skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm starting to really get tired of the pattern "make an assertion, offer one anecdotal point to support it, plow on forward".

It reminds me of how they taught me to write English papers (high school and non-major college). You can make whatever claims you want, as long as you "back it up". You didn't have to actually think you were right, and you didn't have to (although you could) address any counter-arguments. As long as you could offer some kind of support, however small and contrived, you were justified and advocating whatever you wanted.

I feel like you can "support" any position you want if you've got the entirety of human history to pull anecdotes from.

I'm not trying to reject the premise of the article, I find it interesting, I just can't stand this style.
Alt+Up Arrow takes you up one directory. Annoyingly though, Alt+Down does not descend into the currently highlighted directory, instead Enter does.
How about things like Google Analytics? Do you miss tools like that?
I agree with your premise that one does not need to try something to know it is not for them.

However, you are making an apples and oranges comparison here. You don't apply to the military. You volunteer for service, and it is compulsory from there on out. You can't apply to take drugs, the act is self contained.

I am speaking to those people who have a desire or interest in applying to YC, but don't because they assume they don't fit the model. If you have an interest, apply, and find out definitively. If you don't have an interest, don't (much like your military example)
Hey, thanks for replying! I'm a pro-marijuana person but I'm not going to attack your arguments at all, I was curious to hear your reasons, thanks for speaking up.
??? I misunderstood you to mean the angle between the apparent source of the sound and the apparent source of the reflected light from the jet. Perhaps you could draw it out to explain what you are looking for.
Importing from Canadian grow ops is probably the name of the game along border states. Retail price is ~$200/oz in Ontario vs ~$400/oz in New York.

Oddly enough however, British Columbia and Washington state have similar prices. WSH either has much more lax laws, or is being flooded by BC production? Wonder whats going on there...
Unintended Corporate Racism
Optimal Stopping
There have also been theories that link that to the enjoyment we get from books, films, and other types of media. Sort of a "science of identification." Interesting stuff.
In Defence of Facts
You didn't see the original question. I did my best to answer it after he modified it, and I still misunderstood. Which proves my point.
Ask HN: Web App design resources (django newbie)
1 man team needing some pointers.

I've been using Django for a while now and want to deploy a little project soon. It will be digg'ish.

I've studied interaction design etc. but need a refresher and maybe some resources that have a Django slant. I don't mind if they're not, would be preferred.

Any suggestions?
There are plenty of people who smoke weed and hardly coast through life. Successful (including VERY sucessful) CEOs, actors, inventors, scientists, pretty much all sorts of people invalidate that notion

It sounds like you, personally, dont mix well with some substances. Or maybe just don't have any experience with them from which you can make a reasoned judgement. It reminds me of my brother, who is anti-everything until he actually experiences it.

People don't have to smoke cannabis, you know - it can also be ingested through food which nullifies the smoking complaint.
Release The Kraken
Had the same idea over a year ago, still planning on putting it into my custom browser (I'm kind of lazy at dev). I'm surprised it's taken this long for someone else to write about it. There's a crap load of ways that this will make browsers better, and no real reason not to do it. You can even put the http back in the link, and have the same kind of drop down to select from http/https/ftp/etc (but with user friendly names like Web, File, etc).
One of the best things to come out the nosql 'movement' is exactly that, no more silver bullets. As much as I like Mongo, I would never blindly recommend it, or any other data store for that matter. It's all about analyzing what your problem space actually needs, and using the best tool to fill that space.

And, yes, the speed improvements to the ruby driver are very much appreciated :)
Great links. Can you find one with a cheat to the golden egg that does the bird piano?

[Hint: sent from my iPod Touch]
its a way to pass time with friends, same reason why friends go and drink together, people smoke together... not to mention it can be safer and cheaper then booze.
Us developers get a hard on when we create these pretty urls, but I recently switched an app to have nice urls and not one user mentioned anything - to them, navigation is in the application, not the url.

Better to keep the breadcrumb there I say
It's not that Emacs or vi are lacking the features of an IDE, is that they were not designed to be one. If you want to make vim or Emacs an IDE you can, but it is not easy.
Forming an LLC won't hurt you. It will help with other things. But it will do nothing to address the legal risk this guy is talking about.
You mean there are still people out there who who have doubts whether Zuckerberg is a sociopath with zero ethics? Why would that be?
The MP3 player market is mostly over; it's being subsumed by phones.

Also, see http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/06/doubletwist-unveils-an-alte...
Nothing to add about those IMs. His friends suck though.
More Examples of Powerful Browser-Based Graphics with WebGL Samples
Seems like a lot of people are stoned when entering prices. $10 for 10 grams?
Notifo definitely needs to get on this..
I noticed that several of these items are actually on the normal menu in my region. The first one that actually stood out for me was the Peanut Buster Parfait, it's actually one of the most popular items at the Dairy Queens in my area. I then went back and looked at the rest of the items and realized that several of them are a normal part of the menus around here.
Don't confuse "amazing code" with "snazzy technology" (although we do some pretty snazzy stuff).

Also not sure about other places, but Excel usage is frowned upon here, at least on the trading desks that I support.
Yes. Old = good. New = bad. Tech in finance is about efficiency. Everything else does not matter. The GUIs are usually atrocious. Traders don't care, as long as they make money. Excel is abused beyond belief and there is a whole cottage industry around Excel plug-ins. A good VBA programmer can command a salary as large as a C++ hot-shot. Sad.
Great post, but there were a few typos (e.g., under George Bell, "thousand time that" -> "thousand times that") and the use of "I" was very confusing -- was that Jason, or the speaker? One example is under Alexis' section, there was the sentence, "I suggest raising revenue over raising capital..." Is that Alexis saying this? Or Jason's commentary?

The use of different fonts would greatly help distinguish commentary from summary.
For the same reason I don't write an optimized BingoMongrel in C to lower my memory footprint and save $25 a month on my hosting bill: a) that introduces technical risk into a project which doesn't need it at all and b) the cost savings are swamped by the investment in engineering time.

Plus, four weeks spent teaching myself Asterix is four weeks I can't spend doing things like coding the part of the app people actually pay for or doing consulting, which could buy me a X * 10^7 minutes of call time or Y months of salary in the bank for employee #1.
I like Google Reader's option to mark articles with a star to be revisited later, and the ease of adding new feeds in the full client; from Bloglines, I like the fact that it puts all new articles in one page - minimal UI interaction, and I don't need to keep a connection up.

One area I'm hoping to improve on both is the speed - both Bloglines and Google Reader, on the Blackberry at least, are a bit cumbersome and need several clicks before you actually get to read anything. Another thing I'd like to do better is that (with Bloglines) a failed page load still marks all new articles as 'read' - this does happen occasionally when I'm on the move, and I end up missing the latest articles.

I have one or two other ideas to experiment with :-)
Yes, that's what I meant.

If the jet is flying at your altitude directly at you, it appears as a speck and the speck just gets bigger as it comes closer and closer to you. The sound comes from the speck. There can be no delta.

I guess at the exact instant the jet flies over your head there would be some delta, but at that moment the jet is almost directly on top of you. Sound traveling a few inches from the jet engine to your ears, even as slow as sound is, would happen pretty quickly in comparison to the jet moving (which is slower than sound)
Maps from scratch
Just in case you are not aware of the following: Twilio can't fully handover forwarded calls to another carrier; therefore, you will be charged for the length of the call rahter than for the time it takes to reroute the call to another carrier.
Good points, I can think of a few companies who appear to be using Mongo because it's 'cool' and don't sem to understand the tradeoffs. For the applications I have in mind, there is absolutely no reason they couldn't just use postgres, other than that they want to believe they are 'cutting edge'.
Well, it's like 30 years of research and half of Walter Mischel's entire career!
Unfortunately I don't think you can do that on a Mac. Because it would be the most portable way (would work with the shell command line too).
Disclaimer: I have never read a single page of "1984".

Am I alone in thinking that this is a complete waste of time? Why would I go to Harvard to hear learned commentary on a mere novel? Granted, this is a critically acclaimed novel, but it's still just meant to entertain.

If I paid the exorbitant Harvard tuition, I would be incensed to be made to study a mere novel.
As it happens, I work for a company that owns a portfolio of a few hundred thousand domain names, many of them single word categories. Some of the names do bring in a ton of traffic on their own, but the stickyness is up to you to create. $15,000 is way too much in my opinion. You could use that to make a much better app to retain the visitors who do find you with a quirky domain name.
Ask HN: Is it okay to accept multiple offers and continue to look for work?
I'm currently in my senior year of college. I have offers from two companies that have a deadline for decision coming up, and another possible interview.

Both of these jobs have "At will" clauses so I was wondering if I could, and should, accept both offers and continue to interview and decide in a few months once I have a better idea of what the best job is, rather than deciding the next few years of my life in the next two weeks.

Thanks.
You'll be wanting the Timex Sinclair 2068, then...
I find it humorous that while Zuckerberg is:

* offering the information, but hasn't actually leaked it

* offering phonebook / directory type info, which is semi germane to the actual purpose of the site, especially in the early days

Meanwhile Boingboing is making public a recording of a private conversation held over IM.
Makes no difference because it's not the issue.
Which part is BoC? I recognize "so it goes" from Slaughterhouse Five.
More IMs:

http://www.thinkpress.com/authoritas/timeline.pdf
Music notation in HTML5/SVG
This just looks like a way to screen candidates that are competent. Of course they will interview each candidate to assess passion, but they need to make sure they're at least technically competent.
The question here is not whether we should look down on people with certain traits but to find out what makes a person effective.

It is not about judgment, it is about studying the interaction between human traits and the society.

As for the critique of the experiment, proper screening and appropriate statistical analysis allow to rule out these factors.

Just read the research paper for yourself
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/psychology/metcalfe/Old%2520Lab%2...
The point is not to know the actual assembly. The point is that you'll never run an operation that might take a non-deterministic amount of time to run.

Contrast to, say, Python (as an obviously exaggerated counterexample). Just calling a function in Python means performing a lookup in a hash table.
So what's the reason things in the US often don't get made available in Canada? Are there some specific laws that are difficult? Tariffs? Seems like Canada would be about the easiest market to be in for a US company (after the US).
The Relationship Between Parent and Child Navigation Menu Items
I still can't believe how they ended it with Omar like that.
If most phones are unlocked the market will certainly come up with competitive prices for both phones and carrier deals. That's how it basically works in the non-US systems.

As long as the phone is bundled with, say, a 24 month service you'll definitely end up paying more and the nominal "plain phone prices" can be arbitrary. You don't get $500 for "free" as the real price of the phone would be much lower. Or, alternatively, the monthly charge would be much lower without the phone if there was competition there.

It's just that contracts are too lucrative for telcos and they all know it, and nobody wants to start the competition.
The main thing that drives the Touch is the fact that it's connected to iTunes, with all the music and apps. Android phones can compete with the iPhone, because like it or not, Music/Apps are still largely secondary to why people buy phones: voice calls and text messaging. I chose Droid over iPhone partly because i can get it much cheaper on my Verizon family plan (also, unlimited data), and I need a phone, I don't need an iPod Touch..

But to really, viably, compete with the iPod Touch, you need three things:

1) An as good music experience as iTunes. So far, no one has that.
2) An almost as good App Store. Android market is maybe the closest, but it's still way off.
3) Something else truly magical that iPod Touch doesn't have.

No one else right now is really capable of hitting one of those 3 things, let alone all of them.
Agreed. I think this idea would be better implemented by the application itself as a navigational aid; maybe as a small bar stuck to the window on the bottom (as Facebook's bar was done).
Awesome. Does Twilio support MMS? If not, when will it?
I've really wanted to avoid joining the list of friends who have expunged their Facebook identities. This makes it very tempting to jump ship, though.
I meant for phones :-)
Potential issue with Kinect facial-recognition logins
I also simply hate the stoner mentality. Why the hell would you want to just coast through life? I mean, make something of yourself! Make your parents proud!

Why? What's the point? We're all going to die anyway.
I actually had a bit of fun doing a challenge problem for Bump (although I was in school at the time and admittedly had a bit more time to spend).. It felt like a more sensible assessment than a resume or some simple fizzbuzz problem would provide, as well.
I'm not really that clued up on the different schools of Harvard, but from the website the course appears to be run from their Government division. So this sort of thing would be suitable for use in an undergraduate politics programme as it gives some of the dry academic theory that places NO emphasis on the human aspect of poverty a bit more life in the form of studying modern literature, or in this case film.
If you're born a dual Citizen then it's not a problem. If on the other hand a non-US citizen applies to become a US-citizen then they will be asked to "renounce all other allegiances". However depending on what your other "allegiances" are the US will not bother too much about following up on it.

Also if you volunteer (as opposed to being conscripted) for military duty in your non-US nations then the US can kick up a fuss.

But basically if you're a dual citizen with a nation friendly to the US then you really have nothing to worry about.
First a BASIC command (which is the only TRON I personally know), then a movie, then a kernel, and now a scheduler. Too much name overload.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_command

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_Project

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_(film)
I've read all these IMs before. IIRC, they were in the trial transcripts.

I believe at least one of the "FRIEND"s is Adam D'Angelo, former Facebook CTO and now founder of Quora.

In any case, it's not as if Boing Boing hacked into Zuckerberg's computer to get these. They're freely available.
I wonder if the fact that people find this problem and bother to answer it, regardless of the results they get, is proof enough that they should pass an initial screening, considering the way most companies say that 90% of candidates are just spamming their resumes to everyone.
I would put HTC at the top of that list. They make the best Android hardware I've seen so far, and seem pretty good at UI and marketing as well.
fexl, because it looks and sounds cool, should be easy and fast to implement, is easily embeddable, and makes it easy to create hard/soft layer abstractions.
For a "Global Index", asking for the price of an ounce will stump people outside the USA. How much is an ounce again?
I find myself resorting to 'Show Search Tools' -> 'Past x' more and more frequently these days. As the web ages, it seems the proportion of old and potentially outdated information in Google's index to new information is increasing.

While Google Instant is technically impressive, the feeling of speed is undone whenever I have to next manually restrict the results to the past year or 6 months or whatever (and sometimes experiment with multiple durations) in order to filter out discussions from 2008 and earlier. Same with using regular search as well.

Hence, might I suggest you guys consider something like inverting the default search, to only include pages created or modified within the past year (or whatever duration you calculate most optimal for returning relevant results)? Or perhaps changing the PageRank weighting of recency, at least for domains that change rapidly. I know this could cause some problems, and I'm not sure the web is quite at the age where this is necessary yet, but I think there's an inflection point coming soon where more searchers will expect recent results in their top 10 rather than years-old pages.

It might also be worth moving the duration filter up one tier of UI so it is both clearly visible on the search results page, only takes one instead of two clicks to activate. The OP isn't the only one who's recently needed searches restricted by age and didn't realize just from the UI that this could be done. A few months ago I made a similar complaint on another forum and was informed of the same thing - use Search Tools -> Past X. But it's not obvious to do that on the current UI.
I'm a nice guy, but honestly, if I was a kid with that much power, I probably would have acted the same. People were feeding him their emails, photos, personal info straight to his servers. And they still ARE!

Still, he might have still been treating Facebook as a goofy side project at this point. And IM chat doesn't express jest or joking around.

Call a spade a spade.
There is also an option for grams.
It's a business model problem but the IP defender fear that it isn't possible to make money or there will be less money to be made after IP are abolished. They want to hold the IP abolitionist to the highest standard of evidence and at the same time, not give up every inches of ground without a really strong fight.

Meanwhile, the abolitionists have the hard task of finding examples. Then, the defenders alway have an objections to all the examples that the abolitionists did find, which are diverse range of examples. For example, popular band business model wouldn't work for small, in between-size, and vice-versa or mock business models that sell ancillary goods such as T-shirt.

All the objections by IP defenders is nice and all, except it's irrational. There is no attempt on behalf of IP defenders to gather experimental data, any kind. There is no attempt to think but refute every single abolitionist's suggestions. They make any excuses for staying still, good or bad.

For the reason of criticizing without offering much in return, few IP opponents have the ability to force a model update in me or at least an ample amount of models to investigate. One recent model update was making me take into account that monopoly profit can be use to maintain marketshare against copyfree and copyleft opponents. Another model was that weak DRM technologies sometime does increase sales though I didn't do much reading into it.
Leave him alone already!
> to which you had no input

That depends. I assume you are the most google'able Mike from Bath Spa. I stayed in UK to finish Bath Uni, so lecturers from there could probably feel proud of creating an environment where I felt welcome enough to stay for a longer time. It was their input into my environment and education and it did make a difference, because I still live in Bath.

Then again, this would be a personal situation and not "I feel proud, because some known guy wants to live in my country".
The conclusion:

"Happily, there is another way out of the impasse between fallible science and even-more-fallible non-science. The contest is not a zero-sum game: the shortcomings of science do not make it rational to believe cranks instead. It’s a fair bet that many of today’s scientific beliefs are wrong, but only your grandchildren will know which ones, and in the meantime, science is the only game in town. Or, as Hilaire Belloc put it, in a rather different context:

...always keep a-hold of Nurse
For fear of finding something worse."
The one truly great thing about the last season was that they reincarnated his character. He was the one character whose arc was perfect from season 1 through season 5.
Elevating user experience one article at a time - tagline from UX Magazine About page made me laugh. Their homepage design is antithetical to that statement.
> How can you explain that a lot of Japanese women go through cosmetic surgery to get rid of the slant in their eyes to make them look more Western? Why is baseball so popular in Japan?

Double eyelid surgery isn't exactly about making the eye bigger. It's to emphasize a small fold between the eyelid and the Epicanthic fold. It's considered beautiful to see just a small sliver of the eyelid from underneath the fold, and in many East Asians, the fold tends to grow too low. Additionally, as people age, the skin of the fold tends to sag and people may want some of it removed in order to open their eyes up.

From wikipedia "The procedure of reducing or removing epicanthic folds is epicanthoplasty. It is now an extremely rare procedure. Blepharoplasty, however, is not an uncommon form of cosmetic surgery in East Asia. The use of "eyelid glue" or "eyelid tape" (sometimes referred to as "eye glue" or "eye tape") is used to create the appearance of the "double eyelid" by finding a "natural fold" in the eyelid and tucking it in and holding it with an adhesive."

http://waynesword.palomar.edu/images/epican1.jpg
From the article: "Of course, our undergraduate students will read rigorous academic studies of the urban job market, education and the drug war. But the HBO series does what these texts can't. ... With the freedom of artistic expression, 'The Wire' can be more creative. It can weave together the range of forces that shape the lives of the urban poor."

It's not simply commentary on a TV show. The show illustrates points from a wider academic course.