skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"well, that would definitely require competition regulators"

No offense, but the idea that the government needs to step in is a nonsensical argument that is getting repeated with increasing frequency whenever Apple does something controversial. There is not a single market in which Apple competes where they have a monopoly (caveat: tablet computers right now, but that market is revving up to be hyper competitive in the very near future, and who would want the government intervening there at this nascent stage). A monopoly is required for antitrust investigations.

Do you know who Apple's "competition regulators" are? Google, Microsoft, RIM, Nokia, Palm/HP, et al.
That's a creative solution!
Well, I'm still waiting for the day when I can drag and drop one of these DRM free MP3s onto an iPod (without having to shackle my device to my computer via iTunes).

It's not exactly freedom in the best sense of the word ;)

Are iBooks DRM free? I don't think so ...
Ehcache: Distributed Cache or NoSQL Store?
I'm incredibly intrigued by the advice from that article, I'd love to read it. Do you remember where it's from?
> It's about addressability - being able to link to things. Links are kind of important on the Web.

Of course, but not in all applications and situations. What does it mean to link to the middle of a Farmville game session? It's by definition a transient state within a process that does not need re-linkability or history. Similarly, we've been using desktop applications forever with no notion of addressability. You don't send an image with the expectation that the recipient can jump into the middle of your editing actions in Photoshop.

When a web application is fundamentally about an interactive process rather than publishing content, the notion of back and history can lose much meaning. Using Back as a universal undo button or a URL to bookmark any arbitrary slice of content does not hold up in the world of more complicated AJAX partial dynamic page updates. Should designers continue to contort Javascript and the very notion of URLs to satisfy this increasingly-misplaced user expectation, or work to educate users that sometimes "Back" or bookmarking cannot have a meaningful result?

Nobody expects a "back" or "undo" button in everyday activities like driving a car or cooking or making social conversation. How did this expectation become so irreversibly fundamental in computers?
Immediate swap of current PG essays feed for:

http://fulltextrssfeed.com/www.aaronsw.com/2002/feeds/pgessa...
I lost my poetic licence for taking a caesura too fast and failing to stop at an enjambment whilst under the influence of Auden.

Never again.

- Stephen Fry
Proposed legislation to prevent "secret" prior art in US patent applications
Nokia: We depend on uninformed customers, deception
"I really hope quicklisp fixes this but it isn't simple."

Clojure fixed (a) and (b) by taking most of the good ideas and repackaging them in a fresh design, and fixed (c) by building on top of Java's virtual machine and libraries. Come on in - the water's nice!

http://learn-clojure.com/
At first, it looks like twitter, youtube etc are disrupting incumbent publishers, but then you see they are being co-opted as just another talent-scouting venue.

It's sad for social media, but impressive of publishers. Looks like they still have something to offer.
The most recent edit to the article prepended "Nazi" to "Germany" and contributed nothing further. This seems rather unnecessary, as the sentence clearly specifies that this occurred during WWII. Did you make this change?
Crutchfield - Learning From the Customer
I've never heard of anyone being added to so many Facebook groups that it was a problem for them to just remove themselves from the ones they didn't like. I've been added to three since they rolled them out and I'm a fairly heavy user.
G isn't its most common sound. Neither is Q. U's pronunciation doesn't make much sense, except that its long vowel sound is the same as the letter's. Also, I'm proud to be an American because we pronounce Z "zee" instead of "zed," which makes no sense whatsoever.
What's so terrible about the comment system that comes with wordpress?
The preview for Lifehacker returned nothing at all, but adding the feed to Google Reader worked as advertised. I guess, don't rely on the preview box.
Here's the previous conversation about this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2065416
I literally cannot get nokogiri set up on my Mac for love nor money, I'm a noob whose been trying for a week or two. Tried everything. Its preventing me from running tests. Damn xmllibs2.
Amazon acquired Zappos and created endless. This would certainly fit that part of their business strategy.
Conversely, some might say that input from the user and output to the user are really the only important i/o.
You can always disregard robots.txt.. ;)
Apple's Steve Jobs Considering Appearance at iPad 2 Event
Supposedly most super successful sports stars weren't the best when they were 12 years old (or however young). Most of the ones that rose to the very top were average or above average early in their lives, but through an unusual amount of determination, focus, and time, they rose to the top.
> huge change before project completion.

As a designer, I feel that the design process is meant to highlight better routes to take with any artefact. It develops it further whilst keeping the goals more focused as they are nearer.
Crazy Concurrency
Sorry... I searched for it, but for the life of me I can't track it down. I think the original article was talking about DuckDuckGo and Google; the "strength" in that case was Google's information-gathering: Google's bottom line is partially defined by using the information it records about its users to drive advertisements and other usability tweaks (such as marking search results with stars, etc). By focusing on privacy, DDG "attacked Google's strength"--Google can't compete with DDG on privacy because it's precluded by what Google does best.

You can obviously frame "lack of privacy" as a weakness of Google, but the important part is that it's a weakness that can't be addressed without huge changes to work around their established strengths.
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Tips For Designing An A4 Folder
Designing a4 folders will only require you to implement the latest tools and technologies so as to get done the job. Interestingly company offers you cheap a4 folder printing services.
>This idea is foreign to most cultures and nearly all ancient societies.

Which partially explains why most cultures and nearly all ancient societies had little to no intellectual development.

Thinkers gotta eat or they won't exist.

Intellectual property feeds the families of most of the people on HN.
You've pretty much summarized 130 pages of Gary Vaynerchuk's "Crush It" in three sentences!
A more successful history of prehistoric groupon that is still alive and kicking is the restaurant week.

Everyone talks about it when it's happening... be it when i was in Brazil or here in L.A.
Is anyone looking for front end developers?
I wish there were a downloadable version of the video. The only way I ever watch work-related videos is on my phone, on the bus.
Do not say 'backed up by medical knowledge' unless you plan on citing sources.

I don't have much time right now, but I did find a good starting point:
http://www.ajcn.org/content/53/6/1561S.abstract
"In this regard, the proneness to store energy primarily as fat or as lean tissue is a major determinant of the response to a caloric surplus."

Also:
http://www.nature.com/oby/journal/v8/n7/abs/oby200063a.html
Talks about insulin secretion being different between races even after accounting for other factors.

gasp we all aren't created equal! We all don't have the same benefits. Some people are born disadvantaged and must work for things!

And to the comment a few levels up, my ~3,500kcal diet would make some people obese even after accounting for my activity levels! 1 kcal for you is not the same as 1 kcal for me, bodies differ in conversion, storage, and utilization.

I have a hard time understanding why people don't like admitting that just as we differ on the outside (beauty, fitness) we are also different on the inside (metabolism, disease susceptibility)
I read this: “There are very few who are as inherently bright as Natalie is, who have as much intellectual horsepower, who work as hard as she did. She didn’t take a single thing for granted.”

As: Few people who have the same level of intelligence she does, work as hard as she did.

As I understood it, the professor was saying that she outworked her peers, not that she was the smartest of the group but that her work ethic made her exceptional in an already smart group
The back button is one of the greatest inventions in the history of usability. It's the centerpiece of the thick user agent, and the user agent is why the web took over the world.

The web is a platform for modal applications with addressable state. To meet the expectations of users, any app on the web must somehow shape itself to that model.

BTW have you ever used a navigation based app that didn't have a back button? Try the native YouTube app on iOS. It's infuriating.
Ask HN: Awesome founder looking for awesome-er co-founder
I've been working on a prototype for an idea that I've had for a while. I've been discussing the idea with investors, potential clients/beta testers, and have gotten almost unanimous positive feedback. The prototype is about 75% complete and I have potential investments lined up already. It's SaaS geared at restaurants and I know it has the potential to be big. I'm looking for a co-founder for a couple of reasons. First, having someone to bounce ideas off of and to get feedback from is great. I unfortunately don't have anyone technical at the moment that can refine and develop new ideas with me. I also want someone who can compliment my skills. I'm a developer, but have a lot to learn, so having another developer would be very beneficial. I'm also interested in getting into YC and having a co-founder will really help improve our chances. The app is being built in Ruby on Rails, so strong experience in that area is a must. I use jQuery for pretty much all javascript needs and that pretty much sums up the tech involved. I'm not a great designer, so having design chops would be a definite plus as well. Outside of technical requirements, you have to have a good sense of humor, like to have fun, and not take yourself or life too seriously. I'm laid back and goofy and won't work well with anyone who can't joke around and act stupid every once in a while.

A little info about me: I'm 24, live in Indianapolis (the closer you are to me, the better), and work full-time as a Rails developer. I camp, play music, rock climb, and like to travel and have fun.

If you're interested in being considered, drop me a line at brad@howas.it to tell me a little about yourself and we'll talk. Thanks!

any questions not specifically regarding what the app does will be answered in the comments

edit: forgot to mention... I've put in plenty of time and effort already, but split will be 50/50. I want you as personally invested as I am.
I prefer wub wub wub. Actually, I prefer removing it from URLs :-)
9 Web Apps For Gathering Customer Feedback
If you ever thought you owned the words in a book, you were mistaken.
Early-bird registration in 2010 was $199.
I suspect the author of this post may be a little better informed about Facebook's intentions than most other HN posters.
NASA's SDO Captures a Monster Prominence [video]
For those that didn't get this immediately, here is the relevant component from Wikipedia:

When Germany invaded Denmark in World War II, the Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy dissolved the gold Nobel Prizes of the German physicists Max von Laue and James Franck in aqua regia to prevent the Nazis from confiscating them. The Nazi government had prohibited Germans from accepting or keeping any Nobel Prize after the jailed peace activist Carl von Ossietzky had received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1935. De Hevesy placed the resulting solution on a shelf in his laboratory at the Niels Bohr Institute. It was subsequently ignored by the Nazis who thought the jar—one of perhaps hundreds on the shelving—contained common chemicals. After the war, de Hevesy returned to find the solution undisturbed and precipitated the gold out of the acid. The gold was returned to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation who recast the medals and again presented them to Laue and Franck.[5][6]
And that is exactly what I've done on my most recent site. I see this as the best solution, since the site caters to people who are more likely to have modern browsers that support the History API, giving them rich interactions and leaving only a slim margin of viewers with a "static" version of the site.

But it would be nice to be able to degrade nicely, and still support some degree of ajax with linkable states. Beggars can't always be so choosey, I suppose.
To Grow Big, Twitter Seeks Small Ads
So who won? Where is the announcement?
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> This understanding is part of why he often seems like an Apple apologist. Even when Gruber disagrees with Apple' decisions, he can generally give a good explanation of why the decision was made and why Steve and Tim and company probably think it is the right one. And of course, when he is writing based on Apple's point of view as a corporation, the primary question is always "What is best for Apple?"

Yet he rarely qualifies that with, "While I don't agree" or something similar. He does sometimes, which leads me to believe that he usually is talking about what he believes.
Without hijacking anything, let me take a stab at "SEO is called black magic" issue.

The best luck I've had demystifying SEO is to boil it down to its essential principles, which I see as:

* Creating Useful Content

* Developing Links from Highly Ranked & Relevant Pages to the Aforementioned Useful Content

When you keep it at that level, I've found that it's easy to communicate both what the value of the process is, and why good SEO is hard work. Or, at least, what places good SEO beyond billing high hourly rates for implementing Google's webmaster guidelines.

Google's algorithm is always shifting, but those shifts tend to punish sites that rely in either SEO shortcuts, or outright deceit. I have yet to see a site punished for following the useful content / relevant links model.
The fact that she would rather make movies with Ashton Kutcher instead of spending time trying to solve the problems that plague mankind show what type of person she really is.
I live in Tokyo, as the CTO for a local startup.

Before the iPhone, Japanese mobiles were definitely a step ahead, but now that the iPhone, and its Android competition, are thriving around the world, everything that isn't one of the above feels about ten years behind.

Classic Japanese mobile phones don't support Javascript. Or cookies. A large number of handsets don't allow images at all on pages with SSL, or stylesheets of any kind -- you have to specify CSS in-line, with the 'style' attribute on each element you want to style.

Native apps exist, but if you want to develop them, be prepared to spend a shocking pile of money.

None of this holds for the iPhone or Android-derived devices over here, but those are no better then their foreign counterparts.

In terms of features, the only truly useful thing that I can think of that Japanese mobiles have is mobile Suica -- it's nice to be able to have your commuter pass integrated with your phone. Charging it up with cash can be a pain in the ass, as the web-based tools are crap, but it's nice nonetheless.
And for my current site, those concerns are big. Sharing content is a key focus. The design has as a core philosophy: one simple, highly-readable URL per piece of content.
Signed up for a demo just so I could mess around with the UI a bit. Great design! Looks very nice and seems easy to use. Nice work, guys.
Why should we be forced NOT to use a technology that provides superior response and productivity than what was traditionally possible? Forcing us to live in a world with server round trips for everything just so we can say we perfectly fit within this artificial restriction as defined 20 years ago before any consideration was given to the Internet being used for more than viewing anything but linked documents?

Who said anything about forcing? The article just seems to be asking what people think... has anyone actually talked about forcing developers to step backwards from using JS?
Wow, someone should make an Android live wallpaper of that video.
No, she's not Paris Hilton. She was actually cast and did a superb job in roles with all-star directors like Luc Besson, in Leon. It's not that she happened to bump into Luc at a bar. But that she did her homework to be cast and then a great job in the role (and quite honestly I think one of top 1% of performances I've seen, period).

No one is starstruck by Woody Allen. But you're startstruck by his work.

Let me put it to you this way. I'm FAR more certain that you can get a PhD than you could ever get half the critical acclaim or box office receipts that Natalie has gotten.

Although, I'd just love to find out you are actually Will Smith and have just blown my thesis to pieces. :-)
I found W's multisyllabic name annoying enough that I began calling it "way". That includes the sound it makes, and it rhymes with A, J, and K.
They're doing work there though--selling the ads. Apple is taking 30% of your sales when you're doing the work (other than the actual payment processing).
Certain things require more talent than others. It doesn't matter how hard you practice, you're not going to run faster than Usain Bolt.
As another PhD student, I don't really get all of the rage. In practice, everything post-1997 is easily accessible, and if you're searching through CiteseerX you probably won't even notice the difference. I won't claim it's a great system, but there is observational equivalence with "free and unencumbered publication" modulo a 3" x 4" blurb of text on the lower-left of the first page of the document.

Except for a select few Springer-Verlag publications (mainly the more book-chapter-like ones).
Dispel the old assumption: statement not question...
Distrify is the third aspect of the new film business model, that is - if the 1st was the low cost of digital equipment to give access and, the 2nd is willing crews and teams to participate then, the 3rd is the conclusion and must be the opportunity to monetize this content through distribution to such groups and beyond.<p>Opinions and challenges sought!<p>- Andy Green distrify.com/
Our AP chemistry teacher told us this story back in high school, and I have always loved it.
In French, W is not expressed as "Double U", but as "Double V", which to me makes much more sense.

However it appears infrequently in written French -- the "w" sound, as it would be spoken in English, is written "ou" (eg "oui"). But in French, the letter w is only really seen in loanwords.

As a pun hack, run together Us. I refer to my university as Triple-U A.
Or the Stephenson novel would outline why the idea wouldn't work (some people suggest in comments melting the gold into the frame of a car, which is specifically avoided in Cryptonomicon).
Hot Girls Area: Irina Shayk Sports Illustrated Swimsuit photoshoot 2011
> Nobody expects a "back" or "undo" button in everyday activities like driving a car or cooking or making social conversation. How did this expectation become so irreversibly fundamental in computers?

Wow. We're only just now getting to the point where it isn't possible to accidentally render your computer unusable with a few stray actions.

You seem to be forgetting just how unforgiving computers were even 8 years ago, any why iOS devices are so enticing to regular folks.
The 10 Python Conferences Happening at PyCon 2011 (Networking and Concurrency)
First, not everything from our body genetic as you say, there is still much to learn there.

But more significantly, intelligence is a very fuzzy concept, much harder to describe and more so define than eye color or height. It is also as much of a cultural concept as things like beauty, charisma, etc... Which is also why it is a more touchy subject than eye color or height: it is much more related to one own ideology.
Don't worry Node can handle all the eyerolling with ridiculous speed and low memory consumption.
Your comment essentially assumes "someone who disagrees with me so much, couldn't possibly be sincere!" Please don't do that, that's bad discourse.

<em>Brands like Costco and Amazon make a huge chunk of change, but you don't see them getting into petty stuff like this.</em>
No, you don't - because you're a developer, not someone who has to argue with them in the areas where they <strong>do</strong> do petty shit like this.
Long Live The American Dream?  Interesting perspective...
Google: We’re Working to Help Good Sites Caught by Spam Cleanup
If you're running Flash content on a page, Flash is going to be running an event loop at the SWFs frame rate, even if it's not actually doing anything. JS, on the other hand, can be totally idle when it's not running any code.

Most JS use is sparing and lightweight and more about interaction than action/animation. Most Flash use is heavy-handed, ham-fisted, and overbearing, done more for cosmetic effect than additional function. Is this a part of the technology? No, but it certainly is nurtured by the differences between the development environments — Flash is still sold as an animation studio! What's more, JS gets to manipulate the DOM directly, giving it a much nicer relationship with the typical web experience than Flash, which is effectively a replacement for the DOM.
lol.

What's the difference between a Cease & Desist letter from a big company, and free advertising for a startup?