skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A big audience to consider with PayPal is teenagers who may not have their own credit card. Parents could set up a PayPal account to let kids purchase things online (Without having access to their CC#). Or if a kid doesn't have a CC, they may use PayPal as a means to order products/services that require a CC. I know when I was in early high school I used PayPal when I didn't have a credit card to order records and cds. That could be why Apple accepts it.
Apple Too Shiny for Georgetown
Best preloader ever was for a C64 game. You could play a very good implementation of Space Invaders while the real game loaded. I think the real game wasn't as good as the loader.
Why do the electric/hybrid cars need to look so bad? If you are going to make the effort to design a new body, and not just slap an electric engine into an existing car like GM does, why not spend a few extra bucks to make it look good?
You can get me a way to shut the music off on that page.
quick, mail them advertisements for your startup!
It was definitely done by "Java Engineers", but the ORM layer is pretty clean. My problem is that the Java way is very class-centric, not really OO. Why use a class at all, if all you have are getters and setters? It makes sense to me for the ORM layer just to build a list or hash from the result set. A class has no intrinsic benefit, because it's just a struct with extra baggage. One way to get the SQL complexity out of the way is to use a stored procedure, but as far as I can tell Hibernate doesn't support them.
I'm a novice txtful user, but I see lots of potential for it. I've made short codes amazon price checking and netflix queue. I've found that I use the amazon price checking thing every now and then.

Cool thing about this is anyone w/ a phone can use it, not just a smartphone - I don't have an iphone like everyone else.
Carol Bartz to be named new Yahoo CEO
Teen angst.

"You build atomic bombs..." Oh, not you Mr. Feynman. You're fine.
I dunno about anyone else, but to me...this doesn't look like a person who can fix Yahoo. Are we really supposed to believe that this is the BEST person on the entire planet to run Yahoo?

Her only quality it seems, is that she looks hot for a 60 year old
I've worked in an open-plan office for the last 6 1/2 years, and I'd never go back to cubes, or even to private offices. The level of collaboration and knowledge-sharing is much, much higher, and while the level of distraction and ambient noise is higher, I find that the increased communication is so valuable that the increased distraction level is more than worth the tradeoff.

From the responses here, I'm guessing not a lot of people on this board have tried XP or any other programming methodology that thrives on high-bandwidth communication. There are plenty of other development methodologies that work for people, of course, but XP and anything close to it really requires a constant level of communication betweeen developers, product managers (and customers), and testers that's just impossible to achieve if you're not physically sitting right next to everyone. In the worst case, maybe the distractions mean I only get 6 hours of work done in an 8 hour day, but it's the right 6 hours of stuff, which isn't always the case when I can't constantly talk with everyone else.

It's certainly possible that people have tried XP with pair programming, story cards, etc. and just hate it, but my experience with new hires is that there's often a lot of initial hostility to the open seating plan, but after a few months most people figure out how to deal with the distractions (generally via headphones or even earplugs if necessary) while coming to appreciate the benefits of a high level of cross-team communication.
Shoot me an email if you have any questions about Tipjoy. We're working on something closer to what FPS provides: ivan@tipjoy.com
For some reason this got me thinking about whether Windows Vista was an attempt to go Roman, a la OSX where VI = 6 (VIsta). That would make Windows 7 = VIIsta.
The things that make these hosts good or bad don't show up on the chart. 24 hour support that can be reached, possibly even by phone. Reliability and uptime, with guarantees. The ability to cope when the worst happens (my hosts have had fires, hurricanes, floods, power interruptions that went on for several days...)
As per my other comment, I've worked in an open plan for 6 1/2 years and I'd say our development team is pretty highly productive. I haven't seen any resulting hostility or stress, it certainly doesn't feel like an assembly line, and we get a lot of communication benefits from it.

Have you experienced/heard of such horror stories yourself? I'm guessing there are good ways to do an open-plan office and bad ways to do it, but I personally haven't seen any of the bad ways.
call me paranoid, but twice while using a blackberry to send mail, i had experiences that sort-of freaked me out:

1. i sent an email to a friend with a single obscure-ish word ("pearly") in the subject line. later that day, i received a spam message with the subject line "re: pearly").

2. a few weeks later, i sent out an email about a new volkswagen i bought (sent it to a different friend). i started receiving spam that mentioned volkswagen cars in the subject lines a few days later.

i was sending email out via smtp and not through an exchange server and there are, of course, a lot of people in the smtp chain who could be responsible, but it never happened when i sent email from my notebook nor has it happened since i got rid of my blackberry.

it could be coincidence, of course.
Do people really want a separate app for each restaurant? How many applications do people want? Maybe the reason most restaurants don't have an iPhone app is they have a website where you can accomplish the same things.
this is really the best they can come up with? I know dont judge a book by its cover, but i'm just not seeing it:

- No experience with an advertising startup
- Old school software background
- Too chummy with existing problem team of decker + yang
- Not sure where the innovation will come from here

Maybe this is what Yahoo! needs, but I just see even more bureaucracy developing. They pissed joshu off enough that he regretted selling to them and went to Google. Do you understand how hard it is to piss someone off after you've given them 15+ million dollars?

I'd much rather have MSFT in control of yahoo. Zero doubt about it.
In Neuro-Linguistic Programming (and hypnosis, I'm pretty sure), this is known as a "trigger". You can create arbitrary ones yourself by, e.g., touching yourself in a certain place (say touching the tips of your forefinger and thumb together) a couple times when a certain emotion occurs. After the trigger is set, touching the same place will trigger the emotion. (Kind of a simplistic explanation.)
Wikipedia Needs Rubyists to Flesh Out Mobile Vision
I wouldn't call those the 80 best web hosting providers. It's missing, say, mediatemple, linode, slicehost, serverbeach, rackspace, mosso, just to name a few.
Fashion and fitness
Fashion and fitness

Diet-conscious is growing manifold and this is because people are turning trendy with the upcoming styles. As a stylist and fashion designer, I have surfaced many good looking persons who are relatively too fat for the profession. This is under-statement for them and it drives them to failures and later depression. Even I faced the similar fate and excessive weight was killing me emotionally. Great guys, cherubic gals and fatty stylist like me! I think that was too much to digest Suzy, my coordinator made me make my cool. It was then I got information about Fat Absorb and the world changed for me. I am fashion guru but my fitness took a toll in last few years. So I was looking out for something safe and sound like Fat Absorb and it made me scroll through www.fatabsorb.com The feeling was out of world and let me tell you that it has unique quality of binding and attracting fat in the body. It was safe and so there were no side-effects and besides this great quality, it made fats indigestible. Being a highly educated professional, I went through proper counseling about it and then it made encourage ordering it. Now I am very confident person and my reformed appearances speak volumes about my status and perception about my profession.
at a certain point you're a multi-billion dollar company who can deal with [taxes]

1. No matter how many billions in revenue a company commands, it might inhabit a low-margin industry.

2. The taxes are shifted to the consumers. Do you mean to imply that each of the consumers is also a multi-billion dollar company?
Yahoo to Name Bartz as CEO
What the Palm Pre Stole from the iPhone and What the iPhone Should Steal From the Pre
Extending FBML with Custom Tags
Hey, Im a final year computer science student, I wouldnt mind getting involved.
more like 80 best(who knows) shared hosting providers
its more like top 80 hosts that the blog author makes money on when you sign up for them
But again that has nothing to do with the spreadsheet it has to do with the process (or model in your terms). So to give an example lets say the spreadsheet was never invented. That wouldn't have stopped people from creating a mathematical equation to determine credit worthiness. Bankers would just have Joe Spreadsheet do the equation by hand.

He's still going to be equally uninformed and he's certainly not going to be able to verify the validity of the equations while he's doing it. He's simply completing the required steps to get the equation to produce an answer.

So again the spreadsheet isn't obscuring anything that wouldn't have been obscured without it. If anything it's saving us from the stupid mistakes that Joe Spreadsheet would be making if he tried to do by hand what a computer does.
Its an embedded language for xml/html data extraction/scraping. It's inspired by MQL ( http://www.freebase.com/tools/queryeditor/ , look for the examples link towards the bottom), which should give you an idea of how json can be used to represent structure.

The Ruby and Python bindings let you choose between JSON and the native hash/array or list/dictionary structures. You can be idiomatic and portable at the same time.
I recall an article that claimed you build up sleep debt and have to pay it back with equal time oversleeping.
Obviously there is an upper limit on how much sleep debt any one can accumulate.

In my personal experience, getting enough sleep and not "slipping" requires real discipline.
A good sleep schedule ain't easy to stick to, but it's worth it in the long.
yeah but they are the responsibility of the affiliate
True, because the entire concept behind the process-driven "scientific" factory was that the human shouldn't need to think. It's not great for programmer.
Aerodynamics? The buyers are supposed to care about mileage more than how it looks. Also it has a distinct look, I suppose Prius buyers like to be recognized as someone who cares about the environment.
I would like a hybrid office inspired by libraries... one center room with an open layout, one side room with general use study carrels which is quiet/soundproofed... and maybe one or two small rooms for private group meetings. The open layout in the middle will encourage interaction, but for people who have to disconnect and focus they can go claim a study carrel in the quiet room. What do you think?
And every single one is an affiliate link for the guy... check out the /goto/ in each redirected URL... Flag this
I have an iPhone so doing some of these things isn't has hard as it might be on a regular phone, but i've always loved intelligent services like this that let you take a simple thing like text messaging and turn it into a very powerful tool. Even with my iPhone, text messaging is a real fast way to send data. I'll be playing around with it :)
you really don't need to create fake accounts on here to get people to try out your product
But the algorithm, the equation that Joe is using will have been created by a mathematician or economist in that case. The thing with spreadsheets is you can tweak them 'til it "looks right" with your sample data, but still have no idea how it will behave when exposed to real data. A model built empirically by one untrained person will show them what they expect to see, or worse what they want to see. Maths should be left to the mathematicians just as chainsaws should be left to the lumberjacks.
Not your kind of grossly capitalistic hacking. :)
Ask HN: Review my webapp EatMyCharts.com (Social Music Charts on Facebook Connect)
Hi everyone, I actually posted this last week with a different title but no one seemed to notice (or maybe no one's interested in it?).. anyway I hope I can get some feedback from you guys.. thanks!
I have done a thorough analysis of this; I have a band website builder app that has a MP3 store.

You should look primarily at the fees. Paypal's standard account has is around $0.30 per transaction + 3%. If you Google "PayPal Micropayment" they have an account that is not advertised publicly with lower fees for small transactions. The downside is you have to make a new account to use it, including a different bank account. I spoke to our PayPal account manager, and he said there is no internal plans to change this or promote the micropayments plan.
KickApps Launches App Studio to Quickly Create Interactive Applications
The dymaxion house was not exactly a tepee design. He recognized that most interesting materials are stronger under tension than compression -- steel, for example. This is part of the power of the geodesic (tension spreads throughout the structure, yielding global tension and localized compression). The houses were designed with a load-bearing center shaft, and the structure pulled from it. At least in the designs I've seen -- and in the aluminum building shown in the article (look at the "foundation").

But similar to a tepee, the top would also open (and rotate) for ventilation purposes -- domes and round structures have useful air circulation patterns.
Hi, I'm one of the founders. Great input. We'll work on that. Thanks.
A new force has entered Yahoo: Carol Bartz, CEO
Facebook Makes Its Markup Extensible
I must admit, I don't find it ugly at all. Different tastes I guess.
Any way to see the source code for shortcuts that were made by txtful itself?

I checked out the developer page and it's all pretty confusing.

"Formblock builder"?
"Create shortcut" and you have to upload some file?

Docs please :)
This service seems great, but there's one big catch. You'll need to enter your passwords in their system for netflix, gmail, and whatever else shortcuts you want to use.

If you're willing to do that, great, but I'm not.

Edit: Ofcourse, there are also shortcuts that don't need passwords.
Sorry this is just the excited wife of one of the founders. We're looking for real feedback and criticism here. Please feel free to rip it up.
I see, but it's possible that they accept PayPal but don't use them to process the credit card charges. I always wondered how big operations like iTunes do their credit card processing.
You've done it that long? How many people in the room? I've done it twice, with maybe 30 and then again with 20 people and hated it both times. Sometimes as a programmer you need to think.

I confess I liked one aspect, the feeling of being in contact with people, but it wasn't productive, I could almost always hear 3 conversations going at once. The worst was, packing people at long tables with laptops. Not even any place to put books. Teh shite, a triumph of cost-cutting and having Indians willing to put up with anything.

Probably for me, high-walled cubicles with not too many people in the same room is a good compromise.
"""It's solving a problem most of us don't have."""

I think that is because a lot of people simply don't know what good design is. I've seen many projects where people think they don't need Spring but where it made 100% sense. And made the project simpler and easier to manage and test.

Even in small projects it makes a lot of sense to have a good seperation in layers or services and to use a mostly invisible helper to glue things together.

Modern Spring can configure your app with a very minimal amount of XML. If you don't like XML then use annotation based configuration.

I totally disagree with your statement that Spring only exists to manage the 'massive configurability of Java design patterns'. The only patterns that the foundation of Spring introduces are IoC and 'configuration by convention'. Those have been proven to be extremely powerful patterns that simply allow you to burn half of the 'J2EE Design Patterns' books.
No problem. I probably didn't make it clear.
Ask HN: New FCC Chairman, Julius Genachowski: how do you feel about him?
Reuters article on him, Obama's nomination, here:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/rbssTechMediaTelecomNews/idUKN1329907120090113?sp=true

Brief excerpt:

"Genachowski was chief counsel for Reed Hundt, an FCC chairman under former President Bill Clinton. He also held various positions at Internet search and media company IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI.O) and several firms investing in technology, including Rock Creek Ventures and LaunchBox Digital."
jQuery is light, but it has a trove of plugins that will help you with more complex tasks. The core is purposefully limited in scope, not trying to do everything for you; it only provides what Javascript already should, but doesn't.
PowerShell ABC's - P is for Parameters
the moral of the story is that advertising in place of information gets consumers/users to act.
That's a huge difference in sales from subtle changes in wording and font sizes. Definitely shows the importance of A/B testing.
heh, cute :)

American only or worldwide?
10 Best Extensions To Pimp Out Your Web Browser
10 of the best extensions I have ever seen. They are all kickass.
That's true Wesley, but not all shortcuts require personal info. And I want you to know that we encrypt all the info you give us with AES-128, and you're free to use whichever shortcuts you're comfortable with. It's not all or nothing.
same here. the community is awesome. when we have couch surfers we lend them bikes and take them to local hacker spaces. it's a great way to meet interesting people.

the cs website is community driven in its infrastructure, too, not just web 2.0.
The script appears to be a command-line tool where you plug in your telephone number and it hits a Dominos backend, parses the page and returns the status of your pizza from oven to delivery.

I'm actually surprised Dominos tracks each pizza with that granularity.
"""Over-complexity is common in the Java space."""

Yes, in a SPECIFIC area of the Java space.

There is a huge group of people who believe that J2EE and its complexities are a major pain the ass. That is why great frameworks like Spring, Guice or Stripes exist.

Sun loves you when you use J2EE/JSF/EJB/JMS/JWHATEVER. But there are serious alternatives that are more lightweight, easier and less intrusive.

Of course you will not add value (read: buy into) to the Sun Enterprise Ecosystem :-)

Staying away from (most) 'Enterprise' Java standards has worked very well for me. I really enjoy working in Java.
No assistance. At around age 16. Started with a Commodore 64 around three years earlier. I did not do all the excercises in SICP, but the text was not too difficult to read and understand.
OK, might work.
The algorithm would have been created by a mathematician no matter what. Spreadsheets don't create equations to judge credit worthiness they only execute them. Because computers don't create process they just automate it.

So the difference between the equations being used to calculate credit worthiness should be unchanged whether you're using a computer or a pencil and paper. The computer just does it faster. That in turn means the numbers can be tweaked no matter what.

If anything, the computer makes it harder to tweak the number because a manager who oversees you only has to check the 6 numbers you put in and not spend an hour redoing your calculations by hand.

The reality is mathematicians wouldn't be giving loans no matter what. Just as physicists don't run power plants they just make a procedure and pass it off to a lower paid laborer. So Joe Spreadsheet would be the one giving the loan regardless.
"""It's to make mediocre programmers more likely to produce something of value and to make poor programmers capable of producing anything at all."""

You make this sound as if you are the great programmer who does not use frameworks but instead reinvents the wheel every time.

Are you really sure you do not use frameworks or libraries in your own work?
Hong Kong named world's freest economy
yeah, definitely flag this. Dreamhost, 1and1... Are you kidding me? Those are some of the worst I have ever dealt with.
Ask YC: Do you know what is $7 Dollar script or RAP?
If you have used this online selling/marketing tools then please explain what exactly it is and how it really helps/works?
I'm always surprised how many articles sound like that. Especially when people are complaining about taxes or city ordinances, or a lack of police officers.
A little extra space after a period in a sentence does help legibility, especially in print. However, I completely agree it does not make sense to manually introduce two spaces in manuscripts, and I hope two-space typists stop doing it.

1. Two full spaces, especially with monospaced fonts, is entirely too much, and hurts legibility. When I say "a little extra space," I really do mean "a little."

2. It is the job of the typesetting or layout system or engine to properly render sentences. A typist should focus on writing, on expressing thoughts as well and as clearly as possible, not on dealing with layout or font kerning bullshit.

For example, TeX, a layout engine which produces very good-looking results, adds a little extra space after a period (full stop) TeX just cares about whitespace, but does not count how many occurred (an exception: one or more blank lines introduce a new paragraph). It understands the page being laid out, and it understands the font, so it just adds the appropriate amount of space where needed, without any extra effort from the typist. TeX also happens to correctly handle inter-line hyphenation, which typists have no business worrying about, either. The same applies for first-sentence-in-paragraph indentation. Honestly, if a layout "engine" is called MS Word, or some other WYSLLTS (What You See Looks Like Total Shit) fancy word processor, and does not appropriately lay out documents, then that "engine" is a piece of junk. Failing that, type however many spaces you want and hire an InDesign or Quark Express expert to make sure everything looks as it should.
I don't follow you... There's not much difference in the amount of information between the different versions.
I like services like this, however, the problem I run into is remembering the "command-line-like shortcuts". Was Amazon "amazon book" or "amz book" or "book amzon.com". And "what was the syntax for getting the definition?". Or "Do they have a way to...?" Getting this info from a SMS-only phone might be tough.
In terms of text messaging it's US only (right now), but if you're willing to use it from IM, email, or the mobile web site then you could definitely create shortcuts for sites anywhere in the world.