skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the less is more interface as well, but recently it's come to the point where there are too many stories and I need to start filtering out those that I shouldn't be spending time reading but make for guilty pleasures.

The tech crunch gossip articles while interesting and a quick read I know I should go without.

I think anyone actually working on a startup on here would agree that it'd be beneficial to just see those articles that are useful for founders (user acquisition, lifestyle management, scaling, user experience, etc.)

I also think it would be great for each user to set their own from page threshold. Someone who is mildly busy may want to see the top 100 articles per day while someone who is very busy may only want to see the top 20 per day.

I think the ability to follow topics and people like Quora does is also very valuable.
MaxMind does phone verification: http://www.maxmind.com/app/telephone_overview
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Is that what he meant? Because without having read any of his work, and relying only on my practice with relational DBs, I would say it would be nice if columns were not NULLable, thereby removing ambiguity from non-inner joins.
Notebook:
15" Macbook Pro, 8Gb mem, Hybrid HDD, Antiglare (matte) display.
- Quicksilver, with lots of other custom scripts
- SMCFanControl to control MBP Fan speed &
- gfxCardStatus to force use of Intel GPU (increases battery life to a 10hr maximum)
- iTerm, zsh with a 500 loc .zshrc, gnu screen (religiously) & VMWare running a Windows VM
- MacVim
- Lastpass & Xmarks for cross browser sharing of Password & Bookmarks.

Server:
- Colocated Sun x4100, 16Gb mem, runs 8 VMs using OracleVM (Xen + pretty web based UI)
- Colo costs $40/month, I get 500GB of monthly bandwith, includes a second

Others:
- STAND UP DESK (at work)
- Airport Extreme + attached usb printer for network printing.
I was just thinking this too: it looks like an ideal Kindle read.
When I was young, I thought that all of life was carbon-based. Later, I learned that there are also anxiety-based lifeforms. Who we all really could just do without.
Java is closed for commercial use under the terms of the GNU - did anyone notice how the press picked up on the story then it completely vanished from the news? ...guessing a gag order was issued
Punishing Nigerian Scammers
Who I am: CS student at UNC.

Hardware:

- 15" MBP

- 5 year old no-name Desktop

- 24" monitor

- iPhone 4

- iPad

Software:

- Everyday Apps: 1Password, Things, NetNewsWire, Skype, Echofon, Adium, Unison, Transmit, Concentrate (getconcentrating.com), Arc (for backups), Colloquy, Dropbox, iWork, Skitch, The Unarchiver, ScrobblePod, BusySync

- Browser: Chrome (99%)

- Dev: Vim, Textmate, iTerm, Sequel Pro, Eclipse, Brew, GitX

- VMs: Fusion with Ubuntu 10.10 and Windows 7
I thought it was a cool feature, a la snake games
I can't disagree more strongly with what you wrote.

People have a right to report the things that happen to them.

If they lie, I hope they get ruined in a defamation lawsuit, but honest personal testimony should not be discouraged or treated as a crime.

You disgust me.
* MacBook of some kind (currently 11" MBA) + 30" Apple Cinema Display + wireless keyboard + Magic Mouse

* Terminal.app

* TextMate

* Git

* Safari

* Chrome

* Homebrew

* Xcode

* Transmit

* Tweetie

* Adium

* Skype

* Mail.app

* Colloquy

* Cinch

* Dropbox

* Evernote

* And a whole bunch of command line tools. Run "history | awk '{ print $2 }' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n" to find your most common. Mine are:

rm, mv, make, cd, ls, open, mkdir, mate, man, find, git, cat , touch, echo
new accounts/submissions until I hit a gold mine, something that generated a ton of karma. This would make my initial HIndex very high, and give me 2nd, 3rd, and 4th posts a much larger edge.

I think this is exactly what the HIndex is designed to avoid. One jackpot high karma value only gives you HIndex "1". Two gives you HIndex "2", and so on.

The HIndex rewards a broad pattern where nearly every comment gets consistently well upvoted, rather than lots of ordinary comments and the occasional massive jackpot.

It's closer to the median than the mean.

Also my biggest pet peve with HN is often times really good thought out comments go overlooked

I agree. I think that, in general, karma should be viewed as generalised encouragement for the HN community to stay helpful and informative, rather than as tightly coupled to how helpful and informative each individual comment is.
+1 for the Piaf reference. I'm always two feet taller and wearing armour after hearing that song.
TextMate and Gedit for my more sundry programming needs

Emacs when I'm hacking on Clojure/(some-other-lisp)

Grooveshark for tunes

Unison for remote folder syncing (sucks on OS X, I'd love to have a replacement for this)

I have a knack for using sshfs/scp for perverse ends from time to time.

Fabric for deployment. Of anything.
US wants upper hand in battling high-tech bad guys
Gridl | gridl.com (30 Nov)

People search, more or less.
At work I have an HP xw-series workstation sporting two quad core Xeons and 12gb of RAM. I have a 24" main display and a 19" secondary, both Dells, hooked up to a fantastically terrible Quadro NVS290 video card. It runs Windows 7 and my primary code editor is Vim. I have development kits for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and Wii attached. I use Perforce for SCM at work and a mishmash of NAnt, Visual Studio, and XGE for builds.

I also have a secondary Core 2 Quad machine I use for PC games development as the video card is actually usable, also running Windows 7.
Does anyone else find it just a little bit chilling that the idea of a group of people educating themselves independently is seen by modern society as weird?
slick setup. I used to have a 30-inch Dell monitor way back when ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauls/642309070/ ). ended up selling it to ryan block because I thought it was too big and always had to move my head around to look at the screen. in hindsight I think it was just because my desk wasn't deep enough. ryan ended up selling it to someone else not more than a month later as he thought it was too big too haha.

I have yet to play with the ACD 27" but I think that might be the sweet spot for me.
You can save those terminal things as a Terminal window set (and make it the default on launch) If you set the right terminal profiles with the right start commands then open them in a window, hen you go into Window -> create window group...
If you're just looking for something to put a laptop on while standing, an adjustable music stand works nicely.
I'm King Arthur AP too. It's national; we bought the same flour in Safeway when we lived in San Francisco as we do in Chicago.

By the way: if you keep vodka in your house, it should always be in the freezer.
Lenovo X200. Fedora, emacs, chrome, and whatever gnome crap happens.

3.5' 2x4 LART.

You're damn right I'm a sysadmin.
Hardware

Desktop: Hackintosh, Core 2 Quad @ 2.83GHz with 8GB RAM and a GeForce 8800 GTS.

Laptop: Core 2 Duo MBP @ 2.26GHz with 4GB RAM

Server(s): Arch Linux

Software

MacVim, Python, Go, Chrome, Adium, Tweetie, Homebrew, Fabric, Git, git-flow, Rietveld, GMail, Redmine.
I tried that a bunch but couldn't get it to work the way I wanted for some reason. Then I tinkered with iTerm scripting, but I prefer Terminal so I ended up with my current AS + Automator combo.
Interesting article. Really though, a lot of it is more the connotation (this has too high contrast = too much saturation) vs. definition (the tint should be moved 56 to the right). One of my side projects tries to help people understand these relationships between color [1]. Really, the easiest thing to do is show the a color wheel (kuler rocks for this).

[1] - http://colorstreamapp.com/
http://www.amazon.com/Art-UNIX-Programming-ebook/dp/B003U2T5...
That depends on how and when you're going to use it. It's fine with small data sets, or if you're going to run the query and cache its output periodically. With MySQL you can also speed it up quite a bit by selecting only an indexed column rather than `SELECT *`.

But yeah, if it's in a query that you're going to run on every single hit to the index page of a busy site, then you're going to have problems.
FireShepherd is the antidote for Firesheep hacking mania 
EDIT: The Source Code : http://notendur.hi.is/~gas15/FireShepherd/
For people who might check this link a few days/months later, here the text as of Nov 8th:

Due to a hard drive failure which occurred at the same time as our backup system failed, the site is currently down. We expect to have full data recovery within the next few days.
As of 9th Oct 2010 the data recovery is still ongoing. We have been told to expect a result early next week, so crossed fingers, we are hoping to have service resumed on or around the 13th Oct.

As of 15th Oct 2010 the data recovery is still ongoing. Apparently the Western Digital HDD that died has corrupted itsown firmware, making it hard to extract the data from the disc.
As such, we are beginning the process of backup recovery from our most recent tier 2 backups which are a few weeks out of date, but waiting on the tier 1 recovery is getting ridiculous. We plan on working over the weekend on this recovery, and hope to have more news for you shortly.

As of 22nd Oct 2010 data recovery is STILL ongoing. The Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB drive that failed has chemical degredation on the surface making the data recovery much slower and harder.
All going well, we will have the older backups making sense soon, and will be back up to speed.

As of Nov 4th, we have been unable to bring the site back up yet, due to the discovery that the older backups bring brought online would end up with a number of users being unable to access their games due to copy protection issues. As such, rather than give ANY user a problem with their legally purchased game, we will be keeping the site down for the next few days while the final stages of data recovery are performed. All going well, we hope to be back up towards the start of next week.
I went into with my eyes open :-) For whatever reason, HN is "serious" whereas e.g. Reddit is "funny". Not sure why, but there you have it.

Anyways, every once in a while I make the decision to burn a few karma and say something stupid. Sorry if it stood in the way of somebody's sale to Google.
Fixed bid gives you a greater incentive to be efficient in my experience. If you're significantly quicker than your peers (e.g., have your own processes, frameworks, macros, etc.) then you can have large margins and happy clients if you can estimate decently. Another reason: you only have so many billable hours.
RockMelt: A Browser Built For Sharing (First Hands On And 500 Exclusive Invites)
I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with monads, it's just that nobody's figured out how to explain them yet :) This is somewhat compounded by the awful name and Haskell's less than practical character. My guess is that they'll turn up in a new language in a few years and everyone will wonder what they did without them.
Question on project-based pricing... Is it good to leave a final payment upon completion?

We didn't do that on my project and it was frustrating because there was no incentive at the end to get the final issues sorted out. We could tell that our contractors were burned out and ready to move on, but we needed our project completed as originally planned and it was hard to keep them motivated with no financial upside for them. Especially since, with all the delays, they had already spent more time on the project than they had budgeted for, so they were essentially losing money on the deal.

Yes, we could have agreed to put more money into this and started up a "new" project, but it didn't seem fair to us at that point...

Is it standard in the industry to leave a portion of the cost to be due only upon completion? Because I think that would have helped us, but we didn't know at the outset if it was within our bargaining power to try to get that...
"This is for entertainment purposes only" is how manufacturers cover their asses from liability lawsuits when someone uses their product illegally.
Your argument is so compelling. Now I see how wrong I've been. I'll just accept everything the ivory tower says from now on, on any topic, unconditionally. Brilliant.
You can't just join social sites, start posting incessantly, and expect anything good to happen.

I mean, we built up @TweetSmarter on Twitter to get more retweets than @NYTimes and it took a LOT of time—years of providing Twitter tech support and building up a reputation. Now, however, it's true that anything we talk about gets noticed. But it's the tip of the iceberg.
They are probably spooked that somebody is going to pull a Journal of Algorithms on them.
Haven't really heard of the author. I think the author is just trying to predict the death of Digg and hopefully get some karma from it should it eventually happen.

Some of the valid points include the large amount of VC funding and staff. However Digg is trying. The fact they are even laying off staff means they know the money won't last forever. Features targeted toward commercial clients means they are trying to pivot. Is it too late? Who the hell knows.

Author points to their business plan when they started. Just because they didn't know how to monetize out the gate doesn't mean it is bad. You rarely know everything when you start. And exactly how is "getting bought up" a bad plan. It might be foolish to rely on it solely but it certainly can factor in marketing position and overall strategy.

-Jeff
Location Vs. Cost: Touring U.S. Cities
The World of Garbage
I think this would bring up some interesting legal issues. I mean, obviously sending up ground to air missiles is likely going to be illegal just due to safety issues. But what if I, say, set up a drone that tangles up your drone in a net of some kind? something no more unsafe than the drone crashing due to problems? What if I only use this on drones flying low over my own property?
Nice Blackberry in Photoshop
Here is very long tutorial, in this tutorial you will be making BlackBerry in Photoshop. A lot things for you to learn in this tutorial. As we found some website are publishing our tutorials as it is without changing even pictures, so we’ll be uploading watermarked pictures now and onward.
If a machine gun with an SDK was currently sold, I would imagine it would include the following conditions;

"Machine gun shall have for its sole purpose training, sport and 'making a loud, satisfying noise'. Use for military purposes or for turning snitches and rival mafia dons into bloody swiss cheese is strictly forbidden"
But, unions have no incentive to lobby the government in this matter on behalf of anyone other than airline employees. By definition, the airline unions don't represent the general public, so they can't be expected to lobby on behalf of the public.
Maybe they feel like its not a problem for them because average users trust them without a second thought.
From the VoltDB FAQ (http://community.voltdb.com/faq#id545596):

Key-Value stores are a mechanism for storing arbitrary data (i.e. values) based on individual keys. Distributing Key-Value stores is simple, since there is only one key. However, there is no structure within the data store and no transactional reliability provided by the system.
Inspired by UsesThis I created this site for Hacker News
Inspired by usesthis.com and the response here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1880797 I created this site: http://hnsetups.com/

Feedback welcome! It's a little sparse, so design advice would be extra helpful.
Inspired by usesthis.com and the response here I created this site: http://hnsetups.com/
What is it that RockMelt does extremely well? I'm using the beta and I don't see anything. It requires me to change my behavior in terms of searching etc, which I hate. Lastly, Rockmelt is distracting. There is way to much 'stuff' going on. It looks like a nasa dashboard with the Facebook profile photos flashing and icons updating.
Rescue Time or Time Doctor, what works for you?
Check out this comparison of Rescue time and Time Doctor http://www.timedoctor.com/blog/2010/07/25/how-is-time-doctor-different-than-rescue-time. On the surface, both programs do appear to be similar, but the approach and the practical applications of each product are vastly different. Find out what works for you.
What are you doing here Jae. Get back to work! :)

+1 to Jae. Bay area has lots of resources but getting community around it is hard.
Category Theory, Postmodernism, and Object-Oriented Programming
Combine it with c) and make it something like 'Contribute and be visible'. No distinction (at that level) between it being sharing and useful (Patrick) or just overdone noise (many others), but they're both taking a similar tack.

The bloggers who blog about making money from blogging would be in that category.
So... the plain browser experience is okay, but nothing out of the ordinary... I'm not feeling the "social" aspect of it all yet, except for highly sub-par Facebook & Twitter feeds on that right sidebar. And those are too crammed and cluttered to provide a good experience.

I don't want to just use this as a Chrome substitute simple because if I ignore the extra features, it feels essentially the same... I'm not going to give a company so much in terms of data on my activities & potential revenue for so little added value in exchange.

I want to "get" this. But I haven't had my ah-ha moment yet. Will keep trying a bit longer though...
Replace Unison with Dropbox.
Offer HN: ASP.Net, C#, or MS SQL help
I've been working for a software company in NYC for 3.5 years and have gotten pretty proficient at ASP.Net, C#, and Microsoft SQL Server, and would love to help anyone out! I can also offer vendor agnostic SQL data modeling and querying help to the best of my ability.

Feel free to comment here, or email me at my HN username @gmail.com.
Or possibly the NULL should behave more like a modern NULL and have a different truth table for it. I don't think it is coincidence that no modern NULL value in a programming language acts like the SQL NULL.

People will usually reply to my criticisms about SQL NULL by pointing out that it is logically consistent, which is true, but it's not the only logically consistent NULL we can define. I know the theory behind the SQL NULL quite well, well enough to observe just how rarely it matches SQL practice.
I've been mobile for the past year, so just a 17" MBP (mid-2010), 8/500. I'm going to upgrade it to 512GB SSD + 1TB rotating HD soon. Right now I carry 5 x 500GB hard drives for photos (and backup), music, and 2 x data backups. The critical component: UltimateEars 10vi headphones (upgrade from Etymotics ER4S).

I usually have a high-spec Linux desktop with 3 x 24" portrait-mode U2410 IPS panels, and a 24-30" second monitor for the laptop, at my desk. I'll probably try some combination of Mac Pro and iMac (at home or office) next, but I think I'll keep the linux desktop too. Critical component: Beyerdynamic DT770pro sealed headphones (office), Sennheiser HD650 open headphones (home). May upgrade to HD800 at some point, or speakers.

I need to be able to do office automation and image editing (and maybe now iPhone dev?) (mac), lots of sysadmin/text editing/dev (mac or linux), and to also have a way to keep "work" and "fun" stuff on separate machines at the same desk. I also often need to have "machine under test" (embedded, server prototype, etc.) separate, and also sometimes need to run one or more machines on an airgapped network.

This leads to wanting 2 x 20A power feeds to my desk, and a good air conditioner. A noise-isolated enclosure would be an awesome upgrade (or a nearby office with some long DVI/keyboard/USB cables and a remote power cycler...)

$250 armless "size C" Aeron at home; probably will get an Embody or something for the office.

Also need to get an office: planning to use a shared office space in Mountain View for Q1-Q2 2011.
F-Spot was dropped for a single reason, which turned out to have both political and practical backing: it requires Mono to be part of the default Ubuntu install.
Like everything I've seen from Inc and Entrepreneur magazines, this has a low signal-to-noise ratio.
And email is worthless compared to snail mailing.
Don't people argue that jQuery is DOM manipulation in monads? I sure ask what I did before jQuery :)

http://importantshock.wordpress.com/2009/01/18/jquery-is-a-m...

HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=439116
UPDATE: I'm now seeding the file. You can find the torrent at http://api.ihackernews.com/
Copy the nytimes article link. Go to google and search for the link. You should be able to click through to the article without the login screen. Hope it helps.
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'without even trying?' Seems more like 'if at first you don't succeed...'

During our 2-week beta test period, I had tried [unsuccessfully] to get some initial traction on Hacker News by writing a few posts on this blog about launching a start up, building an audience, etc. My attempts were likely unsuccessful because just as we were preparing to launch, there was a glut of “Ask HN” submissions [...]

TBH, I think it's more because posts about launching a startup or building an audience are not interesting unless you're already famous. I do look at 'rate my...' posts, but I'm a lot more likely to look up someone's company via their profile because they make interesting posts or comments on a variety of subjects. If their submissions are always about their own site, I start avoiding them - like a person at a party who's there solely for networking purposes, or a personal injury lawyer at a funeral.

Edit: I don't mean that you're doing this Lance. I mean some people who have posted 100 times but only ever about themselves.
Every profession or even interest has this. Time spent disparaging it is lost.
I'm very excited to see where this sort of pattern goes. Swiss-army knife middleware projects are much less interesting to me than the more minimalist approach possible directly using 0MQ.
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Full Hacker News database for download (posts, comments, points, date, username)
- I agree with others in saying the red is harsh. Only the gradient though. The top part and buttom is good.

- I understand what you are doing...I think. You are trying to optimize my website for mobile. Okay...but how? I don't see a demo (at least easily accessible one). And if I want to find how I have to give up a litany of things: my site name, my url, my RSS feed (I don't even have one), my adsense mobile code, and my e-mail. That's a lot.

- I am not quite sure what GMBH stands for.

Sorry if any of this sounds harsh (not meant to be).

-Jeff
I suppose; unfortunately, the talk was in the context of making the same kinds of changes to your, or any random, site to make it more feasible to use SSL.

Also unfortunately, when there is mixed protocol content, especially with email, you're not asserting trust of the page origin, but of the additional assets loaded. Google has no control over the content referenced in emails. Encouraging people to ignore the warnings doesn't make anyone safer, if people are not informed enough to care or not.

One of the suggestions was to use shorter key lengths to make SSL less expensive to process, this wasn't considered a welcome suggestion by many of the more security conscious and vocal folks in the room.
Only time will tell if this is a workable solution, but at least the identification of some current systemic problems is accurate.