skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Used to be 20/20 w/ an astigmatism and never needed glasses. After working w/ computers for about 7-8 yrs, I went to the eye doctor to complain about my eyes hurting. Strangely enough I still have 20/20 vision yet, due to eye strain, my eyes have trouble compensating for the "fuzziness" of fonts; the doc said that my eyes try to smooth them out. I got a mild prescription and it's great. No worse after 3+ years.

Coupla protips:
* Don't code on a white background - hurts/strains the eyes moreso than a gray bg

* Buy a great monitor - $100 more in cost isn't worth saving if you lose x% of eyesight or have pain.
i think a better question is -- how much would you pay and/or what is something like this worth to you? if there's actually a market, i imagine that it would be an interesting concept to try and execute on.
...and after I posted that, everything I'd commented in the last 24 hours got downvoted. I wonder who did that?
From my point of view.. what whats wrong with waiting anymore. There has not been one event, that has occurred since twitter came out, that.. I had to absolutely follow and read, the thousands of 140 character messages. Usually the hashtag search is enough as it works now. Example, playoffs, i find out who wins and then I wait for espn to come out with a detailed review. I would rather wait 2 or 3 hours, and read a full article on whatever is going on.
That's one possibility. The other possibility: when we all shut up about Twitter, it won't because it's become an unconscious tool. It'll be because it's a long forgotten fad.
Affiliate programs do that. Marketers sign up and get a commission per sale, in return they're allowed to use your advertising creatives and assets. They're given unique referrer IDs which they can use to generate links and they can use those links in social media, website and email campaigns.

If your commissions are attractive, the marketers will jump on it quickly and push it hard. However, what you gain in rapid sales you lose in face and brand-power. Affiliates are a spamy bunch my friend. It is even worse for anything that isn't a hard, sale completion CPA campaign. Forget it if you're paying them by impressions or clicks.
Article mixes up two things. I can understand if google won't recruit from certain companies.

It's totally different if they refuse to hire someone who sends their resume (without having being recruited). The article mixes up these two concepts.
Congratulations on doing something about it!

Most of us would just have posted a rant on HN once and gone back to sleep :-)

PS: I checked the EFF page. The main criticism is that there is no analysis of the change.

The next step would be for some EFF lawyer to comment on significant changes.

The step after that would be some sort of crowdsourced voting so that if a large number of people don't like the change, the rest of the world knows about it.
So, (1) a free ebook, (2) a niche social network, (3) a social network consultancy, (4) another ebook (I think), and (5) a conference.

I know this isn't exactly the same model, but these aren't exactly YC or TechStars type startups. I don't see much in the way of products with growth potential–just hourly service type work at best.

It would be interesting to have some real MBA profs review and critique these business plans.
Well, the key feature it lacks for me is that of "not being written in PHP". That might not sound like much, but it means it can't fit into the rest of my Ruby infrastructure, so isn't even in the running really.

You did ask ..
I think the reverse of this would be pretty useful. I'm pretty sure it exists for perl - would be nice for php also.
Godin's MBA is pure marketing stuff. It's nice that these people are learning how to be better marketers and salespeople, but to call it an MBA is misleading.
I don't understand what this article is trying to say. Will the internet magic away the infrastructure necessary to manufacture a car? Will it make the massive cost of developing and testing a new drug disappear?

The money for these things has to come from somewhere. Venture capital is an option, but that's an all or nothing proposition. Larger companies can fail and live to fight another day. There's obviously a motivational benefit to failure not being an option, but that doesn't guarantee success. Likewise, large companies tend to ossify and become numb to failure, but that doesn't guarantee their collapse.
"That's a netcraft caching/CDN bug. I've confirmed that Bing is in the MSFT Data Centers, all Windows/IIS." - that's an odd bug............
I'm a little unclear on why this is worth federal time. If the companies were colluding to not hire people from the various companies, this would make sense. If your resume got tossed simply because it showed "Google" or "Google Partner X", I can see how that's bad; the net effect is to destroy the job market on the employee side.

But how is it wrong to choose to not actively recruit from your partners, or even your competition? Is the solution really to mandate headhunting certain companies?

These are questions. I don't know the answers. If I seem to have something wrong, please let me know; I'm posting this out of confusion.
Forrester says Microsoft Office in no danger from enterprise competitors
Read "Permission Marketing" by Seth Godin, and "Guerilla Marketing" by Jay Conrad Levinson.

Similar jist: Basically your marketing is how you interact with your customers. That face time is crazy valuable.
Well I'm just surprised things are not going down this road. I figured when android was getting close to release they would have a bunch of "free" Google phones with service and shake up the industry by payment for them via adwords.

There must not be enough money in ads to support a Google phone or they probably would have gone down that road.

Thoughts?
I would also trial 19.99 to see if I could get more revenue. Experiment! Start high, run a sale a few weeks in and see if it makes a difference.
CSS Video Reflections in Safari4
Chill Reduce Your Burn Rate With Crowdsourcing
I don't remember my science classes to be that exciting. Then again, my sports teacher didn't like football either.
I was going to auto-post to Tumblr about every change and leave the comments open for users. My idea was that if there was a significant enough change, it would be picked up by other sites like HN/reddit/Slashdot where more insightful analysis could be made.
One thing has been bugging me about Eve lately: why are the "shards" tied to physical locations of all the same granularity?

If you made the unit of player interaction a "shard" this would yield inherent dynamic load balancing.

How about a space game that doesn't have any fixed locations of importance? Have space be huge, mostly desolate, scattered with raw resources. Everything is in terms of "motherships" warping between star systems, occasionally stopping at a system to gather resources. Players would berth their smaller ships aboard the motherships or at stations in the systems. However, everything of importance (resource spawns and quest sites) would only be reachable by hitching a ride aboard a mothership.

Most player ships would only be capable of warps spanning in-system distances. Really wealthy players would be able to buy their own "motherships." Motherships would be invulnerable to attack while in-system, due to the use of the drive fields in a defensive configuration. However, while in-transit between star systems, motherships are subject to "warp-intercept," which is the formation of a warp-bubble or "pocket universe" around the two ships when they get too close to each other in warp-space.

Motherships cannot be destroyed, but they can be captured. To capture a mothership, one needs to mount an attack with player ships and destroy enough of the mothership's defensive fields and guns to allow boarding. Boarding switches the game to an FPS mode, with the object of securing one of the ship's "command centers."

Some NPC motherships will be capturable. However, maintaining control of one of those will require a 24/7 presence. At the point that no players occupy the command center, a NPC mothership will revert to NPC control.
If the companies were colluding to not hire people from the various companies, this would make sense

That's a hiring discrimination. What about the right to employment for a qualified, top-notch information retrieval candidate?
There is no relationship at all. YQL is just a way to query disparate Yahoo data sources with a relational-like language.
The Pancake: A Less Annoying Way To Move Through Google Street View
His complaint is that science education is boring, but the same could be said for any number of subjects in school. The irony is that it's the same scientists who've created performance targets for educators to hit in the form of standardized testing. This has led to unimaginative teaching and a strictly check-box approach to learning by running down a long list of curriculum items in a very limited time frame.
The filter is applied to resumes in the queue, regardless of the origination/sourcing method used to obtain the resume in the first place. Therefore I think they're discriminating against applicants who submitted their resume to google.
Why don't you hire interns? Or a marketing pro to moonlight in exchange for equity?
I was just flying by HN on a busy day. Syntax parsing: success. Semantic parsing: error. Looks like I failed the Turing test... I'm a bot. Damn. ;)
Seriously? That's your hang up? The cheapest web hosts are about $5/month. It ought to be easy to figure out how to make $5 with craigslist, tipjoy, temp labor firms, a lemonade stand, a garage sale, or doing discount handyman services for friends and family.

I made my first $5 bill for helping my uncle take some stuff to the dump when I was about 8 years old. AND he bought me a coke, BONUS! And let me tell you, $5 was worth a whole lot more back then.
It would be great if MBA programs both credentials and skills for the future.
Ask HN: Where should I sell my good short (5-char) domains?
I have recently bought a number of good, short (5-character), pronounceable, brandable but not dictionary-word domains.

For those of you with experience selling domains, what would be the best way for me to sell them? What would be quickest? What would give me the best price?

I've been looking at GoDaddy Auctions, Sedo, and AfterNIC, but I'm not sure what the best way to go about selling them is.
Let me ask you this, did anyone not pass these MBA classes or fail to get the certificate or whatever he gives you at the end? (I assume you'll all be putting this on your resumes in some form).
How Reddit Was Built. Alexis Ohanian Interview
So the first thing we did in the program was to spend a full week talking about our goals. The reason I'm doing the conference is that it's a good way to pick up some of the skills I'm missing, earn enough money to give myself a runway, create a platform to help me later, build a personal brand, etc. I am going to do a startup after this. And at the end of the day you need to ask yourself whether the goal is to spend six months working on something Mike Arrington thinks is cool, or whether the goal is to be successful in the long term.

The reason two people made the ebook is because they wanted a quick way to learn how to sell $50,000 dollar sponsorships and they needed a product they could make in a couple weeks to do that. The ebook is cool but it's not the point, just a tiny piece of the puzzle.
"Maybe if this was an 18 month program, or maybe if Godin could better articulate how this is more "MBA" than "self-study" the "students" might have some merits."

Self-education invariably triumphs educational process. The key of successful educational institutions is access to the teachers, mentors and environment that students need to advance their own educational goals. From reading a few bios, these students are self-starters and will be constrained by an MBA-style program.
There are plenty of those around but unfortunately the entrance qualifications are slightly more rigorous than "out-schmooze everyone else at a cocktail party".
Agreed. Simon Johnson nailed it in this article:

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200905/imf-advice
Ask HN: Inheritance?
Inheritance is just an implicit form of delegation that comes with a bunch of default behaviors that can totally screw you.

Of course I use it constantly and spend a ton of time "designing" everything "properly" to have a sweet class hierarchy with all kinds of unnecessary power and flexibility to solve the problem at hand.

Does anyone else find themselves sucked into that trap? It seems like when using straight C, I can still think and program in an OO style, but I don't so readily waste as much effort trying to come up with a "perfect" tree of objects. Is this simply an issue of discipline or is there a drug-like effect when using inheritance?
People creating performance targets for students to hit on standardized tests are not scientists.
I believe they need the history too...
Self-education invariably triumphs educational process

Completely agree. Made my first $1M before 30 and am a college drop-out.

However, 6 months of working in what is quite frankly a sheltered environment is not exactly "self-education".

His MBA program seems, to me, like so much of this marketing hype that is going around today... It is constant promotion and talking, and producing very little product of actual value or interest. Some of the projects seemed interesting. None seemed any more significant (and a few less significant) that what we've seen come from some motivated folks who have neither a real, or a Godin, MBA.
>Also keep in mind if you start with $200, see zero sales and then start gradually reducing it to $20, then you basically shoot your own credibility as a merchant as the $200 -> $20 drop makes you look greedy, detached from the reality and ultimately incompetent.

Are you suggesting that the other direction is preferable? I would think that it would be worse to keep jacking up the price.
Let's all worry about the "deviants". Conformity for the win!
Football is a very important pastime to a lot of people. Just playing devil's advocate here: can you name one reason why those NASA programs are more important than the football arena, without making reference to your own subjective value system which would be at odds with that of the ardent football fan's?
What about the right to employment for a qualified, top-notch information retrieval candidate?

A "right to employment" only exists when nobody with the means to employ someone has any right to their own property.
What do you use to produce dpkgs? In addition to the cumbersome standard tools, I'm only aware of jpkg (http://code.google.com/p/jpkg-library/) for Java.

I've found the dpkg method to be very effective. You can sign the packages, mirror the repositories, and set up servers to automatically upgrade some/all of the packages via cron jobs.

Packages can be automatically generated by your continual integration system, which also has the nice effect of creating a fully-trusted and centralized deployment path, making it difficult to sneak in uncommitted changes and non-managed files, etc.

The packages themselves support complex dependencies, start/stop scripts, etc, and dpkg/apt-get themselves have been ported to non-Linux platforms.

Personally, I'd still like a more comprehensive centrally managed solution based around the packaging model (ie, each server runs a management agent that can install/remove/update packages, etc).
darcs push

which sends patches to the test repo and

ssh remote darcs --repo=live pull ../test

which is in a makefile so we can just do:

make release

Let me add here that darcs' inherent cherry picking abilities are a wonderful match for web development. Being able to fast track changes to the live site with no hassle is heavenly.
Using SketchFlow to Create Better Prototypes
A secret iPhone OS 3.0 feature: App sharing
capistrano-ext multistage

http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2007/7/23/capistrano-multistage
Uh, horrible glaring typo? What's an anwser?
Presuming that everyone wants to follow a hacker-esque pursuit, which it does not appear all of these people intend to do.

There is much value in class-room learning on subjects like Finance, Accounting, Publishing (books, etc.). You can learn these things yourself, but when the material is well defined and relatively unchanged over time, a classroom environment can present the data in a structured and efficient format.
Desktop Linux For The Windows Power User
Because AFAIK it wasn't limited to partners/competition.
It was more of a backroom "we won't if you won't" agreement between a large web of tech companies.

It wasn't -universal-, but widespread enough to catch the eye of regulators. And, historically, by the time federal regulators move on a problem it's far larger and more serious than most realize.
Interesting, but let's review in ten years, shall we? Specifically, let's compare the average accomplishments of these "graduates" with graduates from the top 20 MBA programs.
The writeup doesn't emphasize that they actually had to do some rough 3d reconstruction to allow you to move to the buildings like that. This was a mixture of lazer and stereo vision.
I'd be interested in knowing how twitter increased your productivity.
For me twitter is a great tool for networking, increasing visibility for your product/project.

I am yet to see any real networking benefits myself, I find having to put up with 'I am running now', 'I am eating a burrito' more than anything of significance from people I would like to network.
Ask HN: Ridiculous Coding Practices by companies you have worked for
I once worked for a company that did not allow us to use object-oriented programming. This is because their 2 most senior programmers did not know OOP.

Other things include putting a lot of business logic in stored procedures (SQL) so that migration is easier.

We were also not allowed to use folders, all web pages should be on the root directory. I can't remember the reasoning for this.
Ah, I re-read your comment. Sorry, I thought you were saying that there was no side effect in allowing them on the plane, to which I was pointing out that space is a serious side effect.

lol, it's pre coffee reading that will do me in everytime.
I am just finishing up something akin to what you described in your last line (for my employer). It's just a simple daemon written in Python that is told what to do via XML/HTTP. Implementing such a daemon was made much easier by using the python-apt module.
Definitely an amazing upgrade.
It's amazing how much small little tweaks to the ui significantly improve the experience of an application. Implementing this was probably quite difficult, but the simple ui works so well.
Godin wonder's why people pay for MBA's but he doesn't shrink from having his Stanford MBA on his resume. In a sea of ambition noise people use pedigree as a filter; perhaps having been chosen for this MBA alone will be the real resume and career boost.
Thanks. Sorry to read about your trouble. Now that I know what's going on, I can live with the redirect if it's more expedient/effective to leave it in place particularly over the short term.
So you are going to be in this program for a couple of years?

I don't know of any traditional MBA programs that don't let their students graduate until their own business is up and running

I would consider a business to be "up and running" when it has proven to be at least semi-viable. Putting up a website and organizing a meeting is not exactly an up and running business, but it is a good start and one of several necessary steps.
True, although in actuality if everyone just went online and tried to download a terabyte of data. TCP back off would be the reason that things came to a crawl, which is a user side thing.
Football can and would exist without subsidies. Spending public funds to support private industry is a bad economic decision. Funding space travel on the other hand is something that would not exist without public funds. So it's outside of the effecency debate.

“debating gladiator reform while Rome burns…”
It works surprisingly well. Makes you wonder why nobody thought of it all this time. Even if the 3D building stuff didn't exist, the pancake for moving in 2D is very useful.
From the point of view of the average taxpayer, deliverables on space missions are too few and far between.

When you build an arena (even for non mainstream sport), you make money off of taxing the Franchise, but more substantially off of the local businesses that opened up to serve the fans of the team. Over priced beer, food, and jerseys can make a lot of money if there's a well-liked team behind it all.

Plus, people LIKE it. It's a regional pride thing.

If you're an average guy, do you want to see three astronauts orbit the earth for 6 months, or go down town with your buddies, get drunk, and watch a game?

That's why the average guy votes for the new stadium over NASA.
Apple looks towards digital media sharing during iPhone calls
Is the BBC considering using end to end encryption for its iPlayer service? It seems to me that they could really stop a lot of this throttling in its tracks by preventing deep packet inspection.
I don't want to spoil your rant by throwing numbers on it, but unfortunately that doesn't add up. Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis is (I think) the newest stadium in the NFL. Wikipedia tells me that the cost to taxpayers was $620 million. Let's say that the average stadium lasts 20 years, and note that there are 4 major sports leagues in the US with about 30 teams each, so that an average of 6 such arenas that must be built every year, at a total taxpayer cost of $3.7 billion each year.

NASA's budget for 2009 is $17.6 billion. And obviously that's just a fraction of total federal science spending, much of which lives under DoD, DoE, NIH, etc...
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At the very least it would give you a year and a half of fiscal cycle. Even 18 months is not exactly a lot of time, but in the business world 6 months does not, IMO, give you a statistically valid experience.
Ask HN:  Won't Local Newspapers Still Survive?
Hacker News has been REALLY busy lately with all the noise about newspapers 'dying'. However, local newspapers seem to be doing quite well. I opened up my local publication this morning and saw it was filled with advertisements and seemed quite healthy. I can't imagine a day when Mom and Dad would ever stop cutting out pictures of little Jimmy playing soccer. It seems to be part of our upbringing. Is it the same for you?
Football can and would exist without subsidies"

Yeah, but it'd exist in a different city. City's have to compete for the franchise. It's a supply and demand thing (LOTS more cities than franchises).
A noble attempt, but it is extremely sparse. Hire a designer to get in there and give you a high quality design, make sure he leaves areas for you to run ads as you'll need to so that you can run that sort of site.
Depends on your definition of Local. Most City newspapers are owned by conglomerates, the Orlando Sentinel is part of the Chicago Tribune and as a result is bankrupt. We're all waiting to see what they do but it's not doing well afaik.

As for the local newspapers that aren't part of the bigger machines, yes they should fair just fine so long as they keep costs down and adopt to the online markets available to them.