skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is by the same guy as Never Said About Restaurant Websites: http://neversaidaboutrestaurantwebsites.tumblr.com/
>And I really, really like my free time. Money doesn't matter nearly so much to me as it seems to for most people.

That's funny because this is precisely the perfect reason to be an entrepreneur. If you don't mind not making any money for a year or two, and if you want to be in total control of your time, instead of selling 1/3 of it to some company, then being an entrepreneur may be the right opportunity.

(Not saying that this is what you should do of course, I don't know you, either. Just saying that the reason you gave is much more in favor of entrepreuneurship than not.)
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The Last Psychiatrist is a hard-drinking, womanizing man.
In my opinion, not in a sustainable way.

I have worked 60-80 hour weeks for a period of a little over three months, but after that I needed some serious break time.
Well said. I have a great deal of respect for Garry and his work. I'm sure he will excel at his new endeavor.

Oh and I've always been struck by his humility both offline and on.
What I found was that it always kept 4 feet planted on the ground. Insects typically have 3 in contact with the ground and the other 3 propelling it. 3 is the minimum required for static stability, so insects with this gait are always statically stable. This machine seems to have been optimized for stability. It would be interesting to know whether it has a fixed gait or dynamically decides on which leg(s) to move based on its orientation, velocity and acceleration.
This isn't really an explanation of why git is better than subversion overall, but it was a pretty big eye-opener for me, and I'm definitely still learning the basics of git: http://tomayko.com/writings/the-thing-about-git

To sum up, git solves what Ryan Tomayko calls "The Tangled Working Copy Problem" with amazing ease. If you have a working copy filled with changes, git add --patch lets you pick and chose which files, and even which changes within a file, to commit. It's obviously possible to do this manually with svn (or even cvs) but git just makes it so easy.
Where I live you only pay sales taxes at the retail level - companies earlier on in the supply chain don't pay anything. I think that's pretty standard, actually, and for the reasons you discussed.

Or were you talking about some other kind of tax?
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Changing my vote. I think the guy is nuts and/or running away. Stuff doesn't add up.

-He claims a particular LEO is after him for pro-western views. This is the hardest hit to his credibility. If he said that botnet authors came after him for outing them, that might be plausible. The Belgian government does not hunt and 'disappear' pro-western people.

-There is no stego in this image like some have suggested. If it was in a letter, there is no data to be read. If it did not come from a latter, it was taken recently, according to the metadata. Also, if he is making direct accusations, he is not hiding information. Either the whole message would be cryptic, or none of it. If he isn't afraid to name the guy, he wouldn't be afraid to plainly state that he found a recording device or whatever else.

-He acts like the image has a smoking gun, and it does not.

-He has never had a real, credible job in the industry. See his LinkedIn: http://nl.linkedin.com/in/danchodanchev
It's either blogging, or "secret companies". And astalavista, which was warez/script kid forums and stuff.

-His blog is completely full of "cyber jihad" research and discussion of "cyber terrorist" nonsense. http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/
Well, I'll counter your anecdotal Chinese mothers with mine. I didn't get to do sleepovers, ever, and my parents drove over to pick me up from school if they thought I was spending too much time on extracurriculars and not working on math homework. It was pretty fucking humiliating.
I agree. It's very interesting to see. Andressen Horowitz is following a similar model, too.

I'm starting a greentech incubator and intend to have engineers/scientists in residence. A certain kind of person just love the technical issues at hand during the inception of a project.
I know a lot of HNer's tend to dislike FB, but I can't think of a faster way to get the word out of missing children than this.
If anyone is planning preordering via this link, here is how to do it to get the lowest possible price:

Don't apply the coupon code. You actually get it for a lower price if you just add it to your cart and checkout as normal. There is an extra deal going on right now that lowers the price another 5% on orders over $55. Applying the coupon cancels this extra deal.

You end up getting the book for $149.99 vs $162.49 if you use the coupon. Great deal, and 50 dollars lower than amazon's preorder price.
how do the various package managers for .NET stack up ?
The Robot in the Next Cubicle
WTF? 600 + duels and very addicting.
Looks almost exactly like S3, except I don't think Amazon provides a drag-and-drop interface through their web-client. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.
Better url to start with: http://songfountain.com/site_feed
Your anecdotal Chinese mother is more extreme than my anecdotal Chinese mothers. Unfortunate.
So far, it's vapourware. That's something I just can't get over when I consider ordering one.
What are the security limitations of AppHarbor? I see that they support NHibernate via custom security, but could I also run NHibernate Search / Lucene.NET, or is the filesystem locked down like Heroku?
Is this the expurgated version or does it include the missing information about Dho-Nha curves and other occult matters?
Thanks Colourlovers and Bubs, for putting this together. It's interesting qualitative data, and useful in many ways, though not for everybody. Color is more art than science, which probably accounts for some of the negative comments here.

I think the quantitative approach to color is largely a dead end, anyway; remember that Doug Bowman left Google out of frustration, citing their preference for endless color testing as a surrogate for expert design choices.
It sounds as though the equivalent mistake would be an accidental push. Good to know that git and mercurial allow you to fix things, in any case.
Ask HN: Does Joyent's Slingshot still exist?
I am new to Rails, but Slingshot looks as though it was once the perfect way to port a web app to the desktop. It appears that the service has become defunct, however, which is unfortunate. Does anybody know if Slingshot can still be used to port web apps to the desktop? I haven't been able to find much (recent) information on the subject.
It is obviously low-voltage halogen downlights, to the extent that this kid is either a paranoid schizophrenic or is trolling everybody.

I scanned through his blog (which is a good read) and couldn't find anything that somebody would kill him or make him disappear over.

I would be more interested in knowing why it took ZDNet 6 months to report one of their bloggers missing?
Another great tool for movement is next-error, bound to C-x ` by default, though I bind it to M-` for convenience. Despite its name, it's not just useful for jumping to error locations in source code. It also jumps to matches from M-x occur and M-x rgrep, making it very easy to hop around from one regex match to another. A negative prefix argument can be used to navigate in the reverse direction, in case you go too far.
"I love the way the columns are too narrow for the text"

"No it's OK, do something irrelevant - I'm happy to wait"

"Sure, I'd love to join your community so I can be notified of updates and future releases - I don't get much email and would love to hear from you."

"I really enjoy the way all your driver downloads have random numbers for filenames, HP"
It's worth noting that Dancho says nothing about it being a bugging device, that's purely ZDnet's editorial.
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It's an advantage because you can make commits that are the same size and scope as the ones you'd normally make when connected. You don't have to save up for one big giant commit that has a bunch of unrelated changes.

Offline commits also make it easy to switch contexts quickly: to go from adding a new feature to fixing a bug you just noticed.
Yup. This is heavily inspired by DHTML behaviors, like most of the componenty stuff today on the Web.

IE team did some great trailblazing work back in the day! :)
I am making it happen in WebKit.
Yes indeed! In fact, the public-webapps discussion is around its latest draft (also mentioned in the blog post): http://dev.w3.org/2006/xbl2/
Those are from episodes 1-3 though, which my wife has dubbed "The Failogy". I don't acknowledge their existence.
where's the call to action?! I can't find the fucking call to action!
The linked page is currently down, however you can see release notes here:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/4.0b9/releasenotes/

Or, there's a style-less Google cache of the actual blog post:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sclient=psy&...
People who think that Facebook is undervalued always brings up the 'But they've yet started to monetize' reason. My question is, is it that easy to 'just' monetize? Because they would have to either

A.) Enter an existing revenue space occupied by entrenched players (likely Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Linkedin, Amazon, Ebay, Apple) and grab a big chunk of market share large enough to validate the $50-70 Billion valuation. With some of the competitors having cash warchest almost the half size of Facebook itself.

B.) Create a brand new way/market to monetize. Has to be around $6-15 Billion/year revenue to justify valuation. Quickly, before they run out of money/hype. In a maturing/saturating online space. (for comparison, Digital Music is a $15 billion dollar market)

On top of that, they have to be mindful of the declining game ad spend, declining monthly active game players, and the increasing costs from users overseas that cannot be monetized.

I am sorry, I just don't see it.
correct. it's because it's not true that I don't like it.
create primitives with this property, create ways to combine them that maintain the property, and build up from there

I agree both about the power of this approach and the fact that virtually no one does it. Even once one grasps the rough idea it can be hard to see one's way forward building a system this way, not because it's intrinsically more difficult but because it's so out of step with most software culture and we're all profoundly influenced by our milieu.

It reminds me of a favorite Alan Kay quote: Take the hardest and most profound thing you need to do, make it great, and then build every easier thing out of it. We need more examples of systems like this.
If your email is from your company, you don't own it and there's no expectation of privacy as you're working as a representative of that company.

It's well established that what I do outside of work can get me fired if it's deemed inappropriately representing the company. So I don't get why there's an expectation of privacy when I'm doing something with work property, even if it's an email. I'll get fired if I'm inappropriately using the vehicle my work gives me, why wouldn't I get fired if I'm inappropriately using an email address my work gives me?
Which one is better depends on what you're doing with it and what sort of decoders you care about.

If you read Dark Shikari's analysis carefully, he says that VP8 is better than H.264 Baseline Profile.

As it happens, H.264 Baseline Profile is all that the "hardware acceleration" in most mobile devices handles (see http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2010/05/its_a_re... ).

So if you want to get better quality than VP8 out of H.264 on the web you need to either lose hardware acceleration or get different hardware (I'm not sure how much of this can be done with the existing hardware and different firmware, and how much actually needs new hardware; the parts of H.264 non-baseline that are not hardware accelerated are the more complicated ones, obviously).

Of course VP8 also requires changes to the decoding hardware/firmware; I also can't tell you whether those changes would be such that the result would be able to handle non-baseline H.264.

But the upshot is that current VP8 video on the web can easily be higher quality per bit than current H.264 video on the web, because the latter is self-constrained by hardware support and the former is not worrying about it for the moment, since it's not there anyway.

All of which is a far cry from "VP8 is much better". ;)
One thing I'd like to mention, keep in mind this is ALPHA. Things change every day as I'm working on it.

I work on this project at least 5-6 hours a day and I'm online on the service all the time. I look forward to chatting live on the service with any testers as we improve the product!

Thanks
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Could it possibly be a Steganography?
None of that speaks to her criticism of the practice of focusing on rote learning over creativity. I think you can make a good argument that a creative thinker is less likely to fall behind in the real world than someone that only takes the prescribed approach to solving problems.
Perhaps Goldman would be kind enough to sell you some puts: http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2011/01/14/struck-out-on-facebook...
[1] Dancho writes, "someone who understands the big picture of cyber crime and cyber espionage." I'm not so sure I understand the hidden side of cyber espionage.

[2] Dancho alludes to having done some sort of favor for the FBI, to which they "thank him" by releasing his name to the Bulgarian government – "clearly you can see how they say “You’re Welcome”. Could there be something going on here involving the US trading Dancho for some other information?

[3] "I’m sending you these not with the idea to see them published, but as an insurance in case things get ugly, knowing that a trusted third-party [...] can always distribute them." Here is where all logic breaks down. The use of a simple pronoun "these" throws everything off. We have up until this point assumed that the word "these" represents the photos. What else could Dancho mean by "these"?

Of course, there is always the possibility that Dancho is a paranoid schizophrenic and on a very bad trip.
You should add video support too
Oh, I worked out how it was pronounced eventually, it just took me a minute or two is all. But the name is a clue to what your product does: does it matter that I (and presumably some proportion of your visitors) didn't get it instantly?
I've always found something about djb a bit offputting. On the otherhand I have huge respect for the fact that when he sees something that he thinks is crap, he doesn't just bitch and moan, he makes an alternative (he bitches and moans as well of course).
Try advertising on facebook. Seriously. Try it. Go into that exercise with some adwords/adsense experience. You'll be calling your broker on the day of their IPO asking for some shares to short.
This reminds me of two things. The first is the intro to statistics exercise on how you can't have uniform probability on a continuous domain, since you will almost surely miss any particular point on the board. It is often illustrated with dart boards, and caused me great consternation once.

The second is that in my experience, dart throws aren't normally distributed: they're skewed towards the bottom, because I don't throw very hard. I wonder if that effect goes away with practise.
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I’m a Safari user primarily, and while I generally use the webkit inspector as a last ditch when Firebug is being stupid, Firebug is much better at listing css styles. Webkit’s styles have way too much in the way of per-selector headers.
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In other words, someone couldn't use Excel to find the bell curve.
> Fortunately, from the skimming I did, it doesn't look like there's
> case law on the matter, just an assumption that emails can't
> qualify as privileged.

IIRC there was a court case in California where the judge ruled that email can't be privileged because the sysadmin can read the email. I don't know if that was overturned on appeal or anything though. It may have been a federal case too (what's California? The 9th Circuit?).
There’s a lot of dev’s here that use OS X as their primary dev environment. (Yes, Android dev’s too.) Safari simply has the best chrome on Mac. The other ones use a lot of cross-platform widget placement, which feels wrong.
German. Probably as stable as they get on the continent these days. I've no idea if there are any residency requirements though.
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Assuming he is his own worst enemy here, the actual worst case is probably suicide. Confused and drifting as a homeless person is perhaps a couple of rungs up the ladder.
I'm super happy for Garry, but for selfish reasons, I'm bummed out.

I feel like a band i really like was in the studio working on a new album, and a songwriter just left.

I guess i was waiting for another shoe to drop in terms of the realization of the Posterous vision.

Anyway... congrats to Garry. I saw his TWIST interview a while ago, and thought he seemed really nice and had really interesting ideas.
"For what it's worth, it's nigh impossible to see who voted on you."

... for now. They could release that data at ANY time. Imagine the damage that will have on co-worker relationships.
Does this mean posterous isn't doing well?
Ask HN: What happened to threewords.me?
Still lots of traffic? Did it get monetized?
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Not directly, but check the references in each of the papers!
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Anything listed in /etc/services.

All 2 letter subdomains (national subdomains), and thus all 1 letter subdomains for consistency.
As it happens, MPEG-LA doesn't indemnify you from anything. They even say so on their website, though it's carefully hidden. But people would really like to believe their licensing fee paid for that sort of thing, so don't bother to check what the actual licensing terms are.
Pretty novel idea. Any compatibility issues with ones you have tried?
Because the plugins in question are for the operating system's video infrastructure (Quicktime and DirectShow), not the browser.

<video> still acts as a standard platform API across browsers regardless of codec support. It's not like the bad old days where you would have your page manually loading opaque QT or WM or Real plugins through <object> and <embed>.
Usually when "everybody knows" that something is going to happen a certain way on the market, that's a very bad sign...
TIFF itself is an inconsistent mess :/
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Local advertising is a $100 billion/year market in the US. Facebook are better positioned to take that market than anyone else.

Local leafleting has a reply rate of about 1-2% but costs 200-300x as much to reach the same number of people, which means you only need a 0.005 response rate on Facebook to get the same value. A decent Facebook ad campaign will have a response rate around 0.08 - 0.1. That implies facebook advertising is 15-20x more effective than leafleting. Facebook ads might convert less well, but I doubt they convert 10x less well.

Local adverts on Facebook make sense, it's just a case of making them easier to use and selling local business on the idea.
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git reset HEAD^ (soft is the default option) is actually pretty intuitive once you're used to git. You're reseting the index to the state it was one commit ago (which is what HEAD^ means. That comes up a lot.)

And if you really forget it often, add this to your ~/.gitconfig:

[alias]
rollback = reset HEAD^

Now you can run `git rollback`
You know it's easy to poke fun at this, but they are a gigantic fucking website. They are in a position to be beat the giants at everything. Google: search - Facebook can create a better search using the data it has about people and beat them. Microsoft - software, Facebook can add it's social aspect to software for phones, pcs, whatever in any way imaginable and beat them.

Facebook is in the position to rule the world. To be what others have imagined but could never have been, to tie it all together and make more money than god.

I'm not saying they will, but underestimating the skill, the determination, and the savvy of Facebook is probably likely. Of course there maybe some bubble mentality in the people bidding, but perhaps these people are in luck and it's not a bubble at all.
Filling in the gaps:

cakecentral.com.	90	IN	A	174.129.211.41

If you look at http://174.129.211.41/ without a host you'll see that it's a nginx reverse proxy/cache

both beerby and cakecentral are on EC2.

Pretty likely that an error was made at some point in the cakecentral nginx config to include a beerby EC2 private IP as part of a load balance pool or as the single back end (either fat fingered or by retaining an old IP as instances were stopped and started).

It has since been corrected (probably?), but as cakecentral.com is returning a 404 to robots on their homepage the best, most recent return google has was when it was misdirected.
Wow. Reading the parallels between "Adventure" and the real cave in Kentucky reminds me of trying to synchronize Dark Side of the Moon with The Wizard of Oz. What a wonderful insight into a programmer's mind. Thanks for posting it.
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Don't worry they'd rather someone else stayed behind instead anyway
I hate Java, but am using it for Android to take full advantage of the platform.

However, as an Actionscript guy I am curious about using AIR to write Android apps. Specifically, if I did this, would I be able to offer upgrades to native apps writen in Java down the road? Or would the Java versions have to be installed as separate apps rather than upgrades?
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Totally agree. I had so much fun playing with that stuff way back when. Sad it never (or took so long to?) caught on.
So, apparently, these things will be wirelessly powered, likely through the same antennae that receives the display information.

also given the current state of wireless power, that means a lot of power is going to be wasted.

As cool as it would be to have an always-on heads up display, I REALLY don't want that much RF radiation near my brain.
Ask HN: Anyone else noticed the 3px margin-top on embedded Google map iframes?
A client complained that I added a white line above his map the other week. Sure enough, there was a 3 pixel line above the map. I investigated further and it's actually in the iframe, inline, applied to the body tag.

I figured it was an anomaly at first, but then I started to look at other projects I'd used embedded iframes on. Now I'm noticing it all over the place. I found a bug report, but it's been a while. How long does it take them to get someone to tweak a stylesheet?

Example:
http://curtziegler.com/sitedemo/studio960/wordpress/contact-us/

Bug report:
http://codecanyon.net/item/ajax-contact-form/50846
With the given strength of 500 or 600 software engineers they have, I don't see how it is possible for them to diverge into every other vertical.

The most important thing for their valuation is the leverage they have (lots and lots of data about every user).
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Is there TLS support?
No, $18M according to imdb.