skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only difference, however, is the "mistake", as the author puts it in the article, made the mistakees a TON of money for a long long time. Reading music, and financial analysts are so far from each other, that the analogy struggles at best. Good attempt, but working in the industry as an attorney for a couple of years, these mistakes are named so to cover up the fact that they finally got caught!
Nintendo reserves the right to brick your 3DS if piracy detected
I was under the impression that it's legal to embed images of characters from fonts (i.e. I could scan and use a '&' set in Garamond from some print), it's just not legal to embed the 'program code' of the font.

Correct, but then when a user hits Cmd+Plus to scale your page up the fonts will scale nicely but your image-based ampersands will be blurry.
Certainly not as many as Communism or Nazism, but in the various manifestations of political Islam (aka Islamism), I think it's fair to say its adherents have killed millions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamism#Specific_examples

In toting up that grim number I'd include the following, in which political Islam of one stripe or another was certainly a motivating force:

1. The Bangladesh Massacre, targeted disproportionately at Hindus. More than 3 million dead.

2. The Iran/Iraq War. Iraq started it but Saddam's avowed intention, to the extent it can be trusted, was to stop Khomeini from fomenting Islamic revolution in Iraq. Massive atrocities on both sides, 1.3 million dead.

3. The Algerian Civil War. 150-200 thousand dead.

4. The Janjaweed perpetrators of the Sudanese Genocide. At least 330 thousand dead.

The killers/combatants here were influenced by numerous factors, but even if you assign only fractional "credit", I think it is indeed accurate to ascribe millions of deaths to political Islam. Moreover (and this is I think the point you were driving at), I think it's fair to say that Al-Qaeda has genocidal intent even if not capabilities.
Interesting, we used an image to achieve the same effect on http://www.paisa.com/ -- this works across all browsers.
I think things are a bit different in the US.
Is this so? I was under impression that you can easily start a business in US without residence, you just cannot work for it in US.

So could one start a company in US and do international work (teh interwebz) with possible US hires to take care of local business?
Applications open for Seedcamp Berlin 2011
Indeed. I've deleted my posts below as they make no sense with what you correctly pointed out.
That's remarkable - do you have a source with more info?
We often don't notice many "ground breaking" shifts while in the midst of them. The internet or hyper-linked docs took their time to be called "ground breaking" with hindsight.

Rgd the iPad/touch I have an indicator though - my son got used to slide-unlocking my ipod touch when he was 2yrs old, to play drums on it. Ever since he did that, he'd try to touch my laptop screen and expect things to happen. He'd totally ignore the keyboard! That's a ground shift in interfaces for me :)
Last night as I was closing my laptop for the day I noticed that I had a lump in my throat and a clenched feeling in my chest.

I was lightly entertaining a passing thought about shutting down my startup.

I was thinking: "I love my startup. I put so much work and heart into it. But maybe I should shut it down."

You see, I had just finished reading a series of emails from customers telling me how unusable they thought it was. They really loved the idea, but just couldn't use it.

These were smart people, who got what we were trying to do, and yet were leaving.

And then it struck me: I was failing! That's why it's hard to breathe.

The feeling was so intolerable, and so unfamiliar (I rarely set myself in a high-probability-of-failure situation), that I didn't even know what it was.

All I knew is "This feeling must stop. At any cost"

I agree that failing isn't something to be aspired to. But I don't think that's what the OP is saying.

If I'm stretching myself, I should be feeling this more and more. And getting more comfortable with it as just part of the picture of a successful life.
Your friends are bland and humorless? In my experience, that isn't the fault of Facebook.
I used one of these on Friday, and I was disappointed. It was painted well - very flat and consistent. But it just wasn't the same as a whiteboard. There's a smoothness and a polish to a real board that doesn't seem to happen with these paint types.
Naked Girls, Astral Projection, and Achieving Nirvana in 60 Seconds
It varies by country, but in the U.S., typefaces are explicitly excluded from copyright: http://www.loc.gov/cgi-bin/formprocessor/copyright/cfr.pl?&#...

Computer fonts are copyrightable as software, and particularly novel font shapes can register a design patent. But in general there's no legal barrier to redistributing images of type specimens (or even producing a clone font by tracing the outlines).
According to this survey (http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey3/), 98.4% had enabled js.
Kinect?
"deal in generalities" should not be function of my gender(which is 1)initially not under my control 2) even unclear how to define in some "complex" cases? ).

my funtion is perfectly applicable for firsttimers. in this case some of the args are zero So first time male/female drivers in same region, age, cars, other characteristics should have similar costs for their first ins_period.

Again I dont see any troubles with this initiative, to me it makes perfect sense.
Not the point. Even if he never trained for that specific instance before, he was ready for failure.

When things went wrong, he didn't lose his cool or panic. He was ready for things to go wrong even if he wasn't expecting it.

By failing all of the time during training, he conditioned himself to not be upset about failure.
This reminds me of a very neat trick from Windows IO completion ports. When you mix blocking and nonblocking tasks, you want more threads than the number of cores, so that the CPU is fully used even if a thread blocks. But when no thread blocks, overbooking introduces context switch overhead. Windows' trick is to track threads that got work from a IO completion port and when one blocks, wake up another thread waiting on the port. This way you can have 6 threads working a IO completion port in your quad-core CPU and adapt both to mostly CPU intensive work and blocking work.
I had hardware acceleration switched on, but I turned it off. I run Linux on a laptop and, from what I've read, xorg's EXA and 2D/3D through OpenGL is problematic for things like minimum power and P states. Heat is already a problem and I don't want the laptop using the GPU unnecessarily.
P2P Web Apps - Brace yourselves, everything is about to change.
The old client-server web model is out of date, it’s on its last legs, it will eventually die. We need to move on, we need to start thinking differently if we are going to create web applications that are robust, independent and fast enough for tomorrow’s generation.
HOW TO: Create An Intricate Display Font – HypeForType Tutorial
It’s all very well creating beautiful, intricate illustrated letterforms, but how do you convert them into a usable display font without sacrificing detail or quality?
Where the hell do you live, Singapore? That law is draconian.
The real question is: what makes a group okay to "discriminate" against?

Is it my driving experience (i.e. age)? How many incidents I have had? My ability to afford a safe car or live in a nice area?

Where are we allowed to draw the line?
On moving from CouchDB to Riak
I've never founded a company. But, for over a year, I was the sole IT resource for what was in effect a startup. If I'd gone under a bus, they'd have been in real trouble.

One thing I quickly learnt then and find myself instinctively doing now with hundreds of colleagues is that any work I do is the work of the system which has placed me to do it and so not directly and personally mine. Net result, no matter the external context - talking with clients or friends - I always say 'We'. Never I.

The company is the entity which is producing the work. That it currently only contains you is not relevant to many and not something you want to advertise to a few. So don't; if they ask then be honest but until then, the company is offering the service, it is a corporate entity and IMHO any personalised references to its actions should be in the plural, not the singular.
It speeds up when it hits the paddle. If you do this exercise, make sure to actually time yourself, rather than guesstimate it afterwards - time slips away when you program.
If you're not failing you may be succeeding.
No. There is a difference between debate and suppression. I'm fine with highlighting WebM's faults - but not creating them out of thin air for what appears to be nothing more than a red herring, to vilify WebM with intentions that Google may or may not have.
Malware su Android: il punto
In questi giorni è successo quello che ormai da tempo sembrava sempre più probabile... un malware ha colpito alcune applicazioni di Android distribuite dal market di Google. Dopo una serie di avvisaglie, con app "ufficiali" modificate con l'inserimento di trojan prima di distribuirle attraverso market non ufficiali, siamo arrivati...
If you are so "controlled" by your generalized/stereotyped upbringing you don't deserve to lead/manage.
I was agreeing by offering a real example of frequent failure leading to success.
Unfair comparison - falling as a 14 year old is a whole different thing than falling at age 30 or 40, not just from body size and weight.
Hitachi hard disks had highest failure rates.

http://www.hardware.fr/articles/810-6/taux-pannes-composants...
In my case it was to make the paper look like me and my supervisor worked as a real team even though it was all essentially me with a small comment here and there.
The yearning for the richness of language in computer interfaces is a meme that keeps coming back. I wonder whether there is a way to satisfy that. Here's an idea (around MacOSX) -

Push the dock over to the side as a column and set aside a fixed text box at the bottom of the screen for both text input and output. When you do things using he GUI, the text box should continuously update itself with a textual description of what you're doing, that will also work the other way - i.e. if you'd typed that textual description in there, the same actions would be accomplished. This may setup a dialog between the comp and the user gradually building a vocabulary for linguistic interaction with your computer. Could this be a way to leverage the explorability of a GUI to teach a language using which you can over time become a power user?
A good engineering team will design with various simultaneous failure modes in mind. I've never ever seen this mindset on the business side.
This was invaluable advice from the HN community that really helped bootstrap my learning curve:

"Ask HN: Jumping into Android Development"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1347170

CommonsWare books +1
The format is intuitive to read, but I always find myself going here http://golang.org/src/pkg/time/format.go#L50 when I am writing a format string.

It's definitely an improvement over strftime because I need to lookup the escape codes when reading or writing a format string.
Yes, before you can drive Mercedes Benzes, you need to drive slaves.
easy to click: http://www.quizcafe.net
and http://www.trivialab.com.au
Nokia sells Qt commercial licensing and services business to Digia
tl;dr: people with FU Money perform better in their jobs

I suppose on the other hand you have to consider that rich kids have less motivation to succeed than middle/lower class people, if they already have all the material things they can realistically desire

(the article also didn't site any studies to back up its statistics or claims, so you have to take it at face value)
A developer communicates, like this blog entry communicated. The actual contents of the blog is somewhat irrelevant.
You make a few valid points, however I think scrrr's reaction is justified as well.

a) Facebook is a software-only internet startup that has the serious potential of eventually being the biggest web company ever.

Ignoring the hyperbole for a moment I'd argue that there's still a gap between "has the potential" and "is today". According to wikipedia Hitachi is the third largest technological company by revenue as of 2009. Hitachi does state as profit about the same amount that facebook states as revenue.

Hitachi has also been around 94 years longer than facebook. That suggests there's probably not too much untapped potential remaining. But it also suggests that Hitachi is less likely to suddenly disappear overnight only because some teenager accidentally created a "hitachi-killer" in his basement...
o·nei·ric/ōˈnīrik/
Adjective: Of or relating to dreams or dreaming.

OK, this should be a fairly easy term to google.
Ask HN: How long did you stuck with your startup before it is profitable?
The lost art of using your brain
This makes me very sad.
Can I ask, is any of this going to speed up SVG rendering as well? I noticed that it mentioned "GPU Accelerated 2D Canvas". I'm working on a web app that utilizes the Raphael JS library and SVG heavily, choosing that over Canvas. So, should I have chosen differently? Is Canvas going to get a lot faster vs SVG? Or will these speedups aid both?
I appreciate the work that went into making this post.

However where the author failed was in colour choice, specifically on the charts. Subdued hues are fine as a statement for a theme, not when you're trying to discern which subdued hue of blue matches which Python Web server.

More distinct colours please!
Another nice version would be some emoto-cons to express my present mood via buttons!
I assume you upset may HN'ers by suggesting a programmer for less than $1000.

Obviously, it works for you and you are profitable on clickbank.

I appreciate the article. Don't stop posting because of negative feedback.
Who You Are and Who You Say You Are
Compare Three Web-based Integrated Business Suites for SMBs
Shopify = Well worth it. A significant amount of new signups come from Shopify. Great support & communication.

Google Enterprise = Not worth it, whatsoever. The process is horrible (it took quite a while to understand the issues for denial because of the template answers). Definitely a - ROI for us.

Feel free to email me for more details..
What niches are your e-books in?
Using an anecdote as data is bad enough. Using a madeup anecdote is even worse.
Removed! Thanks for the feedback. If you find anything else objectionable let me know.
"This was an whiny and awful post about 'life isn't fair'."

It wasn't whiny at all.

"The socially outgoing and confident worker will always outperform his socially awkward counterpart of equal intelligence. It doesn't matter that he came from a wealthy family, what matters is he has MORE skills."

This was the author's point.
Thanks! I wanted to make sure to put some text in, but couldn't get the URL clickable (it's one or the other).
The Encroachment of Fact-Free Science
For a static site that one can drag-and-drop to, I'd just use S3's new 'website' bucket configuration with CyberDuck as the S3 client (folder sync or drag-and-drop files).
There are a number of accounts we created for inanimate objects while at uni which are still around. They all have a certain amount of friends and photos though.

We also used to create fake people using photos from stock art libraries and try to create realistic social lives for them, with our aim being that our real friends would eventually start enquiring after the fake people as if they knew them.

We were pretty bored.
They're not requirements
The only real info on the webpage as to how the pages are generated is "Pages are driven by Markdown rendered into HTML templates."

Looking at the demo template all the content is in txt files and there's html templates with {{tags}} in them like that.

It would be interesting to know what's behind it all, it kind of looks like jekyll. But I'm not familiar enough to say so.
Lessons From TechStars For A Day (Boulder)
This quote from the article about dropbox..."Even though overpriced in many ways, it is simple and easy-to-use and save my asked [sic] a number of times."

Seriously? $99 per year for 50GB is overpriced?
Back in my day, we had moderators.
3 years, then I realized it wasn't going anywhere I wanted to go, so I sold it. Wasn't profitable.
It's free for up to 8GB (with referrals) — which is very good value in my books.
I can't believe this link is being recycled through hackernews and reddit - it's a year old. I wish part of the semantic web was a tag to communicate to news aggregator sites the published date so there could be a "NOT NEWS" warning. ;)
This would be ideal if only cyberduck didn't eat so much RAM. I prefer Interarchy.

http://nolobe.com/interarchy/
Review of Eloquent Ruby
I don't know if you're already aware of this, but you can hover/click labels to make lines on the graph highlight and disappear respectively. I've found that these features make the graphs much easier to read.

That said, I definitely agree there needs to be an improvement to the colours used.
Indeed, the lines are pretty hard to distinguish. The graphs are interactive though, as you can hover over the legend, or over the graph, and the current line is highlighted.
Amazon helps you decide not to buy new Lord of the Rings Blu-Ray set
A lot of people in your target market like giving independent business people a shot. Those people won't worry much about the number of employees as long as the service is good, and they'll tell others about your service if it's good.
I'm fairly certain that Google does not pull the picture from Adium, rather, Adium pushes the picture to Google.
Jailbreak Apple iPhone for iOS 4.3
JavaScript Getters/Setters Considered Harmful
+1 vote for this. There are many ways to expand the idea to reach bigger markets.
Buyers Who Must Have Two Items
How to use GitHub effectively for your project
The one I've invested in lost $500k last year - I'm personally ready to cut the losing half of it loose if we can't learn to spend our money more wisely.
Moody's: More Public Colleges Will Declare Exigency
Did you paint them at all or just throw them up there in their raw state?
Ask HN: Best places to unload projects?
I have a few projects I'm thinking of unloading (never had the time to fully devote to them, or no longer interested, etc.) what are the best sites/places for selling them off in your experience? Assumption is all the projects are web apps, or software based solutions.
thx
A post about 60 second meditation exercises that drew me in with "naked girls" in the anchor text.

What actually speaks to me here is the persistence and level of dedication a young James altucher applied to a cause (to be fair, naked girls are a strong motivator for teenage boys (to be fair, naked girls are a strong motivator for me-aged boys))
I remember a friend of mine was invited to write a chapter for a Java book for a very popular, very successful and prestigious publisher; the book wasn't even out yet but had a page on amazon and they made him ask all his friends and family to write a positive and "believable" review like "it is an excellent introduction to blablabla, this and that thing could be better/more detailed but overall best book ever!!!111"

They justified that by "well, yea those are sort of fake review but everyone does it so it is ok"
Note for those confused by this conversation, the original headline implied that WD acquired all of Hitachi for $4.3 billion. Hitachi had revenue of $96 billion in 2010, so that would have been a pretty sweet deal. :)
This is exactly my job, that of a 'Business Systems Analyst' at a big insurance company. I spend most of my time refining requirements with business stakeholders until I can document a set of atomic tasks. This documentation, generally referred to as a 'Business Requirements Specification' gets passed along to the developer who then writes a 'Technical Specification' detailing the implementation of each business requirement. One of my primary goals is to remove any guesswork or questions from the developers scope, such that they can focus clearly on the implementation of the solution. In all of the enterprise level development jobs I've worked, the developer is not expected to interact with the business at all. The overhead for simple development sky rockets, but that's a reasonable trade off to meet regulatory requirements such as Sarbannes Oxley, etc.
Fair comparison. 40 year climbers with 5 years experience and a willingness to push themselves to failure routinely climb harder than 40 year old climbers with 25 years experience gained climbing without falling.

Falling onto a dynamic rope is not in any way traumatic, even to an old guy like myself. The equipment really is that good. A 10 foot lead fall into space is nowhere near as demanding on the body as, say, a lay-up in Basketball.
The business calculus is a bit strange here. WD and Hitachi are in the part of the storage market that has to be pretty close to it's peak. The HDD business seems to have grown in 2010 http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4213390/Western-Digi... but it's pretty doubtful that the trend will continue, and it seems like there's a pretty sharp cliff coming.

That in mind, why pay $4.3B for a company that only has 2-5 years left in a dying, $0.6B industry that has low profit margins?
WaySavvy, With Expedia Partnership, Joins New Wave of Online Travel Sites
8 Extremely Useful Domain Tools and Services for Bloggers
There are many useful tools and services on the Internet that are both free and premium help you find out the most suitable domains. As a blogger who usually concern very much about domain world, I use some of them. I think you might use these good tools at least in cases you want to buy a domain too.
How exactly could they "own" your online identity?

If you don't like the service, don't use it.
Show HN: My "semester" project: cab sharing made easy
We gave away about 75 cans at our first Swagapalooza conference 18 months ago and I haven't heard any complaints.
Rands in Repose: Three Superpowers
This, to the power of infinity. I don't have a Facebook account, or a Twitter account, or any other "social networking" account -- and I never will.

IM(NSH)O the massive drop in comments on TechCrunch is an indicator of how many people don't have (and don't want) an account on Facebook.
I wonder if naked girls is the cause that motivates all of the actions of straight men (whether its meditation to achieve "astral projection" or starting Facebook.com).
I have a friend who worked for a "wealth management" firm here in Europe, and they had code names for all of their clients for privacy.

One of his clients asked for the code name "962" because that was the year the family had made their fortume. (!)

But as my friend told me, one of the main reasons they were able to keep the money in the family is that the vast majority of it passed to the eldest son, with other children getting only very little. It'd be interesting to know the relative entrepreneurial nature of kids that grow up wealthy, but don't get any real money.
Why am I reminded of Douglas Adams? "All the planning charts have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth years, so you've had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it's far too late to start making a fuss about it now..."
Bootstrapped the entire operation for three years before it started generating any revenue. Took about 5 months from turning on the monetization aspect before it broke even month to month...We're netting about $3k profit each month now.
Try: http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=lwhi Note that it seems you can't see others' upvoted articles this way, but you can see your own.
This is pure spam
I believe that speeding up SVG using the GPU is planned but that a few intensive operations on canvas are likely to get switched on first (image compositing, for example).