skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can do all that, but programming one of these old computers or a modern micro controller allows you to almost see the bits and bytes flowing (if you program in asm).

Nowadays it's even hard to know how a pixel got to the monitor from your RAM in the first place, with the massive amount of knowledge needed and countless layers in between.

Just the datasheet of a memory controller is many times longer than the few pages needed for the asm instruction set and simple schematics of those times. Not to mention the M or G number of transistors on modern chips :)
LikeLight - A lego, arduino, graph api mashup
A lego thumb that blinks for Likes.
Go to any bar you moron...Ton's of sausage there if that's what you are looking for.
Trademark law does not create a blanket right to use a name in all instances, or to the exclusive right to use a particular string of letters. It creates the right to exclusive use of a mark in a particular "class" of trade so long as you actually use that mark and also show that you have protected it against infringement. (This is also why they're a better system than domain names: it's much harder to "squat" on a trademark.) If the original user of the account was not competing with the organization holding the trademark, not pretending to be them, etc, then the fact they have a trademark is irrelevant.

If you have a consulting company named "thisisourname" and I have a muffin bakery called "thisisourname", we can both have trademarks on that name without any conflict.
I launched an almost identical service, http://savethatcall.com, in January. My prices are extremely low (50 cents + 5 cents per minute), but it's hard to compete with free! Good luck.
Hmm...sounds like you have issues
Much better, I feel like the instructions should be changed to reflect this.
Why is that a reasonable definition of "fair"? I got their "first", so it's mine? That attitude just means that people go around squatting for names.

Seriously: you should have to earn the usage of your name. Before this stupid world where poorly thought-through websites allow people to, for the remainder of all time (or until the company dies), reserve a name, multiple people could use the same name as long as they didn't cause confusion to the populace (at which point it should be expected that the courts become involved, as that is a matter of fraud).

Regardless, if you want to take the definition of "first == fair", GIRLGEEKS had that name in 1999. Everyone is making it sound like "if you don't get a trademark on your name someone else can take it from you", but that totally ignores the fact that they'd have to get a reasonable trademark /before/ you established your name (and conflicts with your use class, which I believe this situation did, and causes confusion, which I can see this situation also doing).

In this case, the thing people should be bothered about is that GIRLGEEKS has a "DEAD" trademark that was cancelled for its use class: they don't have a trademark, and Twitter made a mistake in honoring it.
Why are we assuming that a tech conference should be anyone's sexual playground

Are you asking me? It's the site's premise, not mine.

As for their heteronormative assumptions (if any), must the site be prepared to service all markets before they're allowed to enter any one market?

Edited as per gte910h's observation below.
Yeah, the second method does seem to make more sense. But I don't think filtering out a few family members matter much when you have hundreds of friends.

What do you feel about $5 for a match though?
Jane McGonigal: Is Gaming the Opium of the People?
The bigger problem from a libertarian point is that regulation does not necessarily result in better safety. A lot of it simply results in higher costs, and redistribution of money to "licensed professionals". As an earlier commenter pointed out, many insurance companies actually require greater degrees of safety in buildings they insure than building codes do.
The TL;DR version of the post is that celsius throws away 70% of the 2-digit numbers.
"He’s not alone in paying for the cache of being among the first to purchase apple products."

cache? sigh
There's another Open Source News CMS with a ton of traction already Open Publish - http://openpublishapp.com/

"The Nation", "The New Republic", "Japan Week" and a bunch of others use it.
Have you made any money off the service?

How long did it take you to build it? What tech did you use?
Tried posting here? :) Just thought I could contact you but I didn't find your email in your HN profile.

If you are hiring, I'm one of those on the lookout for something interesting to work on.
Same questions as those to @jiffyjeff:

Have you made any money off the service?

How long did it take you to build it? What tech did you use?
I dunno about the statute - you're the one who claimed there was a law requiring Twitter's behavior. You now seem to acknowledge that they DO NOT have to surrender account names merely because someone asserts a trademark claim.

I was pointing out that the domain name process also does not require that a domain owner surrender a domain merely because someone asserts a trademark claim (I can use another's trademark, in cases where I make it clear I am not causing confusion in the market).

I think we are in agreement about a better policy for Twitter; it should let users keep their account names unless required to transfer them via some legal process. I think it would be OK to show some sort of banner on a disputed account's home page, so that visitors are not confused about the true owner - but I don't think it should be just redistributing them.
> Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Gmail, etc. whether they charge users a fee or not, all present themselves as basic infrastructure services, with an implied expectation that if you register a name with them,

You say "implied"; I say "made up by you".
@BBCBreaking: "Japanese authorities to release radioactive vapour to ease pressure at Fukushima nuclear reactor, from AP"

And this is how Gojira was created..
So many managers are too stupid/lazy to value devs based on their output, and instead do so based on what other managers are willing to pay? Excellent.
SearchYC + a few words I remembered of it. (I have an anomalously good memory for things I've written, which is one reason I write so much. It's like Delicious except Yahoo can't lose my bookmarks.)
Rails MVC VS Sproutcore MVC
Now why didn't I think of that.
I used to use bugmenot.com but it got tiring after a while. I keep losing the login and they keep killing the account.
There are some interesting things happening in the graphics space, driven mainly by low-power/mobile device proliferation. It would be a good time to invent something that changes how real-time rendering happens altogether.
And sadly, xcode4 appears to not let you use vim as your editor anymore. Not looking forward to next week.
Wayland can be network-transparent; this is so obvious that the developers didn't bother to explain it (oops). Remote clients will connect to a local proxy server that compresses the window updates (VNC-like) and sends them over the network to a proxy client that decompresses into the appropriate buffers. AFAIK none of this code has been written, but it's not impossible as some people fear.

Now it may happen that no one cares enough about network transparency to bother to write the code, but I don't see that as Wayland's problem.
Sorry, I misunderstood. Yes, they absolutely should be decent and I even think that Twitter et.al. wouldn't have gotten as far as they did if they hadn't demonstrated basic likability and decency in the past. However, even with the best intentions, stuff like this happens. It's just a matter of probability. Now, as a company grows larger, those good intentions disappear as well, essentially being replaced by a group of lawyers, some draconic ToS, and a couple of outsourced employees on minimum wage that get to decide individual users' fates without any possibility of recourse. This looks to me like an inherent problem of the system, the qualities that made up the spirit of a startup often dissolve over time.
Great read. Just a quick note though, you have not installed Disqus correctly. The same two comments are showing on all pages for me.
To help, see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2312911
A big one for me is recipes. I find a great peach cobbler recipe, but if I don't bookmark it, it is tough to find again. Because a search for peach cobbler recipe comes back with hundreds of pages, each page has tens of different links to peach cobbler reciples. And remembering things like, "butter,sugar" don't really help.
I suppose it's the same reason why people would stand in line to buy popcorn in a movie theatre. Sure you could buy it some other time, but it's not quite the same "experience". (and no, I would never wait in line for hours to buy an iWhatever)
The media are failing to point out that the Earthquake was 200+km offshore. There is a huge difference between an 8.9M 200km offshore and an 8.9M directly below a city. The ground motions recorded were relatively low in the cities and not very destructive. PGV (peak ground velocity) is a more accurate way to estimate the strain put on infrastructure. This shakemap shows that the intensity was relatively low: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/shakemap/global/shake...

Many people said the same thing about building codes after the 7.1 in Christchurch last September. That earthquake was 40km away from the city. Cruelly the 6.3 on Feb 22nd with its epicenter directly below the City showed the difference that proximity to the epicenter makes. Proximity to the epicenter and PGV is almost more important than magnitude when accessing how well buildings performed.
CHOICE: At the least is to offer an option to store receipts along with the Credit or Debit card transaction.

PRIVACY: Offer an option to just store the total amount and don't include the specific items purchased.

MICROFORMATS: It would require a standard format (presumably XML) for the receipt data for any store.
2. This can work as replacement: http://code.google.com/p/qlcolorcode/
I didn't downvote you, I can't downvote, but I like the multiwindow layout because then it's very easy to use an external editor in place of the Xcode editor. I liked using MacVim or TextMate when I first got into iOS development.
In other words "in the 10's" and "in the 20's" are completely unhelpful statements. In Fahrenheit the range you named is 59℉ and 77℉. "Low to mid 60's" and "mid 70's" communicates with fewer significant digits. 50's and 80's tell you something significant with just one digit.

So Belgium is a perfect example of a place where Fahrenheit would be better.
How Microsoft Can Beat Apple
Yahoo Unveils New 'Data Factory' Design
The time hack: testing if our brains measure time differently than clocks
A semicolon instead of a comma would have made all the difference.
What is sexist about wanting to find women? What is even vaguely sexist about that site? The tasteful pink toned argyle?

Who said anyone was going to have sex with these women? Perhaps women just want to know where to go to avoid all the men? I think your comment is showing a lot more about you than them.
Thank you -- brand new site and first blog post -- still working some bugs out :)
I believe what they're trying to say is that .com is a completely arbitrary demarcation.

Are you saying that a .com should have precedence over the priority of a .org, .edu, or .co.uk? Should Harvard Book Store (harvard.com) be somehow entitled to @harvard over Harvard University (harvard.edu)?
Yeah that makes sense too. I guess it's hard to grow when I limit my users too much.

About the logo, I kind of agree with you. We're not designers, we just thought the plus sign kind of conveys friends + something extra. It took us a few minutes to do and it looks alright so we just let it go.
30 + celsius degrees * 2
This argument is about significant figures, nothing else.
Apple doesn't like to let their old technologies hang around for very long. Suddenly not having Xcode 3 available is what I'm afraid of.
Isn't the incentive to build a nice house for $1000 that you get to live in it?

Of course, that $1000 house costs a full year of wages from a person earning $3-4/day and spending almost all of it on essentials. And this ignores the fact that many shantytowns occur in areas where property rights are weakly enforced - build a nice house, and 20 people will show up claiming they own it. Even if you have the money, you might instead be spending it on your children's education or something of that nature.

Shantytowns are a result of poverty and nonexistent property rights. Building codes, even if they were enforced, would not magically enable shantytown dwellers to afford something better.
Will The iPhone Alarm Glitch Again This Weekend? Don't Risk It
Why not just put the username in the cookie and make the user enter their password each time? If a user doesn't want to enter their password then they must not give that site much value.
Most South and SE asians didn't even knew the word tsunami before 2004 December 26, including me. There was no proper alert system, awareness or knowledge of the impact at that time and most were caught surprised.

Japan was much better prepared because they have been facing this so long. Blaming this as a behavioural/cultural thing is ridiculous. I would bet that all the South and SE asian countries are better prepared for the next tsunami. We have been already through multiple tsunami warnings from then which did the job pretty well.
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Indeed, he missed the point.

"I think I'll add some ads to this blog just to make the point that if you can't afford to leave money on the table you probably shouldn't."

Indeed, that's almost verbatim what Sebastian said - but for the added insight that if you CAN afford to leave the money on the table, doing so will make you more than that in the long run. JM missed that insight.
You were a former CS major that got lazy, changed majors, and partied...

Why not prove your work ethic by teaching yourself how to code a basic prototype? It's a much better way to gain some traction and attract a technical cofounder. It will take time, but it doesn't look like YC is going anywhere.

Putting the time in and grinding out your own prototype could look good on you as a non-lazy founder... it's all about the founders.
Working conditions drive women from engineering
4:00 am JST, had a 30 second quake that bashed my head on the wall and woke me up.

Edit: I'm from seismically-inactive Pennsylvania and completely not used to this, even after four years. It took me a while to fall asleep the first time since I kept feeling like I was shaking and would jerk awake. Now I don't know if I should try to fall asleep again or what.
A news CMS built using the tools that developers want to build news applications with is a huge win.

This is absolutely true. Find good PMs, developers and designers you trust to do good work, give them authority and time.
Fon has decided to open our WiFi network in Japan to all for free
A bit more on the pro-activity front, I'd suggest that every time they send you a plea to join, you send back in their postage paid envelope a nicely typed letter detailing just how cold it will need to be in hell before you would every join or re-join...
"Decent building codes don't necessarily stop economic growth." No, but they will slow growth, esp in developing nations. Almost all products can be made safer by increasing regulation. The question is... is it worth the price in both $$$ and quality of life (freedom). We would save many lives/injuries by regulating that all recreational vehicles like snowmobiles and ATVs must be manufactured to go less than 30mph. We could regulate that all residential housing be constructed of entirely fireproof materials and have sprinkler systems. Why don't we? Cost. We'd have fewer rec-vehicle manufacturers (fewer jobs) and fewer people could afford homes.
"Fixing reality" is mathematically impossible. Not all people and groups of people can be given their choice of a unique name in a single global namespace. You can define different conflict resolution schemes, but there will be conflicts and there will be losers and there will be people who think the losers should have won (not least of which, the losers themselves) regardless of what you do.
A few relevant links:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/update-to-google-soci...

http://googlesocialweb.blogspot.com/2011/03/decide-what-worl...

http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2011/03/more-picturesque-go...

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2011/03/check-in-gain-sta...
Any reason why you don't use Wordpress?
Analysis of the conflict among Canonical, GNOME, and KDE
Everything has a cost and these costs are not always obvious. Government regulations like building codes and food safety generally ensure that buildings are safe and food is not contaminated, but they do so by defining acceptable things.

There are perfectly safe building designs which would never pass building codes. This is a huge barrier to innovation.

To be legally allowed to construct something that is not explicitly allowed by codes can require years and lots of money to hire engineers and lawyers.

Also, who writes these building codes? It's engineers employed by the construction and construction material industries. They have a perspective shaped by the status quo. So the codes require specific materials and techniques.

Codes also empower lots of unelected officals. A food safety inspector can shut down your plant and force you to throw away all of your products, with absolutely no form of appeal.

I don't really mind building codes. I just wish there were some objective criteria that designs went through. For example, if you could demonstrate your building can withstand an earthquake, regardless of it's method of construction, it's permissible. If you could demonstrate your food was not contaminated with bacteria, etc.

If you give a damn about any of this check out Mike Ohler's "The Fifty Dollar and Up Underground House Book" for the evils of building codes and Joel Salatin's "Everything I want to do is illegal" for food regulations.
FYI: I'm getting about 5% click through rate on this... so if you assume that half of those donate and that each person donates $10 minimum, you can figure out how much money you can raise from simple copy/pasting a few lines of code.
Direct3D is coming to Linux via Gallium: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=mesa_...

AFAIK lots of Mac games use some kind of D3D-OpenGL translation layer (of course this won't help you with D3D features that don't exist in OpenGL). OpenGL still seems to be the API of choice for mobile and Web use, though.
I don't understand why you'd say they're assuming anything about the sexuality of the women that they're looking for. If anything the site is resoundingly silent on that, just literally mapping 4sq checkins to locations for people of the female gender who checked in.
I think what's interesting is "X has a useful property P that everybody talks about. But P is not what we want to optimize on."
We did see many 'friends with benefits' groups on facebook, so we didn't think facebook would care too much about it.
I once read a passage on how insurance companies would be the biggest driving force in a completely free state. For example, you would insure your house against theft which would make it economical for them to create a kind of police force.

Not saying I'd like that, but interesting to see how other things already operate that way.
This makes the Honshu, Japan earthquake number 5.
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The most important line in this article, for anyone who wants to compare one set of medical/insurance/etc related interventions to another:

Bottom line: once again, we find that XXX is shown to be [good/bad] for health, but only if proper econometric techniques are employed. Sadly, it is easier to ignore the need for such techniques and to misunderstand them than to do the work to educate oneself in their use. The real tragedy is that it leads to an unwarranted conclusion YYY...

I.e., a fuck lot of stuff affects health outcomes and without controlling for them, you get nonsense.
Firefox sync means I don't have to worry about losing my bookmarks, and I doubt I'm going to use anything but Firefox for a long while. Your other points are interesting, but I don't really see how they beat the awesomebar integration Firefox has.
Speaking of yellow journalism ... Business Insider has really gotten my goat lately.

Blodget has fallen far from his days writing the Wall Street Guide to Self-Defense for Slate. (though perhaps not really when one considers he was indicted for--basically--white-collar crime)
1. I launched it this morning, so no, I haven't made any money off of it yet.

2. I worked on it part-time for 2 weeks. I'd say it was about 4-5 full days to put together but a lot of that time was spent learning new technologies/APIs I hadn't used before.

The tech used to build it are on the FAQ page:
Tornado
Redis
Twilio
Google URL Shortener
ReCAPTCHA
Mako Templates
jQuery
SimpleModal
IcoJoy
WinningTheme
Much of it is down to the perception of imminent threat, with actually having the money to pay for measures to circumvent it being the next most important factor. Neither of those really existed in Haiti, or South East Asia. (The implication in the original article that the South East Asians weren't all that smart staying on the coast is pretty insulting when you've seen what the infrastructure on the SE Asian coast is actually like.)

Insurance companies can coexist perfectly with lax building codes so long as the market can bear higher premiums - if cost of damage multiplied by probability of earthquake over a time frame is lower than the increased cost of construction or remedial work then nothing gets done. Engineer cartels and political will to avoid preventable casualties at all costs are more important in saving lives here than the free market.
I don't have a Facebook account and have no intention of signing up for one. I don't like the fact of one company possibly controlling my online identity (I don't want Twitter to do it,either), a company I have to sign up for just to comment on blogs.
AnDevCon: Android for Java Developers (video/slides)
You know, I'm really not sure what they'd say Florin. What do you think they'd say?
does a phone carrier not retain the right to revoke your number? likewise, don't phone numbers get reused?
I prefer Python over PHP, and I wanted to experiment with the Flask framework -- and Flask BTW has been really nice to work with.
There’s no ‘organic’ on the App Store
You're right; XP for netbooks is $15-35 according to Wikipedia, so a ChromeOS netbook should be slightly cheaper (assuming Google uses creative accounting to hide the development cost of ChromeOS). This doesn't change my argument that a 3G contract subsidy will not cover the entire cost of a netbook.
Thanks very much, InfinityX0. We are in California and are hiring for our Tokyo office. So far, everybody I know is in good health and nobody was hurt.
I know theres a lot of slide sharing sites, but I find just slides pretty useless without the context of what the speaker is saying. Slides are meant to be complimentary to the speaker so why is it useful sharing this.
Major kudos if they are as wide spread as they sound. I was able to talk with family in Japan using Skype even though their cells were out... so this will definitely help people.
My #1 use for bookmarks is to save particular page while researching a topic. I might do 20 searches with variations of terms, and find a useful page perhaps through a link on a page that came up in the search.

Then, a few days later when I need that page again, Google search is not going to help I'd have to recreate the exact query that led to me finding the site in question. That is why bookmarks are still useful.