skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the poster means that getting the .com name without the "ly" tacked on the end is expensive. Sticking the ly on the name drops the .com price down to $10 in the US.

This is exactly the situation I was in. I needed a domain name, so I found what I could for $10. That meant I had a sub-optimal name for the time being.
There isn't any guarantee that a young person gaining a PHd won't leave the field or move into a position for the money where there PHd work is irrelevant. The work, providing of enough value to society, will always exist though.
A robotic curtain that automatically blocks the view of passersby
I think there's a huge startup opportunity here for a new, high-quality Android app store. I think it would be very interesting to see a Market that only let in high-quality apps (I don't think this goes against openness, as users can still install any app they want, it just wouldn't be from this store).

Those sorts of marketplaces have mostly an exploratory role today anyway, the user goes there to find good apps, not specifically to download an app the user knows is good. If the store itself weeded out all the crapware, it could make a killing very very quickly.
I disagree, the UK is one of the flexible places in the world to start/run a business. The World Bank ranks the UK as the 5th easiest place to do business in the world (the US is 4th).

I don't think I've met a single startup in the UK whose main problem with the UK was legislative or regulatory.
Your story is very inspirational and makes me want to get back to work on my simple game!

Are you looking to bring this to the Android market, and if you do, would you consider the 'free but with ads' style that is being offered by Angry Birds producer Rovio?
+1 that's exactly what I mean: due to domain squatting, getting a reasonable .com name can be hellishly expensive.

Since startups are now funded with far less cash than 5+ years ago the cost of a domain name is a significant factor.

Personally if I were to use domain.ly as my domain name I'd make sure I got domainly.com too.
I'm a software developer at an exchange in the US. The LSE has not released details of how it is measuring "latency", but FWIW, we measure latency as the time it takes to submit an order and receive an order acknowledgment or fill, with both the sending and receiving outside our firewall. The two biggest SW components involved are the FIX handler (the component used to process orders; FIX is an industry standard protocol) and the matching engine (the component used to match buy and sell orders). I could of course spend hours talking about our hardware and software customizations, but it's a very competitive industry. Our software is C++ running on Linux, and that's about as much detail as I'm willing to go into.
Ask HN: What to do when co-workers don't aspire beyond getting their paychecks?
I have a really comfortable web development job, albeit not very exciting, at a medium sized software company. That's why, like most people who probably read this and similar sites, I try to evolve professionally in my free time - read technical books, blogs, pick up languages, etc. I consider myself good at my job, and average compared to the industry. I constantly run into articles where people praise their co-workers, regale on how exciting their job is and how much they learn every day...
I find that almost everyone I work with (company of +50 people) just comes to work to punch a ticket, go home, repeat. This is not an "old" company (avg. age <35), yet people are satisfied with what they picked up so far, and don't feel the need to grow as a professional. When I mention things like github, Erlang or HN, for example, I get vague stares - nobody's heard of them. I understand people have families and non-work related hobbies (I do too - a lot), but for me coming to work just to pass 8-10 daily hours in closing bugs, adding features and resolving tickets is just dull. Yeah, I get it, that's what work is all about.
Don't get me wrong - these guys are good in what they do (mostly C/C++ Devs), but I've got nothing to learn from them, nothing interesting to chat about (I don't consider diaper changing talks exciting) and I keep fighting through the day to make work interesting by coming up with new solutions to old problems (a cliché, I know, but this is really what I do). Even my team members/boss who do web-development aren't different than the rest (a bit worse, actually).
On the plus side, the salary and benefits where I work are great. I have a baby on the way and an unemployed wife, so I can't really afford to be cavalier on job search at the moment. Maybe I'm just selling out, and this is definitely a vent post, but does anyone here feels the same at their current job, and if so - what do you do?
Also, I live and work outside the US, if it makes a difference.
I think the trains reference involves Mussolini, and not Hitler, so Godwin remains uninvoked.
Equating fragmentation with choice doesn't do the phenomenon justice. The question isn't if there should be choice: it's quite clear that there should be. I'd suggest that Jobs would not object to this.

But it's crucial to have sensible choice. Consumers get to choose between iOS, webOS, RIM OS and Android. Well, theoretically at least. Instead they get to choose between iOS, webOS, RIM OS and several slightly different, often incompatible and almost always very much un-free Androids. That's the fragmentation problem - Jobs doesn't advocate NO CHOICE, he advocates GOOD CHOICE for the consumer.

I own an Android phone. The stuff Motorola has put on it, without any legal way of removing it, is crap and has nothing to do with vanilla Android. Friends own HTC phones. They have a different half-baked Android-y OS. This fragmentation is bad for the consumer. Choice - between truly different strands of Android - is good for the consumer. Don't conflate these issues.

Also, never mention Linux on the Desktop in any discussion. It's like waving a white flag. Personally, I run Ubuntu and Debian on all my systems. Still: not a compelling argument for anything. Especially since fragmentation IS a massive problem for "consumer Linux".
I'm working on a tool for journalists and researchers to help them archive all the information they read. Private beta coming up soon if anyone is interested.
Differing hardware isn't even the core issue here. It's differing software. Windows was always consistent across Dell, HP et cetera. Android is not.
I am working on taxonomy development, and building a rule base in a NLP framework in order to automatically identify taxonomy traits in raw text. Also working on defining/optimizing a matching engine sitting on top of the taxonomy extraction layer.
Money talks so saying "it will never work" to people rolling in money won't have any effect.

Had Benoit raked in the dough, it would be called "The Mandlebrot Strategy" and everyone would be using it.
> Do you guys think knowledge has intrinsic value by itself?

While knowledge may have no intrinsic value, the act of learning does!

Exciting and satisfying your curiosity is one of the best things you to can do for your brain. And staying mentally healthy in old age is something very valuable. It's definitely better than just watching TV, playing cards or solving crossword puzzles. Learning is more comparable with traveling, but with a lot less stress for the (aged) body. And it's more interactive than just reading, and interactivity is very important, too.
It also helps recall content better than when using arial. Here is the highlight of a recent study:

http://www.economist.com/node/17248892?story_id=17248892&...

and here is the study itself:

http://cwl.cogsci.rpi.edu/cogsci10/cogsci10_proceedings/pape...
Ask HN: Browser GUI
How would you go about writing a GUI that would run in most browsers on all platforms that support those browsers, even if offline? An example might be a Spreadsheet application that would still work offline but have extra abilities online (cloud storage, collaboration etc). The ability to display charts and simple animations/sounds would be a requirement.

Some other things to discuss:
1. How would this picture change if offline ability was not a requirement?
2. What if the application was very graphics/sound intensive (game)?

(Hope this isn't too general a question)
You don't have the source to iOS.
It's sad that this app doesn't work with a normal desktop browser - IMHO one shouldn't rely completely on touch events.

It almost works with Android, except for the special-characters-menu, the tooltip of which gets hidden under textarea.
As with most things, context is everything. If you want a slightly silly, informal-looking typeface and you only have a small amount of text to set, Comic Sans can work. As with programming languages, choosing the right tool for the job is the key.
I think tha maybe I should have started at $2.99, but definitely not 99c. Every user that found Trainyar at that time would already know about it and wouldn't have just stumbled upon it. I think the 99c price point is only worth doing if you're reaching users who haven't heard of it, so they're willing to take a risk.
UK statute book: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/developer/formats/rdf
Its not about democracy. In Spain, They are building a huge high speed rail network (10,000km at 2020). It requires a lot of commitment or tons of money. Two things that CA doesn't have at this moment.
You can use FacebookBlocker to accomplish the same thing with extensions for Firefox, Safari, and Chrome:

http://webgraph.com/resources/facebookblocker/
It assumes you can decide on a list of tasks now and then just menially perform those tasks for the next few months. That's not how it works.
"And by the way, RIM has achieved record shipments for five consecutive quarters and recently shared guidance of 13.8 – 14.4 million BlackBerry smartphones for the current quarter."

What does shared guidance even mean? And why doesn't he know whether the number is 13.8 or 14.4 - a small 600,000 discrepancy?
Freelance. Are you stateside or overseas? If stateside, hop on craigslist, send emails to those looking. $500/mo should be pretty easy, even if just starting out, IF you're motivated to find work.
> Having said that, I always keep a statically compiled busybox on any Linux host I run in case something goes wrong with glibc

I just keep a live CD/USB on hand. A lot easier, and it gives the benefit of a graphical boot that can even access the internet to download further fixes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy

Kick off with fallacious reasoning.

"Questions of right and wrong, good and evil, are questions about human and animal well-being."

And replace religion with faith -

"Once we accept the idea that right and wrong relate to questions of well-being, and that such questions have answers that will be best illuminated by honest observation and careful reasoning, then we can decide, once and for all, that certain people are not worth listening to on the subject of morality."

We can decide certain people aren't worth listening to without accepting the idea.
Realistically how often is that enforced ?

In the US most startups probably start in residential buildings which aren't zoned for businesses. Techcrunch was running out of Mike Arrington's house a long time after it was a multi-million dollar business before the neighbours complained about the violation.

As long as you're not doing anything stupid or annoy your neighbours, no-one's going to care if you're running your startup out of your accommodation.

I ran a fairly successful social networking app off my university network, and no-one really cared until it started impacting server performance (~300k visitors/month) at which point I moved it off to a commercial server.
Currently working on cooperative game for programmers and a sophisticated web crawler.
Hope this isn't too general of an answer but...

you might want to take a look at the Cappuccino web framework ( http://cappuccino.org ) that 280 North ( http://280north.com ) used to build 280 Slides ( http://280slides.com ).

Also take a look at SproutCore ( http://sproutcore.com ).

Both of those would be good places for starting an application like what I think you are getting at. From there, some of the other stuff might follow from there.
at a guess?

"ironic"
If you'd searched for "Black Swan" it would have told you all you need to know.

Betting $1 at 1,000,000:1 that today something unlikely will happen is pretty much the same as playing the lottery.
I have to be honest, I really don't think generic keywords matter at all, the vast majority of users only use the charts unless they already know what they're looking for.

I may do the tic-tac-toe game at some point as a multiplayer game.
Back when I was first trying to break into my field, the one thing that always struck me as completely ridiculous was the fact that almost all job postings for entry level positions required quite a bit of experience.

I ended up getting my first computer related job by helping a school get some stuff setup while I was out of work. They ended up offering me a job because they needed some part time help and I had done a good job with the volunteer work I had already done for them. I worked at the school for a little while which gave me some experience to put on my resume. After getting that initial job, it's been pretty easy to find additional jobs.
It's too bad OpenID isn't cool. The Social Network movie is just going to exacerbate people's infatuation with Facebook and social networking in my opinion. This will lead to the common person being even more accepting of Facebook becoming ubiquitous across the internet. The side benefit of the movie though is that I am finding girls are much more into me talking about working as programmer at the bar...
I wish every textbook purchase came with a scan. Or at least an electronic version of the questions.
RTFA it says all that in the second paragraph.
Signpost was formerly known as Postabon, and was co-founded by one of our own (http://searchyc.com/postabon)
Yeah, I think that's its biggest "failure". Facebook is something everyone knows, so they think "oh, Connect button, cool". It's a shame, really.

Unless someone writes a Facebook <-> OpenID bridge, anyway.
Ask HN: Who Is Hiring (For Freelance/Part Time Remote Work)
Most of the who's hiring threads get mass submissions with a bunch of FT jobs out in California, jobs that I wouldn't be prepared to make the move for (few great startup jobs in the DC area where I am now, trying to build up more of a buffer before I head out on my own). I'm presently a PHP/MySQL/JS/jQuery/HTML/CSS/WordPress/Joomla developer looking for a fun project to become a part of outside of the 9-5 umbrella.
Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much
I think this calls for a comic sans day!
Semantic Web: "You cannot have an H3 without a previous H2."
W3C's HTML Test Suite tests 37-41 indicate that in pre-XHTML2, header tags must not be used out of order or non-sequentially.

See also: http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/tests/test37.html
It sounds to me like it just introduces more friction to Getting Things Done, which would not be the Intelligent Thing To Do.
I disagree about getting lost to find yourself. Sometimes you won't be able to get back out a self dug hole without a helping hand.
Maybe, because I don't see many technical founders out there. Working with all technical people I feel is far more productive.
You know you're heading down a rocky road when third parties are creating your app's privacy functionality.
I don't normally complain publicly about Comic Sans so I guess am not part of this group. However, I do think it is hideous and I would never use it, just like I wouldn't use animated gif's on my site. This is taste only - not because I want to be cool or anything..
Also here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1806815

and here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1804098
If you are that worried about Facebook privacy, just create a fake account and stuff it with fake data on your fake persona. This way, not only you will be expressing your disdain for Facebook's lack of privacy, you'll also be saying to Facebook: I don't like you but I use you ;-)

Or better yet, use OpenID.
I thought it was the carrier that took the 30% share? I don't think Google gets a cut of the Market sales.
I would be really surprised if it was the fault of the OS. I mean, Windows can be really fast, in the right hands, especially since they've introduced HTTP.SYS (parts of the HTTP server now run in kernel level). However, .NET being a garbage-collected, managed and JITted environemnt, it is maybe not the best tool for achieving these kind of response times reliably. Any serious and competent .NET developer would admit that.

In general, I would blame the incompetence of Accenture for the failure: bad decisions, bad architecture, bad management, using the wrong tools, crappy code.
I meant if you post the same article from a different source.
I quoted "on the clock" for a reason. Some of us are salaried or contracted in such a way that there's no "off the clock" when present. I would expect anyone here to know the rules that apply to them.
Ugly but functional, that's good enough for me :)
"Why would a university incite you to drop out of it? What does the university gain from that?"

Well, I'm sure they wouldn't incite you to do it, but look how much Harvard has gotten from Facebook, even with the founders dropping out.

They're mentioned in the media any time Facebook or Zuckerberg are (blog articles, newspaper articles, a movie...), they gain prestige as "the place Facebook was founded," and the founders of Facebook will probably make (or already have made) generous monetary contributions.
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By that logic Y Combinator's also British because Paul Graham is Welsh...
I can't get behind that. I agree there is something decidedly bandwagon-y about this wave of comic sans hate, but even before I knew hating comic sans was a thing, I thought it looked stupid. Whenever I read something typeset in comic sans, it made whatever I was reading seem twice as stupid and cheesy. When I found out other people felt the same way, I actually was relieved.

And I have absolutely no design background. I think it's really a basic matter of taste.
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While it looks nice, I'm not so sure about learning a language by using Google Translate.

The results produced are not always examples of good writing.
I'm starting work on a few university projects, the main one being a multiplayer zombie game, turn based, online. see how it works out ;)

also a side project I want to have out before November, in rails. But I'm keeping it mostly-hush for now =)
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> Windows was always consistent across Dell, HP et cetera.

This is so very far from the truth. Different OEMs ship with different patches, and some have custom drivers written, or "management" software that replaces key windows applications. If you've ever tried to write a game for Windows you'll know that once you get to testing, you'll find a ton of just plain strange setups that make no sense.

You are however quite correct in saying that differing software is the key issue here.
AC vs. DC in the Data Center
Sounds like something I could use. Very interested
That's awesome - best part about it being a webapp is that it works beautifully on my Android phone too :)
Mandelbrot had qualitative and quantitative insight, but I am not sure Nassim applied fractal brownian motion modeling/simulation to position himself for tail events, but more simply had the qualitative understanding of where tail event risks were greatly under-priced in the system at the time before anyone else.

In terms of fractal brownian motion vs black-scholes-merton, it is a question of practicality. It is really easy to hedge very complex portfolios with large positions using BSM, especially after adding a few considerations to extreme possibilities in volatility. Without BSM, we'd still be in the dark ages with Option Seller(Writer) firms scalping buyers with option prices 10 times higher inflation-adjusted than today. Mandelbrot doesn't offer a practical alternative, and this is the part that people didn't listen to Mandelbrot on, but that doesn't mean Mandelbrot is not awesome.
Yep, you heard right. It actually costs money.
We believe it also is able to save that money in the first few days of its use, because of its ability to test untestable stuff.

I'd be happy to discuss more - I'm Roy Osherove and my email is royo at typemock.com, and I'm the product manager for I++.
i'm personally very proud of it and its unique abilities in this space.
BTW, we are planning a gcc version as well. It will likely not be free either. Hopefully, it will bring enough value for people to purchase it as well.
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That reminds me of this quote [0]:

"You're a real gold-mine of useless information, you know that, Beldin?" Silk said.

"There's no such thing as useless information, Kheldar," Beldin sniffed.

[0] David Eddings, the Mallereon book 5, The Seeress of Kell [...of all places]
I hope I can work there in a couple of years :)
I am wondering whether this could be used for real-time ray tracing or even for real-time photon mapping. I always had the impression that in case of highly parallel algorithms an incredible amount of very primitive processors have the best MIPS/transistor_count ratio. I know though that the bottleneck usually is bus communication / memory access.
I do this system-wide on OSX via Glimmer Blocker (http://glimmerblocker.org/) using a modified version of the Facebook Like filter on their wiki (http://glimmerblocker.org/wiki/Filters). Has a nice bonus of speeding up page load as well.
We could say that they didn't !
Annoying, self-starting video. From the guidelines:

In Submissions

...

If you submit a link to a video or pdf, please warn
us by appending [video] or [pdf] to the title.

ADDED IN EDIT:

At the time of adding this edit, someone has downvoted the above comment. That's fine, and I don't mind. I continue to find it annoying that people downvote things without explaining why, but I guess someone thought it didn't belong here.

Let me explain why I think the guideline is a good one.

I have two monitors. Each has 12 virtual desktops. Each virtual desktop has between 10 and 40 windows, some of which are browsers. Each browser has 10 to 50 tabs. I've just counted.

I tend to launch a bunch of stuff quickly, then methodically track through them, skimming, launching, and closing as appropriate. When a video auto-starts I have to track through potentially hundreds of windows/tabs/whatever, to find the one that's giving me grief.

It's annoying, and I think it's rude not to follow a site's guidelines.

You may disagree, and I'd be interested in an enlightening debate.
This is smart but nothing new in the sense that people have used fake antivirus warnings, fake windows error messages, etc for years now to push you to click on some sort of buttons which would then lead you to a binary install with spyware.
I love mechanical hacks like this. More practical, but less impressive, would be a system with vertical blinds with two states, open and closed.
My favourite version of this problem involves 4 eggs and a 10^6 floor space elevator. It's small enough to figure out on a whiteboard, but large enough that you can't do it without figuring out the pattern.
As I said before, We think this is a cost that repays itself in the first few days of usage. people have used the .NET version and found it valuable. In C++, the situation is even more problematic than in .NET - the price, almost the same.
I think it will inspire a bunch of people to try who will never in a million years succeed. It will also make it crazy easy for coders to pick up girls at the bars.
I hate designers with more good taste than sense. That mess of characters isn't easy on the eyes. It doesn't make you look hip or cool. Making it an image means my readability bookmarklet won't work on it. There might be lot's of good info there but who want's to spend 5 minutes untangling that mess.