skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you already have an engineering degree and you are numerate, then pick up Knuth and start reading. After that, Abelson/Sussman.

It is advisable that you do this before picking up "Learn Ruby/Erlang/Clojure/node.js In 13 Seconds" or whatever the latest shiny toy is that the startup groupie kids are fapping to this month.

Between Knuth and Abelson you will have a solid foundation that 90% of web app hackers lack, and will likely be capable of becoming good with whatever tool you choose to use.
Less than a year old. HN really needs to alert you to dupes when you submit . . or does it? I know it doesn't allow you to post a dupe for a cool off period after it has been posted . . .
My personal experience is that plants die when I try to keep them. But I can't decide if that's me beating them or them beating me...
You don't need a compsci degree to do web development. Learn python and pickup http://www.djangoproject.com/. Sure there are many alternatives, but beginners often are overwhelmed with choice. Take those two and go build!
It seems like the host thought you were stringing them along and has overreacted. I'd try to imagine how they were feeling before we call them crazy though, whether you book or not might affect them in all sorts of ways. Do they need to change their plans for the weekend to accommodate you being there? Did they decline a booking from someone else while waiting for you to commit? Are they hard up for cash and really need the extra dollars your booking could bring? They might be pressured by all sorts of things and just waiting for that confirmation email. For a weekend booking, still no commitment by Thursday would have made me a bit nervous as a host too.

Of course they could just be imbalanced, and that's a risk you take. Part of Airbnb's appeal is that it creates experiences for you that you wouldn't get staying at a hotel. If you are travelling with children, this might be less of a draw for you as safety becomes a bigger concern; you can minimise the risk by only booking somewhere that has a lot of positive reviews and a good feel to it.
Anyone know who tracks the widest deployed version of jquery min on a CDN? I would think its 1.4.2 on google cdn ? Good info to know for a little page speedup as it will be cached in most folks browsers.
The lower quality the news that is aggregated, the lower quality the discussion that it attracts.
Affiliate rebills funding an Affiliate hang out in the Maldives

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"(bundling the browser, exclusivity with all consumer computer OEMs, etc)"

Right. At the same time (10 years ago), there were many different variants of Desktop Linux available, a few different office type applications, and a ton of other open source technologies.

Google is bundled with Firefox as the default search tool. Like bundled IE, you can just choose something you prefer to use.

"I'm not forced to use Gmail, or Google Talk, or Documents, but I choose to because it's the best out there."

If everyone used gtalk and you were forced to because all your friends are now using it, would you consider it a monopoly? So many geeks did 10 years ago in Microsoft's case.

"Google built things people want to use. Microsoft built things so that you had to use them."

Not true. I gave examples of valid competition out there to Microsoft's main products. At the time, the alternatives sucked, but that doesn't mean they weren't there.
Can you make your existing job more hacker-y? Can you work your passion as a hobby, for a non-prof etc?

If your dream is to be involved in a web app startup, polish your skills, start small and start one.

Don't quit your job because of that though.
I hope that doesn't turn too many other folks off from the page and colorscheme. It may sound like a pseudoscience blurb, particularly if you aren't a color geek, but I sure didn't intend it to. It's all technically relevant and (I thought ;) tightly descriptive.

Lab was actually a big part of the initial inspiration for the colorscheme. I work a lot in lab space (Lab is more correct, but cumbersome to type) and for anything related to actual human vision it is head and shoulders above other color models/spaces. It's also awkward if you think in RGB and notoriously poorly supported outside of Photoshop (though most OS color management systems that I'm aware of translate everything back into Lab or a Lab equivalent).

The color relations are also foundational to palette creation in traditional graphic design. They are super useful in creating a palette that feels harmonious and (subjectively) unified.

I'd be happy to go into more detail, but I tend to go on at length and, much like when I get into talking about code with people not interested in code, talking about color spaces with those not interested is a sure fire turn off :)
I really don't view this as a partisan issue, although in some senses it is political.

The problem is that both political parties pay lip service to openness and transparency (although my partisan biases would claim one party favors this more than the other), the real difficulty is hold politicians to their promises in the face of the sausage-making of daily federal politics.

But, to quote Napoleon, never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence. I'm more than willing to believe that this is being left out of a sense of benign neglect.

That this is being neglected is much more indicative of what Congress's actual priorities are. :(
Pretty much. Value is created when two or more parties make mutually beneficial exchanges. The amount of stuff that can be exchanged in a mutually beneficial manner is virtually unlimited. Capital exists for three basic reasons, to liquify value, enable the transport of goods and services across space and time, and to communicate supply and demand of scarce resources.
I mostly use IR_black for vim and emacs, that's definitely a classic. But I'm also quite fond of a custom scheme I made; the colors mostly come from Textmate's Made of Code scheme. Here's a screenshot:

http://i.imgur.com/Ui93Q.jpg

If anyone is interested, the theme is here:

http://notendur.hi.is/ths46/thor.vim

The .vim file started out as IR_black, I just hacked at the colors until I was satisfied, so the code's not clean or anything :)

[I also have a OS X terminal theme to go with it, and an emacs version.]
Nowadays, people are plotting revolutions and toppling governments "over the Internet". So if anything, it's just gotten worse.
He controls the trademark. That's pretty much all Google has going for "their" Android, too. Plus some of their own closed-source apps, of which Linus has none. Also, Linus can't really stop distributing the kernel source, whereas Google - doing the main development on Android - can just delay shipping the source for a while. But, technicalities aside, they both have similar amounts of control over their respective products.
Adblock releases Adblock Freedom - augmented reality eyewear that detects and removes ads from the world in realtime. http://chromeadblock.com/freedom/
I'm glad we're on the same page. I'm just sick of the one-sided and biased tech community.
Dave Winer's putting up a paywall on Scripting News:
http://scripting.com/stories/2011/04/01/letter.html
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That has absolutely nothing to do with what I've said. I'll leave it to you to read the thread.
I have started suggesting that everyone use Vimeo. I will stay away from YouTube as best I can.

Blip.tv? The site doesn't look so hot.
I'd like to keep working on my own idea until they are bidding on having lunch with me.
When I was brave enough to test outside of urxvt and iterm2/terminal.app, it seemed that terminal emulators are all over the place in terms of background color support in vim terminal mode.

You might have tried this already (and it might not actually be related to your issue), but there is a variable you stick in your vimrc (let g:solarized_termtrans=1) to force it to take the background of your terminal emulator (useful only if you are running with the solarized colors in terminal mode).

I should come up with a some recommendations on setting TERM to ensure proper colorscheme support, but that way lies madness (for me at least).
Definitely april fools. The templating logic for the results page layout would obviously not be affected by the pagerank algorithm. Pagerank could not even be applied to pages which are generated using pagerank, this would entail a feedback loop.

Pleasingly deadpan prank though.
This is actually probably going to be great publicity for Samsung - who even knew they sold workstations and laptops?
It hasn't, and it won't, because a definition of NULL as "all-bits-zero" would be inconvenient for some embedded systems, where I/O ports or interrupt vectors are mapped at low addresses.
More active than it ever has been before. Currently 335 people in the channel, and there's been effectively constant conversation for months (a year?) now.
Code, code, and then code some more.

I've read quite a few similar posts over the last few months and that has been the answer almost every time. Can't say I disagree.

Going back to school will take years, cost you some good chunk of change, and when you're finished you'll likely look back and realize all the programming you learned was in your spare time anyway, not due to class.

Pick a language/framework, a project, and start learning.
You've indicated elsewhere in the thread that you know there's private metadata.
Would be really interesting to know if the breakdown corresponded with Verizon's LTE availability. Obviously one of the Thunderbolt's big selling points doesn't work everywhere yet.
Very nice! It is indeed amazing how much thought and effort was put into this, and it is appreciated. At some point, I'll have to convert for Visual Studio use if someone doesn't beat me to it.
This misses out on what the Google "cruft" is all about. Products like Android or Chrome aren't meant to be standalone products/business (and wouldn't be profitable if they were). Their nature is a defensive moat around Googles Search/Ad business.

Relevant article:
http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/25/search-googles-castle-moat/
Yeah but you've got to remember that every program has a constituency.

The fact that we're the constituency, does mean that we have to temper our vociferousness with solid arguments and evidence. This stuff is important, but remember, there are programs out there to feed impoverished children. Is data.gov more important than that? Maybe not.

The point is though, that data.gov and open government data is, given our governing system should be more efficient, and provide better results than alternatives, such as making everyone go through FOIA or scraping individual agency sites, and relying on a patchwork quilt of agency disclosure.

Killing this program is going to cost more money in the future, and one very clear argument was articulated by David Eaves a couple days ago (http://eaves.ca/2011/03/30/access-to-information-is-fatally-... i also posted this here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2386915 ).

This is terrible policy, but we do need to understand that the budget is a complicated beast.
Please do, I'd really appreciate it.
BMW Launches Incubator in NYC with a $100M Investment Fund
I was afraid that would be a pain for people, sorry! You're right, I need to do this. There is a reason, which is that the exact same repo does double duty as the webpage (via Hakyll). It's super convenient because I have hakyll process the README out into an index.html (pulling webserver local imgs, so there is some sed magic).

I may try to break out the images as another subtree or make a website subtree. It was lower on my list of priorities, but clearly a pain to others cloning/forking. I'll try to sort it before beta2.
Bummer. A distro should never break on update. I wish I was more familiar with Suse. Oh well, I blame Flash :)
I've been trying to achieve this same effect (without this library of course...) I had links pointing to the 'full page' but used jquery to override the click event of the link so that they used ajax to download only a part of the page into a container. Which container, is determined by the javascript, which I carefully write to avoid confusing myself. Which body part to download was determined by the server. I did not have to duplicate my html; The body part was a template by it self, and included by a master template for the full page. When a body part was downloaded, some jquery javascript needed to be re-run. (e.g. $(x).accordion()) Depending on the url, either the full page or just the body part was served.

On incompatible browsers the javascript functionality did not activate and clicking on the links led to the full versions of the page.

Maybe this library can save me some headache.
If that's what you believe, fine.

The sketchy thing is supporting your (presumably well-considered) position with manipulative appeals to un-reason. The "how would YOU feel if [insert random horror here] happened to you or your loved ones?" tactic is one of the worst examples going. Using it is a good reason for downvoting.

The whole point of policy making is to get beyond the (obviously) tortured perspective of a few unfortunates, and ask if the kind of strong emotional reaction these stories provoke will actually lead to sensible policy.

The less likely the actual horror is, the more likely the answer is 'No.' It's just as likely that those closest to the horror will reject this sober and well-considered response, and start spreading hysteria and fear instead, while totally ignoring any negative side-effects that get included in the more rational assessments they're trying to undermine.

By the way, being "close to the horror" doesn't necessarily mean being a victim. It can also mean being in a position to profit from hysterical over-reactions. When this starts to happen, you really start to see the Shirkey Principle in action. Namely, "every institution will seek to preserve the problem for which it is the solution."
How so? I think you can trick people into reviewing before they get their item by prompting feedback with an email, but not everyone falls for that and also it's sort of hard to gather substantial reputation like that (100+)
(Internet Annoyance Day is even more annoying when it starts at UTC-12.)
Thanks for this. I had no idea that Windows was now a supported server.

This brings me closer to the future of having one simple daemon installed on all my machines and then simply having a hardware-enabled remote client netbook.
I don't think its any more stupid than them trying to associate scantily clad women with a domain name registrar. At least he actually has something to do with the company. It might be different if the models actually helped you fill out the forms, but they don't, they have nothing to do with the process, except creating a memory associated with the company name. It is a live by the sword die by the sword situation when it comes to brand identity.
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> The lack of standardization is almost bizarre when you factor in HTML5

I have a feeling we'll one day look a back on this period as a time of mass insanity when just as we nearly attained the dream of a cross platform stack that could run and work well anywhere we all enthusiastically threw it away and enslaved ourselves to the horror of splintered, incompatible technologies.
I wonder how many cofounders will get fake YC interview acceptances from their partners =P
They taught this principle to all new google hires and interns as part of orientation when I interned there, whether you were working on ads or not. It was a nice "this is how the company you work for pays you" type thing, I liked it.

(and you are not mistaken, unless I am mistaken)
We put this on our menu, under "Tasks": http://erkie.github.com/ with the text "destroy system"
Great points, but there are a lot more dangerous things out there to sorghum than a couple of elephants. Elephants are big animals and they would have scared off a number of smaller, possibly more dangerous critters.

shock value or not (and even if he did do the right thing), he still comes off as a dick.
It shocks me that people still do Ajax without this technique (though not necessarily this library obviously).

GitHub is the only mainstream site I've seen handle Ajax "properly".
"Ostrovsky had Ksharim" & RoyTov recommends you to knot up Facebook
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The Agilista

More process than progress. This dev fails fast and fails often.

Special Move:

Drops a jargon bomb on each level.

Priceless :D
So true. The Bible says that we are created in God's image and that God gave us domain to do whatever we like to animals... just so long as we don't attempt to copulate with them. It should be a crime to even hint that an animal's life could be valued as a human life... Except for my trusty dog companion. </sarcasm>
There is a dupe checker, but only for exact matches (which if there is one instead of getting a warning it automatically lodges an upvote of that link on your behalf). The OP of this thread appended a # to the end of the URL to bypass the filter.
I would think it would be pretty difficult to tell which one is the 'most-cached' since the whole idea is to not hit the server ..
Should have included at least one other level design.. definitely made me laugh though.

Also: clicking on the App Store/Android link opens the game in full screen in case anyone is interested.
More simply, in a second-price auction, there is 1 winner, and you clear at the 2nd highest bid.

With 8 winners, they should be clearing at the 9th highest bid.

Of course you don't have to do it this way, but it's the least game-able outcome.

It's clear they had the second-price/Vickrey style in mind, and they came awfully close to getting it right.
Ask HN: What to do if you are not Heads Down?
Over the last decade I have been writing code, and have been pretty good at collecting a pay check as an engineer, or engineering consultant.

However I have been noticing that maybe not matter how much I am able to do something maybe it's not what I am best at, or maybe what I am best at is changing.

When I was young I was easily 'filled up' sitting down stairs in a basement hacking away at code or fixing a computer or maybe breaking one would be more correct. Today, however, I don't feel like that's me anymore.

I also used to do very well in school, both engineering school and in art school. I was top of my class in design and once I made the switch to computer engineering I was at the top of my class and often times challenged the teachers in class and won.

This all circles back to how I have changed and how I am not sure I want to be an engineer any more.

I want to do something where I have more of a say around the product, it's design and how it's marketed. Maybe that means I have to be a founder, but maybe there is a role I could move into to be happy, and learn something new in the process.

Have any of you made the shift out of engineering into another role that made you happy? How do you do it? I have tried to get product jobs before, but they usually want someone with that experience on their resume.

I have had a few people recommend me for evangelist roles, but I am not sure that would feed my hunger to create great projects.

what advice can you give? for someone that wants to contribute more to a product than just with lines of code?
One Kings Lane launches OKL Farms - The only breeders of the Mini Lap Elephant.

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I use molokai as well, but with some small tweaks (darker near-black background, lighter more visible comments, and a more visible line highlight). Inconsolata font for life, I've tried just about every other programming font out there and I always keep coming back.
If you want to just knock about, just start doing it.

If you're serious about getting people to use it, my personal minimum guideline is ten years experience of serious software development where you are continually pushing yourself, fluency in at least one major functional, logic/set, and imperative/OO language, and competence in about ten languages as diverse as possible, and some specific problem that can't be solved well by an existing language. By then you'll know what to do.

The reason I would say this is my usual spiel about not actually encouraging people to do really time-wasting things, even though we have a culture of "encouragement at all costs". Encouraging a novice mountain climber to take on Mount Everest as their third mountain isn't friendly, it's evil. Encouraging someone to write their own new programming language if they don't have the experience to do it of course won't kill them, but they sure can waste a lot of time. Whatever you think they may learn from the experience can be learned faster and more productively by first reaching the standards I wrote out above, and actually taking advantage of the fact that much ground has been mapped out already. We all must re-invent our own wheels if only for learning at some point, but this is a great deal more than a "wheel".
http://omgubunutu.co.uk is a fun one
Nokia's new Symbian site is open
how about:
Jason Calcanis sold Mahalo to AOL
I wonder if you can use money from your angel round to buy a seat?
Similar to the Kik story. But it looks like LiveProfile is staying out of AppWorld for now.
but the visual portrayed is that of Clarkson actually being
surprised by a dead battery followed by the hanger scene.

My guess is that was live footage-- not a staged shot. He appeared to still be moving under power, and had power steering. When the Roadster's battery runs low, it drops into a low power mode, with a dramatically lower top speed and crippled acceleration. You'd have to endure "limp home" mode for a couple dozen miles before the cell-protection circuits kick in and shut everything down.

Which would be bad.

Lithium ion cells are twitchy, excitable beasts at the best of times, and like to burst into flames when abused. The Roadster's battery is liquid cooled, and if the pack is completely discharged, then the coolant pump will stop running, which could result in the entire thing going Fukushima. Just completely discharging a pack will dramatically shorten its lifespan, (The Roadster's is only rated to 100k miles) which isn't something Tesla wants to be done to US$109,000 worth of car which the BBC did not, in fact, own.

So it dropped into low power mode, and they switched cars, and they had a nice dramatic shot of it being rolled into a garage, something that would be unpleasant enough for a gasoline car, but would almost certainly be a multi-thousand dollar maintenance catastrophe for an electric one.
S3 + Cloudfront. Many people use Vimeo as well, which has minimal branding and supports high quality.

I haven't actually used them myself, but Wistia does deep tracking of plays.
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GrubWith.us removes your period as soon as you type it, so if you try to enter (say) 100.00, it is actually a bid for 10,000 -- I consider this a VERY BAD THING in this context.
Just curious as to why you are using a throw away account? It might be more convincing to the potential applicants, if they know the company they are applying to.
Television and computers fool our brain into thinking that it is active, but give it none of the rewards of actually taking action and either failing or succeeding.

Boycott television and don't use the computer or iPod for a day. Do what you feel like doing, as long as you are actually doing something, not simply consuming media.
Nokia Microsoft deal falls through as Nokia merges with Google
I am 'the man'. My boss sucks.
Strange, I was expecting to be redirected to the Windows Phone 7 site.