skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't confuse markup with discount. A $1 item that is marked up 30% and then given a 30% discount has a final cost of 91 cents.
Everyone interested in licensing our field might note that the reason licensing has been invented is to protect the public not designers or clients.

That might be the original goal. But the long-term effect is that they'll use licenses to keep new designers out, and to make the licensed designers rich. And the best way to do that is to make sure the 'right' way is the old way (and the expensive way).
I thought about including the idea of only rewriting the hotspots, but left it out as detracting from the main point and it seemed tedious to iterate the details. But then there are 3 replies pointing this out, and which seem to be more valued than mine by the community (according to their votes.)

Ask HN: Does this mean that HN would prefer I wrote comments that do cover all the cases, instead of just sticking to the key point? Or is it just that there seemed to be a gap in my comment, which people naturally wanted to cover?

Note: the replies add more than just "rewrite only hotspots" (like the above one detailing setup, errors, edge cases), and I certainly appreciate extra details being filled in. Is the valuable extra detail the reason for the extra votes? I just feel kind of annoyed that the replies seem to suggest I was stupid in not mentioning the hotspot idea. This has happened to me a few times now. Am I taking it too personally? Is it just a question of different opinions on what is important? Or is it just that I failed to communicate my decision, and then get annoyed when people point out the other branch of the decision?

There is a issue of preference here: I prefer to keep all the code in one language. One factor in this is that my projects are small, and for these, the overhead of switching languages and managing the different source isn't worth it. I'm not running up against efficiency problems either. I'm sure it's different for larger projects, especially multi-person ones, and particularly if the project covers different kinds of activities (for which different languages are suitable), and even more so if there's need to integrate with or reuse existing assets in different languages.

Thanks for any clarifications you may have. :-)
I think there are Oberon applications for Linux and Windows, one of the article's links goes to an ETH page with downloads for these. Other than that, you can try running it in Parallels. It didn't work in VMWare on my system, either, but the trial version of Parallels ran it just fine.
Amazon expected to preview large-format Kindle
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Thanks for informing me about how americans (you are, right?) interpret the name.

We'll see whether this will hinder growth in any way. I hope not ofcourse :)
good point, after re-reading i didn't word things how i meant. edited.
Fix a bug in Ruby’s configure.in and get a ~30% performance boost
No need to use google cache when wikipedia keeps the history of the page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fravia&oldid=2...
I think the Talk page is the appropriate place (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fravia), but I honestly don't know. I'd suggest first proving he meets the criteria here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BIO#Basic_criteria
Make Twitter Look like an Excel Window
Treadarounds is hilarious. Reminds me that people get up to exercise, walk a treadmill, then go cart about for their afternoon golf game.
how else would you buy 500K hits for a few thousand dollars?
There's a surprising number that aren't no-follow.
Thanks so much! Now I can use the addons like this without wasting screen space on a whole bookmarks bar.

I wonder if I will be able to turn off text next to bookmarklet's icons too; leaving only icons.
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I love Beards&Hats. Always have to stop by when I'm in the area; the whole place is like a small electronics amusement park.
The video recalls the Shades of past success:

Where Necessity suckled those who strove,

Rather than visual Metaphors from leaden prose.

Motivation for children of Excess?
My new company is called Monkey Wrench Games.

We liked the idea of "mixing up the games industry", and my co-founder had a cool idea for a logo. Oh, and we'd tried 100 other names, and they were either all taken or not-quite-right.

http://www.monkeywrenchgames.com
That statement says absolutely nothing about the Hasidic community. As with any community, there will be those that commit acts considered indecent or tailor to their own urges above culture. That statement holds true if you insert absolutely any group of people in place of "the Hasidic community," no matter how traditional or strict.
For me, personally, it's a much simpler formula. I feel exhausted when I've been doing something I don't want to for too long. Exhaustion and motivation are really tightly linked for me.

I notice that I get brutally exhausted when it's time to change jobs or otherwise move on in life. Can't wake up, have trouble getting things done, generally just worn out.

The funny thing is, if I start something else the next day, like a new job I'm excited about, boom, back to full steam. I don't sleep much and don't want to, work crazy hours and wake up excited about rather than dreading my to-do list.

Thus far the startup life has catered well to that. At one year in I'm still excited almost every day about getting up to work. I work around 100 hours most weeks and it doesn't seem like a chore. I'm really hoping that pattern holds true for the long haul.
I've found my own effective method for beating that exhausted feeling: I call it "supercharging" your batteries. The trick is to down two or three redbulls immediately before going to sleep. 45-50 minutes later you basically hit the ceiling, transitioning in seconds from unconsciousness to compulsive jabbering. be careful with this technique: if you're unable to fall asleep before the medicine kicks, you're screwed.

The author maintains that fats and cheap carbs can only interrupt the body and add to its exhaustion. I think this is true only if you fail to shoot the moon.
I've ordered several thousand dollars worth of equipment from them but have never been to their store. Would it be odd that I plan a trip to NY just to visit the B&H store?
Apparently, not everybody is happy with the graphics performance etc.,

http://renesd.blogspot.com/2009/04/ubuntu-jaunty-half-speed-...
Absolutely not! Anyone who is a B&H fan should plan a pilgrimage to NYC at least once =)
as i understand it, the issue with the wikipedia article was that it [the article] was badly put together, and had no citations.

rather than reverting the changes, try creating a better article from scratch. (of course, its locked until the 12th to prevent a flood of people trying to revert it, but just wait until the 13th)
FYI, the actual article is here:

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090501/why-circuit-city-failed...

That will save you an interstitial ad and 30 seconds of page load before the "printer friendly" link shows up.

Somebody might want to re-point the item.
He 'wrote the book on Rhymes, a Note from the Author.'

Good choice!
Isn't DropBox's success evidence that domains don't matter that much?

I suppose they are mainly download software, and not a destination site. Also, the site can be reached from the desktop with a direct link.
Quitting your day job to make video games.
I recently quit my day job working for a major search engine company, in order to pursue my passion for making video games full-time (http://monkeywrenchgames.com).

We're targeting the iPhone, and hoping that we didn't miss the gold rush.

Has anyone else taken a similar plunge? What have your experiences been?
I'd also be happy to answer ANY questions you might have about getting started on the iPhone.
I actually read HN way too much while at work (case in point). I just cant help it.
Confessions Of A Two Week Old iRule Developer
Apple tablet is probably a much larger ipod touch.

Primary notivation is to make the itunes video store stop sucking so bad: currently the only pleasant way to watch videos from itunes is on an appletv (at home), or on a computer (clunky, most people don't carry laptops), or on an ipod (invitation to eyestrain, especially for older people), or on a handful of ipod docking solutions (niche products).

Figure the screen resolution is big enough to show full 720p content and is just large enough to fill the field of view held at the reading distance used when reading "books".

It might have a fancy OLED screen (for power consumption and aesthetic reasons; you don't want the battery running out midway through a 2-hour film, and you don't want the device getting unpleasantly warm to hold midway through a 2-hour film).

Like the other ipod touches it'd be iphone-os compatible, with special optimized clients for eg youtube and sites like hulu (if hulu wants) but not necessarily a general-purpose flash capable browser. It'd be capable of being a nifty pda but apple isn't going to try to hard on that; it's marketed as a media tablet that can run productivity software from the apple store if that's your pleasure, and has ical and so on built in.

Having always-on wireless internet (either from at+t or verizon) makes sense; since the apple aesthetic is to make stuff that "just works" selling it with an always-working internet connection is a big win (even if eg you're not allowed to download films from itunes over the 3g nework).

If it sells it'll be a decent platform for ebooks even if it's not using an eink screen: nice form factor, amazon and other ebook-reading clients, capable of buying ebooks anywhere, and already in a lot of people's hands (via eg the iphone, which is platform-compatible).
My understanding is that the word describes a particular kind of group behaviour where everyone is blaming everyone and everything except themselves. So I misused it to describe a CEO blaming other people, it would be more accurate to think of a management meeting where the CEO, PResident, and various VPs are all weaseling out of responsibility by trying to pin it on something else.

Vehemently!

A colleague introduced the phrase to me in conjunction with Hurricane factors. So walking into a meeting to discuss why a particualr release was late, he would whisper to me, "Stand by for a Force Three Blamestorm!"
Worth noting - "The Window 7 beta expires on Aug. 1, and computers with that version will begin shutting themselves down after two hours beginning July 1"
I usually skim the titles to see if there is anything interesting. If I find something interesting I read the first paragraph to see if its actually interesting or link bait
One Black Bear
We drank lots and somehow a name came from the session. I Highly recommend it, it seems to be well liked.
Next up, make HN look like an Excel window, with comments in separate sheets. The pointy-haired bosses will never know..
It's a tough row to hoe. How do you keep a crackpot with a couple of friends (or sockpuppets) from establishing an 'authoritative' beachhead ?

In this case, I think someone well-meaning tried to enforce the 'notoriety' policy. Now, it's a matter of judgement if a reverse engineer known to hundreds or thousands deserves a place along Donald Duck.

Personally, I don't see much harm in giving a Wikipedia page to anyone who ever lived.
I understand your point, but I think there is a book coming out that I hope will help:
http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Clojure-Stuart-Halloway/dp...
Why Has the U.S.-Owned Auto Industry Failed in North America?
One good way to stave off a news site addiction is to enthusiastically participate in comment threads. After being drawn into 2 or 3 good flameouts you'll curse the whole medium.
I often skim the comments here before I read the post itself. It's a decent filter.
I seriously doubt there are only Hasidim working there...

Edit: hmmm wait, this tab was obviously already open for quite some time... a dozen comments have materialized, including some I'm now duping. Sorry.
4 startups ideas for browser extensions
If you really need _one-click_ acess, I guess no. NB: In Opera, You can drag bookmarks to Opera's taskbar, a la Quick Launch, note the Tumblr icon in the lower right corner next to Recycle Bin: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3658/3503891287_e60a7839f7_o....

As for me, I hardly ever need one-click access, certainly not at the price of screen real estate and distraction. Browser remembering recent URLs makes for most of my acceleration needs; for the rest I bookmark sites in my browser or Tumblr.
Work out in the morning and don't eat too much.
I'm always surprised by the lengths people (self included) will go to rather than just sleep, stop eating when they aren't hungry, etc. People seem to want a more complicated solution.
It would be better if the demo also had an output of the post data.
I recently went through the process of choosing a name for my current project (http://www.webalon.com/gamemanager/). The site is aimed at the casual gaming market. This is a pretty crowded area, and most of the good names - game.com, player.com... - have long since been taken and even average names like - playfire, casualgames, gameking, playhub etc, etc - have been snuffled up. Choosing a name was always therefore going to have to be a big compromise, determined to a large part by what was available.

In cases like this, when most of the best names have already been taken, I find that a thesaurus is invaluable in coming up with a half decent name. My project is a rich interent style app for creating and managing a library of online games. Think iTunes for online games. So I was looking for a name that would capture the ideas of both collecting and playing. Scouring the thesaurus, I came up with a few different words for collections, and eventually drew up a list of potentual urls. This was then whittled down significantly to remove names that had already been taken.

This left me with the following:

playheap.com
playhoard.com
plather.com (play and gather)
plhub.com

To be honest, none of these got me particularly excited. I could live with one of them, if I had to. But ideally I would like something a bit more interesting. So back to the thesaurus, this time looking at alternative words for playing or gaming. This eventually led me to the word: gambol, which means 'to leap about playfully'. That's quite a nice word. It has a pretty cool meaning, and even better it starts with the first three letters of 'game'. On the downside, most people probably won't know what the word means and it also sounds a bit like gamble.

But as I said at the start, choosing a name was always going to be a big compromise. I was never going to get my ideal name. Unfortunately, gambol.com was taken. Back to the thesaurus, then. Wait a sec. Why not stick an "io" on the end. It worked for "tr", after all!

So there you have it, my chosen name for my new project: gambolio.com
With such an inflexible regime

As much as everyone trash talks big corporations, I work for one now and have this beautiful thing called flex hours. Unless there's a meeting in the morning (rarely) I'm usually up at 915 and into work before 10am (no rush hour traffic). Some people arrive as late as 11-1130am, but as long as you're doing the work that needs to be done it doesn't matter.

It's a nice balance because it allows me to go to bed ~1am and then any shift in sleep during the week (usually the weekend) isn't so drastic to cause massive exhaustion for the next few days while trying to rotate back.
Thank goodness HN links are embedded with the 'nofollow' tag.
Gem in that article: “I had never invented anything before,” he told me in an e-mail recently, “because no one had ever asked me to invent anything!”

Makes me really think about how and why I do things. That sentence struck a chord.
So there's no service that solves this? Damn..
I've actually spoken with people who work at B&H, and apparently they're a multibillion dollar company, and eg get on the order of 1-2 million dollars in equipment orders from Brazil each month alone!
B&H is a fine store, but comparing them to Circuit City is not apt. They operate more like Amazon than any brick-and-mortar store -- the vast majority of their product is shipped online.

And customer service isn't exactly what comes to mind when thinking about B&H. The operation is run to be efficient and maximize profit not to enhance the "customer experience", though often the two intertwine.

They've found a good niche but if they tried to put one of these stores in every city across the country, as they say, "it wouldn't scale".
I have been using the prototype based one. Good to have something like this around if I look to try and standardize everything in JQuery later on.
Bypassing the VC: Funding Your Business with Deferred Revenue
While the majority of the salespeople and staff are jews, there are also plenty who are not. All walks of life-- anyone you'd normally see on Ninth Avenue is represented on the B&H staff.

(including that snotty bastard in the studio lighting department-- B&H salespeople can be a little brusque)

I've probably spent upwards of $10k there over the years-- just bought $200 in grip on Sunday.
It depends greatly on what your motives are. If you want to sleep well at night you're absolutely right. If you want to start a successful business it's not so clear cut.

I know that this is a sensitive point, particularly on HN where people tend to judge companies by the merits of their pproducts and not on their ability to market them, but cheating gets results. It's of course a fine line, but if you don't get caught and attract new customers then it's good for business.

Sad as it may be, if you want to make serious money you often have to do things you wouldn't normally do, including black-hat SEO, promising more than you can deliver and squeezing your competitor by spreading FUD and rumors.

I'm not saying that this is the only way to do business, and there are many examples of companies with an impeccable moral record that are doing well. But the bottom line is that shady tactics work if you don't get caught. And more often than not you don't.
Sounds unhealthy. And Redbull does not taste too good, either.
I went on the final day and got a $1900 laptop for $1080. Not much selection, but they coincidentally had exactly what I was looking for.
Cool logo!
Tony Award Nominations 2009 start time
The most amazing thing is that the prices are so low that I don't even bother to comparison-shop anymore.

This is how I feel about Newegg.com. I used to be a daily visitor to pricewatch.com, which compares the prices of electronics, until I found myself regularly ending on up Newegg, and decided that it was easier to just hit newegg directly. Now I buy almost all my gear from them.
People get the wrong idea because they see the beards and hats and think "oh they must be really religious". You have a cultural group with individuals acting in different ways across a wide spectrum, often conflicting at different points in time -- just like everyone else.
Basic income (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income) may be compatible with entrepreneurship.
Developers knew what they were getting into; Apple has a history of opacity and secrecy. Look at the NDA debacle, the seemingly arbitrary app review process, or the way they silence dissent on the forums. Developers wrote apps knowing that Apple development is risky, and so they will continue to write apps; there won't be significant backlash.
Incidentally, I don't think the conveyor system is to reduce theft-- it's due to the lack of space. 35k ft^2 is only enough to keep display models of most items out on the sales floor (I'm guessing their total product line is >300k SKUs)

Most of their store inventory is in the basement warehouse (and plenty of other inventory must be off-site entirely). There's simply no other way of fulfilling that much volume in a real-time retail environment.
I remember when I was a kid and didn't have a very reliable internet connection I mirrored fravia.org to make sure that I could read it when I wanted to. I was fascinated with all his writings on reverse engineering and learned a lot from him...

So thanks to Fravia and sorry to see him go...
Unemployment benefits is not the same as welfare. People in Sweden pay taxes and they pay a fee to the A-kassa a sort of communal opt-in pot (which people gladly opt into) to be able to reach what the article is talking about.

It would be insulting to suggest they are living of someone else when they explicitly have payed to be in that system. They are living of their own hard work.

You also do have to look for work and take what the job agency offers you that they think is suitable if you are unable to find a job on your own, the amount of money you get also deteriorates with time.

Believe it or not but people don't actually like sitting at home being completely unproductive all day. or maybe they do in your country but stop making assumptions about mine.
On Lisp is a must, it is just a really brilliant book that delves into what Graham argues (and I accept) is the most distinct and powerful feature of Lisp, macros.

I can see evidence that Clojure contributors have read it too, just the other day there was an example of an anaphoric macro posted on the mailing list. Very cool.

http://www.bookshelf.jp/texi/onlisp/onlisp_17.html#SEC111
Hi5 Social Networks Lands In Instant Messaging Service
We (self included) need a better way of coping with that associated sense of malaise (well, at least /I/ have one of those).
Groovy versus Scala (Update)
I've purchased a lot of gear from B&H. This article is a little inaccurate, B&H opened in the late 1960s, my father bought his Nikon F FTn from them through the mail in 1969 and I still have the receipt for it.
Microsoft’s Laptop Hunters Ads: When Will They Stop?
That is an impressive list, but honestly I'd take self-submitters like this over the infoworld articles.
Google, Apple Scrutinized by the FTC
The apple backlash is always quiet. People just pick the other option when building stuff and move on.
I've found Bob Marley's soothing island rhythms, pitch-adjusted to 60bpm where necessary, go a long ways towards neutralizing the bad taste.
Wiggio.com - we strive to provide the simplest platform for people to Work In Groups (hence the W.I.G.)... the G.I.O. was added to make it sticky
Sun Oddly Quiet -- Hints at Next "Little Ice Age"?
Kauffman Survey: Entrepreneurship Strong in 2008 Despite Economic Downturn
Perl Roles Versus Duck Typing
Yeah. It shouldn't be a surprise to anybody, but I found that I felt a lot better in the evening when I hadn't been marinating my brain in loads of caffeine all day. Green tea gradually over the day, or a mug of coffee in the morning and another sometime after lunch is all right, but much more than that makes me manic, then cranky, then gloomy. Not good.

Also: Getting regular exercise helps so much.
Catalyst vs Rails Round Two (benchmarks using latest versions)
My criteria:

1. Acceptable

2. Trivial to spell and pronounce for target audience (and from lacker's comment, I suppose investors too)

3. Unique enough to be the top result when searched by name

4. No existing trademarks

5. An intelligent answer for how the name is associated with the product

6. Unregistered .com

I try not to spend more than a few hours brainstorming names because it's an endless process. The product should define the name, not the other way around.
Dupe or not -- anyone know if this equally applies to Ruby 1.9? I've started using it full-time now for my Rails apps (2.3.2) and the speed boost is serious. Another 30% ... wow.
HBC: Hierarchical Bayes Compiler
Since I'm about to start a non-tech job, I'm looking hard for ways to compress my ~30 min daily update (including politics, science, tech, blogs) into <10 min.

I'm thinking of setting up a system that gives me certain amount of "online cash" every week, and whenever I'm "over-budget" it donates the balance to Sean Hannity:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/snuznluz.shtml
Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and Charlie Munger on Fox
I'll see your infoworld and raise you a Techcrunch.