skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought my first car a couple months ago through CarWoo (I found them through HN) and had a pleasant experience compared to what I went through when stopping by dealers in person, but then again, I'm not an aggressive haggler.

Carwoo was price testing at the time. (I saw $39-$59) I paid the $59 and think it was completely worth it, although this is my opinion after trying the service.

Something else that I found surprising was that I got better support through Twitter than through email.
This looks very nice. I already use underscore an jquery for all of my projects. I'll try this on my current project and report my findings.
I actually tried out the twilio audio transcription and it was really crappy so I removed it again. When even only 10% is transcribed wrong on a 20 seconds pitch it gets really painful quickly.
sex packet management?

homebrew is definitely the true sound of the digital underground
I do my primary development on a Mac and haven't had problems with boost, etc. I occasionally run into dependency problems or other frustrations, but no more than I would on any other system. I just enjoy the overall flexibility of having the POSIX system for development, but a ui that doesn't look and work like it thrown together by some kid in a garage when I want just want to web surf or play media, etc. I would highly recommend going the Mac route personally , but it really boils down to personal preference.
Also note that if you need more power than string dispatch and are already using Moose, there are match_on_type[1], MooseX-Types-VariantTable[2] and MooseX-MultiMethods[3] that already go a long way.

[1] http://search.cpan.org/dist/Moose/lib/Moose/Util/TypeConstra...

[2] http://search.cpan.org/dist/MooseX-Types-VariantTable/

[3] http://search.cpan.org/dist/MooseX-MultiMethods/
This is the risk you run when building on top of other companies. Generally speaking, it's always more favorable to BE that platform, rather than be building on top of it. We've seen this over and over in the Twitter development community. Zynga is the rare case on Facebook where they are generating so much money for Facebook they have enough leverage against Facebook to level the playing field somewhat. 99% of other platform developers/startups do not have this luxury and can be wiped out at the whim of the platform.
A: Work hard for 10 years building great stuff that people buy.
...and very often is calculated by network card itself and left blank by OS. (See checksum errors in wireshark.)
T410 here, after a long stint with a T41. It's a solid, solid machine.

And it has channels in it that will drain liquids spilled on it away from components and through little holes in the body! I have not, and do not intend to test this.
If it was directed at a hypothetical reader, it was still implied that I represent the position that OSX = UNIX, based on the contents of my post. Which was never implied in my post.

I may have been a little too jumpy and he may have meant no harm by it, but people putting words in my mouth annoys me to no end. Many times It is used as a deception to falsely strengthen their position.
Digg is using Eee PCs as servers?
you're talking about up/down votes, right? I'm a bit torn on that: implement it on PitchPower or allow the conversations to take place on existing sites like HN / Reddit?
The 3 things you need in order to blog - a drunk vlog filmed at mountain.rb 2010
They sold out in 15 minutes, so the price must be right.

Actually, considering it sold out so fast, they should most probably double the price.

If they were doing that full-time, that would put the activity in the $8-10M/year range. I imagine significantly under their annual revenues with apps. Not only would they make less money, they wouldn't learn anything new to talk about. So at $1,000, they're doing you a favor. :)

edit: looks like they didn't sell out in 15 minutes. I guess doubling might be too much then, but the rest still stands.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/weblife/kevin-rose-10-tips-for-ent... point 4
My experience tells me that they usually are the first search result in google -- and when they aren't, I specifically look for them in the search results because the site is incredibly accurate and useful and I have come to trust it.
The problem is that if they can't get the service working, then they will never turn into paying customers.
Currently in the process of refactoring a webapp with a lot of jQuery soup and this looks a lot like how I envisioned my client side models. Looks great!
I'm sure it's well worth the price!
I upvoted you because there seems to be a dichotomy there, but let me offer a solution: Managers aren't "wrong" in their knowing what can be done and what can't - it's the corporate "structure" prevents it from taking place (design by committee, no ownership of projects, not enough latitude in design by the people "on the ground", etc.)
I really disagreee with this. If you become massively sucessful on a myspace/google/facebook level then perhaps. But has pg bought yombinator.com? Where does dig.com take you? What about gamil.com? twiter.com? micorsoft.com?

Forget about the misspellings, you're not going to lose a lot of traffic to them, people will soon realise they're in the wrong place. Save your money for better things like advertising and servers.
I've been in web development since 1999, and let me share something with you: everyone has an idea. Everyone. When people ask me what I do, I cringe. I don't want to tell them, because I know what's coming. Every one of my family (I'm talking immediate and extended) members has, at some point, asked me to build/host/collaborate on some type of web-based product. Remember the laws of supply and demand you learned in econ 101? Well, there's a ready supply of ideas available at no cost. I can't stop people from telling me their ideas, so before you even begin, realize that the value of an idea is $0.00.

So what has value? Value comes in what I can't find easily. The number one thing missing from the equation any time someone pitches me an idea is some modicum of effort. You may not be able to code, but there are plenty of other things you can do. How much effort have you put in to outlining your idea? Outline your product. Outline its features. Outline its appearance. Spell out the business side in detail. Calculate a burn rate. What other capital investments will you have to make? Who else is in the space? The more detail you have, the more dedication you appear to have.

Beyond that, recognize that your idea might not be appealing to a programmer. Programmers aren't excited by the same things that business developers are. We don't want to implement yet another social business app, even if it does target a niche that "no one else is even paying any attention to!" If your idea isn't technically interesting, your pool of potential developer targets just got cut in half, and the pool of talented developer targets just got cut by a factor of ten.

Develop your idea and share it. Don't fall in to the trap of believing that your idea is unique and requires protection. I don't sign NDAs. Period. I don't sign them because you have nothing I want, and I have everything you want. Remember, I don't want to hear your idea. Show me your idea and all the effort you put in to it. If it's enough, I'll work with you. I'm not going to steal your idea because I've tried to do it all myself before and it doesn't work.
I was a TrackPoint junkie until I got myself a unibody Macbook Pro. That was the first trackpad I actively enjoyed using, and now I honestly wouldn’t want to go back.
Thanks for the feedback aspir, you really hit on the main point of conflict for me at this point. I haven't yet decided whether I want to bill this as a judging or negotiation service. In accordance with the Federal Arbitration Act of 1925, this type of dispute resolution actually is binding. The Supreme Court has ruled on this several times in fact. If the parties so choose, however, they may choose to state in the terms of the arbitration that judicial review may be sought afterwards as well.

I see the problem being more of whether people would be willing to have a binding decision enforced upon them by an online service. Establishing legitimacy while bootstrapping is going to be tough.

And yes, I will certainly get every set of lawyer eyeballs on this as I can before launch. Thanks again!
There is no trust fund. The government spends all the extra money social security collects. Yes, they do put in special IOU treasury bonds that have no value and cannot be sold.

All of the money for the "trust fund" comes out of regular taxes.

So let's say they have to dip into the trust fund for 100 million dollars, that means that the regular budget will have have to increase by either 100 million, or 100 million in services will need to be cut.

This is not sustainable and with the government hemorrhaging money left and right I don't see how that 2.4 trillion will ever be repaid. Unless the dollar loses most of its value through massive inflation, which would be very very bad.
Awesome execution on the new site, customer service and youtube videos, congrats guys!
you overestimate the brain power of the average internet user.
I'm fairly certain that 3000 merchants are active merchants, and 0.9% is out of global accounts, including inactive merchants. I could be wrong, however. =)
Robo-signers: Mortgage experience not necessary
Congressional Staffers Gain From Trading in Stocks
Suppose you lived in a race of near-immortals which had all the problems you're imagining, and you get appointed to a task force to address them. Would your recommendation really be to create a pathogen that slowly cripples everyone's bodies and minds over several decades until it eventually kills them?
Houses probably aren't the best comparison. Commercial real estate is probably better, being a larger investment and with more interests pulling in different directions.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17/jamesinclair/IMG_6378.j...

A huge hole in the middle of Boston's Downtown Crossing shopping district.

The historic Filene's department store building was torn out, to be replaced with a 38 story tower. Funding evaporated. The project stalled in November of 2008.
Thanks for the pointer to libowfat, looks quite interesting!
“Naked Came the Null Delegate”: Chapter 2. Unhandled Exception
Given that dealers are mostly tied to physical locations I wouldn't imagine it would be a big problem. Sure they could create more accounts when they get bad feedback but in the end people still have to pickup the car from the same physical location.
Ask HN: Help buying a developer laptop
I need a developer laptop. I am a web developer. I primarily use Windows. I am planning on buying a Mac. Which one would be a better option for development (Mac/Windows). Also I am an occasional gamer. So, can you please give me some suggestions.
I can't put a finger on why, but it bothers me how many businesses, websites and services are built to address a very specific deficiency in a single product. It's like the company whose product specifically exists to output Balsamiq mockups to HTML. It just seems... dumb.
Microsoft did that years ago. And that was widely decried as a move to fragment and subvert the Java community. What's the difference for Google to do this?
del.icio.us was bought by yahoo before it became delicious.com. how many people typed the wrong domain in? Quite a few probably. Not enough to stop it being a huge success, not enough to prevent it being acquired by yahoo. I think it's a non-issue.
TLS Snap Start Proposal
Just as a side note, please make sure to upvote both the question and any helpful answers if you've found the question using Google and it helped you as that's how Stackoverflow dynamics work.
It started out as a joke then spiraled out of control. Based on half a dozen other homepage split tests, nothing significantly outperforms the Big Red Button.
clickable: http://www.simponent.com
There is a similar thread going on in this discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1786930
I use Ubuntu on my Dell Inspiron 1525 and it serves my purpose well but because I also have to use Photoshop a lot I have Windows in partition.

I will die out of joy the day Photoshop comes to Ubuntu. That is the ONLY reason I have Windows installed.
Hey, I'm also in Saigon (HCMC) but came from the US. I think $600/mo gets you a pretty comfortable lifestyle here. Details: http://www.saigonist.com/content/cost-living-vietnam-its-rea...

I'm always up for meeting HNers if you want to look me up.
Perhaps - I have no internal knowledge of Chargify's numbers beyond what they've posted publicly. Even if they have 30000 global accounts, though, and it's 0.9% out of that - makes me think twice about freemium.
Digg must be pluggr's biggest customer... http://pluggr.info/
Something I'd like to point out: http://i.imgur.com/gNdLh.png

Make sure you test your fonts on Windows both with and without Cleartype. A few of the trendy new sites are using this font now and it's near unreadable on Windows without Cleartype. The site looks awesome and I'm looking forward to using it (excellent timing in my life). However, the font issue is going to be a big pain for Windows users.

Even with Cleartype (http://i.imgur.com/EQNr5.png), the fonts look bad. Anything that is rounded on the top (2, 0, 9, S, etc.) has an odd bump in the center. While it's more readable (due to the darker rendering that Cleartype is giving it), it's quite jagged.

I'm mostly posting this since I'm guessing someone from CarWoo will be reading this thread. I've always wanted a service like CarWoo and I think you've got something really great.

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I've found another thing: when you're selecting a style, you're only allowed one. Rather than making it radio buttons, you've used checkboxes and popped up a JS alert when I select two. It means I have to de-select the original before changing my mind. You could keep the checkbox look while making it behave as radio buttons would.

EDIT: During the process (I haven't paid yet), it didn't ask me what options I wanted with the car. That means that if I get a quote for the car, it isn't the quote I want.

The other problem I see is that I can't compare the deal I'd get on a Camry and an Accord. Often times, people make decisions between two models based on price rather than deciding between the two models and then looking for the best price on that model. I was told by the chat help on your site that I'd have to purchase two plans if I wanted to get a quote on two different cars. During my car buying experience, I'm likely to narrow it down to 2 or 3 cars in the same class and then want to see the price difference. If a dealership is giving me $1,000 less on a Camry (which might have started out with the same MSRP), that might sway me away from the Accord.
I thought it was a good post, and didn't come across poorly at all (though the comments seem to differ).

Perhaps it's because I didn't follow any of this yesterday, so this is the first I am reading of it.
Any tips would be great on my startup, sms is disabled, test away
Killing the Evercookie
"The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed." Gibson in 2003.

I reread Neuromancer and Count Zero this past summer. Still incredible 25 years later. I kept stumbling across tech cliches then realizing Gibson was the original.
Lion: King of beasts.

Lion: King of OS X big cat releases -- Last 10.x?
I am loving my Mac. But if you have budget constraints, I would suggest Ubuntu. I was using Ubuntu before I switched to Mac and I was loving it too.

You can get almost all the softwares on Ubuntu which you get on Mac OSx.
EC2 nodes are terribly underpowered, particularly in the I/O realm (the biggest weakness of virtually every site) where a standard desktop absolutely annihilates the I/O performance of an S3 connection (where you have to perform software RAID to get anywhere near the performance of a single magnetic low-end SATA drive, which is absolutely terrible).

A lot of the "web scale" noise has come from dealing with these gerbil sized instances.
Pretty sure those numbers discount serving up Digg information out to every blog that includes a Digg button as well. Pretty sure if SO adding something like it, they'd be running on more than 5 servers.
Great approach to the Sign Up button! The humorous approach itself probably increases the conversion rate.
This is meaningless without the necessary information to evaluate the situations.

Apples and orangoutangs.
The Venn diagram of (people who like iTunes, people who like mpd* ) would look like two circles, separated by hundreds of miles of barren tundra. That's like the intersection between plumbers and meerkats.

* Self included. Lua mpd library, FWIW: http://github.com/silentbicycle/lua-mpd
I have a UL-30 and the wildly sensitive touchpad is my only complaint.

I love the keyboard, battery life, and how light it is. It performs more than well enough for web development, web browsing, video watching.
Don't fail to consider the screen type if getting a macbook/macbook pro:

http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-202306.html

And the magsafe power adapter can get stuff caught up in it easily, so consider something to guard it (even just a piece of tape might help):

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1314018
When I was younger I thought I couldn't solve the really hard problems because I lacked experience, now that I have some experience I realize it is more about mindset than naivete or ability.
Alternatively, connect a mail client to your Gmail by IMAP, go to the "All Mail" folder, and sort by size.

I just did this with Thunderbird, and it took ~30 min to download the headers of 33k+ messages.
For someone who took $ x million "off the table," during those funding rounds the hypocrisy is impressive.
No, there's a spot at Embarcadero & Harrison with an unobstructed view that seems to be very popular for taking photos with the bridge in the background, or just to stop and look.

After a game the trains are so crowded it's usually easier to walk the 1/2 mile back to Market street, so you've got several thousands going past there ~80 evenings a year. The last time we were there my wife referred to previous HN conversations about SF's social gender distribution and observed the abundance of single female giants fans.

Also, there's a Gordon Biersch right across the street, so that probably helps too...
There's also a real-time strategy game based on chess called "Kung-Fu Chess".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung-fu_chess
Yes, and no...

If no student loans are available, affordability goes down followed by demand. The bottom feeder Universities get wiped out of the map first, but enrollment will fall across the board.

If a critical mass of applicants exist to support a reduced University System, a new equilibrium point will be found, and education cost will be cheaper. However, if this is not the case, the only survivors will probably be a handful of Ivy League schools, who will actually raise tuition and cater to the children of the wealthy.
Or for a year and build something people really like. (See: Minecraft)
Both are simple sites by any definition. The database queries for almost all the pages views are clustered index seeks (on SQL server) and in MySQL they are mostly looking up on the primary keys for the tables used (these are MyISAM tables so no clustered indexes here).

Both are equally unoptimized outside of the database queries which I believe are fairly well optimized.

No real cacheble content on either outside of the usual suspects (JS, CSS, some images)
I could not live without multi-touch now. It is a true mouse killer. I am sure it has added 30% to my productivity alone. Someone turned me on to BetterTouchTools and the rest has been history. With 3 finger click copy, 4 finger click paste I can blaze through a lot of tasks.
Useful for Windows Phone 7 ... Wired has some scenarios for where this would be useful: you're a heavy user of Office, Windows Live, or XBox Live.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/10/how-and-why-youd-use-...
Or get rid of them early, if someone's only value is exposure and they're going to try and hold you hostage over every perceived outrage it's a matter of time until they turn on you.
So, it's a peek of the lion.
I have a System76 laptop and I really like it. The built in speakers are terrible but I usually use headphones so who cares. The touch pad buttons are a little stubborn too.

Other than that boot-up time is pretty fast, and I don't spend hours trying to find drivers for hardware. And it cost me half of what a Macbook Pro would.
Sorry, I'm a little late to the party with respect to javascript. Could someone please explain to me what this means in english?

Backbone supplies structure to JavaScript-heavy applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing application over a RESTful JSON interface.
Nth-ing old thinkpads. I have a t41, it's really nice. I'm going to get an t60 when (if!) it kicks the bucket. (Running OpenBSD on mine.)
I was thinking about the same thing last night.
I assume most of the reader of HN are from US and even among them most are from West Coast.

Score of your article is inversely proportional to the time difference of current time and time you posted. See this http://amix.dk/blog/post/19574

So even if your post is interesting it wont make it to the front page if you post it at night (US Timings).

Also just posting any silly articles is a bad idea. Your article will be flagged for sure.
I have a friend who recently started teaching physics to high school students. I showed him this software, which I found through searching a few weeks ago, and he loved it.

Another great program is Vernier Video Physics for iOS devices. http://www.vernier.com/soft/videophysics.html

Also, Angry Birds physics makes me angry -- it's terribly unrealistic.
I found the link to check my OAuth token and was surprised who already had access to my account:

https://www.google.com/accounts/IssuedAuthSubTokens
I'd be interested to know how this compares to js-model (http://benpickles.github.com/js-model/). Anyone have any insight?
I'm not sure what you are suggesting?

Free coffee would be enough to get me to say something nice about Microsoft products?

I work at Microsoft?
No copyleft symbol, no public domain symbol (although this was just announced). Too bad! Glad to see that roasted sweet potatoes made the cut though...
I used to work at digg as a engineer. I won't say your distribution numbers are correct, but you've got the gist. There are multiple environments, reserved capacity, research and testing machines, etc.
I recently (2 days ago) installed refit on my macbook pro and now have a dual boot with ubuntu 10.10 (which, by the way, rocks so hard I might not boot back into OSX again).

That's the best of both worlds for me: mac hardware, OSX for my wife and ubuntu for me. Perfect.
I think you've just described government contracting.
I'm assuming you mean Facebook has more functionality and no cachebility. That might be true but I wonder how expensive getting a Digg discussion(with 100-200 posts) page compared to say a 5 answer SO question or even just a simple Facebook profile.
There's an RTS called "Kung-fu Chess."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung-fu_chess

It would be interesting to see a game of speed-chess played on a rather large field with 200 to 300 pound weights used as pieces. Another variant: speed-chess on a large field where the pieces are soccer balls. This would lead to tactics where the opponent is made to move a powerful piece like their queen so often that they tire out and make a critical mistake.
Kevin mentioned it somewhere a few weeks ago. I forget where though.
Father and Son Launch iPhone, HD Video Camera into Space
Thanks for pointing out these issues. We're working on fixing them.