skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few years ago I had a job that had me flying 5000 miles a week. I signed up for AA's status challenge and qualified for platinum status in nearly a month.

I think they charge for taking the challenge now (it was free then) but it's well worth it. Not only do you get better seats, free bag checking, priority security access, and earn upgrades, but that was 30,000+ additional bonus miles I wouldn't have earned had I just skipped the challenge and qualified for the status the normal way.

Also, if you're on the fringe between status tiers, often times it's very much worth it to spend a couple hundred bucks on a "mileage run" if it means the extra EQM will put you into top-tier status.
I don't think I'll ever adjust to how terrible window management is in OS X.

- one menu bar for active applications: if you have many windows/applications open side-by-side you can't access (or even see) their menus until you switch to them. It's bad on a MacBook, I can't image the pain it is on a 27" or 30". If you're using Adium on a 30" monitor and you have it in the lower right-hand corner, the app's menu is 2 freaking feet away from the app!

-cmd+tab switches apps, not windows. you have to either use expose (slow) or cmd+tab, cmd+~. Minimized windows also don't cycle, so you can alt-tab to an app and still not get any windows, just the menu bar. Getting to a particular window shouldn't be so damned hard.

The windows/linux way - where each window is independent, equal and self-contained is much better IMO.
Who is "somebody," and where do they come from?

.Net has tons of community support. The MSDN boards and the blogosphere are thriving and StackOverflow is extremely .NET friendly. Microsoft sponsors MVPs and provides tons of free training content and solid (in most cases) documentation. Product teams and individual architects and developers inside and outside MS publish blogs, videos, tutorials etc. out the wazoo.

Microsoft charges money for its products and development tools, but their goal is to get people using their software, and that means getting people to create software running on their platform. Supporting developers who want to write software in .NET is in their best interest.
Why not just buy a neodymium magnet? This usually does the trick to trigger the sensor.
Still not a single key, but the emacs style shortcuts work in most inputs: Control+E and Control+A. Especially fine if you have CapsLock remapped to Control.
House rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina. Link to one of the more epic episodes: http://www.gallerytungsten.com/archives/000145.php
Surely they mean "Traffic lights should respond to cars, AND the other way around?" The lights aren't really necessary if nobody's responding to them.
I don't think this is only unique to financial journalism but also common in mainstream journalism/blogging.
Not to sound like a radical libertarian but imagine a world in which roads were operated with some sense of incentives to actually MOVE TRAFFIC THROUGH.

Lets have Tolls - but you get a refund when you are delayed. I imagine construction would suddenly be done 24/7 and be finished in half the time. Traffic light systems would be heavily automated/AI so that there isn't much traffic.

Instead they give out construction contracts to the "cheapest", which ignores all of the wasted time and gas the public endures in traffic, a secondary cost of the project.
No, it just prevents comment from trending. Not just disparaging comments, all comments, it seems.
We have come a long way in advertising
Don't underestimate the usefulness of knowing what people are interested in at the moment. Social networking and the like may be gimmicky, but, they don't become popular for no reason.

// edit: A better "but, …" might be: "but, Facebook has an insane valuation for a reason: a lot of people seem to believe it can make a lot of money."
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Yikes! This is quite illegal in the US.
Pivotal Tracker is one of my favorite apps as a developer, but it is a great example of a site that has a very unfriendly interface for low vision users. There are no functions on PT that require javaScript. The interface is great because it uses JS and AJAX, but it could have been built from the ground up using straight requests and redirects for its features, and then easily wired up with JS.

When we build apps for section 508 compliance, we build them without JS and then add it in later to improve the UI for end users. I'll be talking about this a lot.
Hilariously touch.facebook.com still seems to work.
A bed, a blanket chest and lots of other smaller projects. Woodworking helped me realize that I really like building things, so I've stuck with that on the software side.
I've been using and loving instapaper for a few months now. It's really helped me not get distracted spending 20 minutes reading an article when I find something interesting.

Also: the ability to grab an up to date mobi file remotely from my kindle is fantastic. For anyone with an ereader, instapaper is the easiest way I've found to get articles on the web well formatted for reading.

Really looking forward to seeing where this goes!
I've used it before. It's not a big deal.

The FAQ is here: http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/faqs/faq_consumer_cobra.HTML

Since COBRA is Federal, I suspect that there's nothing special about MA.

IMO your post illustrates how national heath insurance could foster entrepreneurship.

Loss of health insurance is one of the biggest (outsized) fears regarding self-employment.

People will take a $15,000 salary hit more readily than accepting the idea of unsubsidized insurance.
"According to the CBO, families in the top 20% pay average federal taxes of 25.1%. The figure in President Reagan's final year in office: 25.6%. "

This doesn't include city, state, and any other number of taxes a person pays. Most people pay upwards of 40% in taxes. I feel like this was intentionally left out.

"Mr. Henderson and his wife, an oncologist, make more than $250,000 a year, and apparently they're struggling to get by"

Chicago has a very high tax rate and housing isn't cheap either. According to Wikipedia, the sales tax in Chicago is 9.75% (this has been reduced from over 10%). It's the highest in the country.
I guess Forbes is asking the same question

http://blogs.forbes.com/stevenbertoni/2010/09/23/how-will-ne...

Wait, didn't they start this whole valuation thing?
They had a BGP-related screw-up a couple of weeks ago as well.
It is not a toy stack, because it is not a stack. Toy or otherwise.

This does not merely lack completeness. This is an entirely different project that has nothing to do with making an IP stack. It does not even do the first thing an IP stack might do.

I do not get to claim my side project making a compact sandwich is a restaurant either. The author is making sandwiches and should be proud of that because a good sandwich is a great thing, the author should not be telling us he has built a restaurant.
Consider yourself lucky.

A CS degree is not where you learn "market skills". It's where you learn to build the stuff that will define what "market skills" are.
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I can zoom in if the text is too small. I want to be able to zoom out til I can see it in relation to where I am.

Also would be nice if I could zoom out and see every active storm. I don't see a way to have all storms show up at once.
When I was a kid I hacked apart my NES controller. I connected wires to each of the leads, and then made some simple contraptions that would connect two leads when activated. The main one was a jumping board my dad helped me with. I also made a punching thing you strapped to your arm. I didn't know how to solder properly so I don't think it all worked right at any one time, but it was cool.

Still waiting for royalties from the Wii :)
you must be kidding, right? If their CPM were $30-40 they'd be making many billions per year, not (maybe) 1 billion.
Don't compare him to Patrick or he'll be next on lionhearted's chopping block!
I think "black and white" is a problem here... I see no reason why Arrington can't be right while McClure can honestly believe that there was nothing wrong with the meeting.

Conspiracy theories grow on the basis of black and white, good vs. evil, etc. Outside of programming, aren't we all used to varying shades of gray?
the BOFH will be making a list of people wasting time on facebook for later blackmail.
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Hey, it works :)

Is there really a difference between asking me to write 'username' into my HN profile page, and 'username@example.com'?
I might be misunderstanding this complaint--

The way Finder is designed, you often can't simply drag some files from one location to another (e.g. moving to the subdirectory of another directory). You need two Finder windows open in order to accomplish this, whereas Windows Explorer, whose left pane has the directory structure and right pane has the contents of the currently selected directory, lets you do this effortlessly using only one window.

--but I think that it is possible to do this on a Mac by opening Finder, clicking to the file you want to move, and then making sure that the third of the four display modes available (it looks like three vertical bars) is chosen. (These icons are right of the forward/backward buttons on the left of a Finder window.) This changes the display to a directory mode and allows you to drag and drop files from any subfolder to any other. Hovering over a folder's name while dragging a file will open that folder in the rightmost column and allow you to move the file to any subfolder.
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Random But Important, Part 1: Seeing Death
FTA:
> consolidating the search box and address bar seems so obvious

I know that Mozilla's engineers would love to do that, but the search box is their revenue model. Google pays a lot of money for that box to be there.
The way Finder is designed, you often can't simply drag some files from one location to another (e.g. moving to the subdirectory of another directory)

There are some things that are just different. The folder tree in an exploring window is a semi-separate display from the objects within the current directory. There isn't a direct Mac OS X equivalent, but the same use is supported with one window using "spring-loaded folders." Dragging a file over the icons in the left-hand toolbar temporarily opens them and you can open any sub-directory by hovering similarly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finder_(software)
There is No F**king Tea Party
Thanks for the mention. As for the swallowing of exceptions, feel free to comment the code on Github. Usually, I do that when I have already checked before for the condition that would raise the exception and dealt with it. Happy to discuss, always great to exchange ideas and improve coding skills.
I imagine that would be a relatively easy fix, more likely they took the record down to debug internally without getting flooded with requests.
This must really be hurting Quora.

Luckily, they added Twitter authentication as well. But still, now a large portion of their site cannot login because of Facebook.
5 less:

short s[70];*l=s;t;main(){read(0,s,140);s[4]>>8==1&s[10]==8?s[10]=0,s[11]+=8,t=l[4],l[4]=l[3],l[3]=t,write(1,s,140):0;main();}

8 less now, thanks to viraptor:

short s[70];*l=s+6;main(t){read(0,s,140);s[4]>>8==1&s[10]==8?s[10]=0,s[11]+=8,t=*l,*l=l[1],l[1]=t,write(1,s,140):0;main();}
I fully agree with you. If your app is heavily social it would be ridiculous not to leverage the worlds largest social network, even with very occasional down-time.
one menu bar for active applications

Honestly, I find menu bars that don't respond to Fitt's Law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts_Law) to be almost unusable. Two feet away isn't so much when you can blindly shove towards the top of the screen and have your mouse hit the menu.

(edit: fixed URL)
Having fun with URL shortners
Difference in skill levels makes one lose heart because they can't do what the other can. Then they get passive. They forget they can still contribute on different things.
I should probably submit this to him (and I shall now), but my chief complaint with Instapaper is that on split-page articles it doesn't automatically combine them into one. Some sites (namely WashPo comes to mind off the top of my head) won't let you single page articles, so it makes it a pain to use Instapaper on those.

Hopefully with more time on his hands he'll be able to add more features like this.

EDIT: Looks like he already has this requested since it's listed on the FAQ page, so I look forward to seeing this functionality soon!
Home/End is the killer for me too. iPhone dev is 3-4x slower down to this alone. I guess I might get used to if I worked primarily on Macs, but I don't.

Of course it also doesn't help that I'm running OS X in a VM and need to Windows-C/V to cut & paste!
World GDP increases
Disagree on several levels:

- disasters are nothing compared to heart disease. Putting money aside for one thing means it's not working for another.

- more money doesn't necessarily more preparedness. The TSA security revamp after 9/11 comes to mind.

- there are already several non-profit institutions that exist to respond to disasters and chronic socio-economic problems alike. Unless you have a revolutionary plan of attack for anything that might happen, you're just one more institution helping as best as you can.
I imagine construction would suddenly be done 24/7 and be finished in half the time.

You would be trading one set of inconveniences for another - in the case of nighttime construction you're typically paying the construction workers more (anywhere from time-and-a-half to triple time IME) plus the environmental mitigation for the nighttime activities (noise in particular).
> However, this "magic" comes at a price, and at some point you will hit a wall

Only that wall is at the end of a 50 mile runway.
Don't let these sorts of pronouncements scare you ... by the time you get to this bogey man 'wall' you're going to be doing a million page views a day, dealing with replicated databases or just generally dealing with really big big problems. And even then you'll have a very supportive community of people who have had the same exact problem ... (example ... github coming up with Unicorn to help them server pages in a better way for them).

Long story short, for starting out and even a good ways into any application lifecycle. Rails is going to do you just fine.
Relaxed easy listening interview. I dont think anything to revealing. Perhaps that he is moving to Singapore at the end of the year. If your a fan of his usual posts which make it on here, you will most likely find some enjoyment out of this.
Nice to see the big boys experiencing mundane issues as well now and then...
that and the movie.

enough is enough!
The people listed above all have experience, knowledge and are more qualified to value companies than many other people.

I've got a dot bomb crash, real estate bubbles and sub-prime mortgages that say otherwise.

No offence to any of them personally, and I'm not about to argue FB's actual valuation, but they all have a vested interest in making us all believe that it is as high as possible.

They are the last people one should be looking at when making an investment decision.
US backs 10 Smart Grid projects with $34M to bulk up cybersecurity
move to the beginning of line = command + left-arrow
move to the end of line = command + right-arrow
move to the top of page = command + up
move to the bottom of the page = command + down

As expected, holding shift at the same time allows you to select the text from the current cursor position to wherever you are jumping to.

One of things I love about Mac is the consistency of shortcut key. Command+w always close a window or a tab. Command+, always gets me to preferences. No command+control+D to get to dictionary for the highlighted word? No Google Chrome for me.
Emphasis on the IMO. The experience is unique for every individual.

I switched to a Mac about four years ago, and I can't stand task switching in Windows/GNOME/KDE.

- Menu location: Having the menu at the top of the screen actually makes it easier/quicker to click (see Fitts' Law).

- Context switching: Context switching on OS X has more granularity. The up-sides of this are similar to the up-sides of tabbed browsing. Think about it for a moment. What's so great about tabbed-browsing? You can group windows and switch between tabs with ctrl-tab. On OS X, you have even more granularity:

App switching: cmd+tab

Window switching: cmd+~

Tab switching: app-context dependent cmd+<shift/opt>+arrow or ctrl+tab

My biggest complaint is that there is no consistency to the tab switching shortcut.

When trying to find a window in an environment where there are lots of windows, Expose is one of the rare times I find the mouse faster than the keyboard. I have key bindings for app and system-wide Expose, so depending upon my needs, I'll switch to the app containing the document and app-Expose, or I'll just use system-wide Expose.

It's more complicated, but when I use my computer, I feel like I'm playing an instrument. My muscles know where to go for any given task, and I can move around very quickly.

Much better, IMO.
These are all fine faces with (mostly) very rigid licenses around them. If your design career was online - the chances of you able to easily use any of them in a meaningful way is nil. There are some great faces released under the OFL, GPL, and CC licenses.
There are more principled ways to do that than a blacklist, though, like looking at current frequency compared to typical frequency. That way even something commonly mentioned could still genuinely be trending if it gets mentioned much more than usual on a particular day.

(It's possible there are scale-related reasons that make this infeasible, though.)
It's cool, but the title is misleading, it's not really music discovery, just search and download.
In A.D. 2010

War was Beginning.

Internet: What happen?

MarkZ: Somebody set up us the bomb.

FB: We get signal

MarkZ: What?!

FB: Main screen turn on.

MarkZ: It's you!!

DDH: How are you gentlemen !!

DDH: All your Information are belong to us.

DDH: You are on the way to destruction.
buses, trucks, emergency vehicles, bicycles on the roads, taxis, people going places too out of the way for public transportation to service and whatever other uses of the roads that aren't immediately obvious would all still benefit from this.

smoother traffic flow and reduced time on the roads would also reduce accidents, which would require fewer vehicles be manufactured, which is a nontrivial environmental impact in and of itself. oh and fewer humans would die in horrific accidents.
Right. But unless you think there's someone (or a set of someones) who would pay 33B for all of Facebook, it's not unreasonable to assert that it's not worth that much.
The significance of the "like" button missing from other sites is lost on me.

I've been using the Application Boundaries Enforcer feature of no-script in Firefox to block facebook content when I'm not visiting a facebook site directly.

Site .facebook.com .fbcdn.net
Accept from .facebook.com .fbcdn.net
Deny

This is motivated by privacy concerns of Facebook's ability to track which partner sites I visit.
Thanks, that was an interesting read. I'm not sure what to think of these kinds of experiments. Most of the time I feel like modern science is hindered by too much political correctness, but then you read something like this ... makes me reconsider.
That's a lot more of a response than you owed to anyone, and also a lot more graceful than the one that would have come from me had I been the object of this debacle.
He's aware of it because he responded to an AskHN question about it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1702399

He didn't say not to do it :)
I'm inclined to agree with you regarding the menus. There is a powerful reason for the way it is in Mac OS X, Fitts' Law. Since the pointer stops at the top of the screen, it is easier to hit the menu target.

I wasn't an expose fan until I started to use a magic trackpad. It is a way of understanding what is happening on the computer that fits very well with a gesture interface.
If you mean "can it still offend people", certainly. The news probably isn't going to cover some detailed theological analysis of whether people should consider it a Koran or not, and even if they do, they'll get drowned out by those who print headlines saying "International Outrage! Koran Burnt!" because that sort of thing gets more readers.

In this regard, the intent to disrespect the book is perhaps more important than the act. Just look how many riots there were this time and the guy didn't even burn anything. It's not a matter of logic, it's a matter of how people feel and with what headlines it gets reported to them.

People stop thinking when they're outraged. There are plenty of examples of that in US politics alone...
If the reason you want the freedom to choose a technical solution is because you want to use a really good technical solution, it might be a good idea to find a consulting company to work for that takes pride in their tools and practices. Ones that come to mind include Pivotal Labs, Viget Labs, Intridea, and here in Boulder, Quick Left.

If working remotely (i. e. from home or while traveling) is a big part of your reason for contracting, I suggest Intridea, where telecommuting is common and not limited to people at the bottom of the hierarchy. http://intridea.com/careers
Or cmd+left / cmd+right.

(Relatedly: cmd+up/down; alt+left/right.)
If Arrington is right McClure is wrong, regardless of what he believes. Just because you believe it's legal and moral doesn't make it so. (More so on the former than the latter.)
Cmd+delete is not the equivalent of shift+delete on Windows. On Windows, that key combination permanently deletes an item. In OS X, this key combination moves the item to the trash.

This seems like a silly gripe. The cmd+delete sequence is operable with a single hand. In Windows, the operation requires either the use of the keyboard, then the mouse, or two keyboard operations:

delete, click yes

or

delete, enter

Both serve the purpose of preventing you from accidentally deleting the file. In OS X, this is accomplished by requiring a key combination, rather than a single key.

Based on the authors perspective, anything that is different is "annoying".
I never said anything about social networking being 'gimmicky'. It's fills a human need for belonging. The kinds of articles that get my attention explain how successful startups work or how others failed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts_Law
"rough estimates of 2 billion facebook users"

Right. Because the Chinese and Indian Peasantry is definitely going to be on FB.
One small improvement that might help would be to hide the articles that one has already read, keeping the front page to 30 articles. That way, after you read some articles, there will be some fresh meat on the table.
Wow, I'm very impressed with your projects. If you're a redditor, /r/DIY loves to see these type of projects, and if you blog, consider submitting to Make Magazine, or Hack-A-Day, or any of the various other DIY blogs. It's great to see such creativity.
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