for the Triangle, I was under the impression that it was largely a "company town" for big companies to place R&D units, with all that that implies.

Bottom line WRT to Silicon Valley and your first point is that the non-compete issue zapps all of them pretty much equally. It would be very interesting to see one other state that has potential to adopt the California policy and to then see what happens (the above link refers to a study based on a period in which a legislative oversight resulted in that policy for Michigan).

I wouldn't expect it out of Massachusetts, that's a state where the political establishment seems to be very strong, entrenched and comfortable with the existing economic and business order.
Please let me know when you finish it. I would love to see your code. :)
I assume he's actually trolling us.

Canada is a great choice. Singapore or Hong Kong would be ok. Various Eastern European countries, or Ireland, or Australia or New Zealand -- all great.

The only reason I would put a small business in China is a manufacturing business, or a services business focused ON CHINA. A services business focused outside China based in China is utterly insane. You have the language issue, the undeveloped legal system and business support system, the high cost of top-tier expats, and all sorts of political risk.
Many Latin words are arguably as native to the language as those with Germanic or Norse ancestry; compute was present in the language long before the concept of a computer was conceived. Obviously there are purposely archaic examples designed by intellectuals to make their new discoveries more impressive.
Borrowed words are a problem for any language, I understand the influence of Western culture and innovations difficult to express using native words is increasingly leading to awkward transliterations in Chinese which mislead both when it comes to semantics and phonetics.

I'm aware of the huge differences between Chinese dialects, but lack of mutual intelligibility when listening to other Chinese is hardly a sign of receptiveness to the incoherent ramblings of foreigners.

English intonation is subtle (which might make it hard to learn). It's also a relatively advanced skill, with it being quite possible to converse in English without intentionally using tone at all. Tone in English might imply something about the context of what is said, such as whether it is intended as a question, but doesn't change the meaning of the word and make the sentence nonsensical.
Five Pictures of OSCON
Ask HN: Running startup from exotic land of Croatia
So, we're from Croatia and have a rather awesome project going on. The problem is that people here either have no money to invest or have the money but absolutely no clue about what we do or Internet in general. We've managed to push our project all the way to a working, functional prototype almost all by ourselves. Now what? We are almost done, have a few operational web sites on our CMS platform and almost no perspective since we live in the dark corner of planet Earth. Any advice?
Obligatory Time Management For System Administrators (and programmers) reference: http://www.tomontime.com

I've read through the comments and think this book would apply well to many of your situations.
Clearly articles like this are designed to promote the service rather have any substantive "hacker" news. That said, the front page looks compelling except for one thing -- NO PRICING. It doesn't matter if it's still in beta. You are asking me to commit to a completely new workflow -- it's not worth my time unless I have some idea how much you are going to hit me for once it comes out of beta. $9/mo? $99/mo? I mean c'mon, give me something...
The negative thoughts I looked at seemed to lend themselves to more than three of the distortions. Could we be allowed to select as few/many as seems appropriate? That would actually be less effort than having to choose the best three of five that seem to fit.
It's a great article about something I've wanted to write about for a long time. I've been wondering why the airlines worked so hard to kill any differentiation and commoditize their business. The experience today is really similar on all airlines, with parts of it being exactly the same, outsourced away (ground handling, gates, security, lost luggage handling, etc).
Great idea, but I think it needs gradual engagement. In other words, no registration initially. People can register after they've tried it out, but obviously it should keep the data collected so far. That solves the problem of having to describe what it actually does, as you can have step 1 right on the front page.
I'm guessing the high price they paid included some agreements to relinquish any potential IP claims. If it literally happened as described in the interview and the seller took the legal claim at face value they'd have surely settled for a lot less for the domain.
I don't know about anyone else, but I tend to make arguments on rational grounds before I try ethical ones. Ethical arguments are less reliably convincing because not everyone is in agreement about what is ethical, and some people don't have any ethics at all.
That's a fine idea, but it's hardly "less government".

Such an idea probably won't happen because of the aformentioned hotel lobbyists, though.
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I don't know, I spend 5+ hours a day in Photoshop and I just don't see enough shortcomings to justify trying to build a new app. Photoshop is incredibly powerful and I don't know if I would give up the flexibility just to make things I can already do easier.

Of course Photoshop is incredibly expensive so I can see a market for a <$100 app.
Sonja Lyubomirsky (among many others) would disagree with you (PhD, Stanford, A.B. Harvard, Summa cum laude). Check out these peer-reviewed papers for some evidence http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~sonja/papers.html

What good is living in a pessimistic world? In some cases, like finances and life-threatening situations, erring on the side of pessimism is probably the best approach (though it's definitely debatable; for example, check out the New Yorker article on cancer treatment and hospice care that was posted earlier, and please do note the results in stopping treatment inexplicably extending prognosis in cases of certain carcinomas).

Anyway, the site is not designed to turn you into a cheery moron. It's designed to help you stop thinking false, incorrect, and negative thoughts, by showing you irrational distortions you're automatically invoking (out of habit).

The solution, my friend, is not dogmatism - the solution is not an all-out rejection or embracement of positive psychology. Instead, the solution lies in critical thinking and honest evaluation.
I'm going to have to agree with mattm. Individuality and independent thought are not as prevalent in China compared to say the EU or US. You're going to have to tell people exactly how to do something a lot more often than you would in the US. It can be frustrating from one programmer to another programmer even if you have the language down... I wonder how a non-programming PM would do?
The San Andreas Fault from Above
Dell Buys Ocarina Networks. Dedupe For All?
I made this RPG node demo a while back: http://sleeperbot.com

I'm not using any server monitoring so it can crash at any moment.

Would love to get more than 15 users on here moving around and see what happens.

code: http://github.com/weixiyen/avatar
Hey Zack,

Thanks for putting something like this together. I found it very helpful in dealing with some of my own unpleasant thoughts and incorrect self beliefes.

Here are some corrections that you can make to improve the site.

1. Style it a little nicer. Just throw on a coat of CSS and you'll be looking good.
2. give me a way to save out of the steps.
3. The rankings seem off. it was telling me i'd be ranked 1709 out of 1928 when i completed it but when I finished it I was only ranked 19 out of 19.
groupon.com Created on: 29-May-02

As domainers would say - ding-ding-ding we have a winner!
Your comment is less than a minute old and it's already giving a 502 Bad Gateway error :(
http://www.chinasmack.com/2009/pictures/recycled-slop-swill-...

Even my relatives stopped buying street food for me there. Generally it's really unsanitary. Even street food in NYC is unsanitary, china is definitely worse.
I have been using it for almost a year and it is on my list of must install programs. And I am very picky about what I run in the system tray.
It doesn't matter. If a court finds the contract was made under duress it could invalidate the whole thing including any litigation waivers.
Not really. Python is famous for its readability, and this interest in reducing "noise" is one of the reasons why. It's definitely something that a language could benefit from at least riffing off, if not stealing outright.

The Python philosophy is that everything is expressed clearly and concisely. Parens around conditionals are just restating information that is already apparent, as are semicolons between lines. Fluent readers actually learn to ignore these syntactic features unless they're debugging (since these useless tokens are a breeding ground for bugs).

Ask yourself: How often do you mentally match the opening and closing parens on a conditional? How often do you rely on semicolons to tell when you're looking at a new statement as opposed to just looking at the lines of code?
DMCA. Circumventing a DRM system for any reason is illegal under DMCA.
The interesting thing is that AWS - and it's competitors - are getting easier to use, which only helps with the further commoditization of it. More and more people are going to want - no - expect - that their infrastructure will be easy to allocate/spin up on demand.

We are rapidly heading towards a future where using/getting more servers or server time and storage is going to become just like plugging in a toaster - "just give this thing some electricity".
sorry was messing with nginx config. it's up now
It absolutely went from utter failure to just sort of failure with the surge and awakening.

No one really won (well, the Kurds, and maybe Iran), but sometimes making something really bad suck less is a victory. Given that the people who architected the turnaround were not the people who started it, I'd say they did a pretty good job with what they were given.
Curious as to why this wasn't possible before, seeing as you could buy an unlocked phone from Apple?

Edit: I think I'm confusing jail breaking with just untying a phone to a carrier. You can, of course, buy phones untied to a carrier already from Apple. However, you must still install apps via the App Store.
To add to the win (and part of the reason why I'm planning to leave the US for Vancouver ASAP):

* Tax breaks (such as the federal SR&ED[1]) for high-tech businesses. I believe Vancouver has the largest by province, especially if you're in entertainment technology (like special effects) or video games.

* They consider themselves not a melting pot but a mosaic of people; i.e., there is no jingoistic pressure from the bumper-sticker patriots for foreigners to join the suburban zombie horde and conform conform conform, aside from at least learning english or french. Plus, you can sort of feel a fondness (rather than a passing, almost aloof acknowledgement) of their natives (deferentially called "First Nations"). The culture is one of acceptance, rather than impatient urgence to adapt.

* There is an odd reluctance to trusting outsized corporations, especially from what I've seen in Vancouver. Maybe it's just me, or perhaps it's their culture, but where I am now in the US, there are miles upon miles of strip malls with the same 30-40 chains and/or big box stores (Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Bed Bath Beyond, TJ Maxx/HomeGoods, Olive Garden, Dollar Tree, etc.) and small business storefronts (aside from family-run ethnic restaurants) are almost non-existent. I see alot better mix of corporate behemoth vs. mom-and-pop shop in Vancouver. Could just be a big city thing (although, last I checked, NYC was looking more like a concrete version of a big-box store suburb rather than its "if I can make it here..." bootstrappy romantic past).

[1]Strategic Research and Experimental Development - http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/sred/
I use the OS X version of this to combat my sleeping disorder - and reducing the amount of blue light during the mandatory "bedtime hacking" definitely does help to sedate me.
Bring Bookmarks to Linux Command Line
Citi Discloses Security Flaw in Its iPhone App
A profile of the lawyer who handles 20% of Florida's foreclosures
You can read this, not as a funny list of anecdotes, but as real problems every software vendor, be it open source, freeware or commercial, will face.
f.lux works as advertised. Love it. Use it. Highly recommend it. More so, now that is has nice GUI and all.

The fact that it is closed source should not be a problem unless you are RMS!
stackoverflow shows recent BEAM and secret incantation (I haven't tried this yet, maybe tonite)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1996524/optimizing-perfor...