skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The current trend of Apple shifting its marketing emphasis from innovation as what differentiates their hardware to access to content as the differentiator is, in my mind, a radical shift.

I think the MacApp store may be a sign of a more fundamental issue for Apple - they have one UI that looks and feels less cutting edge every day and doesn't scale well beyond a 5"-9" screen...and another which hasn't had significant architectural improvements for some time (and doesn't scale down to 5"-9").

Apple may not have mortgaged the farm for iOS, but it appears that they have bet a significant portion of their future on it, perhaps without fully acknowledging the scaling issues. The shift towards content and media access as what makes an Apple product "insanely great" is not a good sign for those whose concern is utility.
Mark Zuckerberg also exists.
Linode Dallas Colo is completely down
Not knowing enough about chemistry: what are the chances of people with medicine bought in another country being stopped as carrying something "substantially similar" to a drug?
Hendrix?

:)
It's up again.
I'm trying but I cant figure out the reason for this guideline. Or why, as a reader, I would care if a subject began with a integer? I know a lot of spammy submissions are like this on sites like digg, but if blocking spam was this easy, I could just filter my inbox on the exact phrase "viagra" and defeat all spammers worldwide.
dinero
Pretty cool project! Is there a feed anywhere, or will you post the results afterwards?
What I typically do is write down a list of words that can describe your project (its function, value proposition, etc) in one word, then spend lots of time on instantdomainsearch.com going through each word on that list, modifying it with various changes in spelling (a la Googol -> Google) or pre/suf-fixes (pad, cloud, etc).
One could say Wave failed because of a lack of users. Especially users meaningfully connected to each other. Really it doesn't matter if the software is shit. Millions of people flock to crappy PHP forums all over the world. Facebook has those users with reasons to talk to each other.

Whether that makes Facebook more important than Google I don't think is what's really going on here.
Mandolinux

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandolin
‘Underbelly Project’ Hidden Art Show in Abandoned Subway Station
Was it this one:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1687701

I did the same thing, based on that post.

Edit: er, maybe not that one, can't find it in the page. Could have sworn that was it though...
We have our own crawl/index/serve technology end-to-end. We have a 3 billion page web crawl, a machine-learning trained ranker, and then the slashtag vertical features. Since BOSS gives us an additional 20-40B pages for very long tail queries, we fall into /yahoo if we don't have any of our own results.

We're auto-firing slashtags for certain regular queries now, e.g. [cure for headaches] will auto-fire /health, [industrial design colleges] will auto-fire /colleges. We're doing this initially for health, lyrics, colleges, autos, hotels, recipes, and personal finance.

Getting the crap from sites like ehow out of the results and pushing results into a curated set of high-quality sites for queries in spammy categories really cleans up the results there.
Very much agreed. Fogbugz also has one of the simplest "surface" interfaces. It manages to hide all the complexity, without sacrificing feature, leading to very smooth workflows. Trac, Bugzilla, and JIRA (I haven't used Redmine) all seem to lead a sort of "fragmented" style of use, where you transition between thought modalities, while Fogbugz keeps it very streamlined.
Is BDD = TDD? Or more like Acceptance Test?

To my understanding, we need both. As in, we need TDD for unit-level, and BDD/Acceptance Test (like Fit/FitNesse) for high-level.

Is this correct?

Pardon me if I'm not really high into these various testing technique other than TDD because

1) It's damn hard to make people even start writing Unit-tests let alone doing TDD

2) It's damn hard to make people do TDD

3) It's even harder to argue that some people are actually writing unit-tests as opposed to integration-tests (especially for those who uses NoSQL database)

4) We're not even at the point where we knew how to write good unit-tests (yes, we know some rule, for example, not touching the database, and so on, but I bet there are other better ways unexplored in regard to writing good unit-tests)

So with that in mind, I'll focus on one problem at a time. Once I feel that TDD is at the "proven level", then perhaps I'll check BDD.
It is true. Most of these websites have what I call 'popular SaaS'. I don't know if it is the 'right' design, but it seems to be used by many web apps.

There is a menu bar across the top with 'why x', 'demo', 'features', 'blog', 'signup' or 'pricing', and 'login'. Below is a nice picture or screen shot with a punch line and a big call-to-action button. And below that is misc boxes of text trying to communicate more about the product.

This seems to be a lot of what you want to communicate to potential buyers and is claimed to be one of the most effective designs (one source is the book Start Small Stay Small http://startupbook.net). It seems to be a standard of sorts. It would be interesting to know if this design is proven to be the most effective basic design known for selling web apps, or what is better.
Sort of unrelated, but looks like you just gave me a nice big list of Linux audio programs to check out :)
VS 2010 /c# asp.net , ANSI C, Notepad++
Mac:xcode: objective C, Clang

I bought a new Logitech MK550 Wireless Keyboard and mouse.
I can work for hours with this ergo keyboard. Very good boost in productivity for $70
> it sounds like you are in the grip of that "money as debt" video

I wouldn't word it that way. The movie, whether you like it or not, raises some valid points, and I think calling the whole system a debt-money system is a good thing, at least it raises awareness about it's nature. Most people don't have the slightest clue how money is made.

Not only that; but I think it's more accurate, factual, and honest to call it debt-money rather than "fractional reserve banking". Fractional reserve can have a different meaning: it could mean you lend out most of what people entrust you with. That would still be a fractional reserve, because you're only keeping a fraction of what's in your trust.

> but just like real hacking, there's another side. Such "hacks" expose weaknesses, inefficiencies, and irrationality.

These hacks are legalized and institutionalized, it's basically a whole industry. It's very main stream stuff.
How To Write Well
Very sorry, my mistake. I thought I had checked and confirm that it did appear to the right and I must have looked too quickly. No, I don't think there is a way to swap those columns. (At least not through Vim 7.2, Vim 7.3 introduced relative line numbering and maybe it has a teak in addition to that -- but I doubt it.) It's not too hard to adjust line indenting so it defaults to minimum that is greater than 1, say 2 or 3, but that would be sort of an ugly hack, inserting blank spaces into your document for mere purpose of viewing more space between line column and text.
Definitely the first thing I thought when I read the name in Github. "Woah! Really? Oh, now I see it"
A lot of designer drugs are synthesized in places like Israel, which has no law prohibiting drug analogs. Mephedrone started to become widely popularized in the Middle East and Europe because of an Israeli manufacturer/online distributor.

Quote from the pharma crime director of Israel's Ministry of Health: "Israel, to my sad dismay, is a major leader in designer drugs for this reason."
Why hadn't she been in touch before? I find it slightly far-fetched that she had actually tried to get in touch before, and the only way she managed was through facebook.
We currently have large excesses of power at nighttime, (production cannot be scaled down and back up in a 24hr period) so the effect could be mitigated by that.
Good Academic Bad Human Being
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Shreddix?
Hmm, /lyrics in particular doesn't seem to do what I personally want, though I'm not sure how it could easily be fixed. What I want in order of preference is usually: 1. the official lyrics page, if any; 2. lyrics from a fan site, if one exists; 3. lyrics from one of the big ad-filled lyrics sites, like lyricsmode.com, only as a last resort (I tend to put them in the same category as ehow/etc.).

But it seems the /lyrics slashtag explicitly gives me #3, and actively excludes any results from the #1 or #2 categories that would normally come up.

For example, the ideal result for the search [pearl jam spin the black circle], imo, is the official page, http://pearljam.com/song/spin-black-circle. Without /lyrics this is the #4 result, which is decent. But when I add /lyrics, the official lyrics page gets excluded!
Heathrow and Manchester some years ago. I'm not sure what the current situation is. They're definitely not used on arrivals, but I haven't been flying out from London lately.
I love the results, the slashtags, and the awesome metadata, but I hate that the search box is relentlessly autofocused on result pages. This breaks keyboard scrolling and some other keyboard interactions, like hitting backspace to navigate back to the previous page.

Autofocus is fine on the front page of a search engine, but it gets in the way on result pages.
Ask HN: How much a 'Promoted Tweet' costs on Twitter?
Does anyone here has experience with advertising with twitter? How this thing works? What does a 'promoted tweet' costs? Is it just too high for a startup ? Not much information is available on twitter.com
Why does it require JavaScript to load a script about JavaScript?
Happily, that can't spread via malware - and would be visible to the user, though a long delay could possibly avoid that (is there any way for a device connected via usb to figure out when the computer is idle?). But yes, when you plug something in to your computer, you are explicitly saying that you trust that it is what it claims to be, before even thinking about what nasty things it may be holding in its memory. Or whether it may be wired to short out the usb port, or the computer it's attached to.
"I would temper this with we are likely in the age of unmarked data and unstructured data. Less often are we asked to automate a known prediction and more often we are asked to cluster, characterize and segment wild data. In my opinion the hard problem in machine learning has moved from prediction to characterization."

I would say instead we are in the age of Discovery. The hard problem is discovering causes that give rise to coherency in large sets of real world data.

As to whether we are in the age of large computers, the classification is irrelevant. We are in the age of sufficiently large computers. There is sufficient power and scale to accomplish everything that the brain does with our current infrastructure. Is it highly inefficient on a watt/thought basis? Yes. But that's a secondary metric.

To address the concerns the author outlines:

Dealing with lack of training data - when you move to discovery labeled data is far less relevant, which should relieve research assistants who are currently being asked to label images as cat/not-cat.

Dealing with large sets of unstructured data - this is a processing problem for which the current infrastructure is sufficient.

IMO we have plenty of data, we don't need many more labels, and we have sufficient processing power. That leaves algorithmic work for the discovery of causes. (My bet is on systems similar to the kind of sparse distributed hierarchical models that Numenta is working on.)

One thing that I don't think most people have realized is how far past the quantity of data and processing power we need we already are.

If you were to take all the visual information the brain receives in the first 30 years of life (plenty of time to become intelligent) you'd arrive at a number around 1.4 petabytes. This is hardly a large number compared to the amount of information processed by YouTube on a monthly basis. Hearing, taste, and smell all add in a fraction more, and touch (well I don't have any good numbers there yet).

The hard part now is going to be convincing machine learning researchers to actually expose their algorithms to a swath of data similar to the inputs we humans get, over sufficient time, so as to allow for the development of a robust hiearchy of stored causes (aka understanding.)

AFAICT - Experience is understanding.
For even more goodness, check out AV Linux.

http://www.bandshed.net/AVLinux.html
I've done this myself: "I've got a job description of 'come hang out with us for a while and we'll see what happens'"

It didn't really out. Best of luck to him.
Another great Twitter cli client, if cli is your thing, is TTYtter.

http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/

Don't mean to detract from the original post, I just find ttytter to be a great client (and it's a single perl file)
Shoot, I'd buy it just from that prose... and I don't have a smartphone.
Actually you can drive what you want and in whatever way you want on your own road. It's the road that's regulated, not you or your car. You cannot use the public road without a test and a license, you have to have insurance to drive alongside other cars, etc. etc.
Wow, many legal drugs should be illegal under that act.
Apple hasn't just done Rosetta, they have a consistent pattern for "the burden of the past". A new technology bridges back to the old architecture or API, and then cuts it off after a transition period:

Universal Intel & PowerPC binaries
Carbon & "Classic mode" on OS X
Fat Binaries (68k & PowerPC)

AFAIK Microsoft only really adopted this approach more recently, in the Windows 7 tech you mention. Prior to Windows 7 you had the backwards-compatibility burden sometimes running all the way back to Windows 95, maybe even Windows 3.1+Win32s.
An IRC client? Funny, I thought it was personal organizer.
Use the same system that decays a post's weight on the front page to decay a comments weight on a thread.

This will balance out the uneven distribution of karma that is talked about above, as new comments will be seen and given a chance to voted on even well into a conversation.

Having done this, comments that stop being relevant to the conversation should drop to the bottom and naturally attract less attention. Ideally, this will leave trolling posts ignored. (This can be helped further by having user selected timeout apply. If comment / responses are mapped as a tree, hide all branches that have no new activity for the past x hours, allowing users to change x as they choose. Give visual feedback to a comments age by fading old comments)

This solves the 'income' end of the system, as karma should now be distributed a little more evenly over time.
I think its going to be a pretty short trip from here to laws that are worded so "that which is not expressly permitted is automatically denied".
This sounds like a press piece by NASSCOM and Indian IT majors.
Check out Command-T also. Good discussion here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1688500
With all the browser prefixes (moz, webkit, o etc) do they eventually get changed to the proper thing when the spec is finalized?

It's sad that, as mentioned in the presentation, CSS3 should reduce markup. but to do something like
-moz-transition: 1s ease-in;
-webkit-transition: 1s ease-in;
-o-transition: 1s ease-in;
transition: 1s ease-in;

What is there reasoning for not just doing transition, why do they all put their own vendor prefix on it?
Awesome! Now I have another distro to play with (also: AVLinux, http://www.bandshed.net/AVLinux.html) for getting rove (http://github.com/wrl/rove) up and running with my monome (http://monome.org/devices)
Bottom line is how you can help them and they can help you. Figure out what projects you can work on that will be meaningful to the company. Then figure out what you think a fair salary is. As an aside, I think it is usually better to be a little underpaid than overpaid because it gives you better leverage and flexibility in choosing your work. Anyway, if you can come to agreement go for it. Control your expenses (don't buy a new car!) and in a year if it's not working out you can move on graciously with cash in the bank.
Haha, reminds me of The 51st State (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0227984/)
In many ways, with his level of recognition and technical success working at a company is far preferred. He likely gets to work what he wants to work on, gets paid well, and gets to focus 100% on technical issues.

If you do a startup, you spend a LOT of time thinking about managing and hiring people -- at least after the jump.

Startup are great places to potentially make a lot of money. After doing a few myself, including some pretty decent deals -- I don't think I'll do another unless I simply have some Google-like breakthough.
I play guitar, work on linux servers all day long and have professional knowledge of music software... and I can't understand from your description what this actually does. Is it a plugin, host or controller? Does it require other software to operate? What actual guitar playing related functionality does it have? You might want to add this to the opening sentence or at least the opening paragraph.
There's no better recruiting tool than options in a company that's about to launch a major IPO.
Cretin? Why, would you be ok if a suave gentleman was looking at you naked?

Somebody else in this thread called them high-school drop-outs without getting called on it. This is just ad hominem. Why are we insulting these people? They aren't the ones who passed the law, bought the machines, put these processes in motion. Let's not weaken our argument with distracting crap.
I don't want to make assumptions about your specific use of Facebook, but how many possible connections have "you" (a typical FB user) missed because of time spent on Facebook instead of doing other stuff?

I won't deny that Facebook can make certain connections easier - of course it can, that's what it's designed to do. But how large is the net positive effect?

Think about the difference search engines can make to finding information. Without the web and search engines, how can you find information on a topic? You have to go to a local library - hit or miss on what information you'll find, especially for something obscure, or find some magazines or a book on the topic, or maybe find an expert who's willing to explain it to you.

Think of the difference social networks can make for keeping in touch with people. Without social networks, you have to remember to send them an email to see what's up, maybe pick up the phone now and then and give someone a call, meet up at a pub now and then, send a card for Christmas.

Now, to me both are incredibly convenient services, but by FAR only one can be described as world-changing.
This is a slightly older card with a lot more interesting stuff on it than a text file:

http://t4f.org/en/projects/business-card
Tendon Rupture From Specific Class of Antibiotics Is a Very Real Danger
DDTank
You know what? I don't buy it.

Sure, an iPad or a DVD player looks one way on an x-ray image. Laptops, netbooks, or anything with a keyboard is going to look like a "laptop" to a screener.

Are you telling me they're measuring the device on-screen and deciding if it's 11 inches or smaller right there on the spot?

PLEASE REMOVE ALL LAPTOPS AND...

"Um, Sir? It's a netbook. Blogger Bob says I don't need to take it out!"

CAN I GET A SUPERVISOR OVER HERE?!?
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I agree completely.

As a long-time screen (and now tmux) user, reading about this wild hack on top of job control made me wince more than once.
I've done annual "chartering sessions" with my wife, where we write down values and goals, and what things we need to do to realize those goals while sticking to our values. Of course we don't follow our plans exactly, because life usually gets a good laugh out of our plans. But the annual sessions are a great way to make sure we're still the couple we want to be, living the life we want to live.
Ask HN: Good CSS to reset styles for typography
I'm looking for a good CSS file that will reset all the styles on a page to something with high readability. I know Eric Meyers' reset.css, but that basically removes all style. I would like something that applies good styles to all elements that uses better typographic principles than the browsers' built in styles.

Using this as a base, I could then add styles to my own custom classes. But I could be sure that the basic styles are decent.

Does something like this exist? Where should I look?

Thanks
From the article:

Some [...] are concerned about antiperspirants containing
aluminum, even though both the National Cancer Institute
and the Alzheimer’s Association don’t share those
concerns.

Antiperspirants are better avoided for the damage they do clothing than the damage they do the brain.
Try , blueprint css framework. It has nice typography, forms, reset and grid css.
This reminds me of the past short-lived misfeature in which your username changed color if you had high enough average karma per comment. The main difference is that, this time, your average karma is only in your own face, not everybody's.
I think for this to be a discussion, and not, say, an exercise for me to guess what you're thinking, you would need to explain yourself better and give concrete examples.
The GNU is usually pronounced "gah-new" rather than "new".

http://www.gnu.org/events/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt
"But, when it's the name of our system, the correct pronunciation is
"guh-NEW" -- pronounce the hard "G". If you talk about the "new"
operating system, you'll get people very confused, because
we've been working on it for 17 years now, so it is not new any
more. [Laughter] But it still is, and always will be, GNU -- no matter
how many people call it Linux by mistake. [Laughter]"
Indeed, however you have to be careful about the outer scope that the assignment is happening in (because of IE): http://kangax.github.com/nfe/#jscript-bugs

The other option, if you are on Webkit, is to assign something to the `displayName` property of a function or method. This is explained really well here: http://www.alertdebugging.com/2009/04/29/building-a-better-j...
You have to empty your pockets, take belts off, and so forth[1], even with backscatter scanning (I just put all of my stuff in the boxes which go through the x-ray machine), so that's not an advantage. It's also slower than metal detectors; with metal detectors, you walk right through and then go collect your stuff (unless it goes off), but with backscatter you go in, you stand still with your hands over your head for thirty seconds, and then you go out and wait until the agent there gets told that you're okay, at which point you get to go collect your stuff. Takes maybe a minute. No advantage there either.

[1] Though watches seem to be fine, as I forgot to take mine off last time and didn't have any trouble. Might be different with larger watches, though.
He said, "In less than an hour going back and forth..."

I think my time is worth a lot of money, but $1500 per hour would earn you $3 million/year if you only worked 40-hour weeks.
The article also notes that the drugs are marketed as not being for human consumption, which is an exemption in the analog act as well.
Thanks tgriesser.
At the moment Indians are cheap labor for US consumers, at some point Indian consumers become the market and the US becomes irrelevent.

Riduculous of course - just like the idea that those Japanese could ever make cars as good as Americans, or motorbikes as good as the British or cameras as good as the Germans.
Yes, eventually the prefixes get dropped. In some engines sooner than others. Eric Meyer recently wrote a nice article about this, on ALA: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/prefix-or-posthack/
Blekko had me at: "You have marked the site www.w3schools.com as spam. it is now dead to you. You will never see it in your search results again."