skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the winner. Clean edges, simple implementation.
Would like to see more details on this, is this openstack?
OK, but the developers of Mozilla are specialists, too. Why not trust them? Or is nnethercote part of the Mozilla dev team? MemShrink will hopefully just be merged into the core?
Shows up when you double-tap the shift key.
Hurricane Electric offers free DNS, http://dns.he.net
How to Make a Data Breach Disappear
Ideas don't have to be sexy. The business model of subscription Billing can also be sexy.
By what metric exactly is Yahoo News still the top news site?

ComScore. Yahoo gets an enormous amount of traffic: Alexa also considers Yahoo as a whole the #4 site (behind Google, Facebook, and Yahoo). And Y recently hired a White House correspondent (http://news.yahoo.com/yahoo-hires-first-white-house-correspo...) and has made some other fun hires in the reporting space.

My friends who work in tech don't visit Yahoo. But my extended family in the Midwest sure does!

Full disclosure: I work at Y, but definitely don't speak for Y. If you have ComScore access, you can double-check the "#1" stat I cited.
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That's nice in how it allows you to link to individual paragraphs: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/04/health/doctor-panels-urge-...
I follow most of what's occurring within this document, but there's a bit that's throwing me and I hope someone can shed some light. When you're processing the step

SET A,B

Does A have to represent a register, or is it a memory location or is it both and the registry is just a location in ram?
The colors I'm referring to are the ones in the names of the code points, such as the ones the Germans complained about It doesn't get much more normative than that.
One week driving course
I think any sensible VC would have a carefully balanced mix of a few high potential, yet outlandish ventures and a good part of promising but more traditional startups.
Self-sustaining solar reactor creates clean hydrogen fuel
Duplicate of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3795932.
There needs to be some angle that matters for regular people. With Polish strikes it was crashing economy and big regulated prices increase - freedom and truth in TV was important, and there were always people in opposition, but bread was the impulse that made the most people go to the strike.

Recent example - ACTA outrage.

There were people alerting public for years about the danger (Piotr Vaglewski comes to mind). Public just ignored them. Then Megaupload was shut down, and suddenly ACTA was everybody business (even thought it wasn't ACTA fault:) )
I'd hardly call £5 obscene.
That's my plan actually. It should be a lot easier to get going than C or an LLVM backend as others are suggesting.
HN readers should see this as an opportunity to hire experienced, qualified developers, systems engineers, and marketing people. Possibly for salaries lower than what otherwise would be the norm, especially in non-Bay Area markets.
One of my big takeaways from this article is Larry's view on the history of language. He was quite serious when he compared Ada to English, and I find it really interesting to think about Perl 100 years from now. Will it still be around in some form? Might it be a bigger language than English? Might the notion of a "small" programming language being the ideal be somewhat quaint when a CPU with 4GB of integrated memory dances on the head of a pin?

Anyway, what I'm getting that is 4 years is a pretty short amount of time now that Larry Wall has made me think about it.
Larry Page's 'Paranoia' Over Facebook Has Forced Him To Abandon His Ideals
Perhaps the crux of the issue are the problems PG observed at Yahoo! over a decade ago are still an issue today.

As long as PG's observations hold true I think Y! will have a difficult time turning itself around.

PG's canonical article about Y!: http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html
If I spend half an hour maxing my free space and use Dropbox for a year that's $120 I didn't spend, which values my time at $240/hr.

It's all relative.
They are necessary to provide optimal code without relying on the optimiser.
Quite interested in this question myself. Was pondering this very same thing last night and this morning. I also wonder if the quick-startups-trying-to-go-viral runs counter the original spirit of Silicon Valley with the likes of Microsoft, Apple and even Google
This is actually well known among savvy internet marketers. And it's why those tips for belly/whitening/wrinkles "invented by a local mom" always look far from professional.

It works because:

- It stands out from the content

- It defeats ad-blindness

- It's not expected, so it makes you curious

If this style becomes the norm, users will learn to mentally filter ads made in Paint as well.
Improve your startup's surveys and get even better data
You only need to press shift twice; the pilcrows that appear are paragraph-specific anchor links. They explain the system a bit at http://firstlook.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/a-few-new-feat...
Defending against entrants as the established incumbent
as closed (or more) as iOS

Except you can get a license to side-load your own WP7 apps without paying the developer fee. It's a compromise, sure, but on the other hand, it's a compromise. The team who made a jailbreak for WP7 was actually hired by Microsoft as "openness engineers", showing that Microsoft is at least willing to consider being more open than Apple.

The biggest hurdle to WP7 has been, in my experience, the salesmen. When I bought my Windows phone, the AT&T guy was so adamant that I was making the wrong choice that I had to call the manager to let me buy one. That particular AT&T store didn't even have a WP7 display on the floor (though others do). With Nokia now paying salesmen to push Windows Phone, that might change.
Show HN: 31 Year Old 1st Issue of Computer Gaming World Magazine Emerges Online
Interesting, as these old back issues used to be quite common online back in the late 90's, at least the 2nd-4th year issues. Never seen the first issue up for sale.
Corporate leadership and VPs are always last to go. Unless you've got one helluva board of directors.
Just recently did this for about $20 - I targeted dropbox OSX as my keyword to get only those downloading the software and it worked really well. Sitting at 24gb/mo free.
Actually, you are right. I checked the stats, and it's only a portion (~20%?) of criminal's guns which were stolen, or stolen then traded.

Most come from "straw sales" (getting a friend to buy it), or corrupt licensed dealers.

However, I don't buy the idea that "criminals will always be able to get guns". In most countries, they can't (unless they really know what they are doing). In the US, you just get a friend to buy one for you.
Thanks for the tip to ctrl+drag the control to my header. That is great. I owe you many minutes of my life.
What about your brain, the best hacking tool?
You can't trust the size of a font symbol though.
Sticky Keys?
The "citation context" for a paper in Microsoft's search is particularly nice. Instead of just a list of papers that cite a given paper, you can get little blurb excerpts of the sentences that cite it.
Ask HN: Why is HN so slow?
Noticing a few second delay (~5+ seconds) after a comment, edit, or uncached page load. Is it time for an optimization pass on HN?
Show HN: Like digital art? Corrupt some JPGs then.
Anecdata: Walk down a main commercial street in any large metropolis and count the number of completely unviable businesses (these are the ones that turn over their real estate every few months). These are further polluting the statistics.
But people will do that anyway. Not everyone is creative. There are people who legitimately think pop music is the best music they've ever heard. They're not wrong, that's just what they like. Forcing them to listen to indie would just make them hate indie more. (as an example)
Well, you actually wanted a synonym (Little Coder's Predicament not problem), just not the ones they appear to give.

For what its worth, _why's article is the third result for me, and a couple other articles on it are in the top 10.
It's only stressful if you let it be. When I was lay'ed off from a previous position (with 6 months severance) it was the best thing that had happened to me in a long time. I even turned down the first job offer I had, cause I didn't really like how that company wasn't investing in upgrading their infrastructure.

Now, my wife's stress level, well that is another discussion.
By that logic, people who are infertile, have certain disabilities, or who don't plan to have children shouldn't be allowed to get married either. I'm not convinced those are similarly good reasons to restrict marriage.
I fulfill all the above (except that I have a son, but he's young so the only big cost is daycare, around 13K/year), so where's my million!?

In order to develop a successful model, one should also have negative examples, i.e. people who could have had ~$1M in their mid 40s but do not. The greatest mistakes I made that I see with hindsight are (i) doing a PhD in EE where a MS was more than enough and then taking too long to finish that and (ii) taking too long to get acquainted with the concept of creating wealth, a la http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html; I'd say that, had I read Hackers and Painters 15 years ago (it wasn't printed at that time or course), my life would have been different (or maybe not, it's easy to get caught with might have beens). That's why I buy a copy of this book to many young people I know who are starting life.
EU Cookie Law: Are You In Compliance?
You can do steps if you install pry-nav https://github.com/nixme/pry-nav
I saw a very candid statement in the SMH about this:

Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner Graham Ashton said decriminalising drugs was a "simplistic idea" that the community should be cautious of.

"Dealing with the drug problem is not a 'war' as the American term 'war on drugs' suggests, because it is not a battle to be won or lost,'' he said in a statement.
"It is a societal problem that requires constant vigilance and the police role is one of community protection. The police fulfil this role by working to prevent deaths on our roads, prevent family violence in our homes and assaults in our streets."

Moves to decriminalise drugs would make it more difficult for police to prevent road fatalities, domestic violence and assaults, he said.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/gillard-and-car...

So, how is it that the police use drug laws to stop other crimes? Is it through preventing drug abuse, or giving them a charge to lay if assault is too hard to prove?
Yea, I remember this one: http://tantek.com/map.html

Wayback: http://web.archive.org/web/20020321021851/http://tantek.com/...
Awesome job guys. AMAZING. ALready addicted:)
Thats an effect that can be found on almost any closed platform. Case in point: Gamers threaten to boycott Capcom because decided to go Multiplatform for Devil May Cry 4.

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/gaming/ps3/news/article_12...

XBox-Fanboyism is also not unheard of.
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Sadly, one busks out of need more than passion. But it seems to me that hunger is a metafore in your case. Otherwise you could exchange your laptop for a guitar and some lessons.

To document your experience the best you can do is to fix bugs into any popular open source project, like WordPress, Rails, ... If you know how to program, it will be easy for you to enter those dev groups and be taken into account.
It is possible that someone will implement versions of those languages, but this CPU is so memory and speed constrained that you'd be hard pressed to get much useful done. And if the speed of your programs executing turns out to be relevant to success in the game, then people using an interpreted language will be at a possibly decisive disadvantage.

That said, I can see a nice friendly language becoming popular for non-time-critical tasks where ease of experimentation is most important. I just hope it's not BASIC. :)
kids are an investment...they are your safety net...worse comes to worst, you can rely on them to support you in your late days if things go terribly wrong.

its a good way to avoid ending up on the street...you'll always be able to get room and board with your kids.

Since our generation won't get any social security or pensions to live off, we are going to need all the help we can get if things go south.
How Tech Giants (and Developers) Are Shaping the Future of the Smart Home
Keep in mind the grand prize is $17K, it's approximately $50K spread out amongst all the winners.
TED Talk – Rick Falkvinge: I Am a Pirate [video]
I'm very disappointed to discover that Eich holds such beliefs, and it definitely makes me look at Mozilla a bit differently. However, note that total donations from all Mozilla employees do favor the opposition[1]. A small consolation, perhaps. I hope that Eich comes out and addresses this directly--when you're the founder and public face of a large and respected company, your association with the company means you must be held to different standards than the typical private citizen.

[1] http://projects.latimes.com/prop8/results/?position=both&...
I'm surprised none of the comments here describe how to actively circumvent those laws once they do (inevitably) appear.
It does seem a bizarre key choice, 5 hits of the shift key will prompt the sticky keys dialog to appear on most of the worlds computers that have a shift key.

Quite easy to do as a 'tic' when you notice this undiscoverable 'feature'.
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Dropbox's success is in their creativity in solving a problem. (the execution). Here the issue is getting into YC (which by the way I question the entire idea of thinking that is an end in itself - but that's a separate issue). If that is the goal though, someone can put more effort into simply saying "I'm good look at me and let me prove it". How they say that isn't relevant either (putting up a billboard for example..)

Effort doesn't mean doing obvious things either. Simply doing the things that anyone can think of don't count and show creative initiative. Part of the problem is of course that newbies don't know what is "obvious" and tried before in varying degrees.
Tools to Launch Your Startup on a Shoestring (Part 2)
we are governed by idiots.
I checked, and he was right. A lot of guns are illegally gained, but not actually stolen. Most of the time, criminals will get someone else to buy it, or bribe the dealer.

But, very few guns are smuggled in from abroad, or stolen from the military. It's only when civilians can easily get guns that gun crime becomes a big problem.
Google's Page: Apple's Android Pique 'For Show'
I think #1 gets ignored when talking about that list.

Tech Schools and University programs offer syllabuses which outline teaching a breadth of knowledge. If you assign an unpaid intern a project based on a need of your company then you likely haven't designed the project to be a teaching tool. (Which then runs into #4).
IIS 8: New Security and Performance Features
We already have government-mandated (and expensive) licenses for accountants, lawyers, boiler mechanics, shopkeepers, architects, construction companies, restaurateurs, etc.
Not only is it simplistic, its different. On all of the major sites, yahoo, big blogs, etc, you see these polished ads that all look very corporate and very much the same. This is so different that it makes you want to check what is behind the door.
Our path to be on track for a net worth of $1 mil:

1) Two good incomes on the professional track. We both have good degrees from universities and don't plan on taking any breaks in employment. Even with kids, there are plenty of great childcare options available. Living near family helps too.

2) Drive paid off cars. Buy new cars if you want, but structure your costs so you can pay them off in 2-3 years max and then drive them for another 5 or more. Stagger your purchases so you never have more than one car payment at a time.

3) Buy a home well below your means in area with a lower cost of living. There are plenty of parts of the country where you can earn a combined six figure income while spending less than $100/sqft for a home in a good neighborhood.

4) Limit how often you eat out for lunches and dinners to twice a week or less.

5) Live frugally so that you can save 20-40% of your income. Don't cheapen out on things for you or your family, but don't let yourself be manipulated by the consumerism that surrounds us. If you have a disposable income, use it for experiences like travel rather than collecting stuff.

6) Avoid expensive hobbies/activities that consume a lot of time and don't contribute much to your marketable skills. If a hobby requires spending a considerable chunk of your monthly income, reconsider whether it's really worth it.

TL;DR: It's really not that hard to save your way to $1 mil, you just have to be willing to work a little harder and spend a little less than most people to get there.
He said: "...product looks good, it offers a great opportunity to place orders via brokers to the underlying technical providers such as Integral and Currenex and Dukascopy and DBank etc at the same time.
Probably is the easiest way to go and simpler and cheaper than opening a $50,000 FIX account with each broker". Do you dis/agree ?
Previous discussion on Emphasis:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2093820

The NYTimes open sourced it:
http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/emphasis-update-and...
https://github.com/NYTimes/Emphasis
This is interesting, although the dependency on hardware seems to open a large can of worms. Judging by the security overview[1], ensuring security of the hardware will be a complex and ongoing task. Bitcoin's use of p2p here saves a lot of fucking around, and cuts out a lot of middlemen.

I wish there were a middle ground - institutionally backed bitcoin. I suppose there will be, once all the mining is done and ownership becomes consolidated.

[1]http://developer.mintchipchallenge.com/devguide/ecosystem.ht...
Also of note: according to the rules, it's open to Americans as well as Canadians:

http://mintchipchallenge.com/rules
> you have to be pretty lucky if driving a 20+ year old car is a net gain.

I can't imagine a 20+yr old car which is a gain, and I'm a fan of classics and owner of an '84 BMW. In terms of money eating vintage cars are worse than gold-diggers unless you let them rot. One must be overentusiastic by their hobby not to see that's a sinkhole, been there done that ;)
This is what I wanted to say. I kinda mentally block ads* and I saw the Paint drawing in the article before the "actual" ad, even if it is in the reverse order in the page flow.

* A few years ago I missed a question in an exam that was framed and underlined. The goal was to emphase the question because it was important. When I learned that I missed the question (while discussing the exam with other student), I took a new look at the question and my only guess can be that it looked too much like a Google Ad at that time and despite the fact that it was on paper I unconsciously ignored it… This is how stupid I can be.
It might also have something to do with giving the impression that the game is going to be something novel, quirky or even bizarre, as opposed to another polished but bland EA title.
http://www.vox.io/ are doing something like it - albeit they're a skype competitor.
Scientists develop ultra-thin solar cells
Why not use BitCoin?
It's interesting and I think there's tantalizing hints in there that they may have learned from BitCoin, but there doesn't seem to be enough detail in there to analyze it. Anyone know of some?
Why not? It's the language that was used to write the OS, which is why Perl and shells still hold sway here as well.
Oh, Canada. Seeing stuff like this is exciting. Seems to be lining up along side the alley of NFC.
I wonder if it's just me but this game has me more excited about programming in ASM than I ever have, ever...

Also in this game I feel like I'll be playing the reverse role I play in real life. IRL I generally always advocate using things like Python and open sourcing everything. In this game I'm definitely going to pull a Steve Jobs, hire out a few friends of mine to program my ASM apps and sell them in some kind of Market for insanely marked up prices telling people that my Orange(TM) software is so much better than Macrosofts(TM)! (And it will be!)
I know that Ads are all about attention gathering and the first one largely suffers from ad-blindness. Don't need to 'throw out everything I know'.
Edit: The headline is really misleading (and subsequent comparison to bitcoin). A much better analogy is that this is paypal with hardware tokens capable of completing transfers offline. You are transferring canadian dollars.

From a 2-minute introduction this looks like it's based on trusted computing in offline situations, since you don't need cloud acceptance of a transacation ala bitcoin.

If that's the case, there's nothing making this unhackable.

I wonder what's the timeframe before we see a illicit "client" that creates value transactions without deducting from the user's balance. There will certainly be a huge effort to create such a thing.

update as I read more: It's optionally an SD card or a USB stick. clever way to interface to most every existing phone/laptop!
It's nothing to do with sexiness and all to do with statistics. Roughly 80-90% of angel funded startups will fail to provide a return to their investor, so those 10% that succeed will have to provide a 10x return to the investor just for the investor to break even.

If you've no chance of getting 10x+ growth (within 3-5 years) then from a portfolio point of view you're a failure before you start, it makes no sense to invest in you.
I find it really interesting to think about Perl 100 years from now. Will it still be around in some form?

There is a really excellent SF novel 'A Deepness in the Sky' by Vernor Vinge.

It's a few thousand years from now, and one really important job is "Programmer-Archeologist". Their job is to grub around in libraries, find an already existing solution, adapt it to present needs. This is important because without quality automation running your spaceship, you could die.

There are hints that some of these libraries are really old: an off-hand comment is made referencing what must be unix epoch.
Interesting, I will take a look, thanks.

The trouble with digital photography apps is the lock-in - I've got tens of thousands of photos processed with LR, so I'm basically stuck with it. Glad that I didn't go with Aperture - at least I have two platforms to choose from rather than one.
Not really. bitcoin is p2p with cloud-acceptance of transactions. This is just a trusted hardware computing model able of holding "value".
Maybe it's just me but I feel that a Royal (Canadian) crypto-currency won't find widespread adoption among cyberpunks.
Go back and look at the first post in this very thread. Notch explicitly intends nothing of the kind, and I certainly can't see why it would be done -- it runs counter to the vision thus far articulated.
This project begs for a BASIC interpreter.
If an unsophisticated client looks to another hemisphere to get a one-off iOS app built I wouldn't bet "world-class talent at a 10% discount" was their hiring strategy. More likely "I can get this done for 1/3 of what this guy is quoting me? What could possibly go wrong?"
BitCoin's fluctuating popularity has made it's value extremely unstable, making it unsuitable for use as money. Money has to be a stable unit of account as well as a predictable store of value, characteristics BitCoin doesn't have.

Basically, BitCoin for the time being is an interesting asset/investment, but not a very good cash replacement.
80s bit-retro and rageface aesthetics.
to start, you need internet accessibility for a transfer, not to get into the economics that make bitcoin unstable.

This is more like a credit card that we can use to pay one another directly, than a new monetary system.