skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, but isn't it better that at least 20% goes to charity than 100% towards buying luxury cars or other less constructive ways of using that money?

Also, doesn't a very large percent of the money invested in a business go towards supporting themselves too? To keep things running, people have to be rewarded, just like any other organization. Bills have to be paid, people have to be fed. And its even harder to keep good people on board at a nonprofit when they could be making 3x as much at a for-profit company.

I've worked with dozens of nonprofits and have a bunch of friends that do. They drive me completely insane with disorganization, red tape and horror stories of mismanagement. But I've never met someone who worked in a legitimate nonprofit who's heart wasn't in the right place. At the end of the day, the money is usually doing something good
Diaspora vs. Appleseed - Does anybody care?
You can fake it by using symbolic links (or junctions if you're on Windows):

http://wiki.dropbox.com/TipsAndTricks/SyncOtherFolders
Who are you kidding, the resistance is going to have open source versions of all these things shooting back.
Maybe ... as noted in the article:

If you can't convince others that your venture is worthwhile that should tell you something.

This may or very probably will put you under IRS scrutiny, in which case you had better have done everything just right.
PlayNice.ly: Using Redis to store all our data (slides)
Having ambitious and well-defined goals is important, but it is useless to think about them much. My job is to focus on the small wins that enable my people to make a little progress every day.

I am not sure I agree with this one, not in the technical field. I think in software in particular, our overall goals (provided they are well-selected) inform a lot of the little decisions that translate into small wins. I think one of the roles of a good geek herder is to keep these things at the forefront of their mind, so that those small wins don't end up leading you down a blind alley.

Let's have an example. Let's say your team is doing project X and one of the goals of X was to be OS-agnostic. However at the shop you only have two or three related OSes - say Linux and Solaris. Now everybody has been working on X for years, the goals are a distant memory... and then something breaks, and the developer rolls out a quick fix that will only work on Unix clones.

It is the boss's job to turn down the small win and say "no you can't do it this way". It is their job to think of this, when it doesn't occur to anybody else. Somebody has to keep the big picture in their head - whether that person is called the boss, or the technical lead or whoever.
Or do what Gruber suggests and block Tynt in /etc/hosts
"just" mad engineers? :-/

I am not sure if I like that.
Jimmy Wales: How Wikipedia Became A Monster
You don't think the DOD has tons of this stuff under its belt already?
Women would rather have a colostomy bag than a douche bag.
Source blog post: http://playnice.ly/blog/2010/05/28/slides-followup-first-lon...
It reminds me heavily of some of the bots in The Terminator movies.
I think I'm missing a previous video to get it, right? Anyone care to share it? Thanks.
The Subprime Crisis of Student Debt
A lot of people pointed out counter-examples to the message of this article, and it is obviously much easier to get hired in another city in the actual world, vs. a hypothetical world where every hiring company thought like Mark Suster.

However, he still has a good point, which is that you're better off (more likely to get a better job) if you move first. That leave room to succeed without moving first.
Sparkles, nice work! This looks very, very inspired by Cornify (http://cornify.com). I also added the konami code to the Cornify script last year (http://www.cornify.com/js/cornify.js) for another example that doesn't have dependencies.

Those 'corns are looking pretty sparkly. Mind if I use them on Cornify?
Of course it's legal, it could be great PR.
Probably the most balanced and rational sounding explanation I've seen yet. The problem is, it's not very exciting, so everyone ignores it.
The best boss I've ever worked for did his undergrad at the Royal Military College in Canada. The idea of leadership as something that can be studied and taught (and not just paid lip service to by MBA programs) is very valuable. Finding people to actually know what they're talking about is a whole other matter.
Ask HN: What are your homepage tabs?
When you fire up your browser each morning, which sites come up by default?

Mine: HN, theinquirer.net, mixpanel.com, startups.alltop.com, businessinsider.com/sai, readwriteweb.com
I think a 1-year MS in some kind of engineering from a school with hands-on classes would do the trick. I did this at Stanford coming from a similar semi-technical background, and it was great. I think a class like ME218 at Stanford teaches you a nice mix of electrical, mechanical, and software. Video of a recent final project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukxm54MhrIk
Probably not in general, but concerning architecture I would tend to say yes. Isn’t it an important part of “postmodern architecture” to melt premodern/traditional designs with modern ones? So, conservative ideas/values seem to have some influence.
minimotivation.com (it's a random saying every time you refresh)
I'm with you and I find the idea of "move there THEN find a job" rather foolish. Most people can't afford to do this, but most middle+ class workers can afford to fly somewhere and interview. Then if you get the job you just take it, stay in a long term hotel for a while and then get yourself settled. I've gotten most of my jobs doing this in my rather nomadic life.
I pay handsomely for Google's Premium service, and I still get no customer service. So now what?
Dating Advice in 140 Characters Or Less
Wow. Thanks for some contrast to all the Android love I've been hearing lately. Curious, though - have you tried 2.2? 450% is a lot of percent.
A crash course in PR from the folks at @BPGlobalPR
Gruber fails to mention the obvious motivation behind this.

Maybe because it's obvious. The point of the article is that breaking copy/paste, whatever the reason, doesn't work: "Who, when they paste such text and find this “Read more:” attribution line appended, doesn’t just delete it (and wonder how it got there)?"
>since Chrome is in fact faster it seems like an honest ad.

Opera has a faster JS engine than Chrome.
I do not dismiss this research: it is amazing. But, I also think you are underestimating the skill and sophistication of RC helicopter hobbyists. There are international competitions involving very complex, but well-defined and precise maneuvers.

For example, there is a maneuver named "chaos" in which the pilot continuously pirouettes while continuously flipping while continuously rotating the axis of the flip while holding the aircraft in a single position a few feet off the ground. It is tremendously difficult to even visualize this fully.

The research video also reminded me of this video, where an RC pilot lands on a vertical wall (without velcro): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ2HlePbD20#t=1m07s
or add it to adblock ;-)
If you wouldn't consider taking the bag at all, I guess one final web project will be it. Make it a meaningful one. Make it reflect you as who you were in this life. Also make it useful for other people when you're gone. We'll all remember you. We'll all remember that there was this one kickass coder who just hadn't enough time to do even more amazing projects

Good luck :)
Words I'd ban from all websites
I pay $50 per user, and get the same "support" as free users. Got any clever comments about that?
It looks like the bright lights in the room are being used for position sensing (along with what appear to be IR sensors on the top and bottom of the copter itself), so we don't have to worry about ninja quadcopters taking over our offices until they come up with a way to determine position without the help of IR blasters.
As an Opear user, I'm curious - why? It's performant (well, maybe not on memory usage, but I have plenty of memory), highly configurable, has a lot of features, and looks pretty.
maybe...

While Europe is not an entrepreneurial desert, UK is still an oasis.

I dunno it strikes me as too clever by half, why not just go trollin' with the UK is an entrepreneurial oasis in the European desert (or something). Probably gets more clicks.
Aside from the UI, what can't be replicated?
Same topic as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1387043
Mad engineers with super engineering powers at that. I work in robotics -- in real life, the amount of effort necessary on the part of many engineers, some with Ph.D.s, to get even a simple robot like one of our AUVs assembled, integrated, and functioning with acceptable reliability is phenomenal. Yet Dr. Robotnik can build a whole robot army numbering in the thousands of many different types, a fleet of airships to deploy them from, and a chaos-emerald-powered world-shattering satellite -- all by his lonesome, all over Sonic's summer vacation, and all without having to worry about malfunction except via high-speed impact by blue hedgehog.
It seems even for those, it must be a particular range of company types and sizes? Large companies, from what I can tell, pay almost no attention to location in hiring execs, and it's common for high-level execs to jump from company to company in different cities (say, to pick an example in the news lately, Carly Fiorina being hired as CEO of Palo-Alto-based HP, when she was living in New Jersey at the time).
Who do you think probably funded this? His advisor is funded by (at least) ONR, ARL, and DARPA.
Ask HN: Is there a web marketing site like HN on the net?
If so please link it.

If not is it possible to use the HN code base to create one?
Yeah. I had divided too much, as if it was seconds, not minutes.
That's exactly what I thought. As a clunky non-flying biped, I for one welcome our new quadrotor overlords.
When Your Dad Wants You To Be A Welder.
Trolls - the bidding for Novell may portend trouble for Linux
A simple look a history suggests that 99% of all human invention begins with looking for a better way of killing each other.

Don't blame governments, we're all like that.
Dude, I was an Emerg doc. I just finished the 5 year diagnostic radiology residency and I am starting an interventional radiology fellowship. I am married with small kids.

Don't go back to school for 5 years. The price you pay with respect to not seeing your kids grow is too high.

Follow the self-study route. You can always hire technical people to assist you.

Here is another perspective: If you live a comfortable life and have a beautiful family, why not enjoy them?
Interesting that they claim they lost 10-15 good clients and the value of that business was $750,000 - meaning each client is (assuming similar size) worth up to $75K of business? How much are they towing each month?
House passes increased tax on carried interest, and VCs hate it | VentureBeat
Maybe you can offer to work for free in a university robotics department as a staff programmer while taking courses or learning on your own. You probably won't be able to contribute much at first, but being able to learn with that social support is important, especially in an area where there is little in the way of autodidactic textbooks.
Which version? If you're on Exchange 2003 then complaining about how a 7-8 year old program isn't up to scratch is a bit silly. Even 2007 is closing on 4 years old, and the web interface was improved a lot from 2003 to 2007 and again from Exchange 2007 to 2010 (not sure about calendaring specifically).

And if you are on Exchange 2003 or 2007 then IE gets the good browser interface, and every other browser gets a basic one.

Do I get some sort of notification when my inbox is full? No.

This is because someone hasn't turned it on for you; Exchange does this (by default, I thought). Emails you when you hit the "no more sending" limit, then again as you hit the "now so full you can't receive" limit.
It is beyond parody that you have to get to the 3rd from the last paragraph to find out that this professional victim got an "interdisciplinary degree in religious and women’s studies" (the latter grants her the status of a professional, I'd say).

In the subprime mess the biggest problem was the debtors and the creditors, etc., i.e. the financing system, not the collateral although the latter of course got slagged due to the credit driven demand bubble.

I don't think anyone getting degrees like her's can reasonably claim ignorance of there being a gross supply and demand mismatch for them.
I think most lottery winners find luck to be quite sufficient. I think what you mean to say is that luck is by definition scarce, so depending solely on it showing up is likely to be a losing strategy.
Though from certain POV these devices exist despite government policies, as the phenomenon has certain anti-authority connotations:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanzhai
Pick a fight. - Getting Real.
So, "charging from day 1", and "entering a saturated market" are rebellious 37s-isms? Seems like those are the conventional business principles.
Box.net CEO: HTML5 could kill desktop software
> The admin folks seem mildly confused/insulted, but the profs are cool usually.

Hah, yeah. Mostly because of each side's interests: the job of the administration is to sell the idea that $university's degrees are a valuable thing you should want, so it is completely crazy to them that you don't want their degree. But the profs ideally want to teach stuff they think is important/interesting to people who want to learn it, and to them, the people taking the class only because it's required for the degree are sort of the least desirable students, while someone taking it even though they don't have to, because they actually think it's interesting, is great.
Trafficspaces
Keep in mind that the numbers listed are estimations.

For example, HubPages, the site where I work, is listed at #270 with 11M unique visitors and 97M page views.

Our monthly absolute unique visitors (according to Google Analytics) is more than three times that. Our monthly page views are greater than 100M.
Isn't it a little too convenient that the Universe seems to prefer 3d for physical processes, and that almost any kind of phenomena we need to understand can be framed in a 3d model? Or is it us the whole time, unable to see beyond our own limitations? When we see grandiose contrivances in a film plot, we naturally suspend disbelief in order to enjoy the story. I think those of us who have learned university math and who think we understand higher dimension are doing likewise—telling ourselves a story so we don't have to walk out of the theater.

I don't think we consciously "think" in any dimensions above 3. Like all life, we are neurologically hardwired by default to think in 3d, since that's what has worked for the evolution of all life on Earth. As for formal math, I am no longer even sure there is a connection between the logical, axiomatic and cultural edifice we've built up and call "mathematics", and our day-to-day "neural navigation software" that allows each of us to get from point A to B on the surface of a rotating oblate rock tethered to a nuclear fireball that is hurtling through the infinite, continuous space we call the Universe. The map is not the territory. The mathematical deductions of our neural experience are not the same thing as the experience itself.

From all of the suggestions on Mathoverflow, almost all of them are variants on projecting higher dimensional objects onto 3d and 2d objects, then comparing all the different projections in a clever way to get a "feel" for how the higher dimensional object changes. Even this is completely non-intuitive, as our brain's visual apparatus is optimized to take in a total picture and immediately spot the biggest changes. i.e. there's a predator running at us from over there! That is afterall what eyeballs and visual perception evolved for! If we can't even see the whole visual field at once, but just slices of projections of it, then our finely tuned visual hardware is thwarted and unable to detect and piece together the "shape" of objects. This is why is say nobody can "think" higher than 3d—even if you are doing it, your brain is still imperceptibly and behind the scenes translating your logical construct into a 3d "sensory" construct.

With that said the best way I've come across for visualizing 4d objects is from complex analysis, where you can use color gradients to represent a dimension. It doesn't work so well going beyond 4d, but it's a great set of training wheels.
http://www.mai.liu.se/~halun/complex/
http://www.nucalc.com/ComplexFunctions.html
naaa, it's a simple lesson: If your startup has a developer like DHH who built a widely successful and popular framework used by the entire web, and than won the Google coder of the year prize, than 37 signals ideas are for you.
Unfortunately, it's probably not the case.
Don't expect Verizon iPhone at June Apple event
That was an amazing stunt. Has something like that been used as a plot device in an action movie yet?
I've worked with plenty of nonprofits over the years. More than I can count. The point here isn't about putting a name on something for an ego boost, its about effectively managing my (hypothetical) money in a controlled and sustainable way over a longer period of time so it can be put into multiple causes, rather than dumping it all into someone's lap one day and saying 'go'. And by moving this hypothetical money into a 501(c), it puts the money to work over time while keeping it out of reach to blow on tempting luxuries. I stand behind this idea.
There has been a lot done, and Brooks doesn't refute that. What he's saying is that human fallibility can trump all our high-tech precautions. It's our responsibility as engineers to understand this and design systems that assume human error and negligence.
That's the end result of a content site trying to add value with features. Instead they get feature bloat.
Douglas Hofstadter on Martin Gardner: A Major Shaping Force in My Life
Google serves this role a lot for the opposite model. How many times have you heard "don't worry about your business model, just get big and you'll figure it out. It worked for Google." I've heard that from so many respectable Silicon Valley investors, and it's made me cringe each time.

The real question is "why do people who give advice always do so in such black and white terms?"
Martin Gardner on Oprah Winfrey: Bright (but Gullible) Billionaire
The Forer effect
Here's the original blog at the People's Daily Online:
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90780/91345/6994665.html

And yes, that's the official news paper of the Chinese Communist Party by way of ZDnet. Not that there's anything wrong with that...iPhone white compliments my Little Red Book.
How ugly do non-regex based email validation functions look? I've never seen one, but I've always wondered if that was a more elegant solution.
rofl > high-speed impact by blue hedgehog

really, he needs to write better unit tests.
That, and the fact that they don't want to dilute what they say by considering too many viewpoints. They expect you as readers to do that.
Code Contracts: validating arrays and collections
Good question. The article mentions that a single tow costs $118, so they're claiming to have lost more than 6000 tows. Even if they were really busy that would take a few years.
The Evo 4G seems to be fundamentally similar to the HTC HD2 Windows phone released last November in Europe and 5 months later in the US. It seems not so much better than, as different from, the Nexus One and HTC Desire (which was released in Europe first too).

I can see waiting if there's some particular feature you like (additional front camera maybe?) but otherwise you seem to be getting the same core hardware, so why wait? There will be a new "generation" of Android hardware soon enough and you want to enjoy your phone before it gets totally outdated.
Could This Gum Be Any More "That's What She Said"?
He's probably been coached on what to say, I somehow doubt he just goes to these interviews and wings it.

As for being money-hungry, like qq66 said, he likely would have sold FB if he was just in it for the money. But then he'd be less of a celebrity and no one would remember him?

Also, I think a lot of this anti-FB/Zuckerberg stuff has been blown out of proportion and is exaggerated.
Wow. I missed the date on there. I just stumbled onto that site while surfing and thought it was interesting as a Sphinx user.
You're right, but what other implementations have proven they can actually produce a closed time-like curve?
>While it is plausible that the involvement was for PR reasons

backtrack a bit-

>The guy from the State Department is a long-time member of Metafilter in good standing

This is like your friend with the pick-up truck hearing you might have to move.
Valuable Rails tools: bundler and git-deploy
In the internet world it is hugely rebellious.
Regex is the only real sensible way to validate strings until something better is found. Even if you just wrote code to do it manually, you'd really just be writing a verbose and poorly implemented finite state machine that globbed symbols together, which in the end, would just be inferior to writing a well tested Regex string.

Regex can be easier to read if you have something do a graphical expansion for you. Otherwise, it's write-once, read-never.
Not sure why I was downvoted. The premise to kill Flash by not visiting Flash sites gets me upvoted (trendy hate).

I am sure there will be a force-fitted reason coming.

I don't get the average HN user, I suppose.
Do a thought experiment: imagine somebody who knows a lot about some legitimate form of art. Say, classical music, or painting. Would he be impressed with great works of art in other legitimate art forms, given enough time to appreciate them? Would he be impressed with a pixel wife and a quick lesson about how we all die? My guess is no, and the reason is that this is not art, but pretentious hippie crap, about to join mountains of other pretentious hippie crap in the toilet of history.
BlogThis
Compared to regex, by definition, nothing can be uglier.
Why is that a problem?

Handful of guys doing what they like. Earning enough to pay for a modest lifestyle and I bet they get to put something away for old age.

Why does earning a living have to be an unpleasant and stressful experience?

By writing and talking about how awesome cool their careers are, they get to boost their sales. Hell, I think I might start writing about how awesome my life is.
One nice looking trick I've seen is checking the domain of the email address for an MX record. (e.g. http://php.dzone.com/news/php-email-validator-email-mx-d)

Possibly this approach is too slow to use by itself without a regex. Also maybe there are other problems with this method I'm not aware of?
One also has to wonder what altitude they were at.
If the quadrotor helicopter gives you the willies, get a whiff of BIGDOG and his cousin LittleDog, which can accomodate rugged or unstable terrain:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUQsRPJ1dYw
You are welcome to them, I got them at http://www.webfetti.com/MySpace/Glitter/Animals.jhtml
Convert SVG to RaphaelJS
Social Media Training: From Conferences to the Classroom
&*=?^+{}'~@12.34.56.78:2000 really looks strange, even though its a valid email.

Good luck trying to register on any site with it though :)