skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, a small correction. Certain ones, most notably iStat Menus, can be moved with command-click.

In the old days, a hack was used to make this work by tricking the system into thinking it was a built-in, but unused, menubar item, often the drawing tablet's status item. I believe this was done through a "haxie", from Unsanity. I'm not sure how iStat Menus does it, but I'd hazard a guess at the same way.

Disclaimer: I'm working off shaky knowledge that I learned three or four years ago, before I was even a dev.
Ex-Mahalo contractors filing a class action lawsuit against Jason Calacanis
Hoping this is useful feedback, if the developers are here lurking. Agree/Disagree?

First, it looks absolutely great. I love the "tweetie"-ish UI. A very refreshing look and feel.

Hotkeys - very glad to see these already integrated, but wish they would have defaulted to the standard GMail hotkeys. Since your product is aimed at GMail users for now, I would go with those hotkeys

Scrolling - something weird is happening with the scrolling using a mouse wheel versus regular trackpad on my Macbook Pro. Feels inconsistent with other apps.

Windows - the message panel should be "docked" to the main window by default. a message/thread should only open in a new window when double clicked.

Search - fast (for me, small mailbox) and well done. great progressive disclosure with the options appearing above the results list.

Authoring - a more full-featured editor is a must, obviously. For a beta this is forgivable.

Preferences - getting to account-specific prefrences is unintuitive (double clicking on account)

All Mail/Labels - obviously a "must" in the left hand side if you're going after the GMail crowd.

Performance - performance starts to suffer if you add a larger account while it downloads/indexes your mail? My CPU was not pegged and I have an SSD so not sure what could be causing this slow down. Excessive paging?

NSStatusItem - not sure why this is necessary and I would rather not have it cluttering my status bar.

Unified Inbox - maybe not a 1.0 feature but a lot of people feel strongly about this. It's a must for anyone with more than 2 email accounts they have to juggle.

Message List - consider figuring out a way to show more messages on the left hand side, possibly by adding a preference for "include preview"

Overall, a very strong start and if you could get the above items worked out and a polished first version out I would happily pay you $20-$30 for this piece of software to replace my current thick mail client (postbox)
This article is terrible. It's fascist ideals are ridiculous. Of course debugging was easier. Complex things were impossible to do. Cobol? Grandpa says it was better because you could book criminals into jail without a computer? Also, what's the deal with slacks and ties? Slacks and ties can look sloppy too.
in my childhood i played with both types - folding and not.
Making sense of complex issues through data and design
That's fine. Seemed like a good jumping off point for further thought/discussion.

Case in point - I wonder how much Silverlight is being negatively effected by MS's positive support of jQuery (a good thing in my mind)?

Seems inevitable it will follow a similar trajectory as the official ajax library, and let's face it users are not in any hurry to download a somewhat superfluous/unnecessary plug-in.
I Have My Reasons, Even If I Don't Know What They Are
Just reading about these places makes me dearly miss the Valley. Outside of startup culture, it is just an absolutely beautiful place to live. If you haven't visited, I suggest you do. You won't regret it.
$1/mo to support one of my most used services is a no brainer. I hope others feel the same way - Marco is going indie and he's definitely getting my $1/mo to support his new full time business venture.
The only time I'm really bored is when I can't decide what to do, because of the "paradox of choice." My personal library has more than enough books to keep me busy for the next couple of decades, and the Internet provides a seemingly unlimited amount of reading material. That alone creates a strong "paradox of choice" situation, but I also like listening to music (classical and metal, recorded or live), going to the theater, running, mountain biking, hiking, going out to eat, hanging out with friends at bars/clubs, etc. And between physical media and bittorrent downloads, I have enough unwatched movies and TV programmes to consume hundreds of hours of my time.

So what do I actually do? Usually some combination of the above... an average weekend includes some time reading fiction (reading the "Harry Potter" series ATM), some time studying $SOMETHING, where $SOMETHING could be greek history, philosophy, physics, math, statistics or FSM knows what, and some time boning up on whatever the technical "topic of the day" is... some time surfing the Internet, a trip out to eat somewhere, and some time exercising (walking or running).

I don't know if that helps much or not, but there ya go. If I had to single out one activity that I spend the most time on during "idle time" it's reading, both fiction and non-fiction.

Oh, and never mind the time on weekends that I spend writing code.

Now that I think about it, no wonder I show up for work on Monday feeling more tired than I was when the weekend started. :-(
Lockheed Martin on the smart grid: ‘440 million new hackable points’
Hush mail has the benefit of being located in Canada, meaning they aren't beholden to the Patriot Act (i.e. they aren't forbidden from telling you if someone wants your mail), and the FBI, etc. have to go through the RCMP to get a warrant.

Now, someone just breaking into their servers, on the other hand, is another matter.
I guess the short-term solution is to connect to a different port.

HAProxy developer Willy Tarreau is participating in the IETF HyBi list, so I would expect HAProxy to add WebSocket support.
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It's not that far-fetched to imagine that if it is appending text to your emails that you should edit the signature. :-)
Just wanted to point out that it's pretty silly to say that infinite = bounded ;-)
Which two sites? I've had coverage on TC for 4 times since 2006 and never got anywhere NEAR 80k. Was 80k the total bump or just TC traffic?
Costs and Benefits of Supporting Older Macs
I completely agree with you that Curriculum is an interesting, useful, and underutilized feature. However that is completely unrelated to what I said.

Again, why do you make a submission with a title that you openly admit is link-baity, unless you are trying to artificially increase your karma? I don't know how long you have read HN but your account is less than a month old and intentionally submitting link-bait (especially by a relativity new user) reeks of karma whoring and really pisses me (and I assume/hope a number of other users) off.
Again what is it that I believe?

That I don't believe in god's or boogymen or dragons?

Is that a belief? Then surely the word itself is meaningless.

If you say that non-belief is a religion then all religions that only allow for one god consist of people who daily do what is forbidden by their own religion by not believing in the thousands of gods that exist.
I have a hard time taking people seriously, who mistake professionalism with formalism and deem said formalism a little bit too important.
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Yes, they don't provide much clarity on the position that it's all well understood.
>The theory has a lot of vocal opponents, but Suvorov never misses a chance to point out that most of them are (paid by) Soviet political/military figures, who are obviously biased and would never admit such a plan.

Highly recommend "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich", the work which is almost academic in quality, if not in shape :

http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-Third-Reich-History/dp/06717...
Reddit was 4 until recently... I don't know if the new 2 hires are enough.

Actually Reddit has been at least 5 for some time. The 2 "new hires" were announced retroactively.

http://blog.reddit.com/2010/08/welcome-alex-and-lia.html
As the Twitter App Ecosystem Tightens, 12seconds Calls It Quits
I'd add Fry's Electronics and WeirdStuff Warehouse. If you came to the Valley from the sticks like I did they are wonderful wonderful places.
Let the waltz of feature requests begin.
I keep a fairly empty inbox with the rest of my mail archived and labeled for reference... so this app seems pretty useless when I can't see the majority of my mail.
well, the same is true for Apple who are now collecting location/wireless footprint themselves with iOS devices without Skyhook.
Boy of 15 fitted with robotic heart
Some of the examples are also weak.

Ford was not the first car company in the USA. Daimler Motor Company beat it by over a decade.

He did not sell the first commercially successful gas powered automobile in the USA. Alexander Winton holds that honor.

Ford did not sell the first mass produced automobile in the USA. Ransom E. Olds did.

Ford wasn't even Henry Ford's first automobile company. The Detroit Automobile Company was. Ford was his third company.

The most common justifiable claim about how Ford was a first mover was the invention of the assembly line. Even so there is dispute. The concept was patented by Olds in 1902. According to Henry Ford, Ford's reinvention was based on William "Pa" Klann's observation of the meatpacking industry's "disassembly lines", which had been invented in 1867. However Ford certainly perfected it, and manufacturing has never been the same since.
This looks cool. Is there a way to know that the client side code has not been tampered with? I'd like to see more people comment on this one.
MacRuby 0.7 is released
How much you want to bet this is the precursor of Google moving into the TV ad business?
Actual link to their page http://12seconds.tv/
This is spot on, but at least tell them to not take the spots with the outlets if they're going to visit Red Rock? How we going to work there now?

Edit: Bah. If we're going to out one coffee shop, then why not the others. There's Dana St, also in Mtn View. Peet's at across El Camino works as a spillover. Verde Tea has nice drinks but the wifi seems to block you after an hour and you can't get Google Wifi inside. The other bubble tea place across from Red Rock is open later than anything else on Castro but it's a bit dingy inside and you likewise can't pick up Google Wifi inside.

If you work late, there's the Starbucks at El Camino and Lawrence which is open till 1. Any proprietors here? We need more shops open till 1.

In Palo Alto, there's Philz, which has the best coffee I've ever had in my life. The Peets up the street is also supposed to be a decent place to hang out. There's also Mitchell Park which is nearby to both.

In 'tino, there's the Coffee Society. The Peets down the street is also a surprisingly good place to work, and the Whole Foods has free wifi. There's also some Donut shop next to the Apple HQ which never seems to close but the stuff they have there is so-so. But if you just need to get out of the apt to work, it will do.

In general, the Peets are nicer places to work but the wifi will only last an hour.

That's all the ones I know. Anyone got any others?
That I don't believe in god's or boogymen or dragons?

My assertion, as I explained, is that you have a poor understanding of the various meanings of the word "God". If that is so, then you might be missing something important. It's fine not to believe in a "pink elephant", but doing a quick Google search will show you that there are in fact things that exist and go by that name.

If you're still in disagreement and would like to take this conversation to a satisfactory conclusion, feel free to contact me via email. You'll find it via the link in my profile. I think I am done refreshing the page for this thread for today though.
Becuase its the software developers' turn.

Strangely enough, it happened in hospitality just before I left that industry, the term 'Rock star chef' was being used a lot to describe the new wave of chefs who were more interested in getting their profile up so they could get on television rather than actually try and cultivate a decent restaurant. The focus of the business drive shifted massively.

I have a vague theory that it just cycles through industry after industry and it's interesting to try and spot the wave before it occurs.
This is a great idea, definitely going to use it. Yes, please cull out words that are notoriously difficult to spell, like notoriously.

Smallish numbers might serve well too.
Just experimenting. All because people nowadays are bashing on products and services without any clear reason IMHO. Plus, I like to judge on products by myself before I bash on something :)

Don't get me wrong. Chrome works well for me..except the frequent crashes on some foreign sites that use flash intensively. I could be issues in Flash, Chrome, or both. IE9 hasn't crashed..YET.
I find a combination of a few short and common word easier to memorize than one uncommon one. It's even easier when it makes somewhat sense, like an adjective and a noun.
I was noticing the same thing.
Nice, Don't forget to look for the linear accelerator on 280 in Menlo Park. Endless Loop Drive http://goo.gl/z2iR in Sunnyvale. Also, if your on Cal ave. get your hair done with my girlfriend @ Di Petro Salon. ;)
12seconds is shutting down...
A 25% chance to receive $1 is worth something. A 1% chance for $2 is worth something too, as is a 100% chance of $0.01. Everyone here can work out which of these is worth more than others, even though there's a strong chance that any of these bets could "turn out" worthless.

The problem is that options are harder to value: there are many more result scenarios and the math is a little more complicated. As a result, many people opt out of doing the math entirely, and they think either "it's basically worthless" or "it's basically money in the bank."

The latter error is much worse than the former, but here are two consequences of the former: (1) one is less likely to work at a startup which might (in reality) be the best choice, and (2) if one is working at a startup, one's less likely to be nearly as alert to the risks and targets that may make the option worth less or more (at least as a probabilistic matter). The latter is why the options are a win-win for the company and employee.

By the way, I do understand that different people have different tolerances for risk and for different kinds of risk. But even if someone is biased very heavily towards low-risk situations (which is perfectly fine), it's best to do the math, understand the risk/reward profile of the option and then apply that against your own risk tolerance.
Yes and No.

No in my main Ubuntu desktop. Yes in my virtual box'd windows environment, for netflix.
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At the risk of Going Where Angels Fear To Tread...

This seems like a Big Business wish list. Dump all federal spending that's not directly going to Big Business via DoD spending, and Damn The Consequences.

For example, how about that DoD spending, which is arguably mandated/allowed by the constitution. Can we get rid of the "intelligence community"? We don't even really know how much money goes into that, and it's pretty clear they've gone way beyond any constitutional mandate or provision. Can we unceremoniously dump the spying-on-citizens part of the DoD?

The video misses some finer points. For example, do we get right of the Patent and Trademark Office, freeing up lots of material for everyone to use, increasing everyone's freedoms? I know that the US Constitution (which this video regards as almost Holy Writ) provides for copyrights and patents for the advancement of the common good. It's pretty clear that both patents and copyrights and the PTO have vastly exceeded this narrow mandate. Ditching copyright and patent would allow an awful lot of small business trade to open up.

Sure, we can trim government on some "constitutionality" basis, and end up with a balanced budget and not have an income tax. But this particular video ignores some pretty obvious devils in the details.
Agreed - that's the next logical step if needed. Maybe some heuristic to combine simple words at first, like "andblue" instead of "octobervaporized".
Of course not. Sharing my values is irrelevant. They're just idiots because they pay more for a lower quality product.
A pity that this interesting story does not have more context - whether that shortfall is in the blog or the book, I don't know. There are two things here that make me question the premise of the narrative (that there is an unwritten rule of business that a poor man is undeserving of making money):

1. the lender is characterized as a greedy man, who has made a killing from the financial misfortunes of others. I really can't tell if he is describing an individual, or someone who is actually an employee of a bank, and does no more than personify the accumulated earnings of the shareholders. Maybe wealthy and unscrupulous individuals write mortgages, and if not, bank employees are hardly known for their spiritual generosity; but it seems like he's taking a loan officer's assertions about professional ethics as a personal insult.

2. tactical shenanigans aside, the basic business model of lending money is that one collects a rent on the amount at risk. I know, fractional reserve bankers lend out many times more than they have on deposit, so it's easy money...but then so is insurance until the time comes to pay out. A broker's risk is virtually nil, the work being essentially a matter of selection and compliance with various administrative requirements - at least, I've not heard of any brokers being asked to make good on mortgages gone sour.

So while I have nothing against his making a good income, it seems to me that the lender's complaint has more to do with the broker jacking up the costs he will be passing on to his client, towards whom he supposedly has a fiduciary duty (and not incidentally, slightly increasing the risk borne by the lender), even though he is not providing any discernable increase in value to the client. The lender finds himself an unwilling competitor in a race to the bottom; he may refuse to do business with this broker, but a less scrupulous lender can be found who will, resulting in an opportunity cost if he sticks up for the person on the other end of the transaction (with whom he cannot deal directly). Rejecting the proposal of someone he views as an unethical middleman results in an economic disadvantage for no discernible gain, and in contravention of his fiduciary duty to maximize the potential earnings of his own investors.

I'm not saying that such is inevitably the case, just that that's how it looks on the limited information supplied.
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Why not use a list of the x most common english words between 4 and y letters long?
The Computer History Museum link at the bottom points to the essay itself. Presumably, it's meant to point to wikipedia or another relevant page.
I'm surprised Marco is billing $1/month in 3 month intervals... I'd have just billed $12/year.

$12 is hardly a large payment chasm for a customer, particularly if you've already told them that they're not going to get anything particularly extra for their subscription and they're still interested.

But it also makes the fixed-fee on the transaction a lower %age of the total sale and of course from a cash-flow perspective you have a full 12 months income in the bank now.
Looking to get some feedback as to how I can make this better
Maybe a landing page before you actually end up at the link?
A little off topic but I expect this to go well with jQuery Mobile. Can we expect any updates there? Been a bit disappointed by the relative quiet since the announcement (not that you owe me anything). Also, is there any publicly available code to check out? Thanks!
To be fair, they probably meant minimal design rather than minimal CPU time.
I think we owe it to the community to email this link to the poster of a job position that mentions wanting a "rock star" programmer.
How To: Build Features That Work Really Well
Good point. I'll add something about SLAC and The Dish.
Interesting. I wonder if they do it by drawing to Apple's private NSStatusBar-like API instead? I'll have to look into that...
I was just thinking the same thing. I love Boxee, but it's difficult to see where there will be room for them in this space once Apple and Google have carved it up between themselves.
And you can't forget Halted in Sunnyvale.
Khosla: You reduce more carbon painting your roof white than by buying a Prius
It is an extension that you download for the browsers - Chrome/FF/Safari are targeted. Yes you can access your encrypted mail from your computer, friends computer, etc..
Generating and Managing keys and all other logistics are something I think we will add to the value of already existing OpenPGP protocol. I will definitely go through app signing and code verifying by outside agencies(so users are sure of authenticity)

My motto is, even grandma should be able start encrypting emails :)
That's not unique to Sparrow. Mail does the same thing.
I always think it's fun to drive down random streets in the commercial areas of Mt. View, Sunnyvale and San Jose and see the crazy mix of famous, has-been, and still unknown companies' signs on the buildings.
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Well you are the one arguing that non-belief is religious. You still haven't explained how that can live together with the apparently religious non-believe in other gods that religious people are forced into by your reasoning.

Unless you are actually going to address that, I am afraid I don't see how any satisfactory conclusion can be reached.

No biggie.
iStat Menus works the same way, yes. The private API is called NSMenuExtra. It's considerably different from NSStatusItem in that NSStatusItems are created by an open application, whereas NSMenuExtras are created by plugins to SystemUIServer. (This makes stability an issue in NSMenuExtras, as one crashy plugin will make the whole status area disappear.)
San Andreas Lake came first, and then the fault was discovered and named after the lake.

(talking about the 280 section of the essay)
Review Our Mashup: CrowdTube.tv
I'd love to get some feedback on a recently launched mashup idea. http://crowdtube.tv finds trending youtube videos and plays them like a never-ending TV show.

Built on Django, we use cookies to keep track of what you've watched(may move toward HTML5 local DB...but trying to avoid register/login), and we use jquery/ajax to make it feel like a TV station.

A little background:

I'm always annoyed when I try to watch short YouTube videos on Digg/Reddit/Etc... while I'm eating or just chilling on the couch, and pretty much hate Cable TV with a passion, so we built this out of necessity to fill the void.

While I'm not an active contributor here, I know the community is great at giving open, honest, and constructive feedback on ideas...so I'd really appreciate to hear what you think.

Thanks!
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Zwibbler: A simple drawing program using Javascript and Canvas
The revolution will not be led by Harvard grads.