skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd rather see a new university which figures out a way to support founders starting startups AND grant them some kind of credential (in case it fails). Unfortunately much of the world is credential-based (especially Asian parents...), so being able to award a degree would make a difference in who could participate. Plus, if someone's startup fails, or he just realizes he'd rather do something other than startups, the credential makes getting a regular job much easier, preserving options. And of course immigration often depends on a degree, and using educational visas to get people into the USA in the first place would be a great hack.

I think a 5-6 year program to get a SB in tech entrepreneurship, where 1-2 years are spent doing smaller projects and some regular classes (as applied to those projects), and then 4 years in a co-op program with your startup and students from the first 1-2 years, would be ideal. Maybe even grant a SB/SM in 6-8 years.
Chrome 6.0.472.63 on Windows XP home edition version 5.1.
You can search for "free English grammar" and get quite a few things to choose from:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...
Or, your business might be a failure, yet past the point of being a startup. Clearly Facebook does not qualify as a failure, but they are not a startup in my estimation. They're an established business.
Note that Ubuntu has already announced that they'll be shipping with LibreOffice in the future. I'd expect that the other non-Oracle distros will do the same.
Thanks for the responses guys. The survey has helped me understand various aspects of the app. Somethings that i never thought about in the first place, have become priorities now..
So, the business is a 'startup' until it makes it?
Hey.. thats great news.. Are you on twitter ? I'm @shrihari. We'll discuss abt this..
I already started working on that before I commented, see: http://twitter.com/#!/rythie/statuses/27630458707
and a response
http://twitter.com/#!/zee/statuses/27630542231
Well, many users choose Windows because there are many developers (and thus a lot of software), but I'm not sure that, in a two-sided market, each side will choose the market because the other side has high cardinality. From what I understood, it's only one way (attract the users and the developers will come).
On the topic of UX but unrelated to pricing tables: I really like the tops of the social networking logos just above the comment form that pop out on hover. I'm not sure why I like them so much. But there's something about having an onslaught of social media logos encouraging you to share which bothers me and this bothers me less.
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Just wait until they launch an app store for their new Windows 7 Phone operating system.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1744305
Archos 7: $199. Archos 28: $149. Archos 32: $199.
Why don't we use functional programming languages more? (2004)
Can we nominate him to Darwin award?
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I've personally found that game developers and "normal" developers are two pretty distinct set of people.

I think the people of HN are not going to offer the type of feedback people writing games are looking for, so they post elsewhere.
player doesn't work on my macbook in safari... :-)
It's really slow and the images don't seem to load. Also, remove the advertising for 6 months. If you get users, then you can add it back in.
Now, personally, I agree all this is irrational exuberance. But, I don't see it as a huge problem. As far as that goes, I'm not sure the first .com bubble and crash was really a bad thing for the industry. (the first .com bubble and crash were very good for me personally, even though they were clearly mis-allocations of capital from a societal viewpoint.) Huge amounts of infrastructure (software and hardware) was constructed. Many new Engineers were attracted and trained. (of course, it was bad for those who didn't make the cut during the crash, but it was probably quite good for the industry as a whole)

Sure, some speculators are going to get soaked... but that's what happens when a speculator is wrong. I don't see that as a bad thing. Capitalism is based on this idea that speculation is fine; it's just that if you are wrong too many times, well, you can't speculate any more because you don't have any more money.

I know that I personally am rather jealous of Zuckburg. I don't feel he "deserves" to be that rich, but eh, that's not mine to decide. He certainly has more of a claim to that money than the CEO of Enron or GM, you know?

Sure, we're mis-allocating a lot of capital. But you know? the capital is coming from rich speculators, I believe, as it's so goddamn difficult to IPO these days, and a bunch of it is being used to prop up Engineer salaries, so while I recognize that it's an inefficient mis-allocation of capital, it's a wealth redistribution over which I certainly won't shed any tears.

Personally, I think this wealth redistribution from speculators to Engineers will continue this trend towards more realistic and more efficient Internet businesses, as more of the speculators are replaced by Engineers who made it big in the last boom. This is, after all, how we got Paul Graham and Ycombinator.
Where would they post? Any links?

Thanks in advance.
I don't know, but I would consider the data suspect. Otherwise, how do you explain cancers in animals, but not in humans?

http://www.cancerindex.org/clinks30.htm
I use twitter, mostly for, uh, "reputation management" E.g. twitter is a place that people complain about their interactions with companies. If someone complains about me on twitter, (or anywhere else, really... but twitter seems to be the place to complain about companies right now.) I try to make it right, or at least see to it that they get a refund.
The ideas which inspired the Declaration of Independence were thought to apply to all people. It goes back to the ideas of the social contract and the purpose of the government. That's why the Americans felt justified in breaking from Britain in what some consider the first revolution of their kind in history... men such as Jefferson really believed that the government was not protecting the rights they believed all men had. Maybe they were justified or maybe they weren't, but this was the justification they used to break from Britain. Others have used these same ideas to break away from tyrannical rule far worse or overthrow previous governments.
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What are the problems there have multimaster replication PostgreSQL v9?
Is the problem solved update error, conflict, uniqueness, and delete?

Thank you.
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Some use the convention that jQuery objects should be prefixed with $, so:

var $d = $('#elm');
$d.color('red');
$d.text('new text');

I do this, and like it, despite my classic aversion to both Systems Hungarian and GW-BASIC.
Thanks for the advice.

We'll reorganize the feature set as you've described. It seems to make a lot of sense.

Regarding the drop down, whilst it isn't the most ideal implementation, I can't think of a way to allow publishers to pick a plan that meets their specific needs without using the drop downs.

We've tried to reduce the visual complexity by using 4 buckets, hence the drop downs in each category. Getting rid of them, I fear, may create more confusion about the flexibility (or lack of) of the plans. Especially because our customer's requirements are quite varied. We've literally got people on 250,000 impressions and others on the largest plans.
This is not a proper scientific observation, but it's my strong impression that tobacco smoking plus anything else is a major cause of cancer.

I.e. it's not the smoking per se that gets you (in this way, it does a lot of other types of damage), but doing it in combination with any of the following examples is a bad idea:

Living in a polluted city. One researcher told me around 1980 that Kansas wheat farmers will have some lung diseases from that occupation, but they stay relatively cancer free. Whereas jogging in the Boston urban area was none too good for your lungs.

Radon. The initial study that got everyone upset about it (note that it's no longer a "big" thing) was based on uranium miners. Who got not only a big radon dose but who were mostly heavy smokers.

I forget if birth control pills + smoking = cancer, but as I recall the combination of the two is rather unhealthy.

Anyway, the point here is that tobacco smoking may be more of a cancer promotion cause than a cause per se. Needless to say, determining that through epidemiology is hard and it's not like it changes the public health message.
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I'm sure I remember the Amstrads running CP/M, a competitor to DOS. I wonder if that choice was made before or after Bill's visit.
Fine. Because we would like him to have a couple more decades of a healthy and productive life.

Better now? ;-)
Does deliberately crashing Windows when your software is detected count? Microsoft were accused of doing this to DR-DOS. Alas, as part of a settlement, Microsoft paid DR's successor $150 million and in return they destroyed all evidence of Microsoft's actions thus making it impossible for Microsoft to be effectively prosecuted for their behaviour.
History’s Five Shortest Wars
As long as there has been man, there has been fighting, probably because we’re all too dumb to just agree to disagree.
It seems to me that what we're seeing is the slow consolidation of technology into a few dozen monopolies: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, now Facebook.

These monopolies allow other small business to exist at their pleasure in sort of a symbiotic relationship. Sometimes there are clear guidelines, but mostly there's a lot of room for interpretation and fudging. People push the limits, then every now and then the Lord of the Fiefdom takes a few out and shoots them (economically, of course) for misbehavior.

If we had this same situation in real life it would be obvious that there is a problem going on. But somehow because it's all digital it seems to be okay. For now.

It will be very interesting to see how this all plays out over the next couple of decades.
Thank you, so I think can you agree that your "not any version of it" still doesn't refer to GNU Emacs, which is obviously his own version and the only one (except XEmacs, later fork of GNU Emacs, as far as I know) that practically survived through the years, thanks exactly to his recognition of how licensing is a very important factor and to a lot of his own work, as you also mention. I also understand that he didn't start "from nothing" but I've never claimed that, my "practically alone" referred to "GNU Emacs" and I missed to write GNU. Do you know other Emacs programs still used today? I admit it was not precise enough, and I thank you for the historical insights, the possibility to get them here is a real treasure!
Only a third of the people who die from smoking die from cancer. And again, it doesn't seem to be the tobacco but rather the radioactive material and the additives. Cigarette smokers in other countries have vastly lower rates of cancer.
I think this is stupid...most founders who dropped out of school..did so only after they got traction, an saw that the business was going somewhere.

I'm not sure...but I don't think any of the big name founders(you know those that are always brought up as examples) ever dropped out of school before actually finishing their product...and seeing early traction
Without the /. commentary:

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council_L...
Choose a programming language, and write an application where anyone can add links+titles, and people can leave comments on them. Doing something will make you learn a lot more than reading books.
Depending on the model line, some ran CP/M (PCW line, option for CPC line), some ran 'AMSDOS' (CPC line), and they also had a line of traditional 'IBM compatible' PCs that ran MS-DOS.

The CPC and PCW machines were Z80-based, I doubt they'd've been suitable for MS-DOS
There was a good article I read a while back on how restaurants could improve their menus to increase revenues. I think a lot of similar things apply, and that article seemed to have the evidence to back up the ideas.

Unfortunately I cannot find the link, but one of the things I did remember was that customers spent more when prices were not preceded by the currency sign.
This is where I'd expect the <link rel="canonical" href="blah" /> element to be used. With browsers using this as the preferred url for a bookmark - and maybe a service for sharing or copying urls from the browser that was easy to use.
That entire Wikipedia article looks like it's written by a Unix longbeard who hates anything but the most simple technologies even when there are good reasons to target the inner platform. The articles not only bashes Firefox but also HAL and fails to make mention of any counter arguments.

An file browser inside Firefox may seem nonsensical at first, but if you consider cross-platformness and distribution then it actually makes sense. Writing and distributing a cross-platform desktop app is a complete pain even when using things like wxWidgets and QT. The HAL bashing seems to be based on few facts and only on the biased notion that it's redundant. HAL has brought many usability benefits the past few years. Unlike udev it is not Linux-only. Querying HAL is also a lot easier than querying udev or the favorite /proc or /sys directory of the day. HAL is not being phased out in order to go back to raw udev, it's being phased out in favor of DeviceKit which is like HAL 2.
Do you think IBM is now second-guessing submitting to Oracle's wishes over Harmony?

If this is truly an Oracle-sponsored decision, I think Oracle is just sending the big F.U. sign to the open-source community in general.

I'm switching over to LibreOffice. Even if LO royally screws it up over the next few years, at least I won't feel dirty using it.
Very unscientific but hopefully interesting:

$ time php -r 'echo "Hello, world!";' # smaller php binaries can be compiled
real 0m0.555s
$ time perl -e 'print "Hello, world!";'
real 0m0.385s
$ time ruby -e 'puts "Hello, world!"' # mri
real 0m0.073s
$ time python -c 'print("Hello, world!")'
real 0m0.067s
$ time lua -e 'print "Hello, world!"'
real 0m0.013s
$ time js -e 'print("Hello, world!")' # spidermonkey
real 0m0.010s
$ time awk 'BEGIN { print("Hello, world!") }'
real 0m0.004s
My 2 year-old is constantly asking to watch youtube videos on my iPhone but gets frustrated when she tries to grab the device and accidentally starts touching the screen and the home button. She doesn't get the connection.

Really, what I need is a 4" solid state video player with lockable buttons. Or I need to hack my iPhone to disable the home key and touchscreen.
Tell HN: A Recent Rise in Downvoting
It seems like there's been a noticeable increase of downvoting neutral, non-inflammatory comments lately. Here's some screenshots of examples from the Android thread:

http://awesomescreenshot.com/0622hpufe

http://awesomescreenshot.com/0042hpvac

http://awesomescreenshot.com/0d92hpw67

The first one is an okay, not great comment in the beginning, but then has an interesting note at the end. The second comment is gracious and friendly with some disagreement and stating his experience. The third is slightly stupid, but downvoted into oblivion stupid? I don't think so.

There was also a professor of computer science commenting that he was going to show this article to his students as part of why he thinks Android is going to be a big deal, and he was getting downvoted too.

I mean, these are unemotional comments about technology. This isn't politics or regulation or anything that makes people want to kick dirt around. I've noticed a couple of my civil, sourced, uncontroversial comments on normal topics sometimes get a quick down to 0 lately too before coming back up. I don't know what's prompting the change in behavior, but it seems different that this is happening in threads that are not really controversial at all. The screenshots I posted don't seem like the kind of thing that'd get hit in the past. Changing demographics of some sort?
* Navigation below the logo: the font is as dark as the border with too less padding. Perhaps some other style would work.

* Too small font for the new headlines

* The ads on the above are a huge distraction. I would suggest not having ads (atleast initially). Hint: Monetizing small sites with ads isn't going to work out to a large amount.

* You have pagination for a news aggregator. Feature suggestion: Why not a page that allows users to pick whatever news they want to read?

* "rss-feeds-talk", not something anyone would prefer. Why not just call it "comments" or something simpler?

* The separator between news headlines is as bright as the news headline. Would look good if the contrast of the separator is somewhere between that of the page background and the font color of the news headline/topic.

* How are you picking the news headlines for the news update ticker at the top of the site? I would suggest customising it according to users. Have a like button (not the facebook like button. just one for your site) and also use the data as to which topic the user comments on to personalize news. Add those headlines to the ticker.

Since you posted it here for review, I assume you are ready to take both good points and in-the-face criticism. So if you want a frank opinion, it looks like popurls.com with a little more ads. Perhaps you could take a little design inspiration from that site and add a little more features that differentiates yours from their app. There's also another similar app called Alltop run by Guy Kawasaki. Check that out too for some design inspiration. Another really cool news app is Dooblebuzz (http://doodlebuzz.com) by Brendan Dawes. This one has a really off-beat experimental interface that it fun to use.

But if it's a fun project. This is nice. The design needs polishing.

P.S: This is way better than my first site, which had 50 html pages with inline styles and dark green background, and was supposed to be an online bookstore :) Not to mention I even wanted to dropout of school to launch it.
A few years ago I might have agreed with your statement. It was the reason why I used Prototype instead of jQuery: prototype extends the HTMLElement classes directly instead of requiring a wrapper object like jQuery does.

But for various reasons I've switched to jQuery half a year ago, and I've never looked back. I can't say that the $() stuff is that much of an issue: it's clearly documented, easy to use, and I find the general DOM methods to be so useless that I'm only using the Prototype/jQuery methods 90% of the time anyway.

Your claim that it's an anti-pattern is way exaggerated.
Vigilantism isn't the answer. Visit the sites that publish good content and click on ads that peak your interest -- let the internet marketplace sort itself out.
For a time I was seriously considering using Lua for building web applications but after playing with it for a four days I decided the community just wasn't ready and I wasn't prepared to put in the work myself. A lot of the libraries were incomplete/being changed (lots of bitrot) and very few unit tests. As a language though Lua is pretty cool, a cleaner, smaller, faster, JavaScript.
'console.log(a_jquery_object)' works just fine. Firebug displays it as an array, allowing me to peek inside its elements. I don't know why one would need to get the underlying element before passing it to the debug-printer. I do this all the time and it has never bothered me once.
Ask HN: Audio web browser aaS?
There are web sites that show you what your web page looks like in various versions of Internet Explorer / Firefox / etc.

What web sites are there that show you what your web page sounds like when read by various screen readers / audio browsers?
Pardon me if this is an arrogantly undisabled thing to say but.. perhaps rather than making sites better, we could be making better screenreaders? Interpreting the truly important information on a page programatically isn't the easiest task but it's hardly a freakishly crazy AI problem either.. Any startups in this field? :)
Indeed. I was puzzled as to why it linked to /. in the first place.
I ran a BBS in the Baltimore area as a kid. Of course, it was only open after midnight and closed again at 4 am. I used to set my alarm and sneak upstairs to turn off/on the ringers on the other phones. I had about 8 regular callers from all over MD -- this was practically international to a 9 year-old. I ran TriBBS.
Is Unicode something that needs to be in the core of a language, or is it sufficient to leave it to libraries, if the language's design doesn't prevent it?

At the very least, there should be a first-class type that maps 1-to-1 with a Unicode CodePoint. Then there should be easy ways to do common operations on strings in terms of CodePoints. (Like string comparison, substring matching, concatenation.) Furthermore, the encodings should be handled in a transparent way.

If the goal is to keep Lua to a 200k core, then there should be a mechanism to add such functionality as if it's built in.

EDIT: "transparent" meaning, it looks like core functionality.
Plus, 1 person doing this won't matter a bit. 10% of the people doing this probably still won't have much impact. And there's no way you can get 10% of the internet to do the same thing.
You don't know what a college program is like yet, it won't be all about scantron multiple choice questions. It should be hard, and you should get exposed to alot of material you hadn't been exposed to. Some of it will be stupid, but that will be a small percentage.

Yes - you could theoretically learn all the stuff you need to learn off of something like opencourseware - but will you?

And there's some cool stuff that will be much harder to learn on your own because you don't have the equipment. The 2 I have in mind are FPGA design, and feedback control systems (balancing pendulums, levitating metal balls with magnetic fields, autonomous race cars)
I'm Alex Miller, the founder of Lambda Lounge. If you want to drop me a line email me at

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Where "obvious" = something only someone with a foreign viewpoint thinks about.

("foreign" with regards to programming language.)
It would be good to if more people when they down vote something that wasn't obviously stupid reply with what they disagree with. Seems to happen a first bit I'll notice something get a down vote first, then be up voted.

It would improve the conversation if people replied rather than just hitting the down vote button.
I don't know if I completely agree with this being the right thing to do, but how is this surprising or unjustified?

They forked the project, had the guts to ask Oracle to donate the OpenOffice name to them and now are expecting to be able to continue being a part of the OpenOffice community council. I guess I'd expect a more aggressive reaction than a simple statement that it is expected in life that they leave.
it's probably better to just block all new users from downvoting. This way you teach the new users for 3-4 months, and they get ingrained not to go look for the downvote button every time they read a comment they disagree with.
You can't have a thread about Apple (or people competing with Apple) without expecting a few comments to get downvoted, it's just the nature of the audience those threads attract.
JavaScript is going to get much bigger. My money is on that especially with node.js and html5 in the game. I also noticed F# was not even mentioned, purposefully or mistakenly?
New users are blocked from downvoting until they pass a certain karma threshold.