skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately that is very true (I worked for Bug Labs, so hopefully did a little good changing it), but I took particular offense to the "law enforcement" passive agressive threat in the Microsoft statement.

I 100% agree that if you hack something, the company shouldn't honor the warranty, or let you use it on their services. That is their right, which is why when I modded my Xbox 1 I was fine wtih them banning us from Xbox Live. But I never felt like I was going to go to jail for doing it. I didn't pirate games, so I never thought I could get in trouble for it. Then Microsoft started trying to get people in legal trouble for just modding them, or showing people how to mod them. That was when I got really anti-Microsoft, and I've kind of forgotten that over the last 4 or 5 years.

They reminded me today why I used to think they were the most anti-open source company.
The official ifixit link:

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I eternally dread this subject because I've never seen discussion of it be civil, on the internet or in person.

Ick.
Emacs, Lisp (but not Emacs Lisp).
Will they be relaesing 3rd person shooter/rpg games where your character makes whatever movements you do? You could even walk in place to make him move. Actually pick things up etc.

I think that would be amazing.
Get a few more and form a VIP club of first n customers - and give them special benefits -> they'll get you more customers.
The c# version is pretty concise. And since 3.0 with implicitly typed local variables, its gotten less verbose.

var result = seq.Where(a=>a %3==0).Select(a=>a*a);
I respectfully disagree. Every reputable company I've ever been offered a job at requires references after they've decided to hire you.

Any recruiter trying to harvest references of "managers and people in authority" is just a weasel trying to fill their sales contact database.
Ask HN: Source for pre-built admin/app templates or designs?
My startup is a web app that will need an admin-ey design. What I have now is the best I could do but it's just not very good, and I was told in another thread that it might be a good idea to try a pre-built theme instead of hiring a designer since it's so much cheaper and I'm really just trying to gauge interest rather than completely dive into this.

So I'm wondering if there's a decent source online to buy designs or templates specifically built for admin sections or web apps? I see that Theme Forest has a few, just wondering if that's the main place. Thanks!
It's the difference between the freedom of a bill of rights and the freedom of anarchy. Both ways make sense, they just don't get along together.
Import Images from XML & Replace Text Based on Regular Expression 
Aspose.Pdf.Kit is a Java component for PDF document manipulation of both windows & web based Java applications that allow developers to edit existing PDF documents. Main features include; Filling XFA fields in PDF, creating PDF document link, font style, modifying AcroForm, extracting and adding Images and text, getting and modifying meta information of PDF file, encrypting or decrypting a PDF file, Adding watermark or logo, append pages and converting PDF file to a single Tiff file or XML file.
But their driver doesn't have to support Ubuntu, Ubuntu is taking advantage of their driver's OpenGL capability. So the better the Nvidia OpenGL driver, the better Ubuntu will run on it. It shouldn't really matter RHEL or Ubuntu so long as the driver has good OpenGL performance.
Running Chrome 7.0.517.44 here, and all I get is a simple on/off/exceptions menu.

Your statement might be true for future releases, but unless you are running nightlies, Chrome does currently not have this as a builtin feature.
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If I could bet on any place to make civil discussion on a difficult issue, I would bet on Hacker News.
Gmail recently restricted how many sessions they allow to a given account. I'm not sure what the technical details are here. I often have tons of tabs open and many of them have gmail in them. If gmail becomes unresponsive, say after sending something, the window will hang in perpetual loading state until I go hunt for other gmail tabs and close them.

Also I definitely don't experience the long initial loading times, could this be correlated with the amount of emails in the inbox? I currently have ~100 there and it loads in a second.
G.V. Ramanathan - How much math do we really need?
"The trick is you have to document everything you type step by step. The problem programmers have is they know how to install this stuff like it's second nature, so they skip details and important steps that non-programmers just don't know. Once you have your instructions, erase the machine (or VM) and go through the steps again, manually. You'll run into stuff you missed and will need to fill those missing steps in."

This applies to a lot more than writing a book and is great advice to anyone who is writing documentation for their code/project. I find this technique particularly helpful when writing a "How to get our development env up and running in 3 hours or less" document.

Most of the time I just write it down in a Google doc and share with my team. But lately I've been documenting all steps with Fabric, which has the dual benefit of being very readable ("self-documenting") code as well as a one-command setup script 'fab -h <target>'. And the way I create my Fabric scripts is basically what Zed describes above.
As for finding tutors, I went to the source. Last year I spent 9 months backpacking my way across Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Panama. Along the way I spent nearly as many days talking with local Spanish language schools as I did surfing.

Assuming any success whatsoever when the site launches, I'll try to follow up with a Central America tour next year. It's only the responsible thing to do, and besides, the surfing is better.
I charge. My basic process is I do the project, then allow for two rounds of revisions from the client included in the base price, and anything after that (including bug fixes) is charged by the hour. As long as they know this up front, they tend to be better about testing thoroughly so they can get the most out of those two rounds of revisions, and they also don't pitch a fit about having to pay for bug fixes.
It'd be pretty awesome if Windows Server 2008 was rolled into Windows 8.

Seriously though, Mac OS X Server has a ton of advanced valuable services (email, calendaring, booting clients off server based images, time machine server). I think it's totally cool for Apple to continue charging for it.
The problem programmers have is they know how to install this stuff like it's second nature, so they skip details and important steps that non-programmers just don't know.

Or, they've had System Administrators doing it for them their whole career and have no real clue what's involved anyway.
I'd love to see these for a variety of cities. One way to put one together for New Orleans: reach out to other tech people you know there, and collaborate. That's what I did for Atlanta, and I got a much richer set of pros & cons than I would if I had done it independently. The little bit of time spent eliminating dupes and organizing it thematically, was well worth it. If you write one for NOLA, do let me know, and I'll link to it.

I'd also love to see one for Austin, TX. And one for NYC.
Thanks for your detailed response (and the original offer!).

I had understood your proposal just fine, and was wondering about the recruiters' side. I and surely most of us on HN agree with what you wrote on virtual relationships, fairly assessing a candidate based on the CV, and handling personal references with respect.

However, will such an HN reference pass the recruiter, and then the hiring person at the company? A technically clueless HR person won't be too impressed by "this guy on a web forum says my Hello World is fine". Again, I agree that in an ideal world, they would call the candidate and figure out his skills on their own, but they don't.

In any case, I'll bookmark your original post, one never knows :-)
> * Free will can exist in a fully deterministic universe.

Would you mind going further into this one? Barring belief in dualism, I don't see how this can be possible.
>Another workaround would be creating a third-party service for importing contacts from Google.

http://www.goosync.com/
Sure, I just wanted to note that BJJ, is an adaptation of the JJ art, and has a heavy focus on the techniques that are geared towards MMA competition. Therefore, some very effective techniques are not given the attention of some other forms or JJ or Akiedo.

One I think of immediate is a isolated wrist flip a technique that results in the dislocation of the wrist, elbow and shoulder in a single technique, but cannot be applied in a manner that the opponent is afforded the ability to chose to submit, therefore it is not an applicable technique to MMA competition. There are a lot of these "instant" techniques that result in too much injury for it to be acceptable in MMA.

My point is while BJJ or MMA are exceptionally good arts for defending ones self (some of the most contemporary) the competition aspect of the art has, like Taekwondo has caused a hyper-focus on certain techniques. Nothing wrong with it, just wanted the author to have full disclosure.

You can have the utmost confidence defending yourself on BJJ knowledge, far more than say Taekwondo it is a well rounded art, and MMA competition is as close to the real thing as you can get without creating grievous harm to everyone who enters the ring. Like I said though, I just wanted to ensure he had all of the facts.
Practical advices are always useful. Listen to clients, iterate, do split testing, etc are all great. I am gonna do most of this anyways. This is not all new to me and I believe do have so experience.

But right now I am mostly looking for general advices regarding my product, initial market, grow strategy, etc

Like:

DHH replied me and advised that I should get some partnerships in hollywood and get some premium content like movies to grow audience.

Another well known guys suggested to focus on smaller producers and materials like tech tutorials.
Sites where you're building a marketplace of clients and providers are always a bit harder to bootstrap so i find it interesting; also i live in South America and thought about building a product like this.
XServes are really great pieces of kit actually - equal in terms of features vs cost to any other servers + the ability to run Mac OS X.

You need AFP servers because Samba share handling is so bad on Macs.
Yes, just look at the iPhone/-Pad sales.. then look at the Xserve sales. Makes sense.
The Hollywood guys are giving you good advice, but their wrong about the reason.

I wouldn't go after the movie industry. It's something I don't understand and something you probably don't either. However, you need to dominate a niche. I e-mailed some advice on how I'd go about doing this a couple days ago to you.

The most important thing is to become THE website for x. You can always branch out from there.

One way to pith this to bloggers is basically for $25.00 a month a person can subscribe to your channel. This where you dump all your excess thoughts about your niche. I have a lot of ideas that I think are useful, but I probably couldn't write a 1500 word minimum blog post on. I could make a 3 minute video on it though and produce 2 or 3 of these a day.
You may check themeforest http://themeforest.net/category/site-templates/admin-skins
My favorite is wushu, but its hard to find a studio if you're not in a big city. There's a lot of focus on leaping and spinning kicks, its not the most deadly martial art, but I think its the most fun and the prettiest to watch. I used to train here, http://www.extremekungfu.com/, until I moved to Minneapolis. There's a video on the main page.
Just curious -- how are you using it?
"if you don't want to use Java or you want to do layouts in text (I ended up writing my own DSL in Python to generate layout XML, but man it was a PITA)"

You made it more difficult than it really is.

It really depends upon what you want to do. If you want to make say a business app that connects to a web service and pulls some values and lets you set something or other, it's absurdly easy. The text layout shizzle even lets you take advantage of every form factor, different DPIs, etc, with automatic resource utilization based upon the device. Of course as you try to do anything more complex the nature of the beast is that the solution gets more complex.
I would say that Theme Forest has definitely the best selection at a very affordable cost. Even if I am a designer myself, sometime for quick project I just prefer using one of those templates. Also, you could try to search on google, many designers share templates they've made on their websites in order to attract visitors.
So you did have a spec, you just did the work of producing it yourself. That's sometimes necessary for a developer to do, and for small projects it can be the best approach as well.

Oh, and users never know what they want, even when they think they do. What they know is the problems they have and the job they're trying to do or want to do. It's the job of the software designer (both spec writer and programmer if they're different) to figure out what the software has to do to give the users what they need.
take a look at cyclone also http://cyclone.thelanguage.org/
Is it normal for freelancers to pay recruiters a referal fee? I figure normally they have a set of contracts they're trying to fill and they're not going to submit me for anything else since they wouldn't get paid.

But what if I paid a 10 percent fee? Would they then be out there finding contracts for me? Is that something that's ever done?
I'd go to court over Kinect hacking in a heartbeat. They can't even use the standard anti-piracy argument here, it's simply preventing competition and interoperability. I really don't think MS is dumb enough to try it.
I hope it didn't come as a surprise. What you do when you outsource is not only you hire cheaper workforce from the other end of the world but you also spare on not having a permanent employee/consultant. It's cheaper because you only pay for what they do and not their availability (i.e. you don't pay if you don;t have anything to assign to them). Now on the other end of the business there are people who can only make a living if they are highly utilized. So they'll have a pipeline for sure. (I.e. they won't pay what you don't pay, the availability.)

So if you want an employee or permanent contractor then hire one, even from the other end of the world. Most freelancers will be more than happy to have a longer term contract with a fixed income. But you have to pay the bill...
Lawyers. Sooner or later, someone will plug it in while it's open.
Why is the screenshot on the ebook page Adsense? Are they advertising in their mobile apps using adsense? Is that possible? I thought Apple disallows this.
Religion and civilization are ultimately incompatible.

One day, psychiatrists will routinely prescribe touch, including sex, as an intervention against depression.

In our lifetimes, the USA will experience economic or political collapse, and maybe even break apart into different regions.

9/11 wasn't an inside job, but the anthrax scare was.
Tai Chi has been a great experience for me as well. I think because of its strengthening and stretching, balance and control as well as low risk of putting me out of work with an injury. It has been awesome for my lower back.
It can be very calming and has a spiritual side which you can explore if that's your thing. Tai Chi contains the roots of all other chinese martial arts so you could use it as a stepping stone off the couch.
I personally hope more people will find and benefit from Tai Chi.

"It's like Yoga without having to roll around on the floor :)" - me
Selfishness doesn't explain very much of human behavior.
The best piece of advice I can give is to stay away from McDojo type places. You know the ones. Usually franchises, instructor's with questionable lineage, 'clubs' that will take you from nothing to black belt for a set fee, etc. One in particular has added several new belts in my lifetime just to keep people longer. Some teach their own version of an art, so what you learn won't transfer if you ever move.

Some forums were already suggested. If you're interested in learning about traditional martial arts I highly recommend http://www.karate-budo.com/. It's a small forum and they don't approve everyone (or, they didn't when I joined; not sure now). But the people there are serious about their martial arts.

Others have mentioned researching the schools. I'd recommend researching the Sensei. Find out who he trained under and research that person as well.

My $.02 worth.
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The web serves files. Some of them are HTML, some of them are not. I don't have a problem with web browsers displaying anything that has a standard defining it.
Thanks for the feedback.

Charging for the service had two reasons. First I wanted users to be serious when they sign up, or the program will probably gonna fail. Also I didn't how to monetize on the site so it could support itself.

Maybe I can make the pricing plan to be $1 which makes users serious about the program and don't feel like they are being robbed.
Keep the Flashblocker extension enabled it'll prevent the "missing plugins warning" with the added benefit of giving a visual indication that a webpage uses flash incase you'd like to switch to a different browser. With the plugin.default_plugin_disabled set to false I'd miss out on embedded youtube videos (I can't find a youtube html5 converter for firefox)
Charge. And don't be apologetic about charging.
There's a museum exhibit of Stalin's own B3ta.com from back in the day, called The Commissar Vanishes: http://www.newseum.org/berlinwall/commissar_vanishes/
15:00 could be the switch to rush-hour signalling. I know where I live it screws up turn-lights and pedestrian crossing lights. I've seen turn lanes getting a single car through at every light change, it's gotten so bad that it clogs up one of the through-lanes. Similarly there's rarely a single pedestrian at a crossing, and I've been forced to J-walk because the pedestrian crossing hasn't come on for several light changes.
Think outside the "think outside the box" box. This is ycombinator, after all. ;-)
So what do you believe that most well-informed people don't?
By the sounds of it Python or Ruby seem to be the best options. I've done light PHP work for a year or two before but wouldn't say I'm an expert of any sort. Thus why I'm so open to switching into learning a more "modern" language
Your use of Dunning-Kruger isn't quite accurate. The better you are the less likely you are to overestimate yourself, unless you are in the very top, in which case you are likely to underestimate yourself in relation to others. Basically, because people have relatively little interaction with people that are very different from themselves, most people tend to rank themselves in the 3rd quartile, whether they are from the bottom two or from the top. That is very different from not knowing what you are capable of.
You're right, which is why I'll continue to stick with Debian stable or Ubuntu LTS while this all blows over. It will blow over, however, and I'm happy to have a major player out there forcing it to happen.
That would be a big deal if they supported virtualization on other hardware. Is it possible that it's a first step towards a more open (in regards to hardware requirements) OS X in general?

I–personally–like OS X server for a lot of applications. But, the bottom line is important for businesses and private consumers. XServes never fit into that consideration as well as they could have.
Except Microsoft and Yahoo already negotiated with Facebook for access to their contacts:

"And it has also forged deals with both Hotmail and Yahoo that will let those services access its contact data. Google didn’t do a partnership with Facebook, so it doesn’t get the goods."

Which makes me more curious why Google did not negotiate a similar deal and why they are trying to force the issue now.
With the Software Center, Unity interface, and now a new display server, looks like Ubuntu is shooting for the mainstream OS business. Interesting to see an Linux distro trying so hard to set itself apart.
Starting your first company
I have tried earlier versions of Mobile Firefox on my N900, and I think it shows promise, with a very interesting UI.

A couple of questions:

Will you support the viewport meta tag with attributes for page zoom and scroll/pan behaviour?

And also will you support the "Touch API" as implemented by Mobile Safari and the Android browser?
my boss literally shed a tear when he saw this
Substantially as fast, not just as fast. To me, that means that the speed must be within an order of magnitude of Google's - as in, you click some buttons, wait 30-60 seconds, and you're exported. You can't have some ridiculous "your request will be processed within 7 business days" mechanism.
A similar case: Canadian Tire vs. crappytire.com:

http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2001/05/31/crappytire_010531.h...

Canadian Tire was able to get the site taken down in Canada using Canadian trademark laws and/or a preponderance of litigatory expenses. However, they lost the fight to sieze the domain name.
Serious guys from facebook are not amused.
It might just be that the diet program itself is too niche...I've certainly never heard of it. I think if you were looking for blogs that covered the diet program, and only found a few (that were long dead), that should be a pretty strong clue that maybe there just isn't enough interest in that program to warrant an app.

Also, pawn-soft is not a great name for a company...I realized after going to the site that you meant a chess piece pawn, but at least for me the first thing I think of when I see pawn is a Pawn Shop, which has a lot of negativity associated with it in most people's minds. Especially on the Internet where a lot of folks are already wary of getting scammed, you might want to change the name to something else.
there's no doubt that climate change is natural, but isn't the climate change "issue" about the notion that we're speeding it up?
Learning in Dorm, Because Class Is on the Web
TSA: American's real child pornography/molestation machine
I have the impression that the British recruiters are slimier than in other places?

At least, most of the horror stories I've read about European recruiters come from England?

(My limited experience from e.g. Sweden is bett... hrm, not as bad. An article written by me would use the word "clueless" often, but just a few "sleazy" and maybe one "evil". I'd even use some positive adjectives, like "human", "working hard to learn" and "serious".)
PDFs are a pain but they they exist and dare I say it, I'd rather receive a PDF from my Windows brethren than a MS Word document :-(

Having this will make my world just a little bit more convenient!
What toilets?
If Apple wants to be taken seriously as a server software vendor, they would be far better off to allow virtualization of OS X Server only and let people run it on HP/IBM/Dell/Oracle/Sun x86 hardware.

I can buy an 8 socket 8 core x86 server with 64 threads and an additional 64 virtual threads, and 1TB of RAM that only takes 5U of rack space.
Keep in mind that recruiters "get people for jobs, not jobs for people".

You, as a potential employee, are not their customer -- you're the commodity being sold. It doesn't change the way you feel about how you are treated, but awareness of that relationship may help keep your patience and a level head.

(Quote taken from this "What about your job do you wish other people understood?" Reddit thread:
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/e1dsi/what_about_... )
IE8 begins blocking access to harmless sites
Women are Gaining as the Best Entrepreneurs