skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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so i have been internet friends with this guy for some years, now i want to do some stuff with him mainly for educational purposes but... imagine it actually turns out profitable. i can't think of a way to share profits and keep trust. i can imagine paying him via paypal but measuring how much he contributed would be hard. i am leading the project, have more experience etc.

at first i though i'd share all access to servers and all to maintain trust (i haven't actually done it yet) but our relationship is such that nothing stops him from taking over everything and locking me out of my own system :)

i think the best way to go on would be to stay solo, 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)

any thoughts?
I remember seeing charts like that when Reddit started... just you wait until reddit fucks something up like reddit and HN turns to poop too from the internet newbies that will flood it.
If it has to put science in the name, it isn't science.

Examples, Christian Science, Library Science, Computer Science.

That said, it is worth bearing in mind that computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Is it just me or is the scrolling speed in a message thread window really slow?
The thing I don't understand is...why change the recommendation now?

I don't honestly believe that tablets (which is presently a euphemism for iPad) effect PC sales all that much. If every single person who buys an iPad was otherwise going to buy a Windows Laptop, it still represents a fraction of the number of people who are buying PC's.

I don't doubt that PC sales might be flattening, but I think it's curious to blame that on the iPad.

I don't think Goldman has the foresight to lower it's recommendation on Microsoft for the future potential of tablets (which could very well end up playing out with Microsoft finally adopting a winning strategy, or fizzle out entirely); so why else?

Microsoft's mobile strategy? Which has been a punchline for several years, but is finally looking to at least have the potential for some light at the end of the tunnel. So why the sudden change of heart?
Again, I think this is a great new photo sharing site, one of the best one's I've seen.

Tell me, this site is made in Cappuccino, so I'm curious to know how was your experience with developing in Objective J and Cappuccino? Did you use 280atlas for this project?

Keep it up.
Priority Inbox hasn't been out for long enough to realistically expect it to be in yet, but it'd be nice if it makes it into the final version.

Also, one thing that GMail does right is detecting which of my many linked accounts an email was sent to, and replying from the appropriate one. Whenever I send mail from Mail.app, I invariably end up with an extra copy of me floating around in the CC list.
That is the whole crux of it for me. I don't have any ill intent towards this person and wish none upon them. I simply do not agree with the choice and therefore will not participate in it by referring to them how they wish.
also try twist - http://thisweekinstartups.com
Really nice interface, but a huge problem: it seems to slow my whole system down as it syncs with my gmail account - to the point where I had to close the program because it was getting in the way of my other processes. I hope that once it finishes syncing that issue goes away, but there's no indication of how far along it is, so I can't just keep it on and have it ruin my productivity. I hope this issue gets sorted out because it looks promising.
tl;dr: this case was based on a claim of sex discrimination, not of race or religion.
I'm using a modified copy of the standard linux dictionary word list. I took out some variants of words that I thought would be confusing or hard to spell. I thought about using 'word tuples' as you describe, but I think that would be more confusing and less useful overall. There should be enough single words to make this work unless it gets insanely popular (knock on wood).
a general product/feedback/product feedback tag would be useful
Alternately, the Soviets would have just pushed further west. It's hard to imagine German weakness on their eastern front making the Soviets being less enthusiastic about adding parts of Europe to their sphere of influence, especially considering the fact that, before Barbarossa, the Soviets were just as enthusiastic about invading their neighbors as Germany was.
Unlikely to run out for a while due to good faith usage, but it would be pretty trivial to exhaust the word pool with an attack. Currently, it doesn't even check for dups - successive requests for the same URL produced different code words.
Computer science is definitely a science. Mathematics is a science and computer science is part of mathematics. Thus computer science is a study of computation or the automatic solution of problems or processing of data, etc.

The problem is that in most universities the computer science label is used for things that aren't computer science. Most computer science departments are mostly concerned not with studying or extending the science part of computer science, but with applying computer science to solve real world problems. This really should be called computer engineering or software engineering, just as applying certain aspects of physics to create electrical devices is called electrical engineering.
The reason I work on my own projects because I enjoy doing them. Why does everything have to be for "structured learning"? I bet you learn and discover more just randomly fiddling around....
Might be it could be expanded to a combination of two words, like amazon does for basket checkout.
Reading the GPL should answer a lot of your questions.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
I treat the abortion issue as a sorites paradox. You can't draw a line where human life begins, and if we are really serious about respecting it, then we shouldn't try to.
If you go Window > Message Panel, then you get the conversation showing up on the side. I haven't figured out how customizable this is yet (I'm used to it being below the message list).
How about having checkboxes instead of radioboxes for the different providers, and some way to zoom between them. That might get you closer to something like http://www.kosmix.com/topic/fifa_world_cup or http://www.evri.com/sports/soccer . It's a pretty good idea, but hard to compete with companies like kosmix and evri that are crawling and parsing tons of data.
I wish there was something significant in this article beyond MS's Ajax Library is dead - that's been pretty much understood by any seasoned .net guy for at least 2 years (aka, when jQuery support hit VS2008).

I wonder how jQuery and its continue improvement will effect things like Silverlight. I know I steer clients away from Silverlight and toward jQuery/Open standards whenever I can.
These guys seem to have a bizarre idea of what constitutes "minimalism": http://i.imgur.com/hiO2C.png
I got 'constituent' when I tried it too. That begs the question, what happens when you accidentally try to go to an expired url that has been reassigned? Like say you hit a url 1 minute after it's expired, and with bad luck it's been randomly reassigned to an NSFW link?
Pod Cars Start to Gain Traction in Some Cities
"This week in startup" is missing.
I like those guys.
Barnes & Noble launches e-publishing platform: Pubit
http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/04/twitter-ceo-dick-costolo/

'New Twitter was definitely a trigger for this,' Williams told me. 'Conveniently, I took over the CEO role just about two years ago - and brought Dick in just about a year ago. I’ve always thought of myself as more of a product guy, and New Twitter seems to work out well,' he continued. 'New Twitter was a moment of clarity for all of us here,' Costolo added. '[With this change] Ev can once again focus on product.'
The CSS/Javascript files give a "Heroku Error" here.
If the key has been reallocated, it is no longer expired.
As an owner of a site wanting to get my name and info out there, this part of the ToS doesnt read to bad.

I certainly understand where your displeasure comes from, yet I do feel it needs to be kept in perspective. As in this would not be acceptable on your personal email. But on your generic site email. ( Which should still have a touch of personal, of course for your users! )

As mentioned in many places, if you are using email via google, you could always "+killerstartups" in your email.

I just tested it myself and it worked great. Not with "+killerstartups" just "+test".
Mine took a couple of days at most, it was more than a year ago though.
Heroku seems down.
It's $100, plug-and-play, and you can quickly and easily pay for things to watch. It's a product, not a lifestyle.
To me, why not just use IPC Linea Pro?
http://www.ipclineapro.com/

It works with iOS, provides a ruggedized housing and extra battery, comes with a barcode scanner, and encrypts your credit card number, and has a toolkit already for use with Xcode. You can sign up with Braintree or TrustCommerce and use their RESTful APIs. No extra charge.

This device looks like it's easy to lose. I don't know. If I were a customer, I'd be sketched out by that thing. The ones at the Apple Retail stores (Linea Pro) look legit.

EDIT: Opportunity for someone to make a product with IPC Linea Pro. Verifone's the only player. Why not add some stress with the Linea Pro device?
At first I didn't really think this was smart because they are very different markets and devices. But then I started thinking, and within 6 years I think I'll have an iPhone with 8 GB of memory, a 2ghz quad-core processor, and 256GB of flash storage. In that case, I don't see why I wouldn't dock that and use full-blown OS X on the desktop, as long as the dock has integrated graphics hardware. I doubt the analysts are thinking that far out, but I'd wager that's where things are going.
The thing to keep in mind is that the recommendations by sell side analysts are often very focused on the short term. They are actually pretty bad at telling you where the stock price will actually go -- but the more senior analysts are wonderful as experts on industry-wide trends.
LG Delays Android Tablet, Waiting for Android 3.0
Thanks a lot for the support. We're going to do our best to record all of the panels. Check techatnyu.com next week for links to the recordings.
No I only used Cappuccino.
What I've learned most clearly from blogs is that many authors don't check that what they've written is readable. Light gray text on a white background.

Not good. Can't read. Clicked away. Can't care.

Ask yourself - is your message getting lost because for no good reason you make it hard to hear/read/understand?
Well, the terminator films give reason as to why we're not fielding AI-controlled military drones.

Also, every unmanned spacecraft ever has been controlled by an AI. These drones show the success of AI research.
Rock Star = I get to fix the problems, all the race conditions and exceptions and bugs that the RS developer didn't do a good job on.

Rock Star = He looked more productive than he actually was.
It was a couple of days for me too.
First you will be baked. And then you will be cake.
So ideally you want people entering links directly into the url bar instead of creating a page link somewhere. You could detect that reasonably well with the Referer header, and perhaps provide a warning against that behavior? food for thought
The thing that makes me a bit sad is that is that some people do try and be helpful and respond to Ask HNs that are languishing unresponded... and yet only have one point of karma on their comment.

Which means that even the person who asked the question didn't upvote the commenter who was taking the time to respond to them. I've seen this even in cases where the OP followed up on the comment and said "thanks that's very useful". So click the up-arrow, dude.

(unless upvotes by the OP are filtered out? but I can't imagine why that would be)
I'd think that's actually by design. If entering a duplicate URL forced it to reset the expiration, for example, you could effectively have a script that just kept submitting the URL and make a permanent link to whatever site you were targeting. A captcha could fix that (perhaps some kind of check for number of times a URL was re-submitted, and if too many, start doing CAPTCHA). Or a maximum time-period for a link to be active including refreshes (say something like 48-96 hours).

But yes, I imagine the word-pool can get exhausted fairly quickly under an attack.
Unfortunately, Square is a bit late to this game (though not out of it yet); while at an Apple store a couple of months ago, I noticed that they were selling credit card readers for the iPhone already, in nice Apple-like packaging. It was probably Verifone's device [1].

I had a client that was interested in this for the various trade events she had, but Square never followed up and seemed to be turning into vaporware. When I saw these other devices on the shelf, I recommended them to her.

Square certainly doesn't have a lot of room for not getting it right the first time at this point, unfortunately; I really dislike Verifone and would like to see someone eat their lunch, but they've had a several-months head-start.

[1]: http://money.cnn.com/2010/02/09/smallbusiness/iphone_credit_...
You apparently forgot what your claim was:

No, atheism is the outright rejection of the idea of God. It is a religious belief in itself that requires a faith in the non-existence of any sort of God.

And you also forgot one definition. Namely that of religion:

Religion is the belief in and worship of a god or gods, or a set of beliefs concerning the origin and purpose of the universe.

Please explain what god or gods i believe by not believing in god?

Please explain what atheists believe in?

I am an atheist by definition. Not by belief.
I hand-submitted the site, but never received any third-party msg.
IMO it just depends on the servers you're going to be using and who you'll be working with. I would stay away, far away from traditional ASP.NET. MVC is far better, but I would only really use it over Rails if I was working on a primarily MS stack environment.
"This is a fundamental flaw in communities on the net in general, they don't gracefully."
-- Hacker News comment by jacquesm (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=731999)

this quote by jacquesm describes the reason why whatsupedia exists.

whatsupedia helps you share and find out what's happening in the specific interest communities you care about - whether your interests be general (i.e. 'Hackers'), hyper-niche (i.e. 'Rails Hackers in New York also interested in Wine'), or somewhere in between.
The link you created is. If you create a link mapping foo -> google.com, and then it expires and someone else wants a link to facebook.com and shoutcast picks foo as their word, as far as you're concerned, your link is expired because shoutcast.com/foo doesn't get you to Google anymore.
Interesting tweet from the new CEO (a RT from @avibryant, http://twitter.com/#!/dickc/status/3962807808), likely to be a joke at the time (Sep 13, 2009): First full day as Twitter COO tomorrow. Task #1: undermine CEO, consolidate power
>> It's quite possible Costolo was hired as COO as a way of transitioning him into the CEO spot if he did well.

I'm quite sure this is what happened. Here's a detailed breakdown from Shervin Pishevar on how SGN did practically the same thing.

http://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-Shervin-Pishevar-is-out...
I'd had some good success with Facebook and my last company. We'd had enough Facebook fans that we were able to run regular contests a few times a week and to use it as a platform to talk about what we were excited about. The interaction that's possible means that even if you seed it with the sort of content you'd use in a newsletter you need to have time every day or so to handle the interactions that it generates.
http://directededge.com/
If you're into sysadmin stuff (and use Fedora/RHEL), have a look at cobbler[1] which is written in Python.

[1] https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/
That's just a name. It is of course not a natural science, but a formal one, as mathematics (it could even be a branch of maths). There are even other kind of sciences, social ones, like psychology (which many people wouldn't call a science, though for different reasons, after all it does study natural things, doesn't it?). And of course, there should be a distinction from engineering (electrical e., software e.), though boundaries aren't clear and never will be. If you had a better name for those different kind of sciences, call them in that manner. Also remember, that by saying that something is not a science, it might seem that you are implying that the branch is somehow inferior to the "actual science". (This is not the case, but it is going to be perceived as that.)
It looks great and really promising. I'll wait until a better integration of Gmail before the start using it. For now I'll stick to Gmail in my browser and Notify as "quick access" application for my emails.
I guess you've missed all those businesses that are no longer accepting checks.

Trade shows, fairs, street fairs, and other public events are all great places to use something like this, without the risk of taking a bad check.
The Windows tray was never ment to store pointless menus, but there was a documented API and programmers started using it because it was convenient. Same situation here.

As a side story, a friend sent me a VMWare image, but I run VirtualBox. Instead of converting the thing, I installed the trial version of VMWare Fusion on my Mac. Version 3 apparently has a menulette to access your VMs applications directly. After the trial expired I no longer have the option to remove the menulette, without uninstalling VMWare entirely. It used to be the case that a simple alt(option) click and drag would poof the icon away. More developers are failing to implement these "conveniences" properly.
Microsoft hasn't even caught up to the iPhone, much less the iPad. It seems like their cycle includes floundering for several years in between getting important products released.
Google TV’s Secret Weapon: Video Calls From Your TV
Observer offers real time analytics as well as the most important parts of the any analytics solution.

http://observerapp.com/

That's what I use for my sites now
You could also implement some kind of fake word-generation using common syllables, or word-combining (easier). Word combining is easy enough to do and will get you N^2 or N^3 options.
Why Right Aligned Buttons on Long Forms Work Better for Users
There's only one rock star, Ajay Bhatt. Proof below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqLPHrCQr2I
Is Agile for everyone?
To be fair, for some people solving cognitive tasks under pressure is absolutely impossible.

I just wrote a FizzBuzz solving script in python in about two minutes sitting on the couch drinking wine, while the tv is running in the background. But I guarantee you that I would mess it up in an interview situation. Under extreme stress, I do not have the ability to think straight. It's almost as if my mind goes into survival mode, allowing only basic operations in order to ensure a fast reaction time.
Even at the local level, this is problematic - it's depressingly easy to find reports of incorrectly targeted police action. In such a case, the security-first approach (of both the police and the homeowner) has resulted in wrongful arrests and death not withstanding everyone acting in good faith.

Correspondingly, enforcing internal or external security with absolutist certitude virtually guarantees a serious error sooner or later.
If you feel it's well understood what keeps you from getting a Nobel?

Am I to read into what you are writing that you believe in the plasma theory?
What is really interesting is that, Curriculum search is not new- I have been using it for around 2 years. I just happened to discover from course of conversations, with some of my friends, that they haven't heard about google curriculum search - and I was really surprised. It is a great way to look up tutorials, course materials. If you notice the poll results for Curriculum search (cant draw a definitive conculusion from this sample,still), it seems to be terribly skewed towards people who haven't heard at all about Curriculum search- for a CS-centric community like Hacker news, that's very surprising.

Another thing to think about is that- proper vertical search for course contents of top universities around the world, would go about a long way in providing quality "self-education" for students all around the world.

Look at khanacademy- when one guy making educational videos on algebra and arithmatic,is making such a huge impact - here we have a good search facility of top cs curriculum /course material of the best universities all around the world, lying idle?

I dont want to sound patronising- but just think- what an incredible feature is this in the hands a CS curious hacker in Africa, or for that matter any 'third-world place' -all he/she needs is internet connection! That's it!

I really feel sad that something which ought to be very,very popular, probably is gathering dust at Google.
menuling

From a Cocoa perspective it's actually called an NSStatusItem (Status Item), appearing the NSStatusBar (Status Bar).

From a user perspective (per Apple's Human Interface Guidelines), it's called a "Menu Bar Extra" appearing inside the "Menu Bar". Though I think that's a little bit stupid for a name.

Apple does warn developers from making NSStatusItem's/Menu Bar Extra's: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/UserEx...

However, they tend to be more robust for certain applications than a Dock icon or Dock Icon Menu's. You can have clickable buttons, have single- and double-click behavior, display graphics, etc...

On a downside, if you don't have enough screen space to show them, they'll start to disappear. They are ordered based on which app loaded theirs first and cannot be re-ordered.

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Apple's "Menu Bar Extras" don't exist within NSStatusBar. These include the clock, battery icon, bluetooth icon, etc... They live in a private API of Apple's.

Apple's always appear on the far-right, are the last to "disappear" if there's not enough space for them to fit. Unlike 3rd party NSStatusItem's, you can re-position Apple's by Control-Clicking on them and moving them around (except for Spotlight's).

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Since 3rd party NSStatusItem's are not going away anytime soon, there's a need for a Mac app (or OS X update) that'll let you condense them into some sort of manageable GUI element.

All NSStatusItems appear under a single instance of NSStatusBar. It would be possible to write an app that'll extend NSStatusBar's class (overriding it, swizzle it, etc...) which would allow you to do custom stuff with them. Perhaps add ordering support, hiding support, grouping them inside a mini-window accessible by a single "Menu Bar Extra" you click to access them.

For example (excuse the crappiness - I mocked it up in 5 min, credit goes to Snippit for the window graphic):

http://www.dave-gallagher.net/coding/menuBarMockup.jpg

It would be nice to add "lesser-used" Menu Bar Extra's to something like that, hiding them out of the way.
The Quiet Rise of AngelList
So we're agreed that some sorts of discrimination, specifically regarding the cutting of hair at an employer's request, are in fact legal; now it's merely a matter of specifics.