skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Warning: is written in ruby, so might not handle unicode (at least on ruby 1.9) very well. It's reasonably fast these days, however.
I don't disagree with you that most charities are a waste, but that is because they focus on what I call eat a fish assistance, such as providing food, vaccinations, etc which only temporarily improve the conditions for those they are trying to help.

On the other hand there are a few charities that do work to permanently improve the conditions for those they were supposed to help (teach fishing charities) these are most certainly not a waste of time or money to support (alot of Amnestys work would fall into this catagory).
Oh fascinating! Applying the Gervais principle to this really moves things along. Police and lawyer language is nothing but powertalk, no?
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Murdoch claims Skype's name is too close to his own 'Sky'
The Gold Standard Of Experimentation Exposed As Pyrite
If I may venture into armchair evolutionary psychology territory, this seems to verifiy that humans evolved and use altruism as a survival strategy. A person of lower status would have more to gain by investing in relationships through altruism than a person who is already of high status or wealthy.
Travel time and adding in the additional costs (checked baggage and such) would be useful, thanks for the feedback!
The Path Ahead After a Tough Week
I didn't think about presenting it in that fashion, thanks for helping out!
Auroras To Put On A Show - Solar Flares to be visible tonight
Free talk at Yahoo on the 27th about the software revolution that is JavaScript
The new age of political campaigns
Thanks! It sure does feel good to built something. The time estimates are something I'm currently working on as well, thanks for helping validate the feature list priority :-).
What HTML5 frameworks are Blackroom, Sketchpad and Cloudcanvas based on?
Guys, They are using HTML5 canvas tags but what frameworks are being used to make their programming life easer? We are thinking of going with Sproutcore but it looks unready at the moment, any articles referenced would be immensely helpful. Cheers peeps.
Poll:
Who will gain most benefit of this ?
- The company Chive
- The girl Elyse Porterman

(sex sells)
People like Carl Sagan highlight the need for science evangelists who are good at communicating scientific ideas to the public in terms which are easy to understand. All too often other more dubious kinds of evangelists are far more effective at spreading their propaganda.
So the ironic bit is that she was hired (to do the shoot) because she was a HPOA.
Started working part-time while launching new startup after previous startup failed. Gave me peace of mind to have some stable income (and met some cool people), though the situation was not too dramatic - lowest point was 100E in bank and some bills to pay.
We successfully launched the new startup with less features than desired and I've been slowly adding features since. Now slowly transitioning to a combination of being employed by the startup and consulting.
I did this a couple times last year and found it to be a huge distraction, sure it was great to get a good cash infusion but when I look back I realize that I lost probably 2 months of progress on my startup because of the distraction. I am no sure it was worth it.

I was dealing with a pretty high maintenance client though, and dealt with scope creep and other consulting mainstays. If managed correctly this can be a good way to go, just be careful.
The whole article seems based on a false dichotomy, namely that coders are either good and anti-social or sucky and nice to work with. In reality, both dimensions are orthogonal, and vary in a continuum. Hence, you'll find super-coder assholes, nice incompetent people, and everything in between. Furthermore, both dimensions have an impact on the working of a team, and that impact is also related to the complexity of the project in question.

tl;dr: the author oversimplified reality to come to her conclusion.
Google Reader reader? Would you find this service useful?
I've read the food illness chapter online and I liked it. I think I'll read the whole book on safari.
Copyright Violation by  Network18 (India)?
Yeah, I wasn't arguing that motorbikes are just as safe as cars. I just don't think the difference is as large as those figures suggest.
Protected Access Specifier | C# Tutorials | Gimme CSharp
Web Ranking Algorithms and Applications
So from moral prospective is it better to support Android or iOS at this point? Its a fine case of damned if you do damned if you don't.
Augmented Reality has to jump the shark to become useful...
I added FB to Pikk and saw a mild uptick in signups. You also get the benefit of using users real names and images. It took about 4 hours of work or so to get it live. Hope this helps.

Kevin
> there's no need to deify him, I think that's the last thing he would have wanted

Well, if you're going to deify someone, a good first criterion is to avoid anyone who does want the position :)
It's entirely possible that I am blind.

I've been down there before and didn't notice the FAQ link. :(
You were charged. That it was a negative amount is a worthwhile distinction.

http://blog.wakemate.com/2010/08/06/paypal-refunds-complete/

If that isn't the case, PayPal is stealing from you. Though we are pretty damn close, regardless.
It's not a million miles from my preferred solution to a similar problem.
I tend to exist in RSS, so wouldn't remove much by syncing with the rest of the web.
But what would really help is a way to check for duplication between my subscriptions, and the people I follow who share the same article.
I often see 3 or 4 of the same article appearing in my feeds, which is really annoying, as well as wasting time...
Why bother with _any_ programming language?
Firefox 4.0 will have that, it's working in the beta now.
yeah exactly, not long ago the only update anyone ever got was to tell them that their Wakemate was delayed longer. People complained, and the company improved their communication. I think its great, especially from a HN readers point of view, we get to see a little bit more about the process.
Oh, of course, I don't disagree with that. Before the iPhone and Safari, you could not browse the web at all. It's just that now, other phones have evolved.
honestly, There are some feeds that I wish I could leave always as "mark all as read" - i.e. nyt front page feed, seeking alpha rss, etc.

I recently instead made a personal rule to just use google reader for blogs that don't post heavily, usually ones curated by a single person.
Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" frozen
When it comes to cell phones, the consumers and the market is actually the cell phone manufacturer and the carrier. Not the user. So yeah, the carriers wanted their cripple-ware and Google lost, so did the consumer.

Wired suggested that Google could have done more to get around this so that the Nexus 1 was available to everyone, but they didn't.
Massively collaborative mathematics
Thanks for that, it was exacly what I was looking for. I'm really impressed by the designer, even though I fouled his design up a bit:

http://www.stochastictechnologies.com/

Thanks again, now I don't have to have a textfile with "coming soon" on there!
Reminds me of the early days of Steve Jobs in 1982.

http://workvitamins.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/6a00d8345...
Choosing the next job rather than finding it...
Yeah. You're both right. That's a really crappy point to make. On reflection, I'd self submit too. While I still dislike the article, it is not only fine, it's probably required that one self-submit their work around.

Or set up a series of shill accounts to... oh nevermind. Self submitting is probably better.
How to Ask for Help, Favors and Intros
I read some time ago about tribe which members are extremely generous, friendly and selfless. In research turned out that this tribe had in the past many violent neighbors so close cooperation of tribe members was absolutely necessary for survival. Tough environmental factors probably lead to increased cooperation as well.
Also submitted 9 months ago (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=881884 for discussion), this seemed worth resubmitting in the light of much of the current discussion on HN.
My solution is a bit plainer and simpler: I read the feeds (and email) before I surf the web. So your problem doesn't arise.

This has much to with your habits. I usually first open Email, Feeds, Twitter and FB and open in new tabs the articles I am interested in. Then if by any chance the ones I find out via twitter or IM, I've already read them before, I don't have to re-read them.
I agree with you entirely. I might paraphrase and say that every second I have to wait for my phone to perform an operation cuts my usage of it in half...

I guess I was only half on topic on the previous comment, since I was talking more about slow phones than the iPhone in particular (even though it is an iPhone and the slowness is a part of it).

I have struggled to find a fast phone for ages now. The fastest phone I've had is a Nokia 6500, which just does most of what I want, and instantly. Unfortunately, as I find myself connected to my business more and more, I need a phone that can help me.

I don't think you can hope that 4.1 will fix anything. Slowness on old devices is part of Apple's planned obsolescence. How else would they get you to buy a new iPhone?
> In this case the change intended was to that of a higher or lower social class than the individual perceived he normally belonged to. The researchers then asked participants to indicate what percentage of a person’s income should be spent on charitable donations. They found that both real lower-class participants and those temporarily induced to rank themselves as lower class felt that a greater share of a person’s salary should be used to support charity.

Perhaps this paragraph can plug first few of your perceived holes.
I've been looking for something like this. Often I read posts through either HN or someone's Twitter, while I'm also subscribed to the RSS feed. To have them automatically marked as read would be awesome.
Cheap? Definitely. Unethical? Its in their policy. I pay the annual Costco membership after all.
Although not applicable to DVD collections, I realized the following:

When I started using Dropbox, I uploaded some media files onto my account and realized that even for the most obscure items, someone out there has already done so before me. As a result, backing up those files was merely an exercise of data deduplication in most cases.
Cocoatech Behind the Scenes
Hmm yeah, probably... My comment wasn't exclusive to the iPhone, then, so disregard that part...
The Symptoms and Treatment of Gallstones
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I think you've misunderstood. I was suggesting that we should do so, not criticising anyone else for having done so. I can see how my comment may have been misinterpreted, and I apologise for not being clearer.
He said unusable, though, not unstable... Do you know if I can finally add different email addresses for outgoing mail? I have 10 email addresses that map to the same inbox, but I need to send mail from all of them. Right now iOS 3 doesn't let me do that at all...

Does anyone know if this is easy on the Android?
Ah, my favorite RISK move. Amazon is holed up in Australia while Google and Apple scrap over the rest of the board. Patience...
> When Google released the Nexus One, I remember thinking they're competing with the carriers whom they depend on adopting Android. No way will ATT/VZN let this in their stores.

They could have just asked Nokia. This is what Nokia has been trying to do in the US for a decade now.
That tribe is called the Swedish :-)

Well, not so much neighbours but harsh weather conditions. That is why socialism works in Sweden; people do their bit rather than trying to game the system.
Scary indeed, actually prompted me to reset my password for gmail, it has been too simple for too long.

I remember cases here in Germany, where big companies were spying on their employees, so the scenario of the "evil sysadmin" might even include the sysadmin who is being coaxed by his superiors.
put in the same city for from and to and you get an error.
nice job for a first app!
I've had my current Netflix disks far too long. Thanks for the nudge; I haven't been able to finish them because I'm finding I need something genuinely inspiring (and interesting).
I didn't know that there was more than one group, thanks. I knew that the contributors changed over time but not that there where several groups.

Either way, their work has been very useful.
Maybe I'm not typical but I don't see dups from other channels that are also in reader all that often so I'm not sure I would find this service very useful. I don't think it solves the stated problem of missing interesting articles either, that makes an assumption that you would see all the important articles outside of reader and if that was the case you should just stop using reader.
We Can Now Recommend "The Newspaper" as the Best e-Reader On the Market
HP Hurricane WebOS 2.0 Tablet Will Appear in Early 2011
HP Hurricane will appear in early 2011.
I am all for hiring someone else to do the design. I am interested in eventually doing it myself but I just don't have the time to learn at the moment. It is just a more efficient use of my time and money to collaborate.
By editing your ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict file you can set up a gigantic subset of emacs navigation keys (including almost-but-not-quite versions of C-k and C-y) in every Cocoa text widget on your computer, including Safari textareas.

Do a search for DefaultKeyBinding.dict, or just start with mine:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5431919/DefaultKeyBinding.dict
yeah... but, for example, buying insurance on your rental car doubles it's cost. And getting anything out of insurance is such a hassle. If I had a nice new leased car and my brother put a dent in it learning to drive, I'd have to deal with it. even if it didn't jack up my insurance premiums, which it would, dealing with a little dent is probably going to cost you at least 5 hours. But the thing is, I don't rent; I own a jalopy. so the kid put a dent in it... so what? It wasn't the first dent, and won't be the last dent. Driving a car that is worth a weeks pay is a much lower stress experience, for me, at least, than driving a car that is half of a year's post-tax earnings. Sure, the thing will die one of these days. but who cares? Push the thing to the side of the road and call a cab and a wrecker to haul it off to the junkyard. borrow a friends car (because I'm free with loaning my jalopy, I have some credit) or rent until I find my next jalopy. It's been pretty good for the time I've had it.

Another example; a while back I stepped on my thinkpad. Now, being a 200lb guy, the monitor cracked.
Will insurance cover "A fat man stepped on it?" If they do, they'd probably pay retail to replace it (lenovo wanted $700 to fix it, and that'd be factored into premiums.) I think I ended up paying $80 for a new LCD and spent two hours installing it. Probably less hassle than dealing with insurance would have been.

Insurance is best for risks that are beyond your capability to deal with... Usually for small things, it's cheaper, long term, to deal with it yourself. And unless you /enjoy/ bureaucracy, it's usually less work, too.
if you're a user with, say, 20 feeds, in google reader - we think its valuable being able to match those feeds to what you've read externally. As with that amount of feeds the daily amount of articles is manageable, so its all about pruning it to keep the redundant stuff out.
I agree with that sentiment. Every few months when I have some down time, I go through each feed and toss ones that are posting too much. It also allows me to toss ones that I added because they had an interesting post 3 months ago, but had crummy follow-up posts that just clog up reader since I do not read them.
Hey Diaspora, if your reading this...GO GET 'EM! You guys will do great.

A lot of people seem to be concentrating on this idea that having a lot of money is bad for these guys. I'm on the other side of the fence. History favors companies that have taken money. And unlike any investment round I've ever participated in, they gave up no equity to fundraise. They also have a gaggle of really awesome, very experienced mentors helping them. I think they will be fine. I'm rooting for them. REALLY rooting for them. They're just nose down in code with the door shut and the phone off the hook. Good on ya.
There are reasons it's done. An increasing number and/or vocal portion of the population may not like it (myself included), but that does not preclude its effectiveness and the social role it plays. Similarly bullying, with which I have more experience (particularly on the receiving end).
Removing street signs, lights and arrows increases safety and road capacity
Racket vs Clojure (it's all about the data structures)
You should buy a Pandora (http://open-pandora.org/), if you want more practice with these kinds of things.

Of course, now they're actually being manufactured, so it's a bit late for the personality-enhancement part of that plan. D'oh.
Its about pressure. If Google is stupid enough to make people even contemplate about alternatives, then they would be going on a slippery slope as it is not too difficult to switch, to vote with your legs as it were. Sure Microsoft may be bad, but you have Yahoo search. If you do not like them because of something they do, you can switch from them too, isn't that what free market is all about, alternatives, competition on every variable.

But the previous poster is spot on. There are just as good alternatives to all the services they provide, except perhaps for google maps but that is once in a while use, but they have a monopoly on advertising on the internet and no other alternative even compares.
I agree, I have about 25 feeds in Google Reader - about 200 items per day, and it's far more useful.
It doesn't do that on all your requests, does it? I thought everyone did that via local bloom table (or similar structure), and checking with a central backend only when it gets a potential hit.
A sage once told me, "On a motorcycle, you are the bumper."
I get my content from a lot of RSS feeds, plus HN, plus Rediit, plus all the other miscellaneous places one finds links.

It'd be neat if there was a way to detect when a piece of content was just a reblog of some picture or article or link that's doing the rounds: maybe if the content is only a link plus less than a hundred words?
Getting Great Products, Fashionably Fantastic Market Publique ...
But what I think is interesting about this story is the effects of a shrinking middle class on a society. Could this be a glimpse into what could happen in Western society if unemployment and the gap between rich and poor continues to grow? Do you think that the number of people perceiving this gap as uncrossable and thus giving up on society will increase over time, or is this a short-term phenomenon (or is the whole thing simply a media beat-up)?
I think the bigger problem is how do you find friends on it? Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't understand how you will be able to search the network for people you know.
1) Yes this is useful.

2) Why can't Google do this? They have my search/navigation history and my feeds.

3) I was kinda hoping this provided an aggregated RSS feed of my Google reader. Why? Because I have other devices that accept RSS feeds but I don't want to export OPML and then have 2 separate feeds to keep in sync.
we could do that fairly easily, probably.
I don't understand (or I am scared to understand?;). Do you mean we all evolved towards altruism? then this is contradictory, if we evolved (over 1000s of years) towards altruism then one can not modify instantaneously his evolved behavior depending contingently on if one belongs to the high or the low class. Or do you mean that the altruism "gene"(or whatever) is expressed only when one is in lower class? and that Altruism behavior is only expressed when survival is necessary, and is not a standard/general human behavior.
I don't know if I'm being naive, but I thought the main reason Diaspora is open source is so that other hackers can improve on it. Failure of an open source project is a failure of all hackers interested in it.
Clay Mathematics Institute: Ian Stewart on Minesweeper
I assume everything on the web is a hoax. especially the things that have as little meaning as this
Of course, I wanted to believe it was true. Unappreciated worker with morally-lite boss in a despised industry. What's not to like?

The lighting was too good though. Specifically, it looked like there was a tripod, a well-calibrated fill-flash and an additional, off-center light source.

Clearly, not impossible for a person and a timer to do, but it began to hit the limits of plausibility.
I'm sure you'll find many hoarders who can justify their entire collections with those three rules.
I'm on it right now, would have been done last night but having trouble with rails 3.0 and gem paths.

But its not true it wont have any functionality, it does what it claims to do, which isn't much, but its something.

Putting

auto_hash :password, :field2, :field3

In a model will automate the process of "cryptofying" (using a fake word to avoid any more terminology disputes)
database fields :password, :field2, :field3 upon save or update

Then it will give you a dynamic accessors like user.password_match?, user.field2_match?

This saves lines of ugly code I don't want to look it, and also frees up the models before_save hook.

Amendment: I think this will make auto_hash the only auth related plugin that defaults to, and only offers, bcrypt
The fact that it requires learning a new API makes it a non-trivial feature, engineering-wise IMO.
Are you consulting on the side while married with a kid? Family starts to take up a significant amount of your time once you have kids. Sure, you can be the dad-thats-never-home, but is that why you had a family in the first place?

I'm just saying that the equation becomes a lot more complex at this point.
As a sinister southpaw myself, I've never understood why fellow left-handers grip the pen in an unusual curled-round fashion such that their hand rests on what's just written.

I hold it like a right-handed person would. http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/hand-holding-pen.jpg But mirror-imaged. Is it because these left-handers are set on the wrong path by right-handed teachers who don't know better?
How commodities trading regulations could affect farmers
Clear, concise, and cogent. Minimal hyperbole compared with the many stories appearing on this topic. Thank you, EFF!
Just read on facebook this morning that a friend hit a 6ft Gator in FL. Can't imagine what THAT would feel like on a motorcycle!
Everyone can get a free $25 in AWS credit for entering (eligible countries at http://aws.amazon.com/startupchallenge/countries/).

That seems like a good reason to enter (we'll have to see what the criteria are for entering once the contest actually goes live).
I saw this and thought "Awesome! We'll start seeing lots more 3d photography!" then I realised that it's the boring kind of 2 cameras.
I've been reading it for a while, definitely "worthy", I'm a UI designer and I've been designing iPhone applications for more than one year and I still find it extremely interesting. There are a lot of things that you take for granted without thinking about the why you are doing it, this book explained to me.
Authentic And Reliable Parking Provided At Newark Airport
Car parking facilities at Newark airport provided by Ezway parking are as you might expect, some of the best resourced anywhere, with a great deal of choice on offer.
I think it looks like a good idea, and I enjoyed the two pieces so far.

Once some backlog is built up, the organization of the articles is going to be an interesting problem-- I'm not sure what kind of taxonomy would be most useful.
I can't reproduce this -- can't get my Google Apps & Gmail account linked (this is something I actually want, I'm the admin anyway)