skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cookies identify computers, which is close enough to identifying people to work in the short term.

We usually advise startups never to make people create accounts if they can avoid it. Let new visitors do as much as they can without registering, but give them the option of creating an account if they want to save whatever state they've accumulated.
Same experience. Upon which, I left the site.

Don't show me the flip button unless I can use it.

Also, I didn't know the buttom was a kill switch. I thought it was a vote IN FAVOR of the search result, like a Digg or something.
Firebug is one of those tools you use and then can never go back to not having again. Awesome to hear a big ramp up in development. I'd be happy to pay for some kind of special version.
I donated $100.
But still think he should go to India for treatment.
Mumbai/Delhi/Bangalore are good places
It's not the doctors. It's the "benefits plan administrators" and other suchlikes.
I know but that's like a castrated Uncov...
Unfortunately it's actually not a very good idiot filter because a lot of non-native English speakers seem to use "codes" instead of "code".
I really want AMD to recover. If they die, Intel will be monopolistic, prices will increase and kiss innovation goodbye. I think their biggest mistake was buying ATI and now they have to compete with 2 giants Intel and Nvedia. God Bless them.
Well, I saw him give a talk in February at a Long Now Seminar, and I asked him: "How should people invest if they aren't derivatives traders?"

And he said: "Don't invest."

I have read his books and I am familiar with his barbell strategy. Are you really suggesting that he recommends the common man to invest in derivatives and such?
Well given that the JumpBox for Ruby on Rails isn't really about EC2 or scalability the original submission is a little misleading. JumpBoxes do run on EC2, but they are also downloadable and run on VMWare, Parallels, Microsoft Virtual PC and Xen so that you can have the exact same environment whether in the cloud, on a local server or on your desktop. This is the unique advantage.
You're only too old if you believe people that tell you you're too old.
Selfishly, I’m Glad Jason Calacanis ‘Retired’ From Blogging
Dynadot was great for me too.
Scaling Lesson #23742
No way. As long as you have passion for what you are doing that is all that you need.
I could care less if it works and makes money. It just sounds like a helluva lotta fun!!
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This is a forum posting by some editor -- a single person -- of the APS. The official stance[1] says that evidence of global warming is "incontrovertible".

Besides, it seems to go on to say that there is usefulness in finding alternative fuels anyways. Of course, we all know what the OP's statement will be used for and alternative energy is certainly not it.

1 - http://www.aps.org/policy/statements/07_1.cfm
Tough Love
His pic with that 6 figure check from Google Adsense is kinda huge with webmasters. shoemoney is kinda legend among webmasters.
You might want to try making contact with other users of the sites you frequent... ;)
Cookies are ephemeral and people get pissed off if you set them to expire 14 years from now, for example. What these guys are doing is probably classifying data with SVMs (or something like that) and that takes time. From brief testing, their updates are not realtime. So I think having an account to personalize in this case isn't such a bad thing. You can search as much as you want but when it comes time to personalization, account is not a bad thing.

But in any case, I don't see how this product is better than Google News, for example.
its a good thing that doctors accept payment in tweets
How about linking to the actual source instead of a flamebait media piece? Good grief:

http://www.aps.org/units/fps/newsletters/200807/editor.cfm

I'm having a little trouble finding the "explosion" in that text. They're publishing one paper by a presumptive skeptic, and are (ZOMG!) open to debate. Yeah, that's blown the consensus thing wide open, it has...
Ask HN: What & how do you code on your Mac?
Virtualized linux (windows)? VMWare, Parallels? Dual boot? XCode, native APIs?

What languages, IDEs, text editors? What do you build?

I'm looking into a Mac (Air probably) for coding and I'm wondering what all the options are. I know they are widely used by people here and I'm curious as to your coding experiences. Personally I will be doing alot of systems/network programming for school, so I'm most concerned about socket programming and accessing network functionality through virtualization and/or portability (in C) from the BSD subsystem to linux/solaris school systems.

Of course I dabble in alot of other things as well so whatever and however you build on your Mac, it would be great to hear about it and how you feel about coding on a Mac.
Traveling to China?  Beware of protecting your data.
Three cheers for supporting Firebug.
you date prudes.
Interesting... 5 minutes ago I had my first experience with Beacon while purchasing tickets for the new Batman movie on Fandango. I used to think Beacon was creepy, but now that I've actually seen it in action I think it's a fun little feature. Now all my friends think I'm awesome for going to the midnight showing. What is the big deal if Facebook knows I bought those tickets? The social points with the ladies are well worth the loss of privacy, imo.
From first timer to funded - valuing validation
I really don't know why i am getting voted down. I am curious actually. I told a logical thing, I didn't have any money in my paypal because i had withdrawn almost all of it. But i also wanted to help him, so said will tweet and blog about it.
Doesn't mean when i get funds in my paypal in a day or two, i wouldn't give him.
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It appears you are correct: In this particular lawsuit, Remember The Milk is named. They are located in Australia.
How Lisp Systems Look Different
earning the right to vote made me an arbiter of taste. this post is a link to blog post that is just a collection of links to actual content. if one of those links contain an interesting proposition and research to support it, well then that might pique my intellectual curiosity.
The child we are being asked to help is on immuno-suppressants, and is, of course, required to be shielded from germs as much as possible. You're just not going to get a stock photo of baby hugging a goat.
Someone needs to get Fermat's Last Theorem as a tattoo.

"I have the most elegant proof of this, but my epidermis is too small to contain it."
Oh, surely. I myself have a great deal of interest in knowledge and skill acquisition (in particular, the differences between first and successive language acquisition, but i digress.) Studying processes and patterns in learning can be a fascinating and deeply enriching experience. My comment was intended to warn against delving into endless debate over terms. I see how my (1) was worded incorrectly, instead it should have said something like "to argue about the emergence of consciousness from the material world and its role on the nature of subjective experience and truth", which i do believe is not a fruitful discussion. If anyone has a particularly convincing or useful discourse about the previous I am open to change, but as it stands all I've read on the matter has been speculation and/or justification for some moral or social agenda.
How did the founders pay their personal bills before the company was profitable?
This is why you don't piss off programmers
Make3D: how soon until this is integrated into Google Street View?
I think the vendor he bought the products on shares as much or possibly more blame than facebook.
For years, the LGT Bank in the tiny European principality of Liechtenstein, tucked between Austria and Switzerland, has been regarded as a safe haven for wealthy Americans trying to hide their money from the IRS. It helps that the reigning prince there, Hans-Adams II, and his family own the bank and strictly enforce the country's bank secrecy laws.

"Liechtenstein is regarded as one of the most secretive places in the world," said John Christensen of the London-based Tax Justice Network.

But all that changed when a disgruntled computer technician at LGT, Heinrich Kieber, downloaded all the names and secret accounts on to two CDs and turned them over to tax authorities in the US and Europe.
Google Open Sources Mox, their Mock Object Framework for Python
So you're saying they didn't intentionally compose this picture in such a way as to increase the likelihood that people will donate?

This is not hacker news. There are lots of kids out there who are in just as much need of help. This one just happens to have a father who works on an open source product.
"medicine for medicine's sake."

Point 1: What do you think doctors are? Saints? They are human like the rest of us and would rather work for cash. They would probably also do better work if they were doing so for their own good. Case in point: Who had more food during the 1950-1980s. The US or the USSR?

Point 2: What makes you think that national health care will make doctors magnanimous? Just switching the payer from individuals to the govt. (which gets its cash from individuals anyway) doesn't magically change people. If we get national health care, doctors will probably start doing exactly what government unions have done: invest in lobbyists.

PS. The patient is in Ukraine. How will changing the US health care system help him?
No, S.A. is a pay site, it's some trouble to get yourself a new credit card, but on free sites you just make a new alias.
I actually kinda liked it. The UI needs work, but otherwise it's way better than half the crap out their.
In the circles I run in, he's not well-respected.
Ad companies already use cookies all over the place to track users, I'm not sure this would be that much bigger of a deal.
A good first step is, when you catch yourself making a comment that contributes nothing except maybe some sentiment, to not make it.
I'll bet you my foot that it wasn't someone who used godaddy...
Don't settle: Get what you want, right now
Holy shit talk about bad data. Icahn is a value investor. Deep value. They pull recent investments from no more than 4 years back, which is the wrong timeframe when you're talkinga about this kind of investment strategy.

Icahn buys companies near the brink of bankruptcy and turns them around. That may take years.
This is someone whose work most hackers have directly or indirectly benefited from.

This child is going to die if some people don't help - and you're worried the news item is polluting your sacrosanct daily news feed?

If you can't help, don't, atleast don't NOT help? Hope this gives you some perspective.
You probably don't want all your friends to know about everything you buy. Especially if you have bad taste in music.
This is really old news, and sadly, to my knowledge, it hasn't changed.
Possible, although it would be rather difficult to do well in a flexible manner, and would be unusable by every app that currently exists. More or less, it would be a replacement of the entire X event handling model, entire X drawing model, etc.

And it would make writing apps more difficult -- very few of them use entirely stock widgets, and it would be nearly impossible to securely and performantly implement new widgets on this system.

Plus, it's diametrically opposed to the X "Mechanism, not policy" mantra.

I wouldn't expect anything like this to take off, but it's been tried in the Y window system, and more interestingly -- and more dead-in-the-water -- in the NEWS window system.
"... Donations are requested to help Andrii Nikitin, a MySQL support engineer in Ukraine, provide for his son Ivan who requires a bone marrow transplant operation. The cost of this operation is expected to be between €150,000 - €250,000 ($235,000 - $400,000). Please help us provide Ivan a chance to live ..."

I know this could be seen as a heartless gesture but has anyone verified with MySql that Andrii Nikitin is who the page claims? I know this is shown off the mysql site but that's just a webpage. Does anyone personally/professionally know Andrii? Does anyone know Andrii at MySql?

It would help greatly Anreii's cause if MySql "officially" set up an MySql postal account allowing non paypal money orders, cheques etc to be passed on if they use MySql by name.
... And he's not even in the US. He's in the Ukraine.
We leached off of quality humans inc, which was a rails consulting shop some of our founders ran and also used savings and personal credit to get through the first 6 months or so after we all quit our day jobs ;) But lots of the planning stages, from Feb06 to August06 happened while I still had a full time day job somewhere else.
APS Opens Global Warming Debate -- APS Physics and Society Forum Editor
aw come on. Someone has to have an answer to this, I'm quite curious.
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that was my first experience as well. i didnt mind it.
I'm not sure I agree that #9 (BabyCalc / automated baby progress emails) would have been a flop in and of itself; it just sounds like he had a personal reason to fold the business.

BabyCenter.com right now is hugely popular among soon-to-be parents. What's one of the key things that gets parents to sign up in the first place -- almost immediately after they find out they're going to have a baby? Weekly emails detailing the pregnancy's latest progress.
I don't visit porn sites and I'm male.
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Or from the replies, perpetually too young.
With these theory of yours, we might go around helping no one, because you can always find people more needy or helpless than the one we are helping. Nobody said this was the last time, they are doing charity. It is one step at a time. I am sure nobody is helping this child because, his father works on an open source product. If you replace the father with a fisherman or farmer, I am sure people would sympathize the same way and donate the same amount they might be doing now.

A Cynic is one who knows the price of everything and value of nothing. - Oscar Wilde
Definitely depends on your audience. If you have a tech-savvy audience, it's a good bet that the vast majority of your site's visitors are at 1024px. But if you're targeting, say, a certain subset of baby boomers who may not have upgraded their computers in a while, accommodating 800px might be a good idea.

One thing you can do is find a very popular Web site (like at the Amazon / Ebay / Facebook level) that targets the same audience you do and see what they're doing with their design.
Max Levchin: On social ad revenues
An Open Source Future
Ephemeral Aggregators
I have a MacBook and a MacBook Air (both fine laptops for coding) and I use mostly vim running inside iTerm (far superior to OS X's Terminal imho) for my IDE and C and Python are my languages of choice.

When I write Objective-C w/ Cocoa, its X-Code all the way. It has a lot of excellent features.

Socket programming with C would be no different than writing it in FreeBSD. I had some network daemon that I wrote under FreeBSD that compiled and ran under OS X with absolutely no modification. You have a full GCC build chain on OS X either by default or with the X Code package, don't remember exactly. That same code will probably also run under Linux, with slight or no changes; and those changes will probably be only about including the right headers.

I love coding on my Mac. I generally used to code under FreeBSD at home (MacBook is my current `everything' computer) and currently code in Linux at work. Feels fairly similar between environments since I have a full screen terminal most of the time.

I didn't quite gather what you wanted to do with virtualization, but Parallels and VmWare Fusion work great. You can also get a qemu frontend.

If you have any other specific questions, don't hesitate.
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I'm not really a "Mac" developer, since I don't (yet) code for the Mac APIs, but I'll respond anyway:

I primarily code in Python and Javascript, but also some C/C++ non-GUI stuff. I tried a few different cross-platform Python IDEs, but nowadays I just use TextMate. I use iTerm for the terminal.

TextMate's a great app for a lot of different things... Markdown, Python, C++, Javascript, Mail... it has a lot of plugins to help write code and text in different languages. That's great, and it allows you to be really productive. My only gripe is that it hasn't been updated substantially lately; while it's a great product as-is, I'd like to see a few improvements to the interface.

My network programming has been mostly just from Python, but I haven't run into any problems with OS X's sockets. I'd imagine it'd be nearly identical to BSD systems, and I'd also suspect that it you would not encounter much difficulty shifting between OS X and Linux compiling. Someone else might know more specifics.
Does anyone else find it a little disheartening that despite being hosted on a MySQL / SUN site, and despite this meaning that they're obviously not providing his family with health insurance, that they're not even offering to do any contribution matching? I'd hope for a little more from a small-ish company that just got bought for a billion dollars.
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Don't make your posts too entertaining. Don't make your posts too short. A community of people who post large chunks of dense text about esoteric subjects will keep the horde out.
why is that, the webmasters i know say he is smart and knows how to make money. I personally don't know much about him.
My oft-repeated slightly OT 2cents: don't code on any notebook (including an Air) for extended periods of time: they're very unergonomic.
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Demystifying Salary Secrecy
If you need to do Linux-specific coding and I do mean _specific_, like using libraries or kernel apis that are Linux and not "unix" (e.g. epoll() or inoitify()) then you will probably want to compare VMWare and Parallels and pick one for your virtualization engine. This will also give you access to windows, which can be useful at times.

Otherwise, you will find a Mac to be an very nice BSD box. Get macports and you will have access to just about every open-source project and library you might want.

For editing I use Emacs for Erlang, Eclipse/PyDev for python, and Coda for web/javascript. Textmate is also highly regarded, especially in the Ruby community. The only language that you will find yourself lacking will be c# and other CLR variants, but if you really need them you can try Mono or run Windows in VMWare/Parallels.

The only other suggestion is less of a Mac tip and more of a coding on a laptop tip: get a more ergonomic keyboard and a larger monitor that you can use at your primary coding desk. It really makes a difference for long coding sessions.
"I will never quit." Amen to that!
Is it ironic that I got the fail whale when I went there?
China's Censorship Takes on Olympian Tones
Don't underestimate the power of mass stupidity. It's killed many sites in the past. Even with a "collection of editors with the power to kill cat pictures with a click."
It seems to work well enough. I put in topics, it spits out stories. I "flip" articles, they go away, hopefully some robot takes notice and makes the next set better.

But I can't help wonder what the bigger plan is for this service. It doesn't seem that a not-really-targeted but maybe-smart news recommendation system will fly -- who's the market?
Being asked what I'm interested in was a surprisingly novel moment. The economics of attention are favoring "pushed" information, which I hadn't consciously noticed until now.
Yeah... I don't know. I'm hesitant to come across as a big Kiyosaki advocate (I'm really pretty indifferent) but while I was able to think of several "wheat" examples, I can't really think of any chaff. Can you (or anyone) point out some specific areas where his advice is dangerous or just wrong?
That is awesome news. Thinking back to pre-Firebug days is almost like thinking back to pre-Internet days.
I was very excited to buy a Mac Mini the other day. I was very disappointed to learn over several weeks that, despite what Paul Graham and DHH and others say, OS X sucks for hacking.

I experiment with a number of languages, I pull in many different libraries, I use various different tools and scripts and programs from the command line. Frankly, installing any one of these things onto a Mac is a pain.

In Ubuntu, I simply do apt-get install. On a Mac, I have to download a tarball and compile it (their package management systems have many fewer packages, many of which are out of date). If I wanted to compile things, I would use Gentoo. Actually, Gentoo is much better since I think the portage package management system is very well-developed, up-to-date, large, fast, handles dependencies brilliantly, and has the option for some binaries.

As for the general use of the Mac: if you want to do anything that is not the default, good luck. Learning all of the different ways you can do something non-standard on a Mac is like learning black magic. You have to Google around to find out the secret incantations. For example, to ask for the boot menu, you must psychically know to hold down ALT as it boots. The other day, I wanted to test out how well my site worked with Flash off, only to discover I couldn't. I found a site with some complicated instructions about how to go about disabling Flash on OS X. I just gave up and rebooted into Ubuntu.

Basically, hacking on OS X is exactly like working with linux 5 years ago, when I had to be an expert on esoteric systems to do what I want.

Just do what I do: dual-boot into Ubuntu. I boot into OS X when I want to use iTunes, watch TV/movies using the cool Mac remote, or develop iPhone apps.
The Problem With Property Rights
I found this particularly interesting:

"Heller demonstrates that the anti-commons can be found in places like medical research, and this is where the book gets depressing. He recounts the story of Compound X, a treatment for Alzheimer's that remains undeveloped because there are too many owners of relevant patents, each of whom can demand the lion's share of any profits."
Probably a a good time to remember that nickb = pg (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=152361), which also explains the spate of climate change denialism which swamps this otherwise largely sane site (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=242215).
Isn't that why it asks you first?
Also, whoops, let's keep this in small print:

> Update 7/17/2008: After publication of this story, the APS responded with a statement that its Physics and Society Forum is merely one unit within the APS, and its views do not reflect those of the Society at large.
Yes there is money in API’s
After Security Breach, Harvard Unveils New IDs
Not sure if that's an accurate story title.

If the server room were duct-taped up, it might be funny. But burning a CD to give tax avoiders a bad day because you are pissed at your employer, just not the same.
I don't own a kindle and haven't played with one, but in messing with the Sony one, it seemed like the pages turned verrrryyyy slowly.

When using a textbook, I find it helpful to be able to flip pages quickly. I wonder how this will affect folks.
Have you tried macports?
the whole article is just one very long advertising for seedcamp
Aside from software others have mentioned, I find myself using Coda frequently.

When I'm working on a variety of different websites via SFTP, and it allows me to quickly log into a website, make a few changes, hit save and be done. No fiddling with another client or syncing.

You can create a preview pane to the right of the code, so when you hit save, it auto-refreshes the website. That's snazz-tastic.

For all out quick changes, I haven't found anything that beats it.

It has a great CSS editor, too. (If you haven't played with it, give it a serious try. I like to hand-edit CSS, too, but for playing with pixel perfect alignments, it can be quicker.)