skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know a lot of terrible parents, and they aren't all dead-beats or alcoholics, they're just assholes who treat their families like shit. If one of the parental figures is an emotionally abusive person, then it'd probably be a net benefit to the family if that person were a workaholic who doesn't spend much time with the kids. Sure, they probably shouldn't have had a family in the first place, but it doesn't always work out that way. Not just anyone can stay at home and raise the family.
Great advice. Additionally, for me, the most important thing (from painful experience) is to give candidates a test run to see if they fit in and measure up.

Too easy to hire someone because they're likeable, and/or be taken in by past experience, and then realise the horrible truth: they're awful at their job!
I'm sure they don't travel with me, but at $13 a month it is worth it. they will still cost $1000 and I have only to pay $140 (year). So if I need to move and want all the music which I won't not at $1000. I would have paid a 14% premium. the subtract all the music that I am either done with or didn't really like, I am sure that I will come out a head.

Hey, maybe that is a good business model, get a two month subscription service where you can access all the music and train the system to understand what you like so you can pay as little as possible for DRM free music. Best of both world.

Or we can all just enjoy Justin Beiber and the Youtube way of picking music.
Benefits of Using Sun Shades in Your Car
Your comparison between CD and digital sales isn't perfect, because most of the digital music out there is pirated, not purchased. How is that eating into CD sales?
Downloadable music will also die. Spotify, or equivalent streaming services, have the clear killer feature downloadable music is missing - access to all music on any machine with an internet connection. Carrying around your data will seem antiquated really soon.

Edit: For the US readers I'd like to clarify that I don't count any other existing services as equal to Spotify, but there will surely be copycats soon. It is the iphone of streaming music applications if you like analogies.
Why should twitter give anyone's account to anyone else?

Besides, you're assuming because they're not posting publicly that they're not DM'ing or anything else. I'd be pretty peeved if I had registered an account and when I finally decided to make use of it had discovered that it had been removed to give it to some other person of the same name.

Twitter should leave people's accounts alone unless there is a good reason (preferably legal) for interfering with it.
Yeah, I'm trying, but unfortunately politics are getting in the way...the PM and CEO are best friends from way back at previous companies. PM was laid off from his last job and sometimes I wonder if he got the job only because he needed one. It's tricker than it looks.
In fact, if something got posted to digg and did well there that's a pretty good indicator that on HN it will get killed.

Isn't that a strong (negative) correlation?
Could be worse - you could be the "cold-but-unfriendly blank space at the top of the map" which I suspect is how English people see Scotland ;-)
It may be $50-$100 more than they're getting from _you_, but it is several hundred dollars less than they're currently getting from your neighbour. And since they can't find a way to offer that deal to only you and not your neighbour, they're better off not taking your money, since it means they get to keep taking more money from your neighbour.
Model NDA a Reluctant VC Fund May Sign Before the Term Sheet is Finalized
Why have two large images on your landing page if you scale them down anyway?

Save the visitor a little loading time and bandwidth and scale the images down yourself =)
Hehe, good point. But it's not a hard rule though.
Un-paving roads? Man, that's depressing.
Oren Eini's thoughts on VS LightSwitch beta
There are usually 2 numbers used to measure the 'accuracy' of a test (be it a "This link will reach the digg front page" or "This person has HIV" etc.). Those numbers are the false positive rate (you said they'd get to the front page, and they didn't), and the false negative rate (you said they wouldn't get to the front page, and they did).

It's common for these numbers to be related. Decrease one number and the other goes up. E.g. you could get a 0% false positive rate by just saying "Yes this link will get to the front page" for all pages, however your false negative rate would be massive, about 99.999999% (since you're predicting that every link gets to the front page). This test would be useless because of the high false negative rate. A breakthrough occurs when you are able to have a low false positive and low false negative result. The holy grail of any test is one that would have a 0% false negative and a 0% false positive rate.

Usually it's a trade of between false positive and false negative. Most western justice systems would rather a high false negative than a high false positive, "Better 10 guilty men walk free, than 1 innocent man goes to jail".

His statement about "63% accuracy" is ambiguous. What is he refering to? What are the false positive and false negative rates?
twitter has access to the accounts...I'm sure they check whether or not the guy logged in or DMed within the past 3 years before transferring an account.

Either way, he can have the pgyc one I got...and the other people get to keep their accounts.(although based on their twits...I'd bet that they are the logged in once and test and never used again types.)
I don't know either to be honest, paper says: "Total Offering Amount $105,000,000 USD | Total Amount Sold $105,000,000 USD"
Natural user interface ideas with interactive paper prototypes (short video)
Of course Microsoft loves open source
How the collapse of a floppy disk manufacturer caused a political controversy
Gail Corbett | LinkedIn
Grapes and green tea lead to iron deficiency
I'd add Vitrified Forts to that list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitrified_fort

Fortresses built with stone walls that have been melted together - presumably on purpose.
"payback time" for what? Why are you quoting your own one-liner comment from that page in your submission? And why not just link to the original Reuters article, instead of linking to something that looks a lot like a machine-generated spam blog?

(All your HN submissions are links to that site, btw. What's your relation to them?)
You mean A4, not A8. Cortex A8 was not designed by PA.

Even A4 "designed by Apple" SoC contains many blocks from Samsung catalogue and PowerVR SGX GPU from Imagination Technologies. They built a lego set, they didn't start on green grass field.
Apache Hadoop 0.21.0 is out
If you havent read it yet, I'd suggest you to read Huxley's Brave New World, as opposed to 1984.

Given it was written in 1932 it surprisingly exposes present-day concerns.
There is no killer feature with download music.

Not true. The killer feature for downloads is that you get the content immediately. The difference is that the photography industry didn't deem their loss of control illegal.
Normally, I'm pretty much against software patents but this is kind of innovative: run multiple OSes/User interfaces at the same time and pick the one that best fits the user's environment.
the_real_pg is available on twitter, just sayin'... nudge nudge
One that I use is http://www.opensiteexplorer.org from http://www.seomoz.org (disclosure: you need a paid account to get the most out of it and we are business partners of SEOmoz).
How to retire at 30 on $1 million
The Open Solaris Governing Board just passed a motion to collectively resign
Complete Works of Charles Darwin
I am so sorry, but I have to say this because it is what came to my mind when I watched it: Robert 'Scobleizer' Scoble is, most likely, an asshole.

And that's what I can read all over PG's body language throughout the video.

And again, I'm sorry for this mini-rant.
How to take great photos of your electronics projects
You forgot to factor in capital gain taxes on the original sales price.

Depending on where you live that could put a substantial dent in your 'take home'.

And leveraging (to use a popular word) that money to obtain a much larger property by financing is actually a fairly risky strategy, especially if you are going to put the rest of your money in to different investments.
I agree with your sentiments, except that I'd invert your sanity bitmap.

I'd place John von Neumann as having been extraordinarily sane, and one of the most productive minds in history. I'd put Eliezer as far crazier and more potentially destructive than Kurzweil — there's not much distance between "creating survivable Singularities" and Butlerian Jihad. At least Kurzweil did productive things before he decided to live forever and tell us all about his magnificent future. Yudkowsky's brother died, and then he decided that nobody should have to die again.
I think it's a safe bet that anyone who finds themselves this deep in a site like HN is either an adult, or a kid with parents who give him/her a lot of freedom.
That's easy to say, but what specifically do you suggest they do about it? Given where we are right now (and setting aside CA's ridiculous laws regarding how they can reallocate their budget), what would you change to free up hundreds of billions of dollars without raising taxes?

Take over healthcare and beat back prices? Hey, I'm all for it, but I think that's gonna cost more in the short term.
It's the weirdest experience to see someone aggressively defend free software on the adobe.com website with Oracle as the target.
The idea that the numbers are simple lat/lon coordinates (referring to a point in the Barents Sea) seems plausible ... although why the Russians would be transmitting something that openly and obviously is a little weird. Doubtless they have more secure communication channels for their Navy.

It's a bit surprising to me that nobody has been recording and archiving the station's transmissions until recently (besides, presumably, other nations' intelligence services); it's relatively simple compared to a lot of other projects, and obviously 'numbers stations' are something that fascinate a lot of geeks and radio enthusiasts.
Do you have evidence for worse services?

(E.g., something like higher post-diagnosis death rates for statistically comparable people?)
All of my cassettes and most of my 5,25" floppies don't work. My drives are also starting to fail, so I recently got some new 3,5" drives installed and wrote about it here (portuguese only, I'm afraid):

http://alquerubim.blogspot.com/2010/07/upgrade-historico.htm...

The only floppies that still work are those that came in those nice black folders from Acornsoft.
Real identity is actually one of the reasons why Facebook Connect is being adopted en masse. When you let your users sign up with their real identity, the number of trolls and abusers automatically goes down. Richness of expression may be affected in such systems, but for many that is an easy trade-off to make. But real identity opens up a whole new can of worms which is sadly illustrated by this case.
I think you have to be very careful of backing someone who appears to be risking getting carried away with his own image and hype. Playing tit-for-tat with the information they hold is not how whistleblowing should be handled. A lot of said information could risk, or cost, livelihoods and lives and deserves better.

Maybe I am reading it wrong through the how the situations involving Wikileaks have recently been handled, but that it the perception I am building about it at the moment.

As noted above, I'm also not sure actualeurope.info deserves the oxygen of publicity.
Subscription Revenue Model (spreadsheet)
I never do enough of paper prototyping, and always regret it. This looks a great technique for communicating a UI, especially a non-standard one, in motion.
I got an HP mini this week, runs Ubuntu 10.04 very nicely, and has a lovely matte screen. It was the only laptop in shop with a nice matte screen, even the super $3000 3d laptop had a glossy screen! Who wants a glossy screen, are they insane?

I deliberately use slower machines so that I write more efficient code!
With cassettes the problem is usually copy-through, with one layer influencing the next on the wound up spools so you get pre and post echos of the signal. You can possibly fix that using a bunch of processing.

The disks is a harder problem, surprising though, that they've already degraded that much, I would have expected the 5 1/4" to be readable a bit longer than this.
Winter/spring of 2008 I asked for and got a paid internship with One Laptop Per Child to work in Mongolia for the summer. Turned out to be one of the best summers ever. The key to success in asking for something and getting it is to have a good proposal and be the right person to get what you are asking for. For me, I showed that I had relevant experience, and would add to the team. Also, being persistent in making sure people followed up on commitments
GetApp Provides Directory Of Business Apps
This makes me think Adobe is starting to sweat a little about their reliance on Java. It underlies a good portion of their tools.
Stunning Wallpaper's Of WWE Super Stars | Kitaro10
You’re a failure: Deal with it
Ever since the purchase of Sun, this was always assumed to happen - they are too cutthroat to leave those projects alone.
> you can do some client/server trickery to avoid this

I saw quite a neat trick the other day when I bought EagleFiler[1]. Having already used the demo, the program had registered a URI protocol handler, and included a link in the registration email that looked like:

x-eaglefiler://p?n=<my name>&sn=<my serial number>

Mail.app made this clickable, so it would have been unnecessary for me to even copy&paste the details (I didn't actually need to as I'd already registered, ironically by copying the serial off the receipt webpage).

Although, the text in the email makes no mention that I could just click on the link to register the program, so the point of the original article still stands...

[1] http://c-command.com/eaglefiler/
Wow, I had to reread it at least 5 times before I noticed it. "Fucked" for some reason is much less offensive to me than other forms like "fucking"... not like that is extremely offensive either, but "fucked" doesn't even seem at all bad.
Only if you're a goldfish or a Unicorn. Even in this watered down form I doubt you could get most VCs to sign this unless there was clear competition for a specific start-up.

And it will act as a serious bump in the road too, after all this will need legal reviewing before it gets signed.

Someone ought to give this a shot and report back on the results, if it materially changed the atmosphere for the better and/or caused the deal to fall through when insisted on.
I've been running all over the place for graphs over the last week for different things, and that site never occurred to me.

Thanks for the reminder.
I guess the question is - why should someone (non-paying) be able to reserve an account name and not use it for nine months or more and expect to be able to keep the account? It doesn't serve any benefit to the community to have squatted accounts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cusco

The mountains and Inca ruins are absolutely stunning;
even in July it should be quite temperate there (it
doesn't really freeze), but, since it's winter, it
won't be hot so you'll need a modestly warm jacket.
You forgot to factor in capital gain taxes on the original sales price.

I believe Tony already took that into account in his article?

Leverage increases the risk, yes, but that doesn't make it "risky". It's very much the norm in the real estate world, which has a pretty stellar track record for creating wealth, once you get out of the levels where soccer moms are flipping houses. Buying commercial multifamily real estate isn't about the value of the property; it's about the value of the cashflow stream that you're buying. For certain markets and with long-term demographic trends and forecasts being what they are, I'm very comfortable with that level of risk.

If it makes you feel better, run the numbers where you put $2mm or $3mm down, which reduces your return, but also decreases your risk.
DDoS Impacting Linode in Dallas, Fremont, Atlanta, and Newark
I've heard the tip before that you can eat anything in the world that is thourghly cooked and be ok, but anything raw is super risky. In practice this means if the street meat is steaming, it is safe to eat, but cold meats and even vegatables are out. This is the first I've heard about someone getting sick from cooked food, but it makes sense if the oil was bad. Thanks for the heads up.
"does anyone high scale actually use oracle"

Oracle is so much more that its database products. Oracle Hyperion being a good example - it's the market leading financial consolidation/reporting system. It is very popular in large public companies.
I have to say this because it is what came to my mind when I watched it

You have to say this because it came to mind? Really?
> I deliberately use slower machines so that I write more efficient code!

That's a good trick. Runners do something similar: http://www.nefitco.com/weightvestarticleuk.html
Not an online shell, but perhaps playing with Arduino would be a good way to experience basic computing.
This reaction is uncalled for (especially the addition of the 'Axis of Evil' in this submission). I believe in open source as much as the next guy, but just a few weeks ago there was a thread on this board in which the vast majority of people considered OpenSolaris (with the exception of say, ZFS) had become a sub-par operating system, that they wouldn't want to use. There were a few users, yes, but I think it's glaringly obvious that the death of that project started long before the Oracle aquisition. I'm close friends with several former Sun employees, all of whom had been extremely unhappy in their positions with Sun for a few years. Sun was on the verge of complete financial failure.

Yes, Oracle may be being 'evil', but they know how to run a business and make a livelihood for their employees. How many of the people that are complaining actually paid for the real worth of all the Sun products they used? If people rely on Sun so much for their own businesses, how can they expect someone else to maintain it for them at a financial loss? These people have no right to complain about what Oracle is now doing to protect it's investment. Yes, you can make a living from open source. Was Sun doing a good job of that when Oracle got them? Absolutely not.

edit: I completely agree that all this was unexpected and is unpleasant, I just don't think it's fair to attack and blame Oracle.
I hear you about actualeurope's attention-grabbing efforts. And while I take some issue with how Wikileaks has handled the information that they have, I think that what they are doing is valuable. With an entity like Wikileaks, governments can potentially be held accountable like never before.
I agree with you on many of your points. I would have to say I agree with you that the world will keep on improving, but to say that there aren't at least a FEW flaws with California's financial system and educational is not very conducive with the evidence.

I can't find a reasonable human being that can agree with the pension system for state employees (I am actually unsure if it applies to teachers), which has to be the biggest money whole I could ever conceive.

Also, I am not sure of the statics, but it is no secret that LA public schools are some of the worst in the country. In the intercity schools anyway. However, I do agree with you that the author doesn't prove his point of declining schools, nor does he prove that increased funding will make them better. He offers this poor anecdote that is obviously politically self-edited.

It's funny how subjects like bad parenting or horrifying home lives never come into this conversation. Which seems to have a strong connection a child's educational success. I don't believe the author intended to go beyond anything other than his experience with his students, which by admissions filtering are hypothetically better than the over student.

Btw, loved the Abe Simpson quote. However, this situation triggers another famous entertainment quote in my mind.

Reporter: "Mr. Norris, how does it feel to have your career not be taken seriously by a younger internet driven generation of 'joke-sters?'"

Chuck Norris: Boys will be boys.
It makes it risky in the sense that if you only buy what you can pay right off the bat that you will reduce your income, but if the market tanks and you have to sell for whatever reason that you won't suddenly be working for a bank.

Tying yourself up like that might come back to bite you and if something unforeseen happens you're back where you started or worse.
I for one would be intrigued to program a punch card computer. They were before my time and sound like fun.
I wouldn't do well under load, but it was fine for running an interactive shell without X. There might be a bit of swapping when switching your attention from one VM to another, only a few seconds. Qemu is a nice way to try out some different systems! I'll try running the VMs on my new mini laptop and see how that goes.
Yahoo’s Former Chief Data Officer On Their $800 Million Mistake [video]
Well, this is Brazil (hot and humid) and they did have to endure about 10 years in my dad's shed, so I didn't really expect them to still work. The BBC, on the other hand, only requires maintenance on the power source's capacitors every 10 years or so (I've changed them twice so far). It's quite a sturdy machine!
As improbable as it may sound, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.
First time I've heard about wwoof. Thanks for the tip. Any tips on how to make the most of it / find the best hosts / etc?
I'm one of the 9 million new yorkers who take the subway to work every morning and work in midtown. If I had to rely on a net connection for music, photos, etc I would be without a great deal of the day. (During transit, at 5pm, in some office buildings.)

I also don't like the idea of renting, music, property or otherwise.
The pressure does not come from being stigmatized but from the fact that a single person income is not enough to feed a family of four in plenty of places.

Which places?

The fact is, plenty of people survive and overfeed themselves in spite of working less than 27 weeks/year (80% of the poor fall into this category). If a person can't feed their family working full time, they need to move out of Manhattan.
What did you base the customer life cycle on?
People have recorded numbers stations in the past: http://www.archive.org/details/ird059. These CDs, a collection of number station recordings, were released in 1997. Not sure if anyone has been recording since then. Listening to some of the samples is fascinating.
You do raise a good point, in that you're in some sense risking your other assets as well. You can secure nonrecourse debt for real estate like this, though this is harder to do than it was a few years ago.

But the other way to look at this is that you're going to risk the money one way or the other: either you risk it as indirect collateral by guaranteeing a loan at 80% LTV or you risk it directly by buying the property outright. The advantage in the first scenario is that you get a higher return. YMMV, but again, I'm comfortable with this level of risk.
Theres an irc channel for HN?
Website by author of the slides: http://www.leaduser.com/
No problem. Attend one of the project shows they have from time to time, if possible. It was very cool to see the cool projects, but the students were all really cool and willing to chat about the projects and ITP. They could tell you a lot more about the program.