skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Foxconn founder Terry Gou might be regarded as Henry Ford reincarnated if only a dozen of his workers hadn't killed themselves this year"

Ouch, that's a cold way to start an article - odd considering they go into detail his charitable works later on in the article.
How much post processing is needed to combine the two video streams? Is it parallelable?
http://github.com/getify/HandlebarJS oops!
A very good source of essays is the New Yorker magazine. I subscribe to the print version, but the online version is cheap, and many good essays are actually free on their website.
Peak oil seems like a complete non-issue to me. As a resource, it is in such high demand that when we run out someone will step in with a replacement. There's simply too many capitalists and entrepreneurs in this world to let that void go unfilled.

The primary reason alternative fuels haven't caught on yet is because they're not cost effective. As oil becomes a rarer commodity and it's price goes up, a replacement for the fuel supply will gradually emerge as being cost effective.
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Facebook is blocked in Mainland China and Vietnam, home to over 1 billion people.

Facebook is nowhere in Japan or Korea, the two most lucrative East Asian markets.
The google one actually shook the dots if you shook the browser window. Did anyone else notice that?
+1 for modesty.
I do this today with my various Google accounts by forwarding one to the other, then using the 'Reply from the same address the message was sent to' setting in the 'send mail as' section in the settings.

This way I can have multiple addresses feeding into the one inbox with one contact list and the ability to send mail as anyone.
What is a 'postmodern industrial empire'?

I'm not sure it makes any sense, like the gradient of a cow.
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The best damn show representing Baltimore to the fullest. Follow P.J. Vick on facebook at: http://facebook.com/pjvick
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Inefficacious Living
Right.

I was once surprised to see how many high-ranking salespeople had technical degrees like engineering or a hard science. But it makes sense -- they just struck the right balance, with enough technical knowledge to be able to talk to anyone, and then persuasion/influence skills to amplify that influence.
I appreciate you saying whats on your mind. You have very valid points.

Ideally I would want somebody who could bring strong readily usable skillsets. Two other long time friends-advisors (one in software marketing, one a software whiz) both have heavy constraints against making a risky move such as joining a startup.

I have some very strong strengths and some very strong weaknesses. The thought behind going for this friend is, if I can't find somebody I trust, who can bring strong strengths along with being able to counter my weaknesses, I might as well as bring somebody in who can counter my weaknesses. And this guy can do at least that, if he is willing to join and really contribute.

Unfortunately, one of my weaknesses is building rapport quickly with people:). I am working on it, but can't bank on becoming good at it fast enough to build a good team quickly.
Fred Wilson makes the rounds sometimes: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fredwilson
I think these kinds of problems make you comfortable with algorithmic thinking, it may not always be necessary to implement algorithm X or whatever in your day to day code but being comfortable with algorithms (by practicing) means you don't push off or miss the correct times to implement algorithm X.
Who made you the ultimate authority on what's fun? That sort of elitism is sadly not surprising here.

Believe it or not, a lot of people actually think Farmville is fun. I'm not one either, but I've met many who are. It's so ridiculous to assume that because you think it isn't fun, nobody does, and therefore it has no value.

The fact that your comment has 42 karma right now is the main thing wrong with this site.
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" ... and that the lens flare doesn't do enough to obscure the subject, all without realizing that this advance merely makes those things optional."

The funny thing is, lens flare is like tape hiss in audio recording; it's an artifact of a given capturing technology, not intrinsic to the thing being captured. On the one hand, it should just go away as recording technology improves, since you don't experience lens flare when you see something with your own eyes, yet, unlike tape hiss, it has become some sort of token indicator of "realism" (especially in CG movies).

Some people will look at HDR video and complain that, like HDR still shots, it doesn't look real, as if something viewed through a recording intermediary could ever properly look real.
that's cool, I just started reading HN and had no idea.
I don't know. The guy has like 600 karma here. Clearly he is more capable of judging what is fun and what is not than the 80 million Farmville players.
Recommendations for Astrophysics Tuition Funding
I'm reaching out to you, a community I respect tremendously as top-of-the-line talent and results-oriented people, for off-the-beaten-track ideas on how to solve the Astrophysics Tuition Funding question.

My 18 year daughter has been accepted to a prestigious private college to pursue her dream of becoming an astrophysicist. This has been her goal since she was 10 years old and built a 6" telescope. She wants to go beyond star parties and showing the glories of the universe to the general public to become an astrophysicist pushing back the frontiers of our understanding of the universe.

Significant funding is needed, but scholarship searches mostly yield spam results or recommendations to hold a car wash. Government funding (Pell and Cal Grants) is not an option.

I'm looking for high quality ideas to help her raise sufficient funds to cover private college tuition. Summer jobs help, but are not enough.

Is there something like Kickstarter.com or http://www.modestneeds.org/ already in existence to help students pursuing the sciences?

A friend recommended using PayPalto set up an online fund-raising account, link it to the '592' plan, and spread the word to friends and associates. Has anyone gone this route and willing to provide lessons learned?

For the curious, her summer job was creating the web site and building telescopes for http://www.stellarvue.com/ And this week she met with the SETI people about doing some work with them. Yes, she takes this very seriously!
Or just use Password Gorilla (http://wiki.github.com/zdia/gorilla/) and let it remember your overly long cryptic passwords for you.
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The point you're making has been debated ad nauseum in the past so I won't attempt to refute it.

What I took from the article was that while the stimulus/recovery act was largely sold, and perceived rightfully or wrongfully, as a jobs bill, that likely won't be its legacy.

I think it is intellectually dishonest to compare the economy of Greece to that of the United States. In fact the article states that the stimulus funds aren't being directed like earmarks past, but acting in the same vein as venture capitalists. In the United States 80% of new jobs are created by way of small businesses. Yet that says nothing about how new industries are born (e.g. the DARPA funding that spawned the current internet economy).
Flagged this for clear sensationalist link bait on crunchgears behalf.
Yipes. Maybe I can take solace in the fact that mine is "handlebars.js" (plural)?
ditto on the craft beers and non-fiction books. I spend money going out with friends every weekend to have a great time. I guess it's just a gut feeling, if I believe something is worth the price, I'll spend the money on it. Sometimes I'm wrong and pay too much for something that's not that valuable, but other times I feel like I purchase things at a great price that offer me a lot
I may be interested. What age range are you looking for? I'll have just graduated from high school (planning to study CS in college) but I'd consider myself fairly proficient in web programming. (I've been making sites professionally for several years already. You could see some JS knowledge of mine reflected in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1634648.)
All of this thread about whether or not social games are fun is such an oversimplification as to be worthless.

First off, there's the semantics. What is a social game? Is it something running in Facebook? If so, you're not going to see it evolve too much too soon. That's because of the way the platform incentives are structured, the mindset of the average person who is on Facebook at the moment (more often than not at work, multitasking, able to devote only infrequent, short bursts of attention) and the inherent technical limitations of the Flash platform. If you ever saw the traffic graphs of a successful game, you'd understand immediately why casual is winning. It has a high bounce rate and peaks on weekday mornings.

If you define "social gaming" more broadly, which I think you should, then World of Warcraft, League of Legends, and many other very innovative games are social games. In that case you're already seeing social games evolve. My little cousins play Call of Duty over Xbox live with each other from their homes 50 miles apart every day. That's social gaming if you ask me, and they at least think it's fun.

There's certainly no accounting for taste. It's just plain snobbish to say the games you like are "universally recognized as fun" and the games you don't like aren't. I'd rather jam a ballpoint pen into my eye than play an asynchronous game of Scrabble. You'd sooner catch me playing Farmville.
England has "managing director" for the CEO.
William Deresiewicz.
Here are two essays I really enjoyed and agreed with:

http://www.theamericanscholar.org/the-disadvantages-of-an-el...

http://www.theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/
Ideas like that are a fine way to lose before you even start.
I think I now have brain cancer from reading that.

It's important to "leverage" technologies such as hadoop which enable delivering critical business needs. Most people call that "using modern tools to solve pressing problems". If anything this article makes me much less likely to look into Hadoop, ever.
As someone who just very recently began to use Django extensively, it seems like the issues mention do carry some weight. While Pinax is a great help in avoiding to reinvent the wheel, I have had to copy the app out of the package into my own to customize it. I'm not sure if this is prevalent in other frameworks but it didn't seem to be too much of a hassle. But of course, maintenance-wise it might create more problems.
What university is she accepted to? What country? How much does she need?
Totally agreed. I started a niche site (a directory for notary publics that funnels visitors into a paid app that helps notaries manage their businesses) as a lightweight SEO experiment.

It's only been ~6 weeks but, even if I can't get many of the visitors to convert to paying customers, I've learned far more in the past few weeks than I could have learned through meetings/reading/dreaming.

First hand experience FTW.
I think it’s worth spending money on travel, but the amount is determined by how long I have to stay in one place to afford a trip. If a trip to Europe means I have to save up for two years beforehand, chances are I’ll take it off my priority list in favour of less-costly trips that mean I can take time off my job every three or four months.

Other things I believe in spending money on include education (although I do think that my university fees are unfairly high), good food, make-up and shoes (makes a big difference to how I am treated by others, unfortunately), kitchenware that lasts forever, a laptop and phone that work without causing me to stress, and bright, colourful things that make me happy. I also like shiny things but the price is normally too high compared to how much I like them.
No, the "sign up for my newsletter" banner with the bouncing red arrow. It shows up at the bottom of the linked article about 2 seconds after the page loads.
Well, to be fair, these people commited suicide at work and sometimes left notes pointing to their failures at work while working 7 days a week for 15 hours a day. I don't personally think this story is just media hype. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-05/25/c_133... http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/malcolmmoore/100039883/wha...

From the linked Telegraph article, "For those who believe the spate of suicides is statistically in line, given how many people work at Foxconn, consider this: the company says it has prevented a further 30 people from trying to kill themselves in the past three weeks alone."
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Unfortunately to make good contacts in the travel industry I think you have to go work for one of the major players.
this article on when to use algorithms is great: http://www.bluebytesoftware.com/blog/PermaLink,guid,4db70333...
Those who committed suicide were between 18 and 29 years old. The suicide rate in mainland China for 15 to 24 year olds is 0.007 percent, the suicide rate for 25 to 34 year olds is 0.015 percent (WHO, 1999, http://www.who.int/mental_health/media/chin.pdf).

I wouldn’t be so fast with comparisons, though. You might have to double your percentage (the suicides happened between January and May 2010). I also don’t know whether suicides of Foxconn workers not on company estates are included. That might skew the numbers substantially.
My brain actually hurts during some of this. You can see some of the unfocusing, misalignment and artifacts that show up in individual frames. Not really sure how I feel about HDR in video.
I've discovered that opting for higher quality foods (not gourmet or a 100% organic diet, just slightly better than spam/ramen) is well worth the results in regards to short term energy and health. Let alone long term health. I just feel better with fresher fruits and vegetables and quality grains and meats. I used to swear by ramen, but buying cut rate flour noodles and stock separately is nearly as cheap, and I'm noticeable healthier. GIGO for meatspace, essentially.
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Matthew Arnold's essays are very interesting and fun to read. He is from lay 1800s but the writing is superb!
My grandfather's favorite essayist was E. B. White. He wrote for the New Yorker in the middle of the last century, as well as writing Charlotte's Web and a ton of other books. I don't remember the content of anything he wrote (except that rural Maine was really nice), but his prose style was amazing.
Thinking Of Customers As Your Guests
I cannot scroll down on your blog post (Firefox 3.6.9, Mac OS X 10.6.4). One press of the arrow key up or down takes me to the beginning and end with no middle. This does not fill me with confidence or inspiration.
I really like Adam Gopnik, also from the New Yorker. He often teases out cultural or historical aspects of whatever topic he's on, and he can also make interesting analogies between disparate subjects.

I particularly liked his semi-regular "Paris Journal" pieces (now collected in "Paris to the Moon"). He used his life in Paris as a way of thinking about life in America. It included a brilliant extended comparison of President Clinton to the children's TV character Barney. "Barney is Bill Clinton for three-year-olds. Or rather, Bill Clinton is Barney for adults. He serves the same role for jumpy American liberals that Barney does for their children: He reassures without actually instructing..."
I agree. Sometimes being miserly just isn't worth it. It's a good way to alienate people if done poorly. It also begs the question of "What are you saving up for in particular?" If it's for a house payment or a large long term goal or to keep a balanced budget that's one thing; but if it's to simply save for saving's sake alone without an objective, it can become oppressive. It did for me, that is.
Ask HN: What "infrastructure" do you use at your startup/company?
I've been thinking about the idea that most startups/companies are generally the same -- at some point, they all have to deal with issues like billing, accounting, provisioning, newsletter/email delivery, banking, IT, etc.

What tools/services do you currently use? If you had to do it all over again, what would you do differently?
Signal to noise ratio of Craigslist is definitely terrible. Recruiting via mailing lists in the CS departments at schools is likely to yield much higher quality results.
Broadcom open sources wireless driver for 11n chips
Rent - I need a great place to come back home to. Food - fresh, high quality food improves my life a lot. Car - my 30 30 square feet of personal space that I can transport to wherever I want.
That's a lot cheaper than an extra 50GB on Linode.
My first thought is that this video looks exactly like a video game, but that is because current video doesn't use these techniques whereas video games do. I think this actually looks better than traditional video, but whether it is actually adopted or not depends on what viewers think. There's an interesting parallel with the fact that TV broadcasts and digitally filmed movies aren't displayed in higher framerats: They look "fake" or "homemade".

What we really need to make our digital images more lifelike, of course, is cameras and monitors with higher dynamic range. There are efforts underway to creating actual HDR LCD monitors where there instead of a backlight there is an array of white LEDs that are selectively lit according to which parts of the monitor we want to be bright, resulting in a ridiculously high contrest ratio. But for the time being, data formats are designed for our current contrast ratio or dynamic range.

Don't remember who said this, but a researcher in this field said something along the lines of "you would never mistake your monitor for a window to the outside, but this is what we are trying to achieve". This actually seems plausible, apart from the depth perception side of things, with today's developments in super-high resolution displays. Think the new iPhone display scaled up to 50 inches, with a much higher contrast ratio. I'm very excited about this.

It's going to be interesting to see what amateurs do with the D5 camera. Equipment costs are no longer an excuse not to do cool things with video, and this demonstration is a perfect example.
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Michael Lewis gets amazing access for the pieces he writes about finance. Not too technical, but he really gets into the characters that are involved with different parts of the industry. He's also one of the lucky writers who can write about anything that piques his interest at a given time (Moneyball, Blind Side, and essays in the same vein), so those are worth checking out as well.

Atul Gawande is a great medicine writer. He was at Slate for a while, but he's been writing for the New Yorker for the last few years.
Does anyone else feel that they learn significantly more from failures and missteps than successes? From my former sports years we would spend hours watching film for errors while only touching on good things. Its definitely stuck with me.
hey there, im gonna get rid of that. Thx for the comment.
Spend money on things you need. If you want it, and need it, w00t!
What's the saying again... any time you start building a template engine you'll end up inventing django templates... ?

This looks great. I love mustache and use it on one of my projects. A bit more added syntax power would be nice, but it could easily begin to violate the rule of not being code.
For crappy PHP blog hosting, it's a pretty good deal compared to "shared" hosting where you take your chances.
I was there for the start of Steam, the first two days of Half-Life 2, Ricochet. Hate to say it, but those were definitely failures.

Takeaway quote from the article:

Because it got all the way through to customers. It’s like a bug. If you fix a bug before it ever ships, it’s pretty cheap. If you ship it and then fix it, it’s really expensive. Those ones are really bad.
PG, hands down.
Besides him, I also enjoy the writings of Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov, Richard Dawkins and some more.
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Yeah, they broke one of my search patterns: search for something, read the answer from the results. I do this almost as much as following any of the results, because for a quick answer to a question the answer is usually in the summary of the link. Now, however, I open a new tab, google loads, I type the question and hit Enter, and when I CMD-W to close the tab, Safari stops me to ask if I'm really sure I want to do this.

This seems like such a tiny thing while I'm writing it down, now, but it's frustrated me steadily today; I've context-switched out of whatever I was thinking about more than a dozen times to figure out why I was getting a popup warning. Finally I just turned it off in search settings. The barely-noticeable increase in speed just isn't worth it.
Travel. Going out with friends and dates. Fresh, locally raised food. A good pair of leather shoes.

Oh, and that copy of Snow Leopard required to grab the iOS SDK. =/
Ask HN: Is is okay to use MacRuby to write iOS Apps?
Does Apple's announcement today mean we can use MacRuby to write iOS Apps?
Ask HN: Is seeking a patent for a web service worthwhile?
I'm 90% done the features of a web app that I'm really quite excited about. I only have a couple of things to finish up before I'll be posting up a Beta for you all to play with. One of those things, at the insistence of several non-tech but lawyerly family members, is to explore getting a patent. I rather dislike software patents because I feel they're ripe for trolling/squatting, stifle technological improvements, and I think code resembles more a recipe (non-patentable) than an invention. That being said, I'm alive in a world where software patents are real, and my dislike for the possibility of somebody stealing my beloved idea [and especially implementation of it] is greater than the grudge I hold against software patents.

The technology in question is a customizable toolbar that installs as a bookmarklet. I'm not comfortable explaining what the toolbar does, but rest assured that it's very, very useful, and definitely a novel idea. The closest thing I've seen to it is Quix [1], which leaves much to be desired. What I've made is a remarkable feat of CSS/JS hacking, and I don't want it to be stolen.

Aside from the obvious advice of "ask a lawyer," I'm looking for advice about the following:

1) Assume my App was "Quix" (with some very unique twists)... would it be patentable? Would it be worthwhile, IYO, to patent it? (Subquestion: How much protection would a patent grant; could somebody copy it and modify something slightly?)

2) Assume I did want to seek a patent, how much of the product could I expose right now? Could I still launch a "Beta" or would that be putting it in the public domain? How about a video?

I realize the likelihood of this idea being a measurable success is slim... says you. Yet, I cannot help but be optimistic about it. I've demoed it to several family & friends (of varying tech-savviness) and while some are indifferent (but see the value), the majority are excited about it and can't wait to start using it.

Finally, thank you all very much for taking the time to help me in what feels like a pivotal point in my life.

[1] http://www.quixapp.com
Are the calls "made in the USA?"
Good food, good neighborhood, books, hobbies. Or put another way - health, mental health, personal development, and fun.