skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting to see this a few days after the "taking the awkwardness out of a prenup discussion" -

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1374169

I commented on my personal views there -

"[Community property is fine if] no one stands to lose besides you, but I feel like it'd be personally pretty irresponsible of me to enter into a situation where divorce could ruin not just my business and life, but my staff, suppliers, clients, and people who count on me. Some people might say, "But if you have a great marriage and pick the right woman it wouldn't happen!" To that I say... Everyone thinks that way and quite a few of them turn out to be mistaken... I don't think my judgment is infallible, and I refuse to put other people's lives and livelihood unnecessarily at risk."

I'm starting to think there's a societal shift in that direction. LeBron James is one of the most successful and high profile athletes on the planet, has two children with his girlfriend while unmarried, and he doesn't get any flak for it. His Wikipedia page just says:

"James has two children with his high school sweetheart, Savannah Brinson. The first, LeBron James Jr., was born on October 6, 2004,[70] and the second, Bryce Maximus James, on June 14, 2007."

I think there's a bit of a generational gap. I see a line around people who were born roughly before or after 1970. People who came of age in the 1980's or later seem to be much less fazed by the idea of a man not merging finances in the traditional way.

I'm not entirely sure why, maybe some sort of view taking hold that you're doing incredibly important things, then the traditional economic marriage arrangement means you stand to lose a lot. Combine that with the fact that even someone trying their best and generally upholding their end of the marriage bargain can be divorced against their will and I think some people are seeing it as a bad arrangement to get into.

I think about this sometimes, but I haven't fully flushed it out in my mind. Anyone else have thoughts on the topic?
I think the Basecamp site you're talking about is Sortfolio (http://sortfolio.com/).

I'm pretty cheap when it comes to hiring (since I'm bootstrapped), but I found a pretty good selection of designers even in the lowest price bracket.
Yes! One of the easiest set-it-and-forget-it products out there with OSX/Windows/Linux support. Plus new features like this based on users priority feedback = great.
How about this US Bureau of Land management report from 1982 which cites the size of the Ixtoc I spill as 3-5 million barrels (linked as a reference on the wiki entry):
http://www.gomr.mms.gov/PI/PDFImages/ESPIS/3/3930.pdf

Or a NOAA incident report which provides duration and flow rate estimates for the spill which translate to the same total spill size estimates as other sources (3+ million barrels):
http://www.incidentnews.gov/incident/6250

Or Fortune magazine:
http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/fortune/1005/gallery.exp...

Or a 1981 case study by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, by way of JSTOR:
http://www.jstor.org/pss/4312725

Good enough for you?
7 productive uses of LinkedIn for business development
I've added a box in Chapter 9 addressing some of your concerns:

http://www.railstutorial.org/chapters/sign-in-sign-out#sideb...

Thanks again for bringing this to my attention! :-)
Ask HN: Find a technical mentor
I've recently been thinking that I could benefit from a technical mentor.

I'm a technical person by nature, and work as a software engineer as my job. My expertise is on the lower-
level side of things, mainly involving operating systems. While I have plenty of "mentorship" day-to-day from
people I respect and admire, on my personal projects (or projects I hope to turn into ventures),
which have nothing to do with what I do for my employer, I feel I'm lacking.

I'll give an example to illustrate. A few months back I wrote a small project in django, because I was curious
about server-side development, and wanted to try django out. It worked out fairly well, and I have no problem
figuring out how to get what I want done for the most part. But I always have this nagging feeling that I
could do it better, that there is a better way. Now, I'll happily concede that practice makes perfect,
and I do more web development, I'll get better at it and figure out the better way. But I feel that by
having a mentor I can expand my horizons and learn from someone else's experience, which I think is invaluable.

In the above example, I would talk to my mentor about how it's best to model the functionality in the database,
and best ways to implement some functionality, etc. I would do all the coding, they would be a "wise and
experienced sounding board".

Basically, I don't see "learning by doing" and "learning through mentorship" to be mutually exclusive,
and both can happen at the same time.

So what am I looking for? Someone whose technical skills are complementary to my own (mainly looking for
people with python/django experience and iphone/objc experience, the areas I'm trying to grow in), and who
is willing to be the "wise and experienced sounding board".

My question to HN is two-fold:
a. What's a good way to find such a person? The problem is that most of my technical friends/coworkers
have a skill set very similar to my own (or in areas which are not that interesting to me). So I have to
look outside my usual circle, hence asking for advice of where to look.
b. If there happens to be anyone reading this who is interested, that would be great too :)

A fair question that I feel may come up is what does the mentor get in return. I don't have a good answer,
which is why I've been mulling for a few days whether to post this or not. The short answer is "not much",
beyond the satisfaction of seeing someone grow and having a willing student (things I've enjoyed very much
when I'm on the other side of the mentor/mentee relationship), as well as a friend. And obviously, if there
is something that's reasonable to do in return, I'm always open to suggestions.

Thanks in advance, and looking forward to your thoughts!
Why didn't you type "1/10 to 100 miles"?
I think it's more than some people, unfortunately. It's probably the de facto way.

“One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals” - Mahatma Gandhi

Most nations do poorly on this test, although there is slow progress. The funny thing is, at least 7 out of 10 people would not be happy with factory farming practices, but they still dominate agriculture in this country. It deeply troubles me that you can keep pigs in pens where they cannot even turn around, even though they're about as intelligent as dogs. Other animals can be equally as unlucky.
Some performance benchmarks have dropped significantly, for a few days, recently, due to a few commits, in a codebase that is under version control (git), in an unreleased branch, and so presumeably can be backed out, cherry-picked, etc.

Calling this a disaster I think is hyperbole. Because unless there's some incredible benefit to the commits in question, distinct from the negative performance impact, that outweighs the performance impact, I'm sure those changes will either be backed out or reimplemented.

Also, the OA's choice of title specifically feels like hyped-up link bait.
I assume good ones know the culture well enough to avoid doing so, but there are people who show up to hackathons with pretty thinly diguised interest in scoping out investments. It can be weird when people are purely talking tech and side-projects and whatnot, and one guy is sort of hovering around conversations out of business interest. Though, to be fair, it's quite possible the most obvious ones are would-be VCs and angels rather than actual ones.

edit: comic http://www.flickr.com/photos/progrium/2126533900/
There's an identified regression in a kernel weeks before even the first release candidate and months before it is shipped to any actual users. A "huge disaster" indeed.
I think Dropbox has gone sufficiently mainstream now that we don't need to mention YC07 as part of their name :)
Mystery of fake BP Twitter account solved
Indeed, it's a lament for a simpler time ;)
Nike Dunk Hi Womens 6.0 Blueprint Light Pure Purple
Elton John Tucson Arena Tickets
The perfect place to get your Elton John Tucson Arena Tickets is no other than Excite.com. Apart from the massive inventory of tickets available, we also get you absolute bargains on your Elton John Tucson Arena Tickets.
Just wanted to point out that this doesn't seem to be his first post (maybe he forgot): http://hackerne.ws/item?id=823325. If it means anything, I still personally think he's legit.

Oh and I'm guessing it's a porn site.
Japanese companies are very good with hardware, but the innovations these days are more often than not in software - which they are explicitly not good at.
> I don't want to go through the trouble of normalizing this wish list into a scalar percentage, but it seems like a lot less than half of his assets...

Yeah, I thought so too, so I figured she must be really, really cool and grateful to be with such an amazing guy and have kids with him and an amazing life, so she wanted to keep it friendly and not try to take him to the cleaners.

Then I read a couple of her blog posts, and no, she doesn't seem like she wants to keep it friendly. So I was confused, and did some Googling:

"The case highlights an aspect of Orange County and other Southern California divorce proceedings that is not often publicized: the post-marital agreement (which is less well-known, at least to the public, than are prenuptial agreements). Justine contends that the agreement she signed shortly after the couple wed is "extremely harsh" and has asked the California divorce court to throw it out."

http://www.orangecountydivorcelawyerblog.com/prenuptial-agre...

So, maybe that sheds some light on it.
(I'm the author)

One idea is implicitly expressed with the project we're working on SyncFu. Business is based on transactions towards individuals. Economies of scale are still in the scope of that individual transaction. Can this be changed?

Also, can business be done decentralized, so that it follows the crowd instead of depending on attracting it?

I am sorry if that wasn't clear, I wanted to stay as detached from own project while expressing general feeling. I think it's more clear in the "Our Introduction" post on the same blog.
"And finally, the researchers wrote, crustaceans possess 'high cognitive ability and sentience.'"

Wow, did they just jump to that conclusion based on pain aversion behavior or is there some kind of evidence to support this? It's quite a stretch.
turning off support for IE6 in a bid to push customers towards later versions was "unacceptable"

So not really then.
What a bs article, the kernel is not even released, the whole point of having release candidates is to weed out stuff like this.

Previous kernels have had similar issues pre-release and during RC1 versions, all of those were mitigated by the time the kernel was actually released.

Using this for production right now or claiming that the released version will have these faults is just dumb.

Why don't they file a bug report or send in a diff instead of writing articles like this.
When I forgot it two weeks ago, a moderator added it. There's nothing wrong in remembering everyone that this awesome product/service was part of YC '07 :)
Hello, I am Prince Narwhad of Nigeria. I am a developer PHP too. For small sum $100,000 US I will be happily developing your application for you. Just send money to account in your email, and response to this message with a file with your source code in it. I will make millions.. er make you millions.

Sincerely,

Prince Narhwad.
Watch tna slammiversary online streaming
Http://www.officialbay.com/mens-shox-nz-white-black-shoes-p-28226.html
Student loan comparison chart
What's interesting about this is the mention of how they built a new and improved software system for the cash management. Wouldnt be surprising to see this pop up as a future cloud-based product, as part of their google docs offering.
Good catch. Just deactivated that and a bunch of others. I set up a bunch of Twitter bots one night. Not my finest moment.
Looks more like a Huge Disaster for the credibility of Phoronix and Michael Larabel to me.
I liked part two about how 2D creatures would see and maybe visualize 3D objects, that's the explanation that helped me most with how to visualize 4D objects.
As a fully sighted user, I struggle with the buttons on touch screens. When once texting while walking was so easy, with an iPhone you have to stop and look at what you're doing.
YC 07 fo life
Exactly. Microsoft's enterprise business is built on backwards compatibility, and they've already had a few breakages in recent years, with (most things in) Vista, and the recent announcement that Windows Mobile apps won't run in Windows Phone 7.
Interesting. I just read Tony Hsieh's book (CEO of Zappos) and he has a similar story where he actually almost went broke at one point (down from maybe $100m net worth) trying to keep Zappos alive as it's sole investor when everyone else backed out.

Of course, he ended up selling it to Amazon for over a billion, so it worked for him. Hope it also works out for Elon. It's a testament to how much he really believes in the company.
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Eliezer Yudkowsky
At least their own new apps (Sharepoint 2010, online versions of Office) won't run in IE6, so that's pushing people towards newer versions.

The problem is, even if we get rid of IE6 today, IE7 will be the problem tomorrow, then IE8 the next day. It's not hard to foresee a time when we're all moaning about how terrible IE9 is (if we're not already).
I don't remember exactly what is the name of this bias, but people used to believe that if one is successful in some field, say, programming, he is also authoritative in completely different fields, such as philosophy or finance. =)

Actually, it is exactly the opposite, just because you need to spend almost entire life (at least most of your time) to become a real pro in any field, say a medical doctor or system engineer, or philosopher.

'Start early and evolve' is an universal mantra, which is correct in sports, music, languages, communication skills, etc. So, the idea is very simple - stay near your field and do not try to compete with those, who were spent half of their life on it. Or at least do not try to teach. =)

You wouldn't join the boxing championship just because you're famous computer engineer? Would you? =)
Driving test changes from Oct 2010
Independent driving is when the learner get out on the road He/She will be driving alone and they need to know how to drive safely. Simultaneously it is very important for a learner to look at the signs at the time of driving because that's in normal life what the learners are going to do. It actually puts theory test and practical test together. It makes you think about the signs, makes you think independently and makes you feel much more confident.
Great, this has been the only sticking point I've had, such as setting dropbox up on the girlfriends laptop just for some occasional code access I don't want everything I have in there to download.
Yet, despite such efforts, Microsoft has announced that it won't be bringing Internet Explorer 9 to Windows XP, leaving users of that operating system without access to the most modern browser.
Article Submission
The new article site has been launched by the best seo company in India, just login post your article. Only thing is the content should be genuine with min 350 words and links should be placed only on the authors bio section....
When reading the title I thought the news was about the IPad's glossy screen and its reflection outside...
Oh no, another phoronix ridiculous benchmark. Won't you keep quiet sometimes? :)
Basic SEO Techniques I Use For My Blog
Maoist' blast derails 13 coaches of Gyaneshwari Express 65 dead, 200 injured. 
At least sixty five passengers were killed and 200 injured when 13 coaches of a Mumbai-bound express train derailed in West Midnapore district early today after Maoists sabotaged the train tracks. Five of these coaches were also hit by a speeding goods train. Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has said a bomb blast as part of a "calculated attack" caused the Gyaneshwari Express to first derail and then get hit by a goods train.
Badmaash Company 2010 Hindi Pre-DVDRip XviD | Bollywood Free Movies Download
I'm getting marked down for no reason woot. I guess because I didn't really extrapolate?

Fact is, software really hasn't spread as far here as you might think.

Case in point: my home university in Australia was doing online class enrollment at least as far back as 2003 if not earlier. The year I spent at a so-called prestigious "national" university in Japan in 2004-5 you had to do a whole lot of enrolling by paper. There was also a whole lot of staff shuffling paper around in the international student office.

Getting student cards (and presumably licenses) was a manual process - you had to get a photographed portrait done which was then glued onto the student card, as opposed to using a digital camera.

In all my view of Japanese industry is that the big exporters are good at doing high-technology, but the rest of the Japanese economy lags a fair bit. There's also a cultural atmostphere that disencourages innovation - not many young people are doing startups.

Another anecdotal point is that the primary interface for many years to the Internet was the mobile phone - not a PC. These mobile phones often tended to be loaded with features but not pretty easy to use - indicative of not much effort put into the software front.
"unveiled plans for tablet-style machines"

Uhm... unless I can hold the thing in my hand there is no rival.
You can see they're between a rock and a hard place - they don't want to annoy business customers by cutting off support for XP, but they don't want to spend significant resources bringing new software to an incredibly old platform.
Are you sure your roaming provider was AT&T? (I suppose there's a chance that for voice and edge data, your UK carrier partners with TMobile rather than AT&T.)
I'm tired of this toon and particularly of the general political atmosphere on HN (technology will solve all problems! yay!).

If it's so easy to get rid of nuclear waste, why didn't we do it yet?
...you also need to be prepared (have a rich parents with good connections, in the first place, plus some character and perhaps some experience =)

The 'Catch the moment!' saying is a several thousands year old.
Then she probably shouldn't have signed it.
In my experience most people who have heard of Linus at all think he's some amazing genius who wrote the whole thing in a cave with a box of scraps. Very few realize his contribution was the capstone to a much bigger project dating back to his childhood, which created his license and most of his tools for the exact purpose of doing what he did with them.
Oops. Beware The Accidental Post To Twitter Contemplating An Acquisition
> Take like a month to travel the world

I took 3 years off to travel and still havnt been everywhere yet. A month is no where near enough
Ask HN: Comment on our help-web-designers-with-generating-content app
But Apple chose not to.
Cool, then we can start hating IE7! Remember the old days when IE 5.5 was the most hated browser?

Why wont they just admit defeat and built IE around WebKit?
That was at just 160 feet below the water whereas the current oil spill is 5000 feet below water which means it is much harder to cap the current oil leak or accurately predict the spill rate for comparison.
The root of the problem is that most people can't see the difference between 4D space and 3D spacetime.

3D spacetime behaves mathematically exactly the same as 4D space, it is a construct to make it easier to analyze and do physics calculations of 3D objects over time, by setting time as the 4th dimension, thereby giving every object a position in time as well.

But the visualization is completely different, and the things you can do are completely different. If I have a 3D left-hand glove in a 4D space, I can "turn" it in the 4th dimension and end up with a right-hand glove. But if I have the same glove in spacetime, it doesn't matter how much I wait around (i.e. move in the 4th dimension), my left-hand glove will never turn into a right-hand glove.
I love how "What a load of self-indulgent adolescent crap." can by juxtaposed with his 'About me' photo: http://subtextual.org/AboutMe.htm
Google Storage for Developers - Google Code
Or in the case of smaller countries like NL: visualize the oil spill over half your country.
Why compare Go to anything in the article? If there must be some explanation for people who have no idea what Go is, simply calling it a strategy game would be sufficient, and would at least be accurate.

Chess and Go are not related. They have in common a rectangular board and are played by two players taking turns. That's about it. Saying they are like each other in the grand scheme of things would be like saying that poker and bridge are like each other, because they are both played with cards.
You're not modelling your risk based on known probability distributions; you're eliminating your risk entirely (at least as long as you trust the FDIC).

To (over?)extend the analogy further, there's always the possibility of a controller failure.
I like it. Very neat and the business generator is very Dilbert-esque.

Two things I would change:

1. Add a short explanation of what the tool does. Something like "...generates dummy content for you to test your designs." Be sure to explain what the drop down box near the bottom does.

2. Make the textarea of the generated content bigger. It's just too cramped at the moment.
Ecosystem of Screens: Blinkendroid Makes Personal Phones More Sociable
Sachin's cancer crusade generates crores 
When Sachin Tendulkar bats, the entire nation comes to a standstill, so when he tweets about a cause, the response undoubtedly has to be overwhelming. A few weeks ago Sachin Tendulkar had tweeted about creating awareness about cancer. In less than 6 weeks, 'Sachin's Crusade Against Cancer in Children' has collected Rs 1.3 cr. On Thursday, Sachin spoke on the remarkable response towards the cause and a also gave his fans an insight into his personal life after being questioned by commentator Harsha Bhogle at an event in Mumbai.
You're in good company. Supposedly, someone once asked J G Thompson (a very eminent group theorist, winner of the Fields Medal, the Wolf Prize and the Abel Prize) what mental picture he had in his head when thinking about a difficult group theory problem. "A big black letter G", he said.
Have you looked into IE 9? Everything I've seen leads me to believe that Microsoft has finally started listening. All that loss of market share has finally had the right effect.
Pricing tiers. Currency conversion rates cause the amount of money you make elsewhere in the world to fluctuate.

http://www.onlinenerd24.de/2009/03/02/iphone-appsore-tier-pr...
I've seen a "shit ton" of demos and nothing I've seen is applicable to this problem. Wired is one of the most visually rich magazines around, it's layouts are complex, the visuals are rich, it's won many design awards - hundreds of people are involved in creating a beautiful design artefact. Writing an article that goes "wired sux, they didn't do it in HTML5" implies that the level of finish of the Wired app is possible, but I haven't seen any demos that are anywhere near the size and complexity of a magazine like Wired - if they exist I'd love to see them
The current record as of wednesday night is 38 Android phones in one matrix at a time:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lischke/4643707379/in/photostre...

http://yfrog.com/5squ9z

There will be more video footage soon.