skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems possible that a site based on a web comic about video games may well often be viewed at night rather than during business hours.

Penny Arcade is reported to have several million readers, and has extended this success to run a series of conventions (one of which just signed a 10 year contract with the convention center authority in Boston), a series of video games, and the founding of the charity Child's Play. Some people might believe that Penny Arcade has a rough understanding of the type of design that engages their intended audience.

If you are intending to make a point, say, about usability, you would likely be more persuasive if you were clear and direct about the argument you are advancing. Perhaps you could reference some research or other facts that supported this line of thinking.

As it stands now, your comments might give the impression that you were startled by colors used on a website and that this has driven you into a snarky, sarcastic rage. Regardless, it is not immediately clear how you intended these comments to be useful to the community.
You regularly boot with degraded RAID arrays plugged in? I'd want my system to drop everything on possibility of data loss - would seem to make sense.
HA. I think most of this list is 'boring'. Keeping yourself busy is not the same as entertained. I'd be just as likely to be bored while doing most of these items. Instead, find what you enjoy doing and go do THAT.
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No self respecting user cares - they want want does the job in the most effective manner. Anything else is pointless, stallmanesque self flagellation.
Nice work - cool idea for a Startup weekend project
> It saddens me to see people pay a lot of money for a device just to fight the manufacturer tooth and nail for every update and extra functionality.

I thought this post was about iOS, not Android. Ba-doom-ting!

But seriously, I've unlocked and jailbroke several iOS devices so that relatives could use them in China and it is a pain. The easiest was using the 'slide to unlock' pdf hack via a web site a few years back. I've never done it on a device I intended to use over here (meaning 'the west') because the value to me isn't there compared to regular free and easy OS updates.
How about the transmission delay of the video feeds? Is that really negligible?
How about Common Lisp? http://common-lisp.net/project/movitz/
I actually had a friend in school who did this (lottery tickets) as a side business. They had an investor that provided the capital, and when the jackpot reached a certain level, they would buy up a few percent of the total number space. Believe it or not, the expected value actually worked in their favor.

The hardest part was sifting through the dozens of boxes of tickets (which he stored in his dorm room) to find the winners.
If you're running it on a laptop I believe there's been a lot of work in the latest kernel in ubuntu 12.04 to help with the power management and battery life.
Since he already uses "content-aware" entropy calculations to find a good thumbnail, I think it would be relevant to use a content-aware resize as well. http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/resize/#liquid-rescale
I wasn't aware of that.. will have to check it out! Thanks!
I'd say stay in the US... but then again I'm coming from a pretty extreme case right now (Bangladesh where I'm living for the year). It's amazing how much we take for granted in the states... things that add up to make you efficient in your work. Little things like not having reliable commuting options (transport), reliable electricity and internet, and having automatic laundry and dishwashing machines make life in the states so easy so you can focus on other things. It's fun to live in the moment as South Asia forces you to do, but it's tough to be anywhere near as productive.

Here there are moments of uninterrupted efficiency but so many things are unreliable

- internet: slow during peak hours, not unlimited, western prices

- electricity: cuts out for about 2 hours a day randomly...HUGE productivity killer and makes it really hard to plan, stay cool, etc

- weather: extreme heat and humidity, always fighting elements, dust, drying clothes outside in moments between rain downpours etc

- transportation: getting across town can take an hour in choking smog

- politics: shut down the city's commerce once a month

Now you can get around most of the challenges above by paying enough, hiring service, living where you work, etc, but then you're spending almost as much as you would in the states.

Then you need to consider how there are fewer opportunities to sell, share, network here... but that depends. If you're selling something for developing countries then it's a different story. I'm using my time to do something unique to this market while I'm here.
I remember playing around with Several different versions of Oberon on my Mac back in the day. It was intriguing but not really useful except for working on Oberon (fine for a comp sci course). The one lasting impact it had on me was that its system font was a really nice sans serif face called Syntax, which I continue to use for many purposes today.
Was that before Network Solutions? I bought a domain in maybe 1996 or 1997 and it was decidedly not free
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Last two sentences...

>Filesharing as a technology is good. Let’s make sure it stays around so that we may continue to share our thoughts, ideas, and art in order to better ourselves, our communities, and our earth. Anyone who is against that must obviously dream of world destruction, or at the least, wish for human progress to stop.

No one is against file sharing, they are against copyright infringement. Why does this childish stuff keep getting upvoted? It doesn't help the cause.
When object orientation is the wrong answer
Some similarities to Feynman's solution to burnout http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~kilcup/262/feynman.html
This article completely resonates w/ me. I am building out http://chizzl.com/ to meet these ends. It's completely changing how I approach life.
Me too.

If they had had better industry support, maybe we wouldn't be suffering so many buffer exploits in our software.
Before naming your startup, read this.
This is a neat hack - basically, Apple's SIM activation server doesn't validate that the ICCID sent to it matches the asserted carrier - only that the carrier matches the phone identification and that the phone isn't blacklisted.

The SAM tool lets you fool iOS into sending a valid carrier to the activation server, and the activation server happily sends back the material necessary for the OS to associate the baseband with the SIM.

To make things even better, the material sent back from Apple's servers isn't time-sensitive and hence the attack can be replayed forever - once you have the "baseband ticket" for a given phone and SIM, it can be unlocked forever across all current known versions.
Lots of: "Message recieved [sic] in wrong format. Please retry"

The topbar is really confusing.

Other than that, good work.
I agree with batista, if OS has no quality software .. then why on earth would I use that OS? Also, til Ubuntu can't support .PSD files with GIMP natively, I will never .. ever use it. And no, I do not want to use Wine emulator or whatever the hell you gotta do to get stuff working under Ubuntu.
I'm also interested in getting an explanation from someone in the business. Assuming that you are not selling something like sex.com but are confined to more modest domains, and that you pay about $10/year per domain. Out of a random group of 500 domains, you need to sell 1/year for $5000 just to break even. Sure, you might hit the jackpot once with someone who really wants that one obscure domain you hold but for most domains you will be lucky to even get one offer in 3 years.
I think most people don't use either shortcut, but that the ones who would use jsbin's shortcut are likely to use the browser shortcut. So it's not a great feature. I wouldn't call it terrible because it's only a problem for a small fraction of users.

Ace Editor is much worse, in that it overrides the Cmd+L key, on sites that have merely embedded it. https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace/issues/210 At least with JSBin, you might be able to get used to its overriding by noticing that you're on JSBin.
If one is going to deface one's Python by minifying it, it should at least be done properly: I can count at least 8 places where 2 lines can be compressed into 1, like

if not t%5:
gv-=1;f[9-gv]=[1]*10;f[10+gv]=[1]*10;t=1

and

while c+lc[0]<1:
lc[0]+=1

So the title could be "Tetris in 65 lines of Python"!
Really clever demo of how to html/css3 the hell out of something.
Also hilarious to include the blank index.js just for fun. :)
I'm not sure if it's the "office environment" per se. It's the lifestyle built around the daily routine. The problem is, in big organizations, it isn't really fair to everyone. A receptionist, for example, has to be there during work hours, or many managers, and many other types of engineers such as RF guys or mechanical guys. It wouldn't be fair to yield tremendous flexibility to the software engineers, despite higher productivity.
No. That increases your risk of carotid atherosclerosis by around 9x, and also greatly increases your risk of varicose veins.

Best is to sit, but NOT CONTINUOUSLY. Approximately every 30 minutes, you need to get up and move around for a couple of minutes. Details here: http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/CUESitStand.html
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What's the application for such a thing? I'd buy one just because it looks completely cool but I'm not sure what I would do with it.
> I do not want to use Wine emulator or whatever the hell you gotta do to get stuff working under Ubuntu

Why don't you want to use it? Using Wine is as simple as double-clicking a Windows EXE and letting it install or run. It's no more difficult than using software on Windows (usually)

And sorry to nitpick, but WINE stands for "WINE Is Not an Emulator", because it isn't :)
What's with Ubuntu's versioning? 8.04, 8.04.4, 10.04, 10.04.4, 11.04, 11.10, 12.04? I don't understand it. Anyone knows?

http://releases.ubuntu.com/
Personally unlike many people (even Dart guys) I care less about Javascript-Cross Browser compatibility.
I would not mind if things work faster only in Chrome. Once there is a version of Chrome in IPhone and WP7, all bases are covered. It would be a good platform to develop.
Interesting project. But apparently has not seen any activity since March 2008.
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Do you consider 80 people team as small?
http://code.google.com/p/dart/people/list
.04 gets released in April (4th month) and .10 gets released in October (10th month)

* is then the last two digits of the year of release

So the version lets you know the year and month of release.

Edit: Ubuntu is on a 6 month regular release cycle, which is why they are all .04 and .10.
As a recent indie game developer Kickstarter does somewhat look like a viable model to fund your development.
But like Hollywood, there is great stuff and there is crap with a lot of gray in the middle.
In my situation I am making a very small iOS twitch game built on the Unity3d platform. As most know the advantages of Unity is it's ability for delivery to a variety of platforms and rapid iteration of development. Our project will have 2 month development.

Our team is comprised of myself (Ex-EA, ex-Squaresoft and serial startup guy) a pair of outsourced programmers, a optimization and art integration programmer (ex-UBI) and a 3d artist. I will handle many of the art and sound tasks as well as the final call on things.

The budget is under $30k. I know this is doable and possible because I have a clearly defined budget, and experience to quantify this budget.

This game is to provide hopefully two things:
To quantify that a financial success can be built from this model. Positive Revenue versus Negative Revenue.
Build a core following of player who like our work.
To use the potential revenue to build a bigger project.

There will always be scammers and people who want to rig the system.
I have thought closely about using KS for our second game which will require a budget of $100k, but at this time I don't have the followers and the public cred (in my mind to validate the success of a kickstarter campaign) although we do have great a prototype, art and a working business plan and design doc.
Hopfully this first game/risk will allow us to grow into what we desire as a viable business model for all involved.
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All freely made purchases require that the buyer value the good or service they receive more than the money they pay.
The first number is the release year (8 == 2008) and the second is the release month (04 == April, 10 == October).

I really don't know what the third number stands for. At least they're not using it anymore.
When I was younger, I once worked with a professional secretary. She could touch-type accurately like a speed demon, and she could take shorthand. This was in the days before corporate email, so everything was done using interoffice memos, and she was worth her weight in gold.

I wish I learned shorthand (such as teeline) while I still had the time/energy to learn it. I'm sure technology like Siri will put an end to that.
I stopped paying for a 6 letter .cn domain, and the Chinese got in touch with me, they snatched it up, thinking I was going to pay them some money for it.

I once asked how much a .com domain name was worth. They replied by email, it was about $ 3,000 and I didn't email them back. They had my phone number so they made an international phonecall asking me what I was willing to pay. A few hundred bucks, tops. They didn't sell it to me.
Meteor relents, changes licensing on popular JavaScript framework
You could visit Barcelona and some other cities around. There are lots of good restaurants in Barcelona and Catalonia in general (http://www.barcelona.com/barcelona_city_guide/where_to_eat_b...)

Moreover, Barcelona is very nice, the city has got amazing architecture and so on... 100% recommended.
Top bar is only for a product demo at 5pm so everyone can clearly see. :)

Thanks for the great feedback!

The error message is being changed as we speak to be more specific so users know where they went wrong.

Thanks :)
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Saved me when I was in Vietnam.
Mojang (creator of Minecraft)? 37 Signals (the Web design chops brought to the table by Jason Fried certainly make him an engineer by comparison to "business guys"). Microsoft. Apple. Google. VMWare.
I'm always intrigued by Twilio hacks. I'm always intrigued by APIs that work in the 'real world' or have physical outputs - i.e. not just web apps talking to each other.

Are there other examples of APIs like this? (e.g. MOO for printing)
Not spammy. I want more tools like this. I use domaintumbler all the time. I do wish the tools would support different languages and more extensions. I live in Europe.
For the LTS versions, there are "service packs" of sorts. Indicated by the last number. eg later this year you will see 12.04.1
Enumerations or other constants are helpful but generally only if the type has any other use besides a single function call (e.g. is it a type that you'd want to store as a field in a structure somewhere, or would it be useful in 2 or 3 other routines?). They should also be absolutely unique types (using whatever scheme in the language would guarantee that) to avoid bugs.

An approach that is usually better is to rename the entire function, creating two functions. To extend the article's example, this would mean having both "widget->repaintImmediately()" and "widget->repaintLater()" (or whatever). This can even be implemented by having both of the public routines call a single internal routine that is still parameterized.

When the function names are different, everything you need is in one place; you don't have to waste time figuring out where the corresponding list of allowed values is defined. Unique functions may also require less error-handling if only some values are allowed; e.g. if the type would include "A, B, C" and a parameterized function wouldn't accept "C", it's easier to define only funcA() and funcB() and just not have funcC(). Conversely, if you some day realize you actually have more cases than you originally thought, adding a funcD() is trivial and that decision doesn't affect anything else.

An example of constant-parameter bugs: it's common to see someone define several unrelated values that are effectively all "const int" or strings, which allows values to be misused without warning (especially if they're named similarly). In Cocoa, NSFontAttributeName and NSFontNameAttribute have the same type but different uses; while this isn't a true/false case it shows how easy it is for something to be wrong and how important a unique type can be for debugging.
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Really neat idea - I can see it working incredibly well for those of us just looking for a quick estimate when thinking about buying a car.

I really hope you guys take it further, and maybe sneak in the ability to check motorcycles too? :)
It's on the right of the page.
they are not the first to do this. berlin had the first blinkenlights installation in 2001! and it was controllable via sms/phone.
The player in the video is frustratingly awful.
Hi J3L2404 - while on the face it appears that nobody is against file sharing, regulations that continue to be introduced do, in fact, seem to be against such sharing (even if that may not be their original intent).

I do agree, it may be a childish statement, but it's our childish dreams that lead us to a better future.
Yep. Then it jumped to $100/2 years before competition brought the prices down.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Solutions#Registry_and_...

IP space used to be free, too, as long as you could justify it. What times those were.
Using a web-service and raging when it gets redesigned or closed is pretty stupid. People who don't like when other people decide for them should use real email clients with a standard protocol such as IMAP.
You just described Trello
Failed the actually does something test. A real pity.
The 1,5 million dollar missiles (and more expensive ones) will be used for destroying the command centres controlling the pilot-less planes. Most of them as current locations are known even now.

A flock of such air-crafts in a fleet formation if used for massive offensive action (like the Luftwaffe-style bombings in WW2) could be "switched off" with an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse in the most severe case. Besides this extremity - a distributed but single-coordination-and-control battery of modern ground mobile anti-aircraft defence rocket complexes can deal with tens to up to a few hundreds flying units (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantsir-S1 ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9K22_Tunguska).

I don't think that in the observable future these drones could be something more than a single-plane single-mission reconnaissance tool used strictly against technologically vastly inferior armies/societies.
Simple, just give them more holidays or better pay or something.
Seems to run faster too, and use the existing lighting.
This is absolutely fantastic... incredibly crass gameshow but what a fantastic play. Worth watching right to the end.
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It'd be nice to have a [PDF] tag in the link.
What's the consideration you speak of? I don't really see any reason to keep people comfortably separate from the production of their food.
I totally disagree, more blank space make it easier to read, the BIG problem of the redesign are icons that doesn't clearly mean what they do.

But hey, it's nice that you can revert a bit.

(but i must be satan, i also like FB timeline)
I'd prefer fewer self-post spam blog entries on HN. Seriously.
http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jirinovotny
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I didn't say overall demand is falling. But per capita demand is, if not falling, decelerating -- your car is made of less metal, one gadget does what ten heavier gadgets used to, etc. otoh almost all of us are using more power.
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bot sure if i follow you here, gmail uses IMAP, i never read my mails on the website, always in Mail (or sparrow, on osx)
"it's as if your bank wouldn't let you put holes in the walls until you finished paying off the mortgage."

Well, don't they? My mortgage has a section about needing permission to do renovations. I do not know how things are in the USA, but given that one, in some states, can walk away from a property without repercussion, I would be surprised if things were different. Would be a nice way to increase the price of one's house: buy a house in a different neighborhood, burn it down, turn in the keys.

Back to the subject: with iPhones, the argument that locking takes away functionality is less strong than for other phones. You will get updates.
I used Lean Domain Search after getting stuck coming up with a domain name. It revealed created 4-5 options that I would be happy with.

Thanks for creating the service!
Interesting article, although I don't fully agree - naming a startup is like naming a baby - it has to "feel" right. Which is usually not the case with various generators out there.

Whenever I was involved in naming libraries/websites/products it was usually the "A-HA!" moment one of the involved people had at any random point in process of coming up with a name.
If you're using headphones with a high impedance, the power output of device like an iPod or whatever may not be high enough to deliver enough volume for your liking.
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This little amp allows you to drive high impedance headphones with something like an ipod.
Do you know an email client that handles conversations the way gmail does ?
I'd suggest as a simple introduction, downloading a copy of "Pharo By Example" and working through everything in it.

Pharo isn't the prettiest of Smalltalk experiences, but
It will give you a glimpse into Smalltalk but really, it takes a good amount of time of use ( for me it was 9 months ) before I really got Smalltalk.

I'd also be completely happy to have an ongoing email conversation where I could answer any questions you have and fill you in on both the good and bad points of the current Smalltalk experience.
reformatted: https://gist.github.com/2464412