skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you thought about using Google Reader as a backend instead of keeping your own database of feeds? It seems like that would cut down on your processing of the feeds and enable you to just work on the stuff you care about (the filtering and UI aspects of it).
I believe his goal was a formal model of computation that was also good for expressing algorithms. Plus eval probably seemed like a neat trick. We take it for granted, but imagine how pleasing that must have been to think of.

I'm not trying to compete with Ruby and Python. If I were I'd be recruiting armies of people to write libraries.
I generally just put the laptop to sleep by closing the lid. Macs are generally quite happy about that - the superb power management is one of the major selling points.
To resemble the atchange script, try this usage of inotifywait:

while true; do inotifywait -qq -e modify [filename]; [command]; done

or as a shell function, defined in .bashrc to have the same form as the atchange perl script:

function atchange(){
while true;
do inotifywait -qq -e modify $1;
$2;
done
Zynga's Value Tops Electronic Arts as Virtual-Goods Sales Surge
Since I'm no programming nor javascript wizard, I needed some help from Jeremy. I know my way around MVC since I've been doing some Ruby on Rails in my time.

My experience with more advanced Javascript is with MooTools, so I found it familiar to build Class-like objects. I rather enjoyed the experience and I'll be using it to replace the codebase for my more complex project.

The documentation is exhaustive and with that example app, annotated et al., it's even better. I also am very confident in Jeremy's skills as the project maintainer, he helped me a lot and has proven he creates great Javascript libraries.

The API seems stable enough. From Backbone 0.1.2 to 0.2, there weren't that many differences in the API, mostly nice additions.
Why Accelerate Deployment?
indeed. if wepay would provide a very basic, simple method for sending/receiving payments and provide something like paypal's IPN, i'd be all over it. the focus on groups is good for carving out a niche for the service, but its not something i need.
"She was told by HR that she would be paid time and a half for her overtime hours, which is pretty standard I would assume. After getting her pay check, it looked extremely low and after verifying with HR they told her that she mis-herd what they said and for overtime hours she is only paid half of her normal hourly rate."

Was this in the US? And was she salaried? I'm pretty sure this is illegal otherwise.
By that definition, if I find a flaw in (as an example) the New York Times, and e-mail them explaining the flaw and how to fix it, I'm engaging in cyber terrorism.

Shit, I remember when people would throw around the words "white hat" and "black hat", instead of "terrorism".
Ah, that's a good one. I'll add that.
Welfare systems don't come with peoples names in the legislation, like "Bob always does the dishes". They are based on other properties which any citizen might sometime have. So they are more like, "the person who has least recently done the dishes (provided they are not now sick or injured) does the dishes." Welfare is not an example of the kind of democratic fairness dilemma that you raise with the Bob-always-does-the-dishes solution.
Doesn't top do the same job?
Where are you located? In the US you can only view online a small fraction of Netflix's DVD inventory.
I believe it's because in high dimensions, most of the "volume" is near the center, whereas in low dimensions, most of the volume is near the surface.
I try to do everything at once. It doesn't end well, so there should be plenty I can learn from in here.
The last paragraph is so idiotic I almost fell off my chair laughing.

They can now find problems instantly, where before it could have taken months for someone to visit the clinic and see what was going wrong.

By the sound of it, it's not CouchDB that's helping them, it's using a computer and the Internet?
Nope, but if they were "pre-Me", I doubt I would have liked it. I just so happen to like Me.
There is nothing on that front page of www.adclays.com that is standing out as a reason for people to contact you back. And you have wierd spacing on the periods there. You have a misspelling in the title of the page: http://www.adclays.com/publishers.html and there is nothing on that page either that stands out as a reason to use you. You can't just put a big moneybag on the page and a screenshot of the login and have people knocking down your door.
Why Women Live Longer
I'm a newbie and have been designing from the code up. I'm starting to design pages now from a blank sheet with red pen and I agree with you, it seems to allow for more options.
Perhaps by offering a premium digital "archiving" service that aggregates the history of all of your online presences into one nice interface. It would be cool if I could see the activity on my Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, etc accounts along side my journal.

I'd pay for a service like that. I'd be worried about the service going away, but if they offered an easy export option I'd use it.
I think hundreds of dollars in the hour or so it'd take to get to them all is nothing compared to what Paypal generally makes an hour.. Or what they'd lose if people started switching to WePay.
Oracle Open Office dot Org. OOOO.
making PayPal in a bigger scale aware that their policy is hitting too easily and too many.
Despite reading all bad publicity on PayPal and how many accounts got frozen I thought it won't happen to me.
It did not take long and my account just got frozen. I am not sure how the software algorithm triggered it, but now I am stuck and yes PayPal sucks.
Very classy acknowledgement.
Cool idea. Basically it really offers nothing new except they have changed the way the game is played. You don't need to force yourself to begin, they're taking that first step for you.
Hi Samuel,

I noticed a small typo on http://samuelclay.com. I think you mean "Written with Django...".
Ask HN: Please Review My iPhone App the Happy Hour Finder
I would argue that the lyrical quality of poetry comes from the meter and cadence of the words, and not from rhyming.
Personally, rhyming poetry sounds goofy to me. Without meter, it's just flat prose. Although I'm sure a good speaker (e.g., Morgan Freeman) can make flat prose sound "poetic"
Designing with the Golden Ratio
ood point. We just missed the deadline for W2010, but there is always the next round -- and we'll be that much farther along in the development of our site and business.

The site was designed primarily as a reader feedback mechanism (not simply reading -- which for one page just isn't that fun), and we want to ensure that people who provide feedback are committed to having an identity on the site -- which at a minimum requires a display name and an email address. Same goes for HN and Twitter... you cannot post without an account. Just like those communities, we want to know who is part of our community.

Thanks for taking time to respond here!
Google street view does not hide faces of some people
You're already working on WP7 projects?

Even thought nobody uses it yet and even though you can already target millions of phones with Qt?

Wow!
I think that selling you a printed version of your journal each year would be a great selling point. Not sure if it would have enough buyers, though.
This is starting to sound like an adventure game puzzle.

You are a security guard at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. There are hundreds of dollars inside a six hundred pound block of ice. You cannot leave your station. How do you get at it?

Using an ice pick? Why would a security guard have an ice pick? Maybe if it were Chicago, but this is San Francisco.

Use another tool to chip away at it? I dunno, that's a lot of ice.

Melt the ice somehow? Nice idea, but how?
Providing PayPal's IPN is technically easy. PayPal succeeds because it can do what it does and still operate. PayPal is protected in so many ways, it's not even funny. I have no idea how someone would disrupt their model.
Patrick Winston's "How to Speak" lecture
I'm interested in your experience with your social news site, and making it popular/profitable. Would you mind shooting me a link via email?
Please don't get my review as negativity I may sound a little harsh but I'm genuinely trying to give helpful feedback.

1. Lose the free theme. I think some 'startups' can get away with a crappy generic design when they sell a good compelling product. In your case, your design skills are your product. So you are giving a really bad demo right away.

2. You're selling visuals, so go the simple visual route. Showcase your demo logos first in your page, maybe in a slideshow. Big beautiful crisp logos. Then a big, clear call to action: "Get a custom logo for $249".

3. Are you a trained designer? Please don't take this badly, but your demo logos are not as good as they can be. Take this advice from a 10-Year designer who has come to accept that he sucks at logos. I think the problem is with the typography, it looks odd-spaced and rushed. You need to spend more time refining your type skills.

4. Your characters and symbols are very good, though. The bear is funny and well-drawn and the cupcake is cute. I'll make a wild guess and say that's your strength. You should feature your strengths.

5. You really need to make a KILLER ZestyLogos logo. And make sure it's very Zesty (whatever that means).

Good luck pal.
We agree... and we haven't linked those logos simply because we're worried about link breakage.
I like the "warrant canary" idea implemented by rsync.net, but I'm not sure if courts would see ceasing regular announcements as violating a gag order.

http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt
Hah, that's ridiculous. Fixed and deployed. Thanks!
As a professional student, I will save you all some time. The secret of studying is encompassed in three programs:

* Anki[1] (spaced repetition[2])

* SelfControl[3] (avoid procrastination, block websites)

* Pink Noise[4] (block noise to study anywhere, anytime)

[1]: http://ichi2.net/anki/

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition

[3]: http://visitsteve.com/work/selfcontrol/

[4]: http://simplynoise.com/
It's common to see news stories about dumb criminals who were targeted for more thorough investigation, leading to their eventual conviction, due to their Internet search history (e.g. "How much antifreeze does it take to kill an adult" and "how to mask the taste of antifreeze in food")
While I'm quite terrible at design (I'm a coder, if anything at all), when I do end up designing websites, the first step is sitting back and figuring out what I really want: what kind of content will go there, who's the expected audience, what are my priorities (display speed, download size, bling, you name it).

Once I have that down, it's a lot easier to figure out a design. It's either pen & paper, but I can't recall the last time I actually drew a design on paper (I'm even worse at hand drawing than I am at design), or I fire up a tool I can make a mockup with: gimp, inkscape, dia - either works, and it depends on how detailed or how quick I want the mockup.

Once that's done, I convert it into HTML + CSS, and sprinkle it with javascript magic if so need be.

Meanwhile, since I do design iterations in bursts, more than likely, I will have the backend code ready aswell, and I will only need to convert the mockup to a template, and done.
Very nice so far. Seems to be stalled on the GR import. I like the UI so far. I don't know how much of the learning I'll make use of -- I usually only follow feeds where I want to read most everything, so further discrimination isn't really helpful to me, but having a good UX on a feed reader that isn't Google's makes me happy.
Search engines are expanding from web searches to information searches. Since search users were really after information in the first place, it's hard to argue Google isn't providing better search results.
Agreed! And we're on it.
While it's true that digg can do anything they want on their site, pragmatically speaking their development process may not support creating and deploying the change you're thinking of in a matter of minutes or hours.

An alternate explanation is that the bogus accounts are external, and digg blacklisted the IP's associated with those accounts upon learning of this. Most larger websites will have a fast way to blacklist IPs on their load balancers or the like simply to avoid buggy robots, spammers and trivial DoS attacks.
What a funny way to grab a ton of free press.

They must have planned this for some time given the logistics involved and the time it takes to freeze quantity of water that size and get a nice and clear chunk.

My own paypal saga isn't over yet, though there have been some surprising developments.

I sincerely hope that someone will one of these days replace paypal with a better way of doing peer-to-peer payments, but online fraud being what it is the question is if it actually can be done without in the long run incurring the same kind of penalties that paypal use has now.

After all, when you're just starting out with a payment service most or even all of your transactions are legitimate. But once the service gets more popular there will be an inevitable influx of scammers, whitewashers, identity thieves,phishers and other less desirable elements. To get rid of the one without hurting the other is a very difficult problem.
> Melt the ice somehow? Nice idea, but how?

Wait.
I love WePays brass balls in pulling this stunt. Shows that they know how to hustle and get attention without spending butt loads in marketing haha.

They've got moxy.
Using multiple hash functions requires that you use additional storage in order to maintain the same occupancy ratio.
There's real research here with counterintuitive results that deserve honest attention. Given the amount of brainpower here and the typical hacker lifestyle, I'd say the risk of unwarranted rationalization is very high.
That is good to know. All I read was MacBook Air and never a discosure as to what type. It felt like they were talking about a great Android phone and never told me if it was the Droid or the G1. Oh well...
Your interpretation is correct and thanks for the honest comment. I do not enjoy working with him anymore and I need to talk to him about it. I could not afford to buy him out and I'm not even sure I would want to as he has expressed his desire to continue on. I am starting to think that I don't like the product because I don't like working with my co-founder.

I have been getting mixed advice from friends and my gf who seem to think I'm working on a project going nowhere. For the amount of time we've spent on it, it hasn't gone anywhere near where we have dreamed.

The product itself always sounds good in conversation, but has been an extremely hard sell so far. It rarely meets the user's expectations or ours and doesn't provide value for everyone who pays for it, which is tough.

I'm really torn, because I've been trying to figure out if I want to leave for good reasons or because it's tough and I see unique opportunities that might not be there next year and I want to jump on them.
That's basically the point, without CouchDB, they don't have internet, because the connection is spotty, power goes out, and latency makes it unusable when it does work. CouchDB fixes all that.
provide the same basic functionality (perhaps make it easier to use), and improve customer service.

i'd be willing to pay somewhat more for the same service if i have more of an assurance that my funds won't get frozen/confiscated/etc., and/or if the product were easier to work with.

edit: hell, if wepay is partnering with a bank, if they can set things up so that i can get a debit card associated with that account and accept transfers, i'd use it as my primary business account for at least my smaller online business stuff.
You will eventually. Just wait until a kiddie porn ring is busted and forensics reveal DDG was used to located images. Unfortunately, this kind of situation will happen any time you run a service for the masses.
It's nice to see what "scalability" might mean when few of the technological affordances we often take for granted are available.
Valuations: Is Zynga worth more than Electronic Arts?
I signed up when it they first appeared on HN and have been using it ever since. It's a simple idea that's been well executed. Kudos to them, I hope the service sticks around!
Yes, I have thought about that. (Ohh, how many times I wanted to switch to this while developing.) But that means I would lose a whole lot of control, as well as the ability to perform real aggregation and intelligence on those feeds.

That, and I get to build a full-on distributed feed fetching and processing service, which has been a brutal, expensive, and wholly worthwhile experience.
Companies like Expedia worry that the acquisition could lead Google to present a matrix of actual fares on its search results page

How is that not consumer positive?
clojure is trying to bootstrap it self to be able to be on many platforms but for that we need
1. the proper primitives to make it possible (done in 1.2)
2. match java speed (working on it primitive types ...)
3. rewrite the data structures and compiler in clojure

Thats the plan to let clojure fly.

As for CLR the implementation is pretty good and there is a binary but there wont be a strong push.

Btw. i do not belive that the jvm is going down in flames. Thats typical trollhyping.
Hello All - Version 2.0 of the Happy Hour Finder was approved in the app store yesterday.

I've followed HN for a number of years now and I highly respect the community here. There are so many smart people with so many good ideas!

I'd really like to get any feedback you have for the app and any ideas for future releases.

And of course I'm trying to get exposure for the app right now so I'd love to hear your recommendations. A download and good written review helps a lot too :)
Despite lack of gaming vision, Jobs angered when Microsoft bought Bungie
Amazon FPS fees are practically identical to Paypal.

Paypal Micropayments, $0.05 + 5% for transactions under $12
Amazon FPS, $0.05 + 5% for transactions under $10

Paypal Micropayments = Over $12, $0.30 + 2.9%
Amazon FPS, over $10, $0.30 + 2.9%

I don't see any details from Paypal about debit transactions, but Amazon charges $0.05 + 2.0% for bank debits.
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i moved away from paypal, went pci compliant, got a merchant account, was a pain stetting up but feel so much better on the other side.
Is it just me or anyone else also thinks it is bit too naïve. Organizations who handle finances need to have a serious no-BS attitude because they are playing with money. Of course, it doesn't mean that a organization has to be excessively serious but such real world trolling tells a lot about company's (mischievous) culture. Personally, I wouldn't do business with an organization that doesn't respect its competitors.
We wish that domain was available!

Your point about context is well-taken, but it seems to work well for Dribbble -- which I find very difficult (personally) to use because I desperately want to see the expanded view. :-)

We do plan to provide writers with the option to upload a full chapter, which helps address the context problem.

Asking writers to upload a synopsis is challenging because we've learned that most won't do it. So for this phase of our site, it's all about first impressions -- completely out of context -- and having some fun with what writers upload.
Ask HN: How many hours of sleep do you need to have a productive day?
Have met people who scoff at the idea of "regular sleep at regular hours" , and those who are zealously disciplined about it.

Also curious, about the proportion of "night-persons" vs "day-persons" on HN.
I've updated the app to work that way -- nice idea. Here's the relevant change, for the curious:

http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/docs/todos.html#sec...
No one gets scared when you point out a flaw in the New York Times. (Except maybe the writer who is now at risk of getting fired.) Additionally, pointing out a flaw in a newspaper is not illegal. Impersonating someone is (or can be depending on what you do while impersonating them).

Whether it is black hat or white hat wasn't my point. My point is that Idiocy aims to accomplish change by scaring people and getting media attention. That is the same thing that terrorism does, so I think the term fits.

Now whether it is possible to have "white hat" terrorism is another related argument but it doesn't invalidate by original point.
That doesn't seem all that implausible, but I'd expect the divot wouldn't need to be any wider than rest of the line.
May 10, 2010 Mark Shuttleworth blogpost on Unity:

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/383
Yes, I know it should look for duplicates, with an option to erase. Unfortunately, this was too low on the priority list. But it's sitting there, waiting to be implemented sometime in the next few months.
Unfortunately, the link it includes doesn't contain the part mentioning this capability is nothing new, merely that there's a new tool for it: http://jonty.co.uk/idiocy-what

If the creator is browsing through these: include that part, or people will associate the danger with the new tool, and nothing else.
Choose tools to get it done
Great, thanks Sahil, added my email address to profile comments and just emailed you.

Thanks also to everyone who upvoted, much appreciated!
Meet The Grandaddy of All Internet Routers
It might look like an oversized gym locker, but the wires and circuitry housed in this giant metal cabinet (full image below) make up the world’s very first Internet router. Developed as an essential part of ARPANET, the experimental military communication network that gave rise to the the LOLcat-filled Interwebs of today, these machines, called Interface Message Processors (IMP), formed the first nodal access points that eventually branched out and evolved into the world wide web.
How does Google Maps compute directions
Part of the full quote:

"If you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines - including Google - do retain this information for some time and it's important, for example, that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act and it is possible that all that information could be made available to the authorities."

So in context, he's basically saying that of course if you're logged into google, surfing from your same home IP, well duh, of course Google, or the government, or your ISP, or some random hacker can figure it out. You can't guarantee privacy without using something like Tor.
Kyle Maynard, a man born with no legs and only stumps for arms, became a champion wrestler. He wrote an interesting autobiography aptly called "No Excuses".
I don't think it matters whether you like the police or not. What's important is the question of, if there are no police, then who or what will fulfill the role that the police currently fulfill.

For example, someone decides to kick your teeth in and steal your wallet. Without police, what's your recourse? Vigilantism? What prevents a rising escalation of retaliatory vigilantism? Hasn't society been down this road, in both micro and macro scenarios, many times before?
The funny part, as TC mentions, is that PayPal pulled a similar guerrilla marketing stunt in its early days by paying people to wear PayPal t-shirts at an eBay conference. Could we say... revenge is a dish best served cold?
I just want a good web search for finding and booking flights.

Expedia and friends could work on improving their websites instead of complaining..

Just tried Expedia now, flying London - Stockholm in December. Next screen I could choose "specific dates" or "flexible". Clicking flexible, page reloaded, saying "This route doesn't support that". So then I clicked "specific dates". This threw me back to the front page, with the flight search form empty.

They won't find much sympathy from me..
Nintendo More Scared of Apple Than of Microsoft