skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The wild green yonder
The air show here can often feel like aviation's World Cup, with makers of jet fighters, commercial aircraft, helicopters, and private planes from around the globe vying for bigger-faster-stronger bragging rights.
Asprox virus infects key government and consumer websites
Cyber-criminals have attacked key government and consumer websites, allowing them to steal the personal details of anyone browsing the sites, The Times has learnt.
It is not an unreasonable claim. Of course it's a bit jarring to see it stated in such a matter of fact way, when we are used to hearing that everything related to art is "subjective".

But if we look at somewhat objective criteria like influence on other artists and his range of different styles and media, he is probably unsurpassed in the 20th century. And then his productive years nicely overlaps with 3/4 of the century (during which he kept reinventing himself), while many other artists are associated with a single period or movement.

Of course that doesn't mean that he has to be your favorite artist.
YSlow Shootout: Social News Sites
I'm sorry but I can't read this article. There are many others that need my attention.
My god that is one lame list of mostly irrelevant people.
25 Resources for Tuning Your .NET Application Performance
Why "painfully"?
Laughter Therapy
Laughter apparently, “lowers blood pressure, reduces stress hormones, increases muscle flexion, and boosts immune function by raising levels of infection-fighting T-cells,
disease-fighting proteins called Gamma-interferon and B-cells, which produce disease-destroying antibodies. Laughter also triggers the release of endorphins, the body’s natural painkillers, and produces a general sense of well-being.” Reason enough to laugh then! Let’s take a look at how laughter can help such as lot:
It's perfectly legal, but it is not authorized (meaning that the publisher probably threatens to stop selling to anyone who re-sells their subsidized bulk orders)
The Science & Art of Term Sheet Negotiation
What Will We Do When Growth is No Longer the “In Thing” Anymore?
Funny story, I have interviewed guys like this. There are times in interviews where I have wished there was a giant "EJECT" button, or some mechanism similar to those stupid "talent" shows where you can just abruptly cancel someones performance at the point you know it is hopeless.
Indie Fever - Report on the independent Mac development community
5 Steps to Planning an Effective Presentation
"Teeth/mouth"?
Yes, but being the market leader is meaningless unless your site actually generates revenue. YouTube's founders are in a nice position now, but as I recall, Google is still saying that they have no idea how to make money with YouTube.

If cutting out the gamer videos helps Vimeo make money serving the niche they feel passionate about, more power to 'em.
Facebook to Introduce Three Tier App System
This could be great if implemented well- kill off the Vampires and Werewolves insanity and promote legitimately useful applications. We'll see.
great idea. the functionality is good, but i think an investment in a UI redesign would be a good one. also, i searched for "rock" within 25 miles of boston on 7/27 and got a result from washington and one from nc.
Indeed!! I concur.
Make a small message for the people using NoScript so they allow javascript from your page. With javascript off it looks like shit and the search is broken (shows "exiting" on a white page)
Journaling: a better UI metaphor than files/folders/desktops?
Probably true. But they trashed this great little lightweight application platform in the process...
It's dependent on the supply of labour log (discretion of the banks)
Open Tech offers a different twist on the Apple clone
Are you kidding? Just one little P=NP proof and the whole economy collapses!
What are the odds it will make Google 20million a year profit starting today or 40million a year profit in 5 years. Granted you need to add in indirect profit but Digg has been going down hill for a while so they need to recover 300+ million within 10 years or it's a bad investment IMO.
I, for one, would talk to my parents a lot more if they were on IRC.
4 Reasons not to use mod_security
Very interesting... Except I suck at remembering dates.

It would be a cool addition to the directory structure, not a replacement.
Ugh... I thought I was done reading stupid chair jokes when I left Slashdot...
Open Flash Chart Plugin for Ruby on Rails
i agree with your point, but i look at it differently. while this tetris script is impressive, we see feats like this a lot around the web. however, the fact that it was written by a female makes it more interesting (note that i did not say "more impressive"--that, to me, would be germane to the point you're making). it is more interesting because it was accomplished by someone not normally associated with this type of endeavor (a female). if i saw a headline that read, "zebra wins kentucky derby!", i would think the same thing--interesting because zebras don't usually run that race ;). zoologic inaccuracies aside, one may argue, "a horse won the derby--the fact that it is colored like a barcode is an irrelevant physical attribute." i would agree in some sense, but i'd still prefer to see that the winning horse was a zebra because hey man, a frickin zebra won the derby! that's crazy! i don't see including that detail as being a tokenization of zebras. (tried my best not to strawman this, but i may have gotten a bit carried away...)
Cf. http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/freeman/lifestreams.html
Are you serious? Do you have any idea of the negative impact on Google's business if they manipulated search results to squelch a bunch of big mouth bloggers because they said "bad" things?

Besides, the comments on Digg are about on par with Youtube comments (read: unintelligible). I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that perhaps Google has more important things to worry about.
Blast! You stole my thunder - I was going to use the same argument here. But about emacs instead, you heathen. =)
The TFA:

"Facebook desperately wants to find a way to help application developers make money beyond advertising, and the iPhone App Store has shown that people are willing to pay for quality applications."

Praise be to the iPhone AppStore! No one had thought of charging for applications before. Who knew that people would pay for software?
it makes me wonder why we dont see more n great contributions of women in scientific advancements, hacking... etc.
They have access to almost all that males can access. but why is female behavior so different in this regard?
For the confused who just got up, it looks like the title originally referred to her as a "girl hacker". Right?

Or are you suggesting "female hacker" is a shameful label and that something like "she-hacker" or "hackeress" would be preferable?
My FCC Presentation on the Future of Digital Media
I quite successfully adopted an aproach from GTD methodology. The main pillars are three different folders:

1) INBOX - unprocessed input, usually files downloaded from the web or saved attachments.

2) PROJECTS - here, I create subfolders, one subfolder for one Project. In the subfolders, there are files I actively work on, like doc files.

3) REFERENCES - here, I store files I am not working on, like ebooks, texts, photos, etc.

So, in the slide example, I would not lost the file location, since I know it will be in the folder Projects\Write-Essay-On-Teaching. If the project is finished, I remove the directory (and put final output into Refenrences, if necessary).

I realized, at least in my case, that the main problem causing mess on the HDD was related to the fact, that unprocessed, working-on and reference files were stored together by topics.
CollegeHumor - Font Conference [Video]
I've used Spring but not Spring MVC so I can't comment on their web framework. I have used WebWork which became Struts 2. I think Java web development is complicated and tedious under the best of circumstances, but as far as Java web frameworks are concerned WebWork/Struts2 is decent.

You're going to have lots of files. You're going to have at least several hundred lines of XML even for a small application. This is par for the course in the Java world. The upside is that the documentation available is generally very good and it's also very easy to navigate your way around the application. Another plus is that Struts is kind of the de facto standard framework for many Java developers so it's easy to find help.

You might also want to check out Stripes if you like Struts2. I like to think of it as a better Struts2. It follows more of a convention over configuration model while still being at least as flexible as Struts2. The result is less code, faster development and no XML. It also has the benefit of being so similar to Struts that any developer familiar with one can quickly pick up the other.

Wicket is interesting too and probably worth a look. There was also a framework called RIFE that looked like it had potential, but the documentation was absolutely atrocious when I looked at it about a year ago.
The Evolution of Corporate Computing: From SaaS to DaaS
#1 - Stop reading Hacker News.

#2 - Stop reading Reddit.

#3 - Stop reading articles about how to be more productive.

#4 - Stop surfing the net.

#5 - Actually get something done...
The Memory Management Reference
How about just "hacker"?

Even just "Tetris written in sed" would be sufficient, since it was obviously done by a hacker.
Just reed a book nao an agan. Prblm solvd, k thanks!

Seriously though, I've been hearing similar messages for a while. It's a scary prospect, but I really think the solution is as easy as reading books.

An aside: I used to think that computers would increase literacy rates, as a typing/reading were prerequisites to internet use. But, seeing how many people spend their 'surf time' just watching videos on YouTube I'm starting to think otherwise.
I think it would be nice to have a date range, and perhaps the option to search by genre or band. I would like to be able to see whats going on in the month of August, or see if any of my bands are coming into the area.
Drizzle: MySQL slims down on Aker's diet
And: http://krow.livejournal.com/602409.html
Rather, people with a naturally anti-authoritarian attitude tend to become attracted to programming.

I was actually a staunch progressive before entering the startup world. A few things turned me into a libertarian:

1) I realized that nearly every instance of what my college professors called a "market failure" was really an instance where there was a web of government regulations preventing me from starting a business to solve the problem ( such as health insurance, education, or corporate governance). Once you stop thinking, "How could the government solve this problem?" and start thinking, "How can I start a business to solve this problem?" your perspective on the world change dramatically.

2) The software industry is so new it hasn't had the time to earn government favors and protection. Thus an engineer pays a lot to the government, but gets virtually nothing in return. Other professions used to be this way, and were much more libertarian ( farmers being the original case, but also doctors, bankers, etc.). Long ago those professions started getting either direct government funding or laws protecting entry into their industry. They became dependent on government. Engineers are also wealthy enough that they are net losers from income redistribution. And finally, by working in the startup world, most engineers see the free market at its best, rather than only seeing the soulless corporate side.

3) I decided to actually read about this "Austrian economics" nonsense. I read a bunch of books from both sides and scoured the internet for arguments and counter-arguments. At the end, I was shocked to realize that Ron Paul was right. Before, I thought he was a nut-job and Austrians were just ignoramuses who had never even taken a college macroeconomics course. After, I was ready to don my tin foil hat :-)
Tobacco 'could help treat cancer'
Given your faith in the current state of the art, what tools would you use/recommend to build either a simple Digg-like service or a threaded discussion board.
This article comes at a particularly opportune time for me. A site I'd built for a client was sued by Channel Intelligence in their mass filing last week (TechCrunch covered it) for their revolutionary and genius idea of "configuring a database system to store information regarding a plurality of items," focusing on wishlists.

The client (#12 in the suit if you're curious) called me in a panic telling me to pull down the site, so all its users are screwed. I've also run a free wishlist site at GreedyMe.com for several years which wasn't named in the suit, but if it had been, I couldn't financially justify trying to fight it.

PageRank was pretty revolutionary. I'm on the fence as to whether that should be patented. Amazon's 1-Click and Channel Intelligence's "list storage" are obvious methods, and I can't fathom how any lawyer or businessman can submit a patent for such nonsense with a straight face.
great! Very impressive work.

I was just looking for something like this the other day, citysearch is so cumbersome.

Playing songs isnt working for me though. When I click through to the myspace page I can listen fine, but on your site it just stays at 0% ( vista, firefox 3.0.1, flash 9 )
What do you mean by that? I'm not a big user of Google APIs so I can't attest to the quality, but it seems like they provide them for quite a few things. Maybe they would do a mediocre job of maintaining and improving the Digg API, but it wouldn't seem to make sense for them to get rid of it completely.
Has anyone figured out why it is called the Jesus browser? It is meant to be the resurrection of the browser or something?
...and use an f5 box. But of course.

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=lmacvittie
I suppose that it depends on how low you set the bar for what is considered literacy.
In that case, I think you really need to give at least "the tie" to Steve. Not only does #3 sound the best, but you just argued him another point for iTunes.
Ask YC: Incorporating with founders in different states
We are a two person internet startup, and we live in different states, Texas and Virginia, communicating over the internet to do this startup. When we go to incorporate our company should we incorporate in Delaware? If so, will we have to register our corporation as a foreign entity in Texas and Virginia? Or should we just register our corporation in Texas and Virginia?
It's far from foolproof, doesn't work for Copenhagen.
On Deleting Features
a somewhat late response to all the application-tire/dread, perhaps?
Who would you put in?
Great, one more Austrian, welcome to the Club! :)
equally good and bad, now your app is dependent on facebooks grace, i would rather see a quality score type system, where its a install to unistall ratio. 85 percent and above and you start getting warnings etc..
Framework Performance
MS to share game revenue with users
Reg's phrasing was more exciting and romantic, but yes, that's exactly what he's talking about...
The best answer really depends on what your long term plans are. If you plan to seek funding and investments, then incorporating in DE is in your long-term best interests. If you plan to bootstrap things and keep it more simple, then the state you incorporate in is less significant, as you won't really be doing much from a legal perspective.

As far as registering in the multiple states that is also more important when there is actual cash flow. If you're in the early stages of development and cash burn, there is less valuable in making your legal work more burdensome.
Programming languages and "lock-in"
Second the markers sentiment... put 'em on there. I'd rather have say 100 markers crowding my map (and knowing that there are 100 events in my area) than not seeing any.
Zynga Raises $29 Million B Round and Buys Virtual-World Facebook App YoVille
Cars to run on fuel from household waste
Well, if you map living a decent but unexceptional life to "failure", and becoming a world-changing figure to Google-like success, then yes, the rates are about the same, or even worse for humans.
Controversial Ideas about Programming
VMware's new CEO says he knows Microsoft and can defeat it
It's not realistic to directly compare rent with a 30 year mortgages because at the end of rent you have a house and at the end of renting you have nothing and your rent is going up every year while your house payment is constant.

IMO it's best to compare interest only loan on $1,589,000 to renting @ $5,000. So 6% a year = 7,945/month but that's pretax so it's closer to 5561.5. But to keep up with inflation it's reasonable for the home value to increase at ~2%/year and rent should also increase at that rate. But you need to add in ongoing costs like taxes etc. If you run the numbers renting and owning a home cost about the same over 15 years and investing the difference in value which is reasonable. The problem is you want to buy the house you want in 20 years so most people go for a larger house than they need today.

Note: Owning a home is risky but so is renting. When you rend you can randomly have increases of 20% per year or it stagnates for a while but with home ownership you’re stuck in that area so your job or other local issues become a much larger problem. Basically having an affordable mortgage in a good area is not bad as long as you don’t need to move.
It's still faster than MySpace. Which, sadly, is used by all the people I want to keep in touch with.
"One American study found that interruptions take up 2.1 hours of the average knowledge worker’s day. This, it was estimated, cost the US economy $588 billion a year."

There's this myth in America that it's possible to work non-stop for 8 straight hours a day. Distractions maybe unhealthy and negatively impact productivity, but this statistic certainly does not demonstrate that.
Many people find it easier to take inspiration from people they view as similar to themselves.
Disambiguation pages like wikipedia.

I personally would like to get rid of http, www and com all along

Just type a name and presto!
1) Everyone is a good parent until they become one.

2) You can't sell your equity stake

3) Firing your cofounder is expensive

4) You have negative cashflow for 20+ years with no realized return (if you can quantify love and affection into cash or equity, I'd like to hear the rationale)
IT admin hands over keys to hijacked San Francisco network -- case details emerging
builder of useful world-changer stuffs, like Woz
It is easy to find problems in violations of the Law of Demeter, but difficult to create solutions.
Ask PG: Is it okay to use onlisp.lisp code for Google Code Jam?
The Google Code Jam allows use of external and library code, as long as the competitor has licence to use it.

The licence comment in onlisp.lisp reads:

; This code is copyright 1993 by Paul Graham, but anyone who wants
; to use the code in any nonprofit activity, or distribute free
; verbatim copies (including this notice), is encouraged to do so.

Now, the GCJ is a competition with cash prizes (not that I'm going to win one), so does this mean we can't use onlisp.lisp? If this is the meaning of the "letter" of the comment above, is it also the "spirit"?

Thanks!
I don't have a great dangerous idea, but to use a more folksy analogy, I want to be a Jedi that builds his own lightsabre, but not a lightsabre technician.

Great ideas are not had alone, though! Why not blog about "lightsabre building", and work off the community feedback?
The article suggests yes. Even trivial decisions deplete executive capacity.
Of course. But you should ask me this sort of stuff by email, not by posting on News.YC.
There are a few things I would take from this:

Google has some interest in having other programming languages on AppEngine, but not a lot.

It's a lot harder to implement another language on AppEngine than most of the world thinks.
It's all relative. They have always made it really obvious they never wanted or attempted to be YouTube. Personally, I know I would have never bothered to create any of the videos on my Vimeo had I not had a Vimeo.

Not everything is about numbers. Connected Ventures already has huge successful cash cows like Busted Tees and College Humor. Vimeo is just about enabling people to communicate, not record themselves playing a videogame for an hour every day.
Vary focused on the web. Algorithmic Complexity, Interfaces, and Concurrency are far more universal than Cloud Computing.

PS: Yes some people write the software in your bluetooth headset.
Hackers say they should have attack code for leaked DNS flaw within days
Why doesn’t Google build its own Digg like Yahoo and AOL did?
Summary:

1. Cherry-pick some success.

2. Crank up the music.

3. Get away from the computer.

4. Bribe yourself.

5. Take the day off.
Please help yourself:

http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/cut-and-paste-one-line-of-code-to...
I understand that not "Everybody"lives like that. But that was her perception anyway.
Beware of .ru Domains | TechJaws
Hm. Sorry if that was inappropriate. I thought about which approach to take, and came up with "ask publicly."
Perl on App Engine
The Death of Google's Patents?
> ``Methodology'' Is a Stupid Word

> When you say that Extreme Programming or Waterfall are methodologies, you're wrong. They are software development processes. Possibly, you could call them methods.

> Methodology is the study of methods.
"Cut the adwords and the digg/share widgets. They're not going to get you money or traffic, respectively, and they look trashy."

With all due respect, are you serious? Most AdWords users I've heard from have had fairly positive feedback on the system.

And beyond that, it's likely that pedalpete has spent several months and/or thousands of dollars from his own pocket building a useful web aggregator that provides free, easy to use, searchable data to the teeming masses. And you're telling him to get rid of his site's single, small source of income, because you think it looks trashy? I'm all for minimalism in UI design, but get real.
Often, the problem with public companies is that they try to remake the startups they buy in their image, instead of just managing the company.
Good point. :) The statement makes sense to me, though. The iPhone store shows that a market exists for apps for a specific, popular, walled-off platform with a unified storefront. Other mobile platforms don't have anything like that, do they (Palm, Windows Mobile, Symbian)? As for desktop platforms: Windows users either pirate their software, or have their employers buy it for them (for the humor-impaired, that's an exaggeration and a joke). Mac users pay for their software, but are a fairly small demographic. Linux users use free software almost exclusively.
This is why I null route 64.207.133.0/24
Thanks, although--to be very frank--I'd rather be the kid that introduced you to skateboarding or your weird cousing that listens to a lot of Jazz music :-)
Q&A with Dylan Schiemann, co-creator of Dojo
Lazy Linux: 10 essential tricks for admins
There's no question acquisitions are often botched. But you're
protected against the consequences of this if the acquirer is a
public co. I wouldn't advocate being acquired by a private co
except in exceptional circumstances.
Wait a second --- I am very much a libertarian, but I also use Emacs! :) (This comment will not make sense to you if you haven't read the linked article.)
Facebook Acquires Twitter and 4 other deals that should happen
Its simple really, the internet is the most free medium in the world, and we've all seen first hand that its possible to accomplish many great things w/o government intervention.