skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use the Fredrik and it works well for me as a standing desk.
Apache gets paid 3.141592654 cents for each Google +1 click because of their "+1 patent"

http://grep.codeconsult.ch/2011/04/01/1-tm-a-rosy-financial-...
How did they apportion scholarships or determine who received a spot in programs with a limited number of openings? Institutions assess for many reasons, but primarily because educational opportunities are rationed and they need some method for separating the worthy from the unworthy without relying entirely on personal testimonials or politics.
Sorry, my bad ... It was Carl, he's new.

This was an April Fools prank, thanks for all the fun
feedback. Glad that we could give (most of) you a
laugh. Have a great weekend!

sigh political correctness sucks.
At Flick(e)r, we finally fixed the misspelling of the company name.
I created a bash-like shell with C++ syntax. It saves a lot of typing, and it's only 412,011 lines of template-heavy code, so it's easy to extend:

http://blog.mezeske.com/?p=377
Am I the only one who found the idea with tiny bubbles at the scrollbar more interesting than the story itself? Front-end developers' curse :P
All too true. By the time they do something about it the exclusivity would've ended and the price of the drug dropping back to normal.
Gmail Motion BETA released
Kind of terrible that they're using April fools to sell something. Some people are getting mold and if you get reddit gold you can get mold to retaliate. I mean I know they like are doing things to hire more people but this just seems a little in poor taste. It's not fun anymore when they're really asking you for money.
Any chance this is just an April Fool's joke with a whole lot of time put into it? :P
"I can't imagine there's a significant financial burden imposed by Data.gov"
You allude to what I think is the main question ... what are the actual costs of running this site? In an era of misinformation and judgment calls I think this knowledge is absolutely crucial. Anyone know where to look? I assume Data.gov itself wouldn't contain such valuable and transparent information :>
Jordanians call for release of Reuters journalist
Ten (more) industries that are dying in the USA
What I love the most about it is that I don't see any flash there. It's all HTML.
The Real Story Behind Bob Parson's Elephant-Killing "Safari"
I'm still optimistic. For some reason, while the general exclusive is for 3 years, for my condition(Familial Mediterranean Fever) it is 7 years. Yikes.
The reputation system is probably (read likely) gameable, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have any value. Ebay has a very buyer friendly system system that the risk of getting scammed is pretty low if you follow the rules set for Paypal.
did they really mean (type at least 32,000 WPM)?

Yes, they did.

You'll note that the rate demanded from Europeans is significantly more reasonable than what is expected from Americans. That is because European labour laws don't let Google demand the kind of productivity levels that they get from Americans.
Generate a HTML5 Framework with SwitchToHTML5
HACKERS: Airbnb for experts, 526 signed up in 1 month, next?
The AWS team has been working on the new Amazon $NAME product for over 10 months:

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/04/announcing-aws-name.html
Why are you willing to pay more to stay in someone's apartment than to stay in a hotel?
Sydney start-up OrionVM develops world’s fastest cloud storage - TNW Australia
Take a Ride with Google Motion - It's April 1st people
Careful Matt, you almost promoted bbPress standalone.
I guess I'll leave this here:
http://mashable.com/2011/04/01/bob-parsons-elephant-story/

Caution: Ignore if you prefer the stereotype of an exposed rich white game hunter.
This case is clearly not over the line but it seems to me that the minimum can't be a direct use of code. If someone did enough documentation of the architecture and algorithms used in the Linux kernel and handed that off to someone else who reimplemented I assume it would be hard to argue it wasn't a derived work.

When LWN does a description of how the VM or scheduler works they are effectively describing the code. But maybe that's the same as a research paper on algorithms where reimplementation is clearly possible. Maybe for it to be a derived work you'd have to describe the code so exactly you'd be effectively translating it in whole to another form.
Possible solution? http://i.imgur.com/UOgD2.jpg
I understand your point but the difference in the Colgan case is that the pilot made a tragic mistake, whereas the disgruntled employee deliberately wiped the show. Yes, his employer is careless for not revoking his permissions, but the question remains - how is this not his fault?
Color theme «Dzhan» for Emacs
This makes me wonder: how is greplin so fast? And how come gmail search is slow?

(Yeah, I could ask somewhere else ... but this is HN, I bet someone looking at this Just Knows.)
You got me there I got to be honest. It took me a while to realize it's April Fools' :).
InfoQ: MacRuby Roundup: Ruby Apps Show Up in Mac AppStore
AirBnB is a combination of vrbo and couch surfing.
It would be interesting to see real stats but my wager would be that the room rentals are doing better than the full apartment rentals.
I thought the Ultimate Truth of optimizing computer programs was: Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
PhantomJS: The Power of WebKit but Without the Broswer
There is no where else to find better feedback compared to those we got from HN. Even if this might get more down votes, we still want to see what you think about the platform we are building. Again, we do want be ourselves, instead of Airbnb of XXX. Thanks for your time, we really appreciate it.
It's strange that people will pay $5 for a cup of Starbucks for the convenience and atmosphere, but insist on saving $3/year by going with the most obnoxious DNS registrar.

You couldn't pay me enough to have to put up with the GoDaddy bullshit. I have no idea why anyone does. It basically costs nothing extra to choose a registrar that respects you and provides a non-ridiculous interface.
Nice one from the AWS team
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/04/announcing-aws-name.html
Beyond that, it's bugged:

$(".only_numbers").keydown(function(e) {
var key = e.charCode || e.keyCode || 0;
// allow backspace, tab, delete, arrows, numbers and keypad numbers ONLY
return (
key == 8 ||
key == 9 ||
key == 46 ||
(key >= 37 && key <= 40) ||
(key >= 48 && key <= 57) ||
(key >= 96 && key <= 105));
});

You're able to type ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) into .only_numbers boxes.

And you can't press cmd+a to select all, or ctrl+a to go to the beginning of the line, and argh all manner of awful.
For instance, to be in the neighborhood you are actually visiting. Midrange hotels are often in lame neighborhoods.
ah come on big G. how many april fools?
Responsibility is one of those concepts that we humans made up and spend a lot of time uselessly arguing over. Other examples are whether an action was "justified", whether someone "deserves" something, who gets the credit for stuff, etc.

Examples I'm less sure about: Who "owns" something, whether something is "clean" or "dirty", whether two things are the "same", whether something is "normal" or not. I collect these; if anyone has more to share I'd love to hear them.
presumably looking for ur.php in the logs I would imagine.

SQL injections following this pattern appear to have been happening off and on for six or more months now. The domain name hosting the JavaScript changes each time, but the file name—ur.php—and the style of injection remain consistent. The actions of the scripts have been similar too; pop-up windows and malware downloads. Previous efforts were on a much smaller scale, however: hundreds of compromised URLs instead of hundreds of thousands. In these earlier cases, the attacks originated from IP addresses in eastern Europe and Russia.
Ifttt / If This Then That, killer UI, great service
Just discovered this: ifttt, don't know if it's been posted before

Their UI is really neat and slick. The service automates tasks, on triggers you define (twitter, facebook, sms, email, delicious, ...).
It is. It's also the fault of everyone else involved who didn't back up.
I think any professional can agree that if you're the guy at the top making decisions, everything is your responsibility. Taking the fall for something that goes wrong comes with the territory.

That's why every CEO is responsible for everything that goes on in their company, whether or not they knew every little thing that was going on. It's their responsibility to know, and put processes in place to ensure that they know, and if something still slips through the cracks, own up and take action to fix (or take the fall if it's a big enough issue).

What I think people are missing is that this doesn't absolve the perpetrator of moral, legal, and professional responsibility for a clearly malicious act. So two parties are at fault and should experience the pain in different ways. Fact remains, they should both experience pain.
Thank you, although not everyone agrees. Although sometimes they then get re-upvoted, many of the duplication notifications get downvotes. Here are two recent ones:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2392849

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2392739
Five Color Printing Machines and its features and Brands
Word Per Month?
Yeah, it's very meta, so quite appropriate... ;)
You may want to find a way of notifying them without alerting them it's you. Otherwise if something goes awry down the road and one of your accounts is involved (say an old username that gets brute-forced), you don't get something pinned on you.
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A couple of those things are incredibly easy:

1. Don't use per-machine unix accounts. Use something like NIS or LDAP. Now you can easily disable someone's account on all boxes. THe bonus is that their home directories still stick around (though you can't use aliases like ~username to access them).

2. Use an email system where you can disable a user without deleting all of their emails.
Finally, an explanation I can give my girlfriend for my search history.
I am using Vim on Windows via an app called Console2.

I am not sure how it handles terminal colors. So I just configured Console2 to use Solarized colors and then tried every colorscheme in Vim.

"morning" scheme worked best for me. It is so much easier to read my coworkers crammed code.
Don't bother applying. If you haven't applied by now you'll be automatically disqualified for obviously being too slow to be an autocompleter.
As it just so happens, they are. In spades.
Please please do that! I for one would love to have this scheme in VS2010!
The drug maker K-V Pharmaceutical obtained exclusive
rights to produce an injection for women at high risk of
delivering prematurely. But the FDA is opening up the
market to specialty pharmacies after the company raised
the dosage price from $20 to $1,500.

http://www.latimes.com/health/la-na-fda-drug-price-20110331,...
I applied. It only took me 1.6 seconds My keyboard caught fire, but sometimes sacrifices have to be made.
I'd like some code that writes itself ;-)
Can't they leverage their existing technology (http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html) for that?
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/ drops back to CLI today, it seems.
Gmail Motion - Fully Control your Gmail through gestures
Gmail Motion: control Gmail with your body
Hopefully they will do the same for colchicine! So far, no cigar though and we(colchicine consumers) have a pretty active community that's been trying for years now to prevent this from happening with little luck.
Thank you for the work!

It would be very interesting to learn about the methods you used to create this.

Are you planning to create a palette with more shades? Some time ago I needed lighter Tango tones and created this extended palette: http://emilis.info/other/extended_tango/
Firefox 4 for Android: Desktop-Like Browsing for Your Phone
I wrote my own scheme:

https://github.com/strange/dotfiles/blob/master/.vim/colors/...

Python: http://files.pipsq.com/strange/python.png
Erlang: http://files.pipsq.com/strange/erlang.png
OsCommerce security and htaccess | oscommerce magento ecommerce seo blog
Xk3d - xkcd in 3D, and looking for help
"What I'm saying is that relying on crazy people to not go crazy is not a good data loss prevention strategy."

Upvoted for exactitude. Also, it's worth remembering that virtually no one hires already disgruntled employees. That's not to excuse anything that the truly disgruntled do to retaliate. But it does suggest that an abusive employer represents a risk to everyone relying on their 'teams'.

EDIT: I don't think the pilot was retaliating, by the way. What he was subject to is a different kind of abuse.

Separately, when two parties are in a fight, it's always worth remembering who started it. If blame needs to be shared, and it's unfair to share it evenly, the unprovoked aggressor deserves a special measure of approbation. Typically, this is the party with more power, not less, for the simple reason that it's a lot harder to abuse a lack of trust and authority.
Oh you mean interpolating the Bayer filter, okay.

I work in this industry (digital imaging, not space) but since all color-filtered images I get to see are raw, I only see checkerboard grayscale :-)
I asked a similar question recently and the best answer I received was to start coding on the side, then once your side project can bring in an income that matches what you make now, you can pursue it full time.
Is it April Fools Day Today?
=) Guess this is the day to post stuff to SO
To write any story about the poverty of Zimbabwe without making reference to the dictatorship of Robert Mugabe is almost criminal. Zimbabwe use to be the bread basket of the region and that didn't come to an end because of the elephants: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwe
Even the Republicans don't grease their slopes this much.

One guy killing one elephant for the sake of a minor and frankly uninteresting publicity stunt (and this guy being part of a small minority of company owners capable of doing this, since shareholders would never approve) does not ipso facto lead to a bunch of rich sport-hunters decimating the wildlife population of Africa as a revival of some sort of primal hunting instinct. That's absolutely absurd. I seem to recall this show back in the day called the "Crocodile Hunter" featuring the contest of a human with an endangered species in waaaaay more glorified terms than this.
They're being fixed. It'll probably take a while. Best bet right now is to develop against http://socket.io/. I'm pretty sure that will be updated when a secure websockets protocol is implemented. Also, for now, you can use a fallback of flash sockets which in my testing perform nearly as well (all the other fallbacks perform pretty poorly if you care about latency at all)
Just throwing this out there but..... you. Clearly your elitism knows no bounds.
Gmail Motion (BETA)
Digital Identities - Trolling for your soul
I love lettuce.vim: http://i.imgur.com/67LH9.png

You can download it here: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1975

Make sure to enable 256 colors.
So if I get it right, FDA has enforced a monopoly by not allowing competitors to penetrate the market with the same drug.
Wood is in very short supply in that part of the world. And building a wall strong enough to stop an elephant, and big (long) enough to cover a farm is really really hard without power tools.
I'll second that. I would happily pay good money for that shirt.
Wow, that's just sad.
SpiderOak announces new Kansas City facilities
Google has announced this week that they have chose Kansas City, Kansas as the city for their highly anticipated Gigabit, Fiber-to-the-Home network, and naturally, SpiderOak is jumping on board to take advantage of these services.
http://urbanairship.com has turned into an 8-bit working game.
Love this one. Best part is the hidden dialup sound and <blink> tags.
Yeah, I did something stupid in my own test. Probably I was thinking about Object.seal(). Nevertheless your own test revision #3 shows that accesses to frozen properties are roughly 14 times slower.

Revisions #5 and #6 do an allocation in the "hot" testcase so the real cost of property lookup just becomes hidden behind cost of memory management.
Recycling criminals take Bundesbank for millions
I really like that one, If we weren't the April 1st, I may have considered this a real project.

A first-class c++ troll, I admire the writing.
Yep. I don't really see the problem if your market is B2B in the US or Western Europe. Those shopping for their business at work, ought to be using high speed connections (albeit ones that may or may not be saturated by fellow workers).

If your market is developed Asia, then most cellphones have better internet speeds equal to Australian broadband, so that extra 5kb is a rounding error in transmission time.
GrooveShark is 3D for April 1
And it's supporting the government of Zimbabwe, some of the worst on the continent.
This seems overly complex to me. I would have preferred xmlsh.
Exactly, and this is the problem, not the drug manufacturers.
The problem with that is if you choose to argue in court that it's malicious and lose, you've actually libelled the other party (accusing them of malice) opening yourself up to a counter suit.

Got to love the law...
Google Launches Gmail Motion
Zimbabwe used to be a freakin' breadbasket before Mugabe wrecked it.
Gmail Motion - A new way to communicate
The counterpoint to that is if they don't grant the exclusivity, the cos won't be willing to invest money and resources to do the testing because the returns wouldn't be as strong.

In these cases though, the counter-argument to that is the price jump is unjustified relative to the $ invested in doing the testing.
LinkedIn's "People you may know" section is now filled with historical figures and fictional characters, all of which have pretty elaborate profiles.

http://awesomescreenshot.com/057alia5b
Appie - Be a part of the next generation Apple-killer product
You think you are creative enough?
I don't work for the man, I work for the money. :-P

If I didn't get paid, it would be a hobby.
> Top Gear doesn't get a pass here for being a comedy show.

Actually, if it were a comedy show it would get a pass. Satire is a valid defence in law - it's why comedians aren't being sued all the time.

The issue they have is that Top Gear takes a basis in fact (particularly in the reviews) and certainly isn't out and out comedy so the defence probably doesn't apply.
Report: Apple to Absorb iPad Cost Increases in Japan
Gmail Motion Beta: "A new way to communicate"
haha
Facebook encourages more business pages with new feature
Introducing Gmail Motion
I hadn't been aware of Tarau's work:

http://www.cse.unt.edu/~tarau/

The real treasure looks like being his theory of isomorphisms:

http://logic.csci.unt.edu/tarau/research/2010/ISO.pdf

I haven't read it all yet, but it reminds me a bit of the
isomorphic kernel described here:

http://www.informatik.uni-marburg.de/~rendel/unparse/rendel1...

Discusion on LtU here:

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4191

Sometimes wading through the noise on HN is worth it when gems like this turn up.

Mik
Narwhal in London according to Google Maps!
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...
Youtube 1911 mode (click 1911)
5-hour energy is amazing
On a programming binge trying 5-hour energy for the first time. This stuff is great.
Move beyond behavioral targeting: using mouse movements to read visitor’s mind
Agreed - they're still teaching undergrads Fortran '77 in 2011, as there's this weird conception in the physics community that no language since F77 could possibly even be arithmetically correct.
I cannot seem to get the colors to render properly on Snow Leopard, using Terminal.app, and vim. Anyone else have any trouble but get it to work?

I installed the thing as instructed. I installed SIMBL and the SIMBL plugin, installed Solarized Dark Terminal.app theme, installed vim using pathogen, and set .vimrc with the additional g:solorized_termcolors=16 option.
Benchmarking Rails 3 Sorting Libraries
>He killed an elephant [...] People should be outraged at that.

Few sentences later:

> [...] That doesn't mean they don't have a right to an opinion [...]

Pick one.
Textmate users should absolutely check out AckMate (https://github.com/protocool/AckMate), which runs circles around "find in project".
Looks cool :) looking forward to use it !!
I had the same issue. You can't even read the bottom of the post on an iPad. I eventually ran it through Readability just to be able to read the entire post.
Move beyond behavioral targeting: using mouse movements to read visitor’s mind http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/behavio...
Oh. This is a "real story" apparently based solely on a conversation with the guy who shot the elephant, who is now furiously doing damage control as best he can.

This must be a new definition of "real story" I'm unfamiliar with.
What happens if you fill out the form (for the lazy like me)?
I remember GazeHawk had done some research about this, I'd love to hear their thoughts.
This is kool.
Gmail Motion ;-)
Google Maps Mania: Google Maps Removes Buckingham Palace
Haven't these drugs basically gone through extensive human trial already?
Me too, the shirt rocks. Or please share the image in HQ!
the key is driven briskly = o(trashing it on a track)
That's a great idea!

Unfortunately, the fallback mechanism doesn't work properly (or doesn't event exist?). For instance, with an older Firefox 3.5 you don't see anything where the comic should be. Neither 3D nor the good old 2D.
Exactly. If you don't have expertise in house, then it can be cheaper to hire that task out to an outside company rather than hire someone to manage it in house. This sure sucks for the TV show, but at least they have someone else to hold accountable. If this had happened and they handled their own IT, there wouldn't be anyone but themselves to hold accountable. And you can bet that means a lawsuit with damages.
This is very disappointing.

Later this month I'll be releasing the first open data project for the country where I currently live – the Isle of Man.

I used data.gov as an example of what can be done, why it's important, and also to get initial funding for the project.
Perhaps to make them "stand-out" less (so they don't distract you when you're skimming the code).
I have never seen a government-granted monopoly that did public good, no matter the reasons.

If the FDA can't do its job properly, then it should stay the hell out of the way.
Read my mind. Also stole some of the change I had laying beside my laptop. Impressive.
Http://www.mjakbar.org/siegewithin.htm
Surely the data company has redundancy or backups or data recovery software available? Surely they considered the risk of a staff member deleting copies / a hacker / a fire.

Surely the producers have at least working copies somewhere (I can't see people live-editing on a cloud server). Surely they considered the risk of the company going bust / data loss / their own staff deleting the copies.

Would assume this was an April Fools thing it's that bad (except for the fact it quite obviously isn't due to the quite obvious reputation damage that will effectively destroy this company).
After having to deal with Atlassian Confluence it’s no surprise I’m angry.

JIRA’s alright though.
hey one question though.. is it related to the day?? :D
Very nice.

The Modern Perl Book I linked to elsewhere here also comes with publishing tools for producing PDF, LaTex, ePub & HTML and (I believe) was used for the finished printed book (http://onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/).
It's not the same. The previous "drug" was really just mixing two existing drugs together. The company hoped they could legally prevent people from mixing those drugs. But the individual unmixed drugs are widely available. The FDA said they would not prevent people from mixing (compounding) drugs.

In this case it's drug on it's own. I.e. manufactured. And for this they do actually have the legal right to be the only ones making it.