skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had the first full-keyboard portable, the TRS-80 Model 100 which Dad was still using into the 90s. I also had the very first ultralight laptop - the NEC Ultralite (4lbs, no hard drive, solid-state!) back in '88.

Good times, but you spend a LOT to stay on the bleeding edge. :)
Whats your Backup Plan?
Fontspring(http://www.fontspring.com/) is a service, very similar to Fontsquirrel(perhaps done by the same people, but can't back that claim up).

Fontspring offers @font-face licensing for professional fonts. I just used it because they have the very awesome Franklin Gothic family. It's also rather inexpensive($10-$20 avg perhaps) for unlimited domains. I prefer their model over something like TypeKit: Less restrictions and one-time-only payments.
The points made in this piece are very good ones but it is not primarily an issue of intelligence - rather, it is mostly about one's point of reference.

Exactly. More simply put: people aren't stupid; they just don't think the way you do. Deal with it.
Y Combinator: ambassador to the east
Opt-out of RapLeaf
"Never use fonts and just hope a user might have it."

I would question that statement. Specifying fonts a user "might have" is the entire basis of normal CSS font selection.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with specifying a somewhat unusual first choice. That's what fallbacks are for! For instance:

font-family: "Adobe Myriad Pro", Myriad, Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif;

Just make sure that you order them from most desirable to least desirable and it will display the best installed font.
Any fellow hackers here that import goods from China? If so, care to share your experiences?
Crowdsourcing work: Labour on demand or digital sweatshop?
Crowdsourcing: Taking tasks traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing them through an "open call" to a large group of people (a crowd).
If only I could program in Latin.
> 1) Don't try and save time (or at least don't focus on that), lawyers charge by time spent, saving time looses them money.

But if you became quick enough that you could make a point of it to your clients, then presumably you could charge more per hour. Exaggerated example, but if you could say to your clients (and back it up with previous cases) that the work that other companies are quoting them a year to do will only take you six months, but you want 50% more per hour then that works out well for the both of you?
This is a fri through mon inclusive. The sat was actually the day of startup school.

Orange = requests/sec; black = memory used; red = % time spent in gc; blue = median msec to serve an item page; green = median msec to serve the frontpage. The last two are unnaturally spiky because I use a very narrow window (because we use the same data to to drive our Leftronic screen at YC). So the blue spikes don't represent anything that would have been observable to users.

The slowly rising gc percentage (red) is a sign of memory leaks. They used to be a lot worse before Rtm finally tracked down the main culprit this summer.

We're now getting a bit over 900k page views per day.
Disney paid $159 per daily user in the Playdom Acquisition. What did they got?
I love the crows that drop nuts in crosswalks & retrieve the yummy treats after they've been run over by cars. That they learned to use crosswalks to get a break in traffic cycles rather than dropping them in the middle of the intersection is just awesome. Clever little critters they are.
Stop looking for nontechnical founders, go get an MBA. It's easy
http://ripplepay.com/ - It's a monetary system that works in a peer-to-peer credit network rather than the hierarchical banking network. See http://ripple-project.org/.

It's been a project of mine for five years now, and I'm working on a rewrite and need a new design.
Intellectual disagreements are usually more interesting than agreements, particularly when the original article is well written and doesn't require commentators to fill in the gaps.
a more fun thing to think about is the benchmark of the lineup. the air has a benchmark of aprox. 2000 using an intel core duo. the ipad has a benchmark of 500.

will the next air be based on an arm a5. a quad a5 maybe ?
Yes Vermont Yankee: Solar and Nuclear: Economics and Land Use
There are limo services advertised, and a courtesy phone that will reach them in the SFO airport right after the baggage pickup. I used one 3 weeks ago, and it took 5 minutes for my limo to arrive.
When will people learn that opting people in by default while pretending to be Mother Theresa out to save the world is going to backfire? If you want to offer a personalized experience that requires privacy-sensitive data gathering, give users a good reason to opt in and give them full control. Otherwise, how are you any different than spammers? If people don't opt in, then your "personalization" sucks and you need to rethink your strategy.
Solar plant in the desert will produce 28% of the power of a nuclear plant built with the same money.
Pre-announcing cuts off the oxygen to competitors - although you probably could code up what they've done, how do you feel about competing with Adobe's headspace with animators? Better to try something else, right? And they also have huge depth of experience with animator's needs, and detailed tech knowhow for meeting those needs. But if Adobe wasn't entering, it would be a great opportunity. So they pre-announce.

I'm surprised that you have to edit code to change parameters - I would have thought that would been natural to have in a GUI, and would give a less cluttered workflow for animators.

A nice effect having two cameras, and simple to edit between them.
FailCon teaches entrepreneurs to flop to the top
Oh, it wasn't an analogy - the only programming she liked in college was functional languages, and I enjoy assembler - don't program a lot anymore and not so fast at it, but find it more satisfying in a low level context.

I don't get it either. The only reason I can think of is maybe it's more interesting because it's less natural? She claims not to like geometry much either, which just baffles me.
Okay, do email me if you happen to be around.
How do hackers balance their social life? 
I could go very quiet when trying to solve a problem, learning a new and different language (Haskell at the moment) or building something great. My office mate complains but she is getting used to it. How do you balance your social life and maintain the much needed level of concentration?
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I don't see why not in the long run if the devs bend over backward to maintain GCC compatibility on x86. It is never a great idea to have a single point of failure even if that point is the wonderful and awe-inspiring GCC. It is amazing to think that nearly 20 years after conception Linux maybe be built with an alternate tool chain. This is an incredible feat that has far-reaching consequences for the health of the ecosystem. Maybe Linus wasn't keen on the idea but if some people step up and bake in the support it'll be de facto blessed.

Slightly off-topic, does anyone know if the Gold linker works with Clang?
Not sure, what date were you thinking about?
I've been using f.lux for months. Not sure if its affected my sleep cycle but it does reduce glare to eyes. I already keep the brightness at the dimmest (osx), so i can't reduce it further at night.
why is everyone putting a dot after the f ?
TEMPO TRAVELLER || SWARAJ MAZDA || 18 SEATER COACH
"airport taxi car" "car rental bangalore" "airport transfer services bangalore" "bangalore airport services"
Which reseller do you use?
It's not about whether Einstein should be known or not. The point is that he is an icon, one that the vast majority of people do know about. Not knowing about Einstein means you're really uninformed.
MOODLE TUTORIALS|moodle tutorial
Below you'll find a special report about these video tutorials and a very cool sample video which shows you how to quickly and easily setup Moodle.
Took me about that long for the first step, then did a facepalm once I realized the solution. Was way overthinking that one, but it's like you either know it or you don't -- if you know it you'll figure it out eventually.
I'm pretty sure that bug was the canonical example of the usefulness of Coccinelle in kernel development. This semantic patch was used to find and fix all the instances of it:

// Copyright: (C) 2009 Gilles Muller, Julia Lawall, INRIA, DIKU. GPLv2.

@@
type T;
expression E;
identifier i,fld;
statement S;
@@

- T i = E->fld;
+ T i;
... when != E
when != i
if (E == NULL) S
+ i = E->fld;

See http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/impact_linux.php for more.
You can also assign a triple-click of the Home button to toggle this feature.
Essay: Why Sisterly Chats Make People Happier
I just don't like somebody looking at my monitor. I also don't like somebody looking over my shoulder when I'm reading a book or a newspaper, and there's nothing to hide there. It just makes me nervous. I just don't like being on display and knowing that at all times somebody could be watching me and I wouldn't even know it. That's why I like the layout of our office. We are all together, not 2 meters apart from each other, but everybody can "hide" behind his monitor(s) and have his privacy. Also the way we are organized I don't see others people's faces unless I want to (JabavuAdams pointed this out in his reply to you)
This reminds me a little of jwz's comments on xscreensaver + toolkits:
http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/toolkits.html

Although, while I don't really mind xscreensaver's unlock screen, I don't think Steve Jobs would give it the thumbs up :)
Not sure if it's the "less developed lifestyle" or the adversity. When you have to fight corruption at each step, when there are problems with basic amenities like water, electricity, land shortage, class divides, language divides, then you do find a lot of friends who have the same issues as you.
The above sounds a bit silly or ironic, but one hears of the miners who were trapped for months who built great friendships during those hard times. I am also reminded of that movie "Plenty".
How many unique visitors?
any plans for monetizing ?
I run operations for an East Coast based consumer products company. The company is small, but we ship many many units per year. We source parts from China in the millions annually. This includes custom and off the shelf components.

Typically we buy electronics, custom PCB, and custom plastic assemblies. That is the bread and butter, with other components as needed.

Ask away for the next 20 minutes. It is 2:40am here, and I will probably go to bed around 3:00am. I will be able to answer as many other questions as are asked, but probably not until Tuesday evening.

Throwaway account because I would prefer to keep my identities separate, mainly because our customers don't want it known that they don't design and manufacture their own products.

Oh yeah, I wouldn't do it the way the author suggested. Maybe I was lucky when I started out and had ways to get contacts in China, but I would definitely try that before just heading over with a half-drawn model.
For me, it's boosting. Basically, if you make the assumption that your weak classifier can achieve X% correct on any random distribution over a data set, then you can create an ensemble of weak learners that together get Y% correct on the same set, where Y > X.

Question 3 here will walk you through the proof: http://bit.ly/cQ03na
I got news for you.... these "details" that are hidden, they're less complicated than these frameworks.

Amen. Insight of the century with regard to Rails, J2EE, BPEL, and a number of other boondoggles.
I think it's the Test in the domain name that throws me off a bit. Great idea/design/site otherwise!
Same idea, but on a bigger scale -- Arthur C. Clarke's third law:

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkes_three_laws
Modernizr-server: Modernizr on the server-side
Incorporation in US would cost between $200 - $400.

The other stuff you mentioned come under Formation Services package (fixed fee) offered by most startup law firms - the fee for this generally ranges between $3K - $5K. And you can negotiate to defer this fee with most of the law firms, until one of these triggers occur - funding, or revenue, or exit.
I still have my Epson HX-20 which predates this by 4 years and is wildly considered to be the first "laptop" computer...

Specs: Dual 8bit Hitachi 6301 at 0.6 MHz, 16 kB RAM, 32 kB CMOS ROM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epson_HX-20
Darwin's Finches, 20th Century Business, and APIs - Mashape's Voice
I have been on the receiving end of these machine gun emails from recruiters and I've noticed something that is so obvious it may be redundant to say it here.

The recruiters receive details of a job-opening from a company (hey, we're hiring), calculate how much the fee will be to them (OMG $20k!!) and then proceeds to cast a wide net by spamming twitter, email, cold-calling, linkedin etc to get as many CV's as possible then cut the list down and try to get them into interviews. Its driven by the payoff because if a recruiter does their job amazingly well, then they place you in a good job and you never need them again... companies on the other hand are always reruiting so better to help the company.

...the problem is all those people who sent in their CV and didn't make the first cut are naively under the assumption that you are proactively searching for an opportunity that can help nurture their dreams/desires and provide room to grow in a new role etc etc. Rubbish.

I don't know the answer, but thats my take on the situation - based on experience of going through the system a few times with different recruiters.
which... suburb of Atlanta?
Roswell.
HN is already monetized, albeit indirectly, through discrete and relevant references to YC products. For example the reference to Leftronic in this post.
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I just feel kinda sad for all the Kevin Rose fans out there. it is almost like being a Lindsay Lohan fan
It is extraordinarily odd to me that digg would create fake accounts to promote sites. This is a very inefficient (and public) way to tweak an algorithm that they have full control over.

The only way this makes sense is if it was done by someone without access to the algorithm. Either an external voting ring, or someone in the company who isn't supposed to be doing this.

Even that doesn't make much sense.
Qualcomm Venture launched annual international seed investment competition
The slowly rising gc percentage (red) is a sign of memory leaks.

So do you reboot regularly, or what?
Apple might acquire Sony?
They can't - if you take money of the card using a coffee machine, they don't know how about it unless they log the coffee-transaction, in which case the auther above was bound to get in trouble for getting free coffee.
I don't see yellow, but I do see an orange. Was that a typo, or is my monitor seriously mis-calibrated?
The 20 Most Influential Fitness People On The Web
I'd have to restart the server once a week or so if I didn't end up doing it more often anyway because of releases.
How is generation of the Mandelbrot Set not on this list? That something so simple could produce something so indescribably beautiful...
Oops, fixed. For some reason I think of it as yellow, but it is in fact ff7700.
Google Charts also allows you to set a legend. It really should be part of the graph.
Gold should work.

ICC has been able to compile Linux for awhile, I think.
We now get around 75k uniques on a weekday.
I used to work for a company that imported goods from machine. Most of them were custom PCB and PCB assemblies. We didn't have any major problem but we had to change manufacturer two or three times due to quality issues.
Personally I did not enjoy the concrete jungle that was Tokyo. If you are into the more natural and historical side of things I definately suggest going back for Kyoto.
In response to your comment, I looked up some of the front pages from:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://news.ycombinator.com/

And I have to say... at least in the sample of pages I looked at, there was a MUCH higher percentage of articles containing potentially actionable advice for tech startup types than is common on the front page today.
mydadjust.com has <title>My Mom Just...</title>
These graphs are just to tell me if anything is going wrong with the server. They're not really intended for anyone else to see.

E.g. this is the graph at this moment: http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=ls&chco=ff7700,00...
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I should replace myself with a bot that does this, but here's the real URL of [2]: http://gramps.1791082.n4.nabble.com/Impressed-with-Gramps-an...
I think you're missing that the very fact that you had to wonder if you were running afoul of the honor code is what makes people compliant. The Harvey Mudd honor code specifies "integrity" - but what does this mean? When there aren't clear definitions, people start to imitate others, especially those who are assumed to know what the rules really are. The punishment for violations doesn't even need to be explicit, the threat of being ostracized or losing face is a strong enough disincentive for many people. The fact that you internalized the values of the community means you perceived them as just, so for you, the self-policed rules were legitimate. And maybe they were legitimate. But here's a big problem: the administration is not operating transparently, they are counting on social behavior to control students according to a hidden set of rules that aren't up for discussion or debate, unlike an explicit rule book that could be questioned and contested.

The problem with the disciplinary board follows the same logic: just as vague, open-ended rules create more compliant behavior, you should expect that a student-run disciplinary board will also penalize deviant behavior much more enthusiastic precisely because the administration is hands-off.

The important question is whether the (explicit or implicit) rules are good rules, not whether you're permitted to self-police them. Self-policing may be more efficient, but the cost is less transparency and more conservative behavior.
I'm a hacker. This means I tend to have a lot of strong opinions about a lot of things. There are things I don't like about GNU, there are things I do like about GNU. The same can be said for Linux, Clang, LLVM, Apple, and a long list of other things. I mostly try to ignore my personal opinions, because I'd rather code than argue about epolitics.
Individual Idleness, Social Idleless
It's already monetizing, by getting YC amazing deal flow
I'm sure you know about couchsurfing.org. You might try hosting a few people. I've had some of the best experiences of my life in situations similar to what you're offering, some with friends or relatives but a lot with couchsurfers. It's a great deal.
Do you have any thoughts on a built in help operator mapping other operators to docstrings?
Unfortunately, I'm a student with limited resources. I have three boxes, a macbook and two Atom desktops, all x86_64.
SSH Tunneling with Tomato
Arguably we're at or even past that point in some respects. I'm very interested in law (as you can probably tell) and the more I study the more I feel that clarity predicts quality. If anyone in the Bay Area or beyond wants to have recurring discussions about interesting research avenues I'd be delighted.

Right now most vendors compete on volume processing and retrieval speed, which are very important - deadlines in this field are not targets, but legal obligations, and inaccuracy or failure to perform is a quick path to ruin. But I have a growing wishlist of less obviously commercial things that should exist already but don't. I'm more interested in studying law than researching what's hot in semantic modeling, text parsers and so on...but thee's a ton of interesting possibilities and vast public domain datasets.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=username
Everybody knows the GRiD Compass was the first laptop!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_Compass
HN is sort of a loss leader for ycombinator. Free advertising for all the YC comings and goings. HN is the leader in mindshare amongst those interested in startups, startup technology and startup culture and (obviously) startup news.
Which is why my (a CEO) business card for my new startups says: "chief janitor". :)
It's interesting, but I'd be surprised if anyone with the know-how to overwrite their router's firmware with Tomato (or DD-WRT, which would work too) didn't know how to SSH-tunnel their traffic.

As a side note, I'd personally recommend using a Linode (or another equivalent external hosting service) for this. A lot of ISPs get grumpy about reverse connections, assuming they don't use VPNs for their users in the first place, and beyond that, you have to deal with a dynamic IP most of the time. But that's just my personal experience.
How much did HN grow in the last year or so?
American Software - a short film
Jay is a master of making one word flower multiple meanings. In "So appalled", he delivers the punch line, "Not only am I fly, but I'm f*in not playin' "

The way he makes "playin'" sound like "plane" and "plain" is characteristic of his whole lyrical style.
There is one in Anarki: http://github.com/nex3/arc/tree/master/help/

Usage examples:

arc> help.acons
[fn] (acons x)
Determines if `x' is a `cons' cell or list.
Unlike 'alist, this function will return nil if given an empty list
See also [[atom]] [[alist]] [[dotted]] [[isa]] [[cons]] [[list]]
nil
arc> help.alist
[fn] (alist x)
Return true if argument is a possibly empty list
Unlike 'acons, this function returns t when given an empty list
See also [[atom]] [[acons]] [[dotted]] [[isa]] [[cons]] [[list]]
nil
arc> help.afn
[mac] (afn parms . body)
Creates a function which calls itself with the name `self'.
See also [[fn]] [[rfn]] [[aif]] [[awhen]] [[aand]]
nil
Thanks for the overview. I know what I'm doing on the train to work this morning!
I want to spend a few hours and get the Hummingbird realtime scrolling visualization implemented. See the demo at (required HTML5 browser such as Chrome/Safari).

http://demo.hummingbirdstats.com/
or... GNubuntu :-D
" -- and weighed in at a whopping 4.1 Kilograms."

Not bad at all, considering the typical ~3 kg weight of many modern laptops.
Kruskal, Prims and reverse-delete algorithms to find the Minimum Spanning Tree in a graph, are fun, not that hard, and very practical.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_spanning_tree

Think about it, every time you get a google map direction/route, one of them is in play.
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Can someone explain to me why I should respond to this person with any respect whatsoever given his complete lack of tact? Isn't this a tech site? Why am I more downvoted than him? Have a little more self-respect, tech community.
No windows button and a properly placed control key where it should be? The caps lock is relegated to arrows territory? I'M FREAKING SOLD! Where do I get one? xD
Cloudera closes another round, raises $25 mil
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I had tomato installed, and like to keep my wifi open for neighbours to use casually (bandwidth limited for non-trusted connections). I hadn't thought of doing this. Thanks for the article.