skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People do realize that most airlines offer "round the world" passes designed for this type of thing right?

I get that it's not as cheap as jetblue's promotion, but seriously, if you really want to spend 30 days in airports, you may as well get your passport stamped!

http://staralliance.innosked.com/ for example.
Non-trivial is important in mathematics. But I especially like it when used for humorous understatement; "Re-implementing Microsoft Office would be a non-trivial effort."
Added 'Identify by Link' feature!
Does anyone know if installing Snow Leopard requires the user to agree to allow Apple to collect unspecified user data?
There are some polished looking projects there, how did they ensure that all of the work was done in 48 hours?
CEOs and analysts/associates at our fine US financial institutions are probably going to be a little miffed by this talk.
Leverage is often irritatingly misused, but can be useful.

Paradigm shift - someone should invent a time machine and go back to shoot Kuhn's mother before he was born.
It may be fast, but what you want is results.
I think the removal of PowerPC support is why the OS is now something like 6 or 7GB smaller than before.
Does this apply to goals you set for yourself? I've always been very goal-oriented, and I record and track my goals. I review and adjust them as I go, to try and avoid becoming a slave to some decision I made five years ago, but are goals still likely to end up blinding you to creative possibilities because you're too focused on what you already see?
you have to make your reservations ahead of time

Doesn't matter. The seat was still taken by someone who really didn't need it.

Every shrimp you eat is a shrimp that some poor retiree won't get to eat

Illogical analogy. The number of seats is limited. The number of shrimp (for all intents and purposes) is unlimited. Also, the shrimp are not distinctive; that is, any one shrimp is pretty much as the same as any other. The seats are distinctive per flight (a seat on Flight 123 is not the same thing as a seat on Flight 567).

Lots of people made good faith purchases of these $599 passes for legitimate travel, and some of them will be disappointed because others want to game the system simply to see how far they could go with it. Not cool.

You monster.

I hope that's a joke (even though I don't get it).
I agree. I couldn't watch to the end.
fair enough. your wording set a different tone.

the simple answer is this: you don't verify twitter accounts via email. all you need is to input an email address and you can start tweeting.
In that you're pointing out that it's ludicrous to spend all that time in airports when life in each of those cities is much more interesting and could be better explored in pretty much any other way possible, yeah, I think it is pretty funny.

I think it's painfully obvious that you aren't challenging the hackish nature of the project, but the actual project itself. So, people who don't seem to get that aren't getting the "joke".
Companies don't lie to the FCC. They will carefully phrase their answers, but they can't be caught telling an actual lie.

So yes, we can take their word for it.

Just keep in mind that their statements will be crafted to maximize what you think they mean and minize what they really mean.

An example I digged up recently about a privacy policy: "Examples of how we use your data: [very reasonable usage]". Doesn't say that that they don't use your data for other purposes. You just got tricked by a lawyer.

In the Apple AT&T case, they clearly say that they didn't chat about the Google Voice app directly. But they also admit that AT&T is telling Apple that in general, apps that consume bandwidth are not to be approved, and any app that does phone while using AT&T's network is no-no. So technically, they may not have discussed the particulars of Google Voice, but Apple may feel like they are doing AT&T's bidding without having to actually talk...
Facial Attractiveness Explained (Yes, Women Are Complicated)
Chuck Moore's Wonderful colorForth Programming Language and Operating System
A matter of style in C#
Hello I am a c# developer. I am currently close to being hired by avid HNer but I have a couple of things with my coding style that I need to correct. I did not take any college courses on computer science and everything I know about c# and the .Net framework I have taught myself. I was wondering if anybody had any good articles or advice on writing clean and understandable code. I have been working professionally as a c# developer for almost 2 years and everything I have done has been solo. Learning how to write clear and concise code is a must and I would greatly appreciate any advice offered.
The joke I heard was that it meant he didn't want to be bothered about it.
Cool. Yeah, I had some trouble using the mockup tool. The landing page is awesome though. Are you guys planning to launch as a startup fully? Here's a domain suggestion: http://domai.nr/mocksup/with/mock.su :-)
Wow, what a nice guy you are. I bet you're great for dinner parties
When he mentioned the experiments where monetary reward is shown to stifle creative problem solving, it made me think of the frequently quoted advice: do what you love and the money will come. I wonder if there is a link there?
For that to happen we'd need a parad-- never mind.
Have you used Outlook 2007 with the built-in search indexer? Incredibly quick.
Native, version-controlled websites!
I think some people also want timely results. I certainly do.
Not only that, I also found that if you search by sender name and the sender name is never in any of the subject of any of your emails, it doesnt find it.
Oprah and Larry King are not early adopters. Twitter is very much in the mainstream.

Besides that I find this whole comparison ridiculous. The friend vs follower dichotomy pretty much puts the two services in different categories. In theory some third party service could overlay some Facebook-like functionality on top of Twitter, but will such an arrangement have the usability and critical mass that Facebook has? Will Twitter be compelling to regular people as it becomes more and more dominated by marketing? Is the 1% of Facebook functionality that Twitter provides compelling enough to get the masses to switch?
For convenience:

#1 LowDown - http://mcp.r09.railsrumble.com

#2 Hi, I'm - http://hi.im

#3 Omnominator - http://omnominator.com

#4 Thingivore - http://thingivore.com

#5 Neighborhood Watch - http://neighborhoodwat.ch

#6 Techmeets - http://techmeets.com

#7 Straightlist - http://husohuso.r09.railsrumble.com

#8 SmackSale - http://smacksale.com

#9 Nybbl - http://nybblme.r09.railsrumble.com

#10 Last Percent - http://lastpercent.com

#11 Table Surfing - http://tablesurfing.com

Some awesomely ridiculous apps that deserve mention:

http://www.lazeroids.com (online massively multiplayer asteroids). Seriously.

http://www.stomachly.com (restaurant ratings based on bowels)

http://www.celebritypassage.com (tribute site to dead celebs)
At least it's better than Google Groups search.
Are you convinced we weren't created by martians? The FSM?
Yeah, that sounds reasonable. Sure, they may not have had a conference call where AT&T said "Jobs! Kill the Google Voice app!", but it's not like there aren't other ways for the message to get across. Competition with AT&T is the simplest and best explanation for why it was canned, and I would be very surprised if it was shown to be anything else.
$29 version is only an upgrade for Leopard users.
I absolutely loathe leverage.
Well, if you're not idiomatic with C# yet, that would be the very first place I'd start (by that I mean you know why you'd use StringBuilder vs. string concatenation, etc).

After that, make sure you're good about commenting code that isn't immediately obvious.

From that point, I'm afraid we'd probably need some samples to see where you might be going wrong or right.
False. Twitter has nothing on Facebook. Here's why:

1. Twitter has nothing to do with early adopters anymore...they were on freaking Oprah.

2. They've been around for 3.5 years, which is only a couple years less than Facebook, so it's not like they're this little upstart that's trying to unseat the ancient Facebook.

3. Facebook has way more retention and engagement / user.

4. Facebook does what Twitter does (status updates), and does it better, IMO.

5. My parents and aunts and uncles and grandparents all use Facebook. They find value in it, and it enriches their life. Twitter is useless to them.

6. Twitter now is mostly marketers and spammers, judging from the people trying to follow me.

7. Most people seem to talk on Twitter way more than they listen. Over time, this drives down engagement, which means that people have to talk louder and more often to get any attention.

8. Most importantly, Facebook has hundreds of millions in annual revenue, and is predicting cashflow positive in 2010. Twitter has yet to make a dollar (to my knowledge).

EDIT: Added a few more points
The challenge and adventure. How many people can say they've been to 43 cities in a month?

It may well be a miserable way to spend a month, but I think it's cool that someone is trying. Let me put it this way: I'd rather be the one traveling the planet than the internet cynic talking about how miserable he will be.
Can you understand the code you wrote a month ago? Also, do you use meaningful class names, method names and variable names? Beyond this maybe you want to post some of your code here and see what feedback you get.
> Cool. Yeah, I had some trouble using the mockup tool. The landing page is awesome though.

Thanks man. Yeah, it would still have been crippled (couldn't update or delete links once you'd made them -- I went down a rabbit hole all Sunday morning w/ a couple of jQuery plugins that didn't work out) but adding them would have at least worked correctly.

I actually grabbed mocksup.com a couple of months ago, so this week once we iron out the big bugs we'll be pushing it to there.
Would tech VC blogs help?

http://www.theequitykicker.com/
http://www.the-accelerator.blogspot.com/
http://maxniederhofer.com/
http://www.freddestin.com/
http://www.avc.com/

Best of luck.
use "from:example.com" or similar... important part being the "from:" bit
i just ordered it through their website after qualifying my recent macbook pro. it worked fine and i didn't have to fax anything.
Idea is good, but it is still workaround for bigger problem.

World needs better designed power plugs
> However, with email, the only person who'll ever benefit is the recipient.

I'm not sure that makes sense - if they add stemming, all users of GMail benefit. Going by your explanation, it wouldn't make sense to add any expensive features to GMail, because the only person who would ever benefit from them is the single user.
Arrington? Is it you?
One big problem with having gates that small is the massive electron leak. Energy flows between the gates even when their off, so the power efficiency goes way down.
I didn't know. I'm stuck using Outlook 2003 at work :(
flying is terrible for the environment. i'm all for having a good time and doing neat projects, but this one seems extraordinarily ignorant and harmful.
"The answer should be very obvious"? Huh? There's no obvious one right answer, though 'box' and 'bucket' are most defensible -- based on expectation of same container or same place.

More adults answered 'box' and in reality I think what 'Sally' would do would be very dependent on the exact placement and the path she takes into the room, and her order of perceiving the containers. If she takes in the whole scene before deciding where to go/look, the box; if she moves to the expected place and then is surprised by the difference, the bucket. (This question in its first form may really be testing whether the answerer is primarily visual or kinesthetic in their modelling of other people.)

But still, the essential point is the difference when people are told where the ball really is. 'Sally' still does not know, so a rigorously logical answer would be the same as the first case. (The additional information is irrelevant for predicting Sally's actions.) And yet, the additional information does cause a statistically significant difference in chosen answers.

That means the answerer's mind, or model of mind, is leaky. Once 'primed' with info, they can't pretend they don't know it, or model the mind of someone who doesn't know it.

Note in this case 'leaky' doesn't mean 'worse' (even though it is more like the younger child's answers). A straightforward policy of hewing to what is true regardless of what others know or how the knowledge was acquired is fine; it just isn't ideal for some social roles -- like lawyer or poker player -- that require a detailed understanding of others' limited information.

So the real pro predictor, when asked "Where does Sally look first?", might ask in response: "How old is Sally? Does she more often pretend-play to be an athlete or a detective? What are her parents' careers?"
All the documentation you could ever want on 1.8.6, 1.8.7, 1.9.1, and every gem on RubyForge all in one place:

http://rubydoc.ruby-forum.com/

Ta-da!
A bit off-topic but I did exactly that a couple of months ago. Around the world in 29 days. The best trip of my life!
dang. i was expecting to see which ycombinator startups were using C#...
Rather live in or be lead by the most developed country or the richest?
It's more than a little ironic to complain about built-in obsolence when your website looks like it was designed in the first year of the web's existence.
http://www.twelvehoursinacity.com/ is doing 30 cities in 30 days. They have gotten a ton of press and some sponsors.
Understanding something and applying that knowledge are two very different things. Plenty of perfectly sensible people have strange superstitions that defy all common sense.

I won't argue that teaching better probability skills would not be beneficial to society. Still, it's not going to stop people from making stupid bets. Some people just have a crazy need to gamble.
"as sexy as Scheme"?! No way.
Simple apache config and you can get it pointed to your linode. You should get that set up
He's not traveling the planet. He's traveling airports in the US.

And just because something can be done doesn't mean it should and sure as hell doesn't mean that it's not a waste of time.

Next up: random internet guy tries to spend ten years visiting every trash dump in the world and spending a night on a pile of garbage. How exciting!
They could use Gears for some more in-depth local indexing, then it would be you bearing extra computational and storage costs.
Yeah, sure. Might beat sitting in line in traffic; seeing the inside of just one office building many, many times; eating unhealthy food because you're too lazy to cook good stuff; not getting any exercise; and constantly being concerned about your schedule; and doing this all in the same locale you spend every day of your life in.

I mean: it's an adventure. There may be some miserable bits, but if you're spending $600 and traveling around the US and not having some kinds of fun, not learning something new, then you're probably going out of your way to fail.

Even if the whole experience IS miserable, you're going to learn a lot about your ability to persevere.
My guess is they are flying a bunch of empty seats lately because of the economy

Not because of the economy, but because September is notoriously slow. This was a great idea to fill those seats and will probably fill them all.

Little solace to the poor schmuck who bought a pass to make a few flights this month but couldn't find seats because of others flying 3 times a day just for the heck of it.
ah, much cleaner list :-)
My team made slidechop: http://slidechop.com

Try it out! :)
Ask HN: Open-source feedback software?
I've recently been trying to find an open-source solution similar to proofhq.com, getbackboard.com, etc... I'd like to host it myself.

Basically something that allows for teams to give visual feedback on an uploaded file.

Does anyone know of anything similar?

Thanks
30 days on a plane is just an awful lifestyle choice; it's a bad way to treat your body. There are other, more positive ways to challenge yourself.

On the bright side, maybe that much flying will give them some sort of insight into a travel-related startup...
Oh, it's "now available" all right. Might not be 100% legal in your jurisdiction, though.
I think Google found that they can make more money by directing Usenet searches to crappy archive sites full of Google ads.

Which is a shame, since 5 years ago Usenet search was absolutely wonderful.
Soft Measures of the health of a School
Exactly.

First, check http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/ for the package you're lusting after. (In this case, pkg-ruby has the ruby1.9.1 package at 1.9.1.243-2 on trunk.)

Then, use svn-buildpackage to build yourself the damn package.

Finally, install the package, basking in the warmth of replicable, reversible package management.
Anybody know if you can install this on a clean hard drive? I've got Leopard on my MacBook, but want to swap out the existing drive and start fresh on a new SSD. Would be nice to not have to do a Leopard -> Snow Leopard dance.
he's traveling only in the sense that his body will be transported many miles. seeing the inside of airports and planes for a month doesn't strike me as being worth the cost, monetary, physiological, or psychological.
they monitor the github repositories. relatively easy to find people who blatantly cheat by doing implementation beforehand

there's no restriction on paper planning so i'm guessing the top sites probably spent weeks on design and specing. whether or not they created photoshop comps probably doesnt matter
I definately know some of the inner workings of.Net, such as using StringBuilder compared to string concatenation. Some of the things I need to know is what is an acceptible name for a variable based on its scope. For instance currently to describe a private variable belonging to a class I will prefix it with an underscore. Is there a universal way of denoting varibles by scope?
just an observation: lot of attacks on gmail today/recently.
lazeroids.com is all javascript + canvas. not flash.
They're generating revenue but have no profit. I think that's what he meant to say :S
I created http://www.triptrackerapp.com as a solo project - let me know what you think!
The author mentions his project PXtoEM.com a little too often in this post.
As the price of fuel and electricity continues to rise, the costs and delays surrounding new nuke plants will go away.

Also: the bone-headed restriction against modern reactors and reprocessing will go away.
No digital assets could be created beforehand, so they better not have made anything in Photoshop 'cause I worked my ass off to get our landing page in and I'd be pissed! ;)
What's wrong with idempotent? It has a precise, useful meaning
Details start to arrive for publishing games on Sony's new PSP mini.
Ok, maybe my memory is wrong... I had a long bus drive through New Jersey a few months ago - saw a lot of different suburb landscapes there. I think I know how it looks like. Small houses with very small ground pieces, bigger houses, some with forest around, but few with some kind of stone or tree hedge around it.
But a vegetable hedge can get pretty high in a few years. If you live in a place where plants cannot grow you may not want a house with huge panorama windows. BTW vegetable walls are very good for cooling the garden, making shadow and possibly saving AC usage.

But let's stop argue on that... I don't understand your point - are you telling me it's not technically possible in most places or that it's culturally not welcome where you live? There are many such houses concepts in my area, though a minority of all houses, and most aren't as nice as the one here. The glass area don't have to be at all sides of the houses, there are lots of solutions for making such a house very private, even if many other houses are built near it. I don't have two hours to search for the best links, but with a fast Google search I find that for example http://www.exit-solutions.net/archkom/wp-content/photos/haus...

So you may not like that kind of design, but that's another story. Of course that house may not fit most of the world's area needs, but that's the beauty of architecture: it adapts itself to the area's climatic needs, and cultural preferences. I'm not saying this house is the solution to everything, I'm just supporting the idea that more aesthetics and efficiency in architecture could improve our lives further without damaging the environment.
Can I ask you how you knew so quickly that this was stolen content. Were you just aware of the original source, or do you use some kind of plugin?
Still reeling from the weekend; my first Rumble.

We also got an app built and deployed, a simple little game: http://marryboffkill.com

The whole time I expected that it would be the smoothing-over of rough edges, double-checking, and doing general "cleanup" that would take the most time, but even so was surprised how quickly the deadline snuck up on us the last day.

I have a feeling if the rumble was over a long weekend instead we would have been able to clean up all the rough edges, but I have a feeling there are many other teams in this boat as well. :-)

Was definitely a great way to spend a weekend (creating something) with friends and a real learning experience. I'm already excited to do it again next year.
Well, fair enough. My ignorance of C kernel programming is on display, but I'm pretty sure the topic was why we'd need goto's in PHP.

Again, I'm not seeing any specific need.
Blah blah blah. I can't stand those "big picture" articles that don't back up their claims with numbers. If you're like me, you'll find this online book on sustainable energy a much more enjoyable read: http://www.withouthotair.com/ - it's all numbers from start to finish.
Yehuda Katz's 10 Favorite Things About Ruby 
"I work with Ruby every single day, and over time have come to really enjoy using it. Here’s a list of some specific things that I really like about Ruby. Some of them are obvious, and some are shared with other languages. The purpose is to share things I like about Ruby, not to compare and contrast with any specific language."
Ask YC: Looking for a freelance Microsoft Office Developer for a small gig?
I have a friend who needs a custom Microsoft Office plugin developed (it seems pretty involved, at least to me). I'm looking for a developer that has previous experience with the Office SDK. I want someone trustworthy, so I don't want to post on craigslist, rentacoder, etc; but am wondering if anyone here is interested? It's a paid job, but obviously you'll need to talk to my friend to discuss the requirements/cost.<p>You can find my email in my profile. Thanks!
He's working on a startup. Is 30 days on a plane any worse than 30 days in front of a computer screen?
I think you misunderstand the nature of stemming; the point is that each and every user's inbox would have to be processed individually, and apparently Google doesn't think the overhead is worth the results.
Apple doesn't do "upgrades" - if you bought a retail copy it will install fresh on any Intel Mac.
You might want to hold off a little while before upgrading, at least until 10.6.1. I upgraded my laptop 3 days ago and since then I've had at least 5 Mail.app crashes, finder a couple of times, and one terminal crash. I did an upgrade install, maybe a clean one is better, but I'm pretty surprised at the instability.

Also, if you use Macports, that's not up to speed yet so you'll be doing a lot of fiddling around to get that working. For example, I had to patch the port for Erlang to get that to install on 10.6, there's probably others. Wait a few weeks and that should all be sorted out for you.
If you don't mind me asking, which cities did you enjoy most? And how did you keep to your budget?
VM Density as the New Measure of IT Efficiency