skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel bad for Kevin, to be stepped down from his own startup, it was his idea, it was his money, and now some VC guys just throw him out of the window. I don't believe Kevin just stepped down because of the V4 fail. Specially when he just became CEO again a couple of months ago.

Digg just became a zombie site, as a user, everytime I visit I feel like i'm visiting my RSS reader, it just doesn't feel to have any human interaction except for the comments.

Would it be pretty bad if they rolled back to V3 ? I mean...this version 4 is really not working out for anyone.
Interesting sales tactic. Make people go buy your products to find out which of your products you've just obsoleted.
Or raise your legs a bit, continuing to let the seat carry your weight but raising your knees by pointing your toes or just lifting them. Though I've only thought about trying out squat toilets (or "perching"), I can anecdotally report that leg-raising by itself does have some effect.
Ask HN: Does hiring help?
My philosophy tends to be to do few things very well, but my co-founder (who has a controlling stake in the company) is hungry for features at the expense of quality. We continue to incur code debt with little regard for the consequences. We're positioned well for fundraising and have enough to hire now, so his answer is always that if we hire a large enough team, we'll be able to do all of the things he wants. Have you found this to be true? Does it actually get easier to build a product with a lot of independently valuable but largely-unrelated features when you hire a handful of hackers?
Does anyone else have gmail auto-playing a hidden movie when they log in?
My wife's gmail account auto-plays a youtube movie about the new priority inbox every time she logs in. She has to click the link at the top to make it show her the movie before she can even pause it!

Is anybody else getting this?

My wife is using an up-to-date Google Chrome on a mac Book Pro.
Ladies & Gentlemen, Jessica Livingston is on Twitter (PG beware)
Appletv?
The US government has an implicit capability to eavesdrop because RIM servers are located in the country. _Requiring_ that servers be placed in your country with the _only_ purpose of being able to eavesdrop is simply despicable. You have no problem living in a country that freely imitates the human rights/ privacy record of Saudi Arabia?!
There is such a thing as getting more than you bargained for.
So -- will you be my mentor?
"You do know that with Twitter, you can go in and specifically revoke an app's access to your account?"

Yes, I do. Do I do that after app has done something stupid under my account?

The bigger point for me is this:

Suppose I decide I just don't care anymore for Twitter (or, much more likely, Facebook) and kill my account. Later , I realize I can't sign on to SomeApp.com because I forgot I had it hooked to the service I just dropped.

I prefer apps that let me use them with no user account, offer more services if I provide a verified E-mail address, and offer even more if I opt in to sharing my Twitter/Facebook/whatever info.

If a site is giving people too much to think about when signing in it's just lazy UX design.
It could simply be that no one else has implemented those open standards. Apple isn't responsible for adding support to other platforms, so it's technically accurate if the standards are indeed open, regardless of whether other people have chosen to implement them.
..larger parts of the press will probably be ok with stricter rules with regard to wifi or mifi usage..

I don't think they'll be happy. If the stream holds up all the live blogging is kinda pointless hits the nail on the head as to why.
Rather than an AI algorithm which needs to learn my personality or needs me to learn its personality, so I can direct it better, I would prefer to have a social network leveraging RSS reader. One which understands that I have already mentally delegated the cognitive load for various topics to people I know, who I accept as knowing more than me on those topics. I'm going to need to ask them later if some story is BS or not anyway, why not put that process in the RSS readers?

Posts user A has read and liked would trickle though the social graph out to other users who have delegated to user A in on the related topics (or delegated to someone who delegated to A, etc). Sort of distributing the job previously done by a newspaper's editors out to the people I know and already trust in those sections/topics.
controlling for nearly all imaginable variables - socioeconomic status, level of physical activity, number of close friends, quality of social support and so on

It's been a while since statistics 101, and I'm curious - in practice, how do you control for these variables? Do you try for a large sample size and only compare like with like? Or do you try to estimate the impact of the confounding variables and adjust the numbers accordingly?
Making rich text possible on mobile devices
I believe the VLC folks are working on HTTP live streaming support. Microsoft has implemented it in SilverLight but not in WMP yet. I'm sure Apple is (partly) doing this to kickstart the standard.
Three Unconscionable things about the iPhone 4G
It's amazing how close Menlo and Deja Vu Sans Mono are. I like the lighter punctuation in Deja Vu but the = character is clearer in Menlo. I like the zero with a slash in Menlo, too.
Ah---this is true. However, most community colleges do not have computer science programs, and many that do have it as a one-class-per-term appendage off another department (usually math). But for people in other fields, community college[1] does indeed often pose an opportunity for "just teaching" at the post-secondary level.

[1] which non-US readers might call simply "college"---a typically two-year program, post-secondary, often with a large number of vocational programs but usually also teaching a general education curriculum that might enable one to transfer into the second or third year of university.
I love how unambiguous Apple is about their feelings on their own products in press releases. Consider Microsoft:

> Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

Now Apple:

> Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork, and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple is reinventing the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.

Love or hate, they've left their mark on this place.
It's surprising that a professor of economics would state that the "The college tuition bubble makes the housing price bubble seem pretty lame by comparison". If you're looking at the numbers alone yes the graph looks pretty scary. There are explanations outside of a speculative bubble for why a degree has gone up in value so quickly. Over the time of his graph the percentage of those seeking degrees has doubled (15%-30%), while home ownership has remained relatively flat (62%-68%). Prior to 1978 a good union job meant you were solidly middle class, in the 80s that changed you had to get a degree to be middle class. In the 90s it accelerates again as even non-union manufacturing jobs were shipped overseas (and foreign students shipped in).

The housing bubble was entirely speculative. It was stoked by the fed keeping rates low, later fear took over as people didn't want to be either 'priced out forever' or miss out on easy money.

As others have mentioned it's apples and oranges, you can not sell nor live in a degree; defaulting on your student loan will not render you homeless. The bubble and collapse in house prices is far more signigicant to the larger economy. The housing market is measured in trillions, student loans in billions.

Don't get me wrong tuition is way overpriced for what you get. A drop in tuition and house prices would do everyone good.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking.
One would hope the two go hand & hand.
HTTP Live Streaming uses standard HTTP transactions and has been submitted as an internet draft with the intention of becoming an open standard [1].

Is there an HTTP Live Streaming client for Linux?

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pantos-http-live-streaming-...
Does your software development plan consist of a bunch of random thoughts inside your co-founder's head?

If so, sit down with him, plan it all out, estimate it and then consider hiring again. At least you'll have a better idea of where you are going.
:-) I hope I didn't sound too negative about your startup... I just think you have to put a lot of thought into exit strategy when you're doing something in music.
Technically and nerdily, I believe that was a form of toilet paper and not a toilet.
When attempting to log on after logging off, I get an invalid password error (I know it's valid). It also seems that the "forgot your password?" link doesn't work at all. Would you happen to be storing passwords in plaintext in ASCII or anything similar? I can't think of any other reason that my password wouldn't work (it's a random UTF-8 blob).
We tried that, but we've gone down the "agile" rabbithole pretty far -- we use tracker and adjust our near-term plans almost every day. And by we, I mostly mean he.

In fact, a big issue is that features keep getting broken into parts and then only the first 70% of the work is done before he decides something else is The Most Important Thing. I've been tolerant of this, because I'm fairly pragmatic about the realities of early-stage startups, but it's gotten us to a point where we've developed several full startups worth of partial features. In theory, if we ever return to all of them, it'll be valuable, but I've started worrying that this is a strategic issue not an artifact of capacity constraint.

I'm hoping I'll find someone who's been in this situation before who can advise.
It would probably look more like Gitorious does.

Gitorious is 8 million time better than rolling your own git hosting, but GitHub is so much more polished. I think a large part of that is because Gitorious is open source, so there's nobody dedicated to it as a full-time job. Whereas you guys have a handful of developers working night and day on creating pure awesome.

You guys rock.
If your interested in outfitting your own house with something else,

http://www.naturesplatform.com/index.html

I've tried myself to squat while hiking outdoors and I keep falling over.
"I remember reading a number of years ago about how much it costs CalTech to educate one of its graduates, and it was something on the order of $300k/year."

But that's not the question. With all due respect, it's not even all that interesting. If they had a million dollars to spend per student, by golly, they'd spend a million dollars.

The question is, how much would it cost in a competitive market? And given that engineers are the minority, how much should an English degree cost in a competitive market?

How much can you save by not even being on campus? By not using professors, which rhetoric aside you simply do not need for most courses? (I'd much rather see more professors doing more research and teaching grad-level courses.) How many teachers do you even need? Why are we paying people to do the moral equivalent of going to the front of the class and reading their notes? (With varying degrees of literalness.) And then paying them again to do it next year? And then paying hordes of such people to deliver the same classes to hundreds of institutions? To put it in HN terms, just how disruptive could you get while delivering the same basic product, or possibly even a better one?

"and so I feel it's reasonable to factor that in as a cost/expense that is not going away any time soon."

People say this a lot. I think people are culturally conditioned to say it. God forbid we radically rethink anything about education. But I think that you gave someone a choice of spending 20K/semester and living on campus, or spending 2K/semester and living where they chose and getting a degree just as good in the vast majority of ways, that not only would quite a lot of people made that choice ten years ago, but in the coming years, when money is going to be a lot tighter for the middle class, the 20K option is likely to just collapse. Just about the only thing holding it up right now is a whole lot of people like you who aren't willing to concede the possibility that quite a lot of the accouterments of college as we now know it are incidental to the the actual product.

Don't think with your standard cultural conditioning; think like a disruptive startup founder. The fundamentals of this industry are all wrong and it's going to burn. For better and for worse; disruptions are rarely all for the better. I'm not saying I celebrate every aspect of the change, but the fact that I think it's a mixed bag isn't going to change the absolute economic inevitability of the changes ahead.
Kevin said right after Jay left that he was only a temp CEO. Did you even read the other comments on this story?
hey Henrique,

Looks very professional, I love the logo and the demos are really neat.

You'll likely see competition from some open source variation on what you've made (if that doesn't exist already).
I think it's affected with whether you're skinny person or not. Skinny people are easier to squat on heels, as they have smaller flesh/muscle.

I observe football players have difficulty in squatting on heels.
He certainly does that, but about towards people disagreeing with war policy, not just general complaints about the country.
Google Adwords Management - Lesson 1
There seem to be two models to success in a field: learn as a youth or learn once you are an adult. These two approaches are equally valid from what I have seen.
The Web is Dead with Howard Lindzon and Fred Wilson
Relying on a conspiracy of the entire technical staff to keep your job seems like a bad idea to me.
See the award-winning "How to do the Asian Squat" documentary from 2002: http://vimeo.com/12977039
"Universities are repositories of learning because students enter knowing everything, and leave knowing nothing."
You might just be right. Large parts of the tech press probably aren’t happy that they can now pay much more attention and do critical and profound write ups afterwards. They would much rather just transcribe every word Jobs says and frantically upload photos :-)

(It probably costs the tech sites a lot of page views, so I can certainly understand why they wouldn’t be happy about it.)
The study claims squatting is better than sitting for hemorrhoids, but what is the effect of squatting on the knees?
I should also add we're not really in the earliest stages anymore -- we launched and have active users.
thank you Amund.
Work Examples from the NIST Engineering Statistics Handbook Using R
Or like cats - recycled.
The NIST Engineering Statistics Handbook is a great resource that covers statistical topics of interest to engineers. R provides an interactive statistical environment to work through the examples in the book. Calcuations that would take dozens of lines of code in many popular languages performed by R in a line or two each. Not much of a surprise to hardcore Lispers and the like - but still novel to those of us who spend some time in curly brace world.
I never wanted to pay for it, but the idea excites me.

What didn't you like about it?
MIT has an older video course taught by the authors of the text:

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma...
For what it's worth, I've been squatting since preadolescence. As a counterpoint to the experience of the sitters in the study who rated their experiences squatting "more comfortable" than sitting, I've tried going back to sitting from time to time to no avail; I find it unnatural and difficult.

I always figured it was because I was used to doing it my way, not because it was easier. I didn't switch for comfort reasons, and certainly I never dreamed it might prevent hemorrhoids later in life!
Funny, I just started a somewhat similar github project covering ZeroMQ (in Ruby) over at:

http://github.com/andrewvc/learn-ruby-zeromq

If you're interested in highly concurrent network programming, ZeroMQ's pretty interesting stuff as well (it's not really a message queue, it's super-powerful socket).

It's only been up a few days, but given the dearth of ZeroMQ docs (especially executable ones in Ruby) some here might find it useful.
Counterfeit MoneyGram Money Orders being passed via Internet Scams
I start from the premise that eBooks should cost less, because you get less. No right to lend, no right to sell, no way to insure against loss or theft, no guarantee you can even read it a couple of years down the road if the platform fails in the market. In effect, you "buy" something but never actually own it. You'd have to drop the price pretty low to interest me under these circumstances.

(I've picked up a few $5 O'Reilly titles on the App Store, but probably wouldn't even have done that if they weren't basically DRM-free ePubs with a reader wrapped around them.)
Direct link to the PDF so far: http://github.com/visionmedia/masteringnode/raw/master/book....
Thanks :) I expect that, I've found one OO source project but it only does maybe 40% of what mine does. This is like a commercial version of facebook image tagger :P
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1651240
Have you been drinking Alexis - you cheeky monkey. Follow me at your own risk - I may bore you to death :)
Take your pants off?
I would say that except one or two, all the other public squat toilets which I've seen were horrible. Though I agree that they're more sanitary because your butt doesn't touch them.
VolumeRates:Wholesale Electronics Gadgets-China Wholesale-Incredibly low prices
Highly unlikely!
There has been talk of an R based language on Lisp before:
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3726
Why can you turn clothing right-side-out?
Yes, one would hope, but don't think we've seen that for the last 10 (or probably more) years.
VMware acquisitions: signal of a full stack evolution?
Amazing, they completely turn that first paragraph into a huge oxymoron.

Let's see, we have this beautiful HTTP Live Streaming technology based on open standards but somehow it can only be appreciated on a Mac or iPhone...

This must be one of those standards hated by everyone else...
HTTP Live Streaming is intended to be part of the VLC 1.2 release, it's available in the current nightly builds right I believe.
The words "oh noes" come to mind.
Let student loans be dischargeable in bankruptcy and watch prices "adjust".

What other asset-backed-security is tied to someone's life until they die or become physically incapacitated?
There is no bubble. The return on investment for a college education may be less than what it once was, but the net present value of a bachelor's degree is still positive. That's an economic argument predicated on the proposition that an education's function is solely to develop human capital, thereby increasing productive capacity of the person and enabling that person to earn more for their services relative to what they would have earned without a degree.

This, of course, ignores another significant component of economic behavior regarding education. Specifically, in addition to it's vocational value, education is a service purchased to meet the human need for self-actualization. When you see a human-interest article in the local news about a 70 year old grandmother who has just completed her bachelor's degree, you are seeing evidence of economic demand for education that has no vocational basis.

I am not saying that the existing trend of the cost of tuition outpacing CPI can continue indefinitely. Clearly it can't. However, it is a mistake to label the present circumstance as a bubble.
I value my electronic copy of _Infinite Jest_ more highly than my physical copy:

* The physical copy is run ragged because you have to flip from the front to the back of the book constantly

* In the electronic copy, if I tap the word catastatic in the text, I'm immediately presented with the definition. In the paper copy, it's just annoying enough to look that up that I'm inclined to try to derive the meaning from context, which is a trap DFW seems inclined to spring mercilessly.

* Similarly, in the electronic version, and anyone who has read IJ will see immediately the value of this, when I tap a footnote number, I'm immediately taken to the text of the footnote, and I can instantly return back to the text. This speeds up my reading time of the book significantly.

Do these factors matter to you? Of course they don't. I'm a dork and I'm just namedropping a prestige book to make a point in the most puffy way possible. But: I value these features a lot more than "right to lend", "right to sell", "insurance against loss", etc.

And in a free market, I'm allowed to do that. And, though this is a stretch and you won't be happy to hear me claim this, I think I'm closer to the opinion of the bulk of the market than you are.
Gmail launches the Priority Inbox - which orders emails by importance
What's with Google this past year or so? This is just the latest in a series of poorly executed, or just plain dumbass, rollouts. Is there no adult supervision at the googleplex?
I wasn't claiming that Oracle maximized their shareholder value ;) In fact I'd argue that Oracle simply burned cash.
Thanks for installing and trying it out. I appreciate the feedback. Good to hear from user's perspective. The input will be revamped.
I'm very much looking forward to seeing Nathan talk about Clojure and Cascalog at the Strange Loop conference in October! http://strangeloop2010.com/talks/14487
s/shockingly/predictably/

There is a lot more involved in "horsepower" than clock rate. Taking a power-optimized processor and running a program that is notoriously resource hungry (i.e. written very inefficiently) will result in a poor "user experience." Predictably.
Let's just say that this squatting thing really does have all the benefits that the article says it does.

Does is occur to anyone else that instead of squatting precariously on a sit toilet, risking a fall and backsplash on the feet, one could simply put a stack of phonebooks or a kiddie stool in front of the toilet, and then put your feet on it while you take a dump? Same angle for the core/legs, but less danger.
The Simple Life
One way you might forestall that is to make a 'light' version that you make available for free.

That way the light competes with the same featureset as the open source programs, and you offer an 'upsell' to your commercial version if people want more features or commercial support.
Thanks Josh! Don't worry I have plenty of other posts rattling around in my head, haha.
No, you've identified the problem and its symptoms.
I believe k9 mail has gpg integration.

https://code.google.com/p/k9mail/issues/detail?id=13#c68
First Paul Graham and now Jessica. This is awesome.
I doubt there's a correlation. Facebook is engineer-driven and was founded to solve a social problem. And the problem google solved was borderline social. Don't mean to be argumentative- I just think that it's a choice that leadership tends to make early on that's unrelated to the problem being solved, and that one of the two choices/cultures seems to do far better than the other. (could be confirmation bias, but I kind of doubt it).
Only if they were wearing lab coats.
Hmm, could they use on-the-fly encryption/decryption? That is, use a symmetric cipher to encrypt the stored data on the servers and then do a simple backup of the data. When you delete your account they would just delete the encryption key. Backing up the encryption key could be done on your side (send you your own encryption key if you need to recover your data).