skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I unfortunately can't elaborate properly now. Once things calm down this week I'll be able to put together a reasoned blog post. Hopefully you'll vote it up when you see it.

But to be unfairly brief, anything that requires a download to run offline, or requires publishers to "upload" their apps is a step backwards. Since all that entails is literally running a desktop app. There's nothing there that couldn't be done 10 years ago, the only difference is that the apps have to be written in web technologies or not, using NativeClient. In my mind this is a step backwards, and essentially an unnecessary end run around the web solely for the purposes of monetization. I'll fully elaborate in an upcoming blog post tentatively titled "1 step forward, 2 steps back".
Da Vinci code found in France
Caps keep the situation from getting totally out of hand. Not everyone is able to get a capped deal done.

It's not a stance, it's just an opinion. I was doing converts when I was forced to, or if the caps were reasonable. I just didn't love them.
Of couse he isn't.
I mean more the fact that other startups will be raising at the same time, and you will be competing for attention and money.

Consider: Does an angel want take some dollars and a) invest in a new hot startup that he just got introduced to or b) double down in a startup that hasn't seen traction yet and is going back for another year's worth of runway?

Using story-based reasoning, the investor is able to convince himself that A is a much better opportunity.
How does one go about getting their hands on these prescription drugs for anything other than their intended purpose? I doubt my doctor would be likely to risk disciplinary action by handing over narcolepsy meds just so that I can outsource discipline and willpower to a pill.
I think the idea of keeping a log of places I've been to is fairly interesting -- especially if there's a good aggregation/search functionality to it, so I can see how many times I go to my favorite restaurant, what places I went to on this day last year, etc. But it's a pretty simple thing to build, and I'd prefer to build it on my own (pay with my time) than use foursquare for it (pay with my privacy).
There are a few secondary things that foursquare does that have some potential, though, notably notes from your friends about what to do/eat/see nearby you that appear when you check in somewhere.
No sweat.

I remember using Apple Forth (from Cap'n Software) in 1982 in Independent Study in high school. I made a cloud chamber simulator with it for the Physics department. (Side note: my public high school had an awesome science department: a radiation class complete with scintillation counters, a cobalt source in a lead pig, etc. PDP-11 and Apple IIs, small radio telescope on the roof. Riverview High School, Sarasota, FL; no idea what it's like these days.)
Cloudstock: Salesforce.com's hack-a-thon
3 reasons why I don't key off of email anymore.
Why this is important:

The world is changing, the definition of "journalist" is changing. In a different time such leaks would have come from a spirited and lively free press, but today our traditional forms of journalism (newpapers, radio, tv) are utterly mainstream, moribund, and very much part of the establishment. Wikileaks throws the new order into sharp contrast and raises questions about what is journalism, what legal protections journalism deserves, etc. Some of these questions had been answered (especially in the US) but the question now is to what degree and in what way do those decisions carry over to the brave new world of the internet.

The worst case scenario is that courts, the public, etc. decide to keep an antiquated cargo cult definition of journalism, restricted to newspapermen and television reporters. The danger there is that the flourishing of journalism on the internet in unfamiliar forms will lack the protections (legal and societal) that traditional journalism has had.

This is all the more sensational because Assange and wikileaks have become the poster boy / touchstone for these issues. This is troubling to me because wikileaks is not the best archetype for nouveau journalism. Firstly he has a very significant political ax to grind (though he has not been grinding it as sharply as in the past such as with "Collateral Murder"). Secondly the revelations that have come from wikileaks have tended to be comparatively minor, especially when judged against the cost of obtaining the leaked information. This sets him up as the perfect target for governments and traditionalists to tar and feather him and use him as an archetypal example of why new media is not journalism and does not deserve the same protections as traditional journalism.
Let's be honest, being a founder can be lonely
I think you miss the point, it's not acceptable to the mobile Market, Java's mobile offerings are a joke at best and sinister at worst. It took Android to create a competitive platform in the mobile space and Oracle is putting up every effort to squash any runtime work for the mobile space. It is relevant to Java because mobile is the future, tablets and mobile devices will become the dominate computing platform in the next few years and without inovation in that space, Java will be relegated to a language of the past. It is pretty clear that Oracle is dead set on killing Java mobile and I don't think it is because they see a future in Java ME or think they are working on a superior offering. Rather, I am more inclined to believe that they plan to help position the market for Apple to own the mobile platform. Apple being a vertical vendor like Oracle is very complementary to Oracle's world vision and vice versa. Allowing Apache to certify an alternative JVM would allow work to be done to optimize it for mobile. That is the real story behind all of these wrangling.
I like to use it as my Control key, though. I'd be concerned that they would replace it with something else and I'd have to learn to twist my pinky unnaturally again.
Interesting - I wonder if the free conference portion is due to the (usually fabulous) sponsors, or if Disney is getting really desperate for people to fill their hotels - to the point of offering free conference space.
Ask HN: How should your privacy policy explain affiliate links on your site?
I'm drafting a privacy policy for my site.

One of the things I'm debating is how much information to disclose about affiliate links on the site.

Do I need to disclose the affiliate company I work with and to what extent should I get into the details about how the whole thing works?
Not a joke; it's a project for Newspaper Club (http://www.newspaperclub.co.uk/). There may be a PDF version once the costs of the print run have been covered.
Anyone out there actually using Salesforce.com's APIs and dev tools? I know they're a huge force in the marketplace but I rarely run into anyone who even understands their offerings in depth. Though the enterprise end of things may not be a sexy part of the market I find it pretty interesting. I'd love to understand how to put what they're building to use in my career.
http://www.zazzle.com/ is already very dominant and vertically integrated in that space. Did you knowingly launch a clone? Or, think that this was an original idea? How do you hope to compete with them and the others doing the same thing? What's your value add?

To me, this space seems too cots, low margin, and crowded, to even build a lifestyle business in. But, good luck!
This is exactly what I was about to say. It looks like they've used the caps lock position for the Fn key on the cr-48, so it looks like this may not be possible on this unit.

Then again, I guess it's not that big a deal since the ctrl key doesn't really get used on the web.
I see that there is an HTML5 game for sale.

How viable is that? Wouldn't it be trivial to "steal" since you can just view the source code? Would obfuscation help at all?

I'd love to be able to sell HTML5 games, but it doesn't strike me as a realistic option.
I thought someone was actually developing a new kind of crankshaft for a real V8 engine....
A----- less erotic than expected.
Indeed. I can't remember the last time I hit the caps lock key on purpose.
It's the sponsors. :) Disney definitely makes its money off these conferences (though it is honestly not nearly as extortionate as one would originally think).
Glad we got to him before he decided this...
Yes, the "Managing encryption keys" section was the most interesting part. I was wondering how they were going to protect the disk encryption key.

I'm not positive that a pure memory based key strengthening is all the useful though. Depends on how much time they think is too much to login, but considering the class of machine, I'd be worried if they aimed lower than one second.
Yes, look at the list of the four main components.
Flags aren't exactly downvotes, but they push things from the front page. I've seen people in several thread voice that they're growing weary of this issue and think many of the stories submitted on it aren't relevant to HN.
Project “Groupon Everywhere” Proceeds With Hyper-Local Deals (Via JiWire)
The only purpose for you buying it unlocked is not being locked into a contract.
Argh. It's too bad (for me, at least) that this conflicts with LA RubyConf (http://larubyconf.com/).
Stores do very litte for marketing (the popular apps are popular due to being good and having been excellently marketed both in and out of stores, put an app on store with no marketing and see how well it does).

Mobile appstore made sense since there wasn't an existing distribution or discovery infrastructure. For web apps the Internet has already solved distribution and discovery..

I see appstores as a plague and counter to the open and free Internet. A few companies are getting (for practical purposes) "monopolies". Altering the level playing field into one in which developers are beholden to appstores.
Bah, that's bullshit. These are Git features and meant to be used, and these are part of the reason Git rocks so great.

It's not lying, it's cleaning up. History rewriting is assembling all the intermediate crap into a comprehensible patch that as an added bonus also comes with a hindsight, or keeping sense in maintaining your work-in-progress on top of some other branch by continuous rebasing.

It's not lying, it's making sense. It's the same thing why you don't save your Emacs editing history to have someone else replay it to produce the source file. You just save the source file because you've spent time doing work to eventually produce something that makes sense. You don't want to bother other people with your errors. It's of no value to them.

However, the time you do not want to do this with public commits. Anything that you have pushed or someone has pulled is public. Anything that flies out of your local nest shall become immutable.
>There seems to be a growing assumption in software that small, simple, focused is always best.

Growing assumption? No, its an assumption that's always been there. I mean, isn't this the core of the Unix philosophy - small sharp tools? I'd rather have three separate programs that each are really good at what they do than a single program that's mediocre at what it does.

>Would I prefer to develop software in Visual Studio 5 rather than 20xx to avoid bloat?

I'd rather develop software in vim than either, and that goes back to what I was saying above. Vim is a tool that does one thing - edit text. I don't need my text editor to automatically suggest my next function call. I don't want my text editor to automatically compile code in the background. I don't want my text editor to take up hundreds of megabytes of memory to load metadata that I'll never use. I don't want my text editor to handle source control.

I want my text editor to edit text.

>What we want is well designed, coherent applications with equality of 'fit and finish' throughout. This is easier to achieve with a simpler application, so simple is being trumpeted as a virtue in itself. It isn't, though - we should be looking to develop applications as complex and powerful as both we can manage to develop well and our users can manage to use easily.

Specialization doesn't imply simplicity or lack of sophistication. Look at vim. Its unbelievably complex. I've spent years working with it, and I'm still learning new things about it. Its just that all the complexity and sophistication is focused towards one goal - making text editing faster. I can code faster in vim than I could in Visual Studio. The way I see it, a lot of VS's aids are like training wheels - they're great when you're starting out, but if you want to go fast, you'll have to leave them behind.
I have a lot of respect for Jason, his company, and his contributions.

However, the idea that all software should be pruned to the essentials does not work in all cases. Simple software does not always scale at the enterprise level.

What I mean by that is that resisting a commonly requested feature for Basecamp means that maybe 5000 of your x-million customers have a problem and need a workaround 5 times a day - 25000 workarounds, but only 5 times per company per day.

If you resist a feature for Massive Company 1, then they have to execute a workaround 700,000 times per day. That doesn't scale. Then, if you resist feature 2 for Massive Company 2, they have to execute a workaround 600,000 times a day.

So, software aimed at the enterprise gets bloated and terrible to use. However, this leaves a gap at the bottom for those who can choose a good minimal feature set to exploit. We should not condemn them.
"Nothing but the web"?

"Nothing but the web"??

How can you be so tantalizingly close to such a glorious tagline as "Nothing but net" and not use it?

AAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Ask HN: Bouncing around work locations
What are your thoughts, opinions, preferences for where to work? Do you work consistently in an office, home office, one cafe, or bounce around?

I'm finding myself incredibly productive by bouncing around to nice cafes. The nicer the view, comfort of the seats, really makes a big difference.
Honestly, I don't remember. I never used it. I just used to see it in Compute! magazine. But this looks cool. Never had seen VICE before either.
What about those of us who use CAPS LOCK as another CONTROL key (for Emacs)?
Except that most of the people he actually accused were not Communists.

And, perhaps most importantly, political ideology isn't a crime.
Seriously – good riddance. Now what could the "insert" key be replaced by?
A combination of IBM and Sun / SNOracle.
btw note that this article came out of a conversation about my motives from switching from angel back to entrepreneur.

a better title would have been "it's a tough time to be an angel" or even "now is an awesome time to be a founder"
I wonder if this means the Android Market's official web front-end is almost ready to go.

They previewed it at Google IO and it still hasn't surfaced :-(.
Hooky detectives track corporate absenteeism
I didn't notice that. I hope you can swap it out with control. I've used that for so long it would be annoying to have to relearn.
Google teaches you how to use a Chrome netbook.
Free Laptop will arrive, when my free google TV arrives.

How else can you get people to fill out a survey?
LuaJIT is a major outlier, probably the most surprising result in the entire shootout. In point of fact there isn't much more LuaJIT can do without flat-out exceeding C, which isn't going to happen on the shootout to any significant degree any time soon.

(The conventional "JIT can be faster than compiled code" argument doesn't apply because the problems are accurately known by the author of the shootout benchmark code in advance, so, for instance, if there's a speed advantage to sticking with 'char' where you might have been tempted to write 'int', the C shootout code already does that.)
True enough.

Still, I fail to see the similarity between Lieberman and McCarthy in this context.
These apps seem to be nothing more than links to websites.

Am I missing something?
At my college, they installed computerized projector media systems in some of the buildings. On November 5, this video played every hour, at :15, between 9 and 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnF8FvXNozc
Probably so that people think it's OK to apply from other country and do so rather than use some friend's or temporary address in the US to get the notebook.
I really think 500k is the bare minimum, and 750k is better. But it's very short with no runway...

I see way too many startups raise 100-300k or whatever and simply die.
I think your missing the fact that Emacs wont run on this OS.
Never had a problem with T-Mobile service, and I've been midwest, southwest, and east coast. Haven't been to Georgia. I'm thinking about that phone too, but some of the features missing from Galaxy S (microSD slot) give me second thoughts.
You could, if you were willing to say something very silly. The death rate for car travel is around 1 per 100 million miles travelled. It's safer than just about anything besides riding in a commercial airliner; even lying in bed will kill you sooner.

The other half is that in most of America and many parts of the rest of the world, most people can't support themselves financially or otherwise without driving a car at least 5 days per week. The same is not true of climbing Mt. Everest.
I'm surprised anyone still listens to the nutjob. I'm even more surprised the Republican Party hasn't welcomed a defection yet.
Not really. It's a well-known VM optimization technique.
To be pedantic, England is not an island, nor is the UK, strictly speaking (it shares a land border with the Republic of Ireland). Great Britain is an island.
How is it a waste of time when caps lock is as close to my little finger as shift is and I can type normally for those few letters?
LAMP code snippets, from easy to advanced - tricks by examples
Ask HN: Who do you follow on RSS? 
I just switched to a new gmail address as part of an attempt to "clean out" my digital life. I've been migrating, cleaning out, deleting, and pruning everything I do to cut down on the fat and make my interactions with technology faster and more efficient.

So now I have a completely clean, 100% empty Google Reader. I'll be finding my own feeds to add, but wanted to get a solid start from people here.

So who are the most valuable people, blogs, or companies you follow on your RSS Reader?
Wifi calling on the G2 is UMA based, AFAIK. Even works with your existing router, unlike the earlier T-Mo stuff where they wanted you to buy their router to do it. They've dropped the extra monthly charge for using it, as well, though it does still use plan minutes.

Sound quality is a little worse than 3G calling, IME, but it works very well. It's been handy in my office where T-Mo signal is a little spotty. (Yet, I step outside the front door and have 5 bars ;)).
New in-browser VNC webapp in the Chrome Webstore
Yeah, well, you also were in my sweet spot for investing.

There's a huge class of startups that are just so... played out that I can't even bear to hear the pitches anymore.
Loop-invariant code motion is still legal in JS, and most dynamic languages, as is DCE. You just need to take into account the weird semantics of JS.

What the IE team got wrong was the assumptions they made about the semantics of the code that was optimized. If they had checked for the presence of a valueOf property, they could still have done the optimization.
I'm a little uncomfortable about the wording of this sentence too. Perhaps if they were called traditional desktop apps, I would've been happier.

I still like to run a lot more desktop apps and some things are just not there as a webapp, or certainly not as tweakable. But I can give Google that much, I'm perhaps not their target audience. Which is also fine by me. What I'm worried about is the mom-pop people who will use it in the appropriate fashion, will have young kids also using them. I don't want to sound like the old guard here and I'm happy to see Google making real progress in making computing for everyone, but there is something about running my first Basic program on my parent's computer or accidentally fdisk'ing the whole thing, that I hope the nextgen of geeks don't get to miss out on. With wording such as 'legacy software', I just hope they somehow come to tinker with the OS too rather than just seeing better webapps.
"and more."

I think they just copy/pasted a press release.
Very disappointed it's US only (but used to it lately, being Australian).

I'm a heavy Google services user for work & personal (as i'm sure most people here are), and I start commuting 2hrs each way to work in a month, so something like this would've been perfect for the commute. I'd happily spend that time testing the laptop and taking part in feedback. Ah well.
He would already be dead.
So... Google has two OSes now, Android and ChromeOS. One is for mobiles and pads, one is for.. what?
New Google Groups
How Airbnb Hacked the Reach-Around Problem
I disagree. I found a lot of MMM to be applicable to my experience, despite the fact that I've never done any mainframe or systems programming professionally. The one portion of the book that could be updated is Brooks' vision of the ideal project team. Many of the positions he's envisioned (toolsmith, language lawyer, etc.) are outdated now that individual programmers have so many more resources at their disposal.

If we're talking about project management issues, though, I'd recommend Yourdon's "Death March" over "The Mythical Man-Month". That book has a lot more to say on how to deal with management that refuses to pick two out of "good, fast, cheap" and insists that all three are achievable.
The coming WebGL games desperately need all the performance they can get.
That's truly relevant, especially if your app has offline access, and since Google is not famous for outstanding support / conflict resolution.
From the article:

> In addition to improving peak performance as measured by the V8 benchmark suite, Crankshaft also improves the start-up time of web applications such as GMail.

As I understand it, there is more to Crankshaft than just startup time improvement.
and the entire premise of the first paragraph of the article is flawed:

"""Oracle has dominated the database market, especially following its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems. But today, its “frenemy” Salesforce.com will become more of a competitor with the launch of Database.com, the company’s enterprise database built for the cloud."""
Next up, remove the 1.9GB max memory limit of V8 processes: http://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=847
If you don't download something, how can you have it to run it offline? If a publisher doesn't put a file in a globally reachable location, how do others acquire it?
+1 - I think I've been spoiled by Hackernews monthly having a pdf and a free html links. I did get some cool new blogs to look at : http://hackerspaper.com/issue-1/
Obama defends tax deal
It's a single isolated new study while the prevention on Wikipedia's article is amply supported and accepted. And instead of taking aspirins a healthier lifestyle will help with many other problems.

There are many side effects to taking aspirin regularly, even for a low dose. Gastrointestinal ulcers, blood acidity (calcium withdrawn from bones to compensate), and all the coagulation issues.

It's annoying high profile studies promoting quick fixes with a pill get all the attention while more important work is ignored. A healthy lifestyle can't be replaced with snake oil.
Emacs won't run? Then why would I want to use it? What about all my Lisp code?

And why on earth do I want to give Google so much control of my OS? And full control of my laptop? Maybe I should just give bots from outer space full control of my workspace.