skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Male Enhancements - Male enhancement
I'm a native speaker of American English. It was certainly readable, but some of the sentence constructions were stilted enough to distract me. Here's my extremely pedantic edit, which also changes the tone to be more conversational:

http://pastebin.com/f4c49579f

HTH :)
History texts for what? Past histories will remain in print form, and new revisions to them will still be published in journals and such. History from now on is going to be radically changed by the giant primary source called the Internet and its offspring. I think you're looking at it on too small a scale.
Sounds nothing like Launchy. Launchy searches for apps of similar names as what you searched, and ranks them in order of usage. Makes the Start Menu obsolete.

Your app sounds not quite as good as mapping your browser's address bar to I'm Feeling Lucky.
Yes. Have you missed the past few weeks of discussion on whether the iPad has a niche? The Kindle already has one. I don't have an iPhone, and I don't want yet another multipurpose device, but bigger. I have a Kindle because I want the e-ink screen.
Report suggests 21 hours is the ideal work week
UNH team's breakthroughs in organic semiconductors
In case you have access to electronic journals and want to see the paper. http://pubs.acs.org/cen/science/88/8803scic7.html

Or Miller group homepage for more details and other projects:
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~gpm/index_files/MG_Research_Project...
Why Java Sucks For Sysadmins
Er, no—having dispersed interests focused around a central subject, like running a startup, is the second group. The point is that the people in the third group don't care that "this article seems to not contain anything of value to a person building and growing an entrepreneurial startup", because startups are just one of their (unlimited) interests.
Coding monkey, programmer, software engineer. What's the difference?
Could someone who has used LESS and SASS compare the two?
I'll confess to being totally confuzzled between people continuing to think there is some huge, categorical difference between freemium and free trials, which strikes me as a mostly semantic distinction. My confuzzlement aside, I think there is probably an alternate causality for having godawful terrible conversion from beta users. It is: "My business recruited beta users from TechCrunch readers."
> You know what would be fun, or at least funny? A Dungeons-and-Dragons version of the Meyers/Briggs. In fact, I think the AD&D alignment system may be more than halfway there already.

A few months ago, we actually had a "personality types and how to get along with them" sort of training at work (not Meyers/Briggs, but something similar). I thought it seemed kind of bogus, so when it was time to fill out the feedback forms afterwards I suggested that a follow-up "alignments in the workplace" training would be at least as useful.
WTFHN? Why is this voted up? Just because you don't immediately understand something doesn't make it a WTF.
Sure, I agree that a minority opinion does not automatically pass the "what you can't say test". To make a slightly weaker claim, let's just say that it bothers me that people assume you can't run barefoot in the winter, when it is clearly (empirically!) possible, at least given adequate conditioning. Moreover, some of the research involving barefoot running and human biology is suggestive to me of a full-on "can't say" equivalence.

I agree with you re. the handicapped kid, but where do you draw the line? I consider a pause, eye contact, a smile, and "I'm fine" (spoken in a self-assured manner) reasonable evidence that I'm ok, so to speak. When they finally did stop me for good, I was engaging them in what I would consider sophisticated (polite) debate and questioning (along with "facts"), and yet they still refused to let me continue my run.

As for shoes, when I first went minimalist, I jumped straight to FiveFingers. But before that, I walked around barefoot all the time, so who knows... Just progress slowly -- granted, that's advice I have not always followed ;-)
I have not read Roy Fielding's dissertation, and so I am speaking out of partial ignorance. But isn't most of this the opposite of what REST is supposed to be? URLs aren't supposed to represent resources? Whahh?
What exactly are they testing here?
Not only that. It's really stupid to use IP addresses instead of domain names because, guess what, most sites share IPs these days.
Many people (including me) have wondered why large tech companies don't do this, and many people (including me) have quit and founded startups instead. I think it must be intrinsically hard to do. Look at it this way: there already is a mechanism for spawning startups that distinguishes winners and lets founders reap rewards. It's called the open market. So essentially, for an organization to succeed at this would mean beating the market. That's hard.

I'm unconvinced by the analogy between hedge fund managers and startups. The variation in what the former are doing is miniscule compared to the variation in the latter. That doesn't make it easy to be a winning trader, but it does make it far easier to identify winning traders and build an organization around them.
This caught my eye, but it turns out it's the same old "fixed pie" thinking: the current workers are taking up all the available "working hours", so they should cut back to give the unemployed an opportunity to get some. Ridiculous. Why not be more productive and actually just create more jobs. Just like wealth, the number of jobs available is not fixed.
I would be much, much more interested in hearing of how any one of you hacked life such that you work a non-traditional schedule than reading how a group thinks the workweek should be established by fiat. (Most especially for a group which does not demonstrate that it has any experience with, ahem, working for a living.)

Horse's mouth, incidentally:
http://neweconomics.org/press-releases/shorter-working-week-...
Lovely dream. It is unfortunate that it takes 130ms (10x as long as your dream) for a pulse of light to circumnavigate the world. Even if it was point to point, without switching or network delays, it would take up to 60ms.

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

You can't remove the speed of light constraints, no matter how nice it would be.
Yes, sugar indeed != fat.
When you do eat sugar - it is your body's first choice for energy. This means that any fat you eat gets stored for later consumption... which will be never cuz most of us eat way too much sugar anyway.
6% of Adobe's revenues come from Platform segment, which
includes Flash Player, AIR, Cold Fusion, Flex and the Flash developer tool. ($181M in 2009). While Adobe would survive if Flash disappeared tomorrow..

In the end, Adobe's actions speak for themselves. They are heavily promoting Flash.

http://news.ebrandz.com/miscellaneous/2009/2472-adobe-unfold...

I agree that the writing is on the wall, but Adobe isn't going to watch millions of dollars in revenue disappear without a fight.
(Disclosure: I am the CEO of Zoho).

We use Zoho Mail for our own 1000 employees. My company email address has been around and active for 13 years. I get 450 spam messages a day. Zoho Mail typically misses catching 1 or 2 a day; far more important to me, I can trust is not to have false positives (genuine mail going into spam).

We invite you to try it out.

On our business model: Zoho.com is free for individuals, without advertising. For businesses & domain based email, first 10 users are free, again without advertising. We charge $50/user/year (note: per YEAR) from the 11th user.

We do not believe in the advertising model for Zoho. Our business model is subscription based, with a generous free edition. We find this model to be financially viable.
Holy shit. I can't believe Buzz is on for me. I've explicitly declined activating it when asked. Now I'm seeing people following me. WTF, Google, can you take NO for answer?
This.

Along with no innovation on what it was suppose to do, which is play music easier/better. Instead of doing one thing simply and better, it tried to be the jack of all things multimedia and related. It bloated it's way to failure.
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I turned on buzz for one of my Gmail accounts, for which I had already set up a profile. I then saw I had one person following me. Someone I know.

But I did not see any indication that any of my contacts were auto-following me, or me them.

On another Gmail account, for which I have no profile, I signed in and was greeted with the Try out buzz? splash thing. I clicked "No thanks."

I get to my mail page, and there's the buzz icon right under Inbox. That's a real WTF moment. I clicked the Buzz icon, and it appears no different than on my other account (except here I was not following anyone, and no one was following me). So, I have no idea what that initial splash page was for.

However, back in my main Gmail account, I used Buzz to search for that other account. Not found. But I have no idea what that really means. Is it not found because there is no profile? Not found because I didn't really opt in?
In Australia a "divvy van" is slang for a police car with a cage in the back for transporting prisoners. It didn't come to mind when I thought of Divvyshot until this thread :)
I designed my life to work 3hrs59m / week, and spend the remaining 6 days starting an NGO that teaches Indian village children how to use the computer....if you live your life non-traditionally, you can live on a lot less work than 21 hours...
I was used to use Rackspace Cloud email, but the server was blacklisted on Network Solution so all my clients using NS weren't able to receive any of my emails... FAIL
Entrepreneurs - You MUST Watch This
Sane people don't have excessive drama with their exes.
Gave you a point for quoting a song from a Disney animated film on HN while remaining relevant.
Backup Basecamp files, writeboards and data
We just released a first version of our product that does complete backup of online applications (Basecamp is our first). Backs up files, writeboards and data and stores it to Dropbox or FTP. Would love feedback.
Ask HN: wind powered, power generating ships
Would a very small ship with a very large mast dragging a water turbine generator create enough power to be useful?
There's a very real difference which is that free trials end and free use of some feature subset does not. The difference isn't very big when the supposed 'free' product is so crippled it is next to useless compared to the pay product. But that is just a (lousy) implementation choice. The free Flickr, for instance, is a full-featured, perfectly usable photo sharing service.
There is also celerity which wraps a JVM implementation. Culerity allows you to run your tested app with normal C Ruby.
I still used winamp classic/lite right up until I accidentally switched over to vlc. I installed vlc to play videos and noticed that it was playing mp3's and rtsp's as well, and it was good enough that I didn't bother to switch it back.
Dupe of recent post of original source:

http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/2/69354-a-few-billion-lin...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1115406
I've seen some other reports from this group and they have about as much to do with economics as a fifteen year old's emo "poetry" blog has to do with high literature. Consider this publication where they troll the world with a claim that janitors are more valuable to the world on average than bankers, supported by nothing more than poorly thought out back-of-the-envelope calculations.

http://neweconomics.org/press-releases/hospital-cleaners-wor...
"they want to--wait for it--check their mail"

Neither Gmail nor Yahoo are strictly email anymore. If you believe they are are, you're living in a fantasy world. Both have chat, and yahoo even has stuff like calendar and notes. "Webmail" isn't strictly email and it hasn't been for years.

"Reveal My Location To My Abusive Ex-Husband And All His Friends"

What all of the rabid people like you fail to realize is that no information was actually revealed to anyone in this instance. It was a combination of her misunderstand and a bug in google reader that displayed follower/following lists wrong.

Of course, none of you actually care about the facts, you just want to complain.
Bloated, yeah, but I still use it. Straightforward, categorized, text-based music library management and the ability to play cut/continuous tracks without a hiccup even with other disk IO going on(which is why I rejected the other simple players I've tried) keep it on my machine. (I should mention that I use FLAC almost exclusively, so the seamless prefetch makes more of a difference to me than it would to somebody playing MP3s.)
I started using Less for a new project. It worked great until a new version came out with some nice new features that I immediatly used, but also with a bug where it replaced all the plus signs in my base64 data strings with spaces, totally breaking them. Since then I've been doing line by line commits to get around the problem, but hopefully it gets fixed soon!
Professor Said to Be Charged After 3 Are Killed in Alabama
Hmm,

So is this an outline of the principles behind something like Xapien and Lucene full indexing libraries?
You can do all the important things that Sass can do, but with the added benefit that CSS is also valid Less.
Thanks!

And if anyone wishes to see the changes: paste both texts into http://www.quickdiff.com/index.php and hit 'Compare'

Okay, if any of you actually went through the exercise of pasting it onto quickdiff.com, you probably noticed how aggravating it was to copy & paste from that container. Really a bigger turn-off in terms of UI than his English skills, in my opinion.
Suggestion for the archive feature:
-> Archive results for all.
-> Only make the latest results available for the free customers. When they pay for a year's subscription, make the rest of the archive available.

I think flickr does this.
Traditional free trials aren't always crippled; it used to actually be standard in software that the free versions were useful in their own right, and the rise of "crippleware" that was basically useless on its own was initially fairly controversial in the shareware community.

I mean, Doom could've been seen as a "freemium" FPS, where you get the entire FPS engine and several levels free, and only pay if you want to buy bonus levels.

(Admittedly, that's software v. service, but in the same era, some BBSs ran on a service-based freemium model as well, providing free access to anyone, but letting users pay for certain features like extra download quotas or time quotas.)
It caught my eye too and I thought it might have been a meaningful study. By the end of the article I thought it was an early april fools joke.
To MBTI skeptics: I agree that the MBTI is a flawed instrument, but do you assert that personality testing is intrinsically flawed, that personalities don't have measurable patterns/traits/components? Why? Is it really that inconceivable that there are broad tendencies and trends in personality? Is everyone such a "unique snowflake" that there's no patterns or trends?

I personally think there's definitely some underlying dominant factors, but the fact is that determining what they are and measuring them is really hard, because it's really hard to do substantive psychology in a truly scientific manner. I think something like a principal components analysis should be possible in the theoretical ideal -- and binary trait based schemes are just a crude approximation to such a scheme. For example, scoring as "ENTP" wouldn't mean that you have zero introversion, or zero feelings -- just that you score closer to E than I, etc.
You might consider allowing teachers at the same school to pool an account so they can split the costs across multiple teachers. Teachers in the same grade or subject often collaborate, and this might be a good way to incentivize teachers to sell the product in their schools for you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Day_Week
The behavior there is a result of the 'new' operator. typeof new String("foo") is specified to be "object", and it is extensible (String("foo") is not). Both == and === on two object-types return true if both refer to the same thing. More generally, when two types are the same, == has the same behavior as ===.
Essential iPhone Apps for the Vancouver Winter Olympics
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Talking to God
(FYI, I'm one of the owners/developers of FastMail)

1. Just add addresses to your address book to whitelist. Also make sure you use Report Spam/Report non-spam on enough emails (200 of each) to activate your personal bayes db (see the Options -> Spam/Virus Protection near the bottom to see how many of each you've already learned)

2. At the moment, you do have to explicitly add body: to a term to do a body search. The first time might be slow as it indexes your email, after that it should be faster.

http://wiki.fastmail.fm/index.php?title=NewInterface#Enhance...
Try SCADE as well
I upvoted because I thought this was funny, rather than serious :-/
Thanks for the reference. I appreciate it.
This might actually be a reasonable idea, but I can't see something like this taking off with the current conditions. And more than that, I don't think the American philosophy is to work less, I think that's something a lot more likely to take off in Europe.
(FYI, I'm one of the owners/developers of FastMail)

For people that are concerned about lock in, I highly recommend this as well. Get your own domain, and then you're not tied to any one service. We have 10,000's of domains hosted at FastMail.
Another proof of my fave pet theory, namely that the scandinavians have the best humor.
"The foundation admitted people would earn less, but said they would have more time to carry out worthy tasks."

Like starving?
Switched to Foobar2000. Easier to manage your library if it has more than 10K songs, and really light on memory.
I'm glad this wasn't another PR stunt about mobile phone viruses -- we don't live in that particular William Gibson novel. Pics here: http://radian.org/notebook/van-helsingfors

I do wonder what the chain of hardware issues is that's causing their interference problem. Perhaps the phones all use SoC designs where the CPU, modems, and possibly RAM are all on one die -- would that allow extreme WiFi / cellular noise to flip bits?
(FYI, I'm one of the owners/developers of FastMail)

Hmmm yes, we don't really have any screenshots do we, we should probably fix that!

Hopefully even without a screenshot, we can convince people it's worth trying us out (there is the free Guest account, minimal storage, but you can at least look around the interface, and then upgrade if you like it)

Quick links to the two biggest things people want to know, features and reliability.

http://www.fastmail.fm/help/overview_features.html
http://www.fastmail.fm/help/overview_reliability.html
Screw You, Google
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He lost me at 'use PUT and DELETE'. There's a whole range of clients (eg most browser's XMLHttpRequests, Flash) that don't support anything but GET and POST.
Having some grammatical errors definitely sends a signal to your customers. If you're a large company, it just indicates sloppiness and lack of respect. But if you're a very small company, it's not necessarily a negative signal.

If I look at a bilingual website for a company I know is run by non-native English speakers, and the English version is error-free, that tells me it was probably translated by outsiders. Possibly the company doesn't even have the capacity to handle Anglophone customers (i.e. no internal staff sufficiently fluent in English to communicate with me), but just put up the English website to send a signal to impress their own-language customers with how "international" they are.

On the other hand, if I see some grammatical errors --- enough to be noticeable, but not so many as to entirely obscure the message --- it tells me they probably did it themselves. I.e. somewhere in the organisation there is some guy who speaks good enough English to describe their product. Maybe with a hellacious accent and horrible grammar, but at least I'll be able to communicate with him.
That's not the only reason to cut work weeks, though I agree it's a bad one. This old article by Bertrand Russell starts out by pointing out that the "fixed pie" view is not a good reason to work less, but that there are others: http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html

The gist of it is that you can take the dividends of increasing productivity in a lot of ways. As computers get faster, you can keep paying $2k for a new computer every 3-4 years and get a better one, or you can take some of that technology-advancement dividend in cash, and buy a netbook that's still better than your old computer. He's basically arguing that you should take some of the modern era's productivity dividend in leisure time, instead of just in more income and material wealth.
Recent Progress in Quantum Algorithms
I doubt it. Compared to a fixed tower wind turbine you have hull drag losses, water turbine losses, and the problem of where to put the power since you won't have cables to shore.

Some cruising sailors do use systems like this to generate their own power when under way.
Some of these arguments don't seem the best. Yes, the 'jar' command-line tool is much slower than GNU tar, but that's hardly conclusive proof that "Java is slow". It just means that 'jar' is slow. One generalization that's not unreasonable is that Java is bad for small tools with very short runtimes, because the VM startup overhead ends up being really expensive as a proportion.
Probably builds of Fennec on Nokia Maemo devices.

I don't think anyone else is even trying to ship Gecko on cell phones.
This is something that Gmail does really well right now, what with the new 'Send via SMTP' feature. When I use a secondary account to send from my 'control center' account, the email appears in the SENT items in both accounts. Double Win for records.