skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If for some unexpected reason you need a hand, I'd be more than happy to help out. I'm pretty handy with php and I know I could throw together a better looking page than tinyurl.com.
Good luck to you all, I know how tough the last hours are when you are waiting for a life changing event (especially when the odds are so bad - not because you are not good enough, but because the number of seats is limited).

I wish there was a way to demultiply the number of projects accepted by YC. You'd think that with all the technology, someone would have found a solution!

Oh well, that reminds me, that's what I applied to YC about. Does anyone see a funny recursive loop in my being rejected? If I had been successful, there would have been many more spaces, so I would have been much more likely to be accepted... and vice versa :-)
I actually still have my Black Book. The definitive tome of hard core graphics programming. I'd still recommend it to anyone looking to dig deeper into high performance programming (graphics or otherwise).

http://www.amazon.com/Michael-Abrashs-Graphics-Programming-S...

Too bad it's out of print, and they didn't do any subsequent editions.
Agreed. Dreamhost really pissed me off, because their $5 deal was only for new cutomers. Even though I was a cutomer 2 years ago, I couldn't use the St Patric's day coupon. :-(
because it's only going to be used for good, of course.

...

sigh
Neat series. Hopefully they can extend this to be able to get better measurements of people who cancel earlier.

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Of the group who complained about admin/directory rights, it is my supposition that they are largely at-work users who don't have permission to install Firefox, but don't realize it, or didn't before they started to install it.
What I love is the "astute" part. It's completely random speculation. But then so is the original article.

I'll give you my own astute guess - Arrington was enamored with digg spy - a real time, ajaxy display of activity on digg (retired a few months back). And today Friendfeed's new beta interface looks just like digg spy used to, but obviously with activity over many sites. I betcha he's going to do something like that.

But when I say it, by "astute" I mean totally random wild ass guess.
John Hope Franklin
Ok, fair enough. Sorry using the expletive and calling you a pompous twit.

I wish Jonathon Coulton the best of luck with Creative Commons licensing. But as a model, I'm not convinced it will work. The benefit of having healthy labels is precisely the fact that artists don't get all the money. Some of it is siphoned off to find new acts. Let's not forget that the industry invests 20% of gross in R&D, which is a respectable figure in any industry. And of course you get economies of scale and the network of industry contacts, allowing you to market in different countries and across differient mediums.

In effect you're describing a model where the entire job of the label is taken on by the artist himself. I think that's a step backward rather than forward: if people pay for their music, the artist can concentrate on doing what he does best, which is make it. Not sell it. And, one way or another, he will need to sell it!
Only AT&T would do something this stupid.

Someone needs to remind AT&T that the iPhone is a computer with phone service, not a phone with Internet service.
http://laughingmeme.org/2009/04/03/url-shortening-hinting/
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I've logged into my basic account (which I've had for a while) and don't see anywhere to enter my credit card information without agreeing to pay. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Sort of fitting that a man who taught at the University of Chicago and who has Larry Summers for an advisor would use economics for more than just balancing a national budget.
> But what would happen if Google just removed them all from the indexes for a month or so. I for one would be giggling hysterically for quite a while :)

I, for one, would be taken aback if Google started actively playing King-maker. It's sad enough that one company has the ability to do what you say, but to actively flaunt that ability would cause me to search for another search engine of choice, and hopefully I'm not alone.

Besides, playing games with index-censoring would open up space for competitors (competing on the basis of not censoring, while hopefully having comparable result quality), which is not exactly in Google's best interest.
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Thanks, I didn't know that!

Back to the main point: any "killer" of a community has nothing to do with the underlying technology, but the people behind the community. The only way HN would be killed by TC is if PG were to be the motivating force behind whatever it is that is going on at TC, and at the same time kill HN himself (unlikely).

I would sure as hell welcome whatever TC has to offer as a competitor to HN as this fosters diversity in thinking...and at the same time offer a second place to exercise the proper use of language.
This is sort of fascinating from a startup perspective. Small companies that get big still have this sort of vibe to them for the most part. Google was run out of a closet (read: spare space at Stanford) before it became a titan.
I doubt the video tag will support DRM or more advanced Flash features like dynamic streaming. Most sites don't need these features, but those that do will keep using Flash.
you should probably pick a cuter dog(golden retriever or something) + one that at least looks happy/excited.
Full text is available online (with Michael Abrash's permission):

http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1698.asp
Well what would happen to all the aggregators during this month if they had no one to link to? Would they have to buy newspapers and hand type their entries to get their content?
You've got to eat your ve-ge-tab-les!
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Good concept, and an impressive, if glitchy implementation. When I switched tabs in my browser and came back later, it reloaded the home page, rather than displaying where I left off.

Also, you misspelled "Worcester" in the description of "The Towers" at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts.
Sure, now do that asynchronously (including DNS lookups) and add a web frontend. Then you will have something close to what the article describes.

The equivalent to what you describe is:

LWP::UserAgent->new->get($url)->request->uri
Behind The A.P.’s Plan To Become The Web’s News Cop
Are there benefits to a pro account other than the extra space? I'm not interested in the space, but if I saw a list and saw some other useful feature, I'd reconsider.
When the hacker is demoing DOOM to his friends, there's something really endearing about the way he points out all the bugs. When you really, really care about something you can't help but notice all the details, and want to make it perfect.

Same thing when the composer is going through all the scenes he's composing music for, there's something refreshing about his enthusiasm.

I think I know the right phrase: "labor of love."
2D/3D graphics... although there are pretty decent graphics libraries implemented using js they all pretty much rely on the canvas tag (not natively supported in IE, but only via 3rd party plugins like excanvas)
Wow, the Hopeychange flavored Kool-Aid hasn't run out yet!
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Ok, as long as you do, although again, where did the programmers give you the right to enter into a deferred payment purchase, at zero interest? I know that sounds anal, but it's a question of principle for me. I'm sure that if you wrote software that you knew was of value, you'd feel the same right to monetize it's value as you see fit.

And, in any case, I think it's unfair to call this a "model". In one case, we're talking about a GBP 200 product, in the other -- spotify, it's GBP 10 a month for unlimited access to music. There are really not that many people in the UK that couldn't pay for that. And you can even get it free if you're willing to put up with ads. So there is a legal alternative. If you're living in the UK or US, my contention is that if you're filesharing you don't have a foot to stand on from a moral standpoint. It really is totally clear cut.

Your argument is effectively that because it's easy to copy music, it should be allowed. And that's the cyber-equivalent, to my mind, of saying that because it's easy to grab some fruit from a stand in Portobello Market and bolt, I should be allowed to do so! In fact, the only reason people don't do so is because they know there's a good chance they'll be held to account. And they'll be held to account because the state invests considerable sums in order to maintin a police force and courts, whose duties obviously include enforcing property rights. I don't see why they can't be enforced on the internet. And I understand that you can't make it impossible; that's obvious. What you can do,though, is make it sufficiently painful that only someone with significant amounts of spare time will want to use that method -- and at a risk of being disconnected or being taken to court. That could act as a sufficient deterrent to turn off most people provided you have an attractive alternative. And to my mind, the Spotify model increasingly looks like that model. Personally, I think it could extend to written content, like ft.com or nytimes.com articles too. That would be pretty cool. And videos. Basically anything. You either pay flat, or it's a single click (like iTunes) to buy an item of content. The motto should be: all my content, anywhere, anytime....but for a price!

Brave new world indeed! One where the customer gets what he wants, and the creator can make a living doing it. I think in the long run it's a fair and healthy deal. Where someone is charging in excess of fair value, people will simply cease to purchase that product and go to alternatives. Consumers will steer the creator to the fair price on the basis of their demand.
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Something like Android or the iPhone with an App Store is what non technical end-users really want. What these users really want is to be taken care of. To use an automotive metaphor, they don't want to check their own oil and tweak their own ignition, they want to take the car back to the dealer and get their maintenance sticker. (At the same time, they like picking their own trim, color accents, stereo options, etc, but they also don't want to be bothered with doing the wiring themselves.)
It's funny how everyone's first instinct is to try to "hack" it. Check out all the replies, everyone's trying out infinite loops, shell commands, fork bobs, sandbox breakers. Freedom to tinker all the way!
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I doubt audio or video recording will be supported by the video tag also
This is usually frowned upon by the W3C Tag... as I know from experience on the XRI TC... becuase XRIs use an alternate resolution process. However I've created shortxri.net which shortens URL's to an XRI, which can then be used as relative URLs. Now one can tack an XRI on any domain which supports XRI resolution, and you can push the XRDS (which the XRI ultimately points to) to other domains as well. So the xri @si348u can be attached to http://shortxri.net/@si*3*48u or http://xri.net/@si*3*48u or the even shorter http://xri.be/@si*3*48u to all resolve to the same place.

XRIs don't even have to be just URLs... and logging in with OpenID gives you even more options.
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Make sure you're logged in and click the above link. It brings you to an upgrade page.

Read the fine print, it says "charge me $100 year after October 6th" or "charge me $9.99 monthly after October 6th". I chose monthly because I don't want to get caught with a $100 charge if I forget to cancel.
jdileo, your profile actually looks interesting, and I'm sure some of us hackers would want to talk to you. Please add your email address to your profile; note that the email field itself is not visible to others.
I agree, people want change but they hardly know what they're in for, especially with universal healthcare "reform"... Some other recent notable changes...

- push to eliminate US nuclear weapons

- encouraging an international currency and removing the US dollar from a position of power

- spending $3.55 trillion for 2010 ($400bn over '09), when we've already committed $12.8 trillion to the recession

- increasing the marginal tax rate to the highest levels since Clinton

- letting North Korea get away with launching missiles over Japan

- taking over private businesses and forcing out their CEOs

I guess you always need a Carter to usher in a Reagan.

...And bring on the drive-by downmods with no responses.
Summary: people are irrational and make stupid decisions. The government knows better. Typical Time Magazine.
Nice idea. Reasonable implementation. Ugly design.

Poor colour choices, inconsistent fonts and poor and inconsistent layout decisions preclude it from looking professional. It all feels a bit 90s and clunky, frankly, and would put me off using your site.

Grey buttons in the top-right look incredibly tacky and don't match the rest of the site. The entire black-to-grey gradient strikes me as a bad idea, especially as white-on-black text isn't something business websites generally do. Navigation and how people use the site is generally poorly thought out (although the map is decent enough), and relies too much on clunky search functionality with poor usability, especially when you have so little content. The use of overflow: auto for the results instead of letting it go down the page is a poor design decision and that, combined with the "register" popup, reminds me of a spam site rather than a legitimate company. I'd have a serious rethink about most aspects of the design, with a combination of looks and usability in mind.

As others have commented, using browser sniffing to block access to your site is extremely bad form, not least for the simple reason that you'll never be able to keep up with browser variations and end up with annoyed users. I remember the problems it caused 10 years ago with the browser wars. Get rid of it, support the 5 major browsers and assume that everything else is out of your hands.

When you visit the site, you've got a lot of space going "Advertising made easy", "The advertising marketplace" and even "Register Today!" text, but what you really need is a box summarising exactly what your service actually does rather than using vague slogans. The fact I had to click through to understand fully the purpose of the site is a bad sign.
Nay. Just 48Gb more.
The docs have a lot of different approaches to setting up the Django environment for production:

http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/ServerArrangements
> That's a sign of an overinflated industry losing some air.

I agree that the CD days are over and that they were indeed an aberration. It's true that the industry will become more lean. Whether it will be good or bad for music is in the last instance an empirical, and at that rate, highly subjective question.
Agreed, it is not the same, but I'm saying if I needed to resolve a shortened URL, I would do it myself instead of sending an HTTP request to you so that you can send an HTTP request on my behalf. At any rate, using your service would be slower because of the extra roundtrip, and more unreliable.

However, I appreciate your post for enlightening what modern Perl looks like. After a quick skim I thought I was looking at Rails.
I would second this; I don't have any experience with writing startups, but I used to post to fanfiction.net when I was younger. I quickly noticed that the stories with the most reviews and attention weren't really "stories." They were written in script form and frequently revolved anachronistic popular humor being injected into the original work.
As a Kindle2 owner I still don't see too much use for this ... I haven't run into any scenarios where I couldn't quickly print to PDF and email to my Kindle. Then again, I don't own any legacy ebook content.

On a related note, here's a startup idea I had:

- Let people create accounts online and add their favorite blogs/RSS feeds (or import OPML file)
- Once a week, create a single PDF file of all the new posts from said blog list (with nice formatting and TOC)
- Email the PDF to the user's Kindle
- Kindle owners have an instant subscription to a personalized magazine and save $ because they only get hit with a single $0.10 charge
One advantage of my "service" is that if the URL redirector goes down, you still have a chance at getting my cached copy.

The point of the article is not the service, but rather what the code looks like. Returning "Hello world" is almost as instructive, but not quite, so I chose a dumb example instead.
It's unlikely at the moment that the HTML5 video tag will feature a worthwhile codec. (i.e. it won't support H.264)
Either way, it doesn't matter what the URL is when the user only sees "link". This is why tiny URLs are a solution to a problem the web doesn't have. Tiny anchor text is all that's needed.
ITunes boosts price on some songs, lowers it on others - and no-one Cares
I find it intereting that none of the Blogs have picked up this story. I though iTunes changing their pricing structure would be big news...
one of the better google maps mashups that i've seen
It's my understanding that the video tag will support arbitrary back-end video processors. There's no reason that the video stream cannot be encrypted with some DRM scheme that's decrypted by the backend. Please correct me if I'm wrong about this.
Ask HN: How worried do you get over bugs in your code?  Is this a mental health issue?
Just how worried do you get? And what do you do to try to alleviate your worries? Does it work?

Obviously extensive testing, static typing, code review, and revision control help, but that doesn't mean that your worries are sufficiently low in practice.

I wonder if there's a mental health issue to be studied here with potential solutions specific to software developers.
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which is also most definitely not just about having TryCatch and Class syntax

It's also about Kiouku , POE and Moose's Modern Object system. And how Perl5 is still evolving and being actively modernized.
Crystal meth is an entirely different animal than a lot of the amphetamines used as stimulants, though. Crystal meth is too destructive for people to be productive on it.
Implementation: http://www.kindlefeeder.com/

> Kindlefeeder is a service for Amazon Kindle owners that lets you aggregate your favorite feeds and have them delivered to your Kindle in a convenient, easy-to-navigate format. You can also have your feeds delivered to your Kindle automatically on a schedule.

Your comment is breaking the page layout.
The internet has made media non-excludable and the media aren't willing to accept this, for understandable reasons--a non-rival and non-excludable good doesn't make you much money! Short sell!
"usually headlines and a sentence or two is allowed under the legal doctrine of fair use. News organizations have been reluctant to test that idea in court"

Yeah, cause it almost certainly is fair use.

"There’s a bigger economic issue at stake here that we’re trying to tackle."

Yeah, your business model didn't scale with the Internet and you're too old/tired/scared to try new ones.
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Very clean & polished. I love it!
I don't know if it's on purpose, but moving around seems to always jump back to the original location (http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/25089/moving-fail.mov). And, before I could record it, I somehow got into an infinite loop jumping between two spots (fixed by clicking on the map again).

edit: other than that, very nice. Also, video of moving back and forth: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/25089/trailbehind-maps.mov
You can surely show them a portfolio of sites which you programmed that are pretty because of the template and/or designer you use, right? That's no more dishonest than a photographer showing a picture of a beautiful woman despite not actually being a beautiful woman.
Can't they do a robots.txt or some other way of stopping Google from crawling their site? Or, do they want to let it happen so they can whine about it?

As others have pointed out, there's multiple sources of news (especially those in other countries).
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Support air to air combat?
not too surprising for "hacker" news. it's a puzzle, first to hack it wins a book!
Let me put it another way: Firefox won't implement DRM and Safari probably won't either (they want you to use iTunes).
Caffeine has more negative side effects than prescription stimulants, at least per unit of effective stimulation. Talk to your doctor, the older stimulants (with a lot more research establishing their safety) are all available as generics.
The moment when I first played doom hasn't been equaled since. Except maybe the first time I played Quake. Since then, nothing really made me realize that I was looking at the future. Graphics keep getting better but it all seems like it's been done before.
I really like the New Yorker, especially the comics, but that has already been mentioned. Harvard Business Review (hbr.com) has some well written free articles. Makezine.com has interesting projects to work on.
Hey, thanks very much for this bug report. Can you please tell me what browser you are using?
On a much smaller scale, the amount of metadata generated from the Git operations we do at GitHub was killing GFS until we instituted a more aggressive strategy to clear it out. I'm not surprised this was an issue for Facebook.
OK, here's a response:

> push to eliminate US nuclear weapons

I have seen no evidence of anyone in the administration suggesting any such thing.

> encouraging an international currency and removing the US dollar from a position of power

Ditto.

> spending $3.55 trillion for 2010 ($400bn over '09), when we've already committed $12.8 trillion to the recession

What's the problem with that? Be specific.

> increasing the marginal tax rate to the highest levels since Clinton

'to the highest levels since Clinton' means 'to a higher level than after Bush's tax cuts.' Was the economy, and the federal treasury, in better shape in 2000 (when Clinton left office) or eight years later?

> letting North Korea get away with launching missiles over Japan

Given that this happened two days ago, it's a little early to assess the administration's response.
Good move- I tried DropBox while there was the limit and deleted it, since I didn't feel like sectioning off what matters and what doesn't. With 50GB, I just setup symlinks to everything that matters on my system... and it's syncing! In the background! Without me doing anything! Totally badass.

Definitely going to be sticking around once the six months ends up, but I wouldn't have tried again without the offer.
"go talk to all the small business owners there. Offer to build them a site for their business, or redo their current one."

Even better: go talk to the successful and plugged-in small business owners. Pick their brain for startup ideas. Create an industry/niche app/web-app that will help them make/save more money. Then turn it into a product.