skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was hoping for some of my other favorites:

-Placed end to end a line of one dollar bills would stretch from the earth to the sun

-You could could more than cover I-10 from coast to coast in hundred dollar bills (six fifteen foot wide lanes)

-Stacked on top the pile of one dollar bills would stand 63 thousand miles tall or a bit over 1/4 of the distance from the earth to the moon.
Should be "caterpillar"? Don't want to teach kids the wrong spelling ;)
Ask HN: Where can I find awesome web designers?
Hey guys, where does one find people who can make beautiful landing pages/home pages? Examples of such sites I am referring to include Wufoo and Basecamp. I love their design which is simple yet aesthetically pleasing.

Most of the times I am able to make usable interfaces/web design that work sort of ok. But I know that users view good design as directly propotional to the value they attach to the product they use.

So my question is: how do I go about finding great web designers? I have tried googling for agencies/freelancers, but didn't find one which had simple, usable Basecampish sites on their portfolios. Most of them had sites for hotels, charities, small time businesses, etc.
I have no interest in touching it as long as it's still saddled with DRM. That's the real deal-breaker for me.
Nah, like all windows versions, you just load cygwin.
I am searching for good (educationally-oriented) ways to entertain and occupy my son.

I hear you on that, as a homeschooling father of four children with a home-based business. But my friendly suggestion would be that very young children are not best served by screen time

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/children-and-tv/MY00522

but by their own auditory, visual, and especially tactile experience in their home environment from doing their own activities. (You mention your son--your first?--being four months old, so I suppose he is not walking yet, but he can already move and touch things.)
What Bing could Bring... to Yahoo Search: Power. Revenue
What's a-a-p?
Michael Scott, A Hero to the Entrepreneur
I somewhat agree but mostly not I guess. The reality is we are all using desktops which have had significantly more development hours go into them than any of the webOS desktops.

They are trying to solve more than one problem but end up creating an unappealing solution. The real issue here is data portability - not data migration. Moving my e-life to a web based desktop will never work. Some of my documents are too sensitive to store online. What if I am using a browser with limited functionality. I'm a student and in a given day I must be using more than 3 different computers at least - all of which have a different system with different access restrictions. I wish flash worked properly or even existed in some cases but that is not the reality for people who really need this.

These products are all built on a notion of "what if we could..." not what is actually needed.

At the end of the day I want to access all my data anyway I want - usb, internet, ftp, http, pop, imap, ssh, sftp, yada yada. Now that would make my life so much simpler.
I see from your profile that you too take care of your kids all day long. I've found that my son doesn't want to do the same thing for very long. So we read books, we play with toys, we take walks, etc. etc. This is one of a variety of activities that is done for only a few minutes each day.

In other words, I don't understand the presumption that books and flash cards are mutually exclusive. On the contrary, I think that they are complementary. I look for things that are educational that hold my sons interest for some amount of time. This activity is one of those things. If kids don't like it, by all means they shouldn't use it. It is meant to be fun.
If TC isn't completely wrong (and they are notorious for being careless with the facts) AT&T was demanding some changes to the content on 4chan in order to restore access.
A business model for Twitter that doesn't involve ads
wow, i'm surprised apress let him do this

cool
Relating this to your previous submission from the Boston Globe, is Francis Collins the answer to the concerns raised about Richard Dawkins and PZ Myers, or is he part of a worse concern?

Thanks in general for all the interesting submissions about imparting science knowledge to the general public.
I might get W7 for my PC gaming habbit. I'd never own Windows for anything else though.

Basically, I just really wish they'd finally add mouse and keyboard support to the 360.
It's got a much worse learning curve... actually it was a vertical wall last time I tried. Even with good experience with other PBXes, it took me a long time to understand how does it route calls (and how to control it properly). If they improved documentation with some examples, it might be easier now.

It is more stable and its routing does look more "sane" as far as SIP goes. If I was starting from scratch, I'd choose FS rather than Asterisk. Then again, I would choose some other systems before FS.
[Don't] Start Building The First Idea You Have
Yes, this is the reason they are huge, still, life-like images, i.e. less like TV and more like photographs or books. And like I said in another comment, this is just meant for a few minutes a day and as one of dozens of activities we regularly engage in.
See http://a-a-p.sf.net
Great article -- and its lessons need not apply only to companies and entrepreneurship.

From the rather limited perspective constituting my own life, I have found a proactive attitude (coupled with a healthy disregard for "rules") tends to beget a considerable payoff.
well perhaps the other 10% is asking the right way (i.e. cheekily in this case)

Besides Branson does similar things fairly often. I think he's a pretty sound guy.
I think it's reasonably common procedure. If you're getting hammered by DDoS, sometimes it's just best to shut off that IP for a while until it stops.
I'd be a musician, or a therapist.
You can buy (and some people do buy) a device that solely allows you to breathe. For instance, a snorkel. Of course, it's more accurate to say that it's a device that allows you to breathe underwater; likewise, it's more accurate to say that a Kindle is a device that allows you to read without carrying around so many heavy books. Similarly, some people pay for cutlery and crockery to allow them to eat (more pleasantly), or telephones to allow them to talk (even when the person they're talking to isn't nearby), even though eating and talking aren't much less fundamental than breathing.
New Website For Design Nerds & Rockstar Developers
I know the guy working on the iPhone edition of this app. It's looking super slick.

Definitely worth a look!
Ask HN: Why Somalia has become a safe heaven for pirate?
I thought that the waters of world were safe. People coming on a small boat and hijacking huge ships seemed some years old phenomenon to me. However I am surprised how the Somalian pirates have made news.

Hows come the world, so many nations with their Navy can curb these pirates?
I wouldn't claim it's the full story, but IMO part of what's fundamentally broken is the phenomenon of single-language programmers. This leads to the belief that your entire tool chain needs to be written in a single language. So now every language has it's own build tool (or 2, or 3), and god help you if you have a multi-language codebase and need to have a unified build system.
Gamow: "No, I'm a fake Ph.D. I never got a real degree."
I just have to say. I love the way this guy talks. What a fun article.
News may be a commodity, but quality isn't.

I'd pay $6.99/month to access all NYTimes content online, if not paying meant not being able to get beyond the first page of any story over 24hrs old.

That said, NPR might be the only brand able to compete for my attention online, if they really put muscle into web content and develop "print" talent to rival the likes of the Times.
yeah, opendns alerts it too.
Ask HN: What countries allow foreigners to work immediately upon arrival?
I see an interesting discussion of United States immigration policies related to visas with work permission in another thread. How do other countries compare in regard to this issue? I am an American who has lived abroad, working abroad, for about six years of my life (in two separate three-year stays, with some visits in between). I didn't find it remarkable or onerous that I had to apply for visas with work permission when I lived overseas.

What countries make it easiest for foreign residents to work in the local economy? Is there any country where any foreigner fresh off the plane may immediately start working at any kind of job? What countries are the easiest countries to work in for

a) people from India

b) people from China

c) people from the United States

d) people from [insert arbitrary "Third World country here]

who have newly arrived and desire professional employment with high salaries in terms of the local economy?
When I was younger, the waters of Southeast Asia were very dangerous for piracy. It seems to me that piracy arises whenever the governments of countries with strong navies are not united in dealing with it.
designMode is absolutely horrible though. When you press enter in the edit box, some browsers add a <br> tag, some start a new <p> tag, etc etc. It's a complete mess.

Also the API is ridiculous.

editableDocument.execCommand("Bold", false, null);

execCommand? seriously?
Absolutely, will switch :). It should also be 'opossum' I've realized.
You may want to reach out to Allan and Steve at less everything. http://www.lesseverything.com
Then it's not fair to say it's missing as though it is something you expect it to have. That's kind of like saying you expect your Ford to have a customisable semi-auto transmission or heated seats.

As people have mentioned, there are substitutes that meet most of the same functionality, but if you truly text driven rather than visually driven you should pick a text focused operating system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interix
Honestly, I think it has a lot to do with financial issues. This articles was posted earlier today that you may find interesting:

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/17-07/ff_som...

I don't think it's entirely true that private security contractors are actually trying to prolong the problem in an attempt to make more money, but I do think it's mainly due to someone's financial/political agenda. Nobody wants to deal with the REAL problems in Mogadishu, and obviously there are few people who find it cost-effective to make such a decisive move against piracy. There's several good documentaries going around on TV that show how difficult it is to deal with the problem without majorly interrupting legitimate trade.

>> However I am surprised how the Somalian pirates have made news.

There's a lot more ships going through that area than the news lets on. The news agencies have there agenda too - if they can make the situation sound more dramatic, it's in their best interests to do so.
How would someone, for example make MJ's dad's life a living hell via 4chan?
Does anyone contradict him or herself more often than Jeff Atwood? It's like I'm reading an article written by two people wrestling for the keyboard.
It's odd that a permanent resident would get that, since they don't have any restrictions on being hired. Foreign students, however, are normally not permitted to work in the US except for 12 months (29 months if you're doing sci / tech / engineering / math). This is called Curricular Practical Training if you're still in uni doing a co-op or summer internship and Optional Practical Training if you're doing it after.

I'm a foreign student in the US, and what most of my fellow foreign students can do to work long-term in the US after graduation is to get an H-1B visa. This is basically a way for companies in the US to be able to hire foreign workers in specialized job areas.

The article says it "requires only a bachelor's degree". While this is true, the process is much more painful that you can imagine. Companies shy away from selecting foreign students, but not because they're bigoted or prejudiced: It's the amount of red tape involved. I've seen lots of companies explicitly say that they are not considering foreign students (I don't blame them).

When getting an H-1B, you can't just apply for one and then find a job. You need to find a company that wants to go through the H-1B process with you. And then your Visa is only valid while you work for that same company. If you quit, you'll need to go through the whole process again.

I can see why the US doesn't want to let in tons of people but then again, a good amount of these people are at the very least moderately skilled. Since the barrier for entry is already high, it would be cool if at least the H-1B wasn't so restrictive about what happens after you get it so H-1B workers wouldn't be stuck at jobs where they're unhappy or they could easily be entrepreneurs.
I remember when I had my version of this lightbulb moment. I was the sole developer on a project that was chronically late. It had been passed off to me with the description of "there are three things left to do, do you think you can do them and launch at the end of the week?"

Of course, three more things popped up every week and the project slipped by months. I spent the entire project feeling guilty. Then one friday it dawned on me that there was a world of un-finished requirements that had never been captured. I had never done anything "manager-y" so I went to Borders, bought Rapid Development by Steve McConnell, and read it over the weekend.

When I showed up that Monday, instead of getting to work on the "last remaining three things," I hid out in an abandoned office and started specing and estimating the remaining parts of the project. Then I went to my managers with a full re-estimation that was months out. Of course, they weren't happy with the projection, but having data gave me the back-bone to stick with it.

Until that point I had thought my career was entirely dependent on being smarter, on developing programming chops like the gurus that I read about on Slashdot. Afterward I thought of it as being extremely dependent on what I consider "personality traits" but which seem to be trainable. For example, the initiative to fix something that's broken rather than just complaining about the status quo, or the calmness to stick to my guns without taking it personally that the people around me were wrong.
Yeah I understand that but from a complete layman's perspective I still thought you might get a different category of person visiting (rather than those with an interest in tech). I thought you might need to rebrand to cross the chasm so to speak. I was concerned the name sounds a bit too gimmicky? I guess. But I wouldn't pretend to know more about your company than you though so if it's working out and you can build the brand name go for it!
When Debtors Decide to Default
I have been using Windows 7 as my primary OS for about 8 months now. It is very good and stable. The best improvement is of course the new taskbar which does make the process of managing your applications and open windows a lot more streamlined.

That said, in the article Jeff sounds like Windows 7 is really just a slight improvement over Vista. It is just plain wrong. If you have been following the windows 7 development blog, you can see that they have put a lot of effort in the R&D of this new OS. You have to use the OS for some time to understand this. (5 minutes is not enough to form an opinion and write a lengthy blog post)

I remember an article by Raymond Chen [1] where he tells the story of how they changed the inner workings of windows calculator and people never noticed it. Then they just changed the skin a little bit and praises came in pouring, about how much better the new calculator is. The original article also feels like committing the same mistake. The fact that they have polished the UI does not mean that that is the only thing they did.

As an aside, I also wanted to try out Ubuntu in the past few years, but did not get time for that. The one thing I understood is that (especially for web workers) the OS you are using to develop applications never really matters. If I switched to Linux (or a mac for that matter), I'd just be wasting a lot of my time to get familiarized with the working of the new OS, with no significant upsides for switching.

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/05/25/141253....
Bokodes: Barcode replacement shown off [video]
I wasn't suggesting something generic. It can have as much character. I just get the feeling from Justin.tv that it is a) some new web service that is probably going to fade with trends and b) has nothing for me unless I like justin, whoever that might be.
How is that not panic?

If you think revenues are about to decline it is rational to reduce work force before that happens. The point of a for-profit company is to maximize profits (publicly traded companies are legally required to do this and can be sued by shareholders if they don't, privately held companies have a littl emore freedom, but most are still out to maximize profits.) In order to do this you need a work force sufficient for your current and anticipated future needs.

If your anticipated future needs fall over the long haul, you not only can but should slice down to precisely what you need for the orders you currently have. This does not apply so much to short term dips because the cost of hiring and training new employees is high, but if you believe that you are in for a long term decline then it is not panic, but rational to cut as soon as you have that beleif.
I wrote an article for Opera about designMode and contentEditable: http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/rich-html-editing-in-the-... You are right it is messy. The API as apparently modelled over the IOleCommandTarget which is a Microsoft API for document-toolbar integration. They probably never expected it to become a cross-platform standard.
How science can save you from choking
Yeah, I just assumed I was missing something. document.execCommand() has an invisible argument that is the selected rendered HTML???
Smartphone cameras identify people, stalking?
Exactly, and there are a good 50-100 thousand of folks like you. Er, maybe total in the world. Now will that pay the infrastructure and salaries of the business like the Times? But that's probably true for only one newspaper, will you also pay $6.99 to the Seattle PI, Dallas News, Minnesota Star Tribune? Perhaps the news industry is at the moment of metamorphosis just before it becomes a beautiful online butterfly, it'll be incredible after the transition but it's very vulnerable in the pupa stage...
Some of the shadows appear to be mis-shapen (not circular). Is that due to the picture being a composite of several pictures taken over time, or is that some other phenomenon I'm not aware of? Maybe it's just me?
My brain dismissed string theory as epicycles long ago. And I just can't get past that bias.

However, the approach of taking another look at our assumptions to explain the 'expanding' universe makes my brain very happy.

So the story has me quite torn ;)
No owner's manual for Oval Office, no school to learn how to be a president
I posted this because these students were thinking in a manner unlike anyone else in that large auditorium. Thinking about/looking for opportunities/taking advantage of the situation. Honestly, I do not think that thought would even cross my mind, had I been there. I believe this is an example of how some entrepreneurs think radically different.

I do not think they would have had access to Branson in person (security; someone from the conference organizers got them backstage)
Awesome, I'd love to see more links like this if anyone has them.
Airplane on the treadmill will take off huh?

You know those big giant things sticking out from the side of the fuselage? They're called wings. Air flowing over the and under the wings creates different pressure; hence, lift. There is a magic speed for each aircraft that over which the lift will be sufficient to move the entire aircraft vertically. For a 747, this is 180 mph/290 km/h at 80,000 lbs. That's pretty fucking fast.

Any movement relative to the ground that is under that speed will not result in flight. This is true even if the aircraft is actually in the air.

If, as the problem states, the treadmill can equal the forward thrust of the engines, no lift will be produced by the wings, ergo, it will stay right where it is.

This is why aircraft have an airspeed and a ground speed. It's also why stalling is a major concern.

EDIT: the fact that finding a treadmill that can act in a manner as suggested by the problem is impossible is another issue completely.

EDIT 2: Think people: They have breaks on aircraft wheels do they not? (They do) You can sit on a runway with the engine revved equal to your break ability and not move. If the engine in the problem can outperform the treadmill, you've solved a different problem.
1) I worked in the Family Court for a year -- it's definitely not draconian and broken to men. As I said in another post -- it is only in rare occasions, like habitual drug use (not just alcoholism) that either parent loses custody on divorce, and in such cases, the woman was just as likely to lose custody to the father.

2) The divorce rate has been going down steadily, despite the lack of change in divorce laws -- the rise in divorce was a social phenomenon, not a legal effect. Less harsh laws might have some effect, but not the level of impact you're thinking.

So that would be a categorical no to the first, and a qualified yes to the second.
The reason you are having to dogmatically repeat your idiosyncratic use of the term "zero sum" is that you are using it in such a narrow sense that it adds nothing to what you are saying. A typical example of a zero sum game is a futures contract which is contrasted with a non-zero sum game like stock investing.

If you exclude externalities like all parties in a transaction being happier with the outcome or placing present value on some possible future outcome, then there is no net positive sum game.
They do it with other books as well:

Practical Common Lisp: http://gigamonkeys.com/book/

Dive Into Python: http://diveintopython.org/
I m totally Agree with Ennis. Even Google's upcoming Operating System is also browser based Operating System.
Thanks, useful article. I hope one day they standardize that stuff into a usable DOM API.
I have a Vista on my laptop, and it isn't horrible but it also isn't an improvement over XP. When I recently purchased a new computer, I built it for XP.

I fully disagree with Atwoods comment:
A world where people regularly use 9 year old operating systems is not a healthy computing ecosystem

I'm really very fine with that. There's been an over-emphasis on the operating system for far too long. It should just shut up and get out of the way. As long as it continues to be updated and has plenty of drivers, we don't need to be changing operating systems very 3 years. XP has ushered in a period of relative stability to our industry that's been very good thing and, unsurprisingly, people are reluctant to move away from that.

Unfortunately, XP is really at the end of it's life due to the move to 64bit. I'm confident that Windows 7 is an improvement over Vista, but I'm not yet convinced that it's the next 9 year operating system.
Attack of the Clones: Degenerate object systems vs. Self
I kind of wondered if there was a way to measure the idea that time goes faster as we get older. I know it's most likely a memory/new experience thing and has been discussed before but let's just assume that time goes faster over time ("time acceleration" or the rate of change of time) and that we could perceive it (again impossible). How would we measure this? I mean could this effect be related to space-time curving etc. from matter and somehow similarly measured? Doubtful but an interesting thought experiment.