skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using deodorant does not have an effect on hygiene.
Hygiene is about being clean; deodorant is about being
dirty and not smelling like you are.

Many deodorants do fight bacteria to an extent, and if you use an unscented stick, you'll still sweat your own scent without the bacterial funk.
Yeah, the author has a very boring taste. Here's a list I made in 5 minutes (and I think it's way more interesting):

http://www.roostblog.com/

http://www.heathwaller.com/

http://www.bohemiadesign.co.uk/

http://www.sproutfund.org/spring/

http://www.racket.net.au/

http://www.thirdculturestudios.com/

http://jakeprzespo.com/

http://www.brewshop.co.nz/

http://patterns.ideo.com/

http://www.unconventionalguides.com/

http://www.eightytwodesign.com/new/

http://www.boxee.tv/
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YUI Base might work: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/base/
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Best Online Gambling Sites, Compare the Top 10 Online Casinos.
Look at the CSS files for the 960 grids system.

http://960.gs/
It would be great if you would submit this feedback on the document using the link at the bottom. Based on personal experience, Apple fixes bad documentation when it is reported.
The Warranty On Nisan’s Generator
I think facebook seems to be doing more to embed themselves in the "open web" (connect, instant personalization) than they are bringing elements of the open web into facebook.
The Man Who Wrote Down Every Thought He Had
why do people link to these? I'm always asked to login and I don't have the patience to do so..
maybe something like hermit? (thought process: shell -> crab -> hermit crab) play with some associations with the shell
"or worse, the labor theory of value"

What do you mean by that ? Adam Smith would say wealth is stored labor, and that seems to me as good a definition as any.
I think they're on the Heathrow to USA flights?
These chemicals are already illegal under straightforward interpretations of US law, but they're not illegal "enough" to prevent them from being sold online and shipped Fedex.

This seems like the kind of "illegal" that mostly matters if you hang a sign out your window and start doing business.

It's worth noting though that there's really no intellectually valid argument in support of mephedrone or MDAI or whatever-the-hell-else they're selling --- if you're going to make meth, cocaine, and LSD illegal, this stuff clearly should be too.
Safari - vim. http://github.com/mutle/vim.safariextension

Only a few keybindings, but I only really use it for the j/k page navigation.

(Note: it does get overwritten by pages with their own keyboard navigation (flickr, tumblr's dashboard, ffffound, etc.))
I was just wondering if there are any interesting things you noticed on your own site that you've also noticed here.
A Map of State Movies
The Myth About Strangers Poisoning Kids' Halloween Candy
Try contacting twitter -- http://support.twitter.com/articles/142161-information-for-a.... I bet they can give you more information than we can.
Since writing releases additional thoughts, that is impossible.
I think you both mean "objective", not "subjective".
> 10:34pm (EDT): Connectivity has stabilized and is back to normal.

Looks like everything's under control.
Thanks (and to v413), this does make sense. I hadn't thought it through that each call to the constructor will create a new function object, which was pretty apparent once stated and I re-examined the code.
Seriously, take this.

It's perfect.
You're conflating search engines with all human knowledge contained on the Internet, even though there are many search engines and many alternate ways of finding information on the Internet (not to mention how much of the best information isn't on the Internet).

Then from the other side you equate a social network to a phone call or email, completely ignoring the astonishing fact that Facebook has signed up a double-digit percentage of the entire world population in a single social network. Or how common it is on Facebook to find people you may never have seen again otherwise. Or the fact that you can maintain passive contact with networks an order of magnitude greater than what is possible via traditional social channels.

And I say this as someone who doesn't particularly value any of that. I log into Facebook maybe twice a month, and I don't particularly admire their mission. However when it comes to your closing statement, I'm in agreement, except with the inverse proposition.
Surely. let you guys no if i'm over.
As for Facebook:

- It helps me connect better with people I already known for long (There are a lot of people I'd have been out of touch with if not for Facebook)

- It helps me also maintain a network of 'loose connections'. These are people I don't know very well, but can now easily keep in touch with. I would otherwise have never written or phoned them.

- I get a lot of relevant content from Facebook - this includes links to articles/blogs that are relevant to me,videos that I find to be fun/useful/inspiring.

- I have had some of the most interesting debates on people's Facebook walls. Some very long ones. At times, we've decided to then take the debate offline, and have actually followed that up with a debate when we meet.

facebook for me is content discovery + keeping in touch + updating + discussing. Thats a lot, and quite simply, it is not very far from being at the center of a lot of my online activity.
I worked for a summer at a pool plastering company in Los Angeles. While the work was mindless and painful (LA can be hot!), there were actually a few important things I learned.

We often finished pools in Beverly Hills. One job we did was a "grout demo". The deck of their pool was tiled rock and they just didn't like the grout. It "wasn't sparkly enough" apparently. We didn't want to do such a pointless job that would take so much time. So the owner of the company bid on the job. He gave them a figure that was so ridiculously high that he wouldn't mind doing something that pointless. They agreed (crazy people live in Beverly Hills).

Moral of the Story: Find your price. Figure out how much they would have to pay you to get you to do the same thing you've always done, regardless of how much value you feel that adds to the company. If they balk at that price, fine. You wouldn't want to work for less than that anyway. If they take it... good, you are valued.
The best quotation from this:

"The U.S. seems sadly unprepared to take advantage of the revolution it has spawned. The country’s worn-out infrastructure, failing education system and lack of political consensus have prevented it from riding a new wave to prosperity."
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/3/cssbase/
Google Wave was a great idea but making it standalone application was the mistake, IMO. I am pretty sure the ideas Google Wave generated will be implemented on the right application someday. Facebook might be the platform for Lars to implement his pet project (Wave).
Its a live linux distribution, you burn it into a CD or a thumb drive, boot your pc, and plug your guitar. Then you'll be able to use rakarrack which is a realtime effect box.
But thanks for the advice, I'll update the opening sentence
I was just gonna say... back in myyy day, when I was 12, in 1990, we socialized by dialing into BBSes and spamming Usenet via asynchronous relay. Clearly the GP runs in social circles heavily involved in some sort of ancient technology cult; "tele-phone"?
Ask HN: suddenly I see no down vote arrow?
What happened? Did I do something wrong? Is it just me or everyone else?
Upwards of $100,000, according to the WSJ -- http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870379380457551...
Isn't that how Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow got made?
Under current policy regimes consumers seek drugs which aren't illegal yet and don't pay much attention to their safety or lack of safety testing. This seems suboptimal. If these drugs were legal, consumers would prefer drugs that made them feel good and had a good safety record.
Seriously? Your GF needed Facebook to reunite with her mother? As stereotypical as I may sound, but she needs to get her life back and socialize beyond Facebook. It's simply absurd.
Yeah, I should have added the warning about JScript bugs. At least the first two bugs listed on that page has been fixed in IE9.
26 and with a PhD, I asked for a competitive salary at a startup and got it. You should do the same.
I'm close to people who work in the public sector, and this sort of thing is not where the real waste is. This is two or three guys in a shop somewhere. At least they're making stuff. You know that Despair.com catchphrase, "None of us is as dumb as all of us?" Well it's like that. You need some serious mass before you can start moving money and influence. Real waste comes from political graft.

Imagine a whole branch of a municipality where more than half the people are managers sitting around and doing nothing. They're all making upwards of 100k, and they're all covering each other's asses. Their propaganda machine is bigger than yours. Now before all you Republicans and Libertarians get all smart-ass, I should add that it happens plenty often in the military-industrial complex too with the contractors who do the majority of the real work. Same stories, different people.
BleachBit: a free software to increase your privacy on Ubuntu and Windows
Probably because people who are interested in reading about JS probably have JS-enabled browsers and aren't using NoScript.
The US outsources to India because it's cheap. We get 4 support people in India for the price of one in the US.

When India is really up to the standards of the US, it's not going to be cheap anymore.
My reaction is a big "wha???"

That was my first reaction. The front page really needs a plain text description of what it does - preferably in a single sentence. I clicked the /about page and gave it a quick glance (as a typical user might do). I don't think a Bill of Rights is something a typical user will slough through in order to use the service.

The other issue is the registration requirement. It may be tough to get users to sign into a search engine in order to tag sites.

With all that said, it looks promising.
But once again, you don't need permission to exercise fundamental rights anywhere in a civilized country.

If I'm on a public sidewalk, the default assumption is that I can pass out whatever pamphlets I want. That I can spew out whatever tirades I want to. Even if I'm in the KKK. Because I have a fundamental right to free expression and freedom of the press.

I can do this anywhere in the US. The only time I can get into trouble is if I'm conflicting with someone else' fundamental rights. If I do this at a Walmart, they can kick me out because of their own property rights. But even then, they're not saying I can't express myself, I just can't do it on their property. I can go to the public sidewalk in front of the store and they can't do jack.

I can be one of those assholes that stands on the sidewalk outside of a funeral home and say that this marine is dead because God hates gay people. And when the dad sues me, he'll lose, because I have a fundamental right to free speech.

On a public road, the default assumption is that I'm forbidden from driving unless I've met several criteria first. You start with the assumption that by default I'm not allowed to drive on a public road. And I'm only granted that right (or privilege) once I've established that I'm qualified and safe and using an approved vehicle. Not a fundamental right.
MDAI and MDAT seem to me to be particularly suitable drugs for therapy. Whenever you blanket ban a group of chemicals you also make research on medicinal use practically impossible.
I don't want to hire people who "paid their dues" but I do want to hire passionate people, and those that contribute to OSS seem to be the ones actually interested in programming, and that gives them a higher chance of getting along with me and others.

Someone can tell me all sorts of accomplishments on their resume. They can tell me about some cool NDA or Intranet project they wrote lots of code for. But I can learn a LOT more about their skills from their Github page.

So when I tell students to get into OSS, it's not to get free labor or to make them "pay their dues". It's to give them a better shot.
Some things mentioned here concern me greatly.

I do welcome the UI possibilities. UI innovation was languishing for a decade, as companies essentially spent their time tweaking the 1984 Mac and 1993 Mozaic UIs. And then Apple changed all that. Good for them. Bring some of that to the Mac; I'm all for it.

On the other hand, the trend toward the computer being something that some company controls, and I am allowed to use as they see fit, is not something I want to be a part of.

I recently bought a home computer. I run Linux on my office desktops & laptop, but, after much reflection, I decided I could not inflict even the relative friendliness of Ubuntu on my family. So we got an iMac. Great machine. We love it.

But now it's looking like, in a few years, there might be no computer at all that my family would enjoy using, and that I would allow in the house. Not a pleasant thought.
Puppygames Pricing Experiment: 3 Games for the Price of 1/4
I use KDE. Konsole has multiple tabs. KDE has virtual desktops. I work on a laptop permanently and don't see the point in this. And as already mentioned by Ogre and rudle, there are screen and tmux.
What does this do? When I clicked on this link I imagined an application that continuously wrote over free space while the computer was idle and leaving 20-50 megabytes free for the open applications.
I know this is a bit off topic, so vote me down if need be...

But have you ever considered advertising on public transit? It's actually cheaper than you might think. I'm from Toronto and recently came across this article about advertising on our subway and tram system called the TTC: http://www.blogto.com/city/2010/10/ever_wondered_what_it_cos...

It might be worthwhile to check out your local subway system, if that form of advertising would hit your target market.
Promoted Tweet and the promoted trending topic are 2 different things yeah?
My guess is that the number is not meaningful for any reason other than providing a count.

30 Beautiful Web App Site Designs is no more meaningful than Beautiful Web App Site Designs, no new information or useful information is included in the number 30.
Facebook really changed the world, as far as new advertising platforms go.. as for communication, it is funny how many of us continue to use IRC just as effectively as 15 or so years ago.
The reason why, every Indian IT majors are trying to stop america from going into protectionism mode is their 90% of the revenue comes from US. Yes the labour is "cheap" here - 24$ per hour.

Currently Indian IT majors have no or very low focus on local Indian consumers.
The End of the Banking Era
Ironic that this commentary should come from India, which is improving despite the country's worn-out infrastructure, failing education system, and lack of political consensus.
I am more interested in how his thought process change and help him solve problem than his notebook system.
Time to Rethink Word Processors
It's more helpful to think of ctrl-[ as an analog to ESC (this also works in Emacs, irssi, etc as well IIRC). Ctrl-c just happens to work for exiting Insert mode because ctrl-c is the 'abort' command, and technically Insert mode is an operation.

Insert mode is not Vim's 'normal' mode. When you enter Insert Mode, you are basically saying, "I'm stepping out of normal mode for a bit to enter some text here." In this sense, hitting ctrl-c is telling Vim that you're aborting your insert operation. (Though I could just be talking out of my ass, and it was just bound that way as a convenience)
For some reason, I do not have to login.
Yes, but I would still agree with the core thought, which is, America, which thought world about free market, is afraid of loosing its jobs to outsourcing.
Steve says, "No USB3 any time soon." " ... but look out for the new Apple BUS, which allow for fantastical connectivity for any BUS enabled device to plug into the computer and act like it's a part of the computer. You can add more things to the BUS and they'll act like part of the computer! Folks this is thinking differently!"
While these may be nice sites, your list isn't comparable to his list. His list contains 30 web applications. Your list has two web stores and the rest are generally content sites. So you've kind of missed the point on why he put the list together.

I don't agree with your opinion about his taste either. He's pointing to 30 sites which generally focus on driving new sales of their products. While they may have a similar approach, the list does contain a variety of styles and variations. I suspect the similarities in the designs speaks more to the selling process and the mainstream techniques used to drive sales rather than the author's "boring taste".
Eh, nobody with a clue takes Chris Anderson seriously anyway.
This is the effect of drug prohibition in our modern age. You can attack the supply chain, but not the demand. Savvy entrepreneurs, internet marketing and a cornucopia of untested synthetic drugs will continue to satisfy the demands of a largely youthful consumer base.

We've made the safest drugs illegal, only to open up a vast market in utter unknowns. Better the devil you know.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1853529
If You’re Not in Pain, You’re Not in an Emerging Market
Ah yes, dismissive argument format #2837: "I hate when people say $foo. It's like $politically_incorrect_thing."

The problem is that calling "experts exchange" "expert sex change" does not say anything about the validity of a sex change operation. It's saying that it's a dumb name for a programming Q&A site. This makes it equivalent to saying, "I hate ExpertsExchange. Look at how dumb the name is."
The idea sounds kind of interesting, but I was a little underwhelmed by the "new ways" his experience allowed him to think in. "How do we communicate?" is hardly a novel question.
The answer to this depends pretty heavily on what you're wanting to program. If you're planning on writing protein-folding software, or CAD, or a database, by all means dive deep into math and algorithms. A typical web or desktop app? Not so much.

A general understanding is helpful to form an intuition about what options are available for a given problem and what the tradeoffs would be, but in most cases you'll rarely have any reason to write the hard bits yourself. That's what library code is for.

That said, if you have an interest in that kind of stuff, learn it! Even if you rarely use the more complicated parts in practice it will give you a solid base for deciding how to implement things, and you'll get a good sense of just how efficient things can be so that you'll be more able to recognize poor solutions when they show up.
Uh, no? It's SSL from the user to the load balancer. It's cleartext from the load balancer to the backend servers. There is only one SSL hop; over the insecure internet from your frontend server to the user. Once you are on the physically-secure local network, you don't need SSL anymore.
postmarkapp is a great SMTP service. We use them, and recommend highly.
While there are some interesting designs here, it's also worth noting that few (perhaps just one?) of your links are for web apps, which was the whole theme of the post.

Interestingly enough, the most obvious web app amongst your links (http://www.boxee.tv) does indeed have a somewhat similar design to those find in the original article.
0+, the federal analog exists as a law on the books but takes a concerted prosecution effort to use.
Data structures, algorithms, language/automata theory, computer architecture, set theory, logic, graph theory, linear algebra, combinatorics, and abstract algebra have been the subjects I got the most mileage out of.

Data structures and algorithms will teach you to do more complicated tasks than "tossing text about." Languages and automata lead into algorithms for text processing. Architecture may be less generally useful, but I find it interesting (and unavoidable since I'm interested in compilers). Set theory and logic are sort of the base language for other topics in math. Abstract algebra seems to be the canonical way to really learn how to prove things. Graph theory and linear algebra have some more direct ties to computer science topics (e.g. linear algebra comes up a lot in 3D graphics). Combinatorics does too, but a lot of it seems to be a quick way to realize that brute force is going to be a bad idea. There are a lot of ties between some of these subjects. Algebraic graph theory applies linear and abstract algebra to graphs (I recently had a chat with a professor on applying algebraic graph theory to characterize finite automata). A lot of graph processing algorithms, of course, make more sense with a good background in graph theory. I've also run into some other interesting topics for which the math background was necessary: for example, error-correcting codes are easily understood with linear and abstract algebra.

The best thing studying math has done for me is to give me many different ways to describe a problem. Chances are one of the ways will have some well-developed theory behind it revealing a nice way to solve the problem. What you specifically will gain from such study will depend a lot on what you work on.
This was very interesting to me. Thank you for posting it. Marketing on the web is effective and easy to measure, however I think that we often overlook the potential of offline advertisement.
I already said it's not about the nudity. Please understand that some of us are vehemently opposed to ant sort of unnecessary radiation. Besides that, the privacy issue is big for me. Anyway, thanks.
"... probably a sports journalist."
Ask HN: Looking For A Logo Designer
Any good recommendations for a great logo designer? This is for our YC Winter 2011 business application. Thanks.
I would at least diplomatically present your concerns about the offer as it may be they see it as 'stepping stone' to the actual position they see you at in the future within the company and that you want, namely development.
It sounds like you're making decisions without data. You don't seem to have a solid job description, reporting chain or salary ballpark. Were it me, I would ask for those things so you could get a clear picture of what you're actually deciding on and the parameters of the position.

Having said that, there's the old sawhorse where employed people are always more desirable candidates, so the option to take the job to pay the bills while looking for other work may be a good one for you.
Python, Django, Node.js, MongoDB, CoffeeScript. I use Vim, co-founder SubEthaEdit.
There's no large Helvetica on http://recurseapp.com (my app)
Isn't the federal analog act what they use to bust people who are selling fake drugs? The reasoning being, well you said it was the same as illegal drug x so we're busting you as if you were selling illegal drug x (even if what you were selling is perfectly legal oregano). It's a really kind of Alice in Wonderland war on drugs reality but it actually happens all the time. Just put into google news "busted for selling fake drugs" or something like that and you'll get tons of stories.
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