skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! If we are to believe globalsecurity.org, which is quoted verbatim as a "primary source" in the article, it seems like the UN played an important role in restoring Albania's order.
Before spending a lot of time with this - have you thought out your customer acquisition strategy? At such low price points Adwords will be very expensive. How are the others in space doing promotions?
Why you can't buy Feed.Us
1. Did Microsoft charge more than that before Dell started seriously supporting Linux on their computers? (Honest question, I don't know the answer.)

2. $40 is a big cost to absorb when you are selling a $200 or $300 netbook.
I find it kind of distressing that I can easily imagine someone resorting to physical violence against someone wearing (or in this case, making) t-shirts slogans they don't agree with.

Also, it's cool to see someone who cares enough about their business to be willing to forego any monetary gain by selling it off to someone else.
yeah it is a nice system: getting people to pay to become beta testers; though being on the edge has its benefits looking at the success of things such as 'ifart'
Like everything, working from home needs balance. Not just work/non-work time balance, but physical balance with a private office in your home and regular contact with the outside world. If you don't have a second bedroom for an office and you live alone, working from home is going to blow.

When I started working from home, the first thing I did was go out looking for a co-working studio in my city. I knew that I was going to do my best work from home at night, but I go to the "office" so I can still get coding done during the day. I have a full office setup in my apartment that I use from 6am until 11am almost everyday, I go to my "office" from 11am to 4pm and then come home, working from 9pm until midnight. It's a crazy work schedule and the thing that keeps me sane is splitting my time between my home office and co-working "office", so I'm not wasting so much time during the day with boredom/loneliness/the internet.

I understand that this may not be suitable for everyone, but it works great for me and I've worked out of almost every space you can imagine. To me, it is 100% worth it to get yourself a decent home office and/or a co-working office to be the most effective.
Not cool like being an actor. Perhaps the reason startups seem cool to you is that you're thinking of famous consumer startups like Google or Facebook or Twitter. But the median startup does some boring infrastructure thing, like software for making online stores. You've never heard of the founders of these companies.

Even founders of consumer startups are way less cool per dollar than actors. I'd guess Larry & Sergey are about as famous to the general public as actors whose net worth is 1000x smaller.
We try to have work from home friday each week in the winter and move it to work from home thursday for the rest of the year (for after work drinks on friday).

More than 3 days a week at home and you start to lose the benefits.
Just need to write something that automatically converts word docs into new wiki pages. Then the pointy-hairs can upload all they want and everyone else gets some sanity.

Don't even try to make the conversion full featured, just rip it plain text. When the boss asks why his charts and headers don't convert over, show him how easy it is to fix that in the wiki. By getting his feet wet this way, eventually he might not even bother uploading word docs at all.

Or maybe I have too much faith in pointy-haired bosses.
You misunderstand the nature of GFS. A GFS master will not move files between datacenters.
For whatever reason, Kijiji was launched outside of the U.S. first and has only been active in the U.S. since 2007 (2005 elsewhere).

Kijiji is very competitive with craigslist in several countries.

Canada:
http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?cc=CA&ts_mode=cou...
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/kijiji.ca+craigslist.ca/?me...

Germany:
http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?cc=DE&ts_mode=cou...
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/kijiji.de+craigslist.de/?me...
Can't this be generalized? (At least as far as the web goes.)

Microsoft misses memo, launches <some clone of an existing service that is actually worse in some way>
Nintendo brain-trainer 'no better than pencil and paper'
I just saw this comment and pedantically, I still think boy.ball is unworkable in this context (concerning SOV order and such).

The above expression illustrates a verb executed on a subject and object which are two distinct entities. This is your Forth example (which I agreed with earlier).

In the dot syntax though, you use it as an indicator of possessiveness, in which case the subject is reduced to "ball", modified by "boy". Furthermore "is kicked" is a passive form, which means it has an implied subject, which is the boy. Therefore the completed expression cannot be written as-is; you'd have to insert the subject (boy) into the expression and delineate it as a separate entity.

boy.kick(boy.ball) would convey this meaning. boy.ball.kicked() could also convey it, but in this case, the innards of kicked() must make reference to boy.
Are there ninja monsters who disguise themselves to look the same as svchost.exe? And mysterious otherworldly processes with names made up of ever changing random strings of letters and numbers who cannot be killed by force alone?

Only on windows I guess.
Obama reverses Bush on auto emissions
Which to this senator, is a travesty. They are taking our high paying start up founder jobs!
What I don't understand is why he wouldn't want Microsoft to be able to hire the best people for the job?
Nobody ever wins votes by championing the cause of immigrants. As usual though, it seems like immigration bashing is high up on the todo list of politicians where hardly any immigrants live, particularly when the economic shit hits the fan.
Yeah, people will never use cars. When they want to travel somewhere, they expect to saddle up their horse and ride for several days.

Travelers aren't stupid, but they have better things to do than learn how to operate a two-ton mechanical contraption when they already know how to ride a horse.
The current reality: CEOs trying to lower market expectations, rather than meeting them, gets run-over by swift game-changing strategies.

Blink while Android and iPhone gets their acts together, and you're dead.
Dammit! OK I was re-reading my post because I always check to see if I've written something I can stand by or not. And the answer is kinda, there are some problems with it, but anyway, I was doing that, this was right below it, I saw it. My self-control is not formidable. Having seen, I gotta respond.

So: I've never been married. And I think your statistics are wrong, especially if you only posted this here and not anywhere else.
I hate working from home now also, after doing it from near to 8 years. It sucks, it's lonely and it's difficult to get motivated. Also, you are in an insular bubble, you are not exposed to different ideas, and the years tend to repeat themselves.

That's why I'm giving up this life and going to work in a lab.
I would say that assembly taught me more about how my computer works as compared to C, than C did as compared to perl.

Maybe I just didn't dabble with C enough before dabbling in assembly, but that was where I really learned about the stack, registers, variable allocation and function calls. With C I mostly just thought in terms of perl and ignored the implementation details. Static typing, malloc/free, strings-as-arrays and arrays-as-pointers were new to me, but I don't feel like I really understood what was going on at that point.
Hope it's trickery, but he did almost shut down once before due to a more-credible-than-usual threat of violence. I'll have to get my "May the Horse Be With You" shirt framed in an oxygen-free case with uv-blocking glass.
Same happened to me. Whenever I felt lonely I would go to a small coffee shop near my house. I found out that I like seeing people coming and going, I met some interesting people and made some friends.
Yes yes, you're right. What I meant was that you have to be internally motivated. You can't be the type of person who has to have people tell you to do things in order to get them done.

Feedback from your customers is very important and is one of the best ways to determine if you're on the right course (though as many have pointed out, you should often correctly ignore it.)
Ask HN: Looking for local document OCR, tagging and filing. Somewhat like Evernote.
The functionality of Evernote for OCRing a document, tagging and filing documents is great, but I'd really like something that can do the same without syncing to a remote store (as a legal requirement). Does anyone have any suggestions for software that could achieve this?
I agree that the language is essentially a much better Java, but C# is missing Java's (and pretty much most other language's) community; namely the open source part. (Could be my inexperience - only been using it a little over a year but) I've found myself having to make wheels that should have already been built. this would have been fine in the pre-internet era, but nowadays it's just a bit annoying, and no I still don't feel like paying for closed source libs

I think codeplex is the right direction, but MS needs to give open source for C# stronger support (instead of ignoring stuff like nUnit).

Another criticism, compared to other languages, is the cruft attached to C#. Like Java, C# is a 'you kinda need to use a heavy IDE to make life easier' language.
At first I had that problem, people stopping by in the middle of the day because they thought 'working from home'/'self employed' was a pseudonym for early retirement. I have since created solid work hours (9:30-6:30ish) that I treat just like working for an employer. My family knows that within those hours I am as available/unavailable as I was when I worked for a corporation. I find that this puts me back on the same page as the rest of the world so during the evenings I am no longer running off to check up on something and whoever I am with has my full attention.
Linux fails because the creators are too arrogant. They want people to switch, but remember, those people were doing fine before you came along. If you want people to switch, compell them with something they want. All linux gives is problems and headaches. Even though I am a developer, I have never had to use the internals of linux, so the fact that it is open source is irrelevant.

What really kills linux is just the arrogance of the developers.
It's worth noting that Kijiji and Gumtree are both owned by eBay. eBay also owns a stake in Craigslist.
Possibly, but having dropped out of calculus a few times... I can not confirm that's what we need. :)
If someone can implement a useful programming language with non-textual structure and do it right, that would be pretty hot. (There are a few out there, but they really need better editor support...)

I have had something similar in mind for a while, but when I saw Subtext, I found that what I had been thinking about program representation (as inspired by git) was very similar to the stuff in Subtext's papers, except that Subtext's was much more developed in the vein of Smalltalk. On the other hand, I found the decision tree stuff to be something of a curiosity; I'm not sure if it's necessary for the Smalltalky functionality.
No "real programmer" would ever admit to using it, but I'd love to get an implementation that could talk to an existing set of libraries. Looks like an innovative way to get some advantages of strong typing and such while inverting the learning curve.
EU Could Force Microsoft to Bundle Firefox with Windows
Ask HN: Review my site - RepSheet.com - Look up your elected representatives
Hi HN,

I humbly ask for feedback on a new service my friend and I are announcing today. Anything from design, to features, to data, to performance...how do we make this SING?

http://www.repsheet.com

RepSheet lets you look up your local elected representatives, see the political zones you live in and the latest news for your reps.

It's a dead simple look up tool. Punch in your address and RepSheet does the rest, giving you contact info for your reps, maps of your districts and a group news feed you can track by RSS or e-mail.

In the YCombinator/37signals spirit, version one has been kept simple. We're just serving Chicago addresses now but plan on expanding quickly to other major U.S. cities once we have a round of feedback under our belt.

We used Django, specifically GeoDjango. You can read more about technical implementation on our about page http://www.repsheet.com/about

This started as an effort to reverse engineer the NYTimes recently released lookup tool, Represent, for Chicago...then we realized we could and should bring this to the rest of the U.S.

Thank you. I'll happily answer questions in the thread below. We've got about 20 features we want to add, but we're holding off until we get feedback from the wild.
"A blog is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events."[wikipedia]

I would argue that twitter is actually a type of blogging. But even further than that, I really don't think Twitter is killing anything:

"Something I’ve noticed over the past few months...is bloggers being less active while spending more time on Twitter...is Ttwitter] delivering a one-two knock-out punch to blogs and blogging?"[article]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope

A) Many people are switching from blogging to Twitter.
THEREFORE
B) Twitter is killing blogs.

The author gives no specific evidence other than anecdotal references to people that are switching, and one business that benefitted from twitter.

There are many ways that twitter is better than blogging, but also many ways it is worse. The people that are switching are the ones that had messages that fit Twitter's style.

Twitter's brevity seems to me to be more suited to stating positions than stating the issues.
So what?

Why should an American worker give a damn about productivity? We just experienced a decade with robust productivity growth along with steadily declining standards of living. Improvements to productivity have almost exclusively benefited people who are already wealthy over the past 10 years. This may be slightly hyperbolic, but certainly not by much.

There are opinions being expressed here that American workers have a sense of entitlement, wanting to maintain their current standard of living. Well, what about American capital? Why do they feel a sense of entitlement to make their capital even more valuable via access to ever cheaper labor? Why do they feel a sense of entitlement to keep the standard of living their capital gives them, instead of having it taxed and distributed to others?

Ideologies are not ends unto themselves. The American people believe that driving down the cost of labor is not serving their interests now, and are not compelled by arguments that they should sacrifice their interests in homage to pure libertarianism. If those who think that the median citizen will benefit from increased immigration, make that argument in terms that addresses that citizen's self interest. That is how debate in a democracy is supposed to work.
I say we don't go far enough with the H-1B program. Many people I know are uneasy and unwilling to sign their lives away to a single company, to do with at their whim, for a chance to maybe become a legitimate US resident in a decade.

The problem is that, once you are in the US on a H-1B your life is in the hands of your employer. This is ripe for employee abuse (and one of the major contributors to wage depression in immigrant labor).

What the US really needs is a legitimized skilled labor immigration program. Something whose job is actually to steal talent from abroad and add it to America, instead of this "job shortage" excuse and subverting a different system to accomplish the same ends. If you can bring people into the country and give them employment mobility (the same way my parents came into Canada), the US would be far better off, and wage depression due to immigration would be reduced.

[edit] As a more concrete issue: here in Canada we have significant problems with skilled immigrants coming and not being able to find jobs, and thus being a drain on our social systems. This can easily avoided if certain classes (i.e. anyone not exceptionally talented) would need an employer sponsor to apply for immigration. You would need to secure a job before entering the US, but once you're in you are mobile.
Cell Phone Shipments No Longer Growing
This is a great example of a Federal government restoring power to the states. The negative externalities from automobile emissions are a local problem with . . . international implications.
Subtext looks interesting.

I think this type of visualization would be fantastic as an eclipse plugin for Java. It would be at a minimum a great teaching tool to new programmers.
The YC partners are 50% immigrants (me and Trevor).
In my experience Mono blows for C#, though it could be good for other things.

1) it's always behind the current version of C#

2) even for past versions it still doesn't fully support C#

I'm not sure about this one, but to use mono commercially don't you need to get a paid license for SUSE?
Never heard of twilio. I'll check it out and see.
I thought that, but then I realised that people here, although all* hackers, have vastly different experience. I'm regularly seeing stuff that I think is old and obvious, and it's getting hugely upmodded, so I thought I'd share this "oldie but goodie". It's very entertaining, even though it is old.

* for some definition of "all".
I don't actually have the figures but I believe that their computer business is a smaller part of their overall revenue than it was in the past. I know it's still growing, but the trend is even visible with Apple I think. I could be wrong though.
In other sectors, buggy console games are the new reality.

Fallout 3 will randomly crash on the 360; do you remember that happening when playing NES, Genesis, SNES, or even Playstation games?
I think that political necessity demands that American politicians claim the superiority of the American worker. But I do not think that the American worker believes that at all, quite the opposite. The American worker believes that there are a lot of people in other parts of the world just as educated and just as intelligent, willing to do their job for much less money, and wants the government to protect them from this reality.
The problem with attacking that weak point is that the amount of annoying trash on craigslist is apparently dwarfed by the useful non-trash, despite the possibility that other sites may a lower actual percentage of trash. Which is most likely a function of popularity: a just-as-popular competitor would have just as much trash as craigslist. But competition is not just about user experience, if you had a way to improve the signal-to-noise ratio, you'd have to do it for cheaper than craigslist does it, and considering the amount of trash, they aren't spending a whole lot of money on fixing this weak point.

I mean, you spelled it out right there: if you don't find what you want on craigslist _first_, then you go someplace else. craigslist apparently has enough value, and it's easy enough to determine if you're going to get any value out of any one visit, that you don't bother going someplace else _first_. It is not a last resort visit, the craiglist competitor sites are the last resorts.

So it's the same answer again: craigslist is where majority of the users are.
It's because of the "they're stealing our jerbs!" mentality that I see on a lot of other websites (who shall remain unnamed, the worst of which is named after punctuation)...

"But there's tons of unemployed home-grown talent here!" I hear many people say. I argue otherwise. I have met these vaunted whiners who claim to possess all the skills they need to work at MS and beyond, and I can safely say that the vast majority wouldn't make the cut. Most are mindless script monkeys who couldn't hack their way out of a wet paper bag.

I have yet to see a major US corporation favor immigrants in their hiring. In fact, almost every single American company I've had dealings with pay immigrant labor the same salary as their American counterparts. With all the extra legal hassle and costs this actually makes immigration more expensive for the employer.

The talent shortage in the US tech sector is real, and instead of bemoaning the loss of jobs to immigrants, maybe American colleges should look at why they're producing so many people who don't make the cut. And perhaps these people who feel their jobs have been "stolen" should do some introspection and figure out just how hard these other guys are working compared to themselves.
Have a look at the graph on the wikipedia page - should help you visualise it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithm

You want a curve, so that if the number of reps is higher, the suggested increase is proportional.

Maths is easy. Let's go shopping!
Adobe UI Gripes
forgets to focus on the addiction factor. Pen and paper works as well, if they are used. If a child does maths with the DS and it is addictive, ... I know it from my own experience. I play more often brain age on my DS than I sit down and solve math equations :)
Does it have to be a non-profit?
1: Either out of sight, or not there. With a density like that, what would a sniper do? Snipers are good for covering open ground, not what probably the most densely crowded area in America. Good screening and lots and lots of manpower on the ground is the only thing that works.

2: Pictures like this. Innovation doesn't happen in a room where 5.000 mediaoutlets try to hash out the photo-policy they want for a given event. Btw. it's probably more like 50 that gets up close. AP and others do exactly what you're suggesting.
I never looked at T-Shirt Hell before this, but they've got some incredible ones.

"Slavery gets shit done"

"Women are like parking spots. They're whores and liars."

I wish I'd known about this store before. These are hilarious.
Its better to sometimes get paged at home for work than to hearing that "I'll need you to work till late today" or "We need you to come in the weekend" when working on an office.

And depending on your work, you'd probably get paged at home even if you work at an office anyway.
Collision detection is an essential feature of game programming, and since we're programmers, and games are cool (for some values of games, and some values of cool), therefore, I'm going to recommend that take a look in that area for algorithms and techniques.

The book Game Programming Gems (the first one) has a chapter on collision detection.
http://www.amazon.com/Game-Programming-Gems/dp/1584500492/

Article to start with: http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1234.asp

As an aside, one thing that took some getting used to, after moving to southern Florida, was that when the forecasters there said "25% chance of rain" it meant something different than when that exact same phrase was uttered in the rest of America. In S. FL, it meant "25% of the listening area will get wet" compared to the rest of the country, where it means "no chance of rain."
One to file under "no shit Sherlock" maybe? Doesn't really seem fair to compare it against mentally challenging things though, probably more fair to compare it against other video games or watching crap TV...