skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Writing code to any fast-paced song (instrumentals only, though) tends to up my mental energy toward coding. Take away my chair and let iTunes pick the proper song and plenty of stuff gets written. It's a mood modulator for me, if anything and that helps with code.
Upvoted! Heading to the DiggV4 event in NYC tonight. Any fellow HN readers gonna be there?
It doesn't sound corny at all - it really is an extremely good wee book. I occasionally like to debate with people what five books we think everyone should read by the time they leave school - The Demon Haunted World is on my list.
Agree that we should be thoughtful of the misses as well as the hits, and he's had some misses.

However, I didn't recall Silver getting the special MA Senate election of Scott Brown wrong, and he seems not to have: (http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/01/538-model-posits-brow...). It would have been surprising if he did, since it was an easy one. Were you thinking of a different election?
AsyncTask does encapsulate the threading stuff though.

The HTTP APIs aren't Android specific - they're just the standard Java API and Apache's HttpClient. I suppose Google could create another API on top of these APIs (and all the other ancient and poorly designed Java APIs), but since Java's "callbacks" are objects with methods you override, you aren't really saving yourself much.
Looks like their blog is down. The actual site is up.
He can focus on doing research, not having to run a business.
Digg seems to be up - but their blog looks hosed ;-)
thanks fixed it
I've been looking for something similar but for non SaaS websites. My site will rely on targeted advertising and the sale of classified ads. Is there something similar that suits my use, taking into account viral coefficients etc.

And along the same lines, is it more reasonable to make estimates on page views or uniques per month??
IIRC, Guava was actually based on Sipdroid, which is under active development. If you pair your Gizmo5 number with your Google Voice account, and sign into your Gizmo5 account with Sipdroid, you can easily make free Google Voice calls on your device. It's just a little roundabout. For outgoing calls, I think you have to initiate the via Google Voice's web interface, then answer the connecting call with Sipdroid. Works like a charm.

http://sipdroid.org/
I checked the rates and they are similar to Skype , basically very expensive. I use LocalPhone and very happy.
Originally writing Reddit in Common Lisp gave Reddit a lot of Buzz - that probably helped the site take off.
I was under the impression that towers had some type of signal baffle to prevent reception from devices a certain number of degrees from the horizon.

I have no merit or citation to exert with this claim.
Not necessary better quality post but better income; key for the blog survival.
MessageParty (YC S10): making the social anti-social since 2010
ouch, don't joke about Paul Graham on hacker news.
Yes, ASE is great, though some would complain that not all of the API's are wrapped and that some if not all of the supported languages suffer performance hits.

That's kind of my point, really. There are already some options in the wild, and they're bound to get better, so that's definitely a plus for Android.
Man's search for meaning, by Viktor Frankel

The Republic, by Plato. It introduced me to a whole new way of thinking.

The Gita. I later came to know about the chariot allegory in the Kathopanishad (http://www.atmajyoti.org/up_katha_upanishad_17.asp), and thought that the writer's depiction of the charioteer as Krishna and the rider as Arjuna was just brilliant.
Undo send is available for Apps (at least for me). Actually all the labs features are available. Have you or your admin activated labs for your Apps Account?
Make sure your resume follows this (not joking):

http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=56

Also practice coding on a whiteboard. Some problems, like running out of vertical space, are things you don't run into on a computer.
My preferred carrier has it for about half that, even after markup: http://www.callwithus.com/showrates/G
but you are leveraging up with the large mortgage. so it is very risky.

a better solution is to buy tax free municipal bonds.
Dragontape is a fun, visual YouTube mixtape creator
Guide to the Web Startup in the Philippines
iac?
>Google will be able to exert more influence on carriers and manufacturers by withholding the Google apps and Market when certain conditions are not met.

Google already does this. Android is free for anyone to use, but if you want the Market and the Google branded Apps, you have to go through a round of certification. The process is testing for compatibility, among other things.

(This is the reason we keep seeing cheap Android tablets pop up without the Market application installed - they haven't gone through the process.)

Most carrier/OEM customization of Android is at the UI level. As a developer, it's understandable to not have all the different devices with different capabilities, but if you code as recommended and don't make assumptions about what the user has / doesn't have available, your application will work pretty much anywhere that the Market is installed.

Null Pointer Exceptions don't happen because the phone's OEM or carrier changed something - they happen because the code went ahead and assumed something worked correctly that did not.

(NPEs are the most common reason I've personally seen applications crash on my own devices, I have no data to support an assertion that that is the main cause of Force Closes, however)
For one thing, he gets access to the superb (unrivaled?) dataviz team at the Times.
O'Reilly Strata Conference - the business of data
I wasn't hating on Wave, I am a huge fan of XMPP and the technologies. Its the media that blows everything out of proportion and I guess google can be blamed for some of that with big release presentations.
Excellent look at the future of SaaS applications.
Anyone know if it's going to be available in Canada?
"Why do we need to box them into little boxes, so that they conveniently fit into our tiny little realities?"

Simple, because one has a penis and the other a vagina. If you are going to downvote at this point, refrain. It is simply an example to suggest that women and men are fundamentally different. One provides one part of the equation, the other provides the other part of the equation. That does not mean that either is superior, but it does mean that in any household, unless the household is sufficiently rich, one will have to look after the children, while the other provides the resources for the former to do so. It is called distribution of labour.

Women have those sort of qualities which lead them to be more suited to nurture children. Men do not. Is that cultural, I doubt it. You find it in most animal species too.

Perhaps, women see the grass to be greener on the other side, rather than to consider their grass as very green and pleasant. They get to go shopping with men's money, they get to spend all their day sitting on their ass, they get to have friends to chat with about pleasant things, they get to have all they want.

If they want to trouble their brains, then it is simply not true that society has prohibited them from doing so. In any time and nation there have been women who have engaged in all sorts of intellectual endeavours. However, as much un PC as this may be and controversial, the best of women are simply not better than the best of men. Thus, excepting personal liberty of choice, focusing instead on the grander picture of division of labour, based on matters of fact only, society would do better if women did what they are best at, that is nurture their children, except for many women who are better than their husband to use their brains to gain resources so that it justifies for the husband to perform the function of nurturing the children, and men do their best which is to provide the resources for their wives to nurture their children.

What is the alternative? That men look after the children?
I joined a firm that owned and operated a portfolio of around 1,400 mixed-use units after college. The firm was small and so I was able to get involved in almost every aspect of the business. In addition, I'm currently getting a M.S. in Real Estate. I suspect our firm had better success because we had skin in the game. Personally, I would have difficulty handing over those responsibilities to someone without a long term financial stake.

Conversations about real estate investment are so localized and situation specific, it's difficult to make generalizations, but I'll try making a few anyway:

1) Motives - consider carefully when drawing up a contract what financial incentives are being created for your manager. Our top priority was always filling vacancies, but as an owner, your sign-off should be always be required before a new tenant is approved[1].

2) Kickbacks - if you expect your manager to handle hiring of contractors, he will be offered money to award the contract. You will also need contractors more often than you think. When a tenant moves out, you'll either renovate or at the very least, re-paint their apartment... depending on the local rental market, this can be the difference between a one month and a six month vacancy. The smaller the property, the more important it is to get apartments rented quickly.

3) Repairs - if something can go wrong, it usually will go wrong. Appliances, doors and other fixtures will break, capital improvements will get pushed ahead in your schedule and tenants will misbehave, sometimes even breaking the law and requiring the police to get involved. When you see a property with a high cap rate, expect more of these issues[2].

4) Emergencies - if you don't live very close by, you should have someone on staff that does or, even better, have someone on payroll that lives on-site.

This is only the tip of the iceberg, feel free to get ask any questions.

[1] Personally, I would also want to deposit all rent checks myself and sign off before any invoices were paid.

[2] Another "high cap rate" problem you'll be faced with is landlord-tenant court. These properties tend to just have more 'problem' tenants.

P.S. Some last thoughts for investors:

a) *You make your money when you buy.*

Putting all your eggs in the appreciation basket is risky;
if the cashflows are there, many of the above issues won't
be keeping you up at night.

b) *If your strategy is to hold for less than five years,
your management time just increased 10x.*

Commercial real estate loans generally have a balloon
payment after 5, 7 or 10 years. You'll need to roll your
loan over at this point and any equity built up above the
lenders required loan to value (c. 65% these days) can be
extracted. Don't put yourself or your investors in a
position where you are forced to sell at a loss.
Credibility in this field is hard to gain, but easy to lose.

[Revised for clarity]
I wonder if it would be acceptable in the US for a jury to use this software. For a judge to require a jury to use this software?
That's funny -- my current pattern is to watch TV on one monitor, and then do stuff on the web (like read HN) as background noise on the other. The result is that I get more things done than watching TV.
How Many People Are You Consuming in a Day?
Does she have some specific criteria, or is it like the infamous Supreme Court definition of pornography? ;-)
Manhattan Project cost nearly US$2 billion ($22 billion in present day value).(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project) It employed more than 130,000 people. Many labs and plants built in 1940s for the project are still in use today.

We have just spend $760 billion on so-called stimulus. The money is gone, and nothing to show for it.

That's how bloated gov't works nowadays, in CA, federal, and all other states. And the letter is calling for more of this!

PS Great book on Manhattan project: http://www.amazon.com/Making-Atomic-Bomb-Richard-Rhodes/dp/0...
Why working at home is both awesome and horrible
Thankfully there's no customs fee when you buy a Kindle from Europe, just VAT. Don't know about other territories.
Wow! Could use one of these on my desk!
The Creativity Crisis? What Creativity Crisis?
Have you used it recently? It's really improved over the last couple of updates.

It still randomly opens my browser instead of doing things in the app, but it's added a lot of features that brought it a lot closer to the iPhone one.
Political journalism is surely more skewed by predicting or speculating on who WILL win elections, instead of asking who SHOULD win.
Well, I'm in Canada and it works for me; I just called myself. Google Voice [1] now also works for me and displays my call history, but it won't let me upgrade.

[1] https://www.google.com/voice
Primary reason I haven't purchased a kindle: no way to lock the page orientation. I borrowed one from a friend and tried reading on the beach; the damn thing kept flipping around so I couldn't read it. Such a trivial thing to add, but lacking in the iphone as well.
<blockquote> There were a reasonable amount of typo and similar errors I seem to recall now actually, which is either surprising or perhaps revealing given that it was publicly reviewed.</blockquote>

A lot of people with Ph.D.s in Computer Science provided "comments" on the book, but did not necessarily review the whole book. Reviewing a book cover to cover takes time. I found a lot of academic mistakes in Real World Haskell, such as the fact they used the phrase "strong typing" which has pretty much been banned from academic programming language literature thanks to Benjamin Pierce's book Types and Programming Language, where Pierce says he reviewed tons of papers trying to decipher a common meaning for the phrase and couldn't. A better way to characterize a type system is by whether it is (a) sound (b) complete.

There were just too many examples in Real World Haskell where it could've been much better explained, especially considering the authors CVs.
Absolutely the same case in California. Along with other corporate giveaways and general waste. And no one willing to take responsibility for getting rid of it -- they're too busy making deals with the beneficiaries.
InterActive Corp, owns a ton of web properties such as Ask.com, CollegeHumor, Match.com, and Dictionary.com
that reminds me of the quote:

"when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail"

you want your co-founder to choose the best language/tech stack for the job. A c++ developer is fine for a web-app if he's smart and is open to learning new languages.
Thoughts After Y Combinator Demo Day
#startups on irc.freenode.net.
Yahoo! cache since the blog is down: http://74.6.239.185/search/srpcache?ei=UTF-8&p=http%3A%2...
pretty much.

On the other hand, when you are running your company, you will quite often make decisions that, if you decide wrong, will result in failure of the company. For some people, knowing that their company is one or two mistakes away from failure is pretty scary. But yeah, especially here in the US, the actual consequences of having a failed company, barring debt, are mostly positive.
Is this just snark or a real question? AFAIK digg is still one of the largest news aggregation sites on the web and is right now still looking for both a sustaining revenue stream and (maybe) an exit.

They're relevant on a whole ton of fronts.
The Student as Nigger, Jerry Farber's collection of essays published circa 1970. Powerful, angry, and a product of its time (Farber was active in the civil rights movement), it exposed the university social dynamic in raw terms.
I've already installed the plugin a couple of days ago and I tried to reinstall it. It just doesn't work. I'm in Quebec. I am eagerly expecting it.
+1. His chapter on ACH is here:
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
Since you've read both books would you mind just summing up the jist of it.
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very interesting, i think my resume would get a decent score according to that scale =) i cant say my resume is LaTeXed =/
Setting up Whispernet with local cell providers would also probably be a bottleneck.
In academic writing it's been overused for at least 10 years now, to the point where some reviewers will complain if you use it in a paper. Apart from being overused, in a lot of contexts it's something of an abdication of responsibility: you really did something, or are arguing something, but are trying to do a coy "well lookee, what did we find here" routine.
I fail to see how the Wikileaks summary is misleading.

Contrary to your statement, the word "export" occurs multiple times and often outside "a quoted label". The start of the answer to the primary question posed by the document is:

"Contrary to common belief, the American export of terrorism or terrorists is not a recent phenomenon..."

The document itself plainly states that there is an American export of terrorism. Indeed, the entirety of the document is about the implications of knowledge of the fact that some terrorists do come from America and affect other parts of the world: exported.

Perhaps the narrative you're tracking in is the one where Wikileaks is bad, and therefore you've decided to interpret their summary as if they claimed the U.S. had a policy of exporting terrorism. Clearly the Wikileaks summary made no such claim, and instead is a fairly accurate summary of the leaked document itself.
I'm not sure you can get away with any term on the internet where Cum is the first word.
Ruby Weekly
Interesting technology, terrible marketing. I wonder how "social" the culture really is with that group.

I could be on my own here, but the author is right - if a bus stop conversation ever occurred like that, it would be a sad day for humanity.
The point was that selectively praising someone's accurate predictions without mentioning his failures is wrong.

Krugman is a partisan hack that has a Nobel Prize is one very specific area of economics. It does not qualify him to opine on all other areas.
Jeff Jarvis on How Google Makes the Germans Go Bonkers
Their API isn't faring much better. I woke up to CI tests blaring alarms at me. :)
God I really hate this whole "following" bullshit. They turned Digg into the bastard child of Digg V3 and Twitter. Never gonna use it now.
The answer was in the article.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1631199

Is this the story you are thinking of?
It just showed up in my Gmail and I got a message "Flash is required to make a call." (I keep plugins disabled for most sites.) So it looks like you have to have both Flash and Google's voice plugin installed and enabled.
I often use it in a slightly different role: to introduce a new idea or discovery I've made without sounding like I'm fishing for compliments:

"I've thought a lot about a better way to implement this circuit, and it turns out that there is one."

I'm sure I subconsciously use it for the "appeal to invisible authority" thing, too.
That was about as content-free as you'd expect from an eHow article.
I'm a Canadian gmail user, and I can use it.
What kind of company?
Solar flares affecting rates of radioactive decay?
At least the V4 loads way quicker than the previous site, I might actually use it more now.
Of course you're right - I wasn't thinking when I wrote down a price. I was really just thinking that it was something you could do as a subscription.
Make sure you know how to write a brainfuck compiler
Jeff, how can you possibly make $$$ in the Detroit area, buying '08 ?!!! can you give us some numbers to clarify? thanks.
Plan Z on climate change
Politics is entertainment. No matter how slam-dunk an election may be, networks have an incentive to make it look like a photo-finish, in order to make the viewing experience intense and drive viewer engagement. If you say "yeah, it's pretty much over by this point," your viewers have no reason to tune in for the rest of the week. If you say "it's so close, absolutely anything could tip the scales," people will keep watching your live coverage of butterflies in China.

Tangent: I first realize this before I was of voting age, watching the same thing unfold on an episode of Survivor. For extra credit, describe how reality television and political election coverage have influenced each other in recent years.
Thanks for posting this Ryan.

Any reason that "avg rev per customer" is kept constant and not variable from month to month? It's easy enough to change in the spreadsheet but I was wondering if there's a beneficial reason for using a constant value?
I only have links in Swedish but there was a report published a few years ago about prostitution in the Nordics saying that 2.0% of all men and 1.6% of all women had ever sold sex:
http://nyheter24.se/nyheter/utrikes/160704-fler-man-an-kvinn...

It also concluded that most of these men were homosexual.

Here's the report (actually it's in Norwegian):
http://kilden.forskningsradet.no/publikasjon/vis.html?tid=58...
haha well i did take compiler design, but i think id rather do an implementation of lolcode
Skip the middle man:
http://news.discovery.com/tech/diamonds-computing-supercompu...
I just want to know how you managed to resist phrasing your statement as:

"It turns out this was also the top-voted comment on the previous discussion of this same post..."
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be careful trying to firesale assets. we spent 9 months selling our assets and the price we got and time involved was NOT worth it. we should've just walked and shut everything down as quickly as possible.
It doesn't help that "bind" and "return" seem completely backwards to me due to knowing C. Even when I listed the properties in GP post, I see that I wrote it in a way that implies that they work the wrong way.

No matter how I think about it, using return to put data into a monad just seems weird. Maybe I have to think of it as returning a monad? Which leaves bind. What do I have to imagine doing? Kidnapping the value and leaving the context behind?

Burritos and spaceships indeed.
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A Lesson Learned From Private Beta
Yes,

This is a common pattern. But it's a pattern that includes very good developers.

That's because just about all tools and environments today are "awful", are unintuitive and overly complex and it's actually useful to vent and then get your understanding of the situation under control. Then you can move on to producing something useful.

No one has yet produced tools and environments that seem in sane except to those who are used to them and adapted to their compromises. Good developers don't silently accept the excuses but stay frustrated on some level - it's an incentive to produce better stuff. Obviously, you still do want to channel this frustration into reasonably moderate and useful directions.
Perhaps pivoting is important to turn away from something that isn't succeeding, towards something else that might.
Will someone please release an API so I can write a printer driver and we can print directly to our ebook readers already?

The APIs that have been available so far (AFAIK - someone please correct me) for any of the readers have been lackluster.
I think he means 37% false positives. This guess is based on the archive section, where he lists hits and misses. http://digginthefuture.com/archive
Is the rotation speed enough to increase the explosiveness of the can? Otherwise that is awesome, you might also consider the Bigfoot name as possibly trademarked.
And Athens fell because they used up their money.
That's my question...when does an idea become a startup? After the first all night hack-a-thon? After you set up your "coming soon" page? When the first person quits his day job? Depending on what we're calling a startup, that 90% number can be very reassuring or very depressing.
Stupidity Reigns, but Rationality Prevails