skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started to write Sleep when I was an undergraduate around 2002. My goal was to develop a Perl-inspired language for the JVM with an API to embed it into applications. Sleep predates a lot of JVM languages. http://sleep.dashnine.org/

It's not mainstream but I used it in After the Deadline, jIRCii, and now Armitage. When jIRCii was more active I had several scripters using it to contribute to the client. Scripts ranged from a few lines to several thousand lines of code. I receive emails occasionally from users but there are not too many Sleep hackers out there. Still, I'm doing better than most languages since my number is greater than 1. :)

So my advice for would-be language hackers: go for it. Writing Sleep was one of the greatest learning experiences for me as a programmer. I now look at languages through an entirely different lense. I don't get too excited about fads or syntactic sugar as I know how I'd implement them.

Also, it's not that hard.
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This is something I have been waiting for! Simple and actually useful. I was skeptical at first, but being able to build a list then later listen to the song is great!

Besides cleaning up the site and making it look pretty, the MVP is very well executed. What are your plans for monetization?

Also any thoughts on building in a playlist feature to run through my entire list of songs? How about sending songs to my contacts to-do list?

Good job though!
Nope. Atlanta, GA, but the IP I was using doesn't show up right on geo ip lists if you were doing reverse lookups. Might show up as chicago, might not show up at all.
In summary: Instead of trying to decide if a piece of paper is important enough to warrant keeping, just toss it in a box. By the time the box fills up time has decided that question for the bottom half of the stack.
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How can you damage a trashy, publicity-stunt-driven brand by shooting an elephant?

You can't.

GoDaddy is light-years ahead of the competition in terms of marketing.

He may have lost several thousand bucks do to some discerning geeks, which is not the GoDaddy customer anyway.

Nothing to see here.
It's not just a truism. It's like a koan. It's meant to make you think about what you really need.
Explain how you know people want what you're building.
Your HN submission is two months too late ;-) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2142104
A million bucks! Don't make me drool :P Talk about the glory days of CMS.

There are still "enterprise" solutions going for that much these days - you need a fair bit of "infrastructure" in your company to sell to those folks though, and probably insane levels of enterprise features (that look good on paper but are probably the reason most people that work at big organisations hate their CMS :)

Thanks for taking the time to read and comment, and for the kind words. The real test, of course, will be when we open our doors for real public feedback with live demos/public signup products. Fingers crossed!
Well, the DNF header is funny. The rest, not so much.

But let's not fool ourselves, wait until the end of the day.
The Age of Mass Computing- Bigger than Cloud
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I've seen a spike in my error log the past 2 weeks of SQL injection tries on my login/signup pages.

Seems they were going after low hanging fruit based on my logs and the syntax they were using.
It won't stop the episode airing, the retraction will likely be released on the BBC website, there'll be a press release but even BBC news won't cover it and there'll probably be a mention in an upcoming top gear, which will likely have Clarkson just take the piss out of Tesla for being little bitches that can't take a review.

I don't even know why Tesla would want their vehicle reviewed by Clarkson. He's brutal on Diesel vehicles, even when they compare on-par with gasoline. From what I remember, Clarkson was incredibly pro-tesla as I half expected him to say "It's electric," look at another camera and carry on the show like they'd just asked him to test out a golf cart.

> The company says that if the episode had been broadcast in 2008, and not rebroadcast repeatedly it would not have sued.

Are these people complete utter retards, what fucking planet do they live on that they don't understand that TV episodes rebroadcast repeatedly. Reruns of friends episodes 17 years after their initial run doesn't give someone a clue that TV has reruns?

I wouldn't buy a roadster simply for the utter idiocy of this comment from the company. I'd question whether they have a simple employee capable of fastening a damn nut to a bolt because their management can't comprehend that TV shows have reruns. It's not like there's entire TV stations based around reruns... oh wait, but there is!
35 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute. Several start-ups all trying to do online video curation. But they all think people want CollegeHumor.com or "skateboarding dogs" (to quote Sal Khan of Khan Academy). http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/31/video-curation-is-growing-u...
It's not a crime to kill an elephant.
It's bigger than all that.
It's a sin to kill an elephant.
Do you understand? It's a sin.
It's the only sin that you can buy
a license and go out and commit.
That's why I want to do it before
I do anything else in this world.
Do you understand me?
Of course you don't.
How could you?
I don't understand myself.

Clint Eastwood, "White Hunter Black Heart"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100928/
bpeters thanks for the kind words! Monetization is not a key priority, though there is a small chance to make some commission from affiliate links (as you might see through our download links).

We do hope to allow a playlist feature, but currently are only able to provide 'previews' of the songs versus the full songs. And YES! Recommendations to friends' lists is def where we are heading next.
Here's an ugly GUI for Uglify: http://alexsexton.com/uglifui/
Don't be put off, most owners of their own companies are running around like chickens with their heads cut off for a chance to make it big.

If you have an easy day gig that pays well and have time to hack on the side, consider yourself in good shape.
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The posts targets users not familiar with nix systems as well.

So the idea is to convince them to run servers connected directly to the Internet without any system administration skills? No wonder I get so much spam.

Somehow I think distributing binaries would be the logical solution to "node.js is hard to compile", not convincing people with no UNIX experience to pay Amazon $70 a month to let them run their very own server. But that's just me.

(I have personally compiled node from source on Debian and RHEL5. It was easy on both machines. The hardest part was to get waf to use all 32 cores on that RHEL machine for the build. But it's actually documented in the node docs!)
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Fair pay for the costs you incur is a great concept. Unfortunately it usually means charging tens-of-dollars (or more) for pennies difference in cost.

See charging for bandwidth use, etc.

edit: removed snark
You make a good point, on second thought EC2 is a pretty good development environment as long as you aren't GUI dependent.

I still don't think it is a good development environment for someone that finds a node.js install too complicated. This seems to be what the article suggests.
Don't be intimidated, take control of the meeting. Confidence reflects success, as a matter of fact, just think of any initial meeting with an important investor as a first date with a girl, stay cool, be charming and impress.
> The company says that if the episode had been broadcast in 2008, and not rebroadcast repeatedly it would not have sued.

FYI Tesla, TV has these things called reruns, they've been around forever. Reruns of Three's Company has outlasted John Ritter (sadly).

Honestly, if this idiocy is an example of the collective intelligence of Tesla's management, then that comment alone will make me not buy anything Tesla. At least every other American car manufacturer doesn't bitch and moan at a comparably great review from Clarkson (it's an electric vehicle, it's a miracle he even did a segment on it. He rags on diesel even when it's comparable to a gas, and he was actually enthused about the roadster). Honestly, it just shows me that North America will never make another great car, because North America can't get intelligent car manufacturers.
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Have you looked into how Grooveshark streams songs? I am only pushing this because I would love a playlist I can build as I think up or find songs and then can playback at some later time. I am always forgetting songs I want to listen to when I get home.
I always hit bugs on 1.4.2. I'd say it's worth a cache miss to avoid a javascript exception.

143 bugs marked fixed in 1.4.3 alone. Why would you want to not have those fixes?
http://bugs.jquery.com/query?resolution=fixed&milestone=...
DST's Yuri Milner offers EVERY YCS11 applicant $250K.
I'll be expanding the webpage to detail that, but essentially:

base03 = background
base02 = background highlight
base01 = background data (comments, etc.)
base0 = normal text

The scheme was designed to allow for:
base1 = optional bold/emphasis

Just swap the zeros (initially I was using minus/plus, e.g. base-1 and base+1 but this isn't usable across all apps) to swap dark and light modes. There is a good example of this in the vim script as well as the sass snippet (and the mutt compile script if you are a glutton for ugly bash scripts).

base3 = light background
base2 = dark background
etc.

You shouldn't need to do any of this manually, however. The vim script has a light/dark mode built in and where there isn't a way to toggle modes I am distributing light and dark versions (the terminal color schemes).
The number one way to "disrupt" your industry is to offer an expensive service at a SIGNIFICANTLY lower price (while maintaining equivalent quality).

There's usually an unofficial cartel no one speaks of and when people start to lose their margins, they start to take notice.
Another vote for Gandi. I've been using them for about 6 years. No bullshit.
Pretty much. The US once created lots of stuff, now 31% of corporate profits are earned by the financial sector. (ie. passing our money back and forth)

See:
http://www.thestreet.com/story/11061024/1/the-cannibalizatio...
P2p car share
Thanks so much for the feedback! We're planning on building in recommendations as a big part of the service -- and trying to make the experience more social overall. Your other suggestions are awesome too.

Glad it's providing a bit of value and utility!
Usually they are plotting revolutions "on social networks" and "using twitter" to coordinate strikes.
anyone else having problems with the pdf? it locks up anything I try to read it with past page 3.

- OSX 10.6.6, using Safari (inline), Preview or Skim.
I'm reminded of dhh's talk at Startup School 2008 where he talks about the 'revolutionary idea' of charging for your products for a profit:

http://www.justin.tv/hackertv/b/259414909
I can't wait for this to come to Boston. Eventually I'll probably use this to find good meals and secret items off the menu at restaurants.
Mashing Up Science - The Mendeley API Binary Battle
I actually have. I have corresponded with their CEO actually regarding usage of their unofficial and official API. Both which they told me would not allow me to get previews or full versions of songs.

You might check out sndchk.com they allow you to create playlists...but not for certain songs only artists.
I'm a little surprised that they removed the revised version of the bar. I found some of the topics listed there interesting. Seems like they responded to the technorati rather than what would best serve their needs along with their users.
Facebook made changes all the time - and then people would start organizing groups on facebook opposed to the changes. But eventually the users adapted and all was forgotten.

I suppose one option is to move the bar to just the search area, where people are willfully looking for particular types of information.
I also love thayer for iterm2. Here's the github repo for those schemes:

https://github.com/larssmit/iTerm-2-Color-Themes
Yeah, I know the feeling... I'm fiddling with getting the Scala IDE for Eclipse updated because I saw there was a new version, and I was about to sit down and play with Scala, because I anticipate doing some hacking on FlockDB, because I want to prototype something that needs to work with social graphs.

Never mind that I could use a freaking simple text file (or a SQL db, or ...) to store the graph relationships for now, since I'm just trying to prototype the algorithm that I'm really supposed to be working on.

Guess it's time to put the Yak away and get back to focusing on what actually matters. Thanks for the reminder! :-)
So, Bob, how many customers is one dead elephant worth? Next time you could leave the film crew at home maybe? Or would that subvert your whole point?
It's not April Fools?
Convert source code to high-resolution image
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I have no data on this. But I don't find using YouTube unprofessional. Also, I'm not sure how embeddable your video will be, but as a blogger, I much prefer people using YouTube so those videos can be embedded easily, and playable on iOS devices.
Ask HN: What's the status of WebSockets?
After WebSockets were sadly pulled from Firefox 4 and Chrome due to a security hole, I had hoped that a new version would follow quickly and restore faith. Yet it seems to have fallen from the news cycle? This strikes me as a problem, if you're keen on widespread sockets acceptance in browsers.

Is WebSockets DOA? What's the path forwards?
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Ugh, cut and paste error on this (the stupid story about google from techcrunch). I hate it when Hacker News server restarts and thus I can't submit a comment on a window/tab I've had open for a while, sigh.

I intended to post:

I've had great luck with AirBnB in some markets (Japan, USA) and bad luck in others (Thailand). It's great if you're flexible, but for business travel, or if you're arriving late at night after a flight is delayed, it's really convenient having a 24h hotel desk and simple checkin.

The biggest friction with AirBnB for me is the key exchange and "onboarding" process at a new property. I hope there is a technological solution to this.
I'm pretty sure that was the day I broke my /. addiction. I'd largely suppressed that memory, thanks for bringing it back. :-(
I think peoples use of AirBNB is all about their capacity for risk/adventure.

A good friend has had hookers and druggies stay at his place through AirBNB, but people who were otherwise quite nice people. Just because they had a different life style didn't make them dangerous and he's still renting his room out.

We've had three people stay at our place so far and they've all been awesome. Next month half our rent for our three bedroom house will be covered by one AirBNB tenant and we'll make a new friend.
It works - I saw the lamas!
Alt-B!
I think he meant in the application rather than here...

(Also, I'd be careful about using news articles as market validation. When I was doing my startup, casual games were all the rage, and a bunch of articles had just appeared on how casual game creation [the space we were in] would be huge. It never panned out. Not only did we fail, but all of our competitors failed too, and the market just didn't develop. If you look hard enough - and as a startup founder, you look pretty hard - you can find an article to support just about any position. It doesn't mean that position is right, it just means that somebody bothered to write about it.)
Ryanair introduces "child-free" flights (if only it were true) http://www.ryanair.com/en/news/child-free-flights-from-octob...
This is AWESOME.

Got a link to an example?
Fired employee wipes out whole season of TV show
Wow, interesting. I would never think to buy some dedicated product to do something like this. I would find an old box somewhere, install OpenBSD, and resume my day.

I have a Soekris net5501 that I use as a router and it does 100MBps between two of the NICs without much trouble (with pf). I have a Gigabit NIC in there and it manages to push around 300-400MBps between it and another box on the network (with an admittedly shitty NIC that craps out on any frame bigger than 1500 bytes).

The gigabit NIC uses more power than the box itself. A whole x86 machine with 5 NICs running the latest version of a modern OS that uses less than 20W of power. And of course no fan or other moving parts.

Anyway, copying packets from one network to another is not a particularly difficult task. "pass out keep state" is similarly simple. So really, this is a task that doesn't require a "vendor", it simply requires a computer that has more than 32M of RAM that can talk to NICs.
Find a customer that wants your product.

Even better - get them pay for it, scan the receipt and use it instead of the application video.

Even better - get enough receipts so you won't need to prove anything to anyone.
I've always wanted to pull the following April fools prank - get into the office super early and leave some controversial whiteboard sketch in several of the conference rooms (ie major reorg, acquisition, company move , etc) and just see what happens throughout the day.
May not be the place for this, but I'm curious what everyone is using as a node.js deployment workflow? I'm very tempted to stick to my old fabric fab file.
The salary is fine. You should be able to live comfortably on $75k, even in the bay area (assuming you have no kids/mortgage).

The equity isn't ridiculously low, but it's not high either. You should probably push for more if you can.

At the end of the day though the guy across the street with 5% of a crappy startup isn't getting a better deal than you if your company rocks.
The High Cost Of Easy Payments
As a chart: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=plot+{2006%2C0}%2C+{200...
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We switched the colors on the cards in our solitaire games (http://greenfelt.net/freecell). It's a subtle effect that just makes things look weird without you being able to identify what is wrong, at first.
Heh...

The following publicly cacheable, compressible resources should have a "Vary: Accept-Encoding" header:
http://partner.googleadservices.com/.../google_service.js
Don't Tell, Show
Reverse April Fool!
I assume the problem is that you can't skip ahead X characters on multibyte data without parsing the bytes, because you don't know how big a character is. So you may have to read every byte.
An line from a stacktrace:

rt: d884:main:main: upcall fail '.t0 < 3u', ts2.rs:5

Yikes!
The show definitely gives a reasonable normal viewer the impression that the car is a dud with a range far less than what is claimed and prone to numerous and frequent breakdowns, and that the failures were so catastrophic they car had to be pushed into the garage.

So now the BBC is saying that it was done for effect or some such and is claiming it didn't break down after 55 miles or such. So they are admitting they deliberately made a misleading review which obviously damaged the reputation of the car because of the misleading claims.

Whether that is libel, don't know. But it is disappointing. I had not realized Top Gear did this and will no longer take the show seriously. I will also be reviewing my formerly positive opinion of the BBC's credibility given their CYA response.
Whoa, trippy, when i came back HN looked like it was off for a few seconds in comparison. haha
…and doesn't have a fan, if you're "pretty sensitive to ambient noise".
Seems like passing out a small VirtualBox image with Linux and node installed on it already would be easier.
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A listening device, more commonly known as a bug or a wire, is usually a combination of a miniature radio transmitter with a microphone and provides hearing ability. Spy cameras and mini spy cameras are widely used by the private investigators, FBI or police forces.
Well, I think theming is pretty funny in small doses. It's the actual complete lack of news that I can't stand. It's basically Internet Shutdown Day.
It's brilliant. They just drove away hordes of geeks - you know those pesky techies who only buy the loss leaders without loading up on the profitable stuff?
You'd need the FSM + a time machine, given that the "spaghetti harvest" gag was pulled in 1957.
Yeah, it might be what they were after, but their text (How much are you willing to pay?) suggests that your dominant strategy is to input your true value.

If that's what they're after, the text is misleading in my opinion...
The Dimensions of Design
Invisibility cloak stolen from lab
Scott_s is right it isnt even in phase one yet and may not make past phase two
plus how cross reactive will it be to newer mutations in HIV will it just create a selective pressure to more virulent viruses

but check out a cool vaccine type here
it doesn't use any needles
http://gcc.eyeptv.net/blog/2011/03/08/needle-free-topical-ap...
I'd have to agree. People always say that you can make your own hours (which is true for many), but I find myself always on the job, whether it's day or night.

Nevertheless, I'd not have it any other way.
you may not need as many boots on the ground if you use this topical vaccine approach
http://gcc.eyeptv.net/blog/2011/03/08/needle-free-topical-ap...
Mark Cuban Teams With Qualcomm To Bring Augmented Reality To Mavericks Tickets
I don't think anyone here truly thinks that there's a time restriction on creativity. April Fool's day just gives us all an excuse to be a little silly, and collectively indulge in some light humour.

If anything, the day acts as a sort of prompt for this kind of creative work. It doesn't limit creativity, stuffing it into a once-a-year box. Instead, it encourages more creative projects that otherwise wouldn't occur.
Facebook Terminated Corporate Development Employee Over Insider Trading Scandal
YouTube - How One Line of Code Can Change the World
F.B.I. Seeks Help Cracking Code in Victim’s Notes
Just a couple of months after graduating (in 2010), I attempted a startup and it was a great experience. The lessons I learned were invaluable. But, I had no industry experience whatsoever, and relatively minimal programming (the production quality kind) experience as well.

I quit my startup after six months and now I'm employed. However, I'm working on fabulous new technologies like Node.JS and I'm enjoying my experience. My employer realizes my startup background and I have almost all the freedom I had when I was at my own startup. I work directly with the Director of Technology and I really couldn't have asked for a better job.

Sure, I failed at my startup, but I believe that failures are often as important in shaping a person as successes. And at 22 years of age, attempting a startup as a single founder was one of the best mistakes I could have made.
After a protracted debate, the security issues were fixed and the new version is being implemented and tested now.

http://tools.ietf.org/wg/hybi/
What's wrong with being employed is that not everyone has the benefit of a nice employer. I also have a good and reasonable employer but not everyone does.
Edited to make this point, which was the key factor in convincing me to shell out the $300 for the net5501. :)
Voting things up on http://www.StackOverflow.com seems to display colorful dancing unicorns now.