skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: I'm the author of the Glendix project.

As someone already pointed out Glendix tries to bring binaries over to make Linux feel more Plan9-ish. Unfortunately, I no longer have the luxury of being a grad student and so my time these days is very limited and have had to move on to other things. But if there's someone motivated enough to push Glendix further, I'd be more than happy to help!

As for the question of 'Why Plan 9', to put it simply - reading the source code makes me feel like a hacker again. A long time ago if you didn't understand how something worked, you could just peek at the source and everything would be clear. Plan 9 maintains that, the source code /is/ the documentation. Alas, I wish I could say the same of 'modern' free/open source software (Linux/BSD/GNU/what have you).
I was just thinking about if I would actually implement this. I think I might, but it'd have to be much more discrete than the red box. Maybe just a little cute bug icon, or something.

There is definitely something to all of these really simple feedback, poll, bug, and feature request services. I think you should follow through with this and see where it leads.
Wow, lesbians are more everything... except into sports. Huh.
As adults we are no longer competing directly with one another for status.

Oh look, an idealist who never opened a Psychology or Anthropology book.
Usable version of RFC 2616 (HTTP/1.1)
no, there are two (iirc) sites that you can license lyrics from now legally.
It's a grain of salt take it how you want. Because you yourself are surrounded by networking does not mean that everyone is surrounded in the same way. It's something to consider. Much like OKCupid being a free site vs surveys from say, eHarmony.
The problem with the Android brand is that it isn't sold to end consumers, since it's better for the manufacturer to differentiate the phone than to sell it as yet another Android generic device.
A Python magazine
Won't copyright and trade secrets offer enough protection?
Well, the red boxes were just to highlight the links on the start page so that you don't miss out on what report a problem actually is about.

But you're right. I have simply removed them.
Or that attraction is more straight-forward with men. I.e. step a, look down: Is your penis erect? Women might be more likely to experiment because they don't have that instant visual cue.
How exactly does a really basic general knowledge kinda question have a gender assigned to it?
I just meant that as far as comparing the US to the UK for feeling safer (his words), electrocution concerns are pretty trivial. Unless he spends an unusual amount of time near wall sockets or suffers from an acute case of electrophobia.
A cross between a Segway and a standing desk would be awesome!
I wish they had asked more stupid questions. Though I honestly don't care if gay or straight people answered correctly, more curious as to how dumb people in general really are.
According to Donald Knuth[1]:

"[To a computer scientist] every algorithm is as mathematical as anything could be... An algorithm is an abstract concept unrelated to physical laws of the universe."

[1]http://www.pluto.it/files/meeting1999/atti/no-patents/brevet...
Yeah, it's a gold mine, especially on interviews. If I know who I am being interviewed by, I can usually find the person's profile/email/blog, and see what they've written, their areas of expertise, likes/dislikes, etc.
...and that's the fastest I've ever accumulated downvotes.

Come on guys, I didn't say that women are dumber than men. I just said that this is the single most convincing piece evidence for that. Doesn't say much for the existing evidence given that this is a crappy non-scientific OKCupid blog post, now does it? Knee-jerkers.
Maybe this chart is a little misleading but I looks like Mastercard and Visa are quite superfluous.

Why do they exist?
I have a patent on using gronkuiotis in a sentence - you're being sued for a squllion $$$.

Of course if you have used "e-gronkuiotis cloud 2.0" we would have funded your innovation with a squilliuon $
http://xkcd.com/793/

Edit: I thought this was highly relevant to what the parent was saying.
Unlike the Windows logo, Tux is also a mascot.

I can't picture the Windows logo playing hockey. It doesn't even have legs. (I can picture Clippy, though. Argh.)
I'm on OKCupid. I've been able to "get any" in other ways. According to the article, the average number of sexual partners for everyone on the site is 6.

Personally, I'm using the site because I frequently find myself hanging out with friends. Most are male, but there are a few females who are either in relationships or are longtime friends who aren't sexually interested in me. I'm just hoping to meet a few women to go out on casual dates with and to bring into our "friend group." As a 26-year-old who is out of college and whose coworkers are all 35 or older, a dating site seems like a good way to meaningfully meet people.

I think your assumptions of the types of people on dating sites are way off. Based on my chats with women on the site, they seem to be in a similar position to me. With dating sites, not only do you get to meet someone outside the context of a bar, you also know that you're talking to someone else who is looking to meet people. It completely removes the awkwardness of trying to figure out if someone is in a relationship, if they have at all similar interests, or if they're going to just be totally bitchy for no reason.

That aside, the real question seems to be if the site is representative. I would argue that for the age group of 18-35, the site is highly representative.
I was using Chrome and imported a .doc into GDocs a week ago. A ton of words were marked misspelled; it was internally seeing "wor d" instead of "word". Deleting and retyping the words didn't help.
Except that there was no A, B, or C release in the current lineup, because it started with Warty Warthog, Hoary Hedgehog, Breezy Badger, and then they decided on the sequentially named releases starting with Dapper Drake (6.06).

Feisty Fawn was 7.04.
Really? Ok, HN... If you are male and would sleep with me please send me email. I'll keep your details secret, but I'd be fascinated to see some hard evidence for this assertion.
It Takes Time to Go Fast
(Disclaimer: I am writing a currently-unreleased jquery-based canvas helper)

I really like the idea here, and am all for more people using the canvas element, but I don't really think the built in canvas API is unwieldy, or even remotely foreign to anyone working on the web.

The only interesting functionality exposed in the API that I could find was some basic animation - defining a translation, saving the context of the canvas (for later rendering?) and then running the animation. Can anyone explain why this is interesting? Maybe it's a little early to pass judgement?

edit: Okay, the support for tags on objects you draw onto the canvas is pretty useful. This would definitely be useful for anyone developing a canvas game.
Anger makes the world seem more threatening
Ask HN: What do you write with for papers etc?
What do HN readers use for typesetting papers and the like?

I've been using LaTeX as of late as it provides means to forget about the exact form and formating (after all, its just text) and to produce nice pretty PDFs I can give to people.

AbiWord and OpenOffice have lost my chit for like for their disk space and usability -- I'm a very Vi kinda guy, so I like plain text.

So, what do HN readers use for typesetting on a regular basis?
I think that being suspicious of a cohort bias on OKCupid is totally legitimate.

It's reasonable to assume that the subset of people who use OKCupid is not representative of society as a whole. Now im not sure exactly what biases this might introduce, but one should always be aware, especially considering that the OKCupid users are a self selected sample (not a random sample) of society.
If you’re straight, and you’re the sort of man who treats every woman he encounters as little more than a potential sexual conquest, then the thought of another man treating you in that way is a little scary. Reflecting on this emotional reaction, you can either say “gosh, maybe a lot of women get creeped out by the way I treat them, and I should adjust my behavior” or “gosh, I want gay men to be as far away from me as possible”. Alas, many people in this situation take the second option.
There is if I remember correctly: if the entity applying for a patent places his patent on peer to patent for public review and it passes, I think the process for acquiring the patent will be much faster vs going the traditional route

IANAL
If I assume women like me, but I'm not getting laid, then I have only myself to blame, and that doesn't feel good. But my pride isn't so attached to the amount of gay sex I'm having.
Visa and Mastercard are cards owned by the banks. They take a cut mostly because they can, but also because the infrastructure involved to process a transaction isn't free. For what it's worth, non-bank cards like American Express take a larger fee.
The way I've heard it, patent examiners must meet high quotas. Rejecting too many applications and fighting the inevitable appeals (which isn't counted equally as useful work for some reason, possibly because it doesn't bring USPTO very much revenue) can cost them their jobs, while there are basically no consequences (at least not for themselves or USPTO) for rubber-stamping applications that should rightfully be rejected. If your prior art can only be seriously considered one time, that's not who you want doing it, however qualified they might be.
Where did you come up with the 28% figure for your estimates?
eye sore plus gimmick .. nyah .. i got out of there in a second
The HN tools are neat. I would use some of them. That's similar what I had in mind. I shouldn't have to type HN though - it should have showed up automatically based on the page I am on. It doesn't find tools for news.ycomb... but you probably already know that.

I played around with Greasemonkey scripts a few years back but then abandoned them. I just looked into it again and spent 4 minutes trying to figure out how to use them on Chrome and then abandoned the search. I guess it supports it but it failed the 2 minute test for me. I even went to userscripts.org and then got even more lost. In my opinion, if you make that experience easier with your tool and show the top 5 scripts for the current URL then that would be a huge win. You could do top 5 based on how often they are clicked on.
True, It'd be hard to be motivated on 35k/year to lead a project. But I'd consider it IF I'd be getting great training/materials in cutting-edge skills (ruby, html5, etc.) to make up for the low pay, AND got exposed to a good network of folks outside of just the government.
CC blogged about the CBC issue here: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/23766
I got it off a generic privacy policy generator. Guess that's why it's so vague.

Thanks for pointing that out! I'll get it replaced.
I agree that banning meta-discussion and positing '[it] never does any good' is on the totalitarian side as a guideline.
Discussion four months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1395816
> Come on guys, I didn't say that women are dumber than men. I just said that this is the single most convincing piece evidence for that.

You're missing the deeper implication that you're cruising around the Internet looking for, and pouncing on, such evidence. Why is it important to you whether or not women are dumber than men?

> given that this is a crappy non-scientific OKCupid blog post

In my opinion, OKCupid's OKTrends blog posts are second only to MythBusters in putting out interesting, entertaining, scientific answers to questions for which a lot of people are either completely uncertain of the answer or have terrible misconceptions.
Trivandrum, Kerala, India :

Rent+Utilities for a 750.sq.ft 2BHK (it was a steal): $90

512k unmetered Internet : $24

Occasional eating-out and groceries :$140-$150

and thats for 2 people (I asked my mum to move in with me after dad passed away)

*Cooking your own food for 2, costs the same as when I lived alone and ate out everyday.

Anything else is listed as a a 'luxury' in my Expense tracker.
(and i'm the least frugal person in my immediate circle)
Marketing Stormpulse: rise early, work hard, strike oil
Although further comments point out that there was no written offer provided, so that section is irrelevant.
The Italian ones are fairly convenient for plugging a lot of things into a power strip:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_power_plugs_and_sockets#Type...

Edit: I'd just be happy if Europe picked a single standard and stuck with it. It's ridiculous to have to carry all sorts of converters for what are, in the grand scheme of things, not very long trips.
Essay Phrases to Training in Your Essay Writing
There are various essay phrases which can be used to write good essays. These phrases ensure that interest in the essay. If you are writing an essay of any length, using the most suitable essay phrase will ensure that your essay is presented well.
pics or GTFO ;)

(I'm straight, and I normally wouldn't say something like this on HN, but it's sooo perfect right here...)
I don't understand what you mean by "Visa and Mastercard are cards owned by the banks."
Yup. Their website is totally DNS Made Hard. Furthermore, delete removes all records by domain name. So if you have aliases, you have to type them in all over again.
Encouraging people to link to their profile would help, I suppose. For names that aren't as common as "John Smith", then I don't foresee it being that hard to get indexed and shown on the first page. If Google can find some article written ages ago that mentions my name, I'm sure it would have no trouble listing my profile. I could be totally wrong though. Experimentation will tell.
It's telling that most of the comments on this article are the usual iPhone vs. Android arguments. I just don't see the interest out there for another smartphone platform to survive, particularly one which is so far outside the interface norms established by earlier entrants.
I was at this one (MP3 experiment 7) as well as MP3 Experiment 5 (Battle for Governor's Island), Cell Phone Symphony (http://improveverywhere.com/2006/02/18/cell-phone-symphony/), and Camera Flash Experiment (http://improveverywhere.com/2008/05/29/the-camera-flash-expe...). They've all been quite fun.
I think you also have to take jokers and drunken misclicks into account. I'm willing to bet that the true numbers are significantly lower.

Then again, it's pretty bad for anyone in America in 2010 to answer this question incorrectly.
> hard evidence for this assertion

Regrettable word choice.
The pictures:

http://www.google.com/images?q=John+Graham-Cumming
A 1990 Cornell survey of young Americans had 14.4% of women describing themselves as lesbian or bisexual, compared with 5.6% of men describing themselves as gay or bisexual. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_sexual_orientat...) OKCupid’s discovery that straight-identified women are more likely than men to be interested in a same-sex relationship seems consistent with that research.
Besides brevity is there any other case for implicit return values? I love little lambdas as much as the next guy but does the cost have to be that every one of my functions returns something unless I write an extra line to the contrary?

I'd rather pay the price of typing

return self.shipping = false

to make the function return false if I actually wanted it to do so, rather than

self.shipping = false
true

which just looks bizarre to me and doesn't make its motive clear (you wind up only including it when your last expression evaluates to false). I have vague, unpleasant memories of also encountering this gotcha with Perl in RT scrips, where you would suffix silly little 1;'s and 0;'s to everything to make the next action run or not run.

I don't know about everybody else, but I don't FP to the extent that I never write subprocedures. Isn't this still typical?
Authenticating in Heterogeneous Envrionment
It works because bats are animals and inherently dynamic, so we're accustomed to seeing them from all angles. We've been conditioned to recognize many different shapes as "bat".
Computers are fast
Another thumbs up for SVB. The real value is in the the personal manager they provide.

We use ADP for payroll - they are a little expensive

In terms of managing your finances it can be broken into two
- Accounting (or preparing for taxes)
I would check with your accountant for their preferences. Most smart ones will suggest an online app which saves them having to come to you(and saves you money!). If you don't have an accountant yet just pick one that you can invite your accountant to: Outright.com, Kashoo.com, LessAccounting.com or QB online are all good.
- Finances (or managing your dollars)
There's a new group of applications that some are calling BFM (business finance management) or CFM (cash-flow management). They could be described as Mint.com for small business. billFLO.com (us) and indinero are probably the best known at this point.

Good luck!
Ian
Why is this version more useable than the already available versions?

I prefer the text version myself. I can use it in more places than this HTML version.
Innovation Nation: WePay is the anti-PayPal
You might not be competing, but I am certainly competing for status, mates, sex, money and all that. Yes it is definitely a vs. thing. I compete against every adult male in my proximity, whether he be sales, engineering, or janitor.
Sure.

Men: 90% straight, 6% gay, 4% bi.

Women: 85% straight, 5% gay, 10% bi.

-Max Shron (Data Scientist, OkCupid)
I love blog comments. The first one:

Doesnt this mean that Scotch tape users are frequently subject to radiation exposure?

From the article:

No need to worry about radiation exposure at the office — at atmospheric pressure, where air molecules bustle, the electrons quickly run into other particles before they can radiate X-rays.

Do people really just read the title and then post a comment? Why?
It appears to just syntactic sugar. Chaining things, etc etc.

I like it, but I have to admit it doesn't seem to add a whole lot yet.
Are there any other SaaS alternatives to Chargify?

I was planning on implementing it into my app next week but I'm having doubts now with the price. There is no entry level option any more. For an app that is prerevenue, the up to 50 for free account was very compelling.

Now I'm required to pay $99 upfront regardless.

I may write my own as well. There's quite a few rails frameworks.
In my opinion, that's exactly how it should be. Patents do not exist to serve corporations, developers, inventors or investors. They exist to foster innovation so that the public can reap the benefits.

Can you invent, market and sell a new type of bicycle stand without patents? No. The concept will be copied as soon as it hits the market.

Can you invent, market and sell a new type of algorithm without patents? Arguably yes. Startups do it all the time. A patent is neither necessary nor sufficient for success in this case. In fact, it seems that on balance, patents are far more harmful than they are good to legitimate software companies.
Oracle can't and won't kill the platform.

They are certainly doing harm to Java, but Oracle hasn't sued IBM yet over this and there is quite a bit Oracle would go after if it were truly intent on killing the JVM:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Java_virtual_machines

I don't think that anyone is questioning anyone looking into using other languages. I even suggested Ruby myself.

It might be a dark age for Oracle sponsoring Java Community Process development, but some of the JSRs have been crap. If development of new JSRs slows to a crawl, so be it. A wealth of Java, Ruby, Python, etc. projects have evolved without being attached to a bureaucratic standards committee.
I keep my contrast up -- my screen has a horrible problem with the contrast and subpixel organization. It just makes it harder and harder to read over time.

I've also change my interface fonts... My monospace font has gone to a 12 point Monofur, which makes a very readable font imo, and for my normal font I've moved to a 14 point Verdana. I have also found putting my chair higher made a HUGE difference.

high contrast white-on-black and green-on-black works better for me than other color schemes, so that's one big thing.
Be careful about calling any part of web design cutting-edge. It may change quickly what is in fashion on the web, don't mistake that for being technically challenging.
My idea wasn't to replace the Canvas API but to supplement it with a framework that allows for even faster/easier development. Hopefully in the way that jQuery doesn't replace JS but makes DOM manipulation and UI programming faster/easier.
As someone who has hired many junior devs right out of college a cover letter gives you the ability to do 2 things.

1. Tell me the reasons I should hire you that I won't find in your resume. Those side projects you did that you found really challenging. What subjects you found really interesting in school that apply to the position. Why you find the businesses subject fascinating. This is your chance to tell me on your own terms why you're a good fit.

2. Why are you applying for this job. What makes you fit this position. I'm not always looking here for direct domain experience, but something in your background or interests which fit with the role I'm hiring for.

I had a cover letter template that I would use but would always tailor cover letters to the specific job and organization I'm applying for. Only maybe 40% of the content of the letter came from my template.
What Gruber misses is that the iPod touch is a freebie Apple gets thanks to the virtuous cycles they've created elsewhere in their business.

Apple has both an outstanding content channel and an instant payment mechanism. Selling content is easy. Which means they get great content to sell: music, movies, TV, and now, applications.

There's as much demand for content as for hardware in Apple land. Apple makes a killing on the hardware, gives most of the content revenue to partners, and everyone is happy. So you slip in an iPod touch, and boom: more content consumption, more hardware sold.

Without compelling content, who needs a non-phone Android device? Without an amazing instant payment mechanism, who wants to make great content for Android?
Agreed. Most theme designers ignore the different scenarios under which their theme will be used. Most theme shops optimize their demo installations so it looks perfect, only to disappoint the buyer when it's installed.
And this proves what? I can find quotes to support an arbitrary position too. :P
Older Boomers Search, eh
there's no real reason to lie to a match question on OKCupid

Depending on how much emphasis you're placing on "real", sure there is. You could be using it as a proxy to lie to yourself. You could be trying to convince OKCupid that you're the kind of person that should be recommended to the kind of person you want to meet. You could be setting up multiple personas for hook ups vs real dates. Etc, etc.
At least give credit where credit is due.

Source: http://designersgotoheaven.com/post/1242437663/changes-of-th...
If you want to be poor, you can always work at market rate and donate the difference to some charity that actually matters.
Haitian jails... crazy...
1. Write like you speak, as if told over coffee or beer.
2. Informal, but not too casual.
3. Right to the point; the first sentence is your summary.
4. No bullshit, you'll go straight to the garbage.
5. If it sounds like bullshit, it is.
6. Short. One minute good. Thirty seconds better.
7. Tightly targeted! It's about them as much as you.
8. Perfict speling and grammer.
9. Highlight what's important to them. (Do your homework.)
10. Enthusiastic without sounding phony.
11. Have friends read it. Get feedback.
12. Does it sound like a good quick description of you?
13. Have at least one differentiator. What makes you so special?
14. Strong finish with a call to action.