skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems that this will be the third time on a reasonable followed site/blog that I have to explain to so many whiners why SXSWi is cool/fun/beneficial: the tech splinter parties/events/hackfests that AREN'T associated with SXSWi. Now granted, to say that there was a "lack of tech" is total horseshit. Web frameworks face-off, server-side JavaScript, CVC not MVC, even the Google hackfest brought out just that: real hackers. And the this list goes on from there...

Moreover, the events/parties with the most DBs (douchebags not databases or decibels) were mainly the ones that were officially associated with SXSWi. Note to anyone especially those trying to find movers and shakers to interview them or simply network: the movers and shakers are NOT at these parties.

You need to check places like the Hotel St. Cecilia, The Highball, the East Side of Austin in general, all within 1-3 miles of the convention center.

Finally, local Austin groups put together some stellar parties/events/hackfests: Austin Rails, Wordpress BBQ, Austin JavaScript Party, etc.

Yes I am a local so I didn't have to pay for flight, hotel, rental car, etc. but what I do have to do is continue to defend the techies of Austin that make SXSWi fun and worthwhile.

BTW, I'll be at the (mt) closeout party tonight at Mohawk. Come say hi, we are friendly in Austin... ;-)
I've used them for 4.5 years and have had less downtime than a Rackspace box I've been running for 2 years. Support is good, network is good, prices are good. I'm satisfied with them. Only complaint I have is that they don't lower your rates when the rates get lowered for new customers (non-promo prices) unless you ask.
Your photo was probably small enough that different croppings didn't matter, or at least weren't different enough for you to notice. Thanks for the feedback.
Security is implied because I know you programmed it :).
The entire point of the website is that the team is looking for a new job. They are all team players... they are practically the shining example of how a good team operates.

Being a team player doesn't necessarily mean mindlessly obeying every corporate policy (though I suppose sometimes it does).
SWF Machine: generating SWF binary from Erlang
We have our own login system. We just use Facebook to connect you to people you know and get your photo. Having real identities for people and having people connected to other people who know them are important for the system to work, and we found that the best way to get those things was to require Facebook to sign up.

We might add other ways to sign up later.
This is a valid concern. I'm not too keen on connecting my Facebook account to things either. This may be an incredibly cool product...but I wouldn't know. I'm not clicking that blue button to find out.
Awesome! I've heard great things about it so far. On my iPhone but will give it a whirl when I get back home.
Some Facebook users can't. And a large proportion of those comments are probably just trolls.
Whistleblowers accuse fda of systemic corruption
The Day Dot-Coms Were Invented
My hometown is Olathe, Kansas, Garmin's world headquarters. It is a really, really great town. These people are missing out on a very good opportunity. :)
Hey, mootools. But point well taken.
Milgram Torture experiment recreated for French Television Show
Skype Is Poised for a Big Initial Stock Offering
> They desire harder and harder material

This is true, I know only too well. I started my pornography career as a young boy, and my tastes have got more and more depraved over the years.

Now I can only get off with pictures of completely naked women.
the start up girl scene is nonexistent, which is why it's awesome, it gives me the advantage ( and the confidence) to talk to any venture capitalist, and know am definitely making more of an impression than the next techie guy
A Broadband Catapult for America
The Myth of Form D Requirements for VC-Backed Startups
This is very well made, great job. A few things:

- Why do I have to choose the best square thumbnail picture? Facebook already provides you with pic_square through their API.

- Profile thumbnails are not loading unless I view the user's profile page first. Here's an example, where I have clicked through to Adam's profile but not the others:
http://grab.by/36FP

- The main feed seems a little too text-heavy to me. Have you considered putting profile thumbnails next to questions and answers that appear in the feed, as you do for comments on question pages?

- Your buttons are awesome. As are your tooltips.
kitchensink.js
Why VC Stinks for New Entrants
Just another reason the serious hackers and geeks amongst us just stay here in the Bay Area. We can all go get drunk with super famous geeks and then take BART or CalTrain home. And the only douche bags here are at the W hotel.
Tell HN: Translating Gaia (and Offering Bounties for Languages)
I assume a brand-awareness ad for Nike is somewhat less valuable than an ad which actually sells a pair of Nikes then and there. Also, TV ads are to a captive audience, who don't have anything else to focus on. Facebook ads live in the margins, which I assume dilutes their utility for reminding people that Nikes are a pretty cool shoe to own.
> True, they haven't hit many home runs outside of search

Except for youtube which is #4 worldwide and blogger.com #7, not to mention their adsense ads that are all over the web. And don't forget buzz, that is building an open distributed social network over the internet. I think google is doing real fine against facebook.
While there are certainly people (especially on HN) who are unwilling to give Facebook this kind of control, I don't think it will be a problem for the vast majority of users. In my opinion, the power of having an identity behind all of your users far outweighs the cost of the few who will not use Facebook Connect.
Whenisgood.net: Easy way to find out when everyone is free
I just found this site and thought I would share. Ive been looking for something like this for a long time.
Ask HN: How do you keep your energy?
I've got a 60 hour/week job that's been doing a great job of draining me by end of the day, making it damn near impossible to find any energy to work on any side projects after hours.

Any tips, tricks, or suggestions?
Cooking Up A New Social Blog - For Loners
There's some good things and some bad in this post, but because he doesn't back things up it's basically just a list of opinions. That's what causing the problems in the first place, people relaying on catchy one liners instead of doing the basics right.
Exactly, its practically a miracle when a team gels well enough to actually work well together, never mind being so well integrated that they would come up with something this clever to try and continue working together rather than taking the every man for them self approach and trying to find new jobs individually.
- re: profile pics.
pic_square pics are only 50x50 (iirc?), and we needed square pics that were bigger than that.

- re: thumbnails not loading. i've never seen that before. it might be a problem with S3. If you e-mail a link to your profile to bugs@quora.com, I can look through our logs and try to debug more.

- re: feed.

We're making a lot of changes to the feed all the time. Thanks for the feedback.

- re: buttons.

All @artypapers.
The section following, on mental arithmetic, is actually even more appropriate for HN.
The real point is that scientists (not just biologists) will be able to get more done period. We've been bringing computers and automation into science for a while now and it has made a big difference.

Sometimes you need to collect A LOT of data to be able to form a theory. Sometimes you just need to try all the possibilities.

A lot of science depends on that being done, and with automation now it can be done. When I say done, I don't mean it's just faster and cheaper, I mean it is FEASABLE when it wouldn't be with human labour.

This a great scientific tool, think microscope, it's in that ballpark.
Signup from it is a little tricky but we do have an iPhone (+ Android, Palm, etc.) site that works pretty well.
The scientific method. It works on just about any problem you're able to apply it to.
Quora is one of those really amazing sites that you really enjoy using a lot because the UI and UX are impeccable. Things are responsive, actions have weight, and it's just overall very pleasant to use. Congratulations on that—it's nothing short of a masterpiece.

I really like the concept of following topics. I think something that could be worked on is the following questions thing—last time I used it, it was difficult to figure out that a question I'm following has received a follow-up.
Just out of curiosity: Is Feynman using 'sleep with' as a euphemism for sex? I'm guessing that, this story being written in the 1940s/50s, pre-sexual revolution, that it is more referring to sleeping with a some low level of intimacy.
One more note on my post... We're doing a Droid app too, so I think we'll be doing other languages as well.

I'm not yet sure what the languages are on that platform though.
This is great, a lot nicer than the sparsely documented C api you get from ei and erl_interface.

I've been looking at ways to build decent native desktop gui apps that hook into an erlang backend, this might do the trick (Qt).
Unless I am horribly behind the times, people in the US still use 'sleep with' as a euphemism for sex.
I know a lot of the details have already trickled out in recent weeks, and it's a lot of reading, but I really think that a 10-year, ~$7 billion investment (which has already been allocated and does not need further congressional approval) in digital infrastructure is of major significance to HN readers.

The goals (from the executive summary):

Goal No. 1: At least 100 million U.S. homes should have affordable access to actual download speeds of at least 100 megabits per second and actual upload speeds of at least 50 megabits per second.

Goal No. 2: The United States should lead the world in mobile innovation, with the fastest and most extensive wireless networks of any nation.

Goal No. 3: Every American should have affordable access to robust broadband service, and the means and skills
to subscribe if they so choose.

Goal No. 4: Every American community should have affordable access to at least 1 gigabit per second broadband
service to anchor institutions such as schools, hospitals and government buildings.

Goal No. 5: To ensure the safety of the American people, every first responder should have access to a nationwide,
wireless, interoperable broadband public safety network.

Goal No. 6: To ensure that America leads in the clean energy economy, every American should be able to use broadband to track and manage their real-time energy consumption.

Gigabit internet, folks. Think about it. This is a very large infrastructure project.
I think a lot of his points follow the back-to-the-basics line. Especially that simple running and push-ups at home can be a better step towards health than joining a gym. I eventually got tired of paying hundreds in gym fees and havin go find at least an hour a day to go to one. All that only made me slack off. So made a decision to simpply a few miles each day. Right out of my office door with no excusses.
Of course they're not team players. That's why they got together as a team to produce a website showcasing their work and inviting employers to hire them as a team.
It worked pretty well with fb connect. Moreso, I'm at the gym and I want to spend some decent time with the app that's uninterrupted.
If the engineer felt it was a bad deal, I'm sure he wouldn't have taken it.
I'm not a reader of The Onion, so what exactly is that value? (Could you give some details?)
Google purchased Youtube and Blogger after they had both hit big-time traction. I'd hardly credit either success to Google. And Buzz a home run? Really?
It's code illuminated. I know because it was on HN about a year ago and I forked it on Github back then :)

Edit: link - http://code.google.com/p/code-illuminated/
Classy title. I can't understand why women don't feel comfortable in our industry....
This sucks. I just uploaded my most recent run to Garmin Connect, because it's so incredibly better than Nike+ or any of that cheese. Your data is open, the frontend is super-flexible, the browser plugin is great. Sigh.
Same here, and this rings true. "Nice" is what you get, and nice has its limits.
This probably only works if you're Richard Feynman.
And the best way to deal with that threat is to lose an entire team of experienced engineers?

Clearly some new management technique with which I am not familiar.
I'm not sure this is a reliable way to get an identity behind all of your users. It was reliable back when Facebook required .edu email addresses, but these days there are huge numbers of fake profiles, and it's easy to create a throwaway profile if you need one to sign up for a site.
Thanks very much for the feedback. You've saved me a trip, and a disappointment (or, a greater disappointment; I, too, love garlic -- in good food).
Check your bank account?
Your instinct might be not to do some of these things because they take more time, but in my experience (of doing it right and wrong) these habits work.

* Anything to reduce stress. That's a whole topic in itself, but stress saps your energy more than anything.

* Small consistent meals throughout the day. Just enough so that you're hungry again in a couple hours. Large amounts of food throw off your metabolism.

* Plenty of water throughout the day.

* B-complex vitamins. These help reduce stress.

* 15 minute breaks. Fresh air. Sun, if you can get it.

* Exercise every day. This will increase your overall energy level, metabolism, and stamina. It also helps reduce stress.

* Learn techniques to keep a positive mental state. This is also a big topic, but pessimism, negativity, and depression will definitely slow you down. Find ways to see the glass half full.

Edit: Almost forgot: Plenty of sleep.
It seems fair enough for them to emphasize the work they did for Garmin, but that site might go a little too deeply into exactly how it was done. I can see Garmin getting upset about the implementation details.
It was mentioned elsewhere that the typesetting is done via LilyPond, which is supposed to be excellent.
Assuming, of course, there were good deals being offered.
Maybe I misread the article, but it sounded like having the gene could raise one's risk of cancer.
Perhaps none. It might be that the loss didn't result in a significant enough disadvantage to hinder the growth of the population without it. There are plenty of genetic traits that are not particularly adaptive: chance, too plays a role. The assumption that the genetically youngest populations are optimal is a kind of teleology, no?
IMO more people should lift weights and listen to what bodybuilders have to say about health and fitness. They know the ins and outs of "building" the body, yet everyone looks at them with disgust. Listen to their advice and understand that you will never look that way unless you have good muscle building genes and you deliberately work to attain that physique.
I'm glad he updated it. A lot of people would've just left it. That said I also would've liked to see at least a note that he tried more than three workers and there wasn't an improvement. When you have an almost linear improvement its a bit confusing why you wouldn't keep increasing it.
Kindle zealots trash bestseller to spite publisher's lack of e version
I live within a mile of Garmin HQ. Kansas City is a very different town from SF, but it is a great place to live. Especially if your going to be raising a family.
Wow, free FedEx overnight shipping. Google must be making a nice profit.
I've never fenced, but have done extensive knife fighting training both specifically and as part of jujitsu training. I've practiced a ton with rubber chalked knives, both armed and disarmed against an armed opponent.

Untrained fighters are, in my experience, usually pretty easy to either disarm or to block their knife hand/arm with my non-knife hand. If they are VERY quick, I might take a minor slice on my hand or forearm, but I've never sparred against a non-specially trained opponent who's been able to either "kill" me, or prolong the fight more than a few seconds.

Thankfully I have never been in a real knife to knife fight, so YMMV.
Never know until you try. Fortune favors the bold...
Sounds like Feynman getting introduced to what is now called "PUA".
Thanks, that would be my first angle of attack as well. The assumption that I have at least one other hn account is reasonable enough. Even when I wrote my first post, I was considering faking a different style/vocabulary (which is harder than it seems), but obviously, I was just using a throwaway account as a rhetorical device for emphasis.

Thanks for the exchange. :)
I still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
Hacking the Sony XEL-1
If Garmin takes offense and issues a takedown then that's just more publicity.
I am on a fight back from Austin. On my trip I got to meet dozens of happy users, answer customer support questions in person, hang out with my co-workers in a non-work setting, meet with a number of company founders and brainstorm on ways to make our products better, and chill out with some really interesting folks from Skype.

So no, it did not suck.

It's ironic that a journalist is complaining about a lack of developer attendance. And I appreciate that the web has a growing and vibrant culture. There are whole categories of jobs that didn't exist when I went a few years ago. I had a great time, the more the merrier!
Buying shampoo: A cautionary tale about the failure of marketing
Yeah, your winters blow though. I should know, I lived in Oklahoma for 40 years. I'd much rather be out here with the mild weather, and computer nerds (of which I'm one).
Thinking by Coding
So let's see. Parity is kind of a large version of XOR right? Does a multilayer NN fail at this task or does the topology have to expand with the input dimension for that?
Is it just me or is the the first graph almost impossible to read?
Clickable link: http://quora.com/hackernews
11 Success Ingredients for Entrepreneurs
Power nap in afternoon. Be warm, lie on your back, breath, and drift off. Have an alarm go off after an hour in case you fall asleep. Will improve mental clarity and energy.

Also, fresh dates, water, and walnuts for long programming sessions.
I tried it and liked it. Great job!

But I too am a bit iffy about the FB login. Mainly cos I feel it might post stuff to my wall. I am sure you guys don't do that. But I wanted to put it out there since that might be a concern other people might have as well.
To be separated from their friends, family and networks?
No. Knuth's literate programming had the source code presented out of order (in whatever order the explanatory text desired).
Or you could just search for "i =" or "int i" or "for"?
I was with you until you mentioned "buzz". I think the jury's out on that one.
According to "Sugar: The Bitter Truth", a YouTube video previously featured on HN (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM), low-fat diets were mainly a result of a key and influential study that failed to eliminate confounding: the diet it looked at did increase cholesterol and was high-fat, but it was also high in grains/sugar.
Overnight shipping for something the size of a phone is not very expensive. And it gets cheaper when you ship 160,000 of something.
I had to restrict myself to combinations that show up properly on most computers. I actually did a big user test, and had about 20 different people send me screenshots of unicode glyph tables, so I could see what worked and what didn't.
The entire book (Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman) is amazing and hilarious. I highly recommend it for the HN crowd.
Yeah. We don't post anything to any service right now, and we'll never do that except when you want it to happen, but I think you're right that people are worried about that since there are so many apps that do that kind of stuff.
Why did Google Checkout fail?

http://www.quora.com/q/Why_did_Google_Checkout_fail

What are some good reasons to take a technology company public?

http://www.quora.com/q/What_are_some_good_reasons_to_take_a_...

How did Mint acquire 1.5m+ users without a high viral coefficient, scalable SEO strategy, or paid customer acquisition channel?

http://www.quora.com/q/How_did_Mint_acquire_1_5m_users_witho...

Are most Y Combinator founders happy that they used Y Combinator?

http://www.quora.com/q/Are_most_Y_Combinator_founders_happy_...

What is the significance of the ordering of author names on an academic paper?

http://www.quora.com/q/What_is_the_significance_of_the_order...

Why aren't all girls blonde?

http://www.quora.com/q/Why_aren_t_all_girls_blond
The way it's been worded by others, it sounds like it's just a matter of tuning the radio to another frequency. Is the underlying protocol still the same between these providers since it's all just GSM?
It couldn't find "help I'm trapped in a universe factory" in the first two million digits.
I think it's nice of Garmin to let them use the company's property like that.
I hope you raise the price as well, the reason being that this is a niche application. For the people it provides utility to, 4.99 or 7.99 even might well be worth it and for people that it does not provide utility to, it's not worth buying even at .99 and probably not even worth the trouble of downloading for free.
Don't they deserve the right to use affiliate links?

I think everyone is free to use affiliate links on their site. Even more so, if you are the developer of this product.
My apologies if my comment generalizes Facebook users but I have a difficult time entertaining any comparison between Facebook and Google. What about myspace, Yahoo, AOL? Each of these social sites failed since they catered to the LCD. The next wave of net users thought they were lame. The net doesn't work like other entertainment in that if you don't like the content, then you can make your own or go somewhere else. Facebook is doomed the day pics of grandchildren quit getting uploaded or everybody realizes they've friended their employer.
More like they're missing an opportunity to make a whole new network of friends and family. If you work at Garmin, you'll meet a lot of smart people, so you'll have smart friends.

Olathe is a much better place to raise children than San Francisco imo. Olathe is recognized as a pretty dope place; see http://www.olatheks.org/Council/Awards , notably "Money Magazine ranked Olathe as America's 11th Best Place to Live noting the city's growth and major employers."

I recognize that it's difficult to leave old friends and acquaintances, but it's also a great positive opportunity to make new, geographically-distributed networks. People relocate all the time. My family was brought to Kansas by a relocation from Florida and it was a very good thing for us, though of course when someone says "hey buddy why don't you come move to Kansas" it doesn't sound that attractive. Frankly, that's part of the reason it's important to go; these people have some prejudice against the place, but they haven't tried going there. It's a good place with just as many modern accouterments as any other. It's in one of the richest counties in the nation but has a pretty low cost of living. It is not the rural farm-town Kansas of lore.

Obviously some people have compelling personal reasons to stay in SF, and that's fine. But it's highly unlikely that all of them have such reasons, most are probably just Kansas haters. :(
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I have 5 or so fake Facebook profiles I use for expressly this purpose.
Both properties grew like crazy after joining Google. Doesn't Google get credit for excellent stewardship of the properties?

For example, compare delicious/flickr -> yahoo to youtube/blogger -> google.
Researchers Transmit 10mbps Broadband Data Through Human Arm
Google Maps on mobile devices will eventually displace them.
It's true that this doesn't guarantee anything but it does help set the norms for how the site should work.