skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How To Make A Website Or Product Using Pinterest
I think excessive flagging can hellban websites, just like too many downmods can hellban users.

I really don't see anything remotely ban worthy on Winsupersite, do you?
How five full-timers built an iPhone app in 3 months with no xCode experience
It zips up and down following the mouse as one would expect for me.
Is it because asteroids are already ugly?
Knuth, Dijkstra, Godel, Bach.
I better not tell you about my beautiful ajaxified hyper-local social-mobile ninja game then.
Mac OS X 10.8 restricted to App Store, signed apps by default
I see where you're coming from. My background isn't that much different from yours, and yet a have a different perspective. Reasonable people can disagree, I guess.
All they need is a little checkbox "Never ask again". The never ending stream of password prompts I encounter also have nothing to do with paid apps - I don't even have a card associated with my Apple id and only have free apps.
Hacker News has been a little bit reddish lately. I don't really like it.
Ah, I didn't know about that.
It might not be worthwhile since that already exists.

Except to give more precise, granular, control over updates.
for example, (for example, with a merkle tree)
Are you implying that Mountain Lion is slow?
It really bugs me when billionaires do the same thing I would do with billions of dollars before I have billions of dollars to do them with.

Seriously. Space mining and pressure from environmentalism is going to turn this whole field into rivers of gold ... in the sky.
Add to that the difficult of using and discovering a web app. Apple, for instance, while embracing HTML5 as far justifying death of Flash goes, has made little visible effort to promote visibility of web apps. Some features of mobileSafari have been requested and missing for years (looking at you, contentEditable). That, and lack of an easy to browse web app store is what I would blame. Of course Aplle can't profit from webapps nearly as easily, so it does make sense.
the problem with browser caching is that you cannot control when you want it to update, except with a timeout.
Back up, but if it goes down again here's a cached copy: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1579631/LogicalFallaciesInfographic_...
But if you do your part to break it in other browsers you can help make your job easier and make it easier to innovate in the future.
I'm familiar with Scratch as an element of the first category; what other (meta-)programs do you recommend?

I learned some HyperCard and some Basic as a kid, but didn't get hooked until i could do useful things with shell scripting in college, which is definitely a case for category 2, or perhaps something even simpler: programs written in a plain text editor or even just on the command line itself.

The power to do things that matter is typically more motivating to girls than to boys, who will do something just because it's there (ie, why boys tend to play more video games and more girls end up in teaching and social-justice work).
Just trying to provide another perspective. :)
Beta-testing microjob site
We're an online marketplace for microjobs and are currently looking for beta testers. Any recommendations on how (or any interest in signing up) would be appreciated! We are at jobllect.com
Blogging can definitely be habit forming, especially micro blogging, or, tweeting. I just didn't think that's what he meant.
I agree blogging can count here, when you said journal I thought you meant pen-and-paper private journals.
At some point they hide the image and create the canvas. If you right-click the zipper and click inspect, it selects the canvas for me right away.
Erlang Embedded - Episode 1 : Raspberry Pi with a dash of Erlang
Go out for a walk, it's amazing what fresh air does for the needy mind.
I think the comment about becoming a robot is accurate in its way, the 'pick' of a space miner is likely a semi-autonomous front loader equivalent which can process for a particular mineral/substance.

However, if you read the article (either the parent or the NYTimes one) you will see that there is some thought about bringing an asteroid to one of the Lagrange points or into a Lunar orbit (something that would make the chance of it getting away and hitting Earth unlikely). In that scenario one could imagine living in one of those inflatable habitats where you worked while you operated your remote mining pick.

Getting to and from that point would probably involve a 'loan' from the mining company, which you could pay off by mining the asteroid. Of course while you lived up there you would need things like food and stuff but you could get that at the company store. And rather than actually charge you for it they will just put it on your tab. You know, you load 16 tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. :-)

As part of one of the lunar exploration projects I was looking at various ideas for processing lunar regolith into something more useful than just dirt. Water is pretty straight forward, basically it sublimates off stuff in a vacuum and you collect it and store it. Platinum is a different story, some sort of chemical/catalyzing process is required that does not require re-charging the chemical packs either at all or very often.
My suggestion was to avoid going for the hot language, framework, etc and learn tools to make the job easier.

When you're a CS student, there are a lot of demands, tools make the job easier.
http://strategywiki.org/wiki/NetHack/Beginning#vi_keys
Are men stupid?
> I don't know any Americans who are opposed to immigration.

I live in a northeastern city with a significant Puerto Rican (as in people who moved here from PR) population, and there are lots of folks who are vocally calling for changes in immigration rules (yeah, yeah, I know) so prevent Puerto Rican's from "immigrating" here.

I suppose it really matters where you're from (among other factors).
Baltimore ravens
I've had this idea forever, but wanted to make it work in the as a terminal-based application. Being a noob a systems programming, I got stuck at getting a PTY working in C that would properly forward the escape sequences from vim to the player's terminal.

I wanted to just create a program that was simply a layer between the terminal and vim, so all the power of vim was automatically available. The game was going to involve manipulating the environment (made of text) to different goals. I had all sorts of minigames in my head. Unfortunately, way too ambitious, and I never even properly started it. This makes me really want to though, if only I had more time..
So is everyone else's. What's your point?
thanks guys for the comments. Will try them out and post my experiences ...
The J-1, right?

I'm frankly surprised you were able to transition away from the H1-B from the F-1.

(My partner is in a similar boat, but still on the F-1. I'm currently in his country, and we're hoping that despite him being on the F-1, the accumulated time that he spent in his country totalling two years will be enough to count for the requirement, despite it not being contiguous. The problem is it seems to be all up to the discretion of the officer handling the issue, because the rules don't seem to be anywhere.
From the article:

> When Apple first unveiled the Mac App Store, many - including myself - were concerned what it would mean for the future of the general purpose computer. It felt like a first step towards losing control and ownership over our own computers, a dreaded future where everything we do on our machines is curated, tracked, and monitored by companies who want to squeeze ever more money from us, and governments who want to control us.

> We're allowing an entire generation to be raised with the idea that you do not own software, that you do not own hardware, that you are not allowed to tinker with the magic smiles machine. This is going to come back to bite us in the ass in the future, when we're going to be faced with a shortage of low-level, hardcore programmers.

In many ways, Richard Stallman has been right all along, and slowly, many of his fears are coming true.
>>And what really scares me: is it true that after 35 your programming mettle starts to leave you?

Not exactly, but your expenses rise to a level where a programming job doesn't mach up to it.

And the manager who doesn't know a grain as much as you will be making more than you.
OS X does: /var/run/utmpx.
Immigration to Australia is based on a points system. Your chances are substantially improved if you have certain qualifications or experience.
Replace "," with "and".
I think apps are here to stay mostly because of modularization. Many of the common components of apps these days will be modularized and ported over to numerous libraries. This will make the time-sink risk of developing on a proprietary platform less significant.

App ecosystems however will continue to evolve over time. I see most of the big players having a median of about a 10yr foothold on the industry until the next player out innovates them and manages to gain significant market share.

In all likelihood however, we'll probably be way off. I should save my HN posts so I can laugh at myself in 20 years.
Cooling Tower FRP Cooling Tower Timber Cooling Tower Wooden Natural Draft
Timeout isn't the only way. You could set a version variable on pageload, and have a conditional version check on init. If the versions match and localstorage exists, load from localstorage, if not, grab from the server and update.
I'm curious about how they plan to bring these materials here. I assume changing the trajectory of the asteroid towards Earth wouldn't be a very good idea, considering the potential risk of impact. Maybe small chunks of material brought by numerous cheap reentry capsules are the way to go.
Thanks for the state of Neo4j. I really love Neo4j, but I am just afraid I'm hurting myself in the long-run, because I definitely don't like sys-ops, so I feel like I need to revert to more conservative solutions.
I vote in the app side. It is about time to leave the browsers for what they were originally conceived, Documents!

I want to have applications that integrate with the operating system, and take advantage of its features.

No more web projects were the customers try, without success, to replicate a desktop UI inside the browser full with CSS dark magic and browser idiosyncrasies., please.

If you want a desktop look alike web page, then create a native application for it.
The birth lottery is stunningly important.

Out of the several billion people I could have been, I was born in Australia, to intelligent and kind middle class parents.

Really. My biggest single stroke of luck was to be born where I was born. Everything else is going to deeply path-dependent.
If you are looking for something more pretty, the Happy Hacking keyboards are clean and have a small form factor. They don't have a clicky sound, but more of a "thock" because of the different switches. It also has support for OS X media keys.

If you are considering purchasing a mechanical keyboard, I would recommend checking out: http://geekhack.org/ beforehand. You can gain a better feel for types of mechanical keyboards out there, as the Das is only one of many.
Here's to the crazy ones.

As a scientist, I am so thrilled about this idea.
How to deal with the public? | Materi Ilmu komunikasi
Please fix the title, it is a C++ implementation.

Besides that, going native, great job!
Kodaikanal Tourism
The turtle looks good with so many version n_n
I absolutely agree with rockstar. I cringe when people use that word to describe programmers or designers
Isn't the "last mile" shipping much more expensive?
Anyone know what the diffs are between the last STABLE release (1.0.15) and 1.2.0? If you're in production, isn't that the path you'd be following?

Surprisingly I can't seem to find that info.
Taking class notes sound interesting. I want to move some of my stuff over to command-line like TODO and simple writing for distraction free environment. I am using Google Docs and Evernote at the moment but a combination of vim/terminal and Dropbox would be great.
Esp. fear of death and aftermath. If people know what happens after death, religions will be out of business overnight.
I was under the impression(from my FreeBSD years) that pages that are not used for a while is swapped out and marked as inactive. The pages are then fast to throw away for other use, or fast to brink back to active state.

In Lion I get the impression they are just swapped out and thrown away / reused for something else despite there are no real pressure on the VM.
Sorry, I forgot to list my email address! Here it is, curt.jaimungal [at] utoronto.ca.
Asteroid the 'Size of a Minivan' Exploded over California
I love the first picture of the drum about to "eat" the rock. Reminds me of the furnaces in the book "Higher Education"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_Education_(novel)
ICANN's domain explosion backfires, fizzles out
They've scaled back the Federal program drastically, there are only very few skills which are eligible for immigration and IT/software dev is not one of them
Google Ups Bounty For Bugs To $20,000
Reasons to Exercise at The Beach
I'm not sure that's it. I don't hear of wrecking crews smashing up a derelict corporate wasteland (arguably far uglier than any natural shape) and feel some peaceful, "all is right" sensation.

Maybe something to do with the serenity of the void.

But probably more related to this being a step forward? A sense of progression? Could come from growing up reading and imagining anything to do with space exploration.

How many people on HN want to grab their colleagues right now, shake them, and yell "Why aren't you currently amazed? We're going to be mining IN FRICKIN' SPACE within our lifetimes?"
Ready to Blow? Mexico Volcano Rumbles
Yes, J-1. :) It's such an obscure corner of the US immigration law chaos, that barely anybody knows about it, except for those that have to live with it. The transition to H-1B from F-1 under J-1 cloud is even more obscure -- it's actually a legal loophole in the law that I think only a few know about. Basically, it's illegal to apply for H-1B visa without first satisfying the requirement, but it's OK to apply for H-1B status while remaining in the country.
Background check
Know who your dealing with and get a complete, thorough background check on anyone. Complete background screening and criminal check online.
What an inspiring story! I don't know if she has earned her US citizenship or US earned her as a citizen.
I thought "Sticky Fingers" by the Rolling Stones. But then, it's missing Mick's stuff[1].

[1] Ok, not really him, now that I read who's on the cover, but when I saw it at someone's place, I thought it must be Mick's.
No one's born knowing how to properly use a version control system, but that doesn't mean you can't learn.
> When you touch the zipper

Actually, you can start dragging anywhere on the logo and it will still unzip.
I almost upvoted all of your comments - its incredible - as if someone was reading our mind and finally said, let's just do what all of us ever wanted to do!
SVPullToRefresh - Give pull-to-refresh to any UIScrollView with 1 line of code
> You know, you load 16 tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. :-)

It's hard to be satirical about the future when all this stuff keeps coming true. ;)
But then you can't trust the logs.
How To Create A Google Plus Badge Wordpress Widget
I too found it slightly disturbing—they could make zipper horizontal, for example. Some googlers probably had a good laugh. =)
> Planetary Resources wants to identify and characterize these top targets before it does anything else. To that end, it has designed a high-performance, low-cost space telescope that Anderson said should launch to low-Earth orbit within the next 18 to 24 months.

Wow, they are not wasting time. Last week, the idea of an asteroid mining company was still in the realm of science fiction. Today, an asteroid mining company announces that they are launching a survey telescope within two years. It feels like we are entering a new era of technological progress. It makes me wonder what other surprising announcements are coming over the next few years in other fields.
What Browser are you on? I tried FF12. For me, once I clicked the thing, not matter what I do, it will unzip, even if pulled up all the way again.
Open Source Web Application Development
Hire open source web application developers & programmers from offshore outsourcing web design & development company India for custom open source web application developing.
Recruiting can be a problem in these kinds of destinations, and so can employee retention. It will probably be hard if you need access to a large talent pool of highly talented and self directing people.
All Valve, all the time
Microsoft's Mobile Comeback Is Looking Terrible
One really important lesson I learned early in my career came about 4 years in. I had finally moved to Silicon Valley, and I was still relatively junior, but always had ideas on tweaks or features we could add to the product. The senior engineer was very scruffy and cantankerous at times, which made him unapproachable to many people. But he was very good and very experienced.

However, every single time I brought an idea to him about a change I thought would be useful, he never said no. Not once. We would talk about it, and usually say "okay, well give it a shot." Of course, not all my ideas were winners, but he never shot them down outright. He was extremely supportive of other people's ideas, even from a junior person like me, and it really made a very deep impression on me.

As other people have said, it's very easy to say no, point out why something won't work, and kill further discussion to keep the status quo. It's a lot harder to say that someone's new idea is a good one and even harder to lend support to it. To this day, every time I talk with someone about a feature or idea, I think about my experiences with him, and try to pass that support that I received along to the more junior engineers I work with.
A lot of these are wrong. Examples:

Slippery slope -- Asserting that if we allow A to happen, then Z will consequently happen too, therefore A should not happen.

Slippery slope is not necessarily a fallacy -- it is only a fallacy if the warrant is extreme. If we were arguing about dropping lit cigarette butts into the trash and we both agreed that fires were bad and I made the claim that we shouldn't drop cigarettes in the trash because they often cause fires (and cited data to that effect) there would be no fallacy in my argument.

Appeal to authority -- Using the opinion or position of an authority figure, or institution of authority, in place of an actual argument.

This one actually infuriates me because it may be the most wrongly used logical fallacy. First, because most people who use this argument are not making a logical deduction, they're making a statistical argument. To cite from Wikipedia:

The appeal to authority may take several forms. As a statistical syllogism, it will have the following basic structure:[1]
Most of what authority a has to say on subject matter S is correct.
a says p about S.
Therefore, p is correct.
The strength of this argument depends upon two factors:[1][2]
The authority is a legitimate expert on the subject.
A consensus exists among legitimate experts on the matter under discussion.

There is nothing wrong with this argument. The example given in the poster is very bad. As a PL student I have a bit of experience with formal methods and I'll remind everyone that the only things which can be proven using logic are those which follow directly from the definitions. In real arguments, these structures basically never exist. The truth never follows necessarily from the things people say, it's almost always a statistical argument. The fact that medical authorities used to think wrong things about the body didn't necessarily mean that it is or was wrong to believe in the body of scientific knowledge at the time. It only means that you have to be aware of the error margin in your statistics.
McMaster has always been one of my favorite companies, and favorite websites. I definitely much prefer bouncing around on the McMaster site.
Neat.

So I wonder where this puts us on the hockey stick curve of space exploration? Are we at the point of the spinning jenny or more towards the cotton gin in humanity's space timeline? Probably doesn't matter if you are sufficiently far enough into the future and have to squint backwards.
Students see benefits from Wikipedia assignment
I think these triggers are an important insight into human behavior, not just because of the profit that can be had by activating them, but because of the great potential for abuse/utility. On one hand, we see potentially dangerous abuse of these triggers, such setting people up to waste time on Farmville style apps or making repetitive comments on Facebook. On the other hand, there is a potential to train ourselves so that our triggers lead us to more productive situations. Instead of reading a newsfeed generated by people we could ultimately care less about, what if our go-to for boredom is performing some 30 second crowd-sourced task? Or maybe we look at something relevantly educational, like an elegant programming trick of the day.

For the most part, when I get an internal trigger like boredom or anxiety or exhaustion, I go to something non-productive, like /r/wtf. But recently I've been replacing /r/wtf with HN, and while most of the browsing is still mindless, it's a lot more relevant to my career path and often leads me to other useful things like 750words.com

Right now, the most successful companies that make use of triggers are mostly parasitic to our everyday lives, but I'm wondering if that can't change to become something that we benefit from.
Facebook Now Boasts 901 Million Users-updated S1
Facebook has just filed a fourth amendment to its S-1 to IPO that notes that it now has 500 million mobile users, 901 million monthly active users.
short version: "In the three months ending in February, Microsoft's share of U.S. smartphone subscribers was 3.9%, according to comScore. That's down from 5.2% last November and 7.7% last February."
I am interested to know what are the original occupation of these people.
"Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 2,155,876 tested so far."

Huh, that's awesome ... in a bad way. According to that page , both my system fonts and browser plugin details are unique among the browsers they've tested thus far.
> This doesn't happen on NT or Linux,

No, NT and Linux also have unified VM. What BSD
had pre-UVM was pretty antiquated.
Ask HN: How to choose the right business model for my web app?
I have been working for a while a new web app that I believe will appeal many as a useful tool. I am almost finished working on a beta release and I am trying to come up with a business model. I know there are a number of options and I wanted to know what you think is a good option to start with.
Apple News | Gevey Ultra 5.1 Released to Unlock GSM iPhone 4
How an iPhone Anti Theft Software Keeps your iPhone Safe
Thanks for sharing. Yeah the program was called Freedom Support Act. And you probably had a J-1 visa. That was a great program and I wish there were more of those kind of programs that would bring in kids from other regions of the world.

It is unfortunate about the 2 year requirement for your particular case. Since it was a US govt. sponsored program they paid for your stay, travel and allowance while here. It was not just a program to benefit you personally and to eventually help you integrate into the American society, but rather it was to create future leaders in your country that would support and follow "Western" ideals, and to have you spread your knowledge about the American culture in your own country. As they see it, you have failed that task since you came right back for college.
The interactive Sanislaw Lem doodle (http://www.google.com/logos/lem/) is up there as well.