skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find the main reason why I can't find things in the Start menu is because they've been buried in <company name>/<program name>. This seems like an obviously bad idea to me, since I can remember the name of the game I want to play but less frequently who published it.

I had a feeling that this was originally Microsoft's idea although I can't back that up since all I can find now is a newer set of guidelines which suggest not doing this. It's all kind of moot since you can search it in newer versions of Windows anyway.
The first early 10^−43 seconds, where time didn't actually exist?

If time didn't exist, then how did the universe know when those 10^-43 seconds were up?

Seriously, I think this discussion is proceeding at a level which probably shouldn't be attempted by non-cosmologists. We all probably have a bunch of misconceptions we've picked up from popularizations about the Big Bang, and would only embarrass ourselves if any cosmologists happen to show up.
too good..i've added it to my favorites.
I really wish we'd solve the problem of transcribing spoken words. There are many things I'd like to listen to, but I can't listen and do anything else at the same time, except walk or drive, but I can scan text pretty quickly. :/
In my opinion this kind of cheapening of the language kills our ability to communicate as human beings. When you compare being redirected involuntarily to a polite note that helps you understand how currently insecure your use of twitter is to vicious and violent acts, many of which result in the brutal death of innocent bystanders, acts in which mothers watch their children die in agony, you debase the language to such an extent as to be talking babble.

I don't know what the rhetorical strategy is called that you have employed, but it is beneath you.
LimeWire Shuts Down It's P2P File Sharing Client
I really love the idea (and the execution!), but I'm afraid I have to agree with the GP on this one small point.

Your product isn't your website, although at the moment you may feel it is. Your product is the people who are going to spend their time to do these tests. The harder you make it for them to achieve that, the less "product" you have to sell.

Your website is going to need the network effect of many viewers to make it worth people signing up to submit their work. I don't think you can achieve that with a signup for people just wanting to check it out. You're going to get a lot of traffic from twitter, facebook and other social networks, and those people aren't going to sign up just to "check it out".

To put that in perspective, our two biggest regular referrers for Fivesecondtest.com (other than the occasional article write up) are Facebook and Twitter (around 25-30% of traffic). Yet both combined account for less than 6% of our signups. That's a lot of traffic that participate but have no intention of signing up. Of course, we may be missing an opportunity there :)

The worst thing you can have is a situation where you have more tests than you have testers. We've been keeping an eye on ClueApp (a direct copy of Fivesecondtest.com) and they suck at this. Unless you tweet your test, you can except to get zero results (and most people won't do this). The biggest challenge you face is ensuring you have enough people doing tests to cover the expected results. The first time a writer gets "zero" feedback after 24 hours, they're gone never to return.

Aside from that, my main issue is that you have this big green call to action that says, "start reading", and I have this expectation that I'm going to jump right in. So I'm excited and ready to go; instead I'm shown that this is an exclusive club that I need to be a member of. I'm not that committed. Ctrl+w.

Otherwise, love it!
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I may be tainted by academia: IT loaded computers with about 150 applications keyserve'd.
Great that is it open source and liberally licensed. Auto updating desktop software is a difficult problem to solve, esp with supporting Win95+ and even more difficult once you attempt to support Mac, Linux etc.

There were solid open source solutions until Omaha, even Firefox used a commercial solution until recently.

The one feature request I would have is support for SSL and client certificates, to prevent DNS poisoning and having the auto-updater download, install and execute any arbitrary code. Otherwise, this is fantastic.
If there's anyone left at Digg maybe they should sign up
1. How opinionated are they?

Like religious fanatics very opinionated programmers will argue endlessly over trivial matters that in the end make no difference, wasting valuable time, all because they can't just let their arbitrary preferences go and are obsessed with winning every argument due to their autism.

2. How much do they contribute to open source projects?

Those who contribute a lot of free work without compensation don't have much business sense. You also have to worry they will contaminate your code with GPLd code that they have secretly reattributed.

3. How much do they enjoy programming?

Those who are very enthusiastic about something are usually very new to it and don't have much experience. If your oncologist was jumping up and down and clapping when discussing your tumor because he is so excited to see this form of tumor, would you want to use him, or assume he is either insane or fresh out of med school and has not seen many tumors yet.
So the GNU/Linux version isn't open source right?
Why video, audio, canvas aren’t self-closing tags
Off the top of my head-

I don't know if your service will be around later on.
I don't know if you will change the licensing terms.
I don't know if your server might be off for maintenance.

Those are basic things, but what it comes down to is that I don't have control over your offering. Why would I add so many dependencies, when I can do it locally, and KNOW it'll work.

On top of that, there's practical questions-

Why add latency for a round-trip request, when I could do it locally quicker?
What if I need to tweak your formatting? If it's a local lib, I can open the source code and add new types myself.

Sure, I might need to change code if a new type of telephone number is invented (??) but people release new versions of libraries, too.

It's cool to learn how to write an API, but I can't think of many sane people who would use yours in production.
But... but I was told I could grow a new Facebook on these cloud services?
PayPal is protected in so many ways, it's not even funny. I have no idea how someone would disrupt their model.

Wrap them. My guess is that fewer than 1% of PayPal transactions go awry, and that PayPal renders it difficult or impossible for the injured part to recover their loss in perhaps 1% of those transactions. If there is in fact any real, widespread dissatisfaction with this state of affairs, then you could set up a site to act as a proxy for receiving PayPal transactions and self-insure it again PayPal's malice and/or incompetence. Monetize by keeping a very small premium over PayPal's own rate.

If PayPal is really that risky to do business with, then sellers won't mind paying 2.6% instead of 2.5%, or whatever PayPal charges.

If, on the other hand, all this talk of PayPal freezing accounts is mostly just a bunch of FUD, then there's no point trying to compete with them at all unless you can do it on the basis of lower transaction charges.
Surely academics don't look for the "orange curvy thing" instead of MATLAB, though.
Off the top of my head, maybe adding

RewriteRule ^app/([^/]+)/([^/]+) app/?a=$1&b=&2 [QSA,L]

before the last rewrite rule?
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Thinking,"Ah Firesheep?? No one is using it" 129,000 downloads in 1 day.
I've always wondered about auto-updating software being flagged as a virus. That has always been troublesome for me. So I haven't really explored it, but it seems to be relatively smooth sailing for Google.

The one thing that I have preferred about interactive updating is that it lets users know that things may break during the update. And sometimes, you just prefer running an older version because it works better for you than the newer version.

The problem I have with auto-updating software, including Chrome, is that when big changes are made, I have no point of reference to test, and there is very little I can do to reject a version upgrade. Of course, this has its benefits since you know all users will be forced to upgrade Chrome and you know that you only have to test your site against one version of Chrome.
Thought about writing an app to do that. Unfortunately I would not be able to host it on Heroku. :-)
I have my own list of things I disagree with PG about, none of them was on this list.
Every one can make such a list, and if they did, then everything PG ever said will end up on somebody's list.
It all depends on what the SLA says, but hypothetically, if they are down for 24 hours a year, that's 99.7% uptime, which isn't terrible.

Heroku had a 1-2 hour outage the week after we switched an app there last year. My boss was freaking out, cursing about how they were unreliable, etc, neglecting the following:

1. The timing was unfortunate, but that was the first outage in months.

2. We had had multiple outages on our Rackspace box that were our own fault, due to bad server management.

In the long term you're likely better on Heroku, for small companies at least.
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Difficulties in Defining Errors in Case Against Harvard Researcher
Ask HN: Will the low-key investors please stand up?
Defined Problem:

Looking for funding is a bitch. Incubators/VCs/high-profile-angels, while necessary for the startup scene at large, still require a lot of work in terms of engagement, time spent courting, relocation, meetings, presentations, and more.

Proposed Solution:

I'm not a tech superstar and I don't have a startup, but I do have MONEY:
Although we're in a recession there are no doubt many people interested in startups, tech startups in particular. They may not have 1000s+ followers on twitter or know celebrities in the Valley but they do have MONEY.

I can't relocate/go through crazy fundraising rounds but I do have a product I can demo:
On the other side of the equation are tech entrepreneurs/programmers with a product in hand but with neither the time or the inclination to go out fundraising, relocating, or schmoozing with industry insiders/journalists etc.. At least not in the beginning when they're 100% focused on product dev!

Why oh why can we not bridge these two together?
I can jump out of bed after ~7 hours without an alarm. Used to be an extreme night owl, which worked for me, but not the people I work for/with. Going to sleep at midnight to 2am means I still get a bit of night peace, and can be up at a reasonable hour. Sometimes I'll pass out around nine and wake up at four, which feels much more awesome than going to sleep around that time.
What job do you want done?
Maybe figuring out all of that information from scratch is, but things like replacing NetworkManager with WICD is as simple on Ubuntu as 'apt-get install wicd' (though I don't know off-hand if you need to add a 3rd-party repo, but it's not like Canonical hasn't added GUI interfaces for doing that -- rather than mucking around in /etc/apt/sources.{d/,list})

The udev rules that do the auto-mounting of usb-mass-storage devices are already there on your system. Unless you need to mount special devices like Bluetooth filesystems or digital cameras over USB, then you may not need gnome-vfs (and it may launch automatically once you first start nautilus, I'm not sure). Note, that in the past this auto-mounting was done by GNOME or KDE-specific daemons, udev has replaced them (at least on Ubuntu, and I assume Debian).

Launching gnome-power-manager is as simple as adding "gnome-power-manager&" to whatever your startup script is. With someone that has the relevant information, these things are relatively easy. bbs.archlinux.org is a good resource too (since it seems lots of Arch users go for alternative desktop environments -- even if 'desktop environment' just consists of a window manager).
"Taking notes serves not only to make a non-volatile record of what was said, but the act of writing helps you remember what was said"

Maybe I was just a bad note taker, but whenever I took notes in college I always ended up focusing more on writing the notes than paying attention to what was being said and thinking critically about it.
If you run your own site and things go wrong, you (hopefully) know what you did. When Heroku (or AWS, or anyone) makes a change, they don't consult every customer to find out if now is a good time to go down.
Haters gonna Hate.
This is an interesting use of .NET ClickOnce. It is probably the largest Clickonce app I've ever used.
Yes, you are opinionated about being opinionated.
WePay wants to be in a serious war with Paypal.
I'm sorry, I did not mean to suggest that would be applicable to you.
Red = Happy? Orange = Creative? Blue = Fun? ...Color Associations Revisited
From what little I've used Haskell, the strings-as-list paradigm was exceptionally useful.

A lot of people also complain about the performance of strings in Haskell, so this is right where the tradeoff is today. Tomorrow it won't likely be an issue.

A really smart compiler should be able to optimize most of the inefficiency away; I'd bank on compilers improving fast enough to make seemingly inefficient things cost much less.

If I'm designing a language today for the future, I'd err on the side of usefulness.
6-7 hours of good sleep. At regular hours. I enjoy mornings.
I agree completely with you, and presume that, as in most things, people are different.

I've personally found that intensely concentrating on what is said and actively engaging in thinking about it is the most effective way for me to not only remember what is said, but come up with interesting side-thoughts and insights about my own situation in the process.

Writing is just mechanical to me and prevents me from properly concentrating on what is said.
The researchers are comparing the time we spend walking against the time spent walking by a bunch of theme park actors they hired? How absurd.

No doubt there were people in history who moved about more than we do. There were also people who moved far less than we do, on account of being snowed in all winter, or chained to a Lowell sewing machine. And I think our diet is on average, better than theirs was. I don't claim to know the causes of the increase in heart disease, but I know specious pop sociology when I see it.
Yes, you can.

However there are a thousand equivalent questions that you could be asked. Can you memorize them all? How do you find out what they are?
Happened to me too, I gave up on taking notes very early on. Whenever I did take notes, I never went back to them. Plus, everything else was found in the books/literature/online
do reference librarians have an anticompetitive practices case against google?
Wouldn't this thing work great with IOS?
It feels like if a shop is starting from scratch, they're more likely to go with Mercurial - I'm betting the Python connection is a big reason for that, along with its comparative user-friendliness - while a shop that's migrating off SVN tends to go to git.
What I did was set up a logo contest for $400, then personally messaged 30-40 designers whose portfolios I liked on the site to ask them to participate. Once I saw enough good stuff, I guaranteed the contest (meaning I would definitely pick a winner), and asked people for modifications. That part is key; you want to find out not just which piece of design you like, but who is a good person to work with.

Moving forward, I actually ended up working with the person who won the contest AND another person who was very good, but just happened to be the wrong person for this particular design. Once they've done good work for you through 99designs, there is no reason you can't work directly together on future projects. I suspect that's part of the reason designers use the site (although many of them are also from countries where the dollar is highly valuable).
You have to debit the cost of Heroku's downtime from the cost of building your own infrastructure.

That's silly, and also not how it works, at all. You're paying PaaS/IaaS companies so that it's their headache, not yours. Once it becomes your headache, they are no longer doing their job, and you are no longer receiving value for which you are paying for. You don't debit the cost of their downtime from the cost i would've built your infrastructure, you debit the cost of their downtime from your business' revenue and reputation.

Whether or not you could do it better yourself does not excuse the downtime one bit.
Random public shaming may not be fair, but it is a fast way to get the message out to lots of people. And I've seen it be an effective way to drive behavior change.
No Android Market (will have it's own store in the future). No Adobe Flash either.
It's a false comparison. No companies in my round (W07) or before that I'm aware of got anywhere near as low as $1M valuations...

For the $500-800k raised that is still popular, "OK" was a $2M pre valuation and "amazing" would have been $5M.

The $10M valuations today for $500-800k (if there are any) are definitely in the "amazing" range, so it's somewhere around a 2x increase.

That could definitely be explained by a more mature set of companies, or companies attacking larger problems.
I can't tell if your being sarcastic or not, but I have a chair at my stand-up desk. It is a cheap chair for a drafting table (it sits high). I stand about 70-80% of the time and use the chair for the rest.

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I think Paul is wrong about further stratifying the Lisp community.
I only buy .coms, which means I have to be very creative in thinking up names. This on its own is a good throttle on buying names. Lately, I've been toying with the idea of using subdomains from http://freedns.afraid.org/ to host small projects that don't warrent a domain name. I do wonder what this would do to search rank though.
I've had the same problem in various situations, most notably my linear algebra class in college. After a few classes I realized that if I took notes I would lose track of what the teacher was saying; I had to shift my attention to the act of writing. he moved so fast that it was a choice of pay attention or take notes. I opted for "pay attention". While I could recall few details I did much better absorbing essential concepts and abstracts.

OTOH, at conferences I've been trying to close the laptop and take notes using pen and paper. I get more out of the talks this way, but it works because the information density is lower than my math course.

And I don't take a whole lot of notes, but try to jot down key points or things that might help trigger some recall later. I figure I can Google for stuff if all I have are some keywords written down, so I don't have to notate whole sentences.
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> Why? What difference do you see between the browsers debugging-wise?

Feature-wise, very little. But as I said - I do find I can work faster with Firebug - I much prefer the the DOM inspector (one click node editing, css editing, the fact that it live updates the DOM as it is changed via any JS running on the page) and the console (DOM/JS object inspection and having XHR logging in the console itself and not on another tab). Plugins such as FireQuery also make a difference for my needs.
On the Mac side, Google uses http://code.google.com/p/update-engine/

I don't particularly care for this solution because an update engine is started when the user logs in, and thus is running even if no Google application is. If you know what you're doing you can disable this and Google apps will still be able to update themselves when they are running.

Fortunately, I've not seen Update Engine used outside of Google apps. Most Mac apps use http://sparkle.andymatuschak.org/ which I think is a far less intrusive solution.
Eggs, basket, etc.
"Applications are fully restored." via http://status.heroku.com/

Downtime always sucks, but gotta give them credit the way they keep everyone in the loop and provided status along the way.
Let me piggyback on this one, as it's something I've thought about for a while. I am a committer for an Apache project. Not a major one, but I have the email address to prove it. This happened because I submitted a small patch for a new feature and asked some good questions and they asked me if I wanted to be a committer. Since then, I haven't had much to do with the project (no fault of my own, it's just a solid code base that isn't too popular)

Do I put that on my resume? At what point do OSS contributions become too small to mention?
> It ain't what your body was designed to do.

The physical activity levels of hunter-gatherers is actually pretty low, day-to-day. They spend a lot of days sitting around.
Amazon does --- but it costs 1% more for transactions outside of the US.

Also, Amazon's rates automatically change based on the amount you are charging.

All of this info is here: http://aws.amazon.com/fps/pricing/
Yeah, you have to get stuck enough to give up and want to sleep. Ordinary stuck does just keep you awake.
LOL. At least give us a pic of Town Lake or Zilker!
Out of curiosity, where the designers US based or abroad somewhere?
Exactly, so the answer to the question "why is this different on the web?" this has nothing to do with the act of giving permission, as such. It just has to do with convention.
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It's possible to mitigate HTTP session hijacking without resorting to SSL: http://carcaddar.blogspot.com/2010/10/protect-flock-or-how-t...

It's not really viable to serve most things over HTTPS because there's no hope of caching anywhere but at the end-point (and that's usually disabled by default, too).