skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never liked screencasts of text, so I built a better tool. I rewrote rxvt in javascript so that I can reanimate terminal sessions.

I would really like feedback on how the terminal recording process goes. Right now it is very tricky, primarily because of the sound recording.

There are bugs on the site
1. clicking the playbar seeks audio, not the text
2. there is no color, underlining, bold, or blinking. Rest assured these are captured in the terminal output, but I just haven't added that to rxvt-js yet.
3. There is no listing of of how long a terminalcast is

I would love to hear other bugs.

Thanks
Tiny, Easy-to-Build Weapons Annihilate Office Boredom
My dislike of XML is pretty simple: it forces you to be more verbose. That is bad for the web.

For instance <tag att1=val att2> is valid HTML. The XML equivalent is <tag att1="val" att2="att2" />. Why is this a good idea, again?
This is a very valid point and raised very well. It does not deserve these downmods.
Google offer: $10m for ideas that can change world
Not being a jerk, sorry if it came off that way, you asked for feedback so I gave it.
I have a better idea: what if it costs 1 cent?
That would generate no revenue, but harass posters enough so CraigsList would quickly go out of business.
In a way, there is a feature to remind the job seeker of upcoming interviews. You can associate a date with a job opportunity's next action, then subscribe to the ical feed of all your next actions.

One thing that would really feel more confident about holding onto the site and making money with it would be to have some kind of marketing plan. Right now I'm just contacting bloggers, and I'm not sure how far that will get me.

I used Ruby on Rails to create the site and jquery for the front end.
Running a public, for-profit website for years without generating a single usable backup is a fireworks-party-on-the-hindenburg class of mistake. There is no excuse for that level of incompetence.
The oldest living things in the world blog
Photo gallery:
http://www.rachelsussman.com/portfolios/OLTW/main.html
original posting: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=849789
Heh. You'd be surprised at how blasé a lot of companies are about people's personal information. The vast majority of the corporate world still thinks it's perfectly reasonable to do their work by emailing excel files of personal data around.
You're getting some porn spam on the demo account. If you're not already, it'd probably be a good idea to reset it with known good data every couple of hours.
Because the second can more easily be parsed 100% correctly and consistently, while the first one will not allow you to fully understand a document-tree without lots of wile and complex forward and backward document scanning, and you may still be wrong.

This especially true for bigger and deeper document-trees.
This is great! It mirrors the approach I've taken to job hunting in the past -- but on a webpage instead of a text editor.

Business model options (non-exclusive):

- Advertising: You have a wide range of options for sponsorship, display or performance advertising. I could write all day about them. Happy to give you more info.

- Subscription/"Freemium": Pay to use. Pay to use certain features. Pay not to see ads. Tip jars. Tons of options.

- Leap of faith: Focus on scaling up the user base (with or without other revenue) and sell it to a monster/dice/etc

Good luck!
Nursery Furniture and Baby Bedding
The Nursery Furniture Store features some of the UK’s most trusted brands, including Izziwotnot and Lollipop Lane. The site provides a free delivery service and a price match guarantee on all complete baby nursery furniture sets.
Yikes - what's up with the spam here? http://www.happyjobsearch.com/opportunities
As I commented elsewhere in this story, I think a more productive angle would be to try to advertise to and welcome women rather than say "no guys, unless you come as a guest of a girl".

There's a subtle but fundamental difference in those two messages.
While the number setup never seemed too bad to me, I understand the math-types weren't too happy with the '98 Prelude, hence the numeric-prelude:

- http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Numeric_Prelude
- http://hackage.haskell.org/package/numeric-prelude
Awesome idea and clean execution. I organized my last job search in excel and retained a lot of the same information.

One suggestion: It would be useful to cache the job listing the user links to. During my last job search I remember finding a lot of my bookmarks to be invalid because the original post had expired and the recruiter reposted it.
I worked in the job space for a while, and I would recommend shopping this around to sites like TheLadders, Indeed, SimplyHired, etc, who are all always looking for competitive features. If they could just buy something rather than build it in-house, I'm sure they would (speaking as someone who worked at a startup which got sold to Monster.com for 72.5 million).
the dom is a terribly designed api, it has to be one of the worst apis I have ever used

to change a nodeName, you have to clone its children and replicate its attributes.

to delete on object,

object.parentNode.removeChild(object);

to insert after an element

object.parentNode.insertBefore(newObject, object.nextSibling);

and that only works by auto'magic' nonsense.

things like jquery would still be around if the browser all implemented everything nicely because the dom api is just terrible
I believe the holders of the .yu URLs had a right of first refusal for the new TLDs, so it wasn't possible for squatters to move in on existing names.
>> >> "so he could form the World Wide Web Foundation (ironically, an organization that can't put up a web page that is valid!)."

>> Case in point. If it shows up nicely in real world browsers, who cares.

I'm sure all the browser-makers who has to tidy up all that shit markup, always, appreciates how much you take their massive effort for granted.
Google chrome 3.0.195.21
In the first page of the demo, the tables at the bottom stretch wider than the fixed width of the design
This was only just submitted and has 4 up-votes and yet has this error message?

"The IEEE Spectrum Online website is temporarily unavailable while we work to upgrade our features. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you. Please check back with us in a day or two to see the new and improved Spectrum Online website. Thank you."

edit: now working. "A day or two"?!
"Trademark law generally requires them to defend their trademark or lose it. This means lots of letters from Apple inc's lawyers to small orchards in the middle of nowhere."

No, it doesn't.

You don't automatically lose a mark through lack of enforcement. There are specific ways that marks may be weakened (genericization, tarnishment, dilution) depending on the action or inaction of the trademark holder, but someone defending an alleged infringement would still have to argue in court that one of these specific cases applied.

And in no case does it mean that Apple Inc. has any reason to contact fruit growers. (This should be obvious from the fact that Apple does not in fact send cease-and-desist letters to fruit growers.)
HN: share your unneeded Google Wave invites
<edit2>

This post may be premature. If that is the case, I will atone for my mistake by collecting the email addresses from this thread and throwing up a simple invite sharing site for use later on.

</edit2>

<edit1>

from Google: “We’ll ask some of these early users to nominate people they know also to receive early invitations — Google Wave is a lot more useful if your friends, family and colleagues have it too. This, of course, will just be the beginning. If all goes well we will soon be inviting many more to try out Google Wave.”

for more information read http://mashable.com/2009/09/29/google-wave-invites-2/

</edit1>

Requesters:

Leave a note and your email address (you can protect it from bots with reCAPTCHA mailhide http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/)

Share the love after you get your invite

Donors:

To prevent waste, leave a reply to a requester's message before you dispatch the invite

Also: thanks for sharing
Steam also cuts out the retail portion of the picture, which gets more money directly to the publisher/developer.
Use it to point to HN.
Something like this is what I have in mind, but I have no idea how to approach companies to shop my site around. Do you have any advice?
Seems like there are still quite a number of .yu sites in operation. Are these going to stop resolving?

http://www.google.com/search?q=yu+site%3Ayu
I gotta say, I just don't "get" the long-form sales letter. I see things like that and lose interest in a real hurry. I understand that it works for some, but I guess I'm just not part of that segment.
Amazon Cloud adds 50K instances a day. Ready for more than startups?
The choice of camera angles seems biased. Most of the shots showed the driver's side of the old car where the impact is and only the passenger side of the new car.

I'm not disputing their overall conclusion, but it'd be fairer to start with overhead angles and show equal time on both sides.
Dang that sucks. The "demo" account is open so that people can see what the site's about without having to log in at all. I doubt people will be enticed by spam for cialis, viagra, etc, though. Looks like I need to install akismet.
That's why he wrote "mostly being odd" and that's why he called it obvious.
I've been using authlogic recently, so I'm also curious how Clearance compares to that.
I think it's more about opportunity cost. Look at startups: most first-time entrepreneurs are <25 because that age range generally have very low opportunity costs; they live with parents, in a dorm, or in low-cost apartments in less than ideal areas. Their mainstream earning potential is low, so entrepreneurship doesn't mean giving up (a chance at) a high-paying job. They have no spouse or kids, so they don't need to worry about how their choices will influence their immediate family.

Also, young people generally lack experience, which means their risk assessments are off--they think things are easier than they are, because they don't have similar experiences to compare to. When there is almost no cost, and the perceived risk is low or moderate, entrepreneurship is the rational choice.

This is all exactly reversed for the majority of people in my age range (30+). We have high opportunity costs, and we have enough similar experiences that we can make more accurate risk assessments--we know just how much work will be involved, we know the (low) percentage of companies that actually succeed. With high(er) perceived risk and high opportunity costs, it is rational not to go entrepreneur.

(And then there are those of us 30-somethings for whom entrepreneurship is enough fun that we are willing to structure our lives to make it possible. :>)

The moral? It isn't that the people you know are beaten down. It's that they are reasonably happy. Be happy for them.
That contradicts this evidence. Men sitting were as selective as woman sitting.
Sean Parker Joins Yammer’s Board Of Directors
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3A*.yu still shows "about 191,000" pages indexed. Maybe they didn't get the memo?
I request an invite please:

http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=0155PT3k3kExAYUbvWGeJUgQ==...
I haven't dug into it yet, will try to tonight, but one thing struck me.

When I run across any sort of site like this normally, one of the first things I look at is news items (in this case the blog) and the forum. If there aren't any posts in either in the last couple of months, I usually assume it's been abandoned, so I don't dig any deeper.

Even a one or two line post every month or two reassures me that some sort of active maintenance is going on.
Google Wave Invitation on ebay for $100+
I would use LinkedIn, or if you email me I can put you in touch with a few folks who might be able to help.

You'd also be surprised at the recipient lists behind the "contact us" forms on a lot of the major sites. e.g. http://www.indeed.com/jsp/contactus.jsp
The title clearly mentions "teachers in India".
Tristan - kungfooguru AT gmail com

Thanks!
2 things I learnt from setting up this website
Have you made, or you aware of, any comparisons between a KV store such as this and the same thing implemented as an IOT in Oracle?
True, but the real villains here are the non-refugee immigrants who lie about their country of origin in order to get refugee status.
I truly believe that we would be years ahead in terms of web technology if the browsers had just said from the start "yeh this code doesnt make sense, Im not fixing it"

imagine we served websites with valid xml, every language around would have a wealth of tools available available that they already use, the term "screenscraper" wouldnt even be mentioned on the web because reading an xml file is such a trivial task, a whole bunch of apis would actually just be replaced by the actual websites they are duplicating data from

that has to be worth having to close your tags

screw dtd's and all the other bloat around xml, I just want an easy to parse, unambigous data format to transfer stuff.
I'm fairly convinced the most badass part of that is that he can just do ".distinace.m" and get it in meters. Of course there are other units if you prefer: http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/co... :)
You are almost right:
Merchants that readily deliver goods to wherever carders (credit card scammers) ask them to -- go out of business.
Ultimately it's merchant's responsibility to make sure credit card is legitimate.
Office Rules (Why free software can't compete with Microsoft)
They show the same camera angles for both, and an overhead shot of the impact. Both cars impact on the same (driver's) side. The most important two shots in this are the interior shots, and the left-hand door. On the Bel Air, you can see the passenger compartment get crushed -- the steering wheel crushes the occupant against the seat, the door is more-or-less ripped off, and the roof crumples inwards.

On the modern car, it does what it's designed to do -- the steering wheel stays put, and the passenger compartment forms a solid cage around the occupants.
Endogamous marriages in Ashkenazi Jews have resulted in serious genetic disorders and hereditary diseases.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews#Specific_disease...
I will paypal you $10. Casey at elevationlab.com. Thanks.
brk100@gmail.com

TIA.
That would require the banks to have a brain. That isn't necessary when you have friends in Washington.
I'm not sure that Elizabeth Saxe-Coburg-Gotha would approve of that plan.
Even if it works only for years 1-5 of a teacher's career, it would still be useful. If we combine an incentive plan with a plan to keep most teachers in this window (i.e., get rid of teachers after year 6), it could be fantastically useful.

Though I must admit, I don't really buy your thesis that incentives only work short term. If they did, you'd expect entrepreneurs to be unmotivated beyond the short term, for example.
Oh, it doesn't work in IE yet. It actually shouldn't take much work, but I really doubt that ie is much my target audience.
I'd like one too if possible: http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01lIoGIpCqRI0IgwrZID3YQQ==...

Thanks!
Alternate Hacker News Interface
Instructive to read the original outrage here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=844228

But in the end, they did the reasonable thing: delete the email and move on.
Excellent idea.
I am posting my email address for an invite in case I don't get mine, and also, when/if, I get my invite, I will invite 1 or 2 from this post!!

email address:
http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01sYXrQbW4xa4NYB3VDXaaBw==...
A Theory on Hacker News
i suppose that i'll throw mine in here if people are generous enough to be passing them out. likewise, if i get an invite, i'll share anything i get.

http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01pA_uG1ERFEljd1T0V7suJA==...
http://news.yc/ would be so much better, if only .yc existed....
Niccolò Machiavelli, who was a sort of Karl Rove of his day, though with more integrity, said of the Swiss that they were "the most free and most armed people" of Europe. Get it? The connection between arms and freedom?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese463.html
http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01MYzNHibu_YQ5tmJpfICtsw==...
Thanks!
US relaxes grip on the internet
Zynga Is On A Tear; Claims Nearly 130 Million Social Gamers.
It's not quite as bad as homeopathy. DNA evidence is worth something in these cases, but it's not conclusive -- the main problem is that government bureaucrats are too dumb to understand this and would treat it as conclusive.

If we knew the number of Somali citizens with "non-Somali" DNA and the number of non-Somali citizens with "Somali" DNA, then... well, there's another application for Bayesian statistics, I guess.
Enter the NoNoSQL era?
I haven't been able to find the part in the article or RMS's quote that states Apple went after him for this particular "truth".

Do you have any evidence there is such a backdoor in Mac OS X?
Google Wave beta testing begins
Google Wave, a browser-based tool combines email, instant messaging and real-time interaction, is one of the most anticipated products to emerge this year.
Ramit -- ramit at ramitsethi.com
Thanks!
Microsoft must make more apps for the iPhone
Background for non-UK residents: the postcode database is controlled by Royal Mail and isn’t public domain. If you want to use the data you must licence it at fairly expensive rates first. There’s a project to create a crowdsourced clone of this data ( http://freethepostcode.org/ ) and it’s beginning to get there, but it’s by no means complete.
Thanks for the link, the section you speak of gave me great insight.
I 2nd authlogic..

I like how it is much more unobtrusive then the others. Also has tons of options and add-ons
On Deck Capital Launches First-Ever Cash-Flow Driven Online Small Business
You can't attribute lack of attraction to racism.

While it's possible for people to not date anyone of a certain race because they are bigoted against that race, I think that it's more common for people to just not feel a strong physical attraction towards certain races. My theory on this is that people that haven't grown up (at least during their childhood and/or teenage years) with many people of a certain race won't end up finding most of the 'feature' characteristics of that race to be attractive (i.e. if you grow up in a mostly white neighborhood you might not find black women attractive).

I could be completely off-base here. I have no idea how the development of attraction in the brain works (and I'm sure there's probably much research into this area of psychology). But I tend to find that a lot of people (whether they admit to it or not) have a preference for certain races and not others. Sometimes people don't have a preference for their own race. I know Asian women that are not attracted at all to Asian men, but that doesn't stop them from having Asian men as friends and interacting with them. I would hardly think that they are bigoted against Asians (seeing as they are Asian themselves).

> What I've found from personal experience, is that the bar is set much higher for those minority races.

It's not necessarily minority races. There are plenty of people that are not attracted to others of their own race. 'Yellow-fever,' 'jungle-fever,' etc weren't created for 'one-off' instances (i.e. the person accused of having 'the fever' only dated a person of that race once, and doesn't have an affinity to dating persons of that race) of inter-racial dating/mating/marriage.
No and no.

Here's a link about IOT for others:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/oracle9i/datasheet...

Personally I think there's a fairly large cultural disconnect between shops running open-source stacks and shops running Oracle, so such a comparison would not influence user choices much. But it would be very interesting for an implementor like me: if Oracle is faster, which is likely at this point, it would set a performance point to beat.

As a final fun fact, Keyspace is currently running on top of BerkeleyDB, which is an Oracle property =) But not for much longer, I'm very unsatisfied with BDB, it doesn't live up to its image of being an industrial strength btree store (it sucks).
Here's a Keyspace link:

http://scalien.com
The distance/area objects in GeoDjango are an under-appreciated feature. The docs have a more readable version of the supported units:

http://geodjango.org/docs/measure.html#supported-units
US relaxes grip on the Internet 
It has signed a four-page "affirmation of commitments" with the net regulator Icann, giving the body autonomy for the first time.
For authentication, I believe authlogic is now the best choice. I have used restful authentication , authlogic , any other plugins in many projects. I'm not too sure about clearance , but the fact that I have never heard of it before doesn't sound too promising.
I'd also like an invite. If anyone has gotten one through the HN community, please pass along the invites.

http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01KGNgbDpPbB2bWjFN4IRSww==...

Thanks!
This has to be the only free CS theory book out there. It comes up way too often.
Mostly among the 40 and up crowd, I think. I'm not sure I know anyone younger than me who believed that (I'm 36).
I believe it's a fair question. Assume for discussion that there is a higher rate of auto injuries per year today than 50 years ago. Ok, is that due to the cars being less safe, the drivers being less safe, or something else? This video isolates one possible cause (the cars), tests it, and determines that they are safer today than 50 years ago. Clearly, if today's cars are safer, the cause of the injuries must lie elsewhere (drivers, roads, some external factor, etc).
An invite would be awesome.

http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01VaxuDx8QHp7ftD1tyORRRA==...
Thanks for the heads up. I was resetting the data every 15 minutes. I've now simply disabled saving changes by the demo account altogether.

Thanks again!
Thanks!

http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01IQb9tKpaYJSR8bJPDk93Gw==...
...using images, for OS X only.
You think Stallman would get smacked down by Apple? They can't sue him, he doesn't own anything.
I'm not sure if this submission is in the spirit of Hacker News, but nevertheless I'd really like an invite, so here goes:

http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01PzI8MSz8-zPdE-0Us9sNWQ==...

Thanks in advance!
...and similarly naive / nondescriptive / misfocused
Ask HN: Does anyone take the risk to work on private projects from workplace?
Hi,
I have many private project ideas and i'm working on some but it's just impossible for me to have a full time job + personal projects + wife & kid.
I wonder what are people doing about it? I would like to work on it from workplace but maybe they have keyloggers and stuff like this? I don't know... Should I take the risk? does anyone take this risk? I mean I wouldn't want to sit in work and work on my private projects but if I finish my day job at 19:00 then I would like to spend another hour on my private projects, what do you think?
Thanks for the heads up. I was resetting the data every 15 minutes. I've now simply disabled saving changes by the demo account altogether.
Thanks again!
Don't forget that in the 1950's it was socially acceptable to tank up on a few highballs, take one for the road, and get on your merry way.

There has been so much more safety education in the last 30 years. It's bound to have rubbed off a bit.
This is true even with roll cages in race cars. You'd think you want the strongest metal available, but that's not right. They actually use a softer steel so the cage deforms a on impact.

The guy who welded mine said the shock from an impact to a titanium cage would effectively shatter your body. He was far from a doctor, but it made sense.
So you believe in no immigration restrictions at all then? I think it's perfectly fair to only admit people into a country if they desperately need it. They just want a way to identify those people. This is the wrong way to do it, but that's a separate issue.