skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The background is a seamless texture. A google search with those for keywords will bring you a bunch of info. A quick tutorial for creating your own: http://pegaweb.com/tutorials/web-page-backgrounds/web-page-b...
Setting Up Qt Development Environment for BeagleBoard-xM
Netflix migrating to the cloud
But escape is Meta! :{
The problem may be tricky, but surely it's worth solving and doing so publicly. Shouldn't this be doable?

Of all the things i would like to see well-intentioned billionaires do, funding a permanent mission to perfect voting is very high on the list. what greater gift to democracy than provable integrity of its atom?
BBC iPlayer - Wait Till Your Teacher Gets Home
My start-up lifestyle choices
How DeNA Beats Facebook and Zynga
completely agree, switching from complex tasks to complex tasks is very inefficient. you will take time to switch your mind again to the context of new task.
PadLister charges $15 per applicant for online applications, which results in some profit after paying for the credit check.
Analyze User Feedback on Screens or Mockups
The aim is not practicality. It seems to me that the artist's hope is that this will function as a way of connecting people in a specific geographic region. Unlike bittorrent, there's a nontrivial chance that you could run into/meet up with someone whose files you found on these dead drops. The anonymity, combined with the fact that there's going to be at most a couple thousand people using any one dead drop, makes it less intimidating to share things like music, writing, or visual art. To top it off, there's a pretty good chance that it'll be seen by a couple hundred people with more patience and vested interest than the average internet reader.
Super Dee Duper!

I cracked myself up when trying C-M-q using the Command (clover) key on my mac, which of course was seen as CMD-Q by the browser, which for you non OS X folks means QUIT.
There are some things that you cannot help BUT teach your children. It's part of who you are, your daily habits, your aspirations, your worldview of what a parent should be.

Just by being your son, he is guaranteed 1000s of hours of practice and exposure to these topics.

For example, for me, it was Chinese math textbooks from an early age. I ended up attending Stanford, but my social skills suffered. For your son, I would guess reading, writing, math, and programming are covered.

Other things are invisible to you, and will be nonexistent to your son unless you identify and pursue those topics despite your unfamiliarity to them. For example, I didn't know what "sports" were, and still do not to this day. It's such a large part of society, but does not exist to me.

You should figure out what's "free" and what's "missing" for your son simply as a result of growing up in your household, and plan your educational priorities with that knowledge in mind.

One last thing: expose him to as many different people and social situations as possible. Camp, church, sports, etc etc etc. Whatever involves heavy interaction with other kids and people. The more the better. You may have to get heavily involved yourself to do this properly. Social skills, just like any other human ability, is simply 1000s of hours of practice.
Does anybody else have a hard time listening to music while coding? My mind wants to analyze the music. The effect is worse for me when the music is a multilevel instrumental; I get lost, floating like a leaf along the various threads of melody.
F1 GeekSpeed Challenge - time to beat: 2:06. Can you beat it?
the people at the Sears by me (the shoppers and the workers) look like this everyday.

i remember the time I bought four tires and the guy who sold them to me was struggling with the cash register. he only charged me for one tire and argued vociferously when I pointed out his mistake -- i'm honest but i'm not all that assertive so in the end I got three tires free.

of course, the manager of the auto center at that Sears also always had his Camaro jacked up and was working on it whenever he had free time.
And that doesn't conflict with Craigslist's terms of service?
Why, electronically, of course. But (1) the original paper ballots still exist and (2) the machines that do the counting are far fewer and are in a secure location. Fraud at this level can be detected by examining a random sample of ballots. Easy to do, since all the ballots are present.
I never met or knew Luke or the team at Nerdery, but all the same, I'm glad you posted this. It's a very sad thing to lose a member of our community, particularly one so accomplished and beloved. My thoughts are with you all.
You can map escape to something else in Vimperator.
The online applications aren't on Craigslist listings, only on ones posted on PadLister.
I'm surprised at how poorly planned and filmed most of these videos are.

Is that the point? Is it supposed to be so rough?
(Note: I've never applied to YC or looked at the application)
So how did it go go for you post YC? Did you progress? Or did you apply again?
I think the analogy with Wikipedia is a pretty good one for explaining version control to people who have no idea what it is. Often web savvy types have at least seen the history of a Wikipedia article before and can use that as a reference.
Bought for the employees maybe?
Ubiquitous cell phones are definitely a revolutionary development. This becomes obvious when you read or watch fiction of any sort. How many story lines would be completely disrupted by the presence of a cell phone? As it turns out, a great many, even for stories being written today, as many writers haven't fully absorbed the way things have changed.
Dupe of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1849274
Give me ^[ or give me :q!
Make this texture in a graphic program and repeat on x & y axis.
http://data.colorzilla.com/images/back.gif
That's a great idea. I was thinking about how to keep all happy/excited emails from the customers publicly available.
Angry/sad emails go straight to the bug tracker.
Detecting imminent landslides with sound
Here's the official instructions for making a video:
http://ycombinator.com/video.html

The instructions say:
The video should contain nothing except the founders talking. No screenshots or postproduction wizardry please; we don't want this to turn into a video making contest. If you're going to spend time making something cool, put it into your demo/product.

However, I agree with you. I think people should strive to make a good first impression.

Beyond the bad quality of some of the videos, I was surprised how many people submitted videos saying words to the effect of "I have another co-founder but he couldn't be here for this video." If I were watching those and heard that, I'd automatically reject the applicant. If you can't even get your alleged co-founder together for a simple one minute video then things are obviously already falling apart.
Ask HN:  Searching for jobs sucks.
I've started the process of looking for work (mainly Javascript, PHP, MySQL, and willing and able to learn anything), and I have to say it really sucks.

The problems are:

* Same listings across hundreds of websites.
* Aggregation of aggregation of aggregation.
* Sometimes applying forces me to create an account on some site I don't care about
* If I apply to each posting I see that is interesting, I'll likely apply for the same job 5 times.
* URLs that expire in short amount of time

As a result, I'm finding it impossible to keep myself organized. Have I already applied for this listing? Is it a place I've disqualified for some reason [eg: pay is too low, looks like an HTML chop-shop, etc]? What company is it for? I end up doing the same sleuthing over and over again to find out it's either a job I've applied for, or a job I don't want to apply for.

Throughout this process, I've learned I much prefer responding to jobs that are listed on the company's own website. And, I've also learned to copy and past parts of job descriptions into Google to find those original postings.

Anyway, HN, what's the best way to go about finding a job (besides direct referrals)? And, why is this such a pain in the ass?
Testing a biomedical implant to reduce severe vertigo
I thought you were exaggerating greatly, but it turns out you were not that far off...

"Class Counsel will ask the Court for attorneys’ fees of 25% of the Common Fund, plus reimbursement of costs and expenses."

Wow.
Thanks. That worked.
Funny you should mention M-^ as that was the first command I tried that wasn't actually implemented, but given that I'm halfway done with its implementation without leaving ymacs, call me impressed.
It was actually a good article, despite the flamebait title and first two or three paragraphs. It covered the reasons investors want Apple to seek higher returns on their cash horde, along with the (good imho) reasons Apple has for being risk-averse with it. Worth a full read.
Guess who wrote the Techcrunch post based on the headline
Corrupted how? (the repo data in the _darcs/ dir, or your local working copy?) I've used darcs extensively for years and have never experienced this.
Awesome headline!
Considering both the disenfranchisement and disarmament of felons (as well as forced prisoner labor sold off to various business interests) were part of Jim Crow, I am.
Minor nitpick: I graduated in Dec '09 and came back to Palantir in Jan '10. After working on interesting problems and writing stuff that people not only use, but are willing to pay for, I was hooked. School, by comparison, was a lot less interesting and probably less useful.
Spivak's book is more of an analysis text. If you are interested in mathematics, go with Spivak. If you're more interested in engineering or physics, you may be happier with Strang.
I got a kick out of saying that when I flew back from New Zealand last week. My flight left around 7:00pm New Zealand time and arrived around 1:00pm California time on the same day (crossed the international date line), so I could tell people "my flight left 6 hours from now."
Google’s Biggest Mistakes According to Marissa Mayer
All commenters: please stop being nervous, it's rubbing off on me and I'm supposed to get some sleep tonight.

Thank you.
Oops: unknown man's photo attached to Georgia arrest records dating back to 1983
Where exactly are you getting Flash Player 10.2.161.23? Pretty sure latest release is 10.1.x.
If one makes a habit of participating in RMS threads and giving thoughtful feedback, I'm sure the karma threshold would take care of itself. Good idea.
Youtube Founder Turns to Fashion
I got a message that I couldn't play the video in my area. I'm in the United States.
The belief that an attempt that cannot work and somehow creates an effect through symbolism is a belief in magic.
Michael Dell Thinks WP7 Development to be Easier Than Android
The only industry left that might fit Mr. Kasparov's prescription is the aerospace industry. There are still cowboys with calculators if not slide-rules and things moving from cad space to real space that are more than revolutionary and a damn site more than an incremental improvement...
> It's merging workflow is awful - I'm fine with correcting the odd whitespace-as-conflict, but I find the fact that git presents me with >>>>> eyebiting ====== conflict markers <<<<<< even when I'm using a merge tool difficult to excuse.

You might want to customize merge.conflictstyle

I do like the default of git however, and prefer it to, say, Mercurial.
I have the same reaction. It seems that, far too often, the first "big" coverage a neat service gets (if it's missed by TechCrunch or a well-ranked post on HN) is its purchase and subsequent closing. Obviously these businesses are valuable to someone, and making money is probably the end-goal of everyone involved, but it seems like customers are an afterthought when considering a sale. Should cloud-based services from companies without a stock market symbol start to be considered more "performance résumés" for the founders and less "stable options" for customers?
wow, GS is the man! he still looks remarkably similar to the way he did almost 10 years ago when i took his class.

EDIT (to make this post not as content-free): Prof. Strang keeps the hope alive that some distinguished faculty in top research universities still place an emphasis on great undergraduate teaching
Apple deprecates Java! Calm down my babies, don't freak out. 
Here are my thoughts on what Apples announcement really means for Java developers.
Skyfire iOS browser approved by Apple, converts Flash video to HTML5
>> It's very easy to find yourself on no branch at all
> Interesting. In what situation would that happen? I always thought you had to be on some sort of branch (master) at least to use git.

If you check out a revision, and not a branch, you will be on "no branch at all". But you asked for it, then.
Tags & Upvote problem
You can tag posts. with pluses and minuses.
But that would lead to anarchy & chaos you probably don't want. For instance +"troll"- tag...

Upvoting can be manipulated with relative ease.
But if that happens then you will probably restrict the access, which would effectively kill the fun. You could devise a system for upvote justification though. A short clickable tag or "essay" why the upvote is "justified." The same with extreme downvotes.
Take care
Very nice!

Sadly, it just reminded me who my options were...
Thanks, sorry, I'm freakin' sick with a crazy head cold. Sigh.
There is a login button next to the top logo.
You need to login separately for the wiki as for the rest of the site.
It's an integration issue we're working on.
Are you based in the UK? Do you read The Times? There might be lingering perception that the times is a quality paper — perhaps we all watch too many re-runs of Jeeves and Wooster — but the Times is more of a Sky News than a BBC.
> Furthermore, it's easy to create a commit of inconsistent code - since you can commit file changes in separate commits.

Actually, that's a feature. You can make finer grained commits this way. Use rebasing (or amending a commit, when you are just putting in the second commit) to make your changes atomic, when they need to be atomic.

Your repository isn't always in a consistent state. There's value in keeping inconsistent in between states---and git allows you to do that, but also allows you to clean up, after you're finished.

(Of course this creates an alternate history.)
Maybe image uploads are killing FB bandwidth per user quota? So excessive users could be offered a premium service for a vault like back-up of high res images. As most original images are uploaded only to be optimised, yet those images might last much longer on FB than with the user.
Muji App Store reflects their retail store
Ah, then perhaps I'm confusing it with another console that predates my existence :P
AGREED
maybe because it's not a new threat and it's not their responsibility?
This is nothing new
Odd, I'm using "GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin10.2.0, NS apple-appkit-1038.25) of 2010-03-27 on gallifrey.local" and it still has the dashes on the modeline.
If you pitch to investors, think of framing that issue differently. CL's TOS does not make a distinction: crawling is denied to the website that specializes in classified listings.

Crawling seems to be a poorly defined legal area, so doing it is wise: carve out your space while you can. But it would also seem wise to plan on getting denied to CL. You would not be the first nor the last.
Recently on Reddit, someone posted a thread saying that he took medicine that made him forget the 15 minutes after he took it. The number one response for what he should do with this superpower is message a bunch of people on Facebook saying "Would you like to go out? Don't respond if the answer is no." That way, he doesn't feel the shame of rejection if he wakes up in the morning and there are no messages.

I can see this being an example use for your service. If you take out the "someone sent you a message and it failed to go through" part, then it might actually work. People can ask someone out, and just write it off to a failed message if they don't get a response.
We have a long running series of phone ads in the UK which make fun of exactly this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlX9G7s2AnQ
All they need to do is drag controls on Visual Studio, right?
The return of SourceSafe.
my fav is probably sorl.thumbnail, followed by template_utils
You can always use Edit with Emacs: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ljobjlafonikaiip...
I also find I get a lot of my inspiration from Sci-Fi movies.
I removed most of the unnecessary parenthesis, now. I also put my program on http://github.com/matthiasgoergens/Div7

I targeted grep, because I know that grep handles regular expressions properly. Perl does a very bad job, according to http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html

Perl can take an exponential time to match (or reject). grep always finishes in linear time. Because grep does regular expressions according to theory. While Perl does something strange.

To quote: "This is a tale of two approaches to regular expression matching. One of them is in widespread use in the standard interpreters for many languages, including Perl. The other is used only in a few places, notably most implementations of awk and grep. The two approaches have wildly different performance characteristics ... The trends shown in the graph continue: the Thompson NFA handles a 100-character string in under 200 microseconds, while Perl would require over 10^15 years."

P.S. Good news: I found out that grep -E makes the backslash unnecessary. At http://pastebin.com/Dr7xk8in you will find the new and shorter version.
That's so funny. I just transferred 2 domains over to Godaddy from Tucows. The transfer cost + 1 year hosting was $7.67 per domain. On your site you offer the same deal for $10.50. Thanks - I'll pass!
Aussies downplay a lot of things, some Aussies anyway. They pretend they don't care, don't know, haven't worked hard on something, aren't affected etc. In some ways this is exactly opposite to Arabs.

Voluntary voting in the US has one strange effect: politicians no 1 goal is to get "their" group to vote. Each side has a relatively fixed (and roughly equal) group of voters. Most of them stay home. The side that gets their group voting, even at the expense of a few defections, wins. That creates weird politics.

However, that is not the case everywhere. In lots of places the paradigm is a fixed group (possibly a minority) of voters who shift alliances more easily. A multiparty system encourages this.

I suspect that most defectors are actual abstainers, not defectors.
Some previous discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1851088
Of course.

Git knows about three things; blobs, trees, and commits. A blob is a collection of bytes. It is stored on disk as a file containing the bytes named after the sha1 hash of the bytes. A tree is a set of mappings from name to a blob or a tree, allowing you to represent collections of blobs like they exist on disk. Finally, the commit object is some metadata (author, committer, date, message, etc.) and a tree object. Add some shell or Perl scripts on top of this, and you have Git.

So if you can write a simple shell script, you can make git do whatever you want it to do.

(That's why git seems so "messy" from an implementation standpoint, it's a bunch of shell and perl scripts that do random things. Darcs and Mercurial have a slightly more complicated model, and hence everything has to happen "inside". This results in a cleaner looking interface, but a lot less hackability.)
Ha! I like the cut of your jib.
1) When usability is not there -- efficiency is also not there.

2) Why would Google want to use Notifo? Without good usability Notifo cannot serve mass user. Without mass user Google would not be interested.
I got an email from Google about this, and immediately filed it as spam.
[pdf] James Dyson: Ingenious Britain
Well they probably have and automated script for rejection letters. Too many applications to do by hand.
And of course, you can still commit there and give it a name later. Hack, then cleanup. That's the git model.
This was kind of depressing to read. I have a CS degree, am currently working on a masters in IS, and am working as a web developer. I would like to think I am doing all right for myself so far. However, sometimes I feel as if there is a large gap in my CS knowledge.

This is one of those times.
Off topic here, but I find these rather obnoxious. They're almost like mystery meat navigation in that they're state isn't consistent. You have a disappearing navigation element, so a user might see it at one point, misunderstand what causes it to appear, and then not be able to find something on the page that they saw before.

On the other hand, they do grab the users attention, but I wonder what the ratio of successful clicks is to frustrated users.

Just my two cents, and pointing out that at least some users don't think they're neat.
If the average was increasing three points per decade then there would be no noticeable increase since the test is supposed to be calibrated so average is 100.

Which would mean, there would be no increase in average IQ if average intelligence was increasing...
I've used git since the early days, and I have trouble using svn and p4 now. Subversion and Perforce should choose better defaults.
GS is the Man! Watching his calculus and linear algebra course videos overclocked in VLC is a beautiful experience. What a great teacher.
The double quote quoting, while allowing you to do e.g. rm "file with spaces" still expands $ and `. Compare:

echo none:`date`

echo double: "`date`"

echo single: '`date`'
While I understand dream aspect of it, in practical terms, why and how would you colonize space?
Ask HN: Help improve and monetize a (charitable) site for Movember
Last year myself and fellow hackernewser hassy built http://moustachewars.com as a bit of fun for movember.

We only got it live on the 19th of the month, but by the end had received about 22k page views. We have just kicked the server into action again for this year and we'd like to make it even better.

Does anybody have any ideas how we can:
- Improve the game so that it is more fun. Certainly some of the charm of Facemash is lost when you don't know most of the people.
- Potentially monetize it to help raise money for the movember cause.

Incidentally if anybody wishes to take part, just tweet a photo of yourself using twitpic, and add a #movember hash-tag, and it'll show up. Your profile can then be found at http://moustachewars.com/mofile/<twitter_handle>

Thanks!
WTF Has Obama Done So Far?
Google Notifies Users about Buzz Settlement
Surely you have a background in something unique or interesting, that others here don't have. At the very least, you have your perspective. I don't think it's difficult to provide insightful, valuable content to HN, in both submissions and comments. I've noticed that the topics here tend to rotate over time (meaning one week is all hard core programming, and the next week is boot strapping). Also, check out the new section, where the submissions tend to be more varied (in my experience). Find a topic or two that you have something to contribute to and comment on it.
It's too bad Newton wasn't as succinct.
I don't see anything wrong with Apple maintaining this much cash, it has serious strategic (albeit unquantifiable) value. Who could outbid them if they saw a serious opportunity?

One of the best ways to maintain a strong lead is to have the cash necessary to dispose of the competition at will.

What's the alternative, bankrolling dipshit* startups as an expensive way of handling recruiting ala Google?

*I jest, don't freak out and get into yet another argument with me, I beg you.