skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can also hear those ticks in parts of Germany.
I indeed edited the title very shortly after posting; I changed "Gparted" into "GParted". I was unaware this would pose a problem.

About the scare quotes: I agree, I should've posted this in an unbiased way. I will change the title in a second to what you suggested.
You can capture the relative difference and if you keep the same white balance setting (or, more likely, apply the same setting to the raw photograph in post) it’s even possible to compare different photos.

What those photos likely can’t tell you is what you would see if you were in the room. The brain does a lot of processing of its own.
I have spent a short period of time dealing with Blackberry, and I can do nothing but echo your sentiments. Would you mind sending me an email (in profile), so I could pick your brain about Blackberry?
Thanks! That's very cool of you.
This looks awesome, I have been using this for a while now http://jsonviewer.stack.hu/
So run it on a VM/throwaway machine

That's exactly what libguestfs does.
Thanks, Rob.

We were all running a script on our machines to screengrab each minute; we're going to compose them into a time-lapse movie at some point, so you can see how it all came together in such a short period of time. I'll tweet you the link when it's up.

Native version? "When it's done" ;-)
If I was going to bootstrap a lock company, I'd start by presenting my designs at hacker conferences and offering bounties for exploits, just like an opensource project.

Manufacturers really should embrace this kind of testing.
I find myself using the browser in full-screen mode more and more often. If you want to give me better access to tabs (or other browser ui), how about being able to open (and transfer focus to) a hierarchically organized list when I alt+(tab, `)?

Oh, I guess the alt+tab shortcut is Opera only... Give it a try to see what I mean - it would work.

edit: when I say full-screen, I mean cmd-F, exclusive mode, not just 'maximized'.
Wow, that's actually pretty awesome.
But much like local services, IP needs government services to function -- it's the customs service that stop cheap knockoff imports, it's the legal system that makes others stop using your patent or levy the rent you as a patent/copyright owner seek. (And eventually, it's the police force and prison system that underwrites the legal system's power).

So it's really no different than other "taxes for services" arrangements.
PS: Sorry, YC disallows me from editing the title at this point of time. If anyone reading this has the administrative powers to do that, please go ahead.
"Over the past 10 years, technological advances dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been."

Not quite, because technology has chipped away at least a little bit at the number of fork-in-the-road decisions that can't be undone. If a choice is easily undone it's not really a choice anymore. You can just try both options, in series or in parallel.
This is a useless comparison. What matters is whether the spectrum is filled out or not. It's easy to make an LED light with the same subjective color temperature as an incandescent, but which is really only emitting three wavelengths of light. This bulb will be missing most of the spectrum and it'll make colored objects look wrong.
I totally dig the osx lion full screen paradigm thing when I'm using my laptop screen, in fact I switch to safari just for that, but when I have it hooked up to my main screen, it just feels 'wrong' with safari.
The first mockup made me long for this functionality.

Anyone know of a way to make the reading list load pages in the background, so selecting a page shows it instantly?
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WinRAR in Windows Phone Metro UI Style
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He doesn't mean that a solution existed 15 years ago, just that a significantly smaller number of applications would have been impacted by a solution coming into existence 15 years ago, than if one appeared now.

I still like the idea of certificates in browsers authenticating me. But almost nothing out there that I use has the implemented.
My university (Purdue, USA) has an audio countdown with a seconds tick.
That board is wave soldered, not reflowed. The through-hole parts are inserted from the top, the SMT parts are glued down to the bottom, then the bottom of the board is dipped in a fountain ("wave") of molten solder. The solder blobs are normal for wave soldering followed by hand soldering of the wires. Production costs can be very low, you just have to select SMT parts that can take the heat and thermal shock.
Say we adopted certificate authentication. What happens when you want to get your mail from a friend's machine, or log in somewhere to print a boarding pass from a kiosk?
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Opera has already implemented the ability to dock your tabs on the left or right of the page, as well as the ability to stack tabs into groups. Sure, it may not be all Apple-fied like your design, but it works really well.
Metasploit Basics Part 1 - Understanding the framework
The Metasploit Project is an open-source computer security project which provides information about security vulnerabilities and aids in penetration testing and IDS signature development. Its most well-known sub-project is the Metasploit Framework, a tool for developing and executing exploit code against a remote target machine. Other important sub-projects include the Opcode Database, shellcode archive, and security research.

Basically Metasploit is tool which provides complete environment for hacking.
As long as we're OT, I want to address your other article: http://blog.williamhilsum.com/2011/07/my-take-on-google-apps...

Using Google Apps with Outlook is a recipe for disaster. I use Google Apps IMAP (for local backups) via Apple Mail, Postbox, Swallow and other clients. I've never had the slightest issue.

On the other hand, I've supported IMAP users in Outlook and hated every second of it. Outlook generally is a mess when it comes to playing nice with other non-MS tools. For example, .ost files that fail to back up properly, etc. It's definitely 90% my ignorance of Outlook, but I can't be bothered to learn the nuances of Outlook when everything else just works. The other 10% is due to the Google vs. MS rivalry.

I realize you had no choice, given the client's use of a plug-in. I just wanted to point out that using Outlook with Google Apps is asking for trouble.
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Even better than the first one.
Interestingly, the article explicitly states that our dictionary supports only the exact string lookup command, dict.contains(string). Strictly speaking, the full content of the dictionary isn't available to us, and we can't create the regular expression.
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Regular expressions on the road, sweet!
The "fail fast" method is more of a learning style rather than a road to success.
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Ask HN:I am interviewing a candidate for a job help me
I have made a fairly large list of interview questions mostly taken from CoddingHorror, Joel's blog and some blogs linked from HN.

My real question:

When I ask the a to solve a programming problem (say FizzBuzz test), should I give him his own time, should I leave him alone with the problem or should I simply keep starting at his face with a pointed stare while he writes the program on the paper ?

Some interviews which I answered (and failed) in my life were mostly like the second type. The interviewer would ask me to write a program to reverse a link and if I wasted a minute calculating in my mind what would be the approach he would simply move to the next question. Some even said, if you gotta think for this problem you are not fit for the job.

I dont want to hire a candidate who has memories solution approaches to the candidate, I am looking for someone who can attack a problem with confidence.
Are you sure you've looked at all of the reasons the product failed and attempted to resolve them? You may be abandoning the project too quickly

This has absolutely been a concern - maybe I've just not put enough into the marketing. I reached out to two target audiences: outsourced marketing; and link builders. Plenty like the tool, but not enough to pay. My suspicion is that it doesn't save enough time to bother paying for.
iWork. The iWork apps on the iPad are excellent, and would cover way more than most users would ever need. I'm still in college and have to send in Word formatted documents, but I've written several essays, fully formatted, in Word format from Pages on iPad. It's excellent. The other iOS Office apps are rather lacking, but Pages, Numbers, and Keynote are easily some of the best office apps I've ever touched. Sure, there are more features in Word, and there are more features in the Mac version of Pages. But the iPad edition is more than plenty for most uses. It honestly blew me away when I first tried it after struggling with QuickOffice on an iPod touch.
You have my sympathy :)
Yes, I got that. That's my entire point.
I think that a couple of weeks is far too soon to decide that something is a failure. It's barely even enough time to gather enough data to decide what can be adjusted and improved.

An article that has been posted here before comes to mind:

http://www.sodaware.net/dev/articles/shareware-amateurs-vs-s...

I tend to agree with it. If you're fairly certain there's a market for what you're trying to sell, don't give up on it too soon. Instead, use the information you've gathered to continually refine the product, and execute a marketing plan to try to bring your product to the attention of people who are going to use it. Keep on evaluating, refining, and executing.

In the end, it still might not work out. The danger in failing too quickly, however, is that you'll give up on products that could be quite successful just because they weren't successful right away.
The "fail fast" method is more of a learning style rather than a road to success.

But surely it should help get you off the path to failure?
Javascript RSA is not a good thing to suggest to developers looking to improve the security of their login system.
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I can't figure out what this product does

Heh, yes, this is definitely a problem. In this context "Save" means to record the website's address, along with the initial referrer. You can also record email addresses along with it. "Contact" is the act of reaching out to the website's operator to discuss - well, guest blog posts, exchanging links, compliment on their design or whatever is on your mind.

It might not actually take much iteration to turn this into a product that would sell

I'm definitely open to suggestions! :)
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To play devil's advocate, cola is an actual thing those drinks are/were made of, so that's not quite the same.[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_nut
I know of someone who is currently developing something like that. Should be done by mid september.
> Users are not always the best judge of high quality design.

Yes they are, actually. If your users don't like the design, the design is bad because the users are all that matter.
OPL - a viral copyleft style patent license
nice. i did not end up finding that one last night.
I think that a couple of weeks is far too soon to decide that something is a failure

Agreed. This was originally launched at the start of the year though.

An article that has been posted here before comes to mind

I'm reading through that article now, thanks! :)

The danger in failing too quickly, however, is that you'll give up on products that could be quite successful just because they weren't successful right away.

I agree 100%. All I'm after some form of validation for the idea, not huge success, and so far... well, there' not been a lot ;)
I think most people moved away from it before they knew they had it, when their copy of Microsoft Works for Windows 3.1 opened up in a maximized window.

Apple is heavily promoting use of gestures, multiple desktops, and other OS features to promote fast switching and passing of data between running full screen apps. It's different than the pile-of-windows approach of the last few decades but the intent is still to have a ton of user-opened programs running and interacting. I think casual users genuinely prefer full screen apps, even after 20 years of pro users trying to lecture them and slap their wrists over the potential they're ignoring. Lion seems to be trying to give them their full screen, while also teaching a "safe" feeling way to multitasking and present a bunch of apps.
Didn't know that, thanks for the link.
Do dogs, used in court to comfort victims as they testify, taint juries?
PS: I'd also be very surprised if a trademark was granted on a generic dictionary word like "Scrolls."

It happens all the time: Apple computers, Windows OS, Camel cigarettes, Ivory soap, Puffin books, the video game Doom...

From wikipedia:

"An arbitrary trademark is usually a common word which is used in a meaningless context (e.g. "Apple" for computers). Such marks consist of words or images which have some dictionary meaning before being adopted as trademarks, but which are used in connection with products or services unrelated to that dictionary meaning. Arbitrary marks are also immediately eligible for registration. Salty would be an arbitrary mark if it used in connection with e.g. telephones such as in Salty Telephones, as the term "salt" has no particular connection with such products."

Scrolls would certainly count.
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Neat and clean. I'd definitely find it useful while sharing ugly JSONs with my team. Since you're providing this service for free, just out of interest, what are you hosting it on? What're your plans for sustaining it when usage goes "Up and at 'em, Atom Ant!"?
Also important to mention that it is non-trivial to tell the difference between a good, bad or indifferent CFL. Frankly, I'm not interested in doing a product comparison or multiple return trips on a lightbulb.
Though, I am curious. I was considering for animations, only storing "moves" vs "complete states", but I ran into the issue of sometimes a state change may not involve "moving" a piece (i.e. in Go, you place pieces, and sometime pieces my disappear, or in Othello, you make a move and and other pieces may be flipped.) While I could create different animators for each of them. I continued to use the method of transitioning through states for simplicity. Though I will still put some more thought into a good way of doing this as I still plan on growing this library quite a bit. :)
ha, lol! wasn't an accusation :P

It will be quite interesting to see though, I'll keep an eye out.
I think you're going a little overboard. Can no one make a video game called "Rings" because of "Lord of the Rings?" Is "Legend" off-limits because of "The Legend of Zelda?" Or "Auto" -- does it belong to "Grand Theft Auto?"

And to say that this displays a "generational sense of entitlement" -- I think you're missing the actual point of trademarks, which is to protect consumers. Companies don't own phrases in the English language, they just have the right to ensure that their products cannot be easily mistaken for products from other companies. Considering that scrolls have been an element of RPG video games basically forever, I hardly think that the word "Scrolls" when applied to a video game is something so uniquely Bethesda that consumers would confuse "Scrolls" with "The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.
Most people in the middle and upper middle class complain that their taxes are too high in hopes that benevolent, democratically elected lawmakers will lower them. But it's a fact that Americans enjoy an effective tax rate that is quite low by both international and historical standards.

Of course, we're about to learn the consequences of that as we slowly decimate our educational system and national infrastructure, but that's probably a separate discussion.
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I really like this trend of in-depth Stack-Overflow explanations... especially about Python because it helps me a lot. Keep up the good work.
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thanks - i'll check it out.
Hiring a designer with a distinct style is one way to make sure the design meets your general aesthetic goals. Compared to a designer whose portfolio has some things you love and some things you hate, in various different styles.

OTOH, it is amazing that some designers just repeat the same motifs in every work they do, and make a career out of it. Another one is Michael Schwab. I love his work but it is all very samey: http://www.michaelschwab.com/portfolio_posters.html
a bit rusty, but think this one's right too ( am using Peirce's arrow instead of Sheffer stroke )

type LogicGate =
| ON
| OFF
| NOR of LogicGate * LogicGate
| NOT of LogicGate
| AND of LogicGate * LogicGate
| OR of LogicGate * LogicGate
| NAND of LogicGate * LogicGate
| XOR of LogicGate * LogicGate
| XNOR of LogicGate * LogicGate

let rec evaluate input =
match input with
| ON -> true
| OFF -> false
| NOR(a, b) -> not ((evaluate a) || (evaluate b))
| NOT(a) -> (evaluate (NOR(a, a)))
| OR(a, b) -> (evaluate (NOT(NOR(a, b))))
| AND(a, b) -> (evaluate (NOR(NOT(a), NOT(b))))
| NAND(a, b) -> (evaluate (NOT(AND(a, b))))
| XNOR(a, b) -> (evaluate (OR(AND(a, b), NOR(a, b))))
| XOR(a, b) -> (evaluate (NOT(XNOR(a, b))))

[
NOR(OFF, OFF);
NOR(OFF, ON);
NOR(ON, OFF);
NOR(ON, ON)
] |> List.map (fun x -> printfn (evaluate x))
Are you using a modern version of Opera? I have 30 something tabs open and the New Tab button is still visible.
Less than a year? That's really short. Have you tried busting out a multimeter on your wiring (since you sound like the DIY type) or calling an electrician?
Wealth only indirectly influences GDP. If you had 1billion dollars’ worth of Sony stock and don't buy, sell, or receive dividends then the impact on US GDP of you owning that stock vs. someone in Japan is zero.

When you break it down short term GDP growth is dominated by the size of the working population and changes in the value of your currency. Over the long term you need to consider technology and infrastructure improvements but wealthy society’s both expect more from the government and can afford to have their government provide more so that's not really an issue. Thus linking government spending to GDP is fairly healthy activity.

PS: I would happily to drastically cut a lot of government spending, but I also realize doing so quickly would be vary damaging to our economy. I think a flat 25% federal tax including social security that starts at 70 and universal healthcare and excluding any and all tax breaks would be close to optimal, but good luck getting that passed.
Looks cool, but def needs some CSS additions to the play button, "cursor: pointer;" plus the other controls need the cursor property to be set to the proper thing.
A decent UI on top of HTTP authentication would have been an improvement, and it's something that more sophisticated systems can be built on top of while maintaining compatibility.
hehe - Thanks for reading! I have mixed feelings about Outlook Data Files (.ost or .pst). These are great when they work, but, I think they show their age for large modern mailboxes.

As for Imap, I don't really know what to say above what I wrote in that article - It is clear that Outlook is built for Exchange... That being said, I have one client (and myself) that runs IMAP from a Hmailserver box and have never had a problem.

Going over slow links/VPN when abroad has given me a lot of problems with Outlook, which I do not see whilst using a mobile device (I<device> or Android) when set to only download the last 50 messages - so, again, I agree that Outlook's handling could be a lot better.

But... On top of that, Gmail has just given me so many problems weather using Oulook, Thunderbird or a few other mail clients. If you only use Gmail through their website, it works great - but, I personally think that the way they use labels instead of folders along with a few other things (deletion etc.) made a mess when they tried to implement the IMAP protocol.
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Method_missing considered harmful
Hosted on Linode, at the moment. If I see that people are finding it useful then I have no problem sustaining it myself.
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Perhaps a bit OT of TFA, but on the general topic: Were HTML 'tables' so widely and badly used and were they so corrupted as a term that the W3C had to create 'grids'? Is this kind of just an upgrade to tables?: http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-grid-align/

How is a grid different than a table? I find it odd that that each element in the grid is explicitly positioned (e.g. #score { grid-column: 1; grid-row: 3 } ).

It seems as though we've been round and round on this topic and I feel as though we're going to go round again some more when we could be improving the core elements (at the risk of some breakage).

EDIT: some answers to my questions here: http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/css/css3-preview-tables-an...

EDIT2: looks as though multiple client sizes are a driver.
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I had a similar question with a twist asked of me during an interview. It went something like this:

Given a list of all the short strings in the periodic table of elements (e.g. Na, F, Al, etc) and a list of all the words in the English language: 1) write a method that finds the longest possible English word you can spell given any combination of the strings in the periodic table of elements. Re-usage of elements in the same string are allowed. 2) Describe what kind of data types you would want for the two lists and describe anything special about them. 3) Give a big O estimation.

I thought it was a great question :)
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After visiting the site on 2 separate occasions, I also still can't tell what the site does and how it can help me right now.

Usually, if I don't find that the first 3-5 seconds upon visiting a site, I'm outta there..

so my suggestions are:
1. bigger headline (UVP)
2. small subtitle clearly explaining the main benefit
3. picture on the right needs to better define your product (add "marker notes" on the picture if necessary)

hope it helps!
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There's not too much difference between "people who get dynamic programming, after boning up for the interview", and "people who can answer your dynamic programming question because they read the answer to a similar one while boning up for the interview". Both are probably good candidates.
Or your windshield (I replaced my windshield last summer, and almost immediately had it dented by a rock from a truck).
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I don't believe sovereign nations ever pay off all their debts, any more than banks ever collect on all of their loans. In a dynamic financial system, the money never comes to rest with a full accounting. It's always moving. Rogers is likely just trying to bolster the value of his gold and commodities holdings.
And Opera has tab groups as well. OP needs to stop using Safari and get a decent browser.
Given the prevalence of wide screens, I really wish Apple would have embraced dual split-screen application windows in addition to full-screen applications. As it is, we're still stuck with hacks and workarounds.
I've written a small web app (this one: http://en.quelology.org/ still a work in progress), and Mojolicious is really great to use.

I'm still a bit too old-fashioned and cheap for cloudy things, but the easy of deployment still helps if you run it on your own server.