skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you show them to a lawyer too, or did you just plug in your info?
How Facebook Can Become Bigger In Five Years Than Google Is Today
Isn't the irony here that the author is not exactly a technical person? I don't think she made a great counter-argument about women and science/technology education. Even if she was, that doesn't mean the side she is rallying against isn't right. Women do succeed in spite of the "social norms," or whatever it is, but not proportionally for whatever reason and that's clear. It's kind of like an autodidact that wants to revolutionize education because of his or her personal experience, which do not necessarily apply to others en massee.
I believe the Haskell interface to wxWidgets is reasonably mature and widely-used (as Haskell libraries go).
If you put a gun to my head and told me "Write another desktop app", I'd tell you "Java", but you'd have to put a gun to my head. Balsamiq has also sold me on AIR. Unless you have a specific business requirement for it being on the desktop, though, the web overwhelmingly favors your interests as a businessman.

Thoughts on this at length are on my blog -- and if anything, a year later I believe everything here more strongly: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/09/05/desktop-aps-versus-web-a...

With specific reference to decompiling your source code: it doesn't matter, because a) your application will be pirated anyhow and b) there is no difference to the end user the mechanism by which the pirated version works. Also, you shouldn't be worried about piracy unless you're selling to twenty-something white and Asian males, in which case piracy is one of many business-sinking problems you have. (If you're really worried about piracy, can I recommend web apps again, or at the least an integrated server component? Pirating the client lets you pirate the application like downloading Firefox lets you pirate Basecamp.)
Exactly. The actual creation process helps with memorization considerably. If someone just handed the diagram to me, I'd have a much harder time understanding it.

An untested theory of mine is that this would not be the case if the diagram was more entertaining. If walking through it told a story, possibly in comic-form, maybe with animation, you might have a better chance of grasping it. TV networks do this all the time with animations, most recently with the BP oil spill, showing how it was going to be capped.

FYI you can do the same with pencil/paper. There's no real need to use OmniGraffle/Visio/Photoshop/Whatever (asides from the advantages of having it on a computer).
Google sounds like goggles? I'm not sure I have heard someone suggest that, nor do 99% of Google users know about the mathematical significance of the name. I think it is a good name because it is simple, unique, easily spelled and the name of the best search engine for the last 10 years.
And it's not like Firefox or Eclipse (or Photoshop, to pick a commercial example) feels anything like a first-class citizen on the Macintosh. I'm not sure that there's much of a percentage in making cross-platform apps, really. The platform idioms and user expectations are just too different. Pick one platform and do a kick-ass job.

EDIT: Brain-fart: Firefox != Mozilla.
Sorry it took so long to reply, there used to be a RSS feed of when somone replied to your HN comments but I guess it stopped working.

Anyway, it's for Arch Linux packages.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ABS
I thought I had written "have to close my eyes" but apparently some part of the text got swallowed somehow.
I work full-time for an avionics company building simulation software. A couple of my co-workers are part-time.

I also work part-time for a startup. In this case, I'm more of a consultant; some weeks I'm very busy, other weeks I might do nothing at all.

Part-time work is out there, but it's not always floating on the top.
Have you worked with any non-Java JVM languages? I can understand your recommendation of the platform for this use case, but the Java language itself seems like a lot of extra pain for minimal gain over Scala or Clojure.
If the ConnectU team had been competently-run, the founders would have realized that their idea was their biggest asset at the time (they had zero execution), and kept it more closely-guarded. Instead, they blurted it out to Zuck before he even agreed to work with him, while completely neglecting to employ the use of NDAs, non-competes, or similar documents. I'm loathe to defend a legal system so "random and inefficient" (as Lessig puts it) that it would allow the ConnectU team to extract $65 million from Zuckerberg regardless.

Was it unethical for Zuckerberg to take advantage of their ignorance? I don't think so. He saw an idea he liked in the hands of a couple of people who weren't implementing it correctly, so he did it himself. That describes about half the startups that exist today.

Was it unethical for him to lie to the Winklevosses in order to delay their progress as a company? Definitely. But at worst, it amounts to unethical intellectual bullying of an incompetent and inferior competitor. Given that he didn't break any laws, didn't steal any code, and didn't sign any contracts (to my knowledge), I find the eventual $65million settlement hard to stomach.
I thought the intention would be to not drive over the cyclist.
Maybe so, but it's still gonna stick out like a sore thumb everywhere. Meaning annoyed users, meaning the app is never ever gonna become a buzz on blogs and shit, meaning low earnings.
Look at university jobs. They even have a special term for it: 50% FTE (Full-Time Equivalent)

I'm 100% FTE at a university right now doing sysadmin/programming/network stuff for a small team and will be moving far away and telecommuting at 50% FTE in a few months.

Like patio11 says, everything is negotiable. Additionally, I did a LOT of networking (the human kind) and it paid off. The guy who hooked me up with this isn't even a tech guy -- he knew people who needed one, though.

EDIT:
50% FTE includes full retirement and health benefits, too, in my situation.
Ideas come with experience, you push something to the edge and you realize the next stage doesn't exist and it's up to you to create it if you want it to.
Sometimes worry that this is a depressing answer to Fermi's paradox (Fermi's paradox asks why no intelligent life has been found, if the odds of it are so high):

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

Maybe when a species/civilization gets to a certain point of sophistication and intelligence, the motive to keep expanding (or even reproducing, apparently) stops, and they don't go on to colonize anywhere else.

Really, the only reason the Americas are so populated right now is because of crazy overpopulation in Europe at the time. If a new continent was discovered today (or if Mars was suddenly terraformed), how long would it take for it to be populated? Would it ever be?
Prediction on Higher Education (a couple of years from now):

Students no longer drive to class early in the morning. Nor do students have to work around class schedules. Instead, students view prerecorded lectures from their laptops/I-Phones. Gone are the days of live teachers and live students.

These video lectures were recorded many years ago. The university pays the original "recorded" professor a small royalty for each class. This royalty fee costs a fraction of a live lecture. This allows the university to pay for a top notch professor to lecture/record one semester, then reuse that recorded lecture in subsequent semesters. One-time cost.

Student questions are posted to message boards which a professor actively monitors and responds to. Students never ask the same question twice since all previous questions are searchable online. Professor responsiveness is very quick (usually in 1-2 hours). The professor answering questions is a full time professor (which may not be the same person as the original recorded professor). This full-time professor is able to handle four times as many classes due to automation etc.

The need for college dorms is marginalized since they are no longer necessary. Because of this, dormitories with excess capacity are demolished since their operating costs are fixed and become a resource drain if not filled to capacity. OR, students get single rooms all to themselves!

Tuition prices plummet due to a surplus of pre-recorded lectures on the market. New industries develop that specialize in creating top-notch video lectures for colleges and handling student questions on message boards (24/7 rapid response student support). Local colleges contract with these new companies (again at significantly lower costs).

International students also benefit (lower tuition/more accessible classes etc). The reach of the US education system now permeates every continent. This has other benefits to their local economies with a higher skilled workforce. Traveling to the US for one semester may be required (for lab classes which require a live teacher).

Tuition for all students is now affordable (and continues to drop as time goes on). Student loans are minuscule.

In the end, higher education is commoditized. Prices plummet, quality increases.
Python + Titanium from Appcelerator

Air

Python + QT
The Age of the Activity Stream
Video Games Costumes
These people became extremely fond of video games so they started to dress like them.
I haven't used CookieSafe but I have no doubt that its functionality is more advanced than Chrome's built-in options. Chrome doesn't expose the internal APIs required to control Cookie functionality to the extension system. So we're "stuck" with that Chrome gives us, which is more than good enough for my needs.
I got accepted and I'm in high school so the range must be pretty big. I'm still debating over whether I should go cause I'm on the east coast.
New Sproutcore Demo: Family Tree
Nope, the functionality's just built into Chrome. It's actually really easy and convenient.
I do not disagree that Java is a major pain in the keister. I played around with JRuby and an MVC framework (Monkeybars) which let you code a Swing app in a more civilized fashion than actually coding Swing apps. The tradeoff is a 20MB hit to your download size, which would have mattered to me back when I started. These days that is less of an issue because folks typically have nigh-ubiquitous high speed Internet access, but there is a fairly straightforward way to take advantage of that which is superior in every fashion.
Wow! You are an elite runner. I highly recommend "Once a Runner" by John L. Parker if you have not yet read it. It just got reprinted in paperback.

http://www.amazon.com/Once-Runner-John-L-Parker/dp/091529701...
I wouldn't waste time clicking the "delete" button on everything in your wall. When I left facebook this spring, I spent an hour or so clicking that button hundreds of times.. then I ran Give Me My Data -- and it found the old, "deleted" wall posts. It's not particularly surprising that deleting something just hides it, poorly.

While I then perma-deleted my account (at least I hope so), I assume they still have all my data, and that it's probably leaking out to anyone who knows where to look.
It makes sense... it's just wrong. The odds that your vote is the last one counted in a 100M vote election is 1 in 100 million.

The odds that the election would be decided by a single vote have not been considered.
These folks seemed to have no problem creating a big system in Perl:

http://www.lacunaexpanse.com/
Bah! Such a shame I'll be out of town during this.
And that might even matter for some audiences. It doesn't for all of them: BCC had 2x the conversion for installations on Mac (where it is, ahem, distinctly non-native) relative to Windows.
I agree -- I played with Mojo: http://www.earnmojo.com

which is similar, but we stopped using it because of the JS hit and because it wasn't as customizable as yours sounds.
This is definitely possible. When I was consulting, I used to take off between Thanksgiving and New Years Day every year to do nothing but decompress and dick around with whatever new technology had caught my eye.

I had a day job for a little while when I had gotten tired of the constant sales cycle of consulting. They were more than happy to let me go part time because I brought a good plan to the table - I worked 20% less and took a 12% pay cut - they got the benefit of the fact that I was learning new stuff on the day that I wasn't in the office.

Anything is possible, all you have to do is make a plan.
Don't look for ideas. Look for problems.
The Aesthetics of Reading: http://affect.media.mit.edu/pdfs/05.larson-picard.pdf
I'm not sure if this is an option for you but if you average out my hours over the year, i work part time. I'm a contractor, I work 6-8 months of the year full time, and the rest of the time i do what i like.

It does mean i have to be financially disciplined, which thankfully (after learning the hard way) does now come easy to me. It also allows me the flexibility to not be tied down to one location throughout the entire year, which working 2-3 days a week does.
Partly, and in the case of Spitfires and Hurricanes (never forget the Hurricanes -- they weren't nearly as pretty, but they were every bit as effective) partly because of the limited structural damage that the .303 round could do. Later variants were more heavily armed, but the Battle of Britain was fought primarily with Brownings chambered for the .303 British. That pretty much left pilots, the cylinders of radial engines and pressurized fuel and oil systems as the vulnerable points. (Those with .50 Brownings and 20mm auto cannon could afford to shoot at other things, but a fuselage hit still rarely did more than add ventilation.)
It's not sophistication and intelligence. It's the cost of living.
Okay, you asked for it!

2 x Express x3550 M3
+ 2 x Xeon 4C E5506 processors
+ 7 x 4Gb memory sticks
+ 2 x 73Gb disks
+ 1 x Qlogic raid card

1 x IBM storage DS3300
+ 8 x 300Gb disks

2 x VM Ware standard
2 x SuSE 11

Also some Watchguard and Gigabit switch.
Reflectors are better than nothing, just. An actual light source is so much better it is not funny.

LEDs are cheap, plentiful and actually safe.
Not to sound nitpicky, but you may want to read your FAQ page out loud. There were several typos in the first couple of paragraphs alone (repeated words, missing words, sentence fragments, etc).

That said, the idea behind it is pretty cool. I assume you have something set up for cleaning the clothes yourselves before sending them out to new people?
Mark Pilgrim wrote a good summary of all the options out there right now, and Google's level of support for each of them:

http://diveintohtml5.org/extensibility.html
I like this story a lot. People are people, and it's always nice to be reminded.
Formatting gone a bit wrong. So two servers with both cpu's, 7 sticks of 4gb ram and dual mirrored raid disks each.

Thanks for posting, I do love this community.
How many months until someone comes up with an application for this in the adult industry? As with home video and web streaming video, could be another technology accelerated by porn....
I don't think it's that simple. Plenty of people living in poverty manage to have quite large families.

I think instead it's the desire to have children only if you can have them and still live a the level of comfort you desire. It used to be, that people had kids simply because it was the default, and everyone did. But now that society has advanced to the point that people are able to make different decisions, it seems like often the choice is, simply to not have them.

That's all I mean by sophistication--the ability to look at how you are living, and make those choices for yourself.
LispWorks with CAPI, here is some software written with it:
http://weitz.de/regex-coach/
http://www.netfonds.no/manual_pt_eng.php
http://lisp.ystok.ru/ygrid/index.html
or check on their page - http://www.lispworks.com/success-stories/index.html
I've started doing some small Perforce p4win clone in it - github.com/malkia/p4bee - it contains source code and binaries.
Women of Europe! We need to remedy this situation. I'll do my bit if you do yours. Email address is in my profile, please attach pictures.

(I kid, I kid. I've already done my share: the little one is expected next month).
Do both. You would be nuts to depend on a single cloud provider, as the model for clouds allows for adjusting "the dial" on performance to increase revenues.

Spend $30K on physical equipment and network, and $10K on cloud deployment.

Then, over the course of a year or two, as you expand and learn how the cloud "really works", you can adjust as needed.
I have a counterexample which comes immediately to mind, but he wouldn't appreciate being mentioned. So, trust me on this one: uses QT, well-beloved by a traditionally underserved market, is "a buzz on blogs and shit" for that community, now has a boatloat of competitors, and doing "quite well indeed."
I'm looking for a solution where I can have recurring payments for my SAAS startup. I'd like to charge in USD and/or EUR, but I'm based in Poland, and so is my company.

I can't use google checkout (not present here), and I want to avoid resorting to Paypal because of horror stories(actually one of my clients got permanently suspended). Any other solutions anyone could recommend to me?
You might consider using raphaeljs to do some graphing and visualization, in addition to the numbers.

graphing:
http://g.raphaeljs.com/

Make sure to check out the demos.
The Software is a web based PHP5 App running both Mysql and Oracle on top of SLES9. It collects performance information (KPIs) and sends out formatted reports (PDF/XLS) to clients & customers. It's been running on IBM Xseries 336 servers since 2005 (eek!) and really needs an upgrade. Our technical provider came up with the spec but am interested to see if cloud hosting has moved on; I understand it was a bit shakey to start with.
Almost 50% of the people here in the Netherlands work part time, so I'd definitely say it's possible :)
You made my day with that link.
That is a decent idea. Also, showering regularly to generate new ideas has some useful side effects. ;)
Zynga runs largely on EC2, something like 10,000 nodes. I don't know how to define "shaky", but that company bets hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue on EC2.
I personally like C#.

If you use Gtk for the GUI, it's cross platform using Mono. Lots of closed and open source widgets, easy to write your own, and runs very quickly.

IMHO, the networking stack in C# is much more robust and provides better performance than in Java, and you can static link the runtimes to the app, making deployment of installer-free apps relatively easy using embedded resources.

Cheers!
Randy
5 Reasons That Will Make it Worth it
Matt is a Y Combinator alum of note so I'd presume it was for a YC-advised Series AA.
Microsoft's last chance? No way! Microsoft isn't going to run out of money anytime soon; it can buy itself quite a lot of time, enough for several chances.

Paul Graham also declared Microsoft dead (http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html) 3.5 years ago. With all reservations made to the meaning of the word "dead" in this fine essay, I can't find the way around some ways in which this is simply wrong. For example, if I want to play a computer game nowadays, I'd better have Windows. The vast majority of games, from indie and experimental through proud little independent companies all the way to established companies - are made for Windows. It's like the only game in town. There's no sign of changing this in sight. Granted, PC game market is a fraction of that of consoles, but in consoles Microsoft established a good foothold too and not giving it up anytime soon.

I'm afraid that many technology observers drink too much of some fashionable kool-aid and over-dramatize things. Wherever some company or technology appears that has non-zero chance to potentially displace established company or technology X, they declare it "X killer" or proclaim X dead. I'm afraid I can't fully trust the expertise and reasoning of said people after that.

Maybe Microsoft's hopes to bury iPhone and Android are just that, hopes. But declaring it Microsoft's "last chance", even in mobile segment, is no less wishful thinking.
I highly recommend:

http://www.amazon.com/CA-HVERTISING-Ad-Agency-Psychology-Any...
why would this ever get downvoted? a link would be nice though.
Unfortunately, it's likely that he was taken more seriously by law enforcement because he's Lance Armstrong. If I called the police with a similar complaint, I'd put the odds at less than 50% that it would lead to criminal charges.
I've been doing some work around machine text summarization

Does this mean developing your own code or playing around with something like libots or Copernic Summarizer?
I think that's an interesting point. However, I do have to consider running sensitive performance data running on equipment we don't control or host. So, is it wise to run customers data on kit we don't own or host?
I didn't know that. I guess it scales extremely well.
Fez: The Duke Nukem Forever of Indie Games?
The rational voter never votes. At best he spends his effort convincing other people to vote a certain way, persuading others that their vote does indeed count, all the while knowing his own vote doesn't. If he participates at all, he does so as demagogue and charlatan.
What are some good reasons to take a technology company public?
I will try to be there.
no gay families? tch
Newspapers that will survive will not consider themselves newspapers
u right patio11, bendmorris should really tell us who the target audience is.
if you do go with the java desktop app, use the absolute layout. those complex layouts were very difficult to change.
'No, where the author goes wrong is believing that unmet goals == failure. The best thing to do is not drop your goals, but stop labeling yourself a failure, blaming yourself, etc... when you miss them. Sure, the only one who can "own up" to that missed goal is you, but leave it at that and don't make it a cycle of negativity.'

Exactly.

I've set out to accomplish a great many things, and have, by all accounts, failed at most of them. However, while I may have missed may goals, these pursuits lead me to accomplish other things.

Having goals is mind hack to get you off your ass and into motion, which about the only way anything happens, planned or not.
The Khan Academy content is currently concentrated in areas such as math, science, and finance. Do you think the approach can be applied to other disciplines; e.g., programming, business (other than finance), other social sciences? And how about more advanced levels of skill development?

In short, are there boundary conditions to the Khan Academy approach? And if so, what are they?
I would like to see NASA, Education, Natural Parks, and the National Science Foundation higher on that list.
Ancient Athens was version 1.0. We're on something like 2.0.5, based on new scalability work and with some minor tweaks made over the last couple centuries.
Don't worry. 100% of people who don't have children won't contribute to next generation's gene pool. Natural selection will "fix" the problem quickly enough.
Well, that and extreme cold can feel a lot like a burning sensation.
Have you never heard of the phantom limb phenomenon in amputees?
How mint.com lost credibility for me?
I feel like this is just another thinly disguised "Look at me, I'm deleting Facebook!" post. Do you really need our advice on how to remove yourself from a website? Just delete it, or delete all your data.
Feels kinda broken. Hard to connect the lines. Don't know why some lines don't connect.
They make it look so easy. I bet many parents would be willing to buy such a kit. Does anyone sell this yet?
The fatal grandeur of the Golden Gate Bridge
Hot Tub Time Machine
What do you mean by "not a technical person"?