skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I just prefer reading about this sort of thing other places. Not on HN."

To be fair, this does involve the use of twitter, and other social news sites, and technology in general, to challenge existing legal/PR practices i.e. trying to gag news sites. Furthermore, it may be possible that the twitter-storm made Carter Ruck decide that by sticking to their guns the storm would increase, thereby working against their aim of minimising Trafigura's publicity.

It's a good example of how the internet changes society, providing the internet did play a role in Carter Ruck's decision to cave in, which I would guess is likely.
Stanley Wells, chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, said: “I am sceptical, frankly, that we have yet reached a stage where these computer-assisted investigations can prove authorship.

While I'm not an expert in the field, I question Stanley's knowledge of the subject. To me it feels like a situation where someone refuses to accept that a "mere computer" can figure out something about literature that humans are still questioning.
Halloween Ghost Hunting Spots in San Francisco
Join this creepy self-guided tour to where others have claimed to see ghosts in San Francisco, California. These scary locations include Alcatraz, Golden Gate Bridge, Seal Rocks, Fort Point, and more.
I think all programmers that don't program for a living are by definition examples of unrelated skill and career.
My guess is that "first come first served" has 2 queues, one for each gender...

Edit: For heterosexual dates in any event.
Two-year-old boy with same IQ as Einstein
Well not everyone here is a programmer.

A lot of people are middling programmers but have a great career.

Some awesome programmers work in only vaguely related fields.

I dont think the 2 really equate in any meaningful way.
+1 on the location. I currently live and work from an old renovated cotton mill in Dalton, GA. Only drawback is the limited population of local hackers and entrepreneurs.
Could be fun. We're planning a big tech event in Scotland for next year if anyone fancies coming over to reciprocate! ;)
And if you really want to do fine-grained resizing, just install MercuryMover.
I think it's Spanish.
Although iron deficiency may be a concern, a word of caution about taking too much (such as iron supplements if you (the general "you") are not a menstruating female): you can ingest too much iron. If you are low in iron, eat iron-rich foods (eggs, spinach, beans/lentils, fortified cereals), rather than take supplements.

Easy non-scientific way to check if you're low: pull down your lower eyelid and check the color of your skin of the uncovered lid. A pale red suggests you should be checked for anemia.
I think its a really neat idea, but I think there is a security fear. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that with other websites, people generally get to know someone via email, IMs, etc... before going on a date so they can be relatively sure that the person won't be violent, etc... I don't see a good way to do any such screening of people (either by the website or by the other users) before they meet.
That is OK. Investors can't be conned very easily. They can tell if they got value from the event. The existence of a chance of being funded is more opaque.
There must have been an NGO or a women's self help group involved. That is the way things usually get done here.
Maybe if they were planning that pavement replacement anyway ... they could adjust so that it would fall on the certain date - the date of Wendy's opening.
Not a hack but a necessity imo. I've heard horror stories. Next time you walk around inIndia make sure the vindaloo you stepped on is really vindaloo.
Boing Boing’s Redesign Uncovers the Dark Side of Web Fonts
If you haven't seen them yet, here are the videos from 2008: http://www.omnisio.com/startupschool08
Get hold of a Win2K disk image and put it in VirtualBox. (No details given, but you should be able to get one, plus install key for, ahem, cheap.) You can connect the virtual image to the USB device. You might need one of the service packs to get USB to work, however.
Do what I did to make it happen---just do it. Do it everyday. Talk to random strangers. Go live in a hostel in a foreign country (by far the easiest way ever to meet people). Make it natural
These are incredibly good. You can literally feel the water gliding off your hands.
So here's what I don't understand... Why build a house on the ground in a floodplain in the first place?

If it's going to float up a pylon to 12 feet when the water rises why not just put it a story off the ground on stilts to begin with? Seems like it would reduce some of the unnecessary complexity this house has and maybe even reduce the needed footprint since you could do things like park vehicles under the house when a catastrophe is not in progress...

Anyway logical reasons why this was not considered?
> Virtually all of the data-stealing malware in circulation today is built to attack Windows systems

Well, no shit. That's the point. If you're a malware developer, you're not going to spend X hours trying to find an obscure hole in *nix.
Ok, sure. But I meant that in the context of 'being a career programmer'.

It wouldn't make much sense to ask non-career-cyclists about their cycling careers.

Let me see if I can come up with a wording to more properly reflect that.

edit: better like that ?
"Who would build something like this?

Just as in the early days of the mouse and windowed GUI, a system based upon 10/GUI's principles would likely be best suited to a systems builder capable of full vertical integration."

I wonder who they're thinking of.
It says they shut down to re-pave the parking lot. Sounds like something that has to be done every once in a while. Might be that the rouge franchise-taker just scheduled the re-pavement "conveniently".
Your claim is that they should be paying for the education they are getting.

My claim is that they are not paying the angels or forum organisers to 'teach them the basics,' regardless of what they get. The proposition moving money from one wallet to another is the "you can get funded this way" proposition. If that proposition is effectively fraudulent, the original blog posts sentiment is correct. Being able to opt out doesn't negate the claim that this is fraud.

BTW, I have also quoted and addressed the same sentence you accused me of skipping. I considered it and I was not convinced.

Founders are not paying for education. maybe you think they should. But they don't. Charging them to pitch and giving them education instead on the grounds that they need it is not ok. Entitled or not.
The Science of Making Perfect Boiled Eggs
A friend of mine did this. She was a neo-hippie "earth mother" type. (Also, a spoiled upper-middle class girl from Connecticut.) Her prospective groom was a resident of the pacific island of Yap. Her demand: A western style toilet, or I won't marry you! He rented a backhoe and laid the pipes of the septic system himself.

(Unfortunately, I don't think they are still together.)

(When I see the headline, Bob Marley sings in my head. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Woman,_No_Cry)
Organize a Rubik's party - great fun - everyone comes with clothes of different colors. The goal is to exchange clothes with someone else so that at the end of the evening, all your clothes have the same color. First to do it "wins".

Great way to meet people - you have to talk to them to do it. Great way to meet girls too. More of a young/student thing though - replaces beer pong around here. Would not work with an older crowd I guess, but hey, as long as you do it with the outer clothing, everyone could play.
Small reactors offer big rewards
...peak and then slowly find that they're no longer the fastest kid on the block.

Not my experience. Not even close.

30 years of programming and my best code has always been my most recent. I just keep getting better and better with no end in sight. And I love it.

AFAIC, there's absolutely positively no reason to believe OP's hypothesis of "peaking" and "declining". I wonder what data he bases this upon. Not me, that's for sure, and not most of the people I know in their 40's and 50's.

In this way, we are not like athletes at all. I remember watching Michael Jordan when he played for the Wizards, riding the staionary bike to keep loose during timeouts. What a pity, I thought, to be at the top of your game, then a shadow of yourself just 5 years later.

We programmers are not like that. Just take care of yourself and you don't have to level off until you would have anyway. All the new technology and opportunities keep the field fresh. And the people, too.
The two things I would learn from this story are: 1) to be prepared for the success. As someone said, be prepared for the time when all your ten thousand customers tell their, maybe, thirty friends about how good is your service. 2) Find always the good side of bad things. For example a competitor can simply emphasize your strong points and (as you said here) increase the market as a whole.

I guess this is why we like this story even if we do not really believe it.
THE TROUBLE WITH TECH TRANSFER
What's frightening about it? :/ Meh
HN Review My Startup: Nitriq Code Analysis
After having two products fail before launch, and working on this project for over a year, I've finally made it past the launch stage. I released my first product to the public last night - www.nitriq.com. It is a Code Analysis tool for .Net developers.

I know that .Net isn't the most popular technology stack on HN, but I hope that you guys can give my site a quick once over and give some feedback. It definitely feels a little rough mostly because I did the site design and copy myself, so pointers will be very appreciated. I'll probably end up hiring a designer and a copywriter, but I've been itching to release for far too long.

I'd like to take a similar path to Balsamiq and be really open about my decisions, traffic and sales. Hopefully you'll find my thoughts interesting and will subscribe to the blog.

Thanks for being a part of HN.
The nature of wealth
Clickable links:

http://www.nitriq.com

http://www.nitriq.com/images/largeScreenShot.jpg
In what way is this article about SideKick kicking back? You appear to have invented an entirely new headline, which I believe is against the guidelines.
I actually think that after using Obj-C, some percentage of "serious" Obj-C programmers will find going farther into the Smalltalk world a good thing.
I wonder if censorship-happy governments like China have reacted to this yet?
It would be a pleasant surprise right now :-)
Somewhere (I'm guessing early thirties, but it could be a bit later) there is this pinnacle of capability (as a programmer), and that seems to coincide with your peak in your career (as a programmer).

Wow. jacquesm, I have really enjoyed many of your comments and felt like we have like minds in many ways. Now I see that we are fairly close in age, too.

But I couldn't disagree more with the idea that we peak and decline. I am so glad that I became a programmer for many reasons, but the newest reason is that I'm still really just a kid. It's still fun (maybe more than ever), I can make a good living, and be a the leading edge of technology. I know my skill and performance is better than ever. I just can't imagining peaking and declining for a long, long time.

Last I looked the sharpest cookies where all well under 45, and most programmers that are over 50 are really on the way out. Exceptions would be nice to hear about.

I can only guess about what you have observed. Could it be that the best programmers over 45 are in places where you wouldn't normally see them? Or they've done so well that they've taken early retirement to pursue other things? Or maybe they didn't take care of themselves and their minds have deteriorated along with their bodies? I don't know. Maybe I'm an outlier, but I'm as fresh as ever. (Do outliers know they're outliers?)

I can't do that anymore.

Not my experience, either. My memory and ability to develop are as fresh as ever. Not sure why. Maybe health, maybe genetics. Who knows, maybe you just need something fresh and cool to work on and you're memory will be just like it always was.
If I were dating, why would I potentially waste hours with getting ready for a date and going on the actual date, if I had no clue whatsoever who was going to come and if I liked them at all to begin with?

I think there is a huge psychological barrier for people to go on such dates. The more 'successful' they are, the greater the opportunity costs with your model. You probably would have a self-selection mechanism that leads to weirdos etc coming.
and if those phone numbers were ever published it would be trivial to busy signal them to death.
Application menu items are searchable with the Help/Search widget, which can be opened with cmd-shift-/.
I do believe Apple (via NeXT) does own the trademark bought from Stepstone.
I must say that while I agree, I think that in this situation you (or your company) greatly profited from the bad planning of your client.

Put another way: your client also paid a lot of money for their jumping-the-gun, but I'm sure this was calculated into their sale price, and was probably not bad planning at all, from their perspective.
Google director, also on Apple's board, resigns
How to enable HTTPS in Tomcat
This article is almost entirely fluff. It says that 1.4 million new toilets have been made in the last two years. Is that an increase over the previous two years? They quote a couple of Indian women who are on board with the message. Do they represent the majority of Indian women? 90%? 10%? 1%? They mention 'some' government funding. How much?
Twitter moving to larger SoMa office space
Hello HTML...& goodbye Flash?

"HTML5 is expected to be a game-changer in Web application development, making obsolete such plug-in-based rich Internet application (RIA) technologies as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and Sun JavaFX..." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_5]
When you have to recuse yourself at every meeting, what's the point?
"Bebo, with more than 24 million users [1/2 as many as Twitter], operates in offices about three times larger than Twitter's space." Interesting...

Btw: when I cut & pasted that line, sfgate added this string: "Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/13/... Great idea...
VC Investment Climbs 14% to $6.1B in Q3 2009
My response to this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=878919
Does anyone know if the new Wacom Bamboo with multitouch exposes the "raw" touch events so that apps can use them, specifically on OSX?

Looking at [1], it seems like there's a fair chance that they're available, but that file hasn't been updated since before the new models were released.

If the touch events are available, it should be possible to do a pretty decent implementation of some of their ideas on a standard OSX install.

[1] http://www.wacomeng.com/devsupport/downloads/mac/macosx/EN00...
I don't think the wording was the issue. There are career programmers that never make any effort to improve, but they'll still likely move up in rank simply by virtue of being there longer. Similarly, there are excellent programmers that don't get much career success.
Why Cloud Computing Stinks: T-Mobile Loses User Data
Unicorn.god
Looked to me a bit like the article on Eddy Izzard running all those marathons--one has to admit the determination, but wonder whether it really has a point. As Bill Swift says, you do need to take the time. And as the article acknowledges, the goal imposes a limit on the books chosen. If you really have an urge to pick up _The Man Without Qualities_ or _Critique of Pure Reason_, well, wait for a different year.
Oh, I'm not doubting that at all. It's ballsy, but very very smart.

I have a general rule not to visit a new restaurant for the first two weeks because of this exact same "meltdown" scenario.
Why we don't want touchscreens on our desktops
Dude, you're gonna hurt yourself. I say this as a lord high master of the reading arts crafts and sciences. Don't do it.
There's an Asimov story about that too.
At least some people may want touchscreens for first person shooting (FPS) games if touchscreens can handle finger poking. :-)
Is it a sin to leave your cell phone plugged in overnight?
Is your product a “must have” or “nice to have”?
Good idea. I'm sure that betahouse (I'm a member) in Cambridge would be up for video-linking sometimes.
The Fun Theory: Changing People’s Behavior Through Fun
Please don't submit stories using a link to Digg! Link to the original article. Sheesh.
Most rural places have little in the way of zoning. As long as you aren't putting a nuclear waste plant (and maybe even then if it has good jobs) next door to a public grade school then you're normally fine.

Zoning issues are the biggest generally in big cities or areas of rapid expansion.
Ah, thanks. It's funny, I love Apple, and I love Ruby, but I've yet to code Ruby on a Mac.
Call to Action Buttons: Examples and Best Practices
original: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6286...
Measuring IQ at age 2? Really? It's hard enough to measure IQ in adults. [Which is why average IQ scores have been increasing about three points every decade. http://skepticreport.com/sr/?p=371]

"He is always asking questions." Wow, he MUST be a genius... If he's doing integral calculus at 4 I'll be impressed. And just think: if he lives long enough, his IQ could double! lol
Free Advertising Space on XP-Dev.com for Startups and Software Developers
I quite like the painting itself - it's a side profile of a pretty girl done in a very simple, elegant way. I'm used to seeing paintings done head-on with a lot of signs of luxury and power: Pearls, gardens, doves. This one is really quite pretty without all of that:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertai...
Multiple File Uploader With Progress Bar Using jQuery
She's on day 350. I don't think she's going to stop now.
You have to take this with a grain of salt: Those are fiction books. I suspected something like this when I read the title, and remembered a professor showing us 3 books and saing 'In each of these books, I was stuck on a chapter for around a week'.
Hi HN. Just thought this will be useful, seeing that there are plenty of startups here, and I just wanted to lend a helping hand.
Her website: http://www.readallday.org/
Me and a friend once vowed to write 'festive' articles for an online magazine we wrote. In the '25 days of christmas', we'd each write an article every other day. It was pretty intense - though we managed it - and we swore never to attempt it again.

As for reading, when I was 14 I could read 3 books a week (I used to read while I was walking to school, literally!), now I can manage 1 a week at best.
The central thesis of the post “Optimizing for your software project becoming big is the same as optimizing a car to hit a rock wall - you are optimizing for failure” is garbage.

I can't imagine any sane engineer not realizing that writing say an operating system is on a different level of magnitude than writing some HTML peppered in with a little Javascript.

Edit:

"This is the reason I like agile. It emphasizes small, working pieces all the time. If you work with code this way, you can’t really become big. Instead, your project will be forced to be modularized and divided into smaller, more logical components that are highly cohesive and decoupled from each other."

Using Agile really doesn't guarantee you any of this. You're still very free to abandon separation of concerns and end up with a tightly coupled mess.
There should've been a recovery process, obviously. But still this is something even google has taken wrong: automating things without a back button.

PS: Anyway Twitter is on right track with having malware protection. It just need some tuning.
Did you mean a moving bus?
I agree. The only workers this would attract are 'hacker hobos'. It's almost the same as the plot to The Seven Samurai - pay us 3 meals a day and we'll work for you. The problem is, you get what you pay for. I think anyone with skill would find a job that would net them actual money, since most people have bills and like to purchase things.
I like the old mantra "Fast, good, and cheap. Pick two." If you build one big project all at once, it may not do anything you want until it does everything you want. Whereas if you start small and keep your features separate and cooperative you are more likely to get some of what you want right away, and over time get everything you want working together.
Ask HN: what are the two best technical decisions you made for your startup?
Looking back on your startup and its progress so far, what are the two best technical decisions you've made? Did you know they would have such a dramatic impact?

I'll start the ball rolling:

1. Linode - its flexibility has helped us keep costs seriously low without sacrificing power or scalability.

2. Memcached - using it various places instead of database access helped us turn a beast of a ~12second algorithm into a sub-400ms beauty.

I suspected they'd both be pretty cool but didn't realise quite how insanely fast memcache would be.
Some of those videos aren't available :(
Didn't the critical field issues lie at the root of some of the problems that the LHC has been facing? I seem to remember reading that someplace.
The idea of regularly putting grubby fingers on a screen is pretty awful. It would get so crusted up so fast that you'd have to get a windshield scraper to clean it.
Please let it be so..
Angel Investors
That was long and the fact I reached the end of it, is testimony that it is a good essay. You've written 4 million is entering the Venture Capital boundary and anything below is Angel Investment. I have read quite some literature, but I've never read about any "absolute" demarcation. I think this is a good benchmark though. http://www.venturegiant.com
It says that an idle, but plugged in charger pulls around 2.3 watts. I always thought that switching chargers (most modern celphones comes with those) were able to switch themselves off (something with keeping a capacitor charged to kick the circuit online once something starts drawing power).
Perhaps they just figured that most people would check out the new Wendy on it's opening day anyway, so they'd lose less business on that day than on any other day. That it ended up destroying the competition (if it did) could have been sheer luck.
That was long and the fact I reached the end of it, is testimony that it is a good essay. You've written 4 million is entering the Venture Capital boundary and anything below is Angel Investment. I have read quite some literature, but I've never read about any "absolute" demarcation. I think this is a good benchmark though. http://www.venturegiant.com
somehow my comment doesn't show up there, so I had to discuss it below.
This science and title is misleading. Placebo and nocebo are terms for both sides of one effect: suggestibility.

If told they were testing a drug, warned of its side effects, and then given a sugar pill, then of course the mind (which was tricked into thinking it got medicine) would give both the healing boost and the side effects. Pretend that it had none, and the patient probably wouldn't feel any.

This is a single unified thing, not two different effects.
In XP, control-shift-escape (almost the same key combo as OSX) brings up the task manager, where you can kill whatever you want using the keyboard. By default, it comes up with the current application selected, so you can press tab then space to kill it.

As this can all be done with one hand, does XP therefore have better thought-out keyboard shortcuts than OSX? ;)
1) conservation of energy - if the phone is switched on, it is drawing current. If the latter is from the battery, you will pay for it (plus the charger's and DC-DC converter's inefficiencies) later.

2) battery wear - how much energy does it take to manufacture a new Li-ion pack?