skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The date at the top of the page is: 2004-11-10 , so that would make it about 4.2 years old.
I am not a designer, but I think the "g" in the new favicon doesn't look good.
Tesla raises prices on Roadster options, sparks controversy, anger among early adopters
A high-tech agenda for President Obama
Open source developers ride the cloud
LoL - it was all said here on Hacker News, even when I did not ask for feedback. I'd come here to read interesting things (no interest in talking up our product) and see a brigade of people talking really HARSH & trashing us.

In the end I listened to all words and used the feedback to evolve our product. Nowadays, we see more positive talk (not sure about here) about our product(still evolving) then we did prior to the HN feedback.

Find the various HN posts here http://searchyc.com/sleep.fm
AMD to cut 1,100 jobs and slash salaries across company
The new google logo is AWFUL. You just can't effectively use negative space in a canvas that small. All I see is four coloured blobs and I have to mentally remind myself that it's Google.

Sure, I'll eventually get used to it, but it's so noncoherent - it shouldn't be a CHORE to get used to it, it should just STICK.
Why procure when you can BYO PC?
A developer's-eye view of smartphones
Was there this much fuss the last time they changed the favicon? Sheesh. Get over it already.
When a little IT knowledge is too much
yahoo answers on HN? It's funny sure, but on HN!?
Whose Fault Is It When You Risk It All?
The rest of us can see it just fine. But I will say that the previous two favicons were much better.
It floats in the air. Why wouldn't it float in water?

No further comment necessary.
I haven't looked at this book in quite a while, but I remember being happy with the order in which it covered material. I seem to remember it doing digital electronics pretty far after covering transistors. I wish my college curriculum had followed that order. There was at least one lab where I spent the whole time guessing and interchanging parts instead of realizing that I had a CMOS chip that couldn't drive the TTL chips I had connected to its output.
Dell Studio XPS 16
I personally wear contacts for my pitiful eyesight; even getting 12" away from the monitor, I can't read anything without my contacts, even with Firefox on highest magnification. With correction, I have 20/25 vision, but I still sometimes get eyestrain and can feel my eye muscles going limp/lazy/cross-eyed when I'm staring too much at a monitor or TV, and I wonder if perhaps these sort of glasses might help.

However, I didn't quite grasp what the glasses actually did for him, or what they offer to the wearer; is there a better explanation someone wants to offer?
Befunge makes it epic, but it could be polycode for the ages if the picture itself compiled to a FizzBuzz program in Piet (http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html)
The "I'm Linux" Video Contest
When you're logged in, there's a number in parenthesis next to your name, which, as far as I can tell, is your karma. Once it's high enough (it seems to be 200 for polls), go to http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll and do whatever it says there.
DGP = 2x gold earnings
A Filter to Display Neighbors in a List [django]
A friend of mine agrees: Awful.

So why did the first capital 'G' favicon work? Simple - it's the first (large) letter on the search page!
Understanding category theory would help you understand at a deeper level the idea of a monad, et al. Haskell uses a small subset of the math, IIRC.

This is more for mathy people who want to see where it comes from. I'm not sure it would actually be helpful in understanding (as Haskell is a few notches down the abstraction post than categories).

EDIT: Furthermore, it might require a heftier background in abstract algebra than most people have/want.
I know there are drive recovery services, and have backup of most of the data, it is the challenge of fixing it.
I'm tired of the 'it's not a physical item' argument.

What about services? Can services be effectively stolen? They are not a tangible good, yet people pay a lot for services alone (see management consultants). So if I have someone perform a service for me and I don't pay, have I committed theft?

And in essence, isn't that what we're paying for when we buy music/games/video? The services of those who made the thing, because without their work and effort it would not exist. You are using these services (the playing of music in this case) without paying for it, you are stealing their services. And in that case, it could be argued that 17k downloads equals 17k counts of theft.
To make it HN, we need a commentary on the lack of value placed on common sense engineering thinking in education.
This idea that the rich don't pay taxes is somewhat misleading. Yes, certain very very rich people have accountants and tax shelters, but this is not the norm. IIRC, the (income) tax burden is about 40%, this by the top 1%.

So a /few/ rich people /seem/ to not pay any taxes.
Dojo Zoomer - Sweet Image Cropping Widget
As far as investments, I think if you have a solid offering and can get some traction it shouldn't matter. Twitter bought a search product which was completely based on their API plus the technology that the search guys had developed (sorry, I forget their name). The key is what you are bringing to the table. If you are just a site accessing API's, it is going to be difficult. You should have a solid value add.

As far as the 3rd party pulling their API, I think that is a risk you take, but if you are talking about Twitter, where a huge portion of their success is a result of the API, then I wouldn't worry as much. In the case of BOSS, Yahoo! could pull it, but you could probably source search results from elsewhere.

As far as offering these services in a paid offering, unless you are adding something significant which the user is paying for, I would think your success would be challenged in the pay model. People don't really pay for a new view of what they can already get for free (I don't think).
Maybe it's because I've been up all night dredging through PayPal's api docs trying to figure out what version it's at, but as soon as I saw this I thought about a bunch of penguins ordering different things in a Baskin-Robbins. Linux... It's like ice cream. There's a flavor for you.
Commercial vehicles have very large valuable goods/people and valuable goods/security personnel ratios.

I doubt pirates find it profitable to attack seasteads, which are both more troublesome and less lucrative.
Perhaps you can, but most folk I've spoken with have had to have it explained to them. Best answer so far: "Why would Google use a weird, bumpy, number eight in their logo? ...oh, I guess that's a 'g'."
_...the Windows port never matured_

I was subscribed to SBCL list some months ago. I could see that Windows port was quickly progressing. "Never matured" suggest a project that was tried and later abandoned. It seems more of an ongoing effort. Versions are still being created regularly. I would try in a few months.
The hope and change index
I've had a lot of issues with JVM in a cheap hosting with Virtuozzo (a VPS). I assume people that are using Java choose a provider that gives it preinstalled.
Obama: Talent Imitates, Genius Steals
I wouldn't contact the RIAA, they have a notoriously bad reputation (assuming you could actually get to anybody reasonable).

I'd go the route of the current mp3 search engines. Do some research on Fair Use Copyright and DMCA.
Also check out the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation).
To belabor a common libertarian point: one virtue of the marketplace is choice. Different individuals can make different choices. This has advantages over the political system, where one choice is made for everybody.

Maybe you think Social Security is a poor investment for 14% of your income, maybe you think your local school should offer more courses in area X. Too bad. If you don't have a 51% majority, a person willing to run as a political candidate that agrees with you, two years to campaign, and millions to billions of dollars, you won't get your choice.

However, in the market for retirement products you just call up your broker. In the market for schools, you just pick the one you like best (admittedly choice is a little lacking in the school market, due to a government near-monopoly and heavy regulation).
The first web site I launched - I guess you could call it a start-up, though I didn't seek funding and tried to profit off of ads - had a bunch of criticisms, all of them true. Stuff like "This drop-down menu doesn't actually drop down" and "Your background is the exact color of my puking macaroni and cheese" and "I don't think 'error mySQL injection' counts as a web site." People would write stories and blog posts starring themselves valiantly killing me and freeing the users of the site. That was a fun project.

My current one hasn't publicly launched yet; the only complaint I've had is that the font looks icky on Internet Explorer. (We use Times New Roman as our base, tweaked to look nice; it actually looks quite good on everything other than IE. We might inject CSS that changes the font to Verdana or Helvetica, but most fonts in IE look pretty bad.) I did get a nice insult thread on Hacker News from one guy who told me something like "You're wasting your youth on a shitty idea that nobody likes" without knowing what my startup was.
Thanks. Maybe I wasn't clear enough:

No, I'm not just repackaging the results from the APIs. There's significant NLP layered on top of that. It's not even a core offering of the app actually.

W.r.t investments, I did not mean investments into my startup; I was referring to the risk of Twitter (or other API offerer) running out of cash (not being able to raise new rounds) and thus shutting down the API.

I'm more interested in ideas about mitigating the risk, not the probability of it occurring. One possible answer is that it cannot be mitigated.
Just to clarify the above, the RIAA's position is not a legal definition, just what the RIAA wants. Therefore the "Online piracy is..." section is inaccurate, replace that with "The RIAA considers Online piracy as..."

and no, I'm not a lawyer.
The inauguration looms large on Google and Twitter, but not everyone is happy
It's not the crash that invalidates it, it's the extreme variance. At one point, the S&P had two swings of 10% in one day. These kinds of swings were common, and they often happened without any shocking news arriving in between the swings.

Since the mid-1980's, stocks have traded as collectibles, not as cash flows. Thus the price of stocks is not based on fundamentals, but on game theory. The stock market is a coordination game with massive feedback loops in it.
I don’t think that mean criticism is all bad; I’m one of those people who think you should not be creating companies if you don’t have a thick skin. I found out some mean criticism actually push you back against the wall and give you a different prospective on the whole thing. Human ambition feed on challenges; some on the things I did in my life I did them because someone told me I could not do.

A personal story: In middle school, I was a chubby kid and my sport teacher made fun of me telling me I could not run a 5 miles contest because my heart may stop beating. I told my dad, my best friend, begging him not to complain at school. I saw the anger on his face and he told me one thing: prove him wrong son! I started running every day and lost tons of weight.

At my last year of high school the teacher was still around. One day I challenge him in front of a bunch of student and some teachers to run the five miles against him. He was dumb to accept because he failed to realize that I was no more the chubby kid, I was thinner and about 4 inches taller than him. I ran the first 4 miles right behind him and past him at the last mile. I remember the humiliation he put me in years back and called him names on the last stretch in front of everyone. He was crushed; I had my revenge and still feel good about it today.
I suspect if you have to ask them, the answer is a big-time "no".
You should read Patri's post on Dynamic Geography, which I linked to in a post above.

The point is not to be "selfish", but to create higher quality government. Currently the government industry suffers from a high barrier to entry and high consumer lock in. The result has been burgeoning costs and deteriorating quality.
Get a special prescription if you already use eyeglasses. And you won't have to make inadvertent fashion statements.

I have had computer prescription eyeglasses for over five years now. They are a variation on your standard prescription that you can get from your eye doctor. They have helped stabilize my worsening eyesight. I highly recommend that if you stare at a screen all day long to at least consider investing in a pair and using them. Don't take your eyesight for granted.

My eye doctor also recommended the 20-20-20 rule - every 20 minutes look at least 20 feet away for at least 20 seconds. It helps unfocus your eyes and you know how quickly 20 minutes can go in a coding binge.
Alexis from Reddit has a hilarious site where you can send atrocious feedback:
http://feedbackfail.com/
"Create a simple working installer for the major OS's that includes a useful IDE, Database connectivity to least one major database and a fully functional web server..."

I'm just learning and my conclusion (by elimination :-)) is that for Windows the best is to use Emacs + SLIME + SBCL. There is an installation guide here: http://robert.zubek.net/blog/2008/04/09/sbcl-emacs-windows-v...

In the comments there are instructions to get ASDF working, that I haven't tried yet.

I've tried to avoid Emacs, but it seems impossible. Lisp in a Box has a lot of problems, ABLE has still too many bugs and Corman lacks GUI programming without which I can't justify the price. CUSP also has too many bugs. So I'm surrendering and looking at Emacs.

For the web server part, just use good old CGIs.
PDF: Unfit for Human Consumption (still as relevant as ever)
Obama is best dressed on inauguration day
4 Spotify invites available
I've got 4 spare spotify invites available. Post an email address here if you would like one.
Spotify is an awesome service and their OS X client is something to marvel at.
The saddest man on MySpace
Techcrunch is slowly becoming the national enquirer
Is ad-supported journalism viable in a pay-for-performance age?
Microsoft Research Publications
The "few" who manage to make money in the stock market are the ones who buy when the market is down and sell when it's up. It's as simple as that.

The difficulty is knowing when the market is down enough for you to make money before you're forced out of the market because you need the money.

I don't know if that moment is now, but the pros who work 12 hours on it apparently don't know either. Otherwise they wouldn't be in trouble now.

So, let me ask you a different question. What makes you think that kyro would do worse than the pros who lost entire banks by getting in at the top?

I'm not saying he should put money in the stock market, but humbleness before those awesome pros that he would be up against is not a good reason to stay out.

And by the way, even if you view the market as a zero sum game (which it is not, but that's another debate), you forget one thing: Many pros are forced to sell right now. They are forced to lose because of margin calls, redemptions, minimum capital requirements, etc.

So it's not necessarily the admirable wisdom of the pros you are up against right now. They are on the floor. Their hands are tied. They have no choice but to sell to you knowing it's not to their advantage in the long run.

If you are 100% in cash and don't need the money within the next 2 years and you don't have to meet margin calls, redemptions or capital requirements, you win, no matter how smart you are compared to the pros.
Why is the keypad arrangement different for a telephone and a calculator?
See: http://www.jgc.org/blog/2006/07/sense-of-humor-failure-at-di... and http://www.jgc.org/blog/2006/07/unbanned-from-digg.html
Like this one, you mean.
Play on paper first. Pick a stock, pretend you bought N shares at X dollars today. Then see what happens. When you "sell" be sure to subtract transaction fees and short term capital gains tax from the profit. So play on paper for a month or two and see if you really are a market clairvoyant.

Anyone can profit in a rising market and claim they have a "system" for doing it. If 500 people go over Niagra Falls in barrells, about 200 survive. Then those 200 go over again, and 80 survive. Then those 80 go over again, then the last 30 survivors write books about how to survive going over Niagra Falls in a barrell. Take their advice with a grain of salt.
Agreed.

Didn't know about the Gates thing, but I'm pretty sure shareholders were pressuring them as well.
They pay some taxes, they just do it at a far lower rate because it's capital gains. It's not the ultra-wealthy paying 40%, it's the working wealthy. Surgeons, who save lives on a daily basis, pay 40%, guys who sold their startup to Yahoo (or who receive it via dividends) pay 15.

I'm not sure how the dividends helped Gates save over just selling the stock though.
I've lost code with stash. Be wary.
Yahoo and MS won’t give you enough traffic. And I am not saying "they won’t give you same traffic for same money". No, they simply don’t have enough searches, in my experience.
Ask: how is the Obama inaugaration funded?
From India. I have been following the Obama campaign and the whole thing is quite inspirational.

It seems people have started to look up to Obama (like me) and there is a small question of how the inaugural is funded? I mean why spend so many millions in such difficult times? Do people need to purchase tickets for this?
Fuck the Cloud
"Hi, I'm Linux. Lots of stuff will almost work, but not quite, and that's all part of the fun. I can sometimes do WPA but frankly it's going to be easier on both of us if you use WEP. I like to pretend I'm easy-to-use, but you need to be picky about which hardware you run me on - or I might not work. I can auto-update software, but sometimes we'll take a trip to dependency hell which will take hours to recover from - think of it as a form of intense mental workout. I've got a bunch of programs which will almost do what you want, but it won't be long before you're missing your old favourites like Office and Photoshop. There are lots of competing versions of me, and sometimes you'll get dragged into meaningless debates about which is best."

I use Linux every day, but sometimes I get a bit jaded about this kind of thing.
Several years ago I co-founded a small game company. We busted our butt working 80 hours a week for months on end to get stuff done. We had one game that we shipped and were proud of; it was a budget game, but it was superior to many other games at that price point ($20).

Anyway, one reviewer wrote: "I would prefer the soothing comfort of a spork being gouged in my eye rather than playing a few more minutes of this game." Still makes me laugh, actually.
Practical File System Design with the Be File System
impressive how quickly the article goes from "fuck the cloud" to "its ok to use the cloud but don't forget to have local backups"
The author made this out-of-print book available on his site (http://www.nobius.org/~dbg/). I was looking for information on how filesystems work, and stumbled on this. Since I've heard the Be filesystem described as "a marvel," this looks like a promising read.
CNN unable to handle Presidential Inauguration 2009
Ever wonder what the Wikipedia database schema looks like?
Except for there are 300 flavors, all named in a foreign language.
Here's some magic, then. Say you've got a bunch of commits that you haven't pushed yet, and you don't like the way you did them. You worked on one thing for a while, fixed something else, worked on another thing, went back to the first thing: it's a mess.

"git rebase --interactive HEAD~10" will bring up a $EDITOR window with the last 10 commits listed. You can rearrange them, squash them into each other, delete some entirely. Save the file, and git will happily rewrite history for you.

See this blog post for a little more detail:
http://blog.madism.org/index.php/2007/09/09/138-git-awsome-n...
worth noting its UK/Europe only...

invites:

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A portion of it is funded by tax payers, the remainder must be raised by Obama's team: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/18/obama.fundraising.tra...
The french one looked fun and well-done, though I couldn't understand what they were saying.

The first one on the page with the music and still images is unintentionally hilarious. They cycle through pictures of people that I guess are involved with Linux, with the caption "I'm Linux". Probably around 95% of the people shown are white men. There is only a single woman.

Well, two points for honesty.
Sniper rifle software for iTouch
Being a monopoly isnt illegal. Making an excellent product isnt illegal. The problem is using that monopoly for anticompetitive ends, eg pushing competitors out of other markets (Netscape).
75th up, i.e. 25% of the time you likely could find a better offer than Google, 75% of the time it'd be your best offer. I have no idea how they calibrate it.
I wonder if the Tron Guy will try out:

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Image:Linux2.jpg
I thought the last one wasn't that great - looked fine on it's own.. However, it was very formal and completely out of sync with most of Google's other branding/style.
One of the developers of it is the chap behind uTorrent so it's very memory efficient.
We use slicehost, and their phone support has been fantastic.
Hanna: Gorgeous Realtime Generated Flower Screensaver
Design is less of a commodity.
Also an anteater alum. I was beginning to think that there weren't any other UCI representatives here!
that would be from a guy who called himself "crabapple," an account which has since been killed.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=382107
Last night I added an entry to Things: "build something in Compojure". I'm taking suggestions.
There are different markets for "mobile general purpose computing devices" and "an easy device to surf the internet and keep up with the kids".

Yes, it is that innovative. It's awesome.
Google seem to be trying hard not to become seen as a "tired" brand like many of those they supplanted. Mixing it up a bit is probably good for this.
good suggestion. Thanks!
The minute you have to start working with designers HAML is a no-go.
Ask HN: Demo tips
Hi HN, I'll be doing a demo of ReviewRobot (www.reviewrobot.com) @ CUSEC but I'm a fairly inexperienced presenter. I would love to make a great demo and for this I need your tips!
I Like this tweet a while back:

"MIBBIT SUCKS BIG TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

It's actually pretty cool to get criticism IMHO, It shows people care. Also cool when your app is broken, and people scream at you... You have to look past the anger, and see that they are lost without your app, and love it dearly.
Oops, I meant to write $100 million.
New York Times set for investment
Lovely. Can anyone comment on what software was used to produce this diagram?
I think it's always been that way and people are just now noticing.
Before SmartSuite (and also before MS Office), there was Lotus Symphony in the latter half of the 1980s. It was a DOS-based integrated office program that tried to capitalize on the popularity of Lotus 1-2-3 but never reached its level of success.
Don't forget Gates' charitable activities. They have significant tax consequences.

Gates can collect dividends as long as Microft pays them. He can only sell stock once.

I don't know the details of Gates' finances, but I'll bet real money that his choices make economic sense from his point of view. Maybe it's a coincidence that Microsoft didn't pay dividends until the rates changed, but ...

FWIW, the rate change was intended to increase the dividend payout rate.