skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I admit it is, but it's a coffee shop, a business...not your house or an office or a coworking space or your friend's couch. What else were you expecting? Something and somebody does have to pay the rent. Seats and tables and sofas are there for customers to sit down and enjoy what they purchased, not for some person to work for hours on end without buying anything.

I personally don't care how someone goes about supporting the shop though - I'd be fine with someone paying like a couple bucks an hour or even like a $5/hour includes bottomless coffee and a snack plus outlet and wifi kind of deal. But most coffee shops don't have employees that would be comfortable with making a deal like that on-the-spot with a customer, nor is that a really obvious thing for most people to even propose.

So in lieu of paying for a table or offering to do so, someone could just occasionally get up, stretch, and buy a cookie. I didn't say it had to be a large cup of coffee every hour :) Just a little something occasionally to show that you're not just going to make yourself comfortable there without buying anything more.
Chapters is actually owned by Indigo, and they're known as Chatpers-Indigo now I think.

In any case, they barely have chairs in the Indigo stores. You'll have to go to the Starbucks that's inside the place, sit on the floor or sit on the curb near a window. It's not a very welcoming place (they're also a monopoly) and I've switched to ordering books online whenever I can.
Eric Schmidt and Scott McNealy are the trivial ones, I guess, though Sun never got into the consumer market. Perhaps Shuttleworth?
Rails at Frogmetrics, PollEverywhere, Posterous
Am I the only one who thinks that people who are correcting the grammar and spelling are actually doing a service. It really doesn't matter in a forum like this.But if you have poor grammar,you may find that the impression you make on other people may be less than stellar.A good command of the language can be incredibly valuable. [Palin vs Obama]
This is one of the fastest media turnarounds I've seen in a recession.

That's probably because the stock market has gained around 40% in the past 5 months. I'm not sure about the other recessions, but I'd wager that this bounce in the equities market is pretty unprecedented.

Mind you, I'm not defending the media response. I'm conjecturing as to it's cause.
Side question: when did people stop referring to 'sex', and start referring to 'gender'?
This will just drive away sources.
I took the word "irrelevant" and its association to actual journalism from his own post.
I, too, agree — but with the caveat that we're discussing this 'according to the antitrust laws.'

Moving back to consider the antitrust laws themselves, though, is important and I think you bring up a great point about how Apple invested significantly into the iTunes infrastructure, and allowing competitors to piggy-back on it is dubious at best. It's like a bankrupt railroad being allowed to use their competitor's track free of charge, simply by virtue of the fact that they have gone bankrupt and therefore should be afforded some sort of perversely 'level' playing field on which to compete.

I similarly think the antitrust case against Microsoft was dubious. As a web developer like many of you, I certainly scorned them for the anguish they caused me by bundling IE with Windows and thus shoe-horning it into the position of dominant browser. But I can't say I feel they shouldn't have been allowed to do that, even if it gave them an 'unfair' advantage over Netscape. Ostensibly, including a browser in the OS certainly made it easier for the average user to get on the Web.
"Sin of my soul." seems to be indestructible...
It amazes me that OS X handles PDF navigation in its reader so poorly (not that Acrobat Reader is any better). Sure you get crystal clear rendering. But paging, scrolling, yeck!! An HTML browser handles this much better.
Laugh if you want, but his stuff has been reprinted in Business Week/Techcrunch/Valleywag before.
Mini robot that can travel through the human body
So what do I do with my idea?  I mean, it is so great!
I had the idea for this comic nine years ago, but I didn't know how to draw.

(Not really.)
I'm not a native English speaker, and chances are that I'm simply translating from the dutch word, where 'geslacht' = 'gender' and 'sex' has (usually) only one meaning.
I use an Aeron; I actually found this one for free, but in the past I've bought used for $250-350. I did actually buy a new aeron once, and then had it air-freighted for $300...and it was entirely worthwhile, sitting in it 15h/day, 7 days a week, for a year or two, and then selling it for the price I paid.

(relatively inexpensive) capital goods like chairs, good IPS LCD panels (3 x 24, or 1 x 30), laptops, etc. I'm quite comfortable spending money on, as long as I need them, and get a great price -- it's really only consumables and recurring costs I try to minimize whenever possible. And even there, I am more than 5-10x as good at bringing in revenue when I have $5-25 meals vs. ramen or beans, so false economy is false.
I've been clicking around the web since 1996 and each year I find more and more data inaccessible because of DRM and region blocking.

The content was there before, but in pirated form on youtube, etc... now it's being replaced by the copyright owners and locked down. I encounter SO much content online from so many sources that now prevent me from seeing it because of my IP, or saving it to disk.

This is not changing for the better, it is getting worse. I see the future of the internet as locked down and limiting.
Ah I see you have a direct question. I'll answer that as well.

I think the idea is fine. My friend is obsessively into philosophy and dreamed up relatively the same idea: An open place to publish and share written essays.

Seems great for anyone interested, only one thing: theres no money in it.

Another very very loosely similar website is heelpress.com
Check it out, you'll see that they offer an open place to publish creative works. I have no idea how they make money but one differnce is that their market is intentially bigger than yours. So if they make any significant money at all, its in large part due to the bigger market.

You're market is tiny and they surely won't be paying customers.

Yes I understand you may not want nor care to get rich off this website, but making money is about sustainability. You can't possibly do all the work yourself, indefinitely. You need money.
When I get more karma, I am so down voting this.
I don't know if it's fair or not, but I always feel like the conversation at HN is somewhat... academic, for lack of a better word. The nature of the community seems to encourage one's best behavior, or at least better behavior than I would exhibit in some other places perhaps.

Grammar correction is somewhat a conundrum. On the one hand, it IS sort of rude to point out the faults of another, especially as it can often be attributed to expedient typing. On the other hand, if I made a mistake and didn't realize, I'd REALLY REALLY want someone to point it out to me, so that I could learn from it.

Completely aside though, it's interesting to me how poor grammar seems to spread. Until about two years ago, I had honestly NEVER seen anyone use "should of" in print, and now it seems to be a prevalent mistake.
Which Search Engine Do You Choose In The Blind Test?
The iTunes music store is emphatically not a monopoly anymore. Those days really didn't last long, and are completely over at this point. I personally haven't used it in years, because Amazon and eMusic both blow it out of the water as far as I'm concerned, and the impact of making that switch has been zero. High marketshare != monopoly.
Ask HN:  Could one get sued for helping people remember names?
The idea would be to crowd source visualizations to help people attach names to faces.

See: http://www.ehow.com/how_4510363_use-visualization-remember-names.html

But the person whose name is to be remembered may not appreciate these visualizations being made public.

Could this result in lawsuits?
When you're a girl on the internet, you probably don't identify with/find interesting most common girly names.
As per point 5:

this is often the problem that companies who employ software developers run into: they hire a developer who seems to know what he's doing but ends up producing code that, ultimately, is useless.

Are there parallels between the law interview process and the development interview process?

There definitely seem to be parallels between operational but lousy code and legalese that seems legit on the surface but is ultimately useless due to mistakes made in (I'm guessing) semantics, grammar, structure, and expected-by-law requiremens.

In fact, the more I think about it, the more I see that correlates law thinking and software development thinking...
Great video, good insights from some of the veterans of the startup and venture world. For someone oceans away its great to still get the information and the advice that goes around in silicon valley.

About the video, i sometimes got the feeling that Micheal was cutting Paul of at times, at times it was annoying when paul was about to say something related to earlier stage startups and micheal would just cut it off.

When this happens its sometimes interesting to see the facial expressions of the person getting cut off but the quality of the video wasnt good enough to make out anything noticable =P that or paul did a good job of hiding it :)
PHP on one project and Rails on the other.
And "psychological" refers to events that occur in your brain, which, if I remember from biology, is a biological organ.

There is at least some, if not a majority of biological cause(as opposed to environmental) behind why some people who are one sex identify with another.
Thanks for the feedback everyone. I've got to run out to dinner but I'll look forward to joining the discussion later tonight/tomorrow. You guys always have some of the most interesting feedback.
I had a professor that was instrumental in creating the IEEE floating point standard (or something like that, I don't quite remember) and was heavily recruited by Apple back in the day, so heavily in fact that Steve Jobs personally took him and his wife out to dinner.

His wife disliked Steve so bad that after the dinner she refused to let him even consider the job with Apple.

Just a little anecdote about Steve Jobs that I always found funny and remembered.
I wouldn't say it was misleading - the front page of the article clearly states that a kernel is being developed. Drivers and software belong in the rest of the operating system. Given the availability of GNU software, a UNIX userspace is fairly easy given a smallish set of system calls.

Yes, I'm the article's author. Yes, I'm biased.
Why make millions when you could make billions?
Rails + JS at Mugasha
Poor Password Management Eclipses Virus Problem
The Netwide Assembler (NASM) which I mention in the article frontpage has the same syntax as MASM without the nasty licence. Some of the assembler directives may differ, but 90% of your program will be identical.
So you think you are a Rockstar Coding Ninja?
Hmm; this adds an interesting aspect to the poll. As far as I can tell, this user registered in order to answer this poll. In all likelihood, the "others", "transgender", and "females" were probably much more likely to answer this poll and therefore over-representated. (The actual percentage of female users is probably much lower, and the percentage of active female users is probably even lower than that)
I would like to think that we're different from Scribd by not having any monetary gain. I truly believe that open source projects and voluntary work can change so much. I really hate advertising such as Google Ads, which are there solely for making money. I want to create this because writing and education is my passion, not because I want to make a profit.

We also don't have a desire to because yet another social network.
There is an implementation of tetris in haskell with the source code: http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/people/Ian.Lynagh/Hetris/

I discovered it when a regular contributor contributed an article on the game to my FOSS gaming encyclopedia.
Rails, heyzap.com
And? Those aren't really quality publications with high standards, as far as I'm concerned. Though if I had to pick one, I'd choose valleywag.
You mean you get 2 hours of wifi when you buy a gift card, which you can then use to buy anything?
I believe the OP, I don't mind sharing my own stats, we're somewhere between 10 and 15 K uniques daily, google has us pegged at about 100k uniques (don't ask me what they're smoking there, probably something to do with subdomains), here is the alexa graph comparing ww.com and schoolrack.com, you can draw your own conclusions.

http://alexa.com/siteinfo/schoolrack.com+ww.com

A tripling of your traffic in 30 days during the 'off' season is a pretty good showing in my book, as long as it
wasn't when coming from '10' users to '30' users :)
Here we are using PHP/CakePHP on almost all our projects.

Why? I have being using PHP for almost 10 years, so it was a lot easier to switch to a PHP framework when I switched to an open source framework about 3 years ago. PHP is also easier to get on a shared hosting (maybe not anymore, but at the time I made my switch, it was a major concern).

Like : API, doc, large community.

Dislike : php syntax (->), no active record, PHP4 support (no real visibility control), deployment on windows/ISS is no easy task.

But future looks good as they plan to drop PHP4 quite soon with 1.3.

Some website we created using cake:
http://www.themetropolitain.ca
http://www.gogarneau.com

I hate "->".
It deprives the developers. If developers see the App Store as less desirable, that will put real pressure on Apple to change its ways. The gold rush has to end.
How Old-Technology Companies Can Extend Their Lives
As to your previous point, the tutorial series is aimed to be one thing and one thing only: A set of tutorials to help bridge the gap between the practical and the theoretical as far as OS implementation is concerned.

There are plenty of tutorials on ASM coding, and plenty on low-level C coding. There are plenty of books about OS internals. The books and articles I've found before tend to stay firmly in the theoretical, in the abstract. The aim of this series is to show how the theory can be implemented. Then, the reader has the knowledge to (possibly) implement their own algorithms and know how they link to the CPU's internals.

As to your second point - do you think that the memory manager in this OS is optimal? Do you think that the linked-lists everywhere are optimal? Of course not. Everything was chosen for its simplicity - I failed in some areas I know, and I'm rewriting them as I speak (they're stalled at the moment due to a lack of time); the heap for example is a mess in that series. The new one is much easier to understand.

The series does not create an optimal OS for IA32. So your point about transitioning to amd64 to "make full use of the latter's capabilities" is moot - you have to do more research to optimise for IA32 anyway, let alone amd64!

(And let's not forget that all amd64 CPUs are backwards compatible with IA32).
As long as they are public figures I think you'd be in the clear, if they are private individuals who have an 'expected right to privacy' it's a different problem altogether.

Describe it as good as you can and then go to a lawyer who knows the local laws for your jurisdiction and how those might apply to stuff you do over the net.
Does justin.tv pay for their bandwidth from revenue generated or from funding?
I was a regular at Ritual back when they covered the plugs. I recall:

1) Most people there were either blogging, checking email, surfing myspace and craigslist, or doing the newfangled Rails thing. The machines were 90% Macs.

2) The place was cooled by opening the back door and turning on a big floor fan. On hot days, this lowered the temperature from unbearable to merely very hot.

In your hypothetical air conditioned coffee shop where everyone is playing WoW on behemoth laptops, $500/month incurred by laptops is possible. But for Ritual Roasters circa 2004, definitely not.

(btw, I thought it was a fantastic idea when they covered up the plugs)
How to cause an earthquake
As I've commented above, I truly believe that open source projects and voluntary work can change so much. I want to create this because writing and education is my passion, not because I want to make a profit. I don't particularly like sites such as DeviantArt, which bombards you with ads and limited features with a free account. And the premium account is out of my poor college student's price range. Perhaps at some point we will need to do this, but at the moment, we're hoping for some more people to submit essays.

We aren't sure how to scale yet, though we've come up with quite a few solutions, such as adding more people to our "staff". We want the absolute best, and sometimes community opinion is not always top notch.
He says its taken him a week to do it and has had to ask lots of people for help. So I'd say its much harder than in a language like C#. I could (and so could most other people here) make tetris in 1-2 days without help.
I like the concept of the site. Two issues though:

1) I read a couple of the featured essays and they were both pretty bad.

2) I don't think the emphasis on cheating is necessary. It just comes off as weird to be honest. Better to focus on finding really high quality stuff.
I hate dial-in meetings (even a single dial-in can ruin a meeting, unless he is totally ignored). I hate almost all video conferences. I also hate unnecessary travel.

(I've been stuck doing 4 voice conferences/week with people on very bad DSN phones on multiple continents, using substandard audio bridges, and with inconsistent use of "mute" -- 50% of the time is wasted on introductions of who is speaking, "oh, can you repeat that", etc.)

The least-bad meetings I've found are on IRC -- especially if there is technical content to be discussed. I would make "is comfortable having meetings on IRC or one on one discussions in IM" a firm requirement for anyone in a startup.

I think a bunch of "social" meetings, dinners, etc., combined with "real meetings" on IRC where remote people can participate as first-class attendees, is the best.

Wave actually looks like it might be even better than IRC.
Actually, I like the iPhone as is. While I think openness and freedom is nice and will further advance all platforms, Apple's stance on the App Store (and other misgivings) doesn't personally offend me so much that I would give it up; it still is the better phone, for my personal needs.

You, the reader, could have other needs. That's awesome. That's why, I guess, I'm tired of the outrage. It's a tool, not a definition of my life.
Could you provide the link to the encyclopedia of yours?
"Think for a moment about what your reaction would be if Microsoft made the Zune the only MP3 player compatible with Windows"

iTunes isn't, and has never been, a platform open to third parties. It's a software accessory to the iPod hardware. This may have been a valid argument when DRM was still prevalent on iTunes but these days that is not a factor locking people into iTunes. The iTunes database format is basically just XML. Easily accessible by other applications that want to make the migration to an iTunes alternative easier or an application that simply wants to build off the iTunes database. This is exactly how the BlackBerry media syncing software works.

On a broader note I would say anyone who does have a major problem with the 5 issues cited in this article should definitely look for another platform instead of constantly whining about it. It's not like it's all that hard to do. With a few small exceptions it probably takes a couple hours to fully migrate to non-Apple products & services. I guess that's why these Apple whines annoy me. It's very easy to switch if it really bothers you. I feel like the authors of these articles are making a big deal out of something that almost no one really cares about. The media loves the build-em-up, cut-em-down cycle and this seems like another example of it. It's good for page views, no doubt. When I see a real number of people switching to alternative platforms I'll believe it's really an important issue.

FYI Microsoft does not offer Zune software for OSX or Linux.
My feelings about rockstar/ninja/warrior job postings are similar to how comedian Demitri Martin feels about bumper stickers:

"A lot of people don't like bumper stickers. I don't mind bumper stickers. To me a bumper sticker is a shortcut. It's like a little sign that says 'Hey, let's never hang out.'"
You're not the only one. The person who made the mistake isn't the only one who learns, either. We all do.
Which were really bad, if you don't mind me asking?
Quantcast's "Directly Quantified" stats come from the publisher embedding Quantcast's js tracking on their site - so it's kind of like making your Google Analytics data public.
Bjorn Lomborg, Climate Change Skeptic, Supports Treaty to Halt Global Warming
Compared to Woz, most people are jerks.
Poll: YC Startups, do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?
Poll version of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=749930
Poll version: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=750142
This article reminds me of typical Linux tutorials in China, often there's a post on some Web-based forum, type command X, type command Y, and your server is up. In one particular thread on how to setup vsftpd, someone replied 'my server ftp.xyz.com is working fine', I tried SSH to ftp.xyz.com with the ftp account and it works. I don't know how many other Linux step-by-step tutorials are flawed that way.

> And if the reader is in China -- hey, this is a great way to get around the Great Firewall ...

Yeah there's lot of ssh scanner going on in China
"Giving some money to charity doesn't really suddenly make things fine again."

The kinds of things that Gates are working on now are arguably more important than the rate of progress in software. Like preventing easily preventable diseases in third world countries.
Students Pay Services to Obtain Internships
"The only way you can sound remotely great is if at a bar you say

Yeah, I made Bebo"

Speaking from experience there's only a select number of bars (largely confined to SF) where that gets you anything at all.
Bill Gates has done more to hold back progress of software than anyone else.

At least he never created a Windows Store, like, you know, Steve Jobs.

I say this as someone who greatly admires Jobs and watches his Stanford speech for inspiration often. But as far as not holding back progress, Steve Jobs isn't whole lot better than Microsoft.
Used to have a swiss Giroflex 33-7777 (about a grand -> http://www.giroflex.com/content/produkte/giroflex_33.php?pro... )... now just a decent Staples office chair -> not much difference
Since I can't "down vote" is it possible to not see stories from certain domain like techcrunch? YN doesn't get updated at the same rate as other social media sites like reddit and more than half the time there are 2-3 articles from TC. This is seriously annoying since there is not way I can prevent this annoyance from showing up on my YN.
We're not YC, but Django at Timetric.
This is eye opening.

I've always thought about this. Awesome seeing someone craft a study, even if it has its flaws.