skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please don't blame me for inventing a gun that someone later uses to shoot you. The problem is with the sophists misapplying others' research, trying to find evidence to support their pre-formed conclusions instead of following the evidence where it may lead; the problem is not with the researchers themselves, or the objective facts they produce.
You're storing passwords in plain-text. No-no.

May I recommend one of the following:

http://github.com/thoughtbot/clearance
http://github.com/binarylogic/authlogic
http://github.com/plataformatec/devise
There are actually a bunch of these. I believe the most developed is 'jsinq' which has a for-reals LINQ parser and I seem to remember generating relatively efficient functions for the implementation.
More of my tools in the browser would really be great for iPad.
> that's just a moderate financial risk which is much smaller than the financial risk of doing a startup

If you do it the wrong way, a startup is a big financial risk. But a lot of brilliant startups get started without their founders ever putting their lives on the line. Case in point: this article.

I think there's a tendency for people whose lives are unstable for other reasons to chalk it up to being brilliant.

http://gapingvoid.com/2004/08/14/dying-young-is-overrated/
"Stick it to the man" makes a great bullet point.
I don't have the Slashdot data...but it's certainly a good idea. Not sure how I didn't take to get data from them too. Thanks.
I expect Flash to run well on tablets eventually (if Apple hasn't motivated Adobe to make this happen then nothing will). I'm not exactly sold on this demo though, show it working "flawlessly" on a shipping device with a price tag and published specs.

edit: Engadget commenter Charbax says:

This looks like the development kit based on Nvidia Tegra 2, I think it's for sale for like $400 without the screen. I filmed these demos a couple months ago: http://armdevices.net/2010/02/15/flash-support-and-unreal-to...
Or, just go ahead and buy the insurance, which will be available to anyone at fairly reasonable cost even with pre-existing conditions. With low income you'll even get subsidized rates.
3 observations:

- Brilliant execution of two 37Signals principles/generally smart start-up strategies (advertise like a chef (give away your information), and pick a fight)

- If this product doesn't "scratch an itch" / solve a real problem (people wasting time on computers) I don't know what does

- RescueTime is awesome
That is good that they offer the service, but I prefer cron jobs that make daily backups to S3 that roll over (e.g., today's daily backup clobbers last Tuesday's backup). Doing a monthly backup that never gets rolled over is also a good idea.
Effects of Moderate-Intensity Endurance and High-Intensity Intermittent Training
An app that wins friends, influences people
Interesting, but I have no use for an "experimental" filesystem. I prefer to store my data in filesystems that are stable:

"Although Ceph may not be ready for production environments, it's still useful for evaluation purposes."
Dropbox API access signup
What's happened to Silicon Valley?
As far as I know he's only been involved with unmanned projects.
How do clients measure the business effectiveness of their website designs?
First, full quote [1]:

5.3 You agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services by any means other than through the interface that is provided by Google, unless you have been specifically allowed to do so in a separate agreement with Google. You specifically agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services through any automated means (including use of scripts or web crawlers) and shall ensure that you comply with the instructions set out in any robots.txt file present on the Services.

Second, I imagine both of your examples use some for of API [2], which is clearly "the interface that is provided by Google". On the other hand, if your smartphone were to log into the GMail web-app pretending to be someone using a browser and scrape the HTML, it would, most likely, constitute a violation.

1. http://www.google.com/accounts/TOS

2. http://code.google.com/apis/gmail/
VCs Can Fix Your Team, Not Your Market
Read what he wrote not what you think he wrote.

He said picking an even sample of male and female removes the male/female bias, but only that bias.

Edit: Granted, that's not strictly sufficient because the human population is not 50:50 M/F, but that's a side issue.
It seems odd that he complains about lack of local (modifiable) state while at the same time talking up the advantages of pure functional programming. It's painful to have to explicitly capture state instead of depending on a closure to do it, but you can do it, and somewhat nicely using objects in C++.

Also, is it not right that iterators were introduced in C++ largely to allow generic functions across arrays and other data structures?

Finally, do iterators necessarily imply statefulness? Doesn't seem like it. Taking + 1 as "successor":
double sum(const double* start, const double* end) {
if (start == end) {
return 0.0;
} else {
return *start + sum(start + 1, end);
}
}
I've had good experiences with Futurlec (http://futurlec.com/PCBService.shtml). I believe the PCBs ship from Thailand so don't expect fast delivery (unless you pay for courier service), but the quality for the price is good (and their other stuff is cheap too).
Here's video for a different talk, by Drew (Dropbox). There's a fair bit of overlap: http://www.justin.tv/startuplessonslearned/b/262672510
(story here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1290303)
Sorry, no. Some of us prefer having other hobbies even in the absence of a family. And your comment that you "prefer to create something" is offensive and condescending considering the diversity of activities that other people engage in outside of work.
I should have added in my post: this really is a simple app: uses a bit of Javascript/AJAX to basically keep everything on one page. Drag a focus to the top of the focus list and then you just see the todos for that focus. Click on a focus or a todo title to edit in place. Drag and drop todos and focuses to reorder. Edit notes for any todo in place.

Really simple, this took me about 6 hours to code up. (It is a few hundred lines of Ruby with a few HTML templates, and two CSS files, one for browsers and one for cellphones.)
Man the title to this article means nothing.

"U.S. Allegation?" WTF is that.
"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" didn't produce a very good diagram. :(
They must have h.264 hardware acceleration in effect because running a flash video full screen pegs my desktop CPU.
I'm still looking forward to a non-mobile API, but I'm doing my best with the CLI. Here's an email I got last night from a user of http://ourdoings.com/

That was trivial to set up (I already had dropbox, which is partly why I chose to use it to upload the latest set of photos).
Your directions were easy to follow, and the email confirmation came within minutes.

I dropped the photos into the shared folder, went to dinner, and when I came back, everything was transferred over.

thanks,

TJ
"Theory of gravity", "Theory of relativity", everything in between.

Research complete.
The Netherlands examples are interesting.

In the piece I quoted, it isn't that value scales like nn then like n log(n). The argument is that value scales like n log(n), which for small n looks more like nn than it does for large n. That said the argument given implicitly assumes that most of the people in the network have most of the people they really care about in the network as well. This assumption is less likely to be true for small networks than large ones.

It didn't make it into the paper, but an interesting optical illusion was discussed while we were writing it. Most of us judge the ubiquity of a network according to how many people we personally know who use it. Therefore people's value from belonging to a network tends to scale linearly with the size they perceive that network as having. (A typical American neither perceives nor values the growth of that network in China.) Which means that each individual observes what Bob Metcalfe did when he came up with his rule of thumb. We found that interesting, but left it out of the paper.

Another discussion we had was on different networks that scale differently. The two extremes we came up with are the telegraph networks and eBay. In the case of the telegraph network there is an asymmetry between senders and receivers. It is easy to make every resident of a major US city a potential receiver, at which point the network value scales linearly with the number of senders. And at the opposite end, auctions scale in a less approximately linear fashion. However we decided against including that because we didn't have detailed enough data to support our preliminary conclusions.

Also you should note that the IEE Spectrum article is an abridged form of http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/metcalfe.pdf. The full version offers several different lines of reasoning that all converge on n log(n) scaling rules.
I suspect it's a matter of time, at least for Firefox if not for Chrome. Firefox's is mainly frequency based, so it needs a little while to train.

It took 2-3 weeks for FF's bar to really start to get awesome for me.
Of course. Earlier today I go to Android Market, thinking "gee, the Dropbox app ought to be out by now, right?". It was not, so I downloaded some 3rd party thing.

Drive home, fire up HackerNews, and look what I see...

Ah well. As if I can really act like I'm mad for having another reason to twiddle around on my phone.
Tough to read. The points about Foursquare's supposed lack of business model has nothing to do with game mechanics. Game mechanics is about fostering user engagement.

A less attention-grabbing headline might have been "Game mechanics is no substitute for a revenue model".

The too-cool-for-school writing style isn't really my thing either, but hey, that's just me.
Do you have an embedded economist? I'm volunteering but if you really want to get a ton of PR out of this you might try some famous empirical micro guys (this article would make a great Freakonomics chapter) . Cold calling with "I have unique data" won't offend anyone.
Give Mom a New iPad this Mother's Day
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Mother's Day is just around the corner.Try to be unique this Mother's day by giving your Mom something different. In fact, she may even be dumbfounded if you end up handing her a new Apple iPad this May 9th.
I think he views his coded-creations as a form of self expression, or art. This is perhaps why he wants them to be treated with the same hands-off approach as his fiction writings.

However, when it comes to code I think it's best to make known your intentions for it because code generally has a practical function beyond its artistic value as a creation, and as a result people may want to alter it.
Why not just bootstrap knowledge of Common Lisp by learning Scheme first, then?
Even assuming that this "screwed factor" is something meaningful, you miscalculated it. I think you're trying to find (percentage increase in work over normal hours/percentage increase in pay over normal pay).

If your pay is just a percentage of a company's profits, the amount of equity you hold has no impact on this number. If you working 50% more hours generates 10% more profits (or whatever) for the company, you get 10% more pay for 50% more work, so the screwed factor is 5.

Again, this is assuming that the screwed factor is meaningful in the context of a startup, and it isn't. First of all, the different possible outcomes for an early employee of a small startup can mostly be boiled down to two, maybe three: the startup IPOs and you get rich, it gets sold and you get well-compensated, it fails and you get nothing. Treating your income as a very smooth function of the hours you work is misguided in this kind of scenario.

Second, contributing to a culture of working really hard on the startup (by working overtime) might be more important than the work you actually do in your overtime. Startup employees don't work in a vacuum.
If you liked this blog entry, go check out http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/things_i_wont_work_with... which is a subselection of his blog entries about chemicals that he won't work with. For entertainingly good reason.
I'm a huge fan of Grails/Groovy. In general I prefer Ruby, but if you're in an environment with existing Java code and Java infrastructure, Groovy can be a great fit.
Tone is not the issue. The issue is writing which communicates nothing.

Here is how one might write copy for medical software:

http://www.epic.com/about-index.php

If you look around their site you might be pleasantly surprised. You might also notice that they do not write press releases.
I don't know. My brother and me are a nice case study, of course that's just one more anecdote and not exactly science but still. People said that I would go to university and do all kinds of stuff, nobody paid much attention to Maurice. But he was the one to end up going to university, I dropped out in high school.

Family circumstances at the time had a lot to do with all this, but still, he's the one with the degree in history and I only have a typing diploma and a driving license as my 'educational record'.

Better grades or lower grades doesn't enter in to it.

The educational system works well if you're in the middle of the pack, if you are at one or the other extreme you have a problem.

I'm not sure if a university degree would have helped me in any way, I'll never know and I'm resigned to that.

But I do know that there is more to school than 'subject knowledge', and that in my dealings with people I could have benefited from a deeper immersion in to social structures and how to deal with all kinds of situations.

See my post the other day about my past mistakes, I'm pretty sure a few of those are rooted in my checkered history. I wouldn't trade my life for any other, and in the hiring policies of my company I always tried to look past the grades and to the person behind them and their motivation.

If I got the feeling they wanted to move ahead in life then that was usually the deciding factor, and for the most part they did not disappoint me, even the ones with good grades ;)
Steve Jobs has always been great motivator; first for the engineers at Apple, and now for the Flash engineers at Adobe.
Hack A Day question Answer Site launched
The latest mac flash beta fixes a lot of cpu issues.
See this list of 21 tools similar to what you are looking for:

http://iphoneized.com/2009/11/21-prototyping-mockup-wirefram...
More data less commentary please.
Appreciate it. Can't really understand you right now, running a high fever, but I'll check back later.
I still prefer Opera, the speed of Chrome, the functionality that Firefox has to copy.
He even gets them to ship ahead of schedule. If only he enjoyed Duke Nukem...
Just downloaded the Android app and I'm reminded of why I like Dropbox to begin with. It's simple, straight-forward, and does what I want it to. This app is no exception.
"I do note that if you run the structure [O2F2 or FOOF] through SciFinder, it comes out with a most unexpected icon that indicates a commercial supplier. That would be the Hangzhou Sage Chemical Company.

"They offer it in 100g, 500g, and 1 kilo amounts, which is interesting, because I don't think a kilo of dioxygen difluoride has ever existed. Someone should call them on this - ask for the free shipping, and if they object, tell them Amazon offers it on this item. Serves 'em right. Morons."
In a curiously relevant case, concrete poet bpNichol created a series of 11 digital poems for the Apple IIe between 1983 and 1984.

The last of which is only visible in the source code as a sort of pun: http://www.vispo.com/bp/download/FirstScreeningBybpNichol.tx... - scroll to the very end (lines 3900 through 4000). The REM command is Apple Basic for "REMark" or a comment line.

More info and updated ports of his code can be found here: http://www.vispo.com/bp/introduction.htm - the notion of translation (either between languages or architectures), and not yet breached by the original thread, should make for some polemical discussion.
I see. Poor reading comprehension on my part.
Excellent infrastructure, politically and socially stable, wealthy and with a government that takes an active role in fostering business growth. There's lots of tech companies there although they're mostly focussed on electronics traditionally.

From http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2798.htm
"Singapore was faced with a lack of physical resources and a small domestic market. In response, the Singapore Government adopted a pro-business, pro-foreign investment, export-oriented economic policy framework, combined with state-directed investments in strategic government-owned corporations."

They're a small country with negligible natural resources but their government has made lots of big bets over the years which have generally paid off. Investing really heavily in education. Actively going after the shipping industry (Singapore is now the busiest port in the world) and a few other industries they see as being big in the future. "state-directed investments in strategic government-owned corporations" is the key phrase in that quote. I sometimes get the feeling they run the place like an enormous government backed VC fund.

My guess is that the Singapore government has an active hand in this as part of a broader effort to build the tech industry in Singapore. Having a government around who is willing to get involved and bet big on the future would be appealing for a company like Amazon.

Another link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Singapore
Or that you learned to game the system.
> A better approach would be to limit the media exposure to the dry facts and give proportional attention to the deaths of people that die in less spectacular but equally tragic ways.

Unfortunately this would require very heavy handed censorship. You can imagine how Orwellian it would sound for a government to 'censor' reporting of a terrorist attack. Media organisations are in the business of getting viewers and if CNN doesn't reporting it then sensationalist-conspiracy-blog.com will. The real problem is that a significant portion of the population really does get off on this sort of thing.
Yes, because it probably means you're not exercising regularly.
Two stories about stuff like this:

1)

A plumber in the town of Hilversum near Utrecht here once had an oxy-acetylene rig like this one http://static.werktuigen.nl/afbeeldingen/advertentie/8577/1/... in the back of his trailer, hit a pretty heavy bump in the road, the whole assembly fell out the back of the trailer.

Because of the force of the impact the reduction valve broke off from one of the cylinders and the whole thing went rocketing up and into the roof of a church a few hundred meters away.

2)

A company that I free-lanced for had inherited an extravagant espresso machine from a bar that went out of business in Amsterdam. The thing was ancient and had been repaired many times, and not exactly by experts.

Over Christmas 1985 it remained plugged in and when we returned to the office on the 26th bits and pieces of the pressure tank were found embedded in the plaster walls.

We were very lucky, if someone had been operating the thing when it blew it would have been a 'closed casket' burial for sure.
Apple is competing with other mobile platforms. Adobe wants to provide a portable application environment across these platforms (leaving aside the question of whether flash is a good portable application environment). Apple won't allow it. They want iPhone apps to only be iPhone apps.

The only way Apple could make 3.3.1 work is because they are the dominant smartphone platform that everyone must support. If Google or RIM or Microsoft or Palm were to try the same thing it would fail: they'd get no new customers and hurt their platform. Apple is leveraging its dominant platform to perpetuate its dominance, and that certainly seems to be anticompetitive to me.
Please don't apologise. It is not the right of an author to stop people from discussing changes to their works.
Is it just me, or is this redirecting to thetvsquad instead?
GXP is decent. (http://code.google.com/p/gxp/)

You could also try GWT (http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/). Obviously more than just a templating engine but very cool.
A/B Split Testing and Funnel Analysis are two effective ways. Gathering feedback works in many cases too.
Yeah, I snipped the first line because I didn't think it applied to Facebook harvesting emails (they asked for your password). Sorry if it was misleading.
High Speed Rail Plan: Catch up with the Japanese?
Check out Lift. It's a Scala based web framework.

http://liftweb.net
http://steve.vinoski.net/pdf/IC-A_Chat_Application_in_Lift.p...
or despised it...
Woah, that was longer than I intended. Sorry about the wall of text there.
Koy-aaaaan-is-qatsi.....
Surprisingly, Midomi picked it up just by playing the only clear chorus part of the song.

The group is Veckatimest, off their Grizzly Bear album. The song is Two Weeks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjecYugTbIQ

http://www.midomi.com/index.php?action=main.album&album_...
As noted by others, Tropo works worldwide. We've got numbers in 30 countries and 8 different European languages for text to speech. If you want a number in a place we don't list, let us know and we'll see what we can do.
Facebook’s Buchheit: The Future Is Lightweight Conversations
How is that offensive and condescending?

He derives enjoyment from creating while maybe you choose to do other things for enjoyment. To each his own - isn't that your point?
All aol blogs are redirecting to tvsquad, including engadget.

From their Twitter feed:

http://twitter.com/engadget/status/13402674436
Corporate programmers in the US are usually salaried. Salaried programmers are exempt from overtime thanks to the Department of Labor: http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/fairpay/fs17e_compute...
Since they're both AOL properties, I bet something's wonky with their reverse proxy/load balancer.
Add IllegalFile and RandomData.txt to a password protected rar. The hash is essentially random, you can't check the contents, and the illegal file is easily retrievable if the downloader knows the password.
I agree with you on everything except the last bit. I believe the literature on what a good programmer is has been fairly clear - Fred Brooks first wrote about it in the Mythical Man-Month, and since then there has been a large body of empirical evidence supporting his claims on the variance between good and bad programmers.

Good programmers are simply more productive. They ship more code, given the same amount of time. That's a simple way of looking at things, for sure (you may argue about readability and maintainability and so on so forth), but when the difference is 20 times the average programmer, people begin to sit up and take notice.
Microsoft has had 90% desktop market share for over a decade, with no end in sight. Apple doesn't have that kind of market share, and it's doubtful they can get even close. There's way too much competition with Google, RIM, Palm(hp) and even Microsoft. Google is very strong, microsft will never quit and Palm has another life.
Unpaid Interns are Exploited?
It might run under wine, I know warcraft 3 did :P
Not only could you not read it (or I), but Readability couldn't even parse it:
"Sorry, readability was unable to parse this page for content. If you feel like it should have been able to, please let us know by submitting an issue."
The Day I found out Randy Pausch Died