skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking of irritation, changing your emotion, being controlled & losing sleep:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=370893

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=366960

Comic gold. Thanks for bringing the hilarity.
Ask HN: What do you use for an office phone number?
I'm curious: there are services like ringcentral.com and onebox.com - does anyone use those?
Do you even have an "office" phone number? If you don't, why not? Not useful? Too expensive?
I would agree with you if the colors were against a dark background. But as it is, dark colors contrast more with the white/gray background, and thus get visual priority over the light colors.
should be fixed. sorry about that
Ah, hadn't thought of that. I'll fix it tonight.
Hear, hear. I was going to post something like this because I have lived among people in third-world countries who actually have it hard (total understatement), but it's better that it came from someone with immediate family who lived it.
I agree with nickh. Darker should be more popular. Look at your Google Analytics chart: dark green means more visitors than light green. White means no data/no info. So that's a more natural gradation.
skype.
I just wish Google would let me go back to my good old iGoogle, and not this garbage one they have now with the side-bar on the left.

For now, I use Google.ca until they redesign that one, and then it will be time to get a new homepage.

Anyone here use page flakes?
It was a general point, not restricted to these CEOs. Though I have a feeling they have been rather highly motivated lately.
Why the iPhone Will Keep Winning
And that's the biggest weakness with iPhone competitors. The problem is that "user experience" isn't a feature to be touted: they win no list-of-features contests with it. But it's what makes the iPhone so much better than all its competitors, no matter how stacked all the other features are.
Nice work Ross!
Engineering Renewable Energy: Valcent CEO Glen Kertz (Part 1)
Without reading the legends, looking at the map, I almost expected the darker shade to be more popular, and when I clicked on results for more common hispanic names like Juan or so, I was surprised. And then read the legend to find that its other way round.
But very kool app!
Lots of great comments here, but not this one: you cannot work 40 hrs/week, have a family, and become a brain surgeon in your spare time. I have 5 doctors in my immediate family and know a bunch more in medical school, and you have no idea what you're talking about.

That being said, I'm with you about needing to learn new skills. The days of the company man are over, and in our new world you need to have a set of skills and competencies that you can take where needed. But can you imagine how hard and scary it would be for someone who has worked in the same job for 40 years to try and do something new?
Is your intention to come to the states or build experience?
It's actually not as bad as it sounds. Devs produce only a small amount of documentation (including unit test reports)--it's the product manager and QC department that really have the burden of documentation. It's nice having a well-defined set of requirements, and because of the overhead of updating documentation, scope creep is kept to a minimum.
LOL, you live in America. Of course people feel entitled; they're educated that way. At least it's not Sweden.

Anyway, the bailout most directly affects the Us Auto Industry and it's workers, So I think it makes sense to consider their needs first.

Your words are like my mother telling me I should eat my toast because there are starving children in China. Sure I should be grateful to have food to eat, but what does this have to do with the Chinese? Is this their toast? Can we give it to them?

It's one thing to tell folks that they have it good and they should stop complaining; It's another to do so and then turn around and spend the money that they were demanding on a private jet or new summer home. Right or wrong, that's how auto-workers see it and unless you really are worse off than they are, you should at least show that you emphasize with their condition before telling them what to do. Otherwise, you'll just reinforce that sense of entitlement.

My point is this: "I understand, but you'll have to suck it up." goes further than "Suck it up."
fair point I suppose (making Virgin atlantic pay was certainly no mean feat :D)
There are obviously circumstances when hiring people who once worked for a competitor do make sense.

However, I agree that anyone who wants to join your company with a vendetta against their former employer is likely trouble.
I read it a few years ago when I was a rookie programmer. It gave me a more accurate picture of the job than I had held previously.
The link: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_10_youtube_videos_o...
In the main article, it didn't create the hyperlink (why??!! HN bug?)
^^ seconded. Cheap and easy.

Pay for a landline # and get a Skype enabled Wifi phone and your made :D
My words would only be like that if you thought you were entitled to your toast every single day of your life. ;)
Goals on Track - Helps you keep track of you goals.
Why? In all honesty I've never seen it done your way before. Lighter=weaker impact=less. Darker=stronger impact=more.

:D

Especially as your using red! light red / pink is a very wishy washy colour and the darker reds draw the eye much more easily.
I've written a lot of proposals for government grants, and have made up lots of acronyms.

My advice: don't bother. Just think of some cool name, like Spartan or Scorpion or Sagittarius or Sentinel.

Much better than VANESSA, MISSR, or SESAME.
And they somehow support Canvas?
My samples are all based on recent ruby community users blog posts.
Its a great video, and a great scientific achievement.
Just not sure if it makes sense for this forum.
Anyone else think this looks like a computer generated version of what Mahalo.com is trying to do?
It's sad to think that you draw generalizations from the people with the loudest voices.
I found the site a little confusing (like the others on here).

Good concept - needs tweaks in the execution :D

Like:
- Needs plain english (no jargon)
- Explain what everything means(I still dont quite get what the clusters are and how they work).

This page is probably your best! http://www.babynameclusters.com/map/ nice and clear and intuitive.

The clusters page really needs a map. The graph can be a little confusing? no?
I think that while this is a problem the solution should be to just make picking a theme either as part of the sign up process or as a high lighted feature. People who have trouble reading light text would then know they could change the look and feel of the application.
HTTP errors -- illustrated
Micromanaging a Creative | Fuel Your Creativity
What should the union have done? Accept less than they could negotiate for?

Sometimes it makes sense to accept less than you can negotiate for: (a) you don't want to kill the goose laying the golden eggs and (b) that overly hard negotiation can mean you're walking around with an "Outsource Me" target on your back.
Get what you want when you can get it, but remain aware of the consequences.
I feel the same as you but I ended up installing the Stylish Firefox addon and used the recipe to hide the left navigation. (Actually I modified it some so it also hides the search box and other wasted space.)

It's sad but I have too much invested in Google to leave right now and I'm not comfortable giving my Google credentials to a foreign website like PageFlakes.
This ties nicely into the "Five Whys" series that came through here.

Why is this VS customer pissed? Because VS uses a default font that doesn't match the system theme.

Why is that font used? Because it's always been that way? Or did the VS team change it around the time Vista was released?

Why didn't the default font change to match the new OS theme? Lack of communication? Did the VS team disagree with the HIG team at Microsoft while Vista was under develoment? While we're at it, why doesn't the application just take the window manager's default fonts unless specified otherwise?

This would be an interesting rabbit hole to follow down if I cared about Visual Studio and Windows development.
Its a gesture. Just like taking a $1 salary is a gesture, which only the Chrysler CEO was willing to do: http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/20081119...
I should have been more clear: If I can automate a process that saves time, my labor becomes worth more with me as the automator.

Let's say you work at a University in Residence Life. Each year, 5,000 students all pick where they want to live by coming up in person to you and 4 other people who have to coordinate room availability, write everything down, etc. It takes a long time and requires 5 people. The next year, you write an awesome Web 2.0 app that students can log into and just deal with it in an automated fashion. The labor of the 5 of you hand-doing that process declines. However, you're now doing new labor: that web 2.0 app! That Web 2.0 app does the work of 5 people and only requires YOU! That means that your labor on the automation process makes your labor more valuable (roughly 5x more valuable) while the labor of those who don't automate the process becomes less valuable.

Likewise, let's say we both work at investment firms and we're told to get standard investing data on 10,000 stocks each off Google Finance. If I go through an manually type it in and write it down, that will take a long time. If you write a script that does it in minutes, your labor is more valuable than mine. Therefore, if you can automate a process, your labor becomes worth more since you're getting an inanimate object to do your work for you and being more productive because of it.
We're all free agents. It's a lot of fun.
I know someone who decided to became a Doctor at 30 (no kids or wife). He did not go to a top med school but he graduated without debt and works in the ER. Now he has a wife, but no kids and works part time so he could become a brain surgeon. It's cheep to live a lower middle class existence and working full time in the summer you can make a lot of money to live off of the rest of the year. The idea that you need to go to a top med school and then as soon as you become a doctor you start driving a BMW is why most of his coworkers are poor and he has a nice savings.
Online ad growth slows in Q3
He's right actually, I just went to the site and went through the entire list thinking "Wow Brooklyn is more popular than you'd think", then I glanced down at the color legend and realized Darker meant "LESS" and kind of chuckled.
No, see, people have the figure wrong. It costs GM $73/hour for labor because GM is still supporting retirees (that retire early, at age 50) with health care and a 70% salary pension. To cover those costs, for some reason, they cover it as "labor costs",

This makes the union look bad, while simultaneously ignoring the fact that GM made tons of crap vehicles nobody wanted and has never tried to innovate.
We are not ants.
No. It's not a Top 10 list at all. You can breath a sigh of relief.

Otherwise I would have put Top 10 in the title. :)
Graham
Not sure why this has been modded down so much.

Assume all of the big three are liquidated. What would be the total cost be to the economy? First we'd lose income tax revenues from an estimated 3M people. Let's assume an average pre bankruptcy wage of 50k/yr (a little less than 30$/hr). And let's assume a conservative tax rate of 10%, or 5k/yr. That's 5k * 3M = 15B. Assuming each employee is unemployed (on average) for 6 months, we can assume 7.5B in lost income tax revenue alone. Add in 6 months of unemployment at 362/week = 8688/person * 3M = another 26B. That's 33.5B, and we haven't even factored in all sorts of intangible costs related to the massive unemployment and deflation that would result (crime, medicare, etc...)

There may be other factors I haven't counted, but on the face of it a 25B bailout is the cheaper option. I understand the argument that the same problem will just recur a year later or whatnot, and they'll need another bailout, but there are reasons to hope that at least some of these companies will have a better chance in the future: the Chevy Volt, the release of some of GM's pension obligations in 2010, Ford's 65mph diesel, etc...

I quite understand the "punish them for being stupid" sentiment (and share it), but I think it's somewhat reflexive and not always the most rational approach.
Byte was easily the best computer magazine I have ever read.
Fat chicks get laid more.
Looks like the questioner lost interest - or did not like the answer
Barack Obama's FCC transition co-chair is a (hardcore) World of Warcraft player
No more hurtful than seeing current species stuck in a zoo.
The "Shiny" theme is pretty, but I think all of the new themes would look better if alternate conversations in the e-mail list were shaded slightly. As it is, my inbox is a big sea of white.
GM did create part of the credit crisis. DiTech.com. Its primary business was the variable-rate (aka "teaser rate") ARMs and home equity re-financing. In short, GM put a sizable amount of cash into the sub-prime loan market, and got burned just like everyone else.
Clutching a clump of mammoth hair and watching a count-down from inside a teleporter booth.
It is even worse (or better if you're buying), the dividend yield on S&P 500 is now more than the yield on 10 year treasury bond.
It might be sad, but I don't blame him. The signal-to-noise ratio for Python related material is higher than for Ruby in my experience.
I and some coworkers plan to wikify this and update it with more of a web development spin on it. It's a truly astounding document, with lots of good information relevant for programmers.
HP rumored to be concocting digiframe / slate PC hybrid device
ARM: Starter Kits & OEM Modules
Starter Kit is very useful to learn and develop software on ARM. I merged Starter Kit and OEM module information, because all OEM modules supplier will offer corresponding Starter Kit or evaluation board for design startup.
How we built Dojo Learning - part 1
easy, gabe and max.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPsUmhqncAg
The similarities to the 2nd generation Picwing devices that we are building are uncanny. Not only are the specs similar, but the application and UI look the same, and we also have a 10.4" touchscreen.
This is the first part of a six-part blog post I wrote talking about how we built our startup, Dojo Learning, from my perspective as co-founder/lead developer.
I went back to Classic as my theme (after briefly considering the eye straining Terminal throw-back).

It is close enough to the original that it feels the same to me.
You're gonna share this wiki with the rest of us when it's up and running, right? ;)
[Wired] Huge Buried Water Glaciers Discovered on Mars
You could just use GrandCentral and always use 1 phone number. Route that number to wherever you may be (home, office, cell).
He forgot to mention EpiC!
Two comments about this:

1. In Python 3.0, integer division will return a float, e.g., 1/3 will be 0.3333... At Scipy 2006, Guido explicitly stated in his keynote talk that the design choice he made in Python (i.e., that n/m is floor(n/m)) was a mistake.

2. In Sage (http://sagemath.org), which is built on Python, we do some very minimal preparsing of input, so that 1/3 is the exact rational number 1/3 (instead of Python's stupid 1/3 == 0). We also replace, e.g., 2^3 by 23. Sage is does a lot of exact symbolic and high precision arithmetic, so 1/3 staying the rational 1/3 makes sense as the default (though one can easily change this).

Disclaimer: I started the Sage project.
Ask HN: What do you use to familiarize yourself with other people's code?
I normally end up using Smultron to read code because it allows me to have a bunch of files open and can easily be navigated with the mouse. It also has highlighting for most languages, but there's a lot to be desired with this; namely, there's no way to jump around to where functions are defined, nor are there many other conveniences.

I'd prefer to not have to resort to learning an IDE, and would prefer a solution that works with multiple languages, but for right now, support for C and/or PHP is all I really need.

I'm primarily working on a Mac, and would be super ok with a web based solution. Any ideas are greatly appreciated!
HappyMapper: Easy XML / Object Mapping for Rubyists
Startup Review: ZOOMIN - CLICK, SAVE, SHARE
They refer to this is the "default" theme. Does that mean that I can revert to the old theme?
I think this is a done deal since Obama and Pelosi have already agreed to prevent bankruptcy of the automakers.
NIST releases final WTC 7 investigation report
It's just what you're used to, it's not better or worse. Every change of any sites design always has someone who liked the old way better. Then they get used to it, and complain again when it changes.
Sigh. I apologize. Really. I just haven't slept in 27 hours (and got only 5 hours then). Startup life. :)

Anyway, my reply was over the top. So thanks for the thoughtful followup in the face of that.
ExPhi emerges from the shadows, but skeptics still ask: Is this philosophy?
LLVM's Clang frontend can do ObjC as well, and given that this is built on LLVM, I don't think ObjC is that far away..
World of Warcraft expansion sold 2.8 million in 24 hours
Doesn't that assume you can get an invite?
" It gave me a more accurate picture of the job than I had held previously."

Wouldn't it be hilarious if that was one of the reviews on the backcover of a book?
This is why you have this thing called a "fine." IRS complains, says Mozilla Foundation has to pay a fine. Google gives Mozilla money, IRS gets paid, everything is "fine."
Can anyone shed some light on who the author is?
Wtf: "Since I have children, I try to spend evenings with them sometimes. The rhythm that works best for me is to work a very long day, sleep in the office or near the office (I have a long commute from home to work) then go home early enough the next day to spend time with my children before they go to bed. I am not comfortable with this, but it is the best compromise I have been able to work out. Go home if you have a contagious disease. You should go home if you are thinking suicidal thoughts. You should take a break or go home if you think homicidal thoughts for more than a few seconds. You should send someone home if they show serious mental malfunctioning or signs of mental illness beyond mild depression. If you are tempted to be dishonest or deceptive in a way that you normally are not due to fatigue, you should take a break. Don't use cocaine or amphetamines to combat fatigue. Don't abuse caffeine."
Here's the lead of a just-posted NYT article on the state of the negotiations (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/business/21auto.html?hp):

"Democratic Congressional leaders on Thursday said that the executives of America’s foundering automakers had failed miserably in persuading Congress or the public that $25 billion in aid from the government would be well-spent and they gave industry leaders 12 days to come back with a plan showing otherwise."

Also note that Rep. Dingell of Michigan has been unseated as chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and replaced by Rep. Waxman of California. In other words, one of the auto industry's best friends in Congress is no longer the gatekeeper for a key committee.

I assume some kind of bailout is inevitable, but I'm hoping that it will have significant strings attached.
I remember when I was about 11 or 12 discovering Byte at my local public library. I checked out every back issue, going back to maybe 89/90. What a wonderfully exciting time in computing. At the time '93/'94 PC magazine would make vague references to other platforms (unix, vax, alpha), Byte talked about them all the time. I really loved it because it was a serious magazine (unlike pc magazine which just had reviews), but it wasn't academic or inaccessible.
Getting started with Friendfeed
SnapTell Explorer Instantly Looks Up Any Product via Photograph
Damn that website is brilliant, why the hell don't I think of these simple yet effective ideas?

Honestly, they host an image, throw a few stats in, and charge exorbitant amounts of money for websites to put a "certified" badge on their page to convince consumers they're green.

I'm working on my "Economically Trustworthy" badge right now!

edit: OK, yea there was a bit of sarcasm but I genuinely like how this site fills a niche and has (probably) great profit margins.
Awesome Papervision + Webcam Effect
I would have just flown first. There are shorter lines and not much time is spent incommunicado. It avoids the scandal of flying in a private jet, but doesn't give the pretence the CEOs suddenly want to act like regular Joes, which may come off as phony.
Google is Done Paying Silicon Valley's Legal Bills
Switching the default theme makes people notice the change.

They're then much more likely to find out about and use custom themes.
According to my brother (and one of the commenters), this type of thing was already done with a Yu Gi Oh game. I feel like I'm behind the times here -- are there other examples of this effect in the wild? This is the coolest thing I've seen in a while :)
but of course, what kind of hacker would I be if I didn't?
The "old" theme is called "classic". Did you read the article?
Internet Advertising Revenues in Q3 '08 at Nearly $5.9 Billion
Microsoft: IE 8 won't be done until 2009
I'm hoping Congress pulls a switcho-change-o where they call it a bailout, but it is merely a large-scale bankruptcy proceeding with a different name and some token capital.

I'm not stupid enough to hope for this very hard, but I'm hoping.
Dow Jones at 7552.29 (down 5.56% today)
> The male has virtually no choice in the matter.

Non sequitur.
Well, Clojure has access to any JVM library. And thus has nice threading (as well as a model of it's own, as I understand; I haven't used it that much.) That's why it's getting so much attention.

Also, running a VM on a VM was definitely a joke. It'd be a horrible idea beyond belief.
Thanks for the lead.
For me, this is what makes HN great (and make Slashdot great, o'right not as great as back in the day), smart, brigth, curious people sharing knowledge.
Thanks again.
I think it's a matter of bold vs less bold, not dark vs light.
I was thinking something similar: if "not fun" means "Ruby is becoming a stable, documented, performant language that can be used for real work" then I, for one, welcome our new adult overlords.

(Of course, there's still a long way to go until those criteria are satisfied, so I suppose it's still somewhat fun. Maybe not dance-around-naked-with-a-lampshade-on-your-head fun, but then, Zed's moved on...)
I am not going to check my brokerage account today. Nothing good can come out of that.
If they promote the guy that had the idea and got it off the ground they're really onto something.
Is 7552.29 an interesting and unusual constant or something?
Pray that I don't start drawing conclusions about Python users based on your post.
Quantum computers could excel in modeling chemical reactions
Got Game Releases In-Game Browser 
Browse the internet utilizing a transparent overlay in virtually any PC game!
$#%&.
Of course. Anyone want to send me one??:)

Edit: to be more helpful, you could always put your name on the inviteshare.com list and wait it out. I've received several invitations to closed apps from inviteshare.
http://web.archive.org/web/20070527085558/http://robertlread...

http://esperanto-usa.hypermart.net/en/blog/6?page=3
English-Speaking Hackers Should Learn About Esperanto
Wow that sounds like a world of fun. For some definition of fun. The one that shocked me:

"1. Bitshifts by variable amounts take ~7 clocks each on the main PPU"
If you didn't know that, that could really bite hard.
"When a woman propositions a man, he can also respond in one of two ways; he can say 'yes' or he can say 'yes, please.' He has no realistic choice to say no."

This is just mind-numbingly absurd. Please tell me that this article is some kind of a pg-planted honeypot for Digg voters....