skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did read the article but -- as I said in my comment -- I haven't used AppStore before, so I have no idea what "iclick" is or why something done on his laptop would affect his iPhone... I assume from your comment that it is the option to turn off confirmation?

If so, it strikes me as bad design that another user on another device can affect whether or not you get a buy confirmation on yours.
I'm still working on extracting it into a useful form at the moment, but it's pretty closely based on one of the themes from ColorTheme (http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ColorTheme). I think it was either Charcoal Black or Linh Dang Dark, though if you took Lawrence and turned every green to blue you would probably be close.

There's a pretty good gallery here, incidentally:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~maverick/GNUEmacsColorThemeTest/index... You can probably find at least a couple you like enough to start from.
CA State Supreme Court rejects noncompete clauses
Greek T Shirts
Explosion Sportswear for the best custom design of Greek, Sorority, and Fraternity T Shirt Designs, custom embroidery and screen printing.
Apple Yanks 'I Am Rich' iPhone Application
I agree that bargaining is inefficient for small transactions but it is the basis of business, everywhere in the world, regardless of whether or not there are price tags.
3 Legalities when running a website
That's actually $25 a month. Not a good deal--it's a $500 app for crying out loud!

Ditch the hosting and go with slicehost--what you have probably isn't better than that. You can also pay per month IIRC.
Or possibly a deposit is what the client thinks it is. Unless its in writing or talked about as being non-refundable, then it could be anything. Anyone who's ever been involved in litigation learns very quickly that you don't always get to choose your own definition for words. Unless two people agree it is non-refundable, then the definition is up for grabs. Thats what lawyers do my friend. :)
In Visual Studio parlance, a 'solution' is a set of projects that logically belong together.
For example, in a web site, your actual web app may be one project. A back-end scheduling task may be another, etc..

All of these together form a 'solution'.
So, in that sense, the term 'Solution Explorer' kinda makes sense if you squint right.
Whether or not the word 'solution' is appropriate at all is a different issue entirely...
Obvious link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n3LL338aGA
loses
http://people.cs.vt.edu/~scschnei/work.png

Instead of using virtual desktops, I have one work area and alt+tab between Firefox and Gnome's Terminal app. My IM buddy list and IM window (also with tabs) always stays in the same place. If I'm reading a paper, it takes up the space used by Firefox and Terminal. Having tabs in Terminal means I don't have shells spread out all over place.

It's a brittle setup, in that it all depends on getting window sizes to match and then not changing them, but I've found it works very well for me.
I'm going to cut your labor in half. From my iPhone.
But first are you my CTO co-founder?

If you wanna be, see savestaff.blogspot.com
Suggestions? Always be polite to the Judge. Be on time. Do the background work to make sure you look good. i.e. did Jim turn over what he has worked on for the amount he is keeping. Thats sort of thing always goes over well.
Very similar to:
http://onstartups.com/home/tabid/3339/bid/1415/5-Startup-Sal...
What, you mean like GWT?

http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/

The future is here, man.
If one wanted to do sales, I'd recommend using Cisco's Engineering Sales program. It's a little more... sophisticated than selling knives and tupperware.
And this is why I don't worry about my job being outsourced: The vast, vast majority of these overseas firms do unbelievably shoddy work.
An overview is nice, but it doesn't tell the reader which techniques made the most difference. Naively applying performance optimizations without measuring their individual impact is not a good idea. It sounds like you did not do that, but the reader has no way of knowing that.
Not being stupid
I read this quote at http://robotics.caltech.edu/~mason/quotes.html

'"I used to have a boss named Rock. Rock had earned a degree in astrophysics from Cal Tech [sic] and had never had a job where he used his knowledge of the heavens. Once I asked him if he regretted getting his degree. "My absurd degree in astrophysics has proved to be very valuable," he said, "Some things in this world are just hard. When I am struggling with something, I sometimes think 'Damn, this is hard. I wonder if I am stupid,' and then I remember that I have a degree in astrophysics from Cal Tech; I must not be stupid."'

I wish I'd heard that 10 years back!
Google Alerts are a VC's best friend?
What part of the help docs is about brace/parentheses matching? Everything I've seen online uses a simple key mapping like the ones I posted.
Git vs. Mercurial: Please Relax
As a developer I solve this by importing an RSS feed of my subversion commits and trac tickets. I then only have to manually add other stuff such as any topic I spent time reading up on or researching.
My thoughts exactly. My sense of wonderment grew as I read along and slowly realized that the author wasn't using the word 'blackmail' in jest.

W... tf?
By the end, have you bought 3 more books, the training tapes, and a lifetime subscription to his newsletter?
Wikipedia is at least as saturated as its administrators want it to be.
Facebook and StudiVZ battle over Germany
Where is that at?
I get mine back within 48 hours or something like that from the Toronto store - but usually it is much quicker.
I'm pretty sure some people just enjoy the violence. The animal rights is likely just an excuse.
I just redid the charts with the Digg effect:

http://www.xach.com/moviecharts/reddit-and-digg.html
Study Finds Settling Is Better Than Going to Trial
use
:set showmatch
Visualization: Web traffic patterns for Reddit, Hacker News, Digg effects
Now the question is: what constitutes a "trade secret?" Could one take what they do in their current corporate job and turn it into a startup using some of the (non-patented, general knowledge) techniques you learned on the job, but using different technology? Say, to make a competing product to one that you are currently working on?

Obviously the guys at Cuil did this. Are there other precedents?
I think internet marketing is going to get very hard in the future. Folks will have to focus on adding value in order to get recognition.
Humans are animals.
Burning people with fire constitutes harming animals.
Seeking to help animals by hurting other animals seems illogical.
Oh wait...
(Is this hacker news?)
Natural Project Planning with Emacs Org-Mode
Did ABC and Brian Ross take a credibility hit over Anthrax Coverage?
This is classic PETA (or ALF) about 7:35 in - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ijLulwUTY
Very interesting study... Love this kind of stuff on Hacker News!
Girl Talk! Wow, I never thought I'd see him appear in the context of Hacker News...
Up vote on not using dreamweaver. It's an amazing tool and I respect that, but it's not to be used with hand crafted files.
Holy guacomole. What is that desk, and where can I get one?
I believe they were animal-welfare extremists and not animal-rights extremists, unless they were fighting for the vote.
Yes, but for thousands of years there hasn't been an Internet with bloggers detailing this sort of thing for the rest of the world. :)

I was commenting less on the haggling aspect and more on the team-based shill/forced-reciprocity system.
Is this the same type thing as dogster?

http://www.dogster.com/

I saw dogster a while ago and went, "dang, great idea. Too bad I didn't think of it first." I'm never optimistic enough about the space in a niche for > 1 players.
Raphaël: Simple graphics wrapper on top of SVG and VML
Nice pov, I hadn't think on that.
Also interested! What time?

There is a google group, BTW: http://groups.google.com/group/nyyc
Terminus! (http://www.is-vn.bg/hamster/)

I find ProFont and its relatives (http://www.tobias-jung.de/seekingprofont/index.html) quite readable as tiny programming fonts, but Terminus is my favorite medium/small programming font. It's the font in Emacs and the bottom statusbar in my screenshot (http://shenani.gen.nz/~scott/screenshot.png).
It's true that studivz copied the Facebook UI nearly 1:1 and made it red instead of blue but they still lack some more advanced features like an API.
Facebook is also not a huge success in Europe since every country has kind of their own facebook-clone.

"copied functions like a Facebook innovation that lets users digitally "poke" each other to get attention"

Sorry, that's not an innovation.
Soocial will “totally obliterate” Plaxo and MobileMe
'I Am Rich' Dude: I Made $6000 From My Dumb iPhone App
"slowed by the speed of their ideas rather than by the speed of their tool"

Brilliant insight. It explains the reason that I find IDEs so damn annoying.
That's an interesting looking book. I'm familiar with the whole intrinsic/extrinsic motivation arguments. I guess it depends on the definition of "work". In this case the economy would be intended as a measurement tool more than a motivational tool. However, I suppose you could still make a case that it would become demotivational, which would be at cross purposes.
This is hardly surprising, given the rise of the deletionists over the past few years.
True. Dealing with probability and infinite sets can cause some problems.

It's a bit weird how the size of positive integers is equal to the size of the positive even integers and yet the probability of choosing one from the other is not 100%.

Another more extreme example is that the size of the Z+ is equal to the size of the positive rational numbers (a/b where a,b in Z+) but what is the probability that a rational number is an integer?
This made me check - apparently there really isn't an "Idiot's guide to quantum physics" yet. I wonder why? I bought an "Idiot's guide to economics" the other day... So Quantum physics is more complicated than economics?

Edit: put "Write Idiot's Guide TO Quantum Physics" on my TODO-list...
There is still PLENTY of knowledge that can be included into Wikipedia, but there are too few main editors to actually refine/expand upon the articles. To imply Wikipedia is "saturated" and that it now must grow linearly (because the past year reveals this pattern) is as ridiculous to say that human knowledge is perhaps saturated and must grow linearly because we have not collectively broken out of prevailing models of perception.

I believe that this flat trend (in a larger exponential curve that has yet to reveal itself) is a lack of initiative/participation for the moment that has zero predictive value of revealing the nature of Wikipedia's future growth rate.
If you're going to be a silent waiter, you have to be a damn good one.

"any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology" (Larry Niven)

I like turning this on its head: if you're going to do something with technology it has better be so good that it looks like magic. Every time it fails, the illusion is broken and flow/trust/fluidity is gone. It has failed you.

If autocorrection was always right, you wouldn't mind it (see http://twitter.com/gruber/statuses/880736890).

If the caching algorithm of your drive controller was sometimes wrong and you had to manually find data in the right sector, you'd be annoyed by it too.

If your code is promising to do something for the user, it has to do it exactly right every time. Otherwise you need to package, promote and conceptualize it differently so that you don't constantly fail to live up to expectations.
What’s wrong with the Atlanta startup ecosystem and how to fix it
> "Folks will have to focus on adding value in order to get recognition"

No way! You mean people will actually have to add value to get people to pay them, like most businesses in history have had to do?
I continue to wonder why having a "real" painting as opposed to a "forgery" matters if even the newest scientific technology is having trouble telling them apart
I have something very similar for a dashboard-like interface I use to figure out what's going on in my ISV.

Here's what it looks like: http://files.dangrover.com/wwactivity.png

That's sales (integrated with the order system), SVN commits, wiki edits, bug tickets.

There's also a pane that shows yearly/monthly/daily goals for sales.

I'm going to have it keep track of my releases too, just so that I can quickly update the site, appcasts, etc and have it tell me when a major release is getting long in the tooth.

Since I use Mint for web stats, I've thought about joining that in just to try to correlate hits/sales, but haven't gotten around to it. Too meta :)
Ah yes, but that's thanks to the absence of information. And technology (internet especially) are filling in the missing info, and putting the middle men, a.k.a those who bargain, out of business.

The railroads did exactly the same thing with other middle men. In general, that is how markets become more efficient, by putting hagglers out of business.
Quick Yoga Training by Nintendo
Dave Winer asks: "Could Vista Fail?"
I really like the fact that it has a tutorial and in-game messages. I think, it would be a lot nicer if it moved to a standard rouge-like time system. Also, it's pretty slow in my browser but, I can forgive that.
This is a good application of usability to Roguelikes. The system is actually pretty intuitive.
Ryanair blocks bookings made through screenscraping.
Ask YC: Which IRC Channel(s) Do You Frequent?
I've enjoyed the discussions (via comments) at this site, and so I wonder if there are any IRC channels out there just as good?
Think about this:

Charlie Bird Parker, undoubtedly one of the best saxophonists of all time, reportedly practiced 11 hours a day for a period of 5 years!

People say music and art is natural ability, but Parker practiced an inhuman amount of time to become as good as he did.

I would also say that even Feymann, Einstein, or any of the math and science geniuses put in tremendous effort to achieve what they did. Saying that you can't be the same as them is doing yourself a diservice. Maybe they are truly "better," but even mediocre mathematicians and scientists can get "lucky" and come up with something groundbreaking. Never shortchange your ability to see something many very great people have missed.
Facebook malware attack: less than .002 percent of members affected
I read this book 12 years ago and it changed my perception of most interacations with sales/service people. His stories of working as a busboy to watch the high performing waiters and what he learned was worth the price, alone.
Matz loves Python
Nielsen Norman Group: The First Decade
Bug report: I tried submitting this with a less than sign (<) in the headline, but it was truncated after the colon.
firefox, tux, gnu, tomcat, leopard, mongrel, ocaml, hardy heron, etc. i guess it can be considered hacker news...
Create Your Own Custom RSS News Feed
> Despite all the Internet technology advances, sharing dinners at good restaurants and coffee at each other's houses remains the best way to build a personal connection.

Quoted for truth.
Facebook Security Team Fighting New Worms
Nice! First of all firebombing - I can not put into words the stupidity. Second, if you are going to do that why don't you start with puppy mills or factory style pig/chicken farms.

Oh I know why, because these people are beyond stupid.
#startups @ irc.freenode.net
Yes, that $25B eigenvector article was the one I read, and having read it, was why I didn't feel like I was getting much new from this paper.

I may have been too harsh on the paper, though, because of the headline. It's still kinda neat, just almost-certainly useless.
Reading News.YC instead of hacking code:
http://ben.kudria.net/pub/screen.png

Code/Terminal font is Consolas, editor is Kate
I'm going to run tcpdump on my iPhone for a while. To see what it will connect to. Checks like this must be done periodically I think. Who know what other things it is checking or sending to the mothership.
"There are about 258,200 angel investors in the U.S., and in 2007 they invested $26 billion in 57,120 deals, according to data from the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire."

Those numbers seem quite high to me. I wonder how many of those deals were tech related?
Tiny Teeth of Ape and Human Ancestor Found in India
Are there plenty of women working in usability/HCI? It looks like it at NNG
When I am struggling with something, I sometimes think 'Damn, this is hard. I wonder if I am stupid,' and then I remember that I don't have a degree in astrophysics from Cal Tech; I must be stupid.
I concur. I've known people who have wanted to add information to wikipedia and then go, "Why bother? It'll just get reverted by wikipedia moderators or something. Waste of my time."
This is good news.

Two thoughts:

(1) This may cause (stupid) companies to incorporate and operate out of other areas, like Austin and Atlanta.

(2) Though other states haven't "rejected" noncompete clauses, they remain notoriously hard to enforce; in jurisdictions like Massachusetts and Illinois, your noncompete has to be specific to your role, tied to a "reasonable" business concern, and exchanged for extra compensation, and the court can "rewrite" the agreement from the bench before enforcing it.
Only a tiny fraction. Most are presumably people investing in their friends' restaurants.
Using Twitter to Increase Your Website Traffic LIVE TWITCAST
Showmatch is there to highlight matching braces, not to insert them. The mappings actually match your braces by writing the close brace/parens/bracket. Here are the coding aids from my vimrc. They're pretty simple, as I don't like to change how Vim works too much:

" Coding aids
set undolevels=5000
set backspace=indent,eol,start
vnoremap < <gv
vnoremap > >gv
" Braces, etc.
inoremap ( ()<LEFT>
inoremap (<CR> (<CR>)<ESC>O
inoremap () ()
inoremap { {}<LEFT>
inoremap {<CR> {<CR>}<Esc>O
inoremap {{ {
inoremap [ []<LEFT>
inoremap [<CR> [<CR>]<Esc>O
inoremap [] []
" Wrap in braces, etc.
vnoremap -( <ESC>`>a)<ESC>`<i(<ESC>
vnoremap -[ <ESC>`>a]<ESC>`<i[<ESC>
vnoremap -{ <ESC>`>a}<ESC>`<i{<ESC>
vnoremap -" <ESC>`>a"<ESC>`<i"<ESC>
vnoremap -' <ESC>`>a'<ESC>`<i'<ESC>
" End the line, adding a semicolon
inoremap <S-CR> <ESC>A;<ESC>o
noremap <S-CR> A;<ESC>j

I also use NERDCommenter for quick commenting, an XML tag wrapper script, and a tag closer script. As you can see above, typing the open/close pair doesn't result in "())", and typing an open brace plus a carriage return automatically adds the close brace to the line below, in the format:

function hello($name) {
// Insertion point
}

Edit: Of course, that isn't my entire .vimrc
This link (http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/) from the comments is fascinating also. A long article but well worth a read.

Some of the techniques could be just what a start-up needs to give it the edge over, "just good enough" web apps.
I've done more than a few freelance jobs in CA where I was asked to sign a NC. I always try to explain things to them.
The ruling "advances the strong California policy favoring open competition and employee freedom,"

Wait, what? How does it favor 'employee freedom' to say that employees cannot agree not to work for a competitor? Being able to make an enforceable promise about your own future behavior is an important freedom -- some Game Theory texts claim that the most crucial right we have is the right to be sued for breaching a contract.

Noncompetes are probably, usually, a bad idea -- but banning them altogether is far worse.
Seth's Blog: When in doubt, (don't) follow the money
I read the same book. It was compulsory for a management class I was doing.

A lot of people rave about how great it is, but personally I couldn't quite overcome the niggling voice of shame in the back of my head that said "You're reading a self-help book".

I felt dirty afterwards, and I stored the book in a drawer rather than on my bookshelf. It's probably not really a bad book, though.
Please post your findings on Hacker News! Cool idea!
Olympics fever creates an opportunity for Silverlight
Girl Talk is the best music to work to. Well, that and Ratatat.
Yeah, but that doesn't show how language evolved, it just shows that language is innate in modern humans rather than a purely social construct.
I just checked and there is a "Quantum Physics for Dummies" on Amazon for preorder. It's due to come out early next year.
How Angels Are Playing a Fallen Economy
Search in the FAQ / SearchYC link on frontpage?
Is there any particular reason why there isn't either a link to http://searchyc.com (ideally, saying "Search") on the front page or an answer in the FAQ about searching with SearchYC or site:news.ycombinator.com in Google? It's certainly a Frequently Asked Question. Expecting new users to search for how to search when the site history isn't obviously search-able is a catch-22.
That's not what you asked. You asked for evidence that language "has been shown to emerge naturally". The case of NSL is such evidence.
"This is like an MBA-level course on the latest advertising and community trends." (http://qik.com/video/149651)

I do not have an MBA, so do not know if this is true, but the video provides some good insight.
10 Free Tools for Collaboration - Stepcase Lifehack
mercurial is one binary you say?
well hg is basically just this:

from mercurial import demandimport; demandimport.enable()

import sys
import mercurial.util
import mercurial.dispatch

for fp in (sys.stdin, sys.stdout, sys.stderr):
mercurial.util.set_binary(fp)

mercurial.dispatch.run()

....

that is a front end for this:
ancestor.py demandimport.py hook.py mail.py simplemerge.py util.py
archival.py dirstate.py httprangereader.py manifest.py sshrepo.py util_win32.py
bundlerepo.py dispatch.py httprepo.py mdiff.py sshserver.py verify.py
byterange.py extensions.py i18n.py merge.py statichttprepo.py __version__.py
changegroup.py fancyopts.py ignore.py node.py streamclone.py version.py
changelog.py filelog.py __init__.py osutil.py strutil.py
cmdutil.py filemerge.py keepalive.py patch.py templatefilters.py
commands.py hbisect.py localrepo.py repair.py templater.py
context.py help.py lock.py repo.py transaction.py
copies.py hg.py lsprof.py revlog.py ui.py

so what are you talking about?
The Singing Mac (Leopard)
I didn't think of it either, I read about it in a book from the library. I just applied the idea to your situation.
From the Easy Way to Startup Failure to Modular Innovation
Being informed improves your ability to bargain, it doesn't negate the need for bargaining.
Who says you can't give prices for expensive, variable-priced services?
Apostrophe is not a plural!
Reporters booted from Black Hat conference for hacking
The truth, more likely, is...

1. They are jealous and want to gather the customer information for themselves.
2. Don't want people to know if they are truly competitive on price (apart from a few headline grabbers).
3. Don't want pricing pressure/war encouraged through open comparison.
4. They don't actually care about the customer, just their money.
This was the first thing I noticed too.
I must confess that I very much hate bargaining. I can't overcome the feeling that the other person tries to steal my money, and now I have to be careful and defend myself to reduce the damage. Then, I will end up with a stuff I don't really need.

Everything is a bargain. If the price is set by the company it's because they've already researched the most effective way to take everyone's money instead of just focusing on you.

Regarding the Turkey story, I just would not follow the man no matter what. I can't help, but persuasion doesn't work on me - the more other person tries to persuade me, the less likely I will buy anything.

Agreed