skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I should have fleshed that out.

Basically, "Apps" where the big thing that held people to Windows. When people built these apps, non Windows platforms were lucky to get a look-in. But then the focus shifted to the web. Webmail, Google, Facebook, Flash etc. made Mac and PC more interchangeable for many folk, and let people downsize to netbooks and now tablets.

Now people think that iDevice owners are locked in to their "app" purchases. But the same thing, the web, now gives HP/Palm, Nokia/Meego and WinMo 7 a shot, maybe even leaving room for more, maybe an Android fork.
Lots of great JS/YUI talks in YUI Theater
I think you're talking past each other. As I read it, dkarl is saying that we should encourage academics to do this. That is the implicit reason why they would do it — because we're pushing them to.
Maybe a group could participate in a scheduled letter-writing or calling campaign. Once you join, you will be sent a reminder in the week it is your turn to write or call.
This happens, but sometimes the academic doesn't make the breadth of immediate utility for their intentions clear.
Neat! You've got a bug with painting along the horizontal edges -- the brush wraps around to the other side, Pac-Man style.
Ordering it from within the Pentagon could help
Mainly because everyone will use geometry in their lifetime and most will use binomial expansion at some point.

Very few will ever write a line of python. or even a VBA macro. Schools exist to teach reasoning skills, not trade skills.
Hmmm.. usually one 'pain-in-the-ass-problem' solved is enough of a benefit.

But can't add more without using it.
Just get started with if you have some ideas (as you said).

As a designer, the best thing that I see is faster decision from client's side which saves my time and makes me happy.

Dunno how many will agree - so yeah testing (you were very wise there, I must say).

My addition:

"Help your clients decide Faster!"
Faster decisions, faster projects - easier your life gets

---some bullet points here to tell about more features---

There you go, did some copy-writing for you ;)
This is why sites choose to stay vulnerable to Firesheep
People keep saying this. At every step in the evolution of any software platform, the next step will have this amazing quality of being "personal." Then the next step comes along, and it's something considerably less magical.
Actually, Google does this too. When I search for "the scene" the first result is a local alt weekly (The Nashville Scene).

It is kind of off-topic, but I think search rankings are now less a indication of authority and more an indication of the searchers personal preferences.
There are many things I could've regretted, but ultimately all of those things made me who I am now. I'm fairly certain I've had more than my fair share of opportunities and made more than my fair share of mistakes, but all I can do is identify them as such, learn as much as I can and try to make myself a better person.

Have a screwed up? Heck yes. Do I regret it? No way.
What exactly prevents your from emailing them back now?
Of course, I just want to see the taboo dissolve. It's all about user control.

Now that people have the ability to publish their sex lives, some will.
Talks on startup hiring always refer to "A players", "B players" and "C players". I was speaking in that context.
This is true. The most abhorrent fact is that [the version I used some six years ago] it would parse line by line while executing. So you would only get errors if the line actually got executed. The whole idea of line-based syntaxes is dubious in my view, but this makes it even worse.
Nobody ever had to teach me these things, I taught them to myself because I have a little thing called motivation. Do we really want all of these students who couldn't even be irked to learn about something as simple and ubiquitous as version control wasting everybodies time?

This sort of ignorance isn't even caused simply by a lack of interest in open source. Without these very basic skills being covered by this, you're pretty unhireable.
When I gathered up book recommendations from HN posters I made a category just for this topic. Most have already been listed here, but there are a few that haven't.

http://hn-books.com/#BC=0&EC=0&FC=0&Q0=13&QC...

(I would have listed the books individually, but the whole purpose of making the site was to have one place to send people who are looking for book recommendations from fellow HNers)
The article seems almost a direct response to the ``A statically typed language I'd actually want to use'' article:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1872501

I agree wholeheartedly with the general sentiment. Even if it is a bit outdated. Type polymorphism (generics) is now well accepted.
Not sure where I heard this ...

Biology is really Chemistry.
Chemistry is really Physics.
Physics is really Maths.
and Maths is really hard.
So you think because he sold his stock he has to keep the dollars he got for it?
Facebook and Twitter don't run Adsense, it's mostly run on content sites that don't require you log into them.
For larger projects and clients, I recommend you look into agile contracts:
http://www.bestbrains.dk/Blog/2009/06/03/CollaborativeAgileC...
Looking for a "firehose" feed from Hacker News
I want to tap into a feed of all submissions to Hacker News. I poked around looking for this feed, but can't find it. Does it exist? Thanks in advance.
Wow, impressive - you made it on TechCrunch with just a teaser page? How did they even have enough content to write about you? That's some good hype over a teaser!

It would be awesome if I could do the same, but I am worried that the teaser page won't really do the product justice, unless I outline all of the core features - which I'm a bit hesitant to do. I probably shouldn't be hesitant, but I am anyway.

Do you have a screenshot of your teaser, or can you describe what kind of info you included?
It seems like the most likely scenario is that they burned through the VC cash and couldn't raise more, so they were forced to sell. If the VCs had some high liquidation preference it could easily explain how the common shareholders and early investors (like his dad) were wiped out.

It is obviously a total bummer that his dad lost $100k in the process. But, he tries to make it sound like he was tricked out of his pension or something. This was a very high risk investment where the most likely outcome would be a total loss.
For active projects/customers, I bill 1 hour minimum per week. I also bill a minimum of 15 minutes a day if I do any work at all. This is fair since there is some "context switch" cost for me, even when I just answer an email or take a short call.
Just a cursory thought: I think this sort of task has more to do with diligence than an easy-to-use tool.

Much like to-do lists, it's easy to just keep adding items and categorizing them in separate lists and setting dates and reminders and being sent an SMS... Or you could just put the item on your calendar and do it.

Getting back to your idea, I used to do exactly this with Delicious. But after so long I got tired of writing notes for everything I read; I realize now this is because I began consuming too much every day. To me, burnout seems to be the biggest problem with these types of tools. But, again, that goes back to people's habits and just "getting it done."

This is not an answer, just some thoughts (which are not entirely well-thought-out). Take them with a grain of salt.
50 Popular Social News Websites 
Most popular content sharing sites' list.
I had an interesting discussion with a friend of mine who believes that people who want to run a web site should be forced to take an exam before being permitted to do so.

Personally my view is that if you want to put up a web site, go for it. If you can't secure it your options are basically:

a) Learn to secure it; or

b) Transfer the risk and get someone to secure it for you.

It seems that from the guy running the comic site, that option a is slowly becoming a reality. However, given their appetite I get the impression they may be more suited to option b.
A 3.5 inch iPhone 4 with 8GB costs less than a 10 inch iPad with 16GB and no 3G or GPS.

This says something, though I'm not exactly sure what, but at the very least it suggests that big screen = big price is too simplistic.
That's the 10,000 foot view of an entire economy, not a man trying to peg the top of an artificially inflated market.
I think I am going to start wearing a protective cup whenever I have to fly.

Hmm, for that matter, would those protect you from the high tech strip search?
Ma.gnolia anyone? http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/01/magnolia-suffer/

When our backups or replication fail I usually say we are at Ma.gnolia threat level orange :)
I'm totally with you. Having crappy deployment and source control isn't just annoying, it's counterproductive.

But also keep in mind that crappy code that ships beats perfect code that never ships every time.
I would love to take part in something like this as well. My skills are widespread and always progressing, but I currently have experience in design and user interface, and am learning RoR.

Let me know if there's any way I can contribute!
Why not just word it as "Read this book"? You pay $X to read the book, you can't lend it, copy it, re-sell it -- just read it (and re-read it if you want).
I’ve been saying for a while now that browsers should have native support for sharing content. I love the idea here.

I’m not sure that a row of faces is the best way to do it.

(I’m sure it’s hysterical (and counter-productive) to have those faces staring back at you during, er, adult browsing. Just don’t drag anything onto one of your friends…)

* * *

Edit: A lot of people are assuming this = Flock.

They may be making a fundamental error. We nerds tend to think in feature descriptions sometimes. “They both integrate social.” But if the UX / UI are different enough, that could make all the difference.

(Edit2: Removed Gecko remark: “Not only is based on a different rendering engine, which hardly matters…”)
They can go and get an honest job at McDonalds or Wallmart, and I will respect them.
Nothing at all. But it's still a shame I didn't pick the email up there and then - could have gone straight from uni to Facebook, would have been a good time to do it.
They're a non-profit bringing happiness to penguins?
Oh hey, it's Flock! (http://flock.com/)
This keeps happening ... make sure to backup, and then test your backup. An easy way to do this is to run your dev environment on a backup snapshot.
I don't understand your argument here--are you saying we shouldn't mind if the vulnerable sites aren't Facebook or Twitter?
It took me about 30 seconds to find that out, but I did almost close the browser tab before I did.
I've done both hourly and fixed price contract work and found that fixed price works better for me.

In an industry that is known for software taking 10 times longer than estimated, clients have good reason to try and protect themselves with upfront pricing. The fixed pricing forces me to become better at planning ahead and giving good estimates. The trick is to document every detail of what they get for $XX and agree that any changes to that will cost extra.

Software development depends largely on inspiration. Sometimes I'll crank out a weeks worth of code in one day. Others I'll stare at a screen all day and produce very little. In the end it all averages out, but I do feel bad billing for the unproductive hours even if I know it's fair in the end.
Lords stunned by Tory peer's claim of laundering terrorist funds
Thanks to WSGI you can. For example, here's a handy page in Flask's (outstanding I might note) documentation on how you can run it on Tornado, Gevent and Gunicorn:

http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/deploying/others/
A firehose doesn't exist. But, a few people have created API's which do the page scraping for you.

I recommend http://api.ihackernews.com
wouldn't something like 2-gram bayes be more accurate & faster?
I'm not social enough for this browser, I can't "connect" for an invitation if I don't have facebook and there is no other method to get an invite? I hate it when websites do that.
I'm flying for Thanksgiving, I plan to get to SFO a little early and hand out some of these flyers that a Flyertalk user created: http://www.dontscan.us/downloads.html They're not perfect, but pretty accurate all-around.

Whether you prefer to let someone see you naked or grope you is a personal decision, but I imagine there are plenty of people who haven't flown in the last 2-3 years, and they should at least know their options before they get into security and blinded by authority.
A few resources immediately come to mind:

1) http://www.meetup.com

2) Local co-working spaces

3) http://www.hackernewsers.com

As for a website focused on your problem specifically -- namely, working on side projects with like-minded individuals who also have day jobs -- I know of none. But, like phamilton, I currently have a few go-to people. While I am weary of working with people I've never met, I am optimistic enough to to hope that such a thing is possible, if done in the right way.
hes saying that most sites that use adsense do not require a login, thus do not need https. he is somewhat correct, but not enough for google to just ignore this issue.
Offer HN: iPhone App test
I can find bugs on any iOS (iPhone and iPad) app.
Having a mirrored RAID array would have helped here as well, as long as you don't mistake it for a backup solution.
Holy cow, the 2010 guidelines on obviousness is 18,374 words long of complex legalese. There's no lawyer in the world that can say with any certainty what it means.
The claim that one way to avoid having your shit stolen is to actually suck is interesting. I imagine that regardless of suck, as long as your content can be misappropriated for some purpose, no matter how nefarious, someone would be willing to steal it.

In a completely unrelated manner, this reminded me of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWrJqUtYW7Y - funny film, definitely worth a watch.
I understand that. I flew as recently as last weekend to Chicago and Jacksonville and didn't notice a single difference.

My point is that these changes are not implemented universally or equally. People shouldn't be so quick to paint TSA with a broad brush of criticism.
I'd have inspected the legos. that seems suspicious enough ;p
You know, a lot of non-academic languages are pretty crappy... like Ruby, or PHP. But I'm not impressed with languages out of academia either. I don't care about your -morphisms or fancy type systems...
RockMelt
Open Source Misogyny
I agree whole-heartedly this is a great way to work if you're client is cool with it. In my experience that's a big if though.

If you can always afford to walk away then this could actually work.

I always give my client's the option of fixed or hourly and really emphasize the benefits of hourly. However I've only been taken up on the hourly offer a few times with recurring clients.

I think it's a great thing to strive for but my advice to freelancer's starting out is not to flat out refuse fixed quote unless you can afford to. Fixed, while not quite as accurate, is still workable once you get a feel for defining requirements on smaller projects. And any larger project can be broken down, so long as you're getting paid for the spec.

Whatever you do don't spend a riculous amount of time specing out a large project without being compensated. I've gotten so many RFPs that are obviously the product of spec work and I'm positive most were unpaid. In fact I guarantee there are forums dedicated to tactics and advice for getting spec work done for free.
I fear that the military-industrial complex has finally found something to be afraid of that can't fight back: its own citizenry.

Sadly enough, this is not an issue of good people or bad people -- I think the vast majority of TSA screeners are good people who want only what's best for the public. This problem has two parts, framing and execution.

The framing is a one-sided issue: who's going to argue that we need less security? It's a system designed to continue to turn the screws. Mark my words. It will not stop here.

The execution is even worse: top-down, one-size-fits-all, factory-processing of people. This makes for an expensive, cumbersome, and inflexible system. Oddly enough, the more standardized you make security practices, the easier you make it for real terrorists to take down the system. It's the entire basis of asymmetrical warfare. Small groups of highly-nimble adversaries working against a huge standardized behemoth. The U.S. should have made a conscious decision not to play that game. But it didn't.

When you have a problem that's defined poorly and executed poorly? Not much chance of improvement, I'm afraid.
The web is such a massive leveller for different platforms these days, I don't think a comparison to Mac vs PC days works too well. It used to be all you could do with a home computer was buy more software for it from shops, and Windows held a massive advantage in that area; nowadays I wonder how many PC users ever buy new software, except Office. Just get your wifi sorted out and start surfing. Upgrade to new hardware when websites start running slowly.
Eating more fat decreases belly fat
In that case they are asking you take all the risk, so you need to factor that into the cost. You need detailed specs up front in order for this to be at all sane (developing the specs could be an independent project without obligations on either side). Depending on the uncertainty left in the spec, you need to have a multiplier on the expected costs. 5x, 10x, or even 50x would not be out of the question if there is sufficient uncertainty.

Yes this costs the company more, but if they expect you to take on their budgetary risk, then you are providing insurance, and that is potentially worth a lot more than the actual development.
And given how cheap hard drives are (and how likely they are to eventually fail) it seems like that would almost always be a good investment.
Most content sites have login systems that people use to customize their experience, post comments or upload content, etc. Millions and millions and millions of people are logged into content sites and are vulnerable to this attack.

Also, I disagree on the premise that adsense is mostly used on content sites. It's used on all kinds of websites.
There's a certain kind of jokes that's enjoyed around here. You have to be careful. But the best advise is: Don't joke.
I See You: Could microchips restore sight to the blind?
Apparently, it was a custom "Dungeons & Dragons" type battle axe.

http://books.google.com/books?id=yyaxyKjyp2YC&pg=PA162&#...
They X-rayed them, they were just mindstorms. Little did they know that they assemble into a killbot, muhahaha.
So, I just did this[1], and my dough absolutely did not turn into soup, which has me concerned. Could it be a temperature thing? I keep my vodka in the freezer year-round; it pours like syrup. I chilled the hell out of my butter and shortening, too.

I'm curious whether it's the presence of alcohol that inhibits gluten formation, or whether it's simply the fact that 1/2 the moisture isn't coming from water.

[1] Hopefully, so I can stuff ginger-sage sausage, pork confit, and rice into it for dinner.
To be pithy — Flock was for nerds (Del.icio.us users); RockMelt is for people (Facebook users).

Not convinced they’ll catch on, but at least their target market is bigger, no?
Ask HN: Startup workspace - office or house?
Pros/cons for having a separate office & living arrangements versus a large house for all employees to live & work in?
Telstra violating GPL licence, claims developer
The entire repo was deleted.
I have been places that have been through this same routine with backup after backup being found to have failed even though they were all checked recently through test restores.

Another thing that likes to happen is that even if you have a good backup, it's likely due to psychological stress that the first two or three restoration attempts will accidentally erase the backups due to someone typing an incorrect command.
House: Bad for productivity.
Office: Sucks at general. (IMO)

Garage: Best of both worlds

As in some bootstrapped place which inspires you to work. Can be a room in your home or even rooftop (like Mashable).
The BBC miniseries of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is wonderfully done; have you seen it? Highly recommended if you like the book.
From TFA:

"Take MySQL, who redefined the database market by offering a simpler database for every developer in the world. They now own a huge chunk of the market without having to compete with Oracle in the process."

Errr... Who owns MySQL? With little gems like that I'd really question the author's ability to research his content, which would cause me to question the validity of his position.
Scientists turn skin into blood
Thank you for finding this!
do we need another browser?
Once again, the expectation of privacy while committing crimes is violated. oh, where will this end? Must we be accountable for every little thing we do?

Of course, I'm joking. I applaud the posting.

We had a similar thing near here where a package thief was recorded making her rounds. And the thieves among us commented how terrible it was that she was put on public display for her crimes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poMTVXcvGoo

This actually foreshadows a future where petty crime becomes very difficult. Not only will there be more cameras, but software will improve to the point where it can recognize suspicious behavior and unrecognized persons and anticipate crime. Maybe even zoom in on it, call other mobile cameras to the scene to capture the action from multiple angles, track the criminal until law enforcement can get to them, alerting the neighbors to steer clear.

And criminals will have their countermeasures. Burglaries may be performed by robots that fly into your garage as the door closes when you leave for the office.
I get paid by the day in my normal employment. It is fair enough on an 8 hour days, but when you fill 24 the hourly rate drops to shit.
Well, if level is this mutable, it's not really useful. I.e. you couldn't use historical achievements as a predictor of someone's level.

There are higher-level attitudes like: "I won't commit to something I can't deliver / If I commit to something I will deliver" that may fall under your attitude categorization, and also correlate to the person's record.
Try my weekend project: http://viewtext.org/article?url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.nytimes.com...
If anything, it's better to have an over-zealous backup policy.
Neither is a particularly good idea. People find the current tools perfectly adequate, and as 3/4 of them tell me "I use the big E" or "the red fox" when asking what browser they're using, I doubt this is going to gain much traction.
Irrelevant contrarian opinion that adds nothing to the debate, but indicates with certainty I am more interested in being pedantic and scoring points than having a useful discussion.
I think this most often happens when the submitter for some reason didn't get the login screen. The NYT seems to be actively varying when it prompts people, in order to keep links to their stuff included in "the online conversation". Some cases where there's no prompt: 1) I think anyone from an .edu IP range; 2) if you follow a link from a big link-sharing site like Reddit (or Google News); 3) if it's your first nytimes click of the day.

HN seems to not be big enough to get the #2 treatment, so people who find a story on Reddit or Google News and then submit to HN might not notice that it went from no-prompt to prompt-required. People who hadn't read any previous nytimes stories that day might also not notice. More info: http://www.businessinsider.com/janet-robinson-online-paywall...