skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few things, as someone with a daily blogging schedule myself:

1: Fixing permalinks on WP requires messing with MOD_REWRITE. It's not hard, it just requires some .htaccess stuff.

2: Really, you're absolutely right. It's a matter of getting on the horse and forcing yourself to do it every day. I've given myself SOME time off this year, but I've largely blogged 95% of the time this year. It's pretty important that you write and don't stop.

3: The getting judged on your best work thing is important. You can't blog assuming that every post you do is going to be a big hit with the right readers. But some will hit very hard. I've had a few that have connected VERY well – a thing I posted on Ikea's switch to Verdana, a post on BP's photoshopping, and general political stuff that's kind of the bread and butter of my blog right now – but the important thing is that I keep writing and I can improve the quality of my work as I keep going.

4: I'm a fan of having some basic ideas in mind but not relying too heavily on notes. I'll do a lot of basic research on a topic, grabbing worth-reading pieces from HN, certain bloggers of choice, hearting them in Pulse, e-mailing them to myself or throwing them on Instapaper, but I think it's better to let the sparks come to you on the fly. Sometimes, my best post of the day will be something I spent less than ten minutes on, because I was able to put an interesting twist on it.

5: Sometimes you get lucky. My blog's been linked by Andrew Sullivan a couple of times. The Atlantic Wire links to me semi-regularly. Slate linked to me once. I get the occasional follow or retweet from someone I look up to. And it's even led to some freelance work. But the more important part is that you're not doing it for those occasional notices (though they're nice). You're doing interesting things because you want to do them and you can give them an interesting, unique focus. And that focus builds you an audience.

Look, there's a reason why a blogger like Instapundit has an audience. His blog is anemically designed by today's standards. He might as well be using Twitter/Tumblr (rather than using Twitterfeed to link back to his page). But he's owned his style of blogging. Same with Daring Fireball. The key to blogging is finding a niche, or a unique way of saying things, and making it yours.

Once you have that focus, the daily blogging comes easy.
My comments above are certainly inductive rather than empirical in nature. I think the potential (or lack of same) for empirical observation is about the same; I can imagine being transported to 'other dimensions' just as I can imagine being with miraculous powers of creation and destruction.

However, I disagree with your implied argument that one is unnecessarily multiplying entities by postulating multiple universes rather than the philosophically more economical single being. When people postulate a God, they usually ascribe infinite power and potential to that being. By contrast, the idea of multiple universes assumes that they are individually finite and have fundamental limitations, which is in line with empirical experience.
Re: FDIC. One is quasi-OK if the bank holding the money fails, but if PayPal itself goes under, you could be in deep shit.

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/travelers-ou...
That does sound like a serious privacy flaw. Damn.
Maybe why Microsoft was so successful?

Well, I suppose creativity was not their strong point.

I hear Jobs has a temper...
JS physics library: http://box2d-js.sourceforge.net/index2.html
The output of the `deborphan` command might be of interest.
The background details are boring. But if you want to look into more about it - lookup 'treaty visa'. A Canadian running a company under this visa, should be able to get you in if he feels like you are an asset.

E-mail me if you want to talk: vineet at company-name.com
U.S. jobless rate hints at permanent structural change
For reference, two lengthy discussions/sharing sessions on the topic:

http://serverfault.com/questions/45734/the-coolest-server-na...

http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware/default.asp?cmd=s...

I use major road names myself (e.g. ventura, victory, sherman).
http://inventwithpython.com/ this isn't a bad book for teaching those simple games.
I can say that most areas in NYC are below middle class because the the white middle class folk left and started their families in Westchester, NJ and Long island. They all went to the suburbs.

Now NYC is being hit with massive gentrification, where many young upper middle class whites are leaving the suburbs and coming back to live in NYC. They are choosing to live not in areas where you would expect the upper middle class to live, but instead areas where the poor live or used to live, essentially forcing working class people like my family out into the suburbs. It's quite remarkable how prices have changed in these gentrified areas. Monthly rent which used to between $600-$900 for a nice two bedroom tenement is now reaching between $1800- $2500 in areas which are considered shit (for lack of a better word). Basic groceries have drastically hone up, as has pizza and Chinese food.

So these statistics in NYC will change, but they wont be because the poor of nyc are getting a bigger piece of the pie, it will be because they where forced out. The Hour 45-60 minute trip into Manhattan for these people will be replaced by a 2-2.5 hour trip into the city for work. Its a real shame.
I think they already announced that, actually (?): http://www.apple.com/ipad/software-update/
Put a LAMP stack together for him and have him create basic website stuff that he sees everyday.
ksh is king (for writing portable shell scripts) because it has long had a reputation for being the one shell that was available everywhere, and worked the same everywhere.
Stealth Mode - Who's In, Who's Out
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If you're more than a casual user you'll have to set up a Merchant account.

When you set up a Paypal button, use the Merchant ID instead of your email address. Even better, use the public key encryption to encrypt the form.

Don't let money accumulate in your Paypal account. Or any of the alternative systems for that matter.

See if your bank will allow you to have a separate account for inbound transfers, separate from your primary checking account. Link this secondary account to any services you want to use, not your primary account. When you receive money, transfer it from this secondary account to your primary account. You still are legally on the hook for legitimately reversed charges, however this lessens the opportunity to have your primary account drained due to fraud.

If you're doing frequent transactions (multiple per day) look at utilizing the Instant Payment Notification (basically a webhook) to get an instant notice about payment and other activities, rather than rely on email delivery.

Look at Amazon Payments and Google Checkout (may have more country limitations than Paypal has).

Have a backup plan ready for the day Paypal does decide to freeze your account, for whatever reason.
Routing problems due to the RIPE NCC and Duke University BGP Experiment
No please.

I can suggest other billion-dollar market ideas... why no put ads inside expensive drugs, it really benefits the patient... or why not put ads in the sky ala Batman? more billion dollar markets ideas?
There is a bit of back and forth about them on CocoaDev:

http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?NSZone
Bridges from here:
http://bridgehunter.com/
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Space Satellites from here:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/
This looks very useful. Nicely done.
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And if the kid gets bored of the visual programming language that goes with Mindstorms, try setting up NQC for him/her:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Quite_C
I've done some Scratch stuff with my 10 year old (he was 8-9 at the time). It is a good starting place for teaching some of the concepts like looping, objects, and messaging. If nothing else, it is a good way to visualize those, even if you turn to something like Python for "real work".

I would start by asking him/her what she/he wants to do. Pick the tool that fits best. Want to build a game? Start with Scratch because it teaches the actor-based programming that you want to use for games.

Hard to give more advice without more specifics.
Reading Arabic 'hard for brain'
You just made my day when you quoted my stackoverflow answer. Thanks, man.
William Gibson discusses consumerism on BBC's In Our Time back in 2000
But to say "therefore unless you proved something exists, it doesn't exist" is the height of fallacy.

It's not that things currently unknown can't exist; we know from the experience that the opposite is true. But any theory predicted on the existence of an unknown factor is meaningless, unless it yields an accurate falsifiable prediction - and such predictions are only possible for cases there the unknown factor is narrowly defined.

A general unknown factor whose presence is sufficient to provide an answer to any problem in which it appears as a term is not a useful concept. Non-existence here is not a matter of impossibility, but of imponderability.
Startup review: Chittram - Online Vector Editor 100% Javascript
Hi, Chittram is a 100% javascript vector editor service online. It was launched softly about a month back and I have not spread the word much. It works with latest versions of Firefox, Chrome, Safari & IE.

It would be great to have your feedback on it.

Biz Model 1 liner - Browser based drawing/modeling tools targeting enterprises and designers. This is just the start.

1. What could be the ideal revenue model?
2. Site improvements
3. Any alternatives, other than aviary.com, google app drawing tool?
4. Are there any other websites that provide javascript based vector editors?
5. Does it work in iPad? (could not test yet :-()
6. Is the demo good enough?

thank you for your time...

cheers
Shakthi
These compare because map reduce says "take this set and split it up" -- all of which can be done through tools which already exist.

Hadoop Map Reduce may make it more approachable for java programmers, but distributed work happened long before it was around.
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Ah that's very interesting. I'll look into it and may take you up on the offer. Thanks!
Hi, Chittram is a 100% javascript vector editor service online. It was launched softly about a month back and I have not spread the word much. It works with latest versions of Firefox, Chrome, Safari & IE.

It would be great to have your feedback on it.

Biz Model 1 liner - Browser based drawing/modeling tools targeting enterprises and designers. This is just the start.

1. What could be the ideal revenue model?
2. Site improvements
3. Any alternatives, other than aviary.com, google app drawing tool?
4. Are there any other websites that provide javascript based vector editors?
5. Does it work in iPad? (could not test yet :-()
6. Is the demo good enough?

thank you for your time...

cheers
Shakthi
Could it be because of the garbage collecting? I'm not sure whether it's that related
Wow, tough crowd.
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I put an asm hello world in my video http://www.losethos.com but somehow I forgot to preserve RSI with a push and pop. Unintentional mistake. The example in the /LT/Demo/Asm directory on the disk is correct. I got away with it in the demo, but you really need to preserve like 8 registers. RSI,RDI,RBP and I forget...R15,R14, R13. Something like that, I forget. It's written down in the demo. I try to do as little assembly as possible and have converted as much of the original asm to C+. You are free to trash RAX,RBX,RCX and RDX when interacting with C+. That's usually enough registers, so I don't remember the upper register requirements.

LoseThos is 64-bit but I decided all code must go in the lowest 2 Gig addresses so CALL with rel32 can always be used. LoseThos runs everything including applications in ring 0 kernel mode. It's much faster doing a CALL than an INT. That's not important when the operartion being done is big, I suppose.

Kernel code is not distinguished from any other code. The JIT compiler/assembler calls MALLOC and puts the code in that spot. OSMain goes in the lowest 1 Meg region, but that doesn't mean anything special.
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It's not a power of 2 (although it is 512 + 256 + 128 + 64). Chess960 is the most popular variant of Chess, having 960 possible board layouts. There is the famous CSS framework, 960 Grid System. And it happens to be in the family of common display dimension, being twice the height of standard definition, 480, like the new iPhone and iPod, as well as half the width of an HD television (1080), 1920.
I'd avoid Dive Into Python and HTML5 -- both are intended as quick-start guides for those specific technologies, not as general programming tutorials. They won't make a lick of sense without significant prior programming experience.
I just clearly support you guys. impatient to read your code and share the good parole in my countries (Farnce-Chile-India).. Your tools, partners and tech choices rock !! Ruby, MongoDB; Github, Pivotal. They give a clear view on what you do and how you work. I am also impatient to see what is that wonderful bot and how do you guys will handle propagation of seeds. Let's work !!.
It's very good - I had an earlier unfinished version. Thanks for reminding me of it, it's expanded considerably since the last time I saw it.
I guess some "Hackers" think that copyright law is for other people to obey.
It's not free of charge. Japan pays U$2 billion a year for the US military presence.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/commentary/view/japan-bal...
Been using it for BitBuffet.com. Right now, we're not looking at enough volume to warrant the difficulty in switching over. Unless you are looking at 2k+ a month, its almost easier to just stick with PayPal.

My rule #1 with PayPal: drain it weekly or after $200 bucks accumulates.
It's images like these that put into perspective the fragility of our species, and just how inconsequential we are, relative to the rest.
Those Japanese characters are faster to write than their corresponding english words? That's counterintuitive, at least to me.
I think kind of the opposite, more in the Pale Blue Dot mindset, that in the immense vastness of the universe, Earth is all we've got, and should be treated with the utmost significance.
Maybe OpenGL network transparency?
Garbage collection likely has something to do with NSZone's (perceived on my part) deprecation. My understanding (although I can't find it documented) is that NSZone doesn't have any effect on allocations handled by the GC. This is also the default (found-documented) behavior for CFAllocator (although this can be changed, which might be why CFAllocator is better documented).

Also, NSZone is an opaque C structure -- you don't get to see its fields without getting your hands (slightly) dirty. It's defined as:

typedef struct _NSZone NSZone;

Random thought: If you have a lot of objects that can take advantage of toll-free bridging, I wonder how well it would work to use your own CFAllocator that doesn't use the GC in a GC'd environment.
If you test it under OS X you need to use the OpenBSD/NetBSD instructions using the FreeBSD code but you will use a 'macho' object file.
I learnt HTML at 10. My grandad taught me that, then I went on and used w3-schools to continue learning. I think that's a very good starting place.
I sensed this when learning classical Arabic in college. Even after a year of intensive (= every day) Arabic, I really had to think to read the letters. Back then there were already stories about studies showing the letters were hard for kids to learn, though IIRC they were just statistical studies.
For the last several years I've done a few thousand dollars of sales a month through Paypal, and recently I have also been getting a significant portion of my consulting earnings delivered that way. That resulted in significant spikes in income (I won't tell you what I make in a month consulting, but you can infer it is probably more than $1 ~ $2,000).

In four years, I've had one glitch (which I was able to work around) and two disputed transactions. All issues were addressed with quiet professionalism, as I would expect from e.g. a bank.

I have no major complaints.
> The designers and technophiles who encouraged development of the iPhone have fallen into the trap of all overreaching hardware and software designers; thinking that their users are like themselves.

Actually, I think both the worst and the best designers think their users are like them. It's just that the best ones are right.
This guy falls into the same trap a lot of UX designers do: He takes a good rule (keep it simple) and extrapolates too far in his conclusion. He assumes an average user isn't smart enough to grasp multi-function devices and multitasking.

That said I don't blame him for his third point. I think a lot of people (myself included) were suprised at how little tactile feedback is missed on the iPhone.
I absolutely agree with that sentiment as well. While we, as a species, are relatively inconsequential, Earth is all we've got (for now!) and it's a special, precious, thing indeed.
Woah, how did this get here? I honestly have no idea what this is about, please don't downvote.
I'm looking for a technical co-founder. Excellent in Ruby, specifically Ruby on Rails.

I'm doing the marketing, project management, running the show, idea development. I guess the business guy role.

The startup is basically a way of connecting clients with high quality front end developers. Imagine a high quality, curated eLance.com. Imagine a merged eLance.com and a PSD2HTML.com.

It's called 'CollectiveJam'.

I'm reasonably far in, and have all the designs being worked on as we speak, and everything set into motion.
The problem with podcasting is not that you can't put ads in podcasts, it's that podcasts as a medium are inconvenient.

You can't skim read a podcast. You can't easily fill 2 spare minutes by skimming a podcast like you can with a written article.

The same problem exists with online video and talking head "video blogs" FWIW, though it's not quite as bad, as you can still skim-view.

The HTML5 video/audio elements will enable you to increase the playback rate, which will somewhat alleviate this problem.
We are starting to call that thing a "screen" in my home, because we might hook it up to Nintendo, DVD, computer, cable, what have you.

I agree "box" may be a little overloaded but the context will usually make things clear. There is only one thing you can do with broadcast television: watch.

We also have "the tube" for broadcast television (a little dated because the tubes are disappearing), or "cable".

Maybe this is a regional thing though.
Another Logo fan here.
I still haven't found any other environment that makes me wonder about the power of computers as Logo did.
I was 7 to 10 years.
Here are a few images of UCLA's underground "bridge," mentioned in the PDF above.

http://www.fortunecity.com/lavendar/hitchcock/333/
I see your point about Catherine the Great and Mennonites, however:

Jesuits = an order, not a denomination; Jesuits are Catholics

Eastern Orthodox = 90+% of Russians belong to this denomination; not one of the groups welcomed by Catherine and fleeing later
Well, heck, you should see what American schools have to say about Columbus
I can't comment on Varini-like approaches, but I also happened to like the TSP work. Other works that are also visually pleasing I would like to mention are:

+ Roger Alsing's genetic algorithm work on using triangles to represent any images (e.g. Mona Lisa) http://rogeralsing.com/2008/12/07/genetic-programming-evolut...

+ Artistic word cloud, in particular Tagxedo (my creation, see http://www.tagxedo.com/gallery.html for some examples). You can create a word cloud using any shape as the outline.

+ A variant of word cloud is what I'd call "Shape cloud", which is to use a lot of shapes to form a cloud of a particular shape (see some examples here: http://blog.tagxedo.com/a-creative-abuse-of-fonts-words-and-...). A famous example is a cloud of Google's products in the shape of Darth Vader (http://erictric.com/2010/03/09/is-google-trying-to-take-over...). Another example is Steve Jobs' portrait using Apple's product (http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/picture-incre...), but this Jobs' portrait is closer to Photomosaic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_mosaic), which is also another fascinating idea from ages ago.

Incidentally, I think the TSP technique can be trivially improved by coloring the edges and vertices, say, using averaging.
Does anyone have a torrent link to download these, or does getting music in bulk through a torrent feel too illegal in ways that grabbing individual tracks from a directory listing doesn't?
"There hasn’t been a packaged album side worth listening to the whole thing in order since Abbey Road."

Comments like this are revealing.
I've been using PayPal to collect payments for physical goods that I sell on my site for about two years now. I typically do about $2k in business per months. I've had a couple of months where I've offered discounted and sales rose to around $10k with no hiccups at all.

I have an Amazon Payments account as a fallback if I need it, but so far I haven't (knock on wood).

I know all about the PayPal horror stories, but there is one feature that makes me stick with them: the PayPal debit card which is linked directly to the PayPal account. A customer can make a purchase at 10:00am and at 10:01am I can withdraw the money at an ATM, no waiting a week or so for the bank transfer. Since I deal with physical items, this quick turnaround has really helped me with inventory, and no one else offers that kind of access to the cash (other options will allow you to withdraw the cash immediately via a direct bank transfer, but as I said, that can take several days).

The moment a bank or another site offers that kind of direct cash access + easy web form processing is the moment I drop PayPal, but for now, they're the only game in town.
Call me old fashioned but there seem to be at least two simple and straightforward ways to monetize podcasts. One is to charge consumers/subscribers directly. Two is to accept payments from advertisers to embed an advertisement (eg. sponsor acknowledgement) in the podcast itself, say near the very beginning (see Mixergy, etc.) Neither of those requires upgrading HTML or having any fancy click-tracking or affiliates deals.
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Link to the paper in Science:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/sci;science.1...

Edit - If you are lacking a subscription:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.0518
Not to be gauche, but where do I send the 1TB hard drive to get a dump of every mix? :D
- soft drinks (if you have paired servers or backups, one can be "diet".)

- characters from a specific cartoon or kids show (we used Simpsons; Muppets is also popular)

- local geographic landmarks (islands, lakes, mountains, etc.)