skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A great move. 0 A.D. has been hyped for years and years, and with what seems like a dwindling user base (who can wait 8+ years?), open sourcing 0 A.D. will give them more coverage and momentum. Hopefully some new developers will join the team and get this thing finished and playable.
I was a very active programmer on the 0 A.D. team for a few years, but before the birth of this modern engine. The team is extremely high-quality, and the team leader/founder is very passionate about the project.

0 A.D. has been in development for over seven years (it is a very ambitious project). It does seem that over the past few years progress has slowed a bit. However, this is a very professional, modern engine which I highly recommend you take a look at! Programmers have even developed some of the more boring components such as level editors, converters for 3D Studio Max, etc., which are more rare to find in custom engines.

Here is the 0 A.D. home page, since it was not linked to earlier:
http://wildfiregames.com/0ad/
If nothing else, they got a great name (good candidate for showing up first in any alphabetical list)
You would need to have couples in a long-term committed relationship, and everyone would need a partner. I think anything less than that would lead to problems.
In this specific case, he wants to talk about talking.

In general against; in this case, for.
Hacking Python at runtime: a cool way of modifying your scripts
Whoops! Thanks. I think I was distracted because at first I thought "k" was the variable representing # of founders, and then when I figured that out... ah, forget it. I'm an idiot.
I think it's no coincidence that this news came out after Netflix awarded the winner of their Netflix Prize for increasing the accuracy of prediction.
Virtual Machine Showdown: Stack Versus Registers
Guns N’ Roses Uploader Gets House Arrest, Will Make Anti-Piracy Ad
Almost all of them are in places where there is no local or state sales tax.
I guess you've never seen a fight between a man and a woman who used to be sexual partners?
this is a dupe:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=695321
I do that with class/variable names when coding.
Then I scream at myself.
AKA Pet names: http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/petnames/IntroPetNames.html
why not just hire someone to help out? Pay them by charging a small($10) application fee to filter out the bs applications.
Starting to hope it doesn't. Bing is sending lots more traffic than Google to one of my sites.
Thanks webology for posting this and all of you who voted it up :)
I'm sure that Amazon sees the internet sales tax loophole coming to an end. As states get more desperate for tax revenue, they'll be pushing hard to require internet sellers to collect and pay sales tax.

I don't know that this makes the Netflix rumor any more likely, but you can't just dismiss it based on sales tax implications.
Interesting. This could provide price discrimination, solving the problem that an app is worth less to some people who don't use all the features -- those people just don't buy those features. OTOH it introduces mental transaction costs.
Suggest YC: Option for off site links open in new windows
Is it possible to give us a checkbox on our settings screen to allow us to have urls off site open in a new window?
Size vs Growth vs Acceleration
This is ridiculous - under similar conclusions, everyone should be dumping IE6 and switching.

Not surprisingly, this isn't happening. Too often people expect people to make the most correct, informed decisions. That simply is not the case.
That is one amazing hack, really.

There is also the copabana http://www.copacobana.org/ for DES breaking.

But the one you're linking here is that much more impressive for working with recycled boards.
hurd is the operating system for duke nukem forever, didn't know that? ;-)
That only works until enough people start doing it. If you think that blind faith in quantitative factors beats a qualitative analysis of the effects of such faith, I can probably rustle up a few CDOs to sell you.
Well, what we do know is that a plan is based on predicates. For x to occur, y must also occur. The trouble is that in the future, certain things just cannot happen; that is when we need to become agile. We must adjust our planning to correlate with our current surroundings - essentially you cannot force things that just won't happen and if you do the result is an unrealistic forecast.

With that being said, you must know where you want to go - but we cannot define how we are going to get there. Because in the end, it`s not particularly important how we got there, just that we get there.

"Drive to arrive"
Well, the example they give includes the words Ruby, DHH, active, record, rspec, mongrel, jruby, and rubinius as the potential dictionary, and they close the post with "The Ruby community is nothing if not persistent, creative and intelligent — so show us what you’ve got!" So I'm kind of assuming the contest is aimed at the Ruby community.
Apple I: The Start of Something Huge
Another good one: If your university is in a town with lots of startups, go to the university's jobs/careers help service and see the positions they're advertising for the local community.
Intel updates CPU launch schedule
MSNBC: "Afghanistan war plans were on Bush's desk on 9/9/2001"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4587368/

9/11 was a fraud.
you can't feel good about it; I don't - that strategy is as backwards as many of the things Msft does.
It's probably 'sensitive' information, as knowledge of the underlying tech gives the bad guys a guide on what to target, or at least that would be the ISSO friendly answer.

I don't know of anything that trends across gov, but if you had tie-ins with DOD, they'd probably give you the answer for that, as most of the other agencies I've dealt with sort of fall in line with them.
Asimov proposed that this problem be solved but both parties not waiting for a response before continuing to talk. I can't remember what the name of the short story this was a part of though, ring any bells with anyone?
_All_ of MG Siegler's posts are filler with a catchy headline for linkbait.
Do sites using tables for layouts, have an advantage over W3C compliant sites?
Following standards is generally a good thing.
The web today is a mishmash of technologies and clearly, following web standards has a lot of benefits.<p>However I'm beginning to think that using HTML tables for layout is a grey area. Certainly search engines don't seem to care too much about it (with respect to page ranking). They have been having to deal with tables for layout since they many of them started. I therefore don't think there is any evidence that you will be ranked badly from using them. Am I wrong?<p>Also there are many high ranking sites which use tables such as Jakob Nielsen's UseIt.com (http://www.useit.com/). Admittedly this site is old, but it has a Google Page Rank of 8/10?<p>Also many pay-per-click search engine marketing (SEM) sites use tables for layout.
Such as the ones created by Chance Barnett. (I'll mention the sites but I am in no way affiliated with them, I heard about them through Mixergy.com, anyway: DoubleYourDating, CatchHimAndKeepHim, HaveTheRelationshipYouWant, LoveIsInTheStars).<p>So my question is what sort of advantage do these sites have over pure standards driven sites? Especially as many of them still have external CSS files.<p>I saw this article a while back on hacker news and it did have some good points: http://www.flownet.com/ron/css-rant.html<p>I don't want to use tables, but if the advantage is speed maybe we should consider it?<p>Anyway I would be interested in your thoughts from a technical perspective.<p>Many thanks.
Ben Emson...
I think it would be structured in a manner of 60%+ in stock and other in cash with time limits (I.e. youtube deal) then the money paid for it would be created in the market from the stocks soaring etc.. so paying 3b for netflix might cost 1b cash.
Cool, nothing better than a discussion about which editor to use. Of course you could learn vi in five years.
It basically only exists for the sake of testing without buying a Mac. Since it pulls in an entire Cocoa/Carbon/whatever stack, it uses an intense amount of ram and performs slowly.
You used the word "portable". I used the word "love". Reflect for a second on what those particular terms mean in this particular context.

Give up? Okay: there are no mainstream KHTML browsers available for Windows, except for Safari and Chrome via WebKit, only one of which has a link showing up on YouTube.
You're confused about who the user is in this discussion.

The user is the end user of software, not the developer who is using your code. GPL protects the rights of end users, no matter how many developers sit in between the original code and the end user.

In other words, as an end user, if I'm using a GPL program, I know that I can access the source code and fix anything I need to or change anything that needs changing.

To be as specific as possible, in what I described, you don't count as a developer until you actually take your changes and give them to someone else, so distributor may be a more accurate term.
I've heard the same argument stated as 'must be 3x better' before, but it feels overly simplified. I think how much better you need to be depends on:

- How painful the status quo is for the market; do existing solutions have a perception of being 'good enough' or are folks screaming for something better? (People feel Google is good enough: a -ve for MS.)

- What are the switching costs? (Switching between search engines is relatively easy: a +ve for MS.)
"Apparently you believe that some users do not deserve the same rights to their copies of your software as others."

You do realize that if someone who gets a copy of my BSD-licensed software wants to lock it up and put it under horrific restrictions, people can still get a copy of it, under a permissive license, from me?

And, really, that's how I prefer to solve that problem. Sure, somebody might build a derivative piece of software and not open it up, but I don't feel like it's my place to dictate to them how they have to license their own software.

But then I don't really look at open-source license terms as a moral issue; the fact that I'm a license pragmatist should be pretty clear from my original reply.
MSNBC: "Afghanistan war plans were on Bush's desk on 9/9/2001"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4587368/

Some people just wont open their eyes. It hurts too much.
Formalizing Human Ignorance: Collision-Resistant Hashing without the Keys [pdf]
Looking at daily data is pretty worthless for this too.

In order to actually understand what is going on, you need to look at floating averages. If you look at a 7-day floating average of this data, you'll see that the overall changes in Google's traffic aren't very significant. It seems like most of the Bing traffic comes from Windows Live and the 'other' category.

While it's true that Google was trending down the past few days and Bing up the past few days, it is really far too early to make any sort of prediction about their traffic levels in the long term.
For individuals maybe it is a matter of decency, for companies on the other hand it's all about liability and it's not as academic an issue as you are purporting.

To put it simply, licensing matters for the same fundamental reason any other legal contract matters and if you care about your company you'd be wise to pay attention.
I used the word love too actually. But I thought you meant thanks when you said it. I guess you didn't.
Selenium is really a great tool. it requires a little bit of JavaScript knowledge to identify DOM elements. Beginners can use the Firefox plugin to get an easy start.
Because the sort of people that would work for $10 aren't the ones you want reviewing funding applications.
Well said.

37s have missed some important points:

* A plan is a statement of your intentions at the time it is written.

* Writing the plan helps to clarify your understanding of the problem, forces you to consider difficult issues and acts as a communications tool to enable your team to pull in the same direction.

* All plans should be adaptive.

* Plans contain estimates, not 'guesses'

* Good planners can manage (but not remove) the risk around those estimates.
Ridiculous. Gold plating and racing stripes won't help bits arrive any faster. There's no need to pay $50 for a cable when they can be had for $20.
you can make a w3c compliant site that uses tables for layout.
html tables are part of the standard. there are custom extensions that some browsers introduced, but if you avoid them... 'hello 'compliance''.
As my old drill sergeant used to say, nothing gets it done like doing it.
Similar things actually work on babies. That is, if you respond immediately when a baby starts crying it will learn to cry when it needs attention. If you let it cry for a bit, the baby will learn not to do that.

(This is actually not as unethical as I'm making it sound. Basically it has to do with attachment styles and teaching the kid not to be clingy. Generally you do things like this if the baby is waking up and crying at night. Of course, I'm not a parent, so this is just based on what I've read.)
This looks like a cool, interesting, and useful app. Why aren't there more apps like this for the desktop? Is it because the Iphone is a cooler platform?

Also, typographic reference books can double as art books, so I wonder if designers will use this app and apps like these instead of books?
A few days ago, I did a subjective comparison of four different search engines' performance on my last ten Google searches. Google, Ask.com, and Yahoo Search were about equal, and Bing was, sad to say, noticeably worse than the other three.

http://canonical.org/~kragen/search-comparison-2009.html

So now I google using Yahoo Search instead of googling with Google.
If the applicants have a demo-ready B2C product, MTs [1] might even be consistently better at picking winners than YC, as the ultimate success depends on what MTs think, since MTs[2] approx= common people approx= customers.

[1] Given enough MTs

[2] Provided you restrict allowed MT demographic to match your target market
blink you don't know many homosexuals, do you?

Their relationships are just as complex and their breakups just as fraught as heterosexuals.
Hey Koen!

From the perspective of a person who chooses the GPL license for their code, the issue is that they want to the right to take your changes and then modify them as they see fit.

The GPL prefers that right over everything else, including overall use of any particular program or library. GPL advocates would suggest that it is in fact bad that you've increased the use of subversion, because you've done it in a way that all those new users can't go in and fix bugs in your program, or change some behavior that they feel needs changing.

I think one of the reasons people fail to understand this argument is that they see a complete disconnect between end users and developers. In other words, an end user is someone who will never even want to edit source code. I'm inclined to think this is usually true, but the authors of the GPL are the exception to that rule, and it is one of the primary reasons that the GPL exists.

As far as the git client is concerned, wrapping the command line, as you suggested, basically solves the problem. It's also probably not that hard. In fact, there are a couple ruby libraries that do it I believe, and maybe python ones as well, if you're still doing PyObjc.
No, as opposed to all the times when CEOs completely ignore their competitors' products in public statements.
I think Bing will gain a respectable share like %10 or %12, but won't grow strong (unless they did something miraculous).

I'm accustomed to google, I don't want to change right now.

But, just a good question: don't you feel that you replace Google in few things: I use more often wolfram.com to get statics or other related things, I use Bing for tourism + image search, I use compete.com instead of google trend... If Google focus on search it would be much better than creating Chrome OS.

In fact Google will still my search engine number 1, but being crappy in image search and numerical calculation will makes me try other search engines, losing Google some shares.

Google would better focus on its search than creating an os.
Well, quite. Best recruits for a Mars mission will be nuclear submariners. They're used to operating complex systems in cramped conditions in closed social groups.
There are a lot of reviewers here asking, "What makes this product different from ____?", which requires that you follow up to explain (in quite a few words) what makes this product different/better than your competitors. To me, this is bad, because your potential customers are probably going to wonder the same thing. If you're going to sell this thing, you need to make it clear to your potential customers exactly what your product is and what makes it great within seconds of them hitting your homepage.

In your case, I would think that the very least you will need to do is make your product look at least equally impressive to something like Campfire right off the bat (which will necessitate having a very well thought out, professionally designed homepage) that rivals what 37Signals has, so that people are at least intrigued enough to dig further to see what your product really has to offer.

I'm going to echo comments that have already been made about the site itself. I find the design bland and dreary. There also isn't much information on the site at all. What happens if I don't watch the video? I have no idea what the product is about or even looks like.
I don't think that this system necessarily would require a strict yes / no vote. I would imagine interesting commentary and feedback springing up around each idea. This system would give the entrepreneur a chance to defend his/her idea or iterate on some of the shortcomings others address. PG et al are betting on this iterative process occurring during YC anyway, why not accelerate it by making it part of the application process?
Table based layout is a fast way to make designers and front end developers groan loudly. There are a number of reasons for this that have been innumerated in countless blog posts. I think the real question here would be assuming you have no cross-browser issues, what is the real tangible benefit of markup that validates? Unless you're running a site for web professionals your users aren't likely to give a flip about your W3C compliance badge at the bottom of the page and are even less likely to run your pages through a validator.
I think groupthink is far more of a problem when people see "hey, this has been voted up to 10" than when people hear a reasoned argument for why they should read an application which they previously ignored.
Obligatory XKCD:

http://xkcd.com/231/
A Call for Schwag
Any tips for the application? (Other than the obligatory, don't ask on HN)

We have a solid business plan, plenty of lines of code and are looking forward to applying.
To fight against that -- maybe you could make the total number of votes an application has gotten (it's score) invisible to the people doing the voting?
Zed's damn right. I love free software as much as the next guy, but damn some people complain. If a man sits down and codes something, it's his decision to license it anyway he wants, and that includes NOT open sourcing it if he sees fit.

Personally, I don't know if I have the patience to run an open source project. The attitude of many users implies that the developers owe them something. Be bloody grateful, or STFU.

A guy named Mike develops free audio plugins for linux. (linuxdsp.co.uk) Obviously well done, and based on what I've heard, they sound good, but the only thing some people can see is the fact it's not open source. Reminds me of the doctrinal wars I used to participate in when I was a Christian.

And hey, the Bible does say "the labourer is worthy of his wages"....
Maybe he could word it like this: advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must display the following acknowledgement: This product includes software developed by the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors.
Much better: the quoted scientist's site, with downloadable pdfs of his work: http://onnes.ph.man.ac.uk/nano/

--

I just submitted the link above, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=704664.
I'm not on Windows, so I haven't used it myself, but you're the first person I've heard complain about it since 4.0 dropped (though, granted, I don't listen very hard).

More important, I would think, is that it supports the web standards that Google has a vested interest in seeing flourish, and it would be another shiny logo that might get clicked rather than the IE7/8 link they put up out of necessity.
See another interesting article about the general topic (Wind or Nuclear?) http://mises.org/story/3536
SEO/SEM and HTML markup are apples and oranges nowadays.

Tables are good for some things, for others not so much. Do whatever works for you and ignore the pundits stuck in the 2005 "markup quality ftw" mentality.
One exception of course being WA (where Amazon has its corporate headquarters) which has a substantial sales tax but no income tax.
The Law of Demeter Is Not A Dot Counting Exercise
Yes that's my point about the grey area - you run a table site through the validator and it can pass.

But are there any advantages - is it easier to design if the site doesn't use complex tables? There really can't be any advantage to download speed - as browsers are likely to render tables slightly slower.
'Editing' is just one tiny subset of what Emacs does[1] and vi competes with that part well. But why is vi brought up whenever Emacs is discussed?

[1] Or rather, "empowers you to do"
I meant self-serving strategery.
IE7 & 8 do not support HTML 5 either
ASk HN: second thoughts about joining startup - what to do?
I've hoping you can spread some light over the confusing that I'm experiencing right now.

For the past weeks, my friend and I have been discussing our new business venture. Actually, the idea is his and he has been planning it during the past years but it's only become serious during the last months.

I'm supposed to do the tech stuff for the company - coding, web sites, etc - but my understanding was that we both would be founders or atleast or equal partners. But my friend has other plans, it seems. Basically, he is about to be the sole founder and owner of the company. I can understand this to a certain degree; it's his idea and he's working full-time on the idea (I already have a job, so all my work is after my office hours). But I feel let down and hurt that he's decided to "demote" to an employee or contractor. Especially since I'm fully capable of discussing business ideas and development and actually discuss these matters frequently with him. What's worst, I've just signed a very general NDA that covers pretty much everything I'll do at the company and prohibits me from divulging information to other people. I felt forced to sign the NDA because I didn't want to let down a friend and because he insisted on it. In hindsight I realize this was incredibly stupid. Also, the NDA has made me really doubt my friend's trust in me and if I actually want to work with him.

I do want to make this startup work, but it feels that only a couple of weeks in, I'm in an inferior position and obviously more of an employee than a partner. Also, and this part is what I really hate, I've come to question my trust in my friend a bit because of the NDA.
I think you are right. There is probably little advantage either way - if you are relying on Pay-Per-Click advertising.

SEO on a site with tables isn't going to penalise you that much therefore it must be that these SEM marketers are happier building them with tables.
Good solution! T-Shirts are a great way to show appreciation :)

One of my favourite possessions is a T-Shirt from a project I help out on. It gets worn on special geeky occasions :D
If I have to refresh the website myself it is for all intensive purposes not real-time :p

Or maybe it's just broken for me? Firefox 3.5 on linux.