skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate being the city snob, but are we really cheering on the incoming mass of people that are OK with using resistive touch screen onto our apps/websites? Try this test: take a resistive touchscreen and a capacitive touchscreen, and scroll through a long list of names (like the address book). Drop your finger to stop the scrolling when you see a name zoom by. Come back and tell me which one was better. Apple is slowly incrementing the specifics of scrolling gestures across their technologies... the same scrolling gestures that works on my phone work on my macbook (except they're inverted, what's up with that?).
From reading a couple of articles, it went the other way. North Carolina was doing an audit to verify that Amazon was within state law. They asked for this data as part of the audit. Then Amazon filed suit saying that they had no right to make the request.

This makes sense to me. Anyone can make any request of anyone else for any reason. You can't always get your request satisfied, but you're free to make the request. And if the one making the request becomes too insistent (governments are good at that), the final way you can make a "No" stick is to go to court.

However the fact that this was argued on First Amendment grounds makes me uncomfortable. What if North Carolina were to be asking about people who ordered, say, electronic equipment? There is no free speech issue with knowing whether you bought a microwave, so this precedent won't help block that request.
They're referring to the fact that Flash is the only way to record audio from the user's mic at this time. The spec linked by the grandparent outlines an HTML5 API for accessing the microphone.

Flash is also the only way to record video from a webcam at this time, as far as I know.
Not New York? No cars, you know.
Looks like Google is feeling the pressure to keep up w/ Amazon's hosted MySQL service (http://aws.amazon.com/rds/). And they aren't fooling around considering the announcement was made by Wesley Chun (didn't realize he was a Googler, but he's the author of the excellent "Core Python" books) and Guido himself. Hurrah for competition!
We want to be looked upon as smart and as having thoughts worth saying. One of the fast ways to do this is to beat another smart person in a rhetorical fight. But smart people are hard to beat in such fights because, being smart, they tend to think correct thoughts. Therefore we have a subconscious motivation to misread them and fight against what they did not say. This is the only way someone without extraordinarily high amounts of expertise and insight can "win" against Paul Graham in his primary domain of thought. There's a real social pressure for people who comment on other people's thoughts to create straw-man lookalikes of the thoughts rather than to address the thoughts themselves.
Yeah, rhetorical device -- although 97 sounds way more recent than 13 years ago, damn.

And yeah, Hanover's pretty far out there, on the border with VT. Everything that's not within a couple miles of Dartmouth is officially the woods :) Having I-89 there makes it reasonable, I guess. The bills have to be paid somehow, though, and in NH they're paid via property tax.
Hey I just bought a copy of the e-book but I can't download it yet there's only a dummy file.
I cannot eat celery. I think I loose more calories then I gain eating that stuff, however, the rest of this list makes sense. I already eat hummus all he time, and find it's a great snack food to keep energy up.
Even if you think you might not end up doing something totally profound, why live life as such a pessimist? That's certainly no fun at all.
I built a minimal and unobtrusive week planner/to-do app out of my own needs (because nothing else worked for me): http://weekis.com (discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1466775)
Glad to hear it, but I think that just shows us how low the bar is. If it's urgent and important, most businesses can get someone in their office within hours. Obviously it depends on how much business you do with them, but that's OK. With paypal businesses transacting $10k per year month get similar treatment to someone who sells a used ipod once a year.

Also, I've heard examples where this is not the case. Eg Couldn't get Paypal to pick up the phone even though paypal was holding $100ks of their money. (http://mixergy.com/dodocase-patrick-buckley-interview/)
Do you think it is going to play games using java like with regular android phones or do you think they will have some other sort of setup? As an android developer this could be very good.
First off, I am dismayed at all the people on reddit who are condemning you. Some people talk like they have some sort of God given right to the domain name they want. It also amazes that people believe a successful business starts with a domain name =|, but that's another argument.

My question to you is. Why do some squatters stay so anonymous there is NO way to contact them? Also, it doesn't make sense to squat on a domain name that does not get any traffic... If a squatter is sitting on a domain name that does not have any traffic, why won't they sell even to a low offer? Like, a $20 profit is a $20 profit right?
My post above is based on regular anecdotes. I have a couple successful personal trainers in my family, and this is some of the most fundamental advice they provide.

For those interested in the relationship between sleep and metabolism:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1991337/

This is an interesting topic to explore, so if you find any additional papers that substantiate or refute some of the advice, please feel free to share. I will also conduct further research.
Great article. . .

One of the questions from the bottom of the article:
What needs to be taught in that 'teachable moment'?

I would say that learning to find solutions constructively with good outcomes is the most important skill an entrepreneur can learn because that's why they are entrepreneurs in the first place.

I think the process of finding solutions is important and exhilarating to entrepreneurs. Solving problems and making it through crises are almost physiologically addicting.

As a teacher I find myself easily bored with routine and constantly redesigning my lessons or approaches to problems with students. Some of that tinkering results in great solutions, other aspects of constant adjustment are not good for a classroom and a lot of stress results. With experience I'm learning to pick my spots for trying new things, but the thing I like best about teaching is finding new ways to help kids learn. I love to make new things happen.
Part of my job is network administration of a small (~50 server) colo/hosting service. It's unacceptable for us to be down for even 30 minutes (from our perspective and our clients). We maybe top out at 5 hours of downtime a year (during a bad year) and most of that (unfortunately) is upstream from us.
I wouldn't be surprised if the opposite is true. Maybe hackers find flatulence flattering :)
Launch. However, don't kid yourself that you will find time to port to Ruby in the off chance that it is successful. That's is a myth and it is a rare thing for a successful piece of software to be rewritten in another language after it has become a success.
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Has someone looked at the Web Console features ?https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Using_the_Web_Console

It is just a simple console like Firebug Lite. Even the site says "The Web Console won't replace more advanced debugging tools like Firebug", so why is the Firebug team so worried about it?

Firebug is a great tool for Mozilla browsers and I feel that considering porting Firebug to other browsers could be a difficult goal for the project.
I just use Google Tasks, and have done so successfully for well over a year.

The feature set is minimal, but improves occasionally.
Its very fast to navigate around with the keyboard shortcuts, and it supports multiple lists. I tend to make long and short term lists in several categories (work, personal, hobby, reading).

Most importantly, and I cannot stress this enough - it is always available to me.
It doesn't go missing. It doesn't have synch problems.
I can get to it from any computer or phone I use.
The iPhone integration is good.
And its already open in my e-mail window.

The fact that its simple, ubiquitous, and just works, outweighs the advantages of more feature rich systems, for me, in practice.

Also, if you go to: https://mail.google.com/tasks/ig?pli=1 you can get a fullscreen view.
Well there's a couple problems here:

1) Let's say their excuse is bogus. So what where they doing? Gaming the system like ltgenpanda claims?

There's a contradiction there though. On the one hand you're saying that you don't buy it's testing because they're too smart and too capable to test on production...

...and on the other hand you believe they have to resort to this roundabout way of gaming their own system because they are not capable and smart enough to just do it a more direct way.

2) Your assumption (that they could do it in a test environment) is not necessarily true. If their explanation is to be believed, the testing is not the same as say normal software testing. The intent is to be a realistic security test...more like a "pen test"...which are quite often done on production machines.

So far I haven't seen anything that contradicts their explanation, and indeed it fits the facts as we know them pretty well, while the "game theory" doesn't.

Maybe some more conclusive info will come out.
I think the author is right about us taking too much on. It seems in this day and age, any extra time that comes from an increase in productivity is immediately filled with another task, which brings with it an increase in stress, and the first things to suffer are your ancillary tasks...like keeping todo lists.
I love org-mode too. It's the only task and project management system I've ever managed to stick to. I think it is because it grows naturally with however much you want to do with it. And also the MobileOrg app.
This is why I love the age I live in, the internet & HN.

Someone takes the time to invest a few hours into helping a fellow entrepreneur with a particular strength they have.

Word gets out, and it turns out that the specific help they gave is directly related to the purpose of their recently launched startup.

This could be either a brilliant PR coup, or just genuine good-neighbourliness coming home to roost.

I love it when a plan comes together.
Hi- I just talked to my No Starch contact and they said the PDF should appear any moment- apologies... a little glitch on take-off.
Hey, super stoked for this so I just went to check my amazon order history and discovered my order was no longer there? So I checked my gmail account and in my spam found:

"Hello from Amazon.com.

Due to a lack of availability from our suppliers, we will not be able to obtain the following item(s) from your order:

Conrad Barski "Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time!"
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1593272006

We've cancelled the item(s) and apologize for the inconvenience. We must also apologize for the length of time it has taken us to reach this conclusion. Until recently, we had still hoped to obtain these item(s) for you.

Your credit card will NOT BE CHARGED for this item because you only pay for items when we ship them to you."

I am just bummed I did not notice sooner but glad I caught this thread so I can re-order! SO excited - just wanted to give a heads up in case other people were under the impression that they should be seeing it arrive on their doorstep.

update: per the authors comment below I have used the promo code to order directly from no starch so I can read the digital version while I wait for the lovely physical copy.
We have a private alpha hosted, would be happy to give away accounts to someone who want to try.
> Even if you're a vegan you should consider Oysters.

Perhaps you mean, "Even if you're a vegan and you don't feel like being one anymore you should consider oysters."
This isn't an advertisement, but anyone interested in doing this sort of thing for a living or benefiting from it should definitely attend the Web Content conference (2011: http://webcontent2011.com , 2010: http://webcontent2010.com). It's full of great speakers who do this for a living and seriously helped our group of 8-12 get our content mojo back.
I'd love to believe this. I wept like a baby when Microsoft bought Bungie. Although a minor blip on most PC gamers' radars before Halo, Bungie was Mac gaming.
haters gonna hate. i was surprised it took so long (seems to have coincided with US timezones going into evening). I buy and sell em for a living and I don't think domains make or break a business at all. It's just a tool of which there are a nearly infinite number of.

As far as anonymity, well, first off if you start with calling them a squatter, I will add a 0 to the price I will sell to you if I respond at all.

Second, 20$ is a profit if you don't value time. Some of the big guys have 100k names and get tons of offers every day. Is 20$ worth the time to negotiate, escrow and transfer for someone making 20 mil a year? nope.

As far as contacting, most anonymous whois emails end up in a real mailbox I believe. There are other ways to track them down, for example getting a broker. Holding large portfolios, even if they aren't converting on traffic, can convert on a sales model. Average portfolio churn rate is around 2% for the big guys I believe. Parking helps cover costs, but sales generate the $$$.
brk sums it up. It's one reason I don't like laptops in general. Tossing those perfectly usable screens attached to a faulty motherboard is pretty distasteful.
YC Vs 500startups startup accelerator
We've seen the value Y Combinator adds to an early stage startup. I hear Dave McClure's 500startups is also launching a startup accelerator program soon.

How would you compare the two? It would be great to hear the views of those who've had a chance to work with both YC and Dave McClure (assuming 500startups will reflect his style). Both seem passionately pro startups / entrepreneurs.
Seconding that. If you're an emacs user, the way org-mode (http://orgmode.org/) makes it easy to capture and file information is invaluable, and it allows you to knit together outlines, files, URLs, etc. into tasks in a very transparent way. The manual is thorough and detailed and the community is engaged. After two months using it more and more I feel confident that everything I need is in there, and the agenda view is fantastic. Plus it's basically one big UTF-8 file. I still procrastinate, but I definitely know a lot more about the tasks I'm avoiding. Which is major progress for me.
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Technically Java applets (or custom browser plugins) should be able to work as well, but I don’t see much of an advantage over Flash (well, probably compatibility with 64-bit browsers). Certainly Flash is more common.
Only if Sony doesn't do a thing to lock the software up. Maybe they could add SPUs to the phone, or something that would lock the software to the platform.
There has been a really cool growth in these types of posts lately. As somewhat of a beginner in some of the areas required to become a great startup, it's nice to know someone potentially has your back and is willing to lend a hand.
Thanks for the reference. The article that you linked reviews some primary research articles and is helpful. From this article, it appears to me that sleep deprivation leads to, if anything, hyperglycemia, not quite what one would expect if they were truly over-expending calories:

"The rate of glucose clearance during the initial phase of the test (glucose tolerance; KG) was 40% lower, glucose effectiveness (SG), a measure of non-insulin dependent glucose disposal, was 30% lower, and the acute insulin response to glucose (AIRG) was also 30% lower."
One of the founders in our "startup house" came back to NYC and tried a version of our diet, except he swapped in dried beans for canned to save even more money. Soaking them the night before is an extra step, but it will likely work the same way.

I'd love to report success, but unfortunately he only stuck with the diet for a couple of weeks. Not enough data. Don't think it had to do with the dried bean choice though. I think regimented diets like ours are just easier to do with two people.
>If it was really testing, why would they stop exactly and immediately when informed by the blogger

That's absolutely not evidence that it is not testing.

It's a good point, but it is in no way inconsistent with their explanation. It makes perfect sense because it was (theoretically) supposed to be a small test that nobody noticed. Once somebody noticed it, of course they're going to stop it.

It's consistent with other theories being floated around, but it's important to note that it in no way contradicts their statement; exactly the opposite in fact.

If your theory is correct, why not just do it more directly? Why not do it in a less obvious way? Why upvote random spam sites as well (some of which were created at the same time as the accounts in question...almost as if someone were testing submitting spam on Digg...)

I don't doubt it's possible, but it seems to me people are letting their bias against Digg get the better of their reasoning ability.
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Yes, you probably ordered early this year or late last year. Some pre-orders were cancelled because of the delay of the book at that time- apologies. You will see a reference to that in the music video on landoflisp.com.

Right now you can order on Amazon without difficulty.
I do not find this "Startup Diet" to be that miraculous. To be honest, I quit reading the article about 1/4 the way through (and skimmed the rest) when the author implied that there was some huge revelation that prompted the need for this lifestyle change (ie- they only had $20,000 between two people and their number one cost was food). I understand how easy it is to blow money on food, but it doesn't take a "Startup Diet" to live on the cheap while eating healthy.

I'm in college, and I budget myself $35/week for food, putting me at $5 a day. I eat very comfortably and I almost never eat leftovers. If I wanted to, I'm sure I could live on as $20/week comfortably, but I happen to enjoy the social aspect (or convenience) of eating out occasionally.

There's no secret or trick or magical diet, and you can pretty much eat whatever you want - you don't have to limit yourself to lettuce and beans. I'll give some insight on what works for me.

I buy groceries every Sunday night, spending $15-20 each week. My weekly purchase usually consists of some combination of the following: frozen chicken breasts, pork shoulder, eggs, asparagus, onions, carrots, apples, oranges, bananas, bread, turkey, peanut butter, jelly, sliced cheese, yogurt, rice, pasta, tortillas, nuts, canned tuna, mayonnaise, mustard, crackers, and occasionally canned soup.

Some things last obviously longer than a week (rice, frozen chicken, peanut butter, jelly, etc). During those weeks I usually spend $20+, resulting in less spent the following weeks. I always buy generic-brand items, except for certain items where quality can be an issue (tuna). I have a drawer full of spices that get used constantly. Like I said before, I almost never eat leftovers. I prepare as much food as I can eat in a single sitting.

Here's what I don't buy: frozen food (pizzas, hot pockets, tv dinners, etc), snacks, junk food, soda, milk (lactose intolerant), beef (usually too expensive), coffee, sugary drinks (Gatorade, lemonade, fruit juice), name-brand items, and beer.

Of my $35 weekly budget, $15-20 is spent on groceries and the rest is spent eating out. Usually I eat out because there is simply not a free hour in the day to run back to my apartment and whip a sandwich together between classes/meetings. Eating out, for me, means grabbing a sandwich from Subway or Potbelly, or stuffing my face with delicious Chinese buffet food with friends if I really feel like splurging ($7.50). On the weekends I'll go crazy and get a huge slice of pizza and soda from Sam's club ($2.80?).

So there you go. You can eat almost whatever you want, healthy or unhealthy, for $35 or less each week. Theres no trick or magical formula.
Shown HN: Paste Forward - code pastes for your email
Working with a small web team, we have spent years simply using a bugmail facility to handle bugs and stack traces of problems with our app. Now that our team has grown, we will be bringing in a true bug tracker to manage and communicate about bugs.

In the time leading up to this change, I found the easiest way to communicate about a bug that was sitting in each developer's inbox was to use a private Pastie paste. This way it was obvious to the team which bug I was talking about, without needing to communicate a subject line or partial stack trace over chat. I could share a link to the message rather than talking about "that email I forwarded you." The link also worked well in project management software if the bug required us to fire a longer-running to-do.

I spent last weekend throwing together a little Sinatra app to ease this process a bit.

http://pasteforward.com/

Please let me know what you think. It's certainly not perfect yet. Hopefully some folks will find this little piece of software useful.
Hi- The glitch is fixed- You should have just received the correct PDF... Email me at lisperati@gmail.com if this is not the case.
I use Notational Velocity (http://notational.net) and a single text note within it (I get to it by typing "todo"). I have sections for "this week", "next week", "this month", "next month", and "someday".

If I weren't using NV, I'd use Notepad.exe or TextMate or TextEdit. I wouldn't use anything more complex than those.

I adjust things on my (multiple times a) weekly review. Stuff that needs to be done on a specific day goes on my calendar accordingly.

I carry around a small stack of 20 or so plain index cards for on-the-go. If I come up with an idea or a todo, I write it down on the card in biggish letters, any notes about the task or idea also go on the card. One card per idea or task.

When I'm near my inbox, I chuck the cards I wrote on in there, or I immediately file them in Notational Velocity.

I've tried and wasted money on paper day planners, Things, Omnifocus, Evernote, Google Tasks, GTD Tracks, RTM, etc. I found they were all too cumbersome and annoying to set up and maintain.

Likewise a paper list by itself was too much crossing out, moving around and erasing.

I advise people to stay away from 43Folders, Lifehacker, and the like to avoid the "GTD method of the week" distractions. Use what works and is not a pain in the ass.
In terms of longevity.
Not for one thing or another but:

> The problem is that I'm the first to admit I'm not a fantastic programmer.

Is a trait unfortunately very few programmers actually have, most of them think they're aces (especially when they're not) and:

> My strongest trait is just getting stuff done and getting code out the door.

Is a very desirable property.

I think you're not half as bad as you may think you are. The mentality you display is more or less exactly what I'd be looking for in a new hire.
What about "this day and age" is causing poor time management?
Chrome is also my primary browser, but I wanted to point out a discovery I made today:

The Chromifox Extreme[1] Firefox theme in combination with its bundled helper extension completely negates the vertical pixel space waste in Firefox vs. Chrome, at least in Mac OS.

I'm actually using the carbon variant[2] in combination with the Omnibar extension[3] to combine the URL and search bars.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10674/

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10883/

[3] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8823/
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