skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same way how he constantly publicly proclaims on TC that he doesn't know why he still pays Paul Carr to write for their site.... and then continues to pay Paul Carr to write for their site.

It's called trolling for pageviews.
If you feel inclined to move to C# for the community then I really feel sorry for you.
"7. If I’m a teen or adult, and if I can stay out of prison, my odds of being raped are relatively low. (More).

8. On average, I am taught to fear walking alone after dark in average public spaces much less than my female counterparts are."

First, those are two pretty big caveats, especially considering how the vast majority of people in prisons are men. Second, I'm pretty sure males are far more likely to be the victims of violence than females. So while these individual claims may be true, it seems to ignore the bigger picture.

Maybe there are some legitimate points in this list, but for the most part I think this is an example of the "make so many accusations that none of your readers will have the time or energy to go through and refute all of them" school of writing.
How well does it do with non-javascript code? If I could code ruby on rails on it, and deploy from w/in it to Heroku, I'd sign up today. (happy feature creep!)
Should have bought an Android Phone instead. You can even make money selling alternative UIs on the Android marketplace.
Perhaps I should have said "I don't care about the learning outcomes of people looking for an edge"

If you have a medical condition, the government or insurance company should be paying for the drug. I don't think passing out pills to get economies of scale makes sense here.

My real beef, which I have done a poor job at expressing, is that folks are popping pills at someone else's expense because they want to party and still do well in school. Another, similar beef is that drug companies market these drugs to consumers. The end result is that folks are trying to get various drugs, and folks like you who have a genuine condition end up paying more. (A better example is heavily marketed and very expensive heartburn drugs, which can be substituted for cheap, OTC drugs for most cases of heartburn)
Investors Are Drawn Anew to Digital Music
I wonder if this is a sign that YC is admitting too many startups and that the company-advisor ratio has fallen out of whack. This space is extremely crowded, and a lot of companies are already doing it very well (and cheaper).
Ask HN: Where do coupon aggregator sites get their content from?
Where do sites like Savings.com and Retailmenot get their coupon affiliate deals from? Is there an underlying coupon affiliate/api provider?
First Eye-controlled Laptop
Installing Nginx With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Debian Squeeze
Understanding the node.js event loop
PG has written about if-let, when-let, while-let and the likes in On Lisp, but calls them anaphoric macros instead. They are basically the same macros, but without the use of bindings (more brevity). You should take a look at it if you're interested.

http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/paulgraham/onlisp.pdf - Chapter 14 - Anaphoric Macros is on page 189.
This is not a bug. It's common sense. You can't make an event on the 29th of February repeat yearly because the 29th of February doesn't repeat yearly. This isn't Google's fault. Set the event for the day you actually celebrate her birthday. That will repeat yearly. Problem solved.
Curious: How'd you come up with the name?
Also: How do you plan to make money?
If you can automatically detect and merge duplicate URL's shared across all these sites, that's enough added value for me!
> Well, they made a whole book about this

Sure, I skimmed it a bit, but don't have time to read it at the moment.

As for the summary of their points, thanks for posting them - I think there's ample room for debate, and that each thing is probably a bit different - software patents are different from drug patents, for instance.
Meh... my bad, I did search before posting though, but for bicyclists =/
You can't "abandon" VB.NET any more than I could abandon English (my native language). You'll always know it, and many of the things you learned while using it will transition to a new language. This is especially true of VB.NET and C#.

It sounds to me like the author is opposed to porting his old code to C#, and that's not a bad thing. On the list of things you should consider very, very carefully before executing, a port is right up there with a re-write. However, we're talking Visual Basic and C#.

As stated several times in this discussion, the two couldn't be better integrated. If I were the author, I wouldn't abandon VB.NET, I would simply begin writing new code in C#.
I follow that design studio fairly closely, and from what I can tell, the project's been abandoned anyways. They got a developer in, but after that there wasn't much progress.

Edited: Typo.
I think even $400 a month was a very high hurdle.

Immediately it cuts out every individual who is unemployed or who is a resident of a poorer nation.

The fact that you can get started for $10 a month is an enormous improvement on how things used to be.
Lightnode Web Server (node.js)
http://www.goot.us/ - Tracking time is as easy as creating a calendar entry. Then, it aggregates the time based on tasks, etc.
http://www.toggl.com/

I was a big fan of Toggl when I was being billed out by the hour... I never needed to share the data but they claim it's very easy to do.
Thanks for the clarification, torrentfreak is a tabloid.
Monitor Redis without a headache
Unless I am misremembering, decriminalizing drugs in Portugal led to less people using them. Going from this, criminalizing libraries might be the best thing that could ever happen to education.
The name was inspired on a island in Indonesia called Mentawaii, which is a surf paradise and place that i would love to visit.

We plan to make money selling Ads initially.
Ask HN: Do you do a good job keeping notes?
I take notes a lot, tending to pencil and notebooks. But not only do I think there's a better way to organize things (I know I should be using a note-taking app or something that deposits to Dropbox, for example), I'm not happy with the actual things that I write down. I go back and read things, and while I can follow a general train of thought, things that seemed superfluous or too detailed at the time are now essential for context.

Where can I learn to do a better job of figuring out what to write down, and keeping it in such a way that I become a resource for myself?
On 14, the failure mode is called "not carving reality at the joints." Because .00001% of men wield large amounts of political power, whereas even fewer women (at least, visibly) do so, political power is a male privilege.

There are certainly reference classes for "likely to wield political power" that change the likelihood ratio by far more than "male."
We are working on it. We aim to support all the major languages and their popular frameworks soon. For now you have syntax highlighting for Ruby and more languages, which combined with GitHub integration already makes it a sweet platform to develop on.
I'd say they're more like a series of tubes.
The bit about "if we ever come in contact with other forms of life, they'll understand other basic data structures" is really interesting. I had never thought about that, but it's probably true.
Some excerpts from the preface:

"we are not going to list all the available commands...you should be comfortable with the command line...and it certainly wouldn't hurt if you know what Ubuntu is...and how to install software... If you are a seasoned software/systems engineer or administrator, there are many things in this book that will challenge you."
Great advice!

It's clear that I'm not going to make a living from just River of News. This is why I slowed down on updates to River of News and have been working on other projects. But I've paid a price for that. My sales precisely track the frequency and quality of the product updates I've done. What buzz and momentum I achieved has been lost and sales have tapered down. My plan is to build a stable of products but I've learned now that I need to continue to show love to the existing products. Like most developers, I prefer to fully immerse myself in one task but I'm going to have to change my way of working.
It is obvious that IP only exists thanks to governments, that's why it's odd to be complaining about Government intervention when all that is being proposed is a different kind of government intervention to correct market failures.

I copied the "quotes" on real because it applies to both solutions, in both cases you're creating some kind of market with the hope that it functions better than no market at all, or any alternative market.

The problem (or at least part of it) is that people, even those that have thought about it for a while, are too quick to accept the current IP mess as natural, unchangeable, morally correct and real, when it is none of those things.
>"I assume you're in the US"

UK actually at present - US has some things better than us and some worse. It all could do with a good going over though!
Really? You really should read the whole thing. Even if you don't agree with it, the Galt speech will tell you all you need to know about the philosophy of objectivism. Agree with it or not, it's not something you should ignore. There are certain political movements that have hooked their wagons up to it and are riding off in to the sunset. That makes it, at least, relevant.
Interesting, but ...

> Why is it that so many people are interested it writing Operating Systems? You wouldn't think it was because they are somehow dissatisfied with Windows would you?

Many of these OS' predated Windows by good bit.
We optimize for joy. We believe writing code is a lot of hard work, and the only way it can be worth is by enjoying it. When there is no longer joy in writing code, the best thing to do is stop. To prevent this, we'll avoid taking paths that will make Redis less of a joy to develop.

Love this as a priority, and not just as a coder, but as anyone involved in building software. I've noticed an extremely high correlation with how enjoyable a code base is to work on, and how easily I get into The Zone on that project. Hopefully I don't need to elaborate on the correlation between The Zone and developing a kick ass product in record time.

As for the meaning of enjoyable, well... hire great developers, listen to them when they speak, and make having a great, well designed, low code debt code base a priority whenever possible.
I think that since February 29th is an exception in our calendar it should ask if this event should repeat every 4 years (real 29th) or repeat every year (fallback to 28th or March 1st). I think it's common sense that setting an event to "yearly" even though that date doesn't exist every year should still happen every year.

Edit : Anyone know how it handles an event created monthly on the 31st of each month?
Why anyone would buy travel insurance is a mystery to me, but maybe you'd like http://www.insuremytrip.com/ which has a pretty nice comparison feature.
I understand your point of view.
But she, and also millions of people, are no software guys.
They don't get it.
Also my complain is about the dialog where you add the event.
As I said, If I choose to repeat weekly the calendar has no problem to generate an event every 7 days, but with years it clearly fails.
Does it support textmate/sublime style syntax highlighting?

How do I actually get it to do anything? Clicking on a github project in the list does nothing.

Ok, I clicked fork (I don't think this is intuitive at all, why would you want to fork your own projects?), and I'm editing code.

Things that would prohibit me from using it:

* Can't upload my own tmTheme files.

* Cant't seem to change font, ignores my browser's "monospaced" selection. Why?

* Can I select branch somehow? This is not obvious. Perhaps in the project pane?

So far it's pretty frustrating in all fairness, and whilst it's a cool idea, wouldn't really make me switch from Sublime Text + Cyberduck.
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Frankly, I wish there were a term I could use for the code that I make public that isn't in any way associated with some silly "movement" that wants to make my code "free" or otherwise taint it with some form of pretentiousness that I don't intend.

It's code that I'm throwing out onto the internet for other people to use. I can't for the life of me understand why some people think it's so important as to split hairs about definitions and argue about licenses for it.
Show HN: HotspotRobot.com - Discover the best restaurants
Hey HN Community,

This is my first submission, so go easy on me. I'm launching Hotspot Robot (www.hotspotrobot.com) which provides a new way to find the best restaurants/bars near you. Right now, we're launching in NYC, Philly, DC, LA and San Fran.

Here is a 60 second video intro which hopefully makes it clear how Hotspot Robot is different than alternatives like Yelp: http://www.vimeo.com/18023901

For those of you who can't watch the video, basically Hotspot Robot works by aggregating professional content - specifically "best of" & "top 10" lists - from trusted sources (e.g. Zagat, the New York Times, Food Network etc) and shows you which restaurants nearby are on the most "best of" lists. Therefore, it focuses on showing you the favorites of the pros, as opposed to having you wade through both the good and bad reviews from random Yelp users, some of whom are legit, but many of whom are biased or clueless reviewers.

The goal of the site is to do a better job answering these types of questions:

* "I need to meet my friends over in another part of town. I'd like to recommend a really great place. Which place(s) are the most highly regarded in that particular area/neighborhood?"

* "I'd like to settle the debate about where in the whole city is the best pizza (or burger or steak or brunch etc). Which place in all of NYC (or SF etc.) is on the most "best pizza" lists?" NOTE: see why Yelp kinda sucks at this: http://blog.hotspotrobot.com/why-yelp-kinda-sucks and how we think we answer this question better: http://blog.hotspotrobot.com/best-pizza-in-ny-according-to-the-experts

* "My wife told me we're trying a new restaurant called Marea in NYC. What's it known for? Is it on any 'best of' lists and if so, what are those lists?"

As of right now, we have the highest coverage in NYC but hopefully the site is still useful in the other markets I mentioned. I'd love for any HN participants in these markets to give it a shot and let me know if they think the service is useful (or if you're not in these markets but still wanted try it out, I'd love your thoughts as well!)

Again, any feedback you could provide would be super helpful.

Thanks a bunch!
Ryan
I've had some success with Toggl: https://www.toggl.com/

I say some success, because I generally find time tracking to be an annoyance and not an accurate way to gauge performance. I prefer measuring outputs to measuring inputs.
Lack of a 'None of the above' option makes at least two of the questions meaningless. Perhaps you might wander across the campus to the psych dept or where ever folks actually make and use surveys, sit at someones feet and learn a bit before you try this again. Were I anyone in a supervisory position over this, things would not go well...
Oh didn't know that. Thanks!
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I think the bigger issue is that in the .NET world, being a VB.NET coder has less stature. The much blogged about salary gap shows that. Also most of the interesting core samples and presentations are shown in C#, so VB.NET coders would constantly feel out of the mainstream of their community.
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Why couldn't this be an app on its own instead of taking over the home screen?
This is just quoting/paraphrasing from the Telegraph, and that story was submitted earlier:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2275050

From the guidelines:

In Submissions
...
Please submit the original source. If a blog post
reports on something they found on another site,
submit the latter.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Hecklers And Twecklers At Technical Talks
This looks a lot like the Windows Mobile 6.0 Today screen (circa 2007):

http://www.google.co.uk/images?q=windows%20mobile%206.0%20to...

When I had a Windows Mobile device, I found the Today screen very busy. I'm usually only interested in one or two pieces of information from the Today screen, and found the information-overload aspect of sifting through the unnecessary data distracting. How would this new design avoid that problem?
The Guy Who Took on Google (and now LinkedIn): Mike Yavonditte
This is true, unfortunately the cost of bandwidth in Australia is very high even for service providers such as ourselves. That being said we currently don't have the scale to leverage our data consumption to decrease costs through peering etc. For now $1/Gb places us one of the cheaper providers for bandwith in Australia. We do however see data ingress as a significant hurdle to cloud adoption so we will be foccussing on reducing these costs in the future. :)
With ChromeFrame can we consider HTML5 another plugin?
This is probably coming up because Tiny Wings gave Box2D credit, and Catto's probably like 'Hey! Why didn't Angry Birds do the same!'
Thanks. Perfect match with http://ft.com and http://nytimes.com. Gives me a good laugh :)
Socially acceptable or not, anti-piracy advocates fail to realize that if i am pirating something, i had no intention to buy it. They really, really fail to see this. You can inflate the amount of money you are losing because of me all you want, the reality remains.

And it is this childish obsession that tickles my pirate nerves and makes me pirate even stuff i would gladly pay for. Because the industry is dishonest and thinks i sit on the far left of the IQ bell curve. They are lying in my face, and they know it. They don't deserve my money.

Go Minecraft.
A Tail Of Two Dams
Go Easy on Yourself
I've been doing running internet/technology startups since '95. Here's my $0.02

* Labour costs roughy the same per hour. Although using the likes of elance or even mechanical turk, it is much easier to find cheaper labour for certain tasks.

* Hardware is a lot cheaper/faster. Strangely - due to the bloated & broken nature of things like Boost, compile times have stayed strangely constant! More importantly, the likes of VPS significantly improve the cash flow. A server to host your first website is now $10 a month with no contract. Ten years ago - you'd be locked into long contracts or buying a machine. You want twenty servers to stress test something, or test software on 8 different Linux versions, fire up some EC2 instances. There simple wasn't the equivalent back then.

* The development time to build most systems has got a lot less. The availability of libraries, cloud-services, APIs & virtual machines has drastically reduced the time taken to build certain types of systems. E.g. with something like Tropo you can quickly build fairly advanced telephony services. With AWS, you have access to huge computing resources should you need it. Web frameworks have significantly reduced the time to do CRUD-like tasks.

* The quality of FOSS is far higher now than it was then. Particularly the libraries and development tools. The quality of community sites (e.g. StackOverflow) also helps a lot in terms of access to development knowledge.

* Most markets are more mature now in terms of what is a minimum viable product. E.g. to build a web business now - it prob needs to be more polished then ten years ago.

* The Internet market place is a lot bigger. E.g. there are a lot more Internet users, app-buyers. Ten years ago - a business like AirBnB wold probably have not had enough users gain critical mass.

* The ease of reaching customers is easier. Things like Apple's App store (or even Facebook) makes it pretty easy to reach buyers, receive customer payments etc. Similarly the likes of twitter and viral/social marketing to all certain types of product to get a lot of cheap exposure.

* The ability to develop web based applications as opposed to desktop applications does significantly reduce development costs. Not that developing for IE6 isn't a pain, but it's a damn site easier than having to develop and support lots of different desktop operating systems and legacy versions.
That would be "open source".
I live in NYC and would be interested in the space, if it's still available. I just pitched my project (www.hotspotrobot.com) on HN actually: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2275591 . As I mention in that post, Hotspot Robot is a new way to discover the best restaurants/bars in your city. Here's a 60 second video explaining what makes Hotspot Robot different: http://www.vimeo.com/18023901
50+ New WordPress Themes: March 2011
A few things can be learned from this latest roundup of new WordPress themes, all released within the past five months or so. First of all, there’s a definite trend toward more premium themes, with fewer high-quality free themes available.
Is there a study around desktop methaphors in this context? For example: moving files to the recycle bin can be 'heavier' or 'lighter' depending on the total size of the selection (more files are slightly heaver and therefore subconsciously they're more important - resulting in less user error).
Just tried visiting your site at stylewok.com and seems like it's parked.
Ideas Are Cheap
Another happy Toggl user here.

I've used RescueTime (http://www.rescuetime.com) in the past, and it's great for automated, general time tracking. Sadly the Linux client hasn't been updated for ages so I don't use it anymore.
But few people give away their work for free and even fewer do it for altruistic reasons (it's like "spending other people's money" - how can you not be fine with that?)

Are you saying the main motivation to create art is profit and/or recognition?

Human history has many examples of altruistic behaviors for art's sake.

You argue people will stop creating because there will be no profit for them to do so (or "lots of effort and monetary cost that can be quite substantial").

I argue if someone is motivated enough and creative enough, that person will find a way to manifest their vision into physical reality.

James Cameron's life during the creation of the movie "Titanic" was not one motivated by profit for profit's sake...

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,290182,00.html
I'm not saying that redis is undocumented or buggy.

But stopping and avoiding taking paths that will make redis less of a joy, will make it so.

(Sometimes) solving bugs, adding documentation, support are not exactly joyful activities. But I'm picking on that phrase and not on Redis.
It's still incredibly annoying, in my opinion. I used to love lifehacker, too.
How can UX - beyond Usability - be effectively measured?
Celebrating The 83rd Oscar Awards With 83 Amazing Infographics
This year’s edition of the Oscars has passed, but we thought that it would be nice if we selected some of the most interesting infographics about the wonderful world of cinema.

And that’s a huge task, especially if we consider that some sagas – like Star Wars or Harry Potter – have so many infographics about them, that we could make an entire post just with them – just for you to have an idea, we have over 400 on Visual Loop!!!.

Even so, we selected some from all over the world, so we hope you enjoy it!
You'd best offset it by making your desktop background a flat shade of maroon; it's the only proven way to counteract neural damage from off-white sources.
Yep, it's easier to be "passionate" about something when you don't do it 40+ hours per week.

Also, I enjoy programming, I have a programming job. I wish my job had more actual programming in it. When it's a job you can't just get to do the fun parts.
Plus Jeff Atwood said it was his favourite book.
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Nice experience for finding a good movie