skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm trying #2, the sell on Flippa (rather than eBay) approach:
http://flippa.com/auctions/86405

Results are still pending. It's hard to sell a product/project without existing customers and revenue though. Good luck!
Not to mention that our SXSW interlocutor in question is herself a member of the privileged, white group, and therefore presumably at least partly suspect.
Interesting - I am not sure if I buy into this, but an interesting article.

In the USA, we stopped publishing our M3 figures 7 or 8 years ago -- a stunning lack of transparency, but as the article says, all governments lie about their finances.
I want to compile a C program so simple I can explain all of the assembly
No, it's not an opinion, autotune is evil :)
This is almost like saying "I found a painting in my basement. Should I throw it out, sell it, or donate it?".

Without better info about your "project" (what it does, who uses it, how far it is from completion or a 1.0 style release, etc.) it's hard to give a useful recommendation.

My guess is that if you've been dabbling with a lot of projects none of them are likely to be very robust yet. The fact that you are going to concentrate on one of them (and it's not THIS project) leads me to believe it likely has minimal value.

Barring better info in your question, I would say either:

1) Just open-source it and be done with it

2) Auction it off and donate the funds to something like the EFF (you might get more attraction this way and get a higher price. If the price got high enough you might be able to use it as resume padding (Built and sold webapp for 5 figure sum)).
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No doubt: open source it. It will benefit more people and it is better than shutting down or getting pennies for it.
I took his Programming Languages and Translators class when he was at Columbia. It was, hands-down, the best class I've ever taken. His enthusiasm for the subject was evident. The aspect about the class I liked best, and which I try to emulate, it that he rarely ever directly answered a question. He would, with incredible patience, ask you questions in-turn to help lead you to the solution or definition. I always found that impressive from a graduate-level professor.

I think I still have his ML implementation of Red-Black trees he gave the class.
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I've thought about making a special The Geek Atlas: London edition using this service (heard about it a few weeks ago). Doing it isn't a problem, now suppose I've got 5,000 copies how do I distribute them?
Don't apologise. The expectation here is that this is a community of adults and your comments were well within those bounds.

Jokull won't be calling anyone a jackass again anytime soon, I hope, and I have realised anew that people without my lengthy background in IT might not worship the same totems I do. Interesting. I keep forgetting that.

Chalk it up to experience, comrades, and carry on ...
The nexus one should do better when it goes outside US.
Quantifiable data is the best, so where applicable, make your answer choices a scale of 1 to 5 (ie. Very bad to Very good, unlikely to likely, never vs all the time)
gsk,

Thanks. I don't have a kid so I can't do the experiment. It's just amazing how much intelligence babies have.
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The Economist interviews a lot of experts, all of whom have their own agendas. Which makes perfect sense. A sustainable journalistic organization needs lots of generalists; experts are only rewarded for putting their expertise to work. So the only way to get high-quality information is to absorb some opinion along with it.
Suspended animation is within our grasp
Terry Bradshaw Drunk On Tonight Show
Terry Bradshaw was present at Jay Leno’s “Tonight Show” yesterday on Monday 15th Mar, 2010. On Tonight Show either Terry Bradshaw was dozing off or he was drunk as he was sleeping
Actually, Tmobile does allow you to pay for the service minus the subsidies. It's called their "Even More Plus" plan. You save a significant amount per month, plus no contract. It's an awesome deal, but I don't think a lot of American cell phone consumers have managed to understand yet just how much they're getting screwed on cell phone subsidies.
weego: excellent point! The countries with the worse problems (at least that will also badly effect the rest the world) are the UK and the USA. In making predictions we should be informed by chaos theory: things are basically unpredictable because small events can have such large unexpected consequences. That said, I expect the UK to pop sometime in the next several years and then my country to pop sometime after that.
It's interesting to me that JWZ likes Java the language and dislikes the JVM. Of course, most of his anti-JVM posts are at least ten years old, and the JVM was quite a bit worse then, but it seems odd to me that the Java language would look good to someone with a background in Lisp and C.

The sentiment I see from most hackers I know these days is exactly the opposite: the Java language is not well-liked, but the JVM is.
I'm at 1,251,501 if I exclude the century (19); otherwise, my DOB is not to be found.
s/attack/attract/ I believe.
They've been clear that they do look at your HN posts and comments, etc.

It may or may not be used for ranking in specific, but it's definitely used and they've always been upfront about that when asked.
Seriously. Who expected people to pony up the extra $300 for the Nexus One (over the Droid) just for the privilege of being on T-Mobile's sub par network and no contract? Most people stick with a carrier for half a decade or so. Two year subsidies are not that onerous.

Bring the Nexus One to Verizon with the option of a carrier subsidy and we'll see how much of a flop it really is...
Incidentally, this is why Don Knuth stopped giving out checks. http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news08.html
I don't mean the T-Pain style 'AutoTune-as-an-effect' -- I mean the subtler use of AutoTune to correct minor fluctuations in a natural-sounding performance.
Progress Wars
> although 355/133 is close and you can get as close as you like by using bigger numbers

355/113
You may end up with one anyway, no?
Why not use a service like HP's MagCloud? - http://magcloud.com/

They do printing and shipping.
I agree with his assessment. Any data representation can be construed as a graph - this is the basis of garbage collection. Besides the areas where graphs (or networks) are explicit in a problem, the most powerful use comes in analyzing a given model/algorithm. If you don't take that step to the meta-level, you might not see the use for graph theory.
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What I'm saying is the video did not show conclusively that it is exactly because of the still face. There were 2 elements in play in the experiment: the still face and the mother not moving at all.

If the mom was moving instead but with a still face and the baby reacted the same way, then it is because of the still face.

gsk, however, attested that it is the still face (see his reply to my comment above).
very true. Except the article is stating the Nexus One is a flop, not android:

> Nexus One sales are still flopping.
Very cool, but definitely blog spam.
That's a good question, and figures are hard to find. Statistical analysis is a huge market; SPSS, for instance, was recently bought by IBM for $1.2 billion, and SAS made $2.3 billion in 2009 alone. But while those companies started out as humble makers of academic software, and continue to make significant revenues that way, they both found the business analytics market to be far more lucrative, so those figures largely reflect their sales of large enterprise solutions. Companies that primarily sell to academics (e.g. Stata, Minitab) are private and don't publish sales figures.

We think our most promising immediate markets are social scientists (of which there are about 25,000 in the United States) and stats/science classrooms. While the original concept was mainly aimed at researchers, we've been shifting more toward classrooms recently, based on the feedback we've been getting. The two products we envision—the research product and the educational one—share the same core, as far as the interface and computational backend. So, we believe that we can pursue both markets, much as Lingt (YC S09) has both an individual product and a classroom product.

I should emphasize that my blog post is in no way intended as a pitch for Theoryville reflecting our most up-to-date thinking about our product or our business model.
Safari/OSX it would bring the browser to the foreground every couple of seconds. Even if Safari was hidden. Very irritating.
I don't think it's the carrier choice that's the problem. After all, the G1 and the MyTouch have both sold quite well despite being considerably less impressive phones than the N1. IMHO, the Nexus one suffers from two problems. One is that American cell phone consumers aren't used to unsubsidized phones and don't seem to have realized yet just how much they'd save if they pay for the phone up front.

The second, and IMHO larger problem is that there are no stores where you can go and hold a Nexus One and play with it. If this phone was in stores where people could see it, it'd be flying off the shelves a hell of a lot faster than Mytouchs or Droids.
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tarsnap + bash script! http://www.tarsnap.com/

Tar-like interface, data deduplication, awesome support, fair pricing. What more could you ask for?
Sort of, but China's main concern is to prevent its currency from appreciating too much. The danger of too much debt is the opposite problem - too much debt forces a devaluation. So again, the level of debt is not a problem for China.
No whole-system backups. Offsite (across the country) replicated MySQL database with daily full snapshots and periodic encrypted dumps to S3. Real-time encrypted mogilefs backups to S3 on a per-file basis. S3 MFA + versioning is a huge win in both cases. rsync for a small number of exceptions: IMAP data, development trees, etc. When a server fails, just re-image it, bootstrap with puppet, start it back up.
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What makes the difference between an average design and a kick ass design? Concept, contrast, colors...
I think handing them out free at the Game Developers Conference was more about getting game developers excited about creating games for the Android platform.
I can't see how anyone who really likes their nexus would be phased by this. Droid's success will ensure there's a steady stream of software for the nexus, and handset sales don't affect user experience. It's possible that google might not release a new nexus, and that would probably be bad, except it looks like android as a whole is here to stay. Someone will be manufacturing hi-quality android phones designed specifically to be better than the latest, shiniest iPhone, no doubt.

I just have to add, though, that as a long time fan of apple products, it still very, very weird to be using products with high market shares. You'd think I'd have gotten over it after a couple of years of the iPod, but no, it's still weird seeing apple logos everywhere. It's weird, but I kind of preferred it when apple's stuff was less common.
When I make a Skype call, I always seem to get G729 and not SILK.

Is SILK only use for calls between Skypes (and not Skypeout)?
That's why I first see couple of comments before jumping to the article.
What does the future look like? An IT-student perspective
reminds me of a really old article (before the term 'blog' even existed) about a person exploring why the heck a 'hello world' Linux ELF binary was so darn big. i think it's an interesting exercise to figure out why 'hello world' in your favorite language/runtime environment is the size that it is (e.g., what initialization code is being called, are any VMs or intepreters being setup, etc.)
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The narrator needs to be an octave lower, and they could have some more pauses between sentences. But this was a surprisingly good job. There aren't that many attack ad tropes, but they really seem to work.

Although it's missing a picture of the 37signals guys outside, with their golden retriever. I can't buy them as morally superior until I've seen that.
My thoughts exactly. If they supplied the same distribution channels as existing newspapers then it would be worth so much more. I can see Failblog or IcanHazCheeze having their own daily paper. It certainly would be more entertaining than the negative depressing headlines of regular newspapers.
It is only a flop if its goal was really to sell as a commercially viable product. If on the other hand it was meant to be closer to a reference implementation, it could be seen as a success as more and more Android based phones many of which are much like the Nexus One come to market.

The obvious counter to that is why would it be sold at all if it was primarily a reference implementation. And the obvious answer is marketing. A reference implementation is generally something only known about by Engineers and people who track what engineers do. A fully Google branded phone got tremendous press with practically no standard advertising, and it showed consumers what a Android phone could be.
Much as I dislike it, the fact is that any government can raise taxes (until they hit the point on the Laffer Curve where higher rates == lower revenue ... and it's far from clear that China is at that point).

Thus, China's "bankrupcy" is nonsense as long as the government is willing to up taxes.

Also, just as you have to evaluate the P/E ratio of a company in the light of its growth rate, you have to evaluate the debt of any entity in terms of its growth rate.

E.g.: would I be happy to loan $100k to someone earning $25k/yr ?

No.

...but what if I knew for a fact that the person's income was going to double every year for the next 10 years?

Well, that's a different story: in 10 years, the person's income will be $25 mill/year, and the debt will be trivially easy to repay.

China has had a 10% GDP growth rate for a decade now. That means that every decade their GDP is 2.5x higher than before.

A "high" debt load (measured in % of current GDP) seems a lot less worrying in that context.

To really nail the issue down, you need to figure out if they're going to keep up that growth rate, and China won't grow at that rate forever ... but another 10 or 20 years sounds like a safe bet.
Yes, plans are cheaper without the contract. Unfortunately, not a lot of people know about this. I told my friends that they could save about $20 a month if you're not under contract and they were surprised.

In 2 years and $20 savings a month, it makes the price of the Nexus One reasonable.
I agree. Also, if you happen to be an existing T-Mobile customer you get to pay a $100 loyalty penalty!
That was my first thought as well. That article is found at http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.htm... (if that's the one you were thinking of)
Yeah, VMWare is actually a very good product. I also use it professionally and personally.
I love CherryPy because I like simple software. That it can hold it's own on benchmarks is icing on the cake.

I admit that getting your head around configuration for the first time is an hour or two of staring at documentation, but once you get past that you'll love how simple it is. Getting it running under Apache via mod_wsgi is also a refreshing breeze.

Where Django is great for building websites, the beautiful transparency of CherryPy is excellent for building webservices (no cryptic errors).

We're using CherryPy with Routes, CouchDB, couchdb-python, couchdb-lucene, and lxml for a web annotation project and we couldn't be happier.
We also use tarsnap, would certainly recommend
This is true of most things.

A few things require true genius, but most things can be done by anyone with enough effort. But few people put in the effort so when someone does and produces good results, they deserve the credit.
Wow, harsh. So, if something else makes you busy is Rapportive going to die too?
Is there anyone who isn't?

We're going to be explaining to school children how every sovereign entity in the world can be in crippling debt simultaneously for centuries. Here's hoping those next societies actually learn something from this. With a bit of luck and a whole lot of making hard choices, perhaps ours will be one of them.
Reminds me of this article I read a while back.

http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/

Someone actually did the Moscow-Pyongyang trip. I have no idea how they bought the tickets though.
Good Eyesight? Thank Snakes (Longer article)
Well Benford's law says it's more likely to be a 1 but the rest of it falls into the 5% failure rate they're allowing. Also from my skim of the rules I think you have one to many zeros.
I divide my backups into three types:

Bare metal.

Frequently changing data.

Occasionally changing data.

Everything is weighted by how automated I can make it (e.g. everything but some day to day monitoring), what worse case recoveries are possible (no one cares about backups, only recovery) and time to recovery (my personal use, so a few hours are OK). And the threat level, e.g. a fire in one room (sprinklers) and the possibility a tornado would take out the local hardware but leave me alive (I live adjacent to tornado alley and have lived through a couple).

So I have a bare metal backup of a compressed image of my system drive (made with dd using a live-CD) which is updated every time I mess with LVM and nightly snapshots of my root partition (LVM snapshop of partition with dd).

From that toe-hold I can rebuild my system from any worse case short of hardware destruction, I use nightly backups with BackupPC for normal system recovery, augmented with what's below for frequently changed data.

Frequently changing data, like email and code I'm working on, is rdiff-backup snapshotted every hour. If I was maintaining customer data I'd do a continuous process.

The same data is rsyncsrypto-ed and most of that is rynced to rsync.net.

Occasionally changing data is rsynced every night.

I try to avoid common mode failures, e.g. no one piece of software, one system or one disk will cause total data loss.

Ask if you want particular details; for a long treatment of this, read Backup & Recovery, "Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems" by W. Curtis Preston (http://www.amazon.com/Backup-Recovery-Inexpensive-Solutions-...). It's getting to be a bit old, but a lot of it still holds and the principles will be true for a long time.

(Note, while the above particularly paranoid approach is for my personal systems, it's based on harsh experience going back to 1977 (sic), including plenty of small scale "enterprise" systems where total data loss was unacceptable and a couple of 24x7 Internet startups.)
Humans haven't stopped evolving in the 8000 years since grains were cultivated. It would seem logical that changes allowing grains to form an effective part of the diet would have occurred. Take the example of milk - humans in heavy cattle dependent parts of the world (ie: most everywhere except north east asia) produce enzymes allowing its digestion into adulthood. So can we now digest grain effectively?

For comparison: a mutation in one gene giving a 1% increase in survival chance will reach 50% saturation in a population in an average of 100 generations. For humans that's 2500 years or so.

What I'm saying is that if you don't have a genetic disposition to gluten intolerance you're likely to be perfectly ok with grain.
Furthermore, as Isbell points out, of all the species, only humans point declaratively,

Out of all species there are a lot of things humans do which are unique to humans. That doesn't mean such things evolved from snakes.
For what it is worth, the biggest class of these is known as the Likert Scale (Strongly Agree, Agree, Neither Agree Nor Disagree, Disagree, Strongly Disagree). There's a slew of research on how to apply and interpret these if you google that term.
Yup, it was the same article that I was thinking about. Although architecture has changed from x86 to amd64.
In my case it's a $300 loyalty penalty, as I'm on a flexpay plan.
That was a really cool article, anyone with more knowledge on the subject want to comment on how sound the author's thought process is? Thanks.
Ask HN: Do any 3D TVs allow watching two different streams?
So here's a novel idea (I think). All the 3D TVs that I've seen so far employ active glasses for shuttering every other frame. It seems like it would be a fairly minor hardware tweak to allow these rigs to add the capability of showing two completely different 2D image streams to two groups of viewers.

In other words, people with their actives glasses switched to "A" could watch NOVA while the kids are playing Xbox on the same TV.

Obviously, audio is a problem, but the glasses are already active, so slapping a Bluetooth audio receiver in there and some ear buds should solve that.

This seems like a vastly more useful feature for me than watching the occasional 3D movie. Has this been done?
It may have taken an MBA or an Econ major to write that article, but luckily it doesn't take one to benefit from the knowledge it provides.
I think this short review does a disservice to Isbell's work. It seems to use a very minor point about pointing and peripheral vision, when it looks like she did much more research to support her views. From this review: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertai...

"The crux of Isbell’s Snake Detection Theory focuses on vision and is straightforward: 'Visual systems are more developed in those primates that have shared the longest evolutionary time with venomous snakes and least developed in those primates that have had no exposure at all to venomous snakes'."

There's also a very interesting and much longer review I just submitted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1195869

Edited: I see a lot of comments about snakes not preying on humans. But humans evolved over millions of years from much smaller primates. That's where Isbell thinks the evolutionary arms race took place. You could argue the reason snakes don't prey on humans is because our ancestors won that arms race.
I think that's unfair. It may not be obvious from the outside but we spent a while discussing this internally.

What's happened is unfortunate for Go Test It, but from what I've seen from the rapportive team, they are fully committed to it (they sit within 5 meters of where I do).
I see this as more useful for people who want to publish newspapers and don't have to worry about distribution. Mainly events or regular gatherings where their key audience is already there.
Eg: Churches could use this for local news / events. Just leave a pile by the door.

(Edit for grammar)
You've never had to choose one unexpected opportunity over another? It's never easy, but I think you should probably cut them a little slack.

That said, I'd probably see if I could figure out how to pay someone else to run Go Test It. I have no idea how well the service was doing, though. It seems like maybe not that well if it's worth dropping. :)

--edit--
Oh, I had no idea Go Test It was a Red Gate product. Now I'd like to 2x my first paragraph up there. Quitting a job because something you own is gaining momentum is (a) exceedingly normal for this group and (b) what any rational person should do.
Corrected - thanks.
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