skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why can't you have payed apps?
Yup. Last Thursday I watched a co-worker grit his teeth in pain when someone came up and gave him a friendly slap on the shoulder that had just undergone rotator cuff surgery. I personally give big, hearty hugs; but only to people I massage or spar with.
"This is equivalent to following Robert Scoble 17 times"

haha
My Twitter feed has almost none of this "RT's of news sites" stuff going on. I will let you in on my secret: I unfollow people who do that. I unfollow maybe one person every other month now.

Twitter isn't "all just a huge noise floor". It's pretty much whatever you make of it. I agree, this person has made of it a pretty crappy ad-hoc news aggregator.
An old fancy breadboard, components and a good guide from the internet should suffice.
Do amplifiers, RF generators, explore the OPAMP.. timer circuits...you'll be ready for more stuff when u are done.
Start working on something tiny. Often while working on it you'll discover that you're really already thinking forward, having ideas and fantasizing about your next project.
Desktop Wallpaper Calendar Feature: December 2010
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Chrome 9+, Firefox 4+
According to the guys I talked to at clojure-conj, most all work at Relevance is pair work. http://thinkrelevance.com/
Mindcraft -> Minecraft. tree.js -> three.js. webgl -> WebGL. Mr. Doob -> Mr.doob.

:D
Google policy do not accept developers from Poland (and some other countries) to post paid applications on Android Market. I am allowed to post only free apps...
Enter the Void. Seeing it is like being tortured, but unlike many films I've found myself often thinking about it afterwards and not in a negative way. Still I can't bring myself to rewatch it completely. This film tries to do something new and doesn't tone it down one notch for the viewers.
This is the point you are missing. There is no thinking "state". State governments consist of people. People with morals and ethics (you hope).

Sure, those with power are corrupt and do things that most of us wouldn't approve of.

But when things go too far, someone with a brain often leaks it. And those leaks have a purpose - to stop whatever that is happening from happening.

Wikileaks is really dangerous to those kind of important, targeted leaks. These leaks in my opinion are more damaging to the government than helpful to the people keeping the government in check. I think most people who are shocked, SHOCKED! by the stuff in this leak just haven't been paying close attention, I have yet to see anything that wasn't already speculated about in the media aside for little tiny details (like this list).

So this leak isn't all that valuble to the population, but it scares the crap out of the government. And so we're going to get a bunch of laws designed to prevent this from happening again and make it far more dangerous and difficult for people to leak in the future.

I always viewed Wikileaks as the escape hatch. If you are working on something you think is objectionable and need to leak and it is impossible to get word out, send your leak to Wikileaks and they'll keep you safe and get it to the media.

Now Wikileaks to me is just taking a shotgun approach and really missing the point that leaks, when done well, are extremely powerful for stopping bad things from happening. These leaks will not stop anything from happening because they don't highlight one topic. The focus of the leak is Wikileaks, not on the bad things happening.

The focus of Watergate was Nixon, not the Washington Post.
I think this is true for a limited subset of "you." I personally watched a friend adopt the "no-grain, etc." diet, and immediately drop 15lbs and mostly clear up his psoriasis. I, on the other hand, don't have psoriasis or 15lbs of extra weight from systemic inflammation; so I wouldn't expect to see similar benefits from dropping grains.
Similar to dchest, though Chrome 9.0.something. Up-to-date dev release.
hehe a friend of mine said the same thing, but to me it really looks like a square! Depends on the perspective I guess.
I got Chart API fixed, although on a different hostname: http://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/11/29/charthttps.html

The deal with encrypted.google.com is explained here: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/06/update-on-encry...
> TED Talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0af00UcTO-c

Also on the TED site: http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_johnson_where_good_ideas_com...
Videos of some of the demos described here:

Robotic Warrior http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiN2F1o2qwY

Robotic Liberation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SdGkkp1aq8

Impossiblator http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6tWm3kwE7E

I like that the demo effects are used here to tell a story in addition to being a pure display of coding prowess.
It's an unfortunate name choice since '53' looks so similar to 'S3'.
Does it? Not necessarily. At my previous employer I was one of several team leads and we almost always broke into 4-8 man teams.

One of my biggest takeaways from doing that for a couple years is how dramatically productivity can swing based on factors like the texture of the project, the clarity of the goal, the freedom of the TL to make judgment calls without needing to get approval from a BA, morale, the quality of the spec (note that quality != length), etc.

No reason a small dedicated team cannot build large products with reasonable deadlines and a balanced lifestyle. Though, in the interest of full disclosure, in my opinion 50 hours a week is fully balanced and a team can run at 50 hours pretty consistently without ill effects if they WANT to and are HAPPY with their mission and job.
Because it will keep the hosted google wave servers maintained and enhanced? Wave may not be very useful as a user facing web app, but I really like it as an enterprise app, makes collaboration much easier between distributed teams.
The value of facebook to a person varies dramatically based on whether that person's friends and family would previously overcome the trivial inconvenience[1] of communicating with them in pre-facebook ways.

[1] lesswrong.com/lw/f1/beware_trivial_inconveniences/
Kinect becomes history's fastest selling gadget
It would be nice if the title of the current track was displayed somewhere in the top of the page so you don't have to scroll down to find it.
Red Bull tastes nothing like Squirt.
Baby names reveal more about parents than ever before
How does pair-programming mix with the dynamics of software consulting? It seems like it would tend to make project scope (persons/weeks) larger for clients --- something Hashrocket and Pivotal might not have a problem with.
Curious: why use vi inside VS and not a standalone vi or gvim?
The Social Network is probably the best movie of the year, but I've got a soft spot in my heart for Scott Pilgrim. Characters that behave like people, 1000 jokes per minute and phenomenally executed action sequences.
I think you have made the only solid argument backing the leak of this specific document that I've seen, so thank you for that.

I do agree that can be helpful. I just wonder how many things that weren't targets yesterday are now targets today. I live near a nuclear powerplant, but I wouldn't necessarily consider it a target because it is just one of hundreds, why target this one? I'm sure there is security on it, but I don't worry about it much.

But what if it was on the list and it said that it was critical for the distribution of power in the whole northeast region because there is a flaw in the power distribution system. Now this relatively obscure nuclear plant is high on the list of targets and its security has to be increased a lot.

The same goes for chemical plants, oil refineries, etc. Can you tell me which one of the hundreds of DuPont factories manufactures chemicals for weapon systems and which ones manufactur nylon for disposable table clothes? Probably not before this leak, but I bet you can guess it now.

I don't see why that is helpful to anybody. I would have been suspicious of people snooping around any chemical factory, but now all of a sudden the terrorists can hit the most valuable one.

To me, that is pretty lame.
Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory - by Peter Hessler

A fascinating book about everyday life in today's China. It's actually 3 books in one:
- Book 1 is an account of his driving trip along the route of the great wall from near Beijing to the Western deserts and steppes, the people he meets, and the towns he visits.
- Book 2 is an account of his experiences in the village of Sancha where he bought a house and came to know a family with dreams of setting up an inn and restaurant. Eventually the village becomes a suburb of Beijing and the family gets wealthier and wealthier, at a price.
- Book 3 is an account of his experiences in the town of Lishui, a small city on the way to becoming a major manufacturing center. The focus is on a couple of entrepreneurs who set up a factory that makes bra rings.

Besides the excellent writing style, what I liked about this book is that it focused on ordinary people and their hopes and dreams. It was impossible to avoid mentioning corruption of small time party leaders, but it didn't dwell on them. It was the first book about China I've read that didn't make the country seem like a dark menace or an unstoppable economic dynamo.
I honestly hadn't thought about printing it out yet. I had a quick look, and I think the issues you are seeing can probably be fixed. My initial plan was to render PDFs server-side, instead of relying on the browser's print mode.
Mainly because of the benefits VS provides, e.g. intellisense, refactoring with Resharper, macros such as Go To Declaration/Implementation, compile within the IDE and navigate to any compilation errors, run unit tests etc. etc.
Between "RTs of news sites", "I am having a bagel" and absolutely shameless self promoting plugs I just came to the misanthropic conclusion of twitter = noise.

I know such generalizations are unfair and a bit closed minded... I can't help it, I am just a bit stuck in the pre "web 2.0" 90s/2000 internet and can sometimes only shake my head at some of those hypes and what's going on these days.

But I digress and you are right, I should give it another try and see what I could actually get out of it.
"When negotiating, make your starting "debt" for negotiation the actual amount owed. The creditors will use an inflated amount (including a LOT of interest and penalties) as the starting point so you will have to get 25 to 50% reduction just to get the the original debt amount."

Can you explain this a bit more? I'm not sure I follow it.
Groupon Aims to Emulate Facebook, Not Yahoo, After Walking Away From Deal
New York City could be the new tech mecca, thanks to Google
WikiLeaks vows to never say die with 355 new websites
One great tool also is Ack (apt-get install ack-greg) whish is kind of grep on steroids designed to search source files

It ignore files in .git/.svn directories, you can define your own file type filters in its config file .ackrc
Agreed. I actually liked his previous book "The Terror" even more, although I read it last year. A great book for cooling off on a hot summer day... Simmons is probably the most versatile writer I know.
The web is now twenty and browsers are still incapable of something as basic and commonplace as hyphenation and justification. It’s a real shame that this problem has to be solved with JavaScript in 2010.

How old is TeX again?
dito, same problem
What are caries?
I had to look it up too. I've never seen/heard that word before, and don't expect to again.

car●ies |ˈkerēz|
noun
decay and crumbling of a tooth or bone.

ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from Latin.

From New Oxford American Dictionary.
BOS Ice Tea from South Africa has an unbelievably good website
How to Speed Up Internet Connection and Mozilla Firefox  + free tools
This is beautiful. Fantastic work. Now, I'd love to see someone work this into WebKit or Gecko's core.
Well, they did kill a few dozen US sailors by blowing a hole in the side of a destroyer with 2" thick steel plating and a few hundred people by attacking two embassies guarded by US marines prior to 9/11. So I'm not sure they wouldn't considering hitting military or economic targets today.

They also got a few cruise missiles in response to the first two attacks, and they got a massive war in response to 9/11. That kind of speaks to how much more effective hitting big civilian targets is for the terrorists than the military and economic ones, but I don't think we can just shrug this off because they've changed course a bit.

(I don't personally believe that hitting Iraq was a good response to 9/11, but you can't argue that if 9/11 hadn't happened Bush would have had any public support to invade Iraq. Without 9/11 there is no Iraq war. With 9/11 and a different president, I doubt there is an Iraq war then either)
Often times just the feeling of being less tired and more stimulated is what is necessary, not actually being so
You probably could get it working, but the implementation isn't (yet) capable of dealing with arbitrary HTML. It only expects paragraphs and images. This is only a matter of implementation though, the core algorithm should be able to deal with most of the content found on websites.

I'm talking to Filipe Fortes of Treesaver about implementing it as part of his Treesaver technology (demo: http://treesaver.publicintegrity.org/smoke_screen) Perhaps a general implementation will roll out of that.
Be sure to navigate around from the front page to see the amount of care that's gone into the individual interfaces.
Grand infrastructure projects like this often signal the height of a construction bubble that will pop sooner or later.
Startup Life: You're always just getting started
The answers from the twitter guy are here, I'd say this has been solidly debunked:

http://studentactivism.net/2010/12/05/wikileaks-twitter-3/#c...

Scan for 'Josh Elman' (twitter) and 'Angus Johnston' the guy that originally raised the issue.
eh, the slide out to the left is okward, having the file listing slide up and down would feel more natural I would think.
"Must"?

I'd rather go entirely without. It'll probably net-dehydrate you too, so even if you're given the choice in a desert between Red Bull and nothing, it'd be better to choose nothing.
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Learn about how other people spend their work or leisure time. Spend a day in their shoes. You'll see plenty of problems software could solve.
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Thanks, that worked! This is pretty awesome.
Zork on a typewriter
> I'm several years out of university myself and just now getting a few of my side projects to that point. It's exciting, but I can't help but worry that I'm behind the curve.

There is no curve. Comparing yourself to others based on age and level of startup success isn't a good comparison. I used to do this to myself a lot, and it only causes pointless anxiety.

The only curve that matters is your curve.
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...or that only a specific industry wants, which I think is by far the most common case.
Fair warning: froze my browser.
White iPhone Coming Spring 2011
Amazon (AWS) adds DNS hosting
this and other failure modes are now in your control. monkier may be irresponsible, but their service looks sufficient for your needs.
The eight books of the House of Niccolo series by Dorothy Dunnett. Swashbuckling 15th-century entrepreneurship. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_Niccol%C3%B2

And once you've finished that, there's a sequel series (actually written before the House of Niccolo): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymond_Chronicles
I think that fits with what they said.
Saas cash flow trough (with free Excel spreadsheet)
What a defeatist article! In spite of the fact that I believe that western style democracy does not work all over the world (see the alternative democratic models of singapore and botswana as counter examples), there has to be a clear method to remove people abusing power.

I believe the best method that would work in many African countries, particular the decentralised tribes of the Niger-Congo A language group, would be a system of consensus selections of locally organised 'leaders'. One man, one vote does not work for such societies. Rather, the local leaders who are chosen by traditional methods should represent the people who choose them. The western system of senators and delegates results in people who do not represent any group being selected to represent groups.

Historical leadership structures in African societies should be adapted to work in a modern concept. Trying to force the european model on non-european societies has caused a lot of trouble all over the world - the illusion that this will ever work should finally be abandoned.
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I've been asking for years why browsers do not have this. The only reply I've gotten is for performance considerations, which is a bad answer for several reasons.
Sounds more like `holiday negotiable within reasonable limits'. But that's still good.
A feature request for blogging tool vendors
I don't know what it takes to go from being an eye doctor to doing laser eye surgery, but it seems to me like there's a pretty clear skills development path there. I'd be interested to know if that's a feasible career move and, if so, how many have already made it.
The ASF has a process for managing open source projects, that starts with new projects entering the Incubator. The project is monitored by a committee for things like how well the project is able to attract developers, whether they are able to form a common vision / roadmap. Once the project is deemed to have gained sufficient traction, it is promoted to a top-level Apache project.

tl,dr; credibility + ASF management.
Have these folks just re-discovered what Russ Cox lays out in http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html ?
haha sorry dude! But MindCraft sounds like a hell of a game
While it's true that African democracies often function badly, I'm not so sure that the open return to heritary monarchies that this article flirts with would be an improvement. After all, these dictators aren't exactly heading prosperous and happy countries...

By the way, pg may want to fix the domain name handling - it should read monitor.co.ug, obviously.
From a design perspective I think they would probably get many more sign ups if they had a better call to action for their sign up button.

It is hidden as a regular anchor tag and took me more then 5 seconds to even think about signing up.
Create Your Own Fast Social Sharing Buttons For WordPress
I had to giggle when I saw "democratic fallacy" and "Ivory Coast" in the same sentence.
I have the same Chrome version, but I'm running Ubuntu. Perhaps it is a font issue. I will check it out later when I have access to a Mac. Thanks for reporting.
Groupon has 2 options, either grow steadily the way they are doing it right now OR find a new way to get visitors engaged for a long period of time rather then just looking at the deal and go away... both the options are challenging - for the first option competition is increasing in every local market ... therefore it would be interesting to see how they do it if they go for second option.
TTL minimums.
Do you propose one vote per tribe or village? In that case, what's a "tribe"? If it's one vote per person in the tribe, what's the practical difference?
They are trying to build _a_ bomb at this point. They are no where near the point they can deter the US from meddling. One bomb, however, will deter those with no bombs.
Foodtube - transporting food like oil, water, and gas.
I think this is probably one of the things the government can do that is unambiguously good and will touch the lives of many, many Americans. It's also an example of a market failure where there is no market for the product or service demanded.

It's not clear to me what evidence you'd use to show that this was unambiguously good, given that Americans have had the option to buy TVs with this feature for a long time, and mostly don't bother. To me, this would suggest that the assertion that it's an unambiguous good is at least questionable: if it's not worth a few extra dollars, how do we measure "good"?
why not just make a deal with someone in USA to post your Apps for you?
Yeah, as if anyone wants to leave the DNS info in your hands too, Amazon, after pulling Wikileaks at a senator's call.

Amazon should offer domain names next, so it's just one stop for politicians who want to completely eliminate a website from the web when they feel like it.
Soda and caffeinated beverages won’t dehydrate you. That’s a misconception.
Ask HN: Google Books Preview. How to get full preview?
Google says:
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Many of the books you can preview on Google Books are still in copyright, and are displayed with the permission of publishers and authors. You can browse these "limited preview" titles just as you would in a bookstore, but you won't be able to see more pages than the copyright holder has made available.
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So, what if I want to get the full digital copy of these books, what should I do ? Google of course has them. Should I buy somewhere or what ? Then where to buy ? looking at current situation there is no way one can access this. Some books are like so old but still in copyright, out-of-print and only available in Google BOoks. What to do now ?
The fallacy calling democracy a Western tradition. It is not. It is a modern tradition. In many parts of The West it has only very recently been in operation and even democratic ones still have vestiges of monarchy. The first attempts of many countries at overthrowing monarchy in favour of democracy and republicanism resulted in totalitarian regimes.

Even the early adopters like the US started more like ancient oligarchy than a modern democracy. White, male landowners only. In some cases with extra powers (via upper houses) to aristocrats.

Science is also not western. Neither is medicine. Nor is women's suffrage.

Europe has just as much history of monarchy and autocracy as Africa.
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Http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&pub=lyndadotcom
There's no mention of IPv6 support. Given the situation that IPv4 addresses will be running out shortly, it'd be nice to see some acknowledgment of forward-thinking IPv6 plans.

edit: sorry to be so out of step - I guess I should have tied wikileaks to ipv6 to fit in with the rest of the comments.
Link to the actual release:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-12/apa-im120210....
Are you entirely unfamiliar with the turn of phrase, "If you must..."?

It reads, "Well, if I can't convince you not to do it", and not "If you are actually required to do it"
Outsourcing the Foundation
It doesn't say if they controlled for existing caffeine tolerances. Take someone who never drinks energy drinks and give them a full can of Red Bull and they'll be so hyped up they'll likely miss on tests like the one in the study.
Does anyone know if there is a good jQuery plugin for this, or do I need to take the code from this demo and make my own plugin?
Why is our government not behaving like responsible citizens?
http://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.apps... gets me a 404.

Anyone experiencing the same problem?
Nice to see you doing well. I am curious about the Freelancer income, does that mean you referred yourself and are taking commissions on your own stuff?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caries_vaccine
I don't know if this qualifies as a HN question... ;-)

Could you provide some links where a book i ONLY available on Google Books? On the left side of the books you usually have all the sellers of the book "Get this book".
Some old books which are out of copyright you can get via different sources (e.g. Project Gutenberg)