skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I think the worst offense in my book is reopening all of my previous apps when I restart. Not only do most programs still not support it (so they don't reopen my documents etc and just sit there) often the whole point of restarting was to get myself to a nice fresh slate. With "sleep on lid close" and other such things I never actually power my computer down these days.
I like Homebrew but I wish there was something like porticus for it (a way to browse and install available packages) - unless I am just missing something.
He's using Chrome (see the screenshot). In my experience Chrome is much quicker to interpret a horizontal scroll as a back/forward gesture; Safari implements a good difference between them (as you describe).
This would be a very penetratingly insightful criticism if you had never heard of Airbnb, Dropbox, Twilio, etc etc.

i.e "if you had never heard of the 1% of exceptions to your rule...".
Obviously not written by an entrepreneur. Some people can be satisfied by working for someone their whole lives, others can't.
they must invent the company that will wipe Google out before someone else does it.

That's a great turn of phrase. Nicely done!
The SL gesture used three fingers; Lion instead overloads two-finger scrolling with back/forward. It's a bad move for UX since it's not immediately obvious what's going to happen when you drag two fingers to the left/right (esp. since Lion also killed scrollbars, leaving no indicator that there's content to be scrolled).
the github repos says yes
https://github.com/yesodweb/yesod
GOV.UK accepts its first pull request
Absolutely yes, and how it does depends on the type of noise.

I read something similar on reddit/r/askscience time ago, referred to studying with music. Programming and studying are different activities that will probably activate different areas of the brain, but they are both very demanding and I believe similar enough for the comments on that thread to apply here.

The fact is that when listening to vocal music the brain needs to do "decoding", no matter if you like the music or not. Apparently, it only happens with vocal music. This takes a dent of your brain "processing power" and study worse than the control group.

I believe something similar might be happening when programming. If you are not 100% in the task because your brain is busy working on useless data, it is going to affect the results.

Link to "How music effects the intake of information":
http://redd.it/oi2pc
Thats a pretty ridiculous solution, the web is not limited to reading plain text documents anymore, there are a lot of applications where horizontal scrolling is perfectly suitable requirement.

Imagine drawing apps that could only handle a fixed width, or spreadsheets where you could only go as far as the F column
If your startup has no chance of making any money, why would a big company pay you anything more than market salary to work for them?

Because, as TFA says, they don't buy your startup for its business potential, but for the proven engineering talent.
You agree with him, but you apparently don't realize it. What you said is another way of saying that the poor treatment is probably institutional.
C++ as a primary game programming language
In fact, if everyone is working a 60 hour week, they should have hired an extra 2 1/2 developers.

If you aren't making enough money to cover the extra 100 hours of development, perhaps you need to change your pricing strategy or have lower expectations for margins.
Using HTML5 to Determine User Location
Photo Sharing, It's What People Do
This is pretty much the outcome of the session at UDS. I don't recall what the final agreement was but the idea is to ratchet things up as developers need it without just tossing everything onto the disc at once.
Investors are often bothered by talent acquisitions since they get small returns when they're hoping for big winners. So that article's claim is probably false. However, I wondered why it was worthwhile for the big companies to acquire for talent, since they're paying a lot more than standard salaries for people who might leave after 2 years. The article claims they don't want the status quo disrupted, but that doesn't really make sense, unless the startup is creating a product that will directly compete with them.
VLC Illegal Under ACTA?
What alternatives would you consider? Big Magento fan here but it takes some hair pulling to understand how to write extensions in the beginning - relatively high learning curve.. It is a bit of an overkill however.
"The Hacker Way" is no excuse to steal.

Your intentions are irrelevant. Unless somebody has clearly stated you can reproduce their creative work you shouldn't, nor should you want to.

Please do not use the guise of a 'hacker mentality' to mask your lazy and disrespectful actions.
A single, simple, frontpage change can mean millions of new revenue for Amazon, say.

It means squat in some obscure little startup.
Working on Oauth...
What I love about HN is that the users here are international - not just USA, or just EU. What's the benefit of having an EU only version?
Excuse me, it was Ahmed Ressam. So just a terrorist, not a 9/11 terrorist. I guess that completely negates my point right?
I like the fact that universities are pressured into offering these types of courses. Education system is a bubble, so true!
They're advertising for 22 devs on up to £73K (deadline: 13 Feb), as well as interaction people and others.
I've used Rapportive to confirm if my guess of someone's email is correct. If you have the rapportive plugin installed, open gmail, compose, then type in the email address in the To field. Then focus out and back in to that field (or just click), and Rapportive will try to find their profile info.
> Hackers, and thus by definition the people with the most reasonable claim to define the term, having done so originally.

and in the first half of the 20th century the word 'gay' meant 'happy'. shall we insist that's still the proper meaning of the word because that's how it was defined originally, by people with the most reasonable claim to define the term at the time?
I think you're giving up too easy, IMO double down add new features and fight for it. You must have had some faith in the project at some point otherwise you would not have committed to the $200 a month in the first place. Burn the Ships.

In 1519, Captain Hernán Cortés and his army set out on one of the greatest conquests in the history of the world. Cortés was going to accomplish his goals no matter the consequences, despite being up against incredible odds. When he arrived near Veracruz with 500 soldiers, a dozen horses and a few cannons, the first thing he did was burn his ships so there could be no retreat. He told his men “You can either fight or you can die”. Returning to Spain was not an option anymore. By burning his ships, he not only cut off his only means of retreat, but also made his soldiers fight harder. They were all fully committed to the cause.

(I love this story)

Seriously don't give up now, failure is only the beginning of future success.
Ask HN: Any one know when Stanford's Online Venture class starting?
http://www.venture-class.org/

I am in school and I am taking one class less than the usual hoping that this class would start this quarter.
I feel very European. There is a huge amount of history and culture that binds us together. And I think a European hacker culture too to some extent. Writing this in a French bar in Brussels, although I am English.
If you're using Node.js, you're doing life wrong
I also hadn't realized he meant Y Combinator, because calling it "training" is hugely inaccurate. The goal of participants of Y Combinator is to start a business in the US. They don't setup the corporation on a lark, or as a "learning experience."
Bingo! Hackful is one day old and only the first step - next step is a calendar and third a local Angel List.

Who is hiring is a difficult one as there are MANY others trying to solve that problem - better to leave it to them rather than a community effort stepping on their toes...
Show HN: my month long project, QRC (in spanish)
I've worked on systems that have checklists tied to charging systems where the nurse practitioner is expected to record charges for every procedure as they check it off while caring for a patient. These "charge codes" are standardized across the industry, and multiple subsystems are designed to detect new charge codes and verify errors or insurance related issues as quickly as possible.

The basic lists as you described, are usually tied to charge codes and then applied on a patient by patient basis.

What you've observed is probably a hospital that didn't have such a system in place yet (they are expensive). While you could certainly pitch your product to such a place, they're likely going to ask if you can tie into a billing/charge code system. That's a pretty expensive and time consuming integration with legacy systems to do that.

My advice is to do as much business development as you can before writing any code. See if you can follow a nurse around and understand how the information flows through the system to figure out where you can add value without signing up for a lot of costly integrations.
I was going to check out their UI but trying to sign in with twitter gives you:

Authorize Teambox to use your account?

This application will be able to:
Read Tweets from your timeline.
See who you follow, and follow new people.
Update your profile.
Post Tweets for you.

And for google:

The site teambox.com is requesting access to your Google Account for the product(s) listed below.

Google Docs
Google Calendar
Google Contacts
Gmail

wat?
Mozilla developing Web push notification system for Firefox
Just to add something useful to this (pile of poo)

A very handy firefox extension:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/character-ide...

Highlight the characters you are confused about and right click and get the code points/description for them.
Good artists copy, greats artists steal and make that they've stolen their own.

We are all influenced by the same things, it's what you do with that influence that matters.
I'm both proud of and sad because of this, with our ambassador in Japan. I just hope it's not too late and we can still fight this thing. There will be a protest in our capital tomorrow and I just hope that at least half of the people who RVSPed on FB will show up.
I have noise cancelling headphones. They cost maybe $50 dollars. Therefore, it doesn't effect my productivity at all.
Because there is much more demand than supply in the US for a college education. Going merit based is not that simple. If you have 1000 open seats at your school, 50,000 students apply and 1500 of them all have perfect SAT scores, how do you choose who gets in if it's entirely merit based. What makes this perfect SAT score different from that equally perfect SAT score? If everyone looks the same on paper, you need something extra to stand out. That's where extra-curricular activities come in.

The other issue is programs. If you're a school with 1000 open seats and 100 of that is music, you're going to have to drop some very science-smart students to make room for music-smart students.
How'd you do so well on the English section?
Downvote for being a dickhead. Not that this stops pg, of course. He loves incompetent morons like yourself. Apply to YC today!
Hi Nick,

Saw your site when it first launched and really loved the look and feel of it. Just curious about the numbers for the site - i.e. maintenance costs, monthly visitors, etc. How much would you value the site?

I'm sad to see that you're at the point of shutting it down but I hope it's provided you with a learning experience that drives you toward success.
if you haven't read _The Mythical Man-Month_, you have no business being in a hire/fire position
Probably should be:

PUT http://parse.com/jobs/chrisacky

:-)
Do you not see this as immoral and disrespectful to the original artist?
Being a part of evil because you were too "busy" to pay attention is about the lamest excuse I can possibly conjure.
That's the hope - come on European Hackers, get posting, commenting and upvoting
With some web apps, you can actually lose data because it's so easy to inadvertently swipe back in Safari for Lion. This only seems to happen when the page tries to catch the unload event and throws up a "Leave or Stay" dialog. Choosing the latter does _not_ return the user to the previous page as it should, so if you were in the middle of typing something when you accidentally triggered the Back event, you've lost that work.

I've seen this happen with JIRA and Gmail. Hacker News, which does not attempt to catch a user with unsubmitted data, works just fine. You can type a comment, swipe back, then swipe forward, and your comment will still be there.
A couple of thoughts: First, you have a beautiful site the purpose of which appears to be to help people quickly and beautifully research cars. For someone buying the site, $200/mo shouldn't be a concern, iif they think they can make money off of it.

If that is the primary reason you are interested in selling though, I would start thinking: how could you re-position the site to be successful? Just to throw out some ideas, instead of researching cars, could it be for recruiters to research programmer candidates? Or could it be for scrap-bookers to research and purchase scrap booking materials. Or could it be for gardeners to research and purchase plants? Or could it be for homeowners to research and purchase snow blowers? Etc...

With the current site, you are trying to get revenue outside of where the transaction is made. While this is possible, it is ALWAYS easier to make money at the point the transaction is made.
Hopefully stuff like this will get fixed now that the project is accepting contributions from other developers. There was a point where his employment agreement prevented such from happening.
I disagree: Having to switch to Windows from time to time (insufficient power to run Visual Studio virtualized), I love it that I can reboot into the same state I was before. Most of my applications save their view state anyway, so coming back is no problem.

Plus Lion asks you everytime if you want to save the state or not.
Are you sure you've seen Google's actual source code? How can you be sure it's high quality? Maybe there are gigantic lurking monsters out there running in production which are completely grotesque and unmaintainable. Don't assume they are some magic source of quality, especially now with the brain drain.

Oh, the things I've seen.
One of the first things I did after installing Lion was changing switching spaces/fullscreen apps to a 4-finger swipe and navigating back and forward to a 3-finger swipe. I think I mainly did it because at the time Chrome wasn't "Lion-aware" yet. Like a lot of Apple's UX decisions this is one of the many boneheaded things they like to piss their users off with on a regulary basis.
We try like hell to avoid horizontal scrolling. I hate it. It's especially bad now that OS X hides scroll bars, so there is no visual indicator that you can scroll horizontally.

The issue for our application is that sometimes there's just too much data. If I have a matrix of information that is 25 columns by 100 rows, I don't have a lot of choices but to scroll horizontally. Drilldown is taken off the table by the fact that the information must be available for quick cross-reference.

Our issue is not unique. Lots of people solving business process problems face this issue, and I'm not aware of any good solutions. I'm ready and willing to be educated though. Even if an alternate solution is harder, we're not afraid of putting in the extra effort. We have a base set of requirements to meet though:

* Must accommodate variable record counts in the x and y axis

* Must make data available for quick cross-reference (moving in and out of sub-screens to compare data is not acceptable)

* Must maintain the x and y axis relationship of data; that is to say, collapsing columns or rows is fine, but shuffling is not

We experimented with an option that collapses columns, but at some point, even collapsed columns take up too much space. This means moving them out to a separate "column selection" widget, which limits the maximum number of selections and is even more confusing for users than horizontal scrolling.

Not an easy problem to solve.
Ginq: Movies reviews in a 160 chars or less
Overloading the horizontal scroll with page navigation is a bad idea, and although hyperbolic, does, in my opinion, break the web. Apple should change the default behaviour to avoid the overload. I am developing an app using horizontal scrolling and hadn't noticed this particular issue before unfortunately :(
That may be true for some people, but for others[1] your advice is similar to telling color-blind people to just learn to deal with red and green; or telling deaf people to just learn to hear to deal with people who talk quietly.

[1] Some people with Asperger's in particular.
I like both, it doesn't give a sh* about social networking, doesn't emphasize users over content, which is good.
Facebook's IPO: Is Zuckerberg-Page the new Jobs-Gates?
It is nice to hear about Stripe, but useless to me as only available to US users.

I want to hear about GoCardless and not have to search through to see what is relevant to me and what I can access.

Plus, if I am based in Paris, I want people in Paris to quickly respond to a plea for help.
This project has an opportunity to make a lot of money. But it's going to take a lot of money. And a lot of time.

I simply don't have my heart in it, anymore. That's why I'm selling. I have other projects that I'd like to focus on, and this project has become basically stagnant for the past year. This is the type of project that can't become stagnant - halfway through the year people want data on the next year's vehicles, and that takes time.

The amount of money that Auto Swatch can generate depends on the amount of time you put into development, and money you put into marketing and advertising. I'm the only developer, and I'm burnt out, and I know nothing about marketing / advertising, and have no more cash to put into those details.

We tried a few different business models but were never able to make any of them work.
This is especially important in the era of MVP where you are showing the public the absolute bear minimum and all further progress is done in the public's eye.
i can't even see the problem here if they were selling them for $0 profit. let's assume for a second they sold them for $5 each and that is the actual cost of production. would ben show the same hostility to individuals who spent $5 to make the poster for themselves?

that said, i'd think it was a silly response even if they were selling it for profit. do you really want to focus your creative energy defending your authorship of a white poster board with red lettering?
Article A: Geeks super pissed off about someone daring to copy their work

Article B: Nerds insisting that content producers are too dumb to understand that piracy is just a marketing channel.

(repeat ad nauseum)
We will definitely work together! :)
Not really. As far as I can tell, the original artist wasn't selling his works, right? And apologies in advance to all the designers reading this, but the posters are a sentence fragment in a standard font. They're not printing off bootleg copies of the Mona Lisa here.

I suppose I'm being immoral and disrespectful, myself. Should I send Dos Equis a letter of apology, see if KC Green sells prints of his comics, and try to track down both the artists working on the Spiderman show as well as the person who placed text on this image? http://imgur.com/3CHhp

Let me know if I'm factually wrong in any of my statements.
This is probably a good place to ask:

Does anyone have any tips for web scraping with Haskell? I've used tagsoup but the memory usage is really bad (or maybe I'm using the wrong string type?) and the interface is really clunky compared to something like pyquery or hpricot.
I don't really have a dog in this fight, but I see node.js as being "disruptive":

* It's "not as good" as languages/environments like Erlang.

* But it's good enough, and significantly simpler, as an approach to tackle a certain class of problems. This, combined with widespread knowledge of Javascript, will probably make it fairly widely used.
But if everyone is getting health problems from the factory down the road, maybe instead of only treating the problem with medication, we also shut down the factory causing the health problems.
The ever-present danger of assuming intent rather than establishing it directly. Sites like Twitter seem to have an uncanny ability to enable a person to shove their foot directly in their mouth.
Passwords... Again. I can't believe I still have to create an account. Even for a website like HN that I'm completely addicted to, I would've never signed up if it weren't for OpenID. You want me to use your service? Make it easy for me to authenticate, I don't need yet another password...
protest the hell outta them!
There is nothing like the disappointing realization that the web page you're trying to view on your Android phone is completely dysfunctional because the fucking Flash plugin has shit itself again.

Android may have Flash, but I wish it didn't.
Another couple things:

- Make the subject and context of your email, "I could really use your advice". Ask these contacts for help and advice on what they would do in this situation. A guy at cars.com might know that they won't buy this site, but knows someone at XYZ that would be worth talking to.

- Use any and all networks/groups of folks you can think of at LinkedIn. E.g. Find people who went to your same school that work at cars.com. No matter if you have ever met them. Mention the alma mater. It helps.
SmartPhone Patent Thicket: Who's suing who
Study: iOS Apps Crash More Frequently Than Android Apps
Hi! I am not sure if you are referring to the class of Prof Sebastian Thrun? It will start on Feb 20.

You may refer to this link: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/service-oriented/stanford-it-profe...
"miraculously everyone will rush to build great products with razor-thin margins"

Not a very neutral reproduction of a hypothetical comment! I would even say that it is suggestive.
Pardon me for taking the bait, but what are you so mad at pg for? Clearly you've taken some kind of interaction with YC and/or pg personally.
Mac OS X: Time-Saving Terminal Tips
It's coming... only a day old so far :)
Hacker News for Europe = Hacker News.
I've got no truck in this fight, but they really should call these things propogandagraphics.
It's not Motorola [MOT] who is suing Apple, it is Motorola Mobility [MMI], aka "Android's fiance."

It is my understanding that the prenup prohibits MMI from settling existing suits or initiating new suits without MMI's future mother-in-law sending blessings.

Thus, there is ample opportunity for calling Google "evil."

In response, we may expect prayer rugs to be turned toward Mountain View.
The key error the author makes is that he fails to Notice His Confusion. When something confuses you, you have to stop and figure out why you're wrong. You can't be confused and right at the same time. If you are confused, then something you believe is false.

So when a man known to be highly intelligent and very successful makes a statement which you find "bizarre", you don't write an article "Zuckerberg makes baffling statement", you think "Why am I baffled? Clearly I'm missing something about what's going on here", and you do more research. The concept 'I am confused' is not newsworthy.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/if/your_strength_as_a_rationalist/
Not really. The US-Canada border was far easier to cross pre-911. You didn't even need a passport to cross up until 2004.
You're just using it wrong