skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at my Google Alerts:

- 10 Alerts set up for various usernames and family members.

The username ones are strangely sporadic (Google catches some posts to public mailing lists, and entirely ignores others) but the family member ones are usually very specific, and hence are rare

- 11 Alerts set up for topics I maintain webpages on (for example, one Alert for dual n-back, since I wrote & maintain the DNB FAQ http://community.haskell.org/~gwern/static/N-back FAQ.html), or that I watch the Wikipedia articles thereof (eg. [[Mark Lombardi]], [[modafinil]], or [[Frank Herbert]]).

The quality of theses runs an incredible gamut. For example, the Alerts for [[Neon Genesis Evangelion]] or [[R.A. Lafferty]] are just stuffed with spam and commercial links, while the Alerts for [[Gene Wolfe]] or [[Nick Bostrom]] are usually high-quality and actionable.

I don't really have any other uses.
Emokit: Hacking the Emotiv EPOC Brain-Computer Interface
Actually he says that the specific conditions did not come up in the interview. They used the terms customer validation and pivot, but did not specifically say "we don't have a well-understood group of customers" or "we don't have a scalable and repeatable business model."
Nah, it was this one, basically low-volume direct mail:

http://mixergy.com/mailfinch-paul-singh-interview/
Not a fan of the iPad in-general (why do you want a big iTouch- I want a real OS like OSX for something that big), but I think it'd be awesome if someone could show videos of iPads, Macbooks/Macbook Pros, iPhones, etc. by the pool with the best glare protection available attached to see how they match up to the Kindle 3 in terms of readability. I have spent minimal time with my (work) Macbook Pro outside because of the glare.
i moved here 6 months back. live in south bay (sunnyvale) and commute to the city for work.

For starters, the weather in the city simply sucks. Its cold, windy and foggy most of the times - on the contrary, south bay remains clear, sunny and quite warm.

Even bigger gripe against bay area is the cost of living. Everything from housing to everday stuff to gas is insanely expensive. Paying 1600$ + for a crappy apartment built in the 60's without any washer dryer was a huge shock as compared to raleigh, where i moved from.
How so? Web frameworks offer the luxury of interpreted, high level languages and frameworks that abstract away many of the implementation details and let a developer concentrate on the bigger picture. I think mobile will get there someday, too, but it's not there yet.
> It is a game changer for Twitter monetization; not so much for users or content creators.

Preview of shortened urls seems like a very good feature for users.
Hey smart guy - stop trying to do it yourself
Probably because it's hard to get millions of signups to any web service?
Nokia's mobile chief Anssi Vanjoki steps down
I've always called it just postgress, perhaps because of that reason.
Is it bad as it used to be? I visited a couple years ago for a weekend and I only noticed the vibrant part.
Wouldn't get you pervasive laziness, though I don't know whether R is lazy by default or like Clojure in that you have to ask for it.
Money hats is a metric for profitability of video games created by Scott Jennings (Lum the Mad), but most phrases I use repeatedly are the result of trying out a lot of ways to say things and iterating on what gets smiles, laughs, or quoted back at me.
What Scott Adams is proposing is a system that would allow individuals to compete in team rowing or tug-o-war competitions with individuals from other cities/countries/continents via the internet, which would be new technology. It's sort of like the transition from local multiplayer on a game console to online play. Home multiplayer video games have been around since the 80's, but it's not until recently that they've made their way online. The internet is a great tool because it ensures that you never suffer from a lack of available teammates/competitors. In the olden days, your ability to partipate was dependant on those around you having the same interest. Scott suggests setting up gyms for this kind of thing, but the beauty is that with the proper equipment, anyone would be able to compete from home. This could be a boon for people living in more remote/rural areas who want to compete in team athletic events.

Plus, there's all kinds of other neat things that you can have the tech do with regards to scoring, like having a system to scale/normalize scores so that a team of 10 adults can compete against a team of 10 children and come out with roughly a 50/50 win ratio.
Can't wait for ads to start using canvas tags.
Many of the best schools in the US are the small liberal arts colleges (Swarthmore, Williams, Amherst, Pomona, etc).

These schools accept 10% of applicants, have large endowements and could easily triple in size, but they have been the same size for 50+ years.
I am aware of SharedPreferences, and serialization is certainly an option, but ultimately these don't solve the main problem I've experienced. Serialization requires a lot of manual work and it may not scale particularly well for middle-weight and up. I just think that the kinds of data stored in mobile applications lend themselves more to some of the various NoSQL patterns than something like SQLite.
After hurting my knee in a downhill skiing accident, I went through two months of rehabilitation at the Sports Medicine Center. A lot of it had to do with specific weight training for the damaged knee's tendons, and some of the machines were hooked up as controllers to computers, where each exercise would be represented as a simple game.

To keep the story short, the games forced you to focus not on the number of repetitions or mass your were working with, but on the precise motion required for the exercise.
The man came in the restaurant, pointed to a meal looking like meat and asked: "What it that?" The attentand replied: "that's our special: cow tongue!" And the man said: "Argh, I won't eat something that comes from the mouth of that animal... Just give me an egg, please."
If it's just you, doing stuff for yourself, RVM may not bring a lot of new to you: Correct.

RVM is great to test against different versions (and implementations), especially if you do a lot of team-work: For instance, if you work in a team, or in production environments, the newest version of Ruby may be ahead of the production version, and then it's a must being able to switch from one version, or implementation, to another--painlessly.

A personal use case I could come up with (there are a lot of them): You make an app., and it runs with Ruby 1.9.2. You deploy this app., and then Ruby 1.9.3 is released, and your app. is no longer compatible. You want to stay on the cutting-edge still, so you want 1.9.3, but your project is not compatible with 1.9.3, and still needs some work to be, since it's grown rather huge. Here RVM would be handy!

When I was just toying around with Ruby, I didn't use RVM either. It's not until I've got work within the Ruby field, I've had the need for it. :)
I can't disagree on ORM and templates (I disagree with the lack of proper method invocation in Django templates, it annoys me having to create tags for trivial things). I kind of disagree on the form validation though. Having used a number of frameworks prior to Django (including Rails for about a year), I love the way forms are handled in it - it just seems to make sense to me.
- It's the only place I've lived where my geekiness wasn't the least bit unusual and where I wasn't usually the smartest person in the room, and that was refreshing. -

There's something I don't like in this sentence.

This isn't the first time I hear something like this on HN.
I have standing google alerts set up for:
-Zac Cohn
-Zachary Cohn
-parkour
-freerunning

And then various other temporary ones for shorter-term projects.

I used to post news daily to the largest parkour website on the web, and google alerts were INVALUABLE for finding out about things going on all across the world and reporting on them. While I was working with that site, we were THE place for news about parkour, and we almost always had it before anyone else.

I left the site after some not-so-great experiences with management, and now the site is lucky to get one update a week on something pretty irrelevant or out of date. I felt pretty bad leaving, but it almost hurt more to see this system and resource that I had redesigned, repurposed, and really revolutionized (in the parkour world) fall to ruin and disuse.

But long story short - google alerts were INVALUABLE. Even though I don't update the news on that site anymore, I still have this awesome spy-network that reports back to me.
Ask HN: Are you using Indinero?
We're trying to decide b/w: a) using quickbooks or b) using indinero and giving our CPA access to our account and having him categorize our transactions and export them to his quickbooks.

Has anyone used both? What are the main points to keep in mind?
Thanks!

Yeah, managing a "large scale" JavaScript application isn't easy. I ended up inventing a module system that loads all the dependencies before it executes a .js file's body. This is all hidden on the page, because all the files were compiled together into just one.

All the objects in the game world are derived from a base "Entity" class and inherit physics and stuff like that. So each particle, like any other object, is an Entity and not handled differently at all. When the Blob enemy dies, it just spawns some new Entities - the particles.

For the sound, the files names are all with an .ogg extension. The engine then decides if the browser can play Ogg Vorbis and substitutes the extension to .mp3 if necessary. So I _do_ have to have all sound files as .ogg _and_ .mp3. I hope that'll change in the future...

Edit: just uploaded the Editor as well. Saving is disabled, but everything else should work. Press Space to open the Entity or Tile menu (depending on which layer is currently active); hold Right Mouse Button to pan around; Z and Y are undo and redo.

http://www.phoboslab.org/biolab/weltmeister.html
I think SF like any city is what you make of it. It sounds like you never made that many friends who were native/lifers in SF and you missed out on anything deeper than what you could read in a tourist book.

Cities take time to get to know, and the most important thing is to get to know other people who know the city better than you.

If you had tried biking more in SF, you also would have found more things to do and less to complain about.

Almost all your hate points are worse in NYC IMO.

One last thing, San Francisco is NOT the Pennisula (San Mateo, Palo Alto, etc) and both places are extremely different. Most of the pennisula going down to San Jose is pretty much like Atlanta, Most of Texas or San Diego.
To be honest I've been using R a bit lately for my work and while I like it I don't find it at all innovative. That's not a criticism of R: the libraries it has are amazing, as well as the mindshare among people who care of statistics.

But I wonder why R actually needs to exist as its own language. It seems it could be recast in Ruby for example or one of the latest functional languages.

So I am kind of pleased my this news... if there's gonna be a need for R to have its own language, speed seems to be the most important distinguishing feature. A bit like Fortran is still used in science.

(incidentally... don't let people tell you otherwise: Fortran(90+) is a very nice language... much more pleasurable than C to use and gives you better performance (unless you know a lot about compilers and compiling flags... but most scientist don't ^_^))
I get daily batches, so every morning I scan through the headlines. If anything catches my fancy, I'll read it, but otherwise it takes < 10 seconds to open the email and scan through the headlines.
The problem they'll have the most trouble with in live streaming is simultaneous viewers. YouTube can fudge it with On Demand videos now by using progressive download and a lighttpd plugin, but streaming live to that large of an audience will choke them.

Wow, 105 people watching now at probably 300kbps and it's incredibly blocky and jittery. Now it's having technical issues, off the air.
Try mint.com too.
On the hack-a-day article ( http://hackaday.com/2010/09/13/python-library-for-emotiv-eeg... ) they are discussing the legal part of this. Any comments daeken?
Sony patent: 3D multiplayer stereoscopic split-screen
Oh, also "rochester parkour" (city I went to college in). That one was invaluable for finding people from rochester talking about wanting to learn parkour. They'd say something, and within 24 hours I'd swoop in and be like "Hey have you checked out our website? Come to a jam sometime!"

It was pretty cool.
I visited in 2006, loved it. Visited again 2009, hated it.

The place is choc full of bums....
RSS is missing another big thing from Twitter/Facebook, which is standardized 2 way conversation. Another thing a centralized organization is useful for
TomTom Offering Free Adapter Upgrade For iPhone 4
Every Unix has shipped with dbm since 1979. Since then you have BerkeleyDB, and most recently there has been TokyoCabinet.

However, Sqlite is clean, fast, small, well tested and just plain solid. Android standardized on it for in-device relational store because more applications can benefit from it. If it's not good enough for your purposes, you have the whole gamut of Java serialization libraries to chose from.
Yes, please! It seems nowadays one of the most important feature in a name is to be unique from the point of view of Google. :)

(incidentally, if you are a mpaa operative, call your blockbusters with just one very generic name... a lot easier than suing half the world, and just as annoying ;) )
The Recipe for Open Standards (and Why ISO Can't Cook)
The facebook v1.0 code is not what made it an empire, it was the decisions they made there after. They weren't building a shed, but a company.
Wow. Very disappointing comments on this post. I was looking forward to a healthy debate with some interesting arguments. but with a couple of exceptions this is silly bickering.
Ask HN: NYC restaurant suggestions?
Visiting friends in NYC this coming weekend, staying in the 3rd/37th area. Would love some recommendations from fellow HN'ers for restaurants in the $25/person budget area. Thanks!
I don't generally talk legality online -- for good reason -- but I will say this: I believe that this library is kosher and I'll stand behind it if Emotiv disagrees.
مسلسل سيلا الحلقة 13 
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Thanks for the clarification Mz, wasn't expecting such a long reply actually. Hope your health is better now =).

I suppose CLEP does help in getting credit but one would still need to check with the respective colleges regarding their policies.
I just realized that, when I refer to MS SQL, I pronounce SequelServer

However, when referring to MySQL, or SQL the language, I pronounce it as Es Queue El
As a replacement for indinero? I was planning on using it for my personal finances and indinero for business finances.
I probably wouldn't have had such a strong reaction if the comment hadn't started with "And based on the author's previous Django and ORM posts" as though the author is incapable of making technical decisions because he didn't like some aspect of Django previously.

Between that, and the regular stream of ridicule about Rails , Node or just about anything else not Python it just seriously rubs me the wrong way. I don't see anyone changing my opinion of that; nor am I asking them to.
How Will Google Instant Affect Your Company's SEO?
If you live and work near Caltrain or BART stations it's very easy to live in the city and work in the valley or east bay, or vice versa (though if you live outside the city you'll want a car).

Or if you're fortunate enough to work somewhere that has a shuttle that's another option. Many of the big tech companies do now, thanks to Google's lead. Off the top of my head: Google, Facebook, Apple, Genentech (I actually knew someone who would take the Genentech bus to work even though they didn't work there. Guess they don't check)

Of the people I know who live in SF and work in the valley, I'd say roughly half drive, and half take the train or a shuttle.

I usually take Caltrain but sometimes drive.
Sorry, meant to upvote and hit the wrong arrow. Damen those thick thumbs and the lack of undo on HN!

Anyway, I concur. HN seems very pro-RoR to my eyes.
I haven't had any problems, and I even have a hand-installed Ruby 1.9.2 on the system level. (rvm plays well with this: "rvm system").

I haven't noticed any clashes even in this case. By default your rvm is installed for just one user. So if you're all that worried I'd create a different user to try out rvm, and just install rvm on that user. Then if it fucks up you can nuke that user.

If you want to play with MacRuby and keep a more standard Ruby that you already have installed, rvm may be a good choice.
I think you and I both know - once you've run with something long enough, you hit a wall. Everything - every language, framework or tool hits a wall. You hit yours with Django because you fundamentally disagreed with some of the design decisions. I personally have not hit my wall (with django) but I see plenty of room for improvement.

It's awesome you built something so quickly with Rails - I have a similar experience with Django (a tiny amount of time to build a really deep application).

I personally found it amusing/bothersome that you were lauding a fairly magical and opinionated framework when you had old posts deriding Django (and it's ORM) in the past.
Surprised at the amount of agreement with this article, and the cries of "incompetence".

ISTM in a desktop app context, the consumer key/secret combination effectively becomes a complicated equivalent to your browser's "User Agent" string and yes, only slightly more difficult to spoof.

So what Twitter is asking for is that in order to authenticate a user (with additional credentials) you give them a valid "user agent" that was assigned by Twitter. This at least allows them to understand, when they get traffic, who wrote the app that's sending it. It's obviously not perfect in a desktop case but then neither is user agent - but there is no perfect solution for the desktop case, and Twitter's choice allows them use a consistent mechanism for client and server apps.

(Edit: the OA responds below and says I'm wrong about this part. I'll take his word for it.)
I suspect the OA's problem is more with being a) asked to do this nasty complicated Oauth thing and b) with the idea of Twitter wanting to know who he is - and he'd rather they just let him keep on persisting user's twitter creds himself. Conflating this consumer key with DRM is a bit of a giveaway.

(Updated: The important point here is that the author's app is open-source and he chose to distribute the keys with the source code, rather than require each person who builds it from source to get their own API keys.
I think Twitter's position - that the author should not have done this - is completely reasonable.)
Can you elaborate on the non-declarative schema point? With something like Django's South handling migrations, what problems does the declarative schema introduce that Rails side-steps?
Very well made game. Reminds me of games made with flixel for Flash. http://flixel.org/
I am building an app with Django. Can you elaborate on #1 and #3? While I agree with you on #2 to a certain extent, the extend/include and templatetags of django templates is reasonably powerful and at the same time does not pollute the templates with lot of code. Form validation - Custom form fields and custom widgets/multiwidgets actually have made my life simpler by allowing me to build reusable form widgets+validation logic.

One piece I sorely missed in Django was model level validations. With the latest version, this is included as well.

Note: This comment is definitely not to ridicule your conclusion, but more to learn from your experience.

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Changing your perspective is great advice. Other than that, try taking action towards improving your situation. However small the action, accomplishment generally will lift your spirits. Additionally, diving into something will either help take your mind off things or help solve them (depending if you're working on the problem at hand, or something else, of course).
I use it to look for blog posts and other mentions of my iPhone app, the Brainstormer. If someone posts about how cool the web version is, I can email them and offer them a promo code for the iPhone version. I've got a handful of reviews that way. Getting mentioned on blogs has been my most successful marketing technique so far.

Another good strategy is to set alerts for similar, competing products. Especially if you are a small product competing with a bigger one, you can send "I noticed you reviewed BLAH, your readers might also be interested in MYBLAH, which is like BLAH but way betterz!"
Which campus in Chicago are you referring to? I've enjoyed bumming around NU, UC, and UIC at least as much as I enjoyed bumming around Stanford. I know, NU is not technically in Chicago, but it is as close to the loop as Stanford is to SF.
Thanks -- let's chat.

And if anyone else wants to help test it, shoot me an email or leave a comment below.
I was being sarcastic; and if you cannot name at least 5 things you dislike about the tools and languages you use you're either in the honeymoon period, or irrational.

This includes fellow python-oriented people. Myself included.
I didn't like this at all. I found the one-sentence format distracting and the article lacking a theme. It read more like a laundry list directly out of somebody's brain. What a strange style for an essay.

I freely admit bias though, since I wrote a functional article just this morning (shameless plug: http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2010/09/functional-td...)

I'm probably still ouching from watching it tank on the "new" page. Very sad experience, that. :)

It just doesn't seem like there is much here. Certainly not enough to warrant the votes it's getting. I must be missing something, because between the odd style and the lack of substance it doesn't seem to match up to the response from the community.
Could you unpack the numerous double negatives in your first sentence? I think you're agreeing with me, but I'm not sure?
There are so many ways to improve, too. Leaderboards are an anti pattern in community design because they turn 99% of your customers into losers and losing is not fun. Instead, you either do leagues or publish individual successes within friend groups.

After you have achievements longevity awards are like taking candy from a very wealthy baby. (Only one more month until you get Bronze Boots of Buttkicking! Do not cancel now. Then next month, they are halfway up a new treadmill.)
That's a very good idea, thank you. I think I'll do it.
As somebody who works out a lot, this idea does not appeal to me. I put myself in the shoes of people who attend aerobics and cycling classes (I strictly do free weights and the occasional cardio machine). And even then, I think this would be a turnoff to them. Yes, they like the encouragement of having an instructor and the pressure of keeping up with their classmates. But generally they would be turned off by having to compete against another team. It might sound sexist, but a lot of the people who attend classes at my gym are women and there is more of an air of the class being like schoolyard skipping rope than competitive team sport. The focus is on cooperation amongst the team itself, but not in an effort to beat some opponent.
I've spent some time in DC, I have friends in DC, I'm pretty familiar with the knocks DC takes... and lack of "art/history/science/etc things" has never been one of them. Isn't DC actually pretty amazing for that stuff? And, can you clue me in on the art/history/science stuff you've found to do in San Francisco?
Spoiler alert: don't read this article if you haven't read Ender's Game (and want to).