skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
alias cd5='pushd .; cd ../../../../..'

This lets me cd five directories at a time, and if I want to go back, I do a "popd"
A Typographic Tour of NYC at Night
Digital Globes, A New Way to View the World
The Hammer: A Muscle-Controlled, Light-Up Dildo
I don't find this one useful. [up-arrow] automatically inserts the last command, which gives a generic mechanism to correct the command and it requires no more typing than !!: [up-arrow][control-a]sudo [enter]
We'd love to have you here :). It's a fairly big city with an upcoming tech scene. I guess we will find out soon enough!
It's interesting to see where GitHub is heading these days. The combination of software collaboration and showcasing projects / recruiter friendly profile pages is pretty compelling...
Maybe obvious but you can get most of this benefit with Liberty Reserve. Non-reversible transactions and you can fill your liberty reserve account with bitcoins.
Yet another stupid "I'm smarter than you" post. This one suggesting that the best dev in your group should be out there "maintaining" your javascript.
Except s/take/copy
Schemaless Data Structures
If you are interested in Bujinkan and Hatsumi, the best book in the world: "Understand? Good. Play!"
From the site: What can you do with The Hammer?

* Receive visual feedback for Kegel exercises or physical therapy
* Have a lightsaber duel
* Get a blowjob or handjob in the dark
* Watch the Hammer change color as you orgasm
* …or anything else you can program!

Right now The Hammer has two modes: the test-your-strength game, where the more you squeeze, the more it lights up; and a demo mode which cycles through all of the colors of the LEDs. Soon I hope to connect the Arduino to my Android phone, and then I’ll be able to do even more cool things!
How to make a great looking video for your startup on a budget
Retail sales people
Minor correction on the article, it's been said that they actually seldom wore all black, as that would make you particularly conspicuous. It's more likely they wore an appropriate costume that would allow them to 'hide in plain site' if needed
No write API means that literally everything I read on G+ was typed by a human. I really, really like that.
Maybe it seems like not many care because when someone mentions including the option they are shouted down like they're saying all workers should WFH.
Why app developers need 3 or 4 monitors
I see that Jakob Nielsen's venerable "Top 10 Mistakes in Web Design" checklist

http://www.nngroup.com/articles/top-10-mistakes-web-design/

just got new styling the other day, as I work on updating my seventeen-year-old personal website.

There are still a LOT of websites that make several of those top ten mistakes. They are higher priority than many of the other issues mentioned on the checklist kindly submitted here. As other comments here have pointed out, it's desirable in a checklist to establish priorities.
It's not the swapping, it's the (configuration) complexity and test performance, among other issues. See http://www.confreaks.com/videos/759-rubymidwest2011-keynote-....

I particularly like the example he gives near the end of always thinking they need to add the database and finally, after shipping to a bunch of customers, figuring out that they didn't actually need it.

In terms of test performance, I frequently see blog posts about reducing the time for a couple of hundred tests from half an hour to 15 minutes.

marcel@localhost[~]time testlogger -a MPWFoundation ObjectiveSmalltalk ObjectiveXML EGOS EGOS_Cocoa MPWSideWeb
tests:1: warning: 1055 tests (of 1055) executed, 0 failures (100 % success rate)

real 0m2.939s
user 0m1.607s
sys 0m0.438s
Thanks for the feedback, we will be tweaking the slider on the home page and coming up with a solution for chrome.
The "euphemism treadmill" is interesting, but the goal in changing terminology isn't necessarily to escape previous negative connotations. It usually better reflects our current understanding of a particular disability or state. Saying that it doesn't change the reality is pretty ignorant; many people overcome physical disabilities, only to be looked down upon by society.

For example, "retard" is overwhelmingly negative. Saying someone has a learning disability doesn't magically make them learn better, but it does:

A) treat them as a person. Imagine if we had a particular term for a person with cancer. They're not a person now, they're a "cancee", or whatever the term is. This is degrading, you're defining them in terms of their illness. The same is true of mental illnesses and physical disabilities.

B) affect reality by changing the social situation. Treating someone with a disability with respect and referring to them in the way they prefer doesn't fix all their problems, but it is a contribution you can make to helping them. This is really true of all people; you might not be able to fix everyone's problems, but you should still be nice to them.

I agree that the currently able label is a stretch, partially because it's about labeling yourself. If you don't want to be referred to as currently able, that's your choice, and I don't think it negatively impacts other people.

Edit: I meant to add that a good counter example for the treadmill is reclamation: see dyke marches, use of the word "nigger" in black culture. There aren't a lot of terms that have come full circle in modern culture, but there also aren't many iterations on the treadmill so far
That is - for want of a better word - an astounding piece of legislation. What's next, a deal with the hereafter? I figure that the only thing this will effectively accomplish is that a lot of American expats will go all the way and will ditch the American nationality and that a lot of people in the United States will be denied access to services. Brilliant move, the world-stage equivalent of the schoolyard bully mentality.
Ask HN: How do I migrate from lead developer to project manager successfully?
I've been the lead developer for a start-up that has successfully raised VC money and reached a very healthy residual monthly subscription revenue. Up to this point I've been operating mostly as the main developer and doing a little managerial work. We now have 6 developers on the team including myself and are realizing the need for more oversight and leadership.

I am really the only candidate for that so I'm going to be transitioning to focusing on that role full time. I have mixed feelings about it because I really like to develop but realize that this is much more needed to ensure the success of the product and company.

I think what would make this transition and the new activities more enjoyable is if I can somehow learn to be a manager hacker. In that vein, are there others that have gone down this road that can give me some advice on how to be a successful team manager and create a successful team? Are there any books or resources you would recommend I read? Any other ideas on how to totally excel in this new role?
Top Mistakes in Web Design
Thanks for your insight and time.
Show HN: Sets, a way to build curated lists of related links with others
And yet, it still doesn't say outright that random people hitting the download page aren't allowed to use it. Just: "While this might be interpreted as Adobe giving away software for free, we did it to help our customers."
It'd be enough to get me to switch to bitbucket. There wasn't really a Facebook alternative.
Great job. Thanks for the tip on http://fiverr.com. Great voiceover is a huge plus.
I do hear what you're saying and I can see how it would improve our site.

Thanks for the feedback.
Probably spot on.

"As a person who just stopped being a genius, I totally agree with the above point. From day 1 I approached this job with the attitude "I will explore every angle to fix this under warranty until I am out of options" and this made the job EXTREMELY satisfying for me. Apple does give you an extraordinary about of latitude in making those decisions, so as long as you are "really doing it for the good of the customer", it's usually ok. The biggest issue for Genii (and the thing that causes many genii to lose their jobs and/or leave) is the administrative side (ie.... dealing with a system called GCRM ) and inventory issues (like accidentally replacing a 16 gb iphone with an 8gb ....don;t laugh it happens more often than you think, and its a BIG deal since our system is not designed correct inventory snafus easily). Their as also time issues, since Genius Bar appointments are only 20 minutes,so going over that (which happens quite frequently) is a big deal, and very job threatening."
Thanks for your suggestion and wonderful words!
Thanks for your honest feedback, I appreciate it.
Adobe's actual statement on CS2
I appreciate the time you've spent on your response. We will be using your feedback as we tweak the site tomorrow (especially the stale comments :/).

Thanks
This is good stuff to know before a Mars mission, but the headline is unnecessarily dire-sounding. It's a problem, yes, but it doesn't sound particularly hard to solve. Get bright, sun-spectrum, non-gloomy lighting for the "day", get dim-to-nonexistent lighting for "night", and establish a schedule for switching between them. This should help, probably quite a lot.
It's preposterous to me that I can't play a single-player game because the game company's servers are down

Then don't buy the damn game. How hard is that?
It's kinda ironic that a guide to minimalism, written in 2002, obviously has in mind a language like Java or C++ (the vocabulary used makes it crystal clear)... Languages which are not exactly known for their lack of verboseness ; )

I know that for many here Java/C++/C# + ORM + XML + SQL is "The one true way of life"...

But I moved on: I do really believe pg's point about "Beating the average" and trying to "think outside the (Java/C# ORM XML SQL) box"...

For example, I'd personally much rather see posted and upvoted recent writings about languages offering, say, lockless concurrency (Clojure) or specifically preventing "type inheritance" (hence forcing you to use composition instead of inheritance) (Go), etc.

I mean, it's cute to see a 2002 presentation about ways to deal with late nineties issues but honestly I think the world should start to move on.

I don't doubt there are a lot of older codebase around that would benefit from this but what about people would start to use HN to try to move the world forward?
I'm surprised no one has made a money laundering joke yet.
I don't know why but the font on your website appears as times new roman. I'm on Mac OSX, Firefox 12.0. On Chrome looks ok.
Don't make your Runescape accounts cheap
This article introduce three methods to earn runescape money, and each method has its disadvantages and advantages. Runescape players can choose them to earn money so that won't make their runescape accounts cheap.
Sure. Only that's entirely not what the article says. It says not to focus on details _too early_. Because while the entire team may (or may not) agree on the general idea, getting into the details at the same time will take _much_ longer, with very little gain (since that early in the project it may not even be sure if that detail will even be relevant later on). Get the rough ideas sorted out first. Then chip down, iteration by iteration. Finally, get to the details (and then it's time to pay attention to those).
or return it and we wont press charges of possession of stolen property.
Developer looking for feedback on my Vancouver based startup homepage
Very well designed.

What advantage does this have over similar services?
Thanks!

One thing I've noticed is that many of the most successful people are multi-specialists, i.e., they have two (or more) "specialties" that combine in a rare and valuable way. Examples include the rise of the "growth hacker" or "data scientist", who are typically programmers applying their craft towards marketing or statistics respectively.

There's both a perception component and a real value component. If you're the best Marketer, other Marketers will frequently deny it, get jealous, or sabotage you. But if you're "the Marketer who also writes code", nobody feels threatened. You're competing in a different area, so people can support you and ask you for favors when they need help.

In terms of real value, a junior programmer with strong business skills in a company with no other programmers can contribute millions of dollars of value through basic automation-I've actually done this. The same programmer will have a much lower dollar value when surrounded by better programmers, at least initially, because all the low-hanging fruit has been taken.
I like the sidebar to the submitted article, "Western ninja-inspired nonsense." Popular culture references to Japanese ninja are not likely to be accurate descriptions of ninja technique. I first read about ninja ( 忍者 ) in the very interesting book Asian Fighting Arts

http://www.amazon.com/Asian-Fighting-Arts-Donn-Draeger/dp/08...

in the 1970s. I think the Western sources have always exaggerated the most glamorous aspects of traditional Japanese culture and neglected the day-by-day realities.
Vizio Co-Star Google TV box screenshot tour
Isn't that required for validating signatures?
i think it's the opposite of that. by all evidence, life on Earth began as soon as it was possible, and that's just this particular kind of life with this set of particular elements under these particular constraints. there may be other chemical/physical configurations under which life is even easier, etc
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One myth is that HN readers like it when an account only links to the same domain. One such every three days (on average) for the last two months? That's a bit much.

Though not as much as the PatriciaLopes account, which always links to "mrbool" at a rate of about 50/month.

It gets old.
Reminds me of a story I can't seem to google where a D.C. council woman was killed and robbed for her credit cards, which were used to rent a tanker truck and to buy thousands of gallons of gasoline, which (the plan was) was to be sold for cash back to another gas station (at a discount) in order to buy drugs.
Installing Node.js and CoffeeScript on a Raspberry Pi
Free Energy and the Meaning of Life
Sorry! That's a regression, we'll take care of it- thank you!
Wow really well done, I am from Vancouver as well. Looks very professional and highlights features well. You should be very proud!
Hatsumi has not yet named a successor.

For those interested, www.kutaki.org is the primary forum for bujinkan/hombu dojo practitioners...
moving your hand over to arrow keys is why I would use the sudo !! version.
Sass Layout in 2013 and the Future of Susy
Ask HN: What % of users get to business website by searching vs typing url
My friend's company(lets call it SomeThingsAreWorthTheMoney ) has been affected by a competitor's cybersquatting attack.

SomeThingsAreWorthTheMoney is primarily an offline, real-world company that delivers real world services to local customers. Its been around for well over 10 years and has been using a domain stawtmoney.com(again domain is made up) for a long time.

Its direct competitor has acquired a domain name SomeThingsAreWorthTheMoney.com and has been selling its own real-world services to the customer in the same locale. Its been going on for at least a year until SomeThingsAreWorthTheMoney has found out.

So when you google for 'Some Things Are Worth The Money"(name of the company, again made-up, with spaces), the actual company's site (stawtmoney.com) comes up in the results. However, when you type in the cybersquatted name(somethingsareworththemoney.com), the competitors website offering their services would come up.

My friend is looking to estimate what damages did his company receive due to this cybersquatting. One way to do this is to figure out a percentage of users usually get to the website they are looking for by typing in an address in the address bar vs typing in a company name in the search bar.

Are there any legitimate studies or reports that provide this sort of statistics?
We don't have an API yet, but it's definitely in the works. Thanks for the listserv link- we're relatively plugged in to the library community but it's tough to keep up!
Thanks. It's built for me and the way I think a service like this should be.
Nothing, it's not sql. It's a clojure map with all the necessary info to find the different components.

But nice reflex! ;-)
I've never seen one of these, so excuse my ignorance if the following question is a stupid one:

Are these solutions available as a mobile unit that you can travel with or do you need a large bulky satellite like the DirectTV ones?
Very nice.

I find crowd-sourced anything very compelling. Is there any methodology for getting users? Is there some reliable way to differentiate between "I haven't yet tried hard enough to get users," and "I'm pretty confident this is simply not going to catch on"?
Indeed. What's really interesting is that the convention of wearing black is thought to have come from bunraku theater, where the stagehands wore black and were "invisible" by convention.
If I write a project that uses the web audio api and then package it up as a desktop Mac (or other OS) app with tidesdk, will it work?
Here's to hoping these design trends focus on helping solve business or society problems and not just the design communities desire for 'pixel perfection.'
The Importance of Culture in a Services Company
The universe is relatively young in the sense that metal-rich solar systems are probably a requirement for advanced lifeforms and we haven't had that many generations of stars yet. Our sun is a "Population I" star (counter-intuitively, astrophysicists are counting backwards here) that has taken heavy elements as building material for the whole solar system from the remnants of earlier stars.

However, the Milky Way is at the same time certainly old enough to suggest we shouldn't be the first. Evolutionary timescales probably depend a lot on the environment, but even if we're taking the development of our biosphere as one of the fast examples, there should still be other comparable planets billions of years younger than ours lending credibility to the assumption that there should have been civilizations before us.

One of the big questions is also how long civilizations stay in the "compatible" phase on average. If they disappear (either going extinct or transcending into another stage) fast enough, finding and communicating with them in time will be very difficult. Like I said, extinction isn't necessarily the driving force. For example, our own sci-fi stories are absolutely rife with slightly advanced civilizations that very likely would never communicate with us.

Another favorite explanation of mine is that there could be some unknown local issue in our stellar neighborhood. Candidates scenarios for this are myriad, and they fall into two categories: there isn't anyone nearby, or we are artificially isolated somehow.
Ask HN: What about representing academic papers on graphs?
I have an idea which is representing each academic paper on a graph based on their references lists. Each vertex will be the paper representation(paper itself) and the edges will be the references pointed from/to the related paper. It seems to be a decent UI representation for papers. Is that a novel idea or implemented/thought before? How would it be useful for discover related papers when reading a specific one? I am asking for the HN people's invaluable comments about this thought.
Swimsuit model’s 1200HP Supra stolen and chopped
Why have they not changed the information on their download page yet? http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html

For news sites that have not redacted or said something about this error, many of their readers are still going to be pushed towards downloading a free 'legitimate' program.
No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering (1986)
They do something very much like that here: webofknowledge.com

...but it's usually unusably slow. I'm curious: where would you get the data?
You're right about they trying to get the story out ASAP, I always wonder why bloggers won't have the same adrenaline rush to get their facts right.
JavaScript-Heavy, Maintainable Web Apps by a n00b: 101 - Libraries
For older Macromedia products they just provide special serial numbers:
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/macromedia...
A recruiter who specializes and limits their scope sounds great to me.
Well...

False. There are a lot of nuances and factors to the definition of a "ninja" - the historical use of the skills of ninja as a political/insurgent tool of subterfuge and assassination is one aspect.

However for those involved in bujinkan for a long time - it is about mastery of movement.

The principles of movement taught by bujinkan are lightyears ahead of what you see in most martial arts. They are also subtle ad complex and easily confused.

BJJ is the modern Tae Kwon Do - the McMartial Art of our time.

There is a lot more to Bujinkan than comparing it to mercenaries.

Bujinkan teaches you how to actually be a better and more complete Human. It is much more than what the surface history teaches.

(I have been in Bujinkan for 20 years)
What are the applications these high throughput rates for the average user?
Other applications of long URLs:

- Unique and unforgeable references for capability-based security (e.g. the Waterken Server)

- Serialized continuations, or unforgeable references to server-side continuations (as in continuation-based web servers)
This is the really hard part that I am thinking on. I have not explore how could it be done yet. One spark idea is that each institution can build the graphs of their own separately and than they can be combined.
Polaroid Announces The iM1836 Mirrorless Camera With Jelly Bean
MBA Mondays: Revenue Models - Subscriptions
Ivy Worldwide and Hostway SMB Cloud Survey - $250 incentive
Did GitHub notify you ahead of time or ask for permission to use your likeness to promote their company? :)
It's possible that some people won't be able to adjust to reasonable indoor lighting; it's pretty difficult to artificially replicate daylight. Or there may be energy constraints.

The article suggests that they'll just screen astronauts for irregular sleep cycles, which should only take a couple weeks of simulation at most.
Apparently it's necessary, given the number of "Nobody knows how to buy bitcoin" posts.
Names aren't the only personally identifying information. Many of us with specific skills working in small companies are easily recognizable based on title and company alone. For the record I'm not looking at the moment, but I know I'm the only one with my title at my current and previous job, and they're both the sort of tech companies that will find your service.

It'd give me much more confidence in your site, and other recruiting sites as well, if you outlined exactly how my info was presented to interesting parties, and how those parties were selected.
They got a response pretty quick in the forums, why should it be any different if you call / email?
Reading this "challenge" unfold here has been interesting and perhaps oddly, inspiring. If you do go through with something, please pass a link my way :)
For an example of modern day "puppetry" on Japanese TV.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYWvygAbolM
Heck no. Private is private. I don't want to have to manage another setting.
Thanks. Me too.

I'm fortunate to be in a position where I can run this forever whether or not it achieves meaningful scale. It's built for me (though it already has resonated with many).

As far as growth is concerned, it's already growing organically on its own and for the time being that's satisfactory to me. I haven't get invested serious resources in growth. Then again, I managed to grow my last product to > 50,000 users purely through and invitation model, with almost nothing spent on marketing. There's a pretty compelling reason IMO to want to build sets together, and I think a lot of the same invite driven mechanics will apply.

That being said, I'm more focused on just building a great product that I use daily.