skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first Android app I paid for was Aldiko (http://www.aldiko.com/), an ebook (epub) reader -- excellent feature set, and fantastic polish.

There's an ad-supported free version, too, but $1.99 is nothing for software I use every day.
he's a ceo type who attacked "job hoppers" as the worst kind of employees / "never hire them". this ties into the incident with calacanis labeling a gen-y ex-employee who had the audacity to quit his job a "flake"/"trophy kid".

i genuinely hate suster and calacanis. they're a big part of what makes me want to leave this fucking industry.

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/04/22/never-hire-job...
Quick question re Apple and Microsoft
Isn't what Apple doing with the iPad/iPhone and iTunes/AppStore/iBookstore almost the same thing Microsoft did when it bundled InternetExplorer with Windows?
http://WePay.com - A YC-funded company, best for group payments
But the version with the hyphen was canonical until 2009-08-13⋆, so it's not very surprising to see it floating around still.

⋆ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dunning%E2%80%93Kr...
They also submit random posts here (e.g. links to the frontpage of Facebook or Google) in order to test how quickly we kill them.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1332147
Since I got a bread machine on a whim, I make a loaf about every week, and I freeze half so I don't have to throw away mouldy bread. I couldn't imagine buying supermarket loaves - even fresh bakery ones. And there's something nice about the 10 minutes it takes to prepare the ingredients, and then it just cooks and fills the house with the bread aroma.

Oh, and I sold my Kindle after 1 month as I prefer to read paper books and they're cheap.

So some gadgets have a 'useful' use, and some aren't really necessary.
I liked the variation on this - Yoda Exception Handling (or the lack thereof): there is no try.
While we're at let's legislate against stupid comments.
Are the large white boxes on the desk speakers? If so, I think I count ten speakers.

More simplification needed?
This is shocking. Let's hope this gets some media attention.
Agreed, and good for him for doing this, and for taking an interest in politics in general. Shame about the socialism, though -- I might even say his article's epigraph gives the lie to his views. But by any reasonable test, he is a better voter than a lot of adults.
I understand that they're using a specific definition of gifted in the article (mental age > 1 + physical age), but the tone still bothers me. If a child is gifted, and does not succeed, does that not mean they are not gifted? Or, to phrase it as a solvable problem, doesn't this mean our metrics for determining success at an early age are flawed?

We've known for a long time that IQ does not guarantee success at any level in life, so I'm not sure why it is a surprise when high-IQ children do not come out on top. Even worse, they don't explain how they calculate mental age, and why this should translate to success throughout the school years.

The thesis here ("Initially promising children often underperform") might be correct, but there is nothing in the methodology that supports this point. It seems too fluffy and full of assumptions to take seriously.
why would you bring life into this world without having absolutely everything in order?
Considerations when Choosing Cheap Wedding Invitations
I think you mean: http://yardsellr.com/ (you missed an 'l')

Cool, thanks for the tip -- I checked them out. They really need an iPhone/Android app. It completely aligns with what seems to be their mission.

I like the analogy of a yard sale / garage sale too. If I have a garage sale, I don't have to think about the 101 questions that eBay asks me. I just put the stuff out there and people look at the items, maybe ask me some questions, and either buy or don't buy.

Why can't that same dynamic, in terms of simplicity for the seller, be replicated in an online transaction?
I'm really surprised at all the negative comments on the domain name. I thought it was great!

I've picked a poor domain myself, due to the influence of another language (Mandarin), but this is Spanish! Not only is it the #2 language on the planet, it's a language that I thought would instantly recognizable to both Europeans and Americans.

Moral of the story: Make domain names out of English words and never ever assume your users have exposure to other languages.
A lot of this resonated with me.

There is a hidden assumption, however, that somehow a gifted child is failing if they do not get some post-grad education. Lots of gifted people become autodidacts. I would be more interested in gifted people who gave up on learning than I would be gifted people who didn't complete some formal education system.

The title is correct. The value system underlying the study is debatable.
Wow: Oakland Athletics pitcher Dallas Braden throws perfect game
What is the strangest thing you did on Craigslist?
MySpace's lack of AJAX-based functionality resulted in a massive number of "extra" page views, which meant significantly higher ad revenue. Better for their revenue, worse for users. That was not a good business decision.
What he calls yoda conditions is actually considered best practice in C-like languages, as it will result in a compile time error instead of wrong run time behaviour if you forget to type the second equals sign. The name is still funny, but the way he has written it up betrays a certain lack of understanding.
"There are certainly valid business reasons for Apple to offer the service for free"

Then it's a shame the article can't come up with any. The ones listed are either guesses ("might sell more devices") or counter to Apple's established, and highly lucrative, business model.
twitter is abuzz - first one in 42 years for the As, 19th perfect game ever in baseball history
Avoid all wheat, oats and soy products for a week. See how you feel.

Turned out I had a gluten sensitivity for the longest time, and I felt loads better going off all gluten.

Soy also acts as a phytoestrogen in the male body - could potentially be counteracting testosterone production.
Less by science, then.

It seems like a particular combination of colours, say a particular red and green, may be a comfortable, obvious, familiar combination right now, in a specific culture - but 100 years ago may have been shocking and outrageous. And, who knows, in 100 hundred years may again be 'less comfortable'.

Goethe, Munsell, Itten, Albers, Kandinsky may have spent a great deal of time putting coloured squares next to each other, but none of them ever conducted anything like an objective scientific study on the 'aesthetic quality' of a palette. Goethe's theory was based heavily on the work of Aristotle. Munsell's views on aesthetics seemed laughably conservative at the time, let alone now. Neither Albers or Kandinsky, ever put foward a 'theory' for evaluating harmonious colours. Albers said that each colour 'goes' equally well with any other colour. Itten & Kandinsky were obsessed by the occult 'meanings' of colours. Certainly they were genius colourists.. but scientists?
This is the site of the company who builds these things:
http://www.misadigital.com/index_text_only.html
Many gifted children are failed academically.
Who do you have for your ISP, if you don't mind me asking? Here's Telus (25Mb fiber): http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/349/chartchxtx2cychds3auw...
It seems to me that lowering taxes while not lowering spending is a distinctly American thing. Lowering spending is loathed by Americans and Europeans alike, but that’s arguably less of a problem if you also don’t always demand lower taxes. (I’m of course generalizing here, please take all I said with a grain of salt.)
We had a bedbug problem in a flat I used to live in. They are incredibly difficult to get rid of. I've since learned: check the bed for the characteristic traces of bedbugs before you sleep in it (if you see these kinds of black dots on a bed, stay away: http://www.grandmashomeremedies.com/wp-content/uploads/bed_b...), and never sleep in an infested bed. And don't move into a flat where you see this on the beds.

Actually getting rid of the bugs can be nearly impossible. Most insecticides which are legal aren't strong enough to do a good job, so you end up having to resort to really extreme, flat-wide methods like steaming the entire flat. It costs a fair bit of money, and isn't always effective - particularly if the infestation actually came from a nearby building, in which case it might come back by the same method.

In my case, we ended up moving out, after trying pretty much everything.
Here is a video of the speech: http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/president-o...
My company, CollegeJobConnect, is taking part in the Tech Wildcatters program right now (TW S10 anyone?) and we have only great things to report so far.

The program's managers have been great, mentors have been fantastic and are already helping in our product, business, and customer dev, and the lectures and networking events have introduced us to interesting topics and people.
To clarify, Reddit replaced memcachedb w/ cassandra entirely, but a lot of the site is still on postgresql. My understanding is they plan to move more to Cassnadra gradually.
Turns out it's difficult to parallelize without also denormalizing...
It's strange that they haven't added a SOAP interface tot he AIM API yet since they have it for both ARB and CIM. I didn't know about SharpAuthorize. I know there are a lot of half-baked .NET implementations for Authorize.net (and I've written a few myself) but I might use this for an upcoming project to save some time.
Ongoing Facebook API Outage Worries Developers. Can the Web Depend on FB?
"If a child is gifted, and does not succeed, does that not mean they are not gifted? "

It depends on your definition of success. Most people would not define success in life by their GPA. This article is telling us that high-iq children are not academically successful (as measured by their school grades).

Even worse, they don't explain how they calculate mental age

"Mental age" can be synonymous with IQ. I assume thats how the author of the article was using the phrase. Some variations of IQ tests present IQ as a ratio of mental age over chronological age, especially useful for testing children who are expected to be underdeveloped compared to an adult.
The problem is the insulin response generated when the various sugary carbohydrates hit the blood stream; "slow" carbohydrates are nowhere near being a problem.
I totally agree. The internet has had this discussion millions of time in the past, and this post does nothing but turn 1 or 2 obvious points into a giant essay.

The fact's are.. They wont. Remember, it's the small additions to sales that make sales highly profitable and if they made it free, people would probably register for many accounts and use them to host warez. The .Mac servers are already slowly crawling along. By making it free, they would probably grind to a complete halt.

The author also fails to recognise that unlike Google, Apple's core profit model isn't advertising, instead, Apple actually does the opposite (wastes untold amounts on advertising). So Google profits heavily from their web apps, whereas web app's actually cut into Apple's profits.

Great in practice, but in reality, terrible idea. In fact, I'd be as bold as to say this article is as terrible as the idea..
I used the HN Bookmarklet fwiw.
A few months ago, I thought that sugar was glucose, and therefore good for the brain. On that basis I would drink two liters of Coke a day for the brainpower. Then, while on this forum, someone posted a link to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM (Sugar, the Bitter Truth), which let me know that sugar is not pure glucose.

I resolved to find glucose, and I eventually did. I had to go to one of the more industrial neighborhoods in Santiago (I live in Chile) to find it, and after a few trips there I had myself a 55 lb sack of dextrose mono-hydrate, which dissolves in water to form pure glucose.

Now I mix it with water for 250 calories of food for thought per glass or put it in half-liter plastic bottles to drink at school. It's amazing stuff, it's 100% healthy, and it's great for working at hard problems.
Is there anything stopping you from claiming random people you know to be your 'mom'?
I agree with you that right now it probably makes little sense for Apple to offer the service for free. A couple reasons that I see that they may change though are:

1) A slight jab at Google. Right now I have my mac address book, iPhone, and Google address book all syncing OTA. It was a bit of a PITA to setup, but works now. If Apple offered the same service for free I would most likely switch.

2) Making the service free could add another selling point for macs, iPhones, and iPads. A "buy this item and you also get into another exclusive club" type of thing. The problem with this reason is that Apple doesn't seem to need to do this right now since demand already seems quite high at the moment.

My guess is that mobile me will not be free anytime soon unless Apple rolls out some new base technology that requires MM to function.
Have you ever met anybody with a more agitating tone in his voice?
There isn't. You can use whoever you want for the recipient. We just encourage you to send photos to your mom since today is Mother's Day.
"Even when we went to the country house, he was still having nightmares."

I feel so bad for them :P
Europe's Answer to Wall Street
Then there seems to be something missing here. I agree -- academics is only one area of success. But if gifted does not correlate with academic success, what kind of success are they talking about? Marking certain kids as gifted is a useless exercise unless that information actually translates into some kind -- any kind -- of success. If there is no predictive power to the test, then, at best, the test is useless.
In my experience, school was incredibly boring for the most part. I'm far better at teaching myself than other people are at teaching me.
And just as a friendly reminder to HN, don't forget to call your mom today!
you have to consider that every tool starts out as a toy

Band saw. Pesticide. Tractor. Hunting rifle. Jackhammer.

By any meaningful definition of "toy" and "starts out", not every tool starts out as a toy. Alternatively, if you are using definitions of "toy" and "starts out" that are ridiculously overbroad: at a high enough level of abstraction, everything looks exactly the same as everything else. A worldview that is useful is preferable to one that is elegant.
If you read his replies it's quite clear he's drawn a conclusion about how a programming job has to be.

He says "However the programming industry is a lot of stress. I am not cut out for the stress and seemingly arbitrary deadlines."

He tried the absolute default plan: Get CS degree and work at $MEGA_CORP. He didn't like it, so he gave up the idea entirely. He could instead have tried creating his own custom plan. It's totally possible, especially if you're willing to take a 50% pay cut.
Maybe we will start to finally see products in major super markets that are affordable and don't have tons of refined carbs. Right now it is either really expensive or really time consuming to eat a variety of food that doesn't have refined carbs.
education system is designed for average children, if you're too smart or too dumb, you'll fail.

I suspect with smart children, they usually don't want to memorize boring bits, in first years they are used to understand everything necessary during the class and generally didn't have to spend any time preparing for the school at home. as time passes, school becomes more difficult and students are required just to memorize rather than actually understand. this is why many smart children are taken by surprise at some point, they are not used to memorize knowledge just to pass the tests and many times they would simply refuse to do this and therefore fail.

it makes sense perfectly. look at some smart and successful people on the planet, you will see the same pattern: in real world - success, academically failures.
Lately I've been trying to find a low cost (<$50) Linux device to use in a project. My only requirements are Wifi, USB (host), and a small form factor. Don't need a lot of ram/flash/etc or any video output. I've been really surprised by the lack of options. The ASUS WL-520gU is around USD$30 but is a bit too large. The Fonera 2.0g (€35) would be perfect, but it's not available in the US.

Another really cool (tiny!) looking device is the Ubiquiti Ministation, but unfortunately it doesn't have USB and therefore isn't a choice for this project.

For when you need more power, there are a lot of cool options such as the BeagleBoard and GuruPlug http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/t-guruplugdetails.asp...
You'd probably find this quite interesting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden
Paul Carr on Facebook Privacy
Really? Does any one have some scientific references to back up this claim? Is this something people are doing a lot of? I'm not being negative, I just have never heard of this.
I loved their .02 feature which was essentially like short little tweets you could send to other friends. It was super easy to use and before my friends ever understand how to use Twitter, they knew exactly how to use this feature.
That's because the school system, and especially the social system embedded in it, fails us thoroughly. As far as I could tell, it's actually designed to discourage gifted children from realizing their potential.
"A free market does a very good job of providing most things other than a free market."

Much (possibly most) regulation is harmful, but some is good or even necessary.

Given that ISPs tend to have local monopolies, they need to be prevented from abusing those monopolies like they've started trying to do.

If the having local monopolies is not taken as a given, and the local governments don't hand out monopoly powers... well you still have to deal with how the high up-front costs of laying new wires makes various anti-competitive tactics more effective, and how the already meager competition seems to be merging into fewer and fewer competitors.

So in this case, you can either regulate to try to preserve a mostly-free market (lots of antitrust investigations and suits) in last-mile connectivity, or assume a monopoly and regulate to minimize the damage it can cause. The first probably minimizes harm to the regulated industry, the second minimizes harm to industries damaged by monopolistic actions in the regulated industry. I expect that the last-mile industry itself is relatively low value compared to the industries it can damage (much like water, electricity, and phone service), so the second option would be preferable.
Check this out, it sounds like it might be fairly near term stuff, e.g. Fujitsu is depositing it on Si wafers, IBM has preliminary (large and hopefully slow) 30GHz test transistors, which is where Si maxes out according to a linked article at the bottom.
What you say is almost certainly true with regards to diabetes risk. However, the association is less perfect with regards to atherogenesis; in other words, the glycemic index/heart disease risk may be purely mediated by diabetes.

Nevertheless, this article is a great start; I like that the media is now starting to pick up on the correct correlation between carbs and atherosclerosis - and if they also begin to understand and convey the glycemic index, so much the better. As the studies discussed in this reasonably well-cited article indicate, carbohydrate load correlates with the atherogenic lipid profile, whereas saturated fat load does not.
Computer mouse!
Your web app has launched. Now What?
Actually, iTools was free. As costs rose, most particularly due to iDisk storage space and increasing support needs, iTools was renamed .Mac as a subscription-based service.
It was actually called "iTools" back then.
Your liver will happily produce all of the glucose your nervous system needs.
A lot of emergency room visits if they start with their kitchen disposals.
Absolutely true. They were all mystics and goofballs. But I'm not justifying the mysticism. I never mentioned 'blond types' and 'black types', I didn't touch on the 'passion' of red, or the 'purity' of white.

I'm talking about the bits that seem to have held up after 100 years. The bits these men found from observation, rather than mysticism. This is, more or less, the method taught to design and art students today. You can see it in paintings from around the world, and going back hundreds of years. Simultaneous contrast exists and is physiological, not cultural. The vibration of complements is build into our visual system, too.

Saying that these people had some bad ideas doesn't make all their ideas wrong. We all have head about Newton's alchemy --- but we praise him for calculus and optics nevertheless. Kepler had his Harmonices Mundi, but we still can call him a scientist; because sometimes he was.

And if someone comes along and makes color theory even more scientific, that would be great! I would be overjoyed, because so much of what's been written about it is absolute bunk. However, at the moment, this is the best answer to the question I can give; and I think it works pretty well when compared to randomness.
I specifically asked him about those reports and he says it's BS. Dunno who is telling the truth.
thanks to the person voting this down. i must have said something extremely horrible. much appreciated for the wake-up call.
I'm always a little perturbed when I read about "refined carbs" being bad for you. This is partially because of the "Paleo Diet" folks who rail against any and all grains (and legumes) all the time.

How refined is too refined exactly? Is whole wheat bread considered refined? Oatmeal? Granola?

Or are we specifically talking about white flour here?
I can relate 100%. I have a good friend who quit his desk job in finance to go to Marine OCS. He runs around in the woods, climbs on mountains, and sleeps on the ground everyday. This might be dumb, but I feel like he's already done more with his life than I ever will.
Instead of resorting to hacks like Mouse, he should have just made his app persistent with App::Persistent. The client you use to connect to your persistent app starts up faster than perl.

Client/server works for xmms, firefox, emacs, ..., so why not you? Using a few extra megs of RAM is well worth not having to use Mouse.

(And oh yeah, if you have a laptop, an SSD is essential. Although much of immutable Moose startup time is actually CPU time, there is a pretty good disk component too. An SSD also lets you do clever things like cryopid-ing your scripts to achieve an effect like precompilation. Cryopid is not faster than App::Persistent, though.)
Tom Osborne’s Story in His Own Words (2004)
I ended up buying a blank felt tip marker and filling it with water. It works pretty well for me, it also has the added benefit of washing off my fingerprints from the screen. (not terribly sure why this is getting down voted; this really is what I'm using for a stylus)
Step 2 in glycolysis is to convert glucose to fructose. Indeed, you can pretty easily interconvert between all of the monosaccharides.

There is absolutely no reason to believe that your pure glucose is "100% healthy." If anything, glucose is less sweet than fructose, so fructose may compel higher food intake. But if you can religiously dole out 250 kcal of glucose, doing the same with 250kcal of fructose would be nearly biochemically equivalent.
Effectual Reasoning: What Makes Entrepreneurs Entrepreneurial
Not an expert by any means but I imagine that they are talking about high fructose corn syrup and bleached white flour.
The Incumbent’s Curse: HP
I think they're really focusing on glycemic index here rather than whole/non-whole wheat. The glycemic index of any food can be determined empirically (it's the AUC of the 2hr blood glucose response curve after ingesting a fixed amount of said substance). Usually, pure glucose is the reference food that is pegged at 100, and everything else is represented as the relative fraction compared to glucose.