skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mean like iOS style? That is a pretty good idea. I've certainly seen it done with custom boxes but it would make a nice addition to the browser chrome in the same way that the link element can be.
Can you really do the latter in Obj-C? As I understood it you needed to copy and autorelease the block to move it from stack allocation to heap allocation.
I use a Roth IRA for most of my long-term savings, can withdraw contributions very quickly with no penalty whatsoever. My investments are riskier but even if they tank I can still afford a $2000 type emergency. To me this makes more sense than wasting savings in a low-yield non tax-advantaged account.
We assume (probably conservatively) that we'll end up with 2% after dilution.
Please don't break conventions. They are there for a reason!
To each his own.

I see it as an art, and I wouldn't say art is meaningless. Perhaps you want to check out https://www.facebook.com/tagxedo to see some more examples. It's much more than a blob of tags arranged in some random order to "help" navigation (that might be a bit cliche).

Some of my favorites:

http://daily.tagxedo.com/may-20-linkedin-rockets-skyward-in-...

http://daily.tagxedo.com/may-16-space-shuttle-endeavour-blas...

http://daily.tagxedo.com/march-23-faster-much-improved-firef...
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>removal of the status bar text at the bottom of FF4

Hell yeah, that was stupid. I really hate the new one for many reasons, one of which is that I have to search for it whenever I hover over a link. And whey the hell can't I turn it back on???

As usual, Seamonkey keeps what Firefox changed to stupid.
If that's your motivation, I hope you never write another piece of open source software.
>More often than not, insights originate from relevant background.
Not trying to prove you wrong or anything, but can you quote one or two specific examples of these insights which you think people coming from technical background don't seem to have.

https://github.com/jashkenas/ was an English major I think, his JavaScript projects are one home run after another- Docco, Underscore, Backbone, CoffeeScript.

http://www.flight404.com still wouldn't call himself a proper programmer, since he writes crappy code, but through his mix of art and programming he popularized a new computer graphics trend. Processing, OpenFrameworks probably wouldn't be where they are today without him.

Steve Jobs' famous example is when he took a typography course, learned the importance of proper text design. In a speech he said if he didn't include those insights in the Mac, PCs would not have them for decades, since they copied the Mac. He's probably right, programmers left to their own devices would have stuck with typography from terminals.

The Flash movement was driven by programmers interested in art.

Software engineering on its own is a pretty narrow interest. A surefire way for technological/human progress to get stuck is to focus on a single discipline. Chasing salaries in the hip disciplines makes sense for individuals but sucks for economies, imagine if we had more patent troll lawyers.
I currently don't have U$ 2.000 (not an American, but having money for a rainy day should be worldwide), but I could raise them with a (high interest) loan in about 30 minutes.

The article says they don't count, though:

"29.5% said they would have to resort to credit cards, a home equity line of credit, reverse mortgage or unsecured loan. "
haberman, you say the article is a sensationalist piece with very little content but I'd like to point out that the site linked to is more than a single blog post. Included are links to Boing Boing comments and discussion as well as links to pieces in newspapers in France and Italy.

This article, posted to g8internet.com, from the Italian newspaper la Republicca, by internet reporter Arturo Di Corinto, provides more detailed arguments and a generous use of footnotes and citations - http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2011/05/01/news/sarkozy_...

Hopefully more pieces like that will be found and added to the growing repository at the site.

As far as headline, I took that from an article by Dominic Basulto which I submitted separately here - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2581175 - apologies for any confusion.
"The location bar has to go. It has many problems. For one, it’s always visible and constantly takes up a large amount of space. Secondly, it’s hard to read, since people don’t really understand URLs. Moreover, it’s modal: it has a mode for displaying the current page’s location and a mode for entering your next destination.”

1. What is the panic with space on monitors? Stop making everything at 1080 widescreen TV.

2. If you cannot read an URL then I guess sending links to others in email, IM, or Facebook is too hard as well. Heck, how are you even going to share the URL? Some kind of drag and drop that people will have to learn even exists?

3. It has more than one mode? Like old TV sets that had a dial to tell you what channel you were on, yet could be set to another channel by turning it? The bar already as been turned into a search, and URL bar. So we already dropped from two entry points to one.
Senate bill seeks to limit 401(k) borrowing
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011...

Hard to get a line of credit when 1 out of 4 mortgages are underwater
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125903489722661849.html
An appendectomy with an overnight hospital stay (went in at 8pm, left around 3pm the next day) was $24,000.
CyanogenMod nightly allows selective app permissions
Emacs has followed a similar idea, essentially they just dropped the 1. (or was it 0. - can't remember!), so emacs 23 is really v1.23. Chrome is similar – why use endless non integers for main builds?
Fortunately, Mozilla Seamonkey tends to leave out such annoying changes.
Transform T-shirt into V-neck ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzcN_7xj3hk
On a sidenote, I'm getting exhausted from 'deals.'

LivingSocial, GroupOn, Yelp Deals/Coupons, Facebook Deals, Slickdeals...
FTA: "both are designed with runtime compilation in mind"

vs

"and interpreted, for maximum portability and dynamic capabilities."

from Design Goals for the Java Programming Language

http://java.sun.com/docs/white/langenv/Intro.doc2.html
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These photos are kinda gross, but also really lovely.
Unfortunately, on some of the smaller wikipedias (by users), automatic article creation through algorithmic translation of en.wp is fairly common. The result is a large volume of poor quality articles. Esperanto was one of the wikis that fell victim to this at first.
Very interesting! =P
I wish I could double raise this.

When raising our kids we often talked about money and "kinds" of money. When you're young you can go for long stretches with "no" money, as you get older you get introduced to the notion of a "cash flow" and a steady stream of expenses that need to be paid.

The single biggest point we try to impress on them was that if you were not able to 'save' (put aside) some money every month (could be $10 but it had to be net positive) such that under 'normal' circumstances you've put money aside in more months than not in a year, then you are, by definition "living beyond your means."

If you found yourself in that space you needed to scale back your life if you could, or upgrade your means.

Being able to come up with $2,000, "if you had to", is pretty important. And while its perfectly ok to say you have to liquidate your savings or sell an asset.

Acquiring it through a credit instrument didn't pass the test, since you just moved the obligation forward in time, and if you couldn't come up with it now then why do you think you can come up with even more later?

It used to bother me a bit when peers whom I knew were making about the same amount of money as I was were living much more "exciting" lifestyles, and it really wasn't until the 90-91 recession hit that it was clear that they were living on credit. One person called me in desperation for a ride to work because their car had been 'stolen.' It turned out it had actually been re-possesed. Thats a hard place to be.
Ask HN: going after user feedback?
Hello guys. I recently launched a webapp. I'm wondering whether I should email users that registered and stopped using it.

About 20 users registered (and one payed), but I haven't received any feedback (emails) at all!

I would like to hear anything they have to say, of course.
For a web browser there is no reason not to want to use the newest build, especially while HTML5 and CSS3 are being actively implemented. Your bash script is just your own version of Mozilla's auto updater.
I've seen similar studies about emergency funds for many years. They all say roughly the same thing: most people don't save money. To the point that not only do they not have $2,000, they can't borrow $2,000 to handle an emergency.
I think it was more like "Apple is eating our lunch and we need to have something FAST" or we will be dead on mobile.

Apple and google(they bought the company Android) spent a lot of time designing their mobile OSes.

MS would have to spend the same time designing the UI, they do not have time, so they created something very simple(drawing simple vector shapes with orthogonal pictures is extremely easy and fast to do), and will use money to force their product into the market, buying whatever they need(just Nokia deal took MS BILLIONS vs Android taking tens of millions from Google, add the money they will give to carriers) because they CAN'T LOOSE THE MOBILE WARS. If they do they loose the train of the future.
Links from the article:

http://upthemes.com/404

http://www.limpfish.com/notfound.html

http://www.bluedaniel.com/404

http://www.bluefountainmedia.com/404/

http://www.southparkstudios.com/404

http://abduzeedo.com/404

http://www.gog.com/en/error/404

http://chrisjennings.com/404

http://dribbble.com/404
Humj thanks for your insight. You should understand my business partner and I are new to this. We have been reading posts for HN for a few months now trying to feel out the community. Although it seems my statement seems vague, dont mistake it for not being confident. Its purely two MBA's taking a leap. If we had development skills this wouldnt be a problem then would it? Part of the reason for finding "my guy" and your correct could be a woman too, is that we want to partner with a developer. I think you've mistaken my post. When I post an actual offer I will take this advice and not tip-toe. An NDA to us more like a pre-nup. Think of this way, we dont think anything is gonna happen but its there just incase? How can you argue against that as a developer? Im trying to learn here which is why I posted this so I value your opinion.
I'm leaving Hacker News. If things got to be censored, it's got to be done on my desk and not by an algorithm or anyone else. If I got to be called a spammer, it's got to be done by a human being. And I certainly don't want to be tricked into believing I'd participate -- I sense supreme assholiness here with which only people can come up who think they're extra-bright. I'll find myself some more honest and fair news site where I can choose myself what I want to see. Live long and prosper.
> ...which to me came out as somehow philosophy helps you understand CS better. If you didn't mean that, we aren't discussing the same topic.

Not what I said at all.

From looking at your responses here and elsewhere on this post, it seems that you have difficulty accepting the idea that other fields of study might present skills that are not ordinarily available to a CS student.

I'm sorry you've chosen to take offense -- and become defensive -- to the proposition that different majors offer different skills. This seems like it would be the wrong thread for you to participate in, since that is the fundamental assumption.
No. If they have $1k in savings, they should continue working on the credit card. However, if they have under 300 dollars of savings (scraping the bottom of the checking account), making it to $1000 should be the first priority.
I disagree.

Saving money for an emergency should be a priority over paying off a credit card debt. In an emergency, you cannot count on the credit card bank keeping your account open. You cannot count on them maintaining your current credit line. ALL banks are "evil" in the sense that they operate with their best interests at heart, and no matter how horrible of a position it may put you in, the CC bank has no obligation to maintain your current credit line.

Having a $2000 emergency fund, even if it's in a shoe box under the bed, is more important and more VALUABLE than $2000 worth of open credit on a credit card. The $2000 under the mattress is almost entirely under your control. The $2000 in open credit is almost entirely OUT of your control.

If you're in a real emergency, what would your rather rely on?
Cool blog focusing on puzzle games for iOS.
None of my extensions are broken or disabled so far. I can totally see your scepticism and where you are coming from though. With the update from FF3.x to FF4 it was all hell with extensions and it has been like that between previous major versions as well.

Just thought I'd report that for my (somewhat meager) selection of addons, I haven't found anything auto-disabled or crashing yet.
I studied these issues a lot (copyright, right of publicity, etc), and I think this particular use is fine. You are right that sometimes it is easy to figure out the text from the cloud, just like you can make out a famous photo from a very small 10x10 thumbnail, or draw Mona Lisa in 50 polygons http://rogeralsing.com/2008/12/07/genetic-programming-evolut... or as a single tweet http://www.flickr.com/photos/quasimondo/3518306770/
Search inside a webpage is broken on all browsers, as it tries to find an exact string match: it's impossible to find a "paragraph", for example, that contains two words that aren't next to one another.

(The problem is: what's a paragraph in a webpage? But maybe a paragraph is simply a block element that doesn't itself contain other block elements.)
Google got their first investment before they existed - they couldn't cash the cheque because the company it was made out to, Google, didn't exist at the time.
I'm with ^
You may find it helps clarify matters to read the article Charlie is referring to:

http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html

and also this:

http://www.paulgraham.com/good.html

Combined, the message is: focus on the high bits of good. If someone establishes a clinic in a poor country and saves people's lives, I'm not going to hold it against them if they do it with supplies that fell off a truck.
I think it's awesome. Very cool.
1900 is too low a number to sample. And there is no mention as to whether that 1900 is actually random enough. I doubt this statistic.
Your last point is the rub -- Groupon's creating a "heavy discount" mindset with consumers that often transcends product loyalty.

Groupon's focus is local service businesses, which, if they're smart, can offset the initial discount with upsells (think liquor in a restaurant).

For more commodity type products, there's limited upsell opportunity, so you're very vulnerable to price sensitivity. And price sensitivity, as you point out, will increase if the market is saturated in deals.

It will be interesting to revisit this in a year or so, as the economy turns around, and see if Groupon and others have had to change tactics.
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5867.html

Here's a paper that's probably one of the original sources for the Freakonomics piece.

I would love to see Prize-linked savings in the US. It'd be fun to have some money sitting in an account that has powerball-esque payouts, but without the powerball-esque destruction of the original bet.
I understand that. but whenever I'm at the doctor's they still have a graduated wall against which they put patients to get their height.

I'm all for digitizing things, but is there any reason to replace this?
"A tutorial on Hidden Markov Models and selected applications in speech recognition" (by Lawrence Rabiner) - blew me away.

link: http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/Faculty/Rabiner/ece259/Reprints/tuto...

I'll also add "Design and Implementation of the Sun Network Filesystem" (by Sandberg et al.) - fantastic read.
I can understand why you'd feel embarrassed, but as long as you collect yourself from your rut and keep pushing with what motivates you, you can point back to this point where you turned things around.
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Do may be the last mobile search app you need
What a great site. Besides the subject matter, I like the general idea of focused breadth and participation.

Is anyone aware of a similar site for compilers? Or anything else? I've never liked wikipedia's wiki books, their coverage can be spotty, but I like that idea too.
Yeah, sure.

I've spent a ton of time migrating people from different mail platforms to a single, larger platform. When people fight to hang on to Lotus Notes or GroupWise, they make statements like that and roll out scary cost figures, etc.

At the end of the day, you train the admin assistants, a few key users, etc for 1/10 of the cost the people estimate. After the first week of chaos, you start hearing from regular users how much better the new system is.

Millions of people figure out how to use iPads and GMail without any documentation, IT department or training classes. Enterprises are no different.
Could anyone explain what the difference is between a shim and a shiv?
"... most of these people are also deep in debt ..."

At least on the news we see this a lot. The folks who are "screwed" by the banks because they raised their credit card rate and are going broke. When they cover those stories you often get to see how much credit card debt these folks have and it is always > $10,000 and often > $20,000.

To the comment above, at that point you had an emergency a long time ago. If you can't pay off your credit cards at the end of the month you have an emergency.
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Monopolies are ok if they are created and kept through legitimate means. And I think WebKit's monopoly on phones is legitimate and well deserved. If Microsoft put together a comparable engine (and it is very possible they have, I haven't tested it) then I would be happy that there is competition. But diversity for diversity's sake is not a good reason to not use WebKit. In fact it is very possible it would do more harm then good.

I am hoping* that Microsoft drops IE (the rendering engine not the browser), and throws it's support behind the Gecko engine. With Microsoft supporting Gecko, and Google and Apple supporting WebKit, we should see nice growth browser's capabilities.

*I know this won't happen, but who says a man can't dream.
Is there any good solution to this? One suggestion I like is adding a secure padlock style icon for traffic over HTTPS, but that doesn't cover every case.
The only thing people should be aware of in this situation is that $2000 under your bed actually cost you $4000 or whatever since you are holding a balance on your credit card with high interest.
gotta be a little oblivious to think that vanity fair is interested in stuxnet
I'm less concerned about minor UI enhancements, and would much rather have a regex-capable search box.
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He didn't say he didn't like him. He just doesn't like a facet of his fashion. I don't like Crocs or Uggs. I don't think people look good while wearing them. But that doesn't mean I don't like them.
I totally did not read Hansy's comment that way since it was posted in a weird place in the thread. I thought he/she was referring to line from "hackers"

Hansy, I apologize.
I spent it entirely on things I now do not have. Going out to eat, buying books and CDs, etc. There were times I genuinely could not have afforded to save five or ten percent of what I was making, but lots of times I could have.
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It may or may not be fine, but my guess is that calling your Zazzle shop y-combinator is a bit much. Yes it's a generic term, but out of courtesy you should probably rename it to something like pgfan or something that indicates that you're not somehow "official"...
I like the video every time Paul Graham says "I dont know" "I dont know". Seems like a good guy. He's a kid himself, I like it.
OSQA is free and open source and also similar...
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I vociferously oppose removing the URL bar for novice web users.

Because where did the intermediate users come from? They were novice users who somewhere along the way figured out what URLs were. And part of that learning process is having them staring you in the face every day.

Yes they're geeky. But they're also fucking powerful. And the world is better because we have intermediate users who use them. Not developers, but computer savvy, regular people who seriously make good use of URLs.

Hiding them is a terrible idea. Not until we have a replacement that fixes the usability/confusion issues without throwing away the immense power.
A large number of successful developers don't need a current resume, or even a resume at all, to get work.
I would point out that it's the XK6 engine that's been used by Jaguar cars. Jaguar cars used the XK6 from 1948 (XK120) until 1992 (Daimler DS420 limousine).
Ask HN: Co-founding with international guys
I was wondering if anybody in the HN community has legally incorporated in the U.S. with international co-founders?

What are the special provisions? What are the hurdles?

Any advice would be extremely helpful. Thanks.
not really a kernel. try my microkernel: http://git.l4dev.org/
Given the recent discussions of working at a big company or a startup, this new program seems timely.
No. I don't think it would be helpful. It's hard to claim that successful developers got jobs in because of their great resumes, rather than from networking, or being a good interviewer, etc.

Now, if you had TONS of data and could say what sort of attributes in a resume are likely to get an interview, then that would be valuable.
Why signal your intelligence with a degree that you worked hard for but has no intrinsic value?

Why signal it in a fields that sometimes don't even really depend on any skill at all (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair) rather than show off your discipline and intelligence in something like engineering or physics?
It's really a shim; I suppose they may have called it a shiv (prison slang for "improvised knife") to be able to talk about putting a shiv into IE...
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shim

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shiv
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It doesn't sound like any of these developers would have standing to sue. And personal jurisdiction would be a problem too, if they're just suing wherever they're located, instead of where the troll's located. If the troll is sure that a court doesn't have personal jurisdiction, it'll just ignore the suit (though of course there is some risk associated with that).

And when the article says:

> FYI - my definition of a troll is any party that intentionally misconstrues the claims of their patent to assert it against another. They don't have to be NPEs, all that is required is an intentional misconstruing of the claims.

You know he doesn't know what he's talking about. This is not a definition of a troll that anyone uses.

tl;dr: Back to the drawing board.