skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, so I've run my analysis, my first guess was wrong, we'll see how many it takes to get it, if ever.
Wow. Who'd have thought people could be so passionate about their Kindles.

It's sad that the innocent author is being taken out as collateral damage in the Kindle fanboys' desire to send a message to the publisher, but what I never expected was that the Kindle was getting the kind of passion that we've come to expect mostly over some Apple iPhone/iPad...

Maybe it bodes well for the Kindle's future (if not for the civility of its fans).
As you're no doubt aware, but your readers might not be, sucrose (table sugar) dissociates into its fructose and glucose halves pretty much as soon as it hits your stomach.

So cutting back on, e.g. high fructose corn syrup (a roughly 50/50 mix of glucose and fructose) won't help if you're replacing it with sugar.
Your service sounds awfully lot like Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange, which seems to work just fine without the need to "verify" users or require users to login via Facebook. Why does your service need it? Also, I have no desire for a site (yours or otherwise) to take my picture and friend list from Facebook, and it's a little presumptuous for Quora to require me to provide this information.
"Team player" apparently means "spineless pushover", not "someone who plays on a team".
And 13% is just the average! I was on the other night during what must have been a perv peak (20%). It was slightly terrifying.
Exercise probably does help because of a "side effect", namely reducing muscle insulin resistance. The direct effect of burning calories is too small (and too easily offset by increased appetite) to have much to do with weight regulation.
So someone in the software industry, if things didn't work out at Garmin, there are many other high paying software jobs in Olathe?
It could (particularly since p21's suppression is related to general anti-cancer processes), though they explicitly said they did not observe it in the mice trials (they were actively looking for cancer).
Well, it may not be so much that they're zealots as that they've invested cash in their Kindles... so it becomes a wallet thing what they can't get what they think "they're entitled" to have on their K.
Hahaha. I sympathize with your rant. I have been a developer in the GIS world for 7 years and I don't own a dedicated GPS. I've always wanted one but the software and data issues leave me face-palming. Why they don't just open the standard / create an API or both is beyond me. Weekend developers writing iPhone apps have created better interfaces than these jokers.
It is funny. Whenever people ask for nutrition advice I refer them to forum.bodybuilding.com because they have a couple of dedicated support forums for nutrition / weight loss.

Most people almost never listen or bother to do. For some reason they have an aversion to taking advice from body builders even though those guys spend more of their time on fitness and nutrition than others.
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I suggest rather that it is the fruit of a strategy change. Every other phone (that I know of) you typically obtain by walking into a store. Nexus One is only available online, to the point that they don't have them in T-Mobile stores to demonstrate to customers. Whether this will change with AT&T I don't know.

Why? I'm not sure. But it strikes me that it costs a lot of money to launch a new product such as a cellphone. For a competing model such as the Droid I've seen many TV ads, billboards, print media adverts, flyers, people in Verizon employee uniforms on the street, special merchandising displays in the stores, and so on. I can't guess at the actual marketing spend for this but it must be considerable - tens of millions wouldn't surprise me.

Companies spend all that money on advertising because it's the quickest way to drive sales and recoup their development investment within as few quarters as possible. Now, we know Google is absolutely awash in cash. what if they took the view that they could easily afford to sit out several quarters, perhaps over a year, for the device to become popular rather than spending as much on the marketing as they did on the hardware development? A good many of their products seem to be released rather than launched, and allowed to gain momentum slowly, which also gives them plenty of time to refine and improve the product without committing infrastructure to an avalanche of support requests that might or might not materialize. This might be why Google has never engaged in any large-scale layoffs - they don't over-hire to begin with.

When you think about it, sales of 135,000 for a >$500 device based only on a picture, a spec sheet, and Google's good name, without any traditional advertising whatsoever, is rather impressive. That's $71 million in revenue for a company that has never sold any consumer hardware before. True, only a 6th as much as the last iPhone and the Droid over a similar period, but with minimal launch costs. And remember Apple having to cut the iPhone price by 30% in 2007 and then send checks to unhappy early adopters? No sign of that so far, despite the phone's high sticker price.

Disclaimer: I bought a Nexus One last week. AMA.
This is so interesting because Facebook, unlike Google, still has not demonstrated a viable, profitable plan for its operations. They have ads but afaik, like most ad supported sites, they don't make back the money. Maybe Facebook Credits are starting to catch on.

The thing is, unlike Google, which had a good, scalable business plan, and was able to grow to its current size reasonably and organically, Facebook is continually propped up by outside investment and debt.

Facebook also right now has a much, much smaller staff than Google to be handling all of that traffic and attention.

Do we expect Facebook to become a mainstay or will they become too big for their britches and topple? What do you people think?
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I have never heard of Linux or OS X users trashing software reviews because there isn't a version for their preferred platform. Thinking about it, the last time I saw this was over the Spore DRM, but that was about the product not the platform.

It is a shame that Amazon doesn't have the Kindle equivalent of the "I would really like a DVD of this" button. I am losing a lot of respect for Amazon's customer support in that they are not dealing with this (allowing their customers to be heard without damaging some poor authors reputation).
The OP's point was that it might have implied less than that at the time.
Mice have short lives. I am not sure how frequent cancer is in mice compared to humans.
I don't play piano, I don't have a piano, but I bought this app just to see the look-and-feel. Now I want a piano.

Congratulations for an awesome job, I bet this will be one of the first iPad apps to be featured by apple once it's released.
If you just don't care - and it seems to me that when the OP makes purchasing decisions, he just doesn't care about a range of things - then all the marketing in the world won't help. I mean, if you don't take notice of the bottle from whence you apply stuff directly to your head several times a week, are you really going to take more notice to the same bottle on television or in a magazine?
Yes, the news is what it says about customer loyalty to a propriety ereader. I can see why Amazon does not make any attempt to stop the nonsense.

The next chapter will be interesting: Will the publisher cave in and permit a Kindle edition?
All the sites offering only 'sign up with facebook' just make me feel left out. Because I deleted my facebook.
The photos make the article.
Here's something really cool about this:

if you click the "crowd" icon (which is next to the links in the feed view), it will save the link, if you point an RSS reader at:

http://newsyndicated.com/r/$your_username

you will get an RSS feed of links that you have "Favorited".

for instance, here is a feed of me:

http://newsyndicated.com/r/Ryan

I made this because I found that I was bouncing around the same handful of sites every day...and because I wanted a new side project to work on. I hope you like it :).
"Most"? That's a strong claim. I'm sure Olathe is a great place, but the professional benefits of SF for these people are obvious to me.

I also think you're downplaying the social problems to moving, particularly away from a place like the Bay area. Personally, I'd just bristle at being told by my company to move half a continent away.
> Is Feynman using 'sleep with' as a euphemism for sex?

Yes.
Perhaps a large metabolic cost for larger animals- hard to maintain that energy cost when you've just had your limb cut off + trying to fight off infection, run away from predators, etc.
Not in the slightest. At the risk of destroying my chances of ever getting into YC (hi JL, PG, RTM et al!) I had astonishingly great luck with asking attractive women if they wanted to make out with me last Spring. Seriously: "hey, let's make out!" or "would it unduly offend you if I asked you to make out with me?"

You're probably better off asking this sort of thing after conversing with them for a bit so you don't come off as a creep. As long as you've established your bona fides you won't, especially if you say it with a smile.

I think I got one rejection, and her response was more of a good natured, laughing 'that sounds fun, but i shouldn't' variety.
There are a lot of software jobs in the area, yeah. Not many "hot startups", and it's not Silicon Valley, but there's a good market there imo. There are a lot of other big companies HQ'd in the area, including Sprint, which is probably most relevant to ex-Garminers what with GPS and mobile devices and all, Allied Signal, H&R Block, Hallmark, and many more. There are at least two military installations within a commuting distance. There's stuff out there and there's no need to assume the place is barren.
Wow. The back-end and business performance details they publish go pretty far into trade secret territory. Garmin probably won't sue to avoid giving off bad recruiting vibes, but I would think twice about hiring these folks.
Lets see a really simple program you can explain all te assembly :)

We need to write our program like this:

$echo 0000000: 55 48 89 e5 b8 ff aa 00 00 c9 c3 |xxd -r > sum2.bin

Here we have the SAME little program in C:
$ cat sum.c
int sum(void){
return 0x00ff + 0xaa00;
}

We can getLook at the results:
$ gcc -c sum.c -o sum.o
(get the raw opcodes in osx, intel arch )

$ otool sum.o -td|sed -n '3,$p'| awk '{ print $0}'|xxd -r > sum.bin

Now you can look at asm level your code:
$ ndisasm -b 32 sum.bin
00000000 55 push ebp
00000001 48 dec eax
00000002 89E5 mov ebp,esp
00000004 B8FFAA0000 mov eax,0xaaff <-- gcc put our 'sum' final product here at compilation time
00000009 C9 leave
0000000A C3 ret

So your program is now reduced to this code:
$ hexdump sum.bin
0000000 55 48 89 e5 b8 ff aa 00 00 c9 c3
000000b

Test your 2 files
md5 sum.bin sum2.bin
MD5 (sum.bin) = a0ccc94bcdc860a81ff28252f56c2257
MD5 (sum2.bin) = a0ccc94bcdc860a81ff28252f56c2257

We could probe our code with a selfmade userland loader:
$./uloader sum2.bin
Display Opcodes to exec:
55 48 89 e5 b8 ff aa 00 00 c9 c3
End opcodes
code to exec address: exec_code =0x100100080
new crafted Proc : address = 0x100100080
returned value ==>aaff

----BEGIN Code---
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>

int main( int argc, char argv[] ){
unsigned int (proc)();
unsigned int fdprog=0;
unsigned int exec_code=NULL;
unsigned char ptr=NULL;
unsigned int returned_value=0x0;
exec_code=(int ) malloc( 100 );
ptr=( char )exec_code;
fdprog=open(argv[1], S_IRUSR );
printf("Display Opcodes to exec:\n");
while( read(fdprog, ptr, sizeof(unsigned char)) ){
printf(" %02x ", ptr );
ptr++;
}

printf("\nEnd opcodes\n");
printf("code to exec address: exec_code =%p \n",exec_code);
proc=(unsigned int (*)() ) exec_code;
printf("new crafted Proc : address = %p \n",proc);
returned_value= (*proc)(); //here is the magic bro! :)

printf("returned value ==>%lx \n",returned_value); return 0; }

----END Code ---

Saludos!
Jorge A. Garcia.
A Google Earth flight sim with an iPhone controller
"tu quoque" (party A did this so that makes it right for party B) is not a valid argument. If it was unconstitutional then, it's still unconstitutional now (even if it's now a tradition). (Cf. Gephardt Rule)
"it's risky because at the time of hire the engineer doesn't know if the idea will be successful"

How is it risky to the engineer, as long as he gets paid? Job security, maybe, but that is hardly worth a lot.
I live in a town higher ranked than Olathe on those lists, and I've move to San Fran in a heartbeat. When your claim to fame is a list in a magazine somewhere, you are missing the point. Some people like living in a city. Some people like living near THE OCEAN. Some people have spouses with great jobs in the city they live in. There are more software jobs in San Fran to get, there is not San Fransisco in Olathe Kansas.
Article slightly overhyped. Title should be "Single gene finally pinpointed as source of unusual regenerative powers of MRL mice". They can't regenerate limbs, but they can regrow heart sections, ear holes, fingers, etc.

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2010/03/regeneration-in-m...

The MRL breed existed for a while (created for another purpose) before their regenerative powers were noticed. Similarly, the p21-knockout breed used to confirm the findings here also existed for years, and no-one noticed they could regrow ear tissues without scarring, etc. Makes you wonder what else exists in the hundreds of common lab breeds.

Anyway, the significance of this is that from a single gene, researchers can now walk through the list of biochemical mechanisms that gene pertains to, and perhaps more quickly answer the questions:

a) do mammals still have all the necessary machinery to regenerate like salamanders?
b) can it be activated easily?

My gut feel on the bigger picture is that evolution ditched regeneration in favor of cancer suppression in mammals - though mice are not a good example of that process in action, being pretty much cancer factories in comparison to other mammalian species. If you look at p21, it's central to all sorts of stem cell related and cancer suppression mechanisms. It's surprising and unknown as to why p21-knockout mice are so normal, frankly.

Cancer, embryonic development, and blastema-style regrowth in adult creatures all look quite similar in many ways. A heavy duty anti-cancer mechanism and regrowth of tissues in adults may just not be terribly compatible from an evolutionary perspective. Which isn't they aren't compatible from a biotech perspective; many small single or few gene changes that produce favorable outcomes have not been selected for, but demonstrated in the lab to increase mouse life span, boost cancer resistance, provide regenerative powers at little cost, and so forth.
They actually do have a link specifically for telling the publisher that you would like to see a Kindle edition.
My take on it:

If you want to work for ten different companies in three years (with at least eight going out of business while you're there) and never know whether you'll have a paycheck next quarter, then the Bay is the place. If you want a steady job that you'll get to keep for a while, you can do a lot worse than KC.

There's a lot of tech stuff going on in the area (Garmin's one company headquartered here; Sprint's a stone's throw away in Overland Park, Linux Pro magazine has its North American offices in Lawrence, etc.) and a lot of geeks, but not so much youth (as in "I graduated college last month" youth). Most of the techies you'll meet are in their late 20s or early/mid-30s, and have been in the industry for a while; quite a few of them have written unglamorous but indispensable tech books. Most have settled here to raise families. There's a lot less emphasis on doing things that make great blog posts or conference talks, and a lot more emphasis on doing things that solve problems in useful ways.

That's not to say there's no innovation, of course; Django came from Lawrence (close enough that a lot of people live there and commute to KC), there are some interesting startups doing stuff like e-gov and transparency, one of the best GIS groups anywhere (with a yearly conference at the University of Kansas), a lot of new-media consulting... but nearly all of it happens without fanfare and chest-thumping.

Anyway. The important thing is not to have an attitude of "oh crap, it's Kansas", because you'll never meet most of the interesting people that way.
Problem with Google Maps is that there never is any reception when you need it. Although you are right - eventually there might be (10 years? 20 years?).
I don't know. I've done a lot of moving in my day. It's not a lot of fun, and there's things you miss about each place and each group, but personally I prefer the experience of living in new places and meeting new people.
(2007).

The professor mentioned in the New York Times piece has an article that has been discussed here on HN before.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=589346

(refers to blogspam link, the professor's own link is below:)

http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeistertice/goodaboutmen.htm
Some people likes the routine of going to the gym, others rather do something at home. Whatever works for the moment and keeps you enjoying it is great.

What I mean by doing the basics right is that if you're out of shape, there's no need to be guinea pig.

Eat or drink less of stuff that has too much or too quick energy i.e. fat and sugar. Avoid too much alcohol. Eat normal amounts of protein and carbohydrate with high GI and drink water, keeping you from having cravings. Exercise both anaerobically and aerobically, with warm-up and stretching. Get enough rest. Do it all regularly and measure the progress.
I'm pretty sure he's talking about sex.
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Windows Phone 7 Series won't have copy and paste
The Nexus One I got a few weeks ago worked just fine with my iPhone SIM.
Amazon Mechanical Turk here I come
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Fortunately you can pretty much ignore the Garmin software and just mount it as a USB drive to get maps on or GPS logs off.
I keep reminding myself I should do something on top of Squeak/Seaside. Is anyone using it?
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To add some extra support -

Weight training requires 3 things:

1. Proper nutrition and eating habits.

2. Proper sleeping and recovery habits.

3. Proper weight training regimen.

It's better to miss out on a training session than miss a meal or not get enough sleep. So in this way yes, bodybuilders are certainly not just gym rats.
I'll let you in on a secret. You don't need to be in California to not worry about "non-competes". An employer rarely ever holds an employee to it; it is rarely ever upheld in court; they are just a deterrent. You cannot lawfully stop someone from gainful employment. The only time you will ever see a non-compete become an issue is if it is an executive, and even then it is rare.

You can stop someone from disclosing trade secrets, that is why most companies do a "non-compete / non-disclosure agreement". But, again, the non-compete part is about as enforced as the "do no remove label" on your mattress ;)
Beg pardon? Did I miss your mentioning that you'd be there?
there has been a lot of focus on social dynamics and this type of stuff if it interests you, it's called pick up. for the longest time, mystery and neil strauss were the icons. i'm not sure who it is now, or if they have been replaced. i'd say the whole thing has died down since it got into mainstream television. all of those tricks don't work anymore because the girls know all about it.

if you're really looking for a bold opener, google "the apocalypse opener." this will make pitching investors a walk in the park.
I'd call Xbox Live a successful, innovative product, especially given the way they've continued to evolve it in a way that delivers more value to the user and gradually gets them closer to the idea of having the Xbox as the center of the entertainment system.

Personally, despite not owning one myself, I'd say that the Zune HD is already on par with the iPod Touch in terms of what the product offers. They have different strengths, overlapp in some areas, and both make excellent devices. The iPod Touch wins only when you include the content of the App Store (note that I'm making a distinction between the Store and the content there). If Windows Phone lives up to what they've shown so far, I believe that landscape may shift toward parity faster than you'd expect...
From: http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0504.html?m=3

"The charming side of Richard helped people forgive him for his uncharming characteristics. For example, in many ways Richard was a sexist. Whenever it came time for his daily bowl of soup he would look around for the nearest "girl" and ask if she would fetch it to him. It did not matter if she was the cook, an engineer, or the president of the company. I once asked a female engineer who had just been a victim of this if it bothered her. "Yes, it really annoys me," she said."
For old school browsing, maybe not. But modern DHTML doesn't necessarily have network activity before every render.
Just adding the data point that Facebook Connect stopped me too. I'm touchy about associating apps with my Facebook account. Oh well!
I think it's funny that the marketing is the product now and not even the material inside?

Ever look at the back of a generic equivalent of a shampoo now? You see something like this (and read carefully):

This product is not manufactured or distributed by BigCorp, distributors of BigBrand Shampoo"

Okay, so I'm guessing BigCorp doesn't even make their own shampoo anymore either. It's all made in the same plant and everyone just brands it what they want.
Ahh. I see. Does that work in text mode as well?
Wow, thanks I totally spaced it. I saw the kindle but didn't read the text. Ok, well now I really think Amazon needs to be deleting these reviews as inappropriate.

Maybe they put a little more into that "tell the publisher", but that is probably just me not being as observant and I could be.
I like it, seems very cohesive and simple.
May I ask how do you got people making questions and answer them ? I ask this, because I'm also creating a startup that will need user input in order to grow, so I'm trying to get some tips from others.
Wouldn't it make more sense if your tagline was "hot masala applications?"
You've made a pretty impressive looking app. What is your feedback like? What do your prospective users think of it? Without having used it, my first reaction is that I think it would be pretty annoying to try to play a piano while reading from an iPhone - constantly having to squint at a tiny screen and a nightmare of scrubbing to practice sections of the song are two specific complaints I can make right away. I'm interested to hear the reception of this app.
The highest level of abstraction is lying on a beach while robots do all the work.
I got an invite to Quora from a friend of mine a few months ago but the need for the FaceBook id was a killer. As long as they have this requirement, I won't use the product. Too bad really, because I hear good things about it.
swfmill.org in Erlang.
As it is there isn't much overlap between what facebook does and what google does so the comparison seems moot. Sure they both aggregate data about people and things but from the user's perspective the experience of that data are light years apart. You'd be surprised how much information my local grocery store has on me but I don't pit my local grocery store against google and compare monetization strategies.
He's not dismissing it, he's giving feedback. This is exactly the kind of thing I'd want to hear if I were launching - how I can make my product better and appeal to more people.