skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I considered using double-rot13 for impenetrable encryption. But figured I'd be kind and let those who have access to powerful enough hardware decrypt it with only a single rot13 pass.
I quite like my Slovenian keyboard thank you very much. I have all the stuff I need to program (PHP mostly, so C would be cool to), and I have used English keyboards and didn't like them.

I'm sorry if I'm rude, but there are other characters than a-z (which I need to input quite frequently). And that is a concept English speaking developers seem rather hard to grasp (judging by most of the software out there). I just wanted to point that out.
How HeyZap's Viral Strategy Led to 10 Million Monthly Users
Why would you marry at all? As you point out yourself, before you succeed it carries a lot of ballast, and increases the risk; and once you're successful, why would one want to tie himself (or herself, for that matter) down?
IOS 4.2 golden master brings final iPad tweaks before release
It serves up fun.
The unixlike nature of certain tools is what makes the Unix architecture more or less unique. Look at binutils and you'll find heaps of tools with amazing abilities like dd, cat and echo. For me, vim wins over emacs precisely because ultimately it's an editor. Emacs for me is a whole operating environment like Gnome (although I use both and appreciate that vim can be heavily extended).
Why is it obvious? If it was so obvious, there wouldn't be so many parents failing in it (many perhaps unwillingly).
look at my comment above - the form version i put up should handle the destructive edit problem
Also I believe you cannot down-vote comments you reply to or that reply to you or something of the sort. That is to avoid flame wars.

I think the grandparent (xatax) is being far too timid, I am sure 221 karma is enough to do anything on here that any other non-moderator is allowed to do.
A lot of people have been talking about this as a failure, but I'm not so sure it's either a straight failure or success.

The Times lost a lot of traction, but in doing so gained a lot of revenue both direct and indirect. Add to that the reduction in potential overhead (server 100,000 users instead of millions) and the ability to add content from the main newspaper without fear of it being 'stolen' (compared to if it was open - yes I know it'll be shared in some form anyway, it's news after all, but that's not necessarily how the powers that be may perceive it, and they may feel it's better to push content from the dead tree version out. I don't know, I don't subscribe to either) and you have something that is significantly more profitable than before. If that's the goal, then they win. If bums on seats is the goal, then they lose.
Sounds fair.

I'm glad my recent 'weekend project' got through. I've implemented the majority of the feedback I've gotten and like my site a lot more now. What's more is my "I made $1" multiplied to the point where it paid for the domain and a month of hosting & a little bit more.

There's still a few weeks work before I could call my redesign 'finished' but I'm really looking forward to the point where I can post another follow up and show off all the value HN has given me. Quality advice is really just invaluable.

RMS (weekend project) posts are what gave me the inspiration to do them myself.
I prefer:

cd $WEB_DIR;
python -m SimpleHTTPServer
Skyfire for iOS gets App Store approval, available soon
The wiki has its benefits, the best being that I can revert to previous versions if somebody messes up a page edit or does graffiti on a page.

The wiki is not very granular, though. Nor is it easy to edit. The current setup is going an overhaul and being replaced with a "much better" version that I'm still testing. I hope to have it implemented publicly within a month.
Is scaling up your architecture 40x free?

(Actually, for static content, it might be. But remember, each user using your site has some incremental cost. If the incremental cost exceeds what they generate in ad revenue, you lose.)
ASK HN: Why are people so dumb?
I know it's a vague question, but seriously I am asking myself this question more and more. I need to move to San Fran. Arizona is driving me nuts.
3 Obvious Signs That Will Tell You If a Man Likes You
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I don't have a startup but dreams of doing it dance in my head. After reading this and realizing that I could miss out on the benefits of the hn community when the time comes because I've just lurked for the past 700 days, I'm logging in now to get more involved. Not sure if that's the result @pg would like to see, but that's how this policy strikes me. Hopefully others like me can figure out when to lurk and when to speak.
As a volunteer in a grass roots campaign in the 2007 primaries, Mr. Feingold's unAmerican anti-free speech law was a major pain in our asses as we tried to fight the more established political interests. I am so happy to see that man go. He should retire or get an honest job.

Campaign finance laws make it so that candidates supported by passionate minorities cannot be heard. If you are not 1) personally rich or 2) a mainstream candidate in a mainstream party you have no opportunity to speak. This is ironic considering such laws are usually passed as a way to fight "entrenched interests", but they do exactly the opposite.

>"Sorry that you've been brainwashhed."

That tone is a little overboard for this website community.
Love the idea, but the UI makes it feel a little unconvincing. If you need some front-end help, drop me a line and we can chat tonight.
For the most part it isn't. I saw this reported in the mainstream media a couple times today and it was spun as a resounding success.

Tech blogs are run by ideologues in favor of everything being free.
Thanks on both counts. Reducing friction in use is something we aim to do.
Off topic... but welcome back from your sabbatical. You may want to update your profile :)
Ask HN: Any YC W2011 applicants heard back yet?
post your results here if so ... I hope we can get a working list of who/what got accepted to an interview and who got turned down ... could be a great post to archive and check again in 5-10 years :)
I saw your site mentioned on HN a few weeks ago and checked it out then.. I think it's great.. the design and user experience is especially well done!
rick roll?

Nope.
i'd prefer to be in a stable relationship while working for myself. it is helpful to have an "anchor" person who gets what you're doing, at least, or abides its because they love you. when you spend all your time pitching somewhat crazy ideas and getting them shot down, its nice to be able to come home to someone who doesn't need to be "sold" on anything.
The 12 Pillars of Wisdom
I've heard it is still around. Never knew how to use it myself.
* page loads are slower: in a web 2.0 app they're also a one-off, and if you want to you can do dynamic loading of modules. it's not that bad, due to HTTP GZ compression.

* pyjamas-web is an experiment to do pure-html, executing the exact same python pyjamas app SERVER-SIDE. disabled folk: wrong. look at GWT accessibility.

* googlebot: not entiiirely correct. look up the (rather stupid "!" referral system that google "invented") - and again, look up "pyjamas-web" experiment.

l.
My Paywall Start-up,Qasto
Here is the invite link: (valid for 100 signups only)
http://www.qasto.com/signup/7586/
This is immensely tragic, never let yourself be made to feel that pain is relative and thus unimportant. I can not imagine what those close to them are going through.
Actually, I think that's wrong. A very small number of media owners think that. And even they did, they'd have to think that search in general, not just Google is the threat.

Anyone writing about tech and especially those writing digitally knows that search drives tons of traffic. And no tech reporter I know would ever take direction on coverage from the business side of their publication.

Blekko got written about because they are a great story.
Use with caution ... and chroot.
Strang's Calculus book is available for free. Is the Spivak book a much better resource? I'm not familiar with either one, but I've seen both recommended before.

http://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-18-001-calculus-online-text...
I don't mean the shell will sync with the phone -- I mean the shell will be an alternative display/control peripheral for the phone. One computer, two ways of using it.

Trying to keep two computers in sync is a pain in the ass whether there are wires or not.
Here is the invite link: (valid for 100 signups only)
http://www.qasto.com/signup/7586/
Some schools already have an Management Information Systems (MIS) major, which is basically business computing, and/or Software Engineering, which focuses more on teamwork and project management. We should be pressing more schools to offer those majors so that students who want to become software developers will have other options.
Then the CS major would be able to focus more on theory and preparing students to do research (just like real scientists).
Ah, youth.

When you fall in love, you fall in love. Spending time on the relationship at that point is highly worthwhile. And kids are their own reward. Seriously, most of us come hard wired to want kids, and a large portion never realize that until you have your own.

But if you're not ready, then by all means don't get married. But be aware that you're missing out.
One thing I don't like about the moral «obligation» to vote is that to many people, casting a ballot is all the political action they can consider. Politics seems reduced to elect one of the two big parties. It seems that the alternative is, either to vote or to not make any political action.

While others believe in voting, I believe in entrepreneurship for the sake of eroding politics.

I have deep philosophical problems with governments and politics in general. That's not likely to change.

However, I am not a cynical person. I believe I could change and undermine the influences of governments and introduce voluntary and non-coercive form of organizations.
Australia is one of my most favourite places on Earth (Canada being the other, particularly Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver). I love Queensland myself. Bris vegas is a beautiful city. The only place I didn't like was Woden in Canberra, and I can see why Aussies are contemptuous of any Politician that lives in Canberra.

I think everyone should go to Australia at some point, visit the beautiful country. I also think everyone should go to Canada. Amazing places at opposite ends of the world.
I believe there was some work done using small talk to teach children physics where they were able to do quite complex things without having to understand calculus... can't quite find the link right now.
Used that exact trick to get an ex-girlfriend's car out of short-term parking in the old Denver airport where it had been sitting for two weeks. She went to her mother's funeral on short notice and didn't know she parked in the expensive lot...My roommate and I figured out that trick to save her hundreds on parking on her return when I went to get her car.
I'm sorry to hear that brother. Thank you for posting.
has anyone tried the zoho one? I know it is not free though
Django gotcha: concrete inheritance
Perhaps event better: http://webapps.stackexchange.com/?tab=featured
Not as of yet - we have a form/spreadsheet going that keeps track of this, go fill it in here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1862266
I'm afraid I like Shopobot more. Camel is waaaaay too crowded, just like the myriad of other price aggregators. Just too much on the same page.
Oh, I was talking about regular expressions in terms of (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression#Formal_langu...). You can't do decrementing in this sense.
As it turns out, there is no way I could have done CarWoo! without my wife's support. But that's a topic for another blog post. Go figure.
This is akin to saying someone can come along and make a $20 smart phone and Apple will lose all of their iPhone revenues.

People will pay more for quality. No offense to you, but your blog would likely not be considered that by 100k people, at least not enough to pay. (Neither would mine). Quality content costs real money to produce, some schlub like you or me writing our opinions online does not.

Charging certainly wouldn't work for bloggers, but it just might for outlets like this or the WSJ or the NYT. There's a market for both.
Ask HN: Any experience with LyricFind or Gracenote?
I've been writing an iPhone app in my spare-time that is based around song lyrics and would like to hear from anyone who has interacted with either of the two lyric licensing companies LyricFind or Gracenote.

So far Gracenote haven't responded to my request for information, and my offer from LyricFind was prohibitive for a small-time entrepreneur like myself. Ideally I'd like a per-app sale arrangement so that so I can get feedback and gauge whether my app has potential, but LyricFind offered me a 12 month contract with minimal monthly payments.

What kind of deals have people done?
Has anyone put an app into the App Store containing lyrics without a license, or any unlicensed copyrighted material? What happened?
Any other ideas or suggestions?

Please contact me directly for more details - ckubicek(at)gmail.com

Thanks,
Charles
Aside from the good meta points made above, and regarding programming/hacking/IT:

1. Get him started with Lisp and/or Scheme first, on Linux.

Here's a great story illustrating why (in addition to pg's must-read essays on his site), along with a reference to a great book, The Schemer's Guide (which is out of print, grab one while you can still find one in used stores):

http://www.trollope.org/scheme.html

2. Linux only (or BSD, or Minix, or similar FOSS OS). You learn far more about how computers and computing work using Linux than with Windows or Mac. After he's become proficient with recursive thinking and all the other goodness Lisp teaches, get him K&R, a laptop or PC with Linux on it, and kernel hack with him.

3. Throw out the TV. 100% trash. Even 'educational' stuff is not really educational in that it is passive learning, which does no one any favors. Learning is doing, analyzing, deconstructing, hacking, making, building, not passively watching.

4. Second the advice to read to him and with him as much as possible. For all the reasons mentioned above.
That should be easy - store just the graph, not the actual values :)
I'd love to hear more about how they lined up their dealer network.
Still checks out, Safari sends the OS in the UA string;

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Safari/533.18.5

vs

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_5; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Safari/533.18.5
Read to him when he is young, with him when older. It is the most stupidly effective academic intervention I'm aware of.

Actually evidence suggests that this is not true. Energy spent reading to kids helps a bit, but what makes a long-term difference is to be seen frequently reading for yourself. Otherwise you wind up in the trap that the kid learns that reading is for babies.
What separates you from something like CPALead? (Other than a slick design.)

It's definitely a winning idea -- There are several other people in the sustaining themselves in this market, so while there is competition, I also know there is room for growth.

However you're monetizing it, I'd look to geo-target specific methods based on country.

Also, you can look at online marketing forums (warrior forum, wickedfire (maybe), digitalpoint, and blackhat world to advertise your services. Right now CPALead has a virtual lock on these industries in terms of locking premium content.

Also, facebook will typically either ban/warn you or delete your linking page if you link to protected material.
Ask HN: Would you run Sophos' free mal-ware removal tool on your Mac?
I just read that Sophos is offering a free mal-ware checking/removal tool for Mac (http://www.9to5mac.com/33479/sophos-ships-free-anti-malware-tool-for-macs)

I've not run such a tool since the dark days of owning Windows boxes 4+ years ago, but I'm now seeing more discussion of such threats to Mac I'm wondering how concerned other fellow tech-orientated folks are about this.

Would you install this?
Link: http://www.9to5mac.com/33479/sophos-ships-free-anti-malware-...
P.S. Try this link http://pastebin.com/q2AXes8u
I as well. I've been 'lurking' on hacker news for almost two years. It doesn't mean I don't want to participate, it's just that whenever I do have something to say it's typically been addressed already by another user (the topics I'd probably post on are the hot-topics that draw more eyes.) And I'd rather not add redundancy to comments. To me the natural game mechanics that arise from 'gunning for karma' by being first to post (relevantly) takes a lot of effort.
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Core i7 920 on Chrome 9 (canary). Both sides are equally fast, but there's a visible stutter when the ball's moving quickly.
Yes. Otherwise, how could we make fun of the Americans?

(But, too be fair, prices for b2b stuff are normally quoted without VAT (or MWSt to be German).)
This issue keeps coming up. This is a pretty narrow definition of multitasking and is not really considering things that get parallel. I had an argument with my high-school friend about this, and wrote http://www.ciexinc.com/blogs/daily/080601.html

Now I do agree with Joel that there are certain kinds of tasks that are very expensive to interrupt, but to rule out all kinds of multitasking based on Italian judges or brain scan imagery, no.
NSFW - One Company Is Capitalizing From Brett Favre's Shortcomings
Block any submissions from accounts with under 10 (or similar) karma. A tiny amount to earn through comments but enough for nearly all spammers not to bother. There are enough users on HN submitting things now without pandering to those who can't even post a few insightful comments.
Ah yea, following that link works, but clicking "Sign up" on the front page gives me "Sorry: Your invite code is not valid".

Also, your signup form gives me a headache. I'd recommend the standard flow down the page, or splitting it up on different pages.
On the downside this might prevent some great dramatic literature from being created.
Incidentally, Emacs 24 removes the dashes from the modeline, so using Ymacs is almost a bit nostalgic!
You're a developer when you have a piece of code that you've written is in production. Until that happens, you're a coder, a programmer, a bug monkey. When you have code in production, that code is something you developed. You are a developer. It's the difference between an aspiring writer and a published one.
Thanks. I tried it. The biggest challenge seems to be to make your layout planar.
It may have improved a lot recently, but the one project I was using Darcs on had this workflow:

1. Pull revisions
2. Discover local workspace was corrupted.
3. Delete local workspace and restart.

I'm not a fan of Darcs either. :)
Age and average comment karma.
I'm sure a lot of bad politicians were elected by stupid or evil voters (i.e. bad citizens).
As tptacek pointed out, I have nearly 1000 Karma. Does that make me a social media guru? ;)
If this was implemented, I'd imagine the quality of names for RMS candidates would drop off a cliff!

I've got to imagine that everyone who reads these forums has at least 2-3 domains that they've owned for a while for future projects.
something like NSFW would have been very nice. some of us check HN while at work.
Text Usage by Age, Pareto Principle
Through a ton of phone calls :). We followed our buyers and built some scheduling software to help us prioritize notifying existing dealers and contacting new ones to satisfy the buyers. Another great topic for another blog post. Stay tuned.
Next, web-based vim please!
I saw the occasional number in my studies.

We'd rather calculate with knows than numbers. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knot_theory)
I would love to hear how McCain-Feingold hurt you when it came to "fighting more established political interests".

The inability to throw millions of soft money into the race made it harder to fight the established political interest? Or made it harder to harness established lobbyist interest?

Under McCain-Feingold, candidates can self-fund for any amount, and donations are limited to $2300/head, that's $4600 for married couples. If you can't find 1000 people to support you, you shouldn't be in politics. If you can't find 1000 people to support you but have one guy cutting 10 million dollar checks, you DEFINITELY shouldn't be in politics.
cat "$filename"

...

Oh dear. Ohdearohdearohdear.

Now all we need to do is make sure that the first character in $filename is "&" followed by some privilege escalation exploit and ...

(Am I missing something?)
"Mission fucking accomplished"

http://xkcd.com/810/
The Art of Failure - Malcolm Gladwell
Ask HN: When did this life suddenly click for you?
When did it hit you that coding was not just something you could do, but something you wanted to do - something you could maybe see yourself doing all the days of your life, or maybe the thing that will earn you your PhD or get you into the corner office of your own business empire?

How did that first moment of epiphany feel? Did it come like a shiver down your spine when that compiler ran through your code without errors that first time? Did you look at what you had just done, and think "I can make so much money from this?"

They say that, like the first kiss, you never forget your first time. So spill.
Unlike most other marketplaces, we're fortunate that we can build the network in an ad-hoc fashion.

Essentially, every time a buyer pays us, we reach out to just the dealers in that person's immediate area and get them to sign up. It's surprisingly easy because we come to them with a buyer who has paid money to help them buy a car that the dealer who's on the phone has on his lot.

Increasingly, though, as volume increases and dealers become more aware of CarWoo!, we don't even need to call.
It may be tiring, but it's still true. "[svn|rails|regex|whatever] is bad because I don't get it" is not an argument, just an expression of laziness/lack of interest.