skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's interesting to hear. Apple is rarely mentioned on here in terms of 'going to work for them' and I agree that whilst its probably going to be a lot of hard work when you're there that you'll gain some serious knowledge and work alongside some really bright people. Good luck the next time you try. I've followed Apple for a long time and I know that there are often negatives said about Apple and personally about Steve Jobs but they sure know how to execute and create some beautiful products (both hardware and software)
For comparison, here are the tag trends on Stack Overflow:
http://hewgill.com/~greg/stackoverflow/stack_overflow/tagtre...
I think they are careful to say "this is not a medical device", which exempts them from regulation. They can market it as a fun toy or fashion accessory or whatever, and then it has nothing to do with medicine.
or 5760 x 1080... (http://i.imgur.com/bSxMQ.png)
Should HN have followers/following feature?
Almost all social networking and social bookmarking sites have followers and following feature, then why not HN?. Will it be useful if HN introduces this feature?
This is what regulation and tariffs are for.

Too bad we can't be bothered, since we must protect corporate profits at any cost.
Seems very similar to Larrabee.
Does anyone know or care to share details on the acquisition?
Also of note, Rupert Murdoch bought myspace for only around $580 million (hard to believe in today's era of crazy multi-billion dollar inflated valuations), so myspace is probably already close to a profitable investment.

Despite the fact that facebook has become the new popular hub for individual social networking, myspace remains one of the few sites that caters to independent bands well.
Here's how I read it:

I guarantee that some people are using the wrong URLs because they received bad advice

Didn't doublecheck the advice: lazy.

or copied from code they shouldn't have

Lazy coding.

were simply told by somebody that they could link to the version on jquery.com, so did.

See #1.
Tell HN: New Year Resolutions? Shorter Iterations Needed
Do you use a waterfall methodology for your coding projects? No? Then why use it in your life? Just sayin'...
How lazy programming burnt my ass. Literally.
Borders stalls book payments, doubts survival in e-book era
They did. And even before they did, it was just $1 or $5 depending on when you preordered.
The majority of my family are small brick & mortar business owners and an interesting observation is how much they've become users of popular web apps like facebook and google (for personal uses) and how much that has impacted their openness to using the web more in their business. They are coming to a state of mind that opening a browser and clicking things is easy while their desktop apps are a major pain in the ass to use, maintain and backup.
Regardless of the semantics of what minimalism is aesthetically, the author is referring to the particular idea that creative types ought to have minimal clutter environments to produce good work. The author countered this notion by stating that many creative individuals, regardless of the "minimalism" of what they produce, can have cluttered, messy work environments!

ex, minimalist composer Philip Glass:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOM_YtP5f0U&t=0m50s
My main one is getting 1000 paying customers for my startup.
Calculate `h=SHA256(original_page)` and `n=len(original_page)`.

do
page = gen_random_bytes(n)
while (h != SHA256(page))
print page

It can be even generated client-side!
I just looked via Twitter and found he has posted it on Github, seems I was right: https://github.com/elliottkember/img2html.rb
3D printers are going to do for physical products what frameworks did for web apps. Personally, I'm super excited because it's going to chop my product development time into pieces.
Mindless chatter can SEEM unproductive, but having just written that I would like to convey the following to amichail and everyone else reading this, whether in 2010 or 2011, Have a Happy New Year.
It sounds neat when you put it that way, but maybe I'm just a bit bitter about 'what it could have been'. Was writing apps (and producing stats/charts) 3 years back, and was rather productive. Then got sidetracked in 'college' (India) and tried to become 'normal' and 'fit in'. 2 years I could've spent better.

It did teach me I'm normal though, so not bad :)

Normal Teen angst. I'm over it, and back to doing stuff. Probably hacking on Chromium next, and writing an xkcd game now.
Dear Author,

More Vim, less you.
I'm in the UK. We're do the same - although often people break them!!! My wife and I have done 'goals' for the year. I'd say 50% of them are easily achievable, but things we want to 'get done' and 50% of them would be a stretch. It's amazing that by writing them down how many times we achieve things by focusing on what we want to do in that year. Some years we are way way off, but then that's just amusing.

For me, I'll not bore you too much but I want:

1) To learn Python. Sounds a bit boring I know but I'm primarily a business guy these days, though I taught myself PHP years ago so that I could converse and work better with the team of coders I work with

2) To focus on 3 products I want out the door. Not to go off chasing new shiny things!!

3) To meditate more, do yoga to a better level and become a vegetarian (an odd one to some people I know, but its a goal I have!)

Irrespective to what I want to achieve, I'd like to say thank you to everyone on HN. I've been on this site since the beginning and whilst I don't know any of you guys personally it is a wonderful community and I have learned (and continue to learn) loads about tech, but also a much more rounded group of topics.

May I wish you the very best for this coming year both on a personal level and also for what you choose to do in terms of work.
Source https://github.com/elliottkember/img2html.rb
Exorcising the Evil Alternate Screen
It's not fair that software developers never get a chance to lay back and enjoy the long term payoffs of the fruits of their labor, it's like the slaves who toil endlessly to plant the crops then the moment the time of payback comes, they only get a small portion, and in order to survive the slaves must find other work asap or else they will starve.

It takes us massive amounts of effort to build something that makes money, and the moment we finish it, we are fired and other people sit back and enjoy the long term profits. Something has to be done about this.

Software I wrote many years ago is generating massive profits for OTHER PEOPLE. Yet here I am not seeing a cent of that.
We still only get paid a "salary" because that is the going wage, regardless of if our software earns 10 million dollars. ITS NOT FAIR I SAY.
http://www.hnofficehours.com/

Is somewhat of a directory of hackers and their chat handles/contact info, if that's what you're looking for.
Gawker Passwords with Non-latin Characters
OK, I'll bite: how many successful business types like SJ or PG?
>My gripe is with the way they sell it as a way of life.

I think it is fair to classify minimalism as a way of life, because simplification heuristics are intrinsically broad in scope. In other words, it is not possible for minimalism to not be a way of life, because adding information to specify the domain to which minimalism applies would be decidedly unminimalistic.

If anyone is interested in real debate on this topic simply read the wiki on Occam's Razor:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occams_razor

I generally find myself in support of Einstein's Constraint:

>Everything should be kept as simple as possible, but no simpler.
This makes complete sense. However, something tells me this article will get about 1% the amount of press that the original "drinking makes you live longer!" story did.
Why the iPad is Destroying the Future of Journalism
Make 300k this year coming from different avenues.
Did you just encourage this kid to go to college so he can get married? What?
And as design and usability becomes the deciding factor in what people want, all the decisions that others make to their benefit are going to get called into question. Let the plumber dance around getting their feet burned!
I'm assuming we're talking about thousands of emails here, not millions.

When was the last time you tried sending thousands of emails? It's a surprisingly non-trivial task to send more than a few hundred emails - and that's ignoring setting off spam filters and getting IP addresses blacklisted.

Speaking honestly, I like your idea, but it's my opinion that if it were that simple then the jQuery guys would do it. Since it isn't that simple, they're not.
Thanks! I did it without first, but it was way too big and crashed the browser.
It seems for every nutrition study out there, you can find another one that will say the exact opposite. My 2011 resolution is to skip nutrition advice altogether.
It's a bit dated, but Ang Lee's "Eat Drink Man Woman" is set in early '90's Taipei. I've never been, but the film seems to match somewhat my ex-roomate's experiences there.

It's also a quite enjoyable film.
HN Predict 2011: Predictions 
We can comment this thread with predictions abut technnology, startups, business, media... and vote/read the HN community predictions :) Happy new year 2011 !!!
You need clear-cut ideas 
The format plays an important role in the writing of a business essay. The format ensures that the essay is introduced properly, the main elements are covered adequately and the ending is clear. Therefore, giving great consideration to the business essay format is recommended.
Using XSS & Google To Find Physical Location
Make enough money from web services (and minimal consulting) to live off of.
Ask HN: How much time did you take off for the Holidays?
I was just curious how much time people took off to spend time with their families, and relax from the daily grind.

We have a lot of flexibility doing startups, did you guys take advantage of it?

(For example, we dropped into mostly support only mode for the 2 weeks around Christmas -- where our customers still received excellent support, but very little new code was written)
> Surely once for-profit companies get involved there is a conflict of interest between poverty alleviation efforts and the interests of share holders/investors.

Hint - "not for profit companies" also have interests that may have nothing to do with their supposed clients.

"not for profit" merely means that the investors don't get explicit ownership or dividends. (Many US "not for profits" do special things for their funders and their children.) "not for profit" doesn't mean that the enterprise doesn't make money.

Not-for-profits are often run to benefit the folks working for them. (The higher-education bubble in the US is feeding that right now.)
Android will get into car systems: With apps integrated with the car
I don't think it's a serious suggestion that evil.js be included, just a funny thought.
Beyond approx 32 cores, cache coherent architectures don't scale. Intel faces enormous pressure to find consumer applications for message passing chip architectures otherwise the post 32 cores chips will be low volume products. Intel has been working very hard to find collaborators with application concepts for this era. Having this product permitts Intel to give them hardware rather that just FPGA simulators
Here's what I want to accomplish in 2011 - writing these down is almost like an exercise in discipline. I hope that once these are down in paper, I feel even more compelled to make them real:

* Launch an iOS game I've been thinking about
* Bring a bunch of european entrepreneurs to SV (http://rgoap.com)
* Attend more conferences (I only tend to go to those I speak at)
* Spend a couple of weeks every few months working from other countries
* Invest (more) in the ideas of others
* And as a more personal goal, move to a new home
I think you are looking right past the people who are helping, who have stepped up, volunteered, and are doing something. The priority isn't on giving the community fast response times. That is not a goal in and of itself. It is on making Clojure better.

>Said resources are a lot more finite than they could be.

That is arguable. If hundreds of people came up and said they wanted to help there would be real challenges in managing their efforts. It is something we'd have to grow into, in any case. I still contend dropping all impediments to rapid, ill-curated contributions is a recipe for a complete mess. As it stands, the 30-day report here (http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ) says 14 issues created, 14 resolved. So, we are at least keeping up, and many times doing better than that. The best way for folks at large to get involved is to patch bugs. Defect issues with patches are our first priority. I don't see any reason why we won't soon approach the no-known-outstanding-bugs state I used to maintain by myself in the early days. Enhancements are low priority.

Helping out at a higher level is something you earn by participating. If someone I don't know says they've screened a patch from someone else I don't know, what am I supposed to do with that? There is an ever-growing circle of people I trust, and, to the extent they have time to work on Clojure, I am taking advantage of that.

>There are many capable folks in the community who would be willing to help.

Being willing to help and helping are two different things. Helping means doing what needs to be done, not just what one feels like doing. If I gave someone commit rights and they whipped through and applied all outstanding patches they wouldn't be helping me or Clojure, however good it might make the patch submitters feel.

I guess Clojure is just too conservatively managed for your taste. That's fine, but I think it is the appropriate route for a language, even if it means it is somewhat slower and more of a hassle to participate in than the latest github project du jour.
New Year’s Day now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. ~Mark Twain

May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions! ~ Joey Adams

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. ~ Oscar Wilde

A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one Year and out the other ~ Anonymous
My concern has always been the one-day-in-a-thousand when the CDN will be down and so my sites won't work. When my sites go down it doesn't matter as the entire package stops working, but I'd hate myself ten times more if things stopped working due to an admittedly extremely rare CDN failure.

That said, I'm open to the idea that I'm being extremely foolish about this ;)
A simple Google search brought up the following articles.

http://www.proactivechange.com/resolutions/statistics.htm

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/01/04/1407433/new-years-reso...

It seems as if a fair amount of the population makes resolutions that end up helping a portion of them. Thus they improve society to some extent, but not necessarily more than any other holiday that also bring people together and make them rethink their lives.

What's interesting to think about is if arbitrary holidays (which New Year's may or may not be) are worth our time or not? Even some holidays that are not arbitrary have become something totally different than what they started out as. Tradition keeps these holidays going, but if you were to pick and choose which holidays to keep, which ones would you choose?
Reminded me of the moment in Stockhausen's Hymnen when the names of each shade of red in the Windor & Newtown water colour range are repeated several times in various languages.
Step 1: Don't give up a significant portion of your company.
2010 was a pretty good year, professionally speaking. I think in 2011, my resolutions will be more personal: I'm going to try my best to bury the hatchet with those I have fallen out with over the years, and basically be a good guy.
The hash is the anonymous function form. In the example, presumably the unless function calls and returns the value of the passed-in function when the test is logical true, otherwise returns nil.
"Practice makes" has been on my mind lately. Not 'practice makes perfect' but simply that whatever we repeatedly do is what we become good at. That includes bad habits.

I've been using the "Seinfeld method"(1) in making sure I commit /something/ toward personal apps every day, and it's definitely helped me not only keep the apps going, but I'm sure that I've learned more in the last few weeks than I've learned in months.

My resolution: Keep producing something, anything, since it's all progress.

[1] http://lifehacker.com/281626/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-se...
100-plus Companies Oppose Microsoft in Case to Weaken Patents
Ask HN: A better word for profile?
The term is almost sickeningly ubiquitous, and doesn't necessarily fit where it's shoved.

We're building a social product where 'profiles' are generated, and then customized. Portrait is on the table, but has an artsy and possibly presumptuous connotation.

EDIT: We've thrown out bio & portfolio, because we can't suggest we've generated people's bios or portfolios. Vita is unfamiliar to most people. Overview is a bland alternative. Not sure about sketch (similar to portrait).

EDIT: The product is aimed at academics, and generated 'profiles' will include details like publishing history. Because a user may or may not have curated her profile, we don't want to give the impression that the profile was hand-crafted by the user if it wasn't.
And if you want to avoid changing the rest of the page:

<script>
var oldAlertFunction = window.alert;
window.alert = function(){};
</script>

<script src="crockford.com/json.library.js"></script>

<script>
window.alert=oldAlertFunction;
</script>
Somewhat related while we're on the subject of resolutions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2055937 "Tell HN: New Year Resolutions? Shorter Iterations Needed"
Can't the same hash mean different data?
This is the same argument given by workers of every kind for hundreds of years - "the capitalists get rich off the fruit of our labors and the sweat of our brows, and don't toil to earn their own money" Whether it is right or wrong I can't say.
Shouldn't need to do whois lookups, webmaster@ is required by RFC.

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2068.html
Totally. No matter what your role, I think you can share the vision of the company, which should be to deliver the best experience to the customer. What's the story? A janitor at NASA was asked why he worked so hard. He replied, "Because I'm working to put a man on the moon".
How did MakerBot get started? Did they commercialize based on RepRap?
How do you know that they wouldn't have killed themselves earlier if the loan didn't provide them some hope of success. Would his business have survived if he didn't take the loan?
Ah, interesting. At least in clisp -- the Lisp I fired up to test this -- the hash is syntax for vectors:

> (type-of #(+ 1 2))
(SIMPLE-VECTOR 3)
Interesting stategy game (Windows Mobile only)
My biggest challenge / resolution: Separate consumption and creation. Focus more on the latter.
S3 uses bit torrent...
What 20 Minutes On Facebook Looks Like: 1M Links, 2.7M Photos, 10.2M Comments
still the majority of high level managers view people as completely interchangeable cogs.

I'd say it's more common to make people feel like cogs.
I actually really loved "Helvetica" and really recommend it. Ditto for "Objectified." Both are available from Netflix Streaming
Fan of the idea and a lot of the features, as a RPGer. Would love to see the source at some point.

I think you guys should focus on more local social (Pick up where Meetup failed for gamers), but great job.
window.alert = function () {};
Add one more item to the list -- annually, on December 31st, dust off a long article of blindingly obvious advice, change the year to the next, and submit it to Hacker News.
Answer: Re-evaluate what the meaning of "yours" is. This should be obvious to anyone. Once you start selling off ownership of your company to others, it's not just "yours" anymore.
the loans are non-collateralized loans and short-term, and the borrowers are high risk. Think about a pay-day loan with no collateral.
this week, i've been converting HTML output into PNG images. i used the preview feature of an HTML to PDF dll we have lying around.
There's evidence on both sides, but I'll say this...it's good for the soul, and if it's good for the soul, then it can't be half bad.
Fully agreed. I've been playing since launch at a similar level, and I've since gotten married, had a kid, founded and sold a startup, and done a bunch of other stuff. I work from home, so you betcha it takes good time management to not spend time playing when I should be working, but I think I've got a pretty decent handle on it.

(Plus, writing addons is a fantastic way to switch mental gears to recharge sometimes, too. And it's pretty decent residual hobby income, to boot.)

WoW is very easy to spend way too much time in if you're not careful, but it's not inherently evil; like anything which is fun and enjoyable, if you spent an inordinate amount of time on it, that time will eventually have to start coming out of other activities. In moderation, it can be great.
Correct. There are free versions of VS for C#, Web, etc.
Don't do many of these. Reaching out and asking for someone to link to you is a waste of time. Make great content, participate in the relevant online community, and you'll automatically get links. Don't use JS to add your url after someone copies and pastes.
Clickable link: http://myresolutionis.com
He's referring to the unbelievably obnoxious narrator of these screencasts.
Most states allow for a 2-3 year difference at the age of 18.
How many people reading Hacker News do not have any programming skills?
This includes being able to make pretty much any sort of computer or internet program or app, basic html not included. I ask because, though I do not code, I find HN great and wonder if others feel the same way.
In 2009 I lost 50 lbs.

In 2010 I lost ANOTHER 50 lbs.

In 2011 I'm going to lose the final 50.

(...yes, obviously, I was pretty overweight to start with!).

I payed off my mortgage last year. This year I'd like to pay off my HELOC.

I took up guitar last year, and practiced for 45 minutes per day. Going to continue that, and upload a video of me playing one memorized song per month.

I've got a dozen more resolutions - most are SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely). Most are of the form "do 1 X per Y".

I've been making a list of candidates in a personal wiki all year long, and will spend some time later today figuring out which ones make the cut.
Neither of these are truly "new" but maybe new to mainstream?

1.Haskell or "how I learned to stop worrying (about monads) and just do io." Still fighting with the type system occasionally but I think it's getting better.

2.Erlang - I so love this language. The concurrency support makes me think about programming the way I want to think about programming. I also like that's it's most of the fun of functional programming (Haskell style) but without having to deal with types.
It is a little slow, but sometimes there is good stuff on there.
Most users will have the javascript in their cache anyway, so they won't even be hitting the CDN. Also, why not check to see if the object exists before doing anything else?

<script id="jquery" src="http://code.google.com/jquery.js"></script>
<script>
if (jQuery == undefined) {
document.querySelector("#jquery").src = 'Backup CDN';
}
</script>

That should work, in theory, if not then just remove script#jquery, create a new one and append to the document before executing any script(s).
If you are convinced the buyers of your labor make surplus profits, why do you keep on selling said labor?
That's not enough. Under most corporate bylaws the board has the ultimate power. You could own 90% of the shares and still get fired.
The C2I2 Hypothesis
I guess it is both: Too lazy to find out the right way to do it.