skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's actually pretty cool.. I just found it and have been messing around with it.

This is how it works.. Type in a "thought" such as parrots and then click the storm tab on the top or the brainstorm tab on the right.

It pulls in semantically related keywords that are both deeper in your subject and related to your subject. Clicking on any them ads them to your list and you can then drill down ever deeper in each subject.

From there you can click the content button on the right or the pages button on the top and it pulls in content from wikipedia, amazon, flickr, yahoo etc.

Any content you like can then be added to a personalized page about that subject by simply clicking the "+" on each item.

For example here's a page I made with a few random things about parrots and parakeets.

http://pages.primal.com/_domain/3464b4a3-b61a-4227-b501-5a82...

One good use for it would be to pull in content and references for a blog post you're working on fairly quickly.

The search tab also ads your keyword and semantically related words to the top of the search page.
I've been doing a ton of development over here:

http://speakerwiki.org
Why I can't afford it :

This year, I quitted a lucrative job (I'm 27) so that I could create my own web agency. My goal is to bootstrap myself so that I can create an online software in the printing industry (I also work with my father who own a small printing company).

I never would have dream to be able to go to this conference (need to pay for food and rent) but I know that it would really help me create my product.

What I commit : I already work with a non profit organization here in Quebec. They help adolescents/young adult to connect with cybermentors. I gave more than 50% discount on our services (new website) and if I get a ticket, I also commit myself to give them free printing services.
Likes:

- Simple/clean interface

- Gossip scraping and integration into the stream

- The discussions!

Dislikes:

- Medal system isn't that compelling to me

- Streaming is pretty limited. But I assume this is due to the scarcity of legal streaming sites.

- Suggest me some shows? Maybe stuff that people who watch the shows I do are raving about?

- I constantly find myself going to Wikipedia for show information (e.g. actor names/bios/pics, etc.) -- can you scrape some of this and give me a slick way to consume it?

Overall, it's a neat site. Summer TV is always a little lackluster so I think I'll be a bit more engaged in the fall when prime time picks up some steam. Of course, I'm assuming with a bigger user base there might be a way to reward users with exclusive content which would definitely compel my active usage of this site.
Now would be a great time to watch "we live in public," a great documentary about Josh Harris and his experiments on the topic of privacy in the modern era.
Another great button tutorial:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1255023
Washington, We Have a Problem
Estimation is Overestimated - Why? What to do?
Two reasons:

1: Vaccines have negative side effects, fire codes don't (except cost, but that doesn't count).

2: You can not force people to accept medical treatment. And if you change the policy you are going down a VERY slippery slope. Can you force a sex offender to take anti-testosterone injections? Can you force someone with bi-polar disorder to take a drug? What about someone with a mental illness who can not stand trial - can you forcibly medicate them?
Many vaccines can only be given to older children.

Babies can not be vaccinated, and they rely on the fact that everyone around them is vaccinated and can not give them the disease.
Not that I'm aware of, though it was pretty much a repeat of what he presented here (iTunes link): http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/michael-shermer-on-why-pe...
We might hope. But hypocrisy is as old as the hills. We hold people to unrealistic standards; they pretend to meet them.

And there will always be some subset of people who manage to minimize their paper trail -- by never creating it, or destroying it afterwards. (Notably, in Europe, privacy laws seem to be evolving to require sites to take such material down.)

We may wind up giving the most-skillful hypocrites and those with the pull to cover up their private lives even more power over the rest of us.
Getting bedbugs seems like a horrible, sometimes life altering, experience. For people who are moving and are worried if their new home was ever infested, check out http://bedbugregistry.com.

That being said, this article has a weird conservative vibe and ends with a pro-DDT message, not anything education people how to prevent bedbugs. Whenever you quote a url like " http://stoptheinvasionoforegon.wordpress.com " you lose credibility in my book.
People always like to forget that the USSR was one of our key allies in WWI. In Europe, they faced over 80% of the German forces -- leaving the other allies (UK, Colonies, and finally the US) to deal with the remainder. Likewise, their vital role against Japan is generally not mentioned outside of stuffy university military history courses. Good to see it getting some mainstream love.
One would hope..or rather, the next generations "back lash" will be a more puritanical response, as most generation swings hit a full 180 from the previous.
Basically, IPSec requires configuration and tcpcrypt doesn't.

There's more in the Usenix Security paper: "A big challenge to IPSec is that it breaks middleboxes that require access to the transport layer. Given the increasing prevalence of NAT in particular, this excludes a large portion of the population from using IPSec. Tcpcrypt, by contrast, operates at the transport layer and so avoids these problems. Another challenge for IPSec is that it is hard to create a notion of a “session” in a connection-less environment (the network layer)."
I would poll your professors for a pain point and pick one of those as a problem to solve. May sure it is something they would pay to solve (even if that just means out of their university budget).

1) It would provide you with a "customer" who is close by and you can interact with heavily.
2) There are likely more professors with a similar problem and a similar willingness to pay for it.
3) If you are successful, you will be giving back to your community that fostered your opportunity.
I applaud any way to merge OS's.
That would be novel and in the spirit of Google!

-jp
wikispeedia.org
"Back Seat Driver"
Hmm. I've marked it to come back and explore, but the first few things I tried seem to have produced pretty much nothing of interest. Maybe it's just what I'm trying.

I'll try later.
To what Thz transmitters are you referring?
Well written, thought provoking, but nonethless nonsense.
There are a lot of examples on an even much larger scale. I know two folks who have sold businesses and now live in Hawaii doing practically nothing. It's really not that uncommon. It's just that those folks fade into memory while the workaholics continue to work and increase in overall profile.

It really feels a lot like the 90 hour work week insanity of the tech boom. For years after that I encountered business-types who would enthusiastically tell me during interviews that they're "the type of company where developers keep a sleeping bag under their desk". Apparently that's the key to success, except that very few of the startups I've encountered actually operate that way.
My "app": Free, balanced, multi-purpose NDA form [pdf], with curator's notes
Klaus Biesenbach, not a programmer, also has a ultra-minimalistic apartment: http://www.wmagazine.com/artdesign/2009/01/klaus_haus and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdkfvPRejSQ
Aside from the privacy stuff in the article, I noticed the point about recommendation. That scared me as much as the privacy issue. Not because I don't like Google or anyone else (hunch?) recommending me things but because I would hate for society to become super specialized. What I mean is, those engines will make it incredibly hard to discover new things. At least, going to the book store was always a discovery chance, Amazon sorta killed it. I still go to the brick and mortar store just for that reason, to see what else is there that's not usually on my recommendation list on amazon.

I just don't want to end up pigeon holed into one world and be walled off.
Looking at IP alone might lead to confusion of causation and correlation. What factors led to the ability to create effective IP policies in the first place?

Consider the broader context: in the early modern era, England was arguably the stablest and most evenly-governed country in the world, especially after 1688. There was a common body of law that applied throughout the country, centuries before legal codification; there were reliable courts of law end equity; there was a resilient balance between centralized interests and local ones; there was a deep cultural apprehension to arbitrary power. There was also the fact that, after the Act of Union, Great Britain had very little cause to worry about external military threats potentially destroying investments in physical infrastructure.

Industrialization is about improving production efficiency, and thus scaling into larger and wider markets. Even if you have the technology to begin industrialization, if the society at large is unpredictable and its institutions unreliable, you still have a major impediment to scaling your enterprise, and so you have a disincentive to industrialization. If you do have stability and reliable institutions, as the early UK did, you're in a great position to industrialize.

It makes you wonder what might have happened if Hero of Alexandria had brought his primitive steam engine to Rome a hundred years earlier, before the Republic collapsed (which would also have been around the same time as Spartacus' rebellion).
This is better and more usable than the brute force generator posted yesterday.

If you start using it to generate new domain names from high ranking keywords you might be able to build a monetizable tool.
Ironically - this is already a fairly established practice at Burning Man. Each year when we come "Home" (many of us) declare ourselves to our 40,000+ fellow community members with a new name. You use it in your camp, and at all the places you visit, so people know you by _no other name_ then the one you've used.

Some people rotate these names year after year, some keep the same tag - there are hundreds of people I know _only_ by their playa name.

Further to that - the sheer lack of eletronica on the Playa means that what little is tracked (presuming they don't log onto tribe.net when they get back to the 'real world'), is verbal.

Truly is a home away from home.
really easy to convert them to linear gradients though...
I am a developer and entrepreneur from Zagreb, Croatia. Besides that core, I've been active in organizing local startup community -- I've organized the Web.Start conference in 2007 and 2008 (Joel was our keynote speaker at the first one), and initiated the movement behind the local OpenCoffee Club (Zagreb was third after London and Dublin) and BarCamp Zagreb, and am a co-founder and technical administrator of CRANE, the first angel network in Croatia (completely non-profit).
Julian Assange: The end of secrets?
Soviet invasion of Manchuria (1945)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Manchuria_(1...

----

Soviet–Japanese War
Importance and consequences

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Japanese_War_(19...
Trademark, really.
If I were you, run screaming from this idea.

I've seen this done a few times on varying scales (from form gen to whole app gen) and it's never been pretty.

Invariably, if you've got no previous experience with real business software, you'll get it wrong. Even if you have experience, you'll get it wrong. The database will probably be where you go wrong the most.

Also consider some of the basic hurdles. As soon as you've done iteration 1 of the app you need to customise it a bit.

Then you need to do iteration 2, the scope's increased. Do you rebuild using the tools and then reintegrate all those little customisations? Or do you stop using the framework? If so, what was the point of it in the first place? You've got a bunch of code that you're not sure quite how it works or where everything is. It's also not in your programming style.

The closest I've seen anyone getting to this is MS's Entity Framework and the scope of that is extremely limited compared to what's being suggested.

This is a timesink of good intentions that will produce the most horrific code.

You might be able to tell I've been on the receiving end of cleaning up after these things. I need to go shower just thinking about it. Feeling. Unclean. Urgh.
Ask HN: Is there a good website to hire cheap freelancers for basic data entry?
Thank you
I wrote a solution for #2, that's exactly like what you guys want! Check it out. http://youconcert.appspot.com

The version that's up there was written in a single Caltrain ride but I have a lot more features after coding some more. I'll push those changes in a couple of days but let me know what you guys think, would love to hear any feedback.
Something about the corners of the button are really bugging me.
The Problem with Perfectionists
IE9 shot would be interesting to see for comparison. Based on what IE people were saying over at Typophile forums, they made a targeted effort to dramatically improve the rendering quality of IE font rasterizer.
You’re a developer, so why do you work for someone else?
My experience is without kids, but it applies with kids as well. Half of American families manage to get by on $50K/year or less. If you make $100K/year and live like that, then for every year you work, you've saved up a year of security. That even assumes that your spouse doesn't work.

Whether you will do this depends a lot on your priorities. Some people want to get their kids the best toys, clothes, and vacations that money will buy. Others would rather give them the gift of parents that are not totally stressed out and have time to make it to their soccer games. There's not a right answer to this, but as someone whose family's household income hovered around the $50K mark for most of my childhood, I can say that you don't really suffer from not being able to afford a trip to Europe every summer.
Cow-tipping is the real clue here: There is no such thing. No more than there are snipes to be hunted.
I'll just quote Science-Based Medicine (http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=516):

"The decrease in the number of disease carriers is vital to the prevention of bacterial infections. Vaccines are never 100% effective. Some people are genetically unable to respond to the vaccine, some have immunodeficiencies that preclude receiving vaccines or developing a response to the vaccine, some haven’t gotten around to vaccination or are too young to receive a vaccine. If you vaccinate a large number of people, besides preventing disease in an individual, it helps protect the vulnerable in a population. Vaccines prevent disease propagation."

"The vaccine [for whooping cough] is good, but not perfect. Vaccine efficacy is 64% for cases defined by mild cough, 81% for paroxysmal cough, and 95% for severe clinical illness (11). Note the vaccine is good for attenuating the disease, not preventing it entirely."
Books. Pick a topic you feel you missed, find a good (possibly "classic") book on it, and study in your free time. Work exercises. Build little test projects based on the material. There's lots of information on the web, but I still find to learn these sorts of topics deeply, you often need a good book.

If AI is your interest, one valuable resource I've found is searching the MIT Press online store for interesting-looking books (most of which are high-quality), and then searching Amazon for a decent used copy. Built up a nice AI library for dollars (or cents) per book.
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome

On amazon turk people will do tedious things for cheap.
You are reflecting on hindsight. Also, SCO didn't happen to own Unix. That was why they lost, IBM's size didn't affect the outcome as much as the particular details. Oracle owns rightfully Java and all its related patents.

AFAIK, Oracle can pull a low blow like not licensing Java to IBM next time or perhaps more subtle putting ridiculous clauses for new standardized versions. They can even do so with popular support by switching to Affero GPLv3, for example. IBM would never run something like that license due to the patent-related characteristics of it.

I wouldn't underestimate Oracle.
Would the fanatics that took down the WTC see the opening of New York Dolls Gentlemans Club as a victory for Islam? Would they dance in the streets at the news of a new Vitamin Shoppe?
That's right ($35 for most folks, $10 for people with very young kids), they're doing walk-ins for the pertussis booster right now (http://sfcdcp.org/pertussisiz.html). Everyone under 1 or with a kid under 1 (including pregnant women) should get the shot ASAP.

http://sfcdcp.org/AITCcontact.html:

Mon, Wed, Thurs, Fri 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Tues 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
You're still a cash slave. But calling people these names is silly.
Emacs Org mode has an outliner, wiki-like internal links, and nice GTD support, all stored in plain text files. I started using it recently and like it a lot. You'd have to learn Emacs if you don't already know it, but that's not hard (I used Emacs in law school when dinosaurs roamed the earth). http://orgmode.org/
Probably for the same reason that Kansas is being written off, only more so, perhaps even to the same degree.

Keep in mind that a large group of people with a low average income means that your a larger portion of any marketing budget is wasted.
What if all of us changed our names to be John Doe?
I'm not saying that you shouldn't work to eat; just that working for someone else isn't preferable to working for yourself.

It's much more efficient, you get to keep all of your economic output, rather than giving it to someone else.
I think that historical importance of Soviet roll in that was was purposely minimized to morally excuse nuclear bombing of civilian targets and to lessen the sentiments towards the people of soviet union who played the key roll in fighting Germany. This is very important to keep the general population afraid of commies.
Jenny's Boss' WhiteyBoard Response
GP probably means high-bandwidth ones like these:

https://www.storesonlinepro.com/files/1974975/uploaded/Phili...
It was sold for $12.5 billion (in stock) to Terra Networks (Telefonica) in May 2000

(Telefonica stock is worth more now than it used to in 2000)

So it looks like Lycos investors made a brilliant move.
Needs more parens:

(what
(wish you
(someone
(start startup
(build (lambda for you))))))
Can't James Gosling afford an ads-free blog? Geez...
Just because your in a better situation, and are on the way to pulling yourself up out of wage slavery doesn't mean that you're not still in the situation that you're in.

I had an analogy here to drug dealers working their way out of a ghetto, and decided it was slightly hyperbolic.
Why OpenStack is Ready for Success
I trained the generator on domains from the crunchbase data set, so they should (presumably) be somewhat higher quality than average
[FROM OP:] This was a side project; it's the first of what I hope will be a series of "read, sign, and go" baseline contract forms and curator's notes, available under a Creative Commons license. Comments and other feedback are welcome, especially suggestions for other types of contract that are needed in the community.
World’s Largest Software Development Shops Set to Keynote at Subversion Live
It's not silly. It's important to think about the situation that you're in, and try to improve.
Sun Tzu advocated never completely encircling one's enemy, but rather leaving them a clear cut opportunity to retreat, so that instead of fighting for their lives the enemy will instead fold under pressure and choose to retreat.

In a sense, this was a vital part of the strategy of the Western allies. The US and UK were little different from Japan or Germany or Russia in their pursuit of total war (okay, Russia was arguably more brutal even there), but in its treatment of defeated enemies, either as prisoners of war or as occupied territory, the Western allies were consistently magnanimous and benevolent compared to the Soviets or the Axis. That's a great way to get high-value individuals (the German rocket scientists like Von Braun) or even entire countries to prefer to surrender to you.

Of course, as the article illustrates, it helps when you have brutal allies like the Soviets prone to rape and plunder everything they conquer for magnanimous treatment of one's enemies to really encourage surrender. As the Mongols discovered, it also helps to be absolutely ruthless with enemies who resist while benevolent towards enemies who surrender quickly.
A few days ago I saw a link to a "roadmap" for Rails (http://techiferous.com/2010/07/roadmap-for-learning-rails/). It'd be nice if someone put together something like this for a rigorous and practical computer science skill-set.
>Working during college is not as daunting as it sound

I don't find your suggestion daunting. I find it ludicrous - how does one fit in all their lectures and essay writing, tutorial assignments and work a full-time job. Did you skip lectures. As I did a modular course I had both essay assignments, tutorial assignments and lab work (programming, experiments, etc.) as well as about 30 hours contact time (lectures mainly).

I suppose if I hadn't slept and had a flexible job that I could work at when I wanted and without any hard deadlines.

Perhaps the key is the job you had, were you a life model of someone studying in a library?
A while ago I had a discussion going in a thread on HN about a crowdsourced medical diagnosis tool. Sort of a Stack Overflow for chronic medical conditions.

I haven't seen anyone do it right yet, here's the thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1399953
The idea isn't to keep the generated version blessed; it's to get up to a minimum product as fast as possible instead of wasting time issuing generation commands over and over again.

This is all pseudo-implemented already; I'm just talking about adding a little more automation to an already repetitive process.

Either way, it's a problem that needs solving; just because it's hard doesn't mean it's not worth trying to fix, right?
This will work fine, except when in 2013 Google comes up with the "Your search for John Doe has been expanded to include their previous name, Evil Doe"-feature.
Was P!=NP proof author treated unfairly?  (See blog post comments.)
The more technology advances, the bigger the portion of our lives that is recorded. Also, the ability to find these things grows more and more as well.

Seriously, in 50 years, I'm guessing it will be a simple matter to search for all the pictures on the internet that you appear in, with or without tags. The technology isn't there yet, but it's getting pretty close.
http://i.imgur.com/6bcnn.png

notice how the r and l characters seem to be a bit higher, and (at least in my opinion) the b and o chars seems to be too "fat", especially relative to the e. also, the bottom part of the a looks too thick...just overall looks a bit weird, definitely not like what nickstamas posted above.

this is in FF 3.6.8 on XP with cleartype enabled, btw.
Yes, but that is if someone is looking at it. It is not easy for them to script if they stole a database of accounts and passwords.

I am under the impression direct, targeted attacks are pretty rare, and that most of the purpose of a password is to prevent wide-spread automated attacks.
A cheap iphone apps contractor in Dublin will get €500/day
It has been lamented during recent elections that the Web has already fragmented this way. There are conservative and liberal echo chambers on the Web that don't link to anything "outside".
This probably falls under "partisan political articles".