skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
YC Demo Day Session 5: Hackpad, FamilyLeaf, Ark, Chute, 99dresses
"...Fortunately Australia has a wide range of under-utilised tonewoods, and as the supply of traditional material diminishes these timbers will come into their own as a world standard. Many of the Australian timbers are plantation grown and will yield musical instruments after 80 years, as opposed to the hundreds of years required for traditional woods.

Maton has been developing the use of these timbers for the last 50 years and it would be safe to say that nobody knows Australian tonewoods better than Maton. We are fortunate enough to have the support of many of Australia's most knowledgeable and skilled timber gatherers and continue to try new species on guitars and to learn more about the way these timbers are capable of producing beautiful music. ..."

That's how Maton tackle the problem, http://www.maton.com.au/main/timbers.html I don't know if this is possible in the US mainland.
This is a problem I've noticed with Facebook's footer. On quite a few pages you just can't get to it. I thought it was an obvious problem but it doesn't seem like a lot of sites I use that implement it have put much thought into it.
FYI here is a jQuery plugin for doing endless pagination: https://github.com/fredwu/jquery-endless-scroll
I see, I was under the impression they could only be used for non-commercial purposes, i.e. not sold. My impression was that this was partly why people weren't selling GNURadio's but rather the kits.
Should use a monospace font.
Fear vs. greed at Facebook
that is an UUID which every linux/unix OS device has one including desktops. Its what URI is based upon, even MS has their own version of such a thing in MS windows..
Coincidentally, I felt compelled to write a bunch of words about the issues with pagination just this past weekend.

http://nolancaudill.com/2012/03/24/pagination/
Is it a condom or is it an Android?
I have a site in progress that's used an endless paging with a sliding window, so after 5 pages it'd clip the top page. It was a little irritating in that you could notice that something different was happening with the scrollbar once you hit the limit, but other than that it did work well on mobile devices.

In the end we had to replace the endless bit with a big "load more" button though, for unrelated reasons.
The “Paying To Work For Free” VFX Business Model
I just love clicking on something in an infinite scroll and then getting to press "back" later and waiting for 20 pages of results to stream back in to sift through.
The Janitor Who Hacked Cheetos
I've been using the Autopatchwork chrome extension for quite a while now. It's gotten buggier as more websites have implemented their own infinite scrolling, but like Adblock, it greatly improves web browsing.
I guess, it's good business but I never noticed YC backing such "trivial" kind of business.
shut up and take my money!

i want something with WAY more detail on how it works. like, i understand laser cutters and whatnot, but this seems harder. can you write more up?
redo as a concept is awesome. redo as an implementation just recently reached version 0.11. So I think your description of "great" above is more than generous enough at this phase :) Thanks for being patient enough to use it so early on.
Ask HN: Do remote co-founders ever work out?
Have any of you ever had success working with a remote co-founder or know of anyone who has? What kind of distance were they? Did you meet in person and, if so, how often? How did it work legally and how did you obtain funding?
.NET isn't a framework?
The government wants their cut. Any time you try to get around taxes/laws like this you will run into trouble.
You honestly think that months after the pardon refusal this has more to do with recognizing his math/sci accomplishments than his treatment? Is the atlantic in the minority for mentioning "moral turpitude" before enigma?

If that's the case it seems like waiting a little while and letting the pardon refusal fade from recent memory would be a more effective advocacy tactic.
Facebook amends S-1 filing to note Yahoo patent suit
I'd do it all again the same way. It was wonderful.

I was following my interests 100% without letting peer pressure convince me to do something I didn't want to do. (Hang out.)

I showed myself what I could do. Priceless.
Harry Potter And The Great Sideloading Gamble
hey Mark! You still remember our classic song! ☺
You're right that they don't solve any open problem in computer science or mathematics, but neither did Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google (I think), etc., and they seem to have done ok. :)
Phi allows devs to write apps to interact with all wireless signals and devices
I have been reading a Timeless Way of Building. I am enjoying it -- is it worth reading the next book?
Allow me to hijack the discussion ever-so-slightly and point out that imported wood is now a Big Deal, and potentially very dangerous to work with, due to recent expansions of the Lacey act. You may have heard of the case of Gibson Guitar:

--

"They...come in with weapons, they seized a half-million dollars worth of property, they shut our factory down, and they have not charged us with anything," says Gibson Guitars CEO Henry Juszkiewicz...

The feds raided Gibson for using an inappropriate tariff code on wood from India, which is a violation of the anti-trafficking statute known as The Lacey Act. At issue is not whether the wood in question was endangered, but whether the wood was the correct level of thickness and finish before being exported from India. "India is wanting to ensure that raw wood is not exported without some labor content from India," says Juskiewicz."

http://reason.com/blog/2012/02/23/the-great-gibson-guitar-ra... (disclaimer: Libertarian news site is a partial source, interpret that partiality as you will. other sources and commentary exist. many of them are probably better, this was just convenient because I remembered it and could google it quickly. you should look up these other sources if you're interested!)

--

The cynics suggest that this is all at the behest of the Pacific Northwest domestic timber lobby, using environmental sentiment to dampen competition from overseas. Gibson's case, by that theory, is a deliberate scare tactic designed to create a chilling effect.

And to bring the discussion back to the matter at hand: whatever you're doing, I hope you're aware of all this, and documenting everything you have meticulously, or you could end up screwed. Like, possibly-in-jail screwed. For working with wood veneer. Believe it.
Pagination still is important from a search engine perspective. You want search engines to crawl your deep pages, and pagination is a great way of giving them that path. Relying on things like AJAX, or worse hiding all the content behind a search box.. will lead to less pages crawled.
The Salesman Who Cried Wolf
the obvious answer is he is obfuscating other, more valuable links that legitimate users are suggesting.
Dog-eat-dog world of data center startups.
Not yet, but feel free to write it and submit it, I'm sure a lot of people will find it very useful.
>Call them and tell them they owe 300/900 dollars?

We were using Google Checkout to do registration for the Singularity Summit and ran into this problem, and the answer is basically yes.
EVE Council Chairman provoked player with mental instability to commit suicide
Not to take away from your main point, but Google did need to solve a fundamental computer science problem: how to compute eigenvector centrality efficiently. It would have been impossible to calculate PageRank at web scale without the Power Method (and applying EC to the link structure of the web in the first place involves lots of nontrivial math).
iteration = trial-and-error = try-and-fail

For me, the hard part is that an experiment can be a lot of work... all that effort, for NOTHING. :(

Though Tesla has more geek cred these days, Edison also did some stuff. He said:
(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison)

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
With my cost structure I could certainly offer a 20% commission. If somebody could sell like gangbusters, more than that.
Nike Lunar 3
TechCrunch’s Picks: The 10 Best Startups From Y Combinator Demo Day
ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Razor and Open Source
In the browser multi source music player powered by tomahawk
UK student gets two months in jail for a tweet
Why fear change? You'll like it better, don't worry.
Ocean Surface Currents Visualization
Seems like ".NET" encompasses more than just a framework, but there is definitely something called "The .NET Framework." [1][2]

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Framework

[2]http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=17851
I'm getting an OVER_QUERY_LIMIT error:

GeocoderError at /create

Error OVER_QUERY_LIMIT
Query: http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/json?region=&sensor=false&bounds=&language=&address=

Also, you should want to change your Django DEBUG setting to False
Guardiola: If we don't concentrate we won't win
Found a guy halfway across the world, but we did Skype screen-sharing so we could talk and I could watch his screen.

Didn't cost much. The key was how I asked. I just made it a criteria of the job when I posted/announced it. "Looking for someone to program while I watch and ask questions."

I know he really enjoyed it. Said it was much more rewarding than the usual coding in solitude, not knowing if the client is really appreciating the effort.
Maybe nothing. But they're out there selling $150k in jellyfish a month on 50% margins, and probably having a blast doing it. Their potential market isn't exactly small. Not sure what else you're looking for.
Odd Dog is Hiring - Front-End Developer and UI Designer
Ads. In the car. With the option to buy the product or take you to the seller immediately. Billboards....HAH!
Http://www.wealthfront.com was built for you.
That's how the money is made, isn't it? Something gets re-pinned by others and the affiliate ID gets spread around. You'd need to determine which single affiliate IDs originate from multiple accounts.
What makes selling live animals trivial?
Another option is to have a custom map created in vector by us, and use this as the template for the woodcut: www.erichsen-group.com/custom-maps.html
Wow. With Pair ze frank's vision from years ago (2007) of a social network for two has become reality.

http://www.zefrank.com/social_network/

http://www.trypair.com/
I think this is more symptomatic of IT in Australia. There are pockets of good developers here and there but far and away, the majority of developers in Australia are being paid well above their grade.

This popped up in my twitter feed not too long ago: http://readify.net/our-experience/seek

Apparently a team of 35 developers couldn't get Git working.. or mercurial.. or even SVN! And had to outsource source control to another company (I'm probably being unfair, the Devs may or may not have had a say in the matter).
A young man went to Socrates and asked how he could gain wisdom.

Socrates walked the young man into a nearby lake. When the water was a few feet deep, Socrates suddly grabbed the young man and pushed his head under water and held it there.

At first the young man thought it was a joke, but as he was held under longer and longer, he became frantic. He struggled desperately to get free and his lungs burned for lack of oxygen.

Finally Socrates let him up, coughing and gasping for air.

Socrates then said, "When you desire wisdom with the same intensity that you desired to breathe, nothing will stop you from getting it."

It's the same with your motivation/practice/habits.
Detecting Name Similarity using Levenshtein and Jaro-Winkler Distance
This is probably the last chance I'll get to let everyone know that Hacker News has recently started to paginate comment threads (see my submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3746568, which apparently very few people saw).

I definitely have an axe to grind because it breaks my code, but I really believe it's very bad for discussions. In particular the case of only a single comment and it's children appearing on the first page of comments on threads with large number of comments is the biggest problem. It leads to only one response to the article being heard and has the side effect of greatly encouraging piggy-backing on the "first post", as it were.

edit: when I say 'my code' I mean my code that's forked from wvl's hckrnews.com extension and any other extension that highlights new posts since you last opened the discussion.
Nope you're not. Lame.
Look at their timeline they claim its just a beta, but its basically a whois with too much type which hinders usability.
Hey guys, thanks for all the suggestions! I took a look at the links (especially the wiki one) and after a lot of thinking, I've decided to go ahead with 2.7 for now.

With 2.7, I can take advantage of LPTHW and some courses at Udacity. And like you guys said, if I learn 2.7 well, moving to 3 isn't that hard.

So thank you all for the comments and suggestions, they helped a LOT. :)
Don't give up. It is something that can be practiced and expanded into. I've struggled with poetry, but made a recent breakthru in finding a specific author. You may need a specific "seed" to get you into that place.
Titanic, COBOL and the 100 Year Platform
Felipe: Sorry I didn't see your question until hours later.

See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3761474

It's not your exact question, but similar, and led to some other comments in that thread.

I hope that helps.
Yes, in essence your location in the infinite scroll becomes a very important part of your state, but it is not treated properly on "page back".

For example, in google image search, "back" returns to the head of the list, even if you were on page 20. E.g.:

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&biw=973...
Australia Post reveals digital mailbox plan
MatchMaker, A Tool for Data Scientists
In case the Per Vices people are reading - I tried to go to the "Buy It" link but I'm getting a PHP error.
Teaching 4,500 students to program ubiquitous computing
Haha, you caught a little live debugging. Should be fixed now.
4 Signs We're Not in a Tech Bubble
Yes! Absolutely! It takes a strong ego to say, "Hell I'm better than all these other mofos. Get out of my way, slow-pokes!"

It's got a competitive edge to it. You'd need that same attitude if competing in sports.

And, like sports, it doesn't mean you're a jerk for wanting to achieve as much as you can, or more than everyone else. It's just a relative-comparison thing that gives you an extra boost.

You need to feel you're special, that the rules don't apply to you, Neo. ☺
If I've paid for an app, then I expect it to work. If it's not working, then I expect you to fix it. I don't expect to pay for those fixes.

Features, on the other hand, I expect to pay for.
If you can bound partition durations, you can definitely make stronger guarantees.

If you can model your network delays, you can use some modeling like our work on PBS (Probabilistically Bounded Staleness) to predict staleness:
http://pbs.cs.berkeley.edu/#demo
Sorry about that.

Otherwise great work, these look amazing!
Guy: Do you like fish sticks?

Kanye: Love em
ASP.NET and lots of other code open sourced
What you should do is unconnect it. The very last thing you want to do is to give paypal unfettered access to your checking account.
Can anybody explain what the dashboard is showing?
Supposedly the role of code folding is to reduce distractions. But I also find it far too distracting when the code moves around (though it's fine when it's less than a screenful).

Perhaps it would work better if the code were simply hidden instead of collapsed. Then the non-folded code would remain in the same place as before, and it would be less disorienting.
“The antidote to fear is hunger. When you have hunger for a job position, knowledge or a new house, you go and get it and fear will never get a hold of you,"said Montañez

love that quote.
YC W12 messaging - PlanGrid, medigram, Zillabyte, HireArt, Flutter
I was musing about hotel taxes just the other day. Someone chooses to come to your city, spends money on a hotel room and probably patronizes other local businesses. So what does the typical city do? Do they say "Thank you for injecting much needed cash into our economy!" - of course not, they say "Hey sucker! Pay us another 15% for the privilege of occupying a hotel room in our fine city". As far as I can tell, they get away with it because "every city does this"
Spring Hadoop 1.0.0.M1 seems to have a bug...
If you completely understand the weaknesses of eventual consistency you will use is only where it is viable and the risk is justified. There is a reason the relational databases haven't gone away completely.
And the customer fucking paid for a program that worked right the first time. Customers are absolutely 100% entitled to bug fixes for free.
I'll be preparing a preso for WhereCamp this weekend; I'll definitely put it online as well.
It's a great idea, and actually slashdot is already doing this on their front page. However, there are some problems:

1. If I want to find a particular item within the first "page" of results, but I've scrolled down 10 pages of results, find that item becomes pretty tricky!

2. Let's say I have a user who scrolls down 1000 pages. What does this to the browser? I'd imagine it grinds to a halt...

The only solution would be to have a load page for the previous results. Here again, the issue I highlighted in point 1 becomes more emphasized. Especially if the search results change while it reloads (though you might keep the results for the user's session - but this sounds like a scaling issue).
I was hoping someone would mention him. His life story though, like Galois, is a painful read; just when his work was beginning to get recognized, he had contracted a fatal disease (TB).
AutoPatchWork for Chrome automatically infinite-scrolls many sites (including Hacker News): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aeolcjbaammbkgaiag...
Product in 2 weeks. Profitable by 16. 
Entrepreneurship at JMU is easily the best class I have ever taken. In two weeks, I had to build a functional product. By the end of the semester we have to make $200 PROFIT to get a passing grade. That means a profitable product in 16 weeks. I think many startups could learn a thing or two from this class.

If you're interested, you can see what I built here: http://thelocalrocket.com

I'd love to hear your feedback in the comments! Thanks!

p.s.
Many of the teams in this class chose to make physical products like board wax, underwear with a condom holder pocket in it, special phone cases, etc. I'm a CS and management double major so my team chose to build a website. We're at $65 profit as of right now. Hoping to bump that up with some local ad deals!
Show HN: Instaly, Instagram (Viewer)
View Instagram photos no app required. HTML5 works on any smartphone / tablet/ computer.

Great for family, friends and new people to see your photos without needing to install apps or a follow.

http://Instaly.com
Nothing to be confused about. Kanye's mouth wrote a big check they obviously can't cash. Can't wait to see the other disruptive things that are sure to come out of Donda, maybe next they will setup a Big Cartel store and tell us its the new e-commerce.
I read an article on here just recently about the history of 3D Studio apparently they where entirely remote back in the days of CompuServe which must have been fun to say the least, I did some remote projects back then and it was difficult. So I would say it does not preclude success but you have to have the right people. Open Source projects succeed every day in a completely remote development environment.

On of the things I noticed in the 3D Studio article though was that AutoDesk was in the picture early on and apparently acting as a publisher. While not highlighted in the article this may have been key to their success. The fact that they had a centralized agency acting as a sales force and marketing department, helped i am sure.
The metric falls down if the company is pushing a 3D-printer for making ice sculptures.
Montañez deserves all of the praise he's being given. But, the heads of the Frito Lay corporation deserve some recognition, too, for willing to listen to their employee, no matter how low down the corporate ladder he was.
Nice commentary by zooko:

https://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2012-March/007185...
Don't you need an invite for that?

If you have any handy, can you send one my way?
Yet another case of FBI entrapment
Pretty cool until you click a link in the list, go back, and make a sad face when you realize the list has reverted to the first 20 items or whatever. Then you have to scroll, wait, scroll, wait, scroll to get back to where you were.
"It isn't just oddball disemvowelled companies, either. Twitter's timeline and Google's image search use a similar endless pagination approach. Either the page loads more items automatically when you scroll down to the bottom, or there's an explicit "show more results" button.

Pagination is also friction."

Actually if you're surfing on a flaky internet connection, endless pagination has MORE friction. With pagination you can click on the "next" button again if it doesn't load the first time.

If the javascript doesn't want to fire off another request in the endless pagination series and the last one didn't work, you're just screwed.

This makes facebook especially, incredibly annoying to use on flaky wifi.
Cool got a couple of votes :)

If people like this I'll do the rest of them tomorrow.
Yes, even Lise Meitner, who discovered Nuclear Fission, faced similarly difficult circumstances, and never got the recognition that she deserved (her colleague Otto Hahn was awarded the Nobel Prize but she wasn't)
@fogus you should put this link on the repl (OP) page. Inspirational work!
You should add a +1 button on your site, I had to copy/paste the link manually :).
Having done my fair share of laser marquetry, let me first tell you that I truly appreciate the amount of work that goes into the whole process, and really respect what you are doing. The intricacy of these types of patterns makes for a very high level of difficulty.

That being said, it appears to my somewhat trained eye that you are using Photoshop (or other CG) mockups on some of the product pages (http://woodcutmaps.com/146 for example), without saying explicitly that that's what they are. I know how difficult straight on photography is with these textures, but if those are indeed Photoshop generated, you run the risk of increasing expectations beyond what is technically possible with the process.

Excellent work either way, as I can tell from the genuine product shots. Like I said, not easy stuff.
May be I was so used to subversion. I understand that git is more flexible and powerful, but it makes me feel dumb. Specially because so many smart people love it.
anybody else playing around with it ran into a similar issue?
That app sounds interesting. Is it in the Android Market/Play Shop?
This has been my main complaint with "neverending Reddit" from the Reddit Enhancement Suite.

Sometimes when you click back, the "Page" of results you clicked from is omitted from the scroll. (result numbers jump from 50 -> 101 for example).

What's even more frustrating than losing your place is your place not actually existing anymore when you click back. I've grown to look at the result number before I click, so that I can try and find it quicker when I return.
LulzSec strikes again, exposes 171,000 military accounts
This is true. Knowing what doesn't work is a great way to constrain the future search space.
Maybe I'm just cynical, but this story seems too perfect to me. It smells a lot like PR fiction. Would they really need a janitor to come up with the idea of spicy Cheetos? Seems like something they would've already been experimenting with as part of normal R&D.
Watch Wrath of the Titans
Watch Wrath of the Titans filmmaking is by Ben Davis and Edited by Martin Walsh under Legendary Pictures studio. This motion picture is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures which is scheduled to be shown in theaters on the 30th of March, 2012.