skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are going to argue something while insulting the intelligence of the community you are trying to convince, at least make sure you have a clear and consistent argument to make. You're currently contradicting yourself, by first claiming

[..] only those with exception IQ's are able to achieve in certain fields

while you now claim

IQ tests are utter bullcrap

If you confuse the terms intelligence and IQ, any arguments concerning the difference become very unconvincing.
Based on the submitter's username, stealthyc2010, it should be clear that the startup is still in "stealth mode". This is somewhat common in the tech startup world. The veil will almost assuredly be lifted before they launch.
Show HN: My company released a new iphone App
We specialize in web development, so this was just a side project... but it was a lot of fun, and we learned a lot.
Thanks for sharing! One of your questions was about laying out the ebook.

For my own, I started with InDesign but found it too painful to use (I only used it for the cover). I used LaTex (since I had some math equations) but the benefit is that it's all plaintext and easy to modify with quick scripts. It also gives you really nice typography. Again, this is probably most useful if you end up having math equations inside :).
Please, he should be lvl 80 if he's serious at all.
The sites that don't have an API, we simply provide an iframe and provide the user the tools to easily cut & paste into the iframe (Worst part in the app). 90% do have APIs though, which we use extensively.

Right now, my niche is only dealers with 200 cars or less. It's what I know. Later, when I feel like we've dominated this niche, we'll expand into other areas for sure.

Thanks for the ideas.
Can a centralized source provide all the specialized technical support and services a real web living news agency will need? Alternatively would Huffington Post and Techcrunch be willing to add to their tech team by paying for this service?

The only differentiators I can see are:
"Lead generation:
get tips from your readers
automatically get sources for your stories
find out what stories people want to hear about, before they know themselves!
Collaborate with other journalists."

The other services (submit links, show ads) have questionable value. I have high hopes for a model like this though. I was looking for an open source model like a dedicated Wordpress though.
"We should be glad that open source (Linux/Ubuntu) works when it does. Its such a curious case that its expected of Linux to support all myriad kinds of hardware systems."

It really is impressive that things work as well as they do, but OTOH, if Ubuntu is really going to be "desktop ready" then it has to support modern hardware.

I attempted an install of Ubuntu 9.10 on an HP box with a Dell LCD monitor and an nVidia graphics card, and though it started out OK, the screen eventually went black. Turns out there was no workable default video driver in place to allow even crude graphics. Even the text/low-res installation options failed.

I did finally get it running (assorted usage of virtual terminals and ftp'ing of driver), but hibernation and suspend still don't work. And gnome-terminal has acquired some bug where it never warns you if you're closing multiple tabs.

Maybe this is an apples-and-oranges deal, but when I read of new gee-whiz crap like twitter integration in the task bar, while core behavior such as hibernation is still a crapshoot, and key apps are buggy, it makes me wonder where the priorities are.

Perhaps I'm just bitter about KDE3 being dropped for the saccharine mess that is KDE4. :(

Bottom line seems to be that OSS developers, by and large, hate working on the mundane stuff, and much prefer to invent Really Cool Stuff, regardless of any real need for it.

Shouldn't bitch about stuff that's free, but I'd like to think the people calling the shots care if the end results are properly usable.

The Magic 8 ball is telling me "Xmonad looking REALLY good". :)
Jessica Livingston with AirBnb live now.
Jessica interviewing Airbnb founders live on justin.tv
If this site would have also login via Facebook Connect i would made much more sense...
Sure. The same goes for Barack Obama. And this is why they're facing one hell of a revolt from the morons, who will not accept such people as them for leaders.

There are legitimate reasons to disagree with both Clinton and Obama, but the real problem they face is that they make the dumbs feel bad about themselves. Said dumbs elect manipulative bastards who play to their complex, and said bastards launch ad hominem attacks and make it almost impossible for them to get any work done. This is what the Clinton sex witch-hunt and the modern-day Republican make-Obama-fail-at-all-costs efforts are really about: stickin' it too those smarty-pants lib'ruls.
Twitter Turns On The Firehose For Realtime Search Startups
PHP Rewritten by Facebook
I love how transparent reddit is about these sorts of things. In their video from pycon, they even discussed their server hosting bills!

Crazy how such a minor design decision (not using consistent hashing) could have such huge consequences down the line...
This Car Runs on Code
Good article and being domain-specific has allowed you to really focus. It looks from your FAQ that you're still in 'beta' (although that word is not used) from your pricing policy. Are you experimenting with different pricing here or are you just being secretive? Curious as pricing has always been something that I've struggled with setting with our products, so wondering how you're doing it
Ugh, garbage. Use a HMAC with a master password and a parameter (e.g. the site name) to generate a site specific password. Forget about shitty crypto.

My humble attempt (based on others work): http://python.ca/nas/tmp/pw.html

Edit: just to be clear, the page linked above needs to be hosted on a server you trust and served by something like SSL. Do not use it directly over HTTP and expect some security.
Not everyone is plugged into the "scene" RSSes. Publications purpose is to discover trends in news signals, and distill that into a coherent format supported by argument.
since when does "over-saturated" == "tempting"? But I think I get the point ... none of these are tempting to me (except maybe a twist on a dating site) but I suppose they are for some.
This article is pretty good on covering the beneficial neural correlates of depression: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/magazine/28depression-t.ht... .

Whether they bear on IQ itself is an open question, but the fundamental concept is that certain mental habits that produce depression also produce focused thinking (which is a necessity for people who want to achieve at high levels).
I find it funny that this apparently meets the Wikipedia notability standards.

Anyway, I always found it strange that anyone would choose to use this license. The concept behind it is great, but why include unnecessary profanity in the license terms? It seems like it would only make it more difficult to defend the validity of the license and any works released under the license.
My first thought: What should I do here? Ooooh, two shiny buttons! tries one. Huh? Oh, I should probably start in that tiny, tiny bar…
It's not like the IPCC was trying to hide this. If anything, the entire way this scenario played out should be a reassurance that the IPCC and cooperating scientists are acting in good faith. They're not trying to "cover up" failures; they're acting on the established scientific process.

Actually, the linked research came from a survey commissioned by the WMO, not the IPCC...the IPCC fabricated the original claims that there would be more and more severe hurricanes due to global warming, according to the original article, with "no science so [sic] substantiate them."

One of the authors of this research, who resigned from the IPCC in protest over the original hurricane claim, indicated in 2005, "All previous and current research in the area of hurricane variability has shown no reliable, long-term trend up in the frequency or intensity of tropical cyclones." It has taken the past several years to compile data to change this stance, and the results contra-indicate the IPCC's original claims.

There are, undoubtedly, scientists who act largely in good faith based upon the existing climate data; the limited amount of data that I have seen indicates that there are aspects of global climate change that are quite real. The IPCC, however, is a political organization that appears transparently to be acting (or, at least, to have acted) in bad faith--between its baseless claims regarding hurricanes, its inaccurate estimates and later denial of the rate of melt of glaciers in the Himalayas, and various dubious data practices (failure of some members to comply with freedom of information requests, "lost" data and storing only reduced results of data, and selectively ignoring the tree ring data, to name just a few examples).

This is not the story of a claim being well-founded, but being corrected by advances in data or theory. This is the result of a political claim based on little or no evidence being examined by an outside body and found inaccurate.
Best would be to make that automatic depending on location.
I completely understand that, and tried to make my comment come as a critique rather than a criticism. Two of the most important factors in how much people trust news, however, is a) the source's reputation and b) who is paying for its generation, and how.

Asking journalists to potentially sign on without disclosing the latter can be a risky professional move for them, which could have a negative effect on the venture's success.
The Firebug team officially supports Firebug Lite for Chrome. Have you tried it? It still doesn't have full JavaScript debugging, but it'll cover 80% of everything else you need.

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/bmagokdooijbeehm...
I know this feedback isn't very critical - but I really like it a lot. I like the design. It is really nice to have the sliders for the goals rather than putting in numbers. There is a more malleable feel to it than just crunching numbers in a spreadsheet. It does feel like it would fit a wide variety of lifestyles/goals which I think is encouraging to new users. I thought the tooltips were great for exploring the different components of the page and what they did.

I'm assuming that you will do some work to make the input for food and exercise more automated?
Chilean Earthquake shifts earth's axis; shortens day by few milliseconds.
Personalized News Aggregation/Filtering: Having personally witnessed a few flame outs in this category I can honestly say though this area has lots of ideas and interest you will find very people willing to actually pay for personalizing it at any price point. Move along. No revenue to see here.
any reason to hide that you're http://newslabs.com/? same phone number on both pages.
Yet I can't use chrome for basic FTP access. I have to use Firefox (or could use IE.) So if this is old, the message is not necessarily dated.
What would you need to defend?
Interesting.

I have a few journalist friends (as no doubt do you guys) and pointed a couple of them at this.

Sure you've seen this already, but you'll probably find that a lot of your target market (well-trained but under-employed journalists) are quite bitter and resentful that they've been reduced to this. Despite the best intentions of startups like these, ultimately they just want someone who'll give them a honest day's pay on a stable basis to get on with what they love doing, writing well-crafted stories.

Not all journalists will necessarily be entrepreneurial sorts, and the ones that are will often be able to seek out geeky friends to help them out online anyway.

With that in mind, there are a lot of sites out there on the internet with too-good-to-be-true sounding propositions on how they can help you make money online, build an audience etc. Once burned twice shy with these sorts of operations - often it turns out they pay you peanuts to be a cog in the wheel of a SEO-spam factory which profits them more than anyone else. Even with the best intentions just to offer people better tools on a win-win basis, it's hard to avoid coming across as scammy or profiteering when dealing with people who're feeling unemployed and vulnerable career-wise.

So, I guess what I'm saying is you might really want to make sure you stand out from the crowd of "join our SEO-spam-factory and make pennies on the dollar for page impressions while we hoard pagerank" borderline-scams, both in the eyes of geeks and in the eyes of journalists who might not be able to tell the difference but just feel wary.

Would need branding and marketing that really speak to journalists in their own language, not in the language of the smug social media consultant telling them what they need to change about the way work THIS week in order to carry on making a pittance online :) (edit: not that you appear to be doing that at all)

(Also, speaking as a geek whose helped out journalists in the past, if the tools being offered lock you inextricably into some company's hosted ecosystem, I'd be a bit skeptical - I'd want tools I could use with an existing website where i have control - take google analytics for example - but I may not be your typical audience)

Anyway hope that didn't come across too negative, I'm glad more people are taking on what's such a tricky problem!
I like the idea, but the nutritional/exercise guidelines should be re-evaluated.

Caloric deficits don't work well for long term weight loss because the body has a tendency to move towards homeostasis.

It'd be nice to see something that tracks carbs closer and with an emphasis on hit intensity interval training (to promote GH release) with less emphasis on steady state cardio.
Experimental Extension APIs
> I don't know how many people use winter tires in the US.

The farther north you get in the US, the more likely it is that someone will use winter tires.

However, remember that the US tends to be farther south than Europe. For example, Rome, which is in Southern Europe, is about the same longitude as Chicago, which is north/central US. (See http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001769.html and http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001796.html .)

Yes, I know that winter temperatures and snowfall are more relevant but I don't have those.
I don't think you sounded unreasonable.
I think there is also the point of trying to restrict what the card receiver can buy. Most people when giving a gift card do it so hopefully the person buys something that is a gift like a dvd rather than food/rent/alcohol ect
I have been using the Safari/Chrome inspector a lot recently to clean up the cross-browser version of The Plan Is.

I'm probably biased because I learned how to use Firebug first, but it always feels like Firebug was designed to do what developers needed, and the Web Kit inspector was designed to copy as many of the Firebug features as possible. There are some sharp and pointy edges that look good but introduce friction.

That may be because Firebug is an extension and was mostly built by people who needed the functionality.

(Similarly the IE8 inspector, whilst horrible, feels like something that was (badly) designed rather than copied.)
Explain? Why do we have HDMI,DVI,RCA,BNC,Optical,Composite,Component,S-Video etc. in home theater setups? Why not one simple unified cable?

Why don't we have good wireless home entry systems? Does physics explain this?

Why haven't displays followed Moore's law like everything else has?
Losing weight by eating less calories and / or exercising doesn't work. It's just a popular myth.
Agreed. I write a reasonable amount of freelance print tech copy and have been looking for something interesting like this to move online.

But the secrecy is putting me right off :(. I guess they will give you more insight via email.

(getting into serious online journalism is pretty hard btw)
I enjoyed it for about 5 minutes. I'm pretty impressed with what you can accomplish in 14x14.

First think about what small feature you can add to the game to make it even more addictive. Can you take advantage of social gaming (comparing scores, multiplayer)? The model you have could skyrocket with the right small touches.

I'd wish you luck, but you don't need it :D. Game on!
Artist uses Street View website to travel the world virtually
I don't think there's an IQ test out there that can reliably distinguish 1M:1 ("175") intelligence from 1000:1 ("147"), but it definitely exists and, in some pursuits, it matters. I know because I'm in the 1-10k:1 range and I know some 1M:1 people (IMO gold medalists, Putnam fellows) and, although they aren't so different as to live in a separate world, they're clearly smarter.
<sarcasm>Well then clearly IPv6 will resolve these issues.</sarcasm>
First off, that should be Marvellous, if we're talking about Canada :).

Secondly, in what bizarro universe does the AEI praise anti-deregulatory Canadian policies? Cool nonetheless.
Why have you left Lulu?
And http://www.replie.com/
Good article - interesting story - but correct "let's" to "lets" right in the opening blurb on zipzoomauto.com!
I am impressed with the fact that he made $6k. A few years ago, I took a writing class that was taught by a published author. At the time, she had 4 books published, all Sci-Fi, by a New York publisher. She told the class that she got an advance of $5k for her first book. When that sold well enough to cover costs for the publisher, she started receiving royalties. At the time, she had gotten about another $5k. So for about 1 years worth of work and over 5 years time, she made about $10k.

I know fiction is a different market than programming, but just the number comparison is interesting.
I had the joy of doing one of the very first picnik integrations before their API was public. I got to work directly with Darrin and it was a joy all around. Super sharp and overwhelmingly nice guy.
I'm having rendering issues with Chrome on Ubuntu. The text boxes for current weight, goal weight etc. show up under the labels instead of to their right, and are mostly hidden and hard to click on. Firefox works fine.
Did you consider using DRM or is it just a freely distributable PDF?
I'm going to go back and read the article but does anyone here do any hacking on Honda ECUs? There's a pretty big community of engine tuners and programmers that focus on reversing Honda ECUs. It's a fun way to try and improve gas mileage and performance.

www.pgmfi.org for anyone that's interested.
You have an article that explains this in depth?
Don't you think that this lacks courtesy to post a comment rather than just email them? I mean, if there were a reason (and I can think of at least 3) then you just ignored it.
Although you could see it as reproducing this human (breeding, eugenics) you could also look at it as discovery and training. Sort of like being able to spot a really great runner at age 5 and getting them to the Olympics by age 18, etc.

I think if we can understand (since it probably isn't IQ) the "real" reason this person has such above-average abilities then we can find ways to test for it and help other people with these abilities develop fuller potential, and hopefully humanity gets something back - in both the arts and sciences.
Better yet -- the car senses when the keys are inside and just doesn't lock the doors. This is the actual behavior. I believe there are 3 sensors on the outside of the car (2 front doors, 1 on the trunk) and 2 inside the car, one in the trunk, and one in the dash. The one in the trunk is specifically for the "you locked your keys in your car" problem.
As I said before, peer review means nothing to me, because peer review replicates error just as much as it replicates truth.

In general, a piece of writing can contain facts (ex. the stock market crashed in 2009), interpretations of facts (ex. President x's policies reduced unemployment), and oughts (ex. leisure is inherently good). The line between the three can often be blurry. Henderson's piece contains facts, interpretations, and oughts. Most academic papers contain facts, interpretations, and oughts. Denigrating something as merely an "opinion" piece is simply a cheap and uninformative way of saying that you disagree with someone's interpretation of the facts.

and government research funding doesn't dictate political ideology

Ha! Future economists are selected by present economists based on their interpretation of the facts. Present economists were selected by past economists. The grant system was originally setup by the FDR administration and Vannevar Bush, who all believed in a powerful state managed by technocratic experts. So just as the Liberty Fund tries replicates libertarian interpretations of the facts, academic system tends to replicate the statist interpretations of the facts that the founders of the system believed in.

And you still didn't answer my original question. How many peer reviewed economics papers have you read through and carefully thought about? Do you have a favorite paper or two?
Couldn't they have put the server on Ebay?
Government Datasets That Facilitate Innovation
It is not a problem if you are the company selling the gift cards. Here is an old article showing how Best Buy profits from unused cards.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,237278,00.html

I generally try to spend the full value of the card at once otherwise I end up with cards with random amounts, lose track, and eventually forget about them.
So you grab the .net and .org. What happens when someone buys yourname.eu or yourname.mobi or yourname.biz? How many domain names are you prepared to buy?

If someone is going to use their name, he will find a version of the domain that you haven't bought regardless of how many you have already bought.
[Google] has said that it penalizes some, but not all, vertical search engines because they are essentially spam, gathering content and links from other sites to generate traffic and ad revenue.

I thought this line was funny. Thinking about pots and kettles and the color black, etc.
Googler ships exploit to defeat ASLR+DEP
Firebug has better usability in the places where it counts. The result is that using Firebug is, in general, faster than using Web Inspector. Let's take editing, for example:

* WI requires double-clicking, whereas FB allows single-clicking. If you think this is trivial, then try this out: Spend a day on the web double-clicking textboxes, links, and other elements that normally require single clicks. It will annoy the hell out of you, especially if you use a trackpad instead of a mouse.

* On a related note, FB shows you a text-editing cursor when you hover over an editable field. WI, on the other hand, shows you the same cursor no matter what you're hovering over. It fails to provide context clues as to what can be edited.

* When editing a field, WI doesn't update the page with your changes until you press enter. Firebug, however, updates the page in real-time, so you can see your changes before submitting them. This is huge.

* EDIT: After spending the last hour working with Web Inspector, I was reminded of something else: For no apparent reason, WI will sometimes reject my edits. I will edit a style, press enter, and it simply reverts to the previous value. Ugh. I don't know if this is a bug or not, but I remember running into it almost a year ago (admittedly much more often than I do now, though it shouldn't be happening at all).

Using Firebug is just faster by comparison. If you're a light user then it might not matter to you. If you do heavy DOM manipulation and design work on a regular basis, however, then speed is everything.
yeah. uh, so far I've made less than that on the book of xen[1] and the publisher has said that it is selling 'surprisingly well' - he (my publisher) warned me going in that writing technical books doesn't pay as well as most things a qualified person can do.

But then, I get a real kick when I walk into Fry's and see my book.

[1]http://nostarch.com/xen.htm