skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I definitely agree with your sentiment, but then I go talk to parents. Parents are protective of their kids. Some are loose, but others are not. I don't have kids, but have worked with them extensively, so I will refer you to some discussions around the issue:

http://www.blogher.com/9-year-old-rides-subway-alone-mom-her...
http://www.nysun.com/news/why-i-let-my-9-year-old-ride-subwa... (also check out the comments on the original source http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/why-i-let-my-9... )
spammers, scrapers, and SEO'ed-to-the-hilt content farms are winning

Spammers, scrapers: sure, they're a problem.

SEO'd sites: there is nothing wrong with optimizing your site for search engines. And a site that's optimized ought to win.
shorting means you have to also be able to stomach the upside pain. Maybe it'll end low, but you have to have enough capital to float against margin calls while it climbs. I know people that got eaten alive for shorting yahoo back around 2000 - they were certain it was overvalued and rode short positions from $40 till over $100. Then their wives made them liquidate the positions; if they'd held out a little longer they would have won... shorting isn't all about being right - you also have to have enough capital.

The above quote is very apt. Even if I didn't believe in FB's valuation, I wouldn't short it because I doubt I have the financial fortitude to take the pain.
Here it is in all its javascript goodness: http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/index.html
Running a Startup Outside of the Valley
If the average person knew that their Google searches can potentially lead to credit rejections or trouble with health insurance providers (hypothetical at this point, but with recent trends not as farfetched as before), I think they certainly would care.

The reason why the masses don't care is because they don't know why kind of havoc this sort of lack of privacy can cause. I for one am glad someone is educating the layman in an accessible and non-condescending way.
Gmail, Docs, and News are not dominant in their category, Images is just another form of search, while Reader is dominant but increasingly irrelevant.

You forgot Android, which in the long run will probably prove to be their only really big hit other than search, at least that they've released so far. The others just don't matter that much.
At least duckit.com is still open!
Hinty is removing any ads that may be on the source page or RSS feed and presenting in an audio only format. In addition, we would need to charge money to at least cover costs, so collecting revenue for someone else's content could be an issue.
Offices are cheaper per person to run and provision than individual dwellings due to the extra density of workers, so this trend depends on the tradeoff between the energy saved by reducing travel and the energy spent heating/cooling/running individual home offices.

On the other hand, many countries are dealing with ageing populations. Self-driving cars will give the elderly and the disabled a level of autonomy that we take for granted. That's my bet on the big win.
this could be a good publicity stunt for DDG, sue google for trademark infringement(probably even a legit case here)...which will get you a lot of press covering how Google is so scared of DDG
UINavigationController Customization Tutorial
On2 created what is now called WebM, a video code that Google is promoting instead of H264. Google (and others, pike Gorilla) believe that h264 is patent encumbered and not in keeping with the web's open nature. This is why FireFox doesn't play h264. By put purchasing On2 and releasing WebM, Google is trying to prevent video on the web from being controlled by one patent pool. They paid all that money to try to protect the web's openness.
Well, you're missing the primary thing that will be necessary to sell it: marketing. People don't just roll out of bed and give you money because you've made it easy; they give you money because they have a problem, and are aware that you solve it at a reasonable price.

Things to think about:

- How will you identify prospects who might buy?
- Where can you potentially reach those prospects?

There's a number of avenues you might pursue in order to get people interested: web based ads, traditional media, web-based lead generation (email marketing campaigns, registration-required downloads), trade shows/events, bylined articles in journals/magazines, etc. And of course, all the usual social-media avenues. Some of these have costs, some are things you can do yourself on the cheap.

These are all avenues by which you can introduce your target market to your product. If they don't know about it, there's little chance to get them to buy it.
[27C3] Cognitive Psychology for Hackers - Bugs, exploits, and occasional patches
Aside from the focus-outline issue people had been talking about, some tweaks that are pleasing to see. As I get the time, I'll test swapping this out for the old reset code in my .less includes.
If would cost a lot of money to go up against the big G. The only people who win are the lawyers, I'll bet Google has lots of experience defending trademark lawsuits.
I didn't believe this "Easy to implement" line but over Christmas I wrote my own LISP implementation on top of .NET and it comes to about 350 lines codes.

That includes all the list operations, an arbitrary precision number type and a host of the usual built in function (add, subtract, multiply, divide, and not or etc).

Eye-opening to say the least!
It will be referred to as "Web3D" in mainstream media.
Heh I get this spammy piece of crap at #1 for that search:

http://pinoytech.org/question/1699545/unable-to-get-value-fr...
A year or so ago a mate of mine had a startup that wanted to do this exact same thing. That whole team eventually decided college was more important.

I'm glad someone finally made this, because I sure as hell have been wanting it for a while.
I'm not sure if Ben the Bodyguard qualifies as "low-def". The problem with heavy designs like this is that they look great, but their efficacy is rarely ever supported by raw data.
I do not think they make that case well at all. If you look at what happened with the last generation of consoles, everything but the PS3 had piracy before anyone had unsigned code running. They ignored basically all of the security measures the consoles had implemented and attacked the optical drives firmware (with or without a modchip) and enabled 'backups'/piracy. That basically leaves the PS3 as the one that had linux so the 'real hackers' were not working on it.

The PS3 itself is still not a good example of holding up against piracy until the hackers that wanted to run linux worked on it. It was first broken for the reasons of piracy (PSJailbreak) and was not done by the homebrew scene. Actually, all of their work required and is based on already having code running on the PS3 using the pirate method.

So, what exactly is left to support the opinion that the homebrew people are smart, the piracy people are dumb, and if you do not support linux the homebrew people will make it work with the side effect of allowing piracy? In every instance it is piracy that was first. You can also look to the DVD/HDDVD/BluRay scene and see that the piracy people were ahead of the 'make it play on linux' crowd and quite capable.
They can track that you came from duckduckgo yes. But that's it. They can't track what search terms you used, because that is what duckduckgo hides in the referrer. But only if the link is https so the referrer is passed at all.
In the TC article Mike Arrington references Dave Morin's use of Letter.ly (a 'premium content' subscription service) as the inspiration for Rose to set up Foundation.

What's interesting is that 3 months in and only 5 posts later (remember, at $3.99/month) Dave has most recently published a post simply titled "Apology" (http://letter.ly/davemorin). No idea exactly what it contains because of course you have to subscribe but one can speculate and it does seem telling.

BTW this isn't a slight at Dave M - he took a chance on this (I think Letter.ly founder Sam Lessin and him are good pals) and it didn't work out - esp with the launch of Path. No biggie.

However, I fail to see how this is a good inspiration on Roses part to set up Foundation.

Finally, producing video is expensive (he probably has a camera man, there's editing time, hosting, etc) - I can't really see how this pays off either. You are in that weird position where $3.99 is going to create a chasm for many folks yet you'd have to sell quite a lot of subs to make it work financially.
Yes, but don't discount the massive differences in environment.

An airliner is a vehicle with federally-mandated maintenance and inspection periods, operating in a tightly controlled space in which new vehicles entering and exiting are known and managed by controllers and in which the transport medium (air) by and large doesn't change characteristics much for the duration of the flight.

Versus an automobile with a robot driver that has to handle crazy pedestrians, dogs, motorcycles, cyclists and other cars randomly entering its area of travel, wide variations in road widths, speed limits, road surface texture (dry, sandy, wet, ice covered can all be encountered in less than 1/4 mile of travel), random road construction and other non-robotic drivers.

This doesn't mean that a solution is impossible, but to point to airliners to say "see, it can happen" is a bit of a stretch.
The Google leadership has repeatedly said that search is an AGI hard problem. The social graph is also an AGI hard problem, for what it's worth.
This links to a detailed and technical bug report. Does anyone have any examples of this new CSS gradient goodness?
Highly hypothetical - to the extreme. How would any insurance co. know if it's me, or someone else in the household?

Also afaik health insurance is mainly a US phenomenon thank god.
Contrary to what you may think, I was being thoughtful of this but did not think it required rehashing. You however, exactly reiterate my point, you didn't do any due diligence, just put certainly in italics. How about some facts instead?

Simply go to maps.google.com and search for Chicago, IL to New York, NY. Ok, 14 hours trip currently. Now, let's take a premise of 200 miles per hour. Now, tell me, can you travel 200mph anywhere in Chicago? Can you travel 200mph in Manhattan or anywhere close to it? No. Does your car contain enough gas to go 800 miles w/o stopping. Doubtful, especially at those speeds where your mpg is going to drop off drastically. Even assuming you could achieve 200mph sustained on the interstate you still have toll booths, traffic, weather, construction, curves, exits, onramps, and other real-world traffic scenarios to deal with. This is not a flying car, this car travels on the ground like the rest of them. At the absolute very best scenarios you are still looking at 5 hours to make the trip. I would argue a detailed scientific study on the feasibility of it would put the actual travel time closer to 7 hours even with a car that had a potential of 200mph.

Compare this to flying. The trip takes approximately 2 hours (please check any airline site so you can see for yourself). Let's be generous and add 1.5 hours on the before side and .5 hours on the after side to give us a rough approximation of total travel time from home to destination. That is a total of 4 hours.

The airplane wins hands down. Try thinking about the problem instead of going with assumptions.
The cable provider in my area in germany just upgraded to DOCSIS 3 which enables me to get 128Mbit instead of 32 which already was twice as fast as the fastest DSL in the area.
I am going for 64Mbit though, 128 still is to pricy but i like the development of bandwidth here.
Also had many problems with DSL in the past (losing sync, broken splitters etc) while my cable connection is flawless. But many people say their experience was the other way round, so it heavily depends on the area i guess.
I dislike compiling myself because then I also have to deal with upgrading them. Sometimes building is a pain because programs have arcane build steps, or are less-secure by default. I certainly don't trust myself to compile network programs (apache etc) with the most secure options. Paradoxically, I think it's safer for me to rely on packages than to compile myself. Maybe I'm being naive. :)
I wonder if this is why wget'ing from github always returns me the --no-check-certificate error:

ERROR: certificate common name `*.github.com' doesn't match requested host name `github.com'.
Ask HN: I can has cofounder?
Hello there, I'm Jesse, http://jessecrockett.com.

I have an idea for #3, "New news." http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html.

I'd love to communicate with the likeminded.

I am out on the range, and I'd rather you be the hacker and I be the developer, though I could move to Chicago or Boston w/o much trouble.

Thank you.
I suppose it does in the mobile space, at least.
Ah, so it is--and impressive work, at that. My mistake, thanks for pointing it out!
> I can't really see how this pays off either.

It all ends up on Revision 3 (after the first week) anyhow so it's just more content for them to monetize like they do their other videos. His cameraman is also his regular Rev3 guy Graham. http://twitter.com/#!/grahamhancock/status/22008135078125568
I've been searching for a tool like this. Bettween is just perfect.
And the Fed will cover what AIG is short.
http://www.igorinternational.com/process/igor-naming-guide.p...
I wonder where my motorcycle will fit in this world. Oh, well, I'll be so old I probably won't be able to ride anyway, unless rejuvenation has come about as well.
Why you should run bundle update
I've never understood the desire to have specialized editors for a specific language. If you want to go to a full blown IDE thats one thing - Eclipse and Visual Studio are powerful tools - but if you want to _edit_ code efficiently I don't understand why you wouldn't learn one editor very well and use it for all languages.

I personally am a vim guy but emacs, textmate, whatever, would be fine and they all work with clojure, ruby, python, c, and whatever the language du jour is tomorrow too.

Not that this isn't cool and I don't fault them for scratching a personal itch - its just an itch I don't have.
You can scale up databases, set up mysql replication, most of the queries on a page will be reads, just have multiple read only slave machines.
Microsoft might be using it for data for Tellme (http://www.tellme.com/) a 2007 acquisition.
Works fine and looks great for me. Also, it's a first parallax website I've seen so far, so thanks for posting!

BTW. Despite that it's an advert, it has a positive message. Made me feel better, at least a bit.
My best attempt (jQuery):

$.getJSON('http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=ElbertF&callback=?',function(json){alert(json[0].text)})

The long API URL alone makes it pretty much impossible to make something useful, this "client" simply gets the latest tweet and can't post updates. Not much of a client, I know.
The backwards-compatibility with PS2 games was facilitated by the presence of the PS2 CPU and GPU in the PS3 hardware. Newer revisions of the system eliminated first the CPU and then the GPU. I think it's fair to assume this was done for cost reasons -- it's not like they removed the functionality through software update.

If you really want to play PS2 games, buy a used PS2 on Craigslist for a fraction of the cost of a PS3. Heck, you can still get them new.
Do you have a link to the Morgan Stanley story? I'm curious about some of the finer details
Incognito is a pretty thin layer of privacy. What many systems will see is this:

"User foobaz123 logs in from IP u.v.w.x. Here we have a no-cookie session from IP u.v.w.x. This is probably foobaz123"

Any identity management system of modest complexity can do this with fairly good accuracy. So while they don't have you confirmed via an authentication cookie, it's certainly a far cry from total anonymity.
Sure, if you completely ignore all of the extra circuitry for the on-chip network and cache coherency and everything else you would need. Transistor density is far from the limiting factor in the number of cores we can wedge into a single system.
I think that $1 per hour is high considering that large volumes of data can be had for $30 a month or less in the US. In other words, many people can run Pandora all month on their iPhone without additional cost. Wanting HN or TechCrunch is not the same as spending $10-$20 a week to get it during your commute...the demographic for whom such access is time critical is probably very small.

I still think there is something there, I just think that the a pricing model where the meter is always running discourages casual use, particularly when you can potentially run up several hundred dollars a month in use.
What about YouTube? It's much more successful than the last 6 of your examples (maybe except Maps)
New Years Resolutions of a Software Developer
Twitter Birds Are Liars
You try to acquire the relevant information and data. You ask your broker (GS, here), what the information is that they have, rather than just accepting their "Good Value" label. If that information doesn't meet your requirements for "due diligence", then you don't invest in that company.

Also, it's not particularly important to be able to claim due diligence.
It's great to see the HTML5 element reset added in.
Every issue you just mentioned affects <5% of users. If you're a power user, Windows sucks, period. If you're an average user, it's great. I love being able to run linux apps in OSX, without having to deal with linux UI and driver issues. I hate trying to play games in it. Guess which group is bigger: those who play games, or those who like native linux app support?

Windows succeeds, despite the wailing of mac and linux fanboys, because it does what it needs to do and does so well. Mac will never have Windows market share when their cheapest laptop is $1000. Linux will never have Windows, or let alone Mac, market share. Period. Almost every business out there runs Windows. Almost every school library computer lab runs Windows. People who use computers for only the most basic things use Windows, and that's 90% of the computer-using population.

I have both a macbook pro and an older dell xps running Windows 7. I far prefer OSX, but that's because I like having a real shell. XCode is pretty good, too. OSX is a "nicer" OS, and it's certainly prettier, but is it worth paying twice as much for a computer? For the vast majority of people, the answer is no.

You seem to be arguing that Toyota is retarded because they make corollas, when BMW makes the clearly superior 5 series. I think the flaw in such reasoning is obvious.
...at least until they can ride those numbers into an IPO.
Tell HN: The comments on Lucas Nussbaum's resignation are worth a(nother) look
Often comments in heated threads like this get increasingly useless, but in this case it's very much the opposite.

A number of Ruby devs have commented (about the language issues and more generally), and if you read only the original post, it's worth another look, I think.

http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=617
Ask HN: Kindle silly question: How good is it for tech books?
Silly question I know, but I have largely ignored the kindle (and ipad) rage until now. I like physical books, but I now feel like I am ready to approach the kindle. My big question is that I have a very large library of technical ebooks from Apress, Pragmatic Programmers, Sitepoint, etc. and I wondered if a.) they would be viewable on the kindle (perhaps after reformatting). Also since there are nice diagrams and images, do those come out neatly with the eInk screen?
If you haven't already checked out Andrew Warner's Mixergy (http://mixergy.com) you should.

He interviews these kinds of people all the time and while the (usually Skype-based) interviews aren't fancy, the content is fantastic. Andrew is a great interviewer and he digs deep into the core of whatever the issue at hand is.
We used to run closer to 1200-1500 at every hosting company that I ran. You don't get much for $5 a month.
At most unions only have any power whatsoever in traditional manufacturing corporations. They're practically non-existent in the service sector. If someone wants to start a company that fully automates the manufacture of iPhones or an automobile, how could unions stop him ?

Technical obstacles, financial obstacles - sure. Government obstacles - maybe. But unions ?
I made something similar a few years ago, although much simpler, I admit.

If anyone interested: http://www.sharebookbox.com

(you can use it with your own affiliate-ID)

7books looks nice, btw. Good luck with it!
Yeah. You don't generate a list. You have make automatically dd 16 bytes from /dev/random, pipe it through hexdump, and then use that as your seed. You don't even have to check for dupes. There are 3.4 * 10^38 possible keys; You will not pick the same one twice.

That way, you can't even accidentally reuse a seed in development, or leak that list of the previously used seeds. When something compromises the system, and you don't need it any more, it should be destroyed.
I'd rather you be the hacker and I be the developer

What exactly do you mean by this distinction?
It worked for Brittany?
Show HN: Taketake Pre-Launch
http://taketake.com

We are pre-launching taketake.com. Taketake helps you share news of your wants and haves with your friends and the world. Think check-in, but for things instead of places.

People can request invitations to taketake, but no invitations are being sent out yet. We will begin to send invites later this month.

Would love to hear what you guys think.

Competitors:
Blippy, Swipely, Svpply, TheFancy (thingd)
It's a complicated subject. By law, you can not be compelled to create a document that didn't exist, but you can be compelled to produce a copy of the document that does exist. It becomes murky when you consider that IP addresses etc do enter the memory of the computer before being discarded, and thus can be argued to have temporarily formed a document.

There was at least one court case where a judge felt this was enough to say "you have the document, you must make a copy at my request". I don't remember the details of the case, and don't remember how it ended. I hope that sanity prevailed and the "thou can not be compelled to create a document" policy was reinterpreted in a more reasonable manner.
Refresher for me: The other road ahead
http://www.paulgraham.com/road.html

Apologies to people who have read this recently, but I last read it years ago and when I decided to have a "New Year read" to motivate and focus myself I decided to re-read it. I was struck by how prescient it is and if you have never read it, I'd strongly suggest you do.

I actually wish I'd taken more notice the first time as there are some key points in here that I should have learned from. Instead I made my own mistakes (and learned from them) when I could have learned from here.
Hinty? Hear INTernet? Clever.

Why would a Ads/Freemium model not work? You'd know the user, the stuff they are listening to, surely you could get some nice targeted ads?

I think it's a good idea, but text-to-speech grates after a while.

I'd try it, but I'm in the UK.
I can't understand why dhh keeps saying capitalism is so great. Is it because he has loads of money?