skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, coincidence. I did this about twelve minutes ago.

Yes, I've just tendered my resignation. I work in a large, large company. The place is okay, the people are good, the code is fine I guess. I just wanted a change of direction. I started in videogames, and compared to that, this job feels far more... stuffy. And boring. Anyhow, I wanted a shot at starting my own business writing web apps. I literally do not know: javascript, ruby (therefore rails), much of linux, or webservers (well, I've heard of a whole bunch).

But hey, I have good savings, I have low rent, I have a nice computer, and in addition - unlike when I was working in videogames - I have a sleep-cycle that has me up at 8:00am every day.

As for the actual experience, I've just informed my direct lead, and we'll have to talk to the head of our department later today. I guess I'll let you know how it goes!
I think it's for a few reasons:

1) because it was a really powerful system that was just under the complexity curve such that a dedicated person could learn literally everything about the system from top to bottom and do cool stuff with it.

2) It's stock form was insanely powerful out of the box, while PCs were from different vendors, with different configurations and no particular standard "thing" was a PC.

3) It wasn't really meant to be tinkered with, but almost everybody who had an Amiga had done some crazy things to upgrade it. The hacker community on it was vibrant and technically awesome (see #1 above). Whereas if I wanted to upgrade my PC I simply inserted a new card or something, these guys were soldering new OS ROMS and SCSI interfaces into a system that really wasn't supposed to have these things. I remember reading about Power PC expansion boards for the A500 and wondering "where's the expansion slots?"

4) Because of #3, systems took on very individualistic flavors, like muscle cars tricked out by their owners. You knew that a guy with an A500 that had the latest OS ROMs, two hard drives, a VGA monitor, a couple of floppy drives and was on his 3rd keyboard had put a lot of personal time into the physical aspects of his box. The same couldn't really be said (at least not to anywhere near the level) with PC owners.

5) Amiga user group meetings were a blast with people bringing and showing off their machines, trading pirated software (anybody remember "Fish disks"?) and generally have a great time trading trick out secrets with each other. It felt like a car club community event rather than a computer community event.
What kind of projects would you be most interested in? We're open-sourcing RetroCrawl (http://retrocrawl.com) if you might be interested. I know Prenup (http://github.com/nodejitsu/prenup) will probably want help but they're not directly advertising. Lots of nodeknockout.com entries will probably want help.
I'm waiting to see the impressive applications. The video, probably representing their single most successful effort, shows six "bricks" being more or less jumbled together and called "a step pyramid". This is not exactly state-of-the-art micron-scale manipulation; and why move around imprecisely with thousands of bacteria, when you can use the same magnetic field for much more precise manipulation with a single microrobot? (E.g. http://nanolab.me.cmu.edu/projects/MagneticMicroRobot/ )
“In the end, both Facebook and Apple are companies which are pretty pure embodiments of evil […]”

Flagged. I don’t think any article which contains such a line purely as an assertion (no matter the company) should be submitted to HN. Here is the original source: http://kara.allthingsd.com/20100902/facebook-blocked-api-acc...
Should be pointed out that it was a hack against the hardware, not the theory. Hardware vulnerabilities will probably remain the key weakness of quantum encryption, not that this is necessarily anything new.
I don't have examples, but many "web developers" create desktop apps that thinly wrap webkit or their rendering engine of choice to permit HTML/CSS markup for their GUI.

I do this with Prism all the time to deploy web apps to my company, but you could equally embed webkit yourself into any app - and use these buttons in a single (known working) environment.
Indian security crackdown extended from Blackberry to Google and Skype
this sounds like stupid advice, but copy (by hand) writing you like

Somerset Maugham did this, and he was the highest paid author of his time.
Scotch as a Diet Hack
We tried to buy one today. Sold out on the Virgin website.

Aside from that, I'm thrilled to see Virgin nuke the wireless data market. Pogue is right on -- other providers are charging outrageous prices for this service.
One of the perks/tricks of Apple ownership is the hardware retains its value. When next year's model comes out I'll probably flip my iPad for ~$75-$100 less than I paid for it. (depends if Apple drops the price or not)
In 2003 he wrote a study, published in the British Medical Journal, in which he found no causal relationship between secondhand smoke and tobacco-related death – a conclusion that drew fire both because it was contrary to popular scientific belief and because it was funded by Philip Morris.

Oops! I wouldn't call it a study. I'd call it PR work.
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You have a funny idea of "better."
Does anyone know if it's true that root CAs pay browser vendors to include their certs in the browsers by default?
> You may be able to get children for less - but can you get the same quality of children?

Probably.

> would society be as happy? I wouldn't think so

You're assuming that society is happy subsidizing the kids that you want to subsidize. How about some evidence?

> Ans why do you assume that the 18 months of paternity leave relates only to well-paid people?

I didn't, but the well-off will be paid more.... Also, folks who are closer to the edge economically are less able to afford to be seen as less reliable. They're also less able to take any income hit.

As a result, the money will go disproportionately to the well-off. That's how almost all of the "not means tested" programs "for the children" work.

> You haven't even tried to prove what seems to be your original thesis

Pay attention much? The above is my first comment that addressed child care and it doesn't contain that "thesis".

It's not enough to have good intent, you have to actually get the details right.
12-15% a year is very high indeed, and not a realistic expectation. Because you have a limited amount to invest, your best option may likely be to invest it in any number of index funds. These are very, very low in their expense ratios and try to track indices or sections thereof without lots of management (buying and selling, etc) of the sort that causes mutual funds to overwhelmingly underperform the broader markets.

You can open an account at ScotTrade for free, and then buy a few index funds that you like. You could either put these into mutual funds, like Vanguard's VFINX US S&P fund, or buy exchange-traded funds which track indices as well.

Investing early is wise, the key thing is not to try to beat the markets (at least not with YOUR money on the line!) and also note that volatility will make you unhappy if you check often. You'll be up and down but, over the long term, hopefully up. But if you check frequently, the "down" times will make you unhappier than the happy-times will make you happy. So, set it and forget it, if you take a diversified and relatively low-risk approach.

For 15k, you could invest across bonds, US stocks, international stocks, emerging markets, and more, all without significant cost or overhead -- if you play the broader markets, instead of trying to pick winners.

Most importantly, keep educating yourself, and not just what other people say on random internet forums ;)
Had one and returned it. Slow and dropped connection often even on major highways.
Well, to be fair, Apple have a different market to Canon/Casio/Sony point and shoot cameras. People aren't buying the iPhone 4 just for the camera.

Apple still do deserve props for going for a better camera + lens, rather than the samsung route of more rez.
AND .... get lots of impartial feedback!

Without constructive criticism you won't know what you are doing right and what needs changing.
or having discussions in the comments
Aw, no 50 point bonus for using all 7? (http://skitch.com/dasil003/dw9q4/scrabb.ly-a-massively-multi...)
Science is not politically correct, as we've seen in the whole Global Warming fiasco.

Neither are politics, much of the time, and the problem with linking to an article from Fox is the network's slant. I'm not the only person to notice this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1658518 .

Until someone else picks this up and/or tries to see if it's actually true, it doesn't mean jack.
If Google bans people, then isn't this exploitable for others to use against competition/people/dissenters?
I know on my amateur jazz band's album, we used Auto Tune. We're not ashamed of it either. Do we have time to practice the tunes 100 times or try a dozen takes? No way!

It does feel sloppy if professionals are using Auto Tune, especially in the genre of jazz, where talent is still very much front and center.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/52575/hd%20silverlight%20osx.png
It would not be much of a surprise if you had watched this unfold over the past couple of years. The 0MQ guys lost the AMQP fight and apparently decided that they would instead pivot to fast & lightweight, but non-durable, queues (and whine to anyone who would listen about how AMQP sucks now that they are no longer a part of the effort.) These ephemeral queues have gained a lot of attention recently for simple pubsub, job queues, and other misc tasks in the application stack. Unfortunately they pivoted right into the redis steamroller. Sucks to be them, but as the saying goes: "karma's a bitch..."
The 2 billion dollar price tag is misleading, though--the design cost was supposed to be amortized over a much larger order of planes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_rain_in_Kerala#Criticism
I don't think they're really happy. Some are; lots aren't.
Heh, it's actually funny because in the bible it states that 'the Word of God holds the universe together'
because there is no silverlight for iOS.

Silverlight was chosen LONG ago (fall 2008). It was and is FAR better than the shitty windows media player version of streaming.

Perhaps netflix has found other methods of DRM that the studios approve of since fall 2008?
It is news.com.au, a Murdoch paper in Australia. It is as authoritative as a Fox news broadcast.
seconded.
I think every messaging broker needs to support the STOMP protocol now. It is cross-language and a whole lot of products are being built around the protocol, including some that wean you away from JMS (e.g.HornetQ, previously known as JBoss Messaging Server)
I've been doing that constantly since 1999 when I quit a job with no safety net other than being only 17 years old and still living at home.

Since then, I've rarely any medium or long-term plans, just flitting from opportunity to opportunity as it presents itself. I'm here, doing well - now married, have child, have a mortgage, and still as aimless as ever ;-) If you're self motivated and a little hungry, things stick together.
Nokia, on the other hand, does sell a product specifically as a camera replacement:

http://europe.nokia.com/find-products/devices/nokia-n86-8mp

I bought the N86 because I realized I never have my camera when I want it, and I always have my cellphone (GPS was nice, but the killer app for me was the 8mp camera).
Is It True That The All-In Cost Of Android Is Much Higher Than $15 Per Unit?
have it on my personal account, where it's neat, but not on my work account, where it would really count. someday!
I'd be interested to see a comparison of the due diligence CNN does for each of their stories...
Showed up late tonight.
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Everyone is brought up to think it's the best country in the world. But I'm glad I emigrated and the other people I know who moved seem pretty happy about it too.

No that stuff isn't free just because it's paid for by taxes. And because the government has kept growing the government is now running a deficit. It will have to do reforms to avoid growing the debt.

Some think the big government system is great. I don't. But even if you do think it's nice, the problem is that it's not sustainable.

The growth of the economy is projected be the 2nd lowest in OECD only in front of Japan.

Denmark has been a rich country for a while but as the government has grown it has been falling down the list and is now out of the top 10.
Parents can also believe that homeschooling does just as good a job as other schools.

Because they don't list that their motivation was that they can do better than a public school does not mean that they believe they will do worse.

Consider the case of someone sending their child to a French immersion school. Most would not say that the immersion school is better than all other schools, but that doesn't mean they believe they believe it is worse. Likely they are sending their children there because they want them to learn to speak French fluently, not because they believe other schools are worse.

Here's a more recent study from the US Department of Education:

http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2006/homeschool/TableDisplay.asp?Tabl...

This 2003 study is considered to be far superior to the 1999 one cited for reasons discussed in this article:

http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2006/homeschool/parentsreasons.asp

For example, on the 1999 study two flaws listed are "when faced with an open-ended question, parents may not have recalled or responded with all of the reasons for homeschooling that were applicable to their situation" and "parents were not specifically asked to report their primary reason for homeschooling".

As you can see the 2003 study addresses these procedural errors and breaks out factors cited at all separately from those cited as primary concern.

The most listed factor for both was environmental factors in other schools, meaning "safety, drugs, or negative peer pressure". This was a concern of 85.4% of families, and the most important factor for 31.2%.

Dissatisfaction with academic quality of other schools was a factor in 68.2% of families, but a primary reason in only 16.5%

Regarding the assumptions made previously that any included component of religious or moral instruction implies isolationism and a lack of socialization, that claim is not supported by studies.
It's not just the latest dev version. I'm seeing it in 5.0.375.127 on Windows, which is not even the latest released version.
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Since when did "the government" take over "the universities"? What department of "the government" gives orders to university professors? DARPA? NOAA?

I guess this is a transnational agreement, because faculty move back and forth across the oceans, and their opinions don't change much. "The government" must be a lot more well-organized than I'd suspected.
You can look at how the phase changes over time to determine the dominant frequency within a bin to greater precision than what the FFT width would otherwise dictate. That's probably what they're doing.
If I'm not mistaken, the Mars Rover had a 1 megapixel camera. :)
Not to mention that most of those tiny cameras with huge pixel counts don't have optics good enough to resolve those pixels, so they really are pointless.
Visual Website Optimizer: Run A/B Tests On Your Site
Too bad Obama is only inclined to look forward as opposed to looking backward.
If you're talking about performance, you should compare to the dense hash part of the sparsehash package.
I think that anyone who uses the word "shrill promise" to describe something usually doesn't agree with what they are saying.
Voyager had a .64Mp camera (800px^2)...
Kudos for using the bookmarklet. :)

The whole point of Skywriter is the underlying totally new architecture: The use of canvas, incredibly fast rendering and unlimited editing file size. No other textarea-based editor can do that. When it comes to editing source code in the browser, there are often 5000 and more Lines. Other editors slow down or can't even handle such many lines.
What rich people do to avoid paying income tax is to structure the payment as long term capital gain. Capital gain is taxed at a lower rate than income tax. Of course if you stuff the jet/car/residence/gold-cards as corporate expenses, the capital gain would be lower, too.
There are advantages to being able to afford centralized infrastructure. I can stream from Netflix. Downloading from Bittorrent means telling my girlfriend, "OK, we can start that movie in an hour if the download goes quickly." Blockbuster is more convenient than Bittorret in many cases.
Canon, Nikon and Panasonic reduced the number of pixels or kept them the same in their high end small sensor compacts. (Canon G11: 10 MP down from 14.7 MP in the predecessor; Canon S90 and S95: 10 MP; Nikon P7000: 10 MP down from 13.5 in the predecessor; Panasonic LX5: the same 10 MP as the 2006 model and a slightly bigger sensor.)

The newest iPhone has a tiny 1/3.2" sensor, those high end compacts usually have 1/1.7" sensors, that’s quite a bit more than double the area. Their pixels are consequently a bit bigger. If Apple made the right decision Canon, Nikon and Panasonic must have, too.

They get it and they know that at least their best informed customers (those who actually buy high end small sensor compacts) will also get it. They are probably only (unnecessarily) afraid of the general public, all those who buy the cheapo point and shoots. If you are willing to pay you get appropriate pixel densities.
No, there is no plan to support current IE. Skywriter relies on the <canvas> element and makes heavy use of html5.
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Can you imagine a future where investors somewhat like yourselves (if not necessarily YC) invest considering their expectation to likely be a combination of dividends and some possibility of exit?

Or perhaps better phrased, do you see dividends playing a role in angel/YC-like investment decisions anytime in the nearish-term?
VC's are diversified… you aren't.
it is somewhat more likely that there is a God than that there is not

[citation needed]
If you want to drink less, can't you just do it however you want?
There's a lot of fud in here. I get unlimited data on my Nexus with free terthering for $40 a month on T-Mobile; the mifi doesn't offer anything new. Great to see more no-contract options of course, but the tone of the article is really unwarranted.
Funny you mention the internet (TCP/IP, etc). That's one thing I'm glad the government--be it university funded researchers and DARPA among others--took care of. I can't imagine a large Telco designing the internet. We certainly wouldn't have net neutrality and the Googles would probably not exist.
Are we going to see "Flaming" CSS3 buttons anytime soon!? I mean yes mark up is just a href tag but the CSS itself is a bit huge when you look at the styling?
Should Iranians trust Haystack?
try the sample of "500 miles high" here:
http://www.amazon.com/Chick-Corea-Songbook-Manhattan-Transfe...

specifically the first two notes of the female lead (some-day) in the audio clip - some suspicious processing going on there.
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8 years ago. I had a 1 year old son. Just married. Wanted to be my own man, run my own company, do my own thing. I wanted my son to see me as a man who goes after his dreams.

So, I just did it. Took on some consulting work, and then spread the word of what I could do. Gets better every year. Not so much consulting now, more residual income from software and hosted services, and android game development, but it's a living and a lifestyle.
Pretty easy to say, harder to do. It's best to set up barriers like this to prevent overeating. Another barrier is eating foods with low calorie density. The barrier here is the harshness of the drink - it is very hard to chug scotch. It is not very hard to chug a beer.

When I don't want to eat a lot, I set up barriers. I have literally no food in my apartment. 0. I am a former fat person, who has gotten into shape purely by avoiding the need for willpower. I like this hack - I'll try it this weekend.
Are Ken Rockwell and Lew Rockwell related? They seem to share a web designer.
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Not quite digital out, but with the new Apple TV (another 99 bucks to Steve) you should be able to play iTunes video through to your TV from your iPad via the AppleTV.
I suppose it makes a certain amount of psychological sense.
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Last weekend I went out with a flask of Laphroaig (some damn good scotch), and was just sipping that most of the night. I let a bunch of my friends have some, and always came back with some left in the flask. It's a great way to drink really delicious scotch, share with your friends, and drink less.
true, but he's talking more from a social point of view.
Who cares who paid for the study as long as it is carried out correctly? It may warrant extra scrutiny, but the more there is the better.

That's the beauty of science -- it doesn't matter who's involved as long as it's correct.
They're not letting it rust somewhere. They indicate that they plan to "extend the technology for use in other Google projects. "
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-google-wave...
Guys, I am happy that TC finally wrote about my startup! Relevant thread where all this started: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1520001

After following up for more than 50 days with NUMEROUS emails, looks like they have finally submitted to my persistence ;)

Any way, this is good. I am happy that they wrote about Visual Website Optimizer and hope this brings exposure.

EDIT: They've corrected the typos in the post.
OK, that's a lot nicer than it used to look. Apparently they enabled that in May.

I'm still not happy about needing to install Silverlight, but at least the quality is now comparable to what I get on my Xbox 360 and PS3.
Damn. Jamie still around?! :)

OT, but I pictured him in a deserted island with big LCD monitors in the walls of the hut running kool screensvers!

OK, back on topic - I find the iPad a bit tiring to be held reading a book. My hands need rest from typing when I am not at my desk!

It's eady to drop and also calls home all the time, which I do not enjoy. It feels like every app is watching you.

Overall, it's a good device though. I hope for others that are much more open, soon!
Crack-open a book randomly. That's all I do.

God says...
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ion, upon many occasions, extremely inconvenient. They could
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other commodity, the foreign goods which they wanted, either to
import into their own, or to carry to some other foreign country. They
remonstrated, therefore, against this prohibition as hurtful to trade.

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Just ordering Scotch wouldn't work for me: I love the stuff and, corrected for the alcohol content, I will consume it faster than beer. If you have the same 'problem', what may work is ordering water on the side.
> However, the icon is a little too cluttered
> and does not represent your app well in a
> first-impression sense.

fully agree. And where it says "Visual Cookbook" to the left of the icon the 'Visual' is quite hard to read.. looks a bit like "Vosuat".
An ISP that knows nothing of "data hogs"
I think Ben Franklin did it too. He'd copy one paragraph of a writer whose style he like, and then try to write the following paragraph himself.
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Fairly uninspiring Post Title, but enjoy the ride :)