skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
probably they didn't do it because it takes too many resources to have a separate index for every user.

I thought about adding Facebook status updates to the index. If people start asking for it, I'll consider doing it.
Jeff Atwood recently wrote about this, making the case for Open Authentication or similar:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/12/the-dirty-truth-abo...
You'd presumably have to be in a shell (or compiler window) and on a system that didn't lock itself - but yeah, yikes. How are you with centrifuges?
This is true in many cases, but not all. I for one do have a brand, and it is what drove early adoption of Tarsnap.
That is a different Wildfire. From what I can tell, that is the Wildfire IM platform. The Wildfire I'm talking about was from CR Technologies, and was a voice telecom product, was sold in the mid 90s until it was discontinued around 2001 - with Orange Telecom having the last working enterprise installation until 2005, though, they wouldn't add any new clients after 2003.
"Apple chose this fastener specifically because it was new, guaranteeing repair tools would be both rare and expensive. Shame on them."

Now, I think that manufacturers should use open standard parts that are easy for end users to deal with, but they have every right to not honor warranty claims should you go dicking around.

BUT, "Shame on them?" Grow the fuck up.

They later toss in a remark that their mega-bit set can no longer open "Any consumer electrical device. Thanks a lot Apple!", which I assume is meant to be humorous... But it just seems to ring true. They seem bitter they can't get this open without another tiny screwdriver.

Is this kinda shitty? Well yeah. Was their reaction MASSIVELY out of proportion? Hell Yeah. Apple owe you shit all and are known for being unfriendly to those who like things modifiable. Don't fucking whinge about it, it's not like they TRICKED YOU into buying a phone with those screws.

If you're REALLY that unhappy, don't buy the fucking phone.

Dicks.
Science Needs Bias
"Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software" by Charles Petzold does an excellent job of explaining everything (from logic gates to CPU architecture to graphics) to the layperson. If any nontechnical person (my dad, for example :p) asked me how computers worked, I would tell him/her to read this book.

Even for a technical reader it's still an enjoyable book. It inspired me to design and make a computer of my own.
Well, I like that I've been validated. I'll say that.
Yeah, I found The Social Network very inspiring as well, on multiple levels. I'd like the opportunity to work with a team like that, where everybody is really on the same page, motivated, and sharing a vision. Most of the corporate-drone jobs I've had have been anything but that. More like "the land of lost souls" where everybody is shuffling around trying to do as little as possible while not getting fired, and avoiding their micromanaging PHB.

I can't say that money and status and all that stuff isn't a strong motivation as well though. The idea of founding a company, and having it break big, then cashing out (either through an acquisition, IPO, whatever) is awfully alluring.

For me, it's a combination of A. wanting more freedom (and by implication, responsibility), B. wanting to work with an awesome team on something cool, and C. wanting a crack at one day making "FU money."

Unfortunately I haven't gotten very far yet with finding other like minded people to get involved with my current project; but I remain hopeful.
I'm on the jQuery core team. As you might guess, when a high-profile site seems to be having troubles with jQuery, we want to fix it whether it involves a bug fix or tutorial help.

It would really help us out if people could slip our pre-release versions into their test environments. There's a 1.5 beta available now (http://blog.jquery.com/2011/01/14/jquery-1-5-beta-1-released...). Don't wait several months to try it the way Twitter waited on 1.4.4, or we may ship 1.5 with some bug that impacts your site.
I was recently reminded of this video in the comments on Guy Steele's recent presentation (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2105661). I think it's one of the most clear and interesting perspectives on what programing needs to look like in our parallel future.
It works in the UK, the two sites you listed either don't or are very limited (e.g. housingmaps appears to be limited to London only).
There's a limit to how effective companies can be at spending large amounts of cash. Uncontrolled growth can have negative impact. You can't simply make more acquisitions and hire more staff because you have extra money. You have to be as smart about spending $10Million when you have $30 billion as when you had $50 million.

It probably doesn't help that both MS and Apple are sitting on huge (larger than Google's) war chests. This kind of reserve provides a strategic advantage - being the kid on the block that doesn't could be disaster.
The ‘great man’ theory of business
Ask HN: Review my webapp experiment — Open Forum
Over the last few weeks I've been thinking about fun alternatives to online chat. One of the more interesting ideas (IMHO) is having an actual space to move around in. "Open Forum" is an attempt to realize that.

To try it out, head over to openforum.samwarmuth.com/n/tutorial in Chrome/Safari (I'm having some FF issues).

Open Forum visualizes each user as a point on a 2D grid. When sent, messages are heard by users within 'earshot'. The environment consists of buildable and destructible blocks that obstruct movement. Users can create and destroy blocks at their "power level" or below, but not higher (e.g. administrators can create invincible blocks). Using this platform, you can create all sorts of things, like "chat rooms" that actually have real-space identities, or have whispered conversations with a neighbor without interrupting the main speaker.

Thanks in advance for the feedback, and if you have any questions/comments/ideas about the project, I'm eager to listen :)
Any Hardware Engineers Out There?
I need a hardware engineer to produce a prototype device for a location aware mobile application blah blah blah. My attempts at networking my way to such a person have proved unsuccessful thus far. I'm thinking I have nothing to lose by this somewhat novel maneuver. I know I could also try Craiglist, but it would be nice to find someone more competent and interested than mercenary.

Despite my humorous tone I am completely serious about this. Which is a good indication of my working style. More details can be had at http://fishfeed.tv/hardware/

Thanks for listening.
Clickable: http://openforum.samwarmuth.com/n/tutorial

Note: Firefox DOES NOT work. I'm sorry if this prevents anyone from testing, but there are some FF bugs I haven't been able to clear up.
Video games may not boost teenage obesity after all
5 Steps to help you find your true passion in life
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Schmidt to step down as Google CEO
Their format is:

Something {positive adjective} is coming to {proper noun}.
Enter your email and we'll put you on our invite list.

Hipster:

Something cool is coming to New York.
Enter your email and we'll put you on our invite list.

RedishApp:

Something hip is coming to Redis.
Enter your email and we'll put you on our invite list.

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I don't mind if they "stole" the design or not. It's a good thing to copy the thematic flow of successful sources.

However, you can't deny that with near identical wording, and design its more likely that they did copy (even if its from a 3rd party source we can't see like say a design manual) and didn't happen to both independently create the design.
I found the post well written, compelling, and constructively disruptive. I think compared to most of the commenters here I read it as an account of what's broken, not the suggestion that the author has sorted out and is living with some conveniently, individually-applyable solutions... frankly, the solutions would all require some communal consensus, and the reactions here bring me little comfort that it's coming. Bummer.
The executive chairman is not part of the corporate leadership. In the United States, the CEO is the singular head of the corporate, accountable to only the majority vote of the board. The Executive Chairman position is quite often, a polite way of keeping someone associated with a company (and all the travel, influence perks) without putting them in the management chain. Quite often seen during (friendly) mergers and takeovers.

Nobody is confused as to what the responsibilities, and authority Larry and Eric will have after April 4th.
Facebook will have a much easier time attracting top search engineers too.
2011: Chrome OS
Simplified RDF
...and now that you've informed us, it's wilful infringement - double damages!
Getting web.py working on Windows IIS
It is a shame the didn't match their exact positions though.
An interface that allows you to rescind a vote (perhaps within a certain amount of time) would be reasonable, too. I'm not sure what the minimalism-to-the-extent-of-inadequacy apparent in some aspects of the software here is intended to accomplish.
Here's one example of this kind of phenomenon. If you really want to understand a question, write a paper about it. It's easy enough to read five or ten research papers in an area, and if you do that thoroughly, and write extensive notes as you do so, you'll start to feel that you understand the area and the issues involved.

However, if the way you learn is much like mine, when you try to start writing you will realise that you haven't grasped it with anything like the fullness that you had thought. Start writing anyway: you have a bibliography, and hopefully you have a rough idea of the thesis you want to defend. Write the literature review sections. Sketch outlines of arguments, and then try to take them apart. Find counterexamples. If your position has any merit, you will eventually figure out some convincing arguments. Flesh them out: write a first draft, as rough as you like. Improve it by smoothing out poor phrasing and removing extravagant, unsupported claims (it may only be obvious once you've written them that this is what they are).

After some time you will have a reasonably presentable paper. More than that, though, you will actually understand the issues: how the various ideas in the field fit together, why you really disagree with some of the papers you've read, and perhaps even what your own take on it is. It's hard work! But writing is what makes the difference. If you just read a lot you can come away with the misapprehension that you understand the field, when in reality you just know a lot about what people have written.
why yes, thank you.
Did you get a tan?
Just admit you're doing it for the chicks!
Recalling information is not necessarily learning. That 'drawing-relation-diagrams' method contributes more towards understanding in my view.

Also this is very limited in domain. As an example, here in India students learn English for an year or two before appearing in MBA examinations. One common observation is that many students do thousands of comprehensions and unseen passages but still stand nowhere in the 'reading between the lines' part, which is essentially, understanding. They spend all the time testing themselves, whereas 'testing' should follow after 'acquiring the knowledge'.
Pro tip: Increase webpage performance using sprite, data-uri and jammit
Hope I can be helpful with this. I believe in active meditation, for lack of a better term. All of my activities I take in stride, paying attention to what I'm doing instead of just walking blindly through life. At least, that's the goal!

I got started on this when I decided to start working for myself actually. Now that I have a say in my schedule, the pressure of "getting there" practically doesn't exist! With that out of the way I only do what I enjoy doing and it allows me to take the time I need. I get to spend time each day on ME because I don't have to answer to THEM.

Good luck mate! Freeing myself from the cyclical struggle was the best thing I've ever done. It wasn't nor is easy but it's worth it for all the benefit I've seen!
Yes. But: acquisition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps#Development_history
What does 2011 hold in store for Apple?
Project X-Ray
A lot of the advantages are pretty subjective, and I'm biased (I didn't post this, by the way, I just learned about it via twitter).

Housingmaps is great, and was probably the inspiration for all these sites. The reasons I wrote my own were its limited selection and inflexible filters, which were pretty painful to use in my search.

Hotpads was around, but I didn't like it very much when I started this. I think it used to be more big buildings/complexes, and I don't like the flash-based map (I'm on a mac). It's perfectly usable, though. If you give both a try, I'd love to get your impressions.
I like this one better:

http://jesusswimming.com

He has been swimming
But you can ask Joe Client to make everything as they like, and then post-process it when it's saved, shrinking images and replacing them with placeholders automatically.

edit: looked at page code.

Isn't that nearly the same as placeholders though? You're asking them to suffix their images, and add a non-standard attribute to every one they want to load dynamically. That burden, and the image resizing, is all done by Joe Client via that framework, under identical assumptions. That's not magical, and it's functionally identical to what I proposed, but it causes extra requests.
Whenever I see these kind of things I always expect it to be some prank. Watch this nice sunset, listen to the calming sounds, and then just as it gets to calm down, have something jump out to scare the crap out of you.
By "relatively unprofitable" I meant "just profitable enough". When the a product becomes commoditized the market for it becomes (much more) efficient, and thus only minimally profitable, because the principal goal of the actors within it is cost reduction.

If internet access becomes a commodity it is _great_ for consumers (c.f. computer memory, public water, electricity, undifferentiated agricultural products) but horrible for the providers/producers.

Thus, somewhat ironically, the only incentives corporate lobbyists have to advocate for free-er markets is in order to maintain market inefficiencies or to reduce their supplier's margins.
They shut down Oodle a while back, but who knows if they were playing nice. Seems like Oodle was also hijacking the listings and putting them on their own site, which I'd imagine is one of the things they don't like.
The Top Ten Things We Can't Believe Eric Schmidt Ever Said
If it's a requirement, take some advanced stats. Take 3 or 4 of them. It's an invaluable skill.
Schmidt: It’s About Execution, And Larry Is Ready To Lead
Yep, JsFiddle is brilliant.

There are a few others too.

http://jsbin.com - Not as many features as JsFiddle and the preview is on a separate page. The HTML/CSS/JS isn't kept completely apart either.

http://cssdesk.com - Primarily for CSS/HTML. Preview is automatically updated.

http://mootools.net/shell/ - Similar but more Mootools-centric; fewer features etc than JsFiddle.
RE #3: I've honestly NEVER understood how people who are supposedly productive and valuable employees can get SO MUCH email that it wastes a ton of their time.

Just skim it and ignore the time wasting.
are you suggesting I was not working during sunlight hours every damn day for the last three months?
You're absolutely right, and yet somehow I just don't want to buy a product that takes that attitude. My disillusion with Macintosh started when I learned that one needed a special 'Mac Cracker' tool to open up a Mac Plus. The easy solution for me is to avoid their products and choose something that doesn't offend my sensibilities.

I've repaired a couple Apple products in the last year. I resoldered an IC on a friend's MacBook to get get rid of a constant reboot problem, and swapped out a broken video card from my girlfriend's desktop Mac Pro. Both were reasonably straightforward repairs, although I'm not sure what they'll gain by making it harder. I'm OK with Torx, but don't see the benefit of moving to Pentalobular.

But I'm sure I can drill them out if I really need too. :)
I think you're spot on. You don't really understand something unless you can explain it to an interested yet uninformed outsider.
jQuery makes things almost too easy. As a result it gives confidence and power to a lot of people to write code that despite all sillines will still work. A professional JS developer would've debounced the scroll events and cached the selector results.
Their reaction is a blog post and a four-minute video. No matter what Apple does, a blog post and a four-minute video is probably not a "MASSIVELY" disproportionate response. Also, if you bought a phone with some ordinary Phillips screws, take it in for service, and the technician put in some other weird screws without telling you, they actually did sort of "TRICK YOU" into the weird screws.
Can Shortomatic do a Threadless?
You Wasted 34 Hours in Traffic in 2009
A Voice For Congresswoman Giffords. Please Help
I agree with how you assumed he got the two "fields" messed up. I learned adobe first, then html and css, now im learning ruby(programming in general too) and rails / javascript.
There is so much to learn. I am learning the "stack" out of necessity in the "do it or shut up" startup world but I really am amazed how a small amount of others seem to tackle all of this with a high quality level. There really is so much to learn. Not to say that serious coders don't have their work cut out for them but the depth and time and SKILL necessary for even less than great mastery is astonishing. I salute you all who seem to flow gracefully in this "expect everything" world.
How do you get libnotify to work over SSH?
Incredible driving simulator
Reality is Broken, and Games Can Fix It
Larry Page on Capitol Hill - "Broadband for the Future" (2008)
Could Facebook reach one billion users in 2011?
This is pretty awesome. I could see a dating site licensing this.
The definition of smartphones has gone to hell ever since the iPhone came out.
Hey there, I've been working on Radish for a while now. While using Redis, I had no idea how to visualize what was going on inside of it, and this app is the culmination of those ideas. If you're interested in trying it out, sign up!

Obviously we need to work on copy a bit, it's never been my strong suit. :)
The Biggest iOS Annoyances and How to Fix Them
He's playing GTA 5 - that I can tell, but does anyone know anything about his hardware setup?
How to Outmarket and Dominate Your Better Funded Competitors
What can C# do that VB.Net can't?
The title of this post sounds interesting, but I don't want my production data touched by, or hosted on, something hip. Reliable, sure. Hip, no.
That's one of the things I've been thinking about.

Maybe a speed dating layout, where people can travel from person to person?
Would you recommend starting from HTML5 & CSS3 for beginners?
Fixed, it's now "beta" list. If you haven't yet, check out Prefinery. They've been making this process pretty fluid. http://prefinery.com
I started meditating in 2007, and it has completely changed my life. The benefits I've noticed are too numerous to list, but for example:

- My ability to sustain attention and keep a lot of details in mind (say, for writing code) has improved significantly. Before I started my practice, my ability to code was declining with age.

- I'm much less reactive than I used to be. I have more ability to choose what I say and how I act. Of course, I still can and do make unskillful choices.

- Rather than expend energy on judgement, on right vs. wrong, I now focus on skillful vs unskillful. Meditation does change your view of the world. You realize you can't control your mind. So it's not, "I think, therefore I am." It's, "I think, therefore there are thoughts." A healthy relationship to your thoughts removes many obstacles.

The thing about meditation is that you have to actually do it. No amount of knowledge of the various techniques can substitute for actual practice. For this reason, as michael_dorfman says, you really do need a teacher. Don't just read the menu, eat the food.

Buddhist Geeks[1] is a great podcast. It has interviews with various Buddhist and non-dual teachers.

In Berkeley, there's an excellent pay-what-you-want 6 week beginner class offered by James Baraz[2]. The first session is presented without any Buddhist stuff. The remaining sessions have Buddhist content, to elucidate the foundations of practice. Plenty of people who are not interested in Buddhism take the class. Many of James' talks are on DharmaSeed[3], another great source of Buddhist audio.

[1] http://www.buddhistgeeks.com/
[2] http://www.insightberkeley.org/calendar.html
[3] http://dharmaseed.org/teacher/86/
COBOL's Not Dead
Contract Tester at Microsoft Answers Questions on Reddit
While I'm sure that what you describe works for you, one meditation technique is precisely the opposite of what you are doing. Next time you go out to run, try to be perfectly in the moment feeling every sensation and try not to create little movies in your head.
That's their why, and it's a style choice that's heavily influenced by the size of your text chunks. And style choices are fast-changing.

Try the same experiment with a wider (say, 6-800px) block of text, such as you see more frequently than the ~200px they demonstrate with, and try to tell how off-center it is. Or with a longer block of text, where the width is more easily visible because the ragged edge on the right will inevitably get close to the actual width of the container. Or with anything with surrounding images / colors that are different, where it'll clearly be centered.

Meanwhile, left-align everything and then compare with a center-aligned header, and decide which one reads more easily. This is "UX movement", ie "user experience", not Designer Daily; ease of reading and detecting different sections of the page are part of UX.
The streets (and hoods) of San Francisco
Google maps has advanced so much (in positive ways) since 2004.
Africa: Continent Poised for Solar Lighting Boom
>>#5: Wrong. A good front-end engineer must be able to operate those three separate layers: structure (HTML), presentation (CSS), behavior(JS). There is very little of that in print, not to mention other qualities that fundamentally differ.

Nah. The original point of #5 was

If you want to find good front-end engineers, look to the newspaper and print industry.

This is because every design -- print or graphic-- needs a logical FLOW, visually. People who migrated from (or started in) print know this, and it ultimately makes the end user experience better. Knowing the three layers is obviously necessary, but I don't think that's the point the author was pointing out with respect to that data.
Maybe he was scarred from getting nitpicked to death here.
There's even a little bit of activity on the /r/cobol subreddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/cobol
Not precisely the same thing, but I do make a point of spending ten minutes a day with either a mug of tea or a glass of wine, simply sitting quietly to watch the world outside. Helps me "change gears".
No comments on the page nor Youtube (not that I go to youtube for valuable comments...), no summary, and no captions.

Maybe I'll look at it later. Videos are an extremely slow way to absorb information, especially presentation-style videos where people speak slowly and clearly and try to explain everything so everyone will understand it.
I'm not sure this is a new finding. I believe it's called the rehearsal or retrieval effect. I recall reading about it in a textbook about learning theory a decade ago.

It's the basis of the study/summarise/recall/revise method.