skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just finished FREE by Chris Anderson.

It's a free download at Audible.com. I highly recommend that people listen to the book as it's only about 6 hours long.
I believe RadioLab touched upon this in their recent podcast "Secrets of Success". My memory is a bit fuzzy on the details, but IIRC they interviewed someone who noticed that most hockey teams were made up of players that were born in the first few months of the year.
Totlol is a great site idea, by the way. Gonna visit with my kiddies, nice work.
Vimeo Adds HTML5 and WebM Support
My intention was certainly not to complain, and so I added the following update to the post.

Update: in hope that this post does not come across as complaining, I want to add that I'm very grateful for the BOSS platform. I don't know where I'd be today without it. At the same time, I'm in a somewhat unique position to comment on it, and I think the above are valid concerns with regards to charging for it that could benefit from more public discussion.

For example, if I were to be solely relying on BOSS, the recent 24hr downtime would have cost DuckDuckGo many users. While I am certainly grateful for the platform, the reality is that if you want to build a serious search engine on it, you need reliability because users require their search engines to be highly available.

While my query volume is certainly lower at night (in the US), it is not by any means zero as DDG has users worldwide. And I'm sure for other international BOSS users, their query volume may peak in those CA off-hours.
What I Learned from Attending the Affiliate Summit East Conference
The tragic death of practically everything (or, the Web is in good company).
this sounds like a puff piece without really going into why "WP Engine" is such a good company. Aside from good customer service, and being able to respond quickly to emails, the article doesn't really say anything about the capabilities of their system or how secure it actually is, or even, what are some of the clients running on that system?
if they reveal their political or any other affiliation during an interview without being asked then it's probably a good idea since it's obvious that they don't know when to keep their mouth shut...and that should apply no matter what political affiliation the person holds(i.e. even if you agree with them)
There's an inattentive type[1] of ADHD that doesn't connote hyperactivity or impulsivity.

Mood, anxiety, and personality disorders also frequently occur along with ADHD[2].

[1]: http://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/guide/types-of-adhd

[2]: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/adult-adhd/DS01161/DSECTION...
A free plan is often a replacement for advertising spending. It gets you users who wouldn't otherwise consider using your product, and you hope that they would tell their friends about it, and some of those friends would eventually pay.

Here is an extreme example: If I remember it correctly, MySQL's conversion rate was quoted as about 1 in 1000. If they didn't distribute the entire product for free, they would have much less market penetration, but certainly earned much more. Had they chosen that route, they wouldn't be able to sell the company for a cool billion.

Nothing in life is free. If you want a lot of users, and don't have the advertising budget for it, you give some or all of your product away for free.
I'm a little late to this thread but I'm trying to address this particular shortcoming with my startup, swytch.net

Users can have multiple profiles for each of the groups they communicate with e.g. one for family, one for friends and one for colleagues.

The privacy settings are also very simple. Public or private. Only followers get access to private profiles so you don't have to worry about friends of friends seeing something you don't want them to.

Currently under heavy development but a beta is up at http://www.swytch.net for anyone who wants to have a look
Mass acceptance indicating a strong and growing market. Should also point out it's as important what they chose to leave out as it is what they left in, not just the convergence of technologies making it possible.
The claim is correct. The reason that people have more and better stuff is that women in extremely large numbers, have gone out and taken jobs in order to support families.

Principally, the increase in costs to raise a family comes from large rises in the cost of housing and healthcare.

Quote: "The crisis facing the middle class started more than a generation ago. Even as productivity rose, the wages of the average fully-employed male have been flat since the 1970s.
But core expenses kept going up. By the early 2000s, families were spending twice as much (adjusted for inflation) on mortgages than they did a generation ago -- for a house that was, on average, only ten percent bigger and 25 years older. They also had to pay twice as much to hang on to their health insurance."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-warren/america-witho...
Send iOS push notifications from the console with Phone-Pipe and Notifo
> I couldn't read the entire article, all I could think of was some old codger yelling "GET OFF MY LAWN!"

Are you suggesting that you're entitled to be on his lawn or complaining about the way he is asking you to leave?
I'm not sure that housing/medical/car are more expensive.

She presents the increase in mortgage/car/health insurance as a percentage increase

According to her data, income rose 75%. Mortgage increased by 70%

Yes, they are more expensive for the same family in real terms. Essentially, the second income has gone to housing.

According to her data, income rose 75%

But with an additional person in the workforce.

Mortgage increased by 70%, but note that houses are bigger and have more amenities.

House size increased, but only marginally, an extra bathroom or bedroom.

Health insurance increased 60%, and pays for far more things than in 1973.

While I haven't read the book, she said the exact opposite in her talk. That hospitals are sending people home "quicker and sicker" and hospital stays or having a sick worker are much more dangerous and expensive for the modern family due to lack of coverage and the need for the second income. When a child or grandparent gets sick, someone needs to take care of them. In the past this was the stay at home parent, but now a worker must be out of work, but as we've already seen, they need the income in order to make the house payment.

She then presents the increase in taxes as a percentage of income: 33% of income in 2000 - 24% of income in 1973 = 9% of income.

Taxes increase because the second worker's income is taxed after the first worker's, at a higher rate.

And her main point, from what I understood it, is that the need for a second worker in the workforce to keep the same standard of living made the family much less stable and susceptable to tragedy, something presenting the costs as a percentage of family income fails to demonstrate.
Yah I asked him for the details in the comments and he said that WP Engine runs the following on their servers:

NGINX (reverse proxy)

Apache (webserver)

APC (PHP Accelerator)

CDN baked into the architecture

Insanely powerful hardware
Why didn't people move with 1.9.1 ?
When you say "we," I presume you mean ruby-core?
OS/2.
I assume they mean washing the clothes in cold water instead of hot. changing the washer’s settings does cunningly mask that the wash will also be less effective.

Numbers: A top loading machine[3] uses about 150 liters (40 gallons) of water to fill. If you fill that with hot water that is water that has had 30°C (50°F)[1] added to it. That is about 20 megajoules (5kWhr). Heating a liter of water from room temperature to vaporization[2] takes 2.5 megajoules (700 watt hours). So… in very rough numbers you can vaporize 8 liters of room temperature water for the same energy it takes to fill a top loading washer once with hot water. I'd say my load of wash doesn't lose 16kg being dried, so I presume less than 8 liters are being vaporized.

[1] I'm pulling numbers out of google here, you didn't expect more than one significant digit, did you?

[2] Vaporization is more than 5 times the energy from 1°C to 99°C.

[3] Terribly inefficient way to wash clothes, but if an article is going to make dramatic statements, you have to figure they will pick the most extreme numbers.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1613998
That's worse IMO. Maybe the $6 is minimal for you, but it's not in the average case. Studies have shown that there is an enormous difference between "free" and "cheap" in people's minds. The difference between free and $1 is bigger than the difference between $1 and $10 in terms of customer resistance. The point of a free product is to eliminate barriers to entry. Most people are not that dedicated, and even the smallest snag in the conversion process can shoot them out of the funnel. Charging a small setup fee combines the worst aspect of pay (much harder to gain users) with the worst aspect of free (anemic revenue).
This seems... erm... stupid:

> == FAQ
:The standard library is installed in /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1
This version number is "library compatibility version". Ruby 1.9.2 is
mostly compatible with the 1.9.2, so its library is installed in the
directory.
Why Western donors are snubbing Pakistan after giving to Haiti
You appear to have chosen a domain that is invalid in DNS. RFC1034. Whoops.
From 3 days ago, related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1605282
I am on ruby-core. :-)
I have heard of it. Haven't got any "tuits" to check it out at the moment. One of those "back of the brain" things though.
Using Real Fonts on the Web
"In fact lighting accounts for a relatively small proportion of the average person's energy use"

That I do not share this view. The residential household typically uses 11% of energy on light and commercial up to 20%. It might not be much as a single individual if you consistently flip the switch when not needed, but overall as a society it does safe MW of energy.
An even better way is to safe energy is the use of CFL (4 times energy savings compared to incandescent light) or the new LED lighting solutions (4-6 times energy savings compared to incandescent light).
Australia and some places in Europe by law banned already some incandescent bulbs, because the savings is enormous.
Better Than FaceTime? Researchers Test New Mobile Technology for Deaf
Email sucks. Time saving tips from Kevin Rose
They might be tiny, but electronics are extremely expensive in terms of environmental impact.

In terms of energy consumption alone, semiconductor manufacturing uses about 10^6 as much energy as metal craft, or 10^7 the one needed for plastics injection (per weight of finished product). Other key measures such as water consumption and pollution are in the same ballpark.

OF course, electronic gadgets are mostly made out of plastic pieces, and ICs are only a tiny fraction of the total weight, which is way we don't pay thousands of dollars for a cell phone. But the size of an object is normally not a good predictor of its environment impact.

A more accurate measure would be the retail price, but then you have to take into account the price distortions such as brand premium. You can do that by using the price of the cheapest competitor instead. This has the advantage of taking into account the energy needed for shipping and storage as well.
I feel this really should have been titled "Why My Free Plan Didn’t Work." Since free plans have and will continue to work for some people.

I don't know about you but I doubt GitHub would have taken off had it been exclusively pay-ware. Even if it did gain some traction someone would have made a free with upgrade option version of it.
True, but the 1st amendment isn't a right to harass people, and harassment is a fireable offense.
I built this functionality into a Safari and Chrome extension, that also pairs nicely with the alternative interface I built:
http://hckrnews.com/about.html
Tangentially related, large named numbers in Japanese:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_numerals#Large_numbers

無量大数=muryōtaisū=10^88.
Yeah, well, what does the iPad do that the Android doesn't? The game is not, and has never been, about feature exhaustion. Slashdot famously wrote about the iPod [http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/1816257], "No wireless. Less memory than the Nomad. Lame." And we all know where that went.

Apple built their house by making a lack of (what people thought were very) important features cool. ChromeOS is basically a browser with legs, which is certainly a step in that direction. So maybe the fight is not off.
Hint: It still is.

Plumbers and electricians do fine. People are just too reluctant to eschew college.
Got the basics working.

Made a spreadsheet. Made a google form ("how has your day been?" + a text area) - they automatically add their fields to the spreadsheet. Wrote a short script that selects a random row at random, and emails it to me + a link to the form. Added a trigger that runs that script at 8pm-9pm daily. [if anyone wants the script, I'll post it - please improve it!]

Some flaws: 1. I couldn't work out how to automatically embed a form in the email directly, neither using their embed code (an <iframe>) - it works if they email it to you (which you need to trigger manually), but also gives a warning "you are leaving this page"; 2. also couldn't work out how to initialize the form with the random previous entry (a blog post said you could, but that was in 2008) nor 2. writing my own form (need an URL for the action: seems you need a form key, which you can't get, for security reasons(?))

Boy browser programming sure is frustrating: browser locked up twice had to set it all up again; 7 sec load time for pages; weird cursor movement for editing (and also not vim); along with the above limitation. Though it probably doesn't help that I don't know what I'm doing :-)
In America, there is no constitutional 'freedom of speech' protection in the private sector. If you mock another employee at work, you most certainly can be fired.
Unmaintainable Code Has A New Name : Skunk Code
A short blog explaining how we came up with the term skunk code. People with deadly legacy code will relate for sure.
He sounds like a fanboy, just says webOS is better but never gives an explanation why.
The Secret of Selling Banner Ads: When Less is More
Minimalism can be viewed as a trend, akin to “lean startups” these days. If you are an “against the grain” type of person as I am (maybe we didn’t rebel enough as kids?) these trends can start to feel cliche and overdone, but there is a lot of value in their principles.
backports.org
You're already seeing domain specific chips, but they're in the form of a FPGA rather than an ASIC. If it can be implementation with traditional gates, a FPGA is the way to go for low to medium volume.

While Lyric may incorporate classic gates in their design, it also sounds like the heart of their technology uses something different from classic gates.
I didn't see that being advised anywhere in the article. I think the author is implicitly recommending limited free trials, which make perfect business sense.
I can't speak for _everybody_, but I'm waiting to upgrade all of my sites that use Rails until Ruby 1.9.2 and Rails 3 both came out. I don't want to do two large updates, I'd rather do them together, and Rails 3 didn't support Ruby 1.9.1.

Also, there's just general conservatism; Ruby 1.9 was originally Ruby 2.0, but got renamed to 1.9 for reasons I don't quite remember/understand. 1.8 -> 1.9 is a much larger transition than the scheme would imply, roughly equivalent to the Python 2.6 -> 3 change, and we've seen how well that's gone. As time progresses, more people switch over, and each new release makes people decide it's finally time to re-write their scripts.
I'd recommend trying this guy out. He's produced a few good domains for me so far!
Why is this not an official course? University of Waterloo requires that all CS students pass CS341 Algorithms (which seems to be exactly this course), and even offers and advanced version, CS466 Algorithm Design and Analysis. Is this not common?

Here is the course website from the summer term, it has course notes and assignments. The book is MITs Introduction to Algorithms.

http://www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cs341/
If you don't look at the UK, we are becoming more like Europe.

Some links: http://www.transad.pop.upenn.edu/resources/growup.html

Quote:"In Italy, more than half of all young men live with their parents until age 30. Katherine Newman and Sofya Aptekar, in their chapter in The Price of Independence, trace the transition to adulthood in Europe, finding that youth there are responding to high housing costs, less stable jobs, and higher unemployment by living at home longer."

High housing costs. Less stable jobs. Higher unemployment.

Bam! How do you become an independent adult and start a family against that backdrop?
same reason lots of companies are still stuck in java 5 land...
But you just compared the acquisition of Android to the launch date of the iPhone. Are you saying that the development and manufacture of the iPhone all took place in 2007?
Fair enough (and thanks). I tend to run `--head` reflexively.
Is there any way to make notifications by keyword?

I entered "OpenGL" into the search box to see if any new books were out, apparently there aren't, but can I subscribe to notifications for "OpenGL" or do I just have to select a category ("Programming" in this case). If I have to do that then I'll get a ton of stuff unrelated to my area of interest.
Thats great about getting in the local paper.

Local coverage didn't convert a lot of people for us either, but we showed those articles to every client we contacted. I don't know if it helped, but I like to think that it gave us some credibility.
What's inside the Blackberry Torch?
EasyTravel -- 10% more expensive. 1,000% more convenient.
Ask HN: Review my just launched email newsletter: WeeklyAndroid.com
The last two years I've developed apps, games and other projects for Android, and recently got thinking about starting an email newsletter. Several posts on HN and two Mixergy interviews gave me the inspiration to go ahead and just try, and with a couple of friends I started working on "Weekly Android" - a weekly digest of the most interesting news, apps and games about Android.

http://www.weeklyandroid.com

The last weeks were quite busy with setting up the website and the server backend. We decided not to use a email newsletter service such as MailChimp, because they get too expensive when dealing with a couple of thousand subscribers (as we hope to gain soon :).

Today we sent out the first issue to about a hundred subscribers, and thereby practically launched it! Now everything starts and we will try hard to find all the most important news about Android each week. Finally, we wanted to tell HN about the launch, and request your feedback, reviews, thoughts and ideas.

[Edit] The feedback got me really thinking about using MailChimp which I forfeited before because of the costs and no roadmap for monetization. Thanks!
That they support any distro is just icing on the cake. Usually these sort of projects don't support OS's at all, that's downstream's problem.
> - "Persisting for at least 6 months to a degree that is maladaptive and immature..."

> - "The disorder impairs school, social or occupational functioning."

Which is pretty much the definition of typical little boys until recently. Read "The Ransom of Red Chief" http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/RanRed.shtm... for what was once considered typical. Today, that kid would be drugged into submission.
The best part of the article for me is the fact that that picture is the iPad, down to the little x at the top right corner of the keyboard window.

And yet it can't be that far off. ChromeOS is basically a browser with a kernel. Done right, I bet a product like that could be as viable, if not more so, than the iPad. And along the way, Apple might actually be out-minimized.
Clickable: http://www.weeklyandroid.com
I would love to see the Times do a piece on "Why won't septuagenarians just die already?" But since older folks are the Times' main audience, it's more profitable to look at those damned lazy kids these days and pretend that societal changes are totally localized to their generation.
Thanks... I can't believe I hadn't stumbled across venturehacks yet. What an awesome website!
Thanks for this link as well
Masi Oka (Hiro from Heroes): http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2006/10/71984
Yeah, I'm not worried too much about the product name, but I do need to do the company named and incorporated (this is actually holding up funding at this point.)

My last company had (IMO) a great name, so I'm struggling to measure up.
Right, but somewhat beside the point. That is, assuming you have Debian (at whatever level) and want 1.9.2, there are lots of ways you might get it. Backports is always a good option for newer things, compiled for stable. (In the case of Ruby, I would probably go with rvm first, but that's neither here nor there.)

But the irony is that Ruby says "This is the distro that has our highest level of support." while simultaneously that distro does not (out of the box) support 1.9.2. Just an odd thing, and it struck me. Tenderlove's explanation is perfectly reasonable, and I'm not criticizing. It's just ironic.
That's what I thought :-)
Now the question is: why didn't your original announcement (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1552545) ever make the front page? It looks like a nice interface that you put a lot of work into and would be useful to many people...
> People at all income quintiles have more and better stuff
> now than people at the same quintile at all periods in the
> past

An alternative hypothesis could be that a lot of the putatively better stuff that people have are produced significantly more cheaply today than in the past. Clothing and furniture, for example. The savings on these items would allow people to have other things (e.g. personal electronics) in quantities that didn't exist a generation ago.
I think the post misses one key difference between traditional and digital ads

Traditional ads (in printed magazines, newspapers etc) are generally part of leisure-time reading. The reader spends a lot of time on the publication and so ads in the publiations have a lot of impact.

Web reading/browsing is generally a short activity and often a work-time activity. Readers spend a very short amount of time on any single website (often less than a minute) and so they are much less likely to look at any ads on the site.
Liked the concept. Just sent you my condition doctor ;-)
Domains are inefficiently priced -- small domain owners are the problem
Found it! Here is the email describing the support levels:

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-dev/41101
I think he's suggesting that social norms generally permit neighbors access to each other's lawns, and that violating these norms is associated with cranky old men.
OS/2 leaps to mind...
Yup, also hardware security devices on the front end -- things like the obvious script hack signs and DoS protection.
I've heard good things about that book, I probably should get a copy.

I didn't word my question very well. I was wondering where you got your examples. None of the ADHD info I've read says anything about shyness or eye contact. A child playing by themselves would seem to be the exact opposite of the popular notion of what a kid with ADHD is like (assuming that they weren't totally spaced out to the world around them, which you didn't mention).

I'm just interested because that's me. I'm shy, I have minor problems with eye contact (more like I just have problems relating to new people) and I spent a large chunk of my childhood playing by myself with Legos and Transformers. That last bit was one of the reasons my parents said they didn't think I could have ADHD. "But you used to amuse yourself for hours by yourself. You certainly were paying attention to THAT."