skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's just nonsense. You were going to fail already if you give up because you cannot find a good domain name. Domains are merely a single tool in a giant toolbox to create successful companies. Just because you don't have the absolute best one shouldn't stop you, and if it does, you're doing it wrong.
We treat all equally. Maybe bad business, but I don't feel right just letting people twist in the wind.
I'm sorry if you consider it rude, but have you considered the people you're speaking to may have something better to do than to spend their time teaching you Dutch, or alternatively, may just believe you actually want to discuss the subject at hand rather than practice your Dutch?

If you want people to take the time and trouble to speak Dutch, consider asking them, preferably in a context without time constraints.
Laptop radiation? You mean, "visible light"? Please cite a source.
Tap the text and it will become visible, then it navigates to reddit.com/s (no idea why). Then click back and the text will still be readable (just confirmed on my iPhone 4)
I wonder how others are selling it then?
This is a great topic, but who are the designers that developers really need?

I don't see any portfolio links in the comments yet...
Depends on what your definition of "enjoying your life" is. And then certain habits such as binge drinking are largely promoted as enjoyable via peer pressure/peer brainwashing. I mean, we have only so much sensitivity to alcohol, and so many GABA receptors to saturate, it's not like people would want to drink as much if they were on their own. And, in the end, a hedonistically-driven life is only superficially rewarding. It also shows lack of goals, focus, potential for impact.
+ 1. I also depend on searchyc's RSS feeds for specific searches. They're super helpful for keeping on top of specific projects.
See lkrubner post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2702904 for a link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Morris which clearly indicates standing is not sufficient, exercise is necessary. (Please give lkrubner the karma points for posting the link first.)

From Wikipedia, "[...] sedentary drivers of London's double-decker buses had higher rates of cardiovascular disease than the conductors who climbed the stairs" and "[Jerry Morris] performed further studies that showed slow movements such as gardening helped very little and exercise had to be more vigorous to help."
Yea, what were the prior 'successfull forays' that are mentioned in the article?
The problems with the USA are the cops coming and killing or imprisoning you, or harassing you or your employers, or stealing from you. The rule of law no longer exists.

The problems with Germany are readily avoided by using strong crypto and privacy software - it's a simple matter of "don't get caught". Free speech is easy. The rest is pretty straightforward in a civilized society.
Easy to say, tough to do. I feel personally beholden to all our users, and I want to make sure they can use the site effectively. To that end, I try to help as best I can. It's a drain, but I feel guilty just ignoring someone who is begging for help.
Millions In Funding And 100,000 Users But Still FailED
Seeking technical soul mate
Isn't this something he could set up on his own end? Sounds like a problem similar to spam detection.
Now we don't have comment scores I'm afraid I have to add:

^ this

I've been using SearchYC to archive my comments via the RSS feed. Can I do this some other way?
Doesn't emacs already come with a browser mode built in?
How about the other combos, were they also all 6 characters in size?
Avoiding taxes whenever possible is one of the best steps individuals or corporations can take to ensure the greatest amount of liberty for the greatest number of people.

Starve the beast when and where you can.
SpyGlass for iOS: Powerful Navigational Instrument
If you mount your desk to a non-stationary bicycle and then use it for 8 hours, I'd like to see YouTube video of it.

... you should probably plan to take the video in the first few minutes. After that it'll probably be a moot point.
He's technically correct. But the amount of radiation is low enough not to care about it.
Well, sure. I'm not suggesting ignoring them, just prioritizing them.
Wow, I totally disagree with the thesis of this article. Open source doesn't need designers, not in the sense of a job role.

At most companies, a "designer" is a person who by definition doesn't make anything directly useful. They produce documents describing how they think other people should make things. Much of the time their designs only get executed because somebody with power over paychecks tells developers to obey. But most open source doesn't work like that. Nobody can order a volunteer to do things differently.

What open source needs is for developers to understand designing for people. For user-facing apps, the point isn't to write code, it's to make something that people use and love.

To aid in that, we could certainly use help from user researchers, so we get feedback on what's working and what isn't, and get enough data help us think about solutions. And maybe we can use help from consulting designers when we need help with a problem. But I don't think we need designers as such, any more than we need managers.
Yeah I nearly missed it too.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2619736
At first I thought this article was a parody of the enterprise browser upgrade rationale.

But then I realised it was serious. How can someone who works with web technology not realise the downsides not upgrading browsers causes? I mean, IE6...
I tend to get about fifteen emails a day, and only two or three actually demand any kind of response, so these sorts of articles make me wonder whether I should feel grateful or lonely.
You do have a valid point - sometimes being healthy is a good thing. I'm not advocating not being healthy. I'm just advocating that perhaps, there needs to be a shift in focus. Subjective, surely!
Personal apathy is exactly the problem.

...anyway, I'm working on it. so should you.
Ask HN: American expat looking for French housing
To any French/European hackers out there:

I am an American looking to move to France for a year. I've done my research on visas and all, but I'm struggling on the best way to go about finding an apartment. In the States, most of my apartment searches have been conducted via Craigslist or a similar service. What is your advice for finding an apartment?
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22and+no+plans+to+initiate+a...
I don't really think it's rude. It's sort of the opposite of Japan, where lots of people study English, but are too shy to speak it openly. I'm sure it's more complicated than that in both cases.
Keep in mind that peter's article was from 2006. Drupal has continued to grow and it provides a lot of out of the box functionality. I think there are a lot of alternatives as Vuong has mentioned, including doing it yourself. But why not use out of the box functionality and install modules that the community has already contributed? There are ways to extend existing functionality as well.

It really depends on what you're trying to accomplish too. I've helped customize Drupal for a lot of applications, such as using it as a data aggregation server thats paired with a mobile app, video broadcast platform and yes even a groupon-esque site as well.

If you dont mind sharing what you're trying to build, I think there are a lot of people here who can chime in on your architecture/approach.
For what it's worth, they were definitely pushing it when I was in college, and as far as I know, it's expanding into the high school level and possibly further. And actually spreading it was an explicit goal of many librarians and librarians-to-be I knew.

It could be better, certainly, but it's also being worked on.
>I know a small company that makes about $300-500k per person year

I'm interested ... go on.
At $1 per month, support is through a forum, community driven at best.
bummer... I can feel my golden years slipping away
Other factors such as the sitter's balance and type and density of surrounding floor hazards may be considerably more hazardous to the sitter's health. Especially if floor hazards include: acid, alligators, lava, or landmines.
I totally disagree with you on Eclipse. I've used both Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEA extensively for Java work, and the user experience on IntelliJ IDEA is way better and has been for years.

A couple times I've talked to Eclipse committers in detail about UI problems and what I get is either denial that there's a problem or an answer like "Oh, yeah, I guess we should do a UI sweep sometime." I'm sure Eclipse seems fine to the people who make it, but that's true of almost any terrible UI. Most people stop at "looks good to me," rather than going for, "tested to work well with the target audience".
So, the challenge, of course, is that there isn't really any correct answers here. Basically, the deeper you go, the more complex you realize things are. A great science writer like Taubes can write an very respectable and carefully footnoted tome (Good Calories, Bad Calories) describing how dangerous carbs are, but then people can come up with counter-examples of asians who have a predominantly white rice diet who live a long, lean, and healthy life. So then he pivots a little, and now it's _refined_ carbohydrates, in particular the sugars and refined flours that are so common in western diets.

It's a little like summarizing "What is the best way to program" - there isn't any one way. A Sr. Developer has lifetime's experience of tools, languages, methodologies, design patterns, and passion that allows them to make a decision on how to approach a problem given a broad pool of knowledge.

Likewise a Dietitian has a whole host of experience, knowledge, tools, and approaches that may be appropriate for different circumstances. Bodybuilders eat plenty of carbohydrates in their off season to bulk up and put on muscle, switch to low-carb to drop fat as they cut, until they get close to their show date, at which point they start adding carbs back to their diet to gain muscle pump. Same person, same profession, same macro-nutrient - different approach.

It's really about understanding the multitudes of mechanisms than it is about any unified interpretation. As much as I love reading Gary Taubes work (and I do!) - I think he has a tendency to make things a little more simple than they really are.

Sorry, no silver bullet. :-)
Zuckerberg is the only person who should be on this list. Everyone else is complete bullshit.
Struggling Startup in need of advice
I'm working on a startup with 4 other members. We've been in development for about six months, but now that the summer has started we're all working full time and living together.
The change has been stressful-working 12 hours days surrounded by the same group of people is difficult in any sense. Recently things have turned for the worst--we're struggling with our vision, and without a proof of concept arguments have broken out regarding what to do next. The environment is frustrating, discussions are often negative and collaboration is difficult. I find myself unmotivated and irritated on a daily basis.
The founder with the most equity is forking up money to pay some of us over the summer (not exactly the idea startup situation to begin with), so it's essentially his project. However, he has been unable to effectively lead the team. Over the last 6 months I've gradually lost faith in him and now feel entirely unconvinced of his ability to make important decisions or accomplish specific tasks. He's failed to produce tangible results and brings next to no skills to the table except significant personal wealth and the initial idea. I constantly feel as though I have to make the tough decisions and lead the group (although I often feel uncomfortable doing so because of his status/equity). We recently switched to a new development framework and are in the midst of a painful pivot. We're probably about a month or so out from launching any sense of product.

I'm passionate about entrepreneurship and love the work I've been doing, but find myself in a bind. As a university student, I can either pick up an unpaid internship gig at another startup (and possibly find a new living situation) or continue working for the rest of the summer under salary.
I'd like to salvage the project and the summer, but I'm unsure if things will improve.

Any thoughts and suggestions are appreciated.
How The Top Tech Companies Got Their Names
I certainly don't think that VeriSign should get the money for doing nothing. I think it should go towards something productive. Ending up with excess cash is hardly a problem with any proposed scheme.

> There isn't a shortage of domain names by any means

Sure there is. Just look at how difficult it is to get the domain that you want.

> It also allows everyone access to the domain name system.

Not at all. Domain names are hierarchical. Get one under your ccTLD, or pool your resources with others and use a subdomain.

In any case, I effectively don't have access to the domain name system because of all the squatters! In other words, there is a supply shortage.

The global namespace is not big enough for all of us. If you want a global brand, then you will have to pay for it. At the moment you pay squatters. I'd prefer to put this money into some kind of better cause than squatters.
Secure and Fortify Electronic Data Act
hm. EaselJS has evolved since I last saw it. The parent-child relationships look good. +1. -1 is Grant got the same idea I had about two years ago after seeing my code, and has gone through 3.2 major revisions to still arrive at a relatively inferior product with 10x as much code. (yeah, I wrote strikedisplay =) Not only that, he's the loon who's responsible for Flash 5 being a completely unusable product because of his insanely horrible side panel components and his greed in pushing them through with Adobe. Oh yeah, I also insulted him about the project panel which led him to rip off my work from StrikeDisplay.

All that aside, it does appear that in the newest version Grant has finally caught up to almost where my code was about a year ago, and since I haven't maintained the project for almost two years, that's saying a lot =) Great work Grant! If I had a serious HTML5 project, I'd just loooove to use your code for it =\ hah. Although I'm sure if one of those arises I could write something better in a few hours.

The trouble is, right now there is still nothing to be gained from writing something on a Canvas. It's too slow to play on an iphone, and there's no point in using it on a desktop when you can use Flash. And now anybody can release a game in html5 w/o any coding whatsoever, guaranteed. Grant: We are both pissing on the same lamppost in hopes of adding a tiny pile of sodium to it. Who gives a fck. Seriously, God Bless, just "rule the universe in HTML5". I only wrote my code a couple years ago to prove it was slower than the same thing in Flash. You want to make a life's work out of it? 3.2 major revs? Go ahead man.
http://www.princeton.edu/~ota/disk1/1989/8905/8905.PDF

paraphrasing - " low frequency magnetic fields can produce changes in biological systems... Current scientific
understanding does not yet allow us to interpret the evidence...Even more frustrating, it does not yet allow us to offer advice to avoid potential risks"
i saw this on Reddit and thought you guys would like it.
Hi, I'm the author of the post. Thanks for the comment.

I worked a day-job for years while I was building up the revenue from my startups. I finally was able to get to the point where the profit was enough to sustain me.

My advice is to treat the consulting work and your startup work as 2 completely separate jobs. Schedule time for both of them and make sure that they don't overlap. That way each job gets the best that you can give.
I'd like to point out, that while China has a communist party, it is no longer a communist country.
yeah... it made me happy too...
it's basically unusable for anyone using an auto page loading extension like AutoPatchWork since the auto loaded next page replaces the bottom of the page.
That blog post is almost entirely devoid of content.

And ticking though version numbers that quickly is a bad idea. There are better ways for Mozilla to go about this...
Toutapp wins $19,000 in prizes from EngineYard, Chargify and Twilio
A few months ago, TK, the Founder of Toutapp, wrote a blog post, which he submitted to AppSumo’s Lean Startup Challenge, about how Toutapp got started, how it stayed lean, and how it exploded in the marketplace as soon as it launched.

They say positivity attracts positivity (thanks, Oprah!), and success must attract success, because the result of this blog post was $10,000 in hosting from EngineYard, $8,000 in services from Chargify, and $1,000 from Twilio.

As part of the same Challenge, Toutapp also won Eric Ries’s and the 500Startups prize.

As TK’s post describes, Toutapp was exactly what you would describe as a “lean startup.” Right from the start, Toutapp used pre-existing web apps for some of the functionality of the site, including Sengrid for email servers and Chargify for billing. That meant that TK was able to create the product and ship it within three (count ‘em) days. Since the launch, Toutapp has been focused on increasing and perfecting functionality within the site.

The reason that Toutapp was lean from the beginning was because TK was trying to find the best, fastest solution to a problem. He added the paid plan so he could test if others had the same problem and was willing to pay for his solution. It wasn’t something that came from an extensive, cumbersome plan. As TK said, “Great ideas are the things that happen in between all the stuff you’re doing to manufacture your great idea.”

Having the text services from Twilio, the hosting from EngineYard, and the continued functionality of billing through Chargify has been huge. It has allowed Toutapp to focus on developing features like Tout Groups and Gmail integration.

Why build those elements of a site yourself when there are already great versions out there, just waiting to help you launch your product faster?

Tired of re-writing the same Emails? Want to know when someone has Viewed or Clicked on an Email? Use Tout.
Comprehensive List of Free Computer Forensics Software
I'm a firm believer in the label + archive technique ... works really well for me!
We have a list of his talks here: http://lanyrd.com/people/mojombo/sessions/

I'm not sure which (if any) is the spiritual successor to the "Mastering Git Basics" talk.
That's true, it makes it easy to find their position (which is a good thing).
I understand that the law is a formula that can generate exact numbers. However, as experience shows, almost nothing generates these exact numbers. Almost nothing follows the formula exactly.

I think my explanation is about what is it that causes the law to occur. Not what is benfords , but rather, why does it occur. I know about the law scale And the picture on Wikipedia. It's neat, but I don't think it reveals the underlying cause. I think the cause could be simply that it is about 2x easier to find 1 unit than 2 units, 10 units than 20 units, 1000 units than 2000 units.
OK, this is why I don't do my own taxes!
Former YouSendIt CEO pleads guilty to Web attack on his old company
A good read about the last internet bubble and Commerce One.
Don't stop the POP
Check out www.poptop.it I'm not even sure what "don't stop the pop" means but it sounds fun. Any ideas?
I remember hearing a guy say something along the lines of: You do all these things to extend your life, but you're not extending your 20's and 30's. You're extending your 70's and 80's.
Maybe they should build windcatchers. That's what the locals use. There's one in the Dubai Museum [1] and its amazing how well it works.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wind_Tower_Dubai.jpg
The cereal fundraising story is mentioned here as evidence of desperation, which it might have been, but Fred Wilson paints the move as an indicator of a great entrepreneur: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/03/airbnb.html
Linearly growing sequences don't follow Benford's law, but lower first digits (1, 2, 3) are still more probable than higher first digits (7, 8, 9) "most of the time", as you describe it.

You can test it here: http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~fietzke/benford.html
Nit pick for the title: It's "Don't be evil", not "Do no evil". Very different meaning.
Hey, when you only get 80 characters for the headline, certain things have to be glossed over.
Small children died in celebrity slap hoollywood
small children died in celebrity slap hoollywood
The tax does NOT include medical insurance. You're supposed to take out your own "zorgverzekering" (i.e. medical insurance) from a private company, although you can get a subsidy to cover the expense ("zorgtoeslag") if you have a low income. What you may be thinking about is AWBZ, a national insurance scheme for which you do indeed pay the premiums along with your taxes and that covers various sorts of long-term care, mostly for the disabled and the mentally ill.

In general, for some reason Americans imagine that European countries always have government-run healthcare, presumably because that's what Britain has. In fact, most European countries have hybrid systems, with insurance provided by private companies or in some cases unions, and heavily regulated and subsidized by the government.

As for taxes: while taxes in NL are indeed extremely high, there are loopholes for foreign high skilled workers ("kennismigranten.") My cynical public choice economist interpretation is that the Dutch government realized that this group of people is more likely to vote with their feet, inducing a different Laffer curve, and as such the taxation rate maximizing public revenue is a bit lower in their case...

As for finding housing: very strict rent control laws depress rents way below market rates, which of course means that demand outstrips supply and some allocation mechanism other than price must be invented. In the Dutch case, most rental property subject to rent control is owned by semi-public nonprofits, and their allocation mechanism is almost universally a waiting list. In the case of Amsterdam, there are many districts for which a 7 year waiting list is not out of the ordinary. While there is a blanket exception from the strictest rent control laws for properties with a monthly rent above about 650 euros, the city of Amsterdam has the additional problem that an even larger share of rental properties is owned by said semi-public nonprofits ("woningcorporaties") than in other cities. As an outsider looking to get a"vrije sector" apartment (i.e. over 650 euros a month and thus exempt from the strictest rent control rules) you're in trouble. Consider living in Amstelveen, which has a lot of "vrije sector" housing because it is historically run by the liberal party, whereas Amsterdam is historically run by the labor party.
`⸮' is the symbol you are looking for -- and uriel missed :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation
Dissent?

Reason?
If you still need rss feeds you could use http://jetsli.de (launching in ~2 weeks)

You will be able to search for 'geeky news' also on other services than hackernews.
someone beat you to the punch and did a better job
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2661272
(don't you just hate when that happens?)
Great story. I liked the whole "to stealth" or "not to stealth" angle.
Well, # is actually used for emacs autosave files (or something else regarding open buffers). Making ~ backups is indeed on by default.

Then again, if you're editing files in /etc/ as root and using emacs to do so, you kinda deserve what you get.
Not RSS but you can get the data in JSON format using HNSearch.

This will give your 10 most recent comments:
http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?filte...

Documentation here to tweak for your needs:
http://www.hnsearch.com/api

EDIT: Added filter to return only comments; previously included submissions, too.