skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems that Googles' testing of Buzz reflects the reason they even created it.

They didn't create Buzz for us, the users. We have Facebook and Twitter and FriendFeed and a billion other ways to share data. They created it for themselves- they need realtime data for their search results.

To me, the lack of testing with users shows that they are doing it almost purely for their own benefit.

Small tangent: I watched a video a few years ago about how Facebook is the new search engine. I thought that was going too far- who would replace Google with Facebook? However, it certainly seems to be becoming true- we turn to our social circle rather than our search engines for trusted results these days. Their purchase of Aardvark seems to recognize this, as well.
Ah, my mistake. I've seen nothing "conclusive" on that, and I'd highly suspect that the majority of it is just through reasoning.

Slim / average (not anorexic, not overweight) is indicative of health, which is indicative of both healthy babies and a more careful lifestyle, thus more likely a better mother (biologically! not implying deeper connection here).

Meanwhile, wider hips imply a wider birth canal. Combine the two, and you get the hourglass figure, and a relatively arbitrary (/ personal) choice to use 0.7 instead of, say, the golden ratio. (or e/pi, or any other ratio)
Public workers feel no pain in recession
The headline is a bit misleading. This really has nothing to do with "stress testing" (i.e. seeing how much it can take before it fails)
good points; I am thinking on how to simplify and better present this concept. Thanks for the comment!
America's enlightened treatment of bankrupt firms remains a model to the world
that is true; I guess my assumption is that everyone know what it is. I am thinking about explaining it visually, instead all those wordings. Thanks again!
That might be the iPad after 5 years, when they gradually get it to be thinner and thinner.
The title makes this article seem like one of those "good work psychologists, that was obvious to us already" results, but it's actually much more interesting than that.
Nice article.

Some microSD cards are (so the article says) driven by little ARM uCs. That suggests hacking opportunities: on-the-fly encryption, hidden partitions, ... -- if the firmware can be tampered with.
Well, maybe we can get Paul to integrate it into Hacker News :)
Chic and Sensual Suede Lingerie
Renaming VC Office Hours
All competitors do as you say - take the credit card info and store it. Only if price reaches the threshold, then they are charged. I believe a different approach should be tested against, as the resistance to making a commitment is lower.

The assumption is that if the price gets discounted at all, that becomes the best offer online.
If the reader doesn't know basic CSS - a definite possibility, remember - then this is concise and programmer-friendly.

If the reader does know CSS, then they're probably asked "can you make this for me?" by everyone and their extended family, and this is concise and has immediate, clear examples to make it newbie-friendly. I wouldn't dare throw a big CSS book at a non-programmer new to CSS.
From homebrewcpu.com: "Except when I'm working on it, Magic-1 is connected to the net. It serves web pages at http://www.magic-1.org

magic-1.org is a noticeably slow website. (Not complaining or being a jerk, just observing. It's all very cool)
Sounds cool. I'd like to see django start to support composite primary keys in the future.
Good advice, will change that. Thanks again for the advice!
Reminded me of the quote by Seneca: "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity"
Here's the original context of that picture with the mountain:

http://xkcd.com/77/
There was a discussion about living on a boat earlier on HN that you might find interesting: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=565077
T-Mobile webConnect Rocket 21 Mbps HSPA+ connection test
Google is Not draining the pool, you've got to really want it.
Central Falls Rhode Island Fires Every High School Teacher
Statistically speaking, no one in the climate change debate has read the IPCC reports and journal articles at issue. This is far from ideal, but totally understandable if you've ever taken a look at the damn things.

People are obviously interested, though, and I can't believe anyone (again, statistically speaking) actually thinks it's better for the debate to be limited to purely symbolic posturing over cherry-picked details.

How hard could it be to write some software to (nucleate a community to) track what's disputed and what's not, how much variance of opinion there is, etc?
The last mortal generation - our parents or us?
As google gathers more and more of our information these types of blunders will get worse and worse. I think even a beta user would not want to have personal data exposed. Privacy features cannot be released in beta when it comes to a company like google.
Steve Blank: Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost (companion book to 4 steps)
Yeah word of advice kiddies don't try that trick unless you can land other ones. It's a good point that you need the guts but you also need the planning and skill. He practiced in his mind and watched video's.
Strange that the HN duplicate-checker missed this one. The urls look the same to me.

otoh, I found it an interesting read and missed it the first time around so I'm glad it made it to the front page today.
Not aboard, but abroad - two of us split an apartment for $600 in a decent location in Beijing (near Beijing's central business district and a 10-min walk from a subway station). I think $300 / month is probably affordable for most techies who can telecommute (or for techies obsessed with saving money).

I've also got 2 friends who split a 2-bedroom here that they rent for $500 / month. And you can get much cheaper if you're willing to live further on the outskirts of town (having grown up in rural America, I actually find the outskirts very peaceful and pleasant compared to the crowdedness of downtown, but I run a physical store here, so the commute would be painful).

Plus, tasty and cheap noodles everywhere!
Well, you could define luck as "percieved luck" - after all, what else is there? It doesn't really make sense for me to state that someone else is lucky.
Of course, one of the first things they did was add a prominent "Send your feedback to Google!" link so customers could tell them exactly what they liked and disliked about the service.

Right?
The theory I'm believing more and more (and it accounts for the million-dollar athlete salaries) is personal impact.

If you are a high school teacher, even if you are very good, you can probably have a direct impact on only about fifty students a year.

If you are a coder for a company, you should get paid based on your impact on products that your company sells. This might be why startups can be more lucrative - less employees, more ownership, more revenue per employee.

Wheras, if you are a Major League baseball player, you have a indirect impact on your team's box office revenue (direct if you are top tier like A-Rod), thousands of impressionable kids, thousands of aspiring ball players who are no longer kids, etc. The standard rule for endorsement contracts is 3x - as in the company expects to bring in 3x whatever they are paying their endorser.

Makes me wonder if a true monetizable distance learning solution would allow for teachers to be paid more based on their audience and impact. But teaching via distance technology is still an imperfect medium.
This is off-topic, but does your mother teach math?

Edit: yes, I believe that is indeed you, patso. I'm Daniel Higginbotham. Neat app. I like the user interface. The "loading" bar is neat.

The icons (notes, price tag/star, calendar) look clickable to me but it seems like they're not.
A Look at a Stealth Startup from Napster Founder and Facebook Exec
You raise interesting points. I disagree on keeping metrics secret though. Keeping the value system for evaluating people's performance and the wealth they create secret, only leads to subjective standards and gives the keeper of the secret far too much power. To the contrary, I think that only metrics as known and objective as monetary value can ever be useful, as otherwise lots of productivity would be wasted in pursuit of the wrong (secret) metrics.

It may be true that at any given point in time, there may be some wrongfully inflated monetary high scores. I think they always get detected over time, though. Are there any wrongfully inflated high scores over the course of time? I think not, as there is wealth to be created in detecting the frauds. Ultimately, I think, over time there are not as much incentives to manipulate information in order to wrongfully inflate your wealth as there are to produce sustainable wealth.
Software updates using binary patching
Good article, but I'd add 'make sure your amount raised matches your market type.' If you do a large round, there's a whole lot of pressure to spend that large round.
Lately, Stack Overflow has been a mixed blessing.

How it goes: I post a question(questions are rather specific, but technology stack is very common on SO)

I usually get one-two answers very quickly and maybe one more slightly delayed answer, all helpful but also rather generic. You definitely get the impression people are just point whoring.

After a day or two I end up accepting the closest answer, even if it is not that close.

Seems real experts have moved on or perhaps I am missing some trick in asking questions.

If this problem persists on their scaled out sites, I am not sure how much VC money will help them.
I love seeing older articles on HN. There are plenty of places to find the latest and "greatest" breaking news (tputh, reddit, digg, slashdot, etc.) but really appreciate Hacker News members' perspective on stories that have been around for some time.
How do you trap a programmer in the shower?
The people who build the cutting edge stuff have to understand the basics really really well. How do you propose they go about getting that experience?
Though it could be used to enhance search results (and I wouldn't doubt they do this), I doubt that's the main reason. This could be extremely useful for any business email account, to share a central system with everyone in the office / business / etc, just like Wave but less all-or-nothing.
How to Raise Racist Kids
Not to contradict your statement, but this is an often misinterpreted letter. If you read the letter in its entirety, it is very clear that Landsea is talking about the very specific issue of hurricanes and global warming. He mentions global warming several times and never once questions the reality of global warming. It certainly seems to me like he's just taking global warming as a given. The reason he gives for resigning is:

"My view is that when people identify themselves as being associated with the IPCC and then make pronouncements
far outside current scientific understandings that this will harm the credibility of climate change science and will in the longer term diminish our role in public policy."

In other words, he thinks global warming science should influence policy debate. In this instance, he feels the IPCC made a statement it shouldn't have, and it will hinder future efforts to affect policy.
All we have to do is to convince the Gnome Foundation. Or the KDE folks.

But would we have to use Spice Girls (is it?) music to go with that?
I live on a boat in the Copenhagen harbor, nad have done so for the last five years. Here are a few answers:

- My experience is that the humidity isn't as bad as it's made out to be. Make sure it's properly heated in the winter, and if you can fit it in get a wood stove. That'll take care of all humidity problems. I've never had any problems with food, clothes, etc.

- I don't know about mooring prices in the US (or anywhere else for that matter) but my experience from Copenhagen is that if you can get into one of the smaller harbours that aren't as high-end and have a bit of fishing and other maritime business it's going to be a lot cheaper. Besides it's more fun! I pay around $1000 a year for mooring and access to water and electricity.

- I pay $900 a year in insurance. Again this is Denmark and I have no idea about US prices.

- Power is supplied by the harbour, and I've never had any problems. It seems as reliable as anywhere else. But living on a boat you want a generator, a converter and a good battery bank anyway for when your anchoring somewhere :-)

You (and anyone else) are welcome to send me a mail if you have questions. It's in my profile.

Since a lot of people, bot here and other places, have asked about living on a boat me and two other guys have just recently started a blog about this. It's currently located here: http://cbb.sjovedyr.net/ I'd love any feedback you have.

It'll be available from www.copenhagenboatbums.dk in the near future, I'll put it in my profile when it's moved.

Edit: The boat in the linked video does seem a bit shoddy, it can be done much better than that :-)
Or you could just find a way to poison yourself using carbon monoxide. (Like burning charcoal within a confined space.)

Easy, effective, and clean.
Funny how a lesser villain can look like a hero...
The word "fault" implies that there is a problem that needs fixing.

The Perl community has a decade of history and over 800,000 posts of history invested in http://www.perlmonks.org/. Granted the site is creaking and could use a better design, but someone with a Perl question is likely still better off going there than to StackOverFlow.
just a small correction, he didn't just ban that blog entry, he banned the entire domain.
Bill Gates is officially redeemed from presentation purgatory
Practicing in his mind is actually the most important thing he did to land it.

I watched a documentary on TV a long time ago that said that Olympic divers will typically spend several days rehearsing a dive they've never done before in their head before attempting it. Only when they feel confident that they've got every motion clearly set in their head do they try it.

There was a scientist who was doing I think fMRI tests on one of the divers as he was "practicing" and the scientist said that most likely when the dive is actually being executed (the diver didn't have that head-bowl thing on when he was actually diving obviously), the same neural pathways are used. What the diver was doing when imagining the jump over and over was reinforcing the same pathway over and over. That's what allowed him to execute the dive perfectly on the "first" try.

The same effect comes into play in a breakup after a long relationship. The reason you feel so depressed and so physically bad in an unexpected breakup is that you've been reinforcing one specific pathway every day for years so if it's suddenly cut off the brain doesn't handle that well at all.
Twilio took my money quite happily, and I'm in Canada. Probably depends on who provides their merchant stack.
As part of the computer science/engineering program I went to at university, we had courses spanning the entire stack. Intro courses were in Scheme and C, and later courses went on to higher-level OO and relational databases and other paradigms. But we also had a short course in analogue electronics, followed by one in digital electronics, both of which were extremely hands-on, requiring us to construct simple circuits in the analogue course, but eventually progressing up to making our own simple CPU in the digital one, including making the microcode for it, and programming it in our own machine code.

That was a real eye-opening moment for me when I realized I had actually been all over the stack and had some sort of understanding of how a high-level program gets compiled and executed and what actually happens at the lowest level, and that that was useful for understanding the high level better.
I suspect that the work required to keep the boat afloat would eat any potential savings. Also, most boats are tiny.

What about renting in a "mobile" home park? (I put mobile in quotes, as most of those things are clearly not going anywhere) Sure, it's not as glamorous as living on a boat, but where I am near sunnyvale there are several mobile home parks nearby, all mostly hidden from street view. Most of them look pretty nice, I mean, as far as such things go, and the rent is cheap. (personally, I don't know I'd want to /buy/ a mobile home; around here, usually you still need to rent the land.)
Side effects of developing for yourself
Old. The other ones aren't that funny. ("Hurrrr JAVA has teh documentations!!111" is probably more hilarious than anything there. And I don't think I need to say, that's not very hilarious.)
It does seem like the register spun this fairly hard. Especially in the first half where they talk about the data as if it disagreed with the IPCC and then points out that the IPCC agrees with that assessment.
I love Google products (can tell you how much I rely on them) but I'm afraid that I have already given up using this due to the way it was so carelessly rolled out. Without going into too much detail I have found that it has damaged some of the relationships between myself and some friends and extended family. They defiantly missed a few use cases in their analysis.

I can't figure out why Google didn't roll out Wave using this method and set something like Buzz as a opt-in.
Anyone who wants to try to create a new market (as opposed to get into an existing one) should read The Innovator's Solution. I say this because of the excellent chapters explaining all of the ways in which over-investment can kill a startup in a small market which is likely to have a big future potential. (The preceding book The Innovator's Dilemma is also interesting, but doesn't provide any discussion of this dynamic.)

The key phrase that sums it up is, Good money is impatient for profit and patient for growth. Bad money is impatient for growth and patient for profit. Unless your company is sized small enough to find and be interested in whatever existing market can be found, you won't be in a position to grow with that market with the right cost structure to take advantage when the market opportunity grows.
Agreed. If I was "in charge" I would spin off java into something like the Mozilla foundation. It could be supported equally by Oracle, IBM and others who build product on the technology.
I could have done without the javascript evangelizing (not that I don't love js too) - it would have been relatively easy to cover flex charts, http://flare.prefuse.org/ etc. and just make it a visualization article
You mean detain people for crimes they haven't yet committed? I thought you just needed to join the US goverment to do that...
How 3-D works: A simple picture guide
DHH explicitly said they didn't receive operational cash from Bezos in his interview with Steve Blank's class. They took the money to get tight with Bezos and to trade some equity for risk mitigation.
Well, there was that SNL skit about the Sodom city council plotting how to compete with the more successful Gomorrah. Sorry, can't find it on YouTube but here's a .RAM file:

http://cip.law.ucla.edu/ramfiles/i_love_sodom.ram

(Bill Murray develops a pitch for "I Love Sodom", a riff on "I Love New York", leading to a real-life lawsuit. SNL won.)
[Discussion] Subversion and Git - Share your views
Could the TSA detect these disguised weapons?
Everything I Need to Know About Winter I Learned From SciFi Movies
Sex@MIT: The Survey
The article points out that people used to think that nonsense jokes were more sophisticated and philosophical than classic, resolvable humor, while the research being reported on indicates that the opposite is true. Which leads me to wonder who used to think that. Because it is obvious to me looking at my son's attempts to tell jokes that nonsense jokes are something kids figure out (and respond to) at a younger age than classic, resolvable humor.
I think it's pretty neat. Very simple interface that tells you pretty much exactly what it's going to do.
Dan! Strange meeting on HN! Hope all is going well with you.

The icons aren't clickable but the text underneath click through to the review page. I'll see about making that entire area clickable to keep people from being confused.
I would argue that the MAJORITY of the people in this world spend the majority of their time acquiring money either to survive or to provide and thought about whether or not they enjoy or love what they do is secondary. I think the demographic of HN is skewed towards people who enjoy what they do (ie hacking and coding) but most people are not hackers, they are your construction workers, waiters, factory workers, laborers, etc.
In Soviet Russia, Valley builds you.
Recommendations?
What about using the word "subscribe" instead of "follow" in the user interface? Would that help somewhat in terms of privacy worries?

Nobody wants to be followed around, but people subscribing to your posts sounds great.
A pause/play button would be nice.
Whoever did the slides did a great job.
I'm shocked, shocked I say! A show about an intellectual hippie who refuses to carry guns and regularly overthrows authorities is liberal?

Sorry for the snark, but I don't really see it as that surprising that Doctor Who has an explicitly liberal message when it's main character is The Doctor. He's a textbook left-wing radical - dude blew up an arms factory to grow a banana orchard, ran away from the Time Lord Presidency, was jailed (exiled to Earth as the 3rd Doctor) for violating Time Lord laws to help the less fortunate, and ultimately chose to die rather than kill (9th Doctor, "The Parting of the Ways").
There's hardware solution here:

http://www.iposture.com/ip_howitworks.php
I just wanted to put something together and didn't have a lot of time. It's something you are supposed to visit once and then move on :-)

It is true that it relys on quotes, but I didn't see that as consuming so much as combining, like using lego bricks to build something.

Thanks for looking!
Yeah. I mean, if you want to trap a Java engineer in the shower, you tell him that he first needs to write a DoorOpeningStrategyFactoryLocatorServiceFactory.

(You might think I'm joking. Want my job?)
Great article. This is exactly the sort of thing I want to see on HN, but of course it's buried on the second page, unlikely to ever be seen by many. Sad.
While the article tells an interesting story and supports that climate change is happening, the stone-throwing title suggests that something is wrong with the idea of climate change. Very counterproductive.
Always happy to integrate ideas. What do you mean by #2, I'm not following. Do you mean you can change the color of the marks/words?
Very interesting stuff. I wonder how they would explain the fact that most people seem to dislike verbal puns. Being one of those people who enjoy them, I never really understood other people's dislike for them and it keeps puzzling me.
it is still possible for a home cook to create something that's better than commercially available food

I’d go so far as to say it’s likely
Why would you want a java engineer to be trapped. The world would stop working without them
You can pause by clicking anywhere on the track name (except the links to the review). I guess that might not be obvious though...
I read this in The Times this morning (made it it into the print copy), and was surprised/pleased to see a HNer make it in).

Also relieved that the usually self-promotional jgrahamc didn't post the link here himself.
The Content Problem (and some RSS ideas)
Truly - this is more neuroscience than pop psychology.
Sounds like a good idea for an Onion article :-)
I was more like, - "You mean like, short?"
An economist predicts the medal counts for the Vancouver Olympics
great domain.

doesn't work so well with chrome and flashblock, can't find the flash element to unblock.
I believe that the first joke is from a story attributed to Grace Hopper, who lead the development of COBOL. So it should really be about COBOL programmers, not Scheme programmers.

If someone was deliberately making one up about Scheme programmers it would probably involve parentheses.