skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know right? It sounded like "I'm staying offline except for this, this, this, this, and this..." instead of "I'm going offline".

Not that I mean to be too critical or anything, but all the exceptions were a little disappointing for some reason.
Note that humour does not travel well, sarcasm and earnestness are frequently confused with each other, and standards of who it is polite to be rude about vary.
Let us know how it goes in the end. Do your ideas actually improve?
By all means, cut back on internet use, but if your goal is to come up with important ideas that's not much of a strategy.
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Facebook: Google+ has ‘no users’
Real Madrid VS Barcelona
Real Madrid VS Barcelona All the skills they have to be issued less a Mesi the best players get the season yesterday
HP should just give a tablet away to anyone who signs up to be a developer even if it is a back door for consumers to get a nearly free tablet. Maybe even put the free tablet at the end of an Ares tutorial [1].

It's a little late for a back to school bundle sale. At this point we might see TouchPads go for insane prices on Black Friday. But that's still a couple months away.

HP needs to be more aggressive about give aways. Google has been giving away Android devices to thousands if not tens of thousands of people. This excess stock is a pretty good opportunity to get devices in the right hands.

[1] http://ares.palm.com/Ares/about.html
Summer sucks on iOS app store as well. Most developers report decreased sales during the summer. You can take advantage of this by making apps that target the summer or early fall. You'll have an easier time climbing the ranks (which influence visibility and hence sales). As an example, my fantasy football app (football starts in early Sept) starts gaining steam in July. I managed to hit #125 overall paid on the iPhone in July with only 650 sales/day. Based on conversations with other developers, this is about 25% lower than normal, and significantly lower than peak season (December - January).

Where there is bad news, there is always opportunity =)
i ssh into a server, but i learned about using a local VIM instance to edit remote files yesterday (on HN, of all places) and will be doing it that way from now on. no more need to spread my fine-tuned vimrc to every server i use!
Advice for a Nigerian Engineer
He's just 20M off. No big deal.
Apple May Invest $1B in Sharp for iPhone, iPad Screens
OS X Lion: Adding Your Signature to PDFs Through Preview
Best Buy sitting on a pile of unsold HP Touchpads
Hi guys, if the link appears to be down, it's due to Tumblr's connectivity issue. Hopefully it'll get fixed soon.
I don't know how the code evolved in the past 25 years, but Datafles, the version 2 in particular, was a very nice and productive language to use. I use to say it was like Rails for the VT-100 ;-)
Because Safari isn't?
There's pre-made fonts for Klingon and Elvish which wouldn't take too long to use as a substitution.
tldr version, minus the usual stackoverflow backandforth:

Named elements are made into properties of the "window" object in Chrome, IE, and Opera. That would include any element with an "id" attribute and most elements with a "name" attribute. Thankfully, any vars you declare in this scope override the DOM ones.

With some quick testing in Chrome, IE, and Opera, it appears that these elements are enumerable off of "window" in Opera but not Chrome and IE (perhaps those two browsers create them only when you access them).
I've also bought Minecraft, but I haven't bought this new, differently named title, "Minecraft Pocket Edition," so I'm not concerned or confused.
If you read the article, Zuckerberg didn't say that, it was Sean Ryan, Facebook’s director of game partnerships.
> sexy new languages of Java, .net and the like

The author has a very strange notion of sexiness. Or a very strange sense of humor.
Ten Tenets To Live By When Starting a Business
A true hacker would subvert the screencast to feed a pre-made stream back to the boss.
Ask HN: What's a good beginner's tiling WM for Linux
I've never really used anything but stock Ubuntu and want to try to dip into the tiling WM world. What's a good one to get started with, that is preferably easyish to set up and get started with.
I was hoping this was an API for generating profanity.
Diets only work long term if you have some sort of "cheat day" built in where you can eat outside of the parameters of your diet.

Likewise, a wedding (or big vacation, or fancy car) is like a "cheat day" for your savings plan. What's the point of saving money if you can't enjoy it during all phases of your life?

Plus, he has overstates some social "norms". Parents more often than not help out with paying for weddings. I can't tell you one of my friends who've spent 2 months salary on a ring (that's not a norm, it's a marketing gimmick), and honeymoon costs can range wildly, but people are going to take vacations anyway, whether they are married or not.

I'm not saying he's wrong to have a "low key" wedding (the author in fact had two receptions). I'm saying that people understand what they are getting themselves into, and there is much lower hanging fruit for couples to grab if they want to be fiscally responsible.
No great mystery really - a not-atypical early startup experience. No funding, recruiting talent, promising the pot of gold. Funding never appears - string everyone along as long as possible, become evasive, harsh words are exchanged, recriminations, breakup.

It can go differently but with the average startup virgin running the show, they don't know any better, don't understand how important it is to be totally transparent with what were essentially founding partners.
Groupon has no viable business model
I have a vague memory of a HNer announcing a project similar to (or perhaps it actually was) the referenced Padrucci app a while ago here. Anyone remember what it is I'm referring to and can they confirm if it's the same app?

I love the idea of this and it seems like a no-brainer purchase for any musician who reads sheet music.
I'm curious to see if there will be a follow up where he shares all of the non-shitty ideas he has while disconnected from the Internet.

Personally, I'm a little skeptical of the statement "The main difference between my ten year old self and me is the internet." I can think of many, many things that have changed since I was 10 years old that have far more impact than the Internet.
CHOOSING A HOME SECURITY SYSTEM
I just tried installing a Django site from their "shared" apps as well as importing a Github repo of my own. Both builds failed and I can't find why in their logs.
So, how about gradually migriting the systems to newer languages/platforms? The longer they wait, the higher the overall costs will be in the end.
Apple Online Store Suffering Outage
Lanyrd now has 2,500 videos and 3,000 slide decks from events around the world
If anyone is wondering what he means, the title initially referred to 1 of the 50 sites.
First of all: Well put.

> but the simple fact is, a significant part of my personality would rather mindlessly browse the internet instead of focusing intently for a long enough period of time to do something productive.

Perhaps OT, but I've come to the conclusion that this is a modern form of gluttony: We are feeding ourselves far beyond the point of nourishment.
My guess is that this case is going to boil down to how the evidence gets authenticated in court.

1. Before trial, Ceglia's lawyer might file what's called a motion in limine (meaning "at the threshhold"). The motion would be a request that the judge exclude the alleged smoking-gun contract document---which I'll call the SGC document---from being introduced into evidence at trial, that is, from being given to the jury or discussed in front of the jury.

The motion likely would argue that there had been no evidentiary showing that the SGC document was what Facebook claimed it was. Ceglia's attorney would almost certainly want to put on evidence---assuming he has any---that Facebook's attorneys planted the SGC document, as Ceglia claims. That's because the judge will almost surely dismiss Ceglia's claim about evidence-planting as being mere speculation, unless someone having first-hand knowledge were to testify to that effect, or unless there's documentary evidence to that effect. (And such documentary evidence would itself have to be authenticated; it's almost a recursion problem.)

2. Whether or not Ceglia's lawyer put on evidence that the SGC document was planted, it would then be up to Facebook's attorneys to offer evidence supporting the proposition that yes, the SGC document is indeed what Facebook claims it is. They likely would do this through testimony about how they came to be in possession of the SGC document; this likely would include testimony from whoever examined the computer(s) where the SGC document was found.

Such evidence of authenticity wouldn't have to be iron-clad; it would only need to be enough that reasonable minds could agree with Facebook on that point.

3. The judge likely would rule before trial on Ceglia's motion in limine, that is on whether the jury would be allowed to see the SGC document.

If memory serves, such evidentiary rulings by a trial judge are usually reviewed by appellate courts under a very lenient standard, namely "abuse of discretion." The theory is that trial judges have to be given some leeway to manage their cases.

I can easily imagine that the judge might punt: Instead of ruling on admissibility, the judge might have the jury decide whether the SGC document was authentic.

3. Depending on what Ceglia said under oath in court (in a sworn affidavit or in testimony), he might be in danger of perjury charges.
Freekin' Genius! I think this can be used as a relaxation exercise. Low input, low stress gaming. Only wish the whole screen didn't go read when you died. What's even more interesting is that I started imagining the bad guys after a little while.... hmm, are you sure it's 1-D, I'd argue it was 1Di.
Infographic: Linux Then and Now
the ad give sexperiment .com
You are right, but it is interesting to see how they are trying to minimise G+ booming.
Anyone can upvote submissions and comments. Every upvote helps float the item higher, and counts for the submitter or commenter as a point of karma.

People with enough karma (currently 500 points) can also downvote (with a few exceptions). Downvotes are pretty much the opposite of upvotes, floating the item lower, and taking karma from the commenter.

The exceptions to downvotes are that you can't downvote:

* A submission.

* A reply to a comment you made

* A reply to a submission you made

* Something that's really old

Did you check out the FAQ before asking? There's a link to it at the bottom of (very nearly) every page: http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

There it says:

Why don't I see down arrows?

There are no down arrows on submissions.
They only appear on comments after users
reach a certain karma threshold.

(although I see someone else has already quoted that)
If the job is really lousy, then the sense of relief is tremendous. I recall working with a paranoid psychopath founder for a year and a half, having had enough when they fired our top manager/architect because he dared doubt her sanity, handing a letter of resignation to my long-suffering co-manager (who was in no way responsible for the situation) and walking out the door into the bright sunshine on a perfect summer day.

Fired up my festiva, turned the radio on loud - it was playing Taking Care of Business! Really! Putting it in 2nd gear and cruising through town slowly with the windows down and so happy.

Spent months unemployed, ended up starting a consulting partnership. One of the best career moves I ever made. Never depressed for a millisecond.
If you use that criterium, you also can’t lump Chrome into that. I would count the engine, not the browser.
> fixed some broken patterns, added check for dick

My stepfather would be most displeased if he couldn't use his name.
Stop chasing startup fame
Congratulations! Iconfinder.com is a site I use about every other day it seems. I've introduced it to a handful of other people and everyone loves it.

Thanks for making such a great site!
Federal Circuit case renders many broadly written software patents invalid
We've been collecting coverage of events since late last year, but our big new feature is that we've started using thumbnails (generated from SlideShare, YouTube, Vimeo, Blip.tv, WordPress.tv, Prezi, Ustream, LiveStream and now Speaker Deck) to highlight that content around the site.

So for example, our NodeConf page now has a coverage highlights widget:

http://lanyrd.com/2011/nodeconf/

And our topic pages have a slider for exploring related slides and video. Some examples:

http://lanyrd.com/topics/scala/

http://lanyrd.com/topics/erlang/

http://lanyrd.com/topics/django/

http://lanyrd.com/topics/php/

http://lanyrd.com/topics/user-experience/

http://lanyrd.com/topics/mobile/

http://lanyrd.com/topics/javascript/

http://lanyrd.com/topics/nodejs/

We're also using the new slider widget on our speaker profile pages:

http://lanyrd.com/profile/jeresig/

http://lanyrd.com/profile/paulg/

And on our series pages:

http://lanyrd.com/series/startup-school/

http://lanyrd.com/series/fowa/

Under the hood we're using a combination of Embedly, Celery and our own custom scraping code.
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Apple Store down... hacked?
Agreed. All that is harder to bear than hunger. To give up a job, willing to go on the dole instead, is selfish. Some folks have morals that won't permit taking a handout when you are able-bodied and the job is there.

As a programmer/architect and sometimes-startup-founder, I have always been in a position to be unemployed for a year or two at a time without any money problems. Not everyone has that buffer.
I did business with a department which was in the process of spinning off from a big Fortune 100 company. They had plenty of funds, but there was a lot of bureaucracy during the transition. As such, they told me they 'required' net-60

I asked for clarification, and they were apologetic about it. They could only run payments on a 60 day schedule. Solution: I billed net-30, 15% monthly surcharge for late payments, which they happily paid.

The lesson was that sometimes a client has no choice but to drag their feet, so be sure to give them that option (for a fee).
So... it's a CMS?

Ok that may be a bit of a snarky way to say it, but this doesn't really seem much different than a CMS -- a CMS that doesn't necessarily have the baggage of the old stalwarts, but not that different.

Am I missing something?
What happens when you go buy ink
I guess it's the user base. The 4chan/gamer kids usually have android handsets. (Also android is java too ...)
Descriptive essay-Catch Your Readers’ Senses
There are basically four types of essays namely descriptive, narrative, expository and persuasive. As the name suggests, a descriptive essayis that which describes a person, place thing, thoughts and so on. Unlike a narrative essay, an essay that is of the descriptive genre gives the reader a vivid picture of the thing that is described.
Another way: use the canvas2d implemented on WebGL[1], which is hardware accelerated. The biggest drawback is that canvas2d is far more supported than canvas3d.

[1] https://github.com/corbanbrook/webgl-2d
How DuckDuckGo got in Time's best websites
Currently Philadelphia. I just checked the grocery store's website and although they list feet/tails/jowls/skin/neck, they don't seem to be listing head right now. I may be recalling seeing it in Reading Terminal Market^ which certainly has that kind of stuff (one stall there has piles and piles of chicken feet.. I have no idea what you'd even do with those. Stews perhaps.)

^ https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Reading_Termi...
Depression beats starvation any day of the week.
As to whether an HDD or SSD wins on any given paging operation, it is going to depend on things like workload, contention for system resources, the locality of reference among memory you need, how efficient your OS and applications are at optimizing memory access, etc etc etc.

As to whether memory or $ARBITRARY_NONVOLATILE_STORAGE_TECHNOLOGY wins, however, there is no question. Data in RAM will beat data not in RAM, every single time, just like data in cache beats data not in cache, every single time. It is not a close-run thing, either.

See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=702887

Relatedly: RAM is the best bang-for-the-buck of any feature on your computer for programmers. If you feel the need to settle for less, settle for less anywhere but on RAM. Slower HD? Oh well. Slower CPU? Oh well. Skimping on RAM? Welcome to Painsville, population: you.
Mostly true, but printers don't tend to come with full ink cartridges, whereas stand alone cartridges are full.
There's no excuse for sidebars on my phone
Ask HN: How can I form a startup when I can't be CEO?
I have an idea for a startup. Right now it's just a hobby- I've been piecing together code for it in my spare time. But I've reached a point where I need the help of someone with a different skillset than mine (augmented reality, 3D projections, that sort of thing). Effectively, I need a co-founder, and that's going to mean getting a little more serious about my hobby project.

But I have a problem: I'm in the US on an H1B visa. I can't be the CEO of a company, and I can only work at one job (my current one). Has anyone on HN dealt with a scenario like this that can give me some hints as to whether this would ever work out?

It seems like my best case scenario would be to take the work as far as I possibly can (in actually making the app and web site) before formally setting up a company- at which point I would have to withdraw entirely from the day-to-day of the company, hold shares and sit on the board (which, AFAIK, I am able to do). Could a lawyer draw up some paperwork between myself and the US citizen co-founder outlining the roles I would take once I was legally able?

I could, of course, just go home and set up my company there. But then I'd be very much out of the tech scene (although London has one, it's not great) I'd be losing my potential investors, as well as a very nice life in NYC. If at all possible I want to do this in the US, I just don't know how realistic I am being. Any hints?
> with a scripting language like Lua (if your appstores allow you to do such a thing)

Which appstores forbid that?
As pointed out here "passive income" is not in fact completely passive. Promotion is very often required even though the development is long over.
I use a cooperating set of Mac apps: connect to the server using Cyberduck, browse to a file and double-click to open it in TextMate, edit the file and type command-s to save, peripheral glance to the corner of the screen where Growl puts up a notification that the transfer completed successfully, then type command-shift-r to tell TextMate to tell the currently open web browser to reload its front-most window to see if the change had the desired effect.

A number of Mac file transfer clients and text editors support this type of integration.
The algorithm that named us Nelmio
Coffee, tea, and Joulies
Ask HN: Resources for beginner freelancers?
Hi,

I'd like to have some advice on resources for beginner freelancers. I have just made my first contract and am in relation with another client which will hopefully mean another contract and I am kind of lost as to how do I organize all of this.

I know how to take care of projects and how to develop stuff efficiently and talk to the clients, that's what I already do at my day job, but everything about managing your own freelance work and turning it into a business is unclear to me.

I have watched two great videos that helped me set a few rules to not get screwed over by clients but I would like some resources. Examples include : downloadable contracts or terms of use templates, advices on how to manage client's money, how long should I give the client before telling him his payment is late, which fees should I charge, etc..

The two videos in question : Fuck you, pay me by Mike Monteiro http://vimeo.com/22053820 and Going Solo http://vimeo.com/21475881

Thanks in advance.
I have used and recommend either awesome (http://awesome.naquadah.org) or xMonad (http://xmonad.org)

They are both cool and do the job.

xMonad is a bit more hardcore because it is written in Haskell (and its configuration files are Haskell programs as well)

Awesome uses Lua which is easier to grasp.
Hey, Bethesda Let’s settle this
Lion UI templates for Photoshop
What makes you consider minecraft pocket edition to be a different game? It looks to me like a straightforward port of the same graphics and mechanics, but I admit I haven't seen any gameplay videos yet.

I don't feel particularly entitled to it but it certainly seems like a version of minecraft.
Supply & demand, capitalism, etc etc.
Kids Back to School - Rusty Math - Solution
I'm not sure, but if not now I'm sure there will be soon.

For quick navigation of 9 spaces with assigned apps it's probably best to just use Ctrl-1 thru 9. Spacial navigation is pretty much dead between full screen apps and auto-rearranging of the spaces (well, you can turn that off I guess), so I decided to embrace Apple's new idea and see how it works.

First of all, I hated Exposé and never used it. Mission control actually is useful since I can see the apps and organize them quickly (much quicker than with SL Spaces in fact). With the horizontal spaces, navigating them quickly is less confusing, and with auto-arranging spaces it makes switching back and forth between arbitrary spaces a lot easier, sort of like Command-Tabbing.

It's a huge change from Spaces, but for me (using 4-6 SL Spaces) never reached a level of perfection due to the small bugs and unpredictabilities in the system. I'm going to give Apple the benefit of the doubt and see if they can come up with something better. So far there are some real nice touches to Lion window and space management.
Neither is Chrome.
I am not a physical therapist, but I did find a video of some interesting hand/wrist/elbow exercises which can be done at a desk or while riding in a car. [1]

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hlWgH3_0NU
...And if you are that brave to choose xMonad you can have a look at my config (https://github.com/fmancinelli/.xmonad)
https://plus.google.com/u/1/113698589973698283456/posts/ShxT...
vim + git + git repo hosting service + fabric

make changes locally, merge into remote environments branch, run fabric command that pushes change up to git hosting server, ssh's into remote server based on current branch then pulls changes from repo hosting servers & runs a few other bits remotely (migrations etc) depending on what has changed

I use codebasehq.com btw, been ace but i dont see a great need to use their deployment service.
Depends what you mean by "profits are great". When Goldman or Lloyds report profits of $10bn they get slated for massive profiteering. But a profit figure alone is meaningless. The number you're after is profit divided by market cap. Investors want a return on their shareholding: they want dividends. If a company has a market cap of $200bn a $10bn profit is 5% return. And not all that will be paid as dividends, much WILL be re-invested. So maybe the investor earns a return of just 2%. And if investors don't make a return, they'll bail out. Stock will fall, the bank will suffer, jobs will be lost. So it's important a bank does make these "big" profits.

It's all very well to wring your hands and demand investment in an area that you think is worthwhile, but that profit has got to feed a lot of mouths. Relatively speaking the profits are NOT that big. Perhaps bank leaders _are_ being short-sighted about this, but it's a whole lot more complex than bankers filling their pockets to get rich in the short term.

And from personal experience I can assure you one thing: they will invest wherever they think they'll get the best return. Perhaps that isn't aging IT systems.
I wonder if sending a DMCA takedown notice to their provider would change things.