skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please don't criticize me. That's not why i posted this. i posted this because I would bet that Someone here has dealt with this Exact issue in the past and they know how to deal With it.
I wasn't there, but I can imagine. Brian is a beast.
Great feedback, thanks!

I actually added notes more recently (as well as accounts to make those notes durable), which should help you stay a bit more organized from within the app without needing a spreadsheet. The iPhone app has seen another revision as well, which includes synching of favorites and notes.

You can also hide the ones you didn't like, while favoriting the ones you did like.

I have heard that the iPad version of the site doesn't work well - looking into remedying this (will probably need an iPad first...), but I will probably come out with an iPad version of the app before too long.
Yeah, a closed source application installed as root, with the express purpose of accessing your webcam and microphone. What could go wrong?
Not criticizing, just saying: 1) humble pie 2) be nice. :) It's easy, try it.
I've taken a head-first dive back into it while I travel around the world and freelance.

First let me say welcome to the good life. I did almost exactly the same.

Personally I use Netbeans it is a great all around IDE, for a good portion of languages not only is it a great development environment but, in some cases it actually is best of class. I use the same IDE for Java, Javascript (supports jQuery and Dojo out of the box), it has good clojure support, scala, C, PHP, Python, Ruby well the list goes on. I suggest trying it for 2 weeks and I can gurantee you will be sold. I do web, and Android development in Netbeans.

For OSX /iPhone/ iPad I use xCode for obvious reasons. Join the developer program and get the beta of 4 it is infinitely better.

For wire-framing I use OmniGraffle Pro, it is best of class out of all offerings both mac and PC.

for screen-shots I use command + shift + 3 for full screen and command + shift + 4 to do a box lasso of a portion of the screen, I don't use a tool.

To-Do-List I just use iCal wired up to Google calendar.

Web browser I use Firefox and firebug as my main browser and Javascript debugger. I also have Safari, Chrome and Opera

virtulization I use Virtual Box, it is free and as good as the rest of them. I used to use VMware fusion, but virtual box was just as good.

Skype yep probably the best developer collaboration tool out there. I work with 6 other freelancer as a co-op and we would not be as efficient as we are without skype. We are distributed across the globe.

I use Photoshop for graphics.

I think you have the big ones covered and the small ones are preference really. Other than the IDE I would not change a thing, You should really give Netbeans a try it is not just a Java IDE and specifically for Java it is far Superior to Eclipse.

Here are some other tools you may want to look at as well:

http://www.panic.com/transmit/
http://www.ragesw.com/index.php
http://www.advancedwebranking.com/
I won't be sad to see party balloons go. Even if it's only a small amount of our total helium, it always felt like a huge waste of helium, even when I was a little kid.
I think this goes 180 degrees in the wrong direction.

Based on what I've heard, the real reason anyone uses flash anymore is because of the authoring tools, not the runtime.

Instead of open-sourcing the flash player, build a development/authoring tool for HTML5 of equal or higher quality than the Adobe tools and open-source that...then watch this debate become irrelevant a year from now...
I agree 100%. Keep enough to cover the military's needs for 50 year and sell off the rest.
It will be on justin.tv
This reminds me of the "Self-Determination Theory" that Cal Newport emphasizes:

"To be happy, your work must fulfill three universal psychological needs: autonomy, competence, and relatedness."

-- http://calnewport.com/blog/2010/01/23/beyond-passion-the-sci...
TextMate + Visor + Growl make my coding a lot easier for most Ruby and Python needs - TextMate & visor is a must for anyone who writes code for a living on the Mac! TextMate Bundles is awesome + get ZenHtml and ZenCSS to make your life even more easier. Besides, cmd+T on TextMate is reason enough to switch and the fact you can invoke TextMate from terminal.

Eclipse/NetBeans for java. Xcode for iOS.

{Chrome & Firefox} + firebug saves the day for js.

Cyberduck is awesome though SCP does the trick well from terminal.

*I loved QSilver, but google quick search box is just as OK but mainly less CPU hoggin'But QSilver shortcuts are amazing for quick iTunes playback.
How did you know that helium was a so much more valuable than the balloons themselves as a kid?
In which website did you mean to post this?
"It's not just that his lips are moving"

You mean he lies even more often?
And a link:
http://www.padmapper.com
Rep. Alan Grayson: Verizon-Google: There's a Hard Rain Coming
I seem to have a real knack for figuring it out. I've identified the storms coming several times and bailed safely before any storm all but one time. That one was tricky because nothing material changed in the company and I was a recent hire (<6 months) so didn't have a good feel for the company yet (the fact nothing material changed was the whole problem...)

It really isn't that hard to recognize if you poke your head above the cubicle walls on occasion. The real trick is being able to figure out where you stand in those situations.
This article claims that a double standard exists. I disagree. I think that the iPhone isn't so great "because of its lack of a keyboard, its non-removable battery, its lack of expansion slots or ports, and other hardware features..." I also think that the iPad isn't so great because it's "not capable enough because of its lack of a keyboard, its non-removable battery, its lack of expansion slots or ports, and other hardware features..."
Linkbait title, but I agree with the sentiment. It's the same phenomenon that occurs in the real world. Artists, entrepreneurs and other creatives create interesting cultural centers in low-rent areas, which leads to "trendiness" and gentrification, which leads to a yuppie influx which eventually kills off the vibe, drives up the rent and pushes the artists and entrepreneurs to another part of town.

Having said that, I'm not sure what you can do about it without creating a walled garden.
I don't think the criticism was for prettiness, but just for aping existing social network look, feel and functionality.

Which the FAQ says up-front is one of their aims:
By default, we think it'll ship with a plugin to offer functionality that looks like the current popular social network sites, but plugins for other free software applications are expected.[1]

For my 2c, Diaspora looks even more like Facebook in most of the UI design details.

I actually don't know if that's going to be an important factor in determining if either platform becomes popular, though. Creating a decentralised social networking service will be difficult. Doing it while also reinventing social networking's user experience is an order of magnitude more difficult, although if they succeed then that's a compelling reason for people to migrate.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/social/faq.html
The work summaries are actually quite good. I've only an undergraduate degree in math and physics, and I can at least get some idea of what the accomplishments are. Julie Rehmeyer is to be commended.
Honest question to the HN audience:

Do you think that being proud of someone just because he's your compatriot is rational or irrational?

After all, you just share the same nationality by random chance, therefore isn't it the same as being proud that you were born on the same day of the week as Einstein or that your hair is the same colour as George Washington's?
StackOverflow has its own deletionists now? Is there any other site that does?

I think now that it's happened to more than one online community, it's worth a lot of careful thinking to figure out why and how these communities develop deletionist subcultures.
Get out of there quickly, for sure. I think nathanb's comment below should drive how quickly you leave, not if you leave.
Personally, flight times and layovers are quite important to me. I'm a ferry ride away from the airport, so leaving early, or arriving late really sucks. Either a night in the car at the dock, or an extra hotel stay.

I put in a search for a flight that I recently booked, and the two top choices were the ones that we had pulled out of tens of kayak searches. They were right there. Not the cheapest, but the most sane. Kayak had a couple of flights in the early results with a 12 hour layover in Pdx followed by a 30 min flight to Seatac. They were way down in the agony listing on hipmonk.
Hopefully someone (or many people) will offer hosted versions.

I think this is the thing. I also like the idea of techy types (like us) being able to host our own servers for small groups of our less techy friends.
I like fatter keyboard with feedback on my netbook, pretty please. Also, get rid of the caps lock and make the keyboard symmetrical.

Make the monitor detachable while you're at it.
Andrei Alexandrescu addresses the issue of programming in D without garbage collection in this interview from yesterday:
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1622265

Notice in particular that he says "Furthermore, you can use malloc() and free(), along with the rest of C's standard library, ..., without any overhead. Then, a D primitive called emplace allows you to construct objects at specified memory locations (a la C++'s placement new operator)".

The emplace function is in the std.conv library and is the basis for constructing objects outside of the control of the garbage collector.

My understanding is that most library functions do not care about whether you are using garbage collection or not. Library functions are usually written in a parameterized way such that you can use any appropriate object; so long as it has the right methods.

Take a look for example at the std.algorithm library:
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/phobos/std_algorithm.html
I don't think anything there cares whether you use garbage collection for your types or not.
I knew that helium was lighter than air, and suspected it escaped our atmosphere, so I figured we wouldn't be able to get it back. The balloon on the other hand, while not recyclable, didn't leave the planet.
Empathy is important. When you deal with someone, try really, really hard to see where they're coming from. It will help you to respond to them in a sensible way. Pretend you are them.

This isn't to say you should be patronizing, walking around with a smile and piling undeserved politeness on everyone you meet (especially if they're rude to you); in fact, I hate walking into a store and being treated this way by employees, because I never find it sincere. Be real, but be patient.
I meant to upvote, but touched the down instead!
Want To Recreate Sterling Cooper Or Just Be On Mad Men? Get Bidding.
Who is Smil?
The United States is now full of people who haven’t read a book since high school, think Jesus is coming back soon, don’t believe in evolution, and don’t know the name of their congressional representatives. And Hacker News is becoming more like Reddit every day.

As opposed to, say, 1885, when everyone read books, nobody thought Jesus was coming back soon, everyone believed in evolution, and everyone knew who their congressional representatives were (although maybe not their Senators, who they couldn't elect).

Point being, it's easy to idealize or even mythologize the past.
Gmail Videochat Comes To Linux [Ubuntu / Debian For Time Being]
PHP doesn't make it any more difficult to write maintainable software it just makes it easier to not write it.
It is hard not to derive pride from your identity, whatever you think it to be.
I can't help but feel like there should be an investment opportunity here...
Is it rational to feel happiness?

If someone feels proud, he/she naturally just got a good moment in life. I guess your question was: Is it rational to identify yourself with an external entity in order to feel good/bad when something happens to this entity. The answer is: In many cases it is perfectly rational. E.g. when people start supporting an old soccer sclub that got a breakout success, old supporters refer to new ones as "gloryhunters".

By the way, I am a gloryhunter here as well. One of the four Fields medalists this year (Stas Smirnov) graduated from the same high school and college as I did.
Moore's law is nobody's friend in mobile applications where the limiting factor is performance/watt.
Compare:

http://news.ycombinator.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/classic
It sounds like your problem with App Engine is that you're Django. Yeah, Django is not built for the App Engine data store, so why not use something that is? I've used the Tipfy and Flask frameworks (both are a thin layer on top of Werkzeug), and they experience has been great.
Jason Fried: Why You Can't Work at Work
Love this. A true "why hasn't anyone done this?" moment for me. If they can expand the range of providers to be competitive with Kayak and Skyscanner I'd make this my first and only stop.

Speaking of travel visualizations... a shameless plug for my own "Hotels.com hotels on Google Maps" site: http://www.roomatlas.com. Live prices in the markers, Street View and Wikipedia placemarks.
Covered a bit in Cybernetics:

http://books.google.com/books?id=NnM-uISyywAC&lpg=PP1...
10 Reasons To Go Barefoot Running
Apparently there is already a barefoot movement that started since 1960s, advocating going barefoot in various activities, such as day-to-day life and running. And this movement is quickly gaining popularity over the years. Here is why...
You, too, will get old. And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.

http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/lyrics/graduation.htm

Change happens. Accept it and move on. There are worse fates than getting popular - anyone remember kuro5hin?
Ask HN: Should I put my startup info in the CV while applying at a bigco?
I'm soon (new college graduate) going to found a startup with a friend of mine + two advisors. I'm planing to apply at a few tech bigcos in the upcoming college recruiting season (personal/financial reasons). Would it be wise to my put my "stealth" startup info in the CV?

If I put it:

Pros: Oh you're an entrepreneur!

Cons: We are not sure about your intentions..
As expected from a New Scientist article, this is not very informative. If you wanna learn more, you might wanna take a look at these:

http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/archive/ci/31/i06/html/06chem....

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.08/helium.html

http://books.google.com/books?id=A-lS1ZD8yOkC
It's unclear if its rational to be "proud",but I do think it might be rational to be happy about it.

To the extent that people make snap judgments about other people based on race or nationality, it would seem that you'd want people that share your ethnicity or nationality to do well. This likely has a minor increase in people's perception of you.

Likewise, you probably feel shame or unhappiness when the opposite happens. Just look at what being Muslim is like in the US now.
I'm proud for you, too. Great work from Mr. Chau.
I'm not sure what you're agreeing with considering the article is arguing the US govt should NOT be selling off helium.
Depends on the individual. I'm much faster on a good software keyboard with auto-correct and tap-to-complete. There's a ton of room for improvement and innovation in soft keyboards too. I'm not sure replicating a physical keyboard on-screen is even the optimal approach. In 5 years we might have soft keyboards that barely resemble a QWERTY keyboard. Especially on tablet devices with more screen space to play with. I think the next incremental step is probably grammar / style correction based on analyzing your writing style. For power users who need to do heavy duty text input on mobiles you could have a short hand style input system that allows you to input text at brain speed to be revised before sending into a proper language. You might switch between all these different software input types for different tasks. I don't think physical keyboards will disappear anytime soon but they may increasingly become a security blanket in the form of a Bluetooth keyboard you keep in your back pack just in case.
Thanks for the post!

It seems like you have a great opportunity, at low risk, to try some things:

- Cranking the price up to say $5
- Adding in license server code, and logging piracy
- Defeaturing your free version.

Any of these tests would make for a really interesting post, and also indirectly promote your app.

I'm not at all disparaging your efforts, but it seems like an instapaper client should be able to make a lot more money than $130.

I'm also wondering whether, in general, quality Android apps will settle out at higher prices than comparable iOS apps, just simply due to there seemingly being fewer people willing to spend.
Social organization should be harder to solve than finding dark energy and higgs bosons. It's a massively complex problem.

Walled gardens grow stale, progressive communities fall apart. That's the natural order of things. The best thing to do is make this process smoother. Have those magic members of the community leave earlier by starting new and better communities at a faster pace.

Maybe you don't need to rewrite backends every time. Just modernize the look, add some features like autofollow based on friend follow graph and see if it works. Maybe just split the community into smaller groups, that occasionally trickle out into a central group, something that Digg 4 is attempting.
Here's the header of the /etc/crontab.daily/google-talkplugin file. I'm not that ninja with my cron-tabbing, but doesn't this do exactly what it says?

http://pastebin.com/4etPxNWC
The balloon is latex and self-recycles. The string though - that's bad.
also, if you want to fiddle with the options after you set it up with git flow init, just go to the .git/config file and change it there :)

when in doubt, look at stuff in a repo's .git/ to find what you wanna fiddle with. unless of course you want to look at user wide config file at ~/.gitconfig
Ask HN: How is the IT job market in Germany?
My girlfriend is about to finish med school and she's thinking about moving to Germany after that.
I tried finding out more about the market there but without any luck. Any of you guys know how things go there ? Is it necessary to be a fluent german speaker to get hired ?
I have 5 years in experience, my main expertise is AS3 / Flex (that's what I like the most), but I've worked in C++ / C#, PHP. And I can get my way around JavaScript, HTML, CSS.
Thanks
It's not just sharing the same nationality. It's the sharing of the same culture and and heritage. It's like the town people feeling proud about the Olympic gold medalist from the same town. Just human emotion. Rational or irrational is irrelevant.
Just listen to it. The visual aids aren't necessary to understand his talk.
Yeah. Google was an add-on for portals. Microsoft was an add-on for the Altair.
Seems to be a convention. I prefer past tense too.
I made a graph
http://chris.smeder.com/essays/3_stevejobs.htm when the iPad came out that describes the public's reaction to Jobs' product decisions and then how they feel a year or so later about his decisions. The point being people have such little faith in some one who has made the tough but right decision so many times.

For example:

- removing the arrow keys from the original Mac http://www.asktog.com/columns/082iPad&Mac.html

- removing the floppy drive from computers

- making the iMac not upgradable (this made so many people angry). Yet few care that most computers, laptops, bought today are not upgradable.

- non removable battery

- Expensive, no wifi (lame)

- less features than the competition

- no flash

- iOS instead of Mac OSX
Debian:

Stable (2.6.26) updated it's kernel today, and this fix was included.

Experimental (2.6.35) updated yesterday with this fix.

Testing/Unstable (2.6.32) has not updated yet.
Quick, set up a startup to colonize the Moon for helium. Wait, does helium-3 count?
In addition to that problem, typing is faster than talking; writing and speaking are for many people completely different modes of thinking with their own voice and diction; going back and editing is too awkward and difficult with speech recognition--for instance, adding this very phrase after typing out much more of my post would have probably been more effort than it was worth, as would have been reorganizing this ugly block of text into some sort of list; talking out loud takes more energy and dries out your mouth; dozens of people in an office together can all type without bothering each other very much; people with funny accents, speech impediments, very bad colds, or who have lost their voice can type more easily than their voices can be transcribed even by a skilled human transcriptionist, much less a speech recognition engine; there are fundamental complications with speech recognition, such as capitalization, punctuation, syntax, use of proper names, neologisms, and other terms unfamiliar to the engine, as well as distinguishing commands to the speech recognition engine from speech to be recognized and transcribed, and all of these complications can be easily resolved in any arbitrarily user-defined fashion whilst typing--for instance, my choice to write the bulk of this post as a single sentence consisting of multiple independent clauses strung together with semicolons would be more difficult to implement in any speech-recognition engine; and finally, many people who learned the language from books more than from speech don't even know how to pronounce certain words they have only seen in print and would have their vocabularies reduced tremendously if restricted to speech recognition--as an example, it wasn't until college until I learned the correct pronunciation of the word "albeit", a word which I have seen far more often in print than I have ever heard it said out loud, reflecting my earlier point about how people's spoken diction often differs from their written diction.
Is it just me or is it obvious a company might ask, "Why do you have no net presence before 2010? What's your real name?" Some site will probably publish public documents on name changes.

The Bible says a reputation is worth more than gold. I guess back then, communities were small and everybody knew your family from when you were a child.
It makes a tiny bit more sense when the commits are patches. I don't mind the difference too much; if I'm in a team, I just go with what everybody else does.
Image search? You won't even need to go that far. Just put the person's current name into Google, and let it suggest, "Did you mean [previous name]?"
Hey, I'm Matt Lee, founder of GNU social.

You're right, there's little imagination going on there. It looks a lot like Facebook.

Right now, there are over 500 million users of Facebook, and approximately 250 thousand users of GNU social or a service based on GNU social and StatusNet code. Convincing those users to move to decentralized social networking, whether its with GNU social, Appleseed, Diaspora, etc is going to be a tough job no matter what, and we should do everything we can to make that easy for people.

One of the biggest problems with Facebook is that its ever changing UI causes people to leak their private information all over the place. I intend for that to not be the case with GNU social, but as we support themes out of the box, I do expect there will be some inconsistency.

Finally, we have a design contest right now -- http://twitter.com/timberners_lee/status/19860898949 -- for new themes and styles for GNU social. If you have some radical ideas, please share them with us and help us making decentralized social networking better for everyone.
So should we start hoarding helium so that we can sell it at a premium in like 50 years?
Glad you like the Sunny stuff. All the GNU social developers are huge Sunny fans.