skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point. I had realized that as I was typing it, but I was trying to wrap it up and get back to work. I have now edited it to be more accurate and reflect my interpretation of the advice.

What it used to say was:

> What if chasing success makes me happy?

Then you'll never be happy. Your definition of success will keep changing, and you'll never get there. There's nothing inherently negative about success, but there's nothing inherently positive either. "Success" is a meaningless metric without a strict definition of what it means to be successful.
Thanks for the TabTrick review.
> Frankly, the older I get, the more respect I have for the guy.

I lost a great deal of respect for him over his Debian rant. He was making up really weird accusations and calling for actions completely out of proportion to the perceived "offenses".

I think it's easy to do the rant thing, but the older I get, the less I like it, and the more respect I have for people who display some civility and moderation, and save the real anger for those things in life that merit it (hint: they mostly don't involve computers).
Lessons learned from helping over 150 startups with marketing (from my Offer HN)
Nice!

But since good .coms are taken, allow me to choose the tld like .me .ly .at .co for better results

I bet the same search for .me domains would give even four or five letter domains available.
If anybody is interested, I have the HN database. I'm going to release it soon at http://api.ihackernews.com. I'm (along with another HN user) trying to figure out the best way to distribute it, as I don't have the bandwidth

I plan to release incremental updates (nightly/weekly?). Using this data, others can build tools such as HNTrends without the need to scrape HN.

*The dataset includes IDs, Posts, Comments, AskHN, Points, Posted By, Date, and so on. I do not have a list of usernames outside of the 'PostedBy'.
If you want to keep the queries mostly in-house, you can get access to Verisign's copy of the .com zone file for free and download it once a day.

http://www.verisign.com/domain-name-services/domain-informat...

And if you don't even want to change your code, you could fire up a DNS server that serves the entries from that file.
That's an interesting point. I'm reminded of the way we perceive colors. We may see completely different things as "green", but because they've been given that linguistic label, we can identify them as the same. However, if I see red when you see green, it's fundamentally impossible to explain or imagine that.

I hear this analogy all the time but it makes no sense to me. A color is either physical light or the idea in your head of a particular color. If we agree on both of those, what is left that could be meaningfully compared to decide if we are "experiencing" it as the same or different?

Could I be experiencing a poodle as a banana, even though I think it's called a poodle and it actually is a poodle?
Except that Zed has made lots of open source contributions -- just not this one. He does get to pick and choose how he wishes to release things.
Yep, that's the original name, which still survives here:
www.justfuckingbuyit.com
I recommend Kallow (http://www.kallow.com/). I've made 5 purchase decisions based on it. I was very happy with all but one and they've since stopped recommending it.
Tell HN: Looking for college/HS student php developers
I'm getting overwhelmed with work. I'm working on a very cool big project for Emory University, for a college club promotor, and other things. Please email me at nir@levy.ww.com include the phrase "php dev" in the title and send me some links to cool stuff you have built.

Thanks!
While the copyright itself can arise without registration, the ability to file suit in federal court for infringement of the copyright arises only once registered. Registration can take place after the date of infringement. For more see
http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html#register
I think this is because they sell the hardware at a loss, and have to make it up through legitimate game sales. Statements like the above are to keep the shareholders happy with a pretty bad business model. ("We give the actual hardware away, but then rape developers and users with per-game fees. We go out of business if someone breaks the DRM, but that can't happen because we're Microsoft and our DRM is unbreakable.")
Just "learn you some Prolog" and it will all make sense.
MSNBC Cans Olbermann
Yes they have, you just can't play on Live. The service hasn't been hacked, but the machine has. Same with the ps3.
How to Time Your PowerPoint Slides for More Effective Presentations
I wouldn't give up on your current strategy it will probably just take a little time.

Another alternative would be to try some ads on google, facebook, stumbleUpon, etc. If you do this it is probably worth it to keep your budget really low ($5 a day) until you get a feel for the keywords that get you real users for the least amount of money. I believe IMVU did a great job of this in their early days.

Also you probably already know this but be sure to e-mail your existing users. I got an e-mail from a Cloudkick co-founder about 2 days after signing up for the service that added a personal touch and showed that they actually cared about my feedback.
You're kinda stuck there, because the capacitors on the audio output of your phone/soundcard/digital synth filter out out the DC that your CV inputs want. I know people who have removed the caps on keyboard outputs and got working audio -> CV but it's pretty drastic unless you're very electronics-savvy.

One cheap workaround you might want to investigate, depending on what analog modules you have, is to send a fixed, high-frequency oscillator out from your digital gear to the input of an analog envelope follower, and modulate the digital oscillator with a digital LFO (using MIDI to play with the LFO frequency). This is likely to yield 'interesting' sounds but unless you have precision gear and can do log-linear scaling (eg freq. > pitch) it'll be hard to do anything useful.

PAIA has a fairly cheap converter in module rack form factor, just in case you didn't know: http://www.paia.com/midi2cv.asp
Is Wayland going to replace X?
Procrastination, and some ideas to help overcome it.
I'm not very familiar with meal subscriptions. Could you explain how they work? Do you pick them up or have them delivered? Are they fresh or frozen?

Overall, the concept sounds very promising. Everyone has to eat three times a day, and I'm sure there are plenty of people like myself who'd pay a premium for a quality variety of meals without the time commitment of cooking or eating out.
If you can't persuade them, scare them!

Nice try RIAA
I made a number of points in my diatribe, and the only one that was responded to was the implication that some people are more concerned about hoarding cash. Among my first points was an example of the value of volunteerism that many on HN should find relevant.

Frankly, I find the notion that money is the only indicator of social value not only despicable, but fundamentally wrong in the context of economics. I also think that there are so many utterly obvious counter-examples in so many industries and in so many areas of the world that anyone who still holds this view could not possibly be convinced otherwise. So, I don't see any point in continuing this conversation.
I don't really see the difference. The Kinect is a piece of plastic and lead-free solder that you buy. DirectTV is a radio transmission that they broadcast into your house.

Once the Kinect is in my house, who cares what I do with it? I can smash it with a hammer, I can send it USB commands. My Kinect, my house, my rules.

DirectTV is the same. Once the radio waves are in my house, why can't I decrypt them to watch TV for free? If DirectTV wants me to pay for TV, why are they sending the signal into my house!?
I plan to be there...And hope to win:) @callmeed, i can bid on ur behalf assuming it is a straightforward one time bid...i can contact you on email if you want..though there is a conflict of interest :)
edit: edited some portion once i learned about silent auction
I come from a long line of ruthlessly cutthroat Monopoly players. If you get into a game with my mom and the aunts on my Mom's side . . . man, you're lucky if there's not blood on the floor when you're done ;)
Improving the Cappuccino Theme System
Can you create a secret option to list all available domains at once?
Dirty minds think alike, apparently. I proposed this very thing to my friend yesterday. He just got a Kinect and I was joking with him about the potential this has for the porn industry.
You could solve it the way that my employers have: take your end of the cost out of their invoice.... I didn't think it was the best solution ever, but I honestly didn't have enough leverage to do anything about it, either. I'll probably just bill more next time =p
I still think the pricing page should point out better what a data point is.
It reminds me a lot of http://kallow.com
This update would be better without the remaining defensiveness, but it is a much less wrong response.

I'm bewildered, though, at your saying that you're surprised at all the attention this has received when you've tried to publicize this incident.
He wasn't fired.
Have you tried raising a flag out there for anyone to help?
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As someone who's spent thousands of hours on our current Pylons codebase, I'm very interested in knowing how difficult it'll be to move my now-legacy Pylons 1.0 apps to the new Pyramid framework. They don't make mention of that. They do say that Pylons 1.0 apps will run within the Pyramid framework through a fallback handler to an existing Pyons app, so we're not hopelessly screwed, but that does sound a little kludgey.

A larger concern of mine is, given the enormous amounts of time and money we've spent on developing for Pylons, why would I port over to Pyramid? Why wouldn't I just port over to a more stable web framework, less likely to deprecate the technology on which our entire business is based? It definitely sounds like a neat framework, but I don't see as much value in neat technology when it shows a disturbing tendency to pull the rug out from under me.
OK. I'll through my hat into the ring.

secureattach.com

I've got the MVP mostly done its time to ship. I've locked down one test user site, so I'm looking for more. Let me know if your interested.
How can I flag a user account? All of this user's submissions are political blog spam.
A New Etsy-like Marketplace For Experiences: Skyara
Whether or not that's true, programmers who go for that approach need to be good at apologizing.
I did initially get downvoted but I think the implications for that adult entertainment industry with Kinect are huge.

As some may know, the POV (point of view) genre in adult entertainment is a huge segment. Being able to act in the movies and dictate the positions and movements of the actor would be a big marketing driver
Not to be too pedantic, but I deliberately choose my wording. I didn't say Nintendo made a loss on the hardware I said it likely has worse profit margins than selling games on their platform.

Selling hardware may not actually hurt them, but it obviously their goal is to create a platform on which to upsell games.
I'd suscribe to the service if a few things were right.

The price I'd pay depends on what the service is like.

I think it'd be hard for you to compete (for my business) with burritos from the mission on price. For me to use this based on the price alone, I'd need < $6 per meal.

However, I'd pay $10-15 if the meals were high quality and I'd get detailed nutrition information about them automatically.

I'd also pay $10-15 if the service operated by asking letting me specify as much or as little information about what meals i get when. For example, I'd like to say "I want to eat fish twice a month" and On Dec 16, I'd like this salad for lunch and that soup for dinner. (I realize this is very hard, that's why I'd pay for it).

I'd be interested in trying out your beta and sharing my thoughts over coffee (email's in the profile).

Another thought: I find that preparing my meals is not what bothers me, I like to cook and I like to take breaks. However, I'd pay good money for a good pantry-management system that also delivered the groceries.
Strange google results
i am from germany. recently i found a strange phenomenon. when i search for the digits 1 through 9 on google with english as results language i get:

1	14.25

2	11.45

3	10.00

4	9.39

5	8.55

6	25.31 (??)

7	7.08

8	6.89

9	6.46

has anybody an idea why digit 6 is so overrepresented?
Love this idea and the design is well done.
1) Concept rocks; if you're in Chicago I'll sign up right now.

2) No more than $10, and only if it's remarkably good (healthy) food. Chipotle is $7, relatively nutritious, and enough to keep me going for most of the day. The only downside is the walk and lack of variety.
This is a meaningless calculation. It's not as though the amount of energy required to move something a specific distance is weight related. The amount of force required to accelerate it to a specific velocity is, but once at that velocity, energy required is a function of friction. Of course larger objects have more air friction on average, but really what you want is some measure of the surface area of the object.

Bah, not that it matters in the least.
Nice, Sony installs rootkit into your computer and sued for $7.50 fine [1] but when women downloaded 24 songs she fined for 1.5M.

What would be the punishment if she install rootkit in Sony or RIAA owned computer?

[1] http://www.pcworld.com/article/125838/settlement_ends_sony_r...
I would ask the person to take it down and that would be it. Zed asked, then insulted. Insulting people is not a good way to win someone's cooperation.
the counts are in bln hits
Visiting site consistently crashes safari ipad here (3.2.2).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Microsoft is correct in suggesting any Americans who participate in this might actually be breaking federal law, right?
Apple mostly uses Sun Servers.
See also: http://www.theonion.com/video/ospan-classic-cia-accidentally...
Actually, MongoDB does leave memory management to the kernel by using MMAP to access data files. Most kernels will allocate a lot of memory to the disk cache, which can make it look like mongo is eating all of your ram.
Even if so, unless someone comes out with a fantastic hack that goes completely mainstream- the potential damage is low. Most people who buy one will also buy the games.
Looking forward to seeing what kinds of interesting experiences start popping up in their listings.
citizenkeys, how can I can contact you? I feel like you're missing some key points--I want to help you.

You remind me of myself a couple years back. If you're willing to give it a shot, I could probably save you a lot of time and hassle...abrandt@bradley.edu
Wow. I really want to be on Zed's side here, but while his message is 99% legit, his delivery leaves something to be desired.
I don't know how hard it would be but I've been thinking it would be cool to have a WebGL implementation in node. Desktop gl apps using webgl would sorta cool but dunno about real use cases.
Previous insightful Quartz vs. X discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=248168
Glitch will make iPhone alarms late Monday
Zed over-reacted. Whatever harm martinemde did to Zed's book is close to nothing. Martinemde took down the derived book as soon as he got the request from Zed, who, while saying "please", also accompanied it with a couple insults.
This might be a naive question, but is there any empirical evidence showing that blogging/tweeting actually helps your startup? Is this supposed to be for self-motivation or getting attention?
"work closely with law enforcement"

If they do they are going to be on the wrong side of the bars.

Article 6 of the EU convention on software prohibits anything which stops you reverse engineering hardware or software for interoperability.
Describe the color green.
But the really exciting things that could be done with X never saw daylight outside a small community of display manufacturers for defense, air-traffic control, etc

What sort of exciting things?
"You know, Paul, Reagan proved deficits don't matter," - Dick Cheney
Seeing many of the responses make me wonder whether he's even really as ogrish online as some people suggest. Most of what I've seen pointed out by angry folks seem to be responses to things those people aren't citing.

Seeing the full exchange in this case, I'm hard put to see anything unusual with what Shaw said. Nice people and polite people get justifiably angry, too.
I'm not sure to be honest. The actual JRE based on OpenJDK has additions to the code according to http://openjdk.java.net. I couldn't find anything called 'Java' that wasn't this code.

The OpenJDK FAQ is of course 404ing. Thanks Oracle.
If you are bidding yourself, I think you cannot bid for someone else (morally speaking).
Otherwise you can be sure to beat his bid by bidding just one dollar more.
#00FF00
I wonder if the full-body scanners would have caught this.
Verizon Tests A 10 Gbps Connection For Both Upload And Download.
I admit my first thought was "Wait...How did they put that hoodie on?" The simple mechanics of everyday life are what fascinate me about this one.
No idea why 6 is over-represented, but the rest of the distribution is probably explained by Benford's Law:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benfords_law
"It's not as though the amount of energy required to move something a specific distance is weight related. "

" really what you want is some measure of the surface area of the object."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_resistance
Any details on how, exactly, these songs were shared? Just curious.
If we agree on both of those [..]

The question is: how do you know that you agree on them? That he uses the same cultural naming convention to describe the experience does not mean the experience is the same. He may be a synesthete and you would never know it.

what is left that could be meaningfully compared

Why do you need to be able to 'meaningfully compare' something for it to be able to be different? My love for my girlfriend is obviously different from that of others for their significant others, because it is a patchwork of feelings tied up with innumerable impressions and memories. No two are alike. Yet I could not express the difference on any measurable scale. There's no reason to suppose once experience of 'a mere color' is any different. The memories colors evoke are unique and there is no 'raw experience' to separate from those memories. That's too simple a view of the human brain.
Cool. Could this replace image manipulation libraries like ImageMagick? You could handle your image manipulation using the canvas api and have node deliver the result.
The utility of DirecTV is the service it provides. The box has no utility per se. Because being able to receive DirecTV's service is dependant on having compatible software, there has to be some way for the box (hacked or not) to receive updates. If the pirates don't patch, they lose their utility.

The utility of Kinect is a physical piece of equipment. There's no service (although it may be used with a service), therefore there's no requirement to receive updates once hacked. Microsoft only gets one chance to deploy their defences: when the Kinect is in the factory.
true - i edited for that just now:) I did not realize that it would be a silent auction.
Vandelay Industries!
Microsoft security essentials is some of the best software Microsoft has put out in a long time. I have to feel for these companies though; its hard to compete with free.
There is a very nice, simple step-by-step tutorial for app engine:

http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/gettingstarted/
Green is the feeling of EM radiation with wavelength between 520-570nm hitting your retina.
Evolve or die: Start-ups and "Dealing with Darwin"
Dealing with Darwin by Geoffrey Moore, or how to deal with innovation’s life cyle, needs to become second nature if you want to be successful at growing your start-up into a large company.
Vint Cerf and Steve Case on the future of the Internet
Ilya was kind enough to review my startup, an online rave gear retail site:

http://www.plurty.com

Previously, I had this giant "Sign up" button on the home page, but what I had forgotten was that most of the value of the site came from the ability to not have to sign up in order to buy our products. We built anonymity into it so much that you don't even have to enter your email address. This was crucial for us because nobody wants to sign up for a website that is unknown.

Also, Ilya pointed out that the most distinguishing feature of our site were the extended exposure images and that we should use it as a marketing tool. We are currently planning on replacing our text-only adwords campaign and using the images to get more clicks.

Anyway...just thought I'd add my $0.02 and thank Ilya again. It was useful advice that we really needed.
Subaru Creates Gigantic WRX-Powered Flipbook Animation
That's just branding. There hasn't been consumer noticeable technological advancement in that market in probably 20 years or more. Honestly, is 10 blades going to increase my quality of life?
So I guess you've somehow missed all those huge sites out there that look like crap?
How business guys can identify good coders
Genes might be selfish, but that doesn't mean the organisms that they create will be. Selfish genes also created the ant colony, where it doesn't make much sense to talk about an ant's individual behavior as self-interested. I'm only suggesting that we are more like ants than educated people currently believe.

Furthermore, humans have language, and can even ask themselves questions like "what would so-and-so do?" Our minds are filled up, it seems to me, mostly with the thoughts and data supplied by others. So I wonder if it makes sense to say that we are all individual minds.
I found the whole incident rather funny. Zed published a post about the issue, I published the issue since Zed didn't link it. I've never submitted to Hacker News and figured it'd get buried. I didn't expect top story on hacker news.
Paul can you ask the nursery school to try to take bids by phone? I will mail them a 20 dollar check. And if I win I will not make you go anywhere, I will fly out to Palo Alto.

I am sure many others would appreciate this option.
'out there' is a big scary place :)

I have and I have a few people offering to help and a few more offering to help - for a fee. The frustration comes with the problem that the people who offer to help never do and the people who I hire to help often move much slower than my patience can allow for. This is mostly due to the fact that I am broke and can only afford people who do this on the side.

Don't get me wrong it's not that I cannot program, thus solving my own problem, it's that after years of trying, learning and effort I still suck at programming. What takes me hours to do takes [you] minutes. That's hours away from everything else. Hours of frustration and hours of face-bashing.

I am actively attending meet-ups, I am here and numerous other places and I am actively 'socializing'.

The great irony is that it is easier to find users than it is to find a partner.
So essentially it would be like Apple's X11. It will be there for backwards compatibility with older applications, but it will be considered "undesirable".
And he could have politely asked Martin to take it down. Zed was being "not nice" no matter how you look at it. He could have been worse, but that's like saying you shouldn't be mad because I punched you in the stomach instead of the face.

Edit: okay, the analogy is a strawman but seriously, just because someone could have been worse doesn't excuse their behavior. Telling someone they have no class is rude, especially when it's pretty clear that Martin wasn't trying to plagiarize Zed's book - he was just confused about its licensing.