skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They specially groomed their community to be like that, too. The entire theme of digg, Kevin's shows, etc., is a kind of fratboy softcore-geek elitism.

I was at a Digg Live at FoWA in London a few years back and it couldn't have been more different than the conference experience. It was swarming with loud, misbehaving teenagers (and I mean 13- and 14-year-olds, not 17- and 19-year-olds).

No wonder their audience takes every chance to screw with them now (and that vocal portion of the audience convinces everyone else, looking in at it from the outside, that it's important and meaningful).
I like to get at least seven hours during the week and aim for nine Friday and Saturday nights. I can do a couple of days of six hours or less, but my efficiency goes way down.

These days I'm not a good daytime sleeper. It could be that what I need is blackout shades, but it suits my preferences to be up and about early.
Ask HN: Is FireSheep prevention now high on your app's priority list?
I'm not planning to launch my next app for a while but I'm really not wanting to go down the annoying path of SSL/TLS if my app doesn't go anywhere. Is this really the turning point where SSL/TLS is now an expected feature? I know patio11 has been active in changing over but after having some time to think about it, are other HNers planning on retrofitting old apps and implementing this stuff before the lauch of new apps?
> EDIT: actually meant to be a follow-up to jacquesm's post. It appears I failed :-/

That's happened to me too. I think it's a bug.
We've been running on Slicehost for almost 2 years and I believe we've had two outages, one of which wasn't a real outage but a backbone provider went kaplooey in Europe. That can't really be helped.

Heroku, on the other hand, feels like it's up and down more than... something that goes up and down a lot. A friend of mine hosts his blog there and he launched a small product today and he kept sending his customers to an error page, because Heroku was up, down, up down, up down.

If it's a misconfiguration of your own, you can get it fixed. But if your hosting provider has an unsound business, you can't fix that except by leaving.
You can buy a Pixel Qi 10" display and retrofit it into a netbook type laptop. This is a follow-on of the OLPC screen.

http://www.pixelqi.com/products

$275 + some bravery
http://www.pixelqi.com/where_to_buy => http://www.makershed.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=MKPQ...

Please note: These screens replace those found in the Samsung N130 & Lenovo S10-2. Although they do work in other models, we can only guarantee compatibility on those 2 specific netbooks. We are testing other models, and will update the list as needed.
Hey colourlover dude and community
Hey Colourlover dude,
This is Josh, my father is one of the partners of imageterrain.com I know a couple months ago he tried to get in touch with you about some kind of mutual connection but were unable to see eye to eye. First I want to let you know that I have great respect for the fact that you came so far with your colour enthused community (and so does Pantone). Sometimes it's hard not to be aggressive in this economy so I want to ask you one last question because I have that aggressive entreprenerial blood in me as well. I believe that imageterrain is one evolutionary step away from being profitable (with the art student community) but we are having immense trouble (financially as well) getting there, I'm looking for constructive advice or connections Darius and or HN community. There I have put myself out there so please feel free to comment positively or negatively
-Josh
This interview is even great for developers who want to make successful apps. Good stuff.
Stonesoft comes up with more ways to defeat intrusion prevention systems
Unfortunately, with our current sales volume, it would be nearly impossible to extract any sort of meaningful conclusion from that experiment, so I haven't been able to run it :/ It's a shame, because I think about it every time I look at our pricing page, and wait for the time our sales will be reliable enough to extract any sort of result.

I've written a few thoughts on pricing here:

http://blog.historio.us/on-pricing

Basically, we're looking to launch some not-so-pleasant changes to the account system soon :/
Things like this make me question the wisdom in the career choice I am about to leap into headlong.
Yea, this is along the lines of what I'm thinking. Hand me a design and I'll HTML/CSS/JS it up for you, maybe throw in some PHP love.

I'd love to team up with a designer and crank out some websites for people!
After reading the Wikipedia article and so forth, yes the man was smart.

For instance it says he was writing business software as a teenager. It also says that Altair BASIC was initially written on an emulator, which was itself written by him! We're already at the clever and talented point right there.

"He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT[19] and enrolled at Harvard College..." isn't a perfect indicator but suggestive also. He might have had other breaks in life but smarts would have been one of them.
You say this because it is easier to get out, or because you believe harsh weather shortens lives?
By excess inventory he's referring to unsold advertisements.
Surprised he didn't mention canned tuna.
We (I'm the author) actually had vegetarianism as a restriction in this case, my co-founder was a vegetarian. But I bet canned tuna would work well, too!
While obviously this kind of article will appeal to the HN readership, especially in the wake of recent postings, is there a more legitimate discussion to be had about the value of YC vs the value of the PG personality cult/the value YC has outside the standard Silicon Valley personality-driven organization?

I'm a long-time fan of PG and YC (we recently submitted) but I don't view YC or HN as being defined by their creators/partners in the same way that Arrington and Calacanis tend to despite similarly divisive opinions. Is that because I agree with PG more or because he's a more positive community influence?
Is there such a thing as a sustainable todo system?
He glosses over beta, but that's a crucial stage for non-developers to understand. Testing your application with real, live users is hugely important. If you don't beat the hell out of it, the public will, and you don't want to end up waiting around for Apple to approve a fix for a glaring bug that pisses people off.

(Sidenote: This is the pain of experience. I once pulled one of my apps just as it got popular because of a data destroying bug that my sloppy QA process didn't catch. Just one line of code, part of final performance optimization. Harmless, right?)

I wrote up a lengthy post on doing iPhone betas last year. Maybe it'll be useful to others here, dev or not:

http://blog.danilocampos.com/2009/12/03/how-to-run-a-great-i...

And for the love of god, do one last round of exhaustive QA even after making "minor" performance improvements. :)
that looks pretty great... except the lenovo S10-2 has a keyboard that is just as unusable as everything else in it's size class. It's sad, really, 'cause other than that it looks like a really solid netbook. (the only thing I've been able to type on that comes close to that size is the sony vaio P-series, which seems to be built around the keyboard, though even that, though usable, was not even close to the keyboard on a 12" ThinkPad X series.)

I had a last-generation OLPC, and oh man, even if they haven't improved the screen at all it was still better than any other laptop screen I have seen. Of course, the keyboard on the OLPC takes 'unusable' to a whole 'nother level.
When I lived in NH most of the property tax bill went to the local government for things like schools, and not the state.

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hampshire#Economy Overall, New Hampshire remains ranked 49th among states in combined average state and local tax burden. This suggests that the locals actually are correct.
Thinking again, I totally understand you plight. I've got the same problem on my netbook - having an easy-access calendar/time/mail indicator is much better than having to mouse over every time.

My current solution (well, technically future - I have to remove this stupid Unity off my netbook - it does me more harm than good) is to pull the taskbar to the bottom and hide it. Sure, no clock, which sucks, but I guess I usually have my phone around for that.

It beats the hell out of having the damn thing pop up whenever you want to open a new chrome tab, but it's not a perfect solution.

I think that Unity is going the way of the Apple philosophy - screw customization, because for the 99% of users it only leads to indecision and unhappiness. Make some basic adjustments available as 'apps', but leave the core functionality untouchable.

I wish I was a fan of that - sadly, I'm not. I understand the reasons behind it, and I totally support it. But I need something more - something that is customizable but intuitive, which is exactly why I chose Ubuntu in the first place. I hope it doesn't keep going in this direction.
Just this week I found the program "gorun" which does this. Unlike watch, gorun does not poll. It uses inotify. http://github.com/peterbe/python-gorun
So this debunks the idea that sporadic gym excercise making up a small portion of your week is not enough to keep you healthy.

But what about intense, all-day excursions on the weekends? The kind that keep your heart rate up all day long and leave you limp and beaten?
From what I've read the biggest reason for Canada's higher tax rate is that they run a balanced budget. If the USA were to balance its budget by raising taxes, it would also suddenly have a much higher tax rate.
Do you mean at the point when they apply to YC? Around 10% currently. The number is going up, because as we get better known we get more applicants that are further along. It was 0% for the first several years.
Alcohol in space? Da
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It's easier to get out. I have no evidence that harsh weather shortens lives, although there was a study that used rainfall in northwest counties as a proxy increased sedentary inactivity, and showed a linear relationship between bad weather and increasing ADHD diagnoses.
It's subjective. I tried and hated tree style tabs.

I prefer Chrome these days but Firefox and Safari are still up there, and also fast[1]. It's just nice to have a variety of good browsers to choose from.

[1] http://arewefastyet.com (doesn't say "no" anymore)
The problem with sardines is that they taste awful to most people. The industry is struggling, and the biggest sardine packager in massachusetts closed down this year.

The mercury argument is not correct. I believe all the credible research studies done have suggested only pregnant women and children are susceptible to the "high" mercury levels in canned tuna.
Anonymize the data? that's what we did when I worked in telecomm and we needed "good data" to run tests.
Of course not, I love criticisms. How else do I improve? I'll implement that ASAP.
Funny how we make all this progress and pack a ridiculous amount of processing power in a handheld device, only to then put in a bunch of extra effort just so we can play Super Mario World on yet another device.
Yeah, the landing page sold me on clicking "start reading", but was sorely disappointed after I clicked. Too much friction just to read a page. To your point about limiting anonymous access in order to create a community like HN. HN doesn't require an account for reading. You are more likely to convert users if you allow some kind of anonymous access.
maybe it's just the way they cropped the pictures, but it doesn't look right.
When it comes to a real world fight, he lost his first MMA fight.

If he had legs and arms he probably would have won and gone much further.
I think that might work. My method makes more sense to me but that's because it's just the first thing that came to mind when thinking about the problem.

Your method means you only need to walk the string once which is better. Either way 9/10 interview candidates can't even get that far.
I despite long names in JavaLibrariesAndFrameWorks but I don't appreciate tla aop (three letter acronyms all over the place).

Your second code snippet is actually much more pleasant to read.
Land of Lisp is finally out...and has a music video.
I guess it's not even real world physics. And the Newton you attribute those formulas to is not real world Newton. For alternative world, your physics are just perfect. For real world, you need to factor in time as well as space.
Hi HNers- I'm Conrad (aka drcode) the author of said book. Thanks guys for helping build the buzz around LOL! (I should also thank pg for getting me into this stuff in the first place.)

I'll be lurking in this thread today and tomorrow... feel free to post any questions about the book or about Lisp in general and I will answer them.

Here's the only coupon code currently for the book. I'm posting it exclusively on HN and proggit: 76738380768586 (ASCII for LISPLUV :-)

It gives a 35% discount on the Book+eBook combo on the No Starch site (http://nostarch.com/lisp.htm). It expires 11/3.
(FYI- If you just want the eBook, No Starch already has a 50% off sale right now across the board. If you only want the print copy, Amazon has a heavily discounted price already, for reasons that are mysterious to me. Oh, and if you've already pre-ordered, just cancel and reorder to get the discount.)
I understand the intention is to warn people. But IMO, there are plenty ways of warning or educating them, e.g. blogs, tweets etc. There's no need to 'prove' it just to make awareness.

I did tell my friends and family that a tool (Firesheep) has been released and what is the impact in layman language, and inform them to be careful when browsing through open wifi networks.
Can you give us a sense on the amount of revenue you make per year?
It should be trivial to run the built-in official 'console' software on another Android phone (with adequate hardware specs), correct?
Independent of consensus on the threshold concentration for Mercury poisoning, What I explicitly stated is that sardines contain lower levels than tuna, which IS correct. By definition of them being a smaller fish with a shorter lifespan, less heavy metals and pollutants of ANY variety will have accumulated within them.

Also for environmental sustainability if we examine the Seafood Watch's website, we notice both farmed Oysters and Pacific Sardines on the Super Green List in the Best of the Best category http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/cr_seafoodwatch/sfw_he... [ Further examination: On sardine page, only choice is "best choice". For tuna, everything is generally "avoid" unless it is "trole or pole" caught. ]

I object to the notions sardines taste fundamentally bad, I think Alton Brown's Avocado-Sardine sandwich was one of his few works of genius: http://www.seriouseats.com/2010/01/alton-browns-sardine-avoc...
Awesome post. Another tip I've used before is to buy a really big container of high quality protein powder that has lots of supplemental vitamins/minerals. Makes for a nice quick meal if you're super busy, and can help satisfy any cravings for those with a sweet tooth.

When I've done this, I can usually get a large number of meals replaced in one container with a cost per meal between $2-4.
StackOverflow: What kind of programming requires math?
Anyone else wondering how it was legal for the security guys to steal the mans pallet mover? Sure dumping a big piece of ice on private property probably wasn't exactly legal, but that doesn't make chasing down the man in public for 2 and half blocks to take his pallet mover ok. Doesn't really matter that they gave it back either...
Is this an argument in support of Google complying with the search warrants or just helpful advice for your serial killer buddies?
What's that have to do with anything? In my example the function returns a type of string which doesn't exist in C.

The simplest version of the function is one that takes an integer and returns a string. This isn't a trick question and it's not difficult to answer or judge the answer if you take the time to learn it. Assuming that you're going to be hiring a programmer without one handy to help you then you need to read a few books and learn a few things. It's not that hard if you're sufficiently motivated to learn.
That is hot... now I have to resolve the hotness versus my disgust with Sony.
From my experience with the PSP they can't get mobile gaming right.

From my experience with the X10 they can't get Android phones right.

I dread to think what the two together will be like.
You can also mix with water rather than milk which saves you additional costs and calories.
Thesis Statement is What Now? 
A thesis is incomplete without a good thesis statement. The thesis statement provides the readers with a road map of sorts on the direction of the thesis. Therefore, it is vital that you know the importance of the thesis statement and how to write a thesis statement.
That's good personal insight - become a fantastic programmer.
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Should pick up? What system do you want emulated that there isn't already a great emulator for?
I think that it's a pretty valid argument for why it isn't a user-configurable option, but yes, it doesn't quite make sense.
From the links the App Engine team provided, it looks like this is only available for customers of Google App Engine for Business ($8/user/month).

http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2010/05/announcing-google-app...

I wonder how they're doing this and how their offering will compare to Big Table in terms of ACID and scalability.
Any chance of a .PDF or .PPT link?
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How was North Carolina even was able to take Amazon to court? Don't they have no jurisdiction at all?
If we were living off protein powder and water, we would have REALLY been looking forward to the cheat days ;-)
He said he wanted to learn a functional language, and then listed Python and Ruby. Weird.
Wow, that's huge. I assume that if they are profitable and there business ideas are scalable, their chances for getting into YC greatly improve?
I agree with you on the X10, but I feel the PSP does some things very well for hardcore gaming. Sure it isn't as populist as the various phone and DS games out there, but I still find the God of War series on the PSP to be one of the most vivid mobile gaming experiences around.
"Really, people? You modded me up to 17 for making a nitpick about simian taxonomy?"

If it makes you feel better, I gave you a point just for that comment...
Hopefully the Playstation team is able to finally give a good skin to Android.

I would say I have faith in Sony making buckets of money selling emulated Playstation games, but the PS3 Store has been a disaster. They had every opportunity to have an App Store before there was an App Store, but they blew it. And still continue to blow it.
That is impressive. My original question was about the total universe of YC funded start-ups; given that 10% are profitable at the he time they apply, the lifetime number must be much much higher. Would 50% be a reasonable estimate?
This is a really interesting problem.

Here is my solution: I've resorted to sticky notes placed semi-organised on my wall next to my computer. They're roughly organised by priority, and roughly by project.

There are a few reasons why this system is awesome:

1. High priority tasks cannot be easily "shifted down" to put something else above them. This forces me to deal with oldest first.

2. The only way to make something even higher priority is to go further up the wall. There is a limit to how high I can reach, therefore I have to be REALLY sure about putting something high on the list.

3. I'm using cheap sticky notes. The glue lasts about 3 weeks before it falls off the wall. If I haven't done it in that time, it's not going to happen. It also obviously wasn't that important and deserves to be on the floor. Occasionally, I go and pick up the drop offs and double check if I really should've done anything with them.

4. It's tactile. When something is done, there is nothing more rewarding that taking down the note, screwing it up and throwing it in the bin. TAKE THAT TASK!!!
as jswinghammer says you have to implement the mechanism that does this. when you do, don't forget negatives, trailing and leading spaces, and non-base-10 numbers (last one is not a requirement).
Well, you have to press in a little to get the screen to register a touch. The practical outcome of this is that you want to use a stylus or something relatively hard and sharp instead of your finger. The screen's plastic is relatively soft and thus is easily scratched.
Come on with this study. I have had a desk job all my life and ballooned up to 300lbs and then lost 120 lbs with the same desk job and only working out 2 hours a day. Most of my time is spent at the desk even if I do get up and walk around sometimes. Traders on Wall Street are on their feet 99% of the time and they have one of the most stressful jobs that lead to often health problems down the line. Why aren't they healthy when they are not sedentary? It's because there are other factors to take into consideration here.
Sheepsafe (keeps you safe from FireSheep)
Wow, that's nice looking specs. The higher resolution display and i7 I'm truly jealous of. I hope it works well for you. You should ping me and let me know how it works out for you or blog about it, especially your Linux experience. I'm very interested to know. Always looking to move back. The only thing I'm not too happy about is the Intel Graphics, looks good otherwise.
is the 8pm time not configurable?

i wonder if it could just look at what time you finally sent in each email and figured out what your typical response time was, then started sending them later in the day to compensate.
Branch-Per-Feature Source Control
Maybe it is the game being good, maybe it is just nostalgia,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_game...

With 240 million sales, there's probably a little Mario in each of us. New releases and/or perpetual emulation of Mario games is the one constant we can expect to find in future generations of devices with new and old generations of people alike grabbing coins and jumping on Koopa shells.
Managing Interruptions
That is really awesome. I just got back from playing with it between Chrome on an old 800MHz P-III (very usable) and an Android (Nexus One). On the Nexus, I went off-line (airplane mode), edited, and then went back on-line. MAGIC! My edits showed up in my Chrome browser on the desktop.

My use case is that I want to use Google Docs (or equivalent) to keep notes while on-line and off-line. MotoDiary ain't quite there yet, but it has the hard part (IMHO), the on-line/off-line syncing. What is rough is text size and fixed(?) edit box size on the Android. Also (obviously), it is diary-oriented (single entry per day) rather than supporting multiple documents.

Google Docs are totally uneditable (?WTF!) on Android, never mind doing it off-line and syncing.

There are some Apps that work better, such as GDocs. GDocs has been a mixed bag, it allows me to edit off-line and sync docs, but has been iffy in terms of success rate. It definitely isn't as smooth as my brief experience with MotoDiary.
Thanks for everyone's feedback. I appreciate you taking the time to post a answers I will launch and iterate. Even if it is PHP.

I agree that product matters and not technology and I will remember this.

The site is http://tabtrick.com if anyone was interested.

Let's call this a quiet launch (soft launch)
I know intellectually that people actually do good stuff with OmniFocus, but to me the point of keeping a to do list is to reduce friction. And OmniFocus seems about as bristly and rough a program as I've ever seen. I haven't looked at it in a while, so maybe it's gotten better, or maybe one really has to have bought into in the whole GTD mindset to grok it, but even after a week of trying to come to grips with it, I could make no headway and fled back to org-mode.