skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who owns and maintains and older car in the face of 'why don't you just trade it' opinions from others, I also gain a lot of satisfaction in being able to be in tune with a vehicle, to understand when it is happy, when it is looking for service, to understand the history of the roads it's been on and history of the use it's had.

A lot of people with a 'vehicle is an appliance' mindset would never understand that, but vehicles are like houses in that they create and are intrinsically involved with memories. Some happy, some sad, all baked into our lives. That's why many women have to apologise and say sorry to a car they are disposing from their lives, as if it's anything but a inanimate lump of metal, plastic, glass and rubber. They're not saying goodbye to the object, they are saying goodbye to the memories.
Second the motion.
It boasts mobile support, but it doesn't seem to be working with the default Android browser for me (Droid 2). Is anyone else having problems?
Facebook: You Cannot Export Email Addresses (Unless It's to Yahoo & Microsoft)
I'd like to see the ability to set priority on certain users' updates rising to the top.

Expanded link to the survey:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dEYyWHdCNHd...
I'm begining to hate those background Apple-ish guitar songs.
I think it's great this phone has been "rooted" and the protection bypassed.

I think it's sad if a single person buys this phone from T-Mobile/HTC because of this, because it ultimately perpetuates the business model of selling locked down rubbish.
Weren't multiple Android tablets announced/demoed at last year's CES, or am I mistaken? Maybe all the OEMs just rushed demo samples out without figuring out how they were actually going to produce them...
And I believe Luke says that Tatooine is nowhere near the center of its galaxy
It seems the really sad fact is that a ton of middle managers make a handful of mistakes. We're really hoping to be able to level that field through education as well as giving clearly smart employees, such as yourself, the ability to drive change from within.
Part 2: not getting lung cancer diagnosed early
I came across it as a result of the Go language announcement! Basically I wasn't happy with Go for what I had in mind, so it got me looking to see if there were any other alternatives to C++ (my home for 14 years). Found D and think the language features are great, especially the template handling and built in string and slice handling for rapid development of efficient applications. Can't wait to work with the language (D2) more. I also recommend the book (The D Programming Language) which was published earlier this year.
>Building Mozilla is terrible.

you should have tried building it in 1999. Last time i did it - in 2007 - it was a blast compare to 1999.
A "bug" is simply a reported issue that the developers feel must be fixed at some time in the future. It is defined just by existing in the database, and not being deferred or reclassified as not a bug. That's what I mean by bug count.

It's totally unambiguous because the criteria is simply that the developers in question on a particular project perceive it as a problem that needs to be fixed. Like I said, I think this is basically the definition of software quality -- does it do what it was supposed to do.

Of course, you can cheat it by having people be completely dishonest (or incompetent) about filing or classifying bugs, but that comes with the territory. We have to rely on people telling the truth and being somewhat competent in other studies as well -- there is no perfect control.

So, I stand by my assertion that trying to define a fuzzy area for bugs is a cop-out, because if it's actually fuzzy then it will be reclassified by the developers in question most of the time.

Consider an analogy that's driving my thoughts on this subject: If you have some physical product you're producing -- if issues come up that make the designers, manufacturers think about rebuilding/modifying it to address the issues, aren't those issue a problem with the quality of the original product?
Ask PG: May I distribute my scrape of HN?
I never said it was going to do any better.
Not me, but I wanted to point out that you would likely be more successful in your recruitment if you put your e-mail in your profile. As of right now, there's no way for anyone to get in touch with you other than posting here, which some people might not want to do.
In your analogy though does he say it with a (not so) hidden agenda?
> If only I could just "azure push"...

My bet is that it will be implemented as a button with the Azure logo on it.
Laptop overheating may affect male fertility, even with a pad
Looks fine to me (Droid X) but seems to be loading still (not sure what)
I guess they call it bitter sweet =). Of the respondents there were only a few that had been through an acquisition; had there been more we'd have been able to draw more conclusions. From a personal point of view (heysan (YC) acquired in '09) - you're 100% right, we got our exit at the expense of some of our humanity.
I think the real lesson is that in a company of 20,000 employees, nothing stays confidential for long...

Very irresponsible behavior from whoever leaked this. Here's hoping no Googlers get mugged for their bonus today
Thanks for teaching me something new today. I did not mean to criticize your arguments on why MBP is a great choice. I just had a personal counter-example to the laptop battery point. Now that you explained why, it makes the reason more evident.
Not to mention Python, Java, etc... still have pointers and memory leaks (at least in Java, everything is pass by value, but with the exception of the primitives, every value is a pointer). They will also suffer memory pressure when you allocate objects without thinking (which is rather easy to do if you never had to think about what the runtime does when you say "obj = Foo(bar)").

I'm not a C/C++ bigot, my "favourite language" is currently a three-way tie between Scala, OCaml and Lisp. Plenty of real programming gets done in other languages (plenty of people also think that C is the secret sauce for performance, but that's not the case), but C is important for two reasons: it's the lingua franca of programming and it's a great language for learning how computers work. Pascal may have been another option twenty years ago, but there are hardly any interesting open source projects being done in it today.
As well you may want to provide some modicum of info about whether you are funded, are you asking people to join as a founder, is it a no pay, you work on my idea, gig or are you paying a salary. As it sits there is not a whole lot of info to peek someones interest in what you are doing.
it's an interesting point, that. should news aggregators consciously avoid paywalled articles, and if so, why? Do they increase the ratio of noise to signal her, because few people can benefit from them (hence they are pure noise to most people here)? That's quite the irony, since their entire selling point is that paywalled content is higher signal, lower noise.

Perhaps it comes down to the aggregator's audience. Some will be more willing to pay to get past paywalls, for articles recommended to them by that aggregator, or have a higher tendency to already be paying customers. Hence P(article recommendation will be appreciated) will tend higher there, because P(article will be viewable) is higher.
Fair enough: sounds like your definition of "hardware architecture" is limited to the processor itself.

If you're curious about the Newton processor: http://www.ot1.com/arm/armchap1.html (see the "ARM6" section).
I doubt that the majority of problems comes from a sense of entitlement, like you strangely enough, seem to believe.

What? I'm not making value judgments.

This is absurdly simple. If people have reason to believe that their efforts will be in vain, then they make no effort. But it's worse than that with socio-economic groups. Some members come to rely on the group's official explanation for lack of success, in order to maintain self-dignity. Those members hold back the others in their group to the best of their ability, else the official defense of mediocrity be disproven.

A great example is the Irish Catholics in America. "No Irish Need Apply" signs? Never happened (in America). http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/no-irish.htm The myth of The Other keeping them down was necessary for them as a group. Even up through the first half of the 20th century, they insisted they were being held down as the explanation for their much lower income levels relative to white Protestants. Then came 1960. JFK was elected. If one of your group can get elected president, there's no more need for excuses. Since 1960, Irish Catholics have grown more and more like white Protestants. Both have almost the exact same income distribution now. Catholic church attendance has plummeted since 1960, asymptotically approaching Protestant church attendance. The group stopped reaching for excuses, and things got better for them. Fast.
Here's my advice for Vietnam, probably also applies to Thailand. You don't need to bother finding a place before you arrive.

1. Go to the tourist/backpacker area, find accommodations.
2. Find a reasonable hotel you can stay in for a few weeks.
3. Find a cheaper place you can stay at for a few months.

And..
0. Look on expat/travel forums instead.
Femtoo - Web page change tracking and notification system
As I said to you earlier, why can't I, the user, download whatever data my friends make available to me, subject to whatever privacy controls the data is already under and (perhaps) to load restrictions or resource availability?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1887085

And this is the important point, I could do the same thing manually by visiting my friends' pages. So this is all about convenience for the customer, not about some crusading policy position.

If my friends don't want me to "mass export" "private" email addresses, they shouldn't leave them out where I can cut and paste them (and sell to 419 scammers, if I were the vengeful type). The same argument applies to all my friends' data.
So what's the trend of web performance optimization industry?
At least for Xmarks, the post-mortem seems to have spurred a turnaround. The pledge drive mentioned in the article has been set aside pending a 100% purchase:

> I’m pleased to announce that we’re in the final stages of completing a sale of Xmarks to a new owner who is 100% committed to keep our great browser sync service running smoothly.

http://blog.xmarks.com/?p=2007

(A truly fantastic and indispensable service, allowing you to use any browser at any time and have all the native bookmarks synced across browsers and OSes. I am one of many who wouldn't mind paying a fee somewhere between Pinboard.in and Evernote.)
Out of curiosity, given that Mike is a YC alum and presumably has gone through the YC interview process before, what are you seeking to learn from the other teams ?
Contrast that "knowledge" with facebook email addresses. How many people are really aware of whether or not their email on facebook is public, friend of friend, friend, etc?

This doesn't mean that your gmail contacts are non-private. I could have a private email address that I only use with close friends and a public one I use for signing up for services and business correspondence, etc. This misuse of contact information has already happened to me. I'm pretty sure Facebook knows all about who I know even though I have never had an account just because a number of my friends have signed up and pulled in their contacts from gmail.

Your complaint seems more like an argument for not allowing address book importing at all by any services. Which makes sense, actually, since I don't think address book exporting was meant to be sucked up by social networking services. It was meant to allow you to take your address book with you if you wanted to change email services.

And gmail doesn't want access to your friends list so they can import it into gmail, they want it for their forthcoming social networking product.
Memory management.

I think this makes it about twice as difficult to get up and running in c++. Not saying it's better or worse or going to make you a better programmer or not, but I don't think anyone could argue that it's easier to learn C++ than python/ruby/php/etc.

Also see: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000006.html
I think the idea that everyone has some thing that they are deeply passionate about is rather flawed. I think it's nice to have it but it's not necessary and nobody should let it stop them if they don't.
Incredibly well thought-out response. I agree that writing something from scratch for a FE dev is significantly easier than working on someone else's code. Traditional programming either works or it doesn't (or not well). Front-end devs all have a unique style of coding, unfortunately. There are a number of areas (CSS class names, for example) that have no industry-standard technique.

I like the idea of possibly redesigning hg-scm.org's public site. Seems like it'd be an easy-in to possibly get into rewriting the built-in Mercurial web server (and build some personal cred in the hg community).
Don't get me wrong, I think the plan would work just fine. I just don't buy the view that it's easy contribute to open source projects. It's not, nor should it necessarily be.
The most striking point was obviously bureaucracy. I wonder what the reaction this would get if it was company specific and included only people who had left the company.
Surviving romantic rejection
I agree that learning how to get a website up and running is an easier way to go (and hence more likely to succeed and be morale-boosting). Even if web development isn't considered as "hard-core" as working on compiled applications in C++, there are still a decent amount of jobs available.
Link gives me Less Framework 2. Here's the link directly to 3: http://lessframework.com/v3/
Rand,
This list is banal. About the only thing I Can agree with is installing some analytics software (preferably NOT Google Analytics) to monitor goals and traffic sources. The only thing you need to do when launching a website, or any business, is market your product off. Adding yourself to the various webmaster tools, tracking brand keywords via Google Alerts is all a huge waste of time and only makes sense (if it makes any sense at all!) once you actually have traction - links to look at, brand mentions to follow etc.

Ari
I'm pretty amazed by the recent decisions Microsoft has made with respect to open source projects. The level to which they've been cooperating with the community on Mono, jQuery, and the Iron* languages is something I certainly haven't seen before.

And the fact that they're accepting contributions to the NuGet project is pretty awesome too. .NET has needed something similar to gems for a while now.
I don't agree with the everyone's a winner attitude, but a focus on winning, rather than developing young players skill is like teaching kids to do well on a standardized test rather than teaching the fundamentals of the subjects.

There's a risk early 'success' will lead to the players not developing the skills they need to compete later.
High-resolution panoramas via Google Maps API
I suppose investors are brand names when you get down to it. Ever notice how movie previews always begin with "from the producer/writer/director of <popular movie x>"? Same thing here.

I'm curious why serial entrepreneurs don't get the same credit though. Perhaps investors just invest in more companies than serial entrepreneurs start.
I don't how "appliance" became the way people describe this, but yeah.
Click one and try your scrollwheel (if you have one).

Very clever solution!
Can I change the name of the app after I've registered?
I would love to see what Mike Vernal has to say about that.
My friend is quite impressive at the guitar despite never having lessons. He says the day he went from beginner/average to pretty damn good was when he decided to learn a Hendrix part way beyond his then skill level.
I am not sure how strongly that ToS rule is enforced. For example, the News.YC account (http://twitter.com/hackernews) consists entirely of FP links
If you were afraid of a falling dollar how long would you keep your assets in dollars?
I've heard from others who are researching the issue that there was no NOTAM. Also, people in the amateur rocketry community are being asked if this was one of theirs.

My guess: contrail + some people in the gov't bought the missile angle, but there was no missile. So now some officials are worried that someone launched a missile that they don't know about.
We'd like for them to use our product for the interview itself.
The author is the one comparing to Galaxy S, I was just pointing out:

"These prices compare quite well to the competition. The Samsung Galaxy S — a decent choice for the current “Best Android Phone on the Market” title (check back next week, though) — costs about $600 unlocked from Amazon, and only has only 8 GB of built-in storage. The HTC Desire costs just under $600. Google’s Nexus One, while they were selling it, cost $529."
Facebook Profiling
We're working on all new libraries that will be MUCH better than the ones we have now. Should be out soon.
Only 30% of iOS devices are iPod Touch. At android's growth rate, that'll maybe stave it off a quarter or two.
I think Twilio is going to get a few hundred or thousand dollars from me next year (please God, let it be a few thousand). That will pale in comparison to the revenues if they attract a few Fortune 500s to do big critical line-of-business apps through Twilio. (Think like e.g. automated flight status for Delta.)

Thomas and I were talking about this the other day. A lot of potential Twilio apps replace offline processes. Let me repeat that for emphasis: replace offline processes. That puts the potential cost savings at "ginormous".
Apache declares war on Oracle over Java
What’s The Average CPM For an Online Publisher?
I have Pharo 1.1.1 final with Cog installed on my MacBook. Cog really helps. James Robertson benchmarked VisualWorks (he is the VW evangelist), Cog_Pharo, and Squeak, and his benchmark show Cog generally doing much better than Squeak. The situation will get even better when parts of Pharo are rewritten for Cog. Anyway, give Cog and Pharo a try: qualitatively, it seems very snappy.
In this study, we had people from a variety of departments in companies respond. Not all departments are created equally; some are more progressive and creative than others. Unfortunately bureaucracy still seeps in--no matter the special rules you put in place or physical distance you add between groups.

I worked at an incredibly progressive group inside T-Mobile, and although my team was able to accomplish a great deal internally, the infrastructure around us stunted our productivity. This frustration ultimately led me to leave T-Mobile to start rahfeedback.com
Fixing things can be fun and educational; however, as a matter of routine maintainance there comes a time when it is no longer desirable or economical to repair. It's better to discard and replace.

I look forward to the time when we have sufficiently abundant power and other relevant knowledge to recycle everything by heating waste to a plasma, sorting, and converting the condensed atoms into useful stock compounds.
One-man Orchestra of the Imagination
Here's a better summary for the more biochemically nerdy:

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/par7.htm

I gave up alcohol a while ago. Reading stuff like this gave me a good excuse to never go back.
My point is that the DRM-style argument can't work because bits can't be restricted in this manner.

I mean, I'm still trying to figure out what "look but don't re-share" means. There's absolutely no way to enforce that.

Facebook saying that they are honoring user's settings is a false sense of security, because your address is accessible to me via my email program, that's how I was able to give it to facebook. I can still use your email address I already had for any purpose.

The only people their policy protects is people you friended on facebook without using email address book integration, but that's not the topic here.

I suppose if the false sense of security gets people to use your website, you can exploit that, but that doesn't mean you can actually enforce it. And somehow I doubt people's email addresses being exposed via facebook is going to keep the majority of people from using facebook: everyone already gets spam, and most people don't know how to track how an email address ends up in spamming lists. Facebook may already be selling email addresses to spammers and most people would never know.

It's actually in facebook's interest to sell email addresses rather than expose email addresses to third party apps that contact you via facebook, because third party apps that contact you via facebook reflect badly on facebook's other (maybe legit) emails that come from facebook's servers/domains.
Facebook is being completely two-faced about this. They're obfuscating the situation by turning this into a matter of "Google-owns-mail," whereas "Facebook-owns-contacts". In other words, Facebook's stance is that users own contacts in Facebook, meanwhile users own email addresses in Gmail. The truth is: all this really boils down to is email addresses and nothing else. If you said, "No duh!" to that last sentence and you're still siding with Facebook, re-read that last sentence again and think about it. Let me explain.

According to Facebook: Facebook can get email addresses from Google, but Google cannot get email addresses from Facebook.

Huh, does this sound fair?

I see the gears in your are head turning, stop thinking about this as a matter of "Gmail users own email" vs "Facebook users own contact lists."

That Facebook argument is fallacious because it's a lot like saying, "If Google were to deal drugs, it'd be okay for Facebook to acquire said drugs from Google. On the other hand, it would be oh-so-bad for society if Facebook were to sell drugs, when they're actually in the matchmaking business." Whether or not it's morally reprehensible to distribute drugs, at least one's stance on the matter should be consistent. Don't insult a user's intelligence by turning this into a matter of business and occupation, which is what they're doing. This is a matter of email-contacts between parties A and B, and nothing more.

I don't think Google is as open as they COULD be, but they have a long history of doing a helluva lot better job than Facebook.
Apple priced iPad very aggressively. No question about this. This is a brand new product category and Apple wanted to own it, and priced it that competitors find hard to compete. In fact, Jobs had warned about this, saying margins with iPad will be lower (i.e. no Apple tax). It was on the strength of this comment that I bought an iPad, something I would not normally do. In contrast, all the Windows tablet systems are still priced in the 3k mark.
What happens in your body when you drink a Coke
Hacker News is reasonably guilty of this. How many headlines have we seen with something like (YC W10) in it?
I think the relatively large number of things is part of the interest in this case.
Investor names are usually mentioned to establish social proof, but I find that it's rarely the case that the article itself focuses on the investor not the company.

For his example RockMelt, I just picked 4 random stories from Google News -- most of them mentioned Marc Andreesen but he wasn't the focus of the article.
"Zork" game found in Call of Duty: Black Ops
Yes, and?

Growable arrays use the same or less memory and offer random access to elements. They're not applicative, but then, if you insist on applicative data structures you're obviously not very concerned with performance anyway so there's no reason to bother with any particular data structure.