skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And, for those of you reading down this far, some videos of related material.

Not on "The Transformed Man"--but on YouTube for your pleasure--is another famous Shatner interpretation, this one of "Rocketman": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvQwXOCKNLY&feature=relat...

(And: DeForest Kelley, reacting to a tape of this, as you might expect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYGUyYcCuMA).

More recently, Shatner got to do this stuff for Priceline: "Freebird": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em-mjpaL2hs

From the Futurama episode w/the ST:TOS cast,"The Real Slim Shady":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmYQfFWEiYo

Lastly, another (in)famous interpretation, Leonard Nimoy's "Ballad of Bilbo Baggins": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPh12Q7cpeE

If you want more, check the "Related Videos" for each of these. Enjoy!
Did you see the article entitled "Your April fools joke isn't that funny, so don't post it."?

Yeah. It's true.
Here you go: http://docs.fckeditor.net/FCKeditor_3.x/Design_and_Architect...
For those of us without Windows, what's special about the download? Anything?
> but is there a good reason to use a CSS framework on medium sized projects?

No, not really.

> is there something inherently nice about using grids for translating design to markup?

Only if you want your markup tightly coupled with page layout.
B)

Web Data Mining - Liu

The Text Mining Handbook - Sanger & Feldman

Mining the Web - Chakrabarti

Machine Learning - Mitchell

A) and C) are way too wide ranging for a comment here. Google is the most concise answer anyone can give. And sadly, yes, please spell check, grammar check and proof read things you post on the internet. You're clearly not a native speaker, but putting in as much effort as you can to look like one is important on the Internet.
Please stop doing that. Paul will never fix this bug, which gives any commenter the ability to force everyone to scroll horizontally.

Edit: I see that this style is in place, which should work:

pre {
overflow: hidden;
}

but Mr. Graham's insistence on table-based layout thwarts this attempt to control user content (table cells stretch to accommodate their content).
You don't have to pay. You _do_ need to have at least one 'official' employee participate.
It doesn't seem like anybody really is pushing the envelope this April 1...many so-so jokes.

Nice of Reddit to make their site unusable for a day...I guess the joke's on them because they're going to lose a ton of traffic.
This is a very old document, but packed full of interesting and useful ideas. I particularly recall being impressed with section 3.3 as a young lad, but section 5.1 also has the acid bite of truth.
Nice. Now that there is a list, we don't need to vote these all up to the front page. In fact, let's not vote any of them up to the front page. 'k?
april fool :)
Shouttr: Tweet it out loud
For the slow or sleepy: yes, it's April's Fool :P
There are a few ways to manage this.

The first way is to have larger sidewalks. This puts traffic further away from the buildings and there is less echo reverberating up sides of buildings. The sidewalks are larger in Gastown and deeper in Yaletown. Granville Street is being repaved to have larger sidewalks, too.

The second way to do this is to make the first floor retail. Then make floors 2 through 10 be commercial office space. People don't have to sleep in this space so sound doesn't matter as much.

I live on the 17th floor and I don't really notice traffic noise. I do get noise from Granville Street on Friday and Saturday from the Christian Audigier crowd. If I go to bed early on the weekend, I just sleep with ear plugs in. Inconvenient, but not that huge of a deal.

I used to live in the West End across from a senior's home. I swear an ambulance used to rip up the street at least once a week with it's siren blaring to pick up a senior. Ear plugs don't help in that case.

The third way to reduce noise is to have better windows. The building does have almost floor to ceiling windows and they are not the most sound proof. The City of Vancouver needs to improve the building code with respect to windows. It would save a lot more energy, too.
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I think i'll buy into the fact that they're dedicated and willing to fix this when they will have links to the official support page, and changed again this banner to something like :

"37signals decided to handle their web-support by themselves. You can reach them at <url>".

Their site is build upon a conception about "big evil companies", thor said that himself in the so called open letter. So it makes every company on their site that hasn't suscribed to their thing an evil one by definition.

Now don't get me wrong, this can be very good, when it is true. And very bad and harmfull when it isn't

This is not a technical issue. This is a structural flaw into the conceptual design of their website, so maybe they meant no harm, but that's not the point at all.

If they can't fix it, it would probably be better for everyone if they went down. On a brighter note, it's probably not that hard to fix. But it needs to be taken very seriously.

Also i don't buy the garrett dimon line, even if i understand his motivations. Those companies also leave in a world where they have very real possibilities of harming each others.

So in the end, the fact that they're "really good people" is totally emotional and strictly not related to the issue in place here.

And the fact that they're willing to fix, while a good thing, is also tied in my opinion with the fact they did a mistake that could have hurt anybody in the community.

So this is not 'nice' of them, it's just well, the regular attitude to have !
"By using an internal technology dubbed Face Observation Opera Language, we are able to recognize pre-determined facial expressions and match them to commands on the Opera browser."

Face Observation Opera Language, eh?
MoMoVan and Launch Party is good. I try to make it out to both as often as I can.

I just started going to VanDev, too.
http://www.meetup.com/VanDev/

I usually present each month at the Vancouver iPhone Developer's Group Meetup.
http://groups.google.ca/group/vancouver-iphone-developers

More events can be found at
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Ask HN: Would you use a service like GetSatisfaction to provide support?
I don't mean GetSatisfaction per say, any others like Uservoice too.<p>It is that you want a better forum/blog channel for support? And you pick a hosted option, where the way things are done (moderated, organised) are out of your control.<p>What I can't understand is that if a customer wants support or is complaining, they are already a customer, why would you want them to go to a different place to voice their opinion? Does it matter than Joe uses Basecamp and uses Twitter.<p>How does that make the support task for Twitter simpler?<p>Isn't this just a Yahoo Answers like service which is split by company? But charges the company $100/month to participate.<p>I'm wondering if I should start one, there seems to be a lot of money in it. 14000 * .8 * $100 = $1,120,000 per month. They said 80% of the companies are official so they are clearing $25 million a year minimum.
Blimey... been so busy I nearly forgot it was April 1st today ;-)
The thing is that this is actually possible with the technology we have these days.

Look at some of the works done by Iain Matthews and Simon Baker at CMU here:

http://www.ri.cmu.edu/research_project_detail.html?project_i...

and you can see that they have already realized realtime face tracking with dense registration ( which allows expression recognition ) based on the LK-inverse composition algorithm applied to AAMs

Facinating stuff =)
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You might need this:

(setq mac-command-modifier 'alt)

My full ~/.emacs is here:

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I've been bitten by that (loved my fullscreen emacs). It only worked in the carbon version; CVS now uses cocoa as far as I know.
The annoying thing is that I really want their joke products. I need something to think for me, index my brain and find me a girlfriend.
I didn't, but with a link I surely would.

Edit: Here we go: http://www.dashes.com/anil/2006/03/your-april-fool.html

(I'm assuming that's what you're referring to)
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Thor Muller 31 Mar 09

Gosh, we messed up on the wording of that badge and are changing it pronto. The wording on that badge was actually intended to explicitly state that the space was NOT OFFICIALLY SANCTIONED by the company, but that doesn’t come off at all.

According to this DoucheWeasel, GS tried to say that their page about 37signals is not sanctioned/approved by 37signals, but failed.

Instead they ended up implying that 37signals doesn't care about their customers. Whoops.

Have you ever tried to type "This space is not officially sanctioned by 37signals" but made a few typos and ended up typing "37signals is not committed to open an conversation" instead?

Gosh, that mistake could happen to anyone!
Glance more carefully. It is now entirely obvious that Get Satisfaction is unofficial. Check out their page for 37signals: http://getsatisfaction.com/37signals

- The title is "Unofficial customer service & support for 37signals on Get Satisfaction".

- The wording has been changed from "37signals has not commited to open conversation..." to "No one from 37signals has sponsored, endorsed or joined the conversation on Get Satisfaction yet. Employees may sign up here."

- The top of the page has large text that reads "Unofficial Customer Support Community for 37signals"

So Get Satisfaction deserves some credit for changing its ways.
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Ok, well if its an old post why is it being uploaded here? That's misleading.
I'm amazed at how much effort Google is putting into their little prank.
Ask YC: Which queue/background worker solution?
I want to distribute tasks across several servers and processes. I've found several solutions, but couldn't find any useful third party reviews. So can anyone recommend a good solution from their own experience?

Currently, I'm looking at:

- Scarling/Kestrel http://github.com/robey/kestrel/tree/master

- Gearman http://www.danga.com/gearman/

- RabbitMQ or any other AMQP solution (but that looks as overkill)

- rolling my own with REST or MySQL
Everyone does realise that this part actually is real, right?

As in - there is a stereoscopic chrome download on the page - that does render the pages in 3d when installed?

Obviously the printable 3D glasses are a joke, but I gave it a try with some blue/red glasses I got from a Shrek in 3D dvd I was given a couple of years back, and it works.

It's actually interesting from a development perspective - they could do a lot with it (admittedly it's a gimmick) if they used a (css z-index * polarized displacement) formula to set depth perspective.

Plus my Chrome looks way cool with the 3D glasses icon next to my refresh now.
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The 4 Steps to Finding Your Voice by Stephen R. Covey
You're technically right. For reference, look and feel fall under "trade dress" [http://www.ivanhoffman.com/tradedress.html]. In brief, the relevant case law is:

"To recover for trade dress infringement ... a plaintiff must prove by a preponderance of the evidence: (1) that its trade dress has obtained “secondary meaning” in the marketplace; (2) that the trade dress of the two competing products is confusingly similar; and (3) that the appropriated features of the trade dress are primarily nonfunctional."

Continuing ...

"Strength of ... trade dress depends upon the interplay of two elements, the uniqueness of the trade dress and the investment in imbuing a trade dress with secondary meaning."

... which makes trade dress difficult to prove, even to only a preponderance of the evidence.
Betrayed by Xerox: A Tech Horror Story
Emm, interesting. I'm always curious of how to work more with left hand (I'm right handed). I started with using mouse/touchpad with my left hand, but when it comes to writing with a pen or using chopsticks, my left hand always makes me feel dumb ... I guess more practice is needed. Gonna try that in the next month. Thanks! :)
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User "evil" created two hours ago, and all three comments so far do this. A troll, someone unable to get better kicks.
Sorry, messed up, confused it with SproutCore.
I've got a marketing related blog (http://www.volcanicmarketing.com/mp) that hasn't gained as much traction as I expected it to and I suspect it's been partially because it doesn't have a strong and consistent voice, like say Signal vs Noise does. Digging around online, I came across this interesting article by Steven Covey (author of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People) and posses some really interesting questions that I think can help people start towards refining their voice. If you've got other good resources on crafting/refining/identifying your voice, pls add in the comments.
I actually tried to train myself somehow. It's just no knowing how long/hard I need to practice until I'm able to work OK with my left hand makes me stagnant. Now both u and eugenjen said it's doable, I'll continue my daily exercise. Thanks! :)
Yes, <insert original submitter> is <insert positive adverb>.

You're not pretty tight sir.
The Web 2.0 API: From collaborating to compromised
I'm native Chinese. I speak English quite well, and now I'm learning German. I definitely agree with you that German is much much easier to learn if one knows another Latin-based language before. I guess same is true for French or Spanish--They are just way too similar. And they share a lot of cultural background so differences seem very trivial compared to the painful transition from Chinese to English.
I suppose if it walks like a parrot, talks like a parrot, and looks like a parrot, it must be 1.0, so they shipped.
Ask HN: Good Java development tools?
At work, a new hire introduced us to Powermock. It's an amazing tool that allows you to write really pure unit test. It made me think what other great tools are we missing?
Taj Mahal to be Moved '800 metres to the South East'?
This link is just someone complaining about Xerox product quality and support. Who cares?
Yahoo Sideline - Open Source Twitter client built with AIR
I couldn't find a Greasemonkey script which fixes this, so I just wrote one.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/45619
Computers vs. Brains
Twitter now an emergency response tool
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Do we really need to explain humour this much on HN now to avoid negatives?

I was making a joke based on the Cadie blog posts... sheesh.
The title is also editorialized. The blog post's title is "Betrayed By Xerox", nothing else.
What area of town would be best for a 1-5 person startup office? I'm sort of torn between actual office space and just getting a really nice house or loft for live/work combo for the team.
The large "Unofficial" was only added after word got out.
The previous title was "Customer Support Community for 37signals" with the 37signals logo next to it.

They deserve a little credit for changing it so quickly, but I see no reason why I should feel sorry for them now.
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Mental note for next year:

Google's PR becomes ultra lame on April 1st.
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Ask HN: Models for investing in the stock market...
For much of early life I hadn't paid much attention to the world of finance and the markets as it seemed very difficult to know who was worth listening to and who was full of it, so I largely dismissed it as an insider's game.

But recent events have sparked my interest I guess and I've started doing a bit of reading and playing catch up.

So far I think I've identified 3 models for investing in the stock market that make some sense to me and everything else I've heard so far seems either a crazy temporary hack, pure luck or some combination of the two. At the risk of sparking a flame war, I'm curious as to whether people here disagree with my perhaps fairly naive understanding of this world or if you have other reasonable models to add etc...

The models are...

1. The Warren Buffet Berkshire Hathaway model: Place very few bets. Work really hard and be very disciplined in finding the rare opportunity and insight and then bet heavily when you do. As described by Charlie Munger in the second part of this talk http://www.paladinvest.com/pifiles/MungersWorldlyWisdom.htm.

2. Index fund model: Stop taking on risk in trying to beat the market all the time, an unlikely feat, and just go along for the ride. It will be bumpy (very bumpy perhaps) but have some faith that in the long run the market tends to go up as the human race goes about creating more wealth in the world (real wealth hopefully in the future).

3. The Nassim Nicholas Taleb Black Swan model: The world is dominated by large unexpected events (like the recent one) some are positive and some are negative. Limit your exposure to the negative ones by putting the vast majority of your money in extremely secure things like T Bills and then gamble with the remainder hoping to find a large positive event (like the next google). Anyone who thinks they can be exposed to the large negative events and effectively manage that risk is nuts.

Depending on an individuals particular appetite for hard work, risk, emotional rollercoasters and the like I could imagine any of these 3 being argued as a reasonable strategy.

Any thoughts to help me along would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers
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But for people who are essentially in the business of thinking my intuition and judgment is usually that ignorance is almost as bad as malice.

In many legal settings, saying "Oops, I was ignorant," or (today) "April Fools" wouldn't be a defense against various forms of liability. The leaders of a business corporation have to make sure that their employees (their agents, by common law) aren't doing illegal acts.
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Smellr: It's like Flickr, but for your nose..
Their site is build upon a conception about "big evil companies", thor said that himself in the so called open letter.

They may find out that big, well advised companies that stay within the law can crush little start-up companies without good legal advice like bugs.
reads more like PR spin

or a product pitch.
as a matter of fact, good jokes often get high marks around here. alas, your comment was not funny, and you got downvoted for it.

there's a bit of a double standard here. if you write something that people merely disagree with, it typically won't get downvoted. but if you reach for a joke and fail, you'll almost certainly pay.

a cruel practice, perhaps, but necessary, if you ask me. a disagreeing comment will often make a conversation more interesting. an unfunny comment makes me feel morose. i start to wonder if this is the beginning of a slide into inanity.

i think that's why so many of the april fool's day submissions got killed. few things i encounter during an average day depress me more than a not-funny "joke."
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Alright. It's probably a difference of opinion, nothing more. I'm quite forgiving by nature (for better or for worse), so I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt -- if they say they truly didn't mean to cause any damage, then I believe them. So to me, the fact that they changed the wording so quickly (less than 24 hours!) is a very positive thing, and is similar to any other company responding quickly to community feedback about a design flaw. Regardless of anything else, it is at least good for companies to react so quickly.
"...Grails 3 to 5 times faster than Rails.."
they had me for a second...
:D
Not fair use at all: In many jurisdictions it's called passing off.
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Yeah, he could at least put an artificial delay in there. ;)
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Its a very good essay.
Thank You
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It's easy to assume that others are malicious when you're not in their head.
I understand this is posted on April 1st, so that it could be classified as a prank - but shouldn't it at least be funny?

This just sounds like a vilifying rant posted conveniently timed to look like an April Fool's
um, I rather doubt a computer is going to consume a gigawatt in 15 years.
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Ask HN: Please review RoboNOC, phone calls for server alarms
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That "inverse proposition" is just the contrapositive: (a => b) <=> (¬b => ¬a).

The inverse proposition would be that if you take a simple system that works and evolve it into a complex system, the complex system will work.
If we're talking about designer blogs or minor sites/apps that do not involve a great amount of development, then I absolutely agree with the author.

BUT if we're talking about large web applications that have serious development costs for every "supported" web browser, then his argument breaks down quickly. These costs come in the form of feature development, bug fixing and in customer support for released features. When a single web browser consumes the majority of these costs, yet the browser is continually falling lower and lower in usage, then it's time to put serious thought in dropping support for that browser.
This link was posted, flagged and removed yesterday: http://searchyc.com/smellr
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I'm ashamed to say that I paused for a while when Bug Me Not asked me to register.
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Actually, they're not really about natural language--that's what I'm trying to get across in my post. They're more about a place to store and use structured data and access it formally. That they have an NLP interface right now is, in my mind, a kludge.

And they aren't taking an open source / wisdom of crowd approach. Rather, they are taking a very retro curated data approach, more Britannica than Wikipedia. I'm a huge Wikipedia fan (see my recent post reacting harshly to Nick Carr's calling Wikipedia a "Potemkinpedia"), so my reaction was highly skeptical. But, for objective data like the populations of countries and atomic weights of elements, curated works just fine. In fact, for structured data, I suspect curated is probably the way to go.