skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right, I'd forgotten that.

In Australia they killed the megafauna but never went back to the agriculture they'd had and perhaps forgotten, or so said Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs and Steel.
Money is overrated. Time is undervalued. However, not everyone wants to make a contribution. And high incentives can improve the perfomance of people who wants a collateral reward of money like social status.
The piece I feel would be useful is a simple link that is auto-generated from every hacker news discussion. You could hit it by going to the site from a comment link, for example: http://blah.salon/ and it would determine based on your referral URL what post you're talking about, then let people do some sort of collaboration around it.

Think of the "AMA" thread posted by the Angel investor yesterday (i think his name was Josh).

It would be cool if you could place a simple link there which would take you to a page full of discussion points, videos, etc that people put together. Or maybe just collaborate in a different fashion than text comments?

Anyway just an idea.
On the other hand, I wonder if they will interview someone wanting to relocate to SF from out of state.
Sen. Boxer Wants Criminal Probe of Oil Spill
Beyond or beside Google: Week 5 - Cuil
Thanks dude. I had initally turned off ClearType because smaller texts were too blurry or you could see a hint of red in some letters.

Found a tool that optimizes the contrast
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ClearTypePowerToy.mspx
Flash Co-Creator Responds to Steve Jobs
I was wondering about that as well.

In Lake Wobegon, "all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average." The Lake Wobegon Effect is one where most people think they are above average at something they are good at.

In this case, I guess they're just hiring so that everyone is above average. It makes some sense, but it does have a darker double-meaning.
My guess is that people go to AirBnB for the experience of meeting people, staying in an authentic locale, etc. It seems like a new disruptive product (which would also make it "inferior" to standard hotels).
While I endorse the argument for coding for readability (all things being equal), I don't agree with his example. I find the && syntax in javascript completely readable.
we have selenium testcases that need to be run on IE. We need to have a revision control on windows. Please dont be dismissive of windows just because you can, some of us have to make a living.
In fairness, that handwaving is from Sciam's writers; the study itself is quoted on page 1, expressing caution against drawing conclusions: 'The data are far from conclusive. They are puzzling, even baffling, and not readily explicable at this time. However, because they are among the few clues that have emerged about possible environmental contributions to autistic disorders, we believe that they should be weighed carefully and warrant further study.'

If their insight is correct, it may be significant. Other data (eg the link about smoking in this article, and many other sources) suggest a degree of heritability, as well as noticing the correlation with asthma, which condition is also thought to be heritable. Although modern vinyl flooring may be low in phthalate emissions, they may well have been higher in the past. I grew up with linoleum in a lot of the house, and well remember its characteristic smell (along with those of vinyl car seats and a bunch of other plastics which were widespread in the 1970s). While I certainly wouldn't draw conclusions from that about having ADD - factors like parental smoking are likely to have played a more significant role - it's worthy of further study.
Or country.
Actually, I do get several responses a day, but most of them are, thankfully, positive.

Here's an example received today:

I wasn’t sure how to access the plans, but once I figured that out I have had no trouble since.

I think about 10-15% of the people who sign up and confirm their account end up replying to me.
If APIs could be patented, I don't think WINE would exist.
Possible. The only way to rule that out is to have wakemate post something on their blog, it seems they're due for an update anyway. Maybe you could ask them ? And they could post that update on HN, I think it would do a world of good, whatever the news. Leaving your customers hanging is not a good thing.
Memcached Vendor Gets $10 Million and New CEO, Pledges Contributions to Project
Ask HN: Here is my idea...help & feedback needed.
Ok..I am going to come straight with you guys. I am feeling vulnerable right now, and had to reach out to the community for a little support.

I have been consulting for the last few months. That one client was my largest client and they are going away very shortly. I could either continue trying to do the freelance/consulting thing, or get a 'regular job' except I am in Jamaica and the startup scene, that I would want to work in, is not available locally. Going through the visa process is such a turn off, for another job in the US.

On that note, I would rather work on my app and am going to put my idea out there and see what happens.

I have been working with designers and developers for the better part of the last 3 - 4 years, in a project management type capacity and have discovered a huge pain point that I am determined to fix.

When a designer does a comp for me, they email it to me (or post it to basecamp, or upload to an ftp). I then look at it, reply to the email with comments, or post a comment to basecamp or send notes in a word/txt file. They then revise it, and on and on and on. This process gets very messy, especially when I have to then pass the comp along to other stakeholders (e.g. people on the executive team, other designers, developers, etc.). So I am building a web app to do that. It's called either 'Comp Version' or 'Comp Versions'. I own both domains.

I have started working on the interface, mainly jQuery, HTML, CSS. I am no designer, but I know how it should look and function and have decided to just build it myself. The truth is, that had things continued on (i.e. still had my major client) I was planning on taking the long slog of a journey and building it on my own, while learning everything. I am learning jQuery as I go along, and it is an uphill climb.

So, right now, in my moment of vulnerability. What I am looking for are a number of things. 1) Do you guys think this idea is good, and would any of you want to pay for this monthly? 2) Would you be willing to sign up for an alpha? 3) Are you a strong rails developer, that are interested in working with me on the back-end for equity or delayed compensation (that might be much higher than getting paid upfront)? 4) Any encouragement that can help me get over this little slump of vulnerability I am feeling right now.

I know that if I am able to power through, and get this app off the ground (without running out of cash), I will be much better off...both financially and psychologically (I can't explain how long I have been wanting to do this). I am just going through a slightly rough time at the moment.

Thanks guys.

P.S. I would apply to Y-Combinator...but it's too late and am running out of cash :|
Here is how to get hired at Google:

1. Start and sell at least one company.
2. Set a world record - the more obscure the better.
3. Have a Ph.D - it doesn't matter what it is in.
4. Know at least one manager at Google.
5. Do all of the above before your 25.
That depends on whether you're buying or selling DB2 licenses. If you're buying, POWER. If you're selling, Sparc.
My first guess would be that Google has a lot more cool things to do with its datacenters than Amazon, so up to now any extra capacity was used for a new product/project. Only now did they have enough spare to start leasing it to outsiders (which either says something about Moore's Law, or about a decline in the rate of innovation at Google).
I must admit i have never read their other blog posts , lulz speak is a pet peeve of mine that's all. Takes all kinds.
Not true. Zynga adopting FB credits for all of its games is very much a good thing for smaller developers on the FB platform. Having Zynga on board is a big step to having FB currency used as a standard for all FB games, which levels the playing field for small developers who can't build huge payment systems themselves.
One thing you have to say about running a company in Chicago. Better office space.
Actually the easiest way to rule it out is to call them, which I just did. That comment was not posted by anyone from Wakemate.
Eucalyptus also uses this interface. It would seem that it is becoming the de facto standard. Being able to immediately use all of the existing tools would go a long way for adoption.

http://open.eucalyptus.com/
Hopefully this would mean a free account with 10+ gigs of storage...
The main issue it has is that the management tools are a hack. They (Atlassian) started with a very simple system built around their relational database schema. As more users adopted the system, there was increased demand for a number of additional features to be added in. These have all been tacked in and the fact that they are all an afterthought really shows through in how you setup and manage JIRA projects.

From an end user point of view, JIRA is bad because it is slow, has a bad user interface, and really doesn't quite fit most workflows. If you're trying to track a trouble ticket, which is what JIRA was originally designed for, then it will perform the job adequately. However, anything else forces you to fight more against the system design to get things just the way your work process needs to be.
We will absolutely interview you from out of state if you're willing to relocate. About 1/2 of Airbnb employees moved to SF for the job.
I think the really hard part is enforcement. E.g. see the Cod Wars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod_Wars) which were between two relatively developed and sophisticated European countries.

It could get much messier, e.g. imagine the USNavy trying to enforce restrictions in the open seas on trawlers from the PRC.

I'm not sure how useful satellites would be at finding perpetrators for the purposes of enforcement, at least not without sending a ship to confirm details.
They've taken investment. They are by definition interested in either a) selling or b) going public. While I would happily buy shares in a DropBox IPO, I'm afraid option a is much more likely.

EDIT: taken VC investment from Sequoia.
I'm excited about this, especially the possibility of including other services (like video encoding).
The author of that wrote http://www.amazon.com/Last-Call-Rise-Fall-Prohibition/dp/074... which I heard an interesting interview about on NPR.

From that interview I learned that there is a lot about the politics of the day that I didn't know. For instance did you know that the KKK supported the Suffrage movement (giving women the vote) because they believed women would vote for Prohibition, which could be used to target Catholic immigrant groups? (Immigrants were a major target of the KKK at that time.)

I haven't gotten around to getting that book yet, but it is on my list of books to read.
Facebook privacy rules to change
So are they going to do any kind of end-user communication in the near future?

Their credibility is at stake here, and your squelching of the discussion does not help matters imho.

edit: And the only reason people get to play pretending they're wakemate is because wakemate does not communicate regularly in the first place.

edit2: wakemate really sets themselves up for trouble, this part of their blog especially is troublesome:

"In the coming weeks, we’re going to be more active on the blog, publishing photos, screenshots, and videos of what we’ve been working on. Hopefully this will help assuage some fears that the product is “vaporware” and get our pre-order customers as excited for the next wave of shipments as we are."

And that was on the 26th of April, total radiosilence since then. If you promise activity in 'the coming weeks' then you should show some. I'm really not surprised by the posting that was originally done, and in fact I think that person should be commended for their restraint rather than to see their post deleted.
Customer Service Jobs can be offsite. Everything else is onsite in SF.
It's sad, but my first thought at seeing yet another weak "link" between something and autism was, "well, better to have wacko parents shield their children from PVC floors than from vaccines."
Yahoo buys Associated Content for $100 million
I can't say I see gibberish, but I do see pretty serious rendering problems in the latest Safari (though not in Chrome). Things are positioned wrong all over the document.
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$108.76 Android tablet 7''
I have no particular sympathy with any anti-vaccine activism that I know of. But I wonder how, other than by not being an important faction in the appropriate big political tent, "anti-vaccine denial" ended up on this article's excrement list along with Holocaust deniers, while "nuclear power denial" and "genetic engineering denial" didn't.

My impression is that political opposition to nuclear power plants, to nuclear waste facilities, and to GM crops have had at least as much economic impact as political opposition to vaccines. Thus, it seems to me that they shouldn't be left off this list because they're unimportant.

Perhaps the columnist thinks that the anti-nuke and anti-GM-crops political movements should be spared because they have achieved their political impact primarily by honestly making valid technical points? Granting for the sake of argument that that is a tenable position, then why ignore them? Wouldn't the anti-nuke and anti-GM movements make useful examples to clarify his position by comparing and contrasting? Wouldn't describing what is healthy and good about the thinking of the anti-GM and anti-nuke coalitions help us understand better what is so characteristically diseased and vile about anti-vaccine folk to justify grouping them with Holocaust deniers?

(I extended this comment, writing on an analogy to criticism of left-wingers as "politically correct," at http://naturalspiritofgoodcompany.blogspot.com/2010/05/on-ha... .)
Anyway, it favors the purchase of POWER servers.

IBM has to sell them to someone. Linux users won't buy them to run MySQL.
History of NSA General-Purpose Electronic Digital Computers [1964][pdf]
Found via http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/05/history_of_nsa...
As the post notes a read macro is not a kind of macro. Nevertheless his example is in competition with a macro based approach to the problem. One might wish for a variant on DEFUN say DEFVN so that one can say

(defvn square (x)
(* x x))

and get both (square 3) => 9 and (square #(1 2 3)) => #(1 4 9). This is not hard; to show off the short paste at http://paste.lisp.org/+24PP one needs a fancier example

(defvn times (&rest v)
(reduce #'* v))

lets (times 2 3 5) => 30, (times #(2 3) 5) => #(10 15), and (times #(1 10 100) 2 #(3 5 7) 0.1) => #(0.6 10.0 140.0)
Tell HN: it is really difficult to vote properly on a touchscreen
I think this has been covered, at least in a thread, but I saw my favorite comment of the day and tried to upvote it but downvoted instead:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1358157
Gabe's deals are on his site.

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/angel.html
I think the idea is great. I have seen people struggling with Basecamp for this in the past and I've been on both ends.

The only downside that I see is that the number of designers out there doing freelance projects is relatively small, so your eventual 'market' is kinda tiny.

Anyway I wouldn't let that stop you. If you feel the pain I'm sure at least 50 others do, and that, to me, is enough to do it :)

One thing I'd add though - partner with another designer. Designers care greatly about the visual aesthetic of the tools they work with. As this is mostly targetted at designers, make sure that you get one that believes in it (offer lifetime free service) to help you out :)
This article is based on Okrent's "Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition". There's a fascinating interview with the author on NPR:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1266133...

Specifically, the commentary on the prohibition for racial profiling was especially interesting. With 9% of black adults under correctional supervision [1], a significant portion of whom are there for drug-related charges [2], one might argue that the War on Drugs is even closer to the prohibition than this article suggests.

1: http://www.hrw.org/reports/2000/usa/Rcedrg00-01.htm
2: http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/node/64
I find it readable if you're trying to test both sides of the && to be true -- if(foo() && bar()){ // do this }

However, the way it's written in the article, the intent is to merely test foo() and then execute bar() if foo() returns true. Even though I'm familiar with &&, it took me a minute to understand this as well. I'd be eqaully annoyed seeing this in production code.
There was once a time where the phrase 'innovative' had been used so much, you pretty much knew from the get go a company that touted it's success on being 'innovative' or 'forward' to be guilty of exactly the opposite. Same thing with the word 'proactive'. I learned the hard way that a supervisor who interviews you and makes it an explicit point to say 'I'm not a micromanager' is exactly that.

In 2010, the buzzword became 'open' and the theme was 'transparency'. I'm starting to learn that a company that calls itself 'open' and 'transparent' is either exactly the opposite, or has decided to redefine what 'open' and 'transparent' mean in order to fit their own archetype of rhetoric.

Oligarchies by way of Nielsen's Law.
I've done a series of angel investments, but was most active 99-01. Performance would probably put me in top decile v.c. for that time.

Had two liquidity events in last 2 years from advisory shares. Expecting an IPO in next year.

Most famous startup I passed on: Paypal, back when they were doing palmpilot stuff. ;)

Most famous startup I invested in: Napster, which went bankrupt

Best return: Giganet, acquired quickly by Emulex. Haven't heard of it? Could there be a connection? ;)

Present day: In the process of closing an angel round for my own new startup, mainly from friends I've known for a while who've built and sold off companies, plus a small number of friend of friends.
I personally have yet to come across a software developer who writes poetry.

I am also a bit skeptical of this happening, as software development is by profession more left brain work, where as poetry is right brain work.
I agree. Hence this process of figuring out MVP. Why guess what the MVP is when I can ask?
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i would suggest letting translators judge other translations. even suggest improvements with some type of trusted translators as moderators. this way you dont waste too much of the trusted translators time.

best of luck to you
How is Friendster not the first? Friendster > Myspace > Facebook, each got a ton bigger than the previous one.
I agree. As long as the example idiom is something that's used consistently throughout the code it's all good. Even if you're new to the code and don't immediately get it, you will instantly recognize it the second and third time around.
I like this idea a lot! I'm surprised that no one has done it.

Do you code?
Unless Zynga has 10% fees (my guess) and everybody else the usual 30%. I think they wouldn't sign the agreement otherwise.
A Comparison of Facebook Privacy Settings to Other Systems
I was under the impression that 37signals did all of their work from home...
This is an awesome suggestion. I think I will edit my post to include a reach out to designers. I meant to do so, but it slipped my mind.

Also...re: the market size...that's what you think at first glance. However, if you look at the number of interactive agencies around the world, I would say there are at least a few tens of thousands - if not hundreds of thousands or a million.

Remember this is not just for web designers. Anyone that does any graphics work, that needs to collect revision notes from their customers. Illustrators, animators, sketchboard artists, print designers, web designers, marketers that do print design, etc. I am fairly confident that the market is big enough for me to make enough to work on this full-time, and have enough to support at least one or two others doing the same. As for bigger than that, we will just have to see.
IPad-friendly version of Hulu not launching on May 24th?
It didn't seem like you had much of a strategy to me either. When you talked about intended results you said: "I get connections, notoriety, experience, exposure" (three of which are essentially the same thing). Which implies that whether or not you make your money back in the longer time frame (a vague 5-10 years) you will be happy because of the exposure.

Thus, I don't think that comparing you to a toy collector is the appropriate metaphor -- but certainly you aren't in it for the money which doesn't make you an investor in the traditional sense (esp. given the fact that you are not esp. invested in the success of companies in which you invest, but more in knowing what is going on).

If I had to choose a metaphor I'd say nerd socialite (which I don't mean in a bad way).

edit: Let me restate this in a clearer way. A strategy can only be developed with respect to intention. The traditional investor intention is profit maximization. Thus, a typical investment strategy would involve a plan to maximize wealth. This, I aver, you do not have.

That said, I think you have articulated other intentions which you seem to have a fairly well developed strategy to accomplish (find out what is going on, maximize connections). The extent to which this ties into other (potentially grander) intentions I have no idea and I don't believe you have articulated.
I understand (at least in the past) Google makes it easy to move between groups, so you are really joining a company, rather than a group. In most companies if you don't like your manager, your best option is to find another job.
IPad used to replace Apple IIe data cassette, feels seriously underutilized
>Infants or toddlers who lived in bedrooms with vinyl, or PVC, floors were twice as likely to have autism five years later, in 2005, than those with wood or linoleum flooring.

Wood flooring is more expensive than vinyl, so.....really, maybe its just an indicator of economic status...
Huh?

"Talmud itself may well be anti-Semitic in this sense"
In what sense? In the sense of attacking speculation since it's been pre-decided that all attacks on financial speculation are anti-semitic going back to Roman times?? The possibility of the Talmud being anti-semitic was simply assumed and implicitly rejected by parent as a standard rhetorical device so I'm not sure what you're driving at here. (and while usual the homily about actions mattering more than words is appropriate in some context, here it's apropo of nothing given that the overall discussion concerns the origin and implications of various criticisms).

Modern antisemitism may indeed involve the cultural racial equation you describe but this doesn't demonstrate that either modern finance theory and early Jewish scripture, the criticisms of finance mentioned by parent, have any relation to modern antisemitism.
Since I can't edit the post, I am also looking for a nice designer to work with this on polishing the UI for me. Either lifetime free service, delayed compensation, or some other creative compensation that doesn't include cash.
Yeah-- I was just thinking that if every lecture in school was this way, how could I not stay engaged and absorb it?
Yup, once you add a translation to your cart you can add comments for the translator (and vice versa)
Aww, man. I wanted it to pan out and show the whole mural at the end.