skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely lovely design.....

I understood what it was all about in five seconds - which is all the time you get before a potential customer clicks away.
Apple Form Factor Evolution: 1976 through 2007
Diesels vs. Hybrids: Head to Head
Top ten things to do with your now-defunct HD DVD player
Windshear builds 180MPH "rolling road" wind tunnel for NASCAR [PDF p. 24]
Introducing The Most Advanced News Site On The Planet
Scientists create "Roach Motel" for photons
> the suburbs that provide a balanced business, commercial, and housing ecosystem and have diverse transportation options to the main destinations outside will actually thrive and prosper.

There are only a handful of places that match this description, and they're mostly pre-WWII vintage and right next to cities. Suburbia is overwhelmingly about strict zoning of housing, businesses, and entertainment and the use of highways to shuttle between the zones. This paradigm is breaking.

Suburbia never really worked in the first place. It was built because it made developers and road contractors rich, and they control local politics. At the national level the auto and highway lobby beat the street-car lobby.

Contrary to the claims of this article, there's little evidence people originally preferred the suburban paradigm. People had to move to suburbia in the post-war era because A) big businesses relocated jobs outside cities on sites requiring a car commute (the businesses moved first, not the housing); B) Suburban housing was all that was built. Loads of aging urban housing was simply ripped down and never replaced. The new housing was built in the suburbs. It's easy to spin this change in supply as a simple response to changing demand, but it was really concerted by all levels of the government along with politically connected business interests.

Arguably, there's also a reason C: city governments got too dysfunctional. But it's difficult to distinguish that as cause or correlation relative to A and B.
Does lock-in include FUD? Does FUD include providing the best service?

I worked for a company which was insanely profitable but it had almost no lock-in. However, the boss took it as a personal affront if you didn't have success with the product that he designed. Therefore, it was widely regarded that you'd have most success if you bought from that company.
.net interviews The Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde
Is this the first in a series. Can we vote for who's next?
College at Stanford is now effectively free. So what’s your excuse?
Haha. I love xkcd. Here's another great one in the same vein as the above: http://xkcd.com/378/
Good looking news site. Very nice UI layout. Probably similar to Techmeme auto-news-discovery-ranking guts underneath it.

Makes Techmeme look like the Drudge Report. But the unsexy look of the Drudge Report has its charms. I still like Techmeme. Newspond looks too good maybe.
His hair could use a bigger font.
There's a Lot More to Hash Functions Than They Teach You in School
There is a lot of wishful thinking and very little fact in this article.

For one, only now, after some 2 years of $3 a gallon gas, has fuel economy begun to make itself felt in new car purchasers' decisions; where it is now in third place. It would take a lot more pain at the pump to get people to give up their quarter acre.
Google Gears version 0.2 released
Nmap Guide
The Guide itself doesn’t differ much from the official nmap MAN (actually it is more or less a copy of MAN), other than the fact that it painstakingly shows every single commands by actually performing them and showing how it works, on actual systems.
Still one of the best things about XKCD is the image title text.
In case #1, were you better off before this change?

It is possible to become not-a-dependent through paperwork-fu, also, in which case a student would qualify if they make under $100k (likely).
Yes. My employer's approximately as enthused about it as your girlfriend is, though.
you mean a story like this one?
Rails for PHP Developers
Going back 30 working years (and some of use do), writing your own hash routines was a standard lesson for programmers. Nowadays it is something of a lost art - I am glad to see the pressures of modern large scale systems have revived interest in this area among more than just those responsible for creating runtime frameworks.
Hmm, continuing this thread is just wrong...
From idea to profitable .com in 24 hours
No news. Unless this is the first job posting ever for Erlang devs. But I doubt it. It's time to turn on that editor filter.
Why does something so wrong feel so good?
I can't help feeling that you're only saying this to comfort yourself.
Brain control headset for gamers
Obsolete skills
Maybe I should clarify... I meant that most of the oil income in SA is concentrated in the monarchy. I guess, as another comment pointed out, that oil income is only like 45% of GDP, but I still maintain that national income is much more concentrated in SA than it is in Tennessee, leading to the perception of untold riches of some and the reality of poverty for many. Tennessee doesn't have such concentration of wealth was my point.
The Aggregation Crowd’s High Standards
Well, I am Indian, but currently in the US... :D
I think it is the threads of discussion that help jog/stimulate/kick-start your brain after it stalls on a non-YC related problem...

If you want to cut back (definitely not cold turkey)...
8aweek.com - just started yesterday and I'm shocked at how quickly 30 minutes (of usage) goes... Now they just need an iPhone version (so I don't cheat)
Amen!
"slums seem to need a combination of cheap housing and proximity to unskilled jobs that pay by the hour"

Actually, they need cheap, undesirable housing, and not much else. Slum neighborhoods are more often characterized by their _lack_ of job opportunities, pay-by-the-hour or otherwise. This is one of the things that makes escaping a slum so difficult -- the need to pay to get to any kind of work that enables you to live.
"1. If your parents make 100k+ but don't want to spend it on your education, you're screwed."

With tuition and expenses running 40k+ a year, I think that could put a crimp in the budget of a family making a little more than 100k+.
"I am sure that Stanford has done it's sums and taken into account the net impact of attracting applications from bright students coming from less well of homes."

If you read the article, I think it's clear that Stanford has taken into account U.S. Senators questioning it's tax exempt status when it has a ballooning endowment along with big tuition increases.
Yes good point, you are correct. I poorly worded that comment; thanks for making the distinction.
"However, the suburbs that provide a balanced business, commercial, and housing ecosystem and have diverse transportation options to the main destinations outside will actually thrive and prosper."

Technically, then, it's not a suburb. Depending on population, it's closer to an edge city. The fact is that suburban sprawl like one of the examples specifically decried in the article (Windy Ridge is less that 45 minutes from where I live) consists of acre upon acre of packed chipboard-and-vinyl houses that aren't designed to last without extraordinary upkeep. It's predicated upon the notion of cheap, readily available energy, never-ending road construction, and a continual stream of both upwardly-mobile homebuyers looking to move up to something nicer, and first-time homebuyers looking for something cheap they can sell at a profit in a few years.

It's simply not a sustainable model. Sooner or later the market will bust, and in the interim, there's a good chances these cheap-and-cheery neighborhoods will come apart at the seams. They aren't built worth a damn, and they're miles from critical services and commerce. It's already starting to happen here. I hate to think what'll happen if gas spikes and sticks.

(In the interest of full disclosure: I skipped right over "suburban" to "exurban" living. I have over an acre on the outskirts of a small town about 25 miles from the nearest big city. So I'm happy out here, too. But gas bills are already putting a crimp in my lifestyle, so that might well change.)
I think the whole sticker-shock issue with the price of gas is a chimera. Everyone I know has complained about the price of gas since it passed $1 for the last time in 1999. The price could be 60 cents a gallon and people would complain if they could remember a time when it was only 50 cents. The reason people complain about $3 gas is not because they can't afford it or are unwilling to afford it, it's because they remember paying 79 cents a gallon only 10 years ago. (Like I did with my first car!)

Our current lifestyle means 90% of the gas we buy is an unavoidable cost. If I (living in Lawrence, KS) decided to stop buying gas, or for some financial reason needed to buy less of it, I couldn't get to work, which would definitely make things worse. I also couldn't go buy food, or do much of anything else. People in Manhattan or any European city could probably cut back by using public transport, but that isn't a (realistic) option for me, and I suspect the vast majority of Americans are in a similar situation (if we are anything in Kansas, we are average). I'd be more likely to cut back on food and drop my cell phone than cut back on gas.

The only way to cut gas consumption is a more efficient car... or carpooling. Both are pretty drastic for the average person. Spending $30k to save on gas only makes sense sometimes, and setting up realistic carpooling is harder than paying $3/gallon.

So I bet gas could be $8 a gallon and you wouldn't see (significantly) lower consumption. Like you said, to think people will actually move just to save on gas is far fetched.

I'd move to an urban center just because I like being able to walk/ride everywhere (after living in Madrid)... not because gas is too expensive.
Alternatively, it could have a similar effect to taking a break and going for a walk.
IMO the way you learn how to do 637 * 59 is also important. I don't think this is faster but someone who does this:

637 x 59 = 637 * 60 - 637 =
637 * 60 - 637 = 36000 + 37 * 60 - 637 =
36000 + 40 * 60 - 637 - 3 * 60 =
(36000 + 2400) - ( 637 + 180) =
38,400 - 817 = 38,000 - 420 + 3 =
37,000 + 580 + 3 =
37,583

IMO they are a lot closer to algebra than someone who does:
637 * 5 * 10 + 637 * 9 =
(3000 + 150 + 35) * 10 + (5400 + 270 + 63) =
31850 + 5733 =
57,583

They also know it's around 38k at the second step.
Yes, even in Plato's Laws the speakers remark how being an atheist is a young person thing. CS Lewis was an atheist until around his late twenties.
or

3. If your parents make 100k+, but through financial stupidity, have nothing saved up for your education and no disposable income.

Happened to me. Here is a financial tidbit for anyone out there... don't buy a $40k car every two years. They tend to depreciate severely and leave you with nothing to show for it and a big monthly car payment. </bitter>
By now I have some hopes for StumbleUpon. Maybe they have some nice things in their collection for my granny.
Those must be Business students in that picture. No liberal arts or engineering majors I know (myself included) look that... clean and alert.
Timothy Ferriss to Crowd-Source Next Book Using PBwiki
Gates: the $40 billion is for Yahoo engineers
I like this policy because I imagine it turns the admissions trend away from "Rich Kids" and back to "Smart Kids" ... which is what these Universities want to maintain their cred.
They don't mention how hard it is to find an HD DVD drive for a PC.

Also, why do disks at all? Why not rip and put them on a Mivx? Or can Apple TV play ripped movies in HD? (Mivx can!)
I just tried it, and I love that it starts off with Hacker News on the restricted list :) I guess they know their audience.
These Universities have huge endowments.

Harvard's stands around $35 billion (http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/08.23/99-endowment....). At a conservative 4% draw rate, this could fund 40,000 students per year at $35k/yr tuition, forever. So really, free tuition is chump change for them. Obviously they have a lot of other stuff to support with their endowment, but they only have about 6700 undergrads (http://www.admissionsconsultants.com/college/harvard.asp), so it's not really an issue.
This concept is called "elasticity of demand":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_elasticity_of_demand
"Many of the inner-city neighborhoods that began their decline in the 1960s consisted of sturdily built, turn-of-the-century row houses, tough enough to withstand being broken up into apartments, and requiring relatively little upkeep. By comparison, modern suburban houses, even high-end McMansions, are cheaply built. Hollow doors and wallboard are less durable than solid-oak doors and lath-and-plaster walls. The plywood floors that lurk under wood veneers or carpeting tend to break up and warp as the glue that holds the wood together dries out; asphalt-shingle roofs typically need replacing after 10 years. Many recently built houses take what structural integrity they have from drywall—their thin wooden frames are too flimsy to hold the houses up."

That's progress for you.
Put an example on the front page. Show a site before and after a change, along with the resulting RSS entry. The quality of the diffs will determine whether I want to subscribe.
I'm right there with you. Reading here just gets me in a technical mood to start my day.
What I'm referring to is the bigger picture where DbC has a positive effect on the value and accountability of applications. Imagine taking the traditional desktop software license and trying to use it for a web application - your target audience won't tolerate such a license because all web apps are inherently more mission-critical than desktop apps. In business terms, adherence to DbC represents good faith effort to provide reliable applications.
YOU ARE ALL WRONG... somehow
The Real Truth On December 21, 2012...
I will start off by saying it is NOT a doomsday philosophy. It is simply the culmination of many cycles of time predicted by the Mayans (and several other ancient civilizations). See chart: http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i56/keegan420/MayanConscio...
I didn't see ColdFusion on there. You might want to add it.
Jon Stewart talks about the strike and the Oscars.
Actually, with the coming of broadcast HD, this one is making a comeback:

http://obsoleteskills.com/Skills/AdjustingTheRabbitEarsOnYou...

I've been spending a lot of time moving my antenna around to get HD signals 'cause I'm too cheap to pay for HD cable.
Hadoop Now at the Heart of Every Yahoo Search
I wonder if he will allow the great engineers to use their own software or force a shift into Microsoft technologies.

From pg's Great Hackers:

"What do hackers want? Like all craftsmen, hackers like good tools. In fact, that's an understatement. Good hackers find it unbearable to use bad tools. They'll simply refuse to work on projects with the wrong infrastructure."
An Invitation To Startups And Innovative Software Companies
Why a School Banned Legos
More than a few of these still come in handy in a few less affluent areas. I bet there are plenty of 3rd world areas where people still use oxen or write everything by hand.
Hacker News does bring out my usually quite dormant competitive streak. If I'm not feeling very inspired about anything, all I have to do is read a bunch of stories here and then I quickly feel the need to create something better than all the amazing things I've just read about.
Book recommendation: Sprawl: A Compact History

Read it for a book club a long time ago. Need to find it again.
Go on, Leave Your Job
Homework often gets sent home because parents expect it, not because teachers think it's useful. My wife has tried not assigning any homework at all, or assigning open-ended homework (e.g. read any book you like for at least half an hour). The complaints from parents were overwhelming, and now she's back to assigning busy-work that she feels is useless for anything but keeping parents happy.
They were just looking for an excuse to use Comic Sans.
It could be the case, though. I've certainly had the experience of reading news.yc for a while and becoming eager to work on something, but it sure doesn't work that way for getting routine non-startup work done.
The Tiniest Lisp (in Python)
Where's the map stolen from? We can switch the link to the original source.
Click on any link on the page, then click the back button. You'll always be put at the top of the page.

Good thing that building good web sites is not on the list.
How many times does one take a break and go for a walk, per day?

Also, being here is nothing like taking a walk. More like chatting at the office water cooler.
A very insightful ebook of longboarding from a 9 time British Champion pro.
I like the idea. I think its a good thing to track sites you are interested. (other than blogs for which i would use feeds)

I wanted to set it up for our own startup - I entered http://www.reviewgist.com

Threw an error - glitch ?

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'TException' with message 'TSocket: Could not connect to localhost:9091 (Connection refused [111])' in /var/changefeed/thrift/thrift-php/src/transport/TSocket.php:182 Stack trace: #0 /var/changefeed/thrift/thrift-php/src/transport/TBufferedTransport.php(73): TSocket->open() #1 /var/changefeed/www/incl/conf.php(31): TBufferedTransport->open() #2 /var/changefeed/www/pub/new.php(5): diffConnect() #3 {main} thrown in /var/changefeed/thrift/thrift-php/src/transport/TSocket.php on line 18
Correction - Of course I would set it up to track competitor sites but I was just trying our own site as a trial.
Assuming you'd be expected to pay full tuition and board, which you surely would not.
not at all, not unless u count to the bathroom
It would be interesting to redo the map using GDP per square mile, or GDP per capita. For instance Georgia has the equivalent GDP of Switzerland, but it is much larger than Switzerland, geographically speaking. On the other hand, New Jersey has the same GDP as Russia, but is a fraction of the size, both geographically and in population.
37signals Releases Backpack Financial Numbers
Dammit! Last week I was looking at the "created" date in my profile and was thinking that if I posted this before anyone else that it would make some great karma. PG beat me too it... Next year though... ;)
Here's the data:

countries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)

us states: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP_(nominal)

It doesn't seem extremely inaccurate. I'd compare California with Italy, not France, and Texas with Brazil, not Canada. And Russia's economy is more New York than New Jersey.
Thank you parent poster. This was the other part I wanted to cover in my post above but didn't think I could find hard data for. It seems like the contracting business has attracted large amounts of ethically-challenged scum, who are building houses that aren't likely to last as long as the mortgages paying for them. It kind of explains why new-home starts have seemed to be recession-proof in the last decade -- Say's Law lives in a very real sense here -- but at the same time it's hard to build stable neighborhoods around disposable homes.
I don't know what is the original source... http://www.google.com/search?q=US+States+Renamed+For+Countri... I may have been too fast to judge that it isn't the original, because it's very popular and being just another blog didn't seem extremely accurate... I can't edit that out now anyway.
escapefromcubiclenation.com?

I never really cared for the concept of starting a business in order to MOVE AWAY from something you don't like.

I always thought that you geometrically increase your chances for success by MOVING TOWARD what you really want.
Against Polish
Shouldn't you have been _more_ worried to know that a country with thousands of nukes was also relatively poor?
syphalis
Depends where you work. This was one of the more alarming things about getting bought by Yahoo. When Viaweb was in Harvard Square we used to leave the office 2-4 times a day. When we moved to Yahoo, which was in the middle of nowhere, we never left.
I find this site is much more valuable for perspective and inspiration than productivity.

Sure, you're not on Fark or Hot or Not, but I'll second gms and say you may be rationalizing a bit here.
Is this exactly like http://www.rsspect.com/ ?
If you can get a good signal, never get HD cable, unless you NEED Discovery HD or HBO HD. The over-the-air signal is much less compressed than HD cable. If you're an A/V geek, you can really notice the difference in the macroblocking.
The perfect circle - Giotto's O and how to prove your craftsmanship
VCR Programming. I guess it's official; time to get a TIVO.
Sorry; fixed.
The justin.tv office has an accessible roof, which was where I went for walks probably 3 or 4 times a day when it was warm outside.
I know a couple artsy folk... just spammed your site to them. Good luck!
2-4 is still probably less than the number of times people visit this site. It's my mistake for not being more clear about this, but I also feel it's less harmful to go out than to visit here. At least going out constitutes a concrete block of time, leaving you with a big block of time to get work done when you get back. On the other hand, many small visits to this site only serve as interruptions to your flow, never allowing you to have a big block of time for work.
Plug-in Extensibility Through Reflection in .Net and Java
Get back to work Drew!
It makes logical sense that time spent on news.yc would somehow correlate with time spent working, since there is a limited amount of time in the day. In practice though I doubt there is much (if any) relation between the two. Either you're in the mood to get work done or you're not. In 95% of cases time spent on news.yc is probably replacing other non-work activities.
I usually take a bath instead of going for a walk. Sometimes a couple a day. Then a few minutes after I get in I have some idea, or work out how to solve something, so have to get out again to do it...
Firefox Will Use Memory Allocator From FreeBSD
Reminds me a bit of this:

http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/brian/brian-07.htm
Having just completed a ColdFusion-to-J2EE conversion project, ColdFusion skills aren't quite obsolete yet. But I have brought it one step closer to the grave.
SQL Sentences
How Can I Monetize This? (comic)
A friend once remarked to me that one of his 'cures for procrastination' is to do something only mildly distracting, and mildly amusing, after sitting down to work and both taking on any big problems. He says it takes some time to get settled, but he needs to feel a sort of mental presence of a problem before he can really tackle it.

Perhaps the right type of break is the same way: perhaps it lets you cool it and evaluate your issues before tackling them, instead of following the path of least resistance.
Exception Handling in Software Development
Oh I just left a job writing CF last fall... it still exists... but I have extra impetus to bash it.
Right but it seems like someone needing a pro subscription would be the type to write their own anyway. Nevermind :)
Yet another banner exchange... I guess it's a niche.
I hope you are who I think you are, because if not, that is creepy as hell.
It's a great book - outdated for sure, but I learned a lot just reading how he approached the problems.

A nice throwback to when CPUs were simpler/more deterministic with respect to optimization.
If you don't live in the US, people will think you are crazy for leaving your job. They will just assume that your business will fail and you are just wasting your time. Essentially, they will view you as unemployed and feel sorry for you.
Traveler IQ Challenge (Addictive Flash Geography Game)
Hilarious.

If you actually want to help monetize the joyoftech comic, submit this url to http://tipjoy.com

http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1072.html
Many people will think you are crazy even if you live in the US. That's why it was cool to go to Startup School last year. People actually encouraged me to quit my job there :).
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