skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cover it with black bed sheets. Attracts the sun, covers the statement. Problem solved.
I normally can't sleep more than 6 hours a night. Typically I get 4-5 hours of sleep, usually not continuous, between midnight and 6 am.
I think the story would have been funnier if they used a 800 lbs ice block to attack the 800 pound gorilla !
In my opinion, the build process of a JavaScript application should be a separate thing from the libraries you choose to make it with.

That said, we (DocumentCloud) have also open-sourced Jammit -- the library we use to build JS, CSS, and JS templates into asset packages for production:

http://documentcloud.github.com/jammit/

Here's a screenshot of what it looks like to have a bunch of Backbone Models and Views that will get Jammit'd into a single file at deploy time:

http://cl.ly/803f3e67692572d76abb
Is Yi still being developed? I've also encountered the fibonacci gap with Haskell, so looking at Yi would be pretty fun, but I was unable to install it via cabal the last time I tried.
have your sales increased
Great advice. Too bad Nordstrom does NOT follow it.

Talk to their employees and you'll hear an entirely different story. Sales people are repeatedly told they need to accept fraudulent returns from thieves, which subtracts from commission you never earned since the returned item was stolen. When you shop there, you're subsidizing their insistence on sanctioning thieves.
Newspapers aren't dead yet: Re-purpose web printers to make .50/Watt Solar cells
How is this different than saying "I asked for permission to the vegetable stand cash box by pressing the open button."

Convention. The convention for the web is: if you can access it through normal means, then you are allowed to access it.
Phony announcement. I've been using this for almost a year now. I guess they are unveiling that they are now promoting micropayments. A year ago you could google micropayments, links right to their micropayments site, and then request that your paypal account be switched over to micropayments, with no hassles.
Distribute. See http://python-distribute.org/pip_distribute.png
So far so good. But when I click on a story there, it loads up that story -- and blows away NewsBlur. I can navigate back, but now I've lost my place.

In such cases, maybe you could doctor the links so that they'll open in a separate tab?
Lithium is a finite, and more importantly - concentrated - resource unfortunately. We should aim to make use of more abundant metals such as zinc.
I always get a chuckle out of the knuckleheads claiming "C is portable." Even ignoring all the libc and type size assumptions, there are so many "portable" programs out there that won't compile on anything but GCC because the extensions are on by default and people sometimes don't even know they're using them. This gets real amusing when a new version of GCC decides to deprecate them (one example of this I ran into recently was lvalue casts).
Cheeseburgers would probably be a useful source of energy when you're performing marathon runs.

This is what I hope to do when I am ready to do a marathon.
Highly targeted advertising in the daily reminder email. They basically know your deepest darkest secrets that you don't want to publish widely.

Email CPM ranges from $10/CPM to $100/CPM depending on targeting. http://archive.newsmax.com/mediakit/newsmaxemail_rates.cfm

I'd imagine people would put health and financial matters in their private journal.
Bees solve Traveling Salesman Problem
CouchDB removed my appendix. I didn't even have appendicitis though.
international payments is our top requested feature. unfortunately, there are a ton of product & regulatory hurdles that stand between us and our goal.

we're steadily marching towards it, but we have a lot of work to do here at home in the U.S. before we can expend the resources necessary for international expansion. i don't have a date for you, unfortunately.
Mertado Launches Embedded Shopping for Social Games and Websites
As a founder, you are the only one with the power to change the things you don't like about your company. If you don't think you have the right people with the right energy, change that aspect of the company. It sounds a bit like you have capitulated to how things are...

I worked for a startup once where the founders had hired a CEO to manage things. They just stood by while the CEO ran the company into the ground even though it was in their power to step in at any moment. They chose not to have a confrontation over having a company. Don't be that owner.

Have a very serious conversation with your co-founder about how you feel and that you are on the brink of pulling out. Maybe that will make him listen to you, but have a very well laid out plan for what you want and how you want things to be, including any people you may want to replace.
Is ITA the only plausible source of flight data? If not, then what's the big deal? And if so, then it seems like they have a monopoly advantage regardless of whether they are bought by Google or not.
I read 'your six hour flight' and thought of a single flight. I didn't read 'series of flights' - that's where I slipped up. I failed at reading.
I actually do video and After Effects on my Macbook Pro, as well as all of my Photoshop work with huge multi-layered files, and it flies. I have a more powerful Quad-Core tower at work, but it's only a slight improvement in speed, and being mobile with my Macbook far outweights that. In fact, there are tons of people that do video editing on the fly with Macbooks. I wouldn't dare try it with a Macbook Air.
Big In Japan: PhotoAge Hits The Right Note With Japanese Fans
Ok, I was looking an a MacBook Air, but somehow now I'm also considering a lazy-boy armchair and a mounting arm for my monitor.

That's a nice setup you have there. :-)
Mertado brings shopping deals to games and websites
So no network port.

I can't figure out a way to tell it to boot from a USB thumb drive. It doesn't list that option in the BIOS.

Would it still let me boot from an external CD ROM even though the BIOS doesn't mention USB? Maybe I could buy one.

Otherwise, any other thoughts?
Yeah, the store on Michigan Ave. in Chicago. Her income from Nordstrom was based on a salary + commission from sales. I said the same thing to her in terms of it not being legal, but they gave her some long winded explanation that I'm sure in one way or another is technically legal.

Maybe she wasn't "required" to work or because she is also paid on commission it somehow doesn't apply to her? I'm really not sure...

The thing that is appalling is that a company that says they are so great to their employees will try to justify these actions and put blame on the ones who are working their butts off and are dedicated to their responsibilities.

The only response she got was from someone in the company who was trying to sympathize with her saying "yeah, well thats why you just don't work more than 40 hours per week"
This really highlights the value of local networks: over 60% of their investments are in New York, and in the comments he mentions that one of their portfolio companies is moving there. "NYC is our home and where we do the majority of our investments. That is how it should be because we are primarily early stage investors and it is best to be close to our companies."
RE: Where Gruber Thinks the MacBook Air Fits In
Why are we still futzing around with always-visible taskbars when we've got things like Quicksilver, Gnome-Do, Alt-Tab window switchers, and tiling window managers.

I'd think by now that we'd get rid of any visible element that's not an app, like menu bars, an integrate them, along with alt-tab app switching and program (Start) menus into a single popup Quicksilver/Gnome-Do interface.

WTB one point of contact for starting/switching/stopping any app on the system, that is hidden until you need to see it, and activated by either a shortcut key or mouse button combo or gesture.
Eight Things Seriously Wrong with Skype 5.0. And Skype.
What's so bad about the resistive touch screens?
It also turned out that the actual paleo people did eat carbs: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/10/19/paleolithic-diet-inc.ht...

Of course, even if they had not, it does not mean that the paleo diet is somehow automatically better: the only conclusion that can be made is that it is an adequate diet to sustain a person.
This is what PG meant by naughty.
I can understand that some security measures are required, but I moved away from paypal because after being locked very easily it's then really hard and painful to show that your account is legit. Especially when all you get are automatic responses to your emails.
Having read the various HN discussions about laptops these past few days, I've just ordered my first ThinkPad (X201s) from an US eBay seller* .

I like the the dark look (inspired from a Bento Box: http://lenovoblogs.com/designmatters/?p=72 ).

For 1480$, I got:

Core i7-640LM @ 2.13ghz, 2*2GB DDR3, Intel GMA 5700MHD
12.1" WXGA+ (1440 x 900) LED Backlit Widescreen
320GB HDD (that will be replaced with an SSD)
3 Year International Warranty
A machine that will last years, that works well with Linux, and that I can plug in a nice Docking Station.

*: I cannot understand why there is no Lenovo store for french private customers. Instead of creating a web app, I should open Thinkpad store! A thinkpad costs 2k€+ in Europa... Luckily, I found a cheaper deal on eBay. The actual EUR/USD conversion rate also helps. Plus, it comes with an international warranty, so no headaches here: http://lenovoblogs.com/connections/?p=14 .
Anyone have success reducing the number of hours sitting down while still hacking just about all day/every day?
Then I suppose the community can fork from the revision prior to where that patented technique landed in the tree, just as with any other OSI-approved license.

http://www.opensource.org/licenses/UoI-NCSA.php
Took me a while, but I have that implemented! Thanks for the great suggestion.
Ask HN: How can I process payments for other people?
Hi HN,

I'm trying to build a service where I need to be the middleman and charge a customer on behalf of another merchant. Have any of you done something like that before? What's the best way to do it?

Should I be charging people, putting the money in my account and then making a separate transfer for the same amount to them?
Could you give an example how KnockoutJS and CoffeeScript fit together? Or is there a blog post somewhere that explains the details for using this combo?
I'll make that a preference in the next couple weeks. That feature has been requested more times than I can count.
I'd imagine BOSS is getting his server's IP, though, not the user's.
Top Ten Best Home Theatres | Technorox
You can set up a stand-up desk arrangement. You will look like a weirdo if you try this in a cube farm, though (I am speaking from experience).

It's better to have something that adjusts easily (like a counter-balanced monitor arm and keyboard tray).

Ooh... like this! http://www.ergotron.com/WorkFit/tabid/640/language/en-US/def...
Thoughts:

* FiveThirtyEight breaks your frames.

* I want a listing of all my unread articles to browse... I have >600 feeds and the list of blogs is long at just 64

* All NYTimes blogs seem broken? Freakonomics is super slow. An important feature of Google Reader is its aggressive pre-loading. When I click a headline, the feedback is instant. This keeps me reading (probably more than I should. Which is good for you, the feed reader seller.)

* On APOD, I just get a blinking cursor in the bottom window, and "original" mode works but "feed" and "story" don't seem to?

At this point, I'm just going to chalk it up to your site having issues, and check back again? http://img.skitch.com/20101026-tte8pqeksjx94syhuh7cbkt418.jp...

I really like your idea and will probably purchase it if it starts working. I'd also be happy to be a beta tester/constructive criticism provider/example of a heavy feed reader user.
"Given that most websites will not be making SSL the default any time soon, the only option is to educate people."

And this educates them how, exactly? Education thru vandalism is just vandalism.
Wiring the Brain to Aid People with Paralysis
> That is, I should go "wow!" before "awww, free is only 64", instead of the other way around.

Exactly what I was trying to say; you put it better than I did. (And your suggested fix would have worked for me too.)
Same problem here, but tab into the next input box instead of click.
Well then, I guess it must be the 75 words.
Paypal charges 2.9% + 30c

AlertPay charges 4.90% + 25c

WePay charges 3.5% (50c minimum)

(for credit card processing)
iTunes and Terminal are the top apps that come to mind that I wish I could full screen ala Lion. Outlook 2011 and the iWorks apps, too.
I'd like to compare the performance of this tablet to that of a 7" USB touchscreen connected to a SheevaPlug or BeagleBoard.

I bought a Nokia N770 tablet back in the day for the same price, but was never able to get the development environment working right (everyone had moved on to the N800). I hope the Android OS on this tablet is as hackable as Maemo.
> People have always been angry with PayPal.

and yet people don't have a viable alternative that provided the same or similar serivces. i'd stop using it almost immediately if had one.

> I don't think it is. It's not at all disruptive to PayPal

then why does it matter if it pivots or not?
Do they accept this for people not in the US yet?

Also, does Amazon switch rates automatically based on the transaction, or do they force you to pick an account as well?
Please review my Format Phone Numbers API (maziesoftware.com/api)
And again:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1834170

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1833774

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1831271

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1830232

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1829211 <- This one has comments
"International wire transfers are a lot harder to do without actually visiting a branch of the bank I'm with and filling out a bunch of forms, and they take much longer to process too."

That's my personal problem too. Sending money from US to Canada or Canada to the US is a pain. If only they had the same check clearance system, it would solve so much. Same as how having similar phone numbers makes it so much easier.
This is my first attempt at creating an API and would appreciate any feedback. Thanks!
Take The Rejection Therapy Challenge
Seriously, what a bunch of money-grubbing assholes. I don't know what they do about the one account limit, but this might very well be for forcing you to choose one or the other. Hopefully Amazon will do the sensible thing.
It seems like the normal readership are drawn to these kinds of list posts. Perhaps because they are "busy" and want to learn quickly by absorbing information nuggets. I question that they actually learn anything.

MSNBC (and by extension, their advertisers) has really been taking advantage of it by drawing readers to their many recent "top ten" lists.
> who or what will fulfill the role that the police currently fulfill.

I touched upon this a bit; I think that the police don't have as big of a deterrent effect as you'd think. Social structures such as "I don't want to get robbed, so I don't rob others" play a much larger role.

This is a large and complex question, and so I'm going to bow out to the FAQ, which has a pretty in-depth discussion of this topic: http://anarchism.pageabode.com/afaq/secI5.html#seci58

TL;DR, most crime wouldn't exist under anarchism, because many crimes simply aren't crimes anymore. There's no incentive for someone to steal my wallet, because a small piece of leather isn't really useful.

> Hasn't society been down this road, in both micro and macro scenarios, many times before?

We have, and we still haven't found a good answer. Are you saying petty theft is nonexistent today? Plenty of people still steal wallets.
I use something like this to watch the processes that are running or waiting for IO

watch -n 1 ps -eo pid,ppid,wchan=WIDE-WCHAN-COLUMN,stat,command r
any success on that project?
Ask HN: ChatRoulette to win prizes? - Chabbler.com
Hey all,

Some friends and I just launched a dick-free ChatRoulette (moderated, selection algos, and user-feedback), at Chabbler.com.

It works great, but we're not getting enough users on at a time to avoid repeats.

Any ideas on marketing? FB ads are getting clickthrough rates of .03%, doesn't seem worth it.

Thanks!
anyone have pics of the ice?
Is Google a Monopoly? A Historical Perspective
Why is this an API, rather than just a Library (In JS or what have you?)

Formatting telephone numbers is useful, but I don't see why people would want to call an external service to do it.
Like rfugger, I also had Tomato installed, but had never known about its SSH daemon. After Firesheep was released, I went looking for a cheap way to secure my computers' traffic. Originally, I intended to use EC2, since Amazon is giving it away for free for a year, but this solution seemed like a better route for me. If the ISP (Cox Communications) does get grumpy, I'll probably go the EC2 route.

As for the dynamic IP issue, Tomato can also be setup to work with a DynDNS account.
Ask HN: ChatRoulette to win prizes? - Chabbler.com
Hey all,

Some friends and I just launched a dick-free ChatRoulette (moderated, selection algos, and user-feedback), at Chabbler.com.

It works great, but we're not getting enough users on at a time to avoid repeats.

Any ideas on marketing? FB ads are getting clickthrough rates of .03%, doesn't seem worth it.

We're giving away an iPad to our top-rated user (get karma points from other users you chat with), so there's incentive to stay and play.

Thanks for your help!
The startup story of Crutchfield [pdf]
W7 is locked to .Net ???

That's going to be a success then - all those ground breaking .Net apps on windows will just port straight over.
Heh. jacquesm lives somewhere that doesn't even have checks!

When I needed to get paid by a Dutch company, the easiest solution turned out to be for me to open a new bank account.
I don't detect any implication from the author of an absolute dichotomy. It's fine to disagree with specific leaks for certain reasons (personal safety of someone named in the leak, for example), but I believe (and I think the author would agree) that Wikileaks as an entity is performing a valuable task.

There's a difference between questioning the wisdom of a specific leak and calling Wikileaks an anti-[US, military, etc.] criminal organization that must be stopped.
A Cell-Phone Network powered by signals from baby monitors & cordless phones
My transition to "real" Haskell programming happened with some parallel signal processing stuff, but my best example toy is my two-player tetris clone, triHs: http://web.jfet.org/~kwantam/TriHs.tar.gz

Note the "bastard" key, where you can swap your opponent's next piece. >:)
but paypal /is/ a way to pay your roommates. The draw of paypal is that it's a merchant account that is so easy to set up that anyone can have one.

They are actually doing a big marketing push in that direction right now. "paid out of pocket for tickets?" the paypal screen said earlier today, "Collect via paypal"

hell, I've paid employees, and yes, even roommates via paypal in the past. So yeah, while paypal seems to have a superset of the features and capabilities of WePay, there is a lot of overlap.
5 Quick Google Analytics Hacks
Probably sensible, if you can obtain a pallet mover. Though there should be one of those in any large convention center for setting up displays and so forth... you'll have to split the loot with the guy in charge of it though.

It also requires the security guard to have access to a private place with a large door whose floor won't be damaged when six hundred pounds of water gushes onto it.
In Canada, Netflix is streaming only, no mailed dvds.
I chose an API as I thought this would be the best way to offer this. Formatting phone numbers is incredibly difficult and is something that changes over time, so the code needs to be updated. What would some of the benefits be of doing this as a Library vs API?
Vimeo gets 'couch mode' for Google TV, HTPCs
Good question i will follow it! Interesting to hear the suggestions. That looks like you are doing a daily deal thing!?
So if ITA is so damn important to their business, why aren't Expedia, Travelocity, et al forming a consortium to go and buy ITA?
See the Ergotron Workfit http://ergotron.com/ though I've gone for a cheap standing desk fixed at standing height and a stool for the occasional rest. Unfortunately this is at home so I still spend most of the day sitting :-(
If you want to be nitpicky, gorillas aren't monkeys.

edit: Really, people? You modded me up to 17 for making a nitpick about simian taxonomy?
Full disclosure... I work for Ergotron. But Workfit - S is exactly what you are describing and one of the most affordable on the market.

http://www.ergotron.com/WorkFit/tabid/640/language/en-US/def...
Wow, thanks for the great bugs. So, the site isn't having any issues that it wasn't already having (bugs, the usual). What you're seeing is oddities in how the iframe is working. It's not a perfect process and I'm trying to figure out better ways to encapsulate the original site.

As for speed, I watch my logs like a hawk and have graphs for how each feed performs. No feed should take more than 500ms to load (and only a very very tiny percentage have taken more, based on my graphs from today. And nothing took more than 1.5s). Speed is a super high priority for me. Moreso than many features. Preloading is hard to do. I have no idea what you want to click on.

The iframe buster buster code works about 95% of the time. It should catch most NYTimes sites and switch you automatically to the Feed view. It doesn't always work.

Fixes for these bugs will be coming in the next few weeks as I sit down and identify the culprits.

You should still go premium, even if there are a few bugs still lurking. Check the features board. I have updates regularly and have for months. It's a long road ahead and things only get better from here.
Developer Josh Guest of b2clould answers our questions on app development
We had the opportunity to interview Josh Guest of b2cloud, a company that specializes in iPhone application development and social media consulting. Not only is he the director of b2cloud and iOS app developer he is also a Mobile Orchard reader
Bing is already doing this. If you want to complain, complain about vertical integration in search engines in general not Google trying to keep feature parity with competitors. You can't prevent someone from building a better product just because their product is popular.
Python is a better language than Java overall, but Java has some advantages over Python: because of static typing it is faster and has a very good IDE support. (autocomplete, code navigation, refactoring, etc...) In my eyes the most superior languages have static typing with a clever type inference, so that the code remains concise despite static typing. I like Scala because it really has the best of all worlds. (Although really mastering it is a bit more work than mastering Java or Python.)
I would agree with your line of reasoning, except that it's not really convention: a cash register doesn't have a customer-facing interface. A web server is an explicit interface to those outside an organization.
I assume the resistive touch screen doesn't do multi-touch. In addition, it is probably less sensitive since it will require a bit of pressure and not just touch.
more like shop of shops, but similar
Either dick-free is a typo or a poor description of your users.
I disagree. Expedia has long had an option to innovate and really improve their offering, instead they chose to rest on their laurels and milk the customers. I see it as a good thing that Google moves into the space and will give it some serious shake-up.

On the aside I just can't wait till the Ticketmaster's monopoly is disrupted.