skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a really good idea. I've been looking into visual basic macros for excel. Unfortunately, VB isn't exactly 'hip' or in favor anymore to anyone in the tech field. But I guess it's as start.
Sure, we can look at that, but then the experiences of people like Louis CK, Brian Eno, Trent Reznor, Radiohead, etc., are not particularly relevant, because they got famous in the old system, so aren't really examples of anything except, "if you got famous via old-style promotion, once you're famous, you can then sell direct online successfully". To reach a conclusion that you don't need the old-style promotion at all, we need more experiences of people who did not first get famous that way.
Huh, I was just looking for something like that: a webapp to squirrel interesting links that might sooner or later prove useful as sources and references for blogging, tweeting, and similar purposes. Big thumbs up!
How the hell is this even remotely clean?
Hang in. I commend your coping mechanism too. I'm in what sounds like a similar situation, and its the hardest thing I've ever dealt with.

I've thought about suicide in my past, but since then have lost friends to suicide and other senseless reasons. I know somehow now that it is definitely not The Way, regardless of remaining responsibilities.

There is just too much awesome shit in the world to leave early, and suicide is a decision that will prevent you from realizing that forever.

It sounds like you could use someone to talk to. Catch me on Skype any time, my account is "alandipert". Or e-mail/Jabber me at alan@dipert.org.

Instead of saying "good luck," I will say: I don't know you, but I care about you, and would hate to know you went this way. Talk to someone you trust, or me, if you feel it coming on. It's not worth it.

-Alan
Right now we have the Indie Royale Bundle, run by Desura, an indie-game download store. It's not strictly pay-what-you-want, they instead use a shifting scale where people paying the minimum increases the minimum & people who choose to pay more lower it. It has no charity component, and new bundles are run every 2 weeks.

There's also the Indie Gala. It's a straight-up copy of the Humble Bundle model. Both Royale and Gala are actually running bundles right now.

Tomorrow the littleBIGbunch GamesAid bundle will launch, also with the Humble model.

The copycats generally have lesser-known, less-polished games, but there's some worthy titles in each of them.

http://www.indieroyale.com/

http://www.indiegala.com/

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-12-06-pay-what-you-li...
I really enjoy actual paper notes as well - particularly when you end up in creative thinking mode, having a completely non-technical capture medium does the trick for me. I've tried a lot of the electronic stuff, but plain A6 cards that I can later organize work wonders and I have yet to find something better (it's not really like I'm looking for something, though - I have found my sweet spot).
Why would having a bank involved weed out scams if it were impossible for the bank to lose money?

This is basically what happened during the mortgage bubble -- the banks lowered their standards because they knew the government would back up the loans.
Ah, you are correct. It is more correct to say that iTunes was a success despite DRM.

However, I did not mean to assert that DRM was iTunes's key to success, even if Jobs's actually wanted DRM. I'm only saying that significantly fewer people would pay 99 cents a song if sharing music was as easy as buying it off of a centralized source and sending it around by email.

DRM is a pain in the ass for all the honest people. But its role in making sharing less-than-frictionless for the average user probably pushed a good number of people to just sign up for an iTunes account to pay the measly $.99
As someone that doesn't live in an area with lots of VC funding and investment activity, I disagree that there is no shortage.

It's always been very difficult to find talent but lately it appears to have gotten harder. It hasn't been considered a good idea to study CS for the past decade and we've only churned out about a third of the CS graduates that we did in the previous decade. Thats starting to turn around now, but it will be a while before we get caught up.

I do agree that the startup craze has reduced the talent pool, but I think thats a local phenomenon in Silicon Valley and NYC. In other areas with more traditional employment sectors, it's just not as prevalent. There are certainly some talented devs that have relocated to where the startups are (I have contemplated it myself) but I don't think it reflects the majority at all.
Would you have accessed it outside of your home at any point? It could be possible that Amazon keeps a record of where you log in, you shared an IP with a previously banned account at some point, and then you listed an item the other seller had listed.

I'm sure there's a simpler explanation, though. That seems fairly complex.
There are advantages and disadvantages to both - web apps are available anywhere you can find an Internet connection and browsers connected to the Internet are in practice more readily available than your device filled with native apps.
Has that really been the response that this Louis C.K. video has received though? The "I'm awesome because I didn't pirate this" attitude?

I'll admit I've pirated things, and I'll admit that I did feel good about myself for buying this video. The good feeling, in my mind, had nothing to do with having paid rather than pirated. I liked that he was bucking convention, and trying his own distribution model, and the lack of DRM and just eliminating all, or as many barriers as possible. I wanted to support the effort.

He gave the public a clean product, priced it very reasonably (even cheaply), and he made a profit on it. Now, in this case the business model was 'Be Louis C.K.', and it probably wouldn't work for some up and comer, but I was actually surprised to find in this article that he had already made a profit (he said on reddit that he had yet to really push the marketing for this, so I'm assuming there will be additional profit to come for a while).

I'd absolutely love to see Louis leverage the infrastructure he's built for this experiment into something more substantial - licensing other artists to release their works themselves through his site, rolling the profits into new development, and see where it goes.

Maybe I'm just deluding myself, and I'm just masking an "I'm the greatest for not pirating this" attitude behind a veneer of "supporting new media". I don't know. I just know that torrenting this video never even occurred to me. I had heard of this experiment, and thought it was a cool idea. Then, a friend told that he'd really enjoyed it, so I gave in and threw $5 at it and laughed my ass off at the video (if you haven't seen it, I do recommend it).
Anyone know something similar, but for more universal OpenCL platform?
Well, I do know some programming (did some C++ and JavaScript competitions in high school), so I don't think it would be too hard to pick up again. But getting to the point where I can contribute code to a team of people who majored in programming in college would take years I imagine.

Also, you mention database and memory stuff. Can you give me more detail as to what kind of database and memory you're talking about?
I think that this is true in Silicon Valley and possibly NYC, but not in other areas.

I firmly believe we just haven't churned out enough CS graduates nationwide over the past decade to meet the demand of both the startups and the established businesses that are all hiring right now.
Show HN: Newton's notebooks for iPad, written in a day (vimeo embed)
It's not mentioned in the article, but using the MULTI command (exposed as client.multi() in this module) can sometimes help alleviate this if you need to execute multiple redis commands whose inputs/outputs do not depend on each other.
Er, why would you want all the text to be red?
The only problem with all of these use cases is very few people walk around with their bluetooth on all the time! Cool technology but I don't see this getting picked up in the way you're imagining.
Is there any special reason for why you didn't use imap here
https://github.com/inglesp/munger.py/blob/master/munger.py#L... ?
use geolocation to show a default city to the user. they should of course be able to change it, but it's better than just showing a big text box when you already know what major city an ip is near.
Social contacts are more important that you might think. I used to think that I'm introvert, but nowadays I've discovered that I need a daily dose of real life social interaction.

Problem here is that when you finally meet someone to chat with, you're probably way too desperate to get that feeling that someone cares about you. It might be hard not to talk only about your self. That's how it goes for me at least. And people smell that despair far away. My advice is: remember to force yourself to ask questions when you chat.

Internet relay chat is good place to rehearse social interaction, but it's bad supplement in the long run.
Thanks for your support! Do you find the webapp useful? Are there any pro / premium features that would make you considering to pay for the service?
Fair enough.

I'm actually working in the US on a visa. I think my situation benefits everyone. It would have been easier for my employer to hire a US citizen, but they decided my skill set would be able to earn them enough extra money to make the effort worth it for them. So in theory the US economy as a whole should be better off.

I find the cash for citizenship proposal both amusing and arrogant. It implies that the US is so good that citizens of other countries should be willing to pay their life savings to live here.
Of course rights are axiomatic. Rights only exist in relation to society; if you had your own planet and were the only being thereon with any kind of conscious agency, then it would be meaningless to talk about rights because your only concern would be natural hazards. You don't have universal rights any more than there are platonic solids lurking in some invisible dimension; the rights you have are what you are capable of asserting, either as an individual or collectively through a legislature.

Seriously, if you want to be left alone you can go live in the woods like Theodore Kacyzinski (before he started mailing bombs to people, obviously). Why is it that you think these universal rights are objectively real and articulable, but you are so opposed to the institutions that people collectively invest with agency in order to protect those rights - constitutional government, the UN and so forth? Laws are the accumulation of mutual agreements, when you get down to it. If you hate courts so much, go live in a civil law country where statute prevails over all else and the courts are limited to mechanistic applications of that. From what I can see, you enjoy substantially greater freedom in a common-law jurisdiction like the US than you do in most civil law jurisdictions, which is one reason that people are not fleeing the US to live in Latin America.
I rather not give them the traffic & page-rank, but there was something that was literally a 1-to-1 rip off of HIB from some Italian developer & a few others (something with horses I think? really odd stuff).
With emacs you can use TRAMP (included by default in recent versions) with something like:

C-x C-f /sudo:root@localhost:/etc/config_file
Thanks, that's really sweet. Now I know this word indirectly because of Scrabble.
clickable: http://gtrot.com/
quackle [http://people.csail.mit.edu/jasonkb/quackle/] is an open-source scrabble ai that can currently play on par with all but the very best human players. which is not the same thing as scrabble being "solved" of course, but it does bode well for the state of the art.
Can you preload the city with my city

When I click Places, then Arts & Entertainment, a little cross appears next to the A&E.. i don't know if clicking it will take me back to all types of events.. or will show me all events minus A&E... that part isnt very intuitive

Clicking All on the left points strongly to the right.. as if it refers uniquely to the event types and not the column as well..
> only real 'talent' on the show that he stars in, writes, and directs

And edits. In his AMA on reddit yesterday, he revealed[1] that he cuts Louie himself. In season one, there was a second person that helped him, but season two was apparently all him. He could be oversimplifying, and presumably other people at least watch his cut to smooth any rough edges, but it seemed like there was minimal involvement of others in the process.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/n9tef/hi_im_louis_ck_a...
Every time a textmate post comes up on HN i think of this quote.

"Those who fail to understand Emacs/vi are condemned to reinvent it"
Some notes as I go through the app:

The bookmarklet popup is spot on. Everything I need, nothing I don't.

The home tab shows signup info even when I'm logged in, should hide after I'm logged in.

For passwords, I think it'd be best to hide them because it's the convention, and add a js link to "show password" for users who want to see it.
Succinct and to the point. +1.

I really appreciate the comment about the surplus of founders (as opposed to a shortage of developers.) There's a context that's very important in that statement: that not all founders are really necessary, nor do they really come before other key team members (namely, engineering) in terms of foundership.

Great post.
According to http://developer.apple.com/library/IOs/#documentation/AppleA... you can do this for iOS.

To add a splash screen during loading, create a 320x460 .png file, and then link to it in the header:

<link rel="apple-touch-startup-image" href="./startup.png" />

I've actually never tried this.
Not a clone of SpaceShipOne, a new carrier aircraft that is a derivative of White Knight / White Knight 2 and a new rocket that is a close relative of the Falcon 9. The "special" part is that nobody has done that before, and it may prove to be a worthwhile endeavor.
Insulate yourself...
Okay, so the last few years I've had time and means to travel, and I'd like to comment somewhat on a perspective I gained while doing so. The list you gave- I've done all of those things. Well, change Machu Picchu to Pompeii and Somalia to the Congo. I realize your list was not comprehensive- but let me realize the spirit of your post and say I've done a large subset of the "things I'd like to do before I die," save perhaps going into space or winning a Nobel prize and few others.

I made a pact with myself when I was miserable in high-school and my most suicidal, that I would give life a chance and see if things got better as I did more and more things I'd dreamed about and that people told me were worth living for as you've done now. If I did those things and was still unhappy, I felt I should be justified in ending my own life having given it fair chance.

Well, there was a moment, I rememember it in detail, where I was hang-gliding near Interlaken in Switzerland. A man near me said something to the order of "this is the time of our lives, huh!" And I realized then that not only was I still quite unhappy in this most excellent of situations, but that I still wanted to kill myself and indeed had never stopped wanting to kill myself. Not at the Louvre, not in Tokyo, not when succeeding financially, romantically, or in academics.

There was a quote in the Brother's Karmazov which has always troubled me, though I can't find it at the moment, when Alyosha tells a child that he "will always be an unhappy man" and the child says he knows. I believe myself to be fundamentally broken somehow genetically, and I feel that I no longer have any rational reason to expect to ever feel content as a person or free of the suicidal impulse. I will always be an unhappy man.

I can only assume there are others like me in this realization, and to them your words will seem hollow, cliche, and unrelatably foreign. To them what you've said is no different from "but you have so much to live for"- they know that and it doesn't matter. If such a person is out there and is now reading this, all I can say is, well, me too. I keep going somehow, who knows how or why, and I guess all things considered sometimes it really isn't so bad. If I can't ever silence the demons telling me to end it all, I can at least make noise somewhere else that they don't seem so loud. Not a happy result by most measures, but that's the way it is.
Analyst Rates Zynga ‘Sell’ Before IPO
Yeah, this is a tad hackish for my tastes honestly, makes to many assumptions.

The way I came up with while brainstorming a while ago (never got around to fully implementing it) is to create a PTY wrapper that you can fire off a program with.

Basically it creates a new PTY and wires it up to it's own controlling PTY, and forks of a child under the new one. You can then trivially do a lot of things transparently, like separating stdout and stderr (normally both stdout and stderr would be attached to the slave side of the PTY (/dev/tty), but if you attach them to a different fd then the select on the master/parent side can do things like color them).

EDIT: if it helps you picture it, this is basically doing userland STREAMS ;)

I'd estimate you could do this for around 250 lines of C. Maybe I'll see what I can do after dinner.
Have you even tried to submit a patch to Microsoft for one of their Microsoft Shared-Source projects (there is a list here: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/default.mspx ), ? It is near impossible to get MS to accept them. They will give away code, but paranoid about taking contributions.
On OSX, you might be able to do something similar using dyld's interposing feature (http://opensource.apple.com/source/dyld/dyld-132.13/include/...) to replace write() and the dyld equivalent to LD_PRELOAD, DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES.
Braid can be bought directly with Paypal, Amazon Payments, and Google Checkout as payment options. Corner of the box says "Humble Store". What they do with that is a unknown, but I find it interesting.

http://braid-game.com/
yet his [successful] endeavours look like of a billionaire
Not really. Takes about 5 seconds to get a new IP for an Amazon EC2 instance.
"cleanest way i've seen" != "ideal"

it isn't a horrible mangling of pipes and/or file descriptors, or some custom wrapper script that you have to run before every command, or any of the other frightening ways to do this that i've seen. it's a simple library that you can load or unload easily, that works system wide, without being an impenetrable, unmaintainable mess. as far as these things go, that's clean.
Thanks for the advices!

How about the service itself? Do you find the smart tags (parameters attached to bookmarked link) useful in your use cases?
Not all of it, just stderr (so not stdout). This is useful because many things use stdout for regular output and stderr for error output (some things just use stdout for both, but that's not very nice as it disables doing things like this).
2012 is definitely the year of linux desktop
You're paying $20 when you could be paying a penny. I would hope that nobody is putting you in the "sounds like an ass" category.
If you grok Python then there is
a) http://mathema.tician.de/software/pyopencl
b) http://clyther.sourceforge.net/
– The search button floating outside of search box looks off to me. (safari)

– The search UX isn't very good. I sat there for 20-30 seconds after typing "detroit" in the box and clicking on the greyed-out button (not clear that's a deactivated state until you see green) before realizing that i had to make a selection from the drop down. I would add a notification with instructions upon clicking on the greyed out one at the least. Additionally, even after typing "Detroit, MI" in the box, an exact match, i had to click it in the dropdown. Don't like that at all.

– Facebook popup after searching was a bit in-your-face for me. Plain annoying for the second and third searches. Searching nearby cities can give new, useful results, so I'd love to see an additional search input on the results page. (http://cl.ly/0s0b420a0q3p1K2m1y0Q looks like a good spot)

– Infinite scroll would be great on the results page, as the app seems to be great for browsing through many thumbnails and discovering a few new things.

Nice job though! I found many things around me that I hadn't heard of before. Great start.
I suppose not, but my point is I think inconveniences are relative to the user.
Nice choice of domain (and logo). You should get the obvious typos as well to protect yourself. (write me for suggestion)
(http://library-resources.cqu.edu.au/JFS/PDF/vol_41/iss_3/JFS...)

> Previous work by Revenue Canada and the U.S. Customs Service indicated that heroin particles from seized samples are rarely larger than 20 microns in diameter, while cocaine particles are often larger than 20 microns, some times reaching 400 microns
The simplest evidence against the thesis that all you really "need" is REM sleep is obstructive sleep apnoea.

I have OSA. I had it for years before it was diagnosed. I would go to bed and dream more or less non-stop for 10, 12, 14, 16 hours. All the REM sleep a man could ever want.

And I was still tired as buggery.

My idea of a good night's sleep is the deep dreamless kind.

Not to mention sleep's centrality to recovery from physical exercise.
LHC: Higgs boson 'may have been glimpsed'
Jiffysoft hires Atlassian's`entire marketing department
And the original here:

http://www.atlassian.com/how-it-works
Google's Street View shows Japan before and after tsunami
Can someone explain why talking hands-free on a cell phone is more dangerous than talking to a person in the next seat? When you speak to someone in person, you unconsciously glance at them to judge their reaction or confirm yours. With a cell phone, your eyes have nowhere to go but on the road. This part of the proposal seems like over-reaching, and appears ignorant of the fact that most new cars offer bluetooth cell phone connections and hands-free operation. In my own car, the phone on/off switch is in the steering wheel. Before this proposal is taken seriously I would like to see some data that compares hands-free cell phone activity with other common activities that distract the driver's attention and/or eyes and hands.
200 million people will be silently updated within the next week and no one will complain about version numbers.

Hopefully, Firefox gets there soon.
Wait, what?

Why do you argue that members of the public or of an insurance pool have no interest in minimizing the economic cost to them of reckless drivers' risky behavior? Sure, if you drive everywhere at 100 mph and we buy auto insurance from the same company, your direct impact on my premium is minimal, maybe a few cents extra annually, because your increased risk is spread out across a large pool of insureds. But risky drivers exist in quantity too, and collectively their impact on the cost of insurance is large, as is the drag they create on GDP or taxes.

Certainly, I think that vehicle telemetry data should be available to defendants in driving-related criminal cases or litigation. And as a matter of fact, it is, via the legal procedure of discovery. You seem to think that this should only be available to the defendant, but never to prosecutors or plaintiffs. Why not? If you're driving on the public highway, then your driving behavior is a matter of public concern to the extent that it impacts others; and to the extent that other people are exposed to the risks arising from your operation of a vehicle, you cannot reasonably claim an expectation of privacy - unless you're willing to move to a regime of strict liability for accidents, and pay correspondingly higher insurance premiums.