skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm currently going through the same thing, its not over but I've realized a couple things

My philosophy is start to do something, if it something you realize is not for you, you cross it off and do the next thing on your list. It doesn't matter what you do as long as you are doing something. For me this has narrowed down and grounded my interests, and has given me an idea of what to do with myself. This idea will obviously change with time, but for right now it is a start.

Or when I feel like I cant think, or am not in control of the way my life is heading. I stop, and simplify my life. whether this is a day to lay in the park and read or just look at the sky. Or something more drastic. It is backing up from your own life and editing it to whatever degree you want. For me it was really empowering to be in a place of my constructing after I threw away all the metaphorical clutter. It let me breathe and start again.
This is a great way to send emails, what about receiving them, is there any option with amazon other than getting an ec2 instance and putting a postfix server (or other MTA) on it?
PG's Work Setup
I also find it difficult when sites like LinkedIn or Facebook want you to categorize your relationship, especially when that relationship is in its infancy. It seems a bit presumptuous to say "I've done business with X" when I just met them, even in a business context.

I think it would be interesting if social sites and social graphs let you somehow define the quality of the relationship (each side could rate it and neither could see the other's rating). I'd like to see my strongest links to other people - even if it's not necessarily the shortest path.
Interesting how the gross margin is falling as the SDD gets larger. One would expect the exact opposite, considering SSDs are getting cheaper by the day.
No, you're not alone. In fact, nekopa and I met last week. Send me an email (it's in my profile) and we can all meet up.
Apple expressly forbids "interpreted code" on the iPhoneOS platform.

I will say, on Monday that Adobe is releasing flash CS5 which will build native Android/iPhone/iPad/Desktop/Web apps all from the same source (which will be compiled down, not interpreted). I for one would love for this to be the new hypercard :OD

http://cs5launch.adobe.com/
What if someone sold a 30-pin dock connector board with an Arduino on it?

Or what about an app that exposed the iPhone OS APIs through RPC to programs running on an Arduino board with Bluetooth? This kit might make for a nice product!
That's a fine question, but Rand gives a better answer than I can (if you follow the links).

"The Objectivist ethics holds man's life as the standard of value—and his own life as the ethical purpose of every individual man." Ayn Rand

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/standard_of_value.html

"There are, in essence, three schools of thought on the nature of the good: the intrinsic, the subjective, and the objective." Ayn Rand

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/good--the.html

You ask about good. Good implies value by some valuer. Saying that life is the standard of good is essentially as much as the question can be broken down (Rand gives a lot more detail than I can here). That's not the same proposition as saying "my feelings" are the standard of good, because feelings are based on something, so those need to be explored and reasoned about. You can't reason once you've denied reason or chosen death.
Show HN: A webapp for sharing cocktail napkin drawings
Hi HN,

http://draw.to

This is a little project I've been working on in my spare time. It's a web app for creating and sharing little cocktail-napkin style drawings. You can:

- Start drawing as soon as you hit the site.

- Share on Twitter, Facebook, etc.

- Embed drawings on your blog/webpage

- Fork/extend existing drawings

It works on iPhone/iPod Touch and hopefully your choice of browser! Would be great to know if it works on the iPad or any Android devices and also any feedback you may have.

Example drawing: http://draw.to/DRWSV4

Shortcuts:

Undo: ctrl-z (command-z on osx)

Redo: ctrl-y (shift-command-z on osx)

Toggle color palette: c
I am not sure how I feel about this article. Either this article is way off base, or I am just an odd duck. Perhaps there is a cultural bias too (I am Indian).

Regardless, almost all of my close friends happen to be female, and I love the conversations! I love the discussions about their lives, about what's going on, how they are reacting to it. Not to mention that they think I have an empathetic ear, and occasionally come to me just to talk, if not to get some advice.

Even my conversations with my male friends almost never leads to sports or go off-base from the topic at hand. I prefer to listen to find out the crux of the issue, and never stop at the "Oh! That's too bad" as the article explains. If a friend of mine had lost a job or was having expecting a baby, assuming they are willing, I want to know how they are approaching it, what about it scares/motivates them the most, if they need some help etc.

That's not to say that there is no place to sit and talk technology or world politics with a couple of friends over a few beers, but that's not all I do. I agree with tokenadult - this article bears no semblance to me or most of my male friends.

Could be just me though ;-)
On Next Monday flash that compiles to native iPhone code will be released in Flash CS5....http://cs5launch.adobe.com/
okay, sure, but my relationship with a girlfriend IS face-to-face (not side-by-side). it's not that we don't want intimacy, its just that if we're merely drinking buddies, I don't care. Maybe women have social pressure and upbringing that prompts them to pretend to care, or need to care out of being a socialite, and men don't face those pressures so just don't bother.
Clickable links:

http://draw.to/

http://draw.to/DRWSV4
Summarizing web sites and documents
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How about - PhD, focus on security?
Nice video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1250fZuhUg

Issues with fuel reported in the story @3:09.
You can read the full version of the story here:

http://blog.johnwurth.com/?p=110
On Next Monday flash that compiles to native iPhone code will be released in Flash CS5....http://cs5launch.adobe.com/

Perhaps you should try your games compiled in it? (I'm an iPhone developer, lets talk [see profile for an email] if you want to check it out next week, I'd love to try an establish code base rather than writing test apps).
Microchip announced a product just like that for the PIC platform:
http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_P...
Yes, "why" would be extremely interesting!

It would appear that the research on the subject is somewhat spotty and often gets misinterpreted, sometimes at the source.

I found a book on amazon the other day called Pink Brain, Blue Brain by neuroscientist Lise Elliot, which is next up on my reading list.

http://www.amazon.com/Pink-Brain-Blue-Differences-Troublesom...

One study I read about described a situation where the researchers bundled the same baby up and told some people that it was a boy and others that it was a girl. The people who thought it was a girl tended to comfort the baby when it got fussy, and the people who thought it was a boy tended to try to distract it.[1] Subtle, but I can imagine that there are other ways that we train girls to be more 'face to face'.

[1] from http://www.amazon.com/Failing-At-Fairness-Schools-Cheat/dp/0... --marred by some selection bias in the data they used, but very interesting nonetheless.
You choose your quorum trading off cost/complexity vs risk-tolerance. You ensure that not forming a quorum is impossible in scenarios that you care about. e.g. You may decide it's OK not to form a quorum if the entire USA power grid goes offline.

The broad problem is that you're trying to apply the mathematical proof of the CAP theorem to the real world. For example, the proof of the CAP theorem treats single-node failures as a case of network partitioning, which is logically elegant. But in the real world, it's just not realistic to consider a dropped TCP connection as equivalent to the failure of a datacenter, as you seem to be doing.
Remove email address and name from purchased iTunes using perl
The problem is: If a node performs a write in an eventually-consistent data-store, the write will not be visible immediately. Alternatively (in a strongly consistent data-store) the node could just retry the write until it succeeds. From the perspective of a user that wouldn't really make much of a difference, but in the latter case there would at least be no risk of having multiple inconsistent versions of the same data.
I Hate People Who Type Their Headlines Like This. It Makes Them Really Annoying To Read. Please Feel Free To Edit Such Monstrosities Into A More Pleasing Format. Like this, for example, which is so much less annoying.
Thanks for all the advice. I'll look into BackBlaze and a few other suggestions today.
Don't believe rrdtool
Apress hasn't updated the listing in a while, but Stuart Sierra is actually the co-author on that, too.
Personally I'm getting tired of hearing about how Javascript-enabled web apps are good enough. No, they aren't.

Yeah, it's exciting that Quake2 runs in Chrome/Safari, it really is. But in 95/96 I was participating in demo-scenes, with graphics that weren't accelerated by the GPU, in 386 real-mode, and it was a lot easier and a lot more exciting (demos that got distributed by a local PC magazine, having as target more people than the people that actually tried that HTML5 Quake2 demo).

So welcome to 1997.
Don't worry. Commercial airliners will make various loud noises to prevent the pilots from getting too distracted with flying and forgetting about those mountains that are coming up.
Emacs?
But why not allow people to install apps outside the App store if they manually opt-in, as Android does?

Because people will install apps that don't work and then blame their iP(ad|od|hone) for misbehaving. If they could figure out a good process for it, I'm sure Apple would certify their developers before letting them develop applications.

Why the absurd secrecy around the sdk and developers agreements?

What absurd secrecy? AFAIK, the only threatening legalese was removed in 2008 [1]. I don't know for sure, but I imagine it was there left over from the developers that knew about it before the SDK was announced.

Why the seemingly arbitrary rejection of apps that in some way impinge on functionality Apple reserves for itself to implement?

Because people do get confused about things you might think are obvious. If you give people two "dialer" apps, I guarantee you they'll sometimes launch the wrong one. And again, frustration against apps is frustration against the device.

1. http://www.telecoms.com/5294/apple-removes-secrecy-oath-from...
For anyone interested in getting into gardening, I highly recommend Mel Bartholomew's 'Square Foot Gardening'.

It's a great resource for starting a garden in general and I've had great success and fun with his specific technique.

http://www.amazon.com/Square-Foot-Gardening-Garden-Space/dp/...
I have three - "Programming Clojure" (PragProg), "The Joy of Clojure" (MEAP - Manning) and "Clojure In Action" (MEAP - Manning). There is the Apress book coming out soon, and I am yet to pick up the beta

Of those 3 the PragProg and "Clojure In Action" seem to be the ones that most people are using to get up and running with Clojure. The PragProg is pre 1.0 (FYI).

Both the above mentioned books look good. But I am especially impressed with the Joy Of Clojure by fogus (a HN'er) - From what I have read so far (which is the first 4 chapters in the MEAP) - they are taking a different approach to teaching Clojure. They are emphasizing the philosophy of Clojure - so they attempt to explain the "why" as well as the "how". Having played with some Clojure this definitely helps to bring somethings into perspective.

I would recommend picking up the PragProg book (if for no other reason than it's the only complete Clojure book out there) and "The Joy of Clojure". I am eagerly waiting out the Apress book to see how it is.

Hope that helped.
That's ridiculous.

Apple should rightly be roasted for this kind of bullying. There's nothing about pinch-to-expand that would threaten Apple's control over the user experience in any way.
Seems pretty biased. What about the flip side of this article?
...and soon no more space shuttle, or any other way to get people in orbit other than hitching a ride with the Russians or Chinese.
Er, no. I'm just not differentiating between the various reasons why a single node may be unavailable. It doesn't really matter _why_ the node is unavailable... it just is.

FWIW, databases like Cassandra expose the consistency tradeoff to the client. You can do quorum reads/writes with Cassandra. You can't with MySQL or PostgreSQL.

Edit: you can choose between quorum reads/writes and stronger or weaker consistency levels with Cassandra, but can't with MySQL / PostgreSQL.
"I want to write java programs using lisp forms. The goal is to generate java code from CL. The advantage is to use all the power of Lisp ending in a java application (absolute requirement)."

Suggestion: Use Clojure. It seems to me it was built with exactly this in mind.

From the Closure web site:
Clojure is a compiled language - it compiles directly to JVM bytecode, yet remains completely dynamic.
...
Clojure is a dialect of Lisp, and shares with Lisp the code-as-data philosophy and a powerful macro system.
UPDATE:

I forgot to ask if it has increased your WPM and by how much if it has.
It also never flew a real mission. The SR-71 was a real airplane that could take off, fly a mission, and land. The X-15 had to be ferried into space by another aircraft, then it flew around for a while, and then it could destroy part of itself, and finally land.

Pretty or not, the SR-71 was a lot more practical.
The emergency made me LOL! haha check your email bud
Wall Street Trading Firms Ponder Leasing Idle Servers During Off Hours
http://www.qfly.nl/en does this in Europe.
From 160 Hours to 10: A Tale of Agile Business Practices
The sexist-yet-probably-true answer: because women are emotionally weak creatures who get upset over minor things and feel the need to share. Men are better at stoically shrugging off the minor problems of life.

Also, men are better at nonverbal communication. If a friend has good news or bad news it's sufficient for me to say "Hey, congrats!" or "Bummer, that sucks dude", and we both know exactly where we stand. There's no need to spend several thousand words on agreeing with each other on exactly how good or bad the news is.

edit: Also, men and women find different things interesting. Women are far more interested in "feelings" and "relationships" as complicated objects worthy of discussion, whereas men see them as simple things unworthy of too much brainpower and would much rather think about "things" or "ideas". This explains why groups of men and groups of women will choose to talk about the things they find interesting, and why many man-woman conversations are doomed to be deathly boring to one partner or the other.
What if GE was an ISP and not just a search engine?
Still got the U-2, that's 50's technology right there :)
Yes. You will not get funding. You'll get grants.
That looks very nice, except for the abysmal 1024x600 resolution. I'll give Apple credit for having the iPad resist the inexplicable war on vertical pixels.
That's exactly the comment I was gonna leave. Acquaintance works in writing, but I can't imagine how to say it in casual conversation without sounding like a snob or a douche.
early-stage non-profit? What does that mean (curious)?
I think there must be more to this than is in the article. I think some of the Apple sample apps use and I've bought apps that use it. There's no reason for Apple to not want developers to use common gestures. They even made it easier with one of the recent SDKs by adding gesture recognizers so you can reuse gestures more easily.
That's because distraction is a more effective pain reducer for men than for women. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17951004
Israel here.
I found this quote from Wozniak in Founders at Work to be ironic.

"You'd go to the store and they'd just have all this stuff that you could buy to enhance the Apple II. So one of our big keys to success was that we were very open. There's a big world out there for other people to come and join us."
But of course those demos were very limited in scope, because the development techniques used to create them were impossible to scale up.
Apple can do what they want, it's their game and anyone who's let in has agreed to the rules.

But you have to wonder why you would want in at all, if your apps are going to be competitionally crippled against Apple's apps.

Illegal to use native look and feel is pretty ludicrous. But it's their game.
If you're doing a startup, you have to read Papillon.
Also, it's not real time. If it actually changed when you posted something (preferably with an animated transition) then it might be worth it.
PastryKit - iPhone’s UI JavaScript framework
I wonder if this is because of claimed patents around pinching? AIUI, patents are allowed to be selectively enforced, but I would actually prefer that they choose to be consistent about it.

If software patents are evil, then at least predictable evil is easier to deal with than unknown lurking evil...
Ask HN: (former or current) demomakers here ?
Just curious - are there many HNers that were (or are still) creating demos, released or not ? If so, which group ?
Hardware: Dell Vista box with 24" and 22" monitor and Mac Mini with 22" monitor with single wireless Logitech Wave keyboard/mouse via Synergy. Dell Mini 9 netbook with Ubuntu Remix also hooked to Synergy when its at my desk.

[EDIT]

Here is an older picture of the setup:

http://imgur.com/iAqED.jpg

[/EDIT]

Software: use Window's box for dev work - Notepad++ for editing, FF/Chrome for browser, and Mac for communications - Adium for IM (AIM and internal Jabber) and Colloquy for irc (wmassdevs on freenode) and FF for gmail/google apps/co-op/basecamp/etc.

If I had more desk space I'd have more monitors. I'm moving soon and may end up either attaching monitor arms to the walls or building a shelf for the second set of monitors.
You can still do plenty of tinkering with some cars. E.g. you're not supposed to change the battery on the Prius yourself either.

Suffice to say, not all manufacturers are the same and not all products are the same. And frankly, so long as the tinkerers are being serviced, I don't see society as having lost anything yet, just because a single more appliance-y product has hit the market.

And --specifically to the matter at hand-- particularly not when the appliance-y product in question has a first-class, standards-compliant web browser.
Why would Apple deliberately make the user experience worse for their customers?
Mixergy gets to know a lot about Steve Jobs from the founder of Smugmug
Six Questions to Determine if You're Ready to Analyze 10GbE Traffic
This is simply amazing. Do give it a listen.
XPS M1530 - what an amazing laptop.

Actually, I rather dislike the M1530, at least compared with my previous laptop, a D600. The M1530 tends to get very hot.
If you know what the proposed design is for your system, can't you simply google search for the field names and tables there and see if you find something strangely similar?
It's funny how so many people are suddenly mischaracterizing the Apple II or the nature of early personal computers.

The very first personal computers, like the Apple II, were sold as development kits to developers/hobbyists because these were the only people who would even think to buy a personal computer in 1976 and 1977. These development kits contain all of the information one would need to create software and hardware for these machines. Is that so unusual?

Fast forward one short year to 1978 and Apple hires Jef Raskin to start the "McIntosh" project. His goal is to create a $500 computing appliance that the average person could own and use. Sound familiar?

Fast forward 32 years. There is more information published about the internals of Linux, Windows, OS X, and PC architecture than most developers would ever want to know. We can write low-level drivers that run in the kernel, to high-level scripting languages. We can design a custom hardware card to slap in a PC or MacPro; we can design custom hardware that connects to an iPhone or a laptop via USB. And the iPad is arguably the closest we've come to Jef Raskin's 1978 vision of a computing appliance.
Agreed. It's this sort of pollution that made me stop visiting Digg and Reddit.

One of these days I'll, perhaps, understand the fascination people have with attacking this woman. Frankly I don't care if it's a positive or negative story. There has to be more important things to talk about (look at me, contributing to the problem . . .)
I'll have to say this is probably cultural, and like most such things, is nowhere near globally true.

I can tell you though, from personal experience, most of my friendships with other guys, and their friendships with other guys, follow this pattern to the letter, particularly the "Gee, dude, that's too bad. Want us to deal you out this hand?" phenomenon.

That said, there's a lot of subtext that goes into a statement like that: it's not callous or cold or ignorant, rather, what it really says is "I really do feel bad for you, but we have an understanding that I know if I were in your position I'd probably rather be left alone so I'll do the same to you, but if you really do want to talk about it later you're welcome to (though we both know you probably won't)".

I've also noticed (with a few exceptions) that guys are generally a lot quicker to forgive each other after an argument. We'll argue more violently, sure, but there's a period of time, and usually a place, for airing one's grievances, and an understanding that afterward, we'd rather just both forgive each other so we can be friends again.
Ask HN: Is there a new app/startup/product that excites you?
Something that made you say Why didn't I think of that or a service you think is genius.

I'm hoping you guys post some recent discoveries here so more people learn about them.
Responding myself: I released a couple of productions circa 96/98 (see http://scene.org/search.php?search=jka_).
I know I'll probably get downvoted for this but...

I was looking into trying Dvorak a few years ago, and was talking to a friend that used it for a few years.
He liked it, said it was a little bit faster for him than QWERTY.

The reason he switched back is because with multiple devices, very few able to use Dvorak, the benefit of being used to using a single common standard (he felt) far out weighted any benefit he got from using Dvorak while on his PC.

This is what turned me away from using Dvorak.
Doesn't answer your question, but I thought it might be good to have another opinion here.
"Microchip’s three development platforms are available through Apple’s authorized Made for iPod component distributor.

Customers who wish to purchase these platforms must enroll in Apple’s Made for iPod licensing program"

http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_P...