skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read the comments - the distinction between a linked in driver and a port is an important one in Erlang, and is a concept that languages like Python/Perl/Ruby/Tcl etc... don't really have. Not that you can't do it in those languages, it's just that pretty much all C code gets directly linked in, or an external program gets executed, usually with a preference for the first.
I'm not on facebook, but does facebook have anything similar to Myspace music?

Myspace, while I'm not really a user of that service either, has its niechés which AFAIK isn't available on facebook and neither would they make much sense being there.
Indeed, I remember my first impression of YouTube was being dumbfounded at how easy it was to just watch a damn video.
I thought that was exactly what 'Manifesto' meant. Either way, they are using marketing speak, but for something targeted at management, I think it does say the right things.
Web development will expose you to the worst parts of programming: bug-compatibility, broken non standard-compliant systems, bad layering of one type system over another incompatible one (session management over state-less HTTP), and finally primitive edit-and-reload development process.

If you start with desktop application programming, even console programming, you will see what the fuss is really about. Once you have had your few years of honey moon doing stuff for fun and learning proper systems engineering, you can move on to developing web applications.

Ahhh fuckit, just learn PHP and you will be gainfully employed for a very long time, plus you will make useful things for other people. Also, avoid talking to people like me :-P
I think that a huge portion of the success of YouTube is not just the not having a codec issue, but the immediate start of the videos. Sites like iFilm in particular, were around for a number of years before YouTube, but before Flash 7, they all had buffering delays. If you remember back with RealAudio 1.0, there was no buffering, and so every time a packet dropped, the sound would cut out. The response to this was to buffer up for 15-20 seconds before starting playback. This worked ok if you knew you wanted to listen or watch something, and it was long. What Adobe seemed to realize was that you're better off starting immediately and building up your buffer as you go along. You may get some stuttering at the beginning, but it's a small price to pay for starting immediately.

Starting the video immediately made YouTube addictive, literally. Shortening the time between following a link and seeing something funny makes the user want to click again.
Tietelman was also famous and ran his own Lisp machine company, InterLisp, and probably had wads of cash and the social clout to push whatever he wanted. His Lisp with English-like syntax had a Futile And Ill Life.
CMU/Apple Dylan; they wasted a perfectly good CLOS successor and a kickass user-interface framework not to mention a great type-system, on a non-Lisp syntax. The rest, as they say, was history. An obscure and long forgotten history.

Lisp doesn't like to be dressed up.
Chrome for OS X: State of the Browser
Language-level Support for Software Configuration
Would be publishers will quickly realize that the actual printing is a small part of overall distribution. It's great news though that the barriers continue to fall - I suspect that the applications will be for more generalized print applications (e.g. small run brochures, etc.).
Agreed. If you're doing one tiny board, save the effort and use veroboard. For anything above that, get it printed.
I never said the language was slow. I said it can be used to do evil things. Your translation was that Google is somehow "evil" for not implicitly allowing your profit-making motives upon potentially evil exploits. So you got chastised by some security check for a technical error. Technical errors happen all the time. Get over it.

BTW where, exactly, in this eBook do you do you cover security issues related to JavaScript?

The contents of the book never touch Google Checkout

Specifically, where do you cover what "touching" means, in a network's mind?

.

See: http://neil.fraser.name/news/2005/07/16/

Also, this: http://message.worldbank.org/isp_403.html

(Part-time comedian, part time FBI agent)
One could argue that propagating(copying) the content across disparate site removes the inconvenience of finding the original content while still not rewarding the creator of the work.
Skiff sailing is the new trend !
Small, fast and fun boats, that's the future :)
Beginning Embedded Electronics, Lecture 1: Background and Power supply
Co-working in Delhi, India
Does anyone here know of any good co-working space in Delhi, India.

Or, would anyone be interested in sharing office space?
Skype May Be The Biggest Winner From The Web 2.0 Era
Can you elaborate on this? Is the necessity of having a Chinese server a speed one, a domain one, or general cultural awareness from being in the country?
I've been a fan of geometric shapes on the keyboard and number pad.
Skype Changes the Game and Releases the iPhone App
This may seem a little off-topic, so I'll explain why I'm posting it. Last week there was an Ask HN thread with a link to a circuit diagram asking "why is this resistor here?". This article builds up a circuit piece-by-piece, explaining why each needs to be where it is, which I find quite helpful as someone just starting to understand circuits.

Here's another good intro, but for this one you should really have the kit: http://www.ladyada.net/learn/arduino/
Technology progress in Bridgestone tires company… and not only.
DIY Freaks Flock to 'Hacker Spaces' Worldwide
Next Wave of Media Threatens Video Game Makers
'In much of the world, American newspapers are seen as journalism’s gold standard.'
Oops, I think there's a bit of confirmation bias showing there...
Interesting looking vehicle. More photos here:

http://www.motorauthority.com/gallery/ecotricity-greenbird-w...
Thomas J. Watson Sr. (1874-1956) ran IBM for many years and was famously quoted by Charles Westrill "Would you like the formula for success?" "Double your rate of failure." I hadn't made the connection to startup runway until Eric Ries did the math in this post.
And before jumping either to CSS hacks or CC remember that often there are ways to avoid hacks altogether. As Andy Budd once told at his talk at @media conference in London it is so sad that too many webdevs think that CSS hacks is the normal way to do things. They are not. Instead of thinking "what hack shoul I use to fix it?" one should first think "how can I rework it to fix it in IE without hacks?".

When there are no hacks there is no problem of "where do I put my hacks in?" to solve.

I think I have used only one hack: _width to solve broken box model in IE5 (which is no longer relevant. And I don't count setting display: inline on float to avoid double margin bug in IE6 as a hack.)
Lot of good info in both of these threads:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=526517

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=530412
Both and I have done Smalltalk so I know exactly what blocks should look like (and it is not what it is in Ruby).

Maybe you should verify your assertion again.
Agreed on every accounts.

I didn't make PCBs by myself anymore, but to me the messiest part was dealing with ferric chloride, so I expected this article to present some ways to avoid that material... Putting the mask on the copper surface was easier part (with that regards, the article presents a cool way to do it, though).
thanks guys. I am going to use these tips :-)
I'd love to get into that, but given that my only sailing experience is 420s and FJs on a lake that never had any wind, I think I should probably start with something a little less hard to handle. ;-) Know of any dinghy sailing schools in the South Bay?
I live in France, so... I don't have any idea :)
VimTip: You can integrate xpdf with vim to view PDF's directly in your editor.

autocmd BufReadPre *.pdf set ro
autocmd BufReadPost *.pdf silent %!pdftotext "%" -
Yeah, I especially like the sites that ask you to make your own security question. Mine is always, "what is your password?"
OnLive's impact on the gaming industry
Yeah, thanks to those bad passwords I can totally compromised 100s of accounts! Then I will... uh... oh wait, there is no value in doing that.

The best protection is not a good password. It's having something that's not worth stealing.
Samsung S8300 Tocco Ultra Edition Unlocked
Samsung Electronics has announced its UltraTOUCH S8300 touchscreen slider phone. The slim phone measures 12.7mm (0.5in) thin and features a slide-out number pad for dialing calls and typing text messages.
Interesting. What if you do hit the right business model right out of the garage? Is that considered a bad thing?
What's the fundamental difference?

Bloggers don't want to be plagiarised because the plagiarism destroys the remuneration that they get from their work: reputation, feedback, etc. Pay for media doesn't want to have work copied because it deprives them of their form of remuneration: money.

They're both exercising control over an intellectual property so that they get something back from it. I see that there might be mild differences (for example, copying still provides some possibility of the owner getting something back, since the authorship link is retained), but fundamentally, it's the same right that is getting exercised.
Smallball: Handheld sports games of the '70s and '80s
Free PHP Uptime Monitor Script: phpWatch
The Great Debate: PostgreSQL vs. MySQL - with Jim Mlodgenski, 23 Jan
Great lossless GIF/PNG/JPG compressor
I can't tell you how long I have been waiting for Skype to release this; it hasn't appeared in the shop for me yet, hopefully they don't do weird carrier releases and the UK gets screwed again--this could of course be an April Fools.
So much of this is eye candy rather than real enhancements to user experience.

Now that hammers are available there is more need for developing judgment and criteria regarding whether hammering is what is needed... more than need for niftier hammers.
Prototype 1.6.1 RC2: IE 8 Here we come
Facebook | Reyvaliadi Hidayat
How My Startup Failed
Well having spent a lot of hours recently trying to get postgres-pr adpater on rails to work with a legacy database I would go for MySQL.
The premise was very cool, Mc Gyver style. But let's be honest, who has ferric chloride solution in their kitchen cabinet?
I think that comes under the heading of "nice problem to have".

I guess a related question is "how/when do you decide to iterate - i.e. change your direction/customer focus/etc"
Huffington Post Launches Investigative Journalism Venture
Cash Out Refinance
There will be more soon. The videos will start being uploaded to http://pycon.blip.tv starting today and we should finish everything over the next couple of days. You can follow me (@offbytwo) or @pycon on Twitter for details.
But designing microwave PCBs requires significant effort, interesting feature of wirewrap is that it tends to work without careful layout to suprisingly high frequencies (~10MHz) that would start to require careful design for PCBs.

Getting wirewrap guns or wire probably isn't much of problem but what I cannot find for reasonable prices are wirewrap boards.
I have :)
I'm asking my friends, I'll ping when I get an answer.
Dad, I Need an iPhone to Do my Homework

Son, use one of our five computers for that. If you are bored on the five minute drive to and from school, read a book.

(I don't have kids, but this is probably what I'd say.)

Anyway, I remember that when I was a kid, I wanted all those gadgets. The objective reality was that I didn't need them for anything. I was never far from a real computer, and I didn't have so much stuff to do that I had trouble keeping track. If I did, I would have used the standard-issue "assignment notebook". (Which I never used, much to the dismay of school administrators. "How will you remember that you have to do problems 1-5 on page 42 tomorrow!!?")

But I digress.
But it still isn't up in the app store.
There is also lots of information in this page
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~eseychell/PCB/etching_CuCl/i...

about an alternative to ferric cloride, acid cupric cloride. It is easier to buy, since all you are doing is mixing 2 parts oxygenated water with 1 part muriatic acid/HCl (@33%), which can be obtained at any hardware store. It shares the same problem with Ferric Cloride: after etching, the resulting solution is hazardous and should be disposed accordingly (€€/$$).

I've done this at home just like the original article but with this other solution and after 3-4 tries got pretty good results. Good enough for some basic SMD circuits.
Having a closer look at the list shows that password rules like "alpha + numericals" don't add much of security in real world scenarios: In approx 95% people seem to add one or two digits at the end of a string.
Planarity - a game with planar graphs
Absolutely Uniques, Creative and Useful Footers
Today we show you a collection of original footers for creativity and usefulness.
Measuring download speed by embedding a GIF inside a JavaScript comment
Confirmed. This seems like a big waste of PR, stirring up interest for a product people can't buy.
Twitter Hiring A Concierge To Pamper Celebrities. Requires Schmoozing.
... what kind of sadist plans to release this on or around April 1st?
This is pretty choice - reminds me of untangling a circuit layout...
Never really looked into it that much, but I'd imagine there must be a mathematical technique that can be applied. My first instinct has always been to put the point with the most connections in the centre, then map out from that.
I always find that the easiest languages to learn are ones I can get up and running with quickly, and that can solve problems I have. This made Python quite easy for me to learn, and I imagine Ruby would allow for similar ease.

It made Erlang incredibly difficult. :D
Help me pick a name for my app
I'm developing a simple service that converts timezones. Yes, I know this already exists, but the difference will be in the details.

I'm looking for a fun and remarkable (domain-)name for this app. Something around clocks, times, dates, timezones, different locations, etc.

I thought it would be cool to ask you guys as a kind of experiment, and hopefully something great will come along. So HN, could you help me out?
I'm not sure, but I think it was a movie or something.
jacktheticker, some variation of coo coo clock (cucuclock?), stophammertime, zonedrone, ticktockclock, ticktocktime, hourhand, hourglassfast, sundial, moondial,

Chron Jeremy -- has a built in mascot. a hedgehog

Didn't check them for availability at all, but that's a quick brainstorm...
Spooky: there is an almost identical iPhone game called 'The Plateau'. Screens here: http://www.tuaw.com/photos/the-plateau/1270610/
tickr
Windows Mobile 7 screenshots (or mockups, or something) leaked?
how about just "cuckoo"?
Wired: Scientists Map the Brain, Gene by Gene
simpleservicethatconvertstimezoneswiththedifferenceinthedetails.com
You remember when GMail was announced on April fools and everyone thought it was a hoax? (they were offering 1000MB, when most other providers were offering ~10MB)

Google had to come out with a second press release saying that they were actually serious
I remember, but Skype hasn't actually come out with a press release saying that they're launching an iPhone application, so far it's all rumours. (Correct me I'm wrong, I can't find find an official Skype citation)
Terence did in fact win the Fields Medal in 2006 (this article is from 2005). He has a very good blog over at http://terrytao.wordpress.com
Chrome Experiments - Not your mother's JavaScript
time-ster!
J/k. Maybe time2time?
All very good submissions! No real winner yet thought, and not all are available domain names.
timeonspot
I read this story too over the weekend, I thought it was hilarious (and sad) in a way. They spent fifteen years in Germany, Austria and France searching for a serial murderer that had female DNA, looked like a man, and was to be found in gipsy circles.
I didn't notice this trend but incidentally I just bought a sailboat and took sailing classes. And sailing is awesome in more ways than I can count.
http://ghost.lifestory.se is the same thing as userfly but with no limitations. Unlimited recordings etc. Also another good thing is that Ghost is lightweight JS (2kb vs userfly's 40 kb!!!)
I remember playing playing Planarity well before the iPhone came out, so 'The Plateau' is just a copy.

In fact, the "Way Back Machine" shows Planarity, basically unchanged, in 2005: http://web.archive.org/web/20050731231914/http://www.planari...
PS This system measured my connection speed as 20Mbps. Which is about 5x too large.

GET /inet/ent_logon/Logon?redirectjsp=true HTTP/1.1

HTTP/1.x 200 OK
Content-Encoding: gzip

---

The page is gziped.
VW is considered a (somewhat) luxury car? Interesting.
Yes. At least it would shift the problem from the realm of engineering (better batteries) towards management/market politics.
UT Austin Students Start Tech Companies in 3 Days
Write your own PHP MVC Framework
timez, timeflip, timeside, timezoo
Seth's Blog: Share of wallet, share of wall, share of voice
Canvas Prints Excellent Wedding Present Ideas
Are you getting ready for your wedding? Are you completely bogged down by your wedding preparations and wedding expenses? Though this is one of the most challenging phases of your life, it will certainly be one of the most memorable times of your life. Choosing the right wedding presents for your wedding is part of that challenge. All of us would like our wedding day to be a very different one in all aspects, so we put in a lot of time to find a unique wedding gift. It is not that easy to come up with a unique wedding gift idea.
Perhaps a gif was used on the assumption that gzip wouldn't be able to further compress it.
Make sure you get the .net and .org before domain spammers steal it.
yepp,

i had a myspace account for years, doing dj booking & events promo. after a few months of beeing inactive my account was suspended without any prior notification ... just like how my lycos account went down years ago ...
Would you risk $31,000 for milliseconds of application response time?
Sliding Puzzle House with Amazing Moving Exterior
I could swear this has been on here before... In any case an interesting story though perhaps not relevant so much to web startups
outtati.me

(and many other *ti.me possibilities)
"I was about to become the first person in America to sell condom key chains."

Just in case you didn't rtfa yet, this is how it opens :)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=303780
The hacker news community discovers that stealing ain't so cool when it happens to you.

Various posters then tie themselves into knots trying explain this double-standard. Proferred reasons why it's ok to steal from musicians, but not from technical authors:

- it's not that stealing is per-se wrong, it's the plagiarism that some posters find distasteful. That musicians' primary source of income is removed when piracy is widespread doesn't seem to concern these posters. Their currency is the kudos obtained from producing engaging and informative technical articles. E.g. (greendestiny): "I find the misappropriation of authorship to be much more offensive than acquisition without license." rcoder has this to say: "Because of that, they can still drive real revenue for those artists -- people may initially acquire an album or episodes of a TV show illegally, then go on in the future to pay for new content from the same people." That rcoder finds this theory compelling in the face of the direct and incontrovertible evidence of a 50% decline in record company revenues in 10 years is somewhat surprising.

- the RIAA engages in lobbying, and that's evil. Since two wrongs makes a right, it's ok to steal from them and those they represent.

I note also that one of the typical arguments given for why recorded music should be free is that "it costs nothing to reproduce". Which is true, although one wonders why this argument doesn't equally apply to any other creative content reproduced on the web. Books, articles, movies, computer code, anything, essentially!

I'm a musician/hacker and the "fuck you" attitude so prevalent here towards musicians and artists is really saddening. It's almost that people here expect us to live like paupers because that somehow fits some romantic expectation of how an artist is supposed to live, complete with alcohol problems and living in the gutter. That, or we're expected to make barbie dolls of ourselves or find new, cleverer ways to whore ourselves to ad companies (those that support this method as the only method of sustaining the industry will never be able to explain which ad company would have supported Lou Reed's "Heroin") There is no sympathy or empathy or any trace of human compassion towards this constituency.

And this is supposed to be the enlightened, rational hacker community?

Frankly watching some of the self-serving argumentation here is sickening. It's watching intelligent people who really should know better engaging in sophistry in order to justify their blatant pilfering of music.
IFree3D: Visualize Data inside the Browser in 3D
whatsthetime.in

would be quite neat to go to http://whatsthetime.in/London
Right, so actually storing the illegally-obtained copyrighted content is what you consider wrong.

In other words, you oppose the RIAA going after The Pirate Bay. But by your own argumentation going after, say, a college kid with a terrabyte of fileshared music on his computer is ok, because the material is hosted on his computer.

Could you please confirm that this is what you are saying, or admit that you're in fact engaging in sophistry to justify you stealing content (music), but at the same time defend yourself from others stealing your content (blog entries, technical articles).
1) Getting more preference-defining data from the user trumps algorithm improvements at this point. Netflix would have improved RMSE even more by turning over additional data like queue-adds, page views, user age\gender, etc.
2) Use caution criticizing RMSE as overly blunt. It may seem so, but it is not obvious that an algorithm can be improved for top N prediction simply because you declare that as the focus.
A man, a vision, and the swimming pool he built in his garage
iPhone users to get Skype service
Can you actually get muriatic acid at "any hardware store" nowadays? I'm 0 for 4 on 3 Home Depots and 1 Lowes in eastern MA.
Not sure. However there is a well established Perl one... http://search.cpan.org/dist/CAM-PDF/
I don't know about recent, but sailing is awesome! We do it quite a bit here in Marblehead. As this year's commander of the Marblehead Sail and Power Squadron
http://www.usps.org/localusps/marblehead/exec-comm.html
I would whole-heartedly encourage you to take a boating safety course and learn some basic stuff before you go get too adventurous!
There was no doubt about it: I had discovered The Next Big
Thing. Like Edison and the lightbulb, like Gates and the
pc operating system

Ouch.
Samsung i8510 INNOV8 16GB 
Samsung has come out with amazing features and amazing look. The phone is Samsung I8510 with glamorous supports. The phone has come out with features that let you do more than what you want.
Sounds like a good way to turn your house into a superfund site.
You win. Can't do better than that, I'd say.
timeconv.com
Improving interface language
Social Media Will Be the Dominant Design Focus of the 21st Century
Our own! http://popupchinese.com

There are podcasts that teach other languages of differing quality. In any case, the online+podcast approach is a much more effective way to learn than using a traditional book & tape, or even going to a classroom once or twice a week.

One point -- don't be shy about repeating words and phrases out loud while you listen though. If you're just listening it takes much longer to internalize the content, especially for adults.