skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I'm too obtuse, but the instructions suggested to me not that you wanted us to categorize the image, but, since the image I got was of an empty room with a sofa, it was a placeholder and you were going to bring back an image that matches the "search" criteria...
> Ordering a consumer device is nothing to tell your grandchildren about.

While my personal achievements are aplenty, I would beg to differ. Au contraire. I can easily make the case that personal devices make a great impact on society as a whole. While the mere purchase of the device is nothing to brag about, recognizing its potential in history is. Refresh your Marshal Macluhan Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man or wait to buy it as an iBook. Or you can simply ask anyone who purchased one of the first Sony Walkmans, an Atari 2400 or even a Toyota Prius (not a gadget) if they felt that the deep in their minds, things were just not the same anymore.

Is the purchase an achievement? Probably not. A snapshot in time that deserves recognition? Absolutely.
Add keyboard shortcuts to speed things up.
I have everything installed in ~/Homebrew and have had no problems.

I really wanted to keep liking Macports, but I got sick of having to install a new perl just to install git, among many examples. The kicker for me was installing pandoc; Macports wanted to download and compile a new GHC, refusing to recognize the one on my system. I let it run for 3 hours and finally killed the install and looked for a better way to do things.
This is painful. You haven't even bothered to use a label on the radio buttons, so my click area is larger.

But even had you done that, it would only have been mildly less painful.

Use every inch of screen real-estate available on well defined click areas, so people can rapid fire answer the questions without it becoming a mouse accuracy test.

Better yet, Ask a single question at a time, and at every mouse click, bring up the next question (again using all the screen area available, so an over-caffeinated person on a trampoline can still hit their click points easily). After the last question is clicked, automatically bring up the next picture, and start the procedure again.
I was in the same boat. We continue to do consulting but have been able to have a couple people working on a side project. Basically, the profit from our clients is used on our own project.

I wouldn't reject all incoming projects, but just take on the ones that are worthwhile time/money wise. I'd also try to dial in on a specific idea or two that you think you can turn into a business.

When you do work for clients and your own project it will take longer for you to get something out there, but it'll extend your runway. Once you can pay the bills, then I'd ditch the consulting.

Anyway that's what works for me, your situation might be different. Good luck!
The problem with Haskell is that it is way ahead of its time, in kind of the same way that lisp was ahead of its time.

lisp had high order functions and garbage collection, and now 30 years later all mainstream languages have these features.

Haskell has lazy evaluation, compiler enforced function purity and a type checker that doesn't get in your way. I predict that in 30 years all mainstream languages will have these features.
That's the way of thinking described in "How to make yourself happier in just a few seconds" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1152224
try Mechanical Turk, https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
This is a good idea for rapid answers.

Ask only 1 question about the picture with answers with labels and keyboard shortcuts. Pictures would get answered partially, but could be in the queue until fully answered.
Mish had some interesting comments on Gov. Christie's recent actions.
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/03/governor-...
It looks like he's one of the few politicians with the courage to actually face reality.

And the current zero interest rate policy only helps consumers with adjustable-rate debt. It actually hurts those with fixed-rate debt.
I think I spoiled a couple of images because I had the same thought.
Uh, just a quick correction: the reporter is not from NZ; she's Australian.
I'd rather see some evidence, personally. Evolutionary explanations for how people behave in relationships are usually just-so stories--you can make one up for almost any thesis you wanted to push.
Advice on Computer Contracting
Where are you getting this image data from, out of curiosity?

Also, any plans to publish a live report? I'd be more inclined to keep helping out if there were some interesting graphs I could look at; the promise of a future report is less enticing :)
Thanks, this is super helpful
I think the commenter was asking about the raw annotated data.
See if http://kx.com/Products/faq.php suits your needs.
It's OK, the script is waiting for convergence of multiple votes so no single mistake will taint the results
OpenBSD 4.7 is available for preorder
A tad bit more anxious now. Thankfully, however, this quarter's Finals are thoroughly distracting me.

Hope you get better pg!
I think the guy is being paid by Toyota. One dramatic case regarding this highly publicized recall turns out to be a fraud; casts doubt on the entire ordeal and wins the public back over to Toyota. Genius.
I meant it jokingly. It's a brilliant advertisement, to be sure; I think that most people just see things like that as done strictly out of the goodness of people's hearts, and while that may often be true, I usually am inclined to believe the more self-serving aspect of it.

Not that there's anything wrong with it whatsoever.
Thanks HN
Thanks to all the HN'ers who helped me the other day to put together a presentation for a local code camp -- how to explain functional programming (F#) to .NET programmers who had only used imperative techniques.

I gave the presentation today and it went very well. Parts of it I lifted directly from the comments you guys gave me, and I made sure to emphasize the main differences you pointed out in imperative and functional programming. I especially liked the idea that functional programming is all about creating transforms.

If anybody would like a copy of the presentation just drop me an email. Happy to oblige.
Daylight Saving Time will cost me money?
You are purchasing a consumer device that will be made in the hundreds of thousands. That alone means that you are not 'special' in any way doing this.

The 'first' were the people that bought newtons back in the day.

The ipad, while (probably) executed very well does not break new ground beyond being a slick re-implementation of a number of ideas in a single package.

And it's a step backward in many ways when compared to a 'real' computer, it is basically your personal window in to the stuff that apple permits you to install.

Be the first to jailbreak the thing, program it to allow the making of voice calls or to put linux on it. That would merit remembering.

The people that built it can brag about that, those that buy it are merely early adopters of a second wave of devices like this. (or actually, a third if you count the amazon devices too).

Those who bought the first Sony walkmans do not go around telling people they did so, neither do those that bought an atari or a Toyota, at least not that I know of.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but if your achievements are plentiful then why not talk about those instead. This seems a really minor item on the list of things that a person could do in their lives. Just about as interesting as being one of the first people to buy a laptop or some model computer.

Just imagine, remember kids, one day, long ago, granddad bought an ipad. Versus, one day, long ago, granddad built a house or travelled the world or did a million of other really interesting things. Sure, plenty of people travel the world, and plenty of people build houses. But those are real experiences, this is just exchanging cash for a device that you haven't even tried yet.

Anyway, it seems that I'm not capable of getting my point across so I'll leave it at that.
I'd seen this kind of thing before but voted up after checking out the 'advanced options' section. After some googling of those "man page" style options, I see now this is probably a web wrapper around [1] so I will more likely integrate that program directly into something I'm working on. But still bookmarking the site for quick jobs.

[1] - http://github.com/antialize/wkhtmltopdf
The difference between Northern Michigan and Southern California or New York is substantially larger than the difference between Poland and Romania or Ukraine.

We can go into an endless rabbit hole about which difference is bigger, on which parameters. Northern Michigan and Southern California operate on a substantially similar and similarly enforced set of laws. This is not the case for Poland, Romania or Ukraine.
Trying to hold your child in an accident is not going to work.

However the actual situation would more closely resemble trying to catch your child from that height while standing on a trampoline. In an accident you don't instantly decelerate so the difference in speeds between you and what you are holding is not as severe as the absolute speed difference.
It's true, they've still got massive market-share and piles of cash. If you're competing in the enterprise software space, they're a major contender.

However, it used to be that every new technology venture had to consider 'the Microsoft problem'. As in, 'How do we avoid getting squashed by Microsoft?' That's simply not true anymore. When was the last time you heard someone seriously discussing Microsoft as a competitive threat?

Outside of games, operating systems, and office suites, MS has been largely de-fanged. Unless they turn things around, they're going to turn into another Oracle. Big, but not a powerful force outside their narrow domain.
THe Silk, FamFamFam set are easily reconizable which might be the perfect reason to use them from a usability perspective.
Here I was thinking he meant Colin :)
You'd run into the same issue if you actually did work on a business visa. I.e. something other than meetings, talking to investors, etc.
Ask HN: Why doesn't "Uvote" Startup exist yet?
A web site that can allow people to submit and vote on topics on their street, region or state, their company or topics of interest? Something that can both work with the democratic principal and also for topics of interest. Wouldn't it be easy to link to (secure) data (google maps, addresses etc.)to make it valid and also to anonymous people on general interest?
have you ever seen a burnout?
As John Grubber pointed out some time ago, the last time of that "fight", was with the iPod...

You might say that this iPhone situation has very little to do with the iPod one, but if so, so does the mac situation.
Wait, are you saying that if I wanted an extra hour of daylight after work, I could just leave work an hour earlier? Inconceivable.
Don't know why this is here, but I think this commercial is more compelling:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Qhmdk4VNs&feature=relat...
A B2C success is like winning the lottery. I've had some of that and it really feels like that, even to this day I could have never dreamed of engineering something like that. And with a success I mean a substantial income for a decade or longer.

B2B is two orders of magnitude easier to turn in to a business, no luck involved there, it's just really hard work and staying power.

There is lots of 'advice' floating around and plenty of it is given by people that seem to ignore their own advice, and I think that's the biggest indicator that you shouldn't be following it. Have a look at the people that are building, slow but steady and that eat their own dogfood in terms of advice.

Not quitting your school or your job until you make enough money that you can salt away half a year to a years expenses is good practice, and cutting down on your expenses as much as you can is good practice too. It's usually easier to save a buck than to make one.

Whatever comes out of that 18 month stint, you are a much wiser person now, so think of it as a school too, only a different kind.

best of luck!
The $647m figure was stock grants and he did indeed make $1 in base in 2006.

http://www.forbes.com/2007/05/03/ceo-executive-compensation-...

Again, outside the finance world, 7 figure base salaries are quite rare.
I've been researching ways to print the timelines on my site, Preceden. There's a complicated mix of HTML and CSS and, needless to say, it doesn't print by simply clicking Print on the browser:

http://preceden.com/timelines/2-biographies/print

This is an awesome tool because I can just add a link to the conversion URL, and wam bam: printing capabilities.

I have to tweak the CSS on the print page a bit because the site renders it a bit differently than the browser, but it works really well.
Ah ok, the source I had was not splitting it out at all, just mentioned that he had that much compensation. Thanks!
> If anybody would like a copy of the presentation just drop me an email.

yes please...

I think you may have my address somewhere ;)
In Denmark, as a requirement to get a drivers license, you have to go to a closed driving circuit and do brake and avoidance maneuvers at different speeds and go on a skid pad. Feel how the car reacts on the limits.

A standard drivers license test is done in a manual transmission car (which is what most people there drive anyway). I also think that using a manual transmission helps to understand how a car works.
Just google a late model used car. Click on the ads on the right side of the SERP.
Http://mente-distorcionada.blogspot.com/2008/06/dance-online.html
Keyboard shortcut would definitely help a lot.
0xB is hex for 10
Because you didn't build it :)

Go do it, it sounds like a good idea. There are poll sites that allow you to make polls on all kinds of subjects (a la HN polls but targeted towards a larger audience), but I think your idea would be a lot more useful.
Sure I'd have no problem with that. There is a vote convergence system in the backend so there will be a bunch of raw votes on each image that I could easily export if someone wanted them.
It's often said that privilege escalation under Linux is very easy. Why is Linux so insecure in this aspect?

Why does OpenBSD not suffer from local root exploits?
That's just part of engineering. If you intend to manufacture in Eu/US you have snap together parts - much more expensive mould tools but quicker assembly. If you are manufacturing in china you use screws, cheaper tooling but more man hours to assemble.

There is a whole industry of cost reduction engineering to optimize for this.
I feel that we should avoid submitting articles like this.
Appcelerator Founder Interview - Building native iPhone apps using Javascript
You should add an 'ambiguous' option for the person's gender. This is the second person I haven't been sure about.
>I see from your other post that you work with textiles

There is a Spanish high st fashion chain that specialize in very lean manufacturing, if an item becomes unpopular they don't sell it the next week. An new item takes a couple of weeks from design to the stores. Rather than the annual cycle in most textiles

They manufacture in europe, but make money from never making an item that doesn't sell.
Further info on that: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/mar/12/simon-singh-go...
I think the most important change to C++ is the addition of a memory model and standard primitives for threading. In its current state, writing a truly thread-safe, portable program in C++ is nearly impossible.

Edit: For some detail on the subject, see Boehm's paper, "Threads cannot be implemented as a library." http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2004/HPL-2004-209.pdf [PDF]
Oooh oooh! Approve my startup -- I'm marketing a cure for the common cold!

(j/k -- wish I did have a Star Trek-esq cure-all, though. Feel better!)
The average cost was $3.29 per household for the whole year. That's nothing.

Yeah, the transition kinda sucks, but overall, I like it. The sun rises early enough for me in the summer as it is (close to 5 at its earliest). I really have no desire for it to rise at 4, like it would if we weren't an hour ahead during the summer. Similarly, I really like that it stays light out until 8:30 or 9 P.M. in the summer.

Yes, I'm a night owl, but I don't think there are many people who are more likely to benefit from sunlight at 4a than from sunlight at 8p. The increased standard of living I get out of that sunlight shift is worth far more than $3.29 to me.
press it rapidly. it's kind of fun. a CCCCCOMBO BREAKER button would be fairly appropriate too.
"Competition is a sin." — John D. Rockefeller
As someone above hinted at, I think the title is more a product of the times. When the book was written, "influence people" probably meant more like what "be influential" or "be a trusted source" means today.
This is eerily reminiscent of "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex". (Or maybe I'm just being geeky.) I feel this way whenever somebody tries to compare the internet to a living organism, and I guess it's similar to the way I would feel about any system that I am a part of, and that is "more than the sum of its parts".
I was a little surprised because I thought everyone knew that if you bumped one of the first blocks with your head, you got a coin ...
I think your understanding of your system is flawed. Taking ownership of /usr/local is a suggestion it isn't a requirement.

It seems the anti-homebrew complaints basically amount to "I don't understand this, so I'm going to say it's bad".

The biggest reason I've seen to get rid of Macports in favor of Homebrew is software versions, Homebrew is constantly up to date and I can upgrade software with ease. Not so with Macports.
Not, that I can see. Once we have a plan for doing something based on measurables with a stipulated and affordable goal, then we should act. Until then, keep doing science.
I'll wait to see if it turns out to be nothing more than a locked-down appliance,
There should be no submission karma only comment karma, or submission karma should max out at a low figure like 10 (stories can have higher points but the user will only gain a maximum of 10 karma from a submission) .
I'm glad to see the print-media-type option but it's not close enough to what I get when I print a page and then "Save As PDF" in Safari or Chrome.

http://pdfmyurl.com?url=nirmalpatel.com/cv.html&-O=Portr... vs http://nirmalpatel.com/docs/Nirmal_Patel_CV.pdf
Google To Shut China Search Engine
We've been working on a productivity app for researchers (currently only have a web dashboard). We're finding it great to organize notes/links/files within our own startup as well. Would be awesome if you guys could give it a try and give us some feedback!

Check it out here: http://thinkpanda.com
Interesting. Is he turning by using the elevators as ailerons, or is it only turned with the rudder?
> I stopped listening at "ADD society"

That kind of reinforces the claim... ;)
Been stuck for 3months.. what would you do?
http://filmbet.com/

FilmBet.com, my "first" idea that I wanted to go somewhere. I checked around eLance and spoke to developers to develop the project for me. I heard figures from $500 - $1000 ( which I didnt quite have). So I decided to try and do everything myself. Things started well, I handle most of the important things.. but I couldnt quite get IT done.
It has been on the backburner for over 3months.
I want to hear from the HN community; what would you guys do? ( I have considered ditching the project, for some reason I keep coming back..) maybe a change in concept is needed

Currently.. its vote on the weekend box office results..
It'd be really nice if you could respond to some of the definite rejections at this point, I imagine you've figured out a lot of guys who aren't getting in.

I'm hopeful but not delusional about my chances, and I'm supposed to be on a plane leaving SF tomorrow night - I didn't time it for the YC stuff it just was a convenient coincidence since FGS and GDC were last week and my last meetings were yesterday.
The Robustness of CAPTCHAs: A Security Engineering Perspective
How Men’s Overconfidence Hurts Them as Investors
You and me both, believe me. I had grand ambitions of eventually making $200 a month and hopefully learning a bit. I did end up learning a bit.
If you're not passionate about it you're not going to get anything done so you need to "man up" one way or the other (ditch or push). Really think about what you want, if you want this project to get done go at it full spin otherwise leave it and take on an easier or more passionate undertaking.
Over 50 visits/second in realtime. Blog covering live boxing match on now.
Oh, nice. Is this research in the pipeline or are you incubating the idea for the future? I am also thinking about this as a research topic - independent summer study, to be more specific. I am hoping to give the matter some serious thought - why negative data is not considered valuable, what sorts of conditions would make it valuable, and how the framework of publishing should be, so that others can easily access, understand, and reason about the data.
Are you interested in a subset of these? Do you know any resources on where to start thinking? I know there's the Journal of Negative Results in Biomedicine, but I don't know of other efforts or perhaps societies/groups for this cause.
I know... his was missing an x is all.
Call it swingvote and allow people to create profiles that then show you (rough) demographic information.

It would be similar to those espn fangraphs(just more awesome).
I had no idea that Eric Schmidt had written lex!
Well, technically they haven't made $75million in 19hours. It is estimated that they did.

If you read it, they are basing the numbers on Apple Online store numbers which is accurate enough to boost stocks if you own them, but woefully inaccurate otherwise (because you don't actually know what percentage of sales are iPad sales).

It means even less when there is no comparison with competing devices). Finally, its pre-orders which means less, because the percentage of people who preorder a device, depends on the device.. I personally believe iPad sales will be slow, at least until WWDC and people know where the embedded OS is going..
while Pirates of Silicon valley was a cool movie, it wasn't exactly a good recount of the whole affair. In fact, Microsoft really mostly took their idea from the same exact place Apple did, Xerox. They even hired many Xerox employees to work on Windows.

Jobs seems incapable of believing that two companies can come up with similar products at the same time. The iPhone did not include any technology not already available elsewhere. It was the package as a whole that made it innovative.
What advice would you give me?

Get tptacek in here and listen to him. He's done the model you're describing and has great stuff to say about it.
Whoa, that's my girlfriend! So proud. Weird to see this after not being online for a week while traveling with her.
I'm still getting over the shock of being a tens-of-thousandsaire, believe me. There is nothing like being in business as a training tool for being in business, though. I don't think there is any grad school which will teach you, e.g., how to run an AdWords campaign or how to think about SEO, but these are fairly generalizable skills that I get to keep even if catastrophe strikes the teaching bingo market tomorrow.

Plus, as opposed to grad schools, businesses pay you while you learn. (This has always been my excuse for being a Japanese salaryman instead of going to grad school for Japanese.)
Exactly. What should matter is "are our cars getting safer or more dangerous?"

If that's the question, then I think it's safe to say that they are getting safer.

But if you're just looking for something to blame, it's a lot easier to blame something you don't understand.