skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Fox Nation implemented something like this, they’d have zero commenters (unless, of course, they made the wrong answers “right”).

I wholeheartedly disagree. I am pretty much a total idiot (based on many years of evidence) and yet I can easily use the words listed correctly. The fact that I espouse bizarre and unworkable methods of government (see my username) certainly doesn't prevent me from spelling correctly. In fact, unworkable and impractical ideas may be a significant indicator of post-secondary education.

I'm surprised to see such a thinly veiled insult directed at one set of political beliefs sit at #1 on HN.
On a mac, you could also use growlnotify.

growlnotify -m "Hey I am done!" -t "Done!"
Hackers vow to taken down Facebook on November 5th
I've already got most of a gaming desktop, save a slowly dying video card that I can replace for ~$300. I used to have linux on it but ran into some issues (honestly I don't even remember what broke initially - all I know is that my current ubuntu install won't boot), and ran into some more issues when I tried to install 11.04 on it again. I've also got a laptop with 11.04 on it with a slowly dying hard drive that I need to send it to fix, but I can't atm because that would kind of leave me without a computer as I go into my first week of college.

But in short, I'm tired of dealing with this shit. I'm probably going to keep my desktop around regardless and fix it up for gaming, and probably slab linux on there along with windows, but I want to have a "just works" machine that I can use a little more reliably.

edit: but of course, if that "just works" machine is going to make me twitch every time I use, then I wouldn't go for it.
Running the yaSSL Embedded Web Server on the Apple TV
Am I the only one reading that the article implies biological systems are capable of acting as nondeterministic Turing machines for NP problems? I'll agree that there's something slightly magical feeling about being alive, but theres serious doubt about whether physical processes can do NP computations, to the point where if a phenomena were to enable NP computation it's viewed with greater skepticism.
Here's a write up I did, that includes more links on why I switched to it: http://jessenoller.com/2011/04/25/switching-to-a-standing-de...
Could you not be bothered to read my comment before replying?
This is killer. Be sure to try dragging the scene/objects!
Why Sourcefabric chose Zend as our PHP framework.
What the hell is an explosive capital countdown?
Perhaps my comment didn't make my thoughts clear enough.

First of all, I think we are working on different definitions of 'inflation'. There seems to be two schools of thought on this: some people think inflation is driven by prices and some people think prices are driven by inflation.

Your comment suggests you are in the first camp and I am in the second. I define inflation as simply being 'when the government prints more money'. Prices increase when the money supply increases. Businesses have to raise prices when this happens because otherwise they will reduce the buying power of their profit.

I wasn't talking about the UK specifically. I was just trying to say that, in general, I think the outcome in terms of social unrest is going to be about the same whether you reduce the amount of money you give people or whether you give them money that is worth less.

To be clear, I didn't say that reversing the austerity measures would result directly in hyper-inflation or that we'd end up like 1920's Germany. I'd agree that that kind of scenario is a long way off.
Actually he only says it is beside those other games, and not explicitly that they are in the top 3 too :P
When I posted this link to twitter I did intentionally mis-spell it (my tweet was "Oh, wow. The Amazon Kindel (er, Kindle) Cloud Reader is live: http://bit.ly/pBoMhS.

But, When I pasted it here to share on HN, I removed the "(er,...)" and MEANT to fix the original. My apologies for not doing that. Glad someone at HN was able to fix it.

@jonburs - My contact info IS in my HN profile, not sure why it's not showing up.
How many dev shops still give everyone workstations? Our company is entirely on laptops and I don't know a single person here that wants a workstation.
My girlfriend and I went AppleTV + Netflix about a year ago, and we haven't missed cable at all (I don't watch sports). The Netflix catalog is sub-optimal and lacking some important content (HBO shows like The Wire, for example) but it's also great if you have certain niche interests and like to watch an entire TV series (Buffy the Vampire Slayer or the X-Files, for example. And now Star Trek!).

We also tend to spend less overall time watching TV. There's something about the ease and pull of flipping cable channels that keeps you watching, whereas with Netflix, you have to actively commit to another episode/movie. That requires a certain cognitive effort and in most cases, we'll find that after one or two 30 minute (well, more like 22 minute) episodes, we're done for the evening.
I'd never seen water flowing out of a basement before.
Yet another reason to love DuckDuckGo: QR Code generator
type in !qr <anything> will generate a qr code to what you typed in. Really useful if I found a file to download for my phone and want to just point to it.

I randomly found this because I was looking for QR codes, DDG reads your mind for features and delivers them 15 minutes before you want them! Scary.
Laws do not work that way!

[You don't get to use a Morbo reference every day on Hacker News.]
Greater Manchester Police - Wanted's Photostream
If you make it a "text" post it'll go on the Ask tab, where it falls off much slower. A common format (less common lately) used to be to make a text post titled "Show HN: something something", where you explain what you're doing, what you'd like feedback on, and then include a link at the end, instead of just submitting the link.
You make a good point about the interconnectivity of the news/film industries to broadcasting, but we've reached a point where people are going to need to let go and embrace what's next. The fear is that of uncertainty and the behavior of consumers but in all actuality, people love television and they'll still pay to watch it. If they have to lower costs, so be it. The upside? You'll probably reach and RETAIN more customers because of the lower costs.
This sound good, but to be honest, I'd never remember to click on it.
Found a little easter egg. Enter

javascript:ui.setObjects(makeRecursiveSpheres())

in the location bar with the page open and you'll really torture your graphics card.
I don't buy it (as a backup philosophy). For starters, there is a difference between wanting to replace your data in the event of a drive failure, and wanting your descendants 1,000 years from now to be able to read your data.

In the former case, there is nothing special about the 1,000 lifespan, and on a $/GB level, you would do better to use an online backup or redundant drive solution. Let's assume that in 10 years your drive will fail and you need 1TB of data restored. You would need 218 of these disks (or $1,526 worth of the backup medium). Given the same 10 years, an online solution like Carbonite runs $60/year, or $600 for "unlimited" data over 10 years. Granted, on year 11 you lose all of that data unless you keep paying, but there are other benefits like continual backups (whereas this disk is permanently written with 10 year old data, while the online system backed up your photos from last weekend). Assuming you don't want your data in someone else's hands, let's assume you want to store your data on a local hard drive. Of course you're smart and cautious, so you have a raid backup drive. 1TB external drives run for $160. Let's assume a life span of 5 years on average (I've seen better, and I've seen worse). Not counting the original data on your computer's internal drive, you would need 4 drives to cover 10 years (2 drive in a raid configuration, given 5 year's lifespan). This will cost you $640.

However you slice the near-term backup, I can't see the benefits of a permaDVD.

For long-term, archival purposes, this system might make more sense. I'm not sure what other systems are out there that can estimate a 1,000 year lifespan (at $1.50/GB). Then again, imagine trying to find a DVD player in 1,000 years.
I think I read somewhere that the Xcode compiler is actually clang by default, right, not gcc? (not that I mind, I actually might prefer clang, just curious)

and link for GCC-for-Mac OS X? I looked around a while ago but couldn't find anything that said: "here, do this, and then you'll have gcc w/o having to pay or needing a dev account or anything"
"Go to any normal restaurant and the set of non-meat (read, tofu) is rather limited (read, none)"

We must be in dramatically different parts of the world... I never really considered the east coast particularly good for that particular kind of variety either.. ..but I have no problem eating vegetarian most of the time.
"As soon as you're born you start dying"

I think that could be said of most websites too. Even the great Facebook/Microsoft/Google/Apple/Twitter with their millions of users aren't immune. At some point in time, they will die out.

It could be a long time. The Dutch East India Company lasted for 200 years. But they came to an end eventually, and so will all these companies.
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Haha, yes I do mind. :)
It would be especially useful if the item above is "ask HN for feedback."
Even worse, they're describing it as chicken nugget replacements: i.e. for those people who are too poor to buy McNuggets now you can get fat on BugNuggets. I'd have difficulty coming up with a less appealing narrative for food if I tried.
I don't think anyone would ever use loose in that manner without preceding it with "let"? Feel free to correct me, but to me that sounds very wrong.
State of the Web - Summer 2011
Show HN: seems to be the convention for people showing off their non-YC work.

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=Sho...
Exactly. I now live by the credos that someone making these mistakes may actually just not know better, or be struggling with a foreign language. So far (on HN at least) this assumption has held in many cases. It also makes me far less angry when reading the internet, regardless of whether the assumption is true that's hardly a bad thing.
Guru masterclass
The GURU MasterClass is Eben Pagans latest training program for authors, speakers, coaches and experts who want to learn how to publish information products online. The main body of the program is a series of live webinars and online video training over 90 days.
Ah, I agree about not banning people, judging the entire group by a few (or even most) members is racism. I'm just saying that correlations are useful, and we shouldn't ignore that.
What do you suggest as affordable and practical sources of protein for poor people?
I think it's unlikely enough to ignore it here, though. Is someone who's willing to send an email in plaintext going to do this? Why bother when simply hashing would do the job more effectively?

I agree it's possible for high security situations where passwords need reversibility, though. e.g. I wouldn't be surprised if Intuit used a system like this when they store passwords for external services. (They should still be hashing users' primary passwords, though.)
Wedding gloves
Faulty Posterous, only the features that will have the biggest impact matter
> First, most of the serious arson and crime in these riots seems to be committed by adults.

That's contrary to every single image and video published.

> Second, if that's the case then why aren't 14-18 year olds smashing things daily in California? And Tokyo? And all over the world? The question is why England? Why right now? Why not two weeks ago?

Why would they? No one is claiming that all 14-18 year olds do this... Only a sub-group that have nothing better to do, that have no supervision, that blame everyone for everything, that think this is all LOLs and fun, that want to take rather than work, that want to destroy rather than create, etc.

Events occur that develop criticality (group size, slow response of police, etc) all the time.

It's simple: # of punks + no police response = looting and burning.

Just take a look at the videos on the right...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14461431
Seems to me this is relatively simple to implement. PG probably has a list somewhere. Send it to Google Spreadsheets and share the wealth. Thanks.
This is an interesting concept, but won't keep out comments from the reasonably educated, but devious. Those often are the worst kind. It's usually possible to simply down vote puerile comments into oblivion, but one intelligent troll can waste considerable bandwidth.
Would you mind please clarifying what you meant?

I see how spammers would create fake 'review my startup' posts to try and game the amount of front page time they got but if flagging is still applied to these posts then they would disappear quickly as people recognise that the submissions do not fit the 'review my startup' criteria and flag them.

Maybe I'm missing something obvious.
You are correct with respect to the USA - right wing here is traditionally just 'conservative'. Recently that's started being tinged around 'religious' as well.
Definitely not 'skinhead racist'.
those would be pretty easy to solve with a bit of code
It should be relatively easy to both engineer completely controlled "farms" for growing insects and to selectively breed variants that are more suitable for food. We should be able to produce a creature that would be a great deal more palatable to the western palate as well as easier to process.

Have you ever seen a wild strawberry or a wild carrot? Many examples of the former are little mean things whose entire surface is seed, and the latter can have the consistency of wood. (Sometimes fully domesticated carrots can have woody parts in the center.)

In general, the domesticated versions of plants are an order of magnitude tastier than their wild ancestors, and a great deal of adaptation can be managed with animals as well. Insects, with their small size and short lifespans, should be even easier to domesticate, once we set our minds to it.
I don't get it. How come this article has not been flagged to death? How come this article has over 100 comments? Am I missing something?
I switched to a sit-to-stand desk for comfort.

Buttocks and legs would get sore if I sat too long a day. I only learned about it being healthier for you after I started using my desk.

I alternate every hour or so for an hour.
For better or worse, there are fairly low barriers to entry for Python devs, e.g. doing Django. Same with Ruby and RoR. The higher the barriers to entry, the higher the salary.
With tmux, you can monitor the window for activity (^A M) and do:

make -j3 >make.log 2>&1 ; echo $?

When make finishes, your prompt is printed again (activity!) and the window's caption is highlighted. I use the same mechanism to watch for new mail and chats in other windows. It's like Growl for your terminal.
I'll go with "whoever" too. "He uses grammar", not "him uses".
Depends on the shop, and the needs of that shop.

If your development necessitates that you run one or more virtual machines on a consistent basis, the 8GB memory limitation of most laptops bites your hand almost immediately. If you work on VLDBs, the lack of storage and I/O bites your hand almost immediately. If your developers largely don't need to be mobile, you're paying a significant premium for mobility and sacrificing power when those sacrifices aren't necessary. If you develop games or iPad applications, the lack of display real estate annoys the crap out of you almost immediately.

Different strokes for different folks.
I don't like the current ratio of what seems to be one or two "Show HN" posts per day. I'd like HN to be a place where I can feel surrounded by people who are shipping. It doesn't have to be new startups; it could be new features or improvements on existing services.

A special tab akin to "Ask" would do this better than making me do a "Show HN" search, because of voting.
Could someone please explain to me why this is such a big deal?

Let us assume that Jonathan is deceiving us and that this is a marketing ploy... what does it matter? We haven't been conned into spending our time or money on anything. The card still works in the same way.

Now, if Jonathan is telling the truth then it sucks for him to be treated in this way. It seems to me that there is nothing to lose by believing him.

Sure, it sucks to be misled and I'm sure it hurts some people's pride to think that they are prone to being tricked but ultimately we don't lose anything!

For me it comes down to a nice example of how generous some people can be. And if Starbucks are actually the ones topping up the card then yay, free coffee!
I mean if I come along, submit my site, and automatically go to the front page where I then have to be removed if I'm bad, then it will attract every spamming jackass out there with HN open in one window and AdSense in the other.
So the people who make the 3G and 4G standards made them pretty secure. Those are not broken. What's broken is the implementation. The carriers are not the ones developing the technology, so they do boneheaded things like making the client identifiers sequential or using the wrong verification schemes. I would be willing to bet that if there is some kind of exploit here, it's due to the specific implementation.
Adam Wiggins: Heroku's Evolution to a Polyglot Cloud OS
England riots: Hackers hit Blackberry over police help
Can I send the surprise gifts to a friend?
It works best with apache access logs!
Waiting for the next post:

Next: the real cost of private offices.

You should include the cost of effective insulation/sound-proofing. (I've seen/heard it done reasonably well with expanding foam during wall construction.)

P.S. Hey, folks, the original author, Rich Armstrong (richarmstrong), actually replied in a response this comment, but you killed it off -- it's dead, now.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2868730

Maybe a mod could unkill it? Seems unfair; it was a perfectly legitimate response. I'll copy/paste it (presuming permission):

I'd love to do that, but our offices are glass-doored, so not sound-proofed, though that's a good idea.
Show HN: Medusa - Track and Manage your Facebook contents. Feedback needed
i did go to law school and am thus reasonably well aware of how laws work ;)

having no specific knowledge about sweepstakes regulations, i does not appear completely unreasonable to me that a random drawing in each territory completely changing the outcome might satisfy the requirements.

as a practical matter, when $1m in extra payouts are at stake it could be reasonable to accept a fine from regulators while at the same time avoiding civil liability to participants.
Are there significant policies that contribute to this blight? Seems like such a waste.
Hardly anyone is going to be trying to build a userbase off a hn mention. The feedback though can be very valuable and those that do get a lot of attention usually end up with a lot of it.
Personally, I hate Aeron chairs with a passion. Obviously, the overall point here is to keep developers happy, so I'd presume FogCreek allows developers to opt for different/better chairs. I just don't understand why these are considered the pinnacle of comfort.

Is it just me? Am I the only person who finds everything about them to hideously uncomfortable, from the jabby knife in the back lumbar support to the circulation killing front steel bar that makes it impossible to perch on the edge if you so desire?
</rant>
I've been regularly sending patch series to Gerrit, and it works fine. If you're not seeing the previous review comments that's because either (a) you're not adding the Change-ID: lines, or (b) you haven't tried diff'ing against the previous version of the patch (in which case the review comments will be clearly visible). Also, the review comments show up in e-mail, of course.

It's true that Android uses a lot of cherry-picking and rebasing, but that's because they have to support a large number of releases. That's a development process choice that the Android folks have made --- but it's not fundamental to Gerrit.

At least the modern versions of Gerrit have a lot of configuration options, some of which can be set on a per-user basis (via ACL settings). It's certainly not perfect, but it is actively being developed, and it is getting better...
thought so, but it was way too funny to not report...
If you want to see a side of this story the MSM doesn't cover, watch this great documentary with Johnny Knoxville:

http://www.palladiumboots.com/exploration/detroit
Prior art becomes irrelevant, if he reckons and hires enough (il)legal firms to convince courts that your design is too similar to his.

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-YP-E32-Yepp-MP3-Player/dp/B000...

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/IPod_Classic

(I presume Samsung made flat panels, FLASH, and embedded CPU-s before AAPL, also combining them into a package years beforehand [ah! so they actually make the ipads instead of just marketing them???])
Thank you for another '...and this is why I love HN' moment.
Extreme right-wing is understood the same pretty much everywhere except maybe extreme right-wing itself.

Now here in Estonia and I venture a guess in pretty much all of liberal democratic countries (and most notably USA) right-wing IS actually associated if not equal with extreme right-wing, since there actually is no left-wing.

So when Obama or our centrist parties are labelled "communist" by teabaggers and such, you actually begin to understand that something is terribly out of balance with democratic systems of ours.
(I'm English and live in England).

Over here, the most important sports channels are all Sky Sports, and a few others (there's ESPN America which clones, well you can guess, and ESPN, which shows mostly games that Sky weren't as interested in). Those channels are available on either Sky (satellite) or Virgin Media (cable). Sky until recently had an online Sky Player that you could subscribe to for online watching, and had an iPhone/iPad app, and so on - but it was hardly cheaper than a normal satellite subscription. That has now been rebranded Sky Go or something, and will relaunch in a month or two.

But I'm a big fan of American sports (I guess in order my favourite sports are Baseball/Football(soccer)/Basketball/Cricket/American Football/etc), and some of the digital offerings from America are awesome. For example MLB TV, $120/season (that's roughly what I would pay for 2 months of Sky Sports), let's me watch any game live or on-demand (no blackouts thanks to living in England), I can watch on my PC, on my TV (through Boxee), on my iPad (seperate ~$15 cost to buy that)... it's awesome.

I think on this side of the pond we're going to take a while to get there, but for American sports, I think streaming services are going to explode in popularity really fast, in the next couple of years.
The Dow Jones + Tao Te Ching = The Tao Jones
i see those rolling out on techcrunch... also on their blog http://ycombinator.posterous.com/

they are all about, what we are about... ;)
'make' and a 'resume.d' directory tree with a vanilla and variant resumes works pretty well. Put the whole shebang under version control.

You can output various formats (HTML for web posting, PDF for distribution/printing, .DOC for recruiter's resume-uptake systems (many are based on MS Word / VBA macros). This is also handy for stripping your personal and/or contact information from resumes posted online (to keep annoying contacts down).
Why do you need the funds for?
The Rivals just joined hands - predictions made in 2010 January turning true
Our 7 month old son also played a part in the decision. I'd rather him develop a habit of filling the majority of his idle time with less mentally and physically passive activities than television. Not that he can't ever watch TV, but I hope that we can find something else more entertaining together.