skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congrats! You may wanna add viewport statistics to your GA code:

http://wishfulcode.com/2011/11/02/measuring-viewport-size-wi...
Three Dying Platforms: Flash, Silverlight, Win32
That's weird - works for me. Here's a cached copy: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jvGUABA...
PVS-Studio: analyzing Doom 3 code: http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0120/
Exactly How To Increase The Speed Of Computer Video Games Graphics
This article is a word-for-word repost of an article Joel posted on his site in November 2008: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/11/26.html

How does something like this work - does Betabeat ask Joel for permission to repost his content under their name/banner/ads? Do they work out a cut of ad revenue? Or do they just copy-and-paste the content without permission, figuring most writers won't complain?
I really loved - not something that happens often to me - "Designing visual interfaces" by Mullet and Sano. The examples are dated now, but the techniques and the suggestions are pure gold.
Iranian Med Student Blogger Arrested
“So, when can you let us know?”

“Well,” you tell them, “I have another interview coming up in January. So I’ll let you know right after that.”

“Oh,” they say. “That might be a problem. We really have to know by December 31st. Can you let us know by December 31st?”

What you could do is answer the "When can you let us know?" question with another question "Well, when do you need to know?". Dec 31st might sound like they have some sensible end of year thing, but I predict scummy companies/recruiters will pick a date just before you said you had another interview. Try to see what they say first.
How to Blog for MOney
That's a really weird way to draw a decision graph.
The value of deliberate practice applies everywhere. I wouldn't want to do this particular exercise because I did a little bit of this in 2005, and the shipping part of it was kind of tiresome and exhausting, but you can do the same thing with World of Warcraft -- practice the key skill of buying low and selling high over and over again.

I actually did that with WoW, but I skipped the whole buy low/sell high thing after discovering a cunning hack which made me ridiculously wealthy until I got to around level 50 and had to start buying low and selling high like everybody else. The big lesson I got from that: finding a smarter profit-making system than average will give you wildly above-average earnings. I suppose the little lesson is that hacks are context-sensitive.

Anyway, the point is not which WoW method makes the most gold, or whether eBay profit margins do or do not offer opportunities, the point is to use deliberate practice to sharpen your money-making skills the same way you would use it to learn scales on an instrument. I did this in 2010, with a goal to launch a new mini-business every month. Didn't hit the goal, but learned a lot, and some of the little businesses I did launch worked out quite well.

I definitely recommend following this advice. Making money is a skill like any other. There's substantial research on how to attain high levels of skill. Leverage that research to develop the skills you want. Could not be more sensible.
You might have to sign a contract.
It's fine..
If you use pulseaudio, if you hate pulseaudio's latency and have falled back to alsa then suddenly the volume control doesn't work.

Luckily the windows version works fine under Wine , even though it does nag about "unsupported platform"
A good problem to have
I have a web app hosted on google appengine. I built it for folks who suffer from chronic disease (including myself). Anyway the app has grown to about 1100 users who visit every day and now appengine wants a couple of bucks every few days to keep the lights on. Right now the app has no advertisements and is free. I would like to keep the app free with ads or charge a nominal subscription -- say a buck a year. I think that certain companies who cater to my disease might want to advertise on it....
I am not sure how to proceed in the best way.( I got in to engineering not marketing/business after college ) Any suggestions on a good way to monetize this thing?
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Ask HN: Hacker News no longer showing on Google.
I don't know what has happened but googling Hacker News doesn't show hacker news on the front page anymore.

I think Google may have made an algorithm change because it seemed interesting to note the highly ranked pages had hacker news directly in the url (instead of news.ycombinator etc). Even the wikipedia entry is ranked higher.

I had a thought that was kind of amusing. pg has intentionally hidden HN from search engines to avoid the flood of new users and preserve the quality of the site.

I was wondering why is this happening?
That's interesting. One of the main reasons I use* Spotify is because it has a native client and not a web interface.

*I'm actually currently in a period when I listen to music which is likely to never show up at any professional music service, but when I feel the need for mainstream music again, Spotify will probably be my choice for several reasons including the above, despite their recent Facebook-login only policy (which doesn't affect me, but still bothers me a bit).
Show HN: The Captcha Experiment (v0.2)
RIM Sees 3000 People Queue For BlackBerry Launch
IME Small companies usually have a hard time hiring people, and sometimes it's months between "Hey we should hire someone" and when that person starts. Hence they have already waited a few months from when they started looking to your interview, and as such a few more weeks isn't going to kill them.
Ask HN: How to structure a website description?
Question as stated in the title. I would like to make our website/product-concept business plan ready. What's the best way to put a structure on it? It's going to be somewhat of an eCommerce/affiliate website, so the description does not have to be super technical. Any examples you can think off? Help is appreciated. Thanks.
3D printing: Making it
Seth's Blog: When Google comes calling...
+1. I think anyone could learn to draw from life by reading and do the exercises from this book. The trick is to stop trying to draw symbols ( left brain ) and draw what you actually see ( right brain )

It's for anyone who ever told themselves they can't draw
Sequences from http://lesswrong.com . Not a book though, but the reading material is available in .pdf, .epub and .mobi.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_model#References
How to really make money from a website - critique of a make money website
It's not that you want people to agree on Twitter, it's that you expect Twitter to be "chit-chat. Small talk."

Where your comment policy is basically "If it doesn't add value, don't say it".
Suddenly, Hacker News is not the first result for 'Hacker News'
Big Box Brother: How malls are learning to shop *us*
Site seems to be down. Can someone paste content if they have it?
use a seeks proxy, it will personalize results for you and let hacker news float on top after the first click, and according to clicks on other instances through p2p. http://www.seeks-project.info or seeks.fr.
Thinking with a Pencil, by Henning Nelms, would be a better choice for practical drawing and design, rather than Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.

http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Pencil-Henning-Nelms/dp/08981...
Drugmaker Merck challenges Facebook after 'losing' page
Signed Integers Considered Stupid (Like This Title)
And this were all the factors that got me into Python when I was pondering whether to go down the Rails or Python road, when I wanted to crossover.

And I was carrying quite a torch for Ruby before. But when you realize how much broader Python is - Ruby doesn't look that good any more, no matter the hype.
In 2.6 or earlier replace the last line with:

new_name = name_generator.next()
> I think that the variadic-arguments-are-always-allowed nature of JavaScript is not very compatible with partial application though.

It could be implemented by compiling Roy functions to chains of 1-arg functions, but the amount of recursion and funcalling would probably be expensive (JS is not very good at these).

A SmartEnoughCompiler® you could also see partial application points and craft a partial application right there:

let add x y = x + y
console.log (add 1 32)
let add2 = add 2
console.log (add2 5)

var add = function (x, y) { return x + y; };
console.log(add(1, 32));
var add2 = function (y) { return add(2, y); };
console.log(add2(5));

As long as the number of arguments can be understood at compile time (which it can), it's not that hard: if the number of arguments provided make the function's arity reach 0 you partially apply it (and decrease the arity of the result), otherwise you fully apply it.
Several people are looking at this from the employer side and claiming that this should be acceptable because it's hard when you have one position to fill and someone has a lock on it for a long time.

While that is valid, especially for smaller companies, many companies definitely use this when that reasoning doesn't hold. I'm about to receive an offer for the summer from [very big company] that employs ~1000 interns in the location where I'd be. I would guess that the team I'll be on has several other intern slots. Despite that, and despite the fact that I wouldn't start my internship for 7 months, from what I hear they will definitely give me a short deadline to decide.

This is purely a matter of them trying to get me to commit while my visit to them is fresh in my mind and before I can apply and consider too broadly.

And while, from an ethical standpoint, you can make the claim that it's "hard" for employers and they "need" this, hiring people is also hard for employers. You can try to shift your burdens on to potential employees, but that's going to hurt you in the competition for talent. Any time that you are less employee-friendly than other companies, even with legitimate reason, you might lose out.
Cool. Thanks for that clarification.

What I meant to say was that if you are a link spammer and are only there to post comments like "I love this blog! You are awesome! Please buy more designer handbags at this site XXX" then your comment will be deleted.

Thanks for helping out! I'll fix the wording.
Or even on the first page. (I notice because I always get to HN this way. Today is the first time I have ever seen it below #1 or #2.)
I Invited Bill Gates To My High School Graduation – This Was His Response
It's cached here:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:y7SdL11...
I thought the main advantage of the record companies was that they could loan artists large amounts of money to make and market a commercial record.

Most musicians I know are poor and would make pretty poor business people. Unless spotify or apple decide to go into developing artists themselves.
A map of every extraterrestrial space mission
Perfectionism as Practice: Steve Jobs and the Art of Getting Good
I'm not sure if you even read the article. At the end of almost every point he specifically points out the lesson.

Example - "There's another lesson in here: Charging for something makes you want to make it better. I've found this to be really important. It's a great lesson if you want to learn how to make money."

Do you just not like this guy or something? There is no hand waving going on. Just trying to learn something from a successful businessman who's willing to share his experiences.
DraftSight: Free 2D CAD software
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Dassault Systemes, makers of SolidWorks, are now offering their CAD software DraftSight as a free download.

DraftSight is a professional-grade, open 2D CAD product for users who want a better way to create, edit and view DWG files. DraftSight is easy to use and is available for professional CAD users, students and educators to download and activate for free.*

Based on an advanced architecture, DraftSight has a small footprint, should take a few minutes to download, and supports Microsoft® Windows XP®, Windows Vista®, Windows® 7 (General Release), Mac® and Linux® (Mac and Linux currently in Beta).
Network Proxy Could Save Phone Batteries
Researchers in Finland have <a href="http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/finnish-proxy-could-slash-phone-power-demands-47366">designed a proxy</a> which can reduce the power needed for mobile browsing by up to 74 percent. The idea is to make mobile Internet more usable in developing nations.
I disagree. I mean like people have already mentioned, it's all about getting some practice and not really being profitable. You could think of it as the opportunity cost (hopefully I'm using that term right as I'm no Econ guy either). You lose a little money for the opportunity to become really good at making more later (or maybe you'll defy the odds and actually profit). And it doesn't have to be eBay. Any kind of low risk practice really.

I don't really think your comment on picking up trash to improve work ethic really fits. It really doesn't matter how you practice as long as you do it. For those of us already in business we could simply practice this using our own businesses to experiment. We pick a product, service, or just some smaller, lower risk aspect of our business that we feel comfortable playing with and then charge more, less, or change the pricing model altogether. I think his post makes total sense in these terms and I doubt he means we should literally sell iPods. It's just a nice example.

He probably did use commodity wrong (it's debatable, iPods can be a commodity as some would rather get a deal than get a brand new one from the Apple store) but it wasn't a huge error. All in all, it's hard to tell you that you're wrong because you make total sense but at the same time I also think you're reading into this a bit much and maybe taking what he says too literally?
Not what you asked for but i believe the act of programming increases your cognitive ability. Like writing down your thoughts can clear things up but even more so because of it's preciseness.
They linked to the original at the top of the article. Doesn't look like an attempt to steal his work.
> Trust me on this one: there’s not a single hiring manager in the world who wants to hire you but would get mad just because you’re considering other offers.

Although Joel Spolsky certainly knows more than me, I'll ask anyway: Is that really true? Perhaps it is, but I would guess that this is a pretty big overstatement.

However, I think it can safely be said (and this is maybe not obvious to many prospective interns) that if the hiring manager does get mad, then that's a big red flag, and if you got rejected for this reason then you dodged a bullet.
Race Injection SKIDROW
Race Injection-SKIDROW
Publisher: Just A Game | Developer: Nemesys | English | 4.71 Gb
Genres: Race
RACE Injection enhances the smash hit formula of RACE 07 by combining the most requested content from five separate expansions – Formula RaceRoom, WTCC 2010, STCC The Game 2, GT Power and the Retro expansion – into one new retail pack.

With the new additions of 23 unique cars and 9 tracks, the complete RACE Injection now features a massive 83 individual car models in 43 separate car classes, customisable with over 450 highly detailed skins.
The powerful cars can be raced on more than 40 tracks from around the world with over 60 different track configurations.
Cars, classes and tracks can be endlessly mixed and matched to create unique and thrilling championships and events.
System requirements:
Pentium 4 3 GHz, 2 GB RAM, graphic card 512 MB (GeForce 6800 or better), 5 GB HDD, Windows XP/Vista
Delirium makes interesting points, but he neglects the fact that universities wildly overcharge for overhead.

The university basically provides two services in return for overhead: commercial real estate and outsourced HR. They vastly overcharge for both, and the excess beyond market rates for these services goes directly into the university budget.

Some real numbers (I was the grad student): a professor gets a $50k grant which he spends on a graduate student to be a research fellow for 1 year. The grad student gets $20k + benefits (roughly another $10k).

The university pockets the remaining $20k for incidentals and overhead. You seriously think loading the grad student into the HR system and making 24 direct deposits costs $20k?
Mind Performance hacks (http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/personal-productivity/0...) by Ron Hale-Evans, and his web site (http://www.ludism.org/mentat).
Most entrepreneurs I deal with sincerely enjoy what they do, and probably do far too much personally than they should, because they like doing it. Far too many of them treat their companies like profitable hobbies. Granted, that is part of the fun, and a huge part of why people start their own businesses – but everyone should be able to see the cost of what their pleasure.

I'm not really sure what this means, surely if they are enjoying doing something that is making your business better then that is a good thing right?

How can you be doing too much , and what is the cost of pleasure if you are enjoying it?

It's probably difficult for a reluctant software to compete with people who live and breath the stuff.

Pherhaps it's more to the point that if you treat your work too much like a hobby you will spend too much time focusing on the stuff that you enjoy (redeveloping your whole system is haskell for example) and not enough time focusing on the boring/unpleasent stuff that needs to be done (managing your budget and organising your sales team).
The guidelines are suggestions. Not hard rules. But it's your prerogative.
All plutonium isotopes can be used to make nuclear weapons [1], though Pu-238 would give big problems to weapon designers due to its intense decay heat.

[1] http://cstsp.aaas.org/files/selden.pdf
added this to my start tabs
The Deletion Review process is for pages in the process of being deleted; not for those that have already been deleted.

Perhaps you're dropping like a stone because I explained this in my post.

I don't have a sense of entitlement over Wikipedia. I have a sense of disgust.

1. One person at Wikipedia declares a 7-6 vote to be a "consensus.

2. The same person at Wikipedia, when alerted to a comment with and substantial information that hadn't been cited before does nothing.

3. A second person at Wikipedia, also alerted to the same comment, also does nothing other than leave a message that I should do a Deletion Review

If Wikipedia's goal is to make informed decisions around consensus, it has failed on multiple levels.
In regards to your second edit: http://www.google.de/trends?q=django%2C+ruby+on+rails%2C+nod...
I think that's glassdoor.com.
Thank you. Joel's site doesn't crash my iPad.
Afterfall: InSanity - SKIDROW
I've been sitting on a Fog Creek offer since late August and there's been no pressure whatsoever to respond. They seem to take more of the approach of giving out offers to anyone they like, on the assumption that they'll be able to find something for them to do if they all take it. Joel definitely sticks to his guns on this one, but I wouldn't call either of his companies big (pretty sure they both fall in the < 50 people category).
Michelle Williams plays Marilyn Monroe: the latest one to play the role.
No book on Information Architecture and User Interface? Human psychology of decision making? This is not the hard way.

Hard way is to study human behavior and then study how good things were designed around them. Study the thought process behind and try and solve some design problems yourself.

This is not the hard way.
I actually think this might be positive for the quality of the conversation on this site.
"Error!" in Opera 11.52 and Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP.
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What would you think of a company that made someone an offer and a few weeks before the start of the internship said "you know, we actually found someone better so we won't be hiring you after all."

Both the company and the employee should be honest. Period. Anything else and you're being an asshole who's screwing people over.

Exploding offers are there 95% of the time because a company has a schedule to follow and can't just wait for someone to make up their mind for a month (especially for a 4 month internship which follows a tight schedule) - they need to be able to issue the offer to their second choice if the first choice isn't interested because otherwise they lose both.

It's so easy to rationalize being dishonest by projecting bad motives on others.
Raised here already:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3277365

FWIW I've raised this issue.
good point but check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django
Django is more than a web framework, thus I searched for "Python Django"
Decoupling a logical device from its physical implementation has many advantages
> Thanksgiving marks the start of tech’s most intense hiring season, as promising computer science students start looking for summer jobs and internships.

I'm a student. Legitimate question, is this true? Should I be starting to get my act together for summer internships?
You need to print the value.
ComputerDissection: My weekend
- "Models of My Life" by Herbert A. Simon

- "Poor Charlie's Almanack" by Charlie Munger
That website sucks too :\
Thanks, cletus. I'll file one too, just to help make sure people check it out.
Research papers
Well-written research papers can elevate your academic record if you pay for reliable help at a trusted website.
Building F# Solutions in Visual Studio 11
What would you do to solve this model-syncing in a situation where your model consisted of more than an id?
Chocolate Invader
I decided to launch a physical product (chocolate invader) and use “the things” I learned building web apps to make it happen. It’s been challenging to work with atoms instead of bits, but still a gratifying process (and I am just at the beginning). I launched yesterday and would love to get feedback from the hacker news community. I’m approaching this as I would any start-up, so please do share your thoughts.

A little bit about the project:

It started out as an experiment in fabrication at a FabLab. I wanted to learn CAD, CNC machine a few of my own molds, create a negative mold out of silicone resin and have Bryan (my partner and brilliant chocolatier) mold some chocolates. We successfully made a few molds and chocolate bars. They were bad ass, but it was just for fun. Then my obsession with invaders made it’s way into 3D. I thought pixels relate (beautifully) to squares of chocolate. People loved the idea and the experiment began. Fast forward a year, we decided to make it a product.

www.chocolateinvader.com

What do you think?
Totally agreed -- my wife & I have both spent time financially dependent on the other, but we're best when we both have incomes.

There's a kind of fresh air that gives to a relationship -- the unspoken undercurrent is "I could leave but I don't want to" vs. "it would be incredibly difficult for me to leave, so I really hope things keep going well". The dependent spouse has far more skin in the game, in every interaction, whether the earner takes advantage of that or not.

If you're both comfortable that you're capable of making a good income at short notice, that would have a similar effect (and one of you can take some time off when you have a kid, travel the world, etc.), but you'll need a solid career first to give you that confidence.
> I think the key there is the plural.

I don't think that that's the intent of the claim, but I'll play along.

> It's not that individual liberal arts majors are more well rounded, it's that having a well-rounded collective of citizens is important.

But, how much do liberal arts majors contribute to said "well-rounded collective" and at what cost?

For example, it might be more cost-effective to add a bit more "rounded" to STEM majors.

And, that's ignoring the benefit of having this "rounded" within individuals instead of across groups.
Yes - especially for the big name firms in the US
KYOBO eReader: So. Damn. Slow.