skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You say 'I want to run my own software business.' Be warned, this will annoy some people.
Or even better, it lets you suppress sIFR. Note to web developers: if you need to enable custom fonts on your website, nowadays there exists better non-flash alternatives to sIFR, e.g. Cufón and Typekit.
http://ripplepay.com/ - mutual credit payments through a social network. First site I ever made 5 years ago, proud of it, but never really made it very usable or useful. Just started working on a rewrite so I can start adding new features, like a marketplace...
Bookmarked. This reminds me of OneNote but brought online. Feature suggestion: annotations for your notes. I think students and 'paper-replacement' users might find something like that convenient combined with the regular note-taking tools.

I wouldn't recommend putting too much time into this. After thinking about it, I'm not sure how many of your users would find the feature useful. I have a tablet which includes a pen, but that makes me an outlier.
Okay, I know this is a reply to a pg post. And that complaining about downvoting is poor HN etiquette. I realize that therefore, this post is double sacrilege.

I am choosing to note right here that I'm quite tired of the uptight comment nazis on this site.

I THINK IT'S THE COMMENT OF THE YEAR

SO GO FUCK YOURSELVES
Apple has historically updated shipped copies of OSX. As new point releases come up, they do update the master copy of what gets shipped to stores. Not different at all to what Microsoft does with their OS releases and service packs.
"Nokia should adopt Android" is the new "Apple should license Mac OS X". It is the worst possible business advice yet you will see it widely repeated to the point that it becomes "common sense". Mostly repeated by people who actually want the company to fail for strange tribal reasons and want another reason to bash them, so call them out for not adopting their "obvious" solution.
Hi, I just checked Readwarp out and have absolutely no clue what it does. If it's some kind of personal, learning newsfeed I'd be definitely interested in it but without a clear proposition I can't be bothered to dive in deeply (you know, register and such).

Thought you'd like to know. Good luck.
You can hook on any internal apache processing step, not just the final page generation (as with mod_php, mod_rails, etc). This allows you, for example, to use Perl code instead of Rewrite Rules, and still using Apache's fast to finally deliver static content. Moreover, you could theoretically provide the whole Apache configuration via Perl code.

Although that kind of stuff may sound complicated, it allows for great flexibility and I've been told that this actually simplifies things.

The mod_perl docs provide more information:
http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/config/config.html
I think he's suggesting that the most obvious way for potential buyers to quantify freelancers is through price, meaning that no matter what (in most cases), the job will go to the lowest bidder, leaving quality freelancers with no other way to 'prove' they are worth more.

I'm not sure I agree with robryan 100%, as there are other ways for buyers to compare the freelancers (years experience, etc.). For a middle-ground, you could have the freelancers give a per hour range to be negotiated dependent on the scope/intensity of the project. Also, you could expand on the freelancers' credentials by including websites, previous projects, or client testimonials.

Good luck with your launch!
If you can be convinced that PHP is horrible then you're probably better off using Ruby on Rails.
I reported this in a submission 71 days ago and it ended up [dead] :(
I couldn't tell if you are a founder in this venture or working on contract basis. Regardless, great job!

I have no idea why flipboard guys would consider this "uncreative" and crappy. Sounds as if they're afraid of competition.
This pagestack thing looks cool, thanks!
Wow, I'm pretty bummed you'd assume that about my political leanings.
"sandbox -X" (writeup at http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/31146.html ) does in fact let you isolate various applications.
That's actually more true than it sounds. Just a week ago I read Self-Theories by Carol Dweck where she sums up the 30 years of her research.

Summary: People who hold entity theory about their traits (ie they believe their traits - like intelligence, sociability etc - cannot change) are not able to change. People who hold the opposite incremental theory (they believe their traits can change) can and do change and they specifically seek out situations that help them grow (they don't fear failure and they like a challenge).

Everyone can pretty easily switch between entity and incremental theory by as much as reading a news article. Of course the long-term belief is rooted in deeper values but fot that you'll have to read the book. It's definitely worth it. IMO one of the best books a startupper can read.
The return of the final serial comma’s vital necessity
How much will a gold Vertu Constellation Quest set you back?
Feeling that Constellation Quest, but think it'd look a little better in brilliant yellow? Break open that piggy bank. Oh, and while you're at it,
We've actually worked together in several other startups and projects, padpressed is the latest one. =)
Woah. Do you know what Google, youtube, and Nasa use it for? Not for powering their applications. You might as well say Google and youtube use bash scripting, it'd be just as accurate.

And Reddit is having a ton of scaling problems. The thing can't even support multicore . I'ts 2010 and you're telling me a langauge that can't handle multicore properly scales?

Oh. and don't mistake my python smack talk for defending PHP. PHP is the devil. I'm just not a fan of python.
Up/down arrows would be fine too. The +/- thing was just the first thing off the top of my head; the important thing is just providing the alternative.
http://askcue.com a self-organizing stream of conversations, pretty useless since there's no traffic at the moment.
Note that one week a year is actually... 2% time. A full 20% would work out to about 2 and a third months a year. Regular "hack" time and private project time is good, but 20% time is so quantitatively different that it's fundamentally qualitatively different as well.
For my first experiment testing boundaries, I went round the building taping off red high five zones, put up posters outlining an official high five incentive program, and started recruiting a high five squad. The Wall Street Journal picked the story up and it worked out well for everyone. We still high five a lot.

Then I stole a conference room called Battle Ship, moved into it with my big purple chair, end table and lamp, renamed it Pirate Ship, and repurposed it as a library for quiet hacking. I posted to the company group, "I sank your battleship," with a humorous story, and it was a hit. I drew a sketchup file of a remodeled room with pyramid foam like at YC, an egg chair, and a data scientist brain washing video on a pull down screen from the overhead projector. I knew I was at the right company when the official response was to rebuild the room to my design (it was even dirt cheap to do so). We brainwashed our first candidate this week.

Finally I promoted myself because I didn't like my old title. That's going well so far.

Probably none of this would have gone as well without a supportive boss running cover I never saw, but if you mean well, are a type A, and are totally committed... at most companies you can get away with anything that advances the mission. As in all walks of life you have to sell.

Shenanigans like these taught me how the system operates, so now I can get real things done the same way.
spam! if I could down vote I would. but I can't yet...
Which being able to wrap the function definition in a function call could accomplish. Unfortunately that's not the direction the Python team wants to take the language.
Meteorological Earmarks and the U.S. Senate Race in Washington
I don't even think it needs to jump; in fact, that might actually be a bit jarring to the user.

Instead, why not have it so that that whole area is disabled (i.e. it doesn't interfere with the click-to-hold functionality) until the user holds on a colour? You click anywhere, enabling the bubble, you do your copy, then click anywhere outside the bubble to continue.
http://emojiblog.com - blogging for introverts.

Waiting for my designer to make it nicer. And have to create a switch to make Sunday the first day of week instead of Monday for you americans:)
Murphy on Luxury: http://murphyonluxury.com. Seeking to emulate the success of email newsletter verticals like DailyCandy & Thrillist, but with a refined editorial tone and a focus on luxury travel (news/reviews of resorts, hotels, spas, first class/private aviation, etc). High CPMs for this sort of audience (that's the goal at least), and it's a topic I love.

I've focused most of the design on the email templates so far, so the website remains very alpha.

Trying to decide whether to bootstrap or try to get F/F/F or angel/seed $. (DailyCandy, for example, apparently had $300K seed funding only later raised money from Bob Pittman (after 250K subscribers, I think I read).
On my recent trip to Africa, I avoided giving bribes at 3 different spots in the airport by doing the following:

When they asked me for "something to have lunch with", I'd lower my voice and say "it's not possible now" then quickly glance at the person behind me.

Neither I nor them had to pay anything.
doesn't seem to work 100% right now, but I really like the concept.
Windows: The Cadillac Of Operating Systems
Fascinating, could you explain how this works?
So the Beeb reports that the boffins believe that pupils retain more data if they have to read it in Comic Sans.

Perhaps the subjects retain more data if presented to them in a horrible font because they believe that if they pass this test first time, they won't have to revisit the horror of staring at a page full of Comic Sans later on down the line.

They should come back to them a week afterwards and ask them if they remembered any part of the test. Then ask them if they would like to stare at another page of Comic Sans, or just answer with what they remember. They might be surprised how many of the subjects might get their memories back rather than go through that earlier ordeal again.
I started work at a place where I didn't have an office but worked on a folding table with a broken chair in a small storage room. After the first month of this it became intolerable. I noticed though that there was a very large office formerly used as a hardware testing lab that was no longer occupied. I came in one weekend with some friends when no one was there and moved most everything out of that room up two stories to a large storage area, and furnished it with the good old filing cabinet and hollow door desk, put posters on the wall, and swapped in a new high end computer and monitors that were supposed to be for an executive. Everyone assumed that someone else had cleared this and by the time anyone figured it out (if they did) no one said anything.

At places where I don't get a business card, I borrow one from the executives and have it cloned at a card shop with my own info. Usually I will get two or three boxes each with different titles and then pass these out at conferences with a title appropriate to whatever I am discussing with someone.

Speaking of conferences, I have never asked for permission to go to them. I just do, and then submit expenses.
That's why they're wrong. ^_^

The point is - someone else (people around you) must become quite sure you are like that.
fantastic, gonna save a bookmark on my phone for the next round of poker.
Oh college, the days when we would sit around forging emails between guys and girls on campus, professing their love to one another. Or sending an email from the dean to our rebellious friend calling him in. Or using the "net send" command on XP workstations to send alerts to all computers across campus. Or when we would tunnel through the college filtering service to download music. Ol' friend, those were good times.
Actually, the fact that it's obviously important that the people, who administer and have access to your IT infrastructure, think what you're doing is legal and moral, is rather interesting.

Ignoring the content of these files for a while, it seems to me that nobody is too concerned with the fact that the US government managed to lose 400.000 secret documents and what implications this might have for future conflicts.
Free sodas freshman year. Chem lab + NaCl + soda machine + Russian roomate.
It's not that PHP is terrible. You can definitely write code in it that gets shit done.

It's that it exists in the same universe with Python, Ruby, Java, Clojure, Erlang, etc.

If you have the freedom to choose your implementation language, and those are your alternatives (to name just a few), that's when PHP is harder to justify. Not that it's terrible in isolation. In relative terms.
May I link to it from another page?

http://viewtext.org/api/text?url=techbio.org&format=html...
> Keyboards are an impediment to your work. Programming is thinking and creating...

This at first sounds true but really isn't; programming is not pure thought: it's thinking and implementing and seeing how the implementation goes and trying a different way, having new ideas, etc.

You can't "think" in a pure vacuum; you need to bounce ideas off something real.

I do some woodworking and let me assure you the "ideas" that I have before starting a project get changed a lot when confronted to the reality of wood and tools.

After a while you discover that, to some extent, you end up making your own tools, that fit you and the projects you like to do.

Programming-wise, that's also why I dislike IDEs: they add an additional layer between you and the object you're working on; it's like woodworking with gloves (impossible). And they don't contribute much; they advertise "speed", but the slow part is thinking, not typing!

- - -

(I'm typing this on a daskeyboard with blank keys, I've used it for two years, it's fantastic.)
timetapper (see another post) aims to be about as simple
It's just because your are a teenager that you have issues with getting people to understand wanting to start on your own. Just tell hem what you want to do and if they don't get it well, even my mom thinks I'm nuts. She keeps telling me how she doesn't understand that I have a degree and know a lot about computers but I make way less then her friends working as a tech support guy for a large corp with a 2 year associates degree.

All I can do is hope she will understand one day when it works. If it doesn't well, can't win all the battles.
I know just what you mean about those cultures and largely agree. But there's a big difference between investors losing their stake and a system-wide calamity. You don't want a responsibility-averse culture either.
I wonder why the proponents of COICA don't play the child pornography card to justify their filters. It almost worked in Germany last year.
Great! "someone builds one of these every six months" :)

http://snapnotate.com/ just might be available in 6 months then
I'm upvoting you just for the crazy amount of work that you've put into that. It's hard enough just keeping things straight to a 1st approximation when reading the books, meticulously keeping track of every character is pretty intense.
I got hammered the day before my Moscow residency permit expired and changed the blue expiration date with purple pen. Smeared it a little. Problem solved. That made the next few months fairly exhilarating each time I was stopped by the militsia at random for looking Chechyn. I had permission to be in country, just not in city.
http://rssafter5.appspot.com
In west Philadelphia born and raised. On the playground is where I spent most of my days. Chillin out, maxin, relaxing all cool, And all shooting some b-ball outside of school. When a couple of guys who were up to no good started making trouble in my neighborhood. I got in one lil fight and my mom got scared and said "You're moving with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air." I Begged and pleaded with her day after day, but she packed my suitcase and sent me on my way. She gave me a kiss and then she gave me my ticket. So I put my walkman on and said I might as well kick it.

First class yo this is bad. Drinking orange juice out of a champaine glass. Is this what the people of Bel-Air living like? Hmm this might be allright. But wait I hear prissy, bourgeois and all that. Is this the type of place they should send this cool cat. I don't think, I'll see when I get there. I hope they're prepared for the prince of Bel-Air.

Well ah the plain landed and I came out. There was a dude that looked like a cop standing there with my name out. I aint trying to get arrested yet I just got here. I sprang with the quickness of lightning and dissapeared. I whistled for a cab and when it came near, the license plate said FRESH and it had dice in the mirror. If anything I can say this cab is rare. But I thought naw forget it yo homes to Bel-Air.

I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8. And I yelled to the cabby "Yo homes smell ya later". I looked at my kingdom I was finally there to sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel Air.
At my last job, I snuck in some premature optimizations.
http://contexium.com business phone calls analytics
Get a kinesis keyboard and learn to touch-type; it's probably the best investment you'll ever make...

You'll save time when programming, but also when you create the design/requirement/test documents, the help file, the web pages, your blog, all your e-mails, your twitter messages, your IM and Facebook messages, and of course your comments on Hacker News :-)

If you don't touch type, give yourself a good kick in the butt and start now !!!!

An hour a day for a few weeks and you'll save time every time you write something for the rest of your life ...
What a fantastic article.

I have had a similar notion in my mind for so long: that computers must decentralise.

But I also have this slightly more radical notion: that interfaces must become more human. And that the most human interface is text.

In my utopian vision: computers are all servers - our input to them is either spoken or typed on tiny mobile devices, and we spend our time designing gardens rather than interfaces.
Ok, I'll bite.

It's a little app that lets you find Imdb scores and release years for movies: you type a list of titles in a textbox and it responds with info that you can then export as .csv

It's in the form of a Chrome extension for now (because I want it to be a Chrome app as soon as possible) that you have to use on a specific page.

The extension is here:

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/bjkkhgcacicbgbkn...

The page you use it from is here:

http://moviemagic.adgent.com/

I built it for a friend that has a big collection of movies on disks, that he has yet to watch, and who wanted to know which movies were worth his time.

It still needs a lot of work, but I lack motivation to improve it since I don't watch many movies myself and the friend I built it for found it met his needs as is.

But if anyone is interested I could go back to it.
Having everybody do it simultaneously seems like a good way to avoid the problem at Google where 20% time has become known as "120% time".
I spent 6 months commuting between France and Germany flying on a Sunday night in one direction and a Friday night in the other. To avoid waiting in airports for any length of time I hacked my boarding passes.

I was always flying in economy but I would check in on line and print my real boarding pass, then modify the PDF of the boarding pass and change it to a seat in business with whatever other indications where necessary for a genuine business class passenger (e.g. the word BUSINESS or PREMIUM in big letters). I got all that information by picking up a discarded boarding pass at the airport.

Then I could arrive at the airport and skip all the lines using my fake boarding pass to go down the special business class channel and then use my real boarding pass to board the plane.

I only did this at airports where boarding passes were manually verified.
Just a little esthetic thing that annoyed me, get rid of the stock pick of a girl with laptop and move the top friends in it's place. Stock pictures are evil.

Other than that, I like the craziness of the idea ;p

Also, from what I understand, the money between "friends" is exchanged directly or through the site?

And, how are you all going to manage not ending up as an escort finder?
Egads man. Keep it safe for work.
That's true on my Macbook as well, but it's also a lot less stable for some reason. Flash plays perfectly fine, while HTML5 video on YouTube in Chrome will fairly frequently cause weird graphics glitches or freeze a tab. Works perfectly fine in Linux, so not sure what the deal is.
My high school had a work study program that was designed for students that weren't planning to attend college (IE: auto mechanic, electrician, cosmetologist). It allowed these students to get a job before they even graduated, and made their job search significantly easier. As a senior, I was the first student to take advantage of work study with the intention of going to college. It took many meetings with the principal and my teachers, but was worth working for a startup in NYC :).
You complain that Python has acquired bloat in the past decade, and appear to be citing the presence of tuples, dicts, and lists as an example of this. Since tuples, dicts, and lists have existed in Python for well over a decade, I don't quite see how they can be an example of acquired bloat.

As for decorators...well.

@dec
def somefunc():
pass

is almost precisely identical to

def somefunc():
pass
somefunc = dec(somefunc)

In other words, decorators are pure syntactic sugar. I suppose you could call that "bloat", although I'd rather strongly disagree. There's nothing at all wrong with making common patterns easier to write, and I've written plenty of code which has benefited from access to decorators.

What really puzzles me is that it seems that what you really want is simply added syntax for multi-line anonymous functions...in other words, syntactic sugar. I suppose that "bloat" is any sugar that doesn't come in your preferred flavor.
yymmdd<seq-#> is monotonically increasing. Though you could also just combine the first 6 or so digits of unix time and tack on a sequence number to the end of that.
when I was 13, I tied up this girl that was 12 with a jumprope, then beat the fuck out of her.

By the time I was done, her lip was split, her wrists were bleeding from the rope cuttin into them, one of her eyes was swollen shut, she was missing two teeth, her small tits will entirely black and blue, her pussy was bleeding, and I’m fairly sure that several bones in her feet were broken.

When I let her down, she crumpled on the floor and went into a fetal position and just hugged her legs to her chest and sobbed quietly.

I suddenly got very aroused seeing that, so I pulled out my dick (I has actually hit puberty 12, and was hairy, balls dropped and everything functioning) and started jerking off quietly. Eventually, I started to breathe harder, and she noticed what I was doing, and she just looked at me with this look of absolute horror on her face.

It was at that moment that I climaxed and sprayed probably my biggest load of cum ever all over face and chest.

Then, I picked up her torn shirt from the ground, wiped off my dick and tossed it to her.

I told her to clean herself up and that if she ever told anyone, I would go to her house and kill her while she slept, and that if anyone asked who hurt her, she should say a bunch of high school kids did it.

When I think back on it, I think she was the first girl I ever loved.
You could try to isolate X applications from each other by having each run in its own nested X server like Xephyr.
Invoice numbers must be sequential in Europe? What's the reasoning behind that?
Seems to be working for the Aussies, too. At least their PM played that card, and she doesn't seem to be bluffing.