skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's as simple as keeping moving. I lost that flexibility fairly early on, certainly in the middle of playing multiple sports through high school, and I'm still very active today.

I know I don't do enough stretching, though. It's just frustrating because my hamstrings never seem to improve, and as soon as I stop stretching, I go back to base (about 12" from touching my toes while standing).
Charitable behavior found in bacteria
Who's to say that people won't opt-in but be very selective of what they inject into the system?
I don't think there is any correlation between smartness and a particular aspiration like, wanting to be an entrepreneurship.

All of the most successful entrepreneurs, I am sure they are among the smartest people. Its just being a scientist, the typical tag for 'smartness', may not have been their aspiration.

Jobs, Gates, Theil, these are all very smart people who went on to be entrepreneurs.
if you have access to a knife
Is it just me or is the letter.ly subscription page really bland? Too minimalist? I think it needs color, a more detailed description, anything compelling that might make me consider subscribing before closing the page.

A real subscribe 'button' and proper capitalization could help as well.
Hipmunk is Hiring a Web Engineer.
and wondering just why nobody is talking to us.
In any corporation of that size, there are some "mid-level developer"s who are far better at what they do than their title suggests. For whatever reason, they just haven't moved up in title as fast as they've moved up in skill or productivity.
Being able to share your upvoted links?
The full text of the linked tweet is "poss help 4 info overload? if on sites like Reddit / HN u cld view just the links a given user has upvoted (if they want to share them)".

If you could find someone with your tastes, you could see just the submissions they think are worth seeing (or get an RSS feed of it).

Of course you'd have to choose to share the information about which submissions you've upvoted.
This "rebranding" is obnoxious. If I was kid I'd be pissed. Kids can tell when you're bs'ing them. They're exposed to enough propaganda already.

The path to healthy food isn't in telling kids what to do, but exposing them to something better. Look at what Japanese kids eat. I _know_ kids would prefer salmon-roe onigiri and fried rice to potato chips and twinkies.
There are some here on Hacker News. The average quality level here is probably better than on a site like eLance.com, for example.
Odd... I didn't find the tone of the article to be at all confrontational. The author gave a great summary of the NoSQL movement, its goals, and how his team has an idea that might accomplish many of those goals in a different way.
Just a fack check.

There is at least one person who have worked for others and becomes a billionaire because of that: Charles Simonyi. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Simonyi). But he is probably the only 1 in 6,697,254,041 human beings who achieve billionairehood by working for others.

And yes, he worked one time in Xerox PARC before Microsoft.
Walkstation!
Google is free ?
Yet from your link it says: "He now heads his own company, Intentional Software,[1] with the aim of developing and marketing his concept of intentional programming."
Counterexample: Being overweight.
Only in Japan, Real Men Go to a Hotel With Virtual Girlfriends
"Wovon man nicht sprechen kann..."
Google is apparently also worthless.

Facebook seems to be trying to position themselves as more of a Google(gateway to the internet) and less of a straight social network.

Charging users would be suicide though maybe a slow one. Companies will pay for access to Facebook users.
Stupid cash cow
Or simply install NoScript, and worry about whitelists, not blacklists.

I can get at the content there with no trouble, and don't have to worry about any of those toolbars.
New Apple TV: Living Room as Tech Battleground - PCWorld
Google is almost a part of the government at this point. It'll take a lot to dismantle Big Google...
Insulin: Body Weight and Energy Production (3-part video)
Bill Millin, piper at the D-Day landings, died on August 17th, aged 88
Even just guesstimating seems difficult to me. I wonder then how did he guesstimate?
That's really good! I'd like an app that will help repay my mortgage quicker, coming with plans etc.

Also I can't help but notice that techcrunch is basically an advertising platform for pretty much anything YC funded.

It's like if you get funded, you get something that floats, boom, you're on techcrunch.

I'd even say that a feature article on TC would help more than the original funding...
Hands-on photos, observations of new iPods, Apple TV
Most definitely a possibility. I thought it seemed a bit strange, in any case.
Note: It would appear the coding-style assertions can be attributed to the "--strict" flag, used in the example.

YMMV, but I get the above impression from the docs (How To) -- http://code.google.com/closure/utilities/docs/linter_howto.h...
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Audiovox vx 6600
Some tricks from my .emacs:

(server-start)

;; no Tabs
(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)
(setq-default tabs-width 2)

;; List more buffers in the buffer menu
(setq-default buffers-menu-max-size 30)

;; Prevent startup message and switch to empty *scratch*
(setq inhibit-startup-message t)
(setq initial-scratch-message nil)

;; Fix C&P
(setq x-select-enable-clipboard t)

;; Make Caps Lock LED blink instead of audio bell
(setq visible-bell 1)
(setq ring-bell-function
(lambda ()
(when (getenv "DISPLAY")
(call-process-shell-command "xset led named \"Scoll Lock\"; xset -led named \"Scroll Lock\"" nil 0 nil))))

(show-paren-mode 1)
(column-number-mode 1)

;; Keep the custom stuff separate
(setq custom-file "~/.emacs.d/custom.el")
(load custom-file)

;; I know what downcase-region does. Me no noob anymore ;). So undisable it.
(put 'downcase-region 'disabled nil)

;; This can be a life saver!
(push '("." . "~/.emacs.d/backups") backup-directory-alist)

;; Create better buffer names. foo.c++:src, foo.c++:extra instead of foo.c++ and foo.c++<2>
;; This should really be the default behaviour for Emacs!
(require 'uniquify)
(setq
uniquify-buffer-name-style 'reverse
uniquify-separator ":")

;; c-mode hook to set better default compile-command if no Makefile exists and activate flyspell-prog-mode
;; I have similar hooks for c-mode and fortran-mode
(add-hook 'c++-mode-hook
(lambda ()
(flyspell-prog-mode)
(unless (or (file-exists-p "Makefile")
(local-variable-p 'compile-command)
(not buffer-file-name))
(set (make-local-variable 'compile-command)
(format "%s %s %s"
(or (getenv "CXX") "g++")
(or (getenv "CXXFLAGS")
"-pipe -std=c++0x -pedantic-errors -Wall -Wextra -Weffc++ -g3")
(file-name-nondirectory buffer-file-name))))))

;; Set f9 to compiler and f8 to make clean
(global-set-key '[f9] 'compile)
(global-set-key '[f8] '(lambda ()
(interactive)
(when (file-exists-p "Makefile") (compile "make clean"))))

The rest is just some specific mode setup and minor key bindings stuff.
I'm all for any ideas that can help America get out of debt. It's also great to see someone step in and fill in the hole that MS Money left (it had a fantastic debt wizard/planner, I was sad when MS announced they are killing it, despite how buggy the app always was).

I do wonder if this site can really reach the market it's after. In my anecdotal experience, the people that are in massive debt don't really have the discipline or organization to get out of it, even with a great tool to help them. If they did, they probably wouldn't be in as much debt to begin with.
The jargon term is "hellban", fwiw, coined at SomethingAwful around 2001 or so, who I believe were also the first forum to use it. You can find a lot of argument on the internet (including HN) about the pros/cons. How they balance depends somewhat on how many false positives there are--- like silently spam-filtered legitimate emails, false-positive hellbans are annoying because they don't produce any immediate indication of failure. Reddit in particular has had hordes of annoyed users at various times due to wonkiness in their algorithms. I believe SA use it rarely and only as a manual measure by human moderators.
I too made the switch after reading Yegge's good stuff, but missed kill-region so badly I had to come up with this:

(defun backward-kill-word-or-kill-region (&optional arg)
(interactive "p")
(if (region-active-p)
(kill-region (region-beginning) (region-end))
(backward-kill-word arg)))

(global-set-key (kbd "C-w") 'backward-kill-word-or-kill-region)

This gets me kill-region for an active (transient-mark-mode) region but backward-kill-word otherwise.
Maybe that says more about the food you are eating, and a warning to change your diet.
Does this actually cause a disruption of service though? It seems like it would be trivial to just keep the configuration in place for 72 hours even after changing the DNS entry.
Don't let me discourage you, but there is a reason why there is little research on freemium business models: it is theoretically not very different from premium business models (price discrimination), except for the fact that the lowest tier is free instead of paid and that the company benefits from network effects from the free users. So the big issues are in price discrimination research and research on network effects.

Not that it isn't an important new idea in practice, since the psychological difference between 0.01 cents and 0.00 cents is huge.

If you end up doing the thesis with on freemium, you'll probably either end up doing a quantitative analysis (check out the quant research on shareware), or qualitative analysis around price discrimination, network effects and business models (check out this MA thesis https://jyx.jyu.fi/dspace/handle/123456789/23051).
20 Year Old Founder Jessica Mah Raises Over $1 Million For Indinero (YC S10)
Yes, a model customer is also someone who never complains no matter how bad the service is, and how bad the staff screw up.

That is not the best way to go about things.

I have also seen the best service going to those who make the most amount of noise, who shout the loudest, and cause the most amount of trouble, since no one wants to upset that person. And I have seen model customers ignored over this person, since they will not complain.

It is not as simple and gracious a system as you suggest.
You might be able to argue that it's worth more than the ~$17k, but there's no way it's worth more than the advice, the ridiculous productivity because you have to tell everyone what you've gotten done every Tuesday, the intros to investors, etc.
Not saying that Facebook deserves a $100b valuation, but, in all fairness, a PE ratio of 20 isn't realistic either. Facebook is perceived as the growth company that Google used to be. Investors will be willing to pay a premium for that.
> It really makes you wonder whether the post was written to increase a counter in a database or out of conviction that this is the way to go.

Again, this just has no relevance to the claims on offer. You can evaluate them for yourself without wondering what the author's motives are.
I co-founder StartupDigest (referenced in the article) and these tips are spot on. From looking at the inside of thousands of events these are some of the inside secrets event organizers use.
I use unison for my code repositories (I use dropbox for other things) and I don't bother with it in cron. It's been fast enough in my experience that I don't mind waiting, and it sometimes (rarely) requires manual conflict resolution.
Of course, if that's the host's custom, guests should follow it as well. But many hosts don't take their own shoes off.

While you never know what's on the streets, well-off areas of the US generally have clean, dry walkways -- it's rare for sewage to be tracked about. We have comparatively little dirt/mud/feces-transmitted disease -- such as typhoid, hepatitis, cryptosporidiosis, or various other waterborne parasites.

And, North American children face rising rates of allergies and autoimmune disorders, which, if the hygiene hypothesis is to be believed, are made worse by too little exposure to mild pathogens from unclean environments.

So the most health-promoting custom might vary a lot by region.
They actually do that -- they keep the old IP live for a while to prevent problems with clients that might have cached the IP.
In the worst case, you can go to a school that doesn't offer compilers. My school offers but doesn't require it.

It would be interesting to discover the earliest CS program at a reputable university without a compilers requirement.
This isn't directly related to your question, but thought you'd find this 5 minute video interesting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU7Y6HiLXto

It's Art Williams (inspirational speaker guy) who mentions he doesn't think "smart" people are likely to "succeed" in business, because they try to figure things out too much. Instead, he preaches (almost literally) a "just do it" mentality.

Worth the few minutes if you haven't seen it.
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Internet Geeks - Because Knowledge Is The Real Power
I've heard ex-YC'ers claim that the money is the least significant part of the whole YC process with contacts, mentoring and the guaranteed Techcrunch coverage obviously being much more useful than the $20k.
yeah from outside, I have no idea about all these things. I'm sure you can't put a price on experience. I'd love to be a part of it but I guess it's not in my path :)
this is my blog and everyone are welcome to join us.
yea I know, I was in a rush and I didn't want to give the impression that I was astroturfing with a title like "Resource Furniture: Awesome space saving furniture"
How to Stay Organized Online and Boost Your Productivity
Yes, but facebook ads can target users much more accurately. I've probably clicked more facebook ads than google.

I don't see the advertising model as unsustainable. What I wonder about is whether user interest is sustainable. I never check facebook anymore because updates get pushed to my phone, and because facebooking has gotten boring. I don't think this feeling is isolated to me.

Maybe there's a reason why social networks only seem to last a few years.
I didn't mean to hate on IKEA. It'd be awesome if they adapted/improved on some of these designs.
I'm sorry -- as an advertiser who manages large budgets the claim that a global network with rich audience data and precise targeting is worthless is quite silly and not in touch with the reality of most online business models.

Google is currently the king but Facebook is building the hooks to make it an even larger force for ad revenue.
Not only could they be added, but they have been. See for example this article about a program in Vietnam where they have been used to control the mosquito responsible for Dengue fever.

http://www.ajtmh.org/cgi/content/full/72/1/67

There are many more examples on Google...
This aversion to ugly fruit and veg invaded UK and Australia year ago as well. So now, when you go to a supermarket, you will have beautiful tastless food, whereas when you go to Spain or Italy, you have ugly delicious fruit and veg.
Not sure on which HIPAA regulations will apply, but I'll research. Thanks.
Four Minutes in the Morning
Apparently this person hasn't lived very long, since he talked quite a bit about TV. Which, as I recall, was built upon free, over the air, advertiser supported broadcasts.
Provocative, but too breezy to be convincing.
The data and the platform might be there but...was Facebook intended for connecting and sharing or liking and buying? Think about that...
It also occurs to me that committees add complication to things all the time. Being able to process an idea into a product while bypassing a committee is important factor in the investment component.
What, though, is the alternative? Wait 100 years when we're dead, hoping that record companies finally release better recordings? Look at what happened with Naxos trying to use public domain records, they lost in NY. Studios will re-release recordings indefinitely making dubious improvements to retain copyrights or they'll just change the law like Disney has to 200 years.

I want to let artists, composers, film students etc use this music now, and something that is of decent quality. This is one of the best ways to accomplish that unless you have a better idea.
This is such a weak post especially coming from "An Ivy League MBA." I thought business schools teach people to write essays with strong arguments.

The first few paragraphs talks about how Facebook has not and probably cannot charge its users. Google doesn't charge its users either; is Google "worthless?"

The next few paragraphs states that Facebook is not interesting anymore, claiming news feed is full of nothing but "bored office workers", "super moms", et al. First off, the author's experience is anecdotal. Second, all the "bored office workers" and "super mom" quotes - as stupid as they may sound - are parts of socializing. When we "chill out" with our friends, what do we talk about other than "man, my work sucks" or "omg, my son Jonny is learning to walk!"?

It is not that "bored office workers" and "super moms" are uninteresting; it's just that the author is either 1) independent and/or self-center or 2) has too many people on FB she doesn't care about. If it's the latter, the author should learn to "hide" uninteresting people in her stream.

Finally, the author ends the post by saying that FB's cost is rising and that it should charge $0.99/mth to "be worth something." Yet, never does the author mention 1) how much cost is rising and 2) how much FB's revenue is growing.

The details are unclear, but Facebook became cash-flow positive in 2009, and there's no signs of it slowing down.

So Facebook is worth something unless this whole "online social" thing-a-magic is really a fad. But to find out, shouldn't we ask all the "bored office workers" and the "super moms" - the people who socialize the most - rather than a business MBA who could care less about small talk?
You mean the banner that pops up on Scribd where the doc is stored?
the orchestra depends entirely on how much money we raise, and what pieces of music the donors want. I can hire the london symphony, but I personally would rather get something less well known and more music.
If you don't want to donate but want to help, we are also looking for votes from our Pepsi Refresh grant

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Xenophon's "Persian Expedition" is one of my favorite books. It's picaresque yet sincere in a way that few writers achieve.
It has an additional discouraging effect because those who get hellbanned are usually seeking enjoyment by starting a flamewar, and if they can't get a reaction, they aren't having fun, so they stop or go elsewhere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease_mongering
Ever thought of Brazil? Cheap as hell, beautiful and happy people, gorgeous beaches, huge huge market, very cheap internet access. I recommend somewhere like Bahia or Florianopolis.
socialism is based on the idea that capital has no value and only labor does, and thus you must use guns to prevent anyone from accumulating too much.

Nowhere in my essay did I say anything about the use of guns. I am not an expert on socialism, but I don't recall anyone I have met who identifies as a socialist telling me to grab a gun and use violence.

Therefore, I am going to leave you to argue with yourself since you are spending all of your words telling ME what socialism means and then explaining why YOUR definition of socialism is bad.

Have fun.
Linkbait
1. Nice packaging has a marketing merit no matter the product. Think how a beautiful gift wrap elevates an average gift. So why no have a nice packaging without the "Junk" logo?

2. Never a good idea to assume that the kids are stupid.
Not a problem. I have not heard of any of these technologies being used in the field. The only thing I have seen in diesel tech is a pressurized fuel system which is only an incremental improvement.

Truckers are very conservative in their upgrades, remember that a truck has to haul up to 120,000 lbs (total weight), and has to last for anywhere between 500K and 1 million miles between significant rebuilds of any major piece such as transmission, engine, etc.

On top of that, there is a patchwork of taxes, Federal regulations, etc. that change on a yearly basis.

And trucking is very competitive and cut-throat, basically a low-margin business to be in. Low margins mean cost-cutting and no experimentation, so no one will test these new ideas unless they are paid to do so.

(Each 18-wheeler used full time pays fuel and excise taxes of approximately $20K just for the fuel and taxes alone, not including the income taxes paid by the driver and the taxes on profits by the corporate owner; so there are lots of fixed costs to cover before anyone makes any money.)
I've used NoScript, and it's extremely annoying having to enable it on each site you want it on. Not to mention blocking it in the hosts file automatically blocks it in all browsers, and that I don't agree with some of the things the NoScript author has done (http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/01/236248).
Sorry, but this one is going to fail miserably.
Or Herpes.
I was not talking about entrepreneurship, but "Nope. Nobody ever made a billion dollars working for someone else,".
Don't you think it's kind of a dangerous thing when you start saying you deserve something by virtue of the fact you perceive it to be a cultural norm?

"I work hard but was laid off from my job. America is all about rewarding people for working hard so I got screwed. Therefore it's OK for me to rob a bank in order to compensate myself for my monetary losses which society owes me."
When You Say “Authentic”, What Do You Really Mean?
I think the point of the article was to suggest that personality disorders are a continuum rather than a binary thing. I don't know if this is correct, but it seems a bit more logical than a "you either have it or you don't" philosophy.
And of course everything seems to be US only. Dang.
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you're assuming that the 77% all have the same thing.
The sad evolution of wikis
Most bottled water is processed tap water. Dasani, for instance, is filtered through reverse osmosis. Some others go through distillation. The result is dramatically cleaner water, at least before bottle leachate makes its showing.

I'm actually surprised that HN or any tech site falls for the "just tap water" bit, as if H2O from a mountain is more unique than H2O from a tap.
I think you mean HPV: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_papillomavirus#United_Sta...
Successful entrepreneurs are more likely to be smarter than less successful entrepreneurs, but the most successful people in any field are more likely to belong to the set of "super smart."

I think to some degree, "super smart" people are less likely to be interested in entrepreneurship because they find the business aspects of entrepreneurship dull. (I don't think you could classify me as "super smart," but I belong to the set of people bored by business.) Some people want to spend all their time solving problems that they find fascinating. Taking less financial risk -- and consequently reaping fewer financial rewards -- might be a worthwhile trade-off if it means you can spend all, or at least more of, your time tackling problems you find fascinating.
Don't forget thirty days of backups and redundant hardware...
It's possible that they are including the costs of benefits and perks. My impression that mid level for google (which is to say, top level people most places in the valley.) was around $30-$40K lower than that in terms of cash monies.

But I could easily believe that if you include the cash value of benefits, vacation, and perks, that shoots up to $150K. Google's salary is generally not anything to write home about either way, but they do hire people who would be top-end most other places, and their perks are top notch.
Apple’s ‘Ping’ Social Network Is Already Too Big to Fail