skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if you paint it on the floor, you'll have funny-colored feet in a hurry
Posterous now supports Github Gist code drops
Ask HN: What's your favorite site for hacking on things other than computers?
a few of mine:

apartment design / DIY - http://apartmenttherapy.com

working on my car - http://altimas.net

all around randomness - http://lifehacker.com
No reason it has to cost that much; just get it from someone else. Dry erase and chalkboard paint is not new, you can pick it up at hardware stores for like $20/qt.
NaCL is a really interesting project, but it's x86-specific. A jitted NaCL based on LLVM makes more sense for native Chrome/ChromeOS apps.
I really like this paint. Probably not entire room, but a single wall should be justifiable. Just don't forget the wall.
Actually, I'm a web developer and I've been looking for a larger site to do a survey exactly like this for a long time.

And as far as changing my behavior developing sites, I'll actually word it a bit differently now -- something like "please upgrade your browser, or if it's out of your control, take a moment to email your manager or IT department to ask them to upgrade your browser, as it is 8 years old and growing."
I don't know why you're being downmodded, I think you've made a good point. I'd assumed that most orgs stuck on IE6 weren't offering Firefox in tandem, which is apparently not the case.

Perhaps "please upgrade your browser" messages should also instruct users to look for an alternative browser which may already be available. That said, I still think showing such messages to potential customers is categorically stupid.
$3.99 per square foot...Or you could get chalkboard paint in black or green for about $0.60 per square foot, maybe less if you shop around.
Yep: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=244621

Edit: And the URLs are identical; does the dupe-blocker only apply to submissions less than a year old?
Many useful libraries are in languages other than C.
Can you sell things on Amazon that they don't sell? E.g., a five year old GPS?
I'm completely in agreement with everything you're saying, but I don't see how your argument really has much in common with the "anti-sec" BS.

There's a lot of snake oil security in the world, and the AV publishers and firewall vendors are a big part of it. But there are people doing real security research, actually working on hardening various pieces of software, finding vulnerabilities, etc.

It seems like the "anti-sec" people want to shut down real security research, the kind that finds vulnerabilities in software and forces vendors to fix them, with the result that most users would have nothing but snake oil between themselves and the criminals.

Of course I think the real motivation behind the "anti-sec" "movement" is transparently obvious: it's less-than-talented black hats who are pissed that usable exploits are being disclosed, meaning they're far less useful for nefarious purposes and get plugged more quickly. They would, I'm sure, prefer a no-disclosure environment where vulnerabilities stayed open for years, and were only known to the crooks.
He's 39 so if he didn't do anything lets hope things do work out that way.
I could never get a straight answer about the melamine. Some people claimed it had bad ghosting, others said it was fine. Also the people at Lowes had NO IDEA what I was talking about when I tried to find it. (That was an exercise in futility!)
So, let me get this straight; "anti-sec" is an anti-full-disclosure group, who practice ... full disclosure.

Got it.
I've done melamine white boards several times and they always ghost.
You know what would be cool? IdeaPaint on a car! Why restrict yourself to a few bumper stickers...now your wife can write the grocery list on your car door! ;-)
its always san fran or nyc....damn.
Hack a Day: http://hackaday.com/ (for random electronics projects)
Interesting leadup, but even with part 1 it still feels like it adds up to about 50% of a blog post. I might upvote after part 3 or 4, once they start tossing around the actual hack ideas.
A business plan is predicting the future. Play around with scenarios of different success/failure points. If you have X amount of cash to work with that will get you y months of time to prove it.
not a fan of the homepage, lots of white space and a single pic of an empty apartment(9/10 refreshes).

the browse listings page would work much better as the homepage
I'm completely in agreement with everything you're saying, but I don't see how your argument really has much in common with the "anti-sec" BS.

It doesn't. I just wanted to point out that the security industry truly is full of shysters, and I suspect that's why the "anti-sec" rhetoric has a strong resonance for some people. They sound like elitist children to me, but there is definitely an underlying bit of truth in the arguments they make.
Solving simple International Mathematical Olympiad problems
Awesome. Been waiting for the gist auto-expands. Thanks for listening, Garry/Sachin.
Vendors to California Division of Forestry Demand Cash or Credit Cards Upfront
As someone who just moved to NYC, I can definitely say this would definitely have been extremely useful. We ended up paying 12% to a broker, which we did only because we didn't wanna make more trips back and forth from Philadelphia to look at apartments. In a few years, I hope RentHop is still around and has more market share so we can use it.
Do you remember Galaga?
"What if a template turned into a function, whose job was to render itself?"

Numerous web frameworks already work this way. I remember the flash of realization I got when I realized that ASP worked this way.

No, not ASP::Net... ASP. Back in 1998 or so. It had an include call that allowed you to pass parameters into the target file. It wasn't emphasized that this means it's a function, but it was.

(Yes, having a full functional environment for your functions would have some benefits.)
Is Google Apple or Microsoft? Neither, I hope.
Great Idea. I suspect you will be do most of your marketing in NYC. I will be starting a local business startup too. I am curious to learn how you market in a big city such as NYC.

PS I added the site to http://appuseful.com/app/n/Rent-hop .
GMail automatic message translation
Sorry, I didn't catch it the first time. Thanks for the link to the original, it has quite a lively discussion.
> Python is a really clever small(ish) language and VM that ...

I wouldn't call Python clever, per se. I'd call it sensible. Possibly conservative. Maybe hoity toity.
I have an odd feeling white rustoleum would do exactly the same thing...
> It's really not hard to use C libraries from Lua, ...

My understanding is that it's actually very easy to use C libs from Lua.
Wal-Mart's Twitter Account Comes with a 3,379-word EULA
> Reals form a group under multiplication.

I think his point was that 0 has no inverse. So in the literal sense, the reals are not a group under multiplication (although obviously, when somebody says "the reals are a group under multiplication", one usually interprets it as "R\{0} is a group under multiplication".)

This is vaguely relevant to the issue at hand because we are doing 0 to the 0.
Rupert Murdoch UK reporters illegally hacked into thousands of peoples' data
You could get those UV LEDs and embed them in the edges of the glass.
make blog, don't remember url
UK's National Portrait Gallery Threatens To Sue Wikipedia User
I can only think of two major hardware support issues:

-Graphics drivers. Google won't be using X so that will require some work. I imagine both Intel and NVIDIA will be happy to comply. Intel has a strong commitment to OSS drivers and NVIDIA can ship a closed source driver. No problems there.

-iPods. This one is tricky. They could rely on the existing OSS code but they risk breakage or support for bleeding edge devices. Google would be wise to approach Apple and try to work something out.

Everything else should be well supported by Linux. I was impressed that Ubuntu 9 fully supported my celluar data card including a nice setup wizard. Google should definitely keep this in mind for ChromeOS as 3G cards are probably among the most common devices attached to netbooks.
On a Common Language Messaging Protocol
Documentary with  Jason Rohrer (creator of Passage) and Chris Crawford
The Apollo 2 moon landing??
I'd like to see something come out for the commercial real estate market. It's really hard to shop online (without paying a monthly fee to costar or loopnet) for access to information that is freely available.
Well can't you see the theme ? differentiate it. Just because you don like, doesn't mean no one likes it. Its for the one who like it, if you don't like it just ignore why discourage me or others ?
A Ban on Imports (continued)
Exactly, this is a problem in any profession. When you run into a situation where you need someone to come in and fix something or do, at first, seemingly mindless work, it is incredibly hard to the right person. I guess the solution is to try and make sure you never create these 'opputunities' for future hires.
Poll: What is your startup's legal status?(LLC/C-Corp etc)
Which option did you choose and why?
LLP
C-Corp
S-Corp
DBA/Sole Proprietorship
For those with Wordpress blogs, here is a plugin to do the same:

http://github.com/paulwilliam/wordpress-github-gist-shortcod...
Musicians might not like to be seen talking "business". It's just impolite.
they also use a lot of water
http://ladyada.net/make/
especially the x0xb0x
I saw this one a while back: http://www.habitastic.com/

looks similar. Seems like this type will heat up due to the decline of homeowner market
One bit of discomfort OS X causes me is that it uses the "Command" (or clover) key instead of the usual Control (Ctrl) key. Switching between GNU/Linux and OS X is a pain keyboard-wise.

Also, I prefer the way Gnome handles switching between windows on a given virtual desktop (via Alt-Tab) -- without changing virtual desktops on you. It works right on Gnome. Why can't Apple at least provide an option to have their Cmd-Tab work correctly?

Another nice thing about Ubuntu is updating your software. OS X can update itself, but Ubuntu's `aptitude` lets you update everything you have installed.

As for me, I'm stuck on OS X at work for the time being and would prefer to be using an Ubuntu (with Gnome) setup.
I highly recommend against glusterfs. We used to use it at my current employer and had nothing but trouble serving large files from it. It was fine until we starting putting large files in it, then healing would randomly bring the whole server to it's knees.
If you're going to have a show gridlines option (Good Thing), you should probably have a snap to grid option for the form elements, so people don't have to stare at the screen and jiggle their mouse to make it all line up.
Ultimately, regardless of power, the point is that a nuke's energy is in the impulse. It's destructive to solid material (like buildings and humans), but the impulse travels through the air similar to a sound wave. It's like trying to stop a Tsunami using an underwater nuke. You'd just have two waves interface, and continue moving on their merry way.
Obvious solution nobody mentions in the comments: use Tor.

http://torproject.org
'Dinner And A Movie' Gets A Makeover
"Part of the trick to winning on the Web is having a distinct personality"
The post isn't about evilness (and in fact Dash has frequently defended Microsoft, as he states). The post is about a corporate entity growing past the point where the internal concept of 'self' that its staff has differs largely from the external concept of its identity that the public has.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=make+blog
I, as a musician, think you're making too much of this.

If he's worried about someone finding this when reading about the band he could obfuscate (rot13, etc) the name.
summary: user uploaded photos of public domain works, and the impression i get from comments on slashdot, is that in the uk they'd have a case because the photos are copyright of photographer but since this is a US user and US servers, the user will be fine due to Corel v Bridgeman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corel_v._Bridgeman) which decided that photos of public domain stuff is not copyrighted.

looks as if things are going to be k.
Simple and intuitive. The UI is fast. Not much more to ask.

You should submit it to http://AppUseful.com
That's actually exactly the wrong thing to do. If you're serving content based on the browser, you want to be inspecting User-Agent, not Accept. And yes, people do that all the time. But they never do it based on what the browser claims to support; they do it based on what the client actually claims to be, based on what they have tested against real software.
http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/
:( author brute forced them instead of showing some cool math tricks.
Ask HN: Sales stats for Android paid apps?
Were any concrete sales figures ever disclosed by any Android developer? This kind of info is easy to find for iPhone (albeit mostly the freaky successes) but it seems very tough to find any commercial data from the Android Market.
I whipped up a quick sample and tried to save the PDF, but it came out corrupted (Preview refused to open it). Here's the document I made: http://www.pdfamigo.com/edit?document_id=aghwZGZhbWlnb3IOCxI...

In case it's useful to you, here's the PDF that it generated: http://files.getdropbox.com/u/2779/pdfamigo.pdf
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dcoetzee/NPG_legal_th... is the full letter. I hope this goes to court. I'm really looking forward to seeing how they intend to argue that copyright extends to documentary copies of public domain work.
"Also, have you used any of those $10 sheets of melamine? They ghost up after a couple of months of use..."

I've used them. They require some labor-intensive prep work, and there are some markers that seem to take a more permanent liking to the surface, but otherwise not bad (unless you leave that To Do list up for two months).
Massage from the Medium
Which hardware stores and what's the name of the paint ? A link to an online store item would be the best.
Better if possible to group multiple choices and rename fields.

Best,
> hundreds of dollars per wall

I've looked at using this paint, and from what I've read, it requires non-trivial skills to put on the walls evenly. I.e. it is very easy to screw up.
Yes, you are exactly right. I'd argue that if you value your employee's time at anything north of, say $10 per hour, then having a super-quality whiteboard would be a hugely positive ROI investment.

Think of it as a giant shared 3rd monitor. Would you buy monitors that ghosted if your programmers typed the "wrong" letter combinations?
So RentHop takes the place of the broker? Sounds like we're substituing one middle man for another.

Manhattan Park: Broker Receives $500 AMEX Gift Card

WTF?
That's a good point. It's been a good place to "raise kids"--if your kids are little companies because there are lots of great people to work with, impedance is low because of shared norms, and outsiders are aware of the importance of this symbiosis. Not unlike Hollywood.

Like Hollywood, Silicon Valley is subject to "runaway production" in which some other entity provides incentives to a company/production in the hopes of jump-starting a similar situation in their own locale. This provides some incentive to Silicon Valley/Hollywood to not milk their own cow too hard or too often.

When a large company relocates, there's lots of news and hand-wringing, but really, big companies are all grown-up and ready to leave home: "Enjoy North Carolina, son, we'll see you in Cupertino at the holidays!" For startups and indie productions, the environment has to be right. The long-term risk to California is that it no longer provides the confluence of people, ideas, economic environment, regulatory/policy environment, etc., that spawned Hollywood, Silicon Valley, biotech beach, the aerospace corridor, etc.

In my experience, Hollywood and Silicon Valley are unique environments that are valued (by outsiders) for their contribution to the tax base, ability to create jobs, etc.; i.e., instrumentally. But seeing them only in this way will lead to their destruction, not unlike old-school strip-miners who pillaged the hillsides and then bailed. Outsiders cannot be expected to understand, so it is the responsibility of those who exist in and benefit from unique, complex, symbiotic communities like silicon valley, to steward the community and protect them from predators who see fodder for their own will to power.

See: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-fi-ct-runaway12-2009jul...
Would you mind sharing where commercial real estate listings data is freely available? I've thought about expanding PadMapper to include it.
Would have been ideal about a year ago before the rental market became a renter's market. These days with vacancy rates at historic highs, even the NYC rental market is awash with choices for renters and bargains aplenty.
Your link needs fixed; there is an extraneous "G" appended to the .html
That depends on what incentives you could wring out of the state and local governments.

If you're a large company, you were once a small company and there's been no place better than silicon valley to grow-up as a young company. I think this is changing.
They claim copyright of the photographer. IANAL but don't think they have a case. Otherwise you could copyright a Shakespeare play based on the time you spent typesetting its text.
I'm thinking of doing my home office and maybe even some of my furniture. I'm pretty handy around the house, but not an expert...what's this skill I need?
Thanks a lot. That's very useful. I've mainly used Acrobat Reader to test the generated PDFs but they should really work everywhere.
I tried to implement that using jquery but it proved to be tricky. Still, no excuse. It's on the todo list! Thank you.
"You can't optimize for everything at once."

So don't.

It's perfectly OK to say your app is intended for, say, the G1, and leave it at that. If and when some other Android device looks more promising, build a version intended for it.
Thanks for the feedback. Great idea for streamlining the UI.
Sorry to say but if you just moved to NYC and paid a broker fee you did not inform yourself about the rental market here. Not only could you have avoided the fee but you should also have received a few months of free rent if not a signficant discount off the listed rent.
A word formula damn...

I found the answer on that page, but I still don't get it,
between what you say and the relationship with that algorithm.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.similar-text.php
I believe a lot of no-fee apartment complexes in NYC offer a referral fee to the website that refers a lease signer, which is at least part of the reason that a lot of apartment sites deal exclusively in large apartment complexes. This isn't charged directly, but amortized in generally higher-than-average rents.

But did you expect that this startup wouldn't be planning on any money by playing the middle man?
There's only one answer to that: paint it on your shoes!
I'm working on a startup idea that's going to take Knoxville, Tennessee by storm. Hope that makes you feel a little better.
As a sci-fi writer, I thank you. My next story will include astronauts floating about in a big, hollow sphere room, writing on the walls.
http://www.motherearthnews.com/ <-- diy farming/homesteading

http://www.drivendaily.info/ <-- cars

http://thereifixedit.com/ <-- ugly kludges
CMS.txt: 6kb approach to CMS
http://www.padmapper.com (my hobby site) has a bunch of other cities, if you're looking for a place.
Indeed. I don’t see how this is interesting. Computers are able to do many “dumb” computations faster than a human can figure out a clever solution: amazing!
Last year, I tried many different dry erase surfaces, including dry erase paint and many alternative treatments of showerboard. I even tried dry erase paint buffed onto a showerboard panel. Surprisingly, this was worse than the melanine alone.

After a couple weeks of testing, my conclusion was that plain showerboard and a Mr Clean dry erase pad for an eraser was the best solution for a ghost free, cost-effective dry erase board.

Perhaps the dry erase pad will eventually wear down the showerboard, but it hasn't so far, and they're super cheap to replace.
What is most interesting about this startup idea is the actual structure of the renting / real estate biz and how much commissions are a part of it. If these "brokers" have so much time to spend spamming craigslist (not just in NYC, but everywhere), there is something VERY wrong with the industry. Of course, I've been saying this for a long time. Happy to see a company actually doing something about it.

Good luck guys! I will be rooting for you.
Let a hundred flowers blossom. I'm interested in seeing what devices people come up with, knowing that the OS side of things is a solved problem.

Most of it might be crap, but there are sure to be some wicked ideas.
Imagine if magnetic, writeable walls had been a common thing in offices 40 years ago. I wonder what desktop computing would have ended up like?
Python Decorators in Ruby
Do we get a free copy of the chapter?
I'm really not sure why I'm being downmodded. "Constantly defragging in the background" is exactly the meaning of the option that you can see listed in XP's TweakUI, labelled "optimize hard disk when idle."
No, that's exactly my point - I fully expect that they're cashing in here and that this site is nothing more than a self-serving substitute for what's already available in the real world. Nothing earth shattering here. I think you've figured that out too. I don't begrudge him his right to make money - but let's just be upfront about it. I've had my fair share of misery in the NYC housing game so forgive me if I seem a little cynical. Regardless, better deals are available on Craigslist at the moment, as others have pointed out. Besides that, the pickings are pretty slim for someone who claims to have been working on this since a February launch.
Use the PHP function you wrote to get from 27 to 28 with the arguments given in 28...
Just go straight to level 3...
Home Furniture Home Decor
Your search for popular contemporary home furniture ends here. We make your home comfortable & stylist with elegant furnishing for your living room, bed room, dining room. We offer modern furniture & home décor for different rooms of your home, like beds, sofas, chairs, tables, desks, rugs & others.
Here's a NYTimes article about RentHop: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/realestate/08rent.html
No just use Wikipedia table to translate these answers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet
Wow that is awesome! Thank you.
The answer is a PHP function name or algorithm to calculate the distance between two words.

If you take the distance of both pages you get 8, which is the number of words in the "This is not the hint. Seriously stop checking."

I guess the hint is way too difficult:
"word distance algorithm" would have been easier.
I've seen something like this in restaurants before. They have some kind of grease-pencil/crayon and a black-backed pane of glass that's lit with UV light. It glows pretty nicely. Does anyone know what this is exactly?
"Today, an "entrepreneur" is someone who sells ads on a dumb website people look at while they should be doing useful work. When America was a great nation, an entrepreneur was a guy who would invent or design useful things"

Well said.
Hacker News iPhone Interface (needs work)