skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like this idea. As someone who has built a number of small business websites in the past, I could see using a lg.cx link.

Some comments:

Permanence is always a concern with url shorteners. Especially for small business websites where I'll implement the site (and the associated admin allowing them to customize much of it on their own) and sometimes not touch the code again for years. I don't know what the solution is for this concern but it's worth noting and it's something that business owners ask about when you are using "new" technology.

Don't add comments by default. Yelp already exists and in general comments allow for trolls more often than useful, meaningful information. Meaningful comments generally come from a community. Maybe have a checkbox to allow for disqus comments.

An alternate take on comments... Moderate and scope them. Allow for comments that are actually ABOUT the directions and location. This is probably the ideal solution. But it may also be a lot of (needless) work.

An embeddable widget would be great. Ala google maps. Something that could be embedded with the ability to customize the design minimally. Just enough customization so that it matches the site it's embedded on. When I'm working on a small business website I'm always looking for drop-in reliable widgets that customers are happy with. Ideally the widget would be a drop-in replacement for google maps. But still with all the useful additional links and description found on a lg.cx page. It's an easy sell since it offers more options for the users.

As for customizing the name in the link - that doesn't really matter to me. I can see why it would be cool. But you've already solved the problem - shrinking insanely long google map links and providing a single location with links to multiple map services. I'll likely wrap an lg.cx link with a meaningful description in an <a> tag if it's on a website or in an email. I can see customizing names as useful for "true" bit.ly uses lg.cx though.
"I do find it ironic that you cite things breaking as a reason to move to Apple."

To be clear, things breaking wasn't what I was referring to. Generally, things worked very well on Linux (except [at the time] suspending and wifi on my laptop) and I know they've gotten better.

On the other hand, there was far too much focus on software for the developer's sake and not software for the user's sake for my tastes (even as a developer). I'm fine with the people who are developing the (almost exclusively) open source software developing it for themselves, but it was too much headache for me, so I did the proverbial "voted with my wallet".

I still use Linux a lot, it is the platform my startup is deploying on, and it amazes me every time I ponder the changes to the entire community since kernel version 0.9'ish and slackware when I first started using Linux. I actually trust the Linux community far more than Apple to keep things working over a longer-term timeline (which is great for servers, but I don't care much about on my desktop).
IOS 5 rumored to be major upgrade, may not be released until Fall 2011
PhotoShop stock filters (even the really kitschy looking ones) can be combined in moderation with other techniques to make some startling surfaces such as glass, skin and water. They are tools for generative design, and not really decorative filters as many might presume.
I imagine that it won't be an all inclusive social networking site- it will instead, be a collection of sites that focus on single features (work, education, social groups, hobbies and so on).
People are going to just grow out of this everything model- especially those that have been using it since high school (even grade school). There is something to be said about staying in touch with people from your past, but realistically how much does one have in common with an acquaintance from 15 years ago?
I would venture to say that even the most active facebook users reduce their usage within the first few months and this trend continues as one transitions out of being a student.
In Haskell, I can:

x = 0:y
y = 1:x
main = print $ take 10 y

Producing output:

[1,0,1,0,1,0,1,0,1,0]
He wrote about this some on his blog: http://blog.asmartbear.com/vetting-startup-ideas.html

I don't see why AdWords couldn't work if you built the right experiment. For example, a simple email-capturing landing page with a price tag doesn't touch on it as much as personally talking to people and finding 30 who will (not would, as Jason emphasizes) pay at that price. You can learn a lot from just talking to folks, and an AdWords campaign could help you get in touch with the right people.
Isn't this the point of open source though. They have a vision of making a fast lightweight desktop based on linux and they did it. If people don't like it, they won't use it.
there would have to be an app that -with a single click- would migrate an account over to a new site. Certainly FB could block this. Otherwise ppl are too lazy for the most part.
You made my day. I have been utterly confused why I had not seen DCF analysis used much on HN, given the nature of the site.
People are worried about cancer from electricity, phones, microwaves, terrorists, etc. Silent/Unseen killers are the scariest kind, almost as if it's a good bogeyman.

Japanese can resolve this hysteria after seeing economic costs. However, the governments in lawsuit prone countries will go out of their way to make it very safe in almost everything. eg low speed limits, many speed bumps, background checks, etc. Otherwise the government would get sued for not doing enough, affecting the budget.

Educational Video of Japanese Nuclear Boy for kids
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sakN2hSVxA
3 weeks at start; 4 weeks after 3 years; 5 weeks after 5 years:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/lifeatgoogle/benefits/ind...

By "does this already", rdouble probably meant: work from home, flexible hours, etc.

More vacation time in lieu of salary may also be a tough sell: Google allows up to several (3? 6?) month of unpaid personal time off, making it pretty easy to trade salary for vacation "on demand".
A friend of mine turned down a job offer from Google in 2000. He later joined Google in early 2004. He regrets not having joined Google in 2000, but he's happy that he did join in 2004 because it worked out better for him financially than the other jobs he considered at the time.
Legacy hardware, man up with Jolicloud
governments control the courts; they exempt themselves from liability for things all the time. for instance: try suing the cops in the US because they didn't do enough to protect you.
Haha, the animals are getting a higher percentage of "yes" votes than the inanimate objects. (: With the monkey, someone said, "he looked so cute and innocent that i had to accept him as a snack!". Haha this is surprisingly entertaining.
Could be. What's your interpretation?

Bear in mind that I'm an experienced developer, and consequently am reluctant to call someone a "moron" who should "not be allowed to touch a keyboard" on the basis of the occasional bug in their code.

Yes, confusing memcpy() and memmove() is a novice mistake, but I've done dumber things, and it'd be nice if my users didn't have to pay the price. If the OS or CRTL can save them from my error by rendering the error harmless without any real downside, then it should do so.
U.S. develops "panic button" for democracy activists
I love this! I looked at doing something similar with node a few weeks ago - you nailed it so much better than my attempt. Congrats!
Show HN: Three Square Feet
Yes, I love package managers that don't provide a mechanism for signing code. I also love compromised mirrors.
Ask HN: Your Oldest Finger Print on the Internet
Just for fun (and to sadly date myself...): What is the oldest finger print you can find of yourself on the Internet (content you created or that was created by a human about you [e.g. no auto-generated birth announcements, etc])?

For me:

Linux Activists mailing list archive (Sept 10, 1993): http://ftp4.de.freesbie.org/pub/misc/tsx-11/mail-archive/linux-activists/Volume6/digest
(search for "travis jensen")
Ask HN: Quitting in the middle of the project?
Hi,

I'm working at a company, which loves overtime. People work 60+ hours/wk on a regular basis, I log in around 40-50 and am one of the slackers. One time I left the office at 6am on Sunday, while one of my coworkers left; then I came back at 10am to a meeting and it turns out he just pulled an all-nighter. Last week I left at 1 on sunday, the rest of the team stayed until the dawn.

These deadlines are driving me insane. I told pretty much everyone I'm not coming on Saturday. Told them I'll be on Skype.

Of course, on Saturday I received a bunch of text messages and phone calls from my manager, saying how uncool it is of me to skip work, and how irritated they are with my behavior. I said my pupils are dilated from an eye exam so I can't drive from another city (an hour drive). The reply: Take the bus.

I mean, this isn't funny anymore. I do not hold stake in the company, the job isn't that exciting and does nothing for my resume and my hourly rate is at the lowest point in three years.

Quite frankly, I just want to quit right now, and study art or something full-time, since I'm not even sure I like coding anymore.

I would really appreciate some opinions.
The other point is getting lots of smart people to cooperate, instead of reinventing everything under the sun.
:( That's really unfortunate, but I guess it's hard to know in 2000 what you're getting into.
the core:

<input type="file" webkitdirectory directory multiple mozdirectory onchange="getSongs(this.files)">

There is a security issue on windows, try type `shell:cache` in the directory browsing dialog.
> Check System Preferences. It’s off by default.

If it's off by default it doesn't exist for most users.
The point is truth in advertising. If a bottle says that it's 100% fruit juice, it had better be 100% fruit juice. Sure, I could look at the ingredients, but should companies be allowed to outright lie to sell their products?

It seems that the "gambling" claim is well supported. (see Wikipedia -- e.g. from MSN Money: "Chris Bauman [[director of Swoopo in the US]] told one blogger: 'Winning takes two things: money and patience. Every person has a strategy.' Indeed, he undoubtedly does. The problem is that, as with the gambling systems peddled by countless books, none of those strategies will actually work. Just remember that no matter how many times you bid, your chance of winning does not increase.")
The standard is to use # in anchor tags that don't link anywhere that get hijacked with javascript and typically using jquery use e.preventDefault() which will stop the # from going into the address bar. You can also use return false. But e.preventDefault() is best practice. You need the # in the href because without it older browsers will not act like its a link which will prevent :hover from working. The # signs you are seeing all over the web are probably people who are not implementing preventDefault or return false. You could also be seeing them for sites that attempt to use something like jquery address for ajax navigation. If you are attempting to copy and share one of these links and it is not working then the developer didn't set up the ajax state management correctly for the particular app you are using. On a side note, you should probably leave these types of programming specific questions for stack overflow. I wouldn't consider this appropriate for hacker news in my opinion. Also you will probably get a larger response for this type of question on stack overflow. Heck, it has probably already been asked and answered multiple times on there.
Sounds like everyone else expects something that you aren't willing to give; either discuss this with the managers or bosses and see if something can change, or give your notice and find something else.

I'm assuming you have the ability to quit from what you wrote.
> Star Ship Troopers
> human-on-human violence, people being ripped limb from limb..

> Titanic
> a nude scene and a sex scene, it had a suicide attempt, a suicide on screen, ..

You seemed to complain that the rating organization requires older age on the viewers of Star Ship Troopers than Titanic. Do you really consider these two scenes as being equally bad for the kids?

Moreover, I bet that being immersed in an interactive scenario and controlling parts of scenes is more captivating and can influence you more than merely watching something passively. Not to mention the number of hours kids typically spend playing such a game is vastly higher than what they spend watching a movie of the same level of violence/nudity.

As for real-life violence, I do not think "people being ripped limb from limb" is a usual happening in any school playground.
My old Angelfire site from 1995!
http://lifehacker.com/#!5785555/how-perfectionism-can-lead-t...

for example.

I was pleasantly surprised to find that Firefox will do a successful Save As of the content, even though View Source only shows the original page. And the ScrapBook plug-in also saves the page correctly.
Everything is fine. Keep drinking the Kool aid.
Boxing Mouth Guard
The Australian Dental Association recommends that anyone who participates in a sport that carries a risk of contact to the face should wear a mouthguard. Fortress Mouthguards are manufactured by Race Dental, Sydney's largest and most advanced dental laboratory.
That is being fixed "right now"[1], they seem to have most of it implemented (yes, obviously testing and documentation is still needed before its ready for non dev-branch release).

[1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=115528 (I haven't bothered checking the mailing list, but the latest forum post in that thread was two or three days ago)
Dude, you are such a schadenfreude kill. I liked it much better the other way.
Good luck. The media (and people in general) are horrible when it comes to technical things and scary invisible things. Nuclear is both.
If you hate what you're doing and have the financial reserves to survive 4-6 months of unemployment, quit right now.

* You don't owe them anything
* They, as a company and individuals, do not love you
* This isn't what you're passionate about

If you have the finances to survive for 4-6 months and no (or manageable) debt, I say quit.
Thanks for your trust on India...your prediction might come true...
I've always liked the standard of having a # value, and then using JS to prevent the default link behaviour (prevents address bar from changing to #)
Implying economists use anything but data in developing macroeconomic forecasts is just absurd. Give it a rest.
I can't pick just one. (So I didn't vote.) I use both. I use Python mostly for scripts and small projects of a few hours' duration. Some projects are in 2, others are in 3. My most recent project switched from 3 to 2 halfway through. (I just had to change one call to print().)
An actual example of an MITM in the wild [2008]
I've never had luck outsourcing development to India (for a variety of reasons), though I know people who have. I'm curious about how those who have been successful managed to succeed, and if it was more than just sheer luck.
I guess it all just depends on what you value. Personally, I thought I really wanted to find a job in California doing programming. I finally got this job that I thought would be everything that I had dreamed of, and shortly after moving 1500 miles away I really got the chance to learn what I truly valued. I found that it wasn't being in CA, or money or even working for a cool, young company - it was being around the people that mattered to me, my family and friends, my pets back home, the city that I was familiar with. I was very unhappy because I was so far from these things. Talking on the phone and using Skype only reinforced my desire to move back. Being told to just endure it for a year or more only made me wonder why I should need to put myself through something I disliked so much. So, against just about most logical reasoning from a business and resume standpoint, I quit the job and packed up my car and hit the road back east in one day. I don't regret it one bit and am much happier because I made that decision. I did have a job that welcomed me back, though, so this helped.

It sounds like your situation is mostly against the company itself, whereas mine had nothing to do with the work, but perhaps this story of mine can help you somehow. :P
How to import MOD to iMovie with MOD to iMovie Covnerter for Mac?
No debt, lease expires soon, savings for ~3 months.
It's the market potential, rather than the country of origin, that I make and support my statement on. Though India is home to many intelligent and dedicated developers, I believe the next 'FB' killer will be developed in the States, but not for the States [market].
Instagram doesn't sell because it has a superior filter versus Photoshop. Instagram sells because it lets the user express to their friends that the user is the kind of person who, given his druthers, would prefer tactile, authentic, classical, work-of-artisanal-hands-rather-than-mass-produced-at-a-sweatshop-in-China camera to an iPhone.

Critically, the user actually prefers iPhones, or he would actually use an antique film camera. But that doesn't matter to him and it doesn't matter to his friend and it doesn't matter to Instagram.

c.f. The discussion about using emotions to sell software.

P.S. Photoshop is also an emotionally compelling piece of software, but its narrative is completely different. For one thing, if you use Photoshop, you get to sneer at this blog post.
If my bosses don't appreciate me, I quit. Based ONLY on the "take the bus" comment, I would set up a private meeting with your boss and tell him/her that you don't like their attitude and how you are treated, that you are extremely unhappy and that if it doesn't change immediately, you will quit (and I would follow through if there are no changes over the next week or so).

Now, factoring in everything else doesn't leave them in a strong position. I don't mind working long hours, or even on weekends, BUT I have to be rewarded for doing so. If I am doing more than normally (in your contract, or in similarly or better paying jobs that you can easily get elsewhere) expected, then I expect to be rewarded and appreciated for doing so. Telling you to take the bus doesn't show much appreciation, so I'd say screw it, mid project or not, and leave.

--- You're health, well-being and happiness are much more important than their project. ---

(Ironically, it has just hit 7am as I write this, but at least I've been up all night because I wanted to, not because somebody is asking or expecting me to)

EDIT: After rereading what you said, it looks like you already know the answer:

"I mean, this isn't funny anymore. I do not hold stake in the company, the job isn't that exciting and does nothing for my resume and my hourly rate is at the lowest point in three years."

If you can (that is, if you have enough money to survive however long it will take to find a new job), then I would definitely quit. If you can't, then you should get your CV/Resume out to companies right away and save as much as you can until you either get another job, or have enough money to survive until you do.
Wrong, this happens all the time. For example, municipalities pay out all the time to the Westboro Baptist Church when local police are unable to defend them from the people they are intentionally enraging. (This is how WBC makes their money.)
I have not ever registered an account here and almost of my friends too. Now, around me is Facebook, Facebook and Facebook. Perhaps, that is the time for Google to accquires this outdated social network!
I think a better question is why hasn't Apple created the modern-day replacement for the record label of olde? You know, doing stuff to increase visibility of artists and pump up the various scenes than they currently do with their current "you upload, we take a cut" mode. Like having local iTunes concerts, performed by artists selling on iTunes. Free admission if you buy a $20 iTunes card. Or putting on impromptu gigs at various venues like coffee houses, dive bars, or local music clubs to generate some buzz around talent. Get Woz involved and resurrect the Us Festival under the iTunes brand, with indie artists from all sorts of genres. Music is about so much more than pumping sound into your ears.

I agree with the "changing of the guard" sentiment, but I think it better to disrupt from the outside, rather than prop up the old guard for a while longer. There's on old saying "once a pickle, never a cucumber". I just don't believe the industry can be un-pickled.
You guys are hilarious with your chests puffed out screaming about death to the financial players who were in trouble. Have you considered the massive negative shock to liquidity that would have resulted?

Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase etc. deal with an inordinate amount of the world's liquid assets. If they had failed, the problems wouldn't have been a few quarters of negative GDP growth--we could have seen the collapse of financial markets everywhere along with prolonged global depression. Should we have had the guts to deal with that too?
* Can you talk to them?

Is the company DNA so focused on 60-70hrs/wk that there is no middle ground?

* Can you negotiate a raise?

You say that you're earning the least per-hour you have for 3 careers. Can you negotiate up? Sure, you hate it now, but if you were earning another 10-20k/year, would you still hate it as much?

* Can you get fired?

If you just work 40hrs/wk, will you get fired? Would you mind that?

* Can you stay on and build a network?

Can you keep drawing a paycheck, working 40-50/wk, and build a network to find another job or entrance to an art program?
MOON: MapReduce On Opportunistic eNvironments
Having grown up in Russia and personally being in contact with a few people affected by the Chernobyl fallout, it's a bit hard to take someone who tries to diminish the impact of that accident to this degree.

Yes, maybe the UN report showed such a small number of confirmed fatalities, but I have a sneaky suspicion that they based it mostly on data collected by the Soviet Union. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't trust any data that came from an authoritarian government, especially one run by a bunch of Russians, especially one that collapsed 20 years ago (likely destroying countless incriminating documents in the process), especially concerning a deeply embarrassing incident such as Chernobyl.

The public may be overreacting to the nuclear threat posed by the Fukushima reactors, but this seems like a subtle attempt at rewriting history.

(I wouldn't be surprised if there is a UN report 20 years from now proving that Saddam Hussein did indeed win re-election with 99% of the vote.)
Will do (both)! Thanks.
Manchester/Warrington borders here (Birchwood). Cheap office space + quick train journey to the centre of Manchester.
What do you mean by horrible? I think it makes sense to be concerned about anything you're subjected to that you're not sure is safe.
Forget Rivalries, Pay Attention to the Developers
Well, since it uses 'Enlightenment' as a WM it makes sense.

I'll tell you what, as an Atheist, if any Christians want to name their next bible reading app Secular Humanism v3.0 it'll be fine with me.
Patrick is very talented. Just this one thing, selling to women is very valuable. Fantastic insight.
Thanks, article seems interesting but "news feed" was an innovation that came in after the steady success of facebook (profiles, friends etc..etc.. that went viral over a tightly knit social crowd and spread from there).. Incremental innovations are what I see can get a startup in the rankings.. I found duckduckgo is really cool but still wouldn't appeal to the general population but blekko seems interesting..
Yay! Well, the joke is supposed to be that the alien doesn't know what's appropriate to eat and what is not. Re: nickff's comment, I think that top bar actually gets lost. I put a tiny alien head next to the question to make it clearer. (: