skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding Sedaris, I highly, highly recommend consuming him in audiobook format.

David Foster Wallace's "Consider The Lobster" is also an excellent audiobook; he figured out a way to do the footnotes via audio.
Didn't we have a discussion on the dangers of tribalism just the other day http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1561607 ? Why should it be a good idea this week just because your tribe comes with a cheap data plan and a fancy credit card?

And how big should these nations be? Should each be able to keep modern society running on its own, which according to some numbers cites here recently would put a lower bound of 100 million on them http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1541795 .
Yes, you can import contact from a CSV (no XLS yet) file and Marrily will take an educated guess at the file structure (this feature is inspired by 37Signals's Highrise) to help you import the contacts. I'm planning to implement the import feature from external sources (Facebook, Gmail, and other services) in phase 2 of the Marrily (after the app is officially launched)

The link to the CSV import is: http://marrily.com/app/contacts/import_csv

There's a button to import contact: http://cl.ly/4bd949e2d09fdc9b4b22. My guess is that the button is not visible enough. I'll move it down to the same level as the big "Add New Contact" button.

Regarding the Flash for the titles, I wanted to spice up the page with a different font, so it was just strictly for cosmetic reason. Based on the feedback so far, I decided to rip out the sIFR to make it more friendly.

Thanks for your feedback!
This is especially true of YC companies, I suspect. I'm pretty sure all YC-funded startups have great working conditions, and most of them have pretty good ideas and a good chance of making it.
I think that Raplets are what makes the difference between the two services, because it let developers easily integrate their application in it, so for example if you have a to-do list app, you could integrate it with Rapportive to show any open to-do item related to that person.
Wonder if any of the thousands of people who created Tumblr accounts today (and likely imported contacts from their mail services) noticed the blatant lack of encrypted data transfer? Ref: http://mccammon.org/keith/2010/08/02/tumblr-sharing-your-pas...
It depends on what you're benchmarking. If you're benching wall time, then yes, you need to have GC on, and you need to do a ridiculous number of iterations to average out GC runtimes. You also need to invoke the GC before you begin your benchmark; doing a collection pass early in the benchmark for all the objects created on startup/setup skews the benchmark.

Separate benchmarks should be conducted for execution speed (CPU time) and garbage generation. Saying "X is faster than Y" tends to suggest a CPU time benchmark. "X is faster than Y with W delta garbage and Z delta less time spent in GC" suggests a proper wall time benchmark.
We've got some great premium features planned, but right now it's more important to us to get the free product from "quite useful" to "couldn't live without". We think we're well on the way there, but we're still working really hard to understand what would make it more useful.
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
Shen gone to Mountain View - Qilang
Palace Walk, by Naguib Mahfouz

A family drama set in Cairo during and after World War I. It's a long book, but the going is easy. The variety of characters of different ages and temperaments, each with their own preoccupations in a turbulent time, provide a fascinating glimpse of what to me was an entirely unknown society and culture. It's the first book in a trilogy, so if you like it, there are more books waiting.

Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro

Very sad. It ripped me up the first time I read it. Anybody who grew up feeling different and somehow deficient should read it.

Talking to Strange Men, by Ruth Rendell

An easy and fast-paced kind-of-mystery by a well-known mystery writer. There are two stories related in a crucial but indirect way. Each story has mysteries and twists that could stand on their own for suspense, but they play second fiddle to the development of several interesting characters.

Persepolis and Persepolis 2, by Marjane Satrapi

Graphic memoirs about growing up in Iran and Europe.
I "own" and participate in several open source .NET projects and have definitely found this to be very true. At the same time, I've found that it varies by project depending on the intended audience of the project itself. Two examples:

One of the projects that I started is a "starter kit" to get some simple user administration screens into a new MVC web app very quickly. This seems to really appeal to newcomers to Asp.Net MVC (most likely because of the starter kit nature of it) and as such I've found that it gets treated much more like a product: lots of requests for me to add new features with VERY few people willing to actually contribute new features themselves. More people download the binaries than download & build the source. [http://github.com/TroyGoode/MembershipStarterKit]

On the other hand I participate in a project that is a C# version of Rails' migrations. This tends to be used by .Net developers who have either exposure to RoR or are otherwise more advanced than your run-of-the-mill drag & drop .Net SharePoint dev. We are actually seeing more contributions than support requests for this project (though it isn't in heavy use either way.) More people download & build the source than download the binaries. [http://github.com/TroyGoode/fluentmigrator]

That said, I suspect that this isn't entirely a symptom of the .Net ecosystem - Rails or Sinatra or Gem certainly get treated as products, right?
iOS4 has one. At the home screen double press the home button. Then just hold an wait on an app for the option to kill it. I've used it a few times. Sometimes apps need smacking around.
It is hard to apply those across the board. Perhaps there should be fees associated with participation in any of those extra-currilar socialization events. If the student wants to participate they should pay for it. Other students and their parents shouldn't have to pay to subsidize others' "socialization".

I for instance, didn't live on campus. Yet some of my tutition went to paying for various activities and "nice-to-have" social things others did participate in. I would have liked to opt-out and get a cheaper tuition instead.
Why do you see Glade advertise Glade PlugIns on prime time television? Because sometimes you turn on the television to watch True Blood and still decide to buy a Glade PlugIn.

This model helps centralize the process for the popular companies, and it gives the less popular ones access to quality candidates. Everyone has a hiring problem.
I'm convinced that you can find anything in the guts of LOOP if you look hard enough. Except for an adequate number of parentheses. LOOP doesn't have nearly enough parentheses.
Adding awesome miniviewers to your apps with HTML5
But is it so with everything, and not just the Remote App? Apple seems kinda far from bing a huge startup in many ways.
Of any single device? I'm not sure, all combined maybe. The B&N nook alone is probably the most common one but probably only a half million units sold. So even all combined probably not.
Do you remember how long it took before you started seeing the links with the new domain appear in Google?
The "first example" is merely a preliminary; it isn't an example of what he's actually trying to do. He's trying to write a very short program that (1) is valid C, (2) would terminate eventually on a system that perfectly implements C semantics and can run as long as it wants, but (3) would take so long to do so that no physically realisable system within the observable universe could enable it to run to completion.

You are of course welcome to find this uninteresting, but "I can think of lots of big complicated programs that would terminate but not do so for a very long time" and "In the real world, an infinite loop may terminate because of a hardware malfunction" don't seem to me like good reasons for finding it uninteresting.
Do you often "hear" articles, regardless of content or relevance to Apple, screaming "Apple does the things they do for good reasons"?
No, that's just an interesting fact from the article. I assumed they assembled a crack-team of iPhone engineers to bang this out. I was surprised that one person put together such a high-quality app, especially in a company that could afford to throw lots of money/developers/teams to solve this problem.
This needs to be featured. It's a great contest.
Man, I wish a 4 hour work week was for real.
Again, feature this!
Tale of 100 Entrepreneurs
Get a Diploma, but then Get a Passport
On a "what makes us tick" non-fiction bent:

1. Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (http://tinyurl.com/33kv6te) - fascinating look at the author's theory of Flow, the state of total absorption that accompanies total concentration - so called "optimal experience". Anyone who programs knows this feeling. Really excellent book.

2. Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert (http://tinyurl.com/38lvdzc) - not the self-help book it sounds like, but an interesting look at why we're so bad at working out what will make us happy.

3. The Tiger that isn't by Andrew Dilnot (http://tinyurl.com/38hntqx) - interesting guide to our instinctive interpretation of statistics and how the media manipulates it.

4. Bad Science by Ben Goldacre (http://tinyurl.com/3yk8woz) - at once amusing and horrifying look at various aspects of pseudoscience, especially as applied to healthcare.

Fiction:

1. Anything by Iain Banks, especially the sci-fi.

2. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor (http://tinyurl.com/3496d34) - worth reading just for the language he uses.

3. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (http://tinyurl.com/3xyr65w) - great fantasy with a darkly humorous side.
Aah! 40 characters!

for(int x[99]={98};++x[*x]?*x=98:--*x;);
This is almost a thing you have to see to believe. Video just gives you so much more resolution and insight. Social science studies have told us many times that 90% of communication is non-verbal - audio only captures that 10%.

Of course, nothing beats face to face, but it also comes at a cost (time, money). We built Active Interview to help those who need to quickly process a large number of applicants at as high of a resolution as possible.
There are several reasons. For one, most of the best engineers and hackers have jobs already. Even if they're not super happy with their jobs, the prospect of seeking out better places to work, submitting lots of resumes and cover letters, etc, has a high activation energy. The YCommonApp is a convenient way for people to get introduced to a whole bunch of high-quality and exciting places to work in a short amount of time.

Also, since it's a custom application, anyone responding to it will have taken the time to fill it out specifically, which eliminates the standard resume-sprayers on craigslist, et al.
I also worried about this problem.

But as Bruce Schneier often says, technology makes it easier for the bad guys to be bad; that doesn't mean the technology itself is bad.
SIGGRAPH 2010 wrapup: The State of the CG Union
Parent post needs to be upvoted a lot more.

I have a friend who has a PhD, and I regularly joke with him about being the "world's leading expert in something 10 people in the entire world give a shit about." Unfortunately, the joke is only funny because it's literally true.
To Sell, List the Faults First
I got Marrily.com back in 2007 (wow, that was a long time ago!) before .ly became the new hot trend. I also have Marryly.com to redirect to Marrily.com, in case people mistype the "i" and the "y".
Ask HN: Are managers necessary?
I'm wondering if some mid-sized companies (20+, larger ones too) works without the manager as a single role? What are your thoughts on this? Could a model with developers and designers doing planning amongst each other work? Or would it be to distracting to add a 'managing' task to the workflow?
There is no second place in the current political system. That's where I see the problem. The best ideas in the world don't mean squat if you don't get elected. So if I really believed that I could make a difference I would have to beg, borrow, steal, promise, and backroom deal my way to the finish line or the other guy will. Highlander: There can be only one.

If I had a magic political wand, I'd make it so the top two people win with everyone getting to vote for two different people-- double sized districts represented by two people and the Senator races are for both at once. Make primaries be all party inclusive with the top four moving on to battle it out for the two winning spots.

More political hubub at once would compel voters to pay more attention. Extremists on both sides would look ugly in comparison to the sensible ones. And third party people with a mix of ideas might actually have a shot of getting a word in because voting for one doesn't mean risking a complete loss to your party of choice.

Now where did I put that magic political wand again?
But will this really help the good people stand out more? Or will there just be techniques for looking good in an interview video, like there are many techniques for looking "good on paper"?
Watching all the video responses is still O(n), even if it's asynchronous from when the questions are asked.
GameBoy Emulation in JavaScript: Memory
Sigh. 39 characters!

for(int x[99]={1};++x[*x]?*x=98:--*x;);
We believe the context we provide is a much more valuable use of the limited sidebar space than the ads it replaces; and we think that adds value to the platform, both for Google and for its users.

We're not interested in cheating Google out of their ad revenue, although we suspect the Gmail ads aren't making that much revenue anyway.

Update: I should also add that we have a good relationship with Google, and we were a launch partner for their contextual gadgets platform: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/05/putting-email-i...
No is not. Thousands if not millions of people use their systems every year. Every person that uses it counts as time testing the system. Notice how quickly the hours add up if you look at it this way.
And everybody drives SUVs and sports cars.
From the title, I thought this was going to be about blocking Reddit to improve productivity.
Feature Injection and handling technical stories
"Seneca, who enjoyed great wealth as the adviser of Nero, suggested that we ought to set aside a certain number of days each month to practice poverty."

What about those of us that don't have to 'practice' poverty. (well, more like we get plenty of practice as it stands?)
Also, it may help if you fill in the canvas a bit for them with filler info so that they can see what it could look like once they fill things in.
Ustream hands over user IPs to UFC
Why do you object? I just proved to you the legitimacy of my arguments while you still stand by Don's complete denial?I think it is very off-putting that anything remotely negative about Haskell is usually met with snide comments questioning their intelligence or being labeled as a troll. It also doesn't help that my comment was upvoted a few times, and when Dons & Co. replies, it drops to -3. I've also observed this type of behavior on Reddit.

You aren't really an outsider considering your participation in the Haskell Cafe mailing list and being credited in Real World Haskell.

And companies do object to using glibc in a proprietary program obviously. You are probably thinking of the GCC runtime which has an explicit exception for commercial programs that prevents them from turning GPL.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gcc-exception.html

You also don't have any proof that most software is custom or private. Even if it is the majority, you cannot deny that the shrink-wrap industry is huge, especially during most of Haskell's existence. The answer is to avoid GPL code in the language which is what I was saying the whole time. You don't put the foundation of your business at risk just so you can use a cool new language.
The advantage of a coalition between two parties that have been traditionally opposed is that they have to try to resolve their differences rather than simply using them as a stick to beat each other with.

The political system in the UK is somewhat different in that its tending towards three major parties who are converging on the political centre (complicated and fragmented further by the popular regional parties in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland). Not sure it works the same when it's a straight fight between the red corner and the blue corner.
If you like to program and own medieval weaponry, this one's for you. Best of luck to everyone!
Good point. Dropbox does this very well.
http://breadpig.com/legend/

Breadpig had just the right amount of professionalism for what we aimed to do. There are some truly awful names out there, but this lesson about a name's "seriousness" is a good one. I think a little humor/self-deprecation goes a long way, especially in an industry where your competition is taking itself too seriously.

Granted, if you're developing a business that relies on a certain degree of trust with a market that is very risk-adverse, some extra discretion would be worth it (e.g., BetterThanYourMattressRetirementBanking.com). But then again...
What does this do?

git branch origin :featureBranch?

disclaimer; don't experiment in a data critical repo
Speaking of which, I'm going to check out your MVC starter kit later today since I'm just getting started with that.
I think Marrily.com has a much better brand quality than marri.ly does. It's easier to pronounce too, marrily-dot-com (and you can also type marryly.com and get redirected to the main site) than to pronounce "marr[i|y]-dot-ly". People will probably get hung up at the i in the word "marri", since there can be 2 different spellings: marri or marry.

Too bad I couldn't register "merrily" (and its variation: merryly). Merrily was the first name I picked but it was registered to a lady in Seatle. But Marrily does it for me too, plus it has a nice twist to the name (to marrily means to marry happily).
People Want All the things the Holga ("toy" camera) Doesn't Do
Wait, So 20 Phones On 4 Carriers Outsold 1 Phone On 1 Carrier? Shocking.
T-Shaped Stars: The Backbone of IDEO’s Collaborative Culture
Free - Chris Anderson;
4 Steps to Epiphany;
Founders at Work;
Crossing the Chasm;
Viral Loop;
Groundswell;
Loosing My Virginity - Richard Brandson;
Good to Great - Collins;
Entrepreneurs guide to Business Law;
I clicked the green tab which says "Sign Up" on the front page. I then checked to see if no-script was preventing it from working. Then I realised that it wasn't supposed to be a sign up button. Not intuitive. Well, not to me anyway.
Ultimate Sales Tip
Can I join more than one group? If not, does that force me to support either a Science Nation or a Business Nation or a Coffee Nation, when all might balance my opinion?

If I can join more than one group, does that impact the democratic principle [1] of one person - one vote? And what's to stop this becoming like the 'Like' feature on Facebook, where everyone has 100 pages they clicked to like but never think about again?

[1] It's a principle, though it's tough to create a level playing field in practice. For instance, in Presidential elections small states have a minimum of 3 electoral college votes, so a vote in Wyoming is worth more than a vote in Texas or New York.
I just finished Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.

It's a 1000-page kind of experimental fiction about entertainment/addiction.

It took me a while to read, but is something I'd recommend, anyway.
You make this sound like a new idea---many cities have had elevated trains as part of their mass transit systems, and some still do. Chicago is famous for it (and the Chicago El is more than a hundred years old).
"The engineers on the Mac OS and iOS teams move back and forth between the two projects based on release cycles and what's needs to ship next."

As somebody who has been rather dismayed with the way the Macintosh platform has started to stagnate in the past couple of years, I don't really view this as a good thing.
Are you sure your motivation is correct, WRT pagerank?

I'd always thought that PR applies to your PAGES only. not domains. So, in your example, it's not that blog.twilio.com has a higher PR than www.twilio.com, it's that the blog.twilio.com INDEX page has a higher PR than the www INDEX page.

Thus, your PR isn't really affected by being on a subdomain, as the juice that flows through the system doesn't care about the sub/domain, only about the page and what points to it.

Please correct me as needed.
One problem with audio is that it lacks the facial microexpressions that would be visible to a keen interviewer in a live interview.
I'll agree that it is a user education problem if that is the case. The first thing every Android user told me after I told them I was getting the Droid X was "download Advanced Task Killer." Every single one. I'm certainly willing to adjust my use now that I know I'm using the phone improperly, but this is by no means something that I was alone in being mistaken about. (Also not sure why I deserved a downvote for what appears to be a popular mistake.)
you should probably redirect http://www.marrily.com to http://marrily.com. it's currently returning an nginx default page
He says that there are radar detectors that will set off alarms and light signals and automatically call the police if cars get too close to the edge. It's designed to seat 1200 people apparently. And construction meant to start by year end so I suppose we'll know soon enough if it really works.
Very similar in a way to what I read on this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1568395 (7 Scaling Strategies Facebook Used To Grow To 500 Million Users)

Small, Independent Teams. Small teams
allow work to be done efficiently, quickly,
and carefully. Only three people work on photos, for
example, the largest photo site on the internet.
Yes, under the hood (although the distinction between file-based and content-based doesn't seem to be all the important from the conceptual model point of view--you generally access the content of blobs in Git via file-based interfaces).

The point is he's talking about how the systems appear conceptually. Conceptually the model that best describes Subversion from a user point of view is a file system that stores a snapshot of all prior states of the filesystem.
I signed up soon after it was announced in May and have yet to get in
The $200 Biometric Lock Versus a Paperclip
How are you storing passwords? It is complaining that the password I'm trying to use is too long (>20 chars). If you're storing a hash, there's no point in having any max length limit... If you're storing it plain text, then you're doing it wrong.
The reasons I was given for shutting down the tasks wasn't system resources - it was battery life. That reason may be bs as well, but I'm not sure how the Droid would decide when to kill processes at the tail of the queue to conserver battery life. Does it expire them after a certain period of inactivity? Only allow X apps to run at Y% battery?
This article does suggest Apple works this way with everything. Of course Apple isn't a startup; they're a multi-billion dollar 35-year-old company, but they do take a similar approach to organizing their teams.