skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Conceptually, I can think of two classes of solutions:

1. Put the overlay only over the part of the player you really want to catch the clicks for. It sounds you want it only for the play/pause so it might work. You'd need to calculate or guess where these controls are actually on the screen.

2. Detect whether the player is loaded and only if it is do you insert the overlay or enable the click event for it. This solution has a nice side effect of being able to tell the user they need flash enabled for yrou app to work.
Note that you can order 4GB RAM in any Air model, when you build-to-order online.
For those of you that don't want to drop the money on a roaster, you can buy an old popcorn popper and use it. Beware - once you start down the path of roasting your own coffee, you won't want coffee any other way.
Budweiser Budvar is a fantastic beer, but Busch Budweiser actually came before it. The original Budweiser is apparently sold as "Burgerbrau" in the US, something I've never heard of.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Budweiser
Actually, I think I'm wrong because I wrote 中国人, which literally implies a person from PRC. I'm still learning Chinese in school and I didn't know how to say "people of Chinese origin" haha
The protest and website were set up by the union government scientists are obliged to join (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Institute_of_the_P...), not an actual group of scientists. That's quite a bit different than a group of actual scientists risking their funding by taking a stand. Scientists are just one component of the union's membership, by the way - they represent all government employees who have professional designations.

Unions in Canada are uniformly hostile to the Canadian Conservative government (although, interestingly, their membership largely is not, especially in the industrial unions). That is not to say that the union's point of view is not valid. But this is certainly not a Bush-era-esque case of the scientific community standing up to government hostility to science.
There's also a nice short summary in this blog post:

http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2005/09...
Linux got a lot of momentum from the "Microsoft is evil" camp. However, OS X sucked off most of that momentum, and now I would guess the primary users of Linux are developers who deploy onto Linux servers or embedded devices who realize that it's easier to develop on the same platform you deploy on. (And who have a lot of knowledge about the platform because they deploy on it).

But there is a growing "Apple is evil" movement, and I expect Linux to get some momentum from that. I wish that more people would try Linux for it's positive features -- for example, Virtual Desktops is my killer feature, but Linux still gets most of its users because its "not Windows" and "not Apple".

One huge advantage that Linux does have is that it's really the only Desktop platform that's seeing rapid advancement. KDE 4 is maturing into a very nice platform, Gnome 3 is coming out soon, all with significant changes and enhancements, for good or bad. OTOH, OS X 10.7 is coming out with what, an app store?

Of course, neither Microsoft nor Apple are putting a lot of effort into desktop environments because of their decreasing relevance...
ShowHN: Qwiki for your web accounts (GitHub, HN, Netflix, etc)
Remember that Qwiki demo at TC Disrupt last month? I figured something like that might be useful, but for your morning routine of checking your various web accounts.

http://verbaljuicer.com

It's currently a Safari extension and uses the very good OS X text-to-speech engine.

There's a JavaScript API to add scripts for any other website you want to track. If you write a script for a new site, email it to me at david at davidcann.com and I'll add it to the gallery.

Stats: I made most of it in about 3 days, then polished it for another 3 days.

What do you think? Should I port it to Chrome?
Clickable: http://verbaljuicer.com/
In the section on the with statement he says

> Please don't abuse with for XML/HTML generation

Being guilty of such abuse, I would like to know why not? (I genuinely want to know!)
whole milk, dark beer, and port

Port is probably my favorite drink.
How to manage VMware Server on Mac OS X with VNC
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This was posted yesterday and received a lot of commentary: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1820561
There is no way to escape the fact that Ubuntu has less users than Windows has beta users. It takes a lot of luck to expose more rare bugs during the beta stage, specially in short cycles like Ubuntu's

But I kind of like having a new desktop rolled out every 6 months, even if the price is having to troubleshoot stuff or filing bug reports. If I wanted a boring, stable, rock-solid OS, I would run Solaris 10 on my PC ;-)

On your nm-applet thing, are the three computers using the same wireless interface?
Not to be facetious... but the informants are using their real names? Seriously? Does the DoD not pay in cash anymore?
The optimus isn't minimalist by any stretch; the keys are individually addressable screens.

And modern Apple keyboards work on anything with USB or Bluetooth.
http://www.twackit.com

Track any numeric metric over time using your Twitter account.

People have used to to track their weight, mpg, jogging, movie ratings, etc. Most of the users right now are Japanese, tracking their "hakaru diet" (whatever that is).

Here's an example report: http://www.twackit.com/yishibashi01/hakarudiet
2010 October Lisp Game Dev Competition
Look closely at the right edge of the picture. The text below the picture is revealing...

Human deforestation and burning of fossil fuel has raised atmospheric CO2 to over 380 ppm in the last century, well above pre-industrialized levels, and "off the scale" of this graph top.
> for good or bad. OTOH, OS X 10.7 is coming out with what, an app store?

... that could be described as a credit-card-aware half-brained package manager...
Ryan Dahl: “Introduction to NodeJS”
Bourbon, water, and coke. Often times separate, sometimes in combinations.
I use to play once or twice a week several years ago. I need to get back to doing that and get rated.

That Bobby Fisher chess open, middle, and end game puzzle book is a great way to step back into the game despite the major personal flaws that BF had.
Ask HN: What YC winter 2011 aspirants should not be doing right now?
We are hacking on code, adding features, everything we were doing as usual. What else we should be doing ?
Hot Chip - One Life Stand:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPXPIx1LlPY

It doesn't show up in your search results. How come?
I also play KGS under the name asdfman[4k] (at the moment). I like that game because of its simplicity. In Chess u can get nowhere without learning ur openings very deep. In Go u just need to understand how ur stones influence each other. Add some exercise in L&D and u can become a tough player without learning all those Opening Moves from scrappy, old books. I love it.
I didn't have crashes on XP (had to use it for about two years, from 2008 up to mid-2010) but I experienced increasing levels of "weirdness" that were cured with sporadic restarts. That and regular pushed updates that mandated restarts (when, I assume, a logoff would do). No crashes and no BSODs except on the Sysinternals screensaver, however.

But I did very little development on that machine. When I developed software for Windows (NT-2000-XP era) I had to rebuild the machine every 4 months...
- tap water

- coffee w/1% milk, frothed.

- usually gin (Hendricks is a fav), lately I've been exploring american whiskey/rye. Holy cow is this stuff amazing: http://whistlepigwhiskey.com/

- at the office our senior geek keeps a bottle of santa teresa 1796 rhum. That's a staple on chilly Friday afternoons in the later part of the year.
Mechanical keyboards may have lots of travel, but you don't have to use it all. While a mechanical keyboard may have 4-6mm of travel and scissor switch keyboards (like Apple's) only have 2mm, on a mechanical keyboard you don't have to bottom out the keys. Topre switches activate around 2mm - the same as your Apple keyboard. The difference being that your fingers aren't slamming into a hard plastic stop after each activation (unless you choose to bottom out your keys). Furthermore, well made domes don't tend to wiggle much more than the keys on an Apple.

I'm not quite sure what you mean by big gaps - Apple's keyboard also has some pretty sizable gaps between keys. Unless you have tiny fingers I think you'd want those gaps.

More information here: http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=START+HERE+--+The+Gee...
Cherry Stream.
The best $20 keyboard ever, hands down.

http://www.citx.de/citx/shop/catalog/images/tas0086-cherry-s...
http://www.organizemysearch.com

I developed organizemysearch.com after being tired of keeping tons of car ads and notes all over the place while I was looking for a used car a few years ago. I wanted an application that will let me enter all the data I wanted to keep track of when searching for something (eg. color, miles, make) and later be able to quickly and easily sort through everything so I can compare things based on my priorities.

The idea is to let you compare properties of items you are considering buying across multiple websites. It's a shopping comparison tool

The official definition from the website is this:

"organizemysearch.com helps you organize your searches, keep track of them, and provide you quick tools to sort and display all the information your are considering when making a final decision. In other words it helps you manage searching for information in the real world, regardless of what you are actually searching for."

The project is public but I have been caught up with other projects recently and didn't get around to market it (part of it being that the app falls into the caregory of 'people don't know it's useful until they use it'.
Tea is cheap, lasts for months or years, and can be made in the office kitchen. Black and oolong tea in the morning and midday, white tea in the afternoon. Make it loose leaf in a sufficiently large infuser.

You can buy some of the most delicious stuff you've ever tasted for less than a dollar a cup, and often the leaves can be reused. People in my office express skepticism that I'm willing to spend so much on tea, then go down to Starbucks for their bland-tasting $4 daily latte. Right now I have a tin of carmely Yunnan tea with a powerful pepper flavor that really wakes you up. Also, caffeine.

Other things I like: Three Floyds beer, North Shore gin, rye manhattans, dark red wine, Intelligentsia coffee, Dr. Pepper. And lots of water.
Is your storage at home Sarbanes-Oxley compliant?

It's not the primary storage, it's the backups and data retention.
There are always the Realforce 103U models. If you don't mind me asking, what are the other 33 keys mapped to on your keyboard? In fact, what keyboard has 136 keys?
What do you mean? They have different adapters, they are on the same network most of the time but it happens both on other networks, plus it happens to a computer that doesn't even have a wireless interface.

It hasn't happened in a while, thankfully.
This may betray my own ignorance, but I believe 中国人 is perfectly fine for describing oneself even if you are not from the Mainland, such as in my case. I've hung around plenty of 1st generation Chinese folk from Taiwan and conversation seems to still use 中国人 as a general term, not as something specific only to Mainlanders. I suppose if you really wanted, you could use the term "Han Chinese", but that is in fact more ethnically specific than 中国人.
"There is a principle, which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation."
-- Herbert Spencer, 1820-1903
You need to use social services to understand them
Link to interesting article that was posted in the comments: http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-1045782.h...
Will Power is my friend as well - water here too. I stick away from caffeine apart from the occasional tea.

I figure that if I really need the boost it'll affect me more because I'm not a regular user. Only downside is that 2 teas gives me the jitters.
The magnitude of the fluctuations should really be judged against the error bars, not against zero. That's what tells you whether the change is significant.
There's nothing magic - but there are a ton of libraries which make it better than what's in core. I'd recommend taking a look at monocle, eventlet/greenlet, and the other libs out there rather than trying to go it alone.
figure out who hopes to make money from a scam, and things get a lot clearer.

How do you know the people behind the link you gave aren't self-interested?

Besides, just because a foolish/corrupted person says X, doesn't mean that NOT X is true.
Cool, that's starting to make a little more sense. By gaps I don't just mean the distance between keys, I mean that your fingers actually feel like they get caught in the deep spaces as you slide over them. But maybe that only pertains to the PC keyboards that I have experience with - the ones with with wiggly keys.(Maybe none of them were mechanical keyboards.)
Oh, and 'crazy conspiracy theories' is an oxymoron. It's the NON-conspiracy theories that are crazy. The world operates primarily by conspiracies. Maybe the lady passenger was just practicing her skills at grading conspiracy probabilities.
You mean I should believe a huge stream-of-consciousness ascii file over scientific papers? Sorry, that's not going to fly with me.

And your money argument doesn't work. Are you seriously saying those who argue AGW is NOT real don't have a financial interest in that?
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/mPXPIx1LlPY
gives <yt:noembed/> as response.

In other words, they disabled the embedding of that specific video. Just try this one: http://listandplay.com/#Search~Hot%20Chip%20-%20One%20Life%2...
Every time I read a story like this it reminds me of a very important lesson:

The world is built from bailing wire and duct-tape. There are probably a million better, smarter, less technology illiterate ways to solve this problem, but that really doesn't matter. What matters is getting out there and doing it. Being able to do this sort of app 'correctly' would be an edge, but only to the person who can do it 'correctly', and is out there doing it.

I wish you the best of luck with your duct-tape!
Outstanding. This is going to fly.
>Why 7 litres? You could be damaging your kidneys if you drink too much.

Also a [mild?] effect from water toxicity could occur - basically watch you're not flushing away all your electrolytes.
I like 2.! It's on the todo list, great idea.
Funny, made this one two years ago http://playmymusicvideos.com/
Ask HN: Tips to maximise Adsense revenue
Anyone got anything they've learned that improves their adsense?

I tried a colored background on mine and that caused it to halve - must make it more obvious that there is a distinction in content.

Also, how are people finding the revenue from Google's display adverts (banners)? They are a bit too scammy for my liking.
I realize I'm a bit late to this thread, but I've enjoyed reading others' stories and felt I should share.

I tend to abuse HTML browser-based games by using bookmarklets. I played Parallel Universe 2 for awhile, and when I got bored I set up a bookmarklet that would adventure out into a particular level, fight enemies, collect treasure, and even resurrect itself when it died. The game's item-selling interface kind of sucked, it just said the item name and you could click for details, but that's rather inefficient since I had 1k-2k items after a day of auto-playing. I made a bookmarklet that opened each item window, grabbed the items's stats, wrote them to the item list, and closed the window. It took ~15 minutes to run for that many items, but hey, I had to find the best ones somehow right? :)

I played The Hacker Project for awhile too. They had voting links - they were on about 20 top-game lists, and they gave everybody a small reward for voting once a day. The voting link went to a vote.php?link=n page, for n=1-20. Did they allow numbers over 20? Nope. How about under 1? Yep! I went to vote.php?link=0, vote.php?link=-1, and checked a few to make sure they worked. Then I set up a script to vote 6 times a second and left it running for almost a week before I got banned. I was moving up in ranks quite fast, I think I almost got into the top 10. I hacked The Hacker Project!
Do not play go. Just stay away it from it. I started to play go in Brazil while in high school and got addicted to it. Eventually I came to Japan to play go (I won't disclose the details because it'd be really embarrassing).

Later I came to Japan to study Computer Go in grad school. I planned to to stay for 2~3 years. It's been 7 years now. I don't play go anymore, but I do harder stuff (karaoke, clubbing, etc). It's been a sort of gateway drug for me.

PS: by the way, the reason an American 2-dan can slaughter a Japanese 2-dan is simply because the scales are different, mainly due to inflation in Japanese ranks. If you're AGA 2-dan (or say, European 1-dan) you should really upgrade yourself to 4-dan when coming to Japan.
It depends on your situation. I pay $1850 (could have been $1700 but we changed rooms) for a 3 bedroom fully furnished house in Mountain View, with our landlord staying about 1 week per month in the guest bedroom (third bedroom is a study). Mountain Shadows complex, if you must know.

It's cheap because we're house sitting for her for a year while she's away, so not sustainable, but a great find for us coming in from overseas without a stick of furniture to our names.
Have a plan B, C and D

ie. you should still be out raising money and doing everything else you need to do to grow your company.
Well, lots of other species, too, but yeah, in case there's any confusion: Nobody's saying that global warming will lead to the end of the planet as a mass of rock that supports life in some form.

But if we care about how convenient it is to live on? Then global warming is worth trying to avoid, probably.
There are a fair few, but I don't run into other Brits that frequently in either the startup or work scenes. If I had to put a number on it, about 2/100 of the people I've met are British like me, 3-4/100 Aussie, 2-3/100 Singapore, and 10-20/100 "other european".
Nice, a Flash based one and slick effects I see :) I'm curious how the slideIn effect for title could be ported to jquery
Chess is a candy for your brain :)
Games consoles? E-Readers? USB keys? WTF? Apple have turned things around for the usb key for a start. Tablets and e-readers are not the same market. e-readers are far superior to tablets for reading.....this article was nonsense written to fill space...much like my post :)
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I'm sorry, but this is not a YC grievance comment by any stretch. And it is not mine. Damien Katz wrote it a long time ago, and he is not bitter.

I submitted to HN as I could not find it posted here, and wanted to know the community had to say. I had in mind it would foster a discussion on YC interview tips and experiences, which are sorely lacking arond the web (specially failed interviews, and these teach more than successful ones).

NOTE: There are some public YC interviews on the web, namely: Adioso's (http://tomhoward.co/our-y-combinator-interview-experience) and Directed Edge's (http://blog.directededge.com/2009/11/05/the-interview-with-y...)

This is also an old post (2006), and YC guys probably learned a lot in the mean time. About Damien's comment It's a Flawed Process. Tough Shit Fella, even pg admitted it can happen when talking about competing seeds on his recent interview to Forbes (http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/1108/best-small-companies-...):

Graham welcomes the competition. "It's better for entrepreneurs," he says. "If we make a mistake and don't fund somebody great, they still have a chance."
Ask HN: How to price a software?
What factors to consider when pricing a product?
Should I consider the efforts and time I've put in or should I price it based on the demand and availability of such other products?

Also, is it ok to raise the price in future when I roll our new features?
After a couple of weeks in Mountain View without a car I was going seriously stir crazy though. It's a suburb, you get what's on the tin.
Great Idea!
One rule of thumb should be not repeating songs of the same title (ie. covers).
If I search Where is my mind from the Pixies, the next song is Placebo's cover.
By intake volume:
1. Water
2. Beer
3. Fruit juice
4. Coffee
5. Other (Soda's, Wine etc.)
How do you escape the trap?

I'm not that far in. I'm 28 years old. Just got married. $42k in student loan debt. No kids. But it still feels impossible to escape the momentum of keeping up.

My job pays well but not well enough to quickly escape the loan debt. That feels like the biggest barrier between me and the things I'd rather be doing (startups, travel/vagabonding, ...).
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Apple products are banned in Bill Gates’ house
Prediction, a pinhole look at the future
Book Spines
I try to take this approach as well. The minute you start thinking of "minor inconveniences" for the user, you already don't care about them. Your tip will be small.
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Thank you for your excellent advice - I'll be sure to be very clear in instructions.
Wow, I didn't know Quantz was written in Scheme.

I actually helped beta test the game on Linux, although I didn't end up playing it much after I bought it. Nice to see you can write practical code in Scheme, too.
We're using it for our multiplayer platform (http://flockengine.com) to store user accounts and attributes.

Advantages: Easy to use and no need to maintain a custom database infrastructure, high availability, no SQL injections, great Python library (boto)

Downsides: Slow requests, not exactly cheap, lots of limits on entries(1), need to carefully handle numerical data for sorting(2), horrible PHP library

[1] http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonSimpleDB/latest/Deve...

[2] http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonSimpleDB/latest/Deve...
Judging from these comments, I must be the only person who does not like traveling. I like hearing stories and learning about other cultures, but the idea of flying around the world seeking adventure is a hassle to me. Does that make me a bad person?

Besides, there is so much to do as is, like learn assembly. =)