skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"My lifelong dream is to anchor my self-worth with who I am right now, this second."

That is the dream. Imagine if everyone could get there. I so want to get there. ...But then I wonder if I'd still be driven to achieve more, do more, etc.
And even better if some people don't notice the regional outage.
"As long as ebooks do not allow me to do that given the price I'd much rather have a 'real' book than a stream of bits, it seems more value for money."

Disclaimer: I got a kindle recently, so I haven't tried this yet, but..

Amazon says you can give a kindle ebook to anyone with an email address. Just create an email address for every book you buy, and you should be able to give/lend/sell it to anybody without limitation.

If somebody tries this let me know how it goes. I'm sure I will sometime in the next week or two. I just got my kindle, and I haven't wanted a book since Christmas.
I have a feeling if we get there, then we'll know what to do. DOn't give yourself even more things to worry about right now.
Out of Control (or why balance is overrated)
This is old, but I thought it was great. I'm just glad suds exists (https://fedorahosted.org/suds/) for when I do have to deal with SOAP (Amazon's Fulfillment Web Services, primarily).
Beautiful logo, evoking pretty charts and the letter 'S'.
An Answer to the Question You’ve All Been Asking
Facebook Instant Credits Are Tripling Virtual Goods Sales For OMGPOP
"Social search" is only good for things like business recommendations, and idle time activities (games).

Why would search of informative websites need to be influenced by what friends\family like? Not saying Google doesn't need to vamp that up, but I just don't see where Facebook has an edge on Google in the realm of informative search.
Buffering in UNIX Standard Streams
Plus, bookstores are a relatively slow business in the first place. Even a healthy bookstore doesn't sell anywhere near as many books in a day as, say, McDonalds does hamburgers.

They are used to and designed to handle slow sales, so it's taking a long time for this to kill them.
AS20928 (Noor Data Networks) is still advertising all their prefixes. Maybe this hotel is served by them.
Yeah, especially considering that the masses' opium used to be religion, but now it's Internet porn.
AngelList Markets
China Isn't Beating the U.S.
I think it's okay to extend unemployment benefits to a longer period, but 99 weeks looks like it is excessive. Also, perhaps, people who spend longer than the 26 weeks on unemployment benefits should be taxed at a higher rate when they gain employment. It's a little like the risk-based system used in insurance. The risk that your reservation wage increases probably increases with the time you spend getting benefits, so just tweak future taxes based on that risk.
If there are features that don't work without signing in, then I think that unregistered users shouldn't be able to see them UNTIL they sign in. You can list them in a feature list or something, but don't make them available as links for someone to click on and not see anything in.

For example, if you don't sign into facebook, you can't see a wall or profile or anything, but if you sign in, everything is available.
Biocep-R: A platform for scientific/statistical computing in the cloud
Could HN have a feature that lets me sacrifice my karma to give extra up-votes to a comment?
Congrats on getting a name! I'm not sure, but that might be the longest naming decision period ever...or at least the most customer traction gained by an untitled startup before settling on a real name :)
see the above comment from jws that cites the appropriate text.

here ya go: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+be+helpful
there's Ardour (www.ardour.org) to replace GarageBand...
maybe I don't know how to use grooveshark but I tried them and they play the same 20 or so items over and over again.
> ... many of them think of philosophy class not as a place to learn how to think about things but as an arena in which they must defend their own naive intuition.

Isn't this why the Socratic method was invented? Rather than simply argue, Socrates asked questions and let his interlocutors draw their own conclusions.
This is only reasonable, after all, philosophers at the beginning of the 20th century are responsible for theories about languages and logic that directly lead to the computer. If only those wanking on about "the semantic web" cared to look at some of the philosophy done since the 70s by folks such as Saul Kripke, they might discover that the idea of semantically competent computers is as likely as conscious computers.
A WikiLeaks Arms Race?
That's really neat, I didn't know about that.

So the 'doctrine of first sale' applies to ebooks!

Wonder if that extends to app store apps and to songs bought via itunes or Amazon.
I'm in a similar boat as you although not quite as far removed from the conviction/s. It can be very tough at times, because my record is going to follow me for the rest of my life. I've changed completely and lived on the right side of the law for years but I continue to lose work from time to time due to my record.

In general, I don't bring it up to people but when I'm questioned about it, I always answer honestly. I can be trusted. A some of my friends have laughed at one time or another about stealing supplies from their company or how much they slack off. I will probably always be a better employee then them and they will probably always have a lot easier time finding jobs.

I was lucky enough to have my felony expunged and the rest of the incidents don't look good but are far easier to explain. I'd look into getting your felony expunged, here's some new info you may not have seen:

Gay v. Ariail (http://www.judicial.state.sc.us/opinions/displayOpinion.cfm?...) in 2009 decided that a person could have their record expunged after 15 years pursuant to SC's Youthful Offender Act even if the person was not sentenced under YOA provisions. You mention being a teenager but over 18, so I'm assuming 18 or 19. A youthful offender is defined as someone between 17 and 25. It also needs to be 15 years before you can expunge the record (you've stated 16). The other part of the puzzle is that your conviction can not be a violent crime. You mention a felony theft, so hopefully that's just due to $ amount. SC's definition of violent crimes can be found at http://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t16c001.htm (Section 16-1-60).

If you want to talk to someone (albeit younger) who's dealt with a lot of similar situations, let me know and we can find a way to communicate.

Best of luck either way. It sounds like you changed your life around and deserve to be trusted today.

Loophole / Possible Alternative: Quit, don't be a founder, be a well-compensated first employee or something similar.
What percentage of people with negative net worth are entrepreneurs? I would get it would approach 90%.
Are you in Austin, TX and looking for a Co-Founder?
It's all imperative code. Would someone who really knew Haskell write it differently?
Continuing to ask a question when you know the answer is not going to change the answer. Tough luck.
What’s on the Table for Tablets This Year
Microsoft Considering Whether to Bring Office to Apple’s Mac App Store
If you are a software developer, come and join us free to listed to great pitches, drinks, snacks and a chance to network with other geeks/startups from Austin!
The same tactic was used by Google for Google App Engine - "if it doesn't scale then we're not including it as a feature". This is why so much of Google App Engine's documentation focuses on scaling [1]. Depending on who you ask this is genius or folly.

By forcing yourself into this tactic you end up having to consider all the scaling complexity in the prototyping stage before your app has even proven itself potentially successful. If your app becomes wildly popular then the combination of your early work and Google's behind the scene scaling means there are far less problems for you to worry about.

My major concern with this method is that people already focus far too much on premature optimizations before they even know where the real bottlenecks are in their application. If premature optimization leads to burn out or less features then it's a poison to our projects and should be avoided.

[1] http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/scaling/overview.h...
Christ Church
I majored in philosophy at university. My business partner has a PhD in computer science. When we started working together, we discovered that we had studied many of the same things - Godel's theorem, the halting problem, boolean logic, etc. Much of his overlapping stuff came from a subject called "Theory of Computation", whereas mine came from "Formal Logic" and "Metamathematics".

I think the idea of combining the fields is really brilliant. Nowadays I do a lot of programming (I founded a couple of businesses that are software-focussed), and would love to have had just this kind of educational background.
This is most definitely not the experience I have had when doing volunteer financial counseling. (I ran out of ways to say "If your take home pay is $4,000 and your "absolutely mandatory" expenses are $5,000 then you will lose.")
Running a scraping site pretending to be a search engine is an oldy, but a goody.

http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=site:duck...

Way to play the openness card Gabriel.
(How to build) A real social network
Exploring the use of WiFi or Bluetooth to help build your social network.
A little more on how we made this decision over on Techflash: http://techflash.com/seattle/2011/01/why-we-changed-our-name...
"Oh, and the next time you see a warning used instead of undo, send the designer of the application/website a nice e-mail suggesting that they implement an “undo” feature instead."

A typical designer point of view on the world. Has the author any idea of how much time (therefore money) it can take to implement Undo features across the board? I don't think so. Successfully implementing Undo functionality can be a daunting task. The question simply comes down to; is it worth the money investing in this feature? For most applications it simply isn't, no matter what mister visual UX dude thinks or says.
Yeah, unfortunately I don't think it has a lot to do with the guys who have maintained the client library, I think they would agree.

Big problem is at the moment that PHP has Oauth for pretty much everything except report downloading, which is essentially separate from the rest of the API.

Hoping they fix this before I launch, as most of the good of OAuth is negated if I still have to collect a username and password for report downloading.
Which I think is the original article's point - we're living in what should be a time of plenty, but just having plenty isn't enough if you sacrifice everything else to get there.
Another relevant quote:

> "Our focused later narrowed to a smaller region, the Mideast, because the Economist Intelligence Unit charged a high price to judge after the fact what instability had actually occurred in each nation. The final plan was to cover eight nations. For each nation in each quarter of a year (over the two year final phase), traders would estimate five parameters: its military activity, political instability, economic growth, US military activity, and US financial involvement. In addition traders would predict US GDP, world trade, US military casualties, and western terrorist casualties, and a few miscellaneous items, to be determined by traders and the EIU. This would require (8 × 8 × 5 =) a hundred or so base markets.
>
> In addition, we planned to let traders predict combinations of these events, such has how moving US troops out of Saudi Arabia would effect political stability there, how that would effect stability in neighboring nations, and how all that might change oil prices. Similar trades could have predicted the local and global consequences of invading Iraq, had such markets been ready then. (More on this in the later section on combinatorics section.)"
thats how we have it now ..
It depends on how much you're looking to spend, and where you are located.

Is it important for your graphic designer to be in-house? Good graphic designers I know charge up to $250/hour... Some of the more average ones will do $50-100/hour (especially if they like the idea.)
Drowning Beautiful - Underwater Art
Anti-Glare Etched Glass
I need high quality glass for a project but unfortunately I'm not well versed in the places to find this type of glass.

Europtec USA & Berliner Glas are two manufacturers that I know of but we don't need large volumes for prototyping.

This might be the wrong venue but would love to hear other thoughts or places to find what I need for our project.
The Computer History Museum Gets a Reboot
It's great for this. I'd love not having to worry about replication for small side projects.
Kind of makes Salesforce's Heroku deal look like peanuts.
Which makes me wonder, is there a way to make an ad-hoc, decentralized internet that a government could not shut down?
Yes. They herd around companies that do 120MM in revenue in a year.
I think I have to disagree. The habit he's pointing out is so deeply ingrained that we need to pull it to the surface and examine it for a bit before we can talk about it coherently.
Advances in brain-to-machine connections
Facebook is the difference between information and communication.
Inequality: The rich and the rest
Yep, the $139 price point did it for me. I bought myself one for Thanksgiving ;)

I've bought like 15 ebooks since then, and now if it's not available for Kindle, I just won't buy a book.
Yes. They're called mesh networks, and I think you've just described why they will never take off.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh_networking
But can you use it as an editor when the target platform is humans, that is, when you're not writing code at all?
With a Kindle, nobody else on the bus knows what you're reading...
Twitter uses BitTorrent to push code updates. 40min  12sec
It makes /usr/local owned by the current user rather than root. Not much in the way of voodoo. ;)

It's basically a replacement for MacPorts.
Smoke Signals by Mark Pesce
Did anyone look at the robots.txt?

It looks to me like it doesn't block anything - it does have some specific settings tailored for various big-boy search engines, with a catch-all rule at the end for those not otherwise defined.

It also says right there at the top "# If you operate a search engine and would like to crawl Quora, please
# email info@quora.com. Thanks.
"

So they're trying to get the right data to the right search engines the right way - makes sense to me.

User-agent: *
Allow: /$
Allow: /about$
Allow: /about/
Allow: /jobs$
Allow: /challenges$
Allow: /press$
Allow: /login$
Allow: /login/
Allow: /signup$
...and from another co-founder of the startup formerly known as Untitled Startup... thanks everyone for the awesome support and insight that turned a few guys with a crazy idea into a real company.
They have a profitable business model... for now.

They are doing an excellent job of pissing off all of the people who make the purchasing decisions for Oracle products. This isn't the best idea.
How exactly does he propose to undo the closing of an application, as the application developer? It was his canonical example for the entire first half of the post, and then he jumped to trivially undo-able actions within an application when it came time for examples.

How does he feel about the UX tradeoffs of blocking state synchronization to non-volatile storage for every user action? Better or worse then usually not losing data on an unsaved close?

How about the UX of restoring state when you re-open the application? Should the user see the last state every time? The last manually saved state with an option to roll-forward? A huge obnoxious recovery dialog box like OpenOffice when you kill it without saving?

These are the questions the first half of the article setup, not trivially reversible actions within an application.
Did anyone actually go through the robots.txt file? http://www.quora.com/robots.txt

The first two lines are:

# If you operate a search engine and would like to crawl Quora, please
# email info@quora.com. Thanks.

Looks sensible to me.
Business recommendation is where the money is in search.

Google doesn't make a lot of $ when you're researching for a paper.
great link, thanks.
In Praise of What Tech Lacks
Implementing an undo feature is certainly harder than just providing a popup, but I think at least for me using a popup is a reflex and we should at least think about using an undo feature.

I agree with the author that habitual responses to dialogue buttons can be dangerous, so I suggest considering this on a case-by-case basis - not just as to whether it's worth the money, but whether it will significantly reduce user distress.
@TomOfTTB - How do you know Netflix hasn't already tried the private route? And if you think your "go along to get along" outlook had any merit in this arena, why do you think major entertainment companies spent the last decade trying to undo the internet?

Remember that "the others" with whom "Netflix does not play well" include members of the RIAA, the MPAA, and primary backers of ACTA. I'm sure you're also aware that cable operators have a similarly anti-customer track record in Washington DC.

These not-minor details matter. Why? Because the audience is also part of "the entertainment ecosystem". Suing them, DRMing them, and bribing their elected representatives in Congress all count as fundamentally offensive - and all that was going on well before Netflix could get anyone to return its calls.

I'm not saying that your advice isn't good. I'm just saying that Netflix isn't the first company to which it should be directed.
It's all about software development and usage norms.

Yes, it's difficult to bootstrap undo functionality. But look at mobile apps, they never ask "are you sure you want to leave?", they just make sure that whenever you come back - everything is exactly like it was before. Users EXPECT this behavior and developers feel obligated to implement it.

Concerning deleting by accident - I think it's just that we have bad software usage/development norms. Who knows, maybe this will improve with time.
Sorry, I misread your original comment. That's completely my fault.

About the recently viewed list -- could you filter it so that it only shows recently viewed resumes with X fields filled out? Or maybe even make it something you have to log in to see, then take advantage of that space to list the features really plainly right there, with no need to click through links or sit and watch the ad.
Please ignore TechCrunch’s advice Microsoft. Clean house instead.
E.g. mobile apps just save their state all the time and revert when you reopen them. Imagine if MS Word didn't ask you before it exits, but instead it asks you when you open it if you want to restore previous state.
I don't really see the death of print as something imminent, but the convenience of e-books might make them more preferable to a lot of people.

My actual question is if the decline in brick and mortar book shops will just fuel a print-on-demand industry instead?

Granted, the price for production and shipping can only be so low - MagCloud is completely non-viable for someone living in my part of Europe due to shipping rates.
I worked for a company partnered with Microsoft for a while and it felt like they're trying to deny the cloud, open source projects, cheap software, applications, etc. etc.

For a tech company that was founded on innovation, they really haven't seemed to produce much lately.
Their leverage doesn't come from an increased threat of defections, which is obviously meaningless to monopoly operators. It comes from the promise of painful regulatory intervention in a monopolists operations, backed by the kind of massive and incontrovertible evidence no individual screwee could ever amass, let alone get in front of a court or the FCC.
Comic Text extension fixes Chrome's short-lived mouseover popups on xkcd
So, I think reading about design is a great way for you to learn the basics and principles (I highly recommend The Non Designers Design Book).

Once you read that, then I would suggest to start reading some well known web magazines, maybe like Smashing or VecTuts/PSDTuts to go through some tutorials and help you understand just how people use noise on a button, or a drop shadow on a button, etc. Then again, I think these things are sometimes over the top and used because it's trendy. But, you can make your own decisions.

A lot of people just use Photoshop patterns made by someone else for those background images (http://patterns.ava7.com/tag-beige.php,http://designm.ag/res...). Find a pattern, fill > pattern, tada!
I don't think he's thought through the difficulty of implementing something like this in a non trivial situation ... or at least he doesn't dwell on it in a way that suggests that he has.

I mean, what happens if you delete 3 things, and realize that you want to undo the 1st one?

What happens if the action you take, changes the state of the user's data in a way that is unrecoverable?

I like where he's going, but I'd love to see a more rigorous treatment of the idea.
Many of you are confusing "analytic" philosophy with all of philosophy. There are numerous distinct schools, with distinct thinkers and lines of thought. Assuming that a single quality applies to a uniform field of "philosophy" is completely misguided. There is no such thing as a uniform field of philosophy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_philosophy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_philosophy
Four easiest ways to have a negative net worth:

1. Borrow a lot of money for a college credential. (Bonus points for going to grad school.)

2. Borrow a lot of money for a house or home improvements.

3. Borrow a lot of money to start a business, using loans that are personally guaranteed.

4. Accumulate credit card debt by spending more than you earn each month.

Any other methods I missed?
A grateful nation thanks you.
Google is playing catch up in a big way in terms of making money for themselves and developers. Apple, and iOS devs, are definitely way in the lead in terms of monetizing mobile, and Google isn't even close at this point.
Curious if you have any citations for this remark. I have always been under the impression that robots.txt is entirely optional, both to implement and to respect.
http://www.google.com/finance?q=RNWK
LOL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
How Facebook's Value Could Surpass $100b
Be unfortunate enough to get seriously ill without medical insurance.
Startuply overrun by spam
Army Was Warned Not to Deploy Bradley Manning to Iraq
Novelist Time vs. Blogger Time
Now I think you're going too far. The point above says that you can use capitalism to benefit the world around you. Instead of spending $3 million on a car, you can spend $3 million on businesses in a 3rd world country. In the end everyone wins instead of you alone.
Get seriously ill regardless of what kind of medical coverage you have. My ex was career military. We had very few medical expenses -- the occasional pharmacy copay for items not carried at the military hospital (items on base were dispensed free). My health crisis still created financial problems.
If you cannot wake up before work to work out, you cannot motivate yourself to work out after work, you cannot find time to set aside time during the day to work out -- then your goals aren't important to you. Let me explain. If you genuinely like what you're doing, your routine, then you'll do it.

For example, I absolutely love my new gymnastics routine. I want to do it on my rest days because I find it so much fun. I even love setting up my schedule. However, I dread the days when I have to do Plyo X from P90X or a workout form the Insanity set. So, what happens? I slack off, I don't do them, I make excuses.

In short, find a goal and a routine to reach that goal, and you'll have the motivation and make the time.
I use it daily at CarWoo.com

IDE's still have a few killer features over text editors that I miss when I don't have them.
Persuasion technique: Low-Ball