skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone who loves a bit of irony?. It's so sad that a site talking about the art of design and creating something which can't be copied has a pretty ordinary site template.
Also, I use a laptop with no scroll wheel. There are ways to do scrolling, like clicking both buttons, but it doesn't seem to send all the scroll wheel events. So I can't even find a way to get that version of the calendar to work.

An alternative to both might be to use a linear fisheye. It would just need a selection for 31 days at the bottom, 12 months in the middle, and a few years at the top. The thing that you would probably need to change for the fisheye is not scrolling between months from the day row or years from the months row. In some ways, this is a bit more intuitive anyway.
also http://www.foodspotting.com (mentioned in the article)
An interesting read, imo.

Via MacStories
http://www.macstories.net/ipad/the-ipad-from-a-typographer-p...
I would suggest against it. It's almost certainly possible to pick another domain name, and just use that. If you're just starting off, and no-one knows about your brand, then you can just as easily switch to another branding.

The only reason you should pay lots for a domain name is if it's hard or impossible to switch. i.e. you're already invested in that brand.

For example, openstreetmap.org is basically "doing to google maps what wikipedia did to encyclopedias". They have been going for years, and have ~ 200,000 users. openstreetmapS.org (not the S) was squatted. They eventually raised funds and bought it. It made sense for them since they had already a lot of brand awareness of "open street map", and it's so easy to add an 's' to the end.
I was wondering why they chose to switch to Yahoo in the first place. The answer is at [https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2010-Januar...]:

"I am pursuing this change because Canonical has negotiated a revenue sharing deal with Yahoo! and this revenue will help Canonical to provide developers and resources to continue the open development of Ubuntu and the Ubuntu Platform."
Depends what you want.

If by 'hacker' you mean security, then there are certs for that. Or start hanging around, reading and practicing security stuff.

If by 'hacker' you mean a good programmer (that's probably what the hacker in hackernews means), then you don't need a certificate for that. Just do lots of programming.
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When you transition to fanboy-condition, it's a given you have precious little experience with any platform other than the object of you fanboyism. Don't expect an Apple fanboy to also have not only a Blackberry, but a BB SDK.

I am somewhat of an exception. I really love Linux (although any X-ish Unix-like with decent package management will do) and I am currently condemned to run a Windows notebook at work.

sigh.
It seems, in the end, Google offered a sweeter deal.
You can't even run Virtualbox? That's harsh.
I thought Bob the designer saying "Yay!" to the death of design was pretty good: http://tweetphoto.com/17624519
Rapleaf is already making progress with this.

http://www.rapleaf.com/apidoc/person
Learning is better than optimization (the local maximum problem)
If you want to dig deeper into F#, have a look at The F# Survival Guide, which is a free online guide that was posted here on HN some time ago: http://www.ctocorner.com/fsharp/book/default.aspx

Edit: Here's the link to the original post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1109754
Many words saved [software design]
The page seems to give no real reason. I wonder what happened to transparency in open source.
Battling the CIO Retirement Wave
If I was a student I would be pissed. How can you personalize education without actually reviewing students' assignments? Should students outsource their assignments as well? This angers me more than it should, but I deal with far too many profs on a daily basis who think they are simply too important to deal with students. Just do your fucking job.
Excellent article, and it gets to a point that has often been debated here: the value of business plans.

I tend to agree with the author: a business plan is worse than useless if your goal is to follow it blindly; the value comes from the process of planning, and any document produced needs to be viewed as provisional and open to revision.
Ahem... Edwardian Sex Scholar, not Victorian. Mosher's work seems to have mostly been in the 1910S and 1920s, some time after Victoria passed.
In the XVII century, copyright in Spain was a period of ten years long, since the first edition, not renewable. I'm talking of a country notorious for its steep geography and bad communications, at a period of both dangerous colonisation, wars and abject poverty. That century is now known as the Spanish Golden Age of Literature.

History has proven that, past a point, money does not seem to translate into creativeness. Cultures almost always have their most creative periods at times of social and intellectual changes (say, XIX-XX century Germany) and when intellectual work is regarded as prestigious and respected by the public (physics on America post-Einstein/WW2).
I'm pretty terrified if there are men who only have shallow friendships like in the poker night example. It's true that probably only men are capable of such relationships, though.

Yes, I have those shallow friendships too but their purpose is to have fun. We talk about computers, photography, cars, stuff like that, and usually while doing something. However, if those were all I had I would feel really lonely.

For me, it's absolutely essential to have few (male) friends who are close and with whom I can talk about and reflect my life. I share things with my wife too but you can't share everything with one close person and you shouldn't. A wife equals not an amateur friend therapist. You might want to mention your fears and problems to her but you don't want to dwell in them with her.

I have a feminine side like every person, male or female, and I think it's hugely valuable to have a male guy or two who can respond to that, too. The feminine side is a much smaller part of me than my masculine side but it's still there and if I were to only acknowledge the latter, I would be missing quite a lot in life.

Life can rarely be solved, in the masculine problem-solving way; you can only live it. Pretty much all you can "solve" in your life is change your attitude, and in order to do that you have to recognize and acknowledge what part of you feels bad. Talking helps in that; in fact, trying to consider it a solvable problem and fix myself would only drive me further from the change I'm eventually going after.

But I sure like going karting racing with my friends or having beers and a few good problems to solve: that's fun! I just also acknowledge that it's only one part of me.
Although it's probably not the author's fault the typesetting of the article is dreadful too. Because of this the article seems less authoritative.
I never got what the confusion is over the possessive form of "it". I mean, nobody ever writes "hi's" or "her's"; why would they want to do so with "it"?

Because "it" is the only personal that has a possessive form consisting of the personal pronoun followed by an "s".

The briefcase belonging to him is his briefcase, not hims briefcase.

The purse belonging to her is her purse, not hers purse.

The mama belonging to you is your mama, not yous mama.

The nasty case of chlamydia belonging to me is my nasty case of chlamydia, not mes nasty case of chlamydia.

Similarly it's "our" not "uss" and "their" not "thems". I think that's covered all of 'em. So "its" is unique as being the only one where you could reasonably make this mistake.
Given that the article does not actually talk about how Visa predicts divorce, maybe we can speculate. Here are some ideas:

* Meals at two restaurants on same night.

* Separate vacations.

* Ages approach mid-life.

* Card used on personals websites.
A couple of years ago Ubuntu went to Google asking for a revenue sharing deal, Google refused, even though they had done it many times before. Search was going to be Ubuntu's primary income in the netbook space. At the time Google probably thought they owned search. Its amazing what a little competition will do.

I would love to see Firefox and Safari change their default search to Bing (I would still use Google). Who knows, Google might start getting serious about things like privacy.
You have to be more careful than that.

You need to write some script to follow random links on HN while you're away from your computer, so when you're off doing risky things you won't change your profile.

You need to occasionally forget your cell phone, so when you're doing risky things, forgetting your cell phone won't change your profile.

If you have a car, you need to pass through the intersections with red light cameras at the normal times, but no extra times, so you don't change your profile.

Does visa buy dns lookup histories? or cellphone active tower histories? or car intersection histories? probably not. yet. better to build the habits now though.
W3C incubator project: social web frameworks
That's actually the correct way - at least so say all of the old (and most new) books on English grammar. If the word ends with a written S, you don't add another one after the "possessive apostrophe".

Some teachers go the extra mile by saying that this rule also goes if the word ends with any consonant pronounced with an S sound; "Alix' room"; but not if it ends with a pronounced S sound followed by a silent vowel; "Belize's beaches". I personally follow this rule.
Yahoo Wants “It’s You” To Be Theirs
Why do Finland's schools get the best results?
The problem is they delve too far into the fuzzy and misleading terms without a solid explanation. This is where things like 'The God particle' come from. "Average peope"[1] do not think in strictly defined an limited terms, the associate based on multiple meanings words have. They also allow certain connotations to evoke emotional responses. Of course being too clear evokes responses about patronizing... sigh.

[1] Average people being defined as those without strong scientific training, and therefore more likely to make inferences that may not be reasonable.
Thanks for your reply. What I refer to in my grandparent post is the core issue that statistics is about DATA--it is very different from any branch of pure mathematics in that regard, as the first link in my previous post makes clear.
Someone played the "how many MBAs and buzzwords does it take to make something with no meaning" game.
Three Videos that Prove the iPad Will Be a Huge Hit
I have been saying this for years, the name of the game in consumer electronics is usability. This is actually a true statement about most things, but when it comes to using gadgets or electronic devices of any kind, the point is magnified. I know it is hard for us geeks to grasp this sometimes, but there is actually a whole lot of consumers who use computers and are not geeks.
Open source Qubes OS is ultra secure
I am using OSX now. If I were on using Linux, I would look into Archlinux or another Debian based distro.
That's the rule (not sure about the X thing, that just looks wrong). Where I really get confused is the correct pronunciation for that. If it was "Chris' stuff" I'd probably put in an extra "es" sylalble at the end of "Chris" just to make it clear. On the other hand if you're talking about, say, "Jesus' stuff" then saying "Jesuses" sounds silly.
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Or at least all debates were the MPs aren't directly interested. Debates about legal immunities, tax breaks and such stuff for MPs probably have a higher level of discourse.
Nothing. It's right there in the code base.

This was a business decision by Canonical. I too would have liked to have seen an explanation as to why the change was made but at the end of the day, it's the code and not the organisation that's open source.
I just joined the local chapter at my office in hopes of hedging my technical skills with a better set of social / presentation skills.

The cost to join was about $60 up front and another $30-40 for each six months thereafter.

I have enjoyed all three meetings I've attended thus far. Speaking makes me nervous, so I figure working through it will be good for me.
And how strict the laws are applied. And what the punishment is for breaking those laws.
Reminds me of the Stanford address where Jobs claims that computers may not have had typography if he'd not done a calligraphy course.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc
I'm sure the Parc guys that founded Adobe would beg to differ.
Who is this Science? And where do they come from?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1248732
the iPhone is one device on one carrier per country

One carrier per country isn't true here in Sweden, and I'm guessing we're not a unique case. All the major carriers sell it here.
Alternatively, he was bored and felt like dicking with a publisher for a while at great expense to them.
Luddite? What does dislike of one or another decision on closed or open development have to do with resistance to technology?
Permission Follow-Up
Or even start playing with eg Android SDK/NDK which runs their emulator on qemu. Pretty much all mobile phones run on ARM though so pick which ever you are most comfortable with.
I really loved how portage worked as well. I started using Gentoo in 2004 because it was one of the 2 distros that initially supported AMD64—I had an AMD64 FX51. In fact, I used Gentoo until about 2 years ago, so another 3 or 4 years after that incident. I stopped using Gentoo because my home computer blew up (major hardware failure) and I had to switch from Linux to Windows at work. And I still haven't replaced my home computer.

I had backups, but I actually never applied them because I decided to create a new website instead.
I find it confusing. You read it top to bottom, left to right, a column at a time. Each column is different. Different sizes. Different relationships. It feels jarring, and disconnecting. It feels like their should be a relationship between the element highlighted, and the items on the right.

I'll try to be specific.

The time is highlighted. This seems associated with the next column over, which is also highlighted (at least, compared to the rest of the column).

Next, the top and bottom of columns match up to the next column (or previous column) with the next or previous day/month. Can you scroll through these? What happens to that relationship then?

Where is April 16? 13? Is there an easy way to tell which column they are in without doing math? I can see it's 7 days ahead in the second column, but to find a date, I'm still having to scan both columns quickly to try and find the date. It's in order, but moving from the bottom to the top feels unnatural, and the sizing difference of the rows means I can't just easily/quickly scan.

Which column do I go to to find a date? Let's say I want to find an overview for the week of Aug. 8, the due date of my son. It seems like selecting a single date requires navigation in all columns, or maybe just a few. Once you start moving one column, does it affect all? That destroys relationships between columns, and then it feels like you are playing slots.

If you do keep the association, you suddenly create a problem where moving one column moves all columns. If you don't allow changing the columns (it's simply a view), then you can't use it to enter data and in turn reduces it's value. However, even with just the view, you dedicate 75% of the view to future events, 50% to events more than 7 days ahead.

I do like the progression from left to right. I also like the idea of present information getting a more detailed view while future data get's more concise. I don't think you present it in an efficient manner, but I like were you could be going with this.

TL;DR: Slot Machines don't make good planners. =)
Even better would be to have a probabilistic weight to these various items. Computers are way better at finding patterns and irregularities in patterns than we are at making irregularities. If I were to "accidentally" forget my phone based on my own decision, it would probably cluster in some way, say, forgetting it every 17 days +/- 1, or on Thursdays more than any other day, or something.

So create a profile, then use RNG to match yourself to that profile.
Net Neutrality, GPL and Packets
You can use iSimulate on your phone to send full touch, motion, attitude, etc events to your code running under the simulator. Pretty nifty.
This sounds quite interesting. Joanna Rutkowska has some some serious low level security work, including work on Xen.

Xen was chosen for a minimal TCB, with the plan of moving stuff out of Dom0 like networking now and filesystem(s?) next?/later.

Of particular interest is the graphics system, where the code running in Dom0 was kept as small as possible (2,500 LOC, with no plans for fancy 3D).

ADDED: From a message on the mailing list, an explicit decision was made that each VM would have its own X server: applications sharing one are not isolated, trying to fix that would be "non-trivial" (quite an understatement!) and "the X protocol and X server alone present a huge attack surface". Indeed....

If I had a spare machine that could run it I'd be kicking the tires right now.
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The Game song, referenced: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkJZhKT7W6g

P.S. HipHopGoblin is now open source, a few of us from HN are working on bringing it back to life. We are implementing it now with DirectedEdge. Email me if interested.
Political parties have been doing this for some time. Check out http://www.voterlistsonline.com/version2/site/page.asp?page_...

You can learn a lot about a potential voter (ie is he worth making a stop when canvasing?)

Purchase Premium Fields, including:

- Home purchase/mortgage/refinance information
- Presence/ages of children per household
- Magazine subscriptions
- Hunting/fishing licenses
- Charity contributions
- Additional polling options - including Targeted Random Sampling and Normalized Sampling*
So you are fed up with yourself?
This makes a whole lot of sense. You can;t really ask for money from Google to keep them as the default search provider unless you're willing to change search providers.
How to Turn Your Blog’s Readers Into Paying Customers
The economics of copyright in 17th-century Spain aren't really translatable to the modern world, though.

If you were a publisher, how much would you be willing to pay an author for the rights to publish a book if you knew you'd be able to publish your own edition of it in ten years anyway? Why would you bother buying rights to new publications at all, if there was more money to be made printing up new editions of the earlier Harry Potter books?

All that authors have to sell is the right to publish their works for the maximum copyright period. If you drastically reduce the maximum copyright period you'll drastically reduce the value of what they're selling, and the effort-to-reward ratio for most authors (even good ones) is, I think, already quite high enough.
Newspapers Pushing For Hot News Doctrine May Find It Comes Back To Bite Them
It's singular vs plural - You are one person, your stuff is "Chris's Stuff" (with the extra "s"). If you and another Chris pool your belongings, that stuff would be "the Chris' stuff" (without the extra "s", pronounced identically).
I know of one financial firm that did this. They didn't trade the specific stocks, but they used their credit card data to predict what the Fed would do.

Doing it one stock at a time might raise some eyebrows; it sounds close to insider trading. But it's accepted that people who bet on interest rates will gather lots of data--since every economic indicator you can imagine will have some effect on rates, it's both impossible to be a true "insider" and impossible not to have some degree of insider information.
The Internet is a copy machine
If I were Microsoft or even better Yahoo! I'd back up a large dump truck full of cash to entice Firefox to switch the default engine. They prob would never take it, but you never know.
Apparently iPhone OS 4 is being announced right now
">> I just don't want to rent my right to develop and deploy on my device

>>I am not opposed to Apple keeping its OS closed. I am fine with the Apple Store distribution "choke point".

>These two statements contradict each other. "

They don't. (see below).

"These two statements contradict each other. A closed OS means that the consumer can only load applications on their device that have been approved by Apple."

I am using "closed" as opposed to "Open Source". Linux is Open Source. Windows is closed. I can load anything I want on it without getting permission from Microsoft, though I can't see the source. I don't mind much being able to sell only through AppleStore.

I just want to be able to put my apps on my device without paying anything to anybody, not sell them to you (for which I don't mind going through the App Store if necessary. Iow I don't want to deploy on your device.I have no plans to sell desktop/device sw at present which maybe why I don't care about AppleStore's policies.)
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given the similarities in the environments we and they evolved in, (ie Earth) I think it's likely that you have wildly more in common with these lifeforms than with any you'd find elsewhere.
I doubt there is a rationale trend. It's just statistics, really. My guess is that it has more to do with the amount of money spent by each spouse rather than what.
Culture.

The system is derived from their cultural values and works because of the cultural values. It's been shown again and again in educational studies: some systems are certainly better than others, but culture is the primary factor.
This is pretty remarkable. We have use MTurk to help develop educational content and have thought about using virtual TAs to help w/research and tutoring, but not for actual grading. To me, that feels a bit like a stretch. However, on the other hand, if you've got qualified people that can do a better job than you can do as a professor, then you may actually be doing your students a service by using this platform.

Educational services are quickly becoming a global market. Quick example. Our CTO was less of a believer in the power of MTurk. We (www.nixty.com) were converting a physics course from MIT. The tests were in PDF form. (a. problems; b. solutions). We wanted them to be in multiple choice form. No one on the team had the capability to create relevant multiple choice responses. We created a HIT on MTurk. A guy from Bangalore signed up for the HIT. He had a Master's in Science and had taught Physics earlier in his career. He banged out the multiple choice responses in a day. We had them cross-checked and they were solid. Pretty cool, right?
Sorry. We can't seem to get it back up, but we're working on it.

I hired a wp company to figure out what's going on and straighten it out.

If anyone has any insight: http://mixergy.com/contact
The title given to the HN post has a typo: It's "Terremark," not "Terramark." Pretty important, given that they came first in the rankings in the article (albeit by a small margin).

As it happens, the error is common enough that Terremark is #1 when I Google "Terramark," despite the surveying company that owns Terramark.com.