skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find VMWare performs quite well for that stuff. Still, I don't want to use Windows even in that scenario. So I just use a Mac instead. I think if just Photoshop had a decent counterpart on *nix that'd be enough to get me to switch.
How To Do Paging on App Engine
I think that their main problem was lack of availability once the buzz reached its highest pitch. I could understand less-than-impressive search results, since that could be an ongoing thing. However, a search engine crashing the way someone's blog folds under the weight of Digg/Reddit/HN effect is unacceptable in my eyes.
TheRealURL: URL Un-shortening Web Service With JSON/P Support
I built it initially as a joke, but perhaps it might actually be useful in some cases (eg, Twitter clients). Would love to hear HN feedback on possible applications etc.
The difference between in loco parentis and loco school principals
Maybe the freedom comes from other factors. Is your family rich enough? Do they pressure you a lot? I remember that intelligent people from working class at university used to be very puritan compared with middle class. It's terrible to be the only hope of your family to put someone "there".
It would be tricky to get such a law right. They are better cables. No, seriously. (Or, at least they can be, I don't actually know if they really are better, but it's possible.) It's just that they way they are better doesn't matter, because for moving digital data around, having 10,000% of the necessary capacity/overhead/whatever is no better than having 101% of the necessary capacity. But the 10,000% cable is, in some sense, better, and you aren't going to be able to write a sensible law stopping a salesperson from building that "better" into a "shouldn't you buy this?".

Some things just can't be outlawed sensibly.
I love Ubuntu's default look, better than Windows or Mac. The lack of blue is very refreshing; the brown looks great.
The default theme for PCLOS Gnome tempted me to try it and as a result convert from Ubuntu. The distro first has to look nice to get people interested and then work well to keep them on it.
Why doesn't the domain owner just regiter the domain out a few years? It's not that expensive and they could at least delay this kind of issue. I'd assume RoR isn't going anywhere for a few years.
Actually, you don't need to install anything. Dust is one of the default themes now :)
Most, but not all. Most attempts at humor in online forums are lame, so this is what you'd expect to find on a forum where lame comments were frowned upon.

I'm not saying voters' judgement of what's funny is perfect, but it's not too far off. I occasionally see a comment that seems funny that got voted down, but these are greatly outnumbered by ones that weren't that funny.
This sort of "freedom" has more to do with upbringing than IQ. A 115 IQ is more than enough brainpower to become a doctor or attorney and a person born in that range in a family with high expectations will be expected to perform at that level. Conversely, there are people with 140+ IQs whose families expect little or nothing of them, although that sort of "freedom" isn't desirable either.

For maximizing life success, I'd say that an IQ in the low 130s is optimal, but anything above 140 is dangerous and rather useless unless you want to "swing for the fences" and achieve something that will be remembered after you die (something that, in my mind, is overrated). People selected as leaders are usually 75-90th percentile (intellectually) within their reference frame, and almost never 95+. The upshot is that the frame of reference gets smarter as one gets older; people with 130 IQs are virtually never popular in high school, but can do well in adulthood. In general, the smarter you are, the later in life you hit your stride, socially speaking.

The risk is that not everyone recovers, although most do, from the negative experiences earlier on. A 30-year-old with a 145 IQ has probably recovered from any innate social problems and become socially normal, neurologically speaking, but in the corporate world he's going to be competing against people in the 120-130 range who have the advantage of positive past experiences.
hmmm.. not exactly but thanks!
What are your other reasons?
Agreed! Foxit integrates well with Firefox and even opens some huge PDF's that Acrobat Reader chokes on and brings my laptop (C2D 2.1Ghz, 3GB RAM) to a crawl.
I get strange looks all the time and I am beginning to like it. Makes me look cool (just kidding).

But HN did get blacklisted and blocked for a little bit by our company proxy which identified it as a hacking information website (which is an accurate description, with a twisted meaning to the word hacker). I had to file a complaint with our IT desk and fortunately one of the guys in the IT department was smart enough to know the true meaning of hacker and unblocked it for us :).
I submitted the Ubuntu 9.04 story today, but the first link I tried to submit was already in the system, from when 7.04 came out. It will really be a problem to submit a link when 9.10 will be available, because it seems all 'good links' were already added. Can there be a recyclation system for links?
The piece is all "he said, she said", by outsiders. Not much info on what's going on inside, or current results. So I bravely typed cuil.com (no link, either), and checked it out (and I alone have escaped to tell thee ;-).

Not bad. I tried today's pet search ('Schopenhauer ladder', since you ask), and the first page results are different but not much worse than Google's in quality. Cuil does have a splog at #3. Fewer pages listed (370 vs. 18000), but that may not be worth much.

Other observations: no page cache, means no word highlighting to help find the target in bigger pages. No ads in sight ("Hi, Adsense? I'd like to enroll my site ..."). The design is a little overdone; maybe some will find the 99% black front page, combined with modern glossy screens, helpful as a mirror for the soul (or just a mirror).
What Went Wrong? Learning From Past Game Development Postmortems
As a reluctant Photoshop upgrader who has recently moved to a new machine, I can confirm that a new install of Photoshop 7.0 defaults to PSD (on Windows, at least).
Couldn't agree more -- the work-theatre kabuki in Japan is both charming (the three men directing traffic around a hole in the sidewalk), and incredibly idiotic (being paid to catch unprofitable fish).

What's strange is that the three guys around the mini-construction-site make sense to me.

But I'll still go visit this place, just because it's part of my favorite bit of Japan (Kyushu).
...or just install denyhosts.
Many and varied, but most importantly because I actually like Windows.
> bring out all the nuances in digital audio reproduction

Isn't this sort of advertising illegal?
The attempted parallels to N. Korea and Cuba are non sequester. If Hime was an independent nation the comparison would be justified. As it is, they are a part of the Japanese economy, and enjoy the same military protection (provided by the West) as the rest of the nation. They could never stand on their own.
Well, the thing is that most of the time when the company filters your network traffic they also block you from changing network settings.
Ask HN: What to do when you lose faith on a project?
I've been working on a smallish web project for a few months now. It started off as one of my hundreds of small experiments that I just put out there for lols, but got noticed by someone with clout to push a lot of users to it. This encouraged me to work on it, because I'd never worked on a private project cooperatively with someone, so it was kind of interesting.

Now as the site has gotten closer to a first version, I've become somewhat convinced that it's not such a good idea after all. If it were just my own project, I would have already either stopped working on it or dramatically changed it in some direction. However out of some sense of obligation to my partner, I've continued on it. However every hour has felt more painful than the one before it, as I feel that it's all just wasted time, and that well... the site just sucks. I wouldn't use it myself and don't know why anyone else would.

It's now almost ready to start being promoted, but I feel that if I allow it to get "finished" like that, then my fate will be to continue to maintain this site which I now have become to dislike. Also I can't really envision this site generating any significant amount of revenue, and the time I spend on it could be spent improving my other site which DOES have significant revenue.

I feel just pain working on this, on the other hand wanting to fulfill my promise to the partner to work on it, on the other hand feeling that I am wasting a ton of money and time spending my rare moments of concentrated work on this thing... ideas?
I'm in a similar boat with the GP.

The main obstacle for migrating completely is a handful of the usual software titles, and tablet support. For tablet computers, like it or not, Vista is still the best, hands down.

But my jaw just dropped with the out-of-the-box support in Jaunty. It is marvellous. If multi monitor works just as smoothly, today might just be the day.

How well does VMWare work for you? My guest OSes are always as lean as possible with all graphics stripped out, and they are still laggy.
There's a quote, i don't remember who came up with it but it goes something like this:

"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas, if they're any good, you'll have to push it until it sinks in their heads", it's very likely that at first you'll be the only believer.
I recently became infected with a Windows virus. I was using Foxit reader and downloaded a PDF file that used a javascript exploit to place a DLL in my PATH. This virus-infected DLL was found before the real DLL because browsers search for it in three locations, in order.

The version of Foxit reader I was using did not have the ability to turn off javascript. It may now.

Google for 7.7.7.0
This rubyonrails.org situation itself might actually provide a counter-point to Europe/US registrar comparison. It appears (indicated by whois + DHH comments) that the domain is probably registered through a reseller in denmark and the reseller is parking the domain.
Ah, cool, didn't know that. This definitely is an advance :-)
It seems to me like this was a missed opportunity for building a new model for audio-based advertising. Something that inserts adverts tailored to the listner (language, country, music choices etc) in between bits of music. However, I don't know Last.fm well enough to know if this would work - I've only used it a couple of times.
I had a girl joke about it before when seeing an icon for Hacker News on my iphone. It was actually funny.
Hey, HN. I put a lot of time and thought into this GUI. I'd love some feeback.
Useful web-based development tools
Heard that they'll be posting videos of all/most of the talks soon.
It's not novel, really. People have been using other operators around the world since shortly after the iPhone release.

I can pay less than $23 and receive as many calls as I want for a year on my iPhone. That's not in the US though.

I have a SIM card for one country where I need to pay about $1.5 a month minimum if I don't spend at least $9 worth a month. It's pre paid. Text messages are ~ US 3.5 cents each. About 8 cents a minute for outgoing calls. You don't pay for incoming calls. Data is about 90 cents per MB.

What kind of functionality do you think is missing?
Downvoted for irrelevant flame-baiting.

Please keep your religious biases out of HN.
And there was me thinking it would be an article about some undersea cable across the atlantic or pacific...
You have to be real with your partner. It will either end up improving the product (good) or freeing up your free time for other things(good). If he/she can't handle or respect your honesty(bad), you need to know now before you're more invested. This is all assuming you're coming from a place of integrity, which from your post sounds like you are.
On Chrome the font on the category tabs is nearly not readable, Firefox displays the same font ok.
My favorite audiophile insanity:

Mpingo Disks.

http://www.shunmook.com/text1.htm
I like the initial presentation -- it's very clean and focused. But when you click on the tabs/areas at the bottom, I have no idea what all that data is.

Perhaps it's just not aimed at me (that's probably a large part of it), but I had no idea what was going on there. Is there a way to contextualize it somehow or format it?

Ignore if I am just not getting it. But I do like the "Return to Top" button at the bottom.
How to teach to code (a different approach)
This assumes that the public databases actually contain any information that will allow you to connect the dots. Aaron's claim seems to be that they mostly contain fluff that has nothing to do with the actual functioning of the government. That's why you have to investigate and uncover rather than simply analyze to get to the truth.
For what it's worth (not much), a few months ago I did my own quick, amateur analysis of the OAuth security. I suspect it's more of the case that it's easy to get stuck looking at the raw protocol itself for vulnerabilities to see how best to avoid allowing people to spoof the communication, get data they shouldn't get, etc. Those seem the riskiest areas in the whole process and where you'd find the weakest links.

So while they focused on protecting the information assets that OAuth shuffled around, they overlooked using the URLs in the middle as a way to fool the requesting app itself. It's one of those design-level flaws that are difficult to see until you've gotten past full analysis of the other high-risk portions of the OAuth chain.
Always happy to oblige.
Innocuous News
Ask YC: Innocuous news?
Did HN get hacked? Screenshot here: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/10731/Snapshot%202009-04-23%2016-45-32.png
PR: fail.
Do they even have communication people aboard there?
Indeed. Society will probably be better off without newspapers, as they currently mostly just reinforce what those with enough power to get something published want you to read.

And good riddance to that.
Smarter shopping on smartphones
I'm a big fan of the Apple's Preview. It's really fast. On a side note, I may showing my naivete here, but w(ho)tf is F-Secure?
Whenever I tell my friends about HN, I always call it "YCombinator news".
Since that is what it was presented to me as from the outset (i.e., a url (http://news.ycombinator.com) with a 'hacker'-free endorsement), the "Hacker News" title has never really stuck. Even among people in the know, I still usually refer to it as YCombinator news.
Same here. First, I was annoyed by the 10 pages, then I read that and figured I needed to see the comments here.

I thought Amstrad had disappeared long before 2005, so to be neck-and-neck with Apple while the latter was actually at the beginning of its strong marketshare gain in the computer market...
No. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=575487
Fear not - the kind of thing I did with GeeknRolla #gknr is something I want to replicate again. The trick is in the content and the vibe. Stay tuned... @mikebutcher
I thought this release would also be available for ARM, as mentioned here: http://www.ubuntu.com/news/arm-linux

The netbook release says it's for Atom (though the compatibility list includes eee PC 701, which has a Celeron - by "Atom" they surely just mean intel-compatible).
As an aside: I get the feeling this is about you personally feeling you are capable of something more than you are currently doing with your career, is that the case?

I have a high IQ, and I've worked quite a few jobs that others would consider beneath me. I enjoyed them as much as I enjoyed 'better' jobs and as far as I'm concerned, as long as I'm enjoying what I'm doing I'm not wasting a thing.

Another example: I've had an awesome idea for a start-up kicking around in my head for the best part of 10 years now... People think it's a good idea (I only ask those who are brutally honest about other things); there's a definite untapped market for it; I'd enjoy it; and I've got everything I need to be able to get it going by myself, without any significant cost. I'm convinced it would be a respectable success - so why am I still doing my day job? I'm too busy making music with two bands (at a cost, too), which I enjoy more. How's that a waste?

As for peer pressure - I care very little what other people think about my life, and besides which, I tend to hang around with people who feel the same way (regardless of their IQ, FWIW), so there's not that much peer pressure for me to disregard in the first place.
No, I just changed the name for a bit.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=575487
The same thing happens at smaller companies whose codebase has been around for years, too. (Now, imagine if that language had monkeypatching...)

Fixing things like that involves quite a bit of both time and suffering, particularly without good test infrastructures.
I built it initially as a joke, but perhaps it might actually be useful in some cases (eg, Twitter clients). Would love to hear HN feedback on possible applications etc.
Thank you for reminding me why I don't have a job anymore. I always hated that bullshit of someone looking over your shoulder.
I rather liked the strange looks I got from reading Hacker News, but at least I learned a new word today

Innocuous -
1.	not harmful or injurious; harmless: an innocuous home remedy.
2.	not likely to irritate or offend; inoffensive; an innocuous remark.
3.	not interesting, stimulating, or significant; pallid; insipid: an innocuous novel.
Windows has had hard links for a decade or so. Vista even ships with "mklink" which can make three different kinds of links. Before that, you could download utilities to make them. Windows won't unlink a link that is in use because its normal filesystem API promises that behavior. You can use different APIs to get different behavior.

The registry exists in the format it is in to boost performance, not hinder performance. It supports approximately the same ACLs as the filesystem so there is nothing that makes it inherently less secure than the filesystem. And, the registry is designed to be exposed by custom GUIs, not by regedit. For example, to change the registry setting for the default program to open ".html" files with, you could* use regedit, but the Windows philosphy says there should be a dedicated UI for it instead (the "Default Programs" UI in this case).
Or more directly:

http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.04/ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso...

http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.04/ubuntu-9.04-desktop-amd64.is...
I highly recommend t61. I joined a few days ago and have found 10x as many great songs as I did during the same period for Last.fm. Their UX is also damn nice.
I'm rather fond of the low-light version. I wish more sites had such a feature.
The color contrast on the non-bolded blue text seems off and tends to hurt my eyes in FF3.

Otherwise it's pretty easy to figure out what the site is supposed to do.
How can it be paradise to work the same and get paid a third?

Do all of them have health insurance covered? Housing? Savings? Internet? iPhones?

They can eat their fish without sweat but can they travel to the bahamas for vacation?

Tribal living is good for a thousand, try applying that to 20 million in New York.
I hope it's not permanent.

Why not encode "Hacker" using HTML entities so content blockers don't catch it?
Interesting site name change! How harmless. I wonder how long that will last.

Now the site feels much safer when I browse my Firefox tabs. ;)

http://pics.gd/INYC_screenshot.png

Edit: FYI-- See pg's comment on this thread about the change (it's temporary): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=575815
That's not really fair...it sounds like they both had actual real-world experience in building search indexes at massive scale, which you'd think would be worth something in this kind of venture.
I see we are now reading "Innocuous News", for the moment anyway. Thanks, PG, that made my day.
I just get a blank white screen on IE6 (at work). I don't know if that's considered a good thing or a bad thing!

(And believe me, if they would let me use something other than IE6, I would.)
5 years of Blogging and Digital Communications
Innocuous News is almost sketchier, but awesome!
Screencast: Webkit In Titanium
Users "not getting it" seems like a bad thing to ignore. Did the welcome note not explain the site well? Or did you skim past it and go for the tabs?
Agreed...very slick. I'd almost make that the default view.
My IQ is more than three standard deviations above normal. In Meyers-Briggs I'm right down the middle between E and I.

Certainly I was never very popular in school, and for a long time there was a feedback loop between peers finding me arrogant and annoying and me becoming even more arrogant and annoying in defense.

But then my family adopted 4 special-needs kids, and I learned that being smart wasn't enough for dealing with everything in life, and also that I wasn't half bad at some of the other stuff: I made a perhaps-surprisingly good big brother. And then I went into the IB program for high school and for the first time personally knew people who were definitely smarter than me (if only in some fields, I told myself). Both experiences were very helpful in teaching me to have an identity outside intelligence.

But as far as relating to people in general, it's not as bad as you might expect. For one thing, almost everyone I know is smart. My parents, my near-age biological brother, my wife, my kids (so I tell myself, but they're too young to know yet really), and most of my friends are all of well above average intelligence.

And overall I find that humility and real (or adequately feigned) interest make interacting with almost anyone pretty workable. For humility, I try to remember that I'm smart through no merit of my own: it's a gift of God (or chance, or the inexorable unfolding of the big bang as you like) through genetics and environment. Of course I participated usefully in my own intellectual growth, but there are any number of sad failures of application and tenacity to count against me in that column, too. For interest, like so many things, it's about faking it till it becomes real.
According to AppDB, Photoshop CS1 works great, so if you have or can procure an older version, this might be an option. (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application...)

If I remember the Wine Weekly News report correctly, I think Disney wanted it working on their Linux machines they used for rendering, and committed back all their fixes to Wine. So whatever that version was is probably pretty usable.
Perhaps I could have that as an entry possible in my settings. With sufficient karma you get to rename the site.
The three sentences in the box at the top are there to explain what the site's all about, right? They're important. They're also too long, and much of the text is pure padding.

Sentence one: "Select a topic below to listen in as the most vocal community of first-adopters in the world talks design."

What is this 'most vocal community of first-adopters in the world'? I'm confused!

Sentence (or rather non-sentence) two: "Often a provider of insight on tomorrow's headlines—occasionally of no use at all—always good* with morning coffee…"

What's the missing referent here? What is a provider of insight? Now I'm really confused, plus my sense is that this is just self-promotion rather than useful information, so I'm annoyed as well.

Sentence three: "Design Aviary displays the latest 99 Twitter entries relating to a variety of design topics; is updated every 10 minutes."

Oh, I get it! Why did I have to read all that other stuff before you told me what the heck is going on here?

Axe the first two sentences, and fix the grammar in the last one.
Haha. That's a bad thing. Considering the site's target audience is web designers and graphic designers I really didn't even debug for IE 6. I did however at least look at the site in IE 6 and it was terrible, but something was still there. Hmmm... I'll have to look into that.