skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
@patio11 has http://appointmentreminder.org and http://www.bingocardcreator.com/ He's based in Japan, but targets the US market.

He's got a blog at http://www.kalzumeus.com/blog/

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Sacha Greif lives in Japan, too. http://sachagreif.com/
Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and the Art of Great Company Culture
I just hope your domain name does not drag your project down. Del.icio.us is as piece of cake, compared (compared with del.icio.us because I had to chunk it in a similar way). If I were you, I would really look for another name, ASAP.
Give me an example of how this is done or can be done.
Ahhh, so that's where Google Refine went to. I was trying to find it recently. Thanks for the link.
As far as one true checklists go, I really like NSA Guide to securing RHEL.

http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/os/redhat/NSA_RHEL_5_GUIDE_v4.2...

and TLDR version: http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/factsheets/rhel5-pamphlet-i731....

It is starting to get a little bit dated (RHEL 5 is quite old), but general rules still apply and usually they explain their reasoning.
0xCD19, which is INT 19h (call the bootstrap loader).
Preflight Nerves - A HTML5 filmclip matching the lyrics with live tweets
>>If we had FTL travel, we could outrace light waves, look back, and see events in the past. The we could race back and report what we saw. That's why it's not possible -- it violates some basic physical ideas about causality.

You are confused. You are not actually traveling to the past therefore causality is not a problem here.
ABP is one of the first things I install on friends' computers which I have had to remove malware from. I genuinely think, for normal non-techy users, it is probably one of the most effective and simple methods of stopping people accidentally giving themselves problems.

Obviously this isn't because of the nice sites with good content which just want to make some money from their effort, it's generally because of less legitimate sites. But I think the idealogical argument of "these content providers deserve to get paid" just falls into irrelevance for these people when the alternative is protecting their computers, privacy, safety online, and of course their time.

As an ABP user who uses it mainly to make my internet experience nicer, I can take the time to unblock websites which I agree I should be supporting or reimbursing somehow for the content they have provided me, but most people would never take the time to do this, and for them the best solution seems to me to be blocking all ads where possible.
From Sloppy Slouchers to Discreet Leaners: What’s Your Desk Posture?
Except we still don't know enough about physics to know if this is true. So far this is only a hypothesis that has never been proven.
Ask HN: Is it common for founders to doubt their ideas early on?
... and still go with it? Is it a bad sign if you think "this is a stupid idea, no one will buy it" before you even begin? I don't mean thinking it constantly, but from time to time.
It's WinDirStat for the stock market, very nice.
WebKit based Opera for Android launched in beta
Video preview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wtrZ-Ovtq0
SoundCloud and Reverbnation ... insecure (PoC on Github) [pdf]
The scent of an Apple product
> Humans have only landed on the moon once.

Not to be nitpicky, but humans have landed 6 times on the moon, from '69 to '72. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing)

I agree with most of what you've said though. As for the moon and its minerals, I don't think it has any valuable ones but it's an excellent starting place for future long-distance space flights.
Also, English isn't his (?first? / only) language.
I wouldn't go that far, I have Xbox and Windows.
But I always feel a little dirty when I buy anything from Microsoft and if I end up liking it I feel a little guilty for liking it.
Actually, he went to Thailand and settled down in Laos.
Gottfrid stayed in Cambodia until he was apprehended.
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All people have doubts from time to time. What you think is irrelevant in the end, the only useful question is will people buy it? you can't find that out by thinking only by asking people.
Don't get me wrong. I loved working at my last startup, and luckily things went really well and the company was acquired by a multi-national firm based on the strength of one of our websites. I've also worked at unsuccessful companies and have faced redundancy. However, I'm at a decent, growing company and am earning good money, and given my experiences with some startups the work can be exciting, but the hours are long and the money much better than what you'd find at an agency.

I spoke to some Googlers fairly recently, which prompted me to ask this question on here. They seemed fairly put off by someone wanting to program using .NET and acted as if someone who would go into a Google interview armed with C# would be laughed out.

For all I know, Google might not be a perfect fit for me, but I love the kind of work that they do, and the idea of working on scalable products definitely interests me. It's also one of, if not the best place to work in the world, and they have offices all around the world so I wouldn't be tied to one area should I decide that I'd like to move to America. There is bureaucracy in most companies and I bet Google isn't any different, but it's a great environment and I'd be a lot happier going through code reviews on complex projects with smart developers than building typical websites and applications.
There was a mention of dependent types.
Classic Game Postmortem - Out Of This World/Another World
Wearable Computers – The Sixth Sense?
No, that is not cool, that is an admission that

1. They bloated the app so badly, they would have had to monkey patch the OS to let it run at all.

2. They actually did have the stonkingly huge arrogance to monkey patch the OS.

What they should have done is shattered it down into a constellation of related apps and background processes. This app is FB news, that app is FB messaging, and so on. Bonus: people could pick and choose the parts of the system they cared for.

But that last is what they wanted to avoid, I think. Facebook à la carte means that they can't foist unwanted "services" on you.

And so they hacked.
I find it hard to see how this is anything other than an attention seeking publicity stunt.

We're not going to learn anything about Mars that various orbiting satellites and landers haven't already told us. The effects of long-duration spaceflight have been explored using through Mir and the ISS.

The radiation exposure issue is important, but as far as I know solar radiation cycles and intensity are well understood and modelled, as is the effects of radiation on the human body.

I guess we might learn about the extreme pathological effects of confining two people together for such a long voyage, but unlike Mars-500 [1] this is unlikely to help with planning serious expeditions which would require larger crews. Tito's belief that marriage will help his crew psychologically survive the experience seems rather naive, and I wonder if he has consulted anyone with knowledge of team dynamics or the psychological effects of isolation and confinement.

Sorry to be cynical. I'd love to see a serious expedition to Mars within my lifetime, but this isn't it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARS-500

Edit: Hey downvoters - how about you explain why you disagree? If I'm wrong I'd like to know why so that I can learn.
The Genius Of Raising Brilliant Kids
India patents office rejects Bayer appeal against cheaper cancer drug
Essentially the same way we reason about infinite mathematical structures in our heads: we define infinite structures by a finite system of generators and prove things by induction. The computer verifies that your inductive proof is correct.
> I mention these cases because people tend to think of these Scandinavian countries as polar opposites of gun-crazy America. They are certainly much safer than the U.S. with respect to gun violence, but they're not safe in any absolute sense, as in your claim.

I never claimed abolishing guns would lead to absoute safety. As you point out, there's plenty of senseless violence all over the first world, including gun violence. The difference between America and other places such as Europe, Canada, Australia and NZ is that people elsewhere do not see gun ownership as a necessary prerequisite in order to feel safe.

> The problem with your position is not that it's false -- it's very clearly true -- it's that nothing can be done about it. Life is dangerous, and as world population increases, it's becoming more dangerous. It's an existential problem, not a practical one.

The problem is that American society glorifies guns and gun violence. A good first step to changing that is to limit gun ownership to people who actually need them: farmers, police, and the military. A good second step is to limit the types of guns that are available; e.g. famers need shotguns, not semi-autos.
I assume you mean when you have a product. People usually don't know what they want until they get their hands on it. I'm trying to figure out how much doubt about an idea should raise an alarm that one should stop pursuing it.
> Linux solved the Unix problem—for everyone.

Uhm... not exactly.
Actually, I mean that how my body functions is unaffected by my caffeine intake. If I don't have coffee on any given day, I continue to be functional ... in the "old days", I'd have had a killer headache within 30-45 minutes of waking up if I didn't down a large cup.
There also options and futures: mpex.co and icbit.se

And also bitfinex.com but generally they are not perceived well.

(haven't used them myself)
> Humans have only landed on the moon once.

12 people have been to the moon, spread over 6 different missions.

http://www.universetoday.com/55512/how-many-people-have-walk...
You are misunderstanding who is the customer and who is the product with respect to Facebook.

Inaccurate information makes you less valuable to their actual customers (i.e., advertisers).
>She isn't saying that people should stay off adderall

Indeed.

>And saying that "all people who abuse drugs do so because of personality problems" is obviously quite ignorant

Nah. The truth in this whole drugs business is far from obvious. Check out Gabor Maté on youtube, he has some interesting things to say. Apart from that, perhaps when we have a theory of consciousness we will be able to re-frame mental disorders as disorders of consciousness.

Meanwhile 'addiction' and 'abuse' are problems -- are you saying they're not to do with personality? Some people do talk about genes in this context, but they have no explanatory theory connecting genes to specific mental traits, so I think they're mistaken. And, if they did, those genes would then be part of the personality

>You seem to think that being addicted is a simple choice

No, I think addictions are a form of unconscious behaviour, so not a matter of choice, although the cure might entail making a choice
as they say: if you finished 90% of the project, you are halfway done.
Would probably would have been SQL injection, given what was leaked.
Random location (in a rough geographic area) to random location (in much larger geographic area) would be pretty crazy search.

I think for most travellers it's fair to say that they know what their starting point is. Or am I making an ass of myself?
0install 2.0 - a decentralised cross-platform package manager
Not sure if this would work for them but it would definitely deliver a shitload more emails for their database.
As others have said, just flying to Mars isn't going to teach us much that we don't already know from probes, but...

"Mr Tito hopes to pay for Inspiration Mars with a mix of his own money, donations from the public and the sale of media rights"

Maybe this is going to be the first space-based reality TV show. Could be worthwhile just to get the general population excited about space travel. I can't wait to watch this!
Agreed. The things you mentioned and the fact that Clay.io is trying to bring the most annoying video game trends (social network integration, microtransactions, centralized achievements) to HTML5 makes me doubt that anyone who truly cares about the art form will participate.
Impact4change.com - the "hacker news" for impact investment is online
same here.. 2009 MBP, screen replaced, motherboard replaced, swollen battery and after 3.5 years wouldn't boot anymore so I gave up on it. Must be bad luck but considering the price paid (and imagining what I would have paid if not having had the extended warranty) this wasn't exactly a nice experience with Apple and not in line at all with their commercials / global idea people have about it.. Esp. since it was my first product from them.
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HP Launch Ubuntu All-In-One PC for £349
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Trying to actually get to Mars will surely push technological advancement needed for space travel. It will also inspire people to get involved in space travel.

While this mission might not produce other results than getting better at space travel, I definitely see the point of it.
Ask HN: which are some good self-help books?
My friend got incredibly excited about the Retina MacBook and ordered one on the day of release.
He has already been through seven of them. Yes - seven. And it wasn't even the screen each time - loose hinge, broken keyboard, SSD died.....you would have thought that in a machine for so much money they would've sorted this out.
"it needs to be reflected where Earth is going to be; a much harder problem"

The relative velocity of the ancient Earth, black hole, and present earth would also need to coincide in such a way that you'd get a continuous (or, less desirably, periodic) stream of photons making the complete round-trip. Such a coincidence seems pretty unlikely.

Its a nice idea though.
Take a look at https://github.com/ContinuumIO/Bokeh
It's a project to create a ggplot equivalent for python. It's still quite beta and not feature complete, but it's under active development by a company working in the python data analysis field and definitely worth a look.
You're right, it's not going to teach us much about Mars. But it's going to teach us how to get humans from Earth to Mars. That's pretty valuable in my opinion.
Good advice thx :) A lot was missing on my last job. The projects were focused on making money no matter what not really fun and challenging stuff.
And it went from $35 to $40 in the last 24 hours.
The iPhone Was Almost Called Telepod, Mobi or Tripod
NameCheap actually doesn't have the capacity to revoke domains as they're an eNom reseller. Enom's policy is that once you buy a domain, it's yours. With domains sales being such a low margin business I can understand their level of caution.
Return of the Borg: How Twitter Rebuilt Google’s Secret Weapon
A lot of places that accept Bitcoins use BitPay and get paid in US dollars. BitPay charge a 3% fee for this service. (You can accept Bitcoins and exchange them yourself but then you take on the exchange-rate risk, which is quite substantial given how much the Bitcoin exchange rate varies.)
Schools SHOULD teach code
In Bitcoin protocol there are no encrypted messages. The only thing that may or may not be encrypted is your own private keys. But it does not concern legislation of encrypted communication because you don't communicate those keys to anyone.
He was moving the blog to another server source: his twitter account
We have no idea how to build a spaceship that can withstand the radiation in space; especially unpredictable Coronal solar events (as mentioned in the article.)

This mission would be an excellent test of building and using a long-haul space vehicle.
You beat me to it ... but I've found that it's really more dependent upon how accurate my idea of "done" is. The more time I put into making an accurate list of the tasks that have to be completed to call it done, the more accurate my assessment of the 90% point is.

What happens when you haven't thought your task list through is that you tend to add items that required to support the MVP's feature list. I actually find it pretty easy to avoid the features that I've decided have to wait for a later version.
> You are confused.

I'm confused? Which of us is discussing FTL without understanding its physical meaning?

> You are not actually traveling to the past ...

Locate where I made this claim.

> ... therefore causality is not a problem here.

Causality is certainly a problem. FTL is impossible in the same way that dividing a number by zero is impossible or taking the square root of a negative number is impossible.

Here's the simplest form of the relativistic equation that tells us the amount of time dilation we can expect for a given velocity v:

t' = t * sqrt(1-v^2/c^2)

t = time rate at v = 0

t' = time rate at v

c = speed of light

v = frame velocity

Compute the time dilation for v > c, then get back to me.

FTL means leaving the causality light cone, conventional notions of causality, and therefore all of physics:

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

Quote: "Because signals and other causal influences cannot travel faster than light (see special relativity and spooky action at a distance), the light cone plays an essential role in defining the concept of causality - for a given event E, the set of events that lie on or inside the past light cone of E would also be the set of all events that could send a signal that would have time to reach E and influence it in some way." [emphasis added]
Eh? Where does "government" enter into this?
If your use case fits data.table then you probably want to use pytables in python. It's much faster than pandas when dealing with very large data sets, at the cost of some features you may or may not need.
The only reason to root my old HTC Desire that I still use happily was to be able to uninstall Facebook, Weather, Twitter and a few more apps I didn't need. Needless to say, the phone suddenly felt much snappier and my battery life doubled.
Document Conversion API
As to minerals: according to some, mining the moon for helium-3 will be profitable (http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/space/moon-mars/1283..., http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science...)
In case you didnt know, the work in progress version of bootstrap 3 is more or less flat and what is achieved in "flat-ui" could in bootstrap 3 be achieved by just tweaking the variables.
Windows Vista shipped with around 6000 fixes for applications, ranging from "this is a game, add it to the Games Explorer", over "report the Windows version as XP because they broke their checks" to "let HeapAlloc allocate a few more bytes each time because they overrun a buffer at some point". The nice thing about those shims is that you don't have to sully your API design with individual hacks and fixes for dozens, hundreds or thousands of applications. You just enable certain behaviour externally which then replaces the API function by a wrapper (or another function entirely) for that process.

This list usually only grows longer (and includes older versions of MS' own software too). There's also plenty of software where the vendor isn't around anymore which is still widely used. You can't just tell them to fix their code because they don't exist anymore. Raymond Chen oftentimes has to argue that part and given that he worked on application compatibility on Windows for quite some time I'm inclined to believe him.
Totally agree - ship what you have now, and then add the polish. Seriously if people care what your content is about they will live with lack of polish.

There is however an Internet sixth sense - that says "dodgy".
A two page site with a email collection form mailchimp is waaaay more forgiveable than something that reeks of pump and dump
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This is exactly my reaction. I don't understand the negative comments to these initiatives. Is it just fear of becoming superfluous? If everyone can code, what use am I?

The truth is not everyone will become coders, but basic understanding of code will change the world. Today very few programs have scripting consoles, but many of them have the facilities to create one. If basic code literacy was wide spread, I think this would change.
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there is also http://web2dev.me/metrostrap/index.html and as someone else pointed out bootstrap 3 is more or less flattened out as well.

I guess its a trend thing, when it became to easy for regular developers to do designers job that used to take hours in photoshop with css3, gradients wasnt that interesting anymore...
Apple, Microsoft and Adobe to front government pricing inquiry in Australia
Hey, I created the game that you guys first ported to clay.io (SlimeVolley). It's awesome to see how many games you've got hooked up to your system, I hope your user base is growing similarly. There's no shame in trying to grow your portfolio with this competition; it's a win-win for all parties involved. Best of luck.
Surrogate offered $10,000 to abort baby
A Manifesto For Error Reporting
> Java can produce any result that Haskell can produce. End of story, full stop.

Yes, I'm not disputing this- I'm fully in agreement that all turing-complete languages can compute all turing-computable computations. I've never been trying to argue against that. I'm sorry if I haven't explained myself clearly enough- let me give it another shot.

In Haskell, I can write a function operating on numbers like this:

f x = x**2 + x + 1

The AD library means I can do this:

g = diff f

and g will behave as if I'd declared

g x = 2 * x + 1

As far as I'm aware, it's not possible to write this code in Java- you can't get the differentiated version of a Java function this way.

You can compute the same results, of course. You just can't write a library that will accept a function and give back its differentiation.

You can write a function that takes some representation of a mathematical function, for example as a string, and build a function from that to compute the same results, but you can't pass in an actual Java function- so you can't write the library. You can write a library which differentiates string-representations-of-functions, but you can't write one that differentiates first-class-Java-functions (well, objects with functions on, but you get the idea. I hope.)
Exceptions for control flow considered perfectly acceptable
By the end of the year, it will either be at 400 or back to 4. Interesting bet.
I don't know enough about economics to judge, but is this growth sustainable and how high can it go?
This is probably the way things are going but I find the current screen-lock eye watching feature creepy. Maybe it was the eyes icon popping up on the screen...
Would you use your service? The doubt of others using your service will always be there, but the only question you can answer for now is if you would use it. Your git commits should answer that question. Plus, at least you'll have software useful to you even if no one else wants it.
Absolutely. I believe these two groups of people are mutually exclusive: 1) Producers of 'Pump and Dump' sites and 2) People who struggle with the last x%.

Group 1 always produce low quality junk that triggers our 'dodgy' alarms. Group 2 always worry about producing something that is polished and finished.

The secret is to be in Group 2 but to have someone next to you shouting "Ship It!" as regularly as possible.