skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's pretty much what TrailBehind did. We moved to a house in Lake Tahoe from our small apartment in San Francisco when we started full time development. It's great, rent is half what it would be in San Francisco, and we can hike or ski from our front door when we need a break. The fridge is full of healthy food from Costco, we have to take turns cooking though.
Agree on the uninspired point.

Yeah, Shimomura's role may well have been embellished, but as described in Takedown (there's some controversy around the veracity of the story), he was supposed involved in some fairly sophisticated stuff to help the FBI track Mitnick down.
True, but you also wrote "So there may be a way to capture more of the market Segway hoped to reach [by redesigning it to make the operator look more active]".

In all honesty, for how many people do you think "how I look while riding it" is the single factor stopping them from buying a Segway? Your statement implies that this is not the vanishingly small number of people I would expect it to be.
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Heck of a long time.
I'm pretty sure (from the background) that the photo is from the Segway tour in the distillery district in Toronto (Ontario,Canada)... and I've seen people on them that _don't_ look that dorky, but they do look touristy because there was a tour guide leading them around IIRC. They might have looked a bit smug too, but not just because they were on the Segway, I remember them being dressed sort of yuppie-like which is only contributed to the fact that they are on an expensive-looking vehicle. (I'm really pulling on my memory here, this was probably around 2006 or 2007 and I just happened to see them go by. Not necessarily something that is burned into my memory.)
Building Rome in a day (3D reconstruction from Flickr photos)
Yeah, but you get credibility in the process.
So why not use other foods to compensate for the Vitamin D loss? A single serving of tuna naturally contains double(5 microgram) the amount of vitamin D present in a glass of fortified milk(2.5 microgram for fortified, 1microgram for non-fortified).
Walking your dog on a Segway sounds ultra dorky, but I've seen Segway tours go by and they didn't look too dorky to me. Though I have a co-worker that uses a combo of Segway and transit to commute; it looks a little dorky.
Good call! You've got to admit the title is ambiguous... ;)
Exploring web typography
The Segways with the treaded 'off-road' wheels look so awkward as to be laughable. I'm just picturing some guy with huge biceps and tattoos riding the thing talking about how he goes 'off-roading' on his Segway. And it just makes me chuckle.
There is no partial payment plan for those who quit or get fired before day 90 of coding is reached.

Wonder what the reason is to load the last payment and underpay on the first 2, more pressure to push to complete the project at the end?
I am using it for Rails Dev and Web development, but I want dual monitors. I see that the Mac Mini does not offer this.

The problem that I am running into is that Rails behave differently on my Vista laptop than it does on my VPS and I and it's causing me quite a bit of grief.

I just want to be up and running as soon as possible.
I'm fascinated that Bill Atkinson still uses it. HyperCard was what got me interested in multimedia and was a clear jumping off point for my interest in the web. It was my favorite Mac application and I loved the way the user levels were set up and how easy it was to script it (even at age 10).
Why don't you use the time off to really put some serious work into it? Are the hosting fees that excessive?
I'm not sure what other people's motivations here are, but mine—for thinking the same thoughts—is that even with the cons factored in, the iPhone is still strictly better than its alternatives. I don't want to abandon something just because it has a problem, I want to fix the problem. This all reminds me of what happens whenever someone asks about a relationship issue on Yahoo Answers: the first response is always, always "you should leave them."
"Ease of access has been a principal, I think, determiner of success for technology companies." - Charlie Rose
Why would I want to lower the quality of one food and replace it with another? I was on the organic milk bandwagon, but its simply inferior.
The Emperor’s New Clothes - The App Store is an embarassment
Dean is wrong most of the time, but he's doing it so frequently that it doesn't matter. The couple of hits made him pretty damn wealthy.
From TFA - "After reading the thread on a mirror, it's important to note that after the argument, Alan and Linus continued to debate the technical merits of how to patch the bugs. The ongoing conversation was civilized and concise. Of course Linus is too much of a pompous ass to apologize to Alan for completely misunderstanding the problem and proposing dangerous and useless ways of fixing it, then arguing about it ad nauseum. Oddly, this doesn't seem to bother Alan or maybe he's just used to it."
Interesting. It is similar to the "noprocrast" feature on YCN, but applicable to a variety of sites. Nice work!
This doesn't give much confidence that there will be sufficient funding for the huge deficit this year.
From a utility standpoint a Segway's would be perfect for traveling around a Zoo / Disneyland. Rent them for ~30$ a day and it could be vary popular and profitable.

However, there seems to be little gain from owning one because they have the same downsides of a bike. Plus, you need to charge them, and you need to more concerned with them getting stolen.

So, the consumer Segway market is basically an expensive vanity item. But, few people actually want to be seen on them due to look and feel issues.
Too bad my YC application for a Segway-style skateboard startup got rejected :P

(It was probably my lousy application that sunk it, combined with the fact that my co-founder couldn't move to the Bay Area, combined with the difficulty in scaling a manufacturing enterprise at rates that would interest VC money).

Anyway the idea was to take something like this:

http://3wdm.blogspot.com/

...and make it about half the size, half the weight, and not homemade-looking. I still have some of the spares from that project (the original was stolen) that I'll try and put something together with soon.
The Fed will buy the notes, as they have been doing for a while :)
The fed's just gonna have to print...and print...and print. hyperinflation here we come.
Very interesting, thanks.

Weird that they chose rats and haven't (that we know of) done a study with humans. After all, it's not as if such a study has any inherent danger.
Honestly, four weeks ago I believed Apple would patch this. Its such a huge problem that I didn't think they could possibly ignore it.

Once again, I am proven wrong.
Dna to Organisms

That sounds like a very interesting course. That would hardly have been possible to present in my undergraduate days. What was the content of that course?

Evolutionary Biology

I was hoping my introductory biology course would get more into evolutionary issues than it did. It hewed pretty closely to a plan of spewing out lots of essential facts without a lot of theoretical framework. I think the same course was presented much better just a few years later when a friend took it and a different professor was the lecturer.
i'd recommend you try rittenhouse's 23-year-old and black maple hill's 21-year-old
What I find impressive is that Alan continues to assist on the issue after he has "had enough", providing in-detail responses to questions and correcting part of Linus's patch. I think he also responded to Linus's initial complaint with grace and aplomb.

I'd like to think I am poised and dedicated, but I doubt I am even half so as Alan.
Nope. Carriers restrict access to... pretty much anything cool - bluetooth, wifi, internet, usb, third-party apps, custom ringtones, custom wallpapers... all locked down and accessible for a price
Hosting a low-traffic site at 1and1.com is cost prohibitive? Should be running you a couple bucks a month if not a shared hosting account.
A business is a business, even if it has a simple obvious business model - you still have to put a value on your time, do paperwork for it if you make any money (or not, I guess the domain registration is deductible) and buy some keywords or whatever.

Of course, it's not the sort of startup we love on HN because there's no new technology or functionality involved, and it has no potential as a tool in and of itself. But I'd say it's still a startup, banality and all. I look forward to hearing more about it; I'd love to have a side project bringing in a few grand a year on a one-day-a-week basis.
Let's not exaggerate. Inflation? Probably. Hyperinflation? No.
You won't sell for "Bucket Load" of cash, how about Free?
There's an HTC Android phone (released earlier this month) with a 3.5mm headphone jack.
This is one thing I have found true of great open source developers in general: regardless of their attitude, regardless of past events, regardless of the situation, they can carry on technical debates on how to deal with an issue.

In other words, for such people, the technical merits of an idea supersede all other aspects.
If you want to read some actual detail on this, read this LWN article:
http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/343828/d298eb0f131f2039/
I agree, I think the only way Apple will listen is if people vote with their wallets. I'm just of the mindset that there has to be a compelling reason to go to another product first. Developers are the force that can make that happen.
I tried this last week but found myself browsing in a VM so finally decided to just not fight it.

So if you do want to try this, make sure you block all possible ways you can access the sites (various browsers, various VMs). Kind of a pain.
its on a dedicated server.
Is it that hard to spend fewer hours at work and more, guilt-free time doing your own thing later? We run regular M-Thu 10:00-3:30 production hours. The trade-off, of course, is that people agree to save Twitter/RSS/browsing for their own time at home. We get a lot done.
For how long should we expect to live?
nerd fights make great drama. let me know when episode two starts.

I wanted to edit that it would be freaking hilarious if Alan went and worked with Microsoft.
Germany just reported its first DEFLATION in 22 years...

Almost like we're sitting the top of an unstable equilibrium that is only getting taller.
IIRC, Kamen was contractually prohibited from marketing the Segway as a health aid after selling the wheelchair with similar technology to J&J. One Segway dealer told me that a 3rd party retrofits them with seats for use by those who can't stand/walk for long periods but don't really need a wheelchair.

Those who say, "Well, you could use a bike, wheelchair, etc." don't understand the use case. A person who can't walk long distances might use it in the mall to go from store to store. Then, when he sees something he wanted to look at, he could get off and browse around for a few minutes. It's the walk from the parking lot to the shoe section at WalMart that gets them -- it's not the few minutes spent perusing the boots.
Microsoft's CEO wants ET method of presentation, not PowerPoint
hyperinflation has to do with a loss of faith in the currency. Foreign debt holders know that this America empire is sailing into sunset, and has no way to pay its trillions of dollars back. They'll all dump it one night, causing the dollar to drop 30-40%
at 70mph, you'd look like a dork committing suicide.
This story is astonishing.

You were successful at preventing yourself from browsing from your main machine, but fired up a a virtual machine to circumvent yourself?
That is seriously cool. Go for it!
Do people really have such little self-control that they need to block a particular internet site via a tool like this? Just don't type news.ycombinator.com or click your bookmark for it. Simple as that.
A telling piece of opinion in that article:

> This code worked with the older TTY code, but broke with 2.6.31. There is probably no way to fix it which doesn't saddle the kernel with maintaining weird legacy bug-compatibility code

"Maintaining weird legacy bug-compatibility code" is the essence of professional and responsible platform software engineering - the software that other software relies upon. It's one of the reasons why platform software development is so hard and why software engineers are paid as much as they are.

There's another misguided notion mentioned that I see a lot in both open source and Wikipedia, two kinds of crowd-sourcing efforts which generally desperately seek authority-figures of some kind, like "standards":

> Alan thinks this behavior is reasonable; it complies with the applicable standards

Compliance to the "applicable standards" isn't worth anything if it breaks software and makes users' lives worse. It's not for nothing than POSIXLY_CORRECT applies to many GNU apps, and is not enabled by default.
Sigh... I was sure this said homoiconic. Too much Lisp.
Was going to downmod, but instead I'll reply: a friend of mind died riding a scooter from one driveway to the next at very low speed. A helmet (we had helmet laws) would have saved him. I'm trying to get my kids to understand this when they ride their bikes.

Just sayin'...
I know this is meant as a joke but he makes a really good point on how the messenger can influence a message. If someone you think is a genius goes on and on about how revolutionary a feature is people will often check their skepticism at the door and believe the person. For example, I can't imagine Steve Jobs still thinks the Segway will "change the way we build cities."

But when Dean Kamen was explaining how great it was to him I'll bet any amount of money he believed cities would be rebuilt around the thing
Why Open Source Sucks
Hypercard was the gateway drug to programming for me. From Hypercard to Macromind Director to PERL. Sometimes I kick the programming habit but I always seem to go back. Now it's Python.
There's usually some emotional reaction associated with such behavior. Characterizing it as a broad failure of self-control oversimplifies it.
It's easier to buy hard drugs in the US than it is to get the phone you want with the carrier of your choice.
I'd like to see some predictions and designs of experiments to test this theory.
"The safe party drug"? I haven't read anything about modafinil being used as a "party drug" in the sense that cocaine or mdma might be used.

This seems like a very poorly written article... and there were no links to the research (or no obvious links).
Why did you block them instead of just not visit them?
Slides from a talk on using Bayesian network for poker [pdf]
What's the best blade server?
Perhaps you could ask your IT Admin to block the domain at the firewall level?

I feel at some point there must be a balance. I view HN as a way for me to "sharpen the saw" as they say. This is precisely why I've stopped going to those "other" social bookmarking sites. Too much distraction, not enough substance.
The danger here is the temptation to neglect some of the CS things that are important.

Analysis of algorithms is one of those things that is super important, yet it requires some discrete math and theory of computation.

Strangely enough, the classes that were most useful to me now as a developer were the more theory oriented ones. The "real-world" type classes were all either out-of-date or just too ivory tower to apply.
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A great app for OS X that will block all connections to a specific server for a specific length of time (not just in firefox) is Self Control: http://visitsteve.com/work/selfcontrol/
This story is a duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=730997

In fact, it looks like the poster knew that when submitting as he appended the URL with "?dupe" so as to get past the code that makes sure duplicates don't get into HN. Intentionally putting a dupe in is just bad form.
This appears to be an intentional duplicate submission no? Take a look at the submission url.
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"The reason for this cost: superfluous bullshit like high-voltage field-effect transistors or FETs. What the hell does a FET do? Nobody knows, but I guarantee some nerd spent months writing a graduate thesis on why it's important (and failing)."

Seriously Maddox? Try harder than that.
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Alan: http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1319387&cid=28...

Linus: http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1319387&cid=28...

Coda: http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1319387&cid=28...
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Realistically speaking? I think Big Pot is likely to pay rappers to hawk it in their videos to "adults of a legal age" snort.

Yeah, yeah, I know legalization advocates think that pot is likely to be grown primarily by local artisans and not by violent drug gangs, as it is currently, or commercial agriculture operations feeding into megabrands like all legal mind-altering substances. That is because legalization advocates have an enormous capacity for self-deception, quite possibly helped by the fact that they are stoned.
this America empire is sailing into sunset, and has no way to pay its trillions of dollars back.

The US will be able to pay the trillions of dollars back. How? Just printing more dollars and using them to pay. The problem for the investors is that those dollars might not be worth it too much.

But this will be in many years. Right now US creditors don't want to dump the dollar because it would decrease the value of what they hold.
M-Th 10:0-3:30? Sure, I won't open a social website. M-F 8:30-5:00? Different story
Where do I sign up? Thoughts on iPhone app development, one year later
Chris Sacca (awesome guy and investor in a few YC companies, including ours) said to us something like, "People have these moments of strength where they can say something like, 'block me from this site so I can focus' and they have moments of weakness where they break down and try to go to that site."

RescueTime will have this feature pretty soon where you can voluntarily block or limit distracting stuff on a voluntary basis IN ANY BROWSER.

https://www.rescuetime.com/blocked/url/http://news.ycombinat...

There's an example block page that you'd see if you blocked Hacker News (we have a few custom ones in the works).
Sign in/out makes more sense to me because it focuses on user activities. Logs are back-end functions that users shouldn't have to think about.
The ball-first movement is much more natural for humans too! Running shoes promote rather un-biomechanically sound forms of locomotion. I think in 100 years modern shoes will be considered with the sense of horror footbinding is regarded today.
I don't think this is a question of self-control. I noticed (only after I installed this plug-in) that sometimes when I got frustrated with a problem I would type in news.ycombinator.com by habit.

Breaking that habit definitely helped my cause.
I'm sad to hear this ... I was/am rooting for you guys. What platform did you build on? Maybe we can recommend some low/no cost hosts that you can use to bootstrap yourself until you get more traffic.

Really, being unemployed is the worst time to throw away your startup.
My guess is that if pot is legalised, it will be manufactured in a similar way to cigarettes.
(I'm the author of the article in question)

I disagree completely. Maintaining ABI compatibility is crucially important, and the kernel development community understands that. But ABI compatibility does not mean going to all lengths to enabling buggy code to continue to work. In this case, "fixing" kdesu would have required putting in code to recognize this specific data stream and ensure that a read terminated exactly where it always used to so kdesu wouldn't get confused and throw away good data. It would be an albatross around the neck of any developer working in the TTY layer for years, and those developers are already up to their asses in albatrosses. All to perpetuate an easily-fixed bug in an open-source application.

That kind of "compatibility" wrecks your platform over the course of a few years; you simply can't maintain code like that. A "professional and responsible" software engineer needs to recognize that and avoid it.
I remember a product in the early 90s called Toolbook, from Asymetrix (Paul Allen's company after he left MS). It was almost exactly like HyperCard for Windows 3.1.

According to Wikipedia, it's still in existence, but has evolved to specialize in creating education and training apps, so may not be quite the same as I remember it anymore.
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"Just don't reach for the popcorn." It doesn't work that way.
Definitely the most amusing journalism piece I've read lately.

It also didn't smack of that whole "I don't know what I'm talking about" thing that plagues modern journalism.
I personally avoid products where the company thinks they can dictate to you how to use it after you've purchased it. If you factor that in and still find a product to be value added, no problem, room enough in the market for lots of players.
Cell networks are dead meat and they know it, and as such are trying to extract as much bank as quickly as possible before their demise.

What troubles me is that if Apple is, indeed going to release a tablet of some description in 2 months, and app development and deployment is going to be along the lines of the iPhone/iPod Touch system, then they'd better fix this fast, and regain developer trust or the platform, no matter how cool, will founder and join the Newton in the hall of shame.
Anonymous proxy servers. Where there's a will, there's a way.
Very cool - I did not know this measurement, though it seems painfully obvious now that you've pointed it out. I will start using the lane dashes; thanks.
The App Store is part of an emerging market and this is what emerging markets look like. I'm barely old enough to remember going to computing shows in the mid- to late- 1980s. The kind of warez being pawned off at these shows for $5-$10 was embarrassing too. There were some terribly bad games and software being made back then. What tends to happen is the market itself, at first, is exciting and people will buy anything. Once the market itself is no longer fresh, the buyers tire of the level of quality and become more discretionary and discerning in what they buy. Hasn't anyone had a new mall or shopping strip open up near them? People flock there for no reason whatsoever except that the experience is fresh. Once that fades, only the good stores survive.

The App Store is no longer fresh and exciting. Sorry if your business plan of putting a piece of crap on sale there at $0.99 doesn't work for you now. The best software is yet to come. There are folks working on quality pieces of software and you'll see prices trend higher with the number of developers trending lower over the course of the next few years. The sweet pricing spot was $0.99 in the first year of the App Store. It'll be an order of magnitude higher in two years. I'm fairly certain about that.
Being a fan of the BSDs I have to point out that this type of decision would not happen there. The reason being that the kernel and userland are not separate entities; they are a system. If you update your kernel the userland has to update with it, and that is to accommodate changes just like this.
some antidepressants can be very powerful, life changing, spiritual experiences. And they are not supernatural at all...
A year ago, I tried the same thing, and I agreed with what you're saying. Then I got rid of it. Then I started using Instapaper to browse and read things later. Then I stopped doing that.

Then I got a job that I didn't hate. I don't accidentally waste too much time on HN anymore :)