skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, some of their barriers to entry on certain pieces of functionality are a little annoying for genuine new users.

Fortunately, on the functions that matter, they blow their competition out of the water. Before SO came around, I dreaded seeing Experts Exchange links in my search results.

Given how long SO has been around, however, I would value a UI refresh over chat.
Haha, and that's exactly what I meant.

Jokes apart, I do see your point. Maybe I just got too excited about this app from the technical point of view. But I thought most people here would be more like that than potential customers.
I don't really agree with you as many of my friends feed their twitter to facebook - I assume there is some kind of app for this. Thus many facebook status updates are actually tweets. So many of the end users see tweets and status updates as the same thing. Facebook just needs to come up with a snappy verb for it.
The graphs aren't like Excel - we create graphs in cells (or merged cells) with a function like =graph(rows, cols, options) - so you can't drag them...
Help wanted would be a great thread --- crowdsourced domain naming...

love it!
lol --> "I'd be willing to part with it to someone who wants to make a kick ass gay porn site."
Not to knock chat, but most of the questions I ask during the work week are answered within 5-10 minutes. It's only on weekends when I notice the turnaround is longer.
"Insteadsheet" sounds stilted and dead on the tongue. "Hypernumbers" has rhythm and asonance.

Also, can we please have some care over use/mention here, Quine's turning in his grave!
Flickr killer? Free min.us photo sharing service has many pluses
Sorry I haven't got defensive about my product anywhere (I don't think so).
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Seems like quite a few hackers either burnt out or lost motivation to keep on going. It is not a lot, but need someone to chat over things, I created a public chatroom: https://consult.campfirenow.com/91654

If I am online, I will be there, leave a message, I will reply. Hopefully it will keep you going. It's good to bounce ideas off each other. :P
You can field strip it in 15 seconds. If you look at the inside of them, there are a few moving parts, and they're all very rough. However, the gas-piston operation system is far superior to the American AR15/M16's system that blows burnt residue into the receiver - that makes it seize up when dirty.
That's a great idea! I may try to incorporate some word problems into the app to tie together reading comprehension with basic math skills.
A little beside the point, but for your own edification, Y-combinator actually did mean something: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-combinator
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- affpad.com

- afalytics.com, affilitics.com, affilytic.com, affilytics.com // was looking into doing an affiliate analytics app

- hashreply.com // idea was same as twithawk

- voxily.com
I'll concede your white pages point because people search for the term White Pages. But do you really think people who aren't already familliar with the companies are doing blind searches for Mint or Dropbox? More to the point do you think pemople will really be searching for "aday" or "kokua" ("I need some help with this math problem so I think I'll just randomly type Kokua into Google and see what happens")
Another reason we've stopped getting faster is that we've reached a point where velocity saturation in silicon has become an important issue:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_saturation
>we might never see a faster dynamic language JIT

Lisp implementations have been performing at a similar level for years now - many with the aid of AOT compilation, some not. Currently, Racket and SBCL are comparable to LuaJIT on the Alioth microbenchmarks - faster at some and slower at others.
There is an even more awsome version available in North AMerica/Canada. The Mine car version is built for underground mine use.

Basically the original Hilux with sealed bearing everywhere, guards over everything that can break when a rock drops on it, loads of power take-offs and an interior that you can wash down with a hose.

It even has cup holders (although not a multi-screen DVD surround sound)
I've quit a few jobs. In my experience, when you're thinking about quitting and asking other people if you should quit, then it's time to quit. I have tried to stick it out before and I wish I had just quit instead of trying to work through it.

How have things turned out for me?

My last employment gig that I quit was about a year ago now. I quit, then worked for a month full-time on one side project. Then a company I previously worked for needed someone for a few months, so I went back to them at 50% more pay since it was contract.

Then I took another month off to complete another side project. These projects didn't make money so I started looking for some remote, contract work. I found one pretty quickly that was using Zend Framework, which I had experience in due to using it on one the above-mentioned projects. I accepted this, at an increased rate of pay from my previous contract.

Now, that contract is almost up so I'm looking to take time off to work on another idea but am also applying to some contract gigs that interest me. I've sent off three applications so far, and I've had three interviews (the third coming up on Monday). Also, the place I previously worked at/contracted needs someone again for a few months so I have an offer in my back pocket.

As a capable programmer who can take the initiative to build your own stuff, it is incredibly easy to find work. Quitting your first job is the toughest though. But then afterwards, you wonder 'Why was that so difficult?'

This will be a great opportunity to learn more about yourself. If you quit and take time to work on your own stuff, you will learn a TON about your work habits, how productive you are, your focus levels and whether the entrepreneurship route is for you. This is incredibly valuable information to learn about yourself in your 20s. You may find after a few months, that you prefer the structure of the corporate world. Maybe it's tough for you to understand that now, but I can definitely understand why some people would prefer this.

And, if you take time off, build some stuff on your own, and highlight that in your cover letter and resume, it will be very, very easy to find work should you wish to return.

Have fun!
Good points - when I said it [ELisp] was ancient I was referring to the "dynamic scope" argument someone else deeper in the thread already mentioned. I've read a lot of conflicting opinions about it so I suppose I should stop assuming it is either good or bad and actually create my own opinion of it by doing my own research.
Ask HN: How much would you pay for a hyphen (domain name)?
I'm planning to start a business called, let's say, Icarus Systems (it's in the aviation sector). I've already bought icarussystems.com, but I really wanted icarus-systems.com as it's prettier and more legible, if more difficult to remember.

It turns out that icarus-systems.com is owned by a medium-sized company who just redirects it to their main site, say paperclips.com. I got in touch with their CEO, and it turns out they acquired a small company called Icarus and that's how they ended up with the name.

Long story short - they're asking 5000 US$ for the domain name I want. That's a month or two of runway for me. I've tried haggling the price down to no avail. Would you pay that much for a hyphen?

I'm not worried about their icarus-systems.com getting more Google rank because in the long run the term Icarus doesn't even appear on paperclips.com. It's more of a cosmetic issue in my mind....
1 - yes hypernumbers allows you to publish a spreadsheet page as a webpage with a single click (as mentioned in the video, on the demo and on the front page).

Its not a pride point it is practical. We try and use hypernumbers everyday for as many tasks as possible to feel as much customer pain as possible.

We are a very small company - my name is on it because we are optimising for communication from customers and I want people to phone/Skype me...
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He didn't say libs were well documented. He said ruby libraries usually have the same or similar structure/coding style.

The point is that it's oftentimes easier to grep the source for something than to track down said thing in google.

SPECIALLY because ruby libs tend to be horribly documented, but most times with simple-ish code to understand.

And, moreover, if you see a library that does too many weird things and you can't follow, it means that probably the code is shit and it's time to look for an alternative :)
Aaron's real blog: http://tenderlovemaking.com
You didn't really fail because you learned more about yourself and where you work best.
I love the Toyota FJ cruiser! Its utilitarian like the HiLux but available in the USA. The Tacoma and Tundra have interiors more like cars than a truck you can wash out the inside with a water hose with.

It can carry a decent amount of ammo and guns. http://img.skitch.com/20101015-c25kibbi3nub61emqgb32mqpie.jp...
I like this. Could fill an interesting niche between emailing spreadsheets around and a full-blown SAP system!
I'm sorry, but can we please stop posting this same article 20 times?
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Sounds to me like they're trying to get some easy money from you. Truthfully, you already have the far more important domain name. I'd offer something like $250 and simply walk away if they don't take it.

Honestly, that name is in no way critical to your business; you should be more than willing to let it go.
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(email is in my profile)
Please note that the US military uses Hiluxes extensively in Iraq (and to some extent, in Afghanistan), too. We sold a bunch of Ford Rangers to the Iraqi and Afghan militaries (poor guys; those trucks are ok but the rear drum brakes consistently freeze up when parked in cold muddy conditions).

The best truck is a hilux with the ignition rigged to just require a toggle switch to turn on, and the inverted "T" for center of gravity calculations when sling loading (and the dry weight in kilos marked on the side) on some duct tape on the side.

Sometimes I've seen the rear seats turned sideways to serve as side gunners, with a pintle mount in the cargo bed (either on the light bar for forward arc only, or in the middle of the bed for 360 degree). Usually the US only does that with bigger trucks like the Silverado.

I wish I could get a small common-rail diesel truck in the US, or maybe a diesel-electric hybrid, on the hilux chassis. A truck that size which could be a decent remote site electric generator would be amazing.
good name, please don't change it.
Not at all, I'm just asking for comments from anybody who has experience with both. I used to use Python quite a bit, but switched to Lua a few years ago and PyPy really hasn't been on my radar.
I debated adding that to the list because I knew someone was going to post this :)

In fairness 37 Signals also means something just not a specific concrete thing that someone would search for
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Also check out the "see" module. A human readable version of dir():

http://github.com/inky/see
My voice tests as 'bloody awful' and the video needs to work in the office with the sound off...
It has zero accuracy - to reliably hit a target with an AK you have to be close enough to beat them with the stock.

It can just about fire a full mag before over heating.

To go from safe to automatic fire the safety lever makes a noise that alerts people in the next country

I'll stick with my SA80 thank you
I've got a few, the spreadsheet has no validity

valm.com - pronounceable LLLL.com
blinek.com - village in poland
mintmade.com
clearobject.com
sidelife.net/.org

Part of a blogging network:
builtfordesigners.com
builtfordevelopers.com
builtforbloggers.com
My uncle had one in the 80s. You can get it in Mexico.
It's not that important in the rest of North America because we have legitimate roads that go almost everywhere. When I lived in a driving state, I had a 4WD Tacoma and it was overkill for almost every situation I encountered.
1. 2000: Y2K fear passes, Bush is elected as president through Supreme Court Decision, 2001- 9/11 attacks, Beginning of war on Terror, 2002-2003: Beginning of War in Iraq. Yuck... Bad memories. You need a beer too.

2. As I stated, the site is still in development (as you stated, there's still a lot of work on the design). I'll clean it up.
Yeah, the first thing I thought about reading the summary was hmm, this could be a nice low-end alternative to Cognos TM1 or Jedox Palo. It lacks the analytics, but for a good number of use cases, that's actually fine.
I seem to just be getting 503'd. Is that my firewall, or has the collective weight of, uhh... HN bought it down?
I'm not sure why the human body imposes physical limits on eye-rolling, so I'm a little frustrated that I can't roll my eyes at this post as much as it deserves.
I am no expert on domain name pricing, but www.anApple.aDay.com could easily be an Apple fan site or something health related.
I'm only remotely familiar with Groupon and Mint (know of them, never used them).

But both Dropbox and Facebook were building brands around those particular words, yet had domains that were not the branding words (getdropbox.com, thefacebook.com). Facebook also started out initially as a college-only thing, then opened up to the world, so it's hard to say their growth was linked only to domain name changes.

In either case though, (the)facebook.com could have just as easily been "allmypals.com" or something similar where the branding matched the domain name in a more direct fashion.
A lot of software can be disassembled or decompiled, but you generally lose variable names and comments (especially if the code has been intentionally obfuscated). And generally the compiler that produced the code did optimizations which obscure the function of the code. Trying to decipher anything but trivial software from disassembled code is much more difficult than deciphering the code itself, which is often a non-trivial task on its own without good documentation.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disassembler and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decompiler
Even more impressive was when it got washed out to sea (possibly a later episode?) and they rescued it full of sand - all it took was a clean and some fiddling for the (clogged) engine to run again.
I raise my coffee cup to you - and look forward to your call...
Without reference to the formal notion of limits in real numbers (invented in the 19th century), the expression 1=0.999... is meaningless. So one shouldn't be surprised at the confusion and dumb arguments surrounding it.
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> they're asking 5000 US$ for the domain name I want. That's a month or two of runway for me

I'd say forget it. You can find a better name without "systems" altogether. Think about what defines your product or service uniquely. The name will come to you.
I wonder if it was just the trucks that caused that though... Canadian troops have been operating in Afghanistan since 2001... many of them have maple leaf tattoos... (I should know, I was one)
The ones I've read are relatively straightforward Lua, though.

Some shootout programs look really hairy compared to normal code in their language. (The "optimized Haskell" shootout programs were, at one point, though I haven't followed it for a while.) With Lua / LuaJIT, that doesn't seem to be the case.

Besides, Mike Pall is using some of the shootout benchmarks to tune LuaJIT, so it's not surprising he has many of the top submissions.
The problem is that SO wants their main source of incoming traffic to be from google. They want people to search for something they are trying to solve, and find an answer on SO from google.

There's no way to expect that the SEO for chat archives could possible provide this.
But if I'm a troll representing myself I don't spend any money (only time, which I don't bill for if I'm a non-practising entity) in filing lawsuits claiming $10million in damages

On the other hand BigCorp which stands to lose a claimed $10m in the unlikely event of losing the suit needs to retain the services of a lawyer, which will probably not be a cheap one as they have a lot more at stake.

So BigCorp will certainly need to put enough money into the pot to cover their own expenses, and the troll will pocket half of that even if the case gets thrown out.
skedfly.com -- was thinking of doing something related to flight scheduling (and the weather maybe? :-))
Sorry it was me who got defensive on your behalf!
The example I had in mind was Perls There's more than one way to do it (TMTOWTDI).

Python is the opposite. They strive for one clear way to do things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theres_more_than_one_way_to_do_...

This may be above your head but just remember, the first language you learn will not be your last. If you end up picking lisp and hate it you can always learn c. _Programming_ is (for the most part) universal between all languages. Once you get the basics you only need to learn the syntax.
Comparing it to radio is where the trouble starts. A potential customer cannot rely upon radio to access your music/product. At best they'll hear a few of the artist's tracks, if they're patient and lucky. Therefore the radio is in no way a substitute for owning the LP, it's more like an advert/complement than a competing service. But Spotify DOES let the potential customer access your product in full, removing the main incentive to buy your LP. Furthermore, you're not only competing with a free version of your own product, your competing with a vast catalog of other music, millions of records that can be accessed effortlessly. "Should I spend £10 on this one album, or should I spend £10 for a month of unlimited access to endless high-quality music?" The economic position this puts individual artists in is dire.

Also, another thing about the ads is sometimes they're hardly ads at all, they're just Spotify announcements. I can't believe they'd be wasting spots like that if they were really pulling in serious advertising money.
There are various nuances to this question. It is certainly possible to decompile an executable program into source code with equivalent behavior, but that code may not be easy to understand. Well-written source code contains a lot of information — such as variable names and comments — that is not strictly necessary for the program to work (and thus is typically thrown away by the compiler) but makes the code easier to understand. Understanding code written in an unfamiliar style is difficult enough, but understanding code with no variable names or comments is usually not worth the effort.
I disagree. 20 rep is about 5 or 6 good answers, depending on how lucky you are and how popular your technology of choice is. How many people are going to put in that much effort just so that they can use a chatroom?
You can get 20 rep by asking or answering a single — literally, one — half-decent question. My last answer (a few days ago, so I'm not exactly grinding) netted me 90 rep. Alan Kay has 2,429 rep from one answer and one question.

I would estimate that there's a vanishingly small number of people who are completely unhelpful in Q&A but would be fabulously knowledgeable in chat. I mean, there's you, but I just don't suppose there are that many others. If it keeps out every spammer and blocks three people who would legitimately be helpful, that's probably the best filter ever.
railsphere.com

rubyhackers.com

wudwua.com (where u at, what u doing)

shopsbyfriends.com

bikinichinese.com

getmandarin.com
> ArticleBody - There is a service doing something similar, but I can't remember what it's called. Actually, it might be a firefox extension I'm thinking about.

You're thinking of the Readability bookmarklet ( http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ ) most probably.
He does come off as abrasive but I can understand why he worded it that way. Lately people with "great ideas" are coming out of the woodwork like rabid animals. He's probably just tired of it.
That's an interesting way to do it. Although the ability to move graphs around in Excel seems useful, I do it mostly to get the graph out of the way. How about having a cell/column on the side dedicated to graphs so that you can still use your =graph() implementation but it doesn't obstruct the spreadsheet view? You could even have a toggle button to hide it.
Good point, I still see a ton of questions on SO like, "How do I add two numbers in teh PHP?", which seem to get both upvoted and replied to a lot because hey it's easy karma. Chat is the perfect place for this kind of stuff, because a) most new programmers I would hazard don't know about IRC, b) you can help clarify a poorly or sparsely worded question quickly in chat and c) it will hopefully decrease the dross on the front page.
I'll answer the part about Excel. A lot of company finance depts shuffle Excel files back and forth via e-mail and shares, and merging out-of-sync data becomes an issue. You would be surprised how many finance departments of large companies still do this in a Mickey Mouse fashion.

There are enterprise products that address this, like Cognos Planning, Hyperion (not sure of the specific product name), Cognos TM1, Jedox Palo. But they are expensive (5 figures and up) for licensing and expensive for customization (>150/h consultants). Not so expensive that you wouldn't get ROI from the wasted person-hours, but the sticker shock is there, and in the case of the Cognos products, the usability leaves a lot to be desired.

I'm not sure that Hypernumbers can match the functionality of the enterprise products I mention above (today at least), but for the modest to light use cases, it seems to be satisfactory.
More info about the open-source/open-hardware project:
http://home.tu-clausthal.de/~vttsc/OpenrTMS/

First off, I think that just stimulating this part of the brain doesn't invalidate the existence of a spiritual realm. In fact, to me it validates that these feelings are useful, otherwise why would our brains be capable of it?

I imagine the sense of existence outside of ourselves is important both evolutionarily and spiritually.

Unfortunately, I also imagine this new knowledge will be abused (i.e. may become this century's LSD).
You took apart AK-47's in high school?
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> "You can get 20 rep by asking or answering a single — literally, one — half-decent question"

So what you're saying, is that any spambot could thwart the system easily, and the arbitrary restriction is silly, and mainly just means this will not take off beyond fanatical SO users (Which is fine, if that's their aim).

IRC has developed fantastic ways to keep out spammers and idiots. And the methods don't usually involve things like this.
repeatsale.com

joinstartups.com

fiftylocal.com (and 50local.com)
IANA graphics person but could someone help me out in understanding this?

Once the resolution of the image has been reduced, it becomes a low-res image. How do they get back the original resolution ?

Frankly, it sounds a lot like "Enhance" to me.
To add some context, this is the paper with all the details that wasn't available when the earlier press release hit HN. The old conversation is here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1732952
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Hypernumbers describes the product pretty well to me. To me, Hypernumbers implies a union between numbers and hypertext. Isn't that what it is? It also sounds pretty cool.
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