skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone know if it works through Maps on Android 1.6? I just got the update on my G1 and posted an update through Maps, but it doesn't seem to show up on the Buzz layer.
"$99 is a drop in the bucket for most weddings"

Sad but true.
Perhaps if you invest with other angels, you can increase the odds. You and joshu you should start the Hacker News SUPER MEGA ANGEL Fund. :-)

I don't think there's anything wrong with keeping potential exits in mind, however it seems that most startups change the idea they're building over time, so betting on the team (pg style, and from what I know Ron does this too) rather than the idea or potential market/future acquisition might still work out better.

All that being said, I'm not sure how you would maximize returns, especially because of all the unpredictability.
What did Microsoft ever give away to sell more Windows? (Serious question.)
Thankfully in academia things are very relaxed. I just thought of a friend who has this problem and then I realised I know at least 2-3 people in office jobs who have similar issues. I'm in the UK btw.
My thoughts exactly. They could have almost introduced as a new feature instead of a new product, like how they've been adding more integrated support for YouTube sharing in GChat and Mail.

A lot of this was elegantly* evolutionary, but it's nice to see them put a name and publicity push behind it.

*In the non-mathematical sense.
These guys need to find a better Industrial Designer.
I agree. It's a great thing for those companies.

My point is that they have so many resources and so much raw computing power on the line that almost by accident they can burn to rubble dozens of different business models.

Overall some consolidation is probably a good thing, but I am continuously reminded of WalMart. WalMart perfected retail sales in much the same way as Google is perfecting rich internet applications. WalMart was able to deliver products cheaper than anybody else. Google in many cases just gives stuff away. WalMart drove out lots of small shops. Google seems to be doing the same. WalMart had a goal of dominating the market. Google wants to store every piece of data on the planet.

I'm perfectly happy shopping at WalMart -- they do a great job of providing me stuff at the best prices I can find. I'm not so convinced that I am as happy getting all of my internet data from Google. I'm NOT saying they're some kind of evil empire, just I'm beginning to feel more and more uncomfortable about them. It looks like whatever is the flavor of the week there's Google out there peddling their version of it.
Coroutines are just one-off continuations (ie you can only run them once).
6 Essential Startup Decks
Good list of startup pitches, methods and tools
Lose_Belly_Fat_Exercise_For_Beginners
Whether or not Neato understands the problem, Roomba doesn't solve it (i.e. my floor isn't clean, automatically).

If Neato can come up with something that does clean the floor, regardless of tech/cost/whatever it surely has a chance to be successful.

The marketing via Singularity Hub blog posts is likely to be more geek/tech focused than any general consumer push they might do, too.
The painful state of fonts with OpenGL(ES)
> this is just legislative grandstanding

Wouldn't it be nice if whenever politicians did that, $1000 was docked from their wages? It'll never happen, of course.
I don't agree - I try to do security patches every few days, and major upgrades when I have time to test them. The hard part is keeping tabs on what servers need them. I have 7 or 8 vm's and when they're not involved in a project they're easy to forget about.
Now who in here will be the first to develop a slick dedicated Windows desktop sidebar client for this, or an Outlook plugin?

If it was a Microsoft product, it would probably run right on the desktop in a sidebar. Then they would have a developers conference for it in Las Vegas with a free brunch too. [A different promotional stratagy than Google].
This is the diet that humans evolved on, whole grains, fresh vegetables, fruits, and lean meats.

I don't think that humans could evolve on whole grains because these only became available with the invention of agriculture sometime between 10 and 20 K years ago.

Also, some studies link the spread of agriculture to the huge drop in human health. That's why I personally removed all grains from my diet completely.

As for the rest of the post, I completely agree.

Edit: found a couple of links

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2009/03/paleopathology...
http://www.environnement.ens.fr/perso/claessen/agriculture/m...
Microsoft slams Google Buzz
In C# this is called extension methods: monkey-patching (for methods) without polluting the global scope.
Hmm, it doesn't seem able to find the old-style EFF blue ribbons much of anywhere, even though I know they're still up in a lot of places: http://www.tineye.com/search/8a8b9792d6d6056dec92d993595e6d9...
I'm pretty sure you don't remember using web-based maps before Google Maps. They had no AJAX.

Perhaps you attach some other meaning to "clone" than an exact genetic duplicate, indistinguishable from the original except for gestational differences?
"archive for Feb 9 is 10 minutes of some guy with super-short hair looking into the camera and drinking from a cup... with wacky indian-ish background music"

Yeah, that's exactly what was on the channel post-interview. "Some guy" is actually Andrew Warner, though.
It is sad. With how some weddings are you could probably get away with selling them a $1200 iMac with this preinstalled and configured and people wouldn't even notice the price.
Signed and Permanent Cookies in Rails 3
Im going from La Jolla... I am new here so does that count as North County?
A Piazza in a McDonald's Parking Lot
At least for now, going to

http://www.justin.tv/mixergy/archive#

clicking on 'watch my last broadcast' will bring up the talk.
Broke my wrist a week ago. I'm using one-handed Dvorak. Probably goo enough but slow learning. Thinking my wrist will be fine by the time I learn it. ;) Also use Windows sticky keys. If you don't already, now is a good time for using hotkeys and snippets / bundles
Unless I missed it, this page doesn't actually contain a description of how to invert the BWT. Fortunately, Wikipedia has a fairly decent description:

The inverse can be understood this way. Take the final table in the BWT algorithm, and erase all but the last column. Given only this information, you can easily reconstruct the first column. The last column tells you all the characters in the text, so just sort these characters to get the first column. Then, the first and last columns together give you all pairs of successive characters in the document, where pairs are taken cyclically so that the last and first character form a pair. Sorting the list of pairs gives the first and second columns. Continuing in this manner, you can reconstruct the entire list. Then, the row with the "end of file" character at the end is the original text.
I started off with HostGator's shared service. I started going over their limits years ago (mostly CPU, IO, memory, and execution time). The execution time was a real kicker for me - they have reapers that go around looking for processes that have been running for more than 120 seconds, and kill them. So if you have a large MySQL database that you're trying to back up, good luck... At any rate, I'm not saying their policy was unreasonable - it was just a dealbreaker for me.

At that point, I looked around for another host. I was impressed with MediaTemple's managed VPS offerings, as they had 3 levels of 'scaling' (for $50/100/150). Over the past 8 months, I've had major IO issues. Oddly, my IO issues have little correlation with my traffic patterns, so I suspect that I'm on a heavily loaded server - though they state that they see nothing but normal disk/CPU/etc utilization. That may be true, but I'm moving on.

In the end, I decided that Linode offers a level of granularity that was not matched by MediaTemple. At Linode, they expect that you may well want to separate your production server from your MySQL server from your dev server, and their backend is built with multi-server management in mind. I've set up separate MySQL and PHP servers so far, and things have been going very well. This will allow me to scale each in proportion to its needs, instead of having to scale a monolithic server instance.

For just a blog, do you want to mess around with the shell? If so, Linode or similar (SliceHost?) might be good for you. They start off small ($20/month for the cheapest), and they allow you to upgrade in small chunks.

If you don't want to deal with shell, I find HostGator to be quite reasonable, and they are extremely cheap. I still host a bunch of personal sites with them.
It's common enough that Gmail has a feature to allow blocking the chat feature and not all Gmail. http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe...
Oh, not having a military may be of advantage. (I am officially recognized as a conscious objector to military service in my home country.)

But I prefer to defer judgement.

Anyway, I do not like discriminating against people based on their sexual preferences (or identities).
Rankmaniac 2010: Part Game, Part Information Collection (GWAP)
A group of us Caltech students created a machine learning project/game using the IMDB tag set. We collect information on users guesses/actions in order to extract information. We have some ideas, but we're also looking for some suggestions on what we should do with the data.
Shameless self promotion:

I started a blog to deal with some applications (it only has one essay so far (on consciousness) though): http://wsessays.blogspot.com/
I believe you should be careful about pronouns. The "we" in "we'd want" must mean "the people of Texas", and when considered like that, isn't true. Polls show Texans overwhelmingly in favor of the death penalty, even when we (as in all of the US citizens) know that panalty is applied very unequally along racial and economic class lines.
I built SliceApp.com to solve this problem.

Spent the past couple week reworking it.
It will work with Slicehost, Linode, Rackspace Cloud...anything running Ubuntu accessible via SSH.

Actively working on it and open to suggestions on what would make it better.
With time, sure. But even the first few years, I'd expect most people would feel bad about it. I don't see any cultural influence in that. It's how we work.
I love the idea. You people might want to talk to wedding photographers or planners to promote this idea.
I think so too. Patrick Collison and I and likely many others have ideas for an open source Mathematica competitor in idea stages and design, and in the back of our minds. But it's a herculean task. Maybe one day we will get to it.
Unless they go on to have a meaningful life, why is helping them meaningful? I don't mean to be argumentative, I'm just curious.
In Defence of Apple's Closed Nature
Consulting is a pie-eating contest where the reward is more pie. If you're good, you get just enough work to keep you from doing something else. I know I'm not alone here.
Doing the Math on Coupons
Start your idea (or your little company) with your wife as an owner/founder. It'll be like if she's the one that built it (make it seem so). If the idea takes off, leave the company and work full-time on yours. Any way, it's your wife idea/company/product, so no legal issues about it. Until your idea become successful your company/friends won't know about it (just don't talk about it and they won't know). If it gets successful and you get fired, it doesn't matter, since they can't sue you :)

Note: You should trust your wife well for that solution, or it'll work against you when it takes off (without a job + without your startup).
By Stimulating Stem Cells, Bioactive Nanogel Regenerates Cartilage in Joints
This is a good call. My buddy had me put together a system like this for his wedding a few months ago. I was shocked that it didn't already exist.
I think this is basically location aware microblogging. This might be pretty disruptive in the space with the integration and the ease of use. Also, auto discovery is done pretty well.
I'm Indian, I'm ashamed at this, but can confirm that people give way too much importance to caste in India. Things are changing, but mostly in cities, and at "not enough" pace. Politics is rife with religion/caste/racism etc, because that is the easiest/fastest way for any politician to get votes.

The saddest part is, many highly educated/intelligent (I am talking about Masters/PHds/Ivy league educated) people get hung up on religion/caste.
States with applicable statutes (that I know of):

* California Cal. Lab. Code 2870-72 - http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=lab&group=02001-03000&file=2870-2872
* Delaware Del. Code Ann. tit. 19 805 - http://delcode.delaware.gov/title19/c008/index.shtml
* Illinois 765 Ill. Comp. Stat 1060/2 - http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ActID=2238&ChapAct=765%26nbsp%3BILCS%26nbsp%3B1060%2F&ChapterID=62&ChapterName=PROPERTY&ActName=Employee+Patent+Act.
* Kansas Kan. Stat. Ann. 44-1306 - http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-statutes/getStatuteFile.do?number=/44-130.html
* Minnesota Minn. Stat. 181.78 - https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/getpub.php?pubtype=STAT_CHAP_SEC&year=2006&section=181.78
* NorthCarolina N.C. Gen. Stat. 66-57.1-.2 - http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/ByArticle/Chapter_66/Article_10A.html
* Washington Wash. Rev. Code Ann. 49.44.140, .150 - http://apps.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=49.44.140
Brizzly cloned?

I find that the Buzz interface is highly similar to Brizzly which was similar to Gmail developed by ex-Googlers working on Gmail/Google Reader. Its like all deja vu. O God I'm so buzzed out!
Totally @ Enterprise. Horrible horrible stuff that, but really, there's some great technology in the JVM, and built in libs.

And the Java language is a pretty sane general purpose language. It's fairly easy to spot all the crap and avoid it.
Chris Pund on his life as an entrepreneur
There's more to a computer that you can use than a beefy processor.

I'm not sure you could classify most people as non-content producers. A student that writes a paper needs a keyboard. An executive needs a keyboard and mouse to create presentation.

Even more, I suspect our society is generating more, not less, content producer jobs and these content producers will want to be able to work at home.
Would you consider Linux a successful open source project? I imagine the greatest impact has not been people relaunching "Linux Pro", but people who have built off of it.
I know what I wouldn't do: spend those 2 years in medical school trying to become a doctor.
Our designer (http://www.davidcole.me/) is awesome. We'll let him know you love it!
Very nice! In terms of suggestions:

a) info on versions would be nice
b) more options (ftp, mail, sphinx, lucene, etc)
c) maybe a short questionnaire about usage to optimize config
d) I'd like to see more about security and who you are before I hand over username/pw

PS - You should post this as a "Tell HN" here if you haven't already...
I'm not claiming you're making this up, and I did say I'm not a lawyer and the asker should check their own state laws, but since you object, I'd appreciate for everyone's sake if you provided some proof of precedence backing up your claim.

Edits below:

Here's at least one interesting quote from the Copyright act of 1976 (assuming we're talking about copyrights not patents):

"A “work made for hire” is a work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment, or a work specially ordered or commissioned for certain uses (including use as a contribution to a collective work), if the parties expressly agree in a written instrument signed by them that the work shall be considered a work made for hire. The employer is the author of a work made for hire."

http://www.copyright.gov/register/se-hire.html
Adding an iMac to my registry right now...
I have not left science completely: I've made my own job. It is possible but it is only made harder because of the closed system.

There are many of us who've left academia and still do science. We're generally maligned, and removed from the ability to even participate in a discussion due to a variety of academic access restrictions, and why?

What's more, day by day people are showing how to achieve scientific credibility and influence through their blogs and paper hosting services like ArXiv or, as Michael Nielsen points out, open journals like PLoS Biology. The majority of scientists still bow to tenure pressure, and frankly I don't understand why. There are other opportunities if you want to gain status, and one doesn't even have to gain traditional academic status if one wants to do real science. There are other options.
Not necessarily. As I commented elsewhere, I doubt any medical students would stay in school for the entirety of those 2 years, if they weren't going to be able to use that knowledge anyway.
I have some Indian friends and they have said much the same thing. I can't say I'm surprised this happened, the markets are not an engine of morality - they just give the people what they want for better or worse.
I can understand why someone would like them - but by making them mandatory they've removed one of the major things I use email for - reminders for myself/to-do lists. If I can't tag/file different emails differently, and I can't leave just one or two parts of a 100-mail conversation in my inbox for later action then it's no use to me.
I'm Indian, and I disagree with the caste system, but am also cynical enough to think this is no big deal. People will always discriminate against people for one reason or another.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=black+social+networ...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=muslim+social+netwo...

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=arabic+social+netwo...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=rich+people+social+...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=beautiful+people+so...
Dave Winer: Bored with Buzz after 15 minutes
As someone who sells products to several thousand wedding professionals (mostly photographers) and who has photographed plenty of weddings, here's what I think:

- Instead of a "bulk discount for professionals", you should just sell them a $399 version that they can use to modify each title (looks like it's just a PNG file in the resources anyway).

- I can't see a bride and groom buying this very often–they are already busy and budget-conscious ... but I could see a best man, parent or bridesmaid doing it (assuming they had a macbook available). They often are bringing a laptop for a slideshow anyway, so it could work.

- I think the price might be a little high ... $49 to $79 seems more reasonable to me–especially since I'm still doing all the editing/uploading/sharing work myself afterwards.

- Use wedding blogs to get the word out and offer up some free demos or prizes. There are blogs for fancy weddings, green weddings, DIY weddings, budget weddings, etc.–and they are very popular with brides. It's a good way to get noticed.

- I can probably help you spread the word among some wedding photographers (including some who have well-read blogs). A lot of them are doing video too (as many SLRs now do HD video) so they could easily incorporate these into a DVD. Plus, several are doing photobooths or slideshows at receptions.

I'll blog about it too if you'd like–feel free to get in touch. I could get some photographers using it this weekend and giving you feedback.
Twilio only hits your URL when somebody sends an SMS to your phone number. So in the #1 scenario, if you sent a message via the REST API, Twilio wouldn't hit your URL. If the person replied, then your URL would be hit.
I go to Reddit for this kind of content...
Of course, gouging may also attract social opprobrium or worse, get you killed.
I really like the idea. And the design is very nice (be it for the site or the app)

One thing though is that, from the site, I'm not really sure what I would get and in what form: where are the videos? are you hosting them? how do I change the settings of the app? do I get some kind of video album?

I see that the demo file left a couple of videos in my Movies folder, so I get it: I pay $99 to have the custom software with the right names and date, and it saves everything as local files in my Movies folder.

But, in that case, $99 is a lot of money! Correct me if I'm wrong but it's a one-time use app, right? I only get that one customized version for one wedding? That feels very very expensive… it's a nice packaging for PhotoBooth pretty much. And yes, for a wedding, that packaging makes a big difference, but I don't think I could buy it myself.

That being said, as Brian Cooley said, $99 is a drop in the bucket for most weddings, so I think that you could make some money with that (as I said, for a wedding the packaging is very important, thus the money will follow).

edit: to sum up, I'd say that it's a nice idea but to justify the $99 I think it would need to actually produce some kind of "video guestbook", something similar to an iMovie template, or what Animoto does. After the event, I just get a bunch of video files that I need to do something with…
Depends. GMail was fundamentally innovative - do you remember what webmail was like before it launched? GMail gave us a gig of storage and Google search over your inbox and threaded conversation view and keyboard shortcuts and a UI that didn't require page refreshes between each message.

Similarly, Maps was fundamentally innovative. If you went to GMaps c. 2005 and then went to MapQuest, there was absolutely no comparison. I kept wanting to drag the map around to see what was just offscreen. And then Maps kept innovating with satellite imagery, and Street View, and local business labels on the satellite imagery, and double-click-to-find-the-best-vantage-point.

Then there are a bunch of me-too products that succeed only because its Google and everyone already uses them.

Unfortunately this includes everything I've done at Google, but I'm hoping they've set things up for future innovation. Real innovation takes time, usually 3-4 years. Google's strength has been that they're willing to devote that time, but you can't have every single product out the door be a hit.
Yes. The question in the article was regarding SGI's initial use of custom ICs in development, and the relative superiority of using gate technology to prototype.
"Microsoft was seen as ruthlessly destroying their competition."

There was also the fact that they blackmailed PC vendors into not installing Netscape.
Halfway through his new book which is incredible - the best book I've read on digital culture yet, and I've read about 40 of those.
"Welcome to the Machine": State monads in Clojure
It's not the same chip, but you can read about some of the more common high-end countermeasures on this page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/descrack/ibm4758.html
The State of HTML 5 Audio
Obviously you need to have 2.0+, which sucks!
> the fact that one side is encouraged to miss the forest (truth) for the trees (conviction) has degenerate effects on edge cases

You have to take into account the fact that the defense is encouraged to miss the forest (truth) for the trees (exoneration) as well.