skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at the screencast, it looked very well done and beyond basic. I think you are selling yourself short when you say it's basic and not professional.

However, there are a ton of to-do apps -- many are free. I paid for the one I use because it's an iPhone app (Things). "Remember the Milk" is an example of a to-do app that has web and iPhone integration (and I think charges for both versions).

Off the top of my head, your niche looks to be non-engligh todos (in particular, Portugese). There are a lot of free to-do apps, but maybe yours is popular in Brazil simply because of that edge.

Start charging -- make a free plan that limits the number of to-dos so that people can still try it out and get some value. All current users should probably get the full version for free (for being early adopters) -- or at least of level that is equivalent to what they have now.
Amusing, but ultimately this will make the conference less pleasant for everyone. It's not like every company can afford to rent legit meeting space (I doubt there's even enough to go around) and trying to have meetings on the show floor is awful.
I don't know the origin of the quote but 'if you need more than one line of APL you do not fully understand your problem'.
You should be very careful on carb restriction. It can cause acid levels to build up in your blood which can be exceedingly dangerous. One side effect: the acids can crystalize in your bloodstream and collect at your joints. In short, you get gout/pseudogout/other gout-like conditions (depending on the exact composition of the crystals).

I know someone who did this; she was bedridden for a month and couldn't turn her head for 2 months.
One of the success stories of this business model is probably cyberduck (http://cyberduck.ch) I have heard from friends that the guy makes decent money with his "donation"-business model. Though it's more like shareware than actually just placing a donation button on your website.
I'm happy with FeedDemon - I don't want things like friending, voting, etc.
Evolution of a Programmer
I have a site that's a utility for World of Warcraft players (pugchecker.com). It sees about 2,000 uniques a day, give or take, and I've had a donation button at the bottom for a few months now.

In that time, I've received four donations for a grand total of $45. That's a little more than what I see for one affiliate sale using banner ads on the site.

It can't hurt to ask but I wouldn't expect much in the way of financial returns from donations.
Most of the labor on these Hollywood-blockbuster-style games is in art production, modelling, scripting, writing, QA -- the engines are done by much smaller teams, often at third-party companies.

It's at the point where many of the better college programs oriented at the "you like playing games, so you'll obviously master making them" adolescents have given up the pretense of teaching CS or programming to their students.
While simultaneously the American economy grew and grew and grew in the greatest era of prosperity in the history of the world.

Point: Unionization distributed wealth across the economy, building a consumer society and accelerating growth.

Counter-point: The economy was growing so much for other reasons that it succeeded in spite of unionization.

Discuss.
Women aren't dumb enough to work 80 hour week for crap wages because video games are cool.
Snowed-In Brits boost adultery website
A bunch of people talking back/forth on one page is hardly a deluge of complaints. Perhaps that list had 15 people? I didn't count.

It's an interesting problem I had not thought of, who handles the problems that come up?
Congratulations John, I think that you've reached the optimum design, I don't think you can get any lower than one component :)
First, I think it's incredibly sad that about 1% (by my envelope math) of the married British population belongs to an adultery website. That said, the spike in users due to weather is pretty interesting.
My own contribution to this amazing list is "Avoid Negative People". When we do startups, we don’t just leverage. We levitate. We “will” our startups into existence. And we do so by defying all laws of physics and by tapping into the positive energy of our surrounding. We create opportunities; we don’t destroy. Be careful with whom you hang out with. Unfortunately, my own experience is to stay away from other failed entrepreneurs (who tend to be negative until they bounce back). And in particular stay away from people who hold a grudge on you or whom you have a grudge with. Don’t get mad; don’t even try to get even. With success, you can get them all. Misery breeds misery and success breeds success.
Old article but a good explanation of bandwidth vs latency. Long have I labored in the paneled offices of PHB's to explain that windows networking between New York and Denver is just not going to work even tough that 10Mbit leased line is 'just as fast' as ethernet.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/04/06/
A Deluge of Devices for Reading and Surfing
"MacArthur secretly granted immunity to the physicians of Unit 731 in exchange for providing America with their research on biological warfare.[7]"

Disgusting.
To quote one of the first engineers I ever worked with: "all problems can be solved with an additional layer of abstraction."

except performance problems, of course.
I did not understand how this proves that no single algorithm can compress all files. Why does he assume that the compression generates less files?
Another good reason for the total abolishment of patents.

Almost every patentable invention is but a minor advance in the state of the art.
Awesome, this is much easier than using a background image!
Interesting article. I'm glad there were pictures; however, now I am hooked. It is on my 200 things to do before I die list. I hope I can make it to this one.
Nice work PC World. You've successfully landed more traffic to your site with a misleading headline. A deluge of complaints? Horseshit.

I personally had countless issues ordering the Nexus One on Tuesday and Wednesday as a current T-Mobile customer with the G1. However, the error I kept receiving was on T-Mobile's side. "T-Mobile's servers are busy/non-responsive" something like that...

I ordered it Thursday around Noon CST with custom engraving and received free overnight shipping with no problems whatsoever. I received an email saying the device had shipped 90 minutes later.

Phone arrived yesterday. Charged it. Plugged in Google Account credentials and have had ZERO problems. Currently uploading/syncing a ton of pics I have taken with the Nexus One to my Picasa account, while transferring a 320kbps MP3 file via Bluetooth, with Pandora playing...with not a single hiccup.

In my opinion, one can expect someone to receive LOADS of negative press when they attempt to do something no one else has done, namely, sell smart/super phones directly to the consumer over the web. I think the only thing Google forget was to put the "Beta" badge somewhere on the ordering site...
I was going to post a response, but brazzy beat me to it...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1041416
What Happens To Subtitles in 3D?
I have a feeling that the Japanese elite are well aware

I share this feeling, and suspect that is why cigarettes continue to be 320Y...
Particularly noteworthy was the excerpt of how the government propagandized reduced fat and increased carb consumption starting in 1982, and the resulting behavior changes in the general population tracks so well with weight gain.

And yet some people still believe that a handful of Congressional staff lawyers and lobbyists (that's who really write the legislation) should be trusted to engineer the entire health care industry.
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Excellent link :)

129. The Microsoft ® “Dancing Paperclip” is not authorized to countermand any orders.

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In the UK average rental yields are under 5%, which means that on average over time renting is cheaper than servicing mortgage debt.

There are a lot of other factors that make a difference though, especially related to personal financial discipline, over-buying and tax incentives. Any of those can push things one way or the other.
just curious, how do you plan on selling your phone with custom engraving? i never understood why people opted for that.
A Peek Into Netflix Queues
Ah, yes. To live longer, eat like people who were lucky to see the far side of 30.
Maths prodigy Arran Fernandez, 14, becomes youngest Cambridge student since 1773
If they're honest, what they'll report is that their own grandparents died about 20 years younger than they are now.
The Sad State of Biosphere 2, Sixteen Years Later
Ask HN:  Could celebrity only leaderboard(s) make an iPhone game more popular?
In addition to global high score leaderboards for everyone, what about also having celebrity only leaderboard(s) in an iPhone game?

Do you think this could make it a lot more popular?
What Blackberry is to Exchange: a device that doesn't sync calendar and contacts until you plug it into your desktop computer using unreliable client software. A device which syncs email, if you give your windows domain username and password to the cellular phone company so they can check using Exchange Web Services and proxy the email on to the blackberry.

What he describes is Blackberry + blackberry enterprise server + Exchange. Which is a bit silly these days, since there are phones which speak Activesync over the air directly to Exchange, including iPhones, Nokias and Windows Mobiles, and that can include calendars and contacts.

Since Google's Phone does not require you to give your Google password to a third party network company so they can proxy a subset of the information to you, nor does it require you to buy and locally install server software to proxy between Google App Store and your phone, the comparison isn't very good.

> But I just could not get Outlook or any other Exchange client to scale to the size of mailbox I operate

Cue: Me, the grumpy IT guy saying "well operate a smaller mailbox then! Are you going for an award for most misused text messaging system in history? Are you that desperate to have weeks and weeks of archives at your fingertips yet also too stubborn to get a proper archiving solution?"
Because of the teachers union the general population is dumb and uneducated. Because of the automotive unions, we have no decent public transportation. And because of the doctors union, large swaths of the population have no access to healthcare and doctors have so little critical thinking ability that it takes on average seven years to diagnose a disease.

Is it possible that unions made wealth more equally distributed and thus increased growth? Yes. However, using unions to increase distribution of wealth is pretty much worst imaginable way to do it.
I take it that there is no right language, no right accent.

I can't speak for Bulgarian, but English has standard rules of grammar, spelling, and usage. Anyone who's made it through K-12 public education in the US should be able to help you with those rules, if you ask them.

If you're trying to communicate, why not make the marginal effort to do it right? Or is that an ethic only native-born English speakers should adopt?
There's a limited supply of people in the world - about 6bn at the moment.

Roughly 1bn currently live in western-style economies at the moment. Once China and India are finished industrializing (in 30 years or so?) that'll be 3bn people in advanced economies.

Increasing the living standards of the remaining 3bn wouldn't impose as much of a dislocation as the current China/India affair, because it'll represent only a 100% increase in the labor pool not a 200% increase.

There'll be issues about scarce resources, and some currently abundant resources will become scarce, but the cost of unskilled and semi-skilled labor won't ever be this low again.
Also, link to the photographer's site.

http://www.noahsheldon.com/index.html

Some more from one of the inhabitants.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jane_poynter_life_in_biosp...
And, like the CES (and their hotel buddies) they shouldn't have a case.

The Olympics are thousands of (well, ok, 1200+) years old, what do they want, a trademark on history ?
I don't know about the conspiracy theory but it's pretty well established that Japan does the absolutely worst job of teaching ESL in the world. What they teach is required for the all important exams but is otherwise pretty much useless. It's hard to imagine this is entirely accidental and that no one has ever thought it should be changed.

From what I've read the current financial crisis has pretty much started the end of the lifetime employment model. It should also be noted that in the "good old days" jobs were dividing to high gain low risk (e.g. the lifetime ones) and low gain high risk. Those in the latter category are the ones who's pension records were lost by the prefectures.

Other observations: a lot of Japanese techies spent weekends in Korea on the QT helping Samsung etc. get up to speed on producing DRAMs.

Leaving Japan for very long has traditionally been a form of permanent exile. Those who come back aren't viewed as "Japanese" anymore.

In the dozen or so years I spent in and around the MIT community, I knew of exactly two undergrads from Japan, which is pretty remarkable given how attractive you'd think it would be to study there.

Then again, to a great degree the Japanese model for lifetime jobs was a total focus on the college entrance exam. That's all that really mattered, e.g. if you wanted to work for the Finance Ministry you'd get into e.g. Tokyo University, partly chill out for four years, and then enter the "real world" (such as it is). Doctors do a 3? year vocational college program (no liberal arts), but I don't know how much engineers and scientists learn their stuff in college.

For scientists it hardly matters, if they want to do real work in their prime they've got to emigrate since seniority rules in academia. It's telling that until last year or so every Japanese Nobelist had to emigrate to do the work that won him the prize.
Isn't it the opposite? there are more strings of length n than the number of string with length m < n.

There are b^n strings of length n, but only (b^n - 1)/(b - 1) strings of length m < n, where b is the number of possible characters
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Losing Weight the Healthy Way
How are you going to identify those celebrities in the first place and how are you going to get them to play your game in a way that you are going to be allowed to 'associate' your name with theirs without paying up ?
I did this for my iPod nano a couple of years ago, it has definitely been a regret.
They're called "balance bicycles" or "run bicycles" and they're readily available from dozens of manufacturers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_bicycle

I don't know why anyone cares that Doug Engelbart discovered something already known by millions of people - that pedaling isn't the important part of learning to ride, balancing is - but hey, here's my golf clap for him. {clap clap}
What little I've read on obesity research seems to require that both excess sugar and fat are consumed to overcome homeostasis.

Sugars can ignore homeostatic regulation for hedonistic reasons and fats don't have the same day to day correction that carbohydrates do.

So the part that might be working in your diet might be the no-sugar part of no-carb.

Overall it's quite amazing that many people can consume something like a million calories per a year and end up within 0.5kg (3500 calories) of their starting point.
Desktop Computer Kicks Supercomputer Out of Top Place on Pi Record List
>> "In the UK average rental yields are under 5%, which means that on average over time renting is cheaper than servicing mortgage debt."

If you're paying over 5% for a mortgage you're doing something seriously wrong. Hell - if you're paying more than 2% you've been had.

And the other tiny point is that at the end of your mortgage, you own the house and can cash it in. If you have the option to buy, buying is always the sane choice.
"traveler" is clearly biased (look at his username) but he makes a good point. Multiple studies have shown that having kids decreases your happiness and increases your stress. Having kids is a biological imperative and your justifications are mostly backwards rationalizations. I'm guilty of backwards-rationalizing as much as the next guy but it's helpful for consciousness if you're aware of the phenomenon and can be honest with yourself.
Good work by the pr. dep. Worthless news.
Yep, I got my first bike for my sixth birthday and never had training wheels.

What's the point of giving a four-year-old a bike anyway? It's not like you're going to let 'em ride it anywhere interesting, or unsupervised.
Twitter tells you about verified celebrities. They could submit their device UUID via twitter DM.

It would be fun for celebrities to compare their scores with other celebrities.
Figures claimed by website owners in the media should be taken with a grain of salt I think.
Having clear floors seems like a positive side effect :)

That being said that I don't have a roomba because I don't have clear floors.
They could, but why should they? In other words, what's in it for them? 'fun' doesn't go very far in that world, $ does.
After watching this all, I think the take-home-message was that, for fairly complex biochemical reasons, fructose (which is also a component of sucrose) is a particularly bad sugar. For one thing, it doesn't cause satiety very well, and for another, it does some damage directly which glucose, nature's preferred sugar, does not.
I knew the principle but I read the article as if set 1024 and set 512 where specific instances of the sets ence I was unable to derive the conclusion.
Better hurry.

It wasn't until 2001 that miners, searching for lead, eventually penetrated the cave wall and brought it to light. The very act of discovering and witnessing them has triggered their slow decay and now no one knows what their fate will be. Once the mine ceases to operate it could be flooded by polluted mine water and abandoned forever, and that's if ambitious mineral sellers don't get to them first and rip them out to sell around the world – a plight of other smaller crystal caves in the area.
I've actually never heard of hyperuricemia being caused by carbohydrate restriction. Nobody seems to list it in the standard "drink your Coke, low-carb kills" list of warnings, either.

Anyway, here's Taubes on Gout: http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/10/05/gout/
The PCWorld article is a bit overblown, but I expect this to be the first signs of an ongoing problem for Google. I know I've personally had a nightmarish time getting in touch with Google support, for both AdSense and App Engine, and I know Patrick had similar experiences with AdWords. I'm sure there are others.

In the past, Google's paying customers have been primarily tech savvy, and thus more apt to try to solve the problem themselves, contacting support as a last resort. With a more mainstream customer base I suspect this won't be the case.

Even if the Nexus One was bug free, there's going to be people who have problems and want support. For better or for worse, this is the "Google phone" and a large number of people are going to expect Google to help. A phone company with no phone support is just not going to fly.

I for one hope this forces them to improve their customer support across the board. Their lack of support is a serious concern for potential enterprise customers.
I would imagine like most celebrity driven business models like twitter, $.
My real takeaway was this:

Everybody always treats science as if it's a sure thing. But you can have every statement you make be true, and still be wrong overall, because you missed something important.

Like the 7 Countries study, where the author didn't regress with fat-vs-sugar. Everything he said was true, but he was wrong in the end.

(Oh, yeah, and fructose is awful and mass food producers are poisoning us. But I knew that already.

Many restaurants, not just fast food restaurants, even put high-fructose corn syrup in meat.)
"one line of APL"? He was coding for 7 minutes, on many lines...

edit: also my first time seeing APL, very neat stuff.
Damn, what an awesome job that guy has. I stare at a screen all day...
There is a very important book you should read called _Life Without Bread_. It was that book that showed how excessive carbohydrates causes gout, and how that led my husband (who has gout at 30 b.c. of an immuneoresponsive issue) to cure his gout with low-carbohydrate diet.

Now -- anybody who does "no carb" is making a big mistake. Vegetables, and legumes, etc., are a very critical part of the diet. They provide so much more than carbohydrates, such as fiber and necessary acids.

And sometimes shit just freaks out. Like me, I have "steroid psychosis" type responses to very low levels of non-oral steroids. Sometimes you just have to accept that you're a freaky outlier. Plural of anecodate is not data, sadly, either way.
do people often sell phones?
I really don't think this particular blog post has anything at all to do with being a parent.

That said, being a parent forces you to grow up - but not in the ways you may expect. You can still have fun, be playful, pull pranks, etc. That stuff doesn't have to change if that's who you are. The biggest change, I think, is learning to handle unpleasant events that you cannot control and do not have a choice to ignore. When the baby fills his diaper, you have to change it even if it smells especially bad. When he throws a tantrum, you have to deal with it. When he hurts himself, you have to help him. When he makes mistakes, you have to teach him. The list goes on and on. Many of those things are hard in some way (often due to timing, the interruption, the stress of no sleep, etc) - BUT YOU STILL HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF THEM. Prior to having a child, most people simply avoid or find ways to reduce their involvement in things that might be unpleasant, difficult, undesirable, disruptive, etc. You have no choice when you become a parent but to deal with those situations and you will become better for it.
I fell asleep during the video. Twice.

Thanks for a great solution for insomnia!!
A high score board I can't get on no matter how hard I play or how often or how much I pay or how long I spend playing or how many people I recommend to? A game that I paid for which contains a bit I can't play and never will be able to play because of my social status?

Why not rename the current score board the "untouchables high score board" and have it frequently inaccessible, slow and losing all the scores? And charging non-celebrities extra to cover the shame and embarrassment of dealing with nobodies?
Siftables (sweet electronic blocks) is hiring
1500 years ahead of *our time. It's ridiculous to think that they could not have learned how to make special purpose computing machines.
See intro video here: http://science.discovery.com/videos/popscis-future-of-siftab...

(I do know the guy in the video, but I don't have any financial connection to them at all. I just think they're cool.)
"I shall not place a supply of "Sharpie" permanent markers in any whiteboard trays."

Sharpies are fun. People take the "permanent" label much too seriously. At work we have picture badges, at one point I was drawing mustaches on other peoples badges and watching them freak out.

Alcohol will erase Sharpies as long as the surface is non-porous. (as they say in manuals, try in an inconspicuous place first ;-).

One of my victims ran over to the computer room after I clued him in on the alcohol trick. (This was quite a while ago when we had tape drives and there were squeeze bottles of alcohol laying around for cleaning tape heads.) He grabbed the first bottle, squirted his badge, rubbed it, and nothing happened. Then he sniffed the liquid and realized he had grabbed a bottle of water instead of alcohol. Bonus.