skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know how often you drive/remove screws with a drill, but a cordless model is far superior. All of the corded drills I've used put out far too much power and have limited throttle control.

A DeWalt drill, like the article recommends, and like the one I have in my toolbox, will give you adjustments for torque (so you don't over-tighten screws or drive them too deep) and power output (so you don't strip the heads). They also stop spinning as soon as you remove your finger from the trigger, unlike a corded drill which can continue driving the screw in with the built-up inertia. The torque setting really is what makes it so versatile; I regularly use mine to assemble furniture and work on the car, both applications where a corded drill would either damage the part I'm working on, or wreck my wrist when the fastener tightens.
The alpha for jQuery Mobile should be out tomorrow. It aims to solve this problem.

Are you using any mobile libraries/frameworks (other than the mentioned iScroll)?
"It seems a lot about it is, like, notaries," the Goldman source said. "I didn't know anyone even focused on what a notary did! It almost struck me as some kind of anachronism that must have had some value in the past—which I don't understand."

"The question to me is not do you foreclose or do you not foreclose. The question is when and with what philosophy you foreclose," the man on the bank restructuring team said. "If you want to reduce the amount of leveraged homeowners you have, you need to ultimately kick them out of their homes." A colleague walked up: His recommendation was to burn houses. It would lower the supply.

Those are two gems there, one an exec does not understand the need for those pesky certified witnesses and in the other, they should burn the houses to lower supply. I know he was being facetious but if you are going to burn them, why would you not let the existing owner stay. I read a great article the other day about how the crisis has gotten so bad that after maintenance and fees to get from foreclose to a sale, the banks are nearing negative return on some homes. The author surmised that Wall St. and the Gov are hatching a plot to forgive the debt on these homes in exchange for a profitable bail out for Wall st. to cover the note fraud crisis. Basically using it as a cover for transferring more tax-payer funds to the banks while awarding trinkets this time.
http://rubyonrails.org/

http://railstutorial.org/book

For starters. Of course these resources may not jive with their learning style.
Pay What You Like At Panera Bread
Its pretty much identical reasons to why CPAN also became such a success. CPAN's infrastructure and tools is what made the telling difference and Github seems to be heading on a similar tract.
It seems strange that someone with the business acumen to become the world's richest man would not look on the inefficient and broken charity and aid systems as an opportunity to create a better solution. There won't be good new jobs in places where there isn't reliable electricity or clean drinking water.

Like most aging industries, the "making the world better" industry is definitely in need of some disruption. We see newer entrepreneurs talking about this space more and more, so I wonder how long it will be before the richest entrepreneurs start looking at new ways of solving these problems.
LRU = Least Recently Used

wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_algorithms
Auto-detect timezones, time zone offsets and daylight saving in javascript
Why is there a short supply of designers in Silicon Valley right now?
MIT Club of Nor Cal: The State of Mobile Monetization
DevOps at Our Startup
The schedule says that talks start at 9:00, but Kirsty's email said they start at 9:30. Does anyone know which is correct?
The environmental impact of Google searches
It took all my discipline NOT to write an angry resignation letter. In the end, I didn't write any at all. No good can come from them unless they are the most vapid and empty of sentiments.

Microsoft employees can be broadly classified in two current states of mind: people who can't wait to leave and people who can't imagine leaving. I almost never encountered someone that was in-between these extremes. As such, you pretty much can't write a resignation letter that expresses meaningful sentiment that doesn't offend one of these large groups.
hopbuy.com - was for a shopping site.
YC application for Quirk - Solo founder, tuned for aepstein's suggestions
I think this is incorrect speculation. Black&Decker, for example, sells a similar looking device. I've had one on my meter for months and no one's said anything.
Amazon has a kindle version for 99 cents. I downloaded the sample chapter to my Kindle for Mac.

http://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Advertising-ebook/dp/B003Z4...
funny that HN wouldn't link httP://example.com :D
We'll update the FAQ. If you'd like to be considered for the beta, please email support at fastspring.com and mention you're interested. Thanks for your interest.
Errr, don't you mean 49 states?

And in reply, I'd ask "How long will it be before any of the other 49 states make non-competes unenforceable and forbid companies from laying claim to what you do with your own ideas on your own time and with your own resources?"
Dammit Savraj, in one fell swoop you not only brought out a super-cool greet tech appliance but also realised the dream that Clickpass never could - true seamless sign-on. The King is dead, long live the King!
Bloomberg Game Changers: Steve Jobs
HN is case sensitive when linking urls.

http://works.example.com
HTTP://does.not.work.example.com
That is really odd. I just fixed my link, but I figured that I'd respond so you that your comment still makes sense.
Sure that is very pragmatic and a good policy. I started on ext. But after Dojo gained industry backing and the licensing finagling with ext I switched. I have never looked back since. The nice thing about Dojo is it offer the robust web app framework like ext. It also can be used minimally with the selectors like jQuery but if people are going to just use selectors and a few other helper functions I tend to point them towards jQuery.
I assume you're being somewhat facetious, but the answer is a definitive yes. The team had previously used Campfire, but felt it had a lot of UI issues, and attempted to solve them with chat. I don't know for sure whether they intended chat to be for all of SO from the beginning, but it's been a big effort by their team for awhile.
This looks nice!

I recently had to implement something similar on one of my projects. Other areas that would be good to address would be translation between client time, server time and GMT (in unix timestampt format). A library that offered that functionality, combined with what you've built, would be very useful!
I definitely just finished hacking on this problem for our deployment and this is a much better solution. Docs look great too.
I worked with Philip some, he's a really smart, interesting guy - I was definitely bummed when I heard he was leaving. His internal blog at MS had a lot of great advice for younger developers and managers, I managed to save it off before he left and the IT folks ate it
This is a very strangely organized article, though I guess it's because it's trying to use the movie as a hook? The outline is something like:

1. Watching a movie about me was quite interesting/surreal.

2. However, I don't really want to talk about the movie; whether it got things right or not isn't that important.

3. Instead, I'd like to talk about entrepreneurship and innovation, and won't mention the movie again, despite this article supposedly being about what I "Learned From Watching 'The Social Network'".
Guy Steele recommends Clojure
I'm a little bit skeptical of the process. How do you "improve" the image and still get the details back? When you downsample/blur, you lose information. Does he keep the original and splice parts of it back? If so, how does he decide which to splice where? And if it's just using pixel color statistics when you up sample, that would work on most of the single color textures in the video, but how would that work for the brick road with the drain? The seams between the bricks are directional, so there'd have to be some way to account for that.

Anyone got a good guess? (or a paper for that matter?)
If your hammer is delivering shock to your elbow you are using it wrong. And I don't believe that wood vs. metal makes any difference anyway.

Also, one drawback to jigsaws is that they don't cut straight lines. This is a benefit if you want a curve, but if you are trying to make a 2 foot cut in wood it will wander all over with a jigsaw. You can get a fence to help, but I think the goal is reducing tools not adding more.

I personally would have both.
How is that a result of cloud computing? Your browser is often the most resource intensive application you use nowadays.

CPUs have passed a curve where there just aren't any killer applications demanding more CPU power. For me the biggest "wish I had a faster CPU" need has been video encoding, however recently the encoder I use switched to using the GPU for encoding and the speed improved dramatically, so even that need has declined.
A simple guide to redundant cloud hosting
This is why I wish FreshDirect had an API.
What if Elvis ran a hedge fund?
>I did a report back in high school on it and speculated you'd never really see processors over 4GHz. I guess I was right.

I'm not sure whether you're being serious or if you're actually claiming some sort of advanced insight here.

There has been speculation on the peak speed of processors for many, many years. I don't think they were consulting your high school reports.
Thanks. You should make a blog post out of this; call it the "Fielding Decoder Ring" or something.
We're quickly reaching the limits of silicon-based chips, but new materials will allow us to make even faster CPUs.

One such material is the material that won the Noble Prize in physics: graphene. Graphene can increase the frequency of an electromagnetic signal, which can allow for even faster CPUs in the 500-1000 Ghz range

Source: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/graphene-palacios-0319.ht...
Nope, I have no idea beyond that. It wants to be social, I think, and integrate with social platforms, but beyond that I don't know.
Capitalism Saved the Miners
FWIW, It's easy to come to this conclusion about any 'new' 'fresh' 'empty' medium.

The reason people bark one word commands on IRC, and often treat n00bs with contempt is just that IRC is so damn big and busy. Millions of people use it daily. Millions of questions/answers/conversations flow through it daily. But, it's still the best (IMHO) way to get instant contact with geniuses, and instant answers to your questions. Tech giants hang out on IRC and you can immediately (And without having to signup or get reputation points) chat with them.

So 'SO chat' could be a great medium to get answers.... until it gets big.
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REST-ful = REST-ish

REST-ish = ?

The debate still exists, it's just moved. You're still going to have people calling anything with HTTP in it REST-ish just because it's another nice acronym to pad their resume.
I wouldn't buy a hyphenated domain at any price.

That said, $5k is not a lot of money. If you've got the cash and you want it, just buy it and move on with your life. If its not worth $5k to you just move on - its not going to make or break your business.
Ask HN: What's your best Startup School prediction?
Ok, let's have it... your best prediction for what'll happen in tomorrow's Startup School.

PG shows up with a mohawk?

Free $20 cell phones?

Arduino rollerskates?

Airbnb announces new plan to reduce college dorm pricing?
cool! I don't understand how the site works from merely visiting it; it does differentiate itself by listing what look like actual GOOD jobs. What is triage and how does it work? It looks like I need an account to participate.
I concur. The userbase of IRC and StackOverflow is going to be fairly similar, I'd imagine.
I went on IRC countless time to get answers, and depending on what, when and where you ask questions, the answer ratio is really low. Think about it, some pretty good people are camping on IRC, but sometime they are going to sleep. SO is asynchronous by nature and there is a real motivation for people to formulate good answers and good questions. SO is the resume of the future!
Right, that makes sense. But I guess I don't really understand how that moves the conversation forward.

Maybe I misread your original comment, but it sounded to me like you were claiming that there are a whole buncha crappy REST APIs out there that are no better than the crappy XML-RPC/SOAP APIs of yore, and that there would be a whole new world of coolness if only they stayed true to the REST protocol.

Saying, "oh, it's just the web," is just another variation of the obscurity in Fielding's post that tptacek is complaining about in his comment.

Anyhow, it's not like you have some responsibility to justify REST to me or anything, but I'm as yet unconvinced of what this gap between "true" and "pretend" REST APIs really is, and what benefits lie for everyone in close that gap.

EDIT: Just saw your "translation" of that Fielding post in reply to tptacek's comment, which was quite helpful.
They made ordered lists for things like this. :)

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_ol.asp
Anecdotal at best, sure, but did you read the linked article?

"Ok so some courts in europe use this procedure. I could talk about it, explain how it's viewed and how it works in those societies, perhaps elucidate on the differences in legal systems and social contract between the US and europe... orrrrrrrrr I could note some liberal nobody's heard of supported it once and call current day liberals hypocrites even though most of them have never even put thought into this concept. Oh, and beefeaters! Good old England."
... in these benchmarks, which are mostly tight-loop math code, from what I understand.

Being a drop-in replacement also includes things like virtual crashproofness, full stdlib support, runs major third-party packages flawlessly, etc.
Does the "TL;DR" sentiment really belong at HN at all? I'd like to think this community is above that. The whole thrust of the site is about/for people who aren't interested in taking the easy way out.
Pretty cool site - best of luck!

I can join in with www.recojeans.com, sustainable, stylish jeans.

Not an equity founder, but as one of the first employees I have a lot of free reign in planning. HN has been quite useful.
That's very true, and sadly it's also true that most of the time, the people choosing the purported elite are the least qualified to do so.
We continue to expand the number of styles and sizes available and this feedback is really helpful in understanding what to do next with our scrappy little team, thanks.

While this is not 100% finalized I think you can count on the slim, wide style used on the KachingleX/NYTimes blogs pages being more generally available soon.

Bill (Technical Marketing, Kachingle)
Hierarchical nesting of spreadsheets mirrored in the URL seems like a very useful model; kind of blew my mind. Is nesting a common capability of Excel, etc?

Some other thoughts:

- The always-published (to web) functionality could replace 80% of Excel use where I work.

- I do feel the application could use a designer's touch, especially with regard to typography in the header and dialog boxes. Things feel a bit disjointed.

- I wasn't able to import an .xls via:
Site > My Pages > Import To >

- Does .hn have the ability to work with comma or tab delimited formats?

Thanks for sharing; I look forward to seeing where this goes .
I run gas stations. My underhanded motive for buying it earlier this year was to learn how the processes work and then develop products for this particular niche.

It's profitable and, on most days, pretty fun. :)
To add to this info, clicking your Sign Out link logs me out of my Google account.
This issue is very much not about pitting lawyers vs everyone else. It's about pitting people/corporations likely to be sued against people/corporations who might sue someday.
Premiere = First Performance

So they were technically correct.

The jury is still out on that "Premium Gold" part, though.
Just playing a devil's advocate here a little bit, but soap doesn't really require that much. For example for .net, you just run wsdl on some url and it generates the interface code for you.

Also the complexity is needed when your size goes up. Even verifying that the requests make sense is easier with schemas. Right now there is some project for json-schema going on, but it's not crazy popular yet. SOAP can be self-documenting too with its own structure mappings, type restrictions, etc. etc.

Don't you think it's only delaying the fact you'll have to reimplement the same stuff at some point yourself (since json based rest simply doesn't provide them out of the box)? (yeah - I know rest is protocol independent, so you can have xml and schemas too, but majority of "rest" services just throw some json and hope it sticks ;) - too bad if it changes between versions)
I own needsleeves.com - was going to make a personal weather site but got busy/distracted. let me know if your interested.
Not only that, but many of them probably tweak their websites after their proposals reveal things they didn't want revealed.

Consider this episode: Obama (briefly) proposed requiring people to perform unpaid labor [1]. When the blogosphere caught on, the language was immediately changed to obscure the proposal ("set a goal", not "required").

This link includes a screenshot before, and the full text after: http://overlawyered.com/2008/11/community-service-yep-mandat...

Perpetually can help the world learn about stuff like this.

[1] Not interested in discussing the actual policy - only the nature of the website tweaking is relevant for this conversation. This thread is about perpetually.com.

[edit: as suggested by jamesaguilar, tweaked language to focus on the part relevant to this discussion, rather than language used back in 2008. I put the footnote in because the last time I pointed out this example, people accused me of comparing Obama to Stalin.]
The now-defunct Northern Alliance were nationalists, led by Massoud. The Taliban (and I suspect most of the other insurgent groups) are Islamists.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=deflation+discourages+investment
It's not clear that a whole CPU can actually be made at anything near 500-1000 GHz, though. That's the switching speed of the graphene transistors themselves, but the clock speed of a processor can't really feasibly be made to be equal to the switching speed of the transistors. There are silicon transistors with 50 GHz switching speeds, but the CPUs are still plateauing at around 4-5 GHz.
Interesting article, thank you!
One small note according SVG: Android still lacks svg support(http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1376) so you need to have workarounds.
Here's the thing. It wasn't the normal people who paid 400k for some lawyers. That was the bank's legal fee.

So if you have loser pays, and you're a megacorp, spending 6-figures defending every lawsuit becomes a great move. Enhances your chances of winning since you're pitting a department of lawyers against whoever the plaintiff could retain, and then assuming your department of lawyers wins, you don't even have to pay for them. Totally broken economics which incentivize overdefending with a huge team of lawyers on every single case.
"Politicians have a tendency to present their positions differently depending on who's listening."

VoteSmart tracks candidates positions. They recently released VoteEasy (VoteEasy.org) and they have an API as well.
Six scientists tell us about the most accurate science fiction in their fields
Open Angel Forum coming to Seattle in November
We're hosting our 8th city, Seattle, on November 10th.

15-25 angels come to each event... real ones. Ones that are investing actively.

six companies present. real kick-ass, early stage ones that are raising money right now.

about 1/3rd of presenting companies go on to raise fundings.... folks like Rapportive, MightyMeeting and Backupify (and many more).

oh yeah.... it's free.
There's three things I do.

One, work with people who I think will pay. I get a lot of calls from people who sound stoned and don't seem to know what they're talking about. I don't move forward with those types of people. In general, I also try to avoid individuals. Companies pay slowly, but are less likely to disappear on you.

Two, I always ask for some money up front or spread the project out so that I get a chance to see their payment process before they get a delivered product.

Three, I send reminder emails about late payments on the first day that it's late. These aren't big emotional emails, just, "Could you give me an update on this invoice." Companies have institutionalized processes for making slow payments so you just need to expect that you'll be sending reminder emails.
Goliaths alone? I don't think so. Any player with good micro (and we're talking bots here) will keep dancing out the damaged mutas, since Goliaths can't follow to kill. You should at least throw a couple of Valks into the mix. A bot could also pull off the cloaked Wraith + medic combo, perhaps.
Help with Yahoo Pipes Error
I am getting an error on the response while using OSDE ( Open Social Developer Environment )

HTTP ERROR 500
Problem accessing /gadgets/makeRequest. Reason:
host parameter is null

I think Yahoo Pipes is rejecting the request because it's coming from a local server. Can anyone confirm this?

I did not see any documentation at pipes.yahoo.com that would confirm or deny this in their documentation or their forums.

Has anyone use used Yahoo Pipes in an opensocial/ facebook context?
Any plans to go international? I would bite your hand off for something like this in the UK :D
If you have a signed contract with a stated amount you can put a lien on any business assets that they have. You can file a D&B report on their business credit or you can file a complaint with the BBB. The last, while easy, is not that great unless they have a large consumer base.
Not a huge fan of Slim based on what I've heard, but I mostly agree with him on this. Makes me wonder though, what he's doing holding on to tens of billions in wealth if he could be building businesses and creating jobs for the poor instead. It makes it sound like "Business is better than charity, but I'd rather just be rich"
Wait, what? Capitalism put them in the fucking mine.
Good ideas are a dime a dozen. Great ideas are usually laughed at. Neither sees the light of day without you taking action.

While there were good stories and takeaways from his post, I keep hearing this same mantra coming across so many would-be entrepreneur stories. Why do people doubt themselves so much and not listen to their own ideas?
Another good way to monetize would be to analyze for common typos around the domain names being traded, and then offer those domains for sale via affiliate links to registrars.
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/ And for Ruby basics, this book: http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/ and this online tutorial: http://tryruby.org/
I was thinking of something similar to track the "10 Year Goals" that are rolled out with much fanfare, only to be forgotten after that individual is no longer in office.

The most useful part would be some sort of lessons-learned attached to each initiative (whether failed or successful).
Why not post on stackoverflow.com?