skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook expands Instant Personalization to Rotten Tomatoes
how do you make that link clickable?
I'm sure your plan sounds better in the original German. Something must have been lost in the translation.
how are you going about shipping a glass container full of alcohol through the mail?

When I visited the US recently to resolve some tax issues I tried to mail a bottle of Brazilian cachaça from NYC to a friend of mine in California. The US Postal Service, FedEx and UPS are refused to mail it except from one specific location prepared to mail glass bottles filled with liquid. On top of that they said that I need a liquor license to send beer through the mail.
Actually, I think this was posted because it was linked in the article from this front page post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1699760
My guess is that the startups get VC funding, and then they hire professionals who take it from there. The "wonder boys" that started it are mostly just figureheads at that point.
Do browsers have their own version of Moore's law? They seem to be the most accelerating pieces of software.
Ask HN: What's the max request rate before being banned on HN
I've developed an API for HN http://api.ihackernews.com. I need to throttle requests to news.ycombinator.com to a level that doesn't hurt HN or result in the banning of ihackernews. Do you know the rate?
No it wouldn't.

The amount of usable farm space at the top of a skyscraper is so small it's a joke. You could feed 1 person for each skyscraper.

And if farmland got expensive, exactly where would you get your energy to make light?
Study: Racing Video Games Really Do Make You A Better Driver
Sounds like Jeff has a non-CS background; aka, he's one of these guys that has the capability to really understand this stuff at a deep, meaningful level, but sometimes (often?) runs into his own limits (note: this is not to say CS 'people' are incapable of this - but rather - this is a trait that is not automatic whether you are 'self-taught' or a CS grad).

The 'plunk' you are describing is his ability to just 'get it done' - a trait I think most tech founders greatly underestimate. It's an ability or mental strength that makes a person able to will the project over the goal-line. I'm amazed how hard it is to complete anything - whether it's a startup app I'm working on or a piece of music - finishing it 100% and getting it 'in the can' is no small feet. It's special gift, and one that I would highly recommend anyone searching for a founder look for in their partner(s).

I have to admit I like Jeff, from his articles and such he seems to have a pretty clear way of thinking through big tech issues, and while he may sometimes surprise me with a 'lack of knowledge', I just remind myself that we all have gaps in our knowledge and at the end of the day, he's done some incredible work, and this 'lack' hasn't hurt him much (maybe it caused him to take longer to get to where he is, but he still managed to get it done).
Completely fill out your profile as you would your resume. Join relevant groups.
I admit I only ever thought the point of this technology was to succeed often enough to be annoying (why use a copyrighted clip if my video might get banned and I have to go fix it).

The problem of matching up arbitrary degraded video to source video in polynomial time seems genuinely hard to me too.
I think that comments which are edited should grow a little "history" link which takes you to a bunch of timestamped versions of the comment.
"The only thing worse than a pie chart is two pie charts." Edward Tufte

You shouldn't use pie charts EVER, even if your client or customer requests them. Instead you should educate them why it's a terrible idea to ever use them and instead point them to the kind of chart they should be using, a bar chart.
If I saw "# FIXME: check perms" in that code I'd have said, sure, it's alpha, no biggie. But without any acknowledgement of what should be a totally obvious security hole, it makes one question what other holes there might be, and maybe they can all be reviewed away... but it can also lead to a lot of pain for a long time. But maybe the visibility of the project will help get that review done.

Realistically, though, so long as they don't get clever it might be fine. If they do clever things then review becomes very hard.
"Every programmer I've known thought he was a super hacker by the time he got out of college. Me included."

This is referred to in the Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquistion. It refers to a space in time where we are advanced enough to not be a novice, but not advanced to realize our own lack of expertise. Merlinn Mann refers to it as being an "advanced beginner". The problem with this stage is that's it's impossible to rationalize until you've escaped it - that or you use metacognition - with awareness of said likely ineptitude because of posts like this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_model_of_skill_acquisit...
This is why I don't watch movies anymore or read anything but the classics. Why fill your brain with images and thoughts you're not allowed to make reference to without paying someone. Why not just watch all your movies on YouTube, even if they are crappy homemade ones, at least you'll be able to make reference to them later.

Basically, I never let my thoughts get owned and polluted by restrictive copyright owners, especially when it comes to entertainment.
http://simplegeo.com/ is trying to fill this niche. They provide a simple API for storing and querying geospatial data.
What percentage of people who live in SV are foreign-born?

According to San Jose Business Journal, in 2003 36.5% were foreign born. http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2003/09/01/da...

I guess/estimate if you adjusted for those native-born who are either working at family businesses already (2nd or later generation of a family owned business), or are following their parent's lead on a trade or profession (son of lawyer becoming a lawyer, daughter of ob-gyn becoming a doctor), you would find that the quoted stats are not very important or relevant.

(just adding another data point to the discussion)
Of course it's a bit more complicated, but we again come back to energy - soil improvement is essentially an energy input, be it oil-derived fertilisers, organic matter or fallow.
So the users login token is not "sensitive user information"?
I just started trying out Open Site Explorer (http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/) yesterday. So I'm interested to see how your tool compares. A feature I like for the aforementioned tool is the "Linking Root Domains". With regards to your tool I definitely like the sounds of email updates both for my own sites as well as competitors. But so as to not be inundated by emails, it might be nice to choose the option to only be updated when a new "Linking Root Domain" has been found.
RE: #1
Have you checked out the XNA Creators Club and Xbox Live Indie Games? This seems to be exactly what you're looking for and has been around for a while.

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

http://creators.xna.com/en-US/
Is that really true? I would guess most people live in the country they were born in.
I agree. Also his comment about "over engineering" making the system "more brittle" was odd.

For data that important, I would have mirrored the databases to "warm standby" servers. They could have been back up in minutes with no data loss. Sure it would have doubled the cost, but how much money did they lose during the outage.
There's a ton of them, and they're all pretty mature. I'm hoping this does have a windfall effect on the ones that have already proven themselves from a code standpoint, and could use the hype that Diaspora has

http://opensource.appleseedproject.org

http://www.onesocialweb.org

http://www.gnu.org/software/social

http://www.elgg.org
Failure is no option, I guess.
There may be no laws, but at least in Ontario, Canada no up-to-date vaccination means no enrollment to the school/kindergarten.
There hasn't even been a 1.0 release yet. You mean 0.2.2
Exactly... I also wonder about calling it "HIS product" in reference to the employee. If he is only an employee, it is not HIS product, it is the company's product (and the OP's, as a founder/owner).

In my opinion, intrinsic motivation for a project isn't something that you either have or don't have by nature. It is something that is built and nurtured by a variety of external forces (team members, education, working conditions, etc) until the act of performing a task is rewarding in and of itself.

Expecting early-stage employees to be intrinsically motivated while ignoring environmental factors that may be eroding that motivation is unrealistic.
Just make sure to include the http://. eg, http://paulsawaya.com
Backward compatibility may be a weakness in security, but a strength otherwise. I like it very much that I can still run many of my games that I purchased in the 90's on the Windows 7. AFAICT, Linux can't easily offer such a long binary backwards compatibility (please correct me if I'm wrong).

I also think that - along the lines of what tmountain said above - more important than open source code, is that protocols and formats are open.
Insanely fast NN computer vision chip done on FPGA, 60x faster than Core i7
0.2.2 not 2.2. I got gently made fun of on IRC for making that mistake myself. :-) Not exactly a breathtaking changelog, but appreciated all the same:

* REPL improvements (Trent Mick)

* Fix bug in fs.realpath (Isaac Schlueter)

* sys.pump catches errors (Russell Haering)
Not exactly a breathtaking changelog, but appreciated all the same:

* REPL improvements (Trent Mick)

* Fix bug in fs.realpath (Isaac Schlueter)

* sys.pump catches errors (Russell Haering)
http://www.plantchicago.com/

This guy sees your critique on expensive real estate, and uses an abandoned factory. Sees your argument about nutrients not just appearing, and uses aquaponics. Lighting... that I don't know.

I'm curious to see how it goes.
Progressive enhancement using nothing but JavaScript?
Basel III: The good, the bad, and the ugly
Especially with CDNs and distributed infrastructure providers even latencies are becoming less of a problem. Technological conditions can only improve in the long term.
Do you deny that there are risks to being vaccinated?
actually if your point was "Tumblr Doesn't Leave Posterous in the Dust " the misread does kind of kill your whole post.
Immigrants are not only risk-takers, they are mainly avoiding poverty and looking for better conditions.
I really didn't think this article had any new insight.

It simply boiled down to: let's capitalize on this Groupon buzz and say we won't make the same mistakes.

Their article on Bill Gates was simple link bait.
Unexpected Benefits of A/B Testing
This looks like a neat piece of software to put on the web. It is, however, lacking usability. As a student learning digital design, you want circuit diagrams to be clear and results to be easily and quickly visible.

Wires between nodes are laid out automatically and can not be routed on a grid. In a big design (not that this is meant for that) things will get messy quickly.

You have to click simulate to see the results of your circuit. This is annoying. These circuits are simple and the output can easily be detected whenever a change is made.

Another useful feature is the have keys (0-9) mapped to switches. Testing, for instance, a four bit multiplier would be much easier if you don't have to operate the mouse so much.

I hate to recommend another piece of software, but I think the authors can learn a lot from it's features. Atanua (http://sol.gfxile.net/atanua/) is a cross-platform logic simulator that has all of the above features. It was a great tool when I needed to quickly prototype something for a class, and I still recommend it to students in a class I TA. It hasn't been updated in a while, the OSX version has to be run through Rosetta, but I can't see any glaring omissions the author made that would make it unusable.

Finally, it's 2010, this would make an awesome HTML5 app instead of being written in Flash.
Dog food their own software and systems more, and where it's unpleasant to use - improve them.

I actually wonder if, at the MS scale, that can start to be an impediment between the developers living inside the large MS sphere of software and their understanding of what it is like for average users who don't live entirely inside that sphere.

I mean, isn't one of the complaints that they don't make their tools interoperate and play nice with non-MS software enough... don't use open standards and formats enough? Well, from their perspective that would make sense; they are dog fooding inside an all MS zone. Inside that zone, interoperation is shifted down in priority from where outsiders would put it.
The call to decentralize social networking
I'm talking about this: http://myownstream.com/blog

Back in May I wrote this little piece about the need to decentralize the social internet. I with all this talk of Diaspora, and Alex Payne writing about wanting to decentralize Twitter, I think it's become relevant to talk about.

What do you think it will mean for the industry if someone pulls off decentralized social networking and does it well?
A related question would be, is this their minimally viable product. And how secure does a minimally viable product need to be?
Since everyone's sharing their bash history tips here, I thought I'd throw one out. I've taken to tossing the following lines in my root user's .bashrc over the last few years (which I adapted from a colleague years ago):

[ ! -d $HOME/.history ] && mkdir $HOME/.history
set -- `/usr/bin/who -m`
HISTFILE="$HOME/.history/`/bin/date +%Y-%m-%d.%T`.`/bin/hostname -s`.$$.$1"

You end up with a filename something like:

2010-09-17.13:53:27.foohost.14379.logic

The idea is that each shell session gets it's own history file, and the files are kept "indefinitely"; ie. whenever I manually get around to cleaning them up. Keeping that history around is cheap (we're talking about a few megabytes over the life of a given system), and can be invaluable in figuring out the how and why of a particular change even months later.

It also serves the purpose of making a best-effort attempt at gathering who "owned" that session (ie. who su'd to root); with multiple admins, this can be pretty handy. It's easily bypassed (and console logins will just show up as "root"), so using this as any kind of audit system would be ridiculous; it's just a useful way of going back in time to see who did what (usually looking of work I did myself, to see how/why I might have made a particular change months ago).

The one downside: you lose cross-session history. In practice, especially with multiple users accessing a shared account (multiple admins, etc), this hasn't really bothered me much, as getting someone else's history is annoying anyway. But, some people lean pretty hard on their bash history, and I definitely wouldn't do this for a personal account. (There, I'd just do "shopt -s histappend".)
Is Groupon Too Good to Be True?
That's great list, was glad to see some familiar ones there too. I'd suggest putting up for example your top10 list. It takes a long time to go through all of those and as mentioned, not all are that intriguing.
Carl Sagan - 'A Glorious Dawn' ft Stephen Hawking (Symphony of Science)
A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering
AWS For High Performance Cloud Computing - NASA, MATLAB
Maybe vertical farms are a crock but at least people are starting to realize that local food production is a better idea than shipping factory farm food thousands of miles. Eating local, seasonal food is how it has been done for 99.99% of human history. We waste hydrocarbons in a criminal fashion and our ancestors will absolutely hate our guts for it. Why should we burn up billions of years of oil inside of ~200 years just so that we can eat strawberries in NYC during winter? It is INSANE. The decision-making process we use is only what will make money in the short term. The issue of cost externalization by companies is well documented by economists. Just because it appears "cheap" to use factory farm methods, N-P-K based fertilizers, etc., doesn't mean the long term effects already showing up are not going to severely impact the food chain inside of our lifetimes.

Ultimately though agriculture itself is a non-sustainable process. That is why the fertile crescent, cradle of civilization, is now a desert. We should start creating food forests, this is a very promising sustainable way to feed people and all of the unemployment we experience can be solved by transitioning a larger % of our population to food production as a job, just like our grandparents used to do it.

The desertification caused by agriculture and our increasingly desperate use of technology to cover up the fundamental flaws in how we feed ourselves is increasing rapidly. The water table in many places around the planet is being depleted faster than it can restore itself. These issues are NOT going away and they are far more important than coupons for cupcakes and the like.
seems to be a good place to get "-4" karma
Your ethical test can be applied at a meta level as well.

The US Constitution doesn't provide any mechanism for a public policy of vaccination (the existence of NIH, CDC, etc notwithstanding). While such a policy might be desirable, overstepping the extent of federal power granted by the Constitution would, in your Kant explanation, lead to a collapse of all Constitutional control [1]. That would be bad, so we can't allow the single transgression.

I'm in favor of getting vaccinated. I even ensure that I'm up-to-date on everything whenever I leave the country. However, our society is founded on individualist ideals. We are not communitarians or collectivists, and the fact that my action might not be optimal for the community as a whole does not constitute a rationale for controlling my behavior. This is why we tolerate free speech even from evil people; it's why we're willing to let some criminals go free in order to prevent punishing the innocent, etc.

[1] Not that this hasn't happened already.
For a vaccine to be effective only one person needs to take it. That person gets immunity and thus it's effective.

Secondly, according to your interpretation of Kant's categorical imperative it's perfectly ethical for no one to get vaccinated because everyone can act in that way. You may not like the outcome, but your gedankenexperiment satisfies the categorical imperative because everyone holds the belief and thus it is ethical.

Kant's categorical imperative is merely a way for a large percentage of the population to force their ethics on others. Largely because the primary way it is used is to justify policies rather than have policies stem from it. Since not everyone can agree that everyone should be vaccinated policies to vaccinate everyone are unethical according to Kant.
Since that's not among the features of Google TV, why not just say FutureTV instead? Or indeed TiVo or your DirectTV set-top box? I'm sure this was not your intention but you might be unfairly giving the impression that GoogleTV is anti-user, when in fact there is no evidence that this is the case.
Baby steps are the way to start, and move forward, though don't think that's what you meant by "small feet". I think it's also important to have realistic, doable goals for "completion" that aren't "100%". This is because you'll learn more by getting feedback ASAP, and... nothing can ever be 100% complete, unless its scope is rigorously perscribed, as for a theorem.
One could argue that it's even easier for a bunch of third parties to improve something less bad like StatusNet, OneSocialWeb, or Appleseed, but apparently Diaspora has sucked all the air out of the room.

Edit: I see jlgbecom already made a similar point below.
How much of that time is spent loading? Have you tried saving & opening locally? Is the data being handled in any way by javascript, which could be inefficient (for instance: tons of table tools use JS hover effects, instead of CSS).

Am actually interested, this is not to say it's not actually slow. Just trying to find out why / how slow it is.
Aha - it seems you've been able to find your issues, and those have far less to do with freelancing specifically as they do with life/money management overall. I know plenty of people with regular f/t jobs that have gotten in debt to dangerous levels, faced layoffs, crises, etc. Freelancing seems to have little to do with it.

As for going back to a f/t job, freelancing for X years might be problematic for some employers, but certainly not all. I get approached on a fairly regular basis, and while I never say never, I've not had a serious offer that's been even remotely compelling, either from a responsibility or financial angle.

Gentle plug: these sorts of topics will be explored in more detail at http://indieconf.com
Ah memories :)

Well, actually more like a lot of moving things around in memory...

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I sleep on average about 7-8, but most commonly it's 5-6 or 9-10 rather than actually being 7-8.
How do you want to implement broadcasting without a daemon or some other intermediary? It's called, you know, dbus.
Cache your data and hit google instead of HN. That's the best way to solve this. Google can handle the traffic with considerable ease, HN is only one server that has a lot better things to do than to serve up multitudes of automated requests.

Btw, I like your API idea, it would be neat if HN had an 'official' one.

PG is quite responsive in email, maybe you could ask him directly about the maximum rate? I believe the search.yc guys do it once every 15 minutes or so.
I think they were talking about http://wordoid.com and http://domize.com
>In fact, it gives me a startup idea: the OPPOSITE of Groupon. People pay extra for a limited number of guaranteed spots at exclusive establishments.

If exclusive restaurants wanted to do this, they could easily do it themselves. (The fact that they largely don't is interesting and much-studied by economists.) What value would your hypothetical startup provide them that they couldn't attain simply by raising their prices or charging extra 'table fees' for popular times?
Really impressive! I might advise it to instructors at our dept; so knowing who/what this is for would be good for me too.
Companies need to decide how and what they want to communicate with their (potential) customers. For software, it's easy... You tease the upcoming and do it via blogs and yearly shows.

For a company that makes paper products... What exactly are you going to communicate? It's not like people ever get excited about new 32# paper or anything. (Actually, I suppose scrapbookers might get excited about new shades or styles, but I doubt they're your core market.)

Marketing has gotten away with just saying 'But you have to advertise!' and having people think it's magic and that you don't have to think about what you're saying. Blogs, Twitter, etc don't let you get away with that. It's actual communication, not just 1-way like tv ads. That means it can be both more effective and less, depending on how well you do it.