skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why a certain language used := as the assignment operator and = as the boolean equality operator. It really doesn't make sense as written when compared to all of the maths people have learned up to the point they are introduced to programming. It's where learning about addressable memory and pointers compared to the values stored at those addresses actually made more sense to me than the optimized syntax (at least when I was 12 or so). It also operates backwards in most languages, where the stuff on the right of the equals happens before the stuff on the left. It really should be something that reads as "take the value in box with address x, add one to it, and store the value back in the box with address x" (basically show the student what the assembly language looks like).

I really don't have a problem with people not getting x=x+1, I think it shows someone is actually trying to deeply understand what is going on.
Eye-Fi & PicWing need to team up!

Take a photo(s) from dig camera and instantly it's published on my and my friend's PicWing compatible devices. From photo frames, to TVs to screensavers to Tivos ..Boxee .. Windows Media Center...flickr accounts, facebook profile, etc...
Haha, I can see why you would say that. What I was trying to convey was that from an SEO standpoint, your site fails miserably. You need to change your title tags to be more keyword specific, and move your wiki to a subdirectory instead of a subdomain (same goes for the blog).
What about something like GetSatisfaction? It's all web based and comunity driven. You don't have private areas (I think) but it does look nice and I think you can even tie your FAQ page to it.
The 'Lists' are cool! Where did you find those? I've never seen them, and I can't seem to find a link anywhere on the site.
This is a great idea.

Charlie Rose's show always has interesting, intelligent guests. And he usually asks intelligent, thoughtful good questions. But one thing that he doesn't get is tech. I remember watching when he had Arianna Huffington on a few weeks ago, and he asked the question: "What does it mean to link?" After which Huffington was attempting to explain to him how the concept of linking works.

http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/9705

it's @ about 3:20 - 3:50

Now I know Charlie asks questions in the way that he wants gets the most out of every guest, helping his audience to "learn something," they might not otherwise have known, but this was just funny.
Adult brain neurons can remodel connections
Education, is something we can help with. Like the author says, a people need to feel the yearning to be free -- a desire so strong they cannot control it. An education, one untainted by slavers, can provide the mental skills needed for such thoughts.
Well, the easiest way to grow profits is to grow the business. You'll never be able to create new products to sell to new customers if you spend all your time doing customer support. The revenue:profit ratio might decrease but the pie is much bigger.
See all the web bugs tracking you - Ghostery
'Lists' -- the bottom-left link on the main page.
It's in the "new" section, not the front page. New submissions don't usually end up on the front page @ http://news.ycombinator.com/ until they've had a chance to be modded for quality and relevance.
Now that's some clever concepting and branding: the allusion to Pac Man is very cute. Maybe take the idea further and tell people more specifically what they "really" are: Ghost Scripts something of the like instead of calling them web bugs.
Has this rise been proportionate with population growth?
Many providers do cover preventative care for this reason.

This is, IIRC, one of the problems in free-health-for-all places like Canada. You can get your bypass, but it may not happen until /after/ the heart attack it was supposed to prevent.
You should de-dup. For same idea in RSS, use http://feeds.feedburner.com/HNWatrcoolr
I wonder why anyone might want to use:

self.is_title = True if tag == 'Title' else False

instead of simple:

self.is_title = (tag == 'Title')
Found my town from the ip address and then when I tested a post it appeared as fast as I could switch windows and reload.
The benefits of a colors specific style sheet
Nifty little trick.
Are they using the same standards of comparison? There used to be a lot of people working for bare subsistence with no possible way of escape, even if they weren't labeled slaves... maybe the standard could be whether someone is bought and sold, but at any rate one should use consistent standards over time.
Why is anyone who doubts the overall integrity of then investment industry is getting downmodded here? The HN crowd is usually smarter than this. First of all, downmods are for spam so stop treating this board like diggiotic censorbots. Second of all, educate yourselves about the truth of the investment industry. Or better yet try trusting your own money with it and learn the hard way. Big brokerages buy large blocks of a stock which sends the price up, then they call affiliated brokerages to advise all of their clients to buy the same stock because the price is going up which sends the price up more, then the big brokerage dumps their shares and keeps the profit. Pump and dump. It's one of the many price manipulation games the finance services industry plays against its own clients, it's illegal, and it happens every trading day in full view of the SEC. Madoff proved the SEC are the Keystone Cops. Suckers believe that brokers are paid according to the success of the client's profile because that's what their brokers tell them. Dead wrong. Brokers are paid according to the number of sales, transactions, and new clients (suckers) they can reel in. So go ahead and downmod me. There's one born every minute. Always more sheep to be shorn.
First of all, I would argue that $2000 is not irreversibly devastating. One could pay it back over a couple of years. Secondly, as another poster said, one should be contributing to an HSA, saving in anticipation of such an expense. Thus in all but the rarest of cases most of the money should be already available in such a situation.

I do agree that fighting insurance companies is a problem. Perhaps the government should require insurance companies to electronically code their policies so that you can get instant pre-approval for medical care on site, with steep fines to insurance companies for reneging on payment for pre-approved procedures.

As a society, we need to do everything we can to reduce the transaction costs of accessing health care. I'll bet that 15-20% or more of health costs are administrative, which is ridiculous.

Finally, many HSA plans realize that preventive care is important and provide "first dollar" coverage for preventive care, meaning the plan pays for it, not you (via your HSA account). See: http://www.ahip.org/content/pressrelease.aspx?docid=21554
From the article: "For this example, we can see that I have an orange color for when a user hovers over a link. If I ever wanted to change that, I would just open up the colors.css file, change the color, re-upload and boom!"

...but what's the difference between doing that, and opening a single stylesheet and changing the colour, re-upload and boom?

Having different stylesheets for every little thing just means more unnecessary requests to the server.
Anything by Terry Pratchett.
http://github.com/galvez/gae-rest/tree/master/xmlbuilder.py
The question really is how to stop it.

It seems (to me) that any attempt to stop it would require two economic prerequisites: a value of labor high enough to support a living wage and economic apparatus that made employment gainable through a regular mechanism (like a corporation). To clarify the first point, by living wage I mean a wage that someone can live independently on, not some notion of cable TV and a Honda for all. The second point is that employment must be available in a way that normal people can find and attain it. For example, in the US I can look through want ads, interview with a corporation, and while it might be hard in a down economy it is possible to attain.

If the value of labor is such that it doesn't produce the value needed to gain a living wage, slavery becomes too easy. People won't fight it enough because they don't have another option. If a government is so corrupt and unstable, even subsistence farming can be unworkable. Likewise, depending on the land and water, subsistence farming can be unworkable. In the US, the value of labor is very high for various reasons: stable government, lots of capital goods for labor to use, good education, etc. In some places, the value of labor can be so depressed by factors like those that it becomes difficult to get an independent living. For example, if you try farming and corruption abounds, you might have your food stolen by thugs to the point that you're starving. Labor becomes something you can't subside on.

Likewise, in many places, corporations don't want to do business. There are plenty of places that aren't up to the standard of the US or Europe that nonetheless are stable enough to reasonably do business in. For example, Egypt has a pretty high corruption level, but you don't expect street thugs to dominate the economy. You can't do business in some areas unless you're willing to be a corporate quasi-governmental organization and that costs a huge amount of money. In fact, corruption really becomes a scale and as corruption rises, the value of labor drops because a lot of the value that labor produces goes into buying protection and paying bribes.

Of course, attaining both of those are hard things to do. I'm hesitant to suggest any course because I don't know that one has ever been successful. As much as we complain (wherever we are in our computer connected world) about the crap we have to deal with, we're very lucky.
Oh wow. I'm busy enough that I sorta read HN in and out, so I didn't see that thread.
Well, good idea :-)
They do vary in delivery method though. So it's not like I copied your app. (I actually started mine first. I've been doing it slowly over the last several months.)
Neither of us seems to have plans of monetization, so it shouldn't be a big deal.
As one who has failed before, I appreciate your comment. I've been involved in a few successes and a few failures, and your quote is poignant because of the number of people involved in these failures who took nothing away from it except to blame others, and that's not learning.
and when twitpay blogged about not giving out your Twitter info (http://blog.twitpay.me/2008/12/10/stop-sharing-your-twitter-...), saying that even if none of the apps use it maliciously, they could get hacked and have your info in their logs, I checked and made sure that people's info isn't stored in logs.
And of course it's encrypted in the db.
I've done it but its really hit or miss. You need to be constantly updating your offers, trying new niches, and pushing hard to keep a good relationship with you affiliate manager. Their are times when you will feel scummy but your wallet will be fat.
Some of you guys commenting here should make a few detailed blog posts about this topic. You sound like you know a lot about it.

For my own question. Any thoughts if I could make any money with affiliate marketing on this site: www.justoneclubcard.com

It only gets about 100 unique vistors per day but I figure it's pretty specific.
LinksOnHN[n].setAttribute('target',"_blank"); 
As of dec 21 ,2008 - clicking on stories in HN,open them in the same tab. An average visit to HN involves for me, 10 (right clicks + click ) combo's (on my laptop )

would it help to add a target="_blank" attributes for story links, so that they open in new tabs/windows
( edit: and the tab with HN links remains intact )

this also works out well for those who prefer using the keyboard to navigate links in a page. ( yup, vi/emacs does that to ppl ! )

~B

tags: [accessibility]
"To them, the C compiler was just magic."

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke

it must have been too advanced for them? :)
I once tried to teach programming to someone who called all of his variables x. He genuinely couldn't understand why the machine couldn't just figure out which x he meant. This particular someone was due to replace us (a consulting firm) at the client. Heh, I wonder if they're still in business.
I think the idea is very cool. Although I don't use twitter from phone I many times use it only for links.
I am sure there must be others like me out there too.. great concept!
The problem with Scheme is that it's very difficult to learn in a vacuum. You can do all sorts of interesting things with it, but if people can't use it to do real work then they quickly lose interest (I'm not talking about CS types who are interested in computing anyway, but others who would fine programming a useful skill in their "real" jobs). From that POV the best teaching language is something like VBA, awful tho' it is, because it gets people from zero to "look what I did!" very quickly. Or MATLAB or some other language that's looked down on by purists.
Don't worry at all - It was just a fun app I made when I had some free time. If you want I would be happy to share some of the things I picked up on the way that made it run smoother. I was also going to implement an RSS feed because it was requested by some people (see YC thread) - I hope you don't mind. Let me know.

All the best and goodluck with it!

Eiso
Not to mention that you have to save it in a file called World.java and it will compile to World.class. If you change the contents of a file, the first line, you also have to change the name of the file. How does that make sense to a beginner?
I guess I'm just confused because the last two times I submitted something it seemed to go in the "New" section (as did this one, and that's obvious) but also almost immediately into the "Hacker News" section. From what you're saying, those previous two submissions may have been the exeption, rather than the rule. Perhaps I was simply misled.

I wonder if the FAQ should be updated to add a comment such as:

"Not all 'New' submissions make it to 'Hacker News'"

or

"It can take some time for new submissions to make it to the 'Hacker News' list, if at all."

Anyway, thanks for replying.
This is one of the advantages of using Scheme as an introductory language:
(define x 1)
(set! x 2)
(let ((x 3))
(1+ x)
Would that make you feel better about all the slaves?
Holiday Gift Giving Guide by His Catalog
http://uk.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUKTRE4BI1OJ2008...

http://uk.reuters.com/article/marketsNewsUS/idUKPEK294585200...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/8166599
Terrible article, if you ask me. The author strings some seemingly arbitrary quotes together - but it's unclear where the article is going or if the author is even trying to make a point.

The opening paragraph is great though, and the the description of the millennials ("shamelessly narcissistic, apathetic and lacking in social skills") is spot on. But how can the author say in one sentence we millennials are apathetic, and the in the next that we "care strongly about justice and the problems faced by [our] society"? Doesn't that just jump out of the text when proofreading it? Or is there a meaningful difference between apathetic caring and active not caring?

My knee-jerk (and naturally completely unfounded) opinion is that the author likes the book because it makes a bunch of statements the author wishes to be true (for obvious reasons). The author seems to be absolutely uncritical about the contents of the book. How can he not cover the quality of the research/argumentation and still recommend it without hesitation? And if the author doesn't have the background to review the book on a more fundamental level - should he really be the one to label it an educational must-read?
all xmpp messages needed to be enveloped by a guid. we felt we did'nt need a guid -something smaller was enough.

Although i left close to two years ago,and it really is'nt much of a deal - it still brings me a hint of wicket satisfaction that 'each and every' chat/whiteboard message spread across 107 countries, gets wrapped in between my cellphone number : )
Howard Gardner had some fascinating comments in his original version of Frames of Mind suggesting that different "intelligences," as he termed them, may have different patterns of plasticity over the lifespan. This newly reported research suggests a mechanism by which some regions of the brain might be better able to make new connections late in life than others.
but who's counting?
"Noting that raw I.Q. scores have been climbing by three points a decade since World War II across racial, income and regional boundaries"

I hope he has the decency to cite James R. Flynn's book What Is Intelligence

http://www.amazon.com/What-Intelligence-Beyond-Flynn-Effect/...

which is by far the best scholarly discussion of that phenomenon.

In most of these sorts of social trends, there are usually trade-offs. If I were hiring an editor of books or magazine articles, I might look for candidates from a different generation from the candidates I'd look for if hiring a video game designer.
Of course not. But the title might be slightly misleading and not tolerating inaccuracy is best for everyone concerned in the long run.
If the number of slaves is growing more slowly than the population, slavery is on the decline as a cultural institution, even if the absolute number of slaves is increasing. I would feel good about that.
Please don't make this change. My #1 pet peeve on the web is a page that opens new browser windows.
I'd like to learn more about how you're making this work. I'd like to take the same approach, but am worried about sustainability. I'd appreciate it if you could get in touch. My profile has my email.
Now would be a great time to learn the joy of mouse gestures, configure your middle click button or install a greasemonkey/userscript.
Make it optional per user :)
Fails miserably??

#1 on google for 'mibbit' (obviously)

#2 on google for 'web irc', 'online irc client', 'web irc client', 'web based irc', 'irc web', 'irc web client', 'web based irc client', etc etc

#9 on google for 'irc client', (Only mirc and xchat beat it).

This is all without doing any SEO. Sure there are ways to improve it, but it's more important to improve it for users, than for search engines.

Glad you like it though :)
The article gives a definition right at the beginning:

* A slave is a human being forced to work through fraud or threat of violence for no pay beyond subsistence.*

What makes you think they aren't being consistent with this definition?

Note that tinkering with the definition is unlikely to change the conclusion, just because human population is so much larger than it used to be. As this World Population Clock points out, estimates of the total number of humans born since 50,000 BC are around 110 billion, and 6.7 billion are alive today. Seven percent of all the humans who have ever lived are alive now:

http://www.worldometers.info/population/

Does this make modern slavery less of a moral outrage? Not really. Those slaves really exist. You can't ameliorate the suffering of a slave just by adding more non-slaves to the population at the same time.
A laptop equivalent of a two-headed snake
Try http://www.ceiva.com
My grandma loves the frame! it only needs dialup and just cycles through the pictures all day. Youu can control which pictures are on tthe frame and it updates every night. she absolutely loves it.

EDIT: woops, I now see you want videos... the ceiva frame doesn't do videos or audio, just pics.
This is such a niche feature that I think it would bloat the options pane. This is also a perfect job for greasemonkey :)
is that web2.0 buzzword thrown in there making anybody else feel uneasy?
You complain about having to perform some arcane action to open a new tab, but in most operating systems, if you press left+right mouse buttons at the same time, it is interpreted as a middle-click.

Also, in firefox, ctrl+enter opens a highlighted link in a new tab while keeping the current tab open. ctrl+shift+enter to open and focus the new tab.
It's an interesting article.. not quite sure how it's hacker-news material though, seems much more like Reddit material. And guess what, that's where it came from - it's been at the top of http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/ for a couple of days now.

Therefore: flagged.

There might be a karma gain from posting this stuff over here, but really there is very little real gain.
There's a lot to learn about affiliate marketing at http://wickedfire.com. There are tons of affiliates to converse with and also several affiliate network CEO's who post there. It's not uncommon for many affiliates here to make more than $2,000 a day from AM, so it'd be valuable to pick their brains.
For the other three Opera users on HN, it's the same behavior but reversed: shift-click (or shift-enter if you use shift-arrow navigation) opens in a focused new tab; ctrl-shift-click opens the new tab but sends it to the background for later.
Feels like some hackers got together and made a parody auto manufacterer start-up site.

But then, any hacker worth a sh!t would be capturing email addresses, so it's prolly real.
If anything, Skinner is pulling punches in this Foreign Policy article. Google: "Ramesh Garg" slave -surly; you'll get a particularly egregious Google Book excerpt from "A Crime So Monstrous", the book he wrote on the subject.

Between the sale of Haitian children for $50, the barter of teen sex slaves for used cars in Romania, and the generations of quarry slaves in India, it seems like we can put aside the argument over whether we're talking about slaves. They're slaves. Let's move on.
Writing a simple Missile Command clone with separate game logic and graphics modules; after using simple 2D graphics to test the gameplay, I'm writing a 3D artillery-style graphic representation. The whole thing is mostly an exercise to learn the Actionscript 3D library Papervision3D better -- there's a ton of work there in the future as the Flash Player keeps improving its core 3D transformations.
doh! ctr+enter opens a terminal for a lot of developers :)

i agree middle button works out best, but that said - a lot of laptop users also dont carry a spare mouse, and "trying to click left and right" on the laptop sort of breaks the flow.

other advantages? ... keeps the index of HN links on one tab the whole day,links opens in new tabs.

it's also a question of "can i eliminate the need of a mouse"
Initial reaction: yes, you're right.

Current reaction: if we can't flag something before it generates interesting comments, we should let it go. Seems a shame to kill an article that has already generated a discussion.
15 key presses to open the top story in a new window?

ctrl+shift+press link does the same, but is pretty much as inconvenient than right click -> open in new tab
This is a problem YOU have, it's not a problem with the website. So fix it for yourself, there are many ways to do so.
The problem is, the guy I met yesterday is not the same guy today.
Fox News has a markedly conservative editorial bias, and the Times has a markedly liberal one; but look back a hundred years, or a hundred and fifty, and you will see newspapers openly and unrepentantly taking sides in every issue. Claims like "fair and balanced" are laughable, but we are much closer to that ideal than in the past.

However, with the extreme partisanship of modern politics, and the ongoing fragmentation of small news sources and decay of large ones, we may have already passed the moment of greatest media neutrality; people who want to know the "truth" may be in for a long hard winter.

More fools they, for choosing a thankless, unrewarding, and often impossible task.
No. I can already do it with my mouse. I have no desire for site specific short cuts.
SEO is not just about ranking for a handful of keywords, it's about ranking for the million other searches that aren't as popular.

Well, either way you're obviously against taking any advice so I won't waste any of my time trying to help you. Good luck with your service.