skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i think the big issue, is that there is rich and "rich"

real rich can afford to spend $100K on a car w/o really impacting their income too much. i.e. 100K = 5% of their yearly income($2mm/yr)

the "fake" rich, still make $300-400K a yr, but they think they are "rich" rich, so they also buy the $100K car. But for them that $100K is a much higher % of their income.

personally I feel like 5% of your income on cars, is more or less living within your means. If you keep your car for 4-5 years, that's only 1% of your yearly income going towards cars.

Granted if you are a car enthusiast and cars are your only hobby, it's ok to bump that number to 10-15%
For me, this is the last product for Mac that I need in order to convince a lot of people to make the switch.

As an engineer (well, computer engineer), CAD programs are an absolute must for a lot of the people I know, and for better or for worse, AutoCAD is the golden standard. Most engineers I know just need web browsing + office + AutoCAD... and now they (hopefully!) have it.
What's weird is that it would be pretty easy for FB to make it easier to keep your stuff in the circles you'd like to keep it in.

They have deliberately chosen not to do so, and I don't really understand why. There's no advantage to them in making it hard, and significant risk. All that's needed to bring them total disaster is one good nationally publicized horror story. The groundwork for that story is being laid now.

I just don't the the upside of their choices. They could get away with selling anonymized data to advertisers. They could get away with letting marketers target you as long as they didn't sell your identity along with it. That's all stuff people will tolerate.

But why make your information public by default? What's the real gain there? I see a reason they might think it's of use if they think really shallowly, but sure they've put more than 10 seconds of thought into their core business.

FB can't go public while they maintain this approach. The investors would raise havoc over the risk it poses to the company. And rightfully so.

One good sensationalized story. That's all it takes at this point.
If I read the article correctly, simply to keep most students at grade level, charter schools spend over $18,000 per student.
Deal-making is back in Silicon Valley
Is it really that easy to hack emails without getting caught? Judging by the Sarah Palin hacker, the risk if caught seems pretty high.
I do not care about Apple but this might make a Linux port possible which would make my life a magnitude easier.
Awesome. If functions are allowed as data, evaluated as they're encountered, this has great potential.
MessagePack-RPC for Java 0.3.0 is released
I was most interested in seeing whether the Volcker rule got through, but the news reports I've read are very conflicting, with some claiming it's in and some that it's been watered down to meaninglessness.

Given all that tough talk by Obama when he first proposed it in that news conference, I'm very surprised to see such poor mention of it subsequently. News channels seem to not even want to report on it. Sad (and maddening) to see such a visible act of Wall Street's power.
Arv & Testamente
The grant money in this article is targeted at states, not at individual schools. Most of the states in the US applied. Applications involved legislative-level effort.

Moreover, the program was structured so that simply assembling an application kickstarted reform efforts.

My read is that the actual money being disbursed is kind of a red herring. The real benefit of the program is that it forces a bunch of states to start piloting teacher-tenure and seniority reforms, which, a few years from now, may serve as models for the rest of the states.
Notice of levy. =)
Wave is a nice platform to program for. I have never written any gadgets but I have played around quite a bit with writing robots (and I wrote a DevX article on robots a while ago).

I still think that the Wave web app itself can stand improvement, but I am enthusiastic about the platform. The really exciting time will be when an open source version can be easily installed on any server for private Wave access inside an organization, a family, etc. (and still support federation to Google and other Wave providers).
If I'd been involved in any way with Courier, I'd be on my way out of there as well.

I've heard Microsoft called "the biggest waste of some of the industry's best talent." Courier may be the poster child for this, but if it's systemic, that's how they're going to continue to lose people like Allard.

I'm sad to see this happen. He should have been on the way up at Microsoft; he could have changed things for the better if they'd let him.
Only in simulations, I'm afraid. As far as I know, the only processors to have HTM support are Sun's Rock processor (now discontinued by Oracle, I think) and the Vega chips from Azul Systems. I don't have access to either of these, and neither of them have the HTM enhancements that I'm studying. The state of the art in research is a lot more complex than the playing-it-safe state of the art in production chips.

That said, future HTM systems have a lot of potential, and I think we'll see them come into wider use eventually. The main problem with them seems to be that existing software ecosystems aren't written with HTM in mind, so you get pathological memory access patterns slowing things down. But with some minor enhancements to the HTM design (like a load instruction which immediately adds its destination address to the write set of a transaction) and compiler and runtime support, and a reasonable set of concurrent data structures, HTM can absolutely fly.
What do you use autocad for? Electrical drawings or something else? I am very happy about this coming to the Mac as it might make the other engineering packages come to the Mac as well if it is a success. At my work we use solidworks for models and autocad for electrical drawings.
I remember probably a decade ago being told by CAD people how much companies pay to run AutoCAD, and being completely shocked. I never realised there was any software so expensive. Based upon my observations in several engineering companies I'd say that Autodesk is one of the worst organisations when it comes to selling of software, very aggressively locking users in using strong-arm tactics.
I agree with him, I started my Facebook account in fall of 2004, and I'm 24. It was about a month or two into my freshman year of college. First day Facebook was out.
I have a pair of Vibram Five Fingers and while my toes are rather normal it can be difficult when running off-trail. Grass keeps getting stuck between the toes and if you get tired and slow and then happen to glance a rock with the pinkie it can easily get too much grip and you can get a really nasty hit as the toe is wrung out-wise.

To get away from toe injuries I've looked at Terra Plana's Evo shoes (http://www.terraplana.com/evo-p-1263.html?colour=271).

They look like something that might be the thing. But I have not so far actually tested them.

If you're going to run more trail-running or the like then perhaps a pair of huaraches might be something for you (http://barefootted.com/shop/).

For me they have been a mixed blessing. I tend to sweat a lot from the feet and thus the airiness of the sandals are really good for me. But it's been hard to learn how to properly string them on longer runs and small mistakes makes it easy for my feet to get blisters.
The thing is: good teaching is a learnable skillset, and neither side seems to be doing much to teach it to existing or upcoming teachers.
a publicity stunt isn't a bad thing, TechCrunch gives a lot of smart people building cool stuff exposure and this is free marketing for them. What's wrong with that?
Is there a PDF link available? Scribd is terribly annoying, and the "Download" link is greyed out.
If done by an individual, sure. For large organizations with political power, I suspect it's a whole 'nother ball game.
Ask HN: Please rate my start-up idea
I'm making a twitter ad network that let's users find and choose interesting posts, links, etc from businesses who put them up on the site(Kind of like on hacker news).

The twitter user then browses, votes, etc. Then when they think that one is interesting enough, they promote it with a tweet. Worded however they choose to word it. All done in a non-spammy way.

I think that it may be whats missing in social advertising but i really am questioning the idea.

Some feedback from HN is greatly appreciated.

Cheers!!

Note: Excuse the poor writing. :)
Pretty much all engineering software tends to come out to about $2k-$6k a seat which may seem quite expensive but when you get to modeling systems with a huge number of parts and such this software is invaluable and these engineering companies know this and therefore can charge this price.

These companies are more than just autodesk, there is PTC and solidworks and MSCsoftware, I've heard from my professors that MSC's Adams software is something like $20k a seat and getting an educational discount or deal is extremely hard to come by.
Publicly funded education...except for those with disabilities or recent immigrants?
I understand the value behind IP and there are reasons for some of the protections but as an programmer I really really hate this side of business.
Worst Phone Ever: Crowdsourcing a class action against Apple and AT&T
Cumulus Free Portofolio Wordpress Themes  
Cumulus is the perfect portfolio theme. It’s 100% free and is released under the GPL license.
Flesh out "flag" feature:

I don't think adding downvoting to submissions will mean HN==reddit, but a solution for those that think so: have "flag" display the number of times something has been flagged and have this negatively affect page rank similar to downvoting.

Benefits:

-Adds the positive aspects of downvoting as mentioned below: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1366325

-Avoids downvoting submissions for mere disagreeance. Since the functionality is called "flag", rather than displayed as the complement to the upvoting action, it is explicitly only for objectable submissions and not because you simply disagree with something.

-Allows site to maintain status quo if moderators are busy/away. The site is self moderating.

-Allows better tools for moderators to solve problems quicker, for example they could filter submissions based on the ratio of flags to upvotes to see where their limited attention is needed.

-I don't think downvoting submissions with a karma prerequisite would be a major problem giving how well the comments system has worked. Set the karma requirement for flagging to same as comment downvoting could work.

-If you're still concerned about flag abuse of this new flag system, "flag (#)" would require the flagger to select a reason from a drop down-box of a limited lists of reasons that you decide are valid for flagging. This informs users of your desired direction for the community within an interface mechanic.

I think this is win win, it addresses the problem by simply expanding a current feature, but you probably have some ideas have your own in this area.
Startups and VCs Should Avoid “Pier” Funding
doing some seo stuff today, following Patio11 advices and strategy, was not on the list.
I left full time work 2 years ago to bootstrap my own company. I've hit many periods of "reduced productivity" along the way, but I'm now about a week away from a public beta that I feel great about.

Allow yourself to be less productive sometimes. That downtime gives you a chance to reflect.
I'm actually recovering a cubic #@%!-ton of money, which always seems to be the way it goes with me: 2 years of slowly building panic, a painful but manageable remittance to the IRS, and then a ludicrous windfall of refund money. (This is a bad thing, in the long run).

My advice:

* Don't fuck around with taxes.

* Get to W2 as quickly as you can.

* Get a real accountant.
Original PDF source:

http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/05/17/Antitrust.pdf

But is this from January?
http://dockets.justia.com/docket/court-cacdce/case_no-2:2010...

dupe? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1371983
Wow, I built a Markov text generator years ago, and made a PHP bot to crawl web pages to gather text for it, but that was before Twitter even existed. One suggestion might be to add a dictionary of english words and acronyms so that you can weed out nonsense words and other languages. It would probably have a big effect on the accuracy.

I wonder if the code is available anywhere? I'd love to experiment with it myself and see if I can improve on it some.

Edit: I found the code: http://github.com/OEP/markov
Inside Facebook Headquarters (TIME photo gallery)
He spent something like 5 hours a week on his "flagship" product; if he put 3x effort into the new product, he'd still be working the equivalent of US half-time.
From about a year ago: http://i.imgur.com/AzdGC.jpg

Yes, this is completely pointless.
The entire premise of his title is dead wrong. "Why Millionaires Don't Have Great Cars" is a failed assumption. The zip code across the river from me (on the southeast coast of Florida) has the highest concentration of ex-CEOs in the nation. By consequence, there are a disproportionately high number of millionaires driving around on the beach side of town. It is a rare occasion that I see one of these people driving a Toyota Yaris. Most of them drive some form of Lexus, BMW, or Mercedes, with lots of Porsches thrown in the mix, and the occasional Ferrari, Masseratti, or other exotic.

Millionaires drive what they want. If they don't "want" a nice car, they won't drive one.
It was a long time ago, but I remember having a conversation with the chief draughtsman at one company and him explaining with a tone of weary resignation how he needed to spend a large amount of money buying upgrades for AutoCAD even though his department didn't require any of the features it contained. The way that the software was being marketed was basically forcing him into paying Autodesk whether he wanted to or not - almost like the medieval practice of paying tribute to the local baron.
Right now I'm trying to get a wall posters/art print site off the ground. Just a normal shopping cart. My dad happened into a deal where he gets really good wholesale prices from a few vendors, so we're trying to get that going. It's not going too well so far but hopefully we can figure it out how to get traffic and turn that traffic into purchases soon. The key is really SEO I guess, which just gets built over time so hopefully that will all work out OK soon.
Working on dumping 2 days of design work into some ruby code and tests. Then working on Braintree integration. Yea it's sunday, but I can't sit still with all this code in my head.
In Safari, it still sends the referrer. Not sure about firefox.
Openness is good. Radicalization of the ideology is not. If you are not willing to compromise you are no different than people who support the other extreme of the ideology. We need to meet in the middle, where it helps everyone. IMO YMMV

Google is in a no-win situation.

If they had all software closed, we would have treated them the same way we think of MSFT. In their hybrid form, where some of their services/software is open-source, some of us accuse them of playing the field because at the end of the day it helps their business, which it does, both in terms of goodwill and adoption.

They will never make everyone happy, but I think they can do certain things to be more open. For instance, they can open-source their search engine, gmail, blogger, docs (and other closed) platforms which are a "lite" version of the current form. IE, they can release a google search version that is one year older than the current version google is using, than they can release a new version every-year which will be one year older than the current version.

They could also not release some critical aspect of the software, like pagerank algo, spam detection. Something like what reddit does now.

Obviously it will not make everyone (or even Stallman) happy, but it will be better than what it is now and if anyone can pull this off, Google can.
Challenge all assumptions (video)
Skip to 3:30 for the good stuff.

A wonderful set of examples of entrepreneurial thinking.
I'll second this. If I attempt to be productive for more than an hour and fail, do something else. Exercise I find to be one of the better options.

If I can't snap into it after forcing myself to work for an hour, it's just not meant to be. And if I pretend to be productive for a day and don't get anything done, I usually feel like crap.
Videos from DreamIt Ventures’ 2010 Kickoff
Amateur sky watchers 'solve mystery of unmanned US space plane'  - Telegraph
But is this from January?
http://dockets.justia.com/docket/court-cacdce/case_no-2:2010...
That is a _much_ better explanation, thanks. In particular, the transposition examples -- 16, 17, and 18 -- really made it clear for me.
I'm not sure I buy all the hype about this latest craze, but I will say I've been doing it since last winter and I'm able to run again. It forces you to not extend, keeping the feet under the hips.

The Vibram 5 toes things are good down to about 15 degrees as long as they stay dry, but barefoot on a soccer field is awesome.

I ran for years, everything from 5K to marathoning and eventually stopped because of a knee that wouldn't heal. I'm doing an hour plus a day now, albeit at a slower pace, and the barefoot thing is actually healing the knee.

I also love the Tarahumara diet, essentially corn chips and beer, which is the real reason we run, that and to chase girls (or boys or whatever :)
I was going to say that the phrase pre-dates exception-handling theory and therefore must be originally about human discourse, but I checked wikiquote and it's attributed to Grace Hopper. Now I've got no idea what it was about!
Android 2.2 (Froyo) officially rolling out with over-the-air updates
Best of TechCrunch Disrupt Hack Day Demos
This is ironic as AutoCad is now a completely obsolete program based on decades old technology. The industry is moving to Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Autodesk was smart enough to see the writing on the wall, and bought Revit. What I would love is Revit on linux.
It's a nice thought, but it's hard to see the business case for Autodesk...support for two platfroms in order to cannibalize their own sales doesn't make a lot of sense.
Ask HN: Looking for Private or Corporate Sponsorship
I've been running a small startup for over 2 years and it has progressively grown to over 5000+ members, 160 paying subscribers, an offline product, receives over a million page views/month, and receives over 70K visitors/month all on a shoestring budget with little to no marketing efforts.

What I'd like to do is kick it up to the next level as the numbers seem to support a lucrative expansion (50 - 100 fold). My first thought was to approach corporations that occupy the same space but do not have a community based following and offer them the opportunity to sponsor our project. Studies have shown that sponsorship creates a stronger relationship with a target customer than pure advertising.

In contrast to pure advertising here is an article that defines the distinction: http://www.suite101.com/blog/ekennen/sponsorship_versus_advertising

I'd like to ask HN if anyone has attempted this type of funding, if it panned out, and how it was achieved (ie email pitch, direct contact).
I always wanted to build a couch search engine.
Taking a break from coding and contacting a few people to alpha test my api, which provides an awfully simple front-end to Mechanical Turk.
I did not really intend to be too critical: I would never discourage someone from doing a major open source project because just the learning experience is rewarding enough for the developer.

I will keep an eye on it also, especially if there are nice Clojure and JRuby wrappers.

I would be more enthusiastic but all of my current needs are very well met using PotgreSQL, MongoDB, and either AllegroGraph or Sesame as RDF data stores.
Includes discussion from the founders of Notehall, Seatgeek, and FanGamb.
Bookmarks : I already do this with Firefox / Delicious and it goes both ways and to every computer I use and anyone who is interested.

Maps : I already do that with Google's My Maps Editor and any Google Maps compatible browser. I sit at my desk and update pins to my hearts content and when I want to see them on my G1 phone I just run the My Maps app, including single clicks to Street View etc.

One feature I actually want is 'reply by voice message' like Nokias have. I think it is an under-explored area. I've oft wondered why store-and-forward voice messages aren't more widespread. Scroll to a contact, click 'send voice msg' say what you want, hit send.
CATIA (from Dassault Systems) sells for more than $50K per seat. How about that?
A lot of people first learned about Lisp from [Martin Gardner]. In fact, I bet more people learned about Lisp from him than anyone else.

Your comment prompted me to do a Google search on Gardner and Lisp. Are you sure you don't mean Douglas Hofstadter, Gardner's successor as Scientific American columnist?

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/07/20/reviews/hofstadter-the...

No doubt about it, Gardner is credited by a lot of mathematicians in roughly my generation as their inspiration for studying mathematics.
I wouldn't be too hard on Google, because they're probably one of the less evil of the well known software companies and have done a lot to support free software. Relative to Microsoft or Apple they look positively saintly.
Hey thanks for the kudos. Twitter integration (and in general third party integration) has been on the todo list for a while now, but it's a pretty big undertaking and I've put it aside in favor of working on the easier kills first. It's definitely something I'd like to integrate one day though. Appreciate the feedback!
The Pace Of Change
Trying to get node.js working on webfaction, and then attempting to create something with it. sigh.
Here is a layman's introduction to Markov text generation:

http://www.in-vacua.com/markov_text.html

With some code:

http://uswaretech.com/blog/2009/06/pseudo-random-text-markov...
Thanks! I've tried to make it as clean as possible, which is a challenge as I add more and more things to it.