skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Now that monitors are much slimmer, people understand that the monitor is just a display mechanism, and the computer actually is under the desk."

This is going to become less common. Many PC manufactures are now making iMac-style, everything-jammed-into-a-flat-panel systems.
What makes it science?
please sir, can I have an invite?
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Thanks in advance!
The other reason why it comes up so often is that it's damn good.
I don't like it. Usually the first paragraph of text is meaningless. Just look at the current entries for .hn from Wikipedia. Unless someone hand curates that kind of thing it's impossible to get right. It looks like you're trying to add in a link/subject/description model for submissions like Digg and all other social news sites. Sorry, but that isn't HN. Personally I prefer scanning the headlines. This blobby text insertion just makes that impossible. If you were going to put anything as a short description, it should be the highest rated comment currently on the thread. I'm also not sure why you replaced the upmod icon. That darn little thing has always been too small, but at least it indicates what it's for. If anything, make the icon bigger but don't change it's shape for no reason.
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Hi,

For a long time, I've griped that the browser history system is old and neglected, but given some love, could potentially be a powerful tool. A lot of my web searches are for content that I have seen in the past, and while browser history is great for the back button (and the awesome bar), the ability to re-find old content has been sub par.

My friend, Alan and I, prompted by the Mozilla Firefox Extend Contest, decided to write a firefox extension that took a fresh look at the browser history system, trying to get past some of the current deficiencies like the lack of
integration of multiple tabs being open, the inability to monitor ajaxy sites, etc, and being able to do more than search by hostname and date.

Boomtango is our rough attempt to put together a system that allows you to search by the content of your page or see your history automatically categorized by it's content. It's all stored locally in a sqlite db, so your web browsing never hits our server.

Let us know what you think. We're not awesome ui designers or expert marketers, so any feedback you have, regardless how harsh, would be very enlightening and helpful.

Thanks!
terencekwan at gmail.com
If there's any real complexity in your site you won't write HTML by hand anyway, so I don't care if the "object code" is a bit more verbose if it means it's more computer-friendly.
Agreed. Some people (usually bosses) like to work between 6am-10am. There's less disturbance too. It's just matter of preference.
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Thanks!
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many thanks.
There are also quite a number of jobsites in Belgium, but most of them are for one language, so dependent on witch part you live:

In dutch:
http://www.vacature.com - http://www.vdab.be - http://monster.be - http://stepstone.be

In french:
http://www.references.be - http://www.leforem.be

Hope they are usefull!
I'd love an invite too! Thanks! http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01PDfLxnEZiIMJh-NPi5hkag==...
"It's pretty easy to follow user behavior on Hacker News, they click the first link, read the content go back to Hacker News comment if they found the link interesting"

I think you're wrong here. I'd wager most people check the comments before reading the link (if there are comments).
Gentlemen i'll be glad to be invited.
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Might as well give it a shot: http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01cTgLqXMpA-xI1YWX89jiIw==...
Can somebody point me to the site which categorized hacker news links as tech and non-tech???
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Email in profile - thanks.
I would love to be able to test it.

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Thanks! :-)
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Much appreciated!
Hey why not. I'm a technical advisor for a recently created non-profit development group, and we could really use Wave to help us collaborate.

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i'm in ur comments, bumming for waves

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damn, can't get it here china.
MacArthur grant?
I've seen quite a few, actually... many of them on Hacker News.

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/

http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/index.html

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Compute...

http://omega.albany.edu:8008/JaynesBook.html

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers...

These are from my own bookmarks... looks like there are a lot more at http://www.reddit.com/r/csbooks/top/?t=all
But with a wife & kid around the 'distractions of work' will be replaced with the 'distractions of home'.
I started out by reading the sites directly, but the comments here are so good that I frequently go to the comments first and read them. I also tend to not read stories that have been upvoted but received no comments.
I'd rather see a preview of the top comments than the first paragraph of content.
It seems that the more practical answer to this problem which bypasses the problem is to make friends with people in fields you think may have lasting impact: if they do come across something marketable and you have capital, they'll turn to you first.
Google Wave and Spam
Thanks!
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The separate slots for resumes is a good idea. I'd like to track what resume version I sent where. I think a one-time payment for access sounds like a good idea. Or maybe even just a donation button for now? The argument there is that people who find jobs might be willing to donate quite a bit more and also you never know when you'll need the site again so having the information readily available would be good.
For some reason the name makes me smile, which is probably a terrible reason for keeping it. Initially it was After the Pink Slip. I also have worksearchtool.com .

Another reason I went with Happy Job Search was that initially I was hoping to add more to the site, so it wouldn't just be about being organized. That's probably a bad idea though.
Those are often the most though-provoking ones.
Very cool idea, I love the idea of copy and paste from tutorial videos.
It looks worse than the current one.
It's repetitive, but that's the point. No matter how his book is doing, it doesn't really make a lasting difference to his emotional state. He always goes back to the same attitude soon after every change in his book's ranking.
I have always tended to go to sleep around 9pm and wake up around 5am or 6am. This is less of a productivity-booster now that my three-year-old also wakes up at 6am...
My girlfriend always double clicks links. She also uses a Mac at work and thought she wouldn't be able to access her webmail on my PC because I didn't have Safari.
I'm very interested in Google Wave and I'd like to test it.
Thanks in advance for sending me an invitation!
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here's the mail address:

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Thanks in advance!
Yeah, why not. Been wanting to test it since their first demo.
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Thanks!
I dunno, I use green on black myself. Guess I just got used to the old IBM terminals. (Yes, hardware terminals.) Although, I don't use a Times font.
May I ask what you're doing your grad degree in? I attended SRC for a year and dropped out (didn't know what I wanted out of school), but am always curious about the fates of those who stuck around.
nlanier @ gmail.com Thank you in advance!! :)
Me too please. I've been itching to get my hands on this. http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01Nqt2EebxBs9XkUbznZL-hg==...
First, it's not necessarily a tradeoff.

Second, it should be intuitive to your target audience, be they experts or casual users.
Would love an invite as well!
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Tool of the Day: Threadsy: The Ultimate Inbox
What I like about Hacker News is that its 100% abstracted from the actual websites - and also that it's verrrry minimalist.

Can't quite put my finger on it, but for some reason it just doesn't feel right to couple the content with the feed (IMHO)

Also, I like HN just the way it is!
Tsunamis and Virtual Disaster Recovery
They also accounted for it by studying performance on science and social studies tests. Both improved. However, it would be useful to follow up with a differently structured test to see how much comes from test prep.

Incidentally, bringing up the SAT is a red herring. The SAT was originally meant to measure g/intelligence/"aptitude". It did this by measuring a body of knowledge which is not explicitly taught in school, giving questions like wheel : car -> pick one of [leg: horse, egg : chicken, computer : TV]. Obviously, you can improve performance by explicitly teaching that knowledge (e.g., memorizing analogies).

A subject test does not suffer from this problem, since it is designed to measure subject knowledge rather than aptitude. You can improve performance on a multiplication test by memorizing multiplication tables, but so what? Multiplication performance is what you are trying to measure, it's not a proxy for something else.
Yes, please!
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Thanks to whoever can send me an invite.
~John
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Thanks
You're making inferences based on no data, while at the same time trolling on this thread and claiming some higher moral purpose.

These are false, AKA "Fact-Free" and based on nothing but you're own world view: 1. That this is some publicity stunt I dreamed up. 2. That my aim to "profit" from this somehow. That is laughable/delusional. The product is free and I donate my time and money to it for my own gratification, 3. That I'm looking to HackerNews as a source of "personal credibility".

I don't care that you have, at the very least an implicit, financial relationship with 37 Signals. I do ask that you be explicit and transparent about that #credibility
Why keep the gray on lighter gray color scheme for super tiny text? If there is one thing that I could change about HN...
I can't see a motivation for him to post a retraction for something he can't confirm in either regard: Honesty, perhaps?
Podcast w/ MarketWatch founder on beating Jim Cramer's TheStreet by staying free
Microsoft's 'Compatible with Windows 7" logo gives short shrift to Device Stage
I don't know and can't provide anything but anecdotal evidence, but I do get the sense that "they don't make 'em like they used to" (== those old cars were solid) is the prevailing belief when I talk to people my dad's age (50+).
I'm sure a spreadsheet works fine for many people, and from the comments you can see that others have used them for this purpose. Here are some advantages this site has:

* The data to capture has already been figured out for you. When you're first looking for a job you might not really know what to record about each listing.

* The approach has been figured out for you. I did not follow the GTD-esque approach initially, and I'm sure most other people don't. That in itself is useful, as is the site's ability to facilitate it.

* There is a bookmarklet for adding job listings. This saves you time.

* You can subscribe to an ical feed of your next actions, which you can't do with a spreadsheet.

* You can subscribe to RSS feeds from your favorite job sites so that you can easily review new postings in one place.

If you're ever looking for a job, please do give it a try and decide for yourself whether it's better than fiddling with a spread sheet :)
It's certainly more structured than a free-form spreadsheet. The mere fact that it's a special purpose tool makes a difference too.
i'd love an invite if any are left..

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thanks!!
transburgh @ gmail . com

thank you!!
i.e., get rid of teachers after year 6: Is it your opinion that teachers learn nothing in the course of doing their job?
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Thank you and greetings from Germany!
My girlfriend is a web developer and we've been trying to snag an invite so she can play around with it. Thank you in advance

jakevoytko@gmail.com
I strongly disagree. I've dealt with most of these questions at one time or another in recent years, and a Whole lot more 8 years back when I was in IT.

Some people still think shutting off the monitor means shutting off the computer - even in the case of a flat screen. I've seen this at least 5 times this year alone.

As a web developer the browser issue is the biggest and most consistent for me.

The fact that you don't think these differences still exist perfectly defines the purpose of this list.
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I would absolutely love to try this out.

will.schupp at gmail.com

Thank you!
I don't think I'd want to deal with these idiotic "capcha emails" if I had a quick 10 seconds to share an invite. Post your address into profile, people.
Remember your seconds
I like the name. It puts a positive spin on what can be a very negative time in life. It's also memorable. I say keep it.
please send invite to me please please please

e113te@gmail.com
ICANN Freed From US Gov't Oversight
Follow the new regulations to the letter. Document how much time you waste registering every useful Firefox extension, command-line utility, development library, etc. Include that evidence in your argument against the policy.
There Is Grandeur In This View Of Life
I would love an invite as well.

email: [myusername]@gmail.com
I would be sooooo thankful for an invite :)
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Ask HN: Motivating projects to learn functional programming languages?
I've always wanted to learn a language like Haskell, Lisp, Erlang, etc., but I've never been able to motivate myself beyond the first few examples because I haven't found a way to apply it. I've found that the best way I learn is to pick up a project and learn the language/tools/API as I go along — it's strange, but it's much easier for me to lose myself working on a project than an academic exercise. I start putting all the pieces together and eventually everything just "clicks"; I reach an epiphany and can start thinking in the language.

Can anyone else relate to this? How do you learn less "practical" languages like these?
From what I've been able to ascertain, our counsel's primary concern is that the mere availability of the source creates risk in terms of the introduction of copyleft code into our proprietary products. They're also afraid that, were an issue to arise, they wouldn't be able to settle it as a business matter as they would with a large corporation like Adobe or Opera.

We also have a number of customers requiring that we provide indemnification against any open source software infringement claims, which has sent our counsel down the path of wanting a full registry and approval process for all open source software on developer workstations.

The positions I've taken -- the workload, the fact that the registry doesn't adequately protect us from the surreptitious introduction of copyleft code snippets, etc. have all fallen on deaf ears. I'm trying to figure out what other arguments I might be able to bring to the table.
hi Will,

Super idea, this has been a major annoyance to me in the recent past, the inability to find stuff that I know I've read for sure.

First comment, please make it so that it will import all the history from the browser that it is installed on (if someone should want that).

thanks !
Also, technically your employer would own what you made, so it really isn't a good idea.

If you work for a big corporate it is worth checking your contract too. Often an employer makes claims over your private projects out of work if they are in the same field as your day job.
Almost everybody I know (that isn't in IT) double-clicks on links. Even my ex-boss (who was a programmer back in the day) double-clicks on links. And no matter how many times you try to explain the concept of "single-click" to them, they don't seem to get it.
How would you determine if a customer understands your code or not? Would you quiz them?
my username + @gmail.com
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Why not just get a laptop and go out to the nearest coffee shop / library / whatever?
Well with the load balancer, and continuous replication you could theoretically scale to any level easily.
What definition of 'short' is 183CM?
iam _at_ nicholasmolnar (dot) com

Thanks a bunch. I signed up, but have not received one. Google doesn't love me.
I used to like working late, (going to bed 3 or 4 am, and waking at noon) at noon - but I work somewhere part time that forces me to be up at 7 am, and now I like waking up early to work. It feels good to use the whole day.
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> didn’t leave until three hours later—after spending $1,053.88

Yeah, I needed one of those pointlessly notched USB extension cables too, as the one on the kb is 6" long and the notch stops you using a $3 one.
Awesome! Huge improvement over using the web client. One feature request, and I don't know if this is in line with your vision for the app, but it would be awesome if you could edit plain text files from within the app itself.
I would love to have an invite!

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I recently had to compare jQuery, YUI (2.0), and Ext for a project heavy on AJAX, client-side data sorting and filtering, and dynamic graphing. Here's my take on them. (Note that I already knew jQuery and was looking at YUI and Ext as potential replacements because of their extensive widget sets.) ::

- YUI has a lot of nice widgets, but the organization of its documentation made it hard to learn. Moreso, YUI doesn't make writing JavaScript any easier. I found myself writing dozens of lines of code to do seemingly simple things. And YUI 2.0 didn't seem to have as simple a way to query the DOM as jQuery.

- jQuery is at its core a framework that makes writing cross-browser JavaScript very easy, with very few lines of code. And the jQuery UI add-ons and plugins provide the widgets. Unfortunately, the plugins aren't consistent and they trail behind YUI and Ext in terms of features. But I felt like a jQuery expert in just a couple hours and can't imagine writing complicated scripts without it anymore.

- Ext has a very extensive, professional set of widgets (datatables, datepicker, charts, etc., etc.). It also seems to provide DOM querying in ways that are as simple as jQuery's. But the widgets feel very "heavy" and Java-like to me, rather than light and JavaScript-like. I found that I often couldn't write my own js or CSS to manipulate a widget after it was rendered; I had to use the widget's events and hooks. Hence, sometimes it just feels "heavy." Note also that Ext 3.0 doesn't have very good documentation yet, even though it's the default package available on the site.

Ultimately, I ended up mixing jQuery and Ext to get the framework/querying from the former and widgets from the latter.
This looks very nice from what I saw in the demo account. Very clean interface.

I actually have a project I had made initially for B2B sales leads, but there are certain features of automation that I've been thinking lately could really be used for job search. Perhaps we should talk?
I agree adding the comments would be great, but without html scraping Hacker News it's not possible. I didn't want to reproduce HN only show that adding more context around a link will change a user's behavior around that link.

I would disagree that the first paragraph is meaningless. The title alone is generally not enough to make an accurate guess on whether a link is useful.
same as brutimus:

my username @gmail.com

Thank's for the post and thanks for whoever sends the invite
Learn Programming With Youtube
Replace 'non-it' with 'stupid' and I'm totally on board...
Joining in on the invite fest. Thanks in advance

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Yahoo! Open Hack Day / Ignite NYC Call for Speakers
It sounds like, with a little over two pages of Prolog, he had a prototype of a multi-threaded, message-passing DSL.
With 1,100 lines of Prolog, he had the other Erlang elements such as process supervision groups, error trapping, tracing, etc.

They eventually rewrote it in C to make it faster, to remove some counterproductive aspects of Prolog's semantics (in particular, logic variables were being instantiated across the threads), and to change the syntax a bit.

There's a good interview with him on SE-Radio (http://se-radio.net/podcast/2008-03/episode-89-joe-armstrong...) that discusses the original implementation, as well.
A Few Notes on how to Survive R
Swarm language now based on Scala 2.8, uses delimited continuations
a HN "zen garden" type of redesign would be a fun challenge, limiting yourself to modifying the css only.

http://www.csszengarden.com/
I don't think anyone is happy with the current Prelude :)
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Indeed. I use the hnsort greasemonkey script to sort by # of comments (and often by # of points), and look first at those new items that seem to have provoked notable discussion.

I then read the comments, and use that to decide if the article itself is worth looking at.

There's a lot to read out there, so some triaging is needed.
My first name at my username dot net.
That's partly my fault, when I was a wee lad fiddling with display computers in shops was a Saturday hobby. As time went by it got harder and harder to fuck with them.
Changing the default shell from Explorer to Fileman was an early trick.
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And this is the real problem. This will happen again. That email should have been sent with something like PGP encryption to ensure that only the intended recipient could open it.

no customer data of any sort has been viewed or used by any inappropriate user during this data lapse

Since the email was apparently sent "in the clear" they cannot say this with certainty. A copy could have been siphoned off any intermediate network or smtp server.
Much appreciated :)

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The new one looks like those horrible TV's that you see at bus stations attached to chairs with a slot for quarters.
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Many people are still confused about that. I work in IT at a small insurance company and about 30-40% of our staff has no idea of the difference, and many still call their computers a "modem" for some reason.
Google Docs OCR API
Upload JPG, GIF, or PNG. A new Google Doc is created containing the text from within.
Just last week I had an issue with a user who was not just double-clicking, but quadruple-clicking. Maybe she had too much coffee...
You're the Smartest Guy In The Room ... but please, try to restrain yourself.
I would of loved to add comments in there, but there is no way of getting them barring html scrapping.

HN Feature Request: RSS feed for comments of an item.