skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a similar note from 2004: Merlin Mann's "Hipster PDA"

Building your first Hipster PDA
1. get a bunch of 3"x5" file cards
2. clip them together with a binder clip
3. there is no step 3

http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/03/introducing-the-hipster-...
She throws like a girl!
I think I speak for many here when I say: 'Ewwwwwwww'
The first Google eBooks-integrated e-reader
I'm not sure just how "mainstream" Gmail is.

I've always heard that only 5% of email users use Gmail, but I don't actually have a source. Does seem to be accurate based on my (non-techie) friends.
Sounds to me that the Shipbuilder bit off more than they can chew here.

I'm pretty sure the Navy, out of all customers, is quite capable of performing regular maintenance of their vessels. That argument seems a bit of a stretch.

What seems more likely is that a company new to building warships didn't quite grasp the particular situations and/or operating environment differences that exist for the Navy as opposed to commercial shipbuilders.
I use a pencil, so I can erase and make changes, but a good one. I buy German Faber-Castell pencils at the local art supply store. They are much better than the typical yellow school pencils: better wood, better lead, they sharpen easily and don't need resharpening as often.
Best part of the article: Game of Thrones reference. Or maybe I'm just excited for tomorrow..
> Chrome 14 should be stable in about 8-10 weeks. Firefox 8 won't be stable until 14-16 weeks from now.

This almost-gripe is such a beautiful illustration of how far we've come in upping the pace of browser tech innovation. Thank you Mozilla (for this round).
It sounds like you are supporting expanded software patents. That is a huge can of worms, and I am pretty sure it would result in the "big guy" having way more ability to keep the "little guy" down since their expansive software patent portfolios would make it so pretty much any new software would at least arguably infringe something. And just winning the case in the long term wouldn't be good enough if they are able to get an injunction and tie up the courts that would be pretty much the death sentence to any "little guy".
Convertible notes are a show-stopper for me in the early stage of a company, because it's an all or nothing bet.

Let me explain: a zillion things can go wrong in a startup. You might not identify a scalable business model within 1-2 years, or you might not find the best way to monetize your assets. You might reach in 1-2 years just ramen profitability, with the rest of your work tied up in non-liquid assets (like non-monetized-yet code). The third year might be the one where you go crazy and manage to scale your business.

But, here's the catch: a convertable note is debt; if you don't manage to raise VC money or angel funds, which is even more probable if you're not located in Silicon Valley, if you don't have connections, a track record or if something goes wrong in your startup, that convertible note which you carelessly signed 2 years ago comes to maturity. You're expected to pay $150'000 or whatever out of nothing when you've just reached ramen profitability. If the investor is an ass, he's now your creditor and can ask your bankrupcy (and get the intellectual property, the domain name and all the code of your startup without you being able to do a thing).

So in respect to convertible notes: thanks but no thanks.
Can Groupon Hold Off Living Social and Google Offers?
The ironic thing is that the passive/aggressive style reflects more poorly on the author. It sounds like a public justification about throwing the hot sauce and soaking people.

I know nothing about Kagan, except that he sounds like a self-promoter who values name recognition above all else. So whomever wrote this screed was successful at: A - Demonstrating to the world that she is an immature, passive-aggressive type and B - Letting me know who Noah Kagan, a man I have never heard of, is.

Who "won" here?
Couldn't be more fake.
GoDaddy SSL Cert Scam
ESR denies every privilege under the sun?

I'm shocked. /s
404 at the moment - perhaps published instead of saved as a draft?

Google Cached Version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sourceid=chrome...
I read the entire thing thinking OP was male. It perplexed me why Kagan responded with a curt "No" when asked whether he wanted to understand the episode.

Then I saw from the first comment that OP's name is Anne - and suddenly saw why Kagan had been a jerk with her.
I find the actual sexism far more annoying than the posts about it.
Top Most Famous Attractions in Austria
Austria is a vibrant country with a vivid history. It was home to some of the most famous artists, musicians and historians for multiple centuries. Politics has brought this country through tumultuous times, especially in the 20th century.
I have updated the code to use the standard storage format and switched to a better salt generator.
Review My Startup: Coffee & Domains - Simple Domain Registration
Hi everyone.

I've been lurking on the site for awhile now. Judging from some of the posts related to domain registration and a lot of the comments on those posts I figured people were having the same issues I was with domain registrars. I decided to go ahead and build something I would use. This is my first step: A simple, clean, and clearly priced domain registration and management product without the annoying upselling. I'd like to keep building on this and add things like SSL certs, an API, add-ons for Google Apps (and more), and an iPhone app. I'd also like to eventually (if things go well) get accredited by ICANN as a registrar and no longer be a reseller.

I'm hoping to get some feedback right now though. What do you dislike about it? What features do you need to see to buy a domain from a place like me? What would stop you from making a purchase? Would you use this product as-is? And anything else you have to say after looking at the site really.

The site is https://www.coffeeanddomains.com

Any and all feedback is welcome.

Thanks!
Clickable link: https://www.coffeeanddomains.com
A Changing Web Culture Fits With Red Hat
Actually most browsers' alphas are very stable these days. At home I run Opera Next, Chrome Canary and Firefox Nightly and I haven't had any problems for months.

Sometimes some websites are not shown properly in one of those but all it takes is to switch to another browser.
Yes, ESR is annoying, nothing new. Also, wow, did he do a strawman, haha. The actual claim is "your refusal to acknowledge "racism, sexism, homophobia, oppression" (BTW, ESR fails@interpunction, haha) when presented with those makes you a racist/sexist/homophobe". With opression it's a little different, because you can be an opressor even if you don't want to. Yeah, that's not fair, tough luck, that's how privilege works.

http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/patriarchy-blaming-the-t... <- here, I have my authority, and my authority is better than yours because she has a cool nickname, duh. The site also has a reading list, BTW.
Strangely, he didn't lob the sauce bottle towards her like he did for other attendants. May it be because she was a girl, and girl are notoriously bad at ball games?
It should be possible to extract circles from one's email and messaging behavior, to find friends and cliques. It should be automated as best as possible.

Even simply the most contacted people in the last week - and sharing to those people the most, even though you might have a friend you haven't seen for a long time, and they might be a great friend, that doesn't automatically mean you want to share with them. To assume that people want to share more with better and older friends and less with newer friends is wrong.

Users should get a menu of content automatically provided based on prior contact and clique analysis, and pick the items and people they find interesting to ensure more permanent viewing, which in time can fade over time if that content isn't liked. Even tracking what is clicked can automate this without having to manually like or +1 something - it's like listening to a person speak.

The last thing I want to do is setup a G+ account and start customizing friends lists, circles, clicking like and dislike buttons - it should be automated, and Google should delve into my GTalk and Email to see people I've been in contact. Whose emails am I replying? What people am I having conversations? I don't quite know who all my online friends are - G+ should work that out for me and cement those relationships without my input. Online friend dynamics are too liquid to be manual.

The problem isn't circles, it's the way they are created, edited and devised.
Not just "considered" harmful but "is" harmful!
As a tangent, what would be the gender neutral equivalent of "Bitch"? The male equivalent would be "bastard".
Nicole is very competent, but CSSLint is crap. I agree there _is_ a problem with CSS, but solutions will need to be far less dogmatic.
Nicole Sullivan: http://www.stubbornella.org/
Also, reading through comments here, the issue of sexism really turns this crowd ugly.
They didn't attack anyone. If you view it as an attack, then you must conceed that they were attacked first, since the speaker was throwing bottles to the audience.
one big problem..

The agreement violates most current anti-trust laws. I wonder how the Whitehouse got the ISPs to agree to face such lawsuits over it being illegal?
I think context matters. If you had some relevant story where it mattered, I may not consider it sexist, but would always think of it as juvenile.

IMO, it's analogous to a comic whose schtick involves screaming the f-bomb or something similar. You get a few cheap laughs, but it gets old quickly.
To Create Real Change in Organizations, Change The Heart
That's no longer true.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2387399,00.asp
If you want more X, make X faster
I'd never work with him again for these very reasons, and I've spoken with several people from his different companies who agree. While throwing hot sauce is never a constructive way to express your opinions, I think the author seriously over-estimated Noah's prestige in the valley.
In most [westernized] countries, including the US, workplace considerations like this not only reign but are the law.
Google has already started down this path in Gmail -- when replying to a message, it suggests that I consider including one of my other contacts, and selects the suggestion fairly accurately.

I'd imagine this will be expanded and soon find its way into Google+.
Growing Up with Jenkins/Hudson, Nexus, and Sonar, Part 1
I'm not so much interested in the particulars of inline editing, but very interested in the concept used as the HN title.

Anyone have examples of how this has made a real difference in their sites/businesses/other aspects of life?
How to deal with objects and classes that are unmockable
I assumed it was the same brand of hot sauce shown in the picture -- a plastic bottle with a rooster on it that around here is colloquially known as "cock sauce."
If the idea was "nonobvious" it should take some time for the big guy to figure out how to implement it (and it might even end up being cheaper to buy out the small guy).

Plus, the implementation should be covered by IP (but not the idea itself).

If a small guy invented the "one click buying" button, should it be protected?

Plus, in the end, we all win (if big company popularizes small guy's idea and it makes something better).
teyc@cognoware.com
Thanks
FBI interrogates this kid over a news article he read last Saturday
The release number should just be the date. That way geeks can stop worrying about the number, and get back to work.
Is there something wrong with OOCSS? I remeber a number of great talks Nicole gave about it a while back and I can't recall if there were any objections to it at the time.
Did you see that it's just code to demonstrate blocking, i.e., to demonstrate how to NOT do it?
At this point in time, how much additional risk does it add though? Any nation-state that is bound and determined to develop nuclear weapons pretty much just does it (e.g. Iran, North Korea) and the supposed anti-proliferation watchdogs (UN, IAEA) pretty much just stand on the outskirts and say "please stop," which has about as much effect as you'd expect.
I've always thought people cheer on torture because they think they're safe if they're on the side of strength.
Israel Innovation Roadtrip – 15 Startups Pitching for Funding
The "conversation" of this thread started with someone commenting on the fact, seemingly surprised and even bothered, that we are already talking about Firefox 8 when seemingly Firefox 6 and 7 went by so quickly we didn't notice it happening. In this context, it is incredibly relevant that Firefox 6 and 7 are still being described in the future tense, as that would imply that they haven't actually been released yet.
I was waiting on how Java will implement closure (Project Lambda) but it was deferred :-(.

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/features/#deferred
How Google+ Affected Social Shares and +1 Adoption Rates
Ideas for Google+ improvements
Since HN likes Google+ so much, maybe we can point out what we don't like in the social service.

Here's my list:

- The 'Buzz' tab : Why is that thing there? If i want to share something with the world, i just would. New users don't know what Buzz is and it's confusing, maybe it's best to just remove it.

- Stream: Add more people: "Public" - Why not just add "The Whole World" as a circle - it's catchy

- "Suggestions": This is a very facebooky/spammy type of thing. I want controlled social, not to be constantly reminded to friend people.

- Post calendar: Since posts are usually long, and many people use their feed as a blog, add a calendar so we can browse the user's feed archive

- Threaded comments: Be better than facebook, allow fully threaded comments. Also, smaller icons on comments (and possibly smaller font)

I m gonna stop here. You can add yours own below.
Did you write Comet Busters!? That's awesome! I played that game so many times I can still hear the sound effects in my head over a decade later. I really loved the version where you could blow the other players up.

Kudos to you :)
I haven't read much about how carriers feel about this.
For example: Will it be the end of tethering fees? Because root privileges on an HTC EVO allow you to tether wirelessly, circumventing an addition $30/mo, will Sprint just stop charging for tethering? Or will there be another level of restrictions in place to prevent it?
Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Event Recap [video]
Twilio with calls routed to the free call forwarding Twimlet. $1/number/month, plus $0.03/min. The free $30 credit will keep you going for a long time.

http://www.twilio.com/

http://labs.twilio.com/twimlets/forward
When Free Speech Trumps Privacy Rights Online...
Yes, I do and I teach all my friends.
No Procrastination Firefox and Chrome addons
Hi there,

I've created Firefox and Chrome addons that allow you to block certain sites. For instance, you could block:

- google (this would mean www.google.com, mail.google.com, images.google.com,... are blocked)

- mail.google.com (only gmail)

- google.com/reader (only google reader)

If you wanna try the addons, the URLs are:

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/no-procrastination/

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The 6720000 joules number is misleading IMO. According to

http://www.sal.wisc.edu/~khn/ast100/lectures/lecture16.pdf

the energy produced by a kilo of the sun is orders of magnitude higher.

(something like 2.3×10e13 Joule/Kg).

Of course it doesn't produce it in a measly 100 years (more like 100.000).

At one time, only a very tiny fraction of the sun is being processed in it's fusion reactor at the core ( The core, inside 0.24 solar radius, generates 99% of the fusion power of the Sun. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_core ), and that's what people think about when talking about the sun's energy (the 2.3×10e13 Joule/Kg thing, not the 672000 one).
Show HN: Had That Beer - Many many weekends project
It is a simple beer checklist site where you can keep track of the beers you have had and what you thought of them. I started this site around September of last year as I wasn't satisfied with any of the beer rating sites available for keeping track of what I have had.

It is still a little rough around the edges and is a continual work in progress, as I am the only one working on it. But please check it out and send on any feedback. Mat@hadthatbeer.com

http://www.hadthatbeer.com/signup

Code: showhn

If you don't want to sign up, and just want to browse around the site...

http://www.hadthatbeer.com/user/1
yaakov, you are fighting strawmen. When we look at nuclear fission reactors, we note 4 major types of problem.

1) Meltdown. Chernobyl, Fukushima, TMI. This type of problem can't happen with fusion reactors, as the reaction stops as soon as reactant stops being fed in. This is not the case for fission, because of the need to attain near-critical mass before the chain reaction can occur.

2) Waste disposal. As fissile material is consumed by a fission reactor, the resulting waste products are still highly radioactive. This waste has to be stored safely (the famous cooling pools from Fukushima were the first step in this process), for very long periods of time, generally measured in decades and centuries.

3) Fuel availability - there are not huge quantities of fuel-quality fissile material available on Earth. This limits it's usefulness going into the future

4) Theft of fuel - although reactor fuel is not generally very useful for bombs, sometimes the waste is. Some reactors, eg breeder reactors were in fact designed to generate bomb material, more so than to generate electricity.

Have a look at that list, and think about how it applies to nuclear fusion. Meltdown is impossible, waste disposal is far easier (it's just the reactor's shield that gets radiated, which is a much more contained problem than that of radioactive reaction by-products. The amount of fuel for a fusion reactor on this planet is just huge, and you can't make bombs out of the material coming in or out of a fusion reactor.

These are the reasons that fusion reactors are highly interesting, not because of the possibility to generate more power.
This is such bullshit. Why would it be "masculine" to insult women? Discussions of this kind (gender issues) quickly seem to deteriorate into complete fantasy land.

To be sure there are probably circles of men who think it is cool to insult women. Likewise there are circles of women who think it is cool to insult men. That doesn't generalize to the whole population, though. For example, I am male and I don't think it is cool to insult women. Why don't you generalize from me to the whole male population of planet earth, rather than generalizing from some bonehead?

There are all sorts of fucked up people, in fact. To generalize from them is just useless.

If I had been to that particular talk, I would just have made a mental note to avoid that speaker in the future. I probably would have left early, too - what is the point in sitting through a crappy presentation? Maybe even send a note to the organizers so that they can adjust their speaker line up for the next conference.
The Email (and MG Siegler) Problem
On Virtue
Two tips:

Use colors in /addition/ to other indications. Roughly ten percent of males are red-green colorblind and cannot easily distinguish colors that contain these colors (e.g., purple = blue + red = BLUE to them). Also, projectors are usually pretty crappy at colors.

"If PowerPoint ever automatically chooses a smaller font for your text, you have too much on the slide." -- somebody wise
You don't need to like a logo. Having any logo that isn't a total farce is a good idea for any project that wants to get wider adoption and recognition (I think they only had a basic textual one before?)

I write about (and teach) programming languages and libraries for a living. The brand of a project is an important part of the way in which I approach or portray them since it has a bigger impact on readers than most non-media techs would naturally assume.
Adding to this, if I comment on FB about any other member and use the @-mention feature, but they're not authorized to see the original post, they won't be able to read what I wrote or what anybody else did either. Compare that to G+, where a +-mention actually grants access for the post to the mentioned user whether they originally had it or not.

Imagine planning a surprise birthday party, where someone +-mentions them, even by mistake. So much for surprises!
Nit-Pick: 'Writing' == selling an option, and he would've wanted to buy puts (if it were legal).
As far as I can tell, there is no way to send a direct message to anyone in G+, privately or publicly. There is no concept of a wall or a direct message. If I have to load Gmail in another window to do this, it is quite dumb. I see no reason why Gmail and G+ are not merged into the same product.

Also, showing the +1 button on comments only on hover makes it much less likely that I'm going to click on them. Why not just show them all the time?
Good thing for Noah it wasn't spoken at a workplace.
Mandatory SMBC comic: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1984#c...
Large infrastructure projects are wasteful no matter how you cut it, so at least they should have precise objectives (much shorter than 20 years) and per-objective pricing (rather than cost-plus).
'Scam' is a really strong word and denotes an illegal action.

While these are shady practices, they are not illegal.

And the 1-month ahead renewal is not shorting you of a month. It's preventing you from getting into a situation where your cert expires because your CC details were invalid and it took to long to replace them. It also gives you time to configure your server, etc.

They are hardly the first company to offer a different initial price than the renewal, either. I hate that tactic, and watch for it, but it's not even unethical unless they don't tell you about it.
Can you teach social entrepreneurship?
Hackathons & Teams
Would it help to have a visual repesentation of how each circle on google plus interactes with the others? A sort of Venn diagram attached to each post, so you could just drag the circles around to set who sees a certain post or reply. Seems some of the confusion on plus is do to the menus used to set which circle you are posting to. I know the first time I used it I didn't get it right away. Seems a visual repesentation of those relationships would clear things up.
Can you please tell us (who don't know) what is MVP?
I've tried many, many task + notes apps and I've settled on the following simple analog system: a small spiral bound weekly appointment notebook where that I use to keep track of what to do and a larger spiral bound lined notebook where I can write notes, doodle, do mockups, and work through algorithms. It works for me.
The thorium cycle is a higher technological level and more expensive to develop, so a state capable of developing one is more than capable of a conventional uranium bomb program.
What would you suggest as an alternative base load technology?
yeah i dont like the new branding...speaking as a designer,
i actually prefer the current/old branding at nodejs.org
Couple of things:

* Where are you?

* Who is the current supplier (for the number/line)?

* What did they say about call forwarding?

Twilio's http://www.twilio.com/api/openvbx does some awesome stuff in this area (and they have a free trial) but I suspect it's massive overkill for what you want.
What's the problem with calling someone who is being a bitch a bitch? I call people who are being sniveling weasels sniveling weasels. Some people are just bitches, and it's not even restricted to people with a certain chromosome makeup.