skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If partner selection was as simple as being hooked up and talking to a total stranger for a few weeks, there would be no dating-sites, and blind dates wouldn't be dreadful. There's a reason first dates are often for a early-evening drink in a bar - if just talking long enough would do the trick, first dates would be in a secluded cabin in the mountains :).

I like your thoughts on targeting young professionals, and basing it on an existing network such as LinkedIn also sounds reasonable. Your focus on keeping personal information out of the conversation is not viable - remember, it's not just e-mail and phone numbers, it's also suggestions to meet. I also think that the fee to be hooked up with a second person is going to be a major deterrent.
I think people forget just how much data 1.44M is. Sure it's not enough for one photo or one song. It's a hell of a lot of plain text tho'. People still use 64k ISDN lines too.
Detecting Irregular Gravity
Did Superman not design the Fortress of Solitude?
It's a (currently unique) advantage to the iPhone that it has a very popular sister device in the iPod Touch that is interchangeable in most respects e.g. designing a website, codec support, App market size.

Ignoring it would be the equivalent of comparing iPhone sales against a single Android phone (which I've also seen done repeatedly) which ignores the Android advantage of being available on multiple phones from multiple manufacturers.

Almost any actual decision you'd want to make about iPhone or Android as competing platforms will need to take into account the existance of iPod Touches or Android phones by a variety of manufacturers.

The numbers in each case may be correct for the limited arena they cover, but they're still misleading for any realistic purpose.
The Nine Types of Text Messaging Monsters
Fitt's law says that the edge of screen is easier to target, that is not the same thing as being closer.

For example, if you have a very large monitor, or two monitors, you might have to move your perceptual focus far to focus on the menu bar, even though it is at the edge of the screen and easier to hit. Then you might have to move it all the way back to where you were to see what effect the command you just gave had.
New Breast Cancer Web site seeks million healthy recruits for studies
"One might be tempted to think that, like the vinyl enthusiasts who insist music sounds "warmer" on a record, the floppy has its own fan club. But unlike the case of vinyl, a digital format of a floppy is no different than that found on your hard drive or USB stick."

Those would be the people who buy Monster HDMI cables.
I was commenting on the writing, not the auction.

edit: I half-agree with you in that its not a success but its also not clear if the traditional ipo would have definitely been better.
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In the UK? Don't secure your wifi
Ask HN - Computer science interdisciplinary research
Hi,

I'm an MSc student in CS. I'm looking for a research subject for my Thesis. I'm especially interested in combining computer science with other subjects, to create a new research area.

Do you have any experience with interdisciplinary research? Do you know what are the "hot" subjects, and do you have any suggestions?

Help will be greatly appreciated.
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This rating agencies are making their money the same way the big business consultants does - by confirming client's illusions and narcissistic views. This is called corruption.
but to be fair, these are hugely correlated instruments

That makes them more risky, not so? How did they get the AAA rating then?
To be fair, the mechanical characteristics of a record deck, the tone arm and the cartridge combined with the minor electronic process that decompresses the wave forms across different frequencies mean that a vinyl recording is bound to sound subtly different to a digital source even if both are created from the same original recording. If that is interpreted as "warmer" then one has to accept that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
I don't, but google does.
http://jimwarholic.com/2009/04/fdd-floppy-disk-drive-emulato...
They seem to be quite expensive, so unless you really must have a physical device with the right connector, you are better off buying a new computer.
I have trouble relating, on some deep levels, to people of all kinds who haven't yet taken their destiny into their own hands. But it is not as if entrepreneurs are the only people who are in charge of their lives.
Now I don't understand what your motive is - but your quote is taken waaay out of context...

Original quote:
"The basic point is that the recession of 2001 wasn't a typical postwar slump, brought on when an inflation-fighting Fed raises interest rates and easily ended by a snapback in housing and consumer spending when the Fed brings rates back down again. This was a prewar-style recession, a morning after brought on by irrational exuberance. To fight this recession the Fed needs more than a snapback; it needs soaring household spending to offset moribund business investment. And to do that, as Paul McCulley of Pimco put it, Alan Greenspan needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble."

Here Krugman basically quotes another source. The way I interpret this quote (and article) is not cheerleading for lower interest rates. The message to me is that whole system is unsustainable and that only move that will be able to perpetuate the lie is to replace one bubble with the next.

In this context Krugman's vision has proven prophetic.

The whole notion, nothing personal - I have noticed it more than once, that Krugman somehow argued that replacing one bubble with another is good for economy somehow is ridiculous.
There is a Dublin Core meta data embedded in the HTML head:

<meta name="DC.Date" content="2010-04-17T21:45:00Z" />

No idea about its accuracy.
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I guess I'm worth about 60 pounds more.

Protip: look for heavy, entrepeneurial employees.
Great. Thanks. These look like they would do the job.
It's more likely underpaid raters at Moody's and S&P being intimidated by overpaid traders at Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank. I'm reading "The Big Short" (highly recommended), and it puts all of this and the current GS hearings in the right perspective.
Are you proud of your neighbor? If not, entrepreneurs will not succeed.
I just saw someone write a Ycombinator logo :)
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In the UK? Don't unsecure your wifi, but have a word with your MP.

Some background on who voted for it: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/apr/08/digital-eco...
For several years, I've had an idea in the back of my head to buy a whole bunch of multicoloured floppies and use them as wall/mosaic tiles (and maybe even store its grid location on the floppy itself for extra art-factor). Never got around to it though. Maybe I should buy some while I still can.
Terrence Tao: "Hooked for Life" on math
Tell HN: If it Doesn't Make that much difference to you, don't say anything.
I sat through an interesting talk during which the speaker (this was from months ago, don't recall the speaker's name sorry) brought up Kramer from Seinfeld. In this one episode, Kramer spills coffee on himself (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TysjNDTWEBc) and sues the coffee corp. During the negotiations with the corp., Kramer sidesteps his lawyer and accepts the first deal the corp offers (free coffee for life) without careful deliberation.

Moral of the story: he could've made a handsome sum, but instead he spoke too early. Arguably, you shouldn't follow Kramer's approach to a sellout or a buyout, etc. What the title has to do with this story is that sometimes it's ok to be silent in order to observe the nature of the course of a conversation or a comments thread.

There seems to be too much chatter about HN quality lately, which by itself is fine. But, it's the petty ones (though Karmically balanced) that reminded me of this author's closing words about personal relationships that could be applied to the HN comments section - "If it doesn't make that much of a difference to you, please don't say anything."
Preppin Launches Beta (Feedback)
Apparently, the original finder contacted Apple to return the device before selling it to Gizmodo.

Well, no.

The law gives him the option of: 1) finding the owner and returning it, or 2) turning it in to the police.

What the guy actually did, it seems, was poke around in the phone, find out the name, Facebook details, etc. of the person who'd lost it, and then... called an Apple customer-support line to tell them a vague story about finding something that might or might not legitimately be an iPhone.

Even if we accept that as a bona-fide attempt to return it to the owner, the only other option the law gives him is turning it in to the police. From that point forward, anything he did which was not "turn it in to the police" qualifies as theft; the relevant bit of California law has been quoted so many times in so many threads that there's really no argument left on that point.

And since "sell it to a tabloid for $$$" is not "turn it in to the police", well, you can kinda see how we end up at criminal investigations and search warrants.
I was a little confused by this one - what's the usecase for manually bouncing mail?
There is a massive amount of functions and variables in the global space. That looks fishy to me.
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it is not easy to make time during your week to complete all your coursework. Many students complain about how the end up working on weekends: “if I don’t do my coursework now, I fail! But, is it fair to be working every Saturday and Sunday?”. Well, occasionally, you may need to work during the weekend,
Previously submitted:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1293874

But it looks like you submitted the canonical URL.
CSS3 Action Library
I love ZZT. That's what got me into programming. That interview link was a fantastic read, too.
How to Add Flash Video to Website
Coders meet journalists; journalists meet coders
I think the point of the article was to point out the ignorance of those who drafted the bill, not as a practical suggestion.

I'm sure that if you tried this, our friendly authorities would find something else to accuse you of.
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I am sorry, maybe I'm old school but resigning by email is weak. If you think you know how it'll go, prepare, have a response ready. Maybe, you'll be surprised at the very least you will be respected for walking in the door.
This sounds ridiculous but in fact a link in the article clarifies: http://aaisp.net.uk/legal-cp.html

"If you are a subscriber then the Digital Economy Act means we will have to pass on copyright infringement reports we get about your IP addresses; count those reports; and maybe take measures to block or restrict your internet service. If you are a communications provider or service provider we do not have to do any of those things as they only apply to subscribers."

Although it's worth noting this ISP doesn't require you to have unsecured wifi to be a communications provider: "A communications provider is anyone that is providing a communications service to anyone else, whether other people in their house or office, visitors wanting to check their email"

Sounds like just about anyone qualifies as long as they have a wifi network and go to the effort of telling their ISP they're a "communications provider".
Senators urge Facebook to change privacy settings
The title of this HN post should of been: "Fiverr: A couple useful services and a lot of dumb ones, both for $5".
Doesn't install on my HTC Magic. :( Does it require Android 2?
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Old joke: How are lawyers like nuclear weapons?
If one side has one, the other side has to get one. Once launched, they cannot be recalled. When they land, they screw up everything forever.
This one of those legal logic puzzles that geeks love to do, but that lawyers roll their eyes at.

He uses a series of statutes to show that if you have public wifi you exist in a legal gray are between subscriber and service provider, and therefore you can't be monitored by your ISP or held accountable for copyright infringement. Good luck with that.
Yes, because I so want to compare a fictional characters life to my own.
What I wish a Ruby programmer had told me one year ago..
Did the term "floppy" really come from the 5.25"? I seem to remember that the 8" disk drive was almost impossible to insert without a third hand as support.

I just had a look around the office and we still have a number of instruments (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers and such) with disk drives. I'm pretty sure that no one uses them (the disk drives) because none of our laptops can read the disks.
The bonds would typically be a composite of loans from all over the US. So the argument was made that even if (say) California's housing bubble crashed then only a small fraction of your bond would suffer losses as the loans made in other states would be ok. Thus the banks claimed that these were uncorrelated safe investments and the rating agencies agreed to rate them highly.

There is some argument to be made that an awful lot of sophisticated investors didn't recognise before the crash that there was such a high level of correlation, so to some extent we're talking with the benefit of hindsight at this point. With hindsight it seems obvious that these bonds were doomed, but without the benefit of what we now know, how much should the ratings agencies be blamed for not recognising the risks?
Microsoft's FUD goes mobile
Planning Right? You'll Fail. (How to make a Goal Map)
I worked with Rasmus at Linuxcare, and he always came across as a really good person - a problem solver, and generally nice, and pleasant to be around. I don't care for PHP either, but that's another story, and in any case you have to give the guy credit for launching an open source project that ended up that big - he got something right, and it's worth studying to find out what.
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Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1266627

Many comments there.
Net Neutrality: The real economic impact
I think it'd be fun to ask non-entrepreneurs what they think of us (I'm sure most would be equally as tolerant, but I'd like to hear their impressions). Anecdotally, I've been pitied before for working the startup lifestyle -- running one of course means you're working/thinking/stressing it nearly every waking hour. There's certainly a quality of life tradeoff.

One example: I know I spend less time out with my friends - I'm actually a pretty AWOL friend, frankly. I don't understand or participate in the routine of, say, getting drinks at happy hour, because even when I'm with my childhood pals (fortunately, they've excused my aloofness and welcome me back seamlessly whenever I'm back in maryland) at some point in the night, a few beers in, I'm thinking about the work I'm going to do when I get home.

But that's just because, like most entrepreneurial folk, it's so invigorating. It's feel criminal to enjoy working so much, but I've got friends who wouldn't dare trade their happy hours and weekends and routines for my lifestyle -- and that's just fine with me.
OTOH, click targets on the wrong screen are torture.

I spend all my desk time on a multi-screen setup, with the built-in screen and a big monitor on its side. Having program launchers and a taskbar (or dock) on a specific screen is not as bad, but having to click on something on screen 1 to do something with a window on screen 2 is just painful.
It seems unlikely that anyone will be able to buy service as a communications provider in the same fine-grained quantities in which a subscriber can buy it. I don't know how pricing is generally structured for ISPs, but I would guess that if you're buying service as a communications provider you are assumed to have at least x number of customers, and will be charged accordingly.

Cute idea, though.
It is for notebook (incl. netbook) users who hardly ever use the mouse/trackpad.
Fascinating writeup, looking forward to reading the original paper

link: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://research.google.co...
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"it’s ok for me to be ignorant about how to lay down a good interface, because I’m a right side of the brain kind of person."

I think he meant "left side of the brain". Does he ?
On a related subject, does the bill specify audit and logging requirements for ISPs? I would at least like to know that the bits of data that are turning people into criminals are treated with the same respect as credit card information. Also, it seems to me that it would make a profitable business to setup an premium ISP advertising that they keep the minimal records required under law.

Could this also apply to someone running a Tor node on their network?
"Website Payments Pro" is the one that will accept payments into your PayPal account, and "PayFlow Pro" (nee Verisign) is the one which accepts payments into your merchant account at a bank.

IIRC, both will take money from a credit card (which can be entered directly onto your site) or via Paypal payments (which requires a redirect to some stuff on paypal.com).
Ask HN: Algorithm behind  Googles Similar search feature
Google recently mentioned the "similar" feature in search on its blog. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/discovering-pages-similar-to-ones-that.html

Any one knows what kind of algorithm Google might have used in this feature or any public papers/ patents by Google related to this feature?

My interest in this feature is due to a paper which i wrote (and working on) in International Semantic Web Conference this year [ http://data.semanticweb.org/conference/iswc/2009/paper/poster_demo/130 ] and which is based on a paper by Common Sense Computing group at MIT Media Lab [ http://xnet.media.mit.edu/analogyspace ] .

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And there is room for improvement in gmail yet. I've always been incredibly frustrated by gmail's inability to forward complete conversations. Here they are, all together. And now I can forward them to someone, one at a time, or I can... do what? Go to "print", copy the HTML output back into an email?
Along with following those excellent instructions, you can make it even more rock solid:

If you have rights to register your address as a business then you can easily do this through your own limited company. Make yourself the company secretary and give yourself 1 share of stock. If you are on BT (or similar with a business internet plan), you can easily switch to a business account - which is usually the same price. With BT they automatically enable your new business hub as open on the BT Openzone (Disable it, and unsecure your wifi). Register with companies house with your SIC code as 64200 (Telecommunications). You should be good to go.
I know that the classic SHL instead of multiplication has been out dated for a number of years. My Intel IA32 manuals confirm that this is now slower than the multiply operation in most cases.
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Netflix Designs for a Darwinian Corporate Culture
The rolling shutter on a digital camera can give interesting effects
That's an interesting way of thinking about it. But what does it mean? The fact that we consume 0.1% of the volume of the Grand Canyon in oil annually makes me think we're not using much oil in the grand scheme of things. But the "a large reserve is 150 cubic meters" makes it sound like we have very little oil? I'm confused.
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I'm a ringed engineer; I think it's appropriate for non-ringed engineers to still self-identify by that title. An engineer is a person who engineers things.

There's a legal restriction on Professional Engineer and the P.Eng designation, but that's for very good reasons which have to do with liability and the protection of the public. That's a different beast, though, and in the general case "engineering" a solution to a problem is still engineering, whether or not you have a piece of paper telling you it is.
Machine learning for drug design.
Google for a recent paper by mit grads on rankSvm for virtual screening of drug molecules.
The way I read it is that Krugman is quoting someone to support his argument for ultra low interest rates.

Krugman like all Keynesians thinks bubble booms are good and recessions are bad. He fails to mention the artificial carry trade in gold that central banks set up in the 90s to push gold prices down and stock prices up. Central banks at this time also promoted derivatives to create the illusion of low inflation by soaking up the price rises due to commodity speculation.

He also does not mention the FED money printing in the 30s to artificially support the pound and stop the draw on gold from London. Could this have had something to do with the boom then ???

The moral of the story is don't let the government and central bank 'run' your economy. All they can do is make bad guesses and try and cover up reality.

Panama has done without a central bank for a hundred years and look at the state it is in:
http://www.costaricapages.com/panama/blog/wp-content/uploads...
Who 'runs' their economy ??? Who prints their money ???
Well... Guess I will not buy an HTC phone. I'll not support a company that gives in to empty threats or blackmail.
That is pretty interesting, how can a shift operation be slower than a multiplication?
If anyone's looking for a project, a reusable HTTP proxying library for Node.js with easy hooks for adding pre- and post- checks and transforms would be incredibly useful. Being able to implement API rate limiting and authentication as a Node.js reverse proxy that wraps around an existing web application would be even easier with a well-tested, fully featured proxy library.
23, and I'm nostalgic for the time when simply not plastering animated GIFs all over your website was enough to separate you from the pack.
Firefox Steps Up to Challenge Facebook's Claim to Identity
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I use it in all my projects that require IE6 compatibility. While it does not solve all problems it makes IE6 a lot closer to IE7/IE8 than it would otherwise be. It is a bit slow but it has saved me tons of development time so far.
Most people have a strong investment in their worldview, and sometimes have difficulty empathizing with people who don't embrace the same view with the same intensity. There is no one path to fulfillment or happiness that is right for everyone, but it can be hard to remember that when someone you consider a peer makes a choice you would never make.
I work on computational epidemiology and complex systems research. See for example: http://www.gleamviz.org/ , http://sites.google.com/site/cxnets/research and http://cnets.indiana.edu/ . Maybe something will grab your attention.
Quant's at rating agencies get the same pay as any back office quant.
Exactly - the majority of AAA bonds would be US/Euro/Sterling government bonds, which are still AAA rated.
Technically speaking, there are no MPs today.

I really hope someone asks about this during the Prime Ministerial debate on the economy tomorrow night, though.