skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
teuxdeux.com , in my opinion a to-do list has to be a to-do list and nothing more.
http://www.elenco.com/snapcircuits.html

This is what you need. There's various 100-in-one or 500-in-one kits, you get a big bag of parts some instructions and you can start making all kinds of cool things. Also great if you have kids.
Also remember that China's .com doesn't look the same as Verisign's.
Thanks for the tip guys. Updated.
I do exactly the same. I suppose using a darker background with black text has essentially the same effect as dimming the screen. One is limiting the light emitted from the backlight, the other is limiting the light transmitting through the liquid crystals. Both result in less light reaching your eye.

However, I suppose the dark background allows for immediate switching from low brightness to high brightness. If you're doing the 30/30 work cycle, you could easily switch from a dark coding screen to a proper brightness game or tv show.
A joke perhaps? It is ridiculous also because the punishment is far too severe.
Next challenge for the OP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taman_Shud_Case#The_Rubaiyat_of...

(People might be interested in reading that whole page - it's quite a curious case.)
You make an excellent point, and to some degree I agree with you. Particularly it's obvious that there are some traits that are needed, or at least up your chances significantly. You point out focus as a vital ingredient.

But there's a flaw to the argument. You can spend all of your time measuring success factors and acting on the data. But there are limits both to how much you data you can make sense of, how much effort you can allow yourself to spend gathering that data, and how you interpret that data.

finding a cofounder, for example, is a critical component of success, but how will you pick a good cofounder based on data? Can you even do that? Notwithstanding that the hardest part about finding a cofounder is actually locating potential candidates to pick from.

In chaos theory you can actually predict the weather if you have data that's exact enough. But you don't. There's just noway you can measure everything exact enough. I think the same applies here.
I wrote a rant about how much I hate people that kick back and put their feet up on the table.

Oh, nope, that was Zed, too!

(But seriously, Mongrel 2 is an amazing work of software engineering. In addition to being a good web server, it's also a good example of how nice C is if you forget how they did it in the 70s and write it like it's 2010.)
Do we understand the building blocks? What's the smallest system we can't model?
Works in Chromium 7.0.517.44 (64615) on Ubuntu 10.04, but not in Firefox 3.6.12 on Ubuntu 10.04.
Wow, the video on giveabrief.com is too funny!

I really like the idea of mocking up via more of a scripting language, especially since it's exportable to a real project in Xcode. As a developer, clicking that many times to build a mockup still seems a bit dreadful to me.

Edit: I believe all the apps mentioned here export to Xcode, just specifying a preference for typing vs clicking :)
I'm just asking for a guess.
How did you find the site? Did he come to you to solicited the sale? Was it in a market place like flippa?
Which ever background you pick, I find f.lux ( http://www.stereopsis.com/flux/ ) to be invaluable when using computers for extended periods of time (especially in the winter when the sun sets early). The quick rundown is that based on your location is adjusts the brightness and color temperature of your screen to match the lighting around you as it transitions from daylight to inside lighting. It's a slow transition so you don't really notice it until you look at someone else's screen and notice that it's looks really blue. The biggest downside I've seen is that it can't control the brightness of all displays (my MBPs screen gets dimmed but the Dell 2405 stays at the same level). It still does adjust the color temperature on external screens (at least on mac laptops it seems) which is better than nothing.
Works fine on Firefox 4.0b7 on Win7 though.
It is cowboy, but there is a time and place for that. If you did this in a large organization, you'd be putting the team at risk. Since it is just you, well, do what you find prudent.
JavaScript's speed improvements over the past few years is amazing.

That said, bring on the GPU acceleration!
> Whatever happened to good old ssh -ND ?

YouTube doesn't work.

Also, it's not a one-liner on a Windows client. OpenVPN is really, really easy to use once someone set it up for you. Two clicks and you're connected.
> To follow up on the original subject, let me rephrase what I understood from your one liner: "maybe the female attendees, by daring to show up in non-unattractive clothes, provocked the gropings". Sounds acceptable to you? Not to me.

Huh? I'm saying physically attacking someone (if that's what they perceive) may result in the same.

I think that's fairly obvious, so I've reported your comment.
This sounds like burn-out to me, not a nervous breakdown.
It does, but there are many thousands of forms. RFCs are published in the Federal Register.
"Don't get me wrong, I am not knocking Jason personally, I just think his work values are wack. Correction, I think his values (or those that I can see by his public persona) are wack."

Sounds like he actually is knocking him.
Show HN: CSS Meta-Language in Javascript
This was an attempt to make css more accessible to javascript. It just happened to solve a lot of the same problems as less and sass as a side-effect. I'll start with a few examples and then break out the code and explain it...

Here's a generic example:

css // Begin CSS

( "selector1" )
({
property1: value,
property2: value,
// ...
})

( "selector2" )
({
property1: value,
property2: value,
// ...
})

; // End CSS

Some less and sass features (Variables, Mixins, etc.):

// Variable
var text_color = "black";

// Mixin
var dim = function( w, h ) {
return {
width: w,
height: h,
}
};

css // Begin CSS

( "div" )( dim( "10px", "10px" ) )
({
color: text_color,
})

( "span" )
({
color: text_color,
})

; // End CSS

And finally, since it's leveraging javascript this technique can modify styles dynamically (My goal):

item_color_input.onsubmit = function( )
{
css // Begin CSS

( ".item" )
({
background: item_color_input.value,
})

; // End CSS
}

Frameworks like jQuery provide similar functionality by acting on the DOM. This can be slow (since it has to execute the selector in javascript) and doesn't affect future elements.

The Code: css.js http://keithmajhor.pastebin.com/twCKCcHV

// ==============================================
// File: css.js
// Author: Keith Majhor <KeithMajhor@gmail.com>
// ==============================================
window.css = function( a )
{
var decl = { },
elem = { },
rule,
prop;

css = function( a )
{
if ( typeof( a ) === "string" )
{
rule = a;
if ( !decl[rule] )
{
decl[rule] = { };
elem[rule] = document.createElement( "style" );
document.head.appendChild( elem[rule] );
}
}
else if ( rule )
{
for ( prop in a )
decl[rule][prop] = a[prop];

var temp = rule + "{";
for ( prop in decl[rule] )
temp += prop + ":" + decl[rule][prop] + ";";
elem[rule].innerHTML = temp + "}";
}

return css;
}

return css( a );
}

All it does is maintain a hash for each selector and update a <style> tag whenever it's modified. As is it's 500 bytes, minified it's below 300.

I hope this is useful to someone. If anyone has any insight into why this might be a really stupid thing to do, I'd love to hear it.
You now have location there (which turns out to be fairly close to one of our facilities) but no contact information, so I still can't reach out to you.

If you're extremely uncomfortable listing an email address (or lisp form that evaluates to one or something similar), you can reach out to me based on my profile, but I'd really urge you to list some contact information in your profile, even if it's a throwaway account that you can easily walk away later from if the volume becomes overwhelming. If you're reaching out to me, add "HackerNews" in the subject line, please.
Where's the part about turning them around into long term customers?
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No doctors! Take time off. Do the thing you like most (windsurfing works perfect in my case). Spend quality time with your girlfriend or find a new girlfriend. Once back on your feet, leave the damn company. If you can affort, start working on the project of yours you thought so many times about. If not, find a company with a culture you like. Screw the doctors and the pharma companies. There are making enough damn money with no help from you anyways!
When is design done?
In the hyperspeed, eternal-beta environment of the web it's easy to assume that the concept of "done" is quaint and old-fashioned: Design isn't done, it just fails, and crawls away to wait for the server to be turned off. But adopting this attitude is foolish. Design can reach a point where it is done, where the product or service can objectively be called "done."
28 steps??
He said he read up on all the applicable laws before hand. If I recall model planes controlled by a human within line of site under a certain altitude are perfectly legal and it looks like that is what was done here. In other words this wasn't a UAV.
I tend to use PartyChapp in a similar way, but with GTalk.

http://partychapp.appspot.com

It's pretty great. It creates persistant rooms for Jabber/Google Talk. I'm a big fan.
Wow, I'm extremely curious how that will pan out. Going to Antarctica has been a lifelong dream of mine, and I always thought it was relatively difficult to do, but I suppose there aren't border guards.

Incidentally, I'm from North Dakota so I know we're supposed to be mortal enemies, but I do wish you the best of luck.
This was on the front page of HN a couple weeks ago and can answer better than me: http://www.carlosble.com/?p=719
That is really great. As a musician, and a programmer, I would like to how you would make that. Seems like you would go through a ton of Mobius strips getting the arrangement just right.
You're implying that fora is the only acceptable way of writing the plural of "forum". That's nonsense, forums is perfectly valid English.
My point was: why forum/fora? Why not creditor/creditores, or abdomen/abdomina?
Microsoft will not lease it's DRM Silverlight components to the Moonlight project. It's that simple. Complain to Microsoft. Or beg Netflix to change their streaming support.
Sources: Groupon rejects Google’s offer; will stay independent
Where are your cost numbers coming from? Ultimately, the cost of maintaining a domain registration record is a small text file in a filesystem somewhere, plus glue records copied into the parent domain. I don't know of any filesystem that costs $3.50 to store a text file under 512 bytes, even including backups and filesystem administration. Accordingly, there are non-TLD domains (e.g. dyndns) that let you register any number of subdomains at no cost.

Of course, support can cost any amount whatever. But it generally doesn't cost very much. Mike Lawrie handled the entire South African .za domain single-handedly from 1994 until 2002 in his spare time.

The GTLD servers also bear a cost of answering queries, but that cost is zero for domains that nobody queries (most of them!) and in any case is not paid by registrars or registries.

Let me offer an alternative hypothesis. Domains cost money because they provide a valuable service, and competition in registry operators is nonexistent by the nature of the DNS. To register a subdomain of a particular parent domain, such as .com., you must pay whatever the registry controlling that domain chooses to charge, either via an intermediary such as a domain name registrar or directly.

Because subdomains of popular domains such as .com. are valuable and there is no competition in the market for them, you get to pay monopoly rents, which have fallen somewhat since ICANN wrested control of the GTLD monopoly from Network Solutions.
Public Relations software
As the world moves further and further into the age of technology the field of public relations moves with it.
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Did you know you get more done if you write it down somewhere (like a blog and portfolio) and tell people about it? True story.

Do you find that? I'm the opposite, once I "announce" something all desire and motivation for completion goes out of the window. For me I think it's about the appreciation, so when I explain the idea and love it, why complete it.
I think this a bad move by Groupon. I don't think they have the critical mass yet to win over potential competition from Facebook or Google plus its AdSense network. I see their margins getting smaller. If the numbers that were quoted by the press were correct, it seemed like they had a good offer on the table.
Without knowing the full-story it's impossible to judge. But to me it doesn't sound like you're having a breakdown -- it just sounds like you're burnt out. I'd take a vacation and clear your head. Go to San Diego and hang out on the beach for a couple weeks, or fill-in-the-blank with whatever you would consider a relaxing couple weeks. Don't think about work, or anything work-related, and just take some time for yourself.
This was oddly enough talked about almost exactly one year ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=982249
Take time off. If that doesn't work THEN see a doctor. Seriously.
j is often used instead of i in engineering and physics.

When you start talking about charge density, current, phase and frequency, you almost always start reverting back to engineering notation (i == j). In QM we used i. In Complex Analysis, we used i. In CM, with regards to oscillators/harmonic motion, we used i.

The wikipedia article on imaginary units talks about interchanging i and -j denoting the reversal of plane waves, but we never did that in advanced electrodynamics. However, I wouldn't be surprised if some people do, but as far as I know it's not that common. It's probably find for determining the EM field at some point for some time, but for the problems where you have to find the charge density on a surface of conductor induced by a EM wave, this notation would start to get confusing.
Aren't those the same thing?
I completely agree with Chris's assertion that it's better to hire for talent than knowledge of highly specific frameworks. Things are going to change anyway, so ability to learn quickly is far more important.

However, I only wish his last statement were true, that "applying that to a language or framework is just a matter of figuring out the syntax...and that is the easy part".

I guess it depends on how you define easy, but if this were true, I wouldn't have framework fatigue. I suppose it's easier to learn spring MVC if you already know Struts2, but for me (I should only speak for myself here), it actually isn't easy. Ditto for ant to maven, or SVN to git. You're in far better shape if you already know something related, but you're far from in the clear.

Reality is, it takes (me) a long time to get truly competent in a framework. It can take months to get competent, and it can take well over a year to really master it, and that's when you have a related background.
Can you do XSLT in Python on App Engine yet?
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It's not the gist of what he says that's unreasonable, it's the details and the phrasing which reveal a lot about the dude's personality.

It's the self-obsession inherent in the way he keeps referring to his own (self-perceived) good qualities as the ideals to which others should try to live up to.

It's the pointless bragging. "Oh, I've only been tired a few times in my life, usually after a marathon". Cool story, bro!

It's the way he gives the impression that the only thing he seems to value in his employees is how much they're willing to kill themselves for the sake of the company.

Above all, it's this apparent feeling of entitlement that he deserves to have the best people in the world working for him. This might be justified if he'd sold his last two companies for ten billion dollars a piece and made all his employees rich. But according to wikipedia he's sold one company for the $30 million range; presumably enough to make the founders rich but only to give a modest payoff to the employees. If the best he can say is that some of his employees make $100K after getting $30K for the first few years (compared to a big company where they'd instead make $100K after getting $75K for the first few years...) then I'm really not sure where this sense of entitlement is coming from.
even when Pakistan's government request them not to do this is perfectly ok

While I agree with the sentiment, I'm pretty sure the last WikiLeak clarified that we had the consent of the Pakistani military brass, who took credit for the attacks, and who were lying to the elected officials/citizens.
I don't know Jason Calacanis, his personality or anything. His "I'm never tired, keep up with me" is.... odd to say the least.

Nevertheless, I do agree with his "I want to surround myself with people who can work at my pace, work 80 hours a week not caring about life balance." Maybe not at a large company, but at an early stage startup I WANT people around me who are working hard and determined to make their product successful because they care about it.

What's so bad about what Calacanis said? 70-80 hour weeks are not unheard of in the startup world...
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I guess from the headline that it's just implied. They gave them all the money, so the customers stayed with Noah for the long term.
So being one of the few people in this thread that has worked with Jason, I wanted to chime in for a second.

Jason is totally demanding and pushes everyone around him to their limits. Yes. True.

But, underneath all the bulldog, seriously the guy has a heart of gold. Sometimes he doesn't show it, and even he'd admit some level of narcissism, but from personal experience, I can fully say that working with Jason changed my career for the better in every way.

I originally worked with Jason at Weblogs, Inc., and as we were acquired by AOL, worked with him on the relaunch of Netscape. I went through a personal tragedy during the launch of the site, and Jason / the team were instrumental in me coming out of that with my wits about me.

To be clear: Jason is hard to work with. He does joust publicly, which I would attribute to his form of marketing.

I have absolutely no inside knowledge of his actual tactics, but my guess is he takes on someone who he knows people don't like, then points out their flaws over time, figuring eventually he'll come out on top since his side of the story looks so rosy by comparison. Oh, and he does this by being fairly hyperbolic. (Mainstream media, junkets in journalism, Gawker, Pay-to-play angels, SEOs, off the top of my head.)

That all aside, I think working with Jason set me up to have a wide-eyed view of startups. I treasured the experience, and while I think everyone should evaluate their personal limits carefully before embarking on a career with someone who will literally push all of them, I don't think anyone who's worked with him has regret the time they spent with Jason. That doesn't mean all of them want to work with him again... but I heartily encourage anyone who wants to be pushed to work with him. It will be a hugely rewarding experience professionally. It was for me, anyway.
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I didn't say rich, I said pay the $500 hosting fees.

The fact is that you guaranteeing sales are $0 if you never ask for money.
I wonder how you contact the airport if in such an eventuality you wanted to do that?
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Well, the number I used was .1%, and that number is surely always 0 if you don't even ask.

They didn't even ask anyone to pay.
Just one sub-clause: if the doctor prescribes pills, go to a different doctor.
If you're gonna expect me to work eighty hours a week, there'd better be a seriously large payoff. In particular, it'd have to be much more than twice what I could get by working forty hours a week; it'd have to be at least four times as much.

I don't get the impression that he's offering that much extra value to his employees.
Groupon could have taken a lesson from my grandma:

"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."

$6BB today invested in AAA bonds for ten years will be more than their corporate valuation after their deal hawk coupon site's novelty wears off. Eventually Facebook, Twitter or Google will create better 'hyperlocal' business models and monetize the long tail of local search with their massive reach.

Good luck bros.
There is a small fee if you download over 3G. You can prevent that by setting the charge limit on your "Manage my Kindle" page to $0.

Wifi is always free. (source: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_l...)
Who's that Parked Domain / Expired Domain Girl?
Ask HN: What is the Holy Grail for Software Engineering?
Physics has its Theory of Everything - what's out there for Software Engineering?
Old-School Copywriting Books That Taught Me Everything I Know About Marketing
For whomever downvoted this, let me say that I appreciate seeing the links that 'Giraffes often puts here. If i find the post interesting enough, it can be useful to go back and read commentary associated with them.
Ask HN: Good 3.5 SATA HD Enclosure
I am trying to find a good brand SATA HD enclosure for a 3.5 1.5tb 7200 rpm drive. USB.

I have tried a few my Comkia and they are sloooow.
Same with many other generic brands I have tried.

Can anyone recommend a good enclosure? I am suffering with slow speed!
Silverlight, DRM, Netflix and Linux
Netflix has been running on Linux for a while:

http://www.tivo.com/linux/index.html
You have to add an email address to a list of "trusted contacts" before Amazon will accept emails from it.
You may find these of interest:

http://www.ibiblio.org/kuphaldt/electricCircuits/

Horowitz & Hill's "The Art of Electronics" is also excellent, but more expensive.
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Groupon Rejects Google's $6B Offer.
Has Craiglist Flatlined?
idiots...2 years from now, when all the businesses know what a bad value proposition Groupon is, they'll look back and kick themselves for not taking the offer
>Perhaps it has something to do with where you are?

Maybe I'm not as handsome as your fella.

Thanks for the info.
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Wow.

The fact that it's possible to make that kind of statement with that kind of confidence really just sent home what Wikileaks might mean at the end of the day. The only fuzz phrase you used was "pretty sure". No more CYA madlibs?

"According to (news network of dubious perspective) (shaky adjective) reports from (unknown, likely irrelevant person) suggest parties in (vague but suggestive geographical region) might be doing (questionable activity)."
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That's not bad. I should start selling numbers.

Want to be just like Euler or Avogadro? I will sell you your own number, guaranteed not to be named after anyone else. Integers are $20, but it's only ten dollars for reals.
So having watched the video you suggested, and remembered the music on the original video I immediately recalled this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4U6T_BB1N8

These guys do the same close-proximity flying in Alps, but in wingsuits. If you only watch a bit of it, skip to 3:05 and compare to the vimeo video!