skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember being in these spots. Growing up different isn't fun. For me, I just didn't care that much about the things other kids valued. I wanted to build things, read, learn about science and do experiments. For whatever reason, the fact that I didn't care about sports at all made me as good as an alien to my peers.

The fact that my mom is a lesbian, and that I didn't know any reason why anyone should have a problem with that, didn't help things, either.

So, there were school hiking trips where I had prickly pear cactus fruit pelted at me. I was pantsed at recess a couple of times. Once a little knife was held on me. More often than not, people just said unkind things to me. Getting into middle school was worse, just as the author said. There's some special vein of cruelty that emerges at that age.

I happened to get lucky. Teachers noticed me, convinced my mom to let me be tested for special classes, and I found friendship in people who were more like me. At home, having a computer and learning about all I could do with it gave me extraordinary self worth that would have been wrung out of me at school.

Eventually I learned to relate to people. By high school, I even got along with the jocks and other popular types, though by choice I never fell into any specific group.

Looking back, the author is right. I had it bad but my bullies had it worse. My parents, at least, loved and prioritized me. I can't imagine the miserable home lives these many of these kids must have had. (edit: Although, giving it some thought, I don't know how much my kindness would have earned me from these kids.)

All I know is this: my life was saved – saved – by technology. I'm not sure I'd have made it into adulthood without all the growth I gained thanks to my good ol' Performa 6100.
I put one in my Lenovo x200. Greatest decision I ever made. I use the machine at school and for travel, so I am much more comfortable biking and or running with it now that it doesn't have any moving parts. Also, < 10 second boot times are great.
Negotiation Lessons from the Pawnshop [2008]
In areas that aren't as life-threatening as, say, structural integrity of buildings, non-software engineers cut plenty of corners too. Much of the "cheap plastic crap" you see on a Walmart shelf was designed by an engineer (or at least its manufacturing process was), often deliberately taking shortcuts that reduce quality and reliability to keep price down, because that's seen as an acceptable tradeoff in some markets.

Heck, even in areas where there are life-threatening issues involved, engineers often only "do it right" on the few things that are either mandated or seem particularly likely to cause serious injury that'd leave them liable. The cookie-cutter McMansions you see probably aren't going to spontaneously collapse on their occupants, but they aren't going to last 100 years with minimal maintenance either, because a lot of corners were cut compared to what "doing it right" would've looked like.
Foursquare was hardly the first startup to do this:

Dodgeball was created by Crowley (one of the founders of Foursquare) in 2000. Loopt was founded in 2005. Whrrl, buzzd, and brightkite were all founded in 2007. There are probably dozens of other examples.

EDIT: Had the wrong date for Dodgeball. Thanks Batsu!
So, where are they located? I can't find it anywhere on the site.

A whois says Westchester CA (which is probably just a whoisguard location), and a "site:indinero.com Westchester" search doesn't turn up any results. What gives?

Edit: I found a blog post that says they are "next to downtown Mountain View in California" http://blog.indinero.com/?p=129
RedHat isn't obliged to pay Linus or RMS because the license they distributed their work under does not require it. Making or not making money has nothing to do with it.

If Oracle distributed their work under a license that permitted use by Google this is evidence of permission not to pay them, not evidence that monetary 'loss' has not occurred.

Some claims are treated less harshly if it was done without a profit motive. This appears to be something that Google is trying to benefit from.

However the claim that they will make no profit from the success of Android is pretty outrageous. If that was true, why did they bother?

Outrageous claims are pretty standard practice of course, but this one is still laughable. And since this is a civil case proof will most likely be accepted on the balance of the probabilities rather than a tougher standard.

(In this case I'm no supporter of Oracle, just to be clear.)
But you paid 1/3 for it... If you had paid the same for a PC, I can pretty much guarantee you'd be getting better performance on the PC. Mac's are nice, but gaming isn't their specialty.
Answering all these emails, apparently.
This works different is firefox than in webkit.

====
if (true) {
function foo(){ return 1; }
} else {
function foo(){ return 2; }
}
foo();

firefox return 1
webkit return 2
Other engines return an error (that is what is suppose to happen according to the specification)
Ask HN: Review our app - TicketPounce
We have just launched this web application and would love to hear some feedback from the community.

http://www.ticketpounce.com/

TicketPounce is intended to be an easy, lightweight, and fast support ticket manager.

Edit: Feel free to sign up for an account (free trial; no payment information is required) so that we could get some feedback on the app as well! :)
Just kick of the flooders. Btw you could try node.js, then run the same game code on the server too, so there will be no cheating in the game when finished.
As soon as the market has to bear the cost of long-term storage of waste, they'll be interested in thorium.
"inDinero is a technology startup based in Mountain View, CA."

I'll try to make this more bold in the job description - thanks someone_here !
This is such a bad excuse. Being polite requires extremely little time, and it's a requirement for interacting with humans.

In my experience, autistic-ish people (often geeks or nerds) sometimes confuse being polite with being social, which does take time. They then seem to think that if they don't have time (or really, the skill and desire) to be social, then they don't have to be polite.

This is a minority of geeks and nerds, of course.
"to focus on the immaterial instead of the material."
"the Eastern and Western perspectives are starting to become one"

I don't know if Buddhism assumes a material world, but Western world's assumption of a material world goes back to Newton who defined nature to be physical, that is, material.

I think that if we are living in definitional and not material world our current definition of the "spiritual" and "immaterial" breaks down. http://matterandreality.wordpress.com/
Your advice at the end there doesn't always work. Sometimes hitting back just makes them escalate the violence.
It would be stunning for SSDs to take off with exponential speed improvements. Sure, I expect them to get faster and faster, but I have no doubt that there's no Moore's Law at work in this case. I stand by my original comment.
Adding fibres to plaster and cement has a long history. Back in the days when horses were more common, horsehair was added to plaster to make it super strong. These days, you can get cement with plastic fibres mixed in.
The best thing you can add to your diet is a good omega three supplement. The best, unsynthesized cold-pressed fish oil you can find.

You will find your mind more alert within hours of first taking it if you are like 95% of westerners that are severely lacking this essential brain food.

Also, you probably need more exercise, less coffee, and more water.
Since you haven't really specified what you eat (apart from the fact that you have a meagre breakfast and sometimes steak for dinner), it's hard to know where to start. But I'd agree with maxawaytoolong about thinking about exercise if there's nothing obviously wrong with your diet.

Or, y'know, drink more coffee.
I'll say giving a thoughtful reply to every random person that emails you is not really the best use of time.

Sure, it's great for you to get an answer and kudoz for the people who really have the time to do that.
The problem with this article that it's not consistent with the people it references. Can you imagine Warren Buffet buying a house in the Hamptons? Plus these aren't even all of the "wealthiest" people - they're just wealthy people who happen to fit the point the article is trying to make.
There actually is a company, on of my friends built that does this - they're called Entrustet (www.entrustet.com) and they have something to "manage digital assets" after your death.
... why was this rot13'd?

But cool. I could see that. Lots of leaves in trees...
Comment at top of code:

/* User beware. I don't know javascript. I read mozillas /
/ reintroduction to javascript, being somewhat familiar with /
/ actionscript 3, god knows how it ended up working. This code /
/ is run by tears, wishes and luck. */
Ahh I wasn't seeing anything under Chrome 6 or nightly WebKit.
Blood-work/full physical is a good suggestion to start with.

I'd second the need for working out, or at the very minimum getting 'active'. You might find it's better to do something like play a sport, or take up swimming versus 'working out'.

I would also recommend taking a multi-vitiamin. Hit your local WholeFoods or Vitamin Cottage (or something similar).

Other than that, adjusting/being more conscientious of what you're eating is something else to get on. Making small adjustments can go along way. For example, I always eat a salad with my dinners - just a habit of my up-bringing. You might consider ordering fruit or even coleslaw instead of fries. Or brewed tea instead of a Coke.

Making small adjustments like this goes a long way. Once you get the ball rolling in the other (healthy) direction it gets easier; suddenly that rock-climbing class you always thought about doing seems like a fun way to spend Saturday instead of more inactivity.

Of course it's all about balance... inactivity can be a good thing if you are doing things like learning to play an instrument, reading a good book, or just enjoying your family/friends company.
only buy notebooks with SSD, since my eeepc 1000.

will never go back on that.

But for servers and any other kind of storage I will not get near it because of price.
"Hitting Back"

This only works in the burbs or small towns. And only if you're white or non-gangster asian.

In city schools when you hit back, you get ambushed and your ass kicked, and the cycle continues until someone ends up in the hospital or dead.
I just looked through the comments again, and... I can't find anybody who says that stealing is OK. The issue at hand is that the response is often grossly out of proportion and just destructive to both parties.
No Rockets, No Problem: Alternative Ways to Access Space
I'm looking forward to seeing them add a section on infinite undo / back + forward button support.
I am really doubtful this is going to work with intuit software or MS office but best of luck...
Facebook Innovations - live streaming video
Why I Wrote "The No Asshole Rule" - Bob Sutton
You have only two other options:

* use one domain for your marketing site and another for the app (not desirable)

* incorporate your marketing site into your rails app.

BTW, thanks for the Particletree link. I hadn't read that.
For another example of truth in coding, consider namespace pollution. An unnecessary global variable is not just an invitation to bugs; if it’s overexposed, it’s lying. Its scope should be reduced to match its importance.

I think he is saying that you can't trust a global variable as it could be not what you think it is (and thus lying) because of it's scope.
CoverFlow: visual album browser needs your help [2005]
Great. My question is, if I use your service, what if you die before I die :)
http://10MinuteMail.com was written by me as a learning exercise. It's profitable and low maintenance.
I don't quite understand what you mean by 'returning from a script'. That doesn't make too much sense within Javascript itself, if it's a case of the last expression being considered the return value (I haven't used NodeJS), then you would want:

doSomething();
({x:1});
This works great up until about 35... after that you just can't put that kind of 'fuel' into your system and snowboard all day and feel great. For me (post 35)I like to eat a good omelet before I hit the terrain park; plus I don't have to stop for lunch with a belly full of protein.
sounds great.. but e-ink has been out of the lab for at least 10 years now. Are we going to have to wait 5-10 more years to see this in a consumer device?
Yes you can.

Liquid-Fluoride Thorium Reactors can be started and stopped without incident, in a few hours. I believe their output can also be adjusted in operation. They're safe and efficient enough to build one into a 40-foot trailer that can be started, stopped, and moved on a moment's notice.
Unix How-To: Nifty One-Liners
Google Flu Trends | United States
So centripetal force is independent from planetary gravitational force...
The patent was filed in February of 2007. Long before Foursquare and Gowalla were launched.
That's mostly what i've been doing too. But it's hard. for the new conferences, the article usually isn't available online. and for the older instances, the conferences' websites sometimes lack the history.
Mostly replying to mail. You have to see him doing it as a full time job (and still falling behind) to understand why he tries to optimize it so much.
Here's the electricity demand curve for the UK for the last 8 days:

http://www.nationalgrid.com/uk/Electricity/Data/Realtime/Dem...

Electricity demand during the night is about half of what it is during the day. If you were to have nuclear baseline production that covers peak consumption, you would have to find a way to store about 100000MWh of energy that gets produced during the night and then distribute that during the following day, or you would just waste it, somewhere, somehow.

(Disclaimer: Back-of-the-envelope math, I'm assuming the scale on that graph is in MW, it's only for the UK, not the US)

Yes, it's not an impossible problem. Yes, you can even out the peaks by changing behaviour. Yes, you could perhaps figure out a way to store and release that much energy each day.

But my point still stands, replacing fossil-based electricity production with nuclear is not trivial, it's a lot more complicated than summing up the total output of all fossil-based plants and dividing it by the average output of a new nuclear plant as DanielBMarkham argues.

I'm also a big fan of nuclear. Many countries would probably benefit from having their baseline production completely covered by nuclear plants. But how to deal with peak demand of electricity without fossil-based production and in an economically viable way, that is not a solved problem yet.
Scale of OK-ness:

1) Downloading a KISS album from BitTorrent:

A little bit not-OK

2) Prosecuting some kid who downloads a KISS album from BitTorrent, costing him or his family tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars:

Extremely not-OK
> "JavaScript doesn't have blocks"

I think what you mean to say is that Javascript doesn't have block scope for variables. It has blocks.
I was being facetious about it being a serious business.

But I was serious about this post being straight out of a self-help book.

Although self-help has consistently been one of the top selling topics on Amazon, right below romance novels. So the former might have somes grounds as well.
His MIT position is unpaid (and I'm unclear on what exactly he does for MIT anyway), and prior to winning things like the MacArthur grant he supported himself as an independent software consultant, working on and training people to use free software.
I'd still think it still should get thrown out due to prior art, since others came before it (from this thread no less):
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1764925
JOINs via denormalization for NoSQL coders, Part 3: Ensuring consistency
Didn't know about that one. thank you!
Ask HN: What are some methods of increasing your attention span?
"Attention span is the amount of time that a person can concentrate on a task without becoming distracted." -- Wikipedia Attention Span

Please list any activities or links to resources/studies that claim to aid in attention span.
The majority of content on the internet is trash as far as I am concerned, but if you read carefully what I write you would see that I am talking about value. Chinese entrepreneurs create valuable resources, that allow Chinese users to use Internet for their benefit, which includes creating content that we might consider as trash. Without Chinese entrepreneurs there would be no Chinese internet, just a collection of Chinese government sites that nobody uses. Same goes for Russian, German, Israeli, British, etc. etc. and yes - AMERICAN entrepreneurs, who should be the first on this list, whether you like it or not.

Majority of the Internet IS what you called a startup circle, because that's who builds all the resources people like you use. And to claim that I claim that a "country" owns the Internet means you don't know how to read – I stress that Internet is essentially owned by those who create resources and supported by those who use those resources – not by the governments of countries who think they can make rules and do whatever they want. They can do it physically – and end up having no value left, because those who create value have departed.

And besides – I am not even American.
I generally reply to less than 2% of CL ads - choosing the ones that I feel I have the best chance to win. I never send a resume, I only reply with links to other projects I have already completed that are pertinent to the job request. I also mention that references are redily available, which they are, although no one usually checks on them.

I find that answering the job ad specifically, explaining how I would work on the problem, and mentioning how I have done something similar in the past gets me the best success rate to speak with the client directly. Even if you don't have exactly the same project under your belt, you can reference other web work and explain how portions of the project are the same.
InDinero (YC S10) seeking backend engineer
Narrative Essay Topic Prompt Should Be Clearly 
A narrative essay will discuss an event of personal nature. It will be written in a manner which discloses a story. In order to ensure an essay of high caliber, the essay writer needs to understand the narrative essay topic prompt clearly. Only then will he or she be able to submit an excellent paper.
Patent Makes Facebook Super Mayor of Mobile Location Networking
Reading stories like this greatly decreases my motivation for creating software and services. Based on the evidence, it seems that anything I create, even if it is wholly original to me, will probably get me sued for patent infringement if I ever start making any money from it. It seems even the most obvious and easy to implement software functionality is now covered by multiple overlapping patents. When I was a kid in the mid 1980s, my best friend and I spent countless hours brainstorming what the computers of the future would be used for. We correctly anticipated just about everything and if our 10 year old selves had found a good patent lawyer, I guess I'd be a rich patent troll instead of just another developer Angry at the Man.
Out of curiosity, when did you launch the site? Did you do any marketing or was it natural growth? I ask because the temporary inbox market seems pretty saturated already.
I am over 35 and feel fine putting that kind of fuel into my system when I go snowboarding.
Why does .io seem legally risky to you? The British Indian Ocean Territory is currently a British protectorate, and the two countries that otherwise claim the islands are Mauritius and the Seychelles, both of which are peaceful and democratic.
When I was a kid I got a lot of this; the administration only really stepped in when they started stoning me (yes, throwing rocks) but otherwise it was just continuous misery. I suspect this guy probably had it worse, but there are some very eerie similarities.
I'll send you an email telling you how to pay the webhost :p
Ah, thanks for the very insightful reply. I didn't realize the distinction between damages being profits the infringer made, or profits the copyright owner lost. Also statutory damages.

Thanks!
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White board/Dry erase alternatives?
Fellow HNers,

Have any of you had any experience with the various white board/dry erase solutions available? I'm looking to paint one or two walls of my home office. So far I'm aware of the Rust-oleum Dry Erase and IdeaPaint options. Are there any serious contenders I've missed? Is the IdeaPaint worth the premium? Thanks muchly.
oooops, I spent my life being convinced that .io is Indonesia...thanks for clarification, will put that one back on the white list.
Who actually buys these? I was buying myself a new work machine last week, and wound up going for the 27" iMac since I really couldn't think of any possible justification for the Mac Pro.

The price gap is really quite significant, for what doesn't seem to be much of a gain in performance.
I wonder how this affects Latitude... I can't imagine facebook would want to litigate with google?
That shows the perception between quality, though. So many people fight the fight with regard to price -- which I did, and failed. Now I have a PC which isn't really upgradeable because the CPU Socket (AM2+) and RAM-type (DDR2) are obsolete.
If KISS carefully identified infringers and sued them in small-claims court for the cost of the lost track sale + maybe even 10x for the trouble, I think they'd actually be applauded. The problem is that the US copyright system is downright evil. The copyright infringers come out as the good guys just because the other side is so horrible. I know a lot of people in IP fields who still tend to side with the pirates, not because they really think illegal downloading is a good thing, but just because they can't morally side with the status quo.
Fundamental reason: Apple doesn't release old, bottom of the barrel, price compromised junk.

Go find a laptop that compares, feature to feature, with a MacBook Pro. Once you're totally frustrated at being unable to find IPS displays, firewire 800, optical digital out, and the same weight target, I can guarantee that the comparable models will be about the same price points.

That said, if all you want to do is play SC2 on a cheap 18 bit display and don't need the features mentioned above, go for it.

That all said, Apple could and should put better GPU's and pay more attention to game developers than they currently do.
In this particular case the NSFW status is not even remotely up for discussion.
Well, the reviewer seems to be putting it to good use in his video production/3d effects job.
Close - Dodgeball was created in 2000 and acquired by Google in 2005. In 2009, they discontinued Dodgeball in favor of Google Latitude.

It looks as though prior art existed well before Facebook even existed. I don't think anyone has anything to worry about.
Well....I guess the real question should have been, what are the options and the related pros and cons.

I know I said I don't want the app to be on the same domain as the marketing site...but that's based on my limited knowledge. What are the pros & cons (both technical and non-technical) that I should consider with this option - and all other options.

Thanks.
People have been using extensions to add website thumbnails to search results for years without a peep from web developers screaming copyright infringement.

Why don't I see you complaining about them providing textual context to the term searched for? Oh, right, because every other search engine on the planet does it. So now that Google is adding by default something that extensions have had for a while now, a graphical context in addition to text, you suddenly think it's evil?

Give me a break.