skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, I shudder to imagine people following this advice and importuning others.

The social contract among my peers seem to be to only ask for things that could be the start of a win-win negotiation.
It's about leverage. Big companies try to attract "superstar" CXOs who have bargaining power to get "golden parachutes". Most startup founders don't have that kind of leverage.
I lost my job a few weeks ago (company I was with went bankrupt). I'm planning to transition to doing more python contract work while learning haskell and more AI.

Wouldn't mind finding a start-up to work with if something interesting comes up.
that's harsh :(
Apologize. I even screwed up the URL. I cant edit it. Its my first thread.
Im trying to move from the non-technical camp to the technical camp!
I bet I'm not the only one that hears that sad beep in my head when i read it.
I had the same problem. Solved it a few months ago by using one of Jeff Miller's HN RSS feeds ( http://feeds.feedburner.com/newsyc50 ). More info : http://jeffmiller.github.com/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-ne...
Funny thing to say on a site dedicated to building businesses using computers.

(and to the people here who've downvoted me such that I've just burned up 8 points of karma for simply pointing out there was a logical fallacy in the letter and who clearly don't understand what a logical fallacy looks like if it smacked them in the face, have a happy new year and I weep for you)
to get older.
No, you may not.

The relevant sections of the tax code are in Pub561 and Pub526. Basically: the IRS would consider your custom website to have a FMV of $0, because it couldn't be sold to anyone else.

If you made a genuine software tool that was applicable to more than just the charity (and you successfully sold copies of that software), then the FMV would be the purchase price of the software in the open market.

There was a law passed in 2004 (can't remember which, sorry) that cracked down on the charitable donations of intangible property.

[1] http://www.irs.gov/publications/p561/index.html

[2] http://www.irs.gov/publications/p526/index.html
The sunlight foundation does an amazing job of connecting volunteer engineers with opportunities to help make the US government more transparent and accountable: http://sunlightlabs.com/
... all i get is a 404 warning. =(
The problem is tablet PCs, Nokia Internet Tablets and iPads are all different concepts of a 'tablet', confusingly called the same thing. Compare to Macs and PCs which are both clearly 'personal computers'.
Thanks for the support and positive comments guys :)
What if the site doesn't have an API? Or what is the API is not user friendly? Case in point: address book scraping employed by many companies bypassing APIS. e.g dropbox
There is a subtle problem with all this, which is that you don't know what your life would have been had you not played WoW, it may be that you would be living in a cardboard box or it may be that you would have ended up even better than where you are today.

The best I can glean from your description is that for some people playing a game like WoW need not be a debilitating thing. I know a person that uses a scary amount of hard drugs and that in spite of that still functions quite well. Of course everybody has been saying 'it won't last long' but they've been saying that for longer than I can remember and he's still at it.

That doesn't mean that in general hard drugs are not a negative and it does not mean that he'll never get the bill. It just hasn't happened yet.
The Simulation Hypothesis
IPhone alarms not working on New Year's Day 2011
Totally a dick thing to say someone who just built something and put something out into the world. Adds no value to the conversation...

...man that sucks. I hate crap like this.

Anyways, Van - I like your site, but you might want to make your value proposition more clear.

"Make new friends, meet old ones, do something fun together" - doing what?

Those are good benefits. But what exactly is the service? Why should the unfamiliar visitor try it out?

Maybe something like, "Use our simple FREE service to make a connection with someone with the same interests in your hometown. Takes 27 seconds to fill out - CLICK HERE TO SEE A DEMO"

I don't know. Something like that. Stronger reason to use the service, more explanation, more call to action. Definitely have analytics, and maybe split-test different variants? Right now I don't know what the site does exactly without diving in, so grabbing someone by the hand right away and making it easy might be good.

"The best FREE way to get a meetup with an old friend, new friend, or date in your city - CLICK HERE to see how it works" - something like that? Play around with it, a stronger call to action and more description might help. Good luck and best wishes.
A) This is entirely irrelevant to my point. The point was, the body takes in things it finds useful, and discards the ones it doesn't. Ethanol gets filtered out. And it's rough on your organs if it has to do it too often. Those are the first principles.

B) The whole "wine as a replacement for water" thing is bullshit. Alcohol is a diuretic; when you drink wine, your net hydration is negative.

C) Tainted juice is a non-issue if it's fresh; fruit is one of the safer things you can eat, especially vine fruits, since they don't contact the ground much. If it's spoiled juice... after a certain point it's alcoholic. Ethanol is the by-product of spoilage in grape juice.

D) It's possible that alcohol in conjunction with food reduces contaminants in the food, but I find it highly unlikely this is the reason people started to and continue to drink; it seems that getting buzzed is the more plausible explanation.
HN: Does anyone have a clue...
...how things get on the front page?
The ghost of Malthus will continue to haunt us, despite the constant invalidations of his premises. The world can sustain more people, with longer lifespans and higher standards of living.
Work my ass off to finally get a startup (my startup - not someone else's) fully off the ground.
If I cared how much goodwill my site design engendered, I probably wouldn't put a trick splash title that immediately bounces 2/3 of my traffic.
Finish techpreview2 of Neddick (https://github.com/fogbeam/Neddick)

Finish techpreview1 of Quoddy (https://github.com/fogbeam/Quoddy)

Finish techpreview1 of Heceta (https://github.com/fogbeam/Heceta)

Get out of the office (well, my apartment) and get in front of some potential customers and start soliciting feedback. Use Steve Blank's Customer Development Methodology.

Spend some serious time researching the competition in this space; figure out how my vision fits in with Microsoft Sharepoint... am I building a Sharepoint complement or a Sharepoint killer (so to speak)?

Decide if there's going to be a SaaS model for this stuff, and - if there is - what goes into it, and start exploring building out the SaaS version (probably on Amazon's infrastructure, but we'll see.)

Depending on the results of some of the above goals: Maybe find a co-founder to work with. If things go bloody smashingly well, maybe look for investment dollars.

Eh, there are goals beyond that, but I don't want to project out to far, because I've never been terribly good at predicting the future. "Close a sale," for example, would be a nice goal. But I don't know if it's realistic for 2011 or not.
Some bricks and mortar stores are doing fine, the local shops that stock local books and local authors and sell used books are doing great. Amazon gives them a global market for their used stock.

The chains that campaigned against net price agreements and talked about business and not being sentimental are no complaining about ebooks, Amazon and supermarkets - well tough
'Space-time cloak' to conceal events revealed in new study
> it claims that it is consistent with the university's character to publish the work.

that is not an appeal to authority.

The statement alone is sufficient for the argument, bringing in notable and revered historical figures does not improve the merit of his premise. He's saying, "it's in our character because of these notable authority figures". By definition it's an appeal to authority.

Why is this so hard to understand?

(meta-comment, seriously, what's with all the fucking downvotes? has nobody here ever seen a formal argument or a logical fallacy? I don't care if I burn karma for being wrong, but I'm not so what's the deal? If you downvoted and actually typed a response, please disregard my bitching (and yes I know the guidelines say I shouldn't say this kind of thing, but pg's going to have to establish some up/down mod guidelines one of these days, because clearly getting downvoted for making factual statements doesn't make any sense and it appears that this site is slipping again down the HN->reddit->digg->4chan slope again as recent posts about non-hackerish things are demonstrating))
I was actually thinking of specific compounds, one being resveratrol; it and other antioxidants are present in greater or equal amounts in fresh grapes and work as effectively in that form.

It's true that some things need to work in conjunction; calcium absorption is rubbish without vitamin D, and vitamin D is fat soluble so it needs to be eaten with fat. But I've never heard of alcohol being necessary for any absorption process.
You could have said the same thing about papers covering BigTable and MapReduce. Today we have Hadoop...
Reddit has/had a good 404 ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/2835213914/in/set-7215... though I liked their general error report better ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/98158858/in/set-721576... "sorry broke: looks like we shouldn't have stopped using lisp..."
You can read the source: http://www.paulgraham.com/arc.html

Or take a look at this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781013
Good info, similarly the Unity 3D Web Player stats gives an insight into hardware and video specs: http://unity3d.com/webplayer/hardware-stats.html

Great for gauging hardware of the casual (web) gamer. Sadly, lots of Intel 945's still out there...
My New year resolution: Release an app every month
Patience is really a virture. And you don't need to win every battle to win the war. Wait until it is something that really matters to you before raising your voice.

I don't know if I have been sucessful or not yet. I have only been married 28 years. My wife's parents made it over 50 years.
5K refers to the width, not the height. So 2.5 times a 1920x1080 monitor.
Right now google uses Verified Boot, meaning that only Google-signed images will be bootable

Yes, but there's a switch to turn it off. I hope that continues to be true with production devices.
I did a research case-study on this project and the FBI system as part of a study on enterprise architecture failures. The principal purpose of the CityTime system was to prevent city employees from filling out and signing time cards for their coworkers. In other words, reduce fraud in the time keeping system and thereby lower city costs (payroll is one of, if not the, biggest expense for the city government).

Outside of the fantastic irony of the situation, that requirement was interpreted to mean a fairly high level of security and auditing over the city employees' time keeping activities. This meant system integrated biometric scanners, one-time keys, end-to-end encryption etc...making for a fantastically complicated architecture.
Interesting, but there are still a lot of opaque parameters there.
It is better to let the big telcos attempt to subvert the neutrality of the internet than it is to give the FCC a blank check to do the same in the future.
Art History Term Papers—Creative Way to Tell the History of Art
All students majoring in art will undoubtedly be assigned the writing of the art history term paper. Writing this term paper provides the students much needed information on the history of art. These papers will also provide students good knowledge with their writing as well.
C Macro Tips and Tricks
Oops. I reread what I wrote and now I am confused. Maybe you are right. In developer mode, self signed images work. But I will leave the post.

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If you are talking about developer mode, Yes. I am pretty sure they intend to have that option in production devices.
No. I think, even in developer mode the boot process checks for google signature.

From their site;
"The first time a Chrome Notebook boots in Developer Mode after leaving Normal Mode it will:
- Show a scary warning that its software cannot be trusted, since verified boot is disabled (press Ctrl-D or wait 30 seconds to dismiss).
- Erase all personal data on the "stateful partition" (i.e., user accounts and settings - no worries, though, since all data is in the cloud!).
Make you wait between 5 and 10 minutes to while it erases the data.
- Boot from any self-signed image on its SSD, negating the security of verified boot.

https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/deve...
Micro-Distilleries Feed A Growing Thirst For Small-Batch Liquors
This would be a good New Year's resolution: to learn the in's and out's of HTML5
It's pretty awesome how many HTML5 resources have come out of the wood work. Yesterday, I decided to add Geolocation to my first mini web app and in just a little bit of surfing around I was able to learn enough to get it working. This one is presented very well and I'm sure I'll be referring back to it quite a few times.
OpenLase: open realtime laser graphics
Actually it's far more common to get the "You broke Reddit" error message. There are a couple more in rotation. I haven't seen the "9/11 changed everything" one in a while, so they may have wisely stopped using that one.
window.onload = function() {
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'Yu_moia-oVI', // rickroll
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Awesome.
Interview with Markus Frind (2006)
Can you cite the source of that?
Awww, it ends!
Thanks for the information. But I can't see how even those technologies could begin to justify even the initial price (unless they were trying to develop their own biometrics systems from scratch, which I don't think is necessary given today's state-of-the-art).

My guess is that the biggest risk in trying to develop such a system is making something that's completely impractical for the end user.
I am going to build and release an app/project every month in 2011.
Have wasted enough time on HN and reading my RSS. Have read about lot of cool things that I wanted to build stuff with.

http://appamonth.blogial.com/
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New era cap $12;

Air jordan(1-24)shoes $30;

jordan air max oakland raiders $34a€“39;

Ed Hardy AF JUICY POLO Bikini $25;

Christan Audigier BIKINI JACKET $25;

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coogi DG edhardy gucci t-shirts $18;

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coach chanel gucci LV handbags $36;

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Microsoft's Bing better watch out for bi.ng
That's kind of the point. It's a nice 404 page.
Nothing like measured, well reasoned cheer to start the new year with!

But someone had to rain - a commenter points out a similar article Dave Griffith posted on usenet in 1997 which he reread and found the difference between '97 and now is actually rather depressing). I couldn't find the 97 usenet post he is referring to but that's a good thing anyway :)
it's a joke. don't forget to tip your waitress.
Oh yes, I regret having bought a 2 core CPU. Maybe I will upgrade to a 4 core some day.
All those creative error pages make me think that it might be a great "dear team, maybe you fancy hacking some funny or exciting non-related webdesign stuff in your free time. If you create something nice and want to, we can use it as our error page" motivation to have your programmers space out and hack as they like while still contributing to the project.
You know what? He's right. With the world being a bigger, more communicative place, it can sometimes seem like things are getting worse, but the truth is, it's getting better.

I look forward to the years beyond.
It wasn't a huge market, but it wasn't trivial either. The numbers I can find are around $1.5 billion/year sales in the mid-2000s.
WOW, this is old.
I haven't bought a book in a store since probably 1999. I remember buying from bookpool.com when they were around and had the cheapest tech books.

Recently Amazon has basically dominated this market and has eaten the B&M stores lunches, as far as I am concerned. The best thing Amazon ever did was launch the ratings and reviews and get tons of people to add valuable content to their site and augment the one huge disadvantage they had over B&M; you can't tell if the book was any good. I find the ratings and reviews are as valuable, if not more, than me briefly looking through the book myself.

Now, I don't think ebooks have much to do with this at all as I don't see ebooks selling nearly as well as people think they will sell. I personally hate reading in that format and will continue to buy books to read as I find the experience much more enjoyable and maintainable. Thinks like Safari online are just AWFUL ways to consume material, IMO. The only reason I have ebooks is if I travel and want to have something to read on my iPad instead of carrying 4-6 books with me.

Oh yeah, and don't get me started on the price of most technical ebooks!

All in all...B&M stores like Borders are dying b/c they couldn't or wouldn't adapt in the face of someone like Amazon who is better at the modern game than they are. This is very much like Netflix v Blockbuster...
this is the most awesome reply i've seen in 2011 so far
Don't worry. :-)

Just for the record, the best url to submit would have been the permalink to the first post in this case. So http://www.mustangevolution.com/forum/f99/t284626/#post80823...

Welcome to Hacker News!
Figures. No CR-48 over here, and I was even planning to really and truly only run Chrome OS on it.

Then again, maybe Google is waiting to send me their gTablet... yeah, that's got to be it :-)
cnu, as I see you are the author of the post, I had a couple questions to ask you.

1. Do you ever plan to release any of the apps on the App Store?

2. Are you going to create a formal way for your blog readers to give feedback on what app to create next (e.g. poll)?

I love what you're doing and I'm going to be sure to keep track of all the apps you release. Good luck!
Release 2 more iOS games, pay more attention to myself.
Keep learning to program.

Keep working on http://www.willitfreezetonight.com

Get rid of fatness on my body.

Find a way to mix my license in Real Estate with my love for programming.

Do some co-working at C4 Workspace in San Antonio.

Be more social.

Generate a decent income.

Do more things that scare me.

Learn to scuba dive.
That's creepy. If you make a post here at HN it will get fetched and displayed on linked site too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIMNXogXnvE
Well, let me throw my voice in, too. If I didn't have Readability, I would not have read your article. Out of curiosity, I reloaded the page and tried reading it as was originally presented, but it felt taxing, and I switched back quickly.

The problem, I think, is that the spaces between letters are much smaller than the internal negative spaces of the letters. The little horizontal flairs on the sides of many letters in Museo exacerbate this issue. This ends up making it really hard for me to recognize the letters which have no internal negative space, most notably i, t, and r, since they tend to bleed into their neighboring letters at this small size.
Each author is using their own definition of minimalism. There's no point in arguing over whose definition is better.
Ship http://canv.as
We all have to learn somehow! :)
Seriously, how novel is a USB power brick? It's not like the thing was designed from scratch for the first time for them... It looks identical to the one you get with iPhones/iPads.

I would have assumed, as they probably did, that it is a very plain vanilla component and not belabored it. The art of shipping is to know when to take certain risks related to he product.

Overthinking a mass-produced commodity power brick isn't a smart use of time.
How about a "Hacker New App Status Tracker" app? Something where HN hackers can post a list of the apps they're working on, basic details, start date, expected completion date, etc. Make it searchable by username, programming language, category, etc. Have a "hall of fame" for users who complete lots of stuff, and a "hall of shame" for, well... you know.

I don't mean a project management tool, or anything that has a lot (if any) of formal value. More like something for people here to use to A. stroke their ego, B. show off to their peers, and C. (most importantly) get encouragement from their peers. Maybe have something like Facebook's "poke" button where you can poke somebody who's behind on delivering their app. :-)

Anyway... just an idea.
$33,000? Can you bribe the domain registrar to get it for cheaper?
Chromium, Chromeplus and Iron: Why Source code and Distribution Models Matter
I signed up almost two years ago. Earlier this year I noticed that I had a karma of 11. I asked a few questions of the regulars about what karma was and how to get it. So I decided to contribute more and see what happened. I posted articles that I liked and the karma rose slowly. I found out that 200 points would get you the ability to downvote so I pursued that. My respect for the community grew so I focused on fewer articles of higher quality. After I got over 200 I found that I very rarely used downvoting but I enjoyed the "status" it indicated. Then pg raised the point level to 500 so that kept me active as a goal. I achieved that and then posted an article without much substance but popular that "earned" me over 400 points. That was fun. I still don't understand how articles make the front page, but that's okay. I've settled in to posting a certain kind of article only. And commenting more. The example set on commenting by others (and the occasional downvote received) taught me how to make a better contribution to the discussion. So it's been an informative year for me. Thanks HN.
Um, I'm no hater. But I think making a good app is more important. So put more into one rather than a bunch.

Nothing is more beautiful than a well thought out app.
I agree that no cache coherency is the entire point of the chip, but the lack of manual control over things like flushing the cache is entirely unrelated to cache coherency and a significant issue in some of the things we've been trying to do on the chip.
It's a matter of balance. I like having more than 5 shirts because I don't want to do laundry every week and, in fact, not having to do laundry all the time makes my life simpler. On the other hand, if you have so many clothes that deciding what to wear becomes a difficult task, or you need to build an expansion on your house to store them all, then you have probably gone to far the other direction.

Snow chains are great if you do things that require them. I used mine just today. But, we all know that guy with the monster 4x4 truck who never actually goes into the woods.