skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After reading that article, I'd prefer a hamburger.
Make a payment system for dogs. I am sure they would WANT to be able to buy things...
Competitors May Have Different Addressable Markets
Accents are shaped by environment.

In my case, people often tell me that I have a very clear British accent; but when I ask them to pin down what sounds so particularly British, I often flounder about and eventually answer along the lines of "well, you speak very precisely and in a very educated manner" -- which says something about our (or at least, Canadians') stereotypes about the British!

In light of this, I wonder to what extent the judgements made about whether people "sounded black" or "sounded southern" were in fact merely that people were picking up voices which sounded uneducated -- and having subconscious racism translate that into a sense of blackness or southernness.
Yes, we built our startup, Feedity - http://feedity.com - with ASP.NET
This is evidence that speculators are not to blame. If you remove speculators, you remove liquidity. No liquidity, higher volatility, and higher probability of price manipulation (think Enron).

It's also worth noting that the distaste for market speculation is inversely proportional to how well the market is doing.
I guess as soon as the orders start piling in, she could just knock on her neighbors doors and ask them for help baking biscuits?
Met some TM employees in Miami a couple of months back and they even dislike TM.
Github features for Mercurial?
Does anyone know of a github like site that supports Mercurial. There are plenty of simple/solid ones, but no one seems to match githubs feature richness.
http://www.vim.org/htmldoc/map.html#Abbreviations
That's my point. The most that you can give to any combination of projects is 100% total. If you have two projects, one of them will have to suffer, or you will be forced to give them both 50% focus.
Is windows that bad on memory leaks? The author seem to think so. I'm pretty sure a windows 2000 (haven't had an xp or vista box) box can stay up for a long time without need for a reboot if no experimental software/driver is running on it. I remember windows 95 used to crash after like 30 days (if I recall correctly, can't remember where I read that).
Nooooo! Don't say invisible cities. Evil book about nothing! Unfortunately, its still on my bookshelf because I was required to buy it at art school in Milwaukee. Ugh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaverse
For me, it's almost all referrals from past clients or peers. I realize that doesn't really answer your question, though. Sometimes I check http://www.artypapers.com/jobpile/ and http://joblighted.com/. They aggregate a bunch of job boards and have more than a few freelance gigs mixed in. I've gotten a job or two and a few interviews through them.
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion - by Robert Cialdini. This book will pretty much change your life when it comes to figuring out marketing and why people do things, and what not to do when you're trying to get people to buy into your ideas.
I'm saying something different though. If you have 2 projects, you won't be able to split your time as effectively so you may have 40% focus for each, and so on. As you take on more and more projects, the time it takes to get back into the groove increases. You are likely to spend a lot of time moving between projects and this will disrupt your overall focus.
Those pills are out there, in varying shades of legality.

Dexatrim comes to mind. (As does any Pseudoephedrine carrying drug)
Can Browser Add-ons Be Businesses?
How much less happy? And will you still agree when you're 49?

What if you change your habits sufficiently that after an initial period of (slight) unhappiness, eating less no longer makes you unhappy?
Webslug: The hot or not of website performance tools
I gotta say it: the guy was a f-cking murderer and yet you guys are arguing about whether he got a fair trial, even after he led the cops to the strangled, decomposing corpse. And then complaining about the sheer brass neck of a journo who fails to show appropriate respect to this f-cking murderer. What, just because he hacked on Linux once upon a time? Jeez, you really couldn't make this stuff up.
Which one is the most legal/safest?
"The company hasn't named customers or prices..."

Suckered in by the headline... again.
Can anybody elaborate on this point? -> "search engines ignore dynamically-generated pages"
Ask YC: Where to find the right contractors? 
As Chron X approaches it's launch date, we've begun looking for a Flex contractor to help finish off the client.. There's always the rentacoder/elance route, but it seems like there has to be something better.

We're in the same situation when it comes to supporting the NY Sales office. I can't get up there as often as I'd like, so we need someone to help the staff on occasion with support..

I've been asking friends, both personally and on Linked in for who they'd recommend, but it seems there has to be some other way.

With Craigslist, all I'm looking at is a bunch of names without any information..

It would seem like there should be some sort of ebay-like reputation system for contractors, where we could search through people in an area, see who's left them comments and what they've done, and find someone who's a good fit.

Any ideas on where I should look? Where do you find help?
This is my advice too: work on your own stuff in the early morning.

I'm in a similar situation, in that I'm working a 9-5 job, but with me the "other programming" is a freelance gig. I found I never had time to do the freelance work, so I started getting up earlier to work on it before going to the 9-5. It's been a big improvement.
Scheduled downtime isn't used in calculating 5 nines? Surely it should if it's that bad...
You have to use salts.
An article about the onion and one from The Onion on the front page. I'm in tears.
I graduated from college in 1990 and considered yearbooks as "High School" stuff back then. I didn't even know they made yearbooks for colleges anymore.
Taking in mind there are people buying diapers for their dogs, I don't see why such an idea wouldn't work (if marketed well).
Experiment in statistics: use more than one datapoint.
look for niche blogs and job boards. find a flex blog/community and post the job to their board.

you could also try the freelanceswitch.com job board, which is free to post jobs.

also, re: the ebay-like reputation system for contractors, thats actually something i'm working on
Yes, it throws people off, especially when it's buried in the middle of other code.
the traditional yearbook looks like a bit of a dinosaur

It always did. Yearbooks were never cool. You just bought it because everyone did.

Long after Facebook and MySpace have become obsolete and the electrons dispersed to the ether, future alumni might just wish for the permanence of ink on paper.

That's the real point of a yearbook. Line a fine wine, it's not really appreciated until years later.

I just went to my college reunion and spent time in the library browsing through my years' yearbooks. For the first time, I finally understood why they put all those lame pictures in: to capture the "feeling" of those days. Years later, it worked.
Hi kamme, I'm in the same position, 24 y/o, hacking around since 12, and at some moment, about 2 years ago, I got tired of programming the same foo, bar classes over and over. I founded a little software company, and now I've 12 full time employees, and we offer a lot of services, web paage design, multimedia cd-roms (a.k.a flash movies), and consulting for companies for erp implementation (opentaps, mostly), by the end of this year i'm opening a repressentetation office in Monterrey... I know it's a little company, but it allows me to play around (evaluating new technologies) when i'm not dealing with people...

follow your dreams !
Isn't a natural doggy diet just atkins supplemented by the dog's own poo?
Oh, a slide show that automatically moves to the next page after a given time. Awesome idea! Now I won't have to push any buttons. The pictures got loaded almost halfway on my wonky wireless connection before the page decided that it was time to skip to the next slide. And never mind the fact that this doesn't work nicely when you open it in a new tab.

(Web != Television)
About 8 years ago I remember reading an advice column in which the letter writer was concerned because her child's friends were all reading Harry Potter. She referenced this article: http://www.theonion.com/content/news/harry_potter_books_spar...

The advice columnist was pleased to explain the purposes of the Onion
You could use one of the existing ones--since I work in security, I'm most familiar with Citysec, or something like The Last Hope (Jul 18-20 @ The Pennsylvania Hotel).
Dimdim raises $6M
Ask NYYC: Help us make a gathering plan.
We're planning to meet! We don't have a date or location yet, but that's on purpose. Please vote for the date and location (submit them together) that you think works best.

If you have any questions feel free to email me at jdennis at gmail.
And I thought that cards that sing when you open them running Windows was ridiculous.
A 503 error page that actually works and has useful information
All windows before 98SE had memory leaks every time a new thread was spawned. Memory leaks in newer versions of windows are due to sloppy user programs (mainly handles that aren't released properly but a precise programming can reduce those to zero) and rarely bad drivers but the core itself is stable.
Unobtrusive DOM 2 Event implementation for IE; Uniform Event Model revisited
It really depends how low priced it is. SSDs are probably the future, but they don't have enough of an advantage for me to care to pay more than a standard hard drive - which in fact likely has more storage anyway!

Bring me a SSD which is the same cost or less per GB and I'm there, until then I'll just be waiting...
Using Great Customer Service as a Differentiator
Google in Error (gDocs is down... it sometimes makes ya want to sing)
"Be Faster Than Everyone Else. The simplest way to master great customer support is to be fast. You don’t need an army of customer support people to be fast, you need an efficient system with multiple channels for handling inquiries."

This made Coordinatr (now Anyvite) stand out to me. They have a feedback box on every page and they responded to every comment I made within minutes (even late at night or early in the morning. pg must beat that point home, because I've had similar good experiences with the SnapTalents and DropBoxes.
Extending Firebug - 6 tutorials
That's cool, it wasn't what I was really looking for. I wrote something http://nirmalpatel.com/json2html that takes any random JSON object and turns it into semantically meaningful markup that's easy to style using CSS.

Check it out, my site has an example of me styling my tweet list.
The Onion, too real: http://www.doghousekitchen.com/
"I'm in tears" Puns ftw!
When you email Wufoo, they respond before you can hit "send."
The lack of transparency in oil futures trading has been a concern for many, not just trading in itself.

See
http://levin.senate.gov/newsroom/release.cfm?id=257862
Yeah private contractors and industry do the real work.
Hey, don't knock it - pets drive almost as much spending as children do!
Contempt and scorn are appropriate feelings to have for murderers.

I thought this article was interesting because the author had spent a lot of time watching Reiser in court and might be speaking some truth about Reiser's personality.

Is there anyone here that knew Reiser more intimately than this journalist, and could give us some feedback?
I even thought of they meant a tautology: Living longer makes you live longer.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=239276
Internet flaw could let hackers take over the Web
Please for the love of sweet zombie jesus, tell me that was sarcasm.
I live and work in Manhattan and am happy to travel to any of the five boroughs, though I prefer Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Yes - in the article, she said she wanted to open a storefront with a bakery about a year later, and they estimated that she would need to sell 90,000 biscuits at $1.50 each to get there.

$ dc -e '2 k 90000 365 / p'
246.57

That's a lot of biscuits to make by hand. Let's take it a step further:

$ dc -e '2 k 245.57 12 / p'
20.46

If you assume each batch of a dozen takes an hour to make, assume typical kitchen equipment (i.e., no double oven), and assume a little pipelining, she would barely have enough waking hours to get it done. There's no time left for actually packaging or selling the biscuits.
I worked at a wholesale onion company when I was about fifteen, and one of my first questions was why nobody was hedging anything with futures.

What actually happened is a little more complicated than the article suggests: the business now attracts people who love that kind of volatility.
Those are two very different questions.
The Man Who Lost $6 Billion
Here is a list for your referece: http://www.bookhuddle.com/list/491/Recommended-Technical-and...
How To Find Bloggers by City, Not by Topic
I have an interest in finding general business or workplace bloggers by city or state. Any ideas on a quick way to do this?
Are non-coders welcome or would I be strung up at the door? :)
Beta launch of Praized (a distributed local search platform designed for social media)
I hope so?
Rumor: Jerry Yang to resign
I would agree with most people here that you should take a vacation of some sort, and make sure it's something that's going to really take you out of your element. Anything that keeps you away from the internet is a good idea; going sailing with my family for a three-day weekend in October felt really refereshing and gave my brain something to think about (navigation and sailing technique) that didn't have anything to do with my usual interests, but that I could still get interested in. It just felt like a great way of removing myself from my routine and being refreshed... sort of the objective of a vacation, right?

Also, I've noticed my level of energy has a lot to do with inspiration, and to a lesser extent how heavy my workload is. I started working for a video game company in a non-development position (I develop web-based tools, actually, but nothing directly related to the game) and it's given me a whole lot more motivation to follow through with one of my myriad video game projects, which I've never before managed to get to this level of completion. Being around them and around lots of people obsessed with them simply just helps me from getting too distracted or thinking that my projects aren't going to amount to anything and that it's no big deal if I abandon them.
Among other places:

http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/07/google-announce.htm...
Your dog wants steak ...

oh wait, this isn't Fark, sorry
Thanks. Good to hear 52x is not a law. But it is a very good rule of thumb for rent affordability. I think NYC is also much more diverse than other cosmopolitan cities because of their successful rent stabilization policies.

Re: Olive Garden - I escaped the suburbs to live in a major city but it doesn't compare to NYC of course. Where else will you have 5k restaurants and night-life at 3am (Paris, maybe..)

I go up to NYC quite often because I have family there. I was in Brooklyn recently. Nice to hear that there is a startup scene there. Saw lots of new loft construction going up everywhere near Grand. Sadly the Brooklyn Brewery was closed. BTW - Highly recommend Lily Thai (restaurant)

"The Housing Virgins of NYC"
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/24/garden/24new.html?_r=1&...

Rent-stabilization on the UWS
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell-Lama].
Here, here. 2 (maybe 3 depending on relatedness) for me.
Is the submitter the author, or do they post here?
I also live in Manhattan (Upper East Side) and work on the island too (Union Square).

I'd also prefer somewhere in Manhattan but would be open for Brooklyn as well.
Ad-supported iPhone apps: A risky bet
I hope I don't get left out!

Judging by HN folk, I believe all are welcome.
A 6 word headline with 3 of them being incorrect. Is that a record?

Production != shipping, and they didn't name a price.
"apt-get install" is not the same as compile from source

you are at the mercy of repositories

"make install" on the other hand, gives you more freedom

vim patching problem was kinda solved by using intrepid repo instead of hardy's ... but also gave birth to other problems

To me, a unix system that is unable to compile from source (only binaries) is on the same level as windows

even on mac, i can use port, it fetches the sources and dependencies, compiles everything, beautiful!

NB: yes i did apt-get dev-compilers & libraries & dependencies

shrug I guess Ubuntu is not there yet
sshhh, you're not supposed to say things like that out loud. Windows = bad and it's all Microsoft's fault.
Hi everybody and thanks for the quick and informative replies. I think I should have been more upfront with my skillset and what not. In a past life I used to do alot of J2ME development. Then I made the jumped to RoR (it was ok...) until I finally settled on using CodeIgniter. Loved it to bits then forked my own version. I'm currently the maintainer and contributor to the Functional PHP Extension Library(lib that allows the uses of funtional programming idioms to PHP).

@walesmd
Believe it or not I used to frequent the CodeIgniter forums when it was first starting out. I do see your name there alot. Although I forked CI and created my own private little framework. I recently came back and introduce the Functional PHP Extension library to the folks at CI(I'm currently the maintainer and contributer). Is there any work I can get via the CodeIgniter Forums?

@Jeffrey-dalton
Hey Jeffrey, I will definitely look at Craigslist. Maybe you could give me some referrals? I would love to discuss this with you via email of course.

@sosueme
I've done a fair amount of J2ME in a past life of mine. But now I'm pretty much focused on PHP development(please look at my reply to walesmd) and I've done alot of work using jQuery. I'm a US Citizen based here in South East Asia.

@xgamerx
To be honest I haven't touched Prototype in while....fell in love with jQuery. I mostly do PHP(using forked CI) + jQuery. Maybe we could discuss this over email?
Sounds good to me too.
I wonder if people actually read these articles before voting them up. There is absolutely nothing informative here. A more appropriate headline could have been "Drive manufacturer, Samsung, still making drives". That has about as much substance as this article. In any case, it certainly would have been more correct since announcing that manufacturing has started is not the same as shipping.

There are no quotes or even a hint at how the drives will be priced to support the "low cost" claim. The closest thing is the mention that Samsung has "started mass production of 128GB solid-state drives based on multi-level cell (MLC) technology that should dramatically reduce the cost of switching to flash storage in notebooks". It doesn't get any more vague than that. Besides, "low cost" is a relative term. A 128GB SSD on New Egg is $3k. If Samsung managed to produce new drives at a third of that cost I guess you could say the drives are "low cost" in comparison, but it's certainly not low cost when you're considering putting one in a $2k laptop.

This is just bad journalism.
AI beats human poker champions
Ask YC: When and how did you start showing off your product?
Our project is on target for an August 1st release, and we're planning on recruiting beta users in our local area using old fashioned methods like "talking to people" and "putting up posters".

Our application is geographically bounded -- that is, it's no fun if there aren't any other users in your region. Because of that problem, we've had trouble deciding on the best strategy to reach a wider audience.

So, even if it doesn't apply directly to our problem, for added insight I'm asking other startup founders -- at what point in your startup process did you start looking for a wider audience? Was there any rhyme or reason to how they came to you? What sorts of channels did you try to advertise yourself through?
The author Elliott is miserable, negative, hateful, boastful and self-righteous. Don't forget (now there's a patronizing phrase, as if anyone forgets the obvious) that the article is entitled, "MY, MY, MY (not someone else's: MY) Interview with (that god damned) murderer Hans Reiser." The article is about Elliott's feelings, primarily. Who cares? Elliott has the psychological insight of a paramecium.

To be fair, Elliott's hatred of Reiser is a little further up the phylogenetic tree, at least on the invertebrate branch. Other than that, the article doesn't say much about the crime or the trial, about Reiser's marriage to a venal Russian bride, or much of anything else. What we do learn is that Elliott is an opportunist who hung around Reiser's trial, managed to get an interview, and gets miffed because Reiser didn't give him what he wanted. The whole purpose was to give readers enough of a bad taste to purchase his book. Elliott is so unsympathetic, he unintentionally forces the reader's identification with Reiser when he turns his back to Elliott and asks the guard to be returned to his cell.
Everyone is welcome.
I live in Manhattan (Chelsea). I vote Manhattan, but I'm down for Brooklyn if it's got easy train access.
Idea Watch: 50 Things Being Blamed on Rising Oil Prices
Live in Brooklyn; Brooklyn and Manhattan are both easy.
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The online (hosted) load testing tool I'm designing will handle API's in the sense that you will be able to run arbitrary ruby code and store response times. I go back and forth on how much and if I need to lock things down, though, since the machines will have my name on them and could be used for badness. Thoughts?
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I always wondered if it was a secret communication channel. Because a semi random puzzle could easily send messages. Or it could just be setup to wast other governments time looking for such.
Work in Union Sqaure, live in Gramercy. Prefer Manhattan meeting locations.
Amazon and Google Discover Erlang (IMDB is switching from Perl to Erlang)
How about Sunday July 20th, 6pm?

As I live/work in Manhattan, I would prefer if it's reachable by subway since I don't have a car.
< http://www.mta.info/nyct/maps/submap.htm >.
I'd pay extra for a smaller drive that used less power and ran cooler. The article also said it ran faster than spinning disk hard drives.
At least it got the Samsung and 128GB SSD part right.
Yeah, at work and play.
At least they named the right company.
How much extra would you pay?
Probably Sudafed, or any generic version of it. It's one of the few medications you can safely take while pregnant. That said, the long term effects of any metabolism boosting substance on the heart, etc., are probably not great.

The best thing for the less food-disciplined may be to follow the NoS plan ( http://www.nosdiet.com/ ).
High oil prices weren't a problem during the stock bubble of 2001, or even the housing bubble of 2004. The reason that oil prices are skyrocketing, is simply that traders (mostly hedge funds) are putting all their money into commodities instead of, stocks, real estate or bonds. All that regulation will accomplish is forcing the collapse of the commodities bubble, and we'll end up with a bubble elsewhere.