skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like some idiotic April fools prank. We don't need that garbage here. Take it over to Slashdot. Flagged.
Have you ever looked into Visor by Blacktree (Same folks that did Quicksilver)? http://code.google.com/p/blacktree-visor/ - It allows you to show/hide a terminal with a key combo. Not the exact thing you want, but closer to it then any other plugin/app I know of.
That sounds like the equivalent reasoning for a study I've heard about, that many girls don't go into science and engineering because they don't want to be like those nerdy and brainy people, which is also an expression of the culture that movies and TV promote. Unfortunately, people's passions and talents don't always line up, and they have to make a choice of which path to follow.
I think the question is about what people are using for user input of html content in a web app. Not what hackers are using to write html.
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If there's one born every minute, why do we pick on them all on a single day every year?
Pretty sure he or she is talking about input forms for end users. That said, I like FCKEditor but I haven't really used any others. Last time I played with it, it was pretty easy to customize even if I had to resort to manipulating it object model with javascript.
FCKEditor's pulling away from TinyMCE quickly. Version 3 looks very nice.
The OP is talking about Javascript based WYSIWYG editors for HTML textareas, not an IDE.
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Ask HN: Attending Eric Ries's 'Lean Startup' talk tomorrow?
Anyone else planning on attending Eric's talk at the Web 2.0 Expo on lean/agile startups on Wednesday?
Likely. It's 1st April there already.
Is your April Fools joke that you've lost your sense of humor?
I should have mentioned that it's in San Francisco. See here:

http://www.web2expo.com/webexsf2009/public/schedule/detail/7...
Yelp is even worse on the extortion front, they have sales guys that make shakedown calls: http://jwz.livejournal.com/1002269.html
I'm a fan of MarkitUp + Textile, nothing more, it seems users likes it once they get used to the simple textile syntax. I'm against wysiwyg javascript editors, they tend to add a lot of overhead over the web page. The only wysiwyg editor i could recommend is WYMeditor (.... even if it isn't really visual editor).
Not to mention, it's in South Carolina. I grew up in Greenville. Clemson is a reasonable university (even for computer science), but Greenville is not producing tech startups, and it just doesn't have the culture it would take to do so.
I underestimated Facebook for too long. Then two weeks ago I was in the US Airways lounge between flights in the Charlotte, NC airport (which has amazingly fast free WiFi, BTW) and noticed that HALF of the people who were using the Internet were on Facebook. Granted, an airport lounge is going to pull a certain sub-set of society, but still... Facebook is every bit the social phenomenon that eBay and Yahoo were in the past. I don't know how you put a dollar value on it, but that kind of reach has real value.
I'm currently at my third.

Even if it was placeholder content it had been on the site for more than a week, on every single non-paying customers page. That's not something that just slips by. This isn't a typo in the terms of service, it's a marketing tool.

Give me a break. Your never going to convince me this was a simple mistake.
I did down-mod it, but I see it often enough that I wanted to bring it up and see if I was misunderstanding something.
I didn't mean to offend anyone, and I apologize if I have. Germany is not a representative of Europe, but this is not Germany's fault. No country alone represents all the immense diversity one can find in Europe. Nonetheless, there are still some common traits across Europe, which we could call "common values". Contributing to one's community does not seem to be one of such "common values", and though it's interesting to think why that is, the truth is that even a superficial treatise on it would fill a few tens of PhD theses.
I use TinyMCE, but that's mainly because it came built into Wordpress and I think was easy for me to set up in Joomla at one point.

Worked well enough for me, never felt the need to change
He just said that he had learned that his coworker scored high on the test, nothing about his behaviour being out of bounds in any way.

You should read your Foucault, the definition of sanity is a very slippery and very political act that all too often results in a massive waste of human talent.
You knowing that that support page solves the problem for you but not for 37 Signals, or for GetSatisfaction. And that's the problem with airing dirty laundry in public. It would have been much better for Jason to reach out to Lane and talk to them about this first, as this approach makes creates adversity.

It is called etiquette-- it is also called allowing your opponent a way out. A cornered opponent always fights harder. Fortunately for Jason, the GetSatisfaction folks are obsessed with listening and responding. They drink their own kool-aid. But had it been anybody else, this could have ended really poorly.
Related question: how I can securely filter user inputed CSS for a custom page / widget view?
Right, I knew that. :P Typo on my part.
The information will be locked up. And some will continue to be sold, like Corbis' photos. Nothing will be given away. Far too much of this happens with sites. Think of it as a version of "taking your ball and going home."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=539921
I still occasionally find false positives in my spambox. I would think that if you don't check for those, the cost of spam would be much higher, since the cost of each missed email >> the cost of each piece of spam not read.
A heavily-hacked version of TinyMCE at the moment.
You don't have to pay for service at all.

For starters, you can always use someone else's MAC address, as long as they aren't on the same neighborhood loop. Since you can easily sniff all the MACs on your loop, you can just trade lists with someone elsewhere. Most ISPs have only one global MAC database, so locality doesn't matter.

If that wasn't enough, for all the US ISPs I know of, you don't even have to have a valid subscriber MAC. You just configure your hacked modem to fetch a high-end config file (instead of "walledgarden.cm"), and set your own non-poisoned DNS. Many ISPs in Europe change their config filenames constantly to at least make you try.
Oh, misread the question. TinyMCE.
But seriously? Vim.
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Exactly. There's also slideme.org, an open alternative to android market.
Simple answer: absolute power corrupts absolutely.

We all like the cool kids from Google. What is starting to scare some (and soon more) is the power that Google has. With no counter-powers. Google needs to think about a better, more sustainable, implementation of their do-no-evil brand.

Having an ombudsman, at the VP level, to which any "citizen" can go and object, would be a start. Think of it as the supreme court of Googlers. With transparent complaints and answers from humans.

It would cost a little bit of money, but it would go a long way to building long-term trust in the company. If Google doesn't come up with their own counter-power, someone else eventually will and Google won't like it!
Seconded. It also handles Word cleanup a bit better.

couple others I've had my eye on...

WYMeditor:
http://files.wymeditor.org/wymeditor/trunk/src/examples/01-b...

and jWYSIWYG:
http://code.google.com/p/jwysiwyg/
Great post. I feel that we may be trying to answer 2-3 of these items at once. Would this discourage an incubator such as YC to steer clear simply based on the complexity of the product? Can a project be too big for a 3 month incubator? Our company is further along than we can properly indicate and we will be able to get far in 3 months but I am wondering if people think that this is a negative mark on incubator programs. Thoughts?
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I started with TinyMCE years ago and never had a compelling reason to switch.
Ask HN: Dealing with IE8's InPrivate Blocking
Has anyone made changes to their site to address IE8's InPrivate Blocking? If so, what did you do?

When enabled InPrivate Blocking will block a resource when a user's browser has seen the resource referenced across 10 different sites. So for example, with InPrivate Blocking on, jQuery sourced from Google will be blocked by IE8 after the browser sees that file sourced by more than 10 sites.

You can read more about it at http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/08/25/ie8-and-privacy.aspx under the "InPrivate Blocking" section.

You could obviously host everything that you need yourself to get around this, if you are pulling things like jQuery from Google.

If you host a file that is sourced by others, with some server side URL rewriting, you could allow for random strings to be added to the URL that would be ignored by your server. This would allow others sourcing from you to create unique URLs for the file so that a user's IE8 browser won't see the same URL sourced across multiple sites.

Any other ideas?
The whole point of trademark law is consumer confusion. GetSatisfaction has exposed themselves to an insane amount of legal liability by setting up pages for companies without their permission.
I did indeed, my humblest apologies.
I live about 1/2 hour away from this:

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

I've often wondered if such a structure could be turned into housing. Although the article wasn't explicit in making this point, it implied that housing in/by malls has been purpose-built thus far. 2M sq. ft. is enough for 1000 very nice condos. How could enough natural light would be let into these spaces? And, how would renovation costs compare to just building from scratch after a demolition. What's striking to me is that it's like building lofts in old warehouse buildings except that these "warehouses" are only 30-something rather than 100+ years old.
This could be a significant boost to backup companies that use S3, as they probably have way more transfer in than out.
Amazon Launches New Cloud Computing Product FACE
The headline makes him out to be cleverer than he actually is. He put up a webpage with one-page "white papers" about internet installations for hotels and resorts. He then registered a residential account with Comcast under his name, and hooked it up to provide cheap internet for the hotel. He then did this for 34 other hotels, until a Comcast technician doing maintenance noticed this ad hoc setup.

Despite the residential agreement being very clear that you are not allowed to resell the service, he is pleading non-guilty and that he was "simply being singled out because he was successful."

This isn't a story about a big corporation beating up on an entrepreneur or someone trying to share. This is about someone who was taking Comcast's services, using it commercially, and charging (presumably) a large mark-up. It also points out the importance of reading carefully through agreements when you start a business!

Comcast has a right to cancel his accounts, to pursue litigation in order to find the addresses of all of his other illegal installations and, yes, to use the threat of monetary damages. You don't want a bad precedent forming.
If I want to read jokes I'll go to some other site. What HN has to offer that these others don't is intellectually stimulating content and insightful commentary. A post like this contributes nothing.
thirded. The FCKEditor for Mediawiki has become a mainstay of my personal notes wiki. When your free, beta, hack works better than anything else, that's probably a good sign.
You appear to have missed the fact that Morrow not only works the system, but has committed fraud and over the course of the grand jury has committed multiple instances of perjury. At issue is his veracity.

My question is why the officer didn't do anything at the time - if it was an actionable offense the officer should have done something. It sounds more like he was doing a CYA to avoid the ire of the district attorney or Morrow's attorney.
Actually you do. If you establish a pattern of perjury as well as the prosecutor coaching witness to hide exculpatory evidence then you have some fundamental problems with your case. The Durham NC case was not as clear cut as it was made out to be in the press either.
the real question is how you pronounce it. I think saying "ohh my god, pop!" is the way to go. "Ohh em gee pop", just doesn't work for me.

By the way, if there is one game I think you might actually play it's http://letterblox.com
Twitter To Kill Off The Auto-Follow
[April Fool's] Michael Arrington Needs A Date
Michael Arrington needs help finding a wife?  Seems a little early for April Fool's...
I don't think it is fair for you to continue commenting. It is clear that you are (unintentionally) misrepresenting the facts. It was not Morrow's apartment and that was in fact why he was allowed to stay and pay 308/month.
Due to popular demand we will be adding support for RFC 1149 ("IP Over Avian Carrier").
I was in your position 4 years ago. I had spent some time learning HTML/CSS + PHP and had thrown up a few websites here and there. I wanted to get into real web dev, and I decided Rails would pave that road.

I'm not one for books, but Ruby on Rails: Up and Running (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596101329/) was an incredible resource for new devs. I have since introduced two other people to Rails though that book and they loved it. One issue: it's old. If they haven't updated it for Rails 2+, don't go near it. You might want to try the Rails Guide instead (http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html)

From there, I picked up Ruby for Rails (http://www.manning.com/black/). I read about 20% of this book. It was critical for me understanding the "magic" behind Rails and the weird syntax behind Ruby. I came from a somewhat CS background, so YMMV.

After that, I left the books behind. I just found problems and tried solving them with Ruby & Ruby on Rails. I did a few crappy webapps, some of the Facebook engineering puzzles, some of the Project Euler questions.

----- One word: PRACTICE. -----

At first, stay away from doing it perfect, just get something working and iterate. You don't need a full suite of tests, scale to 1M users, and super-clever meta-code (you dont need this ever). Every project you do you'll get better.

And when you get stuck, know where to go for help. The people who hang out in #ruby & #rubyonrails on freenode can be really helpful. To get the most out of this help, enter the room, state that you're new to Ruby/Rails, explicitly state your end goal (I want to see a list of customers on the screen), and include all your relevant code in a pastie. You may have to be patient, but the people there are super smart and super helpful.

---------------------------

Through a combination of self taught Ruby on Rails programming and putting myself in professional situations with room for programming growth, I have been incredibly successful. I'm positive you can too. Pracitce lots, always be learning, don't be afraid to ask for help. Best of luck.
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Unlike Digg, Fark embraces power users
Nope, this has been part of Google's plan since day one. Brin and Page didn't like that they couldn't play football like the 'cool guys' (who supposedly attract all the hot collage chicks), so they set out to change the world. That search sh*t was just a stepping stone…
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Two things:

First, I'm not sure Google has ever made anything new. They've always just done it better. And that is a kind of innovation. In fact, I would argue it's the only kind of innovation. Making new things exists on a completely different level.

Second, you are right that for start ups the biggest need is guidance. But I balk at your 100/month figure. Cost of living is a cost. Even in the cases when it isn't monetary (say living in your parent's basement), there's an opportunity cost.
I've worked with both jWYSIWYG and WYMeditor and landed on TinyMCE. Doing cross-browser WYSIWYG is hard, and starting over always sounds like a good idea, but FCKEditor and TinyMCE both have years over these.
GM's are a microcosm of the USA's demographic problems. Long-term entitlements hid long term deficits, and spiraling healthcare costs along with increasing numbers of retirees = economic WMD.

So take a long hard look at GM. The whole country faces the same problem.
The power of Flex is in MXML + Actionscript, not in the sad excuse for an editor that is Flex Builder.
Google Releases Google Services for Websites
"Just kidding, we're not really lowering our prices! Joke's on you, customers! Haha!"
You have my sympathies. I figured the submitted article would be the best combination of humorous relief from much less funny April Fools jokes and a warning not to believe everything we read online for a day or so that I could share with the HN community. Have a safe, happy, and credible April 1st.
This sounds like a pre-emptive spinning of a senior exec quitting his job. Your standard cold, corporate PR tactic...
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Yup, the "small group" news is noted for its non-sensational approach. Not. (The vast majority of cranks are "small group".)

Or, are you going with "subsidizers will pick well"?
Why would it be so bad to force people to save a percentage of their income?

If you don't, and guarantee benefits for the C category, then there's a perverse incentive: don't save any money your whole life, get bailed out at the end.

In any case, those who choose to not save any money for retirement (whether willfully or ignorantly) are a huge burden on society, one that the rest of us who did save will have to pay for.

In that sense, examine this solution: we each have a "personal retirement account", with rules set up in such a way that you can only invest the amount of money above what would provide for a minimally sufficient retirement in "riskier" investments, such as the stock market, and you are forced to save 10% of your earnings into this account, which would follow you from job to job.

End result: Everybody has a personally accountable retirement benefit that they directly contributed to their whole life -- it's their money that they saved, and their money that they get. You cannot place the minimum amounts at risk, but you are free to choose how to invest anything above the minimum amounts as you wish. Given that we (eventually) eliminate all social security obligations, we can also completely remove that tax, and several others that currently pay for it.
Mmm. Javascript vim clones...
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Yes, and every new user they add makes the cash flow just a little faster in the NEGATIVE direction. More users is more overhead, more storage, more bandwidth, etc.

Many of these new users are using Facebook basically as webpage builder and storage medium. They're not there to click ads and "interact" marketing-wise the way Facebook needs them too in order for those users to pay their own way through ads, etc.

The other thing that I think a lot of people are not paying enough attention to is the real trend-setting users. The "cool kids", the ones who built up the Facebook user community aren't generally very excited about having their parents and every housewife in the same "club" they are in.

My personal prediction is that Facebook WILL get stale. The "cool kids" will get sick of the non-cool people coming in, and the increasing trends in ads and attempts to monetize the system and they WILL go some place else. This basic trend dates all the way back to the days of Studio 54 and prior clubs.

Facebook is basically trying a business model that has been around forever and never really worked... "We lose money on each unit, but we make it up in VOLUME".

Some of us have seen this movie before, others haven't...
> When Bush eliminated most of the regulation on the financial services industry

Since Bush did no such thing....

> Libertarian economics policy advocates utterly fail to recognize that when money is laying around with no regulations/regulators protecting that money, people steal that money.

Libertarians recognize that govts don't protect money all that well and that big thefts always involve a govt.
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Just don't feed the bird alka seltzer before sending it off, or you might end up with some "corrupt packets".
The speaker doesn't suggest that design will save the newspaper, he actually says that the series of challenges newspaper printers face would destroy any company. The presentation is about how to do good design, not newspapers.
I think that it had nothing to do with who pays journalists.

You're cherry-picking your "small market" sources. The vast majority are cranks.
Are you getting your money's worth out of Netflix?
Netflix feels like a good value to me, but is it really? FeedFlix.com measures your Netflix activity and crunches the numbers for you. I'm actually paying $5/rental due to my habit of leaving disks laying around for weeks. Hmm.
There is no proof specifically this is really annoying about most of the Babylonian Texts, they never go into method very much.

However from the numbers they got (30, 1;24,51,10, and 30*1;24,51,10=42;25,35) it looks less like they used a proof as they did use an iterative approximation method as follows:

let a be some number

let a1 be an approximation of sqrt(a) such that a1 > sqrt(a)

then B1 = a/a1 is also an approximation of sqrt(a) but deviates in the other direction s B1 < sqrt(a).

we have now bracketed sqrt(a)

so a new better bracketing can now be made by

a2 = (a1 +B1)/2 and B2 = a/a2

and then

a3 = (a2 + B2)/2, B3 = a/a3

etc.
the answer for sqrt(2) of 1;24,51,10 happens to equal a3 in this case.

note that the above is only speculation, but the method DOES produce the Babylonian numbers so and it uses only arithmetic that we know they had, so it seems pretty likely

(All this information and more can be found in Mathematical Cuneiform Texts by Otto Neugebauer)
"I don't see ads for Morton's competitors that only go away if Morton's sends Yelp money."

Actually, this seems to be exactly what Yelp does:

Here's what advertisers receive, according to an e-mailed sales pitch that a local business owner sent to this newspaper. They can highlight a favorite review to appear at the top of the page about their business. They also show up first in search results for similar businesses in their region (for example "coffee" near "Alameda, CA"). Ads for that business appear on the page of local competitors, while competitors' ads do not appear on their page.

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/gyrobase/yelp_and_the_business...
I agree. My personal anecdote is that I've been to three countries in the past year; Japan, Mexico and Colombia; and later connected with every single person I met that was in their teens or twenties. This includes some fairly rural parts of Mexico and Colombia that don't necessarily have broadband or very good Internet access, in general.