skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You also might want to consider using a string of small words as opposed to a single word. Something like "the big red house" is longer, but easier to type than something like constituent.
His site is light gray text (almost white) on a black background.
Same. I have the problem of highlighting text constantly. It drives everyone I know crazy.
Um, wasn't GoogleTV announced at Google I/O in may, way before AppleTV2 was announced? How do you introduce vaporware to block the sale of something that didn't exist yet?
>if they don't take it out of the holster, there isn't even an issue here.

Somewhat true. But if you're not prepared to take it out of the holster, why even bring it? And the reason I say "somewhat true" is because somebody can take that gun out of a drunk's holster. I don't think that it's unreasonable to require that people be somewhat sober when holding a gun in public simply because it may diminish their capacity to _defend_ that gun.
A little webapp for browsing "Who's hiring" threads
I've got annoyed by HN interface while reading "Who's hiring" thread, so I wrote a little webapp that fetches top-level posts from thread, highlights interesting keywords and the let's me delete posts that I'm not interested in and add more information to ones that I like. It can also fetch new jobs that appeared in thread after you started reading it.

http://gislan.utumno.pl/hnjobs/

It looks like shit, there's no registration (just random, private link for each request) or error handling and code is a little bit messy, but it works for me.

It saved me some time so I thought I'd share, maybe someone will find it useful too.
Being compelled to do something isn't slavery if you're being compelled to perform your social duty. That's the point of government--you have a negative duty to not do certain things (kill other members of your society or steal things from them), but historically most cultures have also recognized a positive duty to do certain things (pay taxes, defend your society against its enemies). It's an unpopular argument now, and I don't necessarily buy it, but it's still around--implicitly, at least, in every country's naturalization system, where new citizens explicitly accept the responsibilities of citizenship.

(In practice, of course, conscription has regularly been used to raise armies for offensive wars against imaginary threats. That's a betrayal of the government's duty to its people. In practice, this makes conscription a very dangerous tool to leave available. However, a degenerate case does not prove the general case--in terms of moral principles, just because it is immoral to use conscription to attack an innocent neighbor does not mean it is immoral to use conscription to defend against an aggressive enemy.)
'Fabric' would tighten the weave of online security
Ask HN: How to use HTML5 websockets with HTTP reverse proxies?
I usually use a reverse proxy, such as Varnish or Nginx, to cache and gzip HTTP requests when developing HTML5 Web Apps.

Now, I'd like to implement HTML5 WebSockets support in some of my apps. However, it seems that neither Varnish nor Nginx support WebSockets. So how can I realistically use HTML5 WebSockets, if no HTTP proxies support it? Is there a workaround? I have submitted bugreports to both the Varnish and nginx projects, which have been mostly ignored so far.

This seems like a showstopper for HTML5 Web Sockets, in my opinion.
Where to See Silicon Valley
Cindy Gallop interview PtII on Changing Venture for Women
is the Entrepreneurs guide to Customer Development ebook the complete version?
How being a teenage loser made Andrew Warner rich
PLEAC - Programming Language Examples Alike Cookbook
Eventually, he gave her a peripheral title: "Mammon," a sort of extension of his iMama. (...) since we were in Paris, [my wife] did ask a French psychologist what was going on.

'Maman' is the French equivalent of 'mommy,' but young Luka has yet to acquire his Papa's* bad habit of dividing the world into parts foreign and domestic. I suppose 'My son is learning to speak French faster than I cab learn to understand him' doesn't yield the same level of self-assurance as this ringing denouncement of telephonic inferiority.

* That's French for 'Daddy.' Those cunning froggies, always thinking they're one step ahead of us!
>This is like saying that caged mice have a better quality of life than wild mice because they have more free time, a reliable source of food, and no predators: it completely discounts the value of freedom.

You have that backwards. It's the only way to get anything resembling freedom for more than the top 20% of the population.
About a month ago, I heard my son (8 months at the time) saying "ma ma ma ma" several times, but he wasn't reaching for or even looking at his mother, just his bottle. My best guess is that he was trying to mimic Cookie Monster's "om nom nom nom" because he was hungry.

Kids around this age have an extremely limited vocabulary made up of simple sounds and few syllables. As such, they tend to overload certain words. The article noted that, for a child of that age, "mama" doesn't just mean mother, but several things associated with mother. Beyond that, "mama" might also mean something else that starts with an m (like "more"), or it might simply be babbling (my son currently says "da da da" to everything he touches.)
Mathematics is a science

Most people would disagree with that, though interestingly, that was not the case in the 19th century.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics#Mathematics_as_scie...

It's all semantics, and not worth arguing much. But nevertheless, it's good to keep in mind that mathematics is about deduction. It starts from axioms and tries to find all of their consequences. Science is about inference, trying to figure out the axioms given the observable consequences. Maths is bottoms-up, science is top-down.

[That's not the entire truth. Platonism in maths is a nice counterpoint to the above. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mathematics#Plato...]

My vote goes to CS being a branch of maths.
That sounds like a good book. Anybody else read it? Would you recommend it?
I'll be there as well, as a tech ambassador...looking forward to it!
I'm talking about Microsoft's web ventures, not people building on an MS Stack.
I write a blog about "digital strategy" (the ad industry insider-speak for what you're talking about) at http://www.joshklein.net. Most of my posts are about big brand strategy from inside an advertising agency, but I also think startups should know about many of the same things.
Having recently gone through Google's interview process, I think this site is useful getting up to speed for that, since Google is looking more for Computer Scientists than Computer Programmers.
BEWARE: it appears as though it was auto sending (and then deleting) my replies every time it autosaved.

I see this http://cl.ly/2g4u at the bottom of the thread in gmail. If I check my trash in gmail I see multiple versions of my reply in various states, all with a sent time (they don't appear in the sent folder).

At worst it is sending out your email continually as you type it, at best its autosaving feature clutters up your gmail trash with every autosave.

Anyone else see this behaviour?
We're using OmniAuth and it works wonderfully. It beats dealing with JanRain/Gigya for a single signon solution.
Plenty of people teach QM, but they don't have an intuitive understanding of it. Evolution has enabled us to have a solid grasp of what baseballs do, but things 1/1,000,000,000,000,000,000,00th of that volume don't behave like baseballs.
Not on my browser.
I have the same issue and actually can not pay at all.
This is a bit misleading. The site is not done in Cappuccino, only the actual picsengine app is in Cappuccino. The actual site is HTML/CSS/jQuery.
I understood that, but rarely do people use services exactly as they are intended unless somehow forced to.
So the library is aggregating all the different authentication methods by the different providers and providing a single interface. This is pretty cool and should save a lot of time.

I've been working in the authentication/authorization space for a quite a while and the decision to hand off authentication to third parties can be a difficult decision. For social media applications it is ideal. But not everyone makes social media apps. There are lots of enterprise apps with valuable data behind them that would do well in keeping authentication tightly behind their own doors and guarding it closely.

There are issues that multi-provider authentication hasn't even touched that I feel are important if it is to gain more traction. I disagree that the 'sign up using a login and password' model is becoming the exception. I think it is nice to offer it but sometimes I like to keep my logins in separate spheres.
American here. There are professors of English in the US who pride themselves on incomprehensibility. And let's not get started on the social scientists...
Instapaper Subscriptions (beta)
Electronic Health Records in NYT—who cares about accuracy?
I have a quite limited use of email (with no 'inbox zero' problem... maybe I should worry :]), so a minimalist mail app would be perfect. I'll give it a try.

Edit: talking about a minimalist app being "not so miminal" is a great way to introduce it.
MLComp (http://mlcomp.org) is a site for comparing different algorithms outputs over various datasets. The site appears to be down right now, but you can go here (http://hunch.net/?p=1309) for an overview of the site. (If it comes back up) It might help you get a feel for some real differences in learning mechanisms.
Positioning

The Innovator's Dilemma

4 Steps to the Epiphany (not listed)

Probably one of the most important things for a startup to know is that startup products are almost by design supposed to be incomplete --- even inferior! --- to existing offerings. It's inferiority that puts nascent breakout products in the blind spot of incumbents. A great way to lose is to try to match up an incumbent point-for-point.
That's the truly interesting part. I suspect it would have led directly to a hot war between the Soviets and the US/UK et al.
Quality over Quantity.

I went with my bosses to visit one of our competitors a few weeks ago; they invited us for a tour. The CEO of the competitor believed that employee count was a direct indicator of the strength of a business. He bragged about having a staff 3x my company's, but the fact is that based on sales data, we're far more efficient, doing a percentage of their sales larger than the ratio of staff sizes.
In most of Europe it's called "informatics" or "informatica" which at least to me makes a lot more sense: It's the study of information: data, languages, semantics, knowledge, knowledge representation, and intelligence. It has as much to do with computers as that astronomy has to do with telescopes, optics and radios. So it can/could be a science, it could also be mathematics or a philosophy of understanding.
Ask HN: Where do you go to connect with like minded people?
I love thinking about and talking about business, the web, and technology. The problem is, very few of my friends have anything close to the passion I do about these subjects. I am no longer in school and I don't live anywhere near a community like you would find near Palo Alto.

I have been able to connect with people across the globe over the web but I would prefer to hang out with like minded people (on these specific subjects) from time to time in the real world. Anyone have tips for they may have gone about this being in a similar situation?
Solving the Knapsack Problem
>keep him as a freelancer and pay him based on some work he completes (paying only if what we build turns out to be profitable)

No. Either he's a cofounder and making money based on that, or he's a freelancer and you're paying him either way. Craigslist is full of "make my site and I'll pay you if we're profitable", and it irks me every time I see that. Any coder that agrees to that is being taken advantage of, straight up.
> that's been pretty much understood by any seasoned .net guy for at least 2 years

One would think, but you'd be surprised.

I've seen the defunct ASP.NET Ajax Library shown in presentations as recently as two months ago (and that's just what I personally know of). There's been a lot of confusion since MIX, because there was never an official announcement that the new library is dead and abandoned.
Thank you for clarifying. I disagree with your conclusion, but I believe I now understand why you hold it.

The idea of positive/negative liberties was hard for me to grasp because it seems like a distinction which is of little practical significance in the real world, but I now understand how there is a meaningful difference, even though I contend that it is not an especially useful one.
I'm surprised at the size of the list here. Are all these sites legitimate, each with their own audience?

I'm wondering if there are equivalents for iPhone apps (or mobile apps in general).

Edit: Created a new post focusing on my mobile apps question so as not to hijack this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1757510
Why the down votes here? It is pretty damn amazing that not only has Zuckerberg maintained control but he has also been smart enough to bring in talent to help him, personally, scale. It would have been easy for Mark to simply say, "Eh, I need to hire a CEO", or for him to listen to the countless investors and advisors that are almost certainly hinting to him that he should do so.

Why did Ev step down? No one really knows. It, almost certainly, is not because doing so will enable him to now focus on product. As CEO it is quite easy for him to delegate nearly all of those responsibilities he wishes to ignore to Dick. No, giving Dick the title of CEO almost undoubtably has beneath it many more subtle reasons, some of which might simply be that Ev convinced himself he needed to do this for personal reasons. We'll never know, but IMO the "so I can focus on XXX" reason is never the real reason.
Reddit was 4 until recently. They did say they felt like they couldn't really go forward anywhere with that kind of staff although. I don't know if the new 2 hires are enough.
It's in the Mythical Man Month, not that Brooks uses the term 'rock star'

Good developers are 10x more productive than average developers.

There are no comparable studies for accountants.
I agree that some applications have very little need to add an status bar item. Fortunately, most of the ones I use allow you to turn the feature off.

On the other hand, I hide the dock on my laptop. Having a status bar item in application like this is pretty valuable for me as it allows me (in the case of Mailplane) to quickly navigate my accounts and see newer emails without focusing the main application.
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I got really excited about this, so I immediately went to my local Radio Shack and picked this up. Sadly, my hopes of reading my work ID, passport, and store purchases were dashed when I saw the reader only works with the EM4100 family of RFIDs. I'm not sure what that means other than it won't ready anything I've stuck next to it other than the two supplied RFID tags.
Ask HN: Where to submit an iPhone app for coverage?
There's some discussion regarding a post on where you can submit you startup for some coverage on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1756924

I'm wondering if there are counterparts for iPhone apps, or mobile apps in general. For those who have or are developing iPhone apps, where have you submitted your app? Which sites were actually helpful in getting some honest reviews and/or coverage, and which ones were essentially existing in a vacuum? Some review sites make me wonder if they have any end users reading them at all, or if their visitors are mostly just developers hoping to find buyers.

There's some related discussion on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1527010 but that focuses on iOS games.
You said you were an atheist, and I went through what the commonly accepted definition of that was. I quoted it. That is what atheism is. If you call yourself an atheist, then that is what you believe, unless you call yourself an atheist yet hold beliefs that are different from what atheism is understood to be, in which case, you might want to choose another word.
Yes, but a firefox add-on is easier than a mail client. Cortesi's solution still leaves out the problem of asymmetric encryption, and storing private keys though.
That's definitely news to me. I was quoting figures from 2007 and 2008 when two of my sites got covered. I was expecting 80k to actually be a conservative figure by now, seeing as how TC has grown.
Barring very specific cases, the language you select isn't going to determine your success in a strict sense. You and your team need to be well versed in whatever it is you end up selecting.

That all said, if you don't know .NET or Rails or Ruby or whatever - you're probably better off selecting something that won't cost you money right from the start...

There are programs that MS has to temporarily offset these costs, as others mentioned. Check out www.microsoft.com/bizspark/

(You/others may also be interested in http://www.microsoft.com/web/websitespark/ and https://www.dreamspark.com/default.aspx)
Yea it seems obvious to me that the child simply thinks that this object's name is 'Mama', and he thinks it's really cool and important because daddy kept telling him about this Mama object and teaching him to like it.
Come on, man. That second quote is out of context. And I even added an end note saying that I don't think the majority of bikers are the crazy ones.
Man oh man WWII was grossly mismanaged in the start of it...

Well sure... with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight and everything.
I agree with you that to me "rock star" always connoted "bratty prima donna" to me.

I would point out that the weird contractual demands are often canaries meant to uncover a venue that has not read the contract closely enough to guarantee the safety of all performers and the audience. The famous example, of course, is Van Halen and the brown M&Ms:

http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/vanhalen.asp
Nope. My insurance is picking up the tab, so I have no incentive to. I did however get my copay waived.
This list is missing some pretty vital books:

* 4 Steps to the Epiphany (Steve Blank's mimeograph-quality bible of lean startup marketing)

* Growing a Business

* The Knack

* All of Seth Godin

* Blue Ocean

It's weird that the list has so many big-business suit-and-tie titles (Ogilvy, New Rules, etc) but is missing small business core titles like these.
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>Man oh man WWII was grossly mismanaged in the start of it...

that was the historical point of WWII - it was a product of one world view and resulted in the other

>Declare war there and WWII basically doesn't happen.

yep. The post-WWII world would do just that. UN, NATO and Warsaw Pact. 68' Czech invasion. Vietnam war to prevent spread of communism. Iraq and Afghanistan to, supposedly, prevent spread of terrorism. While i don't agree with these wars (or especially with how they've been conducted), we can't not notice this is a system preventing another war like WWII, though not WWIII, in action.

The WW-III would be a different beast. It will be product of the current world view, ie. of conflict between the view and the critical problems. The obvious conflict is between
complete state sovereignty principle of international law and global, transnational, problems of human rights and environment, especially global warming. These problems can not be resolved through voluntary ratification and obeying of treaties by 180+ states. Thus global enforcement is in order.
When I was in high school, a TI-83 was required. Not just a graphing calculator, but specifically a TI-83 graphing calculator.

I'm guessing a lot of students are in the same position where the exact tool is specified which means there isn't much room for competing graphing calculators. No competition means no incentive to reduce pricing.
Yeah the unlocking thing I got to work, I used it for a while to log onto my machine at work. Wasn't as much of an improvement as I thought it would be. The book I mentioned has a project on how to build an rfid reader into a keyboard, maybe it works better, not convinced though.

Where do you have yours? Is it more in the webbing between your index finger and thumb, or further up your hand? Mine is between the index and thumb but I did some manual labor a couple of weeks ago and I started to feel it. Does yours ever bother you?
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David Cameron's advisor tapped phones
And here I was thinking it was funny that he was using the name of a false god from the Bible.
Ask HN: Is there a startup that allows me to charge without a merchant account?
I don't want to use paypal. I want to accept credit cards on my site. I like the concept of pulleyapp.com but it uses paypal. Is there anything like that, which allows you to accept credit cards on your site?
All friends and acquaintances:

http://reactionwheel.blogspot.com/

http://www.cogmap.com/blog/

http://mikeonads.com (sporadically updated but good)

http://ecpmblog.wordpress.com/
Yes they teach the math and the experiments like Bells theorem. They teach what we know about QM.

But that is not the same as there is nothing more to understand, that all puzzles have been solved.

There are how many different interpretations of QM?

10+ well known and however many not so known.

None of them are able to explain everything without:

1. Introducing some kind of quantum weirdness
2. Asking for a leap of faith
3. Explains it in n dimensions but doesn't allow for predictions.
Getting Earlyvangelists the Easy Way
I wonder how the boxee.tv team is feeling about this. Must be a little frustrating to work for years putting together such a great product and then see a major player come in like this.
There are two links in my original comment. Did you look at them?
The ability to check it without leaving your browser? Automatic roll-out of new features? That warm, happy feeling of Web 2.0 shininess?
Amazon to Acquire Online Retailer BuyVip (€70 million)
Debit cards replacing credit cards on college campuses
The reason I switched to gmail from Mail a few years ago was because of performance concerns. Of course now that I have an SSD I have far fewer performance problems in general, but even so my mail program needs to be fast and solid. Offline email access would be nice, and multiple accounts would definitely be nice because I seem to lose about 1 very important email a month due to my forwarding scheme from one gmail account to another, but it's gonna take more than a polished UI to make me switch back to a desktop client.
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The coast is cold and foggy? Maybe if you're all the way up in Half Moon Bay. ;-)

It does seem like it's declined in its role in startup culture lately, but it's spawned a good share of startups--- Seagate, SCO (pre-patent-troll era), RF Micro, Plantronics, etc., are from the coast. Would be interesting if anyone had a guess as to why there's less of that now than there was some years ago. There are still a bunch of profitable (!) indie-game studios, at least (the folks behind Bridge Builder, Gish, Super Meat Boy, Aether, Bit.Trip, etc.).

Judging by the commute traffic on 92 & 17, it seems quite a few people who work in the valley still live on the coast, too, but it's quite possible they're mostly 9-5 rather than startup types.
> if programming degenerated to the level of music or motion pictures, the average programmer would labor for nearly nothing in a start-up "hoping to be discovered"

Welcome to the source of my startup skepticism.