skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't judge within 3 months if something is a failure... ask me again in 3 years.

Google sales are mostly passive. The web site, the packaging and the promotion of the Nexus One all say that. "Hey, here is a cool phone, let me show you some of the features, up to you if you want one".

Not too many years ago everyone slated Apple vs Microsoft advertising. Apple were the sleek clutter free packaging, and Microsoft were the sticker happy, in your face advertising. Seems to me that Google are the new Apple (in this context)
I often wonder about these city rankings -- every year they change their ranking algorithm. Olathe wasn't even ranked in 2009.

If you're a geek, you'll probably hate Olathe though. One good simple measurement is counting the number of nearby hackerspaces. The SF/Bay Area has no less than 5 hackerspaces within a 20 mile radius of each other. Olathe only has 1 which is in Kansas City.
Boston Legal seasons 1-5 DVD Boxset (D9 Set) - Free-Press-Release.com
Does anyone know if Xobni has been updated on Outlook?

I used to love the program until one day it crashed my outlook, as well as someone I recommended the program to (made me look horrible). It turns out xobni works great as long as you don't have too many emails per day. And judging by the way it slowed down my outlook, I'm hesitant to install it on my blackberry.
While I agree with the article I do think there is a single most important secret: "Don't give up".

(I might add its not the only thing - just like the article says - but without this one you are never going to make it. And I know it sounds obvious but I've met loads of people with the skills and ideas to make it but have not got the stamina to "do what it takes" to make it)
Ask HN: Internet timer for specific website? Urgent
Hello,
I am looking for internet timer software that would prevent me from accessing a specific website for a specific time.
For system requirements, I am using Windows... both internet explorer and firefox.

I found some programs for child control, but it does not allow me to check specific websites... as it blocks the whole browsing!

Waiting for your answer please, and thanks in advance.
Video: Beyond Dualism, John Searle (IBM Cognitive Computing Lecture)
You should check out Mr Natural BodyBuilding http://www.wnbf.net and their banned substances: http://www.wnbf.net/downloads/WNBF-Banned-Substances-List.pd...

Becoming huge take someone who is an "easy-gainer," very patient (like 10 years), dedicated and works with their body. The body adapts to what you give to it, give it enough of it, and you'll see those adaptations.
Yes, no doubt. But how many other platforms have malware creation tools that come with a hardware lock? Because we wouldn't want the poor author to get ripped off through piracy. Oh, the irony. Seriously, though: doesn't that sound like it must be a fourth- or fifth-gen product, to be that advanced?

This sounds to me like one of those problems where I don't have to outrun the bear. I just have to outrun all the other juicy, tasty Windows users that the bear is going to eat first.
I'm a self-taught programmer and artist working mostly in Java. I started to learn Scheme recently and it's just perfect - i'm so happy with it and it bring so much of joy.
But the question of this post really rings in my head all the time - i will learn Scheme, i will learn functional programming, i will improve my skills and what then? It's obvious joy and programming in Java is easier now, but still...
I spent days googling, asking and clusting the Internet looking for some real-world mature software written in Scheme. Not much in fact. And the discussion below shows that it is a problem, as there are no examples of real-world impementations. PLT is great and Clojure looks brilliant, but show me some software written in Scheme or Clojure, so i know. In the discussion you all just say that Clojure is great, but tell me what company, what business use it?!
And tell me, where LISP is used nowadays as i'm concerning moving to LISP, if there is a real-world use of it somewhere (Emacs, Gimp and Audacity is all i know!).
It's a score on some variant of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven%27s_Progressive_Matrices
Novell Mono project bringing Silverlight to Apple iPhone
really hope these guys get hired.
After I switched to vegetarian diet I have not noticed _any_ difference in brain/personality/iq, I ve just lost extra weight.
And have less allergies.
Aside from that - nothing.
Actually there isn't as much competition as you think. There are more employers here in the Bay Area than there are available employees to hire. The only way to get employees for a new company here is to snipe employees from another company. The last time I attended a job fair here (approximately 2 months ago), I had no less than 15 job interviews thrown at me.

Also, it's great to have many "competitor" companies working within a few miles of each other. If you decided to leave a company like Playfish, all the competitor companies like Zynga, Rock You, and Playdom will want to snatch you up in a hurry.
Technology Review: Startups Aim to Reinvent Local Advertising
Cool. Mind sharing the list of quotes you use as a single file? :)
The audio recognition bit is indeed basic - all you need to figure out is the note and possibly the length of the note.

The following part hard is a bit harder, but not impossible - compare what you have recognized with what you was expecting. If it's not what you expected, look around the last known position and see if you can find the pattern you recognized (while taking repeat signs etc. into consideration).
Shouldn't a team like this start their own business instead of thinking of being hired?
Yeah. Same true for America.
You cannot eat Cadbury made in USA - every time I try, I throw the damn bar into the garbage. Taste like corn syrup.
Berlusconi calvi carboni mafia p2
Hm, in Poland before 1989 we had to vote "right", also we always had 98%-99% participation in elections. "Slightly" suspicious, isn't it? Now it's sth like 30-60%.

About going with party career - yes, to have good job people even had to be in the party. What I mean by "less free" is - there was one real party, you had to accept party line to be politician, people couldn't choose other party. People couldn't go out of country without permission, and it was strictly controlled, who are allowed to travel where. Simply put it was totalitarian state.

About the fall of the USSR: because in 1989 and later transferrable rubels were worth almost nothing, there were big inflation, satelitte countries were freeing themselves, and atomic war wasn't an option to anybody sane. It had to end that way.
Karl Rove practically invented the attack ad.
Most people here are probably too young to remember it, but in the 1964 US presidential election Johnson attacked Goldwater as a warmonger who was going to get us all killed in a war. He ran an ad that showed the cutest little girl standing in a field of grass holding a flower anad picking petals. Birds chirping. Then you see a mushroom cloud in the distance and, a moment later, the little sweetie is anihilated on camera for your greater edification. (He won the election.)

In a fine piece of irony, it was Johnson, of course, who would later, following Kennedy (and against Eisenhower's approach), dramatically ramp up American involvement in the Vietnam war and get 55,000 Americans killed.
Oh right yes, I see your point.

> I just have to outrun all the other juicy, tasty Windows users that the bear is going to eat first.

In fairness I suspect people like you and me are able to "outrun the bear" on any OS. The main attack vector is getting people to install spurious "software" (or tricking them into installing something) and I suspect we're statistically less likely to fall foul.

(fair point though)
Case solved. Who needs research when you can just proclaim truth to the world based on personal experience! :)
How Agility Allows Us to Build One Of the World's Biggest Rails Apps
Out of 101 comments, no one mentions that this site is hosting an illegal copy of an artist's work? I mean, sure, the whole book is great... but shouldn't we be having a bit of respect for someone's intellectual property and not linking to it?

If Gorgorat.com has permission to print the book, or it's now in public domain, then I'm the first to say link to that pup... but I didn't see anything on the site to say this.

I'm a bit surprised that folks who make their living creating intellectual property are so blase about this. There were more comments about the inappropriate affiliate link than the fact that the book is still in press and under copyright.

Let's not devolve into "information wants to be free" and "the world is open source", but stick to the fact that the book is not free and open source in the US legal system at this point, AFAIK. Would we be linking to a hosted full copy of PG's excellent book Hackers etc. (http://www.paulgraham.com/hackpaint.html) to highlight one of his points? Probably not.
It has some benefits. Some companies invest like crazy, to get its engineers up to standard. That pays off, as they have good employee loyalty, and their employees are really immersed in that company's culture. That only works if you hold onto employees though.

Seriously, if your core business is producing great employees to work on your niche of products, then it doesn't hurt to invest in training.

* Note, this doesn't work great if the niche moves.
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I'm really not sure about having fake phone calls with people to passive-aggressively get businesses to change to your liking. I think I might give that a miss :p
The graphs seem to show ~50% increase on Raven's Progressive Matrices tests, and ~30% on backwards digit span tests.

http://i.imgur.com/7jZT4.png

Those are pretty large gains, I'm tempted to try supplementing this.
Another question - why did the industrial revolution happen in Europe, not Asia? My guess - movable type works better with latin characters than thousands of kanji. Cheap (and more varied) books = cheap knowledge for the masses.
Eating 6x a day provides no metabolic advantage for losing weight than 2-3x a day…it’s still about calories and blood sugar/insulin control

I totally disagree with this one. I've used this technique in the past and just started using it again with good results. I have not started eating less, I just break each meal into 2 parts and eat them 2 hours apart. So, instead of over-eating and sometimes feeling really full, I feel "just right" alll day. I have also noticed that I don't get those wild cravings for something to eat, which usually results in a bag of cookies from a machine. I've also lost 4 pounds since I broke up my meals.
The real question is: does flightcaster actually predict effectively? Would you be open to publishing the statistical analysis of your model so far? I'd certainly love to take a look at this. I don't want to see the algorithms you are using, but it would be nice to compare your model using MDL or other information criterions to other more simplistic models (e.g. simple geometric distribution predictions), and analyse it using standard statistical model diagnostics.
Two suggestions: make votes cost (e.g. 1/10 point); put a threshold also on upvoting (e.g. 10 or 20 points).

Eroding over time (e.g. 1 pt/day) probably would also be beneficial.
I'm pretty sure of it dude, looks matter, period. Although I don't think there's any denying that personality generally seems to factor more heavily in what is attractive to a woman as opposed to what is attractive to a man, Ill certainly give you that.

But as I alluded to in my previous comment, all the womenizers I have known have had more than their fair share of skanky chicks because after all was said and done, they were pretty skanky themselves. There is usually a certain type of woman who will go for "Look, girls are into honesty right? Well the truth is I have a big d!&k and want to put it in you" and I've found by and large that those aren't the most interesting kind. My strategy has been quality over quantity and it's worked out pretty well so far.
I like it. Thanks!
A way to link to a specific quote/video/etc would be great for sharing with others.
I pretty much agree with everything he says too. But the most important one liner he tells is "All diets fail over the long run….but lifestyle changes last". I was 115 kg or over 5 months ago and now I'm 85 or lower (170cm height).

Just lowered my daily meal sizes and unsafe food intake (like fries or rice). I still eat chocolate or deserts. But rarely and not much. I do still eat chips but few. Doing daily 30-45 minutes of home exercises.. I'm still overweight but with this life style I will not be for longer.. I really like the dialogue of Mr.Hel's and Mr.Diamonds from Travenian's Shibumi: "You don't drink, Mr. Hel? he asked. But I do, as you see. It is only that I don't find two sips of wine more delicious than one..."

Looking to your wardrobe and finding your clothes are not wearable because they are too big is priceless!
Make it so that I can click the content instead of scrolling down to click a small link lost in a corner.
As usual, lifestyle guidelines only apply to the portion of the population that the author is from.

There is growing evidence that genetic regulation of satiety is quite strong, and therefore people with a worse genetic profile may benefit from an increase in meals.

There are also many potential benefits to increasing eating frequency to those predisposed to poor blood glucose control, which we know is highly genetic.
Looks like fortune for the web. Are you using fortune as a backend, or for quotes?
God Helps with Personal Decisions, Most Americans Say
Actually, at least at the local Walmart, grocery prices have gone up enough over the last couple of years that there is little difference between Walmart and Giant. Some things are cheaper at Walmart and some at Giant.
PayPal Wants To Go From 1000 To 2000 Employees In Asia This Year
Make this into a chrome extension as an addition to the default "new tab" page :)
>I think it's also worthy to note that the origin makes a huge difference.

See, I would have thought so too, but Ed is about 5'4", bad teeth and a heavy smoker. One thing in his favour though, he was a snappy dresser as he wore lots of designer clothing.

I honestly thought he was joking but we were hanging out in Melbourne one evening at a pub. I decided to test him out, pointed out someone and said he should pick her up. Obviously I couldn't hear what he was saying from a distance, but you could visibly see where he dropped the bombshell (the expression on her face) and he sold it like it was the most normal thing in the world.

I honestly just thought it was perhaps Ed, because one data point does not a trend make... seems it might not be so.
Hows the video recording quality? Is it jumpyish? I really want one (and was going to place the order today), but wanted an opinion about the video recording.. I'm in Australia though, so I'd be ordering it from overseas (any tips of when it will come here though from your google friend?)

I'm hoping to get into android development and code a flight computer, because there don't seem to be any for android available, and pilots are being charged $150 for a glorified calculator.. The Android SDK is great in that regards from experience (I can code without a phone). And can barely afford a Nexus one, hence if its coming to Australia, hoping I could cut $100 off the cost :P
Someone is eventually going to produce a "Facebook parody generator" to speed up the process of creating these things.
annd you've inspired me towards a new idea, hooray!
any mods able to delete this?

it somehow duped and I was unable to remove it myself due to noprocrast kicking in.
$1 Million Doesn't Cut It for Retirement
I've seen this rough method out in the wild.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1197508
Nexus One’s slow sales blamed on online-only strategy
See: http://www.amazon.com/Guns-Germs-Steel-Fates-Societies/dp/03...
Cool! I've been looking for something like that to base a home-rolled Squeezebox on. I've got an eee-box connected to the TV and stereo for movies, but don't want to turn the TV to listen to music.
I like it. What about Star Trek quotes ? :p
Yes, Japan didn't create the iPod but it doesn't mean they are behind.

I remember showing my black and white iPod to some people in Japan in 2005 and they had never seen one before. However, if you looked in the shops you could find 100s of better spec'ed MP3 players, much better than the ones in the U.K. at the time and much cheaper. I guess the iPod just looked like a over priced fashion accessory to them.

Then looking at some of the phones people had in 2005 when I was there, people were able to do all sorts of things, like look up train times with complete ease. At the time was very difficult on European phones.

The author of the article seems to think that it's progress to plug your MP3 player or phone into a computer, but it's not. For example look at iTunes, I can only put music on from one machine and can't get it off again (using iTunes at least), it's needlessly tied to a single machine, when I don't want it tied to any machine. Also people don't want to plug their digital camera into a computer to upload pictures, they just want to send them straight to the internet from their phone, the Japanese were doing this long before the iPhone+Twitpic.

I think not requiring a computer as the digital hub is the future, not the past.
Actually, I just bought "Good Calories, Bad Calories" about an hour prior to finding this!
No, I had actually never heard of fortune, but I will look into it now :)

I am currently just hand selecting the content and storing it in a database. Nothing fancy.
I was thinking about adding a permalink. I'll do that now. Thanks.
I think actually saying "unduly offend" is so quirky and strange that it won't come off as weak. It'll sound like he's having fun with it, and doesn't really care if it offends at all. In fact, he's saying he doesn't care if it offends - as long as it doesn't "unduly offend". I'm tempted to try adding "would it unduly offend you..." to a lot of things now..
User: I can't get to the canon website it just shows a print queue for the other floor.

Sysadmin: . . . %$#%#$%@
This form of "Do one thing" implies minimal action to solve a complex problem. It's picking off the low-hanging fruit. There are times when it's appropriate and times when it isn't.

Another form of "Do one thing" is to focus on one core competency and offload everything else. This is a common way to drive economic value through specialization.
Maybe I'm missing something essential, but what's the nature of "support" here? They say I can put any SIM card into the phone, so what's the deal?

I'm seriously asking, as I'm located in Europe, and wanted to use dev Nexus One with any card I'd put into it.
Why do the graphs change the name of the line between point 2 and point 4?
I seem to remember scaring the competition into movement was one of their stated goals. They wanted their sites to be more usable.
This is true, mint seems to do what I need!

The problem is it communicates directly with the bank, and doesn't let me add data manually. Since I make on average one or two transactions per month, this wouldn't be a problem, but mint doesn't allow it! I'm still stuck :/
proexploit, exactly the information I've been looking for, I'm in a similar situation, very timely, thank you.

Do you know of any other services like buysellads.com?
Because they switch the placebo and creatine groups :)

Week (-∞)-0: Noone has taken any supplements
Test 1.
Week 0-6 : Group 1 gets creatine, group 2 gets placebo
Test 2.
Week 6-12 : Noone takes any supplements
Test 3.
Week 12-18 : Group 1 gets placebo, group 2 gets creatine
Test 4.
Aside from all the meta-discussion about MS and IE in the abstract, my opinion on this platform preview:

I'm extremely unimpressed. Judging by the absence of a location bar and settings menu this appears to be more of a demo than a pre-release application preview. This is very disappointing when measured against MS's other previews, betas, etc. (Windows betas and RCs, Visual Studio CTPs, even previous IE betas) and outright pathetic compared to, say, Chrome's dev-channel releases (which are release quality by the standards of this industry).

Speed was unimpressive on my system compared to Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. Acid3 performance was also unimpressive as I had to force IE9 document mode via the debug menu in order to achieve even a score of 39. One of the important aspects of the acid tests is that the browser be in the default configuration when visiting the test page. Just because there's some magical "improve standards compliance" button on IE doesn't mean that the browsing experience for everyday users will increase, somehow every other browser manages this problem just fine, yet IE always struggles with it. Perhaps they'll fix it by release, if we're lucky.

The supported features are refreshing but nothing that multiple other browsers haven't supported for a while.

Once again IE is trying to play catch-up and once again they are doing so slower than the other browsers are pulling ahead. It's good to see IE improving its feature-set, standards compliance, and performance, but at this point IE9 is racing the clock against irrelevancy. By the time IE9 is released its implementation of several years old technology may seem quaint.
The single button mouse is not just Steve Jobs; Jef Raskin makes a very strong case for it as well.
Apple iPad Estimates Are Wrong (They Sold More)
This study is from 2003 and makes extravagant claims. Have there been any followup studies that corroborate it or qualify it? Were these vegetarians seriously deficient?
Prospect Analytics: scan your prospects in 10 minutes or less
True, depends what the product is though, for some things like the basics, milk and bread, I'm perfectly happy with the home brand version given the price difference.
I know there is a program that tracks how much time you spend on each website, application, etc.. I tried googling but can't find it now, I'm sure someone will remember if you think it's helpful?

You install it (mac and win) and then could log into a control panel with all that info, updated to the minute!
Awesome post, love the pragmatic and no-bullshit approach! There are some more real world graphy projects on the Neo4j wiki, http://wiki.neo4j.org/content/Neo4j_In_The_Wild
I think lots of people have lost basic common sense when it comes to fitness and health.

I got used to my colleagues complaining about how much I ate, somehow I deserved to be fat and yet wasn't.

Now, I hate walking with a passion, can't stand it. After ten years of living in London I'd also got rather bored of taking the tube everywhere. So I cycled everywhere: my daily commute, going out socialising, visiting friends, going to get the shopping and so on. So I was getting - as a minimum - 30 minutes of healthy exercise 5 days a week. At the weekend, sometimes I'd go for a cycle, but pretty much well only if I was going to meet someone, so again it was pretty short, maybe 10 minutes in each direction.

Then a colleague started to copy me. Guess what? Taking exercise - no matter if it's only 20 minutes - that often really works. Stop going to the gym for hours at a time, just spend 20 minutes working out somewhere every day and you'll be able to eat what you want and make other people jealous ;-)
by "founders weren't too generous with stock options" author obviously meant that employees felt left out of the party after company has succeeded.

I wouldn't say not caring about employee equity participation is a good founder quality.

In fact this whole thread just goes to show that Garmin fails miserably at motivating it's engineers to this day.
doing the basics right

For example, like actually doing some exercise every day in the first place? ;-)