skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
no problem. What you have now looks good, so you may not need it unless/until you do a redesign.

They basically have a set of predefined CSS classes for layouts to give you a starting point. Blueprint and some of the others also have a default set of styles predefined, and you can find several examples of people who have added to them. It basically gave me a good starting point instead of having to hack up my own CSS from the start.

They also claim to help resolve several of the CSS differences between browsers, but I haven't tested that first hand yet.
Can be useful for building a web dashboard and/or get and send notifications of remote systems' CPU usage. And this dashboard could be viewed from mobile devices too. Good.
Also (and forgive the nitpick, pretty please) -- on this page: http://www.capturely.com/tour, you should set overflow: hidden, or perhaps adjust those div heights ever so slightly.

I'm seeing a scrollbar on each of the text sections. Using Chromium on Ubuntu.
What features would you like to see in jQuery 1.5?
His notability is probably useful over and above his engineering ability.
Test Driving the Chevy Volt
> I absolutely detest parents who tell their kids "If someone hits you, hit them back harder"

Why? Do you believe this makes society more violent?

By the way, I don't agree with the "harder" bit. I.e. I would advocate a more-or-less proportional response in non-life-threating circumstances.
RIM's Playbook: Pricing under $500 and a big bet on Flash
It's not confusing; it's just passive-aggressive. Textbook passive-aggressive.
Even if you don't find a way to use anything out of the functional-logical space, reading about languages like this can change the way you program when you are in a functional-only or logical-only language.

Here's a little oversimplification that I've found useful for understanding this stuff.

* Mercury is the Haskell of Prolog
* Curry is the Prolog of Haskell

It's interesting to see a lot of the ideas in Mercury addressed from the opposite direction Curry. See for yourself: http://www-ps.informatik.uni-kiel.de/currywiki/
Start-Ups Follow Twitter, and Become Neighbors
In other news, there is this amazing new Javascript framework called JQuery!
Prince XML is written in Mercury

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_XML
Are we really worth $3.5 million?
I read once a thought that sums up genius, intelligence and skill acquirement well I think, and you probably also think the same- along the lines of:

"IQ, talent, and circumstance define your upper bound. Hard work gets you there."
As a former Flash developer I'm quite used to having to work around Flash's relatively lackluster performance, and I'm rather surprised that RIM has decided to bet on Flash/AIR for their tablet's app platform.

On the other hand, they automatically bring on board a massive population of Flash developers that are already familiar with the platform.

I suppose only time will tell whether this was the right move.
Actually, it's pretty funny: the materials are the only place where they make their money. 3D printers are sold on a total razor and blade model, the machine manufacturers make 70% of their money from materials, and something like 5% on actual machines.

Then things like this happen: http://open3dp.me.washington.edu/2009/10/sugar-sugar-powder/

> The cost of this mix is $0.15 – $0.30 per pound!
Google Street View helps capture drug ring suspects
Wow. Really interesting to see Steve spin the smaller music collection of iTunes as a positive. I think this is going to make me consider his words more closely in the future.
This is the market at it's best. I've heard from many times that Google's salaries aren't competitive but rely on the "you will change the world" mentality. Google pulls in the talent and Facebook gets to cherry pick.
"Mysterious Missile Launch" Yesterday Was US Airways Flight 808
Valve had the luxury of having enough cash-in-hand to scrap work in progress and start over. It was self-funded from the start. Most publishers wouldn't let you do that.

So this is one case where the development method is part of the story -- the business story impinges too.
That's great. Throw your kids under the bus for your ideals.

We first have to understand the world we do live in, before we can reasonably change it to the world we'd like to live in.
Actually (+ interestingly) none of them are product (as in "product development", "product management", "product owner", etc).

No one seems to be hiring product people, and it seems to be a new trend from what I've been seeing recently.
Many of them are possible in theory. Few are implemented in practice, and even fewer apply in code found in the wild.

e.g. promoting an Integer[] array to an int[] array is something that Java will not do, although in some cases it is theoretically possible (and LuaJIT2 comes close to doing something equivalent).
An open letter to Obama, on his recent visit to India
This is a very minor detail - so an optimization that was made 20 years ago is no longer relevant. Neither is it harmful or especially expensive.
Facebook posts lead to Long Island police reviewing 1984 missing tean case
I'd be grinding NL500 in Vegas between big hits in tournaments and 10 tabling NL200 online.

Either that or drug dealer.
I can't believe anyone would buy that, though. Facebook makes almost no money. That's not going to change. People are leaving the platform. There is constant negative publicity.

Facebook is not a sure bet, so if you want to work there, do it because you like the project you're going to be working on. If you want to get rich quick, start buying lottery tickets.

(If you want to get rich slowly, then take Google's $500,000 stock offer! While Google's growth may be slowing, they still have a solid product that makes them a shit-ton of money.)
Exactly. I think most of this timing was circumstance, not causal.

Maybe they were just busy dealing with the bigger labels first, and put a positive public spin on their delay.

I was hanging on his every word, since we were hearing nothing else from them. So his keynote seemed to be a decision. Instead, it was just an important lesson on spin and circumstance.
Show HN: Yet Another Way to Find a Cofounder
I only hope you don't break your eyes reading my English.

A problem:

Is it only me (maybe an antisocial freak who has been living a year in San Francisco, yet hasn't got any friends amongst developers)
who thinks that the process of finding cofounders is shamefully hard? No matter if you want to create a company or just team up
with someone to develop a simple idea just for fun, it is just not that easy to find a partner. What do people do to solve this problem?

They seek among their friends or coworkers, they visit conferences (if their companies are ready to spend ~$1000 for a ticket),
or they hang out on IRC and tech blogs. These methods are certainly not bad, but are they in tune with the present times? Look at job sites,
or, excuse me, dating services. Nowadays no one gives you advice to go seek a girlfriend in a library or a club. You go online and search
through huge databases, see pictures, read profiles and have a chat before an actual meeting. This widens your choice and makes you life
easier and happier. So why don't we make such a solution for ourselves, in order to find people to create companies or projects with?
I know we all are skeptics and each of you will name me thousands of reasons why it won't work out but why not give it a try
if it works great in other fields? I'm not saying that it will replace real communication and visiting real tech events, but it will probably help.

What solutions exist today:

In fact, there are some solutions already. For instance, http://techcofounder.com and https://spreadsheets.google.com.
I tried to use techcofounder.com and it seems to work well. You can create a profile and receive some interesting proposition letters.
Alas, it is still inconvenient to use: hard to browse, no search, no history of conversations. Same thing with spreadsheets.google.com,
although amazingly simple, it is very difficult to browse.

So what have I done:

I've created a simple tool: http://yafounder.com. It is not another pretentious game-changing startup,
I've just created it by myself and the idea was to try to find a simple solution for a problem and see if people like it.

What it does:

It allows you to search through profiles in the same fashion as you do on dating websites. Just choose who you are and who you are looking for.
You can add some criteria such as location or skills. There are also message system, microblogs (funny, huh?) and an ideas list where you can discuss different startup ideas.

What it lacks is obviously users and I would be insanely grateful if some of you will register and give feedback.
Maybe the title should read, business focused entrepreneurs with no money. If I am a entrepreneur and I have money, I will not be looking for a "technical co-founder". I will hire technical teams to build and iterate the product to my liking and specification, with their expert input of course (which I can choose to accept or not).
Thanks for doing some extraction!

Using your file I've been building up a solver for these questions in Prolog (using DCGs for parsing and simple predicates for the common sense facts and answer calculation). It's nowhere near "done", but it does get 45% of the questions now after only a few hours and 450 lines of code.

The trick to factoring someone else's generative space is to spot the symmetries and build your self a little domain-specific language for explaining those symmetries to your program.

Here's some snippets:

tomorrow(wednesday,thursday).

food(butter).

body_part(arm).
plenty(arm).
above_waist(arm).

ordinal(2) --> lit('2nd').

question( tomorrow -> Answer) -->
p(['Tomorrow is ',token(Tomorrow),'. If this is true, what is today?']),
{ tomorrow(Answer,Tomorrow) }.

question(count_2(P) -> Answer) -->
p(['The list ',token_list(L),' contains how many ',pred(P),'?']).
{include(P,L,Goods), length(Goods,Answer)}.

pred_name('something each person has more than one of',plenty).
Or this is just a misinformed rumor.
Give me a year to finish learning RoR and I'd be happy to join Airbnb :)
Indeed. Advertising is the easy way to make money, but I see a lot more creative ways to sell their social graph.

One would be to sell it to credit-rating agencies and insurance companies. If all your friends have totaled their cars and defaulted on their loans, then you aren't going to get one either. The only problem with this is that it's extremely evil (because even non-users of Facebook can be fucked by this, thanks to the "steal all of your email addresses" import method), and that there aren't very many banks and insurance companies.

Another model I see is using the photo service and the photo graph to help the police solve cold cases. Match the artist's sketch to the Facebook photo database, find some matches, and talk to their friends. Also very scary and evil, but potentially profitable. "Won't someone please think of the children?"

Anyway, once Facebook feels like they have a fairly complete graph and don't need any more users, then the money making can really begin.
http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/ may answer your need. Hopefully someday something like this will be available cross browser...
I would be extremely surprised if anyone that joins as an engineer now is getting 0.10%. I would guess its more around 0.01%. 10 basis points is more like a 30th engineer offer than a 300th engineer offer.
No More Business.com | Directory Daily
From the very beginning I could never see the point of that company.
Netflix goes farther than that.

People used to accuse them of sometimes shipping from a non-local center in order to let the mail delay slow down the rental cycle, cutting costs by throttling the service.

Now, if a movie is not available at the nearest center, they'll still ship from the remote center, but they'll temporarily give you an extra DVD, shipped from your local center. For a minimal cost, they've completely shut down this criticism...

All I can say is... Wow.
Kids Timberland Yellow Pattern Boots
This is a wonder of the modern world: Extreme high-speed digital cameras, the kind of stuff that Harold Edgerton became renowned for a mere fifty years ago, are now so cheap, easy to use, and sensitive that some guys at MIT can afford to aim one at their cats for extended periods of time on a whim.

Back in Edgerton's day you had to take ultra-high-speed photographs using extremely bright strobe lighting. I don't know for sure that he never photographed a cat lapping, but I can't imagine that the typical cat was happy to sit around drinking when strobes were going off and a high-speed film spool was cranking nearby. Plus, there was probably a crazy backlog of other, more serious things to film. So it was probably hard to collect enough data to be sure you knew what was happening.

I helped a lab shop for one of these high-speed cameras a few years back. They were not cheap, but they were cheaper than some cars, and they've probably gotten even cheaper since. When these things get to the point that we can all afford one, we are going to have some serious fun.

All hail the semiconductor optics folks! Buy one a drink today! ;)
0000. master the command line

0001. master a keyboard-only text editor (vim/emacs)

0010. master your mind

0011. determine how to help the world the most with the least effort

0100. learn from your mistakes

0101. learn as many programming methodologies as you can

0110. create an awesome sheep for electricsheep

0111. reverse engineer a program from decompiled machine code

1000. write a book worth reading in 100 years
Passive aggressive behaviour is confusing.
JQuery 1.4.4 Released
That offer will never happen again.
I'm pretty sure that if you give children "control over their world" you get Lord of the Flies.

Children aren't mini adults. They're half done adults. There's some scary and important stuff missing.
Great article. There are way too many apps out there (especially on the iPad) that waste screen space trying to be cutesy with their UI design.
Why do you feel the need to dismiss others' suffering, because it wasn't hard-core enough?

Is locking the skinny kid in a locker until he pisses himself real bullying?

Is one kid holding another one down while a second one punches him real bullying?

It may not be guns, knives and chains, but the suffering is real. Also, what makes this kind of middle-class bullying worse is that

A) it's not expected -- it's different from the rest of these kids' lives, which are non-violent

B) educated middle-class parents give their kids bad advice like "don't fight back, violence doesn't solve anything".
The new XBox S (the matte black one) is much quieter than the old XBoxes. This YouTube video gives some idea of the difference, throwing in a listen with a PS3 as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5QpoKwVcSk

The Kinect experience so far is targeted at a wider audience than the traditional gamer. My mother, for example, absolutely loves the Kinect. She particularly likes the Tai Chi and yoga trainers in the "Your Shape" game. I didn't expect it to take off with her the way it did, but it's the first video game system where she really wants to play it.

Another thing: there are several different interfaces embodied in the launch titles around the same basic Kinect capabilities and interactions. If you want to develop new user experiences, now is a good time to check out what people are doing before everything settles into place. So it's worth at least visiting a friend who has one.

(Disclosure: I work at Microsoft. Speaking only for myself here, of course.)
Why Left Search Buttons are Faster for Users
Shouldn't 0010 be 0000? I would think mastering your mind would come before mastering any external tool...?

Definite up vote for answering a question about what to hack in the spirit of a hacker.
Modnique.com - All Sales Events - Ed Hardy Dresses
If I was that employee, I would think I've now reached the most awkward point of my career. And the most dangerous.
Almost catching up to 2000era javascript ! :)
We've been using Sass in production since we launched. Love it.

I've not seen any real comparison between LessCSS and SCSS (i.e. the new Sass syntax that became available with Sass version 3.0) There were some real differences before that, but that's not nearly so clear to me anymore.

At present, we've decided that there's no reason to use LessCSS as we already use Haml and there's nothing that Less offers that gives us a reason to switch from recent versions of Sass. I'm not even sure what the differences are now.
The complaint is that 7" is in a no-mans-land between pocketable-and-good-enough and something that justifies being carried in a bag

That's Steve Jobs angle because Apple currently makes an 10" iPad, and now have a black hole between it and the iphone. As someone who uses PMPs and internet appliances, though, I find it to be an incredible lie.

Having a much lighter, smaller, easily holdable-in-one-hand device == a HUGE advantage. The Kindle carries big advantages over the iPad for the same reason.

So unless flash-based browsing is a must and barely-better content consumption is enough to justify carrying a second device in a bag, it's very hard to make a case for the Galaxy.

I doubt many people plan on getting one to carry in a bag. This will primarily be an internet appliance, either kept at the office or on the bedtime side table or coffee table. The idea that someone is going to tote it around is ridiculous, though it's just as ridiculous that people are going to tote around an iPad and use it at, for instance, a coffee shop.
I was aware of the bang syntax - just if you manually wrote out the URL I expected you to use "dukgo.com/?q=!wa ..-.." or whatever rather than a long handed version.

Personally I use "wa" as a search keyword and then enter "wa ..-.." into my address bar.
Then the iPad was delayed in Australia they announced it as a positive thing; the product was so popular they were diverting the stock meant for Australia to the US, and wasn't it great news for Australia that we were going to get such an awesome product!

Apple's ability to spin is amazing, but not as amazing as the number of people eating up every word of it without thinking about what they are hearing.
"I guess maybe this is what happens in white suburban schools?"

"[I]n real life Jesus and Jose and their 20 cousins and homies just show up ..."

Jesus and Jose? Homies? Just. Stop.

Was it really necessary to inject some sort of pathetic, dogwhistle racial component into this? Why are you trying to cast a universal problem like bullying into a phenomenon where the scary minorities are picking on white kids?
Goldman sach's traders routinely get money in this order of magnitude for creating a net value less than top engineers at Google.
Or that's what "they" want you to think, wake up sheeple.

;0)
Learn 3D graphics and build a small virtual world.

Virtual worlds have always fascinated me, but I've always been a command-line/server guy and never got around to learning the theory/math that goes into doing 3D graphics.
New Chrome Extensions by Google
Again, the author was the one that used the Galaxy S as a comparison, it's in the article. As for the figure, I gave the caveat that you have to believe the source, though I think the source is pretty well researched.
Ask HN: Can you reproduce my redirect loop?
Hi HN,

I have been getting multiple reports of a redirect loop on one of my pages: https://exceptionalasp.net/blog/the-evolution-of-csharp and I believe at least one of the reports came from a HN user, probably linking from this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1892830.

I haven't been able to reproduce the issue and can't find and friends who can either. Does this happen for anyone else here and can you provide any more information, e.g. exactly which URLs are involved in the loop, what browser you are using etc?

Thanks!
Study Finds Evidence for Precognition
There is no public market for Facebook stock today, so "value today" is meaningless. Frankly, they gave him a big package of "it really really really could be."
Programming Lessons I've Learned in 20 Years
There's a wide variety of schools in the US and it sounds like you're at one of the worst.

I went to school at a suburb of Chicago where two friends died by being shot by gang members (Latin Kings), a kid that sat in front of me in Spanish murdered his girlfriend and went to prison, and drug deals were common in the hallways. But standing up to bullies was still better than backing down.

That said, the gang members were rarely if ever the bullies; not unless they suspected you were in a rival gang. The bullies were the kids that wanted a power trip, mainly the Seniors and mainly the sports guys.

If you give in you're doomed to be giving up your money or whatever again and again and again. You fight back, and that's usually going to be the end of it. People that fight back aren't fun; the weak ones that cry and give you stuff, that's where the fun is. The bullies want a reward with little effort. The gangs usually have a personal vendetta against you, your family, your different gang, your race, or something else. That's a whole different issue and one that's not dealt with in the same simple way.

Don't confuse gangs and bullies, they're two very different beasts.
i agree with what he is saying. I don't believe in picking fights. I do believe in standing up for your self and others. If they say that they are gonna punch you call them on it ask them to punch you. The whole reason why they do it is because ppl turn around and walk away. i am 16 right now and have been training in various martial arts since i was 7 and i still get bullied, the difference is that i don't hesitate to fight. I also get angry when i see a bigger kid picking on smaller kids. When i see that i go and rough the bigger kid up a bit. From doing this i have seen a huge difference in the bullies at my school. on the note i do recommend going to the teacher first, but if that doesn't work then your on your own
Or, have the search box say "Search" in it and the button say submit/go/send, then L-R ordering is maintained without requiring any additional visual fixations (shouldn't there be a third fixation for some users in their revised version when the user returns their gaze to the submit button?).
Before you die, you absolutely need to create a child. It will be your greatest creation.
Highlighter.com looks pretty cool actually, and that's a great domain. The description they gave it is terrible though - its a new kind of commenting system for bloggers, not a way to collect things you find online.
No, your goal is to instill fear in your enemy, not the kind of fear that makes them fight back like a wounded animal, but rather the kind of traumatic fear which makes them unlikely to treat you, or anybody else the same broken way again.
1. Write a Hello World application from scratch. No C library, compiler, linker, nothing. You get a hex editor.

Does this involve anything more than loading "Hello, world" into memory, setting up the registers/stack in a certain way, and invoking the syscall interrupt? (All the cool stuff happens in your terminal emulator. That's where 0x41 gets turned into the pixels that look like "A" on your screen, after all.)
0010 is the true hack. these tasks can be executed in any order--even in parallel.
I've always wondered, if we ever reach the Singularity or a cliched Minority Report like reality, what would the layers of software look like?
You can be technical without being an engineer. Steve Jobs
has been working closely with some of the best engineers in the world full-time for 30 years.

He probably knows more about display, memory, graphics, processor, and battery technology than 99% of programmers. Not to mention his knowledge of a dozen other technologies.
Orthogonal. They are using gcc there, which is not the same as his #1.