skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really isn't complicated. Float three columns left with a combined width less than that of the container and you have a three column layout.
Yeah well, keep compiling then...
Actually, Linux won over BSD because BSD's legal status was in question when AT&T sued BSDi.

Also, Linux was appealing for hackers, as even today, it's harder to contribute to BSD, having a more centralized development methodology than Linux.
Google, and developers who make use of their APIs, are in a real catch-22 there. The service can't become popular unless developers make use of it and help grow it, but you don't want to spend time developing against an API that isn't already large enough that it's not going to go away.

I always thought/hoped that Google had a large enough and mature enough infrastructure (including people, process, tech) that it could support a lot of essentially one-off services (at least as far as income generating goes) because the core services are so big. And that this infrastructure would give these smaller things time to incubate and gain significant traction. There's something to be said for a small service that's been running and been available forever, that its existence is stable and the choice is secure. Things don't seem to be getting a chance to properly incubate though.
I used to have a domain which had its URL included in a completely unrelated spam. A blacklisting organisation (voluntary, I think) contacted my ISP to tell them I was going on their list unless I could explain what had happened. I spent a very long, depressing email conversation explaining to them exactly what database poisoning was, and why the spammers would include unrelated URLs in a spam email. So many ways to fail at that kind of endeavour...

(The URL was for my open source project. Clearly, they didn't even check the webpage before issuing their threat.)
OK. I guess your advise was US-centric then.
Why does the title mention Ubuntu? It's interesting to see how people now associate Linux with Ubuntu. And that's a good thing. It means that the desktop revolution is on it's way!
That's what I was going to say. Do it in a specific location, do a really good job of it, and make sure it really 'takes off' in that location -- and all the while you're doing this keep thinking of how you can enlist the support of others to 'go global' when the time comes.

You'll have money to burn in this venture because every business in the area will want to pay you $5 a month in advertising fees to be there. Basically you're creating a whole new advertising venue!
Telegraph Newspaper Has News Category Just for Twitter
I too have experienced some issues on the G1 with staying logged into hacker news. Sometimes, seemingly randomly, I'll be logged in again after my previous visit didn't have me logged in. It seems to be cookie related, but I'm not sure how to debug this (especially since none of my other regular sites are experiencing the same issue).
probably because it's human nature to look for new things

those who blog every day naturally tend to have more followers

it used to be individual bloggers; however the trend is increasingly toward groups of bloggers

maybe the ultimate is site like reddit / hn (you can think the OP as a mini blog with a link)
I see your point. I started with although this might be a controversial question.......because the question is Is HN a waste of time, from that question you might get the idea that I am speaking of HN only.

It seems that you have come up with a sentencing formula which is bad in all circumstances. Maybe you should write a research report upon it, it certainly might be interesting. My academic training has taught me though that one should be weary of generalising.

I personally do not agree with your line of thinking that if you have an embarrassing question keep it to yourself. There might be many smart people here, but I do not usually refrain myself from asking a dumb question if I feel that it might shed some light regarding some issue.

Am I or this post wasting peoples time? I did think a bit about that before I posted it and concluded that if it was a waste of peoples time it would not attract comments or upvotes.

Thanks for your comment anyway, an interesting way of saying that the post was a waste of time without actually saying so, and further, an interesting way of wasting other peoples time while saying that my post was a waste of time. :P
If using PHP Kohana, Really, really good php framework. Release cycles are a bit crazy and some of the lead devs are uppity but all in all it's good.
Weblocks

http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-weblocks/
The Burden of Twitter
An API would be great for HN since it would allow the community to do all of the sorts of things that it's interested in around rather than on HN. It'd be the ultimate meta-customization. :-)

Here's how I would break it down:

- List of [top / newest] topics
- Number of points
- Time submitted
- Sumitter
- Upvote / downvote calls
- List of comments
- Submitter
- Text
- Points
- Upvote / downvote calls
- User
- Description
- Comments
- Points

And then let the mashups flourish. It would seem fitting for HN. I'd be interested enough that I'd do a patch for such if there were a reasonable chance of it being integrated. I personally would really dig being able to see who upvoted what since that would let me do the magic that's my specialty and be able to organize top stories personally based on my a users upvoting patterns, but I suspect that might be undesirable for reason of keeping things anonymous.
Jonathan Ross Announces Twitter to Millions of the UK’s Mainstream
Lots of fun :) Reminds me of the time at a previous job when I had to incorporate distance measurement based on post codes (zipcodes, UK style). There wasn't a whole lot to do for long periods at this job (which is why I left it eventually) so I spent several days making pretty pictures from the postcode data. I was quite amused that the density of codes in London was such that I could see the Thames winding through the middle :)

I also spent a while trying to guess polygon data for the post districts from just the point data for each code. I found that quite hard at the time.
If you focus on quality, you end up with inferior quality compared to people who focus on quantity

That sounds a bit simple. What about that other great bearded wonder, Leonardo? He only made about 30 paintings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paintings_by_Leonardo_d...
- the requirements keep being changed but not major changes

- features etc are provided by client to implement but we have freedom of how to implement them.

- i guess project is technically very interesting

- they may feel like slaves as they are not able to produce quality work lately

It may happen that they don't just care about what they are working on.
off the top of my head,
http://z80.info/
http://mta.info/ http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/

edit: I still think .info should have been .nfo and been restricted to ANSI art.
First. Always and forever. It just might not seem that way in the short term.
Basically I'm repeating my idea from below, but what about moving the most successful stories to the new page? Couldn't that attract attention to it?
See the Web Site, Buy the Book
I wonder if Einstein was bad in his patent office work because of his involvement in his relativity side project.
Right, your new rule is, write you own framework/library if necessary, otherwise use what's there. That's much better than your original rule which ruled out any use of frameworks as no frameworks could ever have been created.

But Im' still not happy :) I'm sure a lot of popular frameworks were created without any necessity, simply because they were fun to make. Some turned out to have qualities that nobody (including its creator) would have been able to spell out beforehand.
Sony Ericsson W508 A Stunning WalkMan Phone
Sony Ericsson’s newest Walkman set, the W508. This clamshell, which is a bit of a departure for Walkman devices, features quad-band GSM and single-band HSDPA,and a W508a variant that has quad-band GSM and triple-band HSDPA for our shores.
International Lisp Conference 2009
Is anyone from HN going?
Indeed. The raw list is nice, but it'd be better to be honest about what each program does. A simple description line for many could cover that comparison, and/or a table where the featureset is more discrete.
What Does Less VC Mean?
I feel that if an employer pays me for 8 hours, I owe him 8 hours - not my whole life and soul.
Really it's just one of the many distractions available on the web. If it's not available, people will flock to others. Actually, the worst for me is ... my mail client (especially since it has my RSS feeds in there).

I've gotten into a routine of waking up and spending about half an hour on mail / news and then switching on Freedom.app for 2-3 hours to turn off my networking. I leave the local intranet connected so that if I really need to find some piece of info I can SSH to another box and use lynx. This helps me get into the groove most days.

http://www.ibiblio.org/fred/freedom/
Yeah, I agree that it's still at the point where people will look down on you for using it in the colloquial manner.
you can add blogs to the search bar and its added to your list of topics you want to watch :D

sorry that should have been "clear" on the page...
Icelandic government becomes first to be brought down by the credit crunch
And annoy a whole bunch of others.
I feel those are bad odds. Plenty of other people are happy with them.

Also, that's 1 in 4000 before 60 (60 - 10 = 50). You have a 12% risk of death before 60 which means if you died before 60 the there is a 1 in 500 shot that it was biking without a helmet that killed you. Granted a significantly increased change that it was biking, but using a helmet would not have saved you.

I would agree that biking after 60 without a helmet does not really increase your death chances that much.
> Unless you happen to live in les banlieues.

Actually, the banlieues (suburbs) are the most subsidized areas of the country. The infrastructure there (schools, libraries, sport clubs, etc.) has a mysterious tendency to spontaneously consume itself, but usually it's promptly rebuilt thanks to the generous taxpayer.

The thing is, those cities were planned and designed from the ground-up by progressive, visionary social engineers as part of a social experiment (in collectivism, it goes without saying) funded with money from the Marshall plan. And the result of this experiment seems to be that, no, people really don't like living in cities that look like Brasilia.

But that's just one part of the problem. The big picture is gloomier and it reveals a massive failure of the French socialist-minded government in economic and social policies. The most rigid labour laws in the world prevent employers from hiring anyone but the most productive and qualified workers. Everyone else (too old, too young, not qualified enough, etc.) is excluded from the job market and lives on welfare.

The social policies are probably even worse than the economic policies. They say racism is evil and we should all live together and love each other and so on, yet they don't seem to really believe in what they preach since they have this nasty habit of forcing people to integrate; which, of course, only results in more racism, hatred and violence.

Oh, I forgot about justice. It's very humane. After all, criminals are themselves victims of society and should be treated as such, aren't they?

You're right about the word time-bomb, but it's far from being as simple as a clash between two classes. The government has generated hundreds of antagonist interest groups. The CRS is extremely efficient at dealing with random bursts of violence (it's one of the most efficient European police force when it comes to dealing with urban violence). But of course it can't prevent or control a civil war.
Cool. It's not that far from there: Montevideo. The rambla is pretty much the only place I bicycle in Montevideo.
Nice list, but this really needs to be dumped into a Reddit implementation so we can vote and comment.

Side project, anyone?
Not only that. The BSD license does nothing to prevent a competitor from grabbing your contributions and make a proprietary product with them.

Linux is a better target for companies like Canonical or Red Hat because of the GPL.

BTW, this is why Linux is a better target for companies like IBM, HP, SGI, Oracle and so on: because when they contribute something they can expect to get all other contributions in return. There is no such guarantee in BSD.

And yes. The AT&T lawsuit did not improve BSD's prospects a bit.
This one looks really important for webapps:
" Unification of Geospatial Reasoning, Temporal Logic, and Social Network Analysis in Event-Based Systems, Jans Aasman and Gary King" I just saw a webinar on this using AllegoGraph - amazing power. I'd love to go, but I don't know if my schedule supports it yet.
Why Twitter's New Security Solution Could Pave the Way to a Future Web of Mashups
Ask HN: Any open source alternative to element selection on a webpage within a page?
I know the title sounds confusing, but I wasn't able to put it with more clarity.

Anyhow here is what I am looking for: a (preferably open source) solution such as the one implemented in 'Select Content' step of http://www.dapper.net/dapp-factory.jsp

Dapper lets you select elements of a webpage inside the browser and do stuff with it. I was wondering how they do it and whether any of you have implemented similar functionality?
http://www.osalt.com/ includes Mac, thanks dchest.
Do you really think CAPTCHA-breaking is a new thing? There has been code around to break much more difficult CAPTCHAS for years.
There is no alternative for Microsoft Access. It's sad, but true.
CA State jobless rates leaps to 9.3%, SF at 6.6%
If an 11 year old is using fuck I would be concerned about social norms. There's no reason to swear playing kickball.
"All of this from a man who was the son of a millwright, only in America."

I wondered, What exactly is a millwright? It's one of those older words that everyone once knew the definition of. Apparently, they set up and integrate heavy equipment in mills and factories:

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos190.htm

http://www.guymturner.com/rigging-millwright/equipment-proje...

So it looks like they are skilled, blue collar, mechanical/industrial hackers. Greg Linden sees his father's programming proclivities in himself and his son; perhaps the tendency extended back to his grandfather, too.
Ask HN: Anybody Using Mono for Web Apps?
Is anyone using mod_mono to write web applications? If so, are you using a particular MVC framework with it?
Heh, yeah, I'm almost certain that I'm just wrong in my interpretation - I may know JavaScript but I'm still a neural network newb. I've updated that paragraph to, hopefully, be a little more correct.
we can only hope we might have a fraction of the positive impact he did.

If the article is any indication, you're off to a pretty good start. Even with all the cool stuff that he did, you and your sister are probably his greatest legacy.

My condolences. Thanks for sharing.
If you really think that then you have obviously never tried it.
Look here for the real solution, which is slightly more involved:

http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/perfect-3-column.htm
Quality - I didn't know about that!
Plan 9 admittedly sucks in many ways. It has limited hardware support,
a weird user interface, and no active community. But also has
redeeming qualities that I miss every day that I have to program on
linux.

In Plan 9 every process has a namespace associated with it that
represents all the resources it has access to. For example, /dev/mouse
represents the mouse in Plan 9. But typically it isn't provided by the
kernel but by the window manager, rio. So when you open rio it opens
the mouse and then provides a new /dev/mouse for each process launched
within it. Every process has a different /dev/mouse that only
activates when the mouse is in that process's window(if it has one).

To draw to the screen there is one function: draw(). You pass it two
rasters and some coordinates and it draws one on top of the
other. That's it. Everything works across networks and architectures.

The thread library is wonderful. Threads in Plan 9 are non-preemptive
and run in a round-robin fashion. They communicate using CSP
channels. CSP can greatly simplify the design of many programs.

In a few of the programs I wrote would access the mouse and keyboard
in seperate threads. You could use the regular open() and read() calls
from each thread and there was no need to worry about locks. When I
wanted something to run on both cpus I forked a process, which is very
cheap.

The text editor, acme, is different and probably sucked for you. But
that is because you misunderstood what it was. In linux and windows
programs are islands. These islands are expected to provide everything
the program does in one executable. Acme is not an island. It does not
have a builtin spell checker or word counter. What it does have is a
namespace that allows you to access its resources.

Plan 9 is a system which was deliberately made by very smart
people. It has serious issues which make it not often a realistic
choice, but it has a clarity and consistency of design that linux will
never know.
Who extort money from actor John Travolta?
F-Script turns OS X into introspective Smalltalk environment
Yip, I am another one. The only think my xbox (not a 360) gets used for is watching DIVX's on!
I'm even more curious now, since this post
[http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=447166]
doesn't even mention mono.
This is a very interesting question.. In our world, it doesn't really have any practical consequences. Making a Turing complete language is trivial, you only need increment/decrement, zero and a jump instruction. These things are available on just about any platform.

Given infinite memory (which in practice means an infinite number of states), any particular Turing machine computation can be performed by a specifically constructed pushdown automation or even a finite-state machine. The distinction between the capabilities of Turing machines and less general machines is in what types of computation one particular machine description can perform. There is a particular Turing machine that can simulate any Turing machine (taking a machine description and input for this machine as input), so obviously any Turing computation can be performed by this particular machine.

It would probably be really difficult to program an FSM or a PDA to perform "general" computations, but it would be an interesting intellectual exercise. Try making a programming language (with LISP macros, maybe?) that will let you easily describe a finite-state machine to solve a particular computational problem. Given an infinite amount of code and memory, you could do everything a Turing machine could do.

It's like the recent discussion around the halting problem: how much of a problem is it really in the practical world? You can always design a mathematical contradiction around the general case, but for any particular problem it is possible to describe a solution that works. The difference is that any practical benefit of using a language that is not Turing complete is hid very well.
Just a note, if you don't want a letter from the NFL; Take _your_ mentions of 'super bowl' off. They've even cracked down on some local bars and such that advertise 'watch the super bowl here' to make them say 'watch the big game here'.

It's ridiculous I know, but just passing it on.
I don't want to discredit Mr. Arringtons efforts (which do look positively herculean), but many months ago, with posts becoming increasingly scandalous in their wording I unsubscribed from the TC feed and haven't looked back. If the stories are important enough, they generally percolate up through other channels I follow (like HN) and usually in less hyperbolic guises.
While he might be right, it's still not practical to group things in this way, and when working on a project with more than one person, you should always document things correctly etc. If not, it will allow what he calls 'mediocre' programmers to determine that they are brilliant, and quit documenting.
Good journalists are good journalist, no matter which medium they use to distribute. You can find good journalism from professionals in print or online or even from bloggers. Going by your standard, every citizen should be required to read BOOKS in order to get the depth of analysis that they sorely need to be wealthy.
Ask HN: Anyone feel the need for personalized filter on submissions?
It would be really cool have personalized filtering for news. I personally would like filter out techcrunch and all facebook related news.
e.g. in profile page some input where you can put values separated with commas.
Then more submissions from "newest" would make it to main page. What do you think?
Grails?
What's the particular benefit to writing .NET for a non-windows environment? (other than say, wasabi or something like that)
Does their success prevent other bloggers from blogging? You can't prevent the popular from being popular, but you determine the center of your own blogosphere by choosing whom you pay attention to.
I almost never comment on this forum, but reading this just made me laugh/cringe. I lived in France for seven years and I now live in Canada (where I read mostly american magazines/newspapers). One of the things I miss from France is the quality of mainstream newspapers and magazines compared to what I get here. "The Economist" is such a superficial magazine compared to, say, Alternatives Economiques, which you can find in any, any french "tabac" (well, it's not exactly the same kind of magazine, but using "The Economist" as an example of a good magazine that the french could not produce outraged me).

Fortunately there is always Harper's and The Atlantic on this side of the ocean.
Send it to sports center/ESPN. Send it to Sports Illustrated. Send it to your local papers, AP, etc. It's not that this is a bad idea, poorly implemented, or poorly designed, it's fine. It just has limited audience and lifespan. Slap some ads on it and get it out there.
I'm guessing here but it seems this is in India, right? I have worked with a number of Indian developers, e.g. WiPro and Infosys. They are often fairly new developers (< 5 yrs) and very clever. There are some cultural issues that apply here. From what I have seen most of your team will not have had much formal training but will have learnt on the job. This means they have probably done a lot of 'hacking' without paying much attention to testing, and now the project needs refactoring to smooth out the recent features that have been bolted on. However, this is probably too difficult to do because the code base is too disorganised.

I recommend you get in a senior developer with experience of TDD and large systems. Have a fresh start and boost morale by showing how a new approach can help clean up the code. It will need your support to give them the time to add the tests, refactor and clean up the code. Progress will appear to stop for a while, but it is well worth it. You will end up with a much better product.
Spring WebFlow did too. It boggles the mind.
The only thing I can think of is language preference. I like C# a lot better than Java, mainly because of familiarity, but I understand that Java has introduced a lot of nice language features lately.
Do you use the RSS feed? I just subscribed in Google Reader, and while I find the UI un-pleasurable, I think filtering at the feed level would be pretty easy, supposing there is some type of customizable feed reader out there.

At the least, PG could make another feed for the "new" view.
I was thinking that anyone can access the site and do anything that they would do now. The only difference is that what you do doesn't affect other people until the freeze interval is over.
Aha, cool. We have guests visiting from Montevideo this weekend.
I'd be interested in seeing anonymized stats of views per day per user. I know my number is pretty high. And yet I find something good almost every time I come back.