skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A better summary is this article sentence:

Whether or not your passion was genuine or fleeting enchantment… When what you initially loved becomes just a “good idea,” it’s time to reevaluate.

The above advice is of the kind I don't like listening to. Just my feeling is enough to make me read it two times, to be sure I get the message.
It means the iPhone will get so ridiculously unportable that you'll end up leaving it on your desk.
I thought the article was going to be akin to "My Death Page", but that you have an permanent IP pointing towards web space for "hedge stone".
It's not just the % of people mess this up. It's the cost of correcting each error. If 99.44% of people type their password correctly and remember it later, but the remaining 0.36% waste your time with support calls, it's a bad idea.
So have there been any UK companies on YC?
Yes, but he was writing about using Linux on a mac with Redcar. It makes a lot of sense if you are not running OSX.
high attention to details from hardware to OS features: OSX just works and it's simple too and if you need unix tools just install macports and you are ready to go...sounds obvious: it works and it's simple
New Explorer Canvas release with IE8 support
I have a lot of faith in S3, more so than any local storage I may have.
SpiralFrog owes $34 million. Investors get nothing?
Actually, re-mapping Caps Lock to Ctrl is a very simple change in the system preferences (but not so if you want to map it to Esc). You can remap Cmd/Option/Ctrl/Caps-Lock to any of those 4 keys, and you can do it specifically for different keyboards (so you can have your laptop keyboard mapped differently than the external keyboard you have plugged in; especially nice for connecting a PC keyboard to your laptop).

Cocoa by default already has some of the Emacs-style keyboard shortcuts (CTRL-A/E/P/N/B/F/K/T/Y/etc), and these are partially supported in Firefox 3.0. And it looks like remapping keys for Cocoa apps is very flexible and powerful, but I haven't messed with it personally yet (though I plan to try to get things even more Emacs-like, which appears to be pretty doable).

Of course you can't beat the flexibility that's achievable in the open source desktops/window managers.
Your second paragraph doesn't seem to follow from the first: a low-freedom state can still be stable.
That's nearly 200k a year, that's certainly not typical. What was his specialty?
aim for 5% annual return, leave 2,5% for inflaction, and you'll be forever free with 25K/year
yea you should carefully pick up your bank or your freedom could vanish in the next credit crunch :)
Take a look at Unix Power Tools http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596003302/.
Outright software tools free to freelancers
The Geithner Plan FAQ
If it affects conversion, then it's not nitpicking, tabs vs spaces isn't a valid comparison because it can't be so easily measured.
Wrong, there can be a lot accomplished without money through voluntary collaboration. In fact that is the essence of libertarianism. Respect that others may disagree with you, and that you have no right to point a gun at their head to make them obey you.
The author does make a good point about re-evaluating your goals. I can't count the number of years I've wasted chasing after things that, in the end, I didn't really want when I got them.
On the contrary, I think this works out well. As long as people link the original thread in their blog posts you'll be able to follow the entire discussion.

HN gets links from the types of readers it's trying to attract. There is more meaningful analysis and discussion on both the blogs and on HN.

Sure, some folk will do it to get hits and the like, but the discussion itself won't go anywhere. People will see through that.
Why is this a ha? I'm confused.
"Also as always, the more faddish features such as tag clouds exhibit major usability problems. "

This is worth taking note of. Particularly if your users aren't very web-savvy.
Central European TechCrunch meet-up, April 11, Prague
I thought it was Desert Bus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Bus#Desert_Bus)
Anyone from HN comming?
Robots Take Center Stage in U.S. War in Afghanistan
Researchers unveil persistent BIOS attack methods
Who decided a tag cloud was a good idea? Who used tag clouds enough to decide to put it on their web site? A tag cloud is one of those Internet Things where seeing it on a web site makes me lose some respect for the site maker.
Selling Advertising On The Web To The Impulse Buyer
Didn't Hulu start their nationwide television advertising campaign during the Superbowl?
More publicity than reality
Jakob Nielsen on the Google lead visual designer departure
This came up in Jakob Nielsen's email newsletter. As far as I can tell it has no URL but I thought it was worth posting:

THE THIRD WAY: BETWEEN NUMBERS WORSHIP AND ARTISTIC INSTINCT

One of Google's visual designers apparently quit in despair over having to
prove every tiny graphics decision with clickthrough data, instead of
having management rely on his artistic instinct:

> http://www.kottke.org/09/03/google-and-design

I'd argue that both approaches are wrong. Moreover, it's a false dichotomy
to choose between numbers and art.

The third way is called insight, and is found through qualitative
research.

Of course, in reality, the very best design blends all 3 methods:
qualitative insights, hard numbers, and pure aesthetic taste. But I think
that qualitative should be the driving factor.

It's obvious why taste shouldn't be the overriding factor: countless
websites look great but don't sell. You have to moderate pure art with
what customers need.

It may be less obvious why the hard numbers should be secondary to soft
insights. The reasons are that (a) you may measure the wrong thing, and
(b) even if you measure the right thing, such as conversion rate, you can
sub-optimize individual screens while undermining your long-term strategy
and overall user experience.

Putting A/B Testing in Its Place:
> http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20050815.html

Risks of Quantitative Studies
> http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20040301.html

To take the example of which of 41 gradations of blue to pick for a design
element: yes, one of these will have the highest clickthrough rate, and
thus be the local optimum for the design of that one page. But it's quite
possible that another shade would be better for the overall look of the
site and make the complete set of pages feel more like a coherent user
experience, which would enhance user confidence and the site's
credibility, and lead to long-term loyalty, as more people return to buy
next year.

And more important, while the best shade of blue might generate 0.1% more
business than the second-best, it's almost certainly the case that there
is some other aspect of the design that would lead to 50% more business if
you could identify it. To do so, use qualitative research to observe deep
user behaviors.

The things you know to measure are rarely the ones with the big impact.
The things you DON'T KNOW are the place to focus usability efforts.
It's just one more pointless feature to ignore, like a row of "submit this page to some other random website" buttons, a column of video comments from some random video startup (Seesmic?), ads for Wordpress themes, and other typical Web 2.0 detritus.
I don't really want to sign that. I'd need a way to make exceptions.

Let's say that I'm working on a startup that hasn't become a company yet with someone when I die. I'm not sure exactly how the IP legalities work, but I assume that he would be able to keep working on it, possibly under the condition that he give some of gains to my heirs.

But if my half of the IP enters into the public domain, my cofounder would lose his cofounder and at least have questions of whether much of the work we had done to that point had to be released.

Plus, I really don't want anyone to have incentive to kill me because they want that great book I wrote or that great piece of proprietary software that I developed and own to enter the public domain.
Unless I am mistaken the valuation offer varies, so you really don't know how much of your company you will have to give away.
In most countries, if the police performs any raid on your premises all costs (e.g. fixing doors) are paid for by the state. I also doubt that the cost of doors is that high (compared to other expenses).
An Icon That Says They’re Watching You
"Two girls at the same time."
How Cash4Gold Works - From a Former Employee
S3 does this for a living. I don't.

S3's entire business revolves around never losing anybody's stuff. They have hordes of smart people working on the problem, and they have an architecture that makes it really hard to lose anything by accident.

My business, on the other hand, revolves around letting people draw cartoon testicles onto other people's powerpoint presentations in the pretense of a "web meeting". Which of us would you rather trust to keep hold of your valuable data?
Um, I realize that the audience here is mostly university students, but do we really need frat house language in our submission titles now?

I'm not really offended, but would you say that you "had a chubby" for a new feature around the boardroom table, with women present? It would be nice if we could keep this site a little more esteemed than the sad excuse for language found on most of the internet.

EDIT (Obviously, the editors have changed the title.)
is that 1 mil before or after taxes?
I can't tell you about the password, but we had a registration form which asked for the e-mail address. You could actually read the e-mail address (like normal) so people could easily see and correct their typos had they bothered.

The thing is, they didn't. The e-mail address is used for activation and we had huge numbers of unactivated accounts. I don't have the exact numbers any more, so this is from memory: when we added another e-mail field and checked if they were the same, the number of unactivated accounts halved.

Currently, the number of unactivated accounts is consistently between 10% and 20%, so that should give you an indication on how much it saved us.

I can only assume that for passwords the problem of typos is worse, since you can't proofread.
Recession Junction
i feel like they have a reasonable use, especially for internal development, search and such. but trying to push them as a primary method for navigating your page is pretty stupid.
Python Web Framework Advice
What's the difference? Sounds like poor management of money to me. Especially the "hope" part.
Listing tags might be useful. Weighting them by size makes the web page look precious. If I'm looking to find something, I will not think that sorted-by-use cloud sizes are useful.

It's also really, really ugly. Beauty in aesthetic comes from neatness and organization. Tag clouds are sloppy and formless.
It sounds like you're criticizing two things:

1) Submitting blog entries, rather than linking to them in comments, and

2) Linking to your own blog.

As the Irony Gods have decreed, I wrote a response to this a few days ago, on my blog, the gist of which was: conversations about news should not be so strongly linked to specific stories. If we're discussing AIG over the last week, we could talk about five different headlines, each of which was commented on by a dozen major blogs -- that's sixty comment threads to track. There should be a better way.
Space storm alert: 90 seconds from catastrophe
Best Buy has been using these for years:

http://www.bestbuy.ca/home.asp

Mouse over the nav bar to see it in action. Oddly, only the Canadian version of the site seems to use them.
Of course it is. I say this as I sit in my Herman Miller chair that is truly more comfortable that that wooden one, typing on my Macbook pro that makes me miles more productive than my old pc, while sipping my Starbucks latte that is a much better coffee than what I can make at home.

Oh yeah, and did you hear that new band at SXSW this year? Much better than the one I heard the other day on the radio.
I'd like to think the problem stems from the fact that a lot of Web 2.0 startup startupers are extremely young and think that a Digg button, a bunch of startup plugins, and a column of AJAX goodies will add to a page's design rather than compromise it. Unfortunately, these things are so widespread that I fear some people have bought into these things as actual effective tools, which saddens me somewhat.
One Million Haskell Downloads
i appreciate the reserved nature of his endorsement for this nav feature, def lets me know its not the tip of the week style recommendation, but more like, "hey this really works"
What do you mean, now what? "Now what" is you go and make the rest of the money you'll need to buy a decent apartment in any world city. A million bucks ain't that much anymore and you certainly couldn't retire or anything, unless you plan on living in a lower-income country.

On the bright side, you won't need an angel investor for your next startup..
I appreciate an entertaining advertisement as much as anyone. On the other hand, the most clever way of shoving a boring product down the consumer's throat in recent years seems to be ads like "HeadOn: Apply Directly To The Forehead" and their online equivalents.
Sniffing keystrokes via laser and keyboard power
Making A Time Budget
Al Gore opens his CTIA Wireless keynote to the press after all
I think Ruby's biggest challenge for 2009 will be getting standardized.
The Pizza Box of the 21st Century
how is this allowed to continue?
Anyone know a jquery plugin that implements these type of drop downs?
Donate your IP in case you're murdered.
I used to really dislike Nielsen, but after a few years of reading him I've come to realize just how much of a consummate professional he is. I disagree with him on occasion in regards to aesthetic design, but when it comes to usability he is very rarely biased and most everything he writes is helpful.
Internet turning into a crime ridden ghetto
I hate to say this -- but who didnt know this was a scam? This is like many late night tv infomercials on a variety of topics. Clearly, the issue is that you GIVE them your stuff before they tell you the value. Its part of their system, but its also the key part in the scam.

F- To Cash4Gold, but its no worse than all the other scam companies out there. If it sounds too good to be true, it is.
These 419 scammers operate in the culture that is very tolerant to scammers.
That's another reason why they chose such a bad line of business.
BTW, I don't think scammers are making big $$$. Scam doesn't pay well in long term.
Not to mention the fact 'chubby' doesn't mean anything like that in the UK, or I suspect other places, so the reader has to guess what it might mean.
So, by paying high salaries, firms hope to be able to take their pick of managers and get the most competent. However, firms have yet to show that they are able to determine the competent from the incompetent. So, at the moment, most firms are simply paying high salaries to whomever is good at politicking and showing themselves in a good light regardless of actual competence.

Correct. I would go further and argue that paying stratospheric salaries for executives actually reduces the quality of people selected. The number of competitors increases, but the nature of the competition changes dramatically and therefore the selection process becomes a nasty pile of fail. Short-sighted narcissists instead of leaders rise. They elevate like people, and so on, until their worldview completely dominates the corporate sphere.

High-ranking political positions pay a middle-class salary (although the social access these positions offer corrupt this intention) for a reason: people who attain them should be those who want the job and to do the work (in this case, to lead) rather than those seeking the material perks.
How Hacker News Points Work - Mine Have Gone Empty
Why do I suddenly have 0 points on Hacker news?<p>I had 9 about a day ago.. thanks :)
You could probably implement this entirely in CSS. It's a one-layer menu, so using display:none combined with a hover element could hide and show the stuff.

The problem is figuring out just what you're going to put into that menu. Nielsen's point is that these aren't single-list menus: they're complex and serve multiple purposes at once. So figure out what your menu's going to do before you do anything.
Maybe one of us should write a blog post about this.

Seriously, though, I agree with all the points above. I was going to type (some of) them myself, but since you've done such a great job of it, well done.

It's also worth pointing out that writing a blog post that is loosely based on a comment that you made on HN is a chance to shape the conversation in a different direction, to explore a different facet of the argument.

That's not always possible once a popular story has been drowned in a hundred comments, other than by posting your own blog post about it.
I don't think that Mongrel is maintained anymore. I am not sure about Phusion Passenger's, aka mod-rails, compatibility with 1.9.1
Fair enough. But for us, we've had so much pain from 1.8 that the second it looks like 1.9 mostly works we are throwing the switch. If I never have to hear or think about 1.8 leaking memory ever again that will still be too soon.

Admittedly, it wasn't that much of a problem with web, most of my "fun" from 1.8 has been with long-running processes. If you're not running them, or trying to run them I should say, there would probably be a lot less urgency - although it is faster in general anyway, so might be worth a bit of pain.

So yeah, not yet. Soon, though.
when you submit a comment to a thread, other people can vote your comment up or down. when you're voted up, your score goes up, and it goes down with a vote down. your score can also go up based on your submissions, which can't be voted down.

based on your comment history (http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=sscheper), you made some remarks that people didn't like, so they voted you down.
First rule of ant traffic: no overtaking
HTTP status code flowchart
Sorry to stray from the topic of the article, but what exactly, is a "chubby" supposed to be? I guess I'm getting older and not as down with the kidspeak as I used to be..
This might be a good idea in help answering some privacy issues arising.
feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that GreaseMonkey scripts run on the same page, but in no way _replace_ the scripts a site serves.

what, I think, Stallman envisions is being able to use your local copy of Gmail instead of the one Google's serving you without any loss of functionality.
Ask HN: How often do you swap between languages ?
I was wondering how often people jump between various languages in a day and how it affects productivity.

In my case, I use Perl at work. I then jump to PHP, Python, and Javascript at home for personal projects almost on a daily basis. As an example, I have to google how to compute the length of an array if its :

1. strlen(myString)

2. myString.length()

3. myString.length

NB: I generally use Emacs for writing code in *nix/Mac and Notepad++ if on a Win Box.
In your example you've written more code to make the machine do less, which fits the spirit of the advice just fine. Memory-access optimizations are just another way of making the hardware do less in some cases.
Jungledisk is down, and Carbonite (who I have never heard of) is over. Sounds like growing pains for a new and awesome industry.

Too bad seeing a fail whale when trying to get to your files isnt nearly as amusing at it is on something somewhat trivial like Twitter.
Oh, no, living the lifestyle you need to live to be a successful investment banker is incredibly expensive. You really do need a big impressive house (or penthouse in Manhattan) to impress clients with. You have to stay at the same resorts where your clients stay. You have to do a thousand little things that say "money is no object" in order for people to trust you with their money. Irrational but true.

It probably is rational for them to spend into debt in the early part of their career to build up credibility.
flagged because snydeq seems to be an infoworld.com employee. 210 submissions, all to infoworld. take this shit to reddit.
That is true. There is another problem: most companies want a person with executive experience in the specific field.

There are only a few people with that experience since there are only a few companies.
What law are they breaking? The only way they get stopped is because it's mostly used for fencing. People with legitimate assets go ahead and get a better price at local pawn shops.
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That is really interesting. Just out of curiosity, how much could be attributed to maturity? Was this change in behavior just within the graduate program or throughout the entire school?

FWIW, I went to Big State U (had a nationally ranked CS program, though), and I agree with much of what you said. However, I don't have anything to compare it to.

Edit: learn grammar.
Startup Conversations With Myself: What Should I Work On?
django is on the way to conquer the world
http://code.google.com/p/google-app-engine-django/
one of the project owners: gvanrossum
IPod shuffle 3G disassembly
For as long as there are stupid and desperate people out there I'd say.
I don't see anything they are doing that is illegal - though obviously a pretty bad scam.
imo the only thing you should work on is THAT thing that keep you up all nights and that you cant get it out of your head: your passion
My understanding is that cPickle can be slow, because of introspection.
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I actually work for a software firm that created a billing and payments application specifically for recurring and subscription services.
Feel free to send me an e-mail and I can answer any questions for you or provide some information for you.
My e-mail addy is pcain@ipapplications.con
or feel free to check out our site at www.ipapplications.com.

Cheers.

Paul
Hulu is an awesome service and a great alternative to bittorrent, especially since it's of comparable quality. I honestly don't mind the ads so much, especially since I know TV requires money to make and these fund the various projects out there. It's good for my hard drive free space too, since I don't want TV shows taking up space after I've watched them once.

Two suggestions for them:

1)Make Hulu videos downloadable through some kind of player like the BBC has. I commute on trains a lot and don't have mobile internet access, but would love to spend the time being entertained by TV.

2)Post entire seasons of various series. For instance, I recently began watching the Office and have worked my way through seasons 1 - 3, watched 5 on TV and am currently watching 6. I can't watch season 4 unless I rent/borrow it (which isn't a huge deal, but what's the big deal about posting old episodes anyways? Dvd sales aren't going to be profitable much longer, not they way they were a few years ago.)
From Geek to Freak: How I Gained 34 lbs. of Muscle in 4 Weeks
0 errors, 0 warnings keeps you from being a leech.
Really really bad choice of terms: it took me until the middle of the article to realize Nielson is comparing these new "mega dropdowns" to navigation with the <select> element – not one dimensional dropdowns!
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The point is you'd have to give up Facebook in order to flee. Some people can't give it up, so they sit and wait for their trial. Even in prison they can still be in contact with friends and family, which many people would prefer to a life on the run.
old article.

for what its worth, the process outlined does works, i tried it. part of it is metabolism and body type, though. not everyone will gain as much. and not everyone will really want this type of muscle. its bulky and slow, not the best for more dynamic athletes. you can alter the routine to build more lean muscle, though, and it works the same way. you just won't be able to say you put on some huge number of lbs in muscle.

p.s. - don't use supplements and such. they're bad for you.