skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, that's the nice thing with SC2. First, APM apparently has gone down with SC2 because a lot of the drudgery is being taken care of. Most of the APM is spent on macro and micro that makes a real difference. Micro is an important element of the game. Watch some good games on YouTube, and you can see how players will micro certain units in a controlled movement (Move/Shoot/Move/Shoot), or splitting different units up rather than just blindly moving them forward in a single mass.

That being said, the second part is really where the new Battle.Net and SC2 design shines. I'm not a pro-player by any stretch of the imagination. However, SC2 makes playing online fun. The majority of the games I play are intense, even though I'm hitting only about 40 APM. The match making system is excellent, and so each game I'm playing against people who are usually at my skill level.

So rather than change the game, they worked hard at good match making, and they succeeded.
A rescuer just died near Carmel, CA on Sunday.
http://www.montereyherald.com/ci_15449083
Yes, you're right. It's millenial's own damn fault that unemployment in their demographic has reached nearly Depression-era levels.
Web app questions definitely don't belong on SO (unless you're developing them) or SF (unless you're administering them). They might work on SU, but they've been explicitly banned for some time. And Meta is only for discussing the SO network. So no, there's really no other place in the existing network for them.
Google Android tutorial part 2 - Conway's Game of Life
Well, the frantic pace of starcraft is a big part of the fun. A high level strategy game can be alot of fun too, but it's a completely different game.
paredit-mode (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ParEdit) already provides a lot of functions for manipulating s-expressions, including keeping track of your braces.
Multiuser Sketchpad
You can have your web app not show the safari bar when saved to the home screen. If you're using a framework like jQTouch it's automatic, and combined with a custom icon and splash screen really does give the 'native app' feel.

It's just a pity that it's so awkward to get it onto the home screen. Prompting the user to press the '+' and save it is clunky.
Mac hardware and iPods have indeed been lagging in terms of spec sheet for quite a while, so no, it's not "incredibly untrue." Note that there's also a difference between lagging in specs and talking up specs. When Apple talks about specs, it's almost always in comparison to previous Apple products. You'll never see them comparing the latest MacBook Pros to Alienware laptops.

Also, Apple has no qualms trumpeting better specs, but they frequently don't. The GPU, for instance, has been completely absent from iDevice discussion since the iPad. (It's part of the A4, but Apple doesn't tell you that.) They also failed to mention the RAM bump for the iPhone 4.
Chris Dixon, Pissing Off/On Incumbents and VC Marketing
His quote, "Storage is pretty cheap but data acquisition and computation are even cheaper" seems a little out there. Data storage has gotten extremely cheep over the past decade. Computation on the other hand only will get much cheaper if it is considerably parallel.
I don't really agree. Front-end web developer have totally different skill than back-end developer. In a startup where there are few employees, the front-end developer can work extremely well on "design" part of all aspect of the company.. Video sh outcast, publicity, marketing, even building design.

As, back-end developer can do a lot more then back-end service.. they can work on backup, administrative unix task, optimizing task, inner-house tools, etc etc.

So I think it's more like: Design=front-end, ComputerGeekStuff=Back-end.. and it's really rare to find someone that does both of those things.
I think a good place to start this discussion is by asking how much money you have on hand right now? $500? $5,000?
This also means that compression for on-line files is enjoying a bit of a renaissance.
Unfortunately stupidity never goes away. Health nuts regularly recycle frauds from over a century ago. Even before the Web; the Web just makes it easier for people who don't know better to stumble into the crap.
For a profession that's all about analyzing the impact and trade-offs involved for any particular solution, there's a massive amount of lazy and bullying writing about the various methods of software distribution that exist in 2010.
You could argue that the ~10 miles surrounding any Wal-Mart Super Center are company town-ish (company suburb?); I bet most of the money paid out comes back in from employees returning to buy staples (figuratively).
Don't confuse APM as the measurement of performance. It's just one measurement of performance. 400 APM doesn't always beat 200 APM. APM has diminishing returns. However, a high rate of meaningful actions will beat a lower rate.
AT&T Data Center Could Boost iPhone Network
Yes, I should probably have added that link. But if you are a newbie to Starcraft, you should probably start with HDsc and Husky to get familiar with the game. They're more like sports commentators, while Day[9] is more like a chess teacher.
>When she is in full flail I look at her and smile and say "you can do better than that if you try".

I have a friend who has 2 girls, he did this sort of playful taunting with them and it had similar effects to yours.

This sort of thing has not worked at all with my eldest (and we're just entering the tantrum zone with the youngest, hold tight!) who would simply do worse, smashing, hitting, kicking, biting in response. When they are damaging property and hurting people then IMO intervention is required.

Yes, standing back and letting him blow off some steam has helped on occasions but has not been half as effective as for my friend's girls.

Not all kids are the same.

My lad brought me to tears once because he was hurting himself having a tantrum and couldn't be calmed. I don't consider my response childish, but I'm not an objective observer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yzbxwxWUz0
If you don't mind, please submit a support request at https://cashcurveapp.com/help so that I can dialog with you about #3 in your list (recurring items going back in time). If it really is a bug, I'd like to fix it. Thanks!
Ask HN: Who is hiring?
The who's hiring thread is pretty popular and very helpful.

On a completely self-plugging note, as of this week, I'm looking for more design/dev work to work on. So if you need any help, drop me a line at hajrice@gmail.com and I'll send you my portfolio.
Why there is no servlets in Play
all the .Net baggage (Visual Basic anyone?)

I don't understand this. What ".net baggage"? .net is a (huge) class framework that has evolved along with C#.

How is Visual Basic relevant to C#? Are you talking about VB classic? VB.net is just another language that compiles to the same IL as C#.
There's also the optofluidic "microscope-on-a-chip":

http://deviceguru.com/cal-tech-unveils-microsopic-microscope...

The lensless optics are similar to the cellphone microscope, except that there is virtually no distance between the sample and the sensor. Also, the sensor is a one-dimensional array of CCDs; the sample is "scanned" by propelling it over the array in a stream of fluid.
>If you expect that you can ever get an eight-year-old to walk away from a video and do his homework by persuading him, you’re setting yourself up for unhappiness.

So you let your kids walk all over you?
Research app lets people "tweet" their perceptions of public spaces
Doomsday: How BP Gulf disaster may have triggered a world-killing event
If you are presenting to management, learn this lesson. As a consultant, I do a lot of presentations, and attend a lot of meetings where other people present. Rands provides the best advice: if someone hits you with a surprise, acknowledge the concern, admit you don't know the answer, and offer a plan for coming up with the answer. Sometimes one of the players (and not necessarily the person who brought it up) will try to leverage the outstanding issue to delay a decision (or drive the decision the "wrong" way). Knowing in advance that a "screw-me" may come up, and being prepared to handle it, will help you deal with this situation. You may be able to get agreement that the issue is not material to the decision, or you may be able to get a provisional decision pending an answer to the open question. What you want to avoid is losing another week while you research, communicate, and reschedule the meeting.
Entrepreneurial Summer Fashion
Agreed.

Forth programmers tend to chew their code into little digestible nuggets of seven words or less. Meanwhile in Lisp many of us (myself included) still tend to favor the Massive Wall O' Code approach, making us look like third-rate VB programmers in the process.

We have compilers that can open code (inline in C parlance) the subroutines that handle the fiddly bits in your big routine. No reason why these shouldn't be factored out in the name of clarity.
strangely, some people can click through and see this link perfectly, others can't. I just installed Wordpress & changed the DNS, so pls let me know if you're having this problem and any suggestions to fix it!
I must admit that I didn't start using paredit-mode until I began hacking in Clojure, and find it useful for just this reason. I have since 'seen the light', of course (and now have little idea how I managed to get by without it), but in CL it was far easier to, like you say, "pound the parens". So that's what I did.
Does anybody have a link to a good explanation of how it works?
This one ;-)
Travis thanks for the advice!
Where did I mention unemployment?
And of course Instapaper (http://www.instapaper.com/) gives you the benefits of Readability while also saving the text for later reading. Available on multiple platforms, offline and on...

If this sounds like an advertisement, it's only because I've recited it to friends and family members so many times.
I'm disappointed there is no "Express" release of the latest F#. There are a couple of different hack approaches, but a .NET 4.0 F# Express would sure be nice to play with. Apparently MS has no plans for this.
Be sure to check Triangle OS: http://www.wcools.nl/

It's even more impressive because it's a one-man effort, IMO.
And explained part of the reason why I prefer the one unit game, because to be a pro it doesn't require you to be a total freak.
I'm much the same. I always figured it was one of those things where when you've always used your body to do certain things from an early age, it's so well adapted that the action is no signficant burden at all.

Most people can walk a very long way without becoming too tired, even if they could only run or cycle a short distance. Their threshold for that kind of activity is low enough that walking just doesn't tax them.

Personally, I have a limit on how many push-ups or crunches I can do in a set: with training over the years, the numbers have gone up, but I always start to feel it after a while and eventually I have to stop. However, I know people who can outlast a bleep tape and still be doing crunches with correct form and only a little tiredness. It's so easy for them that there is negligible cumulative fatigue.

Personally, I've been using computers since I was small, and I also play a musical instrument and play sports that involve a lot of arm/wrist/hand movements. I've never adopted the kind of "bad habits" that many people of my generation who only started typing lots as adults have: I've just always kept my hands relaxed, wrists aligned, etc. because using my hands and fingers efficiently comes naturally to me. Maybe we're both just lucky, but I suspect we also have bodies that have adapted to this particular kind of task from an early age and we've never got into the kinds of bad habits that tend to exacerbate any natural predisposition to RSI. Which is still lucky in a way, I suppose.
Actually, you can round-trip users through Mobile Safari and process payments however you like. (For example, Amazon does exactly this for the Kindle app.) Users simply can't click a "buy" button in your app and have it pass through a processing system other than Apple's.
Android 1.5 vs WebOS 1.4.2. No Android 2.x device is apparently available in France ATM.
Using Twitter OAuth Properly
My thinking for this Tipjoy/Flattr-style of sites allowed the host to set a value per page view and then display a widget per user that encouraged a donation where suggested value was justified as value * page views. More of a nag than a pay wall so people wouldn't just see a default "Donate $20" button. "You've viewed 26 articles on this site in the last week - a voluntary donation of $5.20 will help us continue providing this service and get you other benefits. Donate now or find out why we suggest $5.20. Or explain why you can't pay, if you'd like."
"What's important in life?" has always been one of the important underlying questions in the Hacker News community.
> And even then most "younger generations" live much easier and more wealthy lives than previous generations. They still have cable TV, the internet, cell phones, cars, prepared food, etc, etc, etc.

Don't conflate access to luxuries with wealth. Very few will pay off their mortgages as quickly as their parents, retire as early, raise a family of their own as easily, or weather more difficult times as smoothly.

It remains true even if this is due to (to paraphrase your words) a generational gumption shortage; regardless of cause, it looks like the American Dream is fading away.
Offtopic: The first comment on that site is priceless.
Also see: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=century+of+self+... (6 parts)
Interview with Geoffrey Grosenbach
Yes, I think so.

If you look at the page source you see the 9EC4C12949A4F31474F299058CE2B22A string with text color 006600 and the background color is 006600.
Let's not turn this into C vs assembly again. People are free to choose their favourite language to develop a hobbyist OS - and do a pretty good job in the process.
Cool! Now, is there a HOWTO for re-building it to my ARM phone? ;)
It would be really cool to have this parsed to determine which data came from controlled studies and then create something like this with the results: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplem...

edit: The above would have to assume the data from the site is reliable, which we can't assume based on the source being Daily Mail.
no SSL for our own domains is the one killer for me at the moment.... be nice to know a bit more about the timescales of the items on the roadmap, maybe which releases things are being aimed for just to get more of an idea of priorities.
I also don't buy this fellow's argument that lisp is the only language in which people rely on the editor to help them figure the the scope of expressions

Figuring out scope can be the least of your worries - I've known python programmers cry when a wayward editor messes up their whitespace. I'm not sure where the author gets the idea that relying on your tools to do their job is some kind of grubby taboo.
> this is the dumbest argument ever.

I'd say this argument is dumb-er.

> you lose credibility by interjecting small jabs and opinions (ie, "unqualified")

Your comment is amusing given your 'dumbest argument ever' intro, but regardless, that wasn't a jab (or even my own opinion):

"Asked whether it would be reasonable to conclude that anyone claiming instrumental records were unavailable or vital code missing was incompetent, another panel member, Professor Peter Clarke from Edinburgh University, said: "It's very clear that anyone who'd be competent enough to analyse the data would know where to find it. It's also clear that anyone competent could perform their own analysis without let or hindrance.""
I'm having this problem, but can read the cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
http://data.sunlightlabs.com http://services.sunlightlabs.com
If you watch a Lisp-related mailing list, it seems like once a week someone brings up the topic "hey, what if I replaced the parens with significant whitespace?"
>No reason it has to be the mother though.

Breastfeeding.

I don't lactate.

Now that our youngest is >1yo (as with his elder brother) then we're back to sharing labour and child care + chores 50-50 (in a way that's probably not open to most people). We've chosen this lifestyle and are below the official poverty line in our country because of it.

However, the little one is still not completely weaned and so needs contact with his mother at times during normal working hours.

Yes it's possible to pump and bottle-feed but breastfeeding is more than just nourishment.
This is silly. Most of the perceived latency (the "time to interact") is synchronous backend work that has little to do with the frontend aesthetic. Almost all of the rest has to do with loading Javascript widgets from other domains.
Hey... wait a minute ... what's up with this non-ranty, non-swearing, respectful-reply Zed... What have you done with the real Zed?!
that's the thing with assembly, you can't port it that easily.
It depends entirely on the person and their spending habits.

Try making a list of what things you will spend money on / buy and then estimate a monthly cost for those items.

Food can be one of the hardest things to quantify, especially if you cook all your own food (a great way to save money). You can try to figure out how much on average you think you will spend on each meal. This is higher for me than other people because I eat a lot of food and a lot of meat. I spend on average $20 per day on food.
Assembly gives you the ability to write finely tuned, lightweight, fast software. It also gives you the ability to write poorly designed, bloated, slow software.

Replace the word "Assembly" with "C" in the above sentence, and it remains true.

Good on them for doing it Assembly. I don't have the patience for Assembly or C, so I appreciate those who do.
PHP support

(yes downvote me I don't care, PHP isn't perfect but you're being crazy if you categorically think you can't write good software in it)
Loved the Ferrari problem definition :)
Had to tweet it. Didn't have room to credit you, but that was pithy summary of meaty problem.
It's not about the muscles being warmer, it's about getting in the zone and staying. It's a bit like when a tennis player is waiting for the other to serve, they don't just remain static, they are constantly moving.
It decodes to the email address of the recruiting officer...

...maybe :)
ChumpDump - Twitter friend management game (iphone)
Wilson doesn't claim any certainty about some "Quantum Psychology". You're projecting, constructing a STRAW MAN and tearing him down. If you want to cite something specific, then do so, otherwise, please stop talking. I've enjoyed your other comments, especially about physics, but in this specific case you really don't know what you're talking about. You're engaging in a lame status transaction without being able to back it up with any concrete terms. Good social tactics but really lame for any sort of intellectual discussion.
Economic analysis of LeBron's options
Skyagent Protocol Description: Backdoor Shipping on Sprint Android Phones
Joyless parents: You're doing it wrong
Details on Fedora's policy on packaging Ruby-related items:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Ruby
MapReduce and Pregel.
Update: I got a response within 24 hours after emailing contact@wakemate.com
Is HN allowing dupe posts?
It seems that recently I have been seeing a lot more dupe posts on HN than I have in the past.

I just submitted an article and it went through without issue. Then I found that someone else had already posted the same article (both title and URL were the same) 2 hours ago. Normally these would get caught when submitting.

Was a change made to allow this to happen?
Startup technologies
What technologies should I study to prepare for DC Startup Weekend?
Hello. I am a parent. I am quite familiar with how schizophrenic you will quickly become if you try to do what everyone else tells you to do. I have put considerable thought into corporal punishment. And in my case the thought is both theoretical and practical.

While I grant that there are lots of people who are against corporal punishment as a matter of political correctness, there are also very good reasons not to use corporal punishment that have absolutely nothing to do with political correctness.

The first, and simplest, is that children model their behavior on ours. If you hit your kid, your kid will try hitting other kids. And, according to statistics, they are also more likely to hit other people in their lives, including spouses and their own kids. If you don't want to encourage that behavior, you need to not model it.

The second is that children who experience corporal punishment become more focused on avoiding the punishment than on internalizing the lesson they were supposed to learn. The classic example is the kid running out on a street looking around to be sure that mom isn't watching, and not looking for the car that is coming. Other forms of discipline have much less of this problem.

Corporal punishment also toughens the child's response to punishment. This makes them much less likely to respect alternate forms of punishment. Which makes them less likely to respect attempts at discipline in other child care settings, such as detentions at school.

Now you can try to solve problem 3 by supplementing others' punishment with your own corporal punishment. But only at the cost of worsening problems 1 and 2.

All of this wouldn't matter much if it weren't for the fact that other forms of discipline have been observed to be just as effective in altering children's behavior, and do not have the same drawbacks. Luckily those forms of discipline (and in many cases alternatives to discipline!) exist. And therefore there is no good reason to use corporal punishment.
This concept came out of StartupWeekend Columbus 2010. The core idea is that we're all following way too many people, and that odds are we have serious chumps lurking in our friends list. Everyday you play lottery on your friends, the game randomly picks a winner from your friend list- tells you a bit about them (# of replies, DM's, klout score etc) and then you decide, save or dump them. Players can override the lottery and dump on demand if they play more.
Ask HN: If ideas are worthless, why are some startups in stealth mode?
Common knowledge here on HN and among many startup folks is that ideas are worthless, and only execution counts.

If that's the case, why are some startups in stealth mode? If they have a great team that can execute, why should they care if anyone else knows what they are working on? If something is worthless, I shouldn't mind giving it to someone else. If I do mind someone else sharing what I have, it means I place some value on it.

Are some startups correct in wanting to be in stealth mode, or is it always a stupid idea?

If it makes sense that some startups should be in stealth mode, doesn't that imply that the knowledge of what they are working on has some value, which would mean that ideas sometimes do have value?

Maybe I'm missing something, either in what people mean by "ideas are worthless, execution is the only thing that counts", or in what people mean when they say that a startup is in stealth mode, or something else.

What do you guys think?
You can also just hire someone who's smart and willing to learn. I mean web development isn't that hard. I know everyone wants to hire someone who meets every single one of their many requirements (we've all seen the job ads), but realistically how long is it going to take a smart developer to pickup say Javascript + whatever APIs you're using? A few weeks? You could easily spend months trying to find the perfect hire.