skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although this might be a bit extreme, a Kinesis Advantage might help you; Bill Clementson talks about how he uses his here: http://bc.tech.coop/blog/060131.html . I write a review of the keyboard itself here: http://jseliger.com/2009/07/20/kinesis-advantage/ .
The bill was 1017 pages, and reads like a legalese styled diff-output (i.e., "the word XXX in HR YYYY shall be changed to ZZZZ"). Besides, it's also important what was left out of the bill (e.g., the Heller amendment).

I think you expect too much from reporters.
On a side note, I wish apple would allow the option of greater locking down of app deletions. My 16 month old daughter has a few apps on my phone she loves playing, but she also often accidentally deletes some of my apps.
JavaScript needs modules
I was a metaplace beta tester, they had a great idea going there, I hope this gives it another shot.
"The KIN Facebook app is only available on KIN devices and can only be used by people who have KIN devices."

Or by the people who wrote it. Microsoft.
Direct link to pdf: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dherman/talks/javascript-needs-m...
> Before starting your pitch, make everyone in the room introduce themselves.

What's the proper way of asking for this?
Why Never To Ask Favors from the Designers
Attempting to get TX/RX Labs (http://www.txrxlabs.org), the first hackerspace in Houston, up and going. I've had lots of fun attempting to get a lawyer so we could get our 501(c)3 in the hopes that we can also get a larger workspace. I have gotten the webservers and website up in the nick of time, and I've got a bunch of stickers and t-shirts I will be selling at the Next HOPE and at DEFCON 18 for the group, and adding a party/membership drive in Houston on the same weekend as HOPE will probably get us enough members to get over a vital hump so we can offer more to our members.

I also get to go through the same drill with Locksport International (http://www.locksport.com). In fact, visit the Lockpicking Village at The Next HOPE and DEFCON, or Security Snobs (http://www.securitysnobs.com) and buy some lockpicks or t-shirts to help your fellow hackers!
I'll see your 8 and raise you one of 10!

I'm a middle child, and yes I suffer from middle-child syndrome big-time, still. Working class background, mum was a housewife and dad worked in a textile mill. Its amazing how he managed to raise us on that salary, yet 7 out of 10 of us have at least a degree, going all the way up to at least one PhD.
Heh - two reports in one day, one with >10% clickthrough (CTR) rate, and this one with no CTR reported, but based on the eCPMs Kenneth's getting and iAd's $10.00 CPM + $2.00 CPC pricing, an implied CTR of around 1%. Since developers are getting $1.20/click passed on to them, this difference is pretty significant.

I suspect this report is closer to the norm, just based off of the functionality of the >10% CTR app - it's a flashlight, and it's designed to be held away from the body to illuminate something. When a user's not actually looking at the screen, it's a whole lot easier to accidentally touch an advertisement. But I'd love to see data from a few more developers. Anyone?
Yes. I actually stopped reading "news" and I only read people's opinions. Opinions are much more concise and it's far more informative to read two opposing opinions than to read one long meandering piece that tries to avoid having an opinion. The recipe for "news" at the NYT is an exhausting example of this:

"Some decision was made. Someone important said it was good b/c of A but others say it is bad b/c of B. 10 years ago when a similar decision was made, A was the result. But on the other hand it is very hard to measure B, and it's effects can be mitigated by C. An expert acknowledged the risk of B but said that the benefits of A made it worth it."

Usually the reporter's actual opinion was whatever side he gave the last word. In this case A. I find it tedious to play this passive aggressive game. I would rather read two articles saying:

This decision is good b/c of A.

and

This decision is bad b/c of B.

Like Arrington said, at least I know where they stand and why.
Web Designers - What elements make for great designs?
Hey,

Some of you may have seen my post earlier this week about being terrible at web design and looking for resources.

I wasn't able to find any, and decided build an "even a dummy can use" web application to generate web 2.0 rockstar designs.

If you guys can point to some design elements that should be included it would be really appreciated.

I'm thinking things like tabbed links, gradient usages, very specific things I can create using jquery and php for clueless developers like myself.

Also, if any of you have ideas for what the web application should contain, that'd be appreciated as well.
It's not a replacement for PayPal, it's a supplement to AdSense.
Actually, it's more like saying, "we HIGHLY recommend having a backup parachute" (as, I'd imagine, most skydiving instructors would).

Also, I think I've always mention it in my talks.

I'm not sure how VoltDB escaped your wrath, it's an in-memory db that claims to be durable.
Sage advice. More generally "work with people you like."

Life's too short to work with jerks. Making a point to surround yourself with quality people will enrich your life. I sometimes forget this and almost always regret it.
Will this be Justintelevised like Work at a Startup was?
Fire in lower Manhattan
You can't just say something and pretend like it's a problem.

How is Flattr not a solution? Why is it important to know how much you are giving someone? As a receiver, how is this at all important?
"Let's go around the room introducing ourselves first. Ok? I'll go first. I'm..."
Sorry to jump in, but are there cloud solutions that don't require sysadmin time? All the ones I have looked at give you a "bare" VM or set of VMs, which you then need to configure for your application.
Well, I suppose you are right if you want to take me literally, but I was speaking in a more rhetorical tone.

My point was that as a father of two boys, I can tell you that as far as priorities go, they are by far number 1, and they occupy pretty much all of my free time, either directly or indirectly. Of course I do make time for other things like work and my wife and trying to get a startup out the door.
no fb account requirements pls.
Beer-fetching robot promises to make your significant other obsolete
Well, there's a new friction point added -- each click slightly devalues all previous clicks that month. So now you're thinking "is this comic strip really as good as that recipe for strawberry pie I read last night?"

I think Flattr might be on to something, but the friction isn't gone.
NYTimes Shows How Civic APIs Should Be Built
The Nazgul would think so.
Learn how to be among the big boys, mentally
It could be their astroturfing division.
I think that the Java language is, for some people. If you choose some language like Clojure it usually means you don't want to deal with Java or any of its derivatives. At least this holds for me.

Moreover I'm looking at Clojure mainly for web development, so this is really something I'm happy they are addressing.
Why rust? does it never Sleep();
'Spy swap' under way as 10 plead guilty in US court
Rust sounds very promising in a lot of ways. It has a whole host of useful compiler technologies that we've known about for a long time, yet have not applied to industry languages.
> They are in the mobile space because there's money to be made.

For all we can see, not by them ;-)

To be fair, WinMo sells a lot of phones. Must at least make a profit for the division.
Also see Brad Feld's Term Sheet series of blog posts:

http://www.feld.com/blog/archives/term_sheet/
What's Behind Twitter's 800 Million Daily Searches?
In case anybody wants to download the app itself:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftwa...
Check out this awesome site (http://www.voiceofthehive.com/). The background is painful, but the information is awesome. I don't know if it will actually help you become a beekeeper, but I enjoyed it thoroughly.
From a cursory glance, this seems like mostly useless syntactic sugar. I don't exactly see what is the functional different between

module A {
export var myPublic = 1
var myPrivate = 2
}

and

var A = new function() {
this.myPublic = 1
var myPrivate = 2
}

except that the first will clash with a bunch of existing script that use "module" and "export" as variable names. And the idea of making "load" a keyword in page 26 is just plain silly.
My list (let me know if any of these are unclear):

- good use of whitespace

- objective driven ("let me help you balance your checkbook" rather than "click here to login to our system and enter your account information")

- design elements highlight functionality (buttons like buttons, unusable elements greyed out)

- no clutter -- most important stuff is most obvious

- shortcuts for the advanced users, handholding for novices (if you've ever used Mailchimps Campaign Builder, like this)

- concise text written at about a 11th grade level (simple non-compound sentences, etc.)

- lack of jargon

- fun
Gabriel, have you thought about linking your privacy policy from the front page of your site?

On a broader note, have you thought about focusing your branding on the "we are insanely private" aspect? You could add "the world's most private search engine" to your Title tag. I just looked it up and saw this search engine uses that angle: http://ixquick.com/
Not a place for snark either. Let's keep this place civilized.
BS. We need better reporters and way less 'opinion'/preachers/etc in the US. I have absolutely no interest in what a journalist thinks. Their job is to communicate news and facts to me in ways that are useful.

Watch Newsnight on BBC for an example of real unbiased journalism (And some of the best debates you'll find anywhere).

What the US needs is a Jeremy Paxman / Dimbleby etc.
It could be that as one learns more about a topic, one learns more about what one doesn't know about a topic.

For example, if you know while, for, if/then and case statements you could think that's all you need to know about programming. But once you start getting into encryption and security, you realize there's a universe of knowledge out there and you're really dumb compared to that.
I don't know about this, if you're a new business trying to do something similar to an existing competitor that's well known and well liked, that's a big competitive advantage and barrier to entry for newcomers.

Mindshare isn't very easily quantifiable, but it's very real. But maybe the barriers to entry you're talking about that VCs fret over are more traditional things that just don't really apply to the internet.
Hosting your own blog makes it vulnerable to Slashdot (and now HN, Reddit, etc.) effect. Also, a server (and even a shared hosting account) requires maintenance and monitoring to make sure you aren't serving viruses to your users. Many seasoned bloggers just want someone to take care of all this for them.
Why is Dave Herman called one of the "heroes-to-the-Internet"?
Doesn't that defeat the purpose? Like having a car with no air that only travels as fast as you walk.
A foolish man thinks himself wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. Upon learning this, the fool spouts his foolishness for all to see; the wise man remains as he was.
All the pages about it at this link and at its project page give me zero help in figuring out if it's something I want to use, because none of the pages show any syntax whatsoever.

This is like the flat feature lists of the smartphone wars that matter exactly not-at-all.
What in here reads that he couldn't've lent his iphone to his kid for an afternoon?
"'We're going to be at this for a while' before any benefit is seen in the clinic, he said."

No doubt. It is a first step. Good news if clinical application follows from this finding.

As usual, I advise readers unfamiliar with Peter Norvig's article on reading scientific research reports

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

to check that for issues that may not be fully explored by this mass media report.
I expressed interest in same. My wife bought me a nice introductory model (german-made) but the pressure required (and angle of attack at my throat!!!) to get any hairs cut scares the dickens out of me. Now it is slowly rusting in my bathroom...
I know it's not really the same situation, but this reminds me of couples who have a child to help protect/save their marriage. This usually hurts, rather than helps the marriage.
Hopefully it will reach a critical mass sufficient to allow sites to REQUIRE a flattr account to see their content. Note that this is different from requiring a subscription, since you aren't forced into donating to them. But you are forced into jumping into the 'donation scheme' so if they produce content you like, why not click it?

I'm not sure what kind of critical mass that would require though. I think in some niche areas it would be possible without much effort if there was some sort of banding together among the major content producers for that niche.
sorry - I tore my facebook account apart trying to make it open, but couldn't figure it out. I posted this above, here is a link to the meetup: http://www.meetup.com/Hackers-and-Founders/calendar/13987593...
Fring update approved for iPhone, does video calling over 3G
Yeah, the "do everything inside emacs" lifestyle slowly became obsolete as web browsers in particular got much more advanced. I followed much the same path as you did except I still haven't found an editor I truly prefer, so now I only spend about 60% of my time living in emacs.

acme is interesting but I'm not convinced that switching so often between the mouse and keyboard is any better when it comes to RSI. Guess I'll have to try it for a couple weeks.
Newsnight is very far from unbiased journalism.

I agree that we need better reporters, but the way to do it is not to keep pretending that they objectivity, but for their biases to be out in the open.

It's like bugs in software: rather than pretending your software is bug-free, you should instead try to measure just how many bugs it has and their severity.
Supporting content authors. No, really, I'm serious.

I made a comment below about this, you're thinking about the wrong metric. It doesn't matter if everyone does this, it matters if enough do to sustain whatever projects are using it. I myself have made money on a project through solely donations. Not a ton, but that project is also on hold for a minute.

I think you're being overly cynical, and you think I'm being overly optimistic. The truth, as always, will lie somewhere in the middle.
There is Google App Engine. For Java/Servlet/JPA or Python.
Google Street View Camera Falls Off Car – Recorded its own demise
I disagree. The whole point is to ignore the amount; you're not thinking "is it worth as much?", you're thinking "Do I support this or not?"
Venture Fund-Raising Rallies After 6-Year Low in 2009
Here is a link to the original: http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html
I do agree with the OC, but I also think his situation leans unusually in favor of the colo option.

That is, 3.7 month break-even is a much stronger argument than 10 months, so I'd be interested in hearing what others have found to be the break-even point with various cloud providers.
For anyone who never read Chomsky’s review of Verbal Behaior, the text is at Chomsky’s website, here: http://www.chomsky.info/articles/1967----.htm

His review of Skinner’s Beyond Freedom and Dignity, several years later, was also pretty devastating: http://www.chomsky.info/articles/19711230.htm
Ask HN: Launched Startup Project, Simple Analytics Reports, Feedback?
A month ago we posted about a project, Metric Mail, that was in development at the time (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1398876). Metric Mail is a service that generates simple Google Analytics reports as PDF and delivers them via email on a weekly basis. It is developed on Google App Engine in Python.

We just launched a first (hopefully) working version, which is exciting and scary at the same time.

What do you think? Any kind of feedback would be a great help for us, we'd love to hear from you.

http://getmetricmail.com

Thanks a lot in advance,
Tim & Chris
Dan Ariely on why online dating is so unsatisfying
I agree, TypeState seems especially interesting. This paper from one of the comments does a good job describing it: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aldrich/papers/classic/tse12-typestat...
Honestly, in-app purchasing should be off by default.
Clickable http://getmetricmail.com
Priceless. Person who needs a favor bugs busy designer who is staring at a deadline from not one but two clients...
Aside from having money to invest, are there any other expectations for attendees? Is the assumption that the money came from a past startup, which implies they have some connections within the startup ecosystem?
Ask HN: Going international with Apple App Store
Those of you developing for the iPhone:

Are there any interesting details about international markets? Any legal restrictions imposed by Apple about where you can sell? Is there price discrimination? Also, is it possible to set restriction for your app yourself, in case your business has to be different in different countries for legal or other reasons?

BTW, I may be hiring an iPhone dev so those interested feel free to contact me (email in the profile).
Really, downvoters, 20+% of your quarterly net profit is a "rounding error"? That's financial genius.
Out of curiosity, what are the downsides to talking to associates?
Doing Spy Stuff with Mathematica
Can the link be changed to the original? The whole site http://www.27bslash6.com/ is comic gold.
Agreed that if your goal is not mastery you can actually learn the basics of a language and become semi-productive in a month. Anything more requires exceptional skill, or more likely much more time.

Checkout the book "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell. Gladwell asserts (not originally) that it takes 10,000 hours to master a subject.

See: http://robertoyudice.com/thoughts/10000-hours-to-master-prog...
+++ for the Toastmasters suggestion. It's not so much the public speaking practice, but also the mingling pre and post meeting that would help.
I wish there were a balance between privacy and providing site owners with some sort of analytics. Correlating search terms to destinations on my site is something that I find very valuable.

For example, I recently noticed that searches for "invalid JSON primitive" were bringing users to a page on my site where that error was briefly discussed a few places within its over 200 comments, but no where within the body of the post. I think people may have eventually been finding their answers by searching on the page, but I can't imagine that it was a very good experience.

So, I wrote a new post that directly addresses that error in more detail, and now that newer post is ranking for the query instead of the older one. A win for everyone involved.

If I had been unable to see what search terms were bringing people to my site, I couldn't have done that.
Are any antibodies entirely genetically determined--"off the rack", so to speak? One would think that having an innate immune response to extraordinarily dangerous yet infrequently-mutating pathogens (polio, for example) would be worthwhile.

Haha, maybe I should get go get an immunology text. I think I'm pushing the limits of Wikipedia.
The inability to escape bias does not mean attempts to minimize its impact are useless. I frequently see people making the same argument Arrington is, and I'm always astounded by the sloppiness of their reasoning.
Elon Musk: Correcting the Record About My Divorce
"The legal and accounting bills for the divorce total four million dollars so far, which is an average of roughly $170,000 per month for the past 24 months."

Wow.
The problem I'm encountering is creating a decent suite of javascript tests that can be run easily in a continuous integration setup. Most things I've seen involve some sort of polling in a Selenium test. Not sure if anyone has any better ideas, but this has been a serious headache for me the last few months.
I'm reluctant to put such technical info on the documentation homepage, but I've updated it to very clearly point people to Production Notes. How does it look now?
How to Successfully Counter-Phish a Phishing Scam
No, applying statistical methods to this instance is unreasonable. Observing that selection bias skews the probabilities involved is perfectly reasonable, and indeed almost necessary to rational discussion.
These were exactly my thoughts when I read this piece. I don't understand how anyone could be confused. News organizations don't claim that it's better for society that they hide their biases; they claim it's better for the status of the news organization. I mean, it's right in the quote from the Washington Post:

> "..could be perceived as reflecting political racial, sexist, religious or other bias or favoritism that could be used to tarnish our journalistic credibility.”

Likewise, in the conversation that Arrington mentions, the reporter never says that it his motivations for keeping his views secret are for the public good.

However, none of this suggests, as Arrington argues, that there should be more opinions in our news. Rather, reporters should (for the public good) strive to make their writing as opinion- and bias-free as possible while simultaneously being up front about their personal biases and political persuasions.
Smartphone use on the web goes mainstream
Here you go: http://github.com/graydon/rust/tree/master/src/test/run-pass
Top 8 Tips on How to Win an Industry Award
The Chomsky review (which apparently devastated Skinner's behaviourism) is mentioned in the first few paragraphs because the author of the review, Peter Godfrey-Smith, claims that similarities between behaviouralism and Darwinism have been pointed out. In the second last paragraph of this long review he says:

"The similarities between behaviourist learning theory and Darwinian evolutionary theory are not as close as Skinner or, now, Fodor and Piattelli-Palmarini claim, even if the theories have structural resemblances. Behaviourist learning theory, as applied to humans, has been largely abandoned, but that doesn’t mean that Darwinism’s theory asks to be abandoned along with it. Still, if one view is right and the other wrong, we might try to say something about why a certain pattern of explanation works in one place and not in the other."

Chomsky's review is not the focus of the piece but it is bound up in the back and forth of ideas under the microscope here. You are correct though, the title of the submission is misleading.

I found the arguments very hard to follow even though I am pretty well read up on the mechanics of the theory of evolution and even though I have some philosophical training. This is one of those instances where I'd need to read the book I guess. I'm not sure if it is Godfrey-Smith's fault for not explaining Fodor's and Piattelli-Palmarini's position well or whether their position is unsellable. Seemed very hair-splitting to me.
Traction is a single founder's best ally
Debunking the efficiency of NVIDIA's PhysX
Interesting. How is this better than doing the following one time:

(1) Login to Google Analytics.

(2) Click 'View Reports' for the site of interest.

(3) In the lefthand menu under 'My Customizations', click 'email'.

(4) If you have one setup already, click its title to edit it. Otherwise, create one.

(5) Choose the report you want it to send you.

(6) From the Date Range/Schedule dropdown, select among Daily, Weekly, Monthly, or Quarterly.

In other words, it appears to me that that this can all be done from within Google Analytics. Perhaps I'm wrong though?
The right technology can change that game. Consider book distribution before the printing press vs. today. Better, faster, and cheaper.
New findings about proton size could shake up physics as we know it