skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be very interested in reading comments elaborating on this stance by people that agree with it, since my view is a bit different.

In the interest of human progress, I would prefer that people with great ability are encouraged by society and their peers (which I assume the great minds at HN are likely to be among). I mean this in terms of what I see should be encouraged and done so through morals and not laws (e.g. in no way promote the violation of a person's freedom or liberty).
Lots of cars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_key
And somehow, it's Americans who get a bad rap for thinking their own solutions should be applied everywhere else.
Any reviews of his actual ebook?

http://createyourproglang.com/
The OP's suggestions are pretty bad, as jasonkester points out. But for a specific class of problems (ones that are both performance or JOIN intensive and require the awesome indexing/sorting capabilities in SQL solutions), schema-less MySQL, when done "correctly" is awesome. I designed an application that needed to do graph traversal in real-time, so normalized SQL wasn't an option for me. I tried various NoSQL solutions, but they all either lacked important features or ran insanely slow. I ended up settling with a design similar to how FriendFeed uses MySQL:
http://bret.appspot.com/entry/how-friendfeed-uses-mysql

Not only was the solution faster, but it made code so much more concise, because you can just serialize Python objects to the database rather than write a huge database abstraction layer. For me this is even more valuable than the performance ramifications.

If you're using Python+MySQL, be sure to check out Tornado's database wrapper (http://github.com/facebook/tornado/blob/master/tornado/datab...) because it handles all sorts of sharp corners that straight up MySQLdb won't (like working with binary data, reconnecting when necessary, etc.)
Sounds like you might be looking for PwdHash: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1033
Counterfeiting and file sharing are different things
He's using Firebug to log javascript errors via console.log, to test his stuff in Gecko / Firefox
I often get the sense that any idea I come up with, somebody with funding and development resources has already done it. Is nothing new in the world?
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I have to agree. People in my country fret about our GDP per capita compared to some of our peers. They worry that we are falling behind, somehow losing out.

If this is what losing out is, I'd hate to know how they'd adapt to my old country (I come from Africa originally).

I live in a developed country, with fantastic quality of life, largely unaffected by the recession. People are pretty much mostly happy still.

My salary still goes up every year. I can still afford a comfortable life. I can drive an hour and be at our beaches or one of our great national parks. I can walk around at night without worrying I'm going to get mugged or killed.

Pretty much, I know that if I have kids, they have a good chance of being able to go for opportunities that interest them, and follow them through without externalities like famine, war or unexpected sickness obliterating their chances.

I'll take my current life over working slavish 50-60 hour weeks in the service of some grand GDP goal, thanks.

(I live in New Zealand).
nice pun!
I thought that the Password+Site combo assumed the usage of SHA1 or MD5, though I know that this doesn't work for some sites (with max password limits). Maybe CRC32 in those cases?
Wikipedia is your friend: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_keyless_system

Apparently the tech has been around for a while +5 years.
SuperGenPass is a much better, simpler, and safer alternative, IMO.

http://supergenpass.com
Poor Man's Webspider
I have now put all the text below the image. Interesting usability lesson here. :)
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It looks like a fairly standard Phd student resume to me. I don't really see much extra in it. Yes there are some published papers, but so have many Phd students. Regarding google success, I would say him studying the right subject and doing the right things (start a startup) mattered much more than his CV and interests.
A lot of the newer infinitis are like this.

In fact, a lot of new cars in general are like this, which I find absurdly annoying.
And Command-Option-I in Chrome/Safari on Mac.
Man, if it's tough to get programmers to buy a set of custom controls or developer tools, it must be ten times more difficult to get them to buy an eBook. I'll admit, the site does portrait credibility.
http://www.forevergeek.com/2005/05/38_ways_to_win_an_argumen...

This may be interesting as well.
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1) video on demand: sure, IP is the #1 issue, but Apple was able to pull it off for audio with iTunes. So it's at least as much of a marketing issue as an IP issue. I agree that technically, this problem has been solved by now. But who will have the marketing power of a Steve Jobs to make it happen?

2) batteries: I don't think IP is the main gating factor. If there was such technology, it would get deployed pretty quickly. So it sounds like technology hasn't solved that problem yet.
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This is actually a list of obvious and highly competitive categories. Perhaps the most highly competitive categories.
http://www.rubyinside.com/how-to-create-your-own-programming...
this made me wonder whether there's some function of the number of cells for which, if a population stays alive for that number of cycles, it will live forever.

for example, for a 10x10 grid, maybe any pattern that has life after 100 cycles will always have life.

i guess this might be covered in "a new kind of science" - i haven't read that. any who has care to comment? thanks.
Holy fuck I wish they would just stop dicking with the damn thing.

No, do not want more and more stuff added to this or that. I would really like it if things would Just Work on more and more hardware, especially more recent hardware.

Fix the stuff that doesn't work quite right, and leave the rest alone. Let users add the bling they want later on.

It's like they're in some battle with Microsoft to see who can add the most superficial crap that gets in the way of just doing stuff.
Is Mozilla officially supporting Firebug development yet? They ignored it for years, choosing to keep supporting and even bundling their useless "Web Developer Toolbar".

The Web Inspector lives in the tree with the code, is tested along with it. and is released as one package. Mozilla constantly breaks the already-fragile Firebug through automatic updates to Firefox, or by haphazardly updating the extension from addons.mozilla.org.
Adding a weighted vest is much different than adding ankle or wrist weights. I would advise against ever adding weights to your ankles or wrists while doing cardio. In that scenario your legs and arms are acting like big levers and even light weight can wreck havoc with your mechanics that in turn can lead to injuries. The body just wasn't designed to operate in that manner.

While not exactly the same issue look up 'open chain' versus 'closed chain' exercises.
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Even the simplest of things requires jQuery now. It's just not cool without 100kb of JS behind it.
Wow, according to some quick googling that's true. I didn't expect that at all, as everyone here is paying very little for their health insurance. A basic one with no frills costs you about 250 CHF =~ 250 USD per month, and that's with some of the highest salaries in Europe. So the rest of the spending must be government subsidies for people with low income and the hospital funding, which the government partly pays. With taxes being lower than in most Western European countries, it's still surprising.
Nice! This is pretty much exactly what I was looking for!
I know the cool way to pitch a startup is "solving a problem", but ... is the Unused Gift Card Problem an actual thing?

I have never in my life had to deal with an unused gift card. I.. don't know anyone who has this problem, I've never heard anyone reference it.

Yet somehow, there are five funded companies in this space?!
This is also available in Safari (not sure about Chromium) http://developer.apple.com/safari/library/documentation/Appl...
Let The European Browser Wars Begin
It constantly surprises me that supergenpass hasn't caught on more with geeks. It's a pretty elegant solution to a problem everyone has.
> “ The book I want to read. ”

— Matz, creator of the Ruby language

The amazing review / testimonial the author probably was able to ask for because he's credible and an active member of the Ruby ecosystem (tinyrb).

Another lesson on the value of real working relationships.
Google Search is a distinct product of Google's. It's still comparable to the competition. And they still think Google Search is better, they just don't use index size as One Thing anymore.
How do you feel about ClickBank? One of my weekend projects is a little site that'll make selling digital goods online really simple, targeted at a non-technical audience. Obviously, you are technical, but how'd you feel about the various sites that are out there? Did you try other services before ClickBank?
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I received a gift card to Macy's for $25 over Christmas and we haven't used it. It was for my daughter and I don't like the clothes they have there and at that price they don't have much I want in any other department so it sits in my wife's purse. I wouldn't sell it because it came from my daughter's Great Aunt and she loves my daughter and intended it for her benefit. I'm just hoping Macy's gets something for girls that isn't covered in pink so I can buy it.

I think this is a pretty common story especially if kids are involved.
I don't think it is. I always just re-gift (or simply give away) my unwanted gift cards. I think the bigger problem is people simply forget they even got them to begin with... and they become hidden in their wallet or drawer. The big box stores love this because the gift cards are already an interest-free loan...but this way they are just free money plain and simple. So the idea that these startups are going to work with these stores in someway to "solve" this problem seems unlikely.
it sure is.
I would be really interested to hear about the learning process. Was there something in particular that you read that was especially helpful? Did you buy other e-books to learn how to write and market e-books?
I don't have unused gift cards but I do have gift cards with remnants on them. I'll buy a larger item and have 1-3$ left on the card which typically isn't enough to buy anything. I'll forget how much is on it and then never end up using it again...
Guilty. Invoicing and time tracking fall under category #1 along with project management and bug tracking as one of those things that naturally come to mind when thinking about a startup to work on.

In my case, I'm glad I started Ronin, despite the level of competition out there. I really felt (and still do feel) that I had something unique to bring to it. In my case, it was a certain workflow that I had experience with coupled with strong UX/UI experience. And, I felt the current players in the market were insufficent (for my tastes).

The real key here is to realize that in such a field, there is a large noise to signal ratio. Unless you can rise above that, it will just be 1 major player getting the lion's share of the users and the rest tripping over each other. (In my field, for example, Freshbooks is still the major player.)

On the other hand, if you succeed to the point where you are a level above the noise, you have a built in insolation layer that discourages overly simplistic and naive attempts at entering the market.

If you think you can commit to bringing a noticeable, appreciable and sufficient difference in quality, there's no fear in wading into a well-established field. Almost everyday I get emails from users that have noticed the difference in quality that we provide. However, if you're just there to throw up a half-assed attempt or to be a player with no discernible quality differences, I'd seriously reconsider.
Yes, it's an actual problem. One time for a birthday I got 3 Best Buy cards and 1 Circuit City card. It would have been nice to swap out the CC card for a BB card and do all the shopping at one place.

Also (and this is a bit more abstract), I buy myself iTunes gift cards in $20 chunks so that I don't just bleed away $0.99 at a time by buying music straight through my credit card. If I can get iTunes cards at a discount from a site like this, it's a win for me.
Facebook has 1 million active users per technical employee.
"This article is certainly an opinion piece, but the opinion expressed is about economic methodology, not politics."

Yes, a few of the examples were apolitical (e.g. the man marrying his maid and the economics of slavery), but most were thinly veiled attacks on government programs (e.g. the TSA, government stimulus spending, the cash-for-clunkers program, the dead-weight loss of taxes). The author spends most of his time associating government spending with negative impacts on well-being.

This essay advances a vague, unmeasurable quantity as being of paramount importance, disguises the intent of the essay with a few apolitical examples, then proceeds to argue that a number of recent government initiatives are obviously ill-conceived, in light of their impact on this unmeasurable quantity. As a whole, the essay is little more than an attack on government, framed as an objective discussion of economic methodology.
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I wonder how many more sales he will get for it appearing on hn?
First of all, I think that people with high IQs tend to have a stronger tendency toward mental illnesses and related patterns such as rumination, hypersensitivity to rejection, and low self-confidence.

Is that a belief support by anecdote, or have you seen some study supporting it?
I'd love some more details:
1. How did you come up with this as a topic for an eBook?

2. Is this your area of expertise, or did you see a niche market?

3. What are some specifics on your AdWords campaign?

4. Looks like you have a strong online presence. Do you think that helped sell your book or was it completely irrelevant to its success?
I missed the part where crack dealers force their products on their customers too.

But somehow I wouldn't think of them if I was organizing a healthy lifestyles conference.
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First off, only some parts of the world use high-fructose corn syrup in their coke. If you get a coke from mexico (and I imagine much of south america) it uses cane sugar.

More importantly though, I am currently drinking an amazing Odwalla juice which is a distributed by minute maid which is owned by coke.
Though they have a highly successful, and not so healthy product, they also have a diverse number of companies which focus on health.
Your critique would be more interesting if you listed the "weak assertions and sloppy logic", rather than impugning the author and publisher.
I've seen this book from an HN link a few months ago, so he already got one boost. This will probably bump his sales nicely again though.
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I've had the problem. This past Christmas my extended family did a white elephant/yankee swap/nasty christmas thing. I wound up with a Starbucks gift card b/c it was the most valuable gift available compared to the other items like a mini deep fryer, portable CD player (gotta love older relatives for being with the times), or a set of decorated measuring spoons.

I, however, do not drink coffee. After being introduced to Cardpool through YC, my problem was solved. Money in my pocket. :-)
WRT cars: switching costs can prevent marginal creeping improvement of the type we're used to in the iterate fast computer world.
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You're lucky :). Not everyone will have unused gift cards, but you still benefit from being able to buy them at a discount. E.g. you get 30% off at 1-800-Flowers.com, 12% off Gap, 10% off iTunes, etc, stackable with any other coupons or promotions you can find. If supply meets demand, we're happy!
At a luxurious 10 seconds a LOC, you would write your 2000 LOC a day in approximately 5.5 hours. I think 10 seconds a LOC gives you enough time to write one command, play one move of chess, and repeat. You could get really good at chess this way. SCNR.
I didn't read it in the same light. I don't think it's about being an ass to anybody, or abusing the trust of others (your boss, or your family).

I would sum it up as in "your job is not the most important thing in your life". When you're juggling with your 5 balls and you reach a point where you can't handle it anymore and need to drop a ball, dropping the work part is not as big of a deal as the rest. E.g. if you do something just to keep your job but that hurts other people or your health, don't do it, it's not worth it: don't stay late every night, when it's forbidding you to kiss your kids to bed; don't accept to be dropped off in a war zone just to keep your job, etc.
HDMI 1.3 delivers 10.2Gbps according to the Wiki, and some simple math says 48-bit 1920x1080@60p is ~6Gbps.

So, that should explain why it can't be wireless.

I don't think this math alone shows video can't be wireless (all TV content used to be wireless, and many more channels were broadcast that way than I have close neighbors).

I would guess there's not enough unused spectrum to make it work right now though.
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nice landing page! it makes me want to create my own language and i don't even have enough quality time with the ones i already know!
I had this issue. Chrome on mac doesn't like to load fonts from anything other than the hard coded paths they programmed in. Usually not a problem for people, but after tracking things down I had to uninstall FontExplorer X and after that haven't hit the issue again.

Was a real pain in the ass to fix, but despite these kinds of bugs I still can't help using Chrome for mac as my main web browser.
That, or someone filed for a patent describing various permutations of my web app 7 years ago. Sigh.
Handcent SMS for Android Makes Texting Cool Again
It is interesting once in a while to take a step back and think about how many forms of communication we use on a regular basis. Better yet, how many different tools ensure we stay connected 24/7. First there was of course the telephone, then email, then came mobile technology, SMS, Facebook, Twitter, and the list goes on. With all these different resources at our disposal, a person can be reached almost always. Interestingly enough, even with all the technological advancements, texting does not seem to have decreased in popularity.
Wait, so you "give away" gift cards that you won't use while this site gives you the ability to sell those gift cards which means money in your pocket and you don't think they're solving a valid problem?
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Interesting article.

I've recently been doing some load-testing of key-value stores for caching, and also found that MySQL compares pretty favourably with some of the new kids on the block.

Just talking a "create table (key char(64) not null, value blob not null, index (key))" schema. (Plus some MySQL performance tweaks, which I won't go into here)

Some advantages:

* When it comes to redundancy and failover, you can re-use the existing master/slave replication functionality in MySQL, rather than worry about whether your k/v store of choice supports anything like this, how stable it is and how to configure and manage it etc. One less thing to worry about especially if you're already doing mysql replication for other data.

* MySQL can keep hot data in RAM and cold data on disk, and is pretty tuneable in this regard; some of the trendy k/v stores aren't so hot on this front (eg Redis, although they're addressing it in version 2)

* With InnoDB tables (which are pretty good for k/v functionality) you get the transaction support which can save your ass from some nasty race conditions with concurrent processes writing back to a cache. Especially handy if your main relational dataset is also in MySQL since you can update the normalised data and the cached data in one transaction

* You can join 'relational-style' tables directly to the 'k/v-style' tables, rather than having to fetch a bunch of IDs and then look them up (for some stores, one at a time) in a separate store. Which is a great when you have some infrequently-changed data that can be denormalised as cached blobs, and some frequently-changing data which refers to it.

* Possibly more...
Looks interesting but my first thought is that if I want to access my gmail on someone else's computer I would need to install the firefox extension first.
By typing the master password into the destination form, then replacing it, the master is potentially revealed to any target site that might use JS/AJAX to view the password before form submission. So, this is not helpful against the "one bad (or compromised) site steals my master password" threat.

If SuperGenPass were to pop its own window, calculate the site-specific complex password, then insert that into the form, it could probably be safe -- but would still need very careful design. (Once a bookmarklet starts interacting with a page, it might reveal its internal state to that page.)
This is what version control is meant to be. I know it's just a GUI on existing functionality, but that in itself represents meaningful progress.
The function you're looking for would be a variation of the Busy Beaver function, I think. On an infinite grid, the question reduces to the Halting Problem.
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After the crazy dire news events of the last year or two, I was quite surprised by my experience in selling + buying last summer in Toronto's market.

We listed our condo early on a Friday afternoon, and were inundated with offers and interest that same day. We had a buyer over-asking within the same day, and it was all done in under 24 hours. I asked my agent about this, and she said that it was typical of the activity at that time. The market was surprisingly hot. We had no problems with the bank, in spite of reading about a widespread slowdown in lending.

I'm not the only one in my social circle to have bought/sold/gotten loans last year, and I've never been sure whether this has been a product of lucky demographics (mostly technical people) or whether Toronto has largely weathered the storm.

Can any other Canadian HNers throw in a data point here?
Of course, it also implies that Matz did NOT read the book... :-/
I just confirmed in slicehost chat, that while the kernel itself will still be 64 bit and use a little bit more ram then a 32 bit kernel, all the other programs will be 32bit and in theory run with less memory consumption.
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