skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why does this egotistical viewpoint keep coming up on HN frontpage? Do most programmers think they're the only important member of a team?

Is everyone frothing to themselves at their desks, muttering that they could do better on their own and should quit to start their own business?
The more information you have along with an HTTP request, the easier it is to identify the person that made that HTTP request.

User-agent / IP / list of fonts that Flash can use pretty much identifies individuals uniquely. Adding "I got to this page by clicking a link on site X" to the URL adds one more piece of data that makes it even easier for the site to guess that you are you.
Look at an existing video you love, or five, and take notes. Make it interactive to beat the 17 views dilemma.
Couldn't you say the same thing about an ordinary hyperlink on a page? I see the text of the link and even less of the URL than you see in the address bar in the 64 char preview at the bottom of the browser when I hover. It's only a very small percentage of the population that copies the destination URL and strips out unnecessary query parameters. The URL shorteners just an inferior version of regular anchor tags...
People are naturally resistent to change
Wow, I can't wait to play around with PDEP and PEXT instructions.
Http://node14.perfectgoal.com/overviewmanagement.php
This is a really great article and I wish I could give you some more points to make this appear higher. I once used a cache-oblivious matrix transpose algorithm that was startlingly simple and effective but I didn't know the approach had been so widely applied. Thanks!
Nice contribution. I'm sure the people who wrote the STL are happy they did so.
And now some perspective: The Poverty Line In China http://damnfreshpics.blogspot.com/2011/02/poverty-line-in-ch...
VCs Are Smarter Than You Think
Just wanted to share this. I had a lot on my mind, so I hope it isn't too incoherent. Hope this helps someone out there.
Can you really just change the place of incorporation? I thought to avoid a determination (under these laws) that Amazon itself has a physical presence in a state via its affiliates, Amazon was refusing to accept affiliates who had any physical presence in the states in question. As I read it, if your corporation is incorporated in Delaware but has its offices in Connecticut, you're no longer eligible for the affiliate program.

Enforcement might be another matter; seems like there's a good chance that you won't get flagged if you give Amazon a Delaware mailing address, even if you're (as a company or individual) resident elsewhere. But you don't even need to incorporate to do that.
To summarize

#1. A great developer is worth much more than
they gets paid in an organization

#2. A great developer could create much more value
for themselves if they worked for themselves

#3. If you can't go work for yourself now, take
a non-developer position to leave yourself
energy at night for developing your own project

I think #1 is very true - a great developer is worth much more than is politically possible to pay them in any organization I have been in. (edit: edw519 has given good examples where he saved the company many hundreds of $k in a few weeks, and got an 'attaboy' in return)

#2 is more of a stretch - you need other skills to start your own business and capitalize on your strengths (edit: the reason many of us follow this site).

#3 is an interesting idea that I haven't seen expressed elsewhere.
Something like http://www.wakemate.com/
Think of the same object A arriving in B before it even leaves B.
"Lightroom does some excellent workflow management but it also does some (quite complex, actually) photo editing."

Lightroom does do some complex whole-image photo editing, but it still sucks for doing any kind of localized changes. Everyone I know who is serious about photography uses both Lightroom and Photoshop. As mentioned upthread Photoshop can be skipped for the vast majority of photos where you're just cropping, dealing with white balance and doing subtle adjustments, but when you need to make real edits to the contents of the photos, Lightroom doesn't come close to replacing the tools Photoshop has for that.

Original responder was right, Lightroom isn't a drop-in replacement for Photoshop and most people still use both. People who are just doing very light photo editing and could get by without Photoshop could also probably get by without Lightroom and just use Picasa.

I do wish Lightroom added some more of the hardcore content editing features Photoshop has because I'd love to get them into the fully non-destructive editing stack (Lightroom's killer feature), but it likely will never step too much on Photoshop's toes because of Adobe's own version of "the Microsoft tax".
Right, and when they told us Active Desktop was the future of the Windows UI and we should bet the success of our applications on it some of us knew to ignore it back then too.

The lesson here for developers is not to do what MSDN advises you to do. Look at what MS is actually doing for its own application development. In some cases, like Office, that even means having a portable codebase.
You don't have to pass an economics test to become a legislator.

Would that it were so.
Check out http://grumomedia.com

He's got some tutorials which cover what I think you're looking for.
Get FIOS Business service; not the residential. The technical help is more capable; but you pay for it.
This appears to have previously been posted in a comment on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2644349
I have Business service.
"#3 is an interesting idea that I haven't seen expressed elsewhere."

It's actually a pretty old idea. The world is full of aspiring actors waiting tables, aspiring writers working at Starbucks, etc.
Screenflow[1] is fantastic screencasting software. It's incredibly easy to use, and even does simple video and sound editing. I suggest recording a voiceover separately.

1. http://www.telestream.net/screen-flow/overview.htm
Relevant TED Talk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8ofWFx525s
Its psychopaths all the way down!
Super 8 Movie Review
Actually there are many experiments showing it does...

Yes, physics hasn't yet solved how that can work with Relativity, but if you are a scientist you should follow what experiments say, not what you believe.
I always knew there was something shady about the Illusive Man's tech.
This looks like the original: http://www.arscives.com/bladesign/tamahagane/main.htm

Also has additional information on it.
I'm running nginx, PHP-FPM, MySQL, NSD, exim, UnrealIRCD, ZNC, and thttpd for CGIs on my 128mb VPS, and it uses around 50mb RAM. It only goes up to over 64mb used when my file/database backup script is running. The only thing I don't run on the VPS is incoming email. (I use Google Apps's free version)
The teams that work on the GUI are not the teams that work on printing and graphics drivers.
Vampirical, I'm not sure I understand you. Illinois spends state funds to make Chicago, Peoria, Carbondale,... attractive to live in. People with money thus move to / stay in IL and spend some of their money online. Isn't that a contribution on Illinois' part?
LuaJIT is done in assembly and the author explains why:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/75426

Source(reddit):
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/hkzg8/author_of...
The way they present it is a bit in your face but this is genuinely good stuff even if you just watch the free videos: http://www.thevideoboss.com/
I don't think your analogy is quite the same. A better one would be that a journalist or sports writer should take a job as an editor. That would allow him the ability to think about writing all day without actually writing anything, so that he can go home and work on his novel in the evenings.
There is a difference between psychopathy and selfish disregard: selfish disregard wants to be justified, wants to connect to reasons for its disregard -- it is not fully disjunct from societal norms. This association here is nonsense and revealing. No psychopath can function in an institution (for long) and neither can a sociopath. As said elsewhere by others, just because you don't want germs on your hands doesn't mean you're OCD. Likewise, just because you harbor highly self-centered traits, it doesn't mean you are a psychopath.

It's so nice to have a label for your guilt. If you don't subscribe to a religion, then picking up the DSM-IV/V is the next best thing.

Poor thinking at best; irresponsible definition at worst.
Nice! I worked on something similar a year ago but for the Ruby world. If you're on a Unix with Ruby installed (e.g. OS X), you can mostly repeat the linked demo like so:

gem install pismo
pismo http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/09/twitter-ios/ title lede author datetime body

And then enjoy the output. No image pick out, but it's the first IMG tag in the 'html_body'.. just never got around to implementing it as I didn't need that feature.

The downside is I haven't worked on it for months and it's in sore need of improvements. For its current in-production use though, it's proving sufficient and a reasonable option for Rubyists. More info at https://github.com/peterc/pismo

Not knocking Jim's work on Plush, btw, he's actively working on it so if Java works out for you, stick to him! :)
Wakemate is awesome. This seems to be simply about bugging friends to call me in the morning.
Second this. Don't understand why a sensationalist headline should translate as is to HN.
I'd like to see those stats.
>> full of aspiring actors waiting tables, aspiring writers

I perceived the argument differently. A closer analogy might be that if you want to make it big as a screen writer, you should do something besides writing during the day, so you have the mental energy to write your screenplay at night.

(not arguing the same point myself - if you want to become a great writer, you should be writing all the time. This might make sense if you have already developed your writing skills sufficiently).
I use encFS (+ iconv fuse fs for Mac's different umlaut handling) and it works pretty well. I'd have hoped someone wrote a cool frontend to encFS + Dropbox (+ iconv fuse fs on mac)
Maybe they just solve the problems created by themselves.
I always find myself interested in the latest chat-related stuff getting pushed out there, so I took a look at this. I can't help but think of the old school AOL group chats. What makes this any different then other established chatting infrastructures?
But we were talking about Pixelmator’s prospects as a photo editor in the context of something like Lightroom and Aperture.

No, Lightroom is obviously no drop in replacement for Photoshop. Photoshop can do different stuff. Conversely, Photoshop is no drop in replacement for Lightroom. Not in a thousand years. Photoshop sucks as a Lightroom replacement, more than Lightroom as a Photoshop replacement.

And you can do localized edits with Lightroom. In the context of Photoshop being fucking expensive I think that’s kinda relevant. Photoshop is that one very specialized tool and you can get by without it.
If you can live with having your server in the EU definitely check out Hetzner: http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-pr...

e.g. 49 EUR a month for an Intel i7 Quad Core, 8 GB RAM, 5 TB traffic (each additional TB is 6,90), IPv6, awesome support staff. I'm a fan.
You didn't find a smart VC (he is of course smart), you found a caring genuine individual who decided to help you out. He took the time to help you get to a point where you could better understand your business. Sometimes we all need someone that can help clear our heads.
Any thoughts on how to minimize leg swelling? I just set up my standing desk and am feeling it as well.
Watch,Green Lantern,Online Free,Megavideo
Watch,Green Lantern,Online Free,Megavideo
I'm still not convinced that the Green Lantern doing nothing more than to inspire daydreams stepping Blake Lively is a shoe-seemingly passive fashion-but-surely awaiting rescue Reynolds.
Ask HN: Startup idea, no design experience
Hi guys, let me introduce myself. My name is Bryan and I'm a current college student in NC. I have what I would want to call an amazing idea for an web business. My problem, I have no design experience other that 2 semesters on basic HTML.

From my understanding about getting funding, one has to have some sort of model or working demo to present. With that said, a lot of you have a different understanding of what it takes to get a business like this started. Little warning, I don't know anyone with extensive design experience and don't have a ton of money to hire a firm.

Is there anyone here who can point me in the direction as far as maybe finding someone or examples of people who were probably in the same boat as me?
Open-source Patent Troll
I've been writing open-sourced software for a few years now, and never in all these years past have I ever had another person threaten me with patent action on something that I provided for free - for the developer community. Just because I feel bad for this guy, I am not going to post his email address or name, but I will share the email that he sent me:

"""

Azoff,

My name is [ Mr. Troll ]. I am writing you from a company called RazDog.com. We have several patents pending for the rights to navigate like a smart phone on any web content deployed through a browser. We have software which we have had publically available for some time.

We have been made aware of your software which appears to potentially breach our patents pending.

I need you to call me to discuss options ASAP.

Your valuable time is appreciated.

"""

In case you are wondering, the software referred to by Mr. Troll is most likely a jQuery plug-in I currently maintain called OverScroll (http://github.com/azoff/overscroll). I first released it into the public domain back in 2009 (see: http://plugins.jquery.com/node/8738), about the same time RazDog was apparently in the music business and had nothing to do with user interaction on the web (see: http://web.archive.org/web/20090503201355/http://razdog.com/consumers_info.aspx).

Never, ever, in my time as a professional developer did I ever think I would have to deal with this blatant disregard for open-sourced contribution and innovation.

Mr. Troll, you are a vulture.

- Azoff
I don't have any stats. It is something I have seen on TV shows (like 'Cold Case Files') where they talk about profiling -- the detailed kind, not the "fast driving ethnic male is probably a drug dealer" kind. But the kind where they run it past a forensic psychologist and get a detailed report to help them find a serial killer. They repeatedly say that serial killers tend to be small business owners, in part because they don't do well with a regular job where other folks are telling them what to do. And in two of the cases I recall, when they did find the killer, he was, in fact, a small business owner and closely fit many of their other parameters surprisingly well. I would suggest you google it if you are interested in actual stats. (If you do, sharing would be cool.)

Sorry I can't do better than that. But have an upvote cuz it's a great question.
The thing you want to plug into Google here is "Jupiter", or "Jupiter UI"
My tip: Don't make it the only info about your service. If you can't describe the service without the video, you are losing customers.
Check out http://explainabl.es
What do they do that's so exciting?
Short and simple.
Completely agree. For some reason raising money can be less scary then getting users?

Blows my mind.
Honestly, I don't think any goofy joke, prank, or noise will actually help wake me up on a consistent basis.

Its far too easy to just ignore the phone or alarm clock and go back to sleep.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Les+Paul
The comparison isn't very good. Anyone telling the Wright brothers flight was impossible didn't have science on their side. All they had to do was look out a window and see a bird flying to know that. I suspect "that's a hard problem" morphed into "flight is impossible" over time because it makes their story more inspirational.
Linux is Not Windows
Re: 3) Microsoft makes excellent ergonomic keyboards. The Natural Keyboard 4000 is fantastic.
if you have trouble waking up, try sleeping with your blinds open. I recently started waking up to natural light, instead of an abrupt sound, huge difference.
It would be cool if as the time was ticking down you get little clues like, album name, year released, band starts with...
I thought special relativity also means that it is impossible to travel faster than light. So anything outside its range of what's possible can be calculated as utter nonsense without invalidating the theory within its range. Similar to how quantum effects seem to work by entirely different and contradictory rules, while still very clearly working.
Also note it's a crime to claim patent pending without an actual patent in the process. Of which there would be a number. They really frown on making false patent claims.
I believe the problem comes from having a physical presence in the state. Most states have sales tax rules that say if you have a physical presence, you must charge sales tax. The rules were changed such that Connecticut is treating affiliates as a physical presence. If Amazon keeps the affiliates, they have to charge sales tax on everybody who purchases in Connecticut, which they really don't want to do.

While I'm sure part of the reason they don't want to charge tax is that no tax makes Amazon cheaper, I bet a bigger portion is the headache of trying to manage every single municipalities convoluted sales tax rules. I know in my city (in Utah), there are dozens of rules for types of goods that determine different rates. Imagine doing that on a nationwide scale.
Indeed there are plenty of alternatives, that was the subtle theme of my post, but unfortunately I didn't have the space to go into any more detail... Follow up piece!
You can communicate faster than light if you use a medium which travels faster than light, like graviton pulses which as far as I know travel infinitely fast.

All you have to do is take a black hole and figure out a way to rotate it at will. The gravity well imprint it leaves in space can be measured at a distance, thus sending a bit of data faster than light.

"You can't communicate faster than light" is about as true as "Men can't fly". It is only a matter of engineering.
So, they have pending patents. And they think that your software is infringing on those pending patents. Those pending patents, which, being pending, have not yet been granted, and are therefor useless as far as litigation goes. Which makes your existing software prior art. Hmm.

Depending on how you're feeling, either tell the guy to fuck off, or try to get those (pending) patents invalidated.
These days it's the ARM instruction set I care about. Strange how fast x86 dropped off my radar.
I ran into this from the other direction: I don't get much natural light at all in my bedroom, and when I moved in I had a terrible time waking up until I installed a lamp that automatically turns on every morning and blasts the room with light (starting before I actually want to wake up).

After that, the alarm is much more effective.
Compression socks are the only thing I know. Moving around doesn't seem to help; my legs swell just as much when I'm walking around a lot.

I use 15-20 mmHg compression socks that go all the way up over my calves.

Edit: You'll also see them called "support socks". Mine are Therafirm Core-Spun socks, and I bought them from footsmart.com for about $22 / pair.
Social alarm clock :) Is it location based? Is it a location based group buying social alarm clock?
The gizmag article points out a great potential in marketing of this steel too. I had assumed as I read it, that the process would be more energy intensive, but it is actually less, which could mean a reduction in at least comparable cost to current steel solutions.

'Cola also says his process is also environmentally friendly as it consumes less energy per kilogram of steel processed compared to traditional methods and uses water instead of oils or molten salt.'
<i>Going through 'wizards' and setting properties in a drag and drop visual environment</i>

If you don't "drag and drop" when developing WinForms/WPF applications then it would really be a waste of time hand coding everything, don't you think?

I've been into .Net for a decade now and I am not worried at all. Maybe that's because I am not limited into win apps development.
http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/fasterlight.php#id--Causali...
"Causality, Relativity, FTL travel: chose any two. You cannot have all three."

Physicists choose Relativity since it has been tested to many decimal places and always comes through with flying colors. Relativity means that FTL travel is the exact same thing as a time machine. Time machines can cause temporal paradoxes like the Grandfather paradox. Temporal paradoxes render Causality impossible. And without Causality, the entire structure of science crumbles.

The only way to have all three is if there is some weird magic law that makes it impossible to use time machines to create temporal paradoxes.
How WikiLeaks has changed today's media
I think it's fair to point out that /this/ is an acceptable process to patent. I'm sure that's obvious, but HN does spend a lot of time denouncing software patents (rightly so).

EDIT: Not really sure why I got down-voted; nevertheless, I do think it's important to point out cases where patents can be applied as originally intended.
1. Just to clarify. design and code are two different things so I hope you realize the difference.

2. Figure what your value proposition is and possibly find a cofounder (or two) to help build the business together.

3. Find ways to make money so you can hire someone to build your prototype for you.
Also, there's a difference between "using quantum entanglement to communicate faster than light" and "communicating faster than light".

If I understand it correctly, it's theoretically feasible to achieve the the latter (in effect).

While it's impossible to send information at speeds that exceed c, it should be possible to bend the spacetime (e.g. using worm holes) so that the information would appear to have traveled faster than light.
I can totally agree to this. He had a very unique spin on the same things people were trying to tell me. It definitely helped bring clarity to me in a very direct way. Cheers!
Or if the conditions are right, with the windows open. Birds. They do a heck of a job of keeping sleep just out of reach.
Nope. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_gravity
Also see GraphLab, a New Parallel Framework for Machine Learning: http://www.graphlab.ml.cmu.edu/
Not sure why you got down-voted for this, maybe you touched a nerve. I up-voted you for having a realistic perspective. Obviously (good) programmers are some of the most valuable employees around--but what about sales, support, etc? One can't be successful on their own just by coding. At a minimum one has to also sell, document and support software for it to really create value.
I actually don't think you mean 'waking up'. Waking up is easy, happens all the time. Feeling motivated and energetic upon waking is what I think you are going for.

Often using the right (exacting) terminology can help you define a better solution.

An alarm clock wakes me up fine, but if you came up with something that actually got me jumping from the bed well rested and ready anxious for the day, then you've got something great to sell.
He suggests to "become an analyst", what do they do exactly?
As I mentioned in another comment, I was escorted out of a couple of stores. Tiger Direct either turned a blind eye, or were just too lazy to care. I purchased from them, but ended up getting a macbook a few months later anyway.