skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly it doesn't do much of a job in it's stated aims. In fact is only a lack of hard data that stops me saying it has no effect at all...
A catalogue of charities giving information about their goals and their financials. Help me to help others most efficiently with my money.
The very faq you link to uses cautious language. Look at "currently most accepted model" right there in the first question.

If you've followed cosmological history at all, it's been a cascading series of big changes decade after decade.

I'm virtually certain the model of 2030 will vary in deep, significant ways from the model of 2010.
No product is truly tested until it faces the marketplace. Until then, even the best ideas and plans may be wrong. So why invest deeply in things that might not work? It'd be better to just know.
Engaging lay science journalism that doesn't suck.
Disclaimer: most of these aren't anything new or earth shattering things that need to be solved.

I dislike having a gazillion different Instant Message accounts with contacts that "only use MSN" or "only use AIM". SMS messaging may be a rip-off but there is one thing it has achieved: uniformity.

Craigslist is great but it caters to the lowest common denominator - which can be frustrating.
"Deprecate the base of Maslow's pyramid"
Inventing cheap and healthy concentrated 'food' that would allow people to eat once a month or even more rarely. Almost all other problems have a root in our needing to eat (work and cars, pollution, corruption, fighting for social status and it's consequences). You'd have the autonomy and time to take long trips without needing to carry much.
That's the thing, it's mostly all stuff we "might know". And most of the observations are based on a lot of assumptions and inferences. It's not like "how much liquid is in this vial". The measurements and observations depend on a chain of things being true that might not be true.
I like it! Something that tells me exactly when it's ok to pull out would remove stress from my day and improve traffic flow.
The BBC covered this phenomenon in a hour long program on Tuesday. For any one who can get it or is interested, link below.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00rgg31/Horizon_200920...
That game looks awesome but I found it rather amusing that the video shows the "hero" stalking a creature through the forest and into his home and then killing him for no apparent reason? Seems like a dick move to me.
This was an incredibly boring interview.
Solar powered 3D printers that use the carbon in CO2 to make stuff.
If you were to write an AdWords ebook, I would buy it. Like a good one, I could easily rationalize spending lots of money on it.
Actually, Coke's formula isn't patented. Many say it's the best kept trade secret in the world. They keep competitors from copying them by keeping their recipe a secret.
There seem to be at least two different "fail fasts". I think you're talking about ideas failing fast; Mark's talking about companies failing fast.

It bothers me seeing people giving up too easily. Pisses me off, even. That's what struck a chord for me in Mark's post. It doesn't compute for me when I see people get really excited about an idea, have the first iteration not stick and then just stop. And that seems to be really common. I think that's the rub with Mark too.
Biochemicals as Media, Not Methods
Going ahead with "Horror"
Having a fulltime job and doing your project outside of it is like sticking a dagger into the heart of your idea. If it's a great idea, someone is likely working on a solution (sorry, but there are other smart/creative people out there).

I know people who try to work part-time. But part-time does not == 50%. From what I've seen, it looks more like 25%. Those part time jobs have a way of encroaching more and more into your life. PG has wise words on one of his essays about this.

Working full time on an idea, gives a great sense of fulfillment and you can make great progress on a day to day basis. The downside is that it's easy to fall into a vacuum where you're isolated from the world. If you take a day off and slack, there's no one who's going to fire you. The downside of that is that you really have to manage your time yourself and be good about it.

If you have experience managing yourself to a daily schedule and also managing yourself to a roadmap/sprint/plan then you can do well.

In terms of bills, really most people have more money than they think. At least that's my opinion. I think the average person who saves some and has worked for a few years has some money saved up. If you haven't been working for long then you're probably used to living on a shoestring budget. If you can deny yourself all the things you don't really need in life, your money will go a long way.

Lastly, get out! Don't just work from home all the time. Work from a cafe or the library. Meet up with friends.. esp any who may be in the same situation as you. Get out. Exercise. Take breaks!

Oh another last thing. Doing your company really takes much longer than you anticipate. It's a marathon, not a sprint. So make sure you take care of yourself in the process. It's too easy to become a workaholic and let everything else (health, relationships) go to waste.
The difference is that this is a public rather than a private statement so the context is obvious. Specifically "we don't understand what's going on, we've tried to explain it in different ways, and can't, yet" vs. "I've succeeded in hiding important faults in this research, don't tell anyone".
Definitely. Companies can always change focus, do something else. But I think you can't push an idea to work when it isn't good enough. Perhaps there is bleed across the two concepts.
And since they are the ones who enact laws, good luck getting them to pass something like that.
Thanks for that. :)
None of what you've said changes the fact that you're arguing for an absolute viewpoint. Porn == bad, no exceptions (unless I misunderstand you) and absolute viewpoints oversimplify the issues they pertain to.

I also don't agree with you that "tearing opiates out of their context in medical treatment" as you so negatively frame it is a bad thing either. Who are you to say that's the only legitimate context for them to be in? If people want to take smack or any other drug recreationally, then that should be up to them[1]. I trust you can see how I would look at this analogy relating to your view on porn.

I put in the line about law because it's a point I was reminded of as I was writing. I do that sometimes, including a thought that occurs to me in my writing. Even in replies I don't always feel the need to limit my prose to issues specifically raised by others.

These things you're informing people about may be something you "know" however you wish to define that, but I don't see many objectively verifiable facts. I will read the PDF you linked to when I get the time (I have only been able to scan over it at this point), but I don't expect to find anything that will persuade me that your absolutist view is justified.

[1] It's another thing entirely if they endanger others by e.g. driving while under the influence of said drug, but this as you have said to me on another matter, is a different issue.
Rechargeable batteries good enough to power a vehicle would be nice.
Also - no screenshots for most apps, an OS X screenshot used for one, and learning commands to install software (fairly sure at least suse has URLs to click for apps these days).
A link to Lists is already at the bottom of the page
You're both correct. We know a lot about cosmology compared to what we knew, say, 100 or especially 200 years ago. Many of the big, open cosmological questions throughout human history (what is the Universe, how was it created, how old is it, what are the stars, what powers the stars, how far away are galaxies, etc, etc) have been answered.

We should not downplay that remarkable achievement. We know the age of the Universe to high precision, despite the fact that that age is fully 6 orders of magnitude greater than all of human history.

Nevertheless, there is still much we don't know, and likely what we don't know easily exceeds what we do know, by a fair margin. We do not know the nature of the majority of dark matter, we do not know the nature of "dark energy", we do not fully understand why the Universe is filled with matter rather than just energy, etc.
a) an open source software repository of all programming languages/operating system software implementations. (Note: http://catb.org/retro/ is a good start, but there needs to be more)

b) improving democracy by reasonable application of at least some of the technological advances of the last decade; why hasn't that happened yet?
God I hope you're joking...
Because of legacy hardware. Getting loads of locks re-cored is expensive.
University Research 2.0. It seems like universities are so lateeee on adopting new technologies. Most of them are still working with printed scientific journals / email / static HTMLs + GIFs from the 90s. They still do a lot of stuff through the mail and the count goes on... If you don't trust me, just take a look at http://arxiv.org/ or MIT's website. I'm pretty sure there's room for amelioration! If anyone wants to brainstorm on the topic, feel free to contact me.
This is why, on most vinyl albums, the low end/bass sounds are panned dead center.

Lots of low end panned hard left or hard right can result in the needle jumping out of the groove, and can result in unnecessary compromises in mastering.... there's one album in particular that doesn't have hardly anything above 5k on it, and it's because they decided to pan the bass hard left.
One of the points is that you often need to adjust (sometimes significantly) before you've given the business a chance to succeed. Some fail fast practitioners may see market resistance as disproving the idea, instead of valuable feedback to incorporate into product adjustments.
That actually worked? I thought you had to tap the line switch (the switch the receiver pressed down on when not in use), not the receiver. Which would make sense, to reduce interference from sound coming through the receiver while dialling.

Supposedly pulse dialling still works on (most?) new telephone equipment. That's what the vendors of classic phones I've been looking at are saying, anyway.
Job search is very broken. Monster/Dice/Craigslist &c are broken. Not sexy, I know, but I imagine the people who solve that problem will become quite rich.
Cheap and thin electronic paper. I'm talking about e-paper as thin as regular paper and bound into notebooks. Then I can buy ~5 notebooks that each have to ability to display any e-book or text based file. I also need the ability to write in these notebooks so that I can store my notes electronically.
"De-manufacturing" instead of throwing away things. A company that sells you an item must take it back at the end of its life and break it down into constituent parts to be re-used/recycled. i.e. cars, phones, computers, fridge, house, office fitouts etc. Companies will seek to maximise profits and so make things that are easily re-used/re-sold.

An example of a product like this is the 1981 Jeep CJ-7 I had when I was young. I could swap in pieces from around 4 other models from a range of 15 years of production and they would work... nowadays the door panel from a 2009 BMW 323 won't fit a 2010 323, its ridiculous and leads to a lot of unnecessary waste.
As far as I can tell, it applies to graphic designers [1], architects, animators, etc. as well. As a programmer I've got more people throwing money at me than I have time for, so it definitely depends on what it is you do. I also think the indefinite internships are partly self-inflicted - once you make it known that your time is available for free, employers are probably more likely to exploit that. A lot of students in Austria seem to have almost comically socialist views, maybe the concept that they're selling their time on the free market is foreign to them.

[1] my sister is in that boat right now - she can find paid unskilled work or unpaid design work; she's in Berlin, though
1) ubiquitous public transport.
2) Safe bicycling in most cities.
3) Better treatment for chronic pain
Another reason for turning it by 45 degrees is backward compatibility. If you play a stereo disc on a mono player you want to get a "mix" of the channels instead of one of the channels.
I've always heard of fail fast in the sense that Eric Ries and Steve Blank talk about it: Get your product in front of customers as soon as possible. Iterate.

Don't hole up and build your grand ideas for 1 year before anybody sees it and gives you feedback because you're afraid to fail.. fast.

But Suster seems to be talking about a different things. It's like corporate types taking a product development methodology and applying it to running a company. That's frightening!
Making money off volunteers tends to make those volunteers disappear. Restricting themselves to charity may help, but it'll be an endless debate that will hurt them a lot.
These things are generally about politics rather than "technical considerations" or "reality". People have explained that these things aren't going to work but it doesn't seem to slow politicians down if they think there's a vote in it.

To have any effect, SSH tunneling needs to be explained to, and understood by, the population at large.
Indeed, irssi seems to be the canonical solution to automating anything irc-related, unless you are writing a bot. If you ARE writing a bot, there's bot base packages for pretty much every language imaginable.
Tomorrow they'll prohibit 1984, Animal Farm and will remove Hitler from history course. A day after that they'll put cameras in you apartment, as a required part of lease.

Welcome to brave new USA.
Since all the criminal checks and assumption that it's likely most people may be pedophiles, the number of male teachers has dropped to almost 0. I don't think that's coincidence, and I don't think it's a healthy trend.
MARRIAGE may be a pointless cultural artifact, but the legal benefits they endow are certainly not pointless. I'm not gonna skip out on tax breaks and shared ownership and various other rights with someone I intend to spend my life with, just because I'm too lazy.

Though, if there was (as I envision it) a state-based 'civil union' that conveyed those benefits, and also 'marriage' which was purely church-based and conveyed no benefits legally (though of course those getting married would also file for a 'civil union') I might skip out on the church part.
Chris Dixon: Don’t try to be clever and get an auction going... [i]f you do, once the price gets to the point where only one investor remains, that investor will look left and right and see no one there and might get cold feet and leave you with no deal at all.

Venture Hacks: Auctions and artificial deadlines create a positive feedback loop of social proof ("Other people want to invest, don’t you?") and scarcity ("Hurry up or the deal is going to disappear"). That’s what closes deals... [but] don’t use the a-word (‘auction’) when you’re raising money. Investors don’t like it. Auctions are "taboo" when you’re selling part of your company to an investor...

http://venturehacks.com/articles/adam-smith/comment-page-1#s...

Synthesizing the two, it seems you want an auction-like simultaneous, short-term, competitive process... but without the 'auction' name, without being too blatant, and without winnowing it down to a solitary highest bidder (who will then face buyer's remorse/fear-of-winner's-curse).
The guy took his majority of sound effects from Zelda Ocarina of Time (fire, bushes, sword slash, water, fairy aiming (z button), and maybe more). If his game ever become successful, he is bound to receive a letter from Nintendo…
It seems like he's discussing a form of reflexivity, this phenomenon actually IS present in the capital markets.
Compare costs of relocation with Wolfram Alpha
Something like http://www.charitynavigator.org/ ?

Lists charitable organizations, including their mission statements and financials, and rates them within their specific fields. (A financially healthy museum will look very different from a financially healthy feed-the-children program, which is why it rates by category.)
Still, even if the recipe was known,there is a distinct Coca Cola experience that no competitor can copy. It's one of the most known brands in the world. If a competitor would sell his stuff which would taste exactly like Coca Cola the consumer still wouldn't get the status of drinking the real thing.

For startups I think the best advice is to stay relevant. Don't ever think you're done. Look at what happened to myspace.
That's the other big benefit of having one or two other people there with you. You have your own cheerleading team - many times we have had conversations that get us re-psyched to tackle some hard problems that otherwise seemed daunting. Motivating myself would be hard without other people alongside me, giving up other social and business opportunities for what seems like a great idea.
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I'd like to see someone solve the problem of (snail) mail.
Its the one thing that is really preventing me from living a digital nomad lifestyle. I still have to visit my office at least once a week just to pick up mail, half of which is often junk and half of which im normally too late for.
Shameless self-promotion disclaimer I have taken baby steps in trying to build a more intelligent classified site at yourgrounds.com

I too feel your pain, and any feedback you have would obviously be incredibly worthwhile - especially if you want to help solve this specific problem.
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(relevant, since it's a current events article)
Algorithm X in 30 lines
While I'm happy for the vote of confidence, writing books feels a lot like work to me. Then, after I write it, I get to deal with a lot of email like "WTF dude I can barely afford my ramen and you want $500 for this? That's like $10 a page!? I can buy a sci-fi paperback and get a HARD COPY for only $6!", and that isn't my definition of a good time.

Instead, I prefer using what I know to make money directly (not necessarily limited to increasing my share of the teaching bingo market, hopefully) and possibly doing some consulting. Folks working on their next bowl of ramen can read my blog for free. I get emails saying mostly positive things. Everybody is happy.
For me, I quit full time into doing something completely unrelated. Sure, it was great to be able to work on my own stuff and it did make me more productive. However, it has its ups and downs. I found that I needed a '3 day weekend' every two weeks, or else I'd mentally refuse to work on it even if I was pushing myself.

Wasn't too worried about paying the bills as I was living in my parents' basement. However, the drawback of that is the same as having too much money--doesn't make you anxious enough to figure out how to get to ramen profitability.

It wasn't too hard to stay on track if you're use to seeing things to the end, or if you're into what you do, or you believe in it. What's difficult is deciding when to quit. Do you have little users because your product sucks? Or because you don't know where to find them? If not, how do you? Is there something here, but you're not doing it right, or is there really not anything there?

Having been through that as a single founder for a little less than two years was a lonely at times, but you just get use to it after a while. If anything, it's toughened me up a little.

Overall, I think quitting your job isn't quite as scary as one may think, especially if you use your time to learn and grow. Chances are, you'll learn a lot (what, people never say, but it's one of those experience things), and you won't end up in the gutter. If I've discovered anything, it's that the world is a bigger place than you can imagine. People do all sorts of things to make money, and you find opportunities and opportunities find you as long as you do something of meaning to yourself, can teach others, and can build something and get it out there for others to use.

If I had a regret these last four years, it's that I didn't learn faster, and that I didn't quit sooner. That said, don't quit willy-nilly. Have a plan and have goals. Those plans and goals might change, but as long as you know what you're going to be learning out of the experience, that's what counts.
And then there are the people like me, who buy a MacBook Pro and install Linux on it.

Interesting to note pg pointing out Apple's openness. I don't really consider them all that open these days, but I suppose they're better than many companies. I guess my perception of their lack of openness is more due to their treatment of the iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch than that of their laptops.

Apple is open when they think that can make them money, closed when they think that can make them more money.
Isn't this covered by Indeed/Simplyhired?
page_cache rails plugin that caches pages as a localhost background job to give a holeless cache: http://github.com/eliotsykes/page_cache

To be sure cached pages are being served, if a non-localhost request makes it through to the Rails app, for a page that should be cached, the plugin throws an exception.

Perhaps a bit extreme but gives me peace of mind that the cached pages are always being served. Currently using it on missedconnections.com
There's some progress, although research, and implementation/execution are two very different concepts.

http://futurity.org/
On the other hand, eating isn't just about consuming food. On the average day I probably spend more time talking face-to-face with people while I'm eating than I do for the entire rest of the day. And I doubt that that's unusual these days.
Yes I do have kids.

The incidence of crime here is so low that criminal checks, CCTV on schools etc is just stupid.
If you live in a city, then sure, maybe you want more security.

How many people with criminal records that actually put our kids at risk, apply to be teachers? It's likely a negligable %. When they go for an interview, they'd likely be refused if there was a real risk.

It's like taking off your shoes at the airport. It doesn't stop anyone who wants to blow up a plane, and it just pisses travelers off and makes them fly less.
Or there's people like me who get a MacPro tower from work and promptly install Windows on it because it compiles huge projects significantly faster than XCode...

Seriously, it's about getting a job done -- use what works. Who cares what the name of the OS is? I don't care whether I'm using a Dewalt drill or a Black & Decker. I care whether the drill works. Why is a computer any different?
All information about horse racing
Most of the people around the world are having much knowledge about the Horse racing.
Turning Facebook Fans into Loyal Customers
A practical, robust method for separating essential complexity from accidental complexity in software engineering.

Trevor Blackwell has written about something like this: http://tlb.org/busywork.html
It does (or at least did) - try it if you know someone with a landline. I was surprised too, as I just tried it on a whim one day. I grew up with pulse telephones and particularly loved the chunky sounds of old models so I used to play with the phone a lot as a kid.

You had to have a good feel for the timing of the pulses or the trick didn't work. Taps and clicks broadband noise with a very sharp transient so it would have to be a very noisy environment indeed for the ambient noise to interfere. I've never played with any analog exchange equipment but the electronics to detect and count pulse dialing doesn't need to be very sophisticated.
I'd say they could go for pure sponsorships - just a set of logos with a link to each sponsor's homepage, under the heading "Wikipedia Gold Sponsors". Very few options to sponsor a reduced part of Wikipedia (i.e. sensible to allow on language level, not at keyword level). Probably still would make the foundation a healthy sum of money each year - many large corporations would like to be seen as good-hearted contributors to the world's largest source of free curated information.