skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HN Game: Your.colour.startup.description.
We've all seen the fake colour app slide deck, the one featuring "people.colors.apps.mobile.social.pivot." and color's website "Party. Play date. Lunch?"

Everyone.Seems.To.Be.Talking.In.Single.Word.Sentences. It seems to be the new hipster thing to do.

I challenge HN to come up with their own color-esque description of their startup using.single.words.

For example, our startup would be:
links.stickers.twitter.pivot.photos.videos.social.pivot.location.mobile.hipster.

Try it out! or should I say Try.It.Out.
I didn't miss the analogy, I simply didn't find it a valid one. Nor did you present a reason for so considering it. You just gave the analogy, and assumed I should go along with the presuppositions that led to your thinking it is valid. If you want me to think the HFT ban is disconnected from the problems it is intended to address, you need to argue that position, not just make fun of how disconnected you think they are.

> "It's ultimately an aesthetic argument that you're making."

I don't think so. If you want to call something like 'signal chains should carry the information they are used to carry with an ignorably low noise floor' an aesthetic judgment, I guess you can. But it is more commonly thought of as a far more practical judgement than that. Turning up the speed up feedback signals is not radically decoupled from system performance, ergo your analogy to a situation that has such radical decoupling isn't valid.
Monotone 1.0 DVCS released
They're generally called "Pop-up restaurants"
tap tap tap also made a blog post on working as a distributed team, focusing on the tools used to keep everyone in sync http://taptaptap.com/blog/tools-for-effective-iphone-app-dev...

(shameless plug disclaimer: I work for them. That said, it's on-topic and a good overview)
We are developing a new application that operates separately from the auction software. The team is small and we all have fairly diverse roles.
Ev Became "Less Involved" at Twitter Months Ago
The tagging part is what I'm looking for. Everything else in the application doesn't fill any immediate needs for me.
Podcasts, audio books, and NPR.

My commute went from 30-45 minutes each way to about 10-15 each way. Kind of miss the extra time to listen to great stuff.
Interesting product...I've actually regularly had this problem as well. Gmail integration for me is a must. It doesn't solve my problem above, which is tagging people into groups/lists. I'll keep my eye on it and maybe it'll develop over time.
Ask HN: Cocoa: Why not use delegate callbacks less?
Callbacks are nasty! This is objectively true (ahee!).

Callbacks make sense for UI widgets. In this case, the programmer is not the one generating the event, the user is.

But when the programmer is initiating some high-latency request with a completion event, why not just expose synchronous functionality and let it be composed and made asynchronous using blocks?

The control flow for chaining delegate callback based class functionality is so disgusting! Think about it. You send a message. Later, control flow continues at some point which, in the standard cocoa delegate pattern, i can only discern by looking at your documentation or headers. In addition, if there are multiple points where the initial message might have been sent, i may even have to DEMULTIPLEX using some state i have kept on the initial message send points to determine which is which. At this point, i might even send ANOTHER message with a callback, which i also have to track through documentation and track with my eyeballs through some crappy ad-hoc demultiplexing if statement because there is no general language facility for handling this problem. Also, you may or may not be able to determine the context of the send using just the method parameters. YUCK!

Finally, my question: Don't you agree? Why don't we prefer to expose synchronous functionality when possible and let the user compose it using blocks and either operation queues or grand-central dispatch? In this way, not only is the control flow actually parseable, but the user has more control over parallelism. Keep your callbacks for status updates and this sort of thing.
Because I can have a decent meal for a similar price to paying someone. Airbnb you get a nicer place to stay for a far lower price. I mean not saying this is a terrible idea just saying it doesn't work for me.
I don't know how relevant it is to generosity that the rich give away a higher percentage than the non-rich. Gates and Buffett could give away 99% of their earnings if they wanted to. If I did the same, I would be more in need of charity than those I was giving to. It would make more sense to deduct an amount similar to the "consumption allowance" in sales tax proposals to account for manditory or quasi-manditory spending like food, shelter, health care, etc, and judge only income above this level.
A Letter to Our Readers About Digital Subscriptions
Definitely going to change this once the traffic dies down. Thanks for the advice!
How to Take Physical Inventory Counting Successfully
What is the point of Color (Mark Hughes, screenwriter)
Not if you want to support the artist. Not every artist offers Flac/H.264 audio/video for purchase on his/her website. The large majority doesn't.
RESTful i18n?
You're definitely correct, I have done that with other product as well. I'll keep my eye on it, but my asking was really focused on something as simple as taskforce, but for lists of people. Could I have used Basecamp and just focused on the task mgt part of it? Sure, but I really like taskforce because it's simple enough to just deal with my tasks right inside of gmail.
Any self-made rich people I've met are rich for one reason and that reason is they don't spend one cent more than they have to for anything, every penny they make they hold onto for the rest of their lives.

I would say people who inherited wealth would be far more generous since they have no real connection to the money in some cases such as lottery winners or someone who made a lot on the stock market.

Rich people in general just going by percentage of money spent are more frugal either by choice or just the nature of having so much money any object bought costs so little. The average Joe spends more than his entire year's salary on a car, the same for a house nearly more than a lifetime salary for some. Smokers and drinkers may spend 1/3 of their yearly salary on smokes and booze.
What carrots does the position offer that would entice an applicant who, presumably, is skilled enough to get an enterprisey job nearly anywhere?
Maybe? I stopped Plaxo a couple years ago after not really understanding the purpose of the product.
Doesnt this set up an oversimplified theoretical separation over the admittedly simple but continuous spectrum of research and corresponding insults??
As someone who works in generative algorithms for expressive/art/content purposes, the phrase "generating random programs that are expressive" is interestingly evocative. I wonder if there are any lessons from the past ~5 years of "fuzzing" algorithms for generative-art / generative-AI to mine.
Easier ways:

1) When he/she says they are a computer scientist, say "oh so you're like an IT guy? Because I recently got this virus..."

2) Call him a mouse jockey
Love the idea.
I know some folks that sell home-cooked foods. This happens in ethnic communities. So that can be an option.

Also reviews are super important to decide.
I moved from the UK to the Toronto area and I have to say that Canada is the fall pile from a crap-chute.

I'm currently with Cogeco cable and they're mostly accurate with their throughput even close to peak times, however the price is high and the bandwidth amount is appallingly low.

I'm actually lucky that being tech-knowledgeable I've been able to deal with their workers well (it helps one of my friends works there, but didn't help when I moved into my apartment as he couldn't do the install) so they'll max-out my up and down (my mother-in-law has 3mbps upload when she should have ~500K thanks to me talking to the guy).
Bjarne has a guy who holds the hot dog for him and throws it away at the appropriate time. Takes up an extra seat, though.
Checking emails, reading news on my phone, and listening to some audiobooks--usually walking.
Hi there.

Xobni for Gmail is in Beta right now and although it does not do exactly what you are asking, Xobni does have a recommendation engine that does help to solve this pain point. Once you start an email to someone, Xobni will identify and recommend the people you often email with that person - so, although there is no specific list you can select, Xobni takes a lot of the guesswork out for you.

If you are interested in getting into the Xobni for Gmail beta, go here - http://www.xobni.com/waitinglist/gmailbeta/ and enter the following media code for priority access: XOBNI-BRITTON
Why do you associate commuting to work with exercise? Not commuting means extra time for exercise.
Things.app State of Sync, Part III
There's not even an About Us page. If I hadn't seen "AirBNB for Food" in the HN article, I would have figured that it's some sort of 40 million dollar project to let you share pictures of food you've eaten.
Can Jack Dorsey Help Twitter Find Its Way?
Linux Foundation Announces Designated Gurus for 2011
I worked for a guy that called us all "button pushers".
James Grimmelmann's got an excellent analysis of the Google Books opinion at http://laboratorium.net/archive/2011/03/22/inside_judge_chin...
one of the thing about h5bp/mbp is that it gets your project off the ground quickly and right-footed

if you are using other frameworks and feel hard to implement everything in, this can at least be used as reference or inspiration.
How do those features impact runtime performance?

One example of templates affecting runtime performance is poor use of the instruction cache due to code duplication in every instantiation of a template.
33m streams, 189 countries: The YouTube Symphony Orchestra Grand Finale
This is a VERY intriguing idea.

I can't say that I would invite someone into my home for a few bucks, but it definitely is intriguing. Then again...I wouldn't rent out my couch to random strangers, so don't use my opinion on the deciding factor to go ahead.

Look forward to keeping track of this and seeing how it progresses.

Good luck!
I'm not really an expert in the area; have just run across some sessions on it at the general yearly AI conferences I attend (AAAI, ECAI, and/or IJCAI). The keywords "legal reasoning" and "legal argumentation system" will get you quite a lot of stuff though. The latter bleeds into general "argumentation systems", since one way of modeling legal reasoning (though not the only one) is that it's a specific sub-species of debate or argumentation, rather than a specific sub-species of logical inference. (Of course, you might ask: isn't debate ideally logical as well? Empirically, it seems, the answer is: not entirely.)
I guess I'm a philistine, but I only recognize like 3 names here. Also, comments about it being Sunday, the traffic on the M25, and the weather simultaneously bore me and hearten me (in that I'm just as lame as some millionaires).
IPhone for Kids: Baby's First App Download
Exactly. AirBnB had two RISD designers on the founding team. The startup that succeeds in this space isn't going to be the one with the best technical chops, it's going to be the one with the best designers, social skills, selling ability, etc.
Just a couple of comments about the homepage:

- as said by somebody else, I'd remove the reference to Airbnb. Not many people know what Airbnb is and "Airbnb for food" doesn't really explain what it means.

- I'd also remove "food porn". I wouldn't be surprised if many people are uncomfortable with the word "porn" even if it's about food.

- right now, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be doing on the site or what the site is all about. I see pictures, I click on them but then there's barely any information: what am I looking at? Why are you showing this to me? What can I do with this?

- I know you're just starting and thus have to feed some content yourself but seeing "Emile P." all over the frontpage is not great. You might want to limit the number of pictures by the same person there. Even if you get traction that might be something that you would still want to change for the case of someone uploading a bunch of pictures at once.

As for the sign-up, I'm not sure why you want to limit users to put their first name and only first initial of last name. This seems a bit restrictive and I'm not sure if there's a good reason behind it. I could see having just "Name" and they put whatever they want?

Since your current focus is on the pictures, I might do a couple of things: show more and/or bigger pictures on the homepage, possibly removing the username/likes/comments metadata (with them showing on hover?) and make sure your pictures are of the best quality possible (maybe not quite professional, but at least edited a bit). As a comparison, look at what Instagram looks like when you start it up without an account: a page full of good-looking pictures of different styles, by different people…

Hope this helps, congratulations on the launch and good luck!

Disclaimer: I'm no expert or designer, this is just my humble opinion :)
Im based out of austin and we have a group called bootstrap-austin.
http://www.bootstrapaustin.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

It is part of something called the bootstrap network which is in 10 cities but I cant tell if they are in the bay area.

http://community.bootstrapnetwork.com/unlog.php

Within the group, I work with something called bootboards which are CEO roundtables modeled on pay services from companies like vistage, entrepreneurs organization (EO) and the alternate board (TAB). The CEO roundtables are groups of 6-8 CEOs that get together once a month to discuss issues in their companies. There are 3 types, ideation, valley of death and growth. The ideation groups seem like they would be applicable here. They tend to be larger as people tend to drop out (need to start with 10 or so members). The value of the group is 1) to get support for the highs and lows that no one else can understand 2) accountability for commitments 3) help to resolve issues

Some of the key rules are no doing business together and no competitors.

Here is a link to a powerpoint that we use to introduce the concept for the growth groups
http://triviatise.posterous.com/47616993

I'll post if I can find contacts for a bay area branch. If not maybe you can start one. The bootboards are incredibly useful for ideation stage companies.
Any thoughts on what the expected adoption rate would be if an app is targeted at pre-K to 6th grade consumers?
London’s Tech Investors Start Moving East To "Silicon Roundabout"
C++ has a fundamental problem: that of being a real language that added OO features and static polymorphism in great haste; unwise decisions during the early stages of C++ cannot be unmade after their negative consequences are apparent.

There's some "good stuff" in C++1x, but of necessity, it's all additive, not subtractive. So the language gets bigger and more complicated.

I've never met an adept C++ programmer who didn't aggressively cut the language down to a subset. The sad thing is that I've met good C++ programmers - and seen good C++ libraries and frameworks - whose subsets are quite distinct; they are 'divided by a common language', like the old cliche goes.
Yes. Some of the first statistical analyses of poker I came across when I was learning were based on simulations using bots run by none other than Nate Silver (he used to be a poker pro). His conclusions were in line with what I've been saying, and these simulations were using full and 6-handed tables if I remember correctly. Heads-up has even more variance.
So, Avery is just this guy, you know? It's not his fault if some of you want to fanboy on his every blog post.

I think he's right more often than he's wrong. (Although not in this article, which is nearly all wrong when it's not rehashing points that have been argued both ways for many years w/o a resolution.. hang out on NANOG for even a month and you'll see what I mean.) And I appreciate that he feels he has to get his half-baked thoughts posted now, before being swallowed by the Borg. Which will certainly change his opinion of some of this stuff if he ends up working with the ipv6 people @ Google.
McAfee's website full of security holes
As I mentioned on Twitter:

> Everyone bitches about the #dickbar because everyone uses the shit out of Twitter. No one complains about cloud sync in Things.app anymore.

Everyone I've know has moved on from Things.app. Syncing is just an important feature. Also, judging from this article, it sounds like they're going to charge more for syncing, which is just a bummer considering the entire Things.app suite is $80.
3) "Can you fix my printer?"
From - http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Mar/313

Vulnerabilities in *McAfee.com

1. VULNERABILITY DESCRIPTION

-> Cross Site Scripting
http://download.mcafee.com/products/webhelp/4/1033/#javascri...

-> Information Disclosure > Internal Hostname:
http://www.mcafee.com/js/omniture/omniture_profile.js

($ ruby host-extract.rb -a

http://www.mcafee.com/js/omniture/omniture_profile.js)

-> Information Disclosure > Source Code Disclosure:

view-source:http://download.mcafee.com/clinic/includes/commoninc/cookiecommon.asp
view-source:http://download.mcafee.com/clinic/includes/commoninc/appcommon.asp
view-source:http://download.mcafee.com/clinic/includes/commoninc/partnerCodesLibrary.asp
view-source:http://download.mcafee.com/clinic/Includes/common.asp
view-source:http://download.mcafee.com/updates/upgrade_patches.asp
view-source:http://download.mcafee.com/updates/common/dat_common.asp
view-source:http://download.mcafee.com/updates/updates.asp
view-source:http://download.mcafee.com/updates/superDat.asp
view-source:http://download.mcafee.com/eval/evaluate2.asp
view-source:http://download.mcafee.com/common/ssi/conditionals.asp
view-source:http://download.mcafee.com/common/ssi/errHandler_soft.asp
view-source:http://download.mcafee.com/common/ssi/variables.asp
view-source:http://download.mcafee.com/common/ssi/standard/oem/oem_controls.asp
view-source:http://download.mcafee.com/common/ssi/errHandler.asp
view-source:http://download.mcafee.com/common/ssi/common_subs.asp
view-source:http://download.mcafee.com/us/upgradeCenter/productComparison_top.asp
view-source:http://download.mcafee.com/us/bannerAd.asp
view-source:http://download.mcafee.com/common/ssi/standard/global_foot_us.asp

2. RECOMMENDATION

- Fully utilize Mcafee FoundStone Experts
- Use outbound monitoring of traffic to detect potential information leakage

3. VENDOR

McAfee Inc
http://www.mcafee.com

4. DISCLOSURE TIME-LINE

2011-02-10: reported vendor
2011-02-12: vendor replied "we are working to resolve the issue as
quickly as possible"
2011-03-27: vulnerability found to be unfixed completely
2011-03-27: vulnerability disclosed

5. REFERENCES

Original Advisory URL:
http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/advisories/sites/mcafee.com/[mcafe...
Former Disclosure, 2008:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/13/security_giants_xsse...
Former Disclosure, 2009:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/McAfee-Websites-Vulnerable-to...
Former Disclosure, 2010:
http://security-sh3ll.blogspot.com/2010/04/mcafee-communitie...
host-extract: http://code.google.com/p/host-extract/
Demo: http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/training/view/misc/XSSing_McAfee_S...
xssed: http://www.xssed.com/search?key=mcafee.com
Lessont Learn: http://blogs.mcafee.com/mcafee-labs/from-xss-to-root-lessons...

#yehg [2011-03-27]
When I worked in CS research the sure fire way of making the Prof I worked for incandescent with rage was for someone from industry to start a comment with "In the real world...".
A Modest Proposal for a Waterfall Hackathon
Ulrich Drepper thinks strlcopy and strlcat (http://www.gratisoft.us/todd/papers/strlcpy.html) are "horribly inefficient BSD crap" (http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2000-08/msg00053.htm...). This IMO qualifies him as an idiot.
Browser power consumption, effect on battery life compared
Fair enough, I could believe that he did not know the address of SCEA. Of its existence? Someone who's as deeply involved with consumer tech devices and software as he is, it seems pretty unlikely that he would not have encountered them.

For example, searching for "sony playstation" and visiting the first link takes you to http://us.playstation.com/ which is an SCEA website as listed at the bottom of the page.

That's why I was asking. If it means something more like "I've never dealt with them personally or contractually", well then sure. But "never had knowledge of their existence" seems a stretch. Anyway, of course IANAL, etc.
Yeah I find working at home allows me a full kitchen and groceries to make healthy food for myself instead of going out and getting takeout like I'd do in the office.

I also switched to a standing desk about six months back so I don't sit hunched over in a chair all day long. This would be difficult to do in a cube or open planned office (the environments I worked in before I started my consultancy).

I also get a lot more sun than I'd otherwise do because I can pick the nicest spot in the house to work rather than being stuck in some big room surrounded by fabric walls. Plus I can open the windows in the summer and get plenty of fresh air --- and walk around without disturbing people.

All in all, I find my home work environment much healthier than any office I've ever worked in. The only downside is that when I had to commute, I'd commute by bicycle as much as possible, so now I bike much less than I used to.

I'd say switching from a bicycle commute and a sedentary 8 hours in an unhealthy office to no commute and low-intensity exercise at a standing desk in a healthy environment has been a wash for me. But the bicycle was the only healthy part of my old situation, so for people who don't do that, I can't see any downside to working at home unless they make really bad choices.
We're experimenting with IRC at MyEdu; while it hasn't been awful for non-technical users, it's not necessarily great either. The above-mentioned HipChat seems like it could be more viable, so I'm adding it to the candidate list.

EDIT: Not primarily for remote working, granted, but for quick collaboration and some dev-related announcements.
Bringing Ruby's ActiveRecord to Java
World's Worst Entrepreneur (or Best?)
>> "ISPs also dislike high-PPS low-packet-size"

This is presumably what was specifically causing the WoW throttling from the article.

>>"We recently introduced a software modification to solve the problems our customers are experiencing with World of Warcraft. However, there have been recent changes to the game, which has created new problems. A second software modification to address these new issues will not be ready until June."

I'm not 100% sure, but iirc the "recent changes" had to do with WoW changing the TCP ack frequency when running, more than doubling or tripling the total number of packets sent over any given period of play time. They turned this on with a recent patch, but hotfixed it off temporarily because, as you said: "it quite negatively affects the network hardware". People with crappy routers/modems were apparently having problems staying connected.

A blizzard dev writes more in detail about it here: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/1965992365?page=15#2...
Er, Csmith, sorry;fixed.
1) I agree with what you're saying about them all having flaws. But I merely said Windows machines are inferior. I never said Mac machines are absolutely ideal.

2) The worrying about what people think part was said sort of tongue in cheek. Hyperbole to demonstrate a point ;) I'm not about to actually make decisions based off of this observation.
What does "PC LOAD LETTER" mean?!