skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This gets to be a complicated question. Basically, if you believe that your government is corrupt and no longer represents you, you may have the right or even a responsibility to revolt [1]. This gets fuzzy with right and wrong. You see if you pull off a revolution, you get to set the rules. You may even be able to call the losers criminals and try them as such. In some cases you could even make up laws and try the prior government members for them retroactively and get away with it if enough people think that what you are doing is right and just. However, until you win, the current government will consider you a criminal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_revolution
I also look at the number of people in related Meetup and Linkedin groups. I'm in NYC and there are a lot of local people in various groups.
From the article it appeared that the selling point of the bulb was omnidirectional light at a certain power. In that case a large number of weak leds makes sense.
Ofcourse, I do love the Opera app for iPhone, which is a lot faster then the Safari standard.
Debian branded Swiss Army Knives
Fandango Windows Slate App
Someone once asked here about Twitter limits. Well, there you go. I managed to hit it today. You can go count up my tweets for the day and now see what the new limit is.
http://www.google.com/search?q=seedbox
Twitter Officially Switches: R.I.P. Old Twitter, Long Live #NewTwitter
Strange. When I added the question I did not put the ":" after "Ask HN" so this did not go into the "ask" tab. But even after editing it now, it is still shown only on the "new" tab (rather than ask).
pathetic state of the industry as everybody is still forced to care about output of the [ algorithm + business process it is embedded in ] combo that produced AAA for mortgage bonds junk
Final Fantasy I, IV, VI; Dragon (Quest) Warrior I, II, III, IV and VIII; Final Fantasy Legend I and II.

Ones I've played, off the top of my head ;)
Dr. Azar to present at 2011 coolingZONE Summit
Angular - JS - Browser front end as it could be?
It bums me out that a single press release can cause so much of the world's wealth to evaporate. Worldwide capital was something like $80T iirc, 2% of that would have solved every budget crisis in the world.
Why President Obama Has The 'Jobs' Equation Backwards
Nice, but I'd like to see a couple more things:

* Verification by credit card as a feature on profile pages - I would wager that credit cards are a better trust metric than facebook profiles. I'd like to see it count for something on a profile page.

* A balance between opening up a lot of personal data to stay at someone's place and sharing it with the whole world - I'd like my profile photo and video profile to be hidden from search engines. Only hosts who I want to stay with should be able to see it.
It's a cliche but we really do benefit from all the competition.

Heck I am still on Firefox 3.6 and perfectly happy.
Beautiful implementation, but...

This feels on the surface like we're deep into the sort of "feature as startup" territory that marked the worst excesses of the last dot com boom.

Am I wrong? What makes this a big enough potential that it is in YC?
Ideas for the 100 year starship
My Text Editor Journey (So Far)
I agree that many programmers need to work on improving their writing skills. However, I disagree with the notion that the humanities department is suited to providing an education in the kind of writing skills CS students need. The humanities are full of fuzzy concepts that defy precise definition and the writing styles associated with those fields tolerate a level of ambiguity that is inappropriate for CS, engineering, or the physical sciences. If you really want to learn to be a great writer capable of expressing CS concepts unambiguously and concisely then a course in technical writing taught by science/engineering faculty is what you need. An even better way to improve your writing skills is to get involved in research and publish a paper in the scientific literature. The "biggest pedantic miserable fascist sonofabitch" editors you can find in the university are not in the humanities department. They're the faculty in science and engineering whose livelihood depends upon writing amazingly clear and concise documents that withstand the intense scrutiny of NSF and NIH grant review committees, journal editors, and peer reviewers who genuinely care about whether or not the experiments are described unambiguously and in sufficient detail to enable others to replicate the experimenter's results.
Yes, it's basic. But many people who are not fresh out of college may have spent recent years solving a completely different set of programming tasks, and do not have it loaded in their brains.

When applicants prepare for an interview, they do not often know what kind of knowledge to load in their heads. For example, just a couple of weeks ago I was asked to figure out a simple bit-flipping scheme, and bit string manipulations are something that I have not thought about in many years. So it took me about 10 minutes for a problem that I would have done in less than a minute when I was spending time thinking about similar things and my mind was full with them.

Being prepared for a technical interview does not mean to have memorized a few solutions to a few problems, but it means to have played with them sufficiently to have the brain loaded with the material. This helps with intuition as well as specific technical skills.
Consuming SOAP Webservices in Ruby
Simple way to consume SOAP webservices in Ruby with gem called Savon.
Woman who won lottery 4 times was Stanford Statistics PHD
HTML5 game running on Apple TV
Just because you don't like/use the products is no reason to assault somebody else's work like that.

Some of these products have resulted in millions of dollars and (apparently) some happy customers.
Stocks plunge following S&P downgrade
Isn't this what rackspace, megaupload and all the other bazillion filesharing service are doing? They seem to be doing quite all right financially...
I think Google etc are exceptions, people do prepare for technical interviews there.
Do you find it a normal use-case to have 40+ tabs open in a single browser window?

I only ask because that seems like it becomes unusable ~20 tabs, maybe this is heavily subjective but I cannot maintain anywhere near that number of tabs in a single browser window.
> For reference, daytime sunlight is around 5500k— these bulbs are marketed as 2700k, which is about the color of sunset, sunrise, or a large fire.

Cold light will mess up your sleep patterns:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian_rhythm#Light_and_the_...

(unfortunately I can't find a better source)
Was it real wealth if it can evaporate so? Before you immediately jump to your guns, roll the question around in your mind: was value destroyed?
Ah. Thanks. Will patch that up right now. :)

edit: Provides clean error message now.
You don't run applications maximized. You just don't.

Sure there are exceptions, such as photoshop and similar but for browsing there is a reason for why the only thing you might miss with a width of no more than 1024 pixels (or even less) are commercials, and for why we have columns in newspapers...

Thats why, even with widescreens, the horizontal real estate is very important and why you can't waste it.
Sure, the vertical real estate is _very_ important as well (and boy is it neglected) and sure that has become a real problem with 16:9 but not enough to start wasting real estate just for the sake of it. Buy a 16:10 monitor (or 4:3) and you basically get that adress-bar, tab space and other goodies for free.

Even on a widescreen the browser-window really shouldn't be wider than it's height.

Or maybe it's just me...
This article exhibits an unhealthy hidden assumption: that ideas (or maybe concepts) can be owned. That may be true legally, but it isn't true ethically or practically.

Independent invention happens all the time, and basically upends the concept of "idea as property". Wbo invented the computer? Babbage, Turing, Atanasoff or Eckert and Mauchly? Who invented radio? Marcon, Lee de Forest? Who invented the telegraph? Did Morse invent anything that Claude Chappe did not?

Since ideas can be developed independently (Knuth-Morris-Pratt string search, anyone?) and since one inventor really can't tell if someone else "stole" the idea or invented it independently (that is, there's no possession involved), then "stealing" really isn't the proper concept to apply.
Show HN: my new data mining language
Wouldn't radio streams fill that gap, then?

Turntable's design sense was its differentiator, and many of my friends were completely charmed by the avatars when they first tried the service.

If you actually do want the functionality of Turntable without the avatars, http://listeningroom.net/ came out awhile before Turntable, but never seemed to pick up.
I have to concur here... ge.tt is pretty great already, and requires no installs.
I was surprised that windows even has a slate http://www.microsoft.com/windows/buy/asus-eee-slate-121.aspx, and apparently another on the way http://www.microsoft.com/windows/buy/products/exopc-slate.as...

I suspect this is one of the first apps designed specifically for these devices.
The Hackers Underground 2011
The app looks neat... few questions:

Did you roll your own natural language parser?

Have you thought of doing a freemium version? $2.99 might be a game killer for a lot of people.
Yes, in the long term, printing money will lead to an inflationary spiral. The expectation of that will cause higher interest rates. But the fact remains, that in an emergency, it is a possibility. And the possibility of creates greater safety/willingness to lend.

Moody's in its latest assessment says:

"The global role of the dollar, which underpins continued demand for U.S. dollar assets, .... provides unmatched access to financing, meaning that the U.S. government can support higher debt levels than other governments"

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/08/moodys-why-the-...
Looks like a user acquisition play - with the share with FB/Twitter buttons.
The pirated content portion of his proposal is a red herring.
Syntactically it's a cross between UNIX shell script and SQL and it's got some nice performance/scalability characteristics. Am very keen to hear the collective HN wisdom about it.
I have this option with Chrome 13.0.782.109 beta-m. If you right click a tab, the context menu option is "Use Side Tabs". I just can't remember what I did to get that option to appear in the context menu. I thought I used "about:labs", but that is no longer showing anything. Maybe the feature is baked into this build?
China's stock market dropped 30% this year to date

So Europe's bank implodes. People will live normally, just with more austerity. Who said caves and feces?
It's unfortunate that due to lack of communication most users of gparted will have no idea why this "killer feature" has just disappeared after an upgrade.
I'm going to use this opportunity to shamelessly plug a hack of Readability that I call Horizontability[0]. It just displays the usual Readability output in multicolumns with some javascript hooks to help navigation. For whatever reason, I can't seem to drag the bookmarklet in Chrome anymore[1].

Chrome's side tab implementation really needs some help. I appreciate being able to read more of the tab title, but they really don't save much space (the window bar is still present but it shrinks by like 2 pixels). I'm surprised it still doesn't work on Linux[2]. I checked out the source earlier and it's easy enough to understand but there's no way I can get chromium to build on my box.

[0] http://etcet.net/projects/horizontal/index.html

[1] maybe related to http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=12290

[2] http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=31763
Seems to me that humans who liked the color of fire, and by extension liked fire (or vis versa) did better than those humans who did not like fire (or its color).
Is that true? My computer savvy friends are slow to switch from Firefox, because they've come to rely on certain plug-ins. My non-computer savvy relatives, who kept switching back to IE if I gave them Firefox, are all using Chrome.
Ask HN: Does reddit have any competitors?
Basically I wanted to know what are the sites you visit which are like reddit?(or hn for that matter, although hn serves a niche crowd). Are there any?
So if I witness (or am a victim of) a hit-and-run and I don't have an RFID reader, how am I going to ID the car? There are other reasons to have a visual ID besides vehicle tax/administration.
What happens when FB disables your account?
Releasing my hobby project: Quality Quiz Questions
It's no longer in development, but Plainview[1] seems to fit that description.

[1]: http://www.barbariangroup.com/software/plainview
It's natural that different ratings agencies should disagree sometimes. That's why we have different ratings agencies.
Anybody still implementing PPTP deserves the insecurities that are inherent. A much more elegant, and secure, solution would just be tunneling via SSH dynamically. It's easy to do, requires no setup and if done right (i.e. certs for auth) it is a more maintainable solution. I generally use IPsec - because, it is still by and far, the most secure of the VPN solutions with platform interop today. Setting up and maintaining an IPsec tunnel for the masses is not trivial unfortunately - which is why I'd recommend SSH or potentially OpenVPN (which has nice IPv6 support).

The author of the article on how to implement references the below...

http://www.schneier.com/pptp-faq.html

...I think there's plenty there to disuade you. Would you build your webapp on a framework that stores user credentials in plaintext as a feature? No. Enough said.

Why go through the trouble of implementing something that's known broken? sigh
Need to get attention? Get vinyl banners
You can even search on the internet for the vinyl banners. There is a lot of information present on the internet. It is speculated that the sales of vinyl banners are going to increase in future as these are safer cheaper way of communicating and delivering important message. Also, many firms are using these more frequently as a mode of advertisement.
What I learned from 50+ mock interviews
Live footage of the London Riots
Srsly. I cannot fathom how these people are still in charge of our future.
What I just learned about customer service from a dog walker
With tree-style tabs (a fantastic Firefox extension) opening large amounts of tabs becomes more common because you can manage different lines of thought, and everything else sort of collapses down. I commonly have about 100 tabs open.
HTTPS Everywhere - no substitute for common sense
Thanks for the reading list insight. But I'm surprised reading list isn't paired with any kind of note taking system.

I have been dying for a sidebar solution where I can take notes and write while I read a webpage. As it is, I always have Notational Velocity open on the right and Safari open on the left.
Indeed, no real wealth was destroyed. Well, a few cars were set on fire in London, but that was unrelated.

Part of the secret to my happiness is this: I permit myself to feel happy on days when my stock portfolio goes up, but not to feel sad on days when my stock portfolio goes down. In this particular case I'd much rather be happy than consistent.
Really, it's been mis-presented by Microsoft.

Developing a WP7 app normally involves C# and XAML (for most UI layout). The frameworks include the usual .NET stuff, as well as Silverlight and XNA (MS's gaming/graphics) frameworks. A competent .NET or Silverlight developer can move into the WP7 development world comfortably.

I don't believe your comment about "dismay" is really accurate. I think Silverlight developers probably fall under one of two buckets: 1) "Cool! I can develop phone apps using my existing skillset!", or 2) "I don't really care about mobile development."
Clickable: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/pycon2012_launch_survey
BBedit 10 Mini Review (and why I'm switching)
Unless TextMate comes out with another major release soon I think it is inevitable that people will have to switch to something else. What are the best alternatives?
Shopkick partners with Disney, other big brands
If you think you can invent an algorithm that produces a more accurate picture of default risks on various types of assets, then I'm sure the world will beat a path to your door. Until then, this is the best we have.
Syrian hackers retaliate, taking down Anonymous’ social network AnonPlus
Considering that Samsung sent a batch of Galaxy SII phones directly to the Cyanogenmod development team makes me think that the SII will have even better support...
Show HN: Semi-index - Speed up JSON parsing in MapReduce-like tasks
It wasn't a single press release, but an "official" recognition that the U.S. is hurtling along on an unsustainable budgetary path. We're borrowing more money each year than we spent as the ENTIRE federal budget each year in the 1990s.

Also, in many ways, Europe and Japan are in even worse shape, and the recent sell-off is probably more driven by European events.
I rarely have fewer than 40 tabs open... I usually have about 80-110 but I would like to bring it down to about 60 or so though. Tree Style Tabs makes it easy to gather up tabs but when it comes time to delete them I hesitate or they're hidden under a top tree node where it would take too much time to clean it up.

I think I just found an extension that could replace Tree Style Tabs. I was looking for something like this last month didn't see it. This puts the Tab Groups in the sidebar. .

Pano:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pano/
https://github.com/teramako/Pano

What I like about this extension is that the tree would only allowed to get 1 level deep. With Tree Style Tabs, many tabs I don't want anymore can hide under a top tree node. Also, it looks like it will play well with Tab Mix Plus and I can keep the top tab bar.
A guy named Silver Storm knows better. A magnifying glass and a bar of bullion is worth a magnifying glass and a bar of bullion.

A magnifying glass and a $1B Bond is worth more than a $1B Bond, depending on the perceived stability of the economy's other banking institutions. When things get a bit less stable reserve ratios tighten up.
I know of banks that use cert auth for when their users is accessing their pages, so it is certainly realistic for certain applications.
Our product is designed for non-technical users. We want to empower everyday people to do things that they weren't able to do before - namely send large files, big batches of smaller files, and easily receive and organize files sent to them by people they know and care about.

Most of the work we've done these past few months was more user-experience than technical, and there's a ton more that we're going to improve as we move forward.

Here's why we're special:
Our desktop apps are killer. You can drag and drop a big batch of files in, and we take care of the rest. If someone sends you a thousand files, we make sure those are auto-downloaded, and display them in a way that's easy to browse. Since you're on HN and used to things like Dropbox, you might consider this trivial or solved, but our fleshed out desktop experience is highly visual and is something many consumers find very, very appealing.

Our webapp has a 3-step interface for sending files to any email which was a direct result of hundreds of hours of user-testing. If you've never done user-testing, trust us when we tell you that it's usually a humbling affair. The last time we were on HN, our product was terrible compared to what it is now. It's only going to improve from here on out.

The mobile apps that we're planning will change things. To date, nobody has a way to take a video on your phone, send it to a select group of people and have it downloaded on all the devices they have connected.

Our backend infrastructure is a lot more generic than most other file-sharing services, which enable us to cook up slicker features faster than anybody else.

People also seem to like our customer support.

This was long, hope this answered some of your questions. FYI, we're still iterating on everything, everyday based on user feedback.
There really needs to be a detailed list in the main read me.
Match Your Display To Natural Lighting Cycles
Compared to Zenimax, I'm sure Mojang has very limited funds.
A follow up to 'How to Seem Good at Everything: Don't do stupid shit'
Ummm, what happened to Sendoid–which TC also covered and is a YC company?

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/21/sendoid-finally-sharing-big...

Why is YC backing what seems like nearly identical startups (at least solving nearly identical problems).
Shit most empirically does happen. If you worry yourself to much about it you're going to have one hell of a life.
I'm sorry but what does that even mean and why should I care?

I can record a website's address easily: it is called a bookmark.
Building a Farmers Market API in less than an hour for $0.
What's going on, reddit?
> does not vary with the voltage between that wire and some other wire somewhere.

I'm not following what you're saying here. I was just pointing out that voltage drop can be a significant concern with low voltage systems and controlling that can require thick wires.

From my rough calculations, voltage drop at 12V over 20' of 4awg copper @ 20A is ~1.7% and @ 100A is ~8.6%.
It is ironic that uncertainty caused by a US government ratings downgrade would lower interest rates on US treasuries.

That said we could be in for more rough times soon. See http://bentilly.blogspot.com/2011/08/financial-stress-on-sys... for a short list of some of the big stresses that I'm aware of on our financial system.

In particular look for anything suggesting that some big player is having liquidity problems. In particular I'm looking at Bank of America (it has a lot of mortgage problems it hasn't worked through, and was just given a ratings downgrade as a result) and various European banks (particularly if Spain and Italy head towards default). Liquidity problems have a tendency to spread as other institutions start being concerned about who else is a counter-party and is exposed to risk.
Greenpeace did that lots of times. They usually went straight to the roof of the company building and unrolled a large sign with their protest text ("{companyname} polutes {someplace} with {somesubstance}" etc.

The beginnings of protests try to call attention for a cause. It gets media attention and people notice it. Now people know and can actually support the cause. If it can get a majority, the initial "illegal action" changed the law by forcing the government to react to what people actuallt want.

That's the essence of democracy: to make the government do what the people want and not the other way around.

I am really surprised (not positively) that this sparked a big discussion.
It's unlikely that much of today's market action relates to the downgrades. Bonds rallied, and equities extended losses that started in July, not friday night. Don't get caught in the trap of connecting events because they happen about the same time, this is a global event: Germany is down 5% on the day, London 2.5%, japan 2%.
Taking the leap.
While this all looks great, I can't help but wondering the entire time I'm reading this: What's the latest news with the EJ situation?
I've never observed Chrome to choke when upwards of 50 tabs are open, while firefox, back when I used it, would fall over with around that many. So experiences vary.
Serious developers do Not like to 'sign up' with an email/password form -- offer something else please.
Yes! They cheat! Sometimes my internet connection will go out and all my tabs in Chrome lose their scrolling ability! It's like they just cached a bitmap of the page instead of the actual page itself.
Here is a proposal for people that wish to suggest good ways of doing layout, that will make it at least somewhat possible that someone might take you serious:

DO NOT USE GRAY TEXT ON A WHITE BACKGROUND.
http://www.reddit.com/ still works.
Other than HN, no. HN gives me everything I need and more.