skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While working on a similar product (http://tripadvisor.com/flights) I suggested that incorporating transportation to the airport in terms of both time and price would be a great feature. Didn't happen but I'm still convinced it would be really useful in figuring out tradeoffs.
Email Marketing Benchmarks by Industry (mailchimp data)
And it's not just BitTorrent. Net neutrality hasn't existed in a broad sense for SMTP for years now. Anyone's who maintained a mail server will know of seemingly arbitrary IP filtering between data centers, network wide tarpitting and throttling, and all sorts of hoops you need to jump through to reliably deliver mail.

Further, many ISPs over the years have blocked port 80 in or transparently proxied port 25 (or even port 80) through their own servers. I'm not necessarily against this but I think it should be a legal requirement for ISPs to share information about what they're doing so we can choose ISPs that fit in with our requirements.
Chrome Web Store to Launch in October, Google Takes A Mere 5% Cut Of Revenue
Using The Constitution as justification for an opinion is roughly on par with using the Bible, The Koran, or Beowulf. This is a document that says that slavery is ok and a black man is worth exactly 60% of a white man (but gets 0% of his votes).

My main criticism of the American educational system is that it instills the sort of hero worship that makes otherwise intelligent people use a piece of paper written by people who believed in witches and didn't even know what an atom was as the basis of an argument about intellectual property in the digital era. I expect it from Sarah Palin, not from Hacker News.

On the other hand, we wouldn't get awesome satire like this without it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRom1Rz8OA . NSFW.
Nice try, Steve.
In its current state I would agree. That was my general question though - should I embark on trying to build a community on the site? Have users talk about the shows, comment on restaurants, etc. I am torn on whether to put more time in or not.
Oh how fashions change in the db world (had to leave out mysql - scaling issues)
Lou Gehrig May Not Have Had Lou Gehrig’s Disease
Oh, I meant that DNA methylation (resp. phosphorylation, acetylation, etc.) wasn't preserved through the uploading / "DNA printing" process. (And I don't think the cells in question had histones.) You're right that there is potential epigenetic variation in other parts of the cell as well, but I was thinking specifically of DNA methylation.

I don't actually know much about how position-specific current transgenic techniques are, so I could be wrong about that.
I would ignore the events and conferences and try to find customers that you can meet with one on one. Where and how you find them depends on what your product is.
Very cool! When I was 14 it was all about hacking apart QBasic. Strangely no one wanted to buy my Gorillas clone...

Congratulations!
It will eventually show up at http://www.twit.tv/natn
Oh Microsoft, why do you insist on making me want to pull out my hair
Jenny McCarthy Has a New Boyfriend
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Flipped is an upcoming romance and comedy flick of Rob Reiner, which focuses on the tender lives of second graders.
Maybe these people are looking in the wrong place, or for the wrong person. If you want to hire me, here's how.

I'd love to be part of a startup, but I have a family and a day job that I can't quit easily. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

I'd be willing to work on a project with the goal of making money with a non-technical co-founder, given the understanding that I'd be working on the project in my free time at night.

If you're a "business" guy then you could provide me with the continuity to ensure the project gets off the ground. You could do customer service. You could market the product. If you do your part, then eventually I could quit my day job and we're both all in.

If you want to accept the financial risk while I do all of the technical work for the initial few months, I think that's a fair trade.

Plenty of people want to do this, but the risk is too great. Make that risk smaller and you've got a partner.
That looks like a patent for a light switch.
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Understood. Well, with that in mind, I guess the bottom line never matters...just what's in between.
[...] and Yes, and Yes, and Yes he is impressive. I love the self-starter type kids who have cool interests and do projects like these.

Side note: is this article a translation?
As they say, the devil is in the details.
take out 'this document is confidential', add SSN. a lot of false hits, but some genuine government employee records too. also the bush era whitehouse visitors logs which are just kinda interesting to skim through
Not crazy about having "Fifteen Amazing Tips" lists on HN, but this one did make me smile:

> Never ask for an NDA from third parties, except a) actual employees, b) contractors, or c) key business partners. Don't ask for an NDA from friends, potential employees, or potential investors. If you do, they'll say no, and they'll know you're amateur hour.
I just spent the entire evening chilling out to ambient stretches of some of my favorite tunes. Thanks for the link!
Sorry. Maybe you'll find one of these best-of-HN classics better:

I, Pencil

http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html

The Peekabo Paradox

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01...
Thanks! I'm excited to see if you come up with anything.
> The nuts and bolts of bootstrapping. Too many articles talking about what to do at step 43, need more about steps 2-5.

Step 1: Sell. Step 2: Sell. Step 3: Sell. Step 4: Build a little bit. Step 5: Sell some more. I made this mistake so fucking badly when I started in business, I'd build something then try to sell it. Don't do that. Get users, ideally paying users ASAP. Or at least get people to give you an email. Something. Anything. Don't build then try to sell, you're bringing a world of hurt upon yourself if you do (and getting locked into design/feature decisions that aren't what people want).
Announcing ... MathML! (WebKit)
For desktop users it fits a decent niche, and I tend to recommend it, even though I use Debian myself. Debian stable tends to have things too out of date by the end of a release cycle for most desktop users' tastes (though that can be partially addressed via the backports repository). You can get the always-current version by tracking unstable, which doesn't actually break as much as the name implies, but it does have dependency issues relatively frequently. If you aren't comfortable doing dependency resolution in aptitude, it isn't the best choice imo. Having checkpointed releases mitigates most of the upgrade-conflicts issues, because various upgrade paths are usually tested to make sure the default apt dependency resolution does the right thing with them (Debian stable does this upgrade-path testing very thoroughly between releases, but Ubuntu at least does some of it).
Declaring and Initializing Variables
Try finding an available domain name with the word "trip" at the beginning...
Hmmm. Sejnowski says he agrees with Kurzweil's assessment that about a million lines of code may be enough to simulate the human brain. A million lines of code is hardly enough to run a car, for goodness sake.
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Impressive effects without using images.

Unfortunately:
There are rendering problems in Firefox.
It's a fixed size and doesn't scale with the browser window resolution.
The same page can be achieved in a widely compatible way with a simple image.
That was one of his points when he refers to working in your "sandbox", but there were some others like mentorship, collaboration and writing.
I wish I wasn't the one to play the skeptic, but I'm naturally skeptical about stories like this. Kids are often used as fronts for adults looking for a promotion vehicle.
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Think of what Microsoft had had at hand when they acquired Danger/Sidekick, and where they would be today if they didn't decide to rewrite the whole thing.

Rewrites of religion motivated or language motivated don't end up well often. Luckily Google didn't decide to rewrite Android just because some people don't like Java.
It's a tech demo, not a cross browser compatible widget.
Business Alignment – Current Thinking for IT Leaders
So, by this metric shouldn't they be arguing that DNS died in the mid-90's, and that nobody uses it anymore?
> use homes (that everyone should have anyway)

I agree with your overall sentiment, but this part... I'd disagree with. Home ownership is not for everybody.
Common enough that most long timers in the kitchen have seen a stabbing or serious cutting, and plenty of minor cuttings.

At a different level, inflicting pain with knives and other sharp things was a common practical joke and an accepted pastime. For instance, at one place, we had to wear these stupid name-tag pins, and had a part of the kitchen visible to the dining area. So the game was to use the pin on the name tag to stab people standing where customers could see them. It had to be done in a subtle way that you couldn't be seen stabbing. The stabee was not supposed to react visibly as that would not be good for business. It got vicious sometimes, but we still played and had fun with it.

It's totally the type of thing that lands people in jail for assult and harassment in most settings, but in the kitchen it was just normal.
the writer is 32 years old and not translation
Perhaps your original intent would have been more immediately obvious if you had chosen a different animal that's also almost extinct, but not synonomous in people's minds with large size more so than the fact of their near extinction? Or was that also part of the original intent?
yes per capita, and the idea played a big role yes :)
This was already posted a week ago...

They also have a higher occurrence of herpes, go figure.
The Lisp Before the End of My Lifetime
the story was picked up from Kuwaiti blog i do not think his father is the developer using his kid's age!
go to the app profile on iTunes it got his name
Not idiomatically, but there are plenty of gold mining operations that produced less than half an ounce of gold per month on average.
I'm curious why ITA doesn't actually make it possible to BUY the tickets. It seems silly to walk people through the entire process, provide them with so much information about available flights and prices and then say... go and find someone else to sell this to you.

Why not just partner with a travel agency and make life easier for people?
If you're interested in this theme (adults using kids as promotional vehicles), I can recommend a sharp satire I'm reading at the moment:

http://www.amazon.com/Serious-Men-Novel-Manu-Joseph/dp/03933...

Blurb from that page:
"... a subtly wicked satire of subterfuge and ambition that bounces between the Mumbai tenement where low-caste Ayyan Mani lives, and the esteemed research institute where he labors as the assistant of top researcher Arvind Acharya. Forever spiteful toward his privileged superiors, Ayyan is deviously mischievous and pulls off a stunt that ends with his half-deaf (but otherwise ordinary) son being proclaimed in the local news as a boy genius. Meanwhile, Arvind is obsessed with proving his theory that extraterrestrial microbes are raining down on Earth from the upper atmosphere.
"
He may not have had ALS, but I'm pretty sure he still had Lou Gehrig's disease.
Ah, yes, lightweight TCP processing...

I remember working (as the MIT-EECS department systems guy) in the late 70's with the huge, galumphing, tortured BBN TCP/IP code for TOPS-20/TENEX, the first generation of TCP implementations, after the "big switch" that turned off all NCP (pre-TCP ARPAnet protocol) implementations in favor of TCP.

Then I joined a startup in 80/81 building the first typesetting-quality laser printers, Imagen (a spin-off from Knuth's TeX project). We built controllers on the Andy Bechtolstein-designed SUN-1 boards that Sun later licensed as the basis for their first workstations). Meanwhile, I had built a home-grown real-time OS for the SUN-1, and hired Geoff Steckel from Dave Clark's group at MIT (Dave was one of the co-designers of TCP/IP).

Geoff had already built several small lightweight implementations of TCP/IP in C, and he did it again for us, so we had a full multi-tasking kernel with multiple TCP/IP connections in a few hundred lines of code (for the TCP portion).

The moral of the story is, you have to throw a bunch of implementations away before you can begin to see the essential simplicity of the task at hand.

Van Jacobsen did the same, later, by developing a "fast path" through the Berkeley Unix TCP/IP implementation that could drive an 100BaseT Ethernet at nearly full hardware bandwidth between two Sun workstations. That was quite something for the mid-80's.
Source Code for the curious...

lasers.coffee http://github.com/evilhackerdude/lasers/blob/master/lasers.c...

lasers.sass http://github.com/evilhackerdude/lasers/blob/master/lasers.s...
so u r saying that kids at 14 can not code? he is not the first one to be an entrepreneur at his age in the world
The cut-off glow effect in Firefox? I guess the reason for that is a bug in the viewport calculation for the laser’s box-shadow. I mostly focused on webkit. If anyone knows a fix, code is here http://github.com/evilhackerdude/lasers

About resolution independence: I believe we could hack the CSS to use appropriate percentage values for the laser rays. Basically calculate a percentage for width or height in JS and apply that so it scales with the window automatically.
I am currently working on a restaurant review site that aims to aggregate reviews and ratings from other sites. If you had an API that would let me query for restaurants on your site I could potentially send people your way.
Is CoffeeScript available? I wanna marry it.
And this is data that managed to seeped through the cracks of Google's scrubbing.
I would imagine the raw index from spiders are far more interesting.
Prison Without Walls through Electronic Surveillance
Why localhost Matters? Usability.
For years I'd heard this and thought it was similar to being "in the zone". I've done various martial arts since I was a kid and found "the zone" to be an absolutely awesome state of mind to be in, it's like your brain is running in super fast mode and solutions to complex problems seem obvious and come immediately...but that state of mind doesn't seem to actually be the same as Slow-Mo.

I discovered this after unfortunately finding myself on the periphery of a very heavy fire fight in Baghdad in 2006 as an unarmed contractor without my body armor handy. A co-worker and I headed for cover about 500 ft. behind a wall to wait it out when BAM a bullet penetrated the wall in front of us, flew past us and struck a wall next to our heads.

I remember this clearly because as soon as the bullet broke through the wall everything went super slow-mo. I mean, like 10,000 frames per second Slow-mo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt6eyDYeJr0). The bullet had obviously slowed down and had started tumbling because it sounded like the most pissed-off bee as it headed our way. More interestingly, and without any control of my body, my eyes immediately went into tracking mode and I was able to follow the bullet all the way across the space we were in -- about 500 ft. I honestly have no idea how long it took to travel that distance, but it felt like a full 10 minutes even though it couldn't have been more than a fraction of a second.

The overwhelming memory though was how my body felt like it was stuck in molasses as my brain desperately tried to tell me to hit the deck and I simply couldn't move as fast as my brain seemed to be working. I remember being absolutely frustrated with this little fact.

As soon as the round hit the wall with an appropriate ping! sound, time went back to normal and the adrenaline hit like a rocket and we high tailed it out of there to better cover.

I also remember just being mentally tired the rest of the day after that. Could have been the adrenaline rush but I think it's from the slow-mo effect.
The Bible, in two different translations, as an MySQL file (though I don't know how optimized it is), with Fulltext Indexes, is 10 mb[1].

So one Bible is ~5.

Does that help?

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[1] http://www.biblesql.net/download
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A talented young programmer from a good university can easily be making $100k within 5 years after graduation. So building small profitable companies that pay your bills have a fairly large opportunity cost. You need somewhat of a blowout to overcome that opportunity cost.
Belatedly: While "owning a market" is a serviceable definition of a monopoly, it's not what I wrote about and it has no relationship to Apple's position in the smartphone market (or, really, any other market). A "market segment" is not a "market", and "winning" is not "owning".
Congratulations! Your results make older developers feel like excuses are just that. How did you do your marketing?
Do you feel you benefitted from the rapid rise in popularity of physics-based games?
This link already submitted.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1612299
This paper is from 2007, and has been written up many times since.

Including an alleged debunking from Feb 2008:

http://express-press-release.net/46/Eagleman%20%60Time%20Slo...
When it happened to me, afterwards, I remember my mind uncontrollably playing back the event over and over again from different points, all in slow motion for a day or two. It was exhausting and I couldn't get anything else done that required any kind of thinking. It finally settled down like ripples in a pond.

Did you experience the same thing?
My video interview with Cindy Padnos made it onto WSJ
Chill The F*% out over the Google/Verizon Proposal
I'm confused: are you or are you not the 14yo talked about in this article? In other comments, you say "he".
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hyper-

It's a prefix, to denote an unusually high amount of something. I'm guessing the reason why he wrote the article in the first place was because he wanted to share start-up tips that had an unusually high practicality. Thus, he's signifying the significance of these tips with that phrase.
Mark Handley makes that very point on page 3 of his paper here (sorry about the PDF):

http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/m.handley/slides/tcpcrypt.pdf

"Encryption without authentication is like meeting a
stranger in a dark alley."

However, on subsequent pages he writes about ways to do authentication over tcpcrypt using the session ID, including signing it with an SSL certificate or using HMAC with shared passwords. As he says, "many different authentication schemes [are] enabled by the session ID concept." The tcpcrypt.org site itself says "Tcpcrypt abstracts away authentication, allowing any mechanism to be used, whether PKI, passwords, or something else."

Perhaps these mechanisms can help us gradually avoid the problems with both central authority schemes and key continuity schemes, but I haven't thought about it or researched it enough yet to know. I have a love-hate relationship with SSL, and when I hear about hijacked CAs and even see root certs in the name the various governments in Firefox, I get the chills. But I can appreciate SSL's strengths. On the other hand, I really like SSH's key continuity, but I also appreciate some of its difficulties on the web. As an experiment, I recently deleted all CAs from Firefox and started approving web sites by exception one by one.

Does anyone here have a good handle on how tcpcrypt's "abstracted" authentication schemes might thread that needle, simultaneously avoiding the difficulties and pitfalls in both camps?
Hi John. I work at Sencha. We haven't spoken yet, but I think I have to respond to the "disservice" comment because frankly it seems a little uncharitable (and uncharacteristic of your usual even-handed demeanor) given that Sencha is promoting jQuery use by funding Jonathan Stark's work on jQTouch including work to port jQTouch to Android.

We intend to continue to fund jQTouch work because we want to support all those developers (thousands at least) that have chosen jQTouch (and jQuery) as their platform. We will continue to support jQTouch ports to more phones and more browsers as additional browsers and platforms emerge (like the Blackberry Torch) that can support a minimal rich application experience.

As you've noted in the past, Sencha Touch takes a different approach than what you're planning to do with jQuery Mobile. It's ok to differ, but we wouldn't characterize it as a "disservice". Our belief (right or wrong) is that few people will use applications (and I emphasize that word) unless they can produce experiences that can compete with native. We've had ten years of mobile web sites with static, unresponsive, high latency user experiences that haven't interested or excited people. We want to move on from that.

Today, iOS, Android and the Blackberry Torch can support web apps that compete with native experiences (woohoo!), but by the end of the year, we'll see phones from Nokia (and more from RIM and maybe even some from Microsoft) with good HTML5/CSS3 support and fast processors and GPU's that allow everyone to have rich app experiences regardless of their choice of carrier or their geography. With the rise of $30 HTML5 Android phones from China, we see this as inexorable.

Our two projects are making different assumptions about what will most interest (and excite) end-users. I hope we can maintain an engaged (and polite) discussion as we walk these paths. Feel free to email me, would love to chat more to provide more context around our decisions. We'll also put together a blog post soon on why we're doing what we are.

Look forward to hearing from you.

-- michael
Why hasn't the U.S.P.S. developed a federal email strategy?
Its been ages since the advent of email. Why hasn't the US government transitioned postal service into the Internet age?

It would make spoofing accounts, e-mail scams, and possibly most spam a federal offense.

Social Networking and other sites would be required to operate more ethically to prevent being cited for misuse.

A "Do Not Mail" registry could possibly more easily established.

It would create a stable/easier means of paying bills.

It would allow mail to be more organized both for Gov services and US residents.

It would make your email more attributable to an address, increasing credibility for vital email messages.

More systems admins would be hired by the USPS.

The government could shift its focus from heavy machinery to server architecture.

Locations could be set up to print out email into official and/or notarized copies, eliminating the need for physical mail delivery (eventually).

We wouldn't have to rely on private services (Like HotMail, Gmail, AOL, Yahoo etc.) monopolizing our mail service and then shutting it down if they decide to end the service, of if they fail.

Federal email can be tied to each user's physical address or mobile device, solving problems of identity. (No less private than the current mail system and still protected by Federal Law).

Other email services would still be able to flourish and fail despite Feds providing email service, so that you can transfer legal pron without being tracked, don't panic, I'm not talking about the USPS being the only e-mail carrier service here.

I can't believe this hasn't happened yet, would like to hear what the HN community thinks about this.
I was disappointed when I realised there was no background electronic MIDI music.
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