skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about this? http://ajaxim.com/

Or if you want to experiment, seems most async frameworks have some kind of chat demo that you could potentially modify and expand for your use

http://chat.nodejs.org/
http://demo.liftweb.net/chat
http://socket.io/#how-to-use
what? that's it? this article was boring. why do peeps care about everything Zuc does or says? I expected a little more juice then a few sentences someone said..

<story>
My boss took me on three walks on market st in SF before I was hired. I was the first potential employee and I felt as though I was going to get whacked or something...talking about passion, drive, loyalty, and how I can make a big difference and the world is ours.

We make 3m+ /year and have 19 employees</story>

Im not sure why anyone would care about my story. Was my story interesting? no...articles like this make me feel like the tech world is still in HS :|
Well, that, and actually allowing SSL sessions to be encrypted without being trivially susceptible to MITM attacks.
Successful software projects are all alike; every unsuccessful software project is unsuccessful in its own way. -my boss
Microsoft Releases Mobile Location Data Collection Source Code
Dimitri finds out about Google+ Circles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-llwYjxv8Y :)
Yeah, we got rid of that process at least 3 years ago when I was still there. There's some after the fact attempt to not allow spam projects, but you can get started right away now (thankfully, that was a super slow process).
Google+ Brand Pages Coming in Two Weeks
Funny http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-llwYjxv8Y :)
He's being accused of being more than "irascible" and "harsh".
Sourceforge was definitely created in an era when open source was much more project oriented (think, Samba, gnome, python, etc.) and back then it didn't make as much sense to have open source + closed source code side by side. But things have fundamentally shifted with regards to how open source software is created and sf.net definitely hasn't made the shift as smoothly as it should have.
It sounds "reasonable", but no compiler in existence seems to be able to do it efficiently. This suggests to me that it isn't in fact reasonable, as that sounds like a more reasonable conclusion than "everyone writing compilers is incompetent".
Something That Has Improved My Sanity: Keeping a Journal
Actually, the correct order is defined in the HTML5 spec now:
http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/parsing.html#determining-the-ch...
Google+ Circles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-llwYjxv8Y :)
The article focussing on startups that "don’t have a shot at VCs [or] the top engineers in the world." -- which makes it likely that the company had very little ability to offer much of a salary, if any. Sounds to me like they were finding cofounders more than they were hiring employees.

The author mentions this advantage: "I was able to literally try anything, as long as I could somehow justify it to my coworking brethren." -- This is probably a lot less likely to be the case at a brand-name startup. It's a lot less risky to screw up when no one's really watching.
Thanks, this is a nice option.
The article mentions Title 18 Section 1030 - probably (a)(5). He could potentially be prosecuted (a federal felony) for accessing a computer connected to the internet without permission. Since it wasn't a computer owned by the U.S. government or anything special, I think they need to show that he exploited his access for financial gain or that the damages exceeded $5,000. I can't imagine removing his program from a dozen macs would exceed $5,000, but they could try to show that. My guess is that unless there's more to this story, this won't result in a prosecution.
Not a directory. Not even searchable
Just like a Cray-2 from the 1980's!!!

Seriously though, it's not a horrible idea.
Granted, but I'm not sure that the progress that can be attributed specifically to the presence of humans in space has been worth the expense.

Your two examples are instructive. I guarantee you that these medical advances would have been made in the absence of a space program. It's not a matter of if, but when. The best that be said about the scientific contribution of human bodies in orbit is that it has provided some acceleration of progress -- I know of no evidence to the contrary.

The crucial question is, what are we willing to pay for that acceleration?
Careful When Investing in Businessgasms
This book is supposed to be good:

http://jqfundamentals.com/
I think it's a stretch to call reading something "access". If someone leaves their private banking documents face up on a table, I'd expect it to be legal to read them.
Presentations are an important skill of a CEO. Playing bridge is not.

I do agree, however, that the constant comparison of folks like Zuckerberg (or Page) to Jobs is asinine... different leaders with different strengths and different companies with different goals.
One part where SourceForge wins and GitHub doesn't is executables can be downloaded.
This is in fact one of the reasons for my higher opinion of Google over Apple.
Poor man's copyright seems flawed [0]. Where's the basis for mailing it with a seal having legal grounds?

[0] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Poor_man%27s_...
> a large portion of windows users have a java quick launcher set to run on start up

So in other words it's still slow but because of vendor pressure it's been lumped into "The OS" to hide that cost from the user?

More overhead is a tradeoff you make to use a VM. I think it's worth it usually but it is there.
E-mailed all of you.
App Development Services Market to Reach $100 Billion by 2015
Presentations are not really an important skill of the CEO, except in idiosyncractic cases like Apple. Most CEOs will present once a year at the employee conference and once a quarter in the board meeting.
Cancer Patient Saved With Lab-Grown Windpipe
As of this writing, the "newest" chrome is either 12, 13, or 14, depending on which stability channel you're on.

Woo!
As profoundly untrue as Tolstoy's original.
Yes, especially when there are diamonds in the rough and you want to follow a few gems and leave the rest. Let us know your suggestions about hackerstream. Thanks!
Ask HN: Do the YC companies find good candidates recruiting on HN?
Out of curiosity, I am wondering how many recruits are found on HN versus other means. Does it depend on the region?
Ask HN: Who is Looking for a Co-Founder? (July 2011) 
[Follow up last month: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2608849]

Please describe:

- your expertise (startup and/or prior work)

- desired skill set(s) of a co-founder

- whether you have an idea that you are committed to or you are willing to explore other ideas

- areas of interest
Ask HN: Trying to find a job in other state, question
I work as a contractor to an organization through company A. Due to personal reasons, I have to move to New York City / NJ suburbs.

Should I ask my employer (company A) if they can find me a project in New York, around that area or should I refrain from asking them and just try to find a new job?

The reason I am asking this is because I do not want them to replace me in my current position with someone else until I am ready to move. I am afraid that they might think that I will leave eventually and might find a person to replace me.

I am a web developer by profession. In any case, is someone here looking for a Web Developer, with a Comp Sci background? I'll be glad if you can help me.

Thanks a lot.
You can host these on GitHub if you want, it's in the downloads section.
You can kick it old school and use a shoebox and excel.
Cool site! You have a pretty good spectrum of events (at least in Seattle). What event websites are you scraping?

I think a good question would be: How long did it take for padmapper to get popular? Maybe ask Mr. Padmapper that.
Its somewhat a fallacy..

Simple Logic..if the no-shot start-up is an option that best option is your own-formed start-up. Do not buy BS from BS-artists or share-croppers if you intend to be neither..
I got one of those email invites, to work on my specialty (accessibility features). It was a bit of a fiasco as my chair got stuck in some mud on the trail. MZ kept walking and talking while my wheels spun and dug me ever deeper into the slime. Thank God some other guys came along. I think it was a Honda service manager courting a new mechanic, because they both had tools and the older guy had a "Honda" patch on his shirt. Anyway, I lived, but I didn't get the FB job.
No percentage? That's the crime.

We talk about the RIAA abusing artists but as MS is showing these patents are worth billions to them. Engineers need to start demanding their worth, at least. If we're going to be DDoSed by patents we might as well enrich someone other than lawyers.
Voltage fluctuations don't matter since they're driven by a switching constant current supply. The voltage drop across one high brightness LED is only a few volts.
Chrome is a piece of trash browser.

Always shows the wrong error message.

I'm blocking phishing sites with a hosts file but incorrectly complains that I need to check my internet settings (for any ads).

I'm killing the chrome.exe process. It complains every restart "You did not shut down chrome properly".

What a piece of shit browser.
When I am feeling sad, it feels to me that it is bugs all the way down. Fixing one only makes that part of the code shine in contrast, still dark compared to the green fields of a new project. When Im happy though its like whack-a-mole, and I sink into the rhythm like it was suddenly crossed with DDR. I go home tired either way.
Hack some Trash
Tabloids traditionally make a higher percentage of income from the cover price compared to broadsheets, partly because their readers are less affluent and so less appealing to advertisers. Still, this 2002 article puts advertising at 40%, which sounds pretty important.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2002/may/13/advertising.circ...
This was fun!
Including <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/> is like the first thing you do when starting front-end development.

Every time you don't validate...God kills a kitten. Please, think of the kittens.

This has been a Public Service Announcement. Please code responsibly: http://validator.w3.org/
seriously.. get amazon route53, and manage it with DNS30.com. You get all the power, in a really simple inteerface. No 11 clicks
For the curious, from what I've seen Terminal in Lion has 256 color support and (kind of shitty) full-screen support.
FB giving Google a run for its money
Wordpress is for writing, and writing should be properly typeset, and properly-typeset text has proper quotes.

BTW, a note on the term “smart quotes”: that originated when word processors became “smart” about transforming the easy-to-type (but incorrect) ' and " to their proper equivalents automatically. The quotes themselves aren’t smart…they’re just quotes.

Typography nerd out.
(6) knowingly and with intent to defraud traffics (as defined in section1029) in any password or similar information through which a computer may be accessed without authorization, if— (A) such trafficking affects interstate or foreign commerce;
- 1029. Fraud and related activity in connection with access ¬devices

If section 1030 doesn't fit, 1029 certainly does.

How can you honestly think this won’t be prosecuted? He installed spyware on over 100 computers (Apple will have to come down hard to deter future instances of this nature and push for prosecution).

The “artist” has also publicly admitted to doing so and provided the prosecution with more than enough evidence to see this through. It wasn't but an hour ago that the supposed “artist” received word from the EFF that he should just shut his mouth.
I think this would be a good idea -- though keeping a lid on the feature creep would be a challenge.

OTOH it wouldn't help everyone: my grandmother treats anything electronic as 'too complicated' without even trying at this point, though the TV remote is the conspicuous exception to the rule.
Oh man, this reminds me of another Hemingway parody I saw 15 or 20 years ago that was hilarious. Alas, no one seems to have ever posted it to the Web, and it's evidently been forgotten.

Here are some snippets of it, quoted from memory as best I can recall. If anyone can come up with the whole thing, I will be eternally grateful.

"That was in [Place??] but now it was [Place??] and a new start but he had bunions and his officemate had the brain of a zither, and in two weeks there was a deadline. Not like the deadlines he had known back home. Those deadlines were hard and sure and swift. These were like melted pudding."

"... At least it wasn't Man Pages."

There was much more, including something about the words on the screen looking like rain. Anyone recognize this???
I'd be happy if such outsourcing jobs stop flourishing in India. By cutting the amount of easy options to make money, it will motivate/challenge students to do well and aim for a much better career.
Pretty much. When you think about it, they had a considerable amount of backlash when they first floated the blacklist. ISP's may not have been that easy to manipulate to add the filter due to the loss of revenue as users would abandon ship as soon as they knew they were being filtered.

Enter the NBN, the carrot dangled infront of the donkey. Promise of faster net are just out of reach but still obtainable, the donkey moves forward wanting what it doesn't currently have not knowing that once it has it, the master has all control via deliverance of sweet crunchy carrots.

Where before they had to implement filters at an ISP level which would cause speed loss, why not build an entire network with subnodes that govern a smaller set of people. Deploy your blacklist between said nodes and you have an easy to control black list distribution service layer within your network without any sign of speed decrease.

Just a thought.
3 of 3. The Shuttle is not reusable, it is at best refurbishable. In between launches the SRBs and the ET have to be replaced and the orbiter itself has to be processed including replacement of its main engines, draining of all consumables, and extensive inspection of each one of the thousands of thermal protective tiles. All in all the process takes months. This is not reusability in any meaningful sense of the word, it borders on a complete overhaul of the vehicle. Imagine if on landing a 747 it had to be drained of fuel, the engines replaced, the center fuel tank replaced.

This is a major factor in why it is so expensive to operate the Shuttles. They are not truly reusable, and the refurbishment in between launches takes so long and requires such an extensive permanent staff and facilities that the per-launch cost is astronomical. If the Orbiters were truly reusable then they could easily quadruple or more the number of flights per year for little increased total cost.
[video] Slavoj Zizek on Children of Men
Is the order of the selection randomized each time?
IIRC namecheap gives you an ssl cert and whois privacy for free with their $10 domains.
Don't believe all of it.

TBR.
I can confirm that anigbrowl is not a female.
Ah, just a typo then.
Ask HN: SEO / Web site advice
My weekend project is not a webapp yet more of a 'brick and mortar' business; My wife and I have a Photography business in our area. While we advertise locally going to 'trade shows', make use of adwords, etc, we continue to battle with our search engine rank.

I'm a software engineer who's real focus is backend development ( client, server, gui's, distributed systems, etc.. ) so I don't really have experience in the SEO area.

Also if there is a designer out there who really thinks they can help us take our site to the next level we'd love to talk. You can contact us via our site or me direct, my email is my username @gmail.com

Our site: http://staticmoments.com
The LEDs are typically blue with a phosphor that is energized by the LED light. It's the phosphor layer that starts to glow and produce the white light.

If you "paint" a surface a particular color to alter the light transmitted through it, you're effectively creating a filter. If you want something to appear more yellow, you need to increase the amount of yellow wavelengths transmitted through the filter by reducing the other wavelengths. But if you have a single color LED, such as blue, there are no other wavelengths present (at least not in any significant amount). So if you put a yellow filter over a blue LED, you see nothing...
Click: http://staticmoments.com
I am so sorry. Yes, Len was brilliant, but he was also a truly good human being. I don't think he had a mean bone in his body and he was always pleasant and of good humor. What a loss.
This is a static view of a dynamic situation that can often result in a feedback loop.

Have patents but losing your monthly revenue? Why not sue others to keep your stock price afloat (instead of innovating your business or products)

The mere act of having such legal armaments creates a moral hazard.
I bought one of these as an experiment. I've been trying out LED bulbs for a while, and this is the first one that's worked well enough to be a viable CFL replacement. Unlike others I've tried, this bulb has great color temperature, brightness, and non-directionality. It's also small enough to fit in almost any lamp or fixture. The only downside is price ($40 at Home Depot) and the lack of a 100W equivalent option.
Sounds fascinating.

Seems like there is an inefficiency in the system somewhere though -- if downtime is so expensive why are they not paying better trained people to be mechanics? At $10K\hour a skilled mechanic/engineer would only have to save an hour or two a month to justify having them sit around idle most of the time.
I think the benefit is that in the first scenario, you have to maintain the server yourself. In the second, you only have to worry about the clients. It's definitely a trade off, but for some developers, the benefit of not having to maintain server infrastructure might outweigh the cost of the added complexity of going through Kik.
That title is really misleading. PCR is a step needed to sequence DNA. But, only replicates DNA.
It seems Apple should lose automatically if a non-trivial number of people use the term generically. How much does this really matter in court?

Can we cite examples to the court and have them toss the case out?
To be clear, the NDK will probably remain supported and first-class on mobile devices. Given that I have an NDA for the current Android device I'm targeting, I can't say anything really specific about it, only that the NDK is not designed to work with it (though it would appear that it does support JNI). So I wouldn't discount Unity necessarily.

I have half a mind to just write up a new UI framework in OpenGL or something, and use it as a vehicle to learn OpenGL better, but I don't have the time or the money to do so, and ultimately I can worth with the stuff that's already there, albeit with constant frustration and platform angst.
Doesn't look like it. Which renders the results mostly useless.

What should be presented is how far they moved from the initial order.
I have a question: Could I see little portrait pictures of the celebrities next to their name?
You wouldn't even notice any flickering at a PWM frequency of 120 Hz. Linear (resistive) dimming is just not done anymore. Just about all lighting fixtures these days dim by either PWM or chopping the AC signal.
Looking at the results, this appears to be almost certainly the case that the initial order of the set isn't random.
Thank you for making my day. I have a long way to go. Long way.
> internet access as a Constitutional right.

You mean Human Right.
What Facebook has demonstrated is that it doesn't matter what technology is initially chosen since pretty much anything can be scaled with a modicum of persistence and ingenuity. So pick what you're most comfortable with, don't worry about scaling until you need to (a great problem to have) and get going.
I like this, but sometimes you want to defrost something for 15 minutes. I think a [plus 5 min] button would be nicer than hitting a button 30 times
ISPs' plan to clamp down on piracy is a good thing for pirates
It's hard to browse the web with an iPad
I just changed it to be randomized based on your comment, and reset the ranking. Before that it ranked them based on average score, which has the problem of creating a winner-takes all situation. Thanks!
I think it's more that the application of it is niche enough that it's not worth the engineering effort for most general purpose compilers - the people who need it are often experts anyway, and are willing to do the optimization by hand.

I see this as being similar to why we're only now taking abstractions and compilers geared towards parallelism seriously for mainstream programming: not enough people needed it to justify the effort required.
Any vote would be skewed in the direction of larger registrars.
This is very cool. A way for me to filter by activity type would be helpful.

Re traffic, it is the lifeblood of any site. Couple thoughts:

- Buy banner or link on site(s) that attract the type of users you want.
- Submit to bloggers who'd find this cool.
- See if there's anyway you can create original content out of this and seo that. Thinking out loud here, perhaps snapshots of what happened in different areas per day, and then seo those pages. But that'll take time to start building traffic.
So how did they choose the questions then? Based on retweets, or the Twitter team just picked the ones they liked?
I have this bulb. The phosphor has one killer feature: it gives a much broader emission pattern than any LED+reflectors bulb on the market. Every other LED bulb I've tried has been too directional to use for general lighting.
What's your Browser/OS? It is supposed to have pictures.
They seem just as ambitious as Grooveshark which seems to be doing fine.
Not necessarily. YouTube is a separate social network, and while they might phase it out in favor of Google+ videos eventually, there's no rush. They can experiment more with an independent YouTube, in ways they never could with Google Video. They seem to have a good team working on it, who shouldn't be wasting their time dealing with the G+ people yet.

Same deal with Android. Some day it'll merge with Chrome, but right now, it's better to keep them apart and follow each vision through, to see where it leads.

The hospitality company I work for does this with properties. We have an inland 5-star inn & health spa with world-class fine dining, contemporary oceanfront hotel & fitness spa with seafood restaurant, riverside motor lodge & yacht marina, beachfront bed & breakfast, Italian restaurant, event center, skiing/hiking resort with gardens & fine dining, seasonal hotel that we only manage, and upstart chain of luxury hotels. This diversity allows us to experiment, and eventually scale up more broadly and efficiently.
Dip ATMs (where you insert your card then pull it out) wouldn't have any trouble with chips either. I can see why it'd be an issue with swipe ATMs though.

I still think ATMs that eat your card up are terrible.
Padrino 0.10.0 Released Rubinius support, speed and much more Check it out
> but outside of the software industry, few referred to programs as 'apps' on a regular basis.

So? Of those who did, nobody did it in a branded way. It's a generic term - an obvious shortening of an existing word and one many people had come up with.

Why do we care how much time, effort, or money was spent to brand a generic term? That's not useful to the people. Trademarks should be used (and thus given) to help differentiate companies. Letting a generic word be turned into a trademark should, if at all possible, be very hard.

If you want a trademark make up a word, like Google, or use a fanciful word for the context, like Apple.
The sport of support