skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I waisted 4 hours with a Mac that just wouldn't boot because of stupid changes to the firmware or bootloader, starting with those damn boot shortcuts because Apple thought it would be unsexy to put a map of the available shortcuts on the boot screen.

And the worst part, after those waisted hours I've barely received a "thank you", with disappointment in his eyes probably because it took so long (hey, a beer would've been nice, but I guess I'm old-fashioned).

This was a neighbor, and the problem with such people is that they neither learn, nor appreciate the time you waist on fixing their shit. As if you owe them something.
Yeah then why do most existing Flash animations developed for desktop run choppy on mobile? And if we have to rewrite anyway, why not use canvas/HTML5?

A rigged bouncing ball. Not to mention multiple swfs on the same page. Try a real world example, Adobe.
You know that, I know that, but if everybody knows that you only have to enter the easier-to-read semi-nonsense word then ReCAPTCHA itself doesn't work so well for its larger purpose.

And if you don't know that, then giving someone a CAPTCHA with Hebrew or a Rorschach inkblot in it when they're trying to buy Yo Gabba Gabba Live tickets for their four-year old is a surreal enough experience to make people think they're living in a situation comedy.
It seems to me that they're not attempting to prevent spam, they're merely trying to monetize what has become the standard practice of entering CAPTCHAs. going with something like this it's trading in spam prevention for cash. The legitimate users already expect to see a CAPTCHA, but you're using it for a different purpose
Using PHP is not a little mistake.
Agreed. OP, please follow your psychologist's advice and be honest with them about your obsessions. Mental health isn't about finding a secret key that will "make you better" - it involves working through a treatment plan with a trained professional.

Also, I recently watched this series on VH1 about OCD treatment that was quite interesting, and may give you some insight into the experiences of people in similar situations: http://www.vh1.com/shows/the_ocd_project/series.jhtml
I actually upvoted it.. don't know what its about with all those downvotes.
I would say Food Network shows DO show a lot of faces. They are very much about selling a brand. Just walking through the local Target housewares aisle, I see Rachel Ray, Giada, Paula Deen, Barefoot Contessa, Bobby Flay, etc, all with their own brand of cooking accessories.
> "You wouldn't watch that show unless it had a lot of humans in it"

It's called "radio" or "podcast".
lol GOSUB good old gosub...

I was so full of preteen exuberance when I first discovered gosub, totally revolutionized how I thought about computers

I surely wish I'd known someone in KY back in those days that wanted to teach C to a kid :/
Your innate potential is not enough. Good problems and good collaborators are necessary to becoming whatever you want to become. Given a choice between being a big fish in a little pond, and being surrounded by some of the smartest people in the world, I'll choose the latter every time.

It took me a while to figure that out. Don't waste years learning the same thing.
I want it to cover both. Like a high level overview of what is needed to get started and then an in-depth explanation of the code.

At this point it is ideation, so I'm open to suggestion on how it could be done and what would be of interest to developers.
I see your point, but keep in mind that it's the B-type companies that go out of their way recruiting "MVP" type labor because they have already invested heavily in the technology, and/or because they believe it will give them a competitive edge. By the time the MVP is hired the company has already sold into the technology; his employment does not jeopardize anything, and there is no conflict of interest. If anything, his title and role merely reinforce their chosen technical ideology.

It's the higher ranking officials and the C-suite that wine and dine with the vendor that you should worry about. Not the two-cent knowledge worker with the glorified MCSE certification.
You got it; they're duplicating screen features. The tradeoff of recreating it (incompletely) is that the configuration is much more straightforward.

I have really handy screen macros that split screens, set hardstatus window titles, and setup different workflows after autodetecting the kind of project the base directory contains, but it's all done through shell functions and `screen -X eval` `process` this and `register` that.

http://superuser.com/questions/94612/macros-in-gnu-screen

GNU screen is a more powerful tool, but at the cost of having to read through the documentation. I can forgive someone for wanting to skip that step.

(but you shouldn't; terminal multiplexers are good for your health)
Your argument is somewhat flawed from a technical level as Olegk mentioned, but also from a business marketing stand-point.

Specific ads may be in circulation for a short time, or there may be many running concurrently, but it is the message that the advertiser is trying to get across, the tagline, and it would be of most benefit to the advertiser to get the user to associate their brand with a single concept. Using the example in the article, Subaru may want to be associated with "outback", not "four wheel drive" or "comfy" or "sporty". Businesses who try to target too many things or too wide an audience end up not getting their message across.

I'm not saying that what Solve Media is trying to do isn't a great idea. I think it has lots of potential, but they clearly still have more to work on.
Totally tangential but when I was a kid (in the 80s) there was a school/park somewhere in So Cal (I think) that had an actual F-86 on its playground (gutted of course). Whenever we road tripped on the weekend my parents would climb stop there and I'd climb up on it.
I was using your app for a long time. Helped pass the time I spent in lines and during boring meetings. I'll miss your great app as I move on to gluegadgets.
Same thought here. And since he's using OS X, I wonder if he knows about terminal groups?
Slight nit.
>but because their arms didn’t tire as quickly from operating the flight controls

While tiring would be a factor, even if completely fresh, you can simply move a lesser weight (force) faster than a larger one.

Second problem is that there were multiple differences between MiGs and Sabres - the one I always heard was most significant, back when I was a teen, is that Sabres were better constructed, MiGs were more likely to fall apart from relatively light damage. So don't take any single article or viewpoint as the truth - reality is always more complex than will fit into a article or book.
Video's a pretty bad medium, but I'd buy a book that extensively documented an open source project I wanted to get a better grasp of.
nice! what bout all Google Accounts?
Mind sharing some of the SEO you did to the site? Thanks
I'm not an engineer, but I live in the Netherlands, so I am qualified to tell you that it is possible to build tunnels under reclaimed land. Just like with tunnels under a waterway, you just have to take some precautions to prevent the tunnel from flooding or floating.
It's easy to label your own ideas as brilliant if you are not going to live of them.
Indeed, sad it is that the most up-voted comment is just begging the OP's question.

Why not just answer the question, what's the substance behind the hype?

I hardly think it's wrong to ask people to question their assumptions, especially when it's done in a thoughtful, non-confrontational way.
King Gillette is the patron saint of late bloomers. He was a very average salesperson until he thought of the idea of disposable razors in his 40's. He didn't sell his first razor blade until 1903 when he was 48 years old -- that year he sold 51 razors and 168 blades, but by 1915 he sold 450,000 razors 70 million blades.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Camp_Gillette
Wow, finally!

Tagging was long overdue.

I hope the sigh of relief going through the ranks of AWS users will be heard at Amazon HQ and motivates them to no longer hold back such trivial yet essential features for years. Automating EC2 infrastructure has just become so much easier. No more futzing with and abusing of security groups - Thank you!
and yet you will gladly type randomized and difficult to read letters or words?

This is actually attempting to solve two problems at once, and in some ways it could be more interesting to the user if the ads are well targetted.

Why not help the site owner make a bit of $$??? are you really afraid that typing in a bit of ad copy is going to turn you into a mindless drone
Madrid's metro has always been my favorite. Very extensive network, high density of stations, inexpensive (1€ per ride last time I was there), and most stations are pretty modern.
I got asked this twice, so I guess I'll answer. I see articles related to startup across other forums too but I frequent this i.e. I'm comfortable here, and being one of the largest forums dedicated to the concept, it made sense to ask it on HN. I knew that it would be defended by the most updated and committed audience.

Should I have asked it on Yahoo! Answers or something people reckon?

And no, it has nothing to do with going out and getting some sunlight.
An interesting and seemingly revealing article no doubt. I "choose" to buy it depicts Arrington's life genuinely.

That said, a couple weeks ago, Arrington wrote a piece on TC regarding the "psychomanipulative" techniques he uses when he writes to get the reaction he wants from his readers. Here's the link: http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/05/blogging-and-mass-psychoman... but if you don't feel like clicking here is an excerpt:

"But then you start to get really good at what you do. You write something and you get trashed. The next time you try it a little differently and it the commenters love you. You don’t even do it consciously – but over the years you just get better at it. To the point where you pretty much know exactly what the reaction will be to any given post, and how to tweak things to get the reaction you want."

Anyway, based on this, I'm left with a slight bit of skepticism after reading the Inc article. Is this the real Arrington, or simply the Arrington he wants us to believe? I'm not sure there are motives for the latter, which is why I choose to believe that the Inc article depicts his life genuinely, but not without some doubt.

Just food for thought.
Ask HN: Review their startup - icount.com 
A startup I worked closely with over the summer just launched and is looking for feedback. I've talked to them about the HN community and told them to sign up but haven't seen them do anything yet. Hopefully some good feedback would encourage them to join us!

icount is a social network for politics. They help you find the issues that matter to you and help you connect with your representitives. From what I understand, they are working directly with many politicians to make this their main communication platform.
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Thanks for developing the app, I've been using it for quite a while and really like it.

Just to be clear, does this mean you'll no longer be developing your app?
You're very, very wrong. Be many different people over the course of your life. Try many different things, lose friends, make friends.

Life is variety, and each new experience will teach you things you can apply in different ways. It's good to excel in one thing, but you have to be good all-round. And not being a geeky dork is a good way to get started.

Just because you start out one way (it's your parents who actually made that decision for you) does not mean you should end up that way.

There's one guy who you have to believe made the right decision based on the circumstances he was in - that's young ryan. Don't second guess young ryan, he did what he felt he needed to do. Don't go back and belittle his decision. Instead, use his experience to make better and better decisions moving forward.

He was right, and now you have grown more conservative and blame him for that. Don't. Every new thing you do in life is the right thing.
Clicky - http://bit.ly/icount

The link will auto connect you with me. Follow some issues and say hi. They could really use feedback on the registration process, UI and usefulness of the idea.
Another important difference that went along with Boyd's thesis is that the Sabres had less obstructed canopies, letting the pilot see around themselves more easily.
Does anyone know if whether having a 3rd party logo in the middle of a form decreases or increases completion?
No, I don't mind, but it will have to wait until Wednesday, pretty busy still. I'll do a write-up on that.
Before adding captchas to my stupid personal blog, Akismet was catching ~300 attempted spams a day, and I was manually flagging ~2 a day.

Then I installed reCaptcha, and now Akismet catches ~10 a month, and I've had to manually flag zero.

I'll take that illusion, thanks.
I believe Android requires that for any sort of background syncing, so that the application will automatically stop checking whenever Background Data is disabled by the user (Airplane Mode, or manually unchecked in Settings). But then again, I could be wrong.
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BASIC on the Tandy Color II followed by Pascal on the 286. I remember the 286 had a "Turbo" button on the front that would increase the CPU speed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button
Yes! When I was about 6 or 7 I remember spending hours typing in a BASIC program from a book on a BBC Micro at school. It drew a circle on the screen and flashed different colours which I thought was the best thing ever. I couldn't figure out how to save it to disk after running it so I had to type it all out again the next day.
I already have a client. It's called Browser and has this great ability to open other pages on the interwebs.
HN does support OpenID login.
Terminal groups (built in to OS X terminals since at least Tiger) do enable tiling terminals. And the options are pretty extensive - to give a very rough idea in case you don't have access to a copy of OS X, there are eight different tabs, each a pane full of various options, in Terminal preferences. But yeah X is probably even more extreme than this.
Well, technically, not all of these are strictly subways: there's plenty of above-ground lines represented here.

Still, it's very interesting to see these to scale. I did not realize Parisian subway system was so compact.
Be who you are. Worst advice ever. What does that even mean?

As a scientist, you perform the same experiment 100 times with the same conditions, same procedures and get the same result. You don't expect to see a different result on the 101st time unless you change something different.

Most geeks like to think of themselves as possessing both the ambition and talent to "change the world"; but yet at the same time, they also like to think of themselves as empathetic (unlike those jock duches), hard-working (engineering creates value unlike sales) & down to earth (supports liberal causes) whose work and personality will only improve society for the better.

When in reality, most geeks are afraid of rocking the boat and are eager to please. No one can blame someone who "wants to change the world." No one will get jealous when you are at the bottom of the social totem-pole or an engineer that takes marching orders gladly from management. It takes guts to admit that you are a selfish person (which all human beings are) and oppose other people to get what you want. Especially if the other person comes from a position of greater power (politically, economically, physically, sexually), but that's what makes a man a man, standing up for yourself against all odds.

If you want to be rich, get laid, or even get ahead career-wise. You have to be willing to do what other people aren't willing to do, which is to say take risks that most people aren't willing to bear. You have to be willing to lose all your money and time, get slapped countless times, get into fights, get fired, lose your job, friends & girlfriend. You are willing to undergo ridicule, humiliation & oppression from your peers, parents & authority to be who you want to be, not what other people want you to be. If you can't stand the heat, then get out of the kitchen but don't rationalize it to "being who you are" because you are not who you should be because you don't want to take the risks.
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I built one, including picking the parts, but that was 12 years ago. I wouldn't try it again now without a few weeks study. Keeping up with changes and new hardware is more trouble than it's worth, if you don't do it more or less constantly, for a job or such.
Not only did Boyd make important contributions to the theory of air combat (and contests under time pressure in general), he helped develop ways to quantify the manoeuvrability of aircraft leading to the F-15 and F-16.
It was a good story, but I stopped when it got to: "Speed through the loop beats quality and this is something we can apply to all aspects of the software development process." The jump from piloting a plane to "its therefore obviously true for software" without a shred of evidence was a little too much for me.
Reminds me of the Pop Copy skit on Chappelle's Show:

"If a customer has a computer disk then look at it and tell them it's the wrong format. If they use Apple, tell them we're PC. If they use PC, tell them we're Apple. And if they've got both, then tell them we use Linux. And if they've got that, tell them the computers are down. They should be anyhow."
I'd rather type random characters than "Safer Browsing" for an IE ad. You have to consider the emotional reaction to these ads.
How about this for a CAPTCHA, a video ad unit where the questions are akin to those old SCENEIT questions?

Ie, what color shirt was the man pumping gas wearing?

Bonus points if you tell the user the question after the video so they have to re-watch.
I'll add Pittsburgh: .-.-.
Ask HN: Review my micropayments startup, RubyPay
I just launched my new startup, and was hoping for some feedback. It's a micropayments site based around selling digital content, with a focus on making it dead simple for sellers to set up.

https://www.rubypay.com
That's a very thorough description. It's always great to see laymen-readable expositions of research.

I find it nice that a purely functional language can handle this sort of problem (state management) more cleanly than what I usually do with my python-based samplers.
An intro to 3D on the Mac, Part II: Animation and Rendering
have you heard of Mazlow's Heirachy? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslows_hierarchy_of_needs]

You don't get the top need fulfilled by being obedient ...
Short messages can be easily categorized, searched, favorited. Easier to browse than youtube. SoundByteFace.com!
I'll also volunteer my currently-unused Android developer account, and my time to build and upload new releases to the Market if it gets open sourced.

I've been meaning to get involved in some open source Android apps, but I've not yet gotten much beyond developing apps for my own phone and needs. At least this is something that I would dogfood every day. :)
Pretty faces spouting opinions turn me off. Most hollywood "celebrities" sound ignorant when they soapbox on their favorite cause.
People still write client side Java? shudder I love Java, but good god would I never write an Applet again.
Exploits for the exploits?
Inside the Yahoo "Chicken Coop" Data Center
Security metrics: If you do not measure something why even bother doing it?
No language had lexical closures in 1958. ALGOL had lexical scope, but not closures. So their part was easy. On a language level all the consequences were explored with Scheme in the 70s. Before that their were individual solutions found to create closures.

Read the history of the FUNARG problem (1970).

FP languages came up later. The first ML appeared in something like 1972/1973. I'm not sure if that had lexical closures. I doubt that. The Lisp community was one active part of the FP community that detected the problem and eventually found a solution. Scheme was the first language to demonstrate that (1975). Other FP languages also went that route (ML, where the first ML was implemented on top of Lisp, IIRC). The MacLisp branch took some time to adopt lexical closures. First a special construct was introduced to create a closure. In some other implementations the compiler was using lexical scope, but not the interpreter. Common Lisp was then in 1984 the next major Lisp dialect that settled for lexical scope (incl. closures) for both interpreted and compiled code.

The Lisp community (other than Scheme) had substantial code at the end of the 1970s, so there was some reluctance to move to lexical closures. Lexical closures also made the implementation a bit more difficult. The interpreter is simpler without them. There were also performance issues to overcome.
"I was told to maximize my intellectual, professional and social value for a company."

I did too, and those same parents are now telling us not to bother after they went through layoffs and forced retirement. My dad worked ostensibly at one company his whole life, and it's more comfortable to watch him possibly fail at running his own business now than it is when I remembered him as a kid just working a day job I knew nothing about.

"Why do we continue to preach the greatness, the undisputed manifesto of startups and entrepreneurship in general."

I think you need a better BS filter. People in general are going to post their success before their failures, and that's naturally what gets on HN. But, there are posts about failure on here. Pay close attention to those. I've been in far worse entrepreneurship communities that were delusional on success and were less willing to reveal their rocks along the path. HN is one of the more down to earth ones I've found, as long as you can filter out some of the noise.

"I want to know: Why the hype?"

There's always a hype around startups after a recession.
If the old business models are dying, what else is there to look forward to? If you're unemployed, already got tired of looking for jobs, what else are you going to do to make money?
There's even more buzz around bootstrapping, and using minimal resources - my opinion lies in the data that there's signicantly less VC money thrown into tech (unless it's lab-intensive) compared to ten years ago.
Ooh, can we have a custom color? You can take it from the HN "topcolor" setting or just a setting in the options.

Also, it'd be nice if the karma widget opened the app.
Hook root when a process crashes? How long until an exploit?
We don't have a formalized suggestion mechanism. You can email them to me (jbarr@amazon.com), post them in the AWS Forums, write your own blog post, or you can come work at Amazon (http://aws.amazon.com/jobs) and implement it yourself!
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It's a disincentive to work because of diminishing marginal utility - your second $10,000 of income is not as valuable to you as your first $10,000 of income. If the second $10k/year is less valuable to you than leisure, you will avoid work.

If she got neither unemployment nor basic income, but only basic work, the taxpayers would not have been forced to pay for her vacation.
Look, I'm a Blatant social media self promoter
Hmm... Why you say this?
What I was thinking is not just have one video but like a break down of the project and explain each part using a video.
Then facilities for interactions like comments on parts of the video that wasn't clear.
Not so. You can just follow the designated path for a well-paying career and be fairly successful, maybe not without doing hard work, but without any need to rock the boat or do anything novel.
I don't know the status of that :-)
If you setup a demo site with sandboxed transactions, it will be very useful for publishers to evaluate quickly if they'd want to use your service.