skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I agree that it was a bit small for a lot of stuff - but it was a big hit, and I find it really strange that they responded to that success by changing the product. I'm pretty sure that a lot of the success was due to it being cheap enough to be almost disposable - I've known several people take them places that they wouldn't take a laptop. Increasing the screen size and doubling the price loses that.
we are indeed trying to change the rules of the game - the idea is to draft in the concept of social proof, say someone similar using and recommending a particular piece of technology or service. having worked as a sourcing advisor these last 5 years (focused entirely on big and bulky enterprise software though), i feel the status quo is closer to a guru-speak model than true evidence-based research.
Comments on TC are obviousely from the same angry person. There are only two things that can make a man this angry: a) you take his dignity or b) you take his woman.
Indeed, if it were merely an issue of the size of the public sector, Greece is totally middle-of-the-road: http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/05/img/greece_gr...

If anything, it's a bit more free-market than most of Europe, because what regulations exist are not enforced nearly as vigorously as they are in places like Scandinavia or Germany. In Germany, it's pretty hard to ignore building codes and zoning and just build a house, but in Greece people do it all the time, especially outside the major cities--- you just run your own electric line from a neighbor to avoid having to get an official hookup (you settle charges with them privately), hire a local architect and contractor, and you're good to go. Between that and all the small businessmen, it's a surprisingly DIY sort of place, where the government exists but is often ignored.
Dynamically generated iPhone App Buttons
Is this the beginning of integrating all personal info stored in various Google products under one search box?
Not all. I wrote for the Register and didn't really start my internet trolling career until 2008 or so.
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Startup founders should take away from this how important good financial records are. Also, how important a business model is that provides enough capital to fund current operations without you having to go over your allotted budget.
> "This mindless Apple/iPhone fanboyism"
And that's not a generalization?

No, that was specifically targeted at you and the sixpack of similar comments that has become the norm for every apple/android article.

If can't find more than 1 or 2 quality apps, yes, the damn thing is useless. That's its "use". It provides maybe 2, so it's not "useless", but it is "just about useless".

It may be useless for you.

I have found all I need (SwiFTP, ConnectBot, MailDroid, to name just 3) and while they may not be as pretty as the iPhone equivalents... Oh wait, for two of them there is no iPhone equivalent.

See? Everyone has their priorities. And even though I'm not the least bit interested in the latest shiny iPhone games I wouldn't call the apple appstore "useless".
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I meant that nobody disputes the protections of property the constitution of a democratic country gives you.

That family that didn't want to sell may be a PITA to deal with, but it's their right, and I would be really offended if some law passed that favors the supermarket.

As for taxes for land ... yes, they are much higher, but you get lots of stuff in return, as I've said, public roads, public hospitals, public schools, infrastructure for water / electricity, etc...

So raise the tax of owning a domain to $1000 / year.

What will that accomplish? Sooner or later all the good domain names will still be taken and we're back to being creative or to putting our money where our mouth is.
Agile haters association
who wants to join? its anonymous. you can say what you really feel.
What If YouTube, Facebook, And Skype Advertised In The 60′s?
Ask HN: What is your take on the skype IPO, top or flop?
I've been watching the skype saga over the last couple of years with some amazement, and now skype will do an IPO, in the midst of a financial crisis (or so we're told) and after a large amount of weird legal posturing, buy-outs, buy-backs and licensing.

How do you think this will affect skypes IPO and subsequent stock price?
The TechCrunch article and comments are over a month old now.

Given that, I don't think he lost his job just because of the comments. Perhaps there is a slight confusion of cause & effect here.
Nice, thanks..any stats on how fast it is? It looks pretty fast from the web page update
He's talking about the satellite photo story from a while back in which Greeks had many more (taxable) private pools than were reported to the government.

http://boingboing.net/2010/05/04/satellite-photos-cat.html

The question though is whether "more efficient tax collection" is really the cure for Greece's ailments. It really boils down to whether you think a centralized government can better allocate your dollars to your benefit, or whether you can.

You could certainly make an argument that people would free ride and/or greatly underestimate the benefit that spending 10 cents of each dollar on (say) the military or roads would provide, and this furthermore justifies taking that 10 cents by force as part of the price of membership in a community.

However, I personally find it less persuasive to argue that centralized allocation programs will produce greater wealth than distributed ones. A remote government simply doesn't have all the information and can't know your preferences.

One thing I find interesting is that many people can come to fairly good agreement on what the problem is (bad economy, low unemployment, etc.) but disagree very dramatically on what the solution should be. frossie is likely a Keynesian and rick888 is probably a Hayekian; in my experience, Keynesianism is in the water supply and the "default belief" for most college graduates, but most entrepreneurs tend to end up Hayekian:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk
There's a wiki that has solutions to the exercises at the end of all chapters.
http://www2.algorithm.cs.sunysb.edu/mediawiki/index.php/The_...
What tax collection? (And yes, also tax evasion)
I don't think so I'll take erlang over clojure any way.
Engine Yard CLI Now Open Source
Engine Yard announces that their command line client is now fully open sourced.
How terribly sloppy of paypal not to have velocity checks in their software.

That's fraud control 101.
... and no software. I'm fairly certain that the iPad's success is 80% software and 20% hardware.
You also want to make sure you track down deadbeat clients (bad tax collection) and not get a long expensive office lease (offer retirement at age 50)
This looks great, Antonio. What I'd really like is a feature to subscribe to small ("indy") publishers. This is similar to the "by author" feature mentioned in these comments. I'd guess that this wouldn't be a high demand feature, but by golly, that's exactly what I'd want, so I thought I'd throw in my two cents.
A designer's need to constantly redesign
I actually quite like that table, but it's too bad that none of those are for sale in Canada (well, the ones that run Linux, anyway. There are plenty of Windows 7 ones).
Why not just have a place where it is conventionally acceptable to talk to other strangers.

Suppose you created this. A certain core of people would go. Before long they would know each other. After that any newcomer would find that they are in a sea of people who know each other. And given our culture, would feel awkward going up and talking to them. Even though those people are nice and actually would be welcoming.

This is a surprisingly good description of many clubs, bars, various kinds of meetups, and so on.
Right. Sorry for the conflation of editorial and description in that sentence.
I can't imagine what reason there could possibly be.
It would be interesting to hear about the design of membase. I wonder if someone has a architectural overview somewhere. EDIT: It seems like a article with a little more information is at http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/06/membase
Re: new analytics system

Google Analytics already does this. Have a look at their 'Intelligence' feature.
Questions a reader should ask:

What was the percent fat in relation to carbohydrates/protein? From what I've read read both a low fat (<20%) and extremely high fat (75-80%) are healthier than a high fat diet (45%).

What type of fat was added to their diets? All fats were not created equal.
Mind-Controlling Parasites Date Back Millions of Years
Lessons in Angel Investing: Don't be a Dick
You can file a LLC or S-Corp while on H1 or EAD. It requires you to maintain a full time job (it doesn't mean you cant have a business). USCIS has an entrepreneur category for Green card (I think its new and faster than regular categories). If your idea kicks in you can always switch to this category. You are in a good place to start something....in US.

dont wait
That sounds correct, but also embeddable and callable from C. It's unfortunate it didn't succeed in replacing elisp. Emacs would be even more awesome than it is today.

I'd love to see the same thing done with Clojure and Go.
Asus wanted. Some time ago Asus had preparations to introduce non-x86 (but ARM) based netbook. It would be cheap, use less power, you name it (iPad is also ARM based). But Microsoft and Intel twisted Asus' arm, and Asus even had to publicly apologize for mentioning "the product that is not going to be."
I occasionally have ham messages caught in Gmail's spam filter. The fewer spam messages I receive, the fewer I have to skim through.
OK, thanks for the tip about atoms. I hadn't dug into the var/atom/ref/agent docs. I should have before commenting.

What I was looking for can be done with atoms, and is made more like traditional lisp mutation by defining a "st!" (or maybe "zet!" is a better name).

(defn st! [atm v]
(swap! atm (fn [_] v)))

Now making ordinary lisp clojures is reasonable:

(def fns
(let [c (atom 0)]
{:add (fn [x] (st! c (+ @c x)))
:mlt (fn [x] (st! c (* @c x)))}))

> ((get fns :add) 3)
3
> ((get fns :add) 3)
6
> ((get fns :mlt) -5)
-30

Though I sure could do without the calls to 'atom' and @. Referencing and dereferencing is for C programmers. Maybe using swap! directly is better after all.

(def fns
(let [c (atom 0)]
{:add (fn [x] (swap! c #(+ % x)))
:mlt (fn [x] (swap! c #(* % x)))}))
That's a little different. GitHub's "free hosting for open source" just means "free hosting for public repos". They never actually verify that the code is licensed in any sensible way, whereas others (Google Code I think) actually requires you to select an open source license.

In short, GitHub doesn't at all verify open source licensing, they just allow unlimited free accounts if you accept de facto open source. "Free hosting for nonprofits" requires actually verifying (or requiring the user to assert) nonprofit status, which is a lot more difficult.
In the old days, naughty kids would get a spanking, and shy kids would be lectured by parents. These days, society has decided to go "Clockwork Orange" on such crimes instead, and the seed of nonconformity is chemically suppressed in the brain.
I think if you would want a native, high-performing Clojure going the LLVM route would be a possible way. But I was specifically mentioning Go, because it's about as minimalitic as you can get right now, while still supporting a sufficiently large feature set (i.e. not as limited as TCC). A lot of that comes from its Plan 9 heritage, of course.

The syntax ain't that grand, though. And it could have a better FFI. So, having that in one package would be really great for some Unix-y programming. Right now, without too much baggage. Basically the lispy answer to Ocaml. And then build some libraries on it that inherently take advantage of Clojure and don't just wrap existing things. Which probably would be similar to the way the node.js infrastructure is growing.

It's a pipe dream, I know. The ability to use all that JVM enterprise hooplah is too important for most users. And its a pragmatic language, after all.
I'd much rather have a proper, powerful Lisp than being forced to settle on alternate soft and hard layers. But the Common Lisp Emacs project never went anywhere.
Speaking as a Greek, a centralised government would be far worse at allocating funds simply because it would embezzle a good chunk.
It may be a decade of service obligation total, or it might be a decade of training + experience before they can be rated to carry nuclear munitions.
The function you're looking for is 'reset!'
Goodbye Iraq: Last US combat brigade heads home
> I can see 1-2 people commenting multiple times in a malicious way, but if there are more than 2, it has to be 4chan.

This seems like an entirely bizarre accusation to make.
Non-profits are a very large group featuring some very large organisations with lots of money. One of the big international Non-profits jumping on a system would add very significant costs.

Most of the successful ones have plenty of money anyway and given the nature of the tax system you're better off by donating if you want to support them.
--advertising works in traditional magazines because they are extending the content--

i liked the pages that he gave as examples but i believe that the reader who buys -elle- does not care what is -advertising- and what is -content- for the consumer-girl who reads fashion magazines -marketing is the product-

think about the magazine as a kind of mirror - the girl reading the magazine already has a signature style - when she looks at a page she reflects herself and sees herself in that product -- how does this skirt fit my style - no its too boring - turn the page - its gap - i have too many denims - turn the page - should i change my hair color to red - it looks good on her but i dont have that matching beret that highlights her hair - should i buy it -- and so on

the magazine is a mirror that transforms her into her glamorous self - when 5 glamorous girls go out for a girls night out each of them will look the same on a superficial level at a first glance - this is so because according to the strict rules of girl groups every girl must fit the group - she is horrified of 2 things - wearing the exact same thing as another girl or being totally out of synch with what everyone else is wearing -

during the 3 hours that she spent to style herself for the social dynamics of this occasion she expended a tremendous amount of dialectical reasoning to decide how to differentiate herself within the given constraints - she dwarfed the entire accumulation of western philosophy in her powers of analysis to decide how much of her erogenous zones she must expose - the variables she needs to consider to find the right balance that would make her the center of attention of her group are close to infinite so there is no need to list them here

why is she thinking so hard - she must conform to the style dictated to her by the fashion industry for that season but she must also differentiate herself within her social network by building on her signature style

to a naive outsider -probably a male- all 5 girls having fun will look the same - wearing the same color and the same hip stuff - but as seen by each other the differentiation points will be obvious

you can easily tell how a girl differentiated herself for the occasion - because as soon as her friend meets her she will acknowledge her friends efforts to differentiate herself by pointing at it -i love your beret where did you buy it-

so fashion industry and the modern consumer-girl living in it is a complex ecosystem that we as outsiders cannot hope to fathom by looking at advertising and content in the pages of a girl magazine - its all marketing to her - and the fashion industry knows how to market to her
For anyone interest in Guile's history (and it is kind of interesting), it was born in the great Usenet Tcl War http://www.vanderburg.org/OldPages/Tcl/war/

It was intended to be GNU's official extension language, but it has never really caught on. That's sort of a shame, because it's actually a pretty nifty scheme implementation.
Ugh, that's really frustrating. There's a prevailing mentality that the best sort of job you can find is a government job. That's not far from the truth, really, since people who work in companies tend to work 12-14 hours a day for a bit over minimum wage, but most Greeks don't even know how easy it is to start your own business.

I was chatting with someone on a flight once, and I mentioned that I have my own company, and he said "yeah, but it was, like... your dad's, right?" I said no, "I founded it". He couldn't believe that someone under 40 could start a company...
First off, congratulations on moving to one of the city's famously non-existent "neighborhoods" (in that nobody, save for real estate brokers and the glossy lifestyle rags refers to the genearal area to the east of Morningside Park as "South Harlem", not with capital letters in any case).

That said, since you seem to like moving around during the day -- and since you'll get used to jumping into the subway or otherwise traveling considerable distances throughout all hours of the day and night, far more frequently that you would in most other large cities -- you might want to take advantage of the strategic B and D lines, which will put you within 20 minutes shooting distance of the NYPL branch at 5th and 42nd (after a nice stroll through Bryant Park, from where you'll be getting off). Quiet and comparatively decent surroundings, if you don't mind going through bag checks everytime you step out for coffee, and having a security guard come by to rap his knuckles on your desk should you find yourself dozing off. And now open 7 days a week (having sold its soul and naming rights to some zillionaire benefactor or another).

If you can work in coffeeshops (and have a strong battery in your laptop or netbook), there's the Hungarian Pasty Shop (behind Columbia, at Amsterdam and 110th; a nice uphill stroll through Morningside Park); many find it oddly conducive to work (and hacking) despite the cacophanous chatter, and despite (or perhaps because, depending on your point of view) the lack of wifi (or outlets). The espresso is sub-par, but the baked goods are decent and decently priced, and the staff are quite tolerant and permissive.

Those same trains, along with the A and C will also take you down to the Greenwich Village / NYU area, which has a plethora of options on the wifi/coffeeshop front (Think Coffee, Tea Shop, Reggio, and Grounded are all quite reliable).

Outside the coffeeshop mold, there are a lot of other de-facto "study halls" embedded in strategic throughout manhattan: the atria of many larger office builings (basically, open spaces the developers were forced to provide in exchange for air rights and such) have been converted into public lounges essentially; many now have wifi and cheap espresso bars.

And if you're still blowing through your cash, there are even more scenic options, like the courtyard at the MOMA (if you felt like dropping a bit more than the usual coffee bill to visit the museum proper later in the afternoon).

May or may not make up for the near-impossibility of finding decent-size living and work quarters, sans roommates, anywhere near the center proper, but these options do provide a break from the usual office or work-at-home tedium, at least.

"Poverty with a view", we call it here.
Sausage, bacon and cheesecake?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100328170243.ht...

It's all about the D2 receptors. Cocaine, burgers, prostitutes, Vegas... even WoW:

http://www.adventureinterventions.com/pdfs/Dopamine%20Genes%...

Our poor brains just weren't evolved for this crazy world.
Alan Kay - Computer Software (1984)
Yes - thank goodness - they both had some superficial scratches and the wife had bad bruises but she completely protected the baby (it wasn't a second story balcony, more like a deck that protrudes over a steep decline). Of course, we didn't know either of them were really ok until 8 hours in emergency ward and scans were taken of spine etc. etc. One of the worst days of my life.
Oh yes, Dave Whiner #.

I like Asus' netbook. I needed an extra Windows box at work, so I picked up a $300 eeepc. Very useful, and the battery lasts forever. It's like an iPad, except that I can do whatever I want with it, and it's cheaper.

If this is "failure", I like failure.
Please Review: A side project to help friends plan events together
I've been working in my spare time (nights/weekends) to build a web app for event planning between friends. Basically, it's for those times you want to get together, but aren't sure when, where, or even who will be there.

I'd love to get feedback--what works, what doesn't, and how I can make the overall experience more intuitive and fun.

Please try it out!

http://synnk.com
Ah, thank you.

But what I really want it something that doesn't require dereferencing syntax:

(zet! c (* c x))
> A house and senate that behave like toddlers (complete with screaming matches, name calling, and taking their ball home)

This is not US specific. When I was in high-school I dismissed politics as politicians behaved like little children from my point of view. In some countries there are even childish physical fights between politicians in house (probably not senate).
NotScripts Brings Real Script Blocking to Chrome
Instead of 3rd party APIs, why not team up with the Gigablast guy who has his own crawling technology that seems to have the potential of Google's someday with the right funding.

DuckDuckGo has front-end with weak backend, Gigablast has backend with weak front-end. It's a perfect match.
The US long ago abandoned conscription for an all volunteer army and is never going back, and should never go back. Leverage technology for preventing conflict and aggression. The only thing you need a bunch of warm bodies for is unpopular occupation, something it should have gotten out of after the soviet union collapsed. Instead the US is deciding to make the same mistakes as the soviet union (investing heavily in military and occupying Afghanistan).

The issue of failed to launch kids at home is simply a rational utilization of economics during a recession on their part. Nearly 30% of young 20 aomethinga are Underemployed, discouraging the investment in housing or leasing in one location they might move d
From in search of better work for an entire year.