skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone know what this is about? Are writers (such as the author) suing over the new payment structure (http://www.mahalo.com/answers/important-and-exciting-announc...)?

Otherwise, the information here is a bit sparse...
Google TV Announces Its Programming Partners
I honestly would have paid $5-$10/month for Instapaper. It is by far the most used app I have on my iPhone.

I wish Marco the best of luck, and can't wait to see what new features he comes up with.
Yes, we used it. 15 very high quality leads (funds and angels) within 48 hours.
Well, most of the core features (flash games, streaming video from websites, pay video services) are already implemented by my Nintendo Wii or Xbox 360. So it feels kinda ho hum.

Google is a late comer to this field. They have to play catch up before they really gain traction in the consumer market. And no, being able to tweet from my couch, using my TV (when I could just as easily tweet ANYWHERE using my mobile phone) is not a killer app.
I must have been to a different Valley :/ The majority is dull concrete sprawl. Each to their own of course, but I can only stand it for a week or 2 before I go insane.

Here's my favorite places though:

University Ave, Frys, Stevens Creek Mall, The Great Mall, Great America Theme Park
To me, rock star/code ninja also conveys a bit of prima-dona attitude. I'd rather take someone humble over egotistical any day of the week.
Sorry about that. If you could be a little more specific about what it is that you don't understand I might be able to help. But just because you don't understand something doesn't mean that it's not understood.
It would be smart if the length of the word was directly proportional to the duration of the link. 5-minute links might be more likely to get a 5-letter word, whereas a 24 hour link might be more likely to be a 10-12 letter word. Otherwise, why would I not always choose to make my link persist for 24 hours?
Thanks for your feedback. It may not have been obvious in the intro screen, but we've enabled keyboard controls so that you can use your left/right arrows to skip back/forward, up/down arrows to control the volume, spacebar to play/pause, etc.

Knowing that, would you still want the arrows there?
Why hasn't SV built out towards the west and the pacific ocean and instead built downwards? There seem to be big swaths of unused space there, and for such an expensive place it seems a bit strange.
Virgin is cool unless you're a graphic designer/photographer/interior designer/etc. and you want to get some work done on the jet -- those purple/pink lights throw off the perceived color balance and screw everything up. If Virgin America were RELLY cool, they'd provide a downloadable color profile for working inside their cabins. :-)

BTW, your link points to the main page and not the virgin post at the moment.
WikiFYD - Mediawiki For Google Apps (w/30day free trial)
At least for me, dd-wrt only displays it for connections coming from "inside".

For connections coming from outside it forwards it to the DMZ computer, or blocks it.
How more specific do you want me to be?

Which interpretation of QM is complete?
"profitable" was mentioned a few times in there. Would be interesting if this means a bigger focus on making money for Twitter.
whats your prob?
I will pay even more ($30/year) if Instapaper could somehow allow for cross-browser bookmark syncing a la XMarks. It seems like once XMarks is gone, there will be a huge void in the market. Maybe Instapaper can add some more features to fill in this gap.
This reminds me, what ever came of http://lettersapp.com? Last I had heard, John Gruber was taking the reigns. I wonder if it has been deadpooled?
Do you mean Haltek in MV? I think it's gone now. But that was indeed a wonderful store.
OTOH, Having 300+ people at some silly little micro blogging fad with very little revenue, doesn't seem like a pretty smart strategy.
It sounds crazy, doesn't it? Of course, the idea of not punishing one's wife after she had done something which she understood to be wrong, once upon a time, also sounded crazy.

This applies to all moral progress. Any prediction about morality that doesn't shock at least some people is unlikely to be both true and important.
Additionally, we're still fine-tuning the algorithm that determines when to show what videos, but in general we want it to reflect what the masses think are the best...brutality and all.
Coincidence that this story appears the night before Calcanis' keynote at FOWA London?
My guess is that the writers of the top pages, who will now make less money off those pages, are (considering) suing for the future revenue they would have made under the old payment structure.

They're probably particularly pissed now that those pages have aged in Google, and proven their value (writer took the risk).

Just a guess, IANAL, etc.
Yeah, the public image is Los Angeles / San Diego beaches. Santa Cruz is pretty warm though (well, the air, not the water), and usually sunny. How close it is depends on where you think of as "silicon valley"; from San Jose/Cupertino/Saratoga/Los Gatos it's closer than SF is, but gets increasingly far if you're up in, say, Menlo Park.

You probably don't want to go further south, at least for warmth--- Monterey and Big Sur are beautiful, but about as cold and foggy as Half Moon Bay.

A tangent: biggest CA culture shock for me was visiting Hollywood and finding out much of it is closer to a ghetto than to its glamorous mid-20th-c. image.
A corpus-linguistic analysis of English -ic vs -ical adjectives [pdf]
Click the thread's link: http://www.instapaper.com/subscription

Then click on the Paypal 'subscribe' logo right in the middle of the screen.
I was somewhat surprised to learn that .Net's built-in serialization is quite slow (up to 100x times slower than a handcrafted solution, apparently) - is this common?
Funny, I know a fellow who is cutthroat when it comes to his fees and has repeatedly killed deals that tried to get cute with him & undermine his fee. That said, he is a multi millionaire and is usually taken very seriously even if he is just acting as a broker or middle man, largely due to his not taking shit from anyone on his fees. While he can do this, hustlers who don't produce cannot.

Now keeping that in mind I'll also say that I've seen numerous deals go down the drain because of greedy intermediaries & brokers who seem to forget that while their involvement did help the deal along, they are not the ones ultimately putting funds at risk.
Hi, I'm the author. I haven't seen that behaviour before. Would you mind telling me which browser/OS you're using?
Well, They actually used an actor to portray him in the ad. Stunt double perhaps?
Apple fans should make the trip to HQ in Cupertino. Apple operates a company store here that is, I believe, the only place in the world to buy official Apple apparel. The 1 Infinite Loop sign makes for a nice photo op.
I don't know for sure, but as I understand it, California is mostly a desert, and the further inland you go, the more readily apparent it is.
Encyclopedia dramatica: Ruby on rails - MUAHA :)
Sight v0.5: The Syntax Highlighter Chrome Extension
SPAM.

Guys, cmon, this is obvious book spam. There's even an affiliate link at the bottom
Rolling CMOS Shutters and Curved Wiper Blades
Demoing Marrily at TechCocktail Austin. Tips on getting attention?
1st Class Auto Glass, Dallas TX - BlogTopSites.com
Ask HN:  Rate my start-up.  (Multiple Instant Search)
I'm not sure what to write here. I busted my ass for almost 3 weeks to get this out. I'd really appreciate any feedback you can offer. Even if it's "this is stupid" or "cool". Anything at all helps me rationalize the fact that I did essentially nothing except work on this for a substantial amount of time.

Lay it on me, HN.
Link: http://www.dashler.com/
It looks like this was inspired by the Ask:YC question "How do I make the most out of Startup-school?" (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1753141).

To that end, if anybody is interested in taking a tour of the Silicon Valley before or after Startup School, let me know and I'll make it happen. (I've organized something like this once already. It was a blast: http://hackspedition.org/sv)
Not to mention the fact that the author confused 1622% and 1622x...
Fear not, everyone fails before they succeed.
When I hear Rock Star Developer, I expect them to work for Rockstar Games. Otherwise they are not a Rock Star Developer.
LOL , a friend of mine is pushing me really hard to learn ruby/ror. I should send him a link to this.
That isn't Ajay Bhatt. That's an actor.

http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2009/05/intel_a...
At $3/3mo, I just signed up without thinking about it. I love instapaper.
Much of it is owned by groups like the Peninsula Open Space Trust or is otherwise an official county or state park. The open spaces along 280 might seem under-utilized, but they're also one of the critical things that keeps the Bay Area from turning into LA, and one of the biggest reasons why the peninsula feels so different from San Jose.
My 3.5 year old son is named Luka, making this a bit weird to read.

You need to limit your personal device usage around kids. It is that simple. Taking photos might be the best exception: do it all the time.

I'm considering getting Luka a flip camera. That might be a great device to learn to make digital things at a young age without anything too addictive.
I have seen that book before and was either going to grab it or did and it's sitting in my pile of unread books back in Canada.

I have mine in the back of my wrist about an inch up my arm from where my wrist bends back. It is out of the way of everything. I rarely remember it is there until I go to scratch my wrist.

Of course the downside is that I have to twist my wrist around in a slightly awkward fashion to get it to register.
I would agree that it's nice to work for a company on University/Castro streets that is before the company moves to some soulless office park.
Look at a map of the Bay Area using Google Maps in "terrain" mode. Everything between I-280 and the Pacific Ocean is basically mountains.
Chime.TV & Sched.org. For Chime.TV, we had http://www.reinvigorate.net/ setup with real-time audio feedback. Every time a new user hit the site, my PC made a ding sound. Before the TC post, it made a sound once every few minutes and I would run into my computer room to see which country the visitor was from. It was such an exciting feeling. The minute TC published the post, the computer just went crazy. I think we had 40k or so uniques within the first 3 hours and another 35-45k over the next 12 hours, all from the TC post.
That is true, but based on what people actually get loans for (houses, businesses, cars) in most cases the loan does go straight into another bank. Furthermore, foreign currency reserve ratios can be as low as 0%, so it isn't try that they always have to keep some in reserve.
Totally. I would be careful not to equate density of startups with success of startups, but the two biggest startups since Facebook (Twitter and Zynga) are both SF-based.
Finally someone put into words the cringeworthy feeling of seeing "rock star" all over the place. On the other hand, I think people use the term because it so commonplace nowadays, rather than it being due to some sort of pretentious attitude or outlook.
> A pity that this interesting story does not have more context - whether that shortfall is in the blog or the book, I don't know.

A little of both - the context within the book is the author is talking about his first three years in business, when he gets repeatedly screwed over. This talk with the condescending lender was one of the things that made him wise up to where he was going wrong - he was coming across as "just a broker" - after that he resolves to establish a better image and come across more powerful and be more valuable.

The lender incident isn't really described so clearly - it was mainly to illustrate his point about how he was being perceived before toughening up. Also, I edited it down some, because the really fascinating part to me was the bolded quote. He mentions that deal fell through and the lender didn't buy, but just a year or two later he made more in one year that he had in the entire rest of his life, largely driven by the epiphanies of how he was being perceived beforehand.
I'll go with coincidence.
I'd pay for Kindle synchronization to actually work. Mine hasn't in a week or so.
A guy who used to work for me now works for PAN and their product is very cool, from what I've seen. You should check them out if you're a network guy and pay attention to the company in general
You also need to be logged in, otherwise it redirects to the home page.
it's sooo funny. dont miss the articles on javascript and java...
I'm looking to join as a co-founder in a biz develop / marketing / sales role. Currently submitted to YCombo for 2011 but willing to drop for an already established YCombo funded startup.

Contact info in my profile.
[as usual, you are both correct and wrong at the same time - seems to be becoming my motto]

HN will generate similar traffic to a techcrunch post, if you look at the raw numbers. The big difference is that the TechCrunch traffic is from a readship of a million, and those who click are genuinely interested in your service, that they just read about.

HN will also give you a pretty large boost of traffic, but more are just interested in checking you as a startup, not as an end-user.
Chris was referring to the "being groomed" part of this rumor as being dogshit.
We all know Costolo has no hair with which to be groomed anyways.

Funny
Bugaboo App
Looks like writers who put effort into pages and then left Mahalo will basically get nothing, having expected to get something. Not good!
I would definitely be interested in such a tour. How many people were you thinking you would want to come for it to be worthwhile of your time?
That would be amusing.

The M&M's thing served a purpose when it started though. It showed attention to detail when that could be important for a decent show or even safety: http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/vanhalen.asp
You mean you don't have groupies?
The Yahoo building is the one marked on Google Maps as "Marvell Semiconductor". They moved out and Yahoo took over the building.
Dana Street Roasting Co. > Red Rock. :)
I like it. Any way to show multiple searches at one time?
Microsoft's Ballmer Hopes Windows Phone 7 Makes Up for Missteps
Thank you. I was going to ask what's up with IMAP support. I won't even try an application that won't support multiple IMAP accounts.

Instead I'll ask: am I being too demanding?. As a former corporate goon, I always assume that it's IMAP or nothing. Does anyone think POP is OK for business?
Not that this is what's going on in this case, but the story reminds me of how ducklings can be made to follow anything, presumably thinking that it's their mother.

Dustin Curtis wrote a fascinating piece a while ago about similar behavior in newborn seagulls: http://dustincurtis.com/how_niko_tinbergen_reverse_engineere...
This is generally bad advice. To quote from the PR panel at the Founder Conference a month ago: the last thing a journalist wants to receive in their inbox is a bland e-mail that was obviously blasted to another hundred places.

video at http://blog.fairsoftware.net/2010/08/24/pr2-0-doesnt-work-fo...
You CAN see the city from Stanford, on a clear day. If you go up the dish trail (counter clockwise) your uphill slog is rewarded, just before you turn left, by a wonderful view of San Francisco skyscrapers in the distance. On the rare days of good visibility, it's one of my favorite spots in the world.
Much of that area is game preserves, forest land, county parks, open space trusts, under conservation easements, in Williamson Act contracts, etc, such that it can't be developed for housing.
Hi, I just put this together quickly to see what it feels like when used on a web page rather than an artificial environment, it wasn't intended as a fully featured interaction method.

In fact even while playing around with it myself I found it frustrating that I couldn't click anywhere without following a link, and you're right that the implementation is very naive. This was just a bit of fun which I wanted to put out there. Hopefully that explains why it isn't perfect :)
Why not bike Silicon Valley? This area is very bike accessible (just stay off the sidewalks), and lots of engineers love bicycles anyway.

Stanford University - You can't drive around Stanford without being cut off by bikes, so why not ride one? And if you want a good ride while you're in the area, do "the loop," which is Alpine Rd to Portola Rd to Woodside Dr.

University Ave - I'd avoid this on a bike because it's always ridiculously busy. However, Palo Alto has lots of casual suburbia rides, and note that Bryant St is a "bicycle boulevard" -- lots of it is usually car-free except for the locals, and it'll take you to Charleston, which runs into the Google campus.

Sand Hill Road - A good ride with some reasonable hills. Take this road south to Portola and then try the gold standard of climbs -- Old La Honda Rd. If you can make it from Portola to the stop sign in less than 30 minutes, you're in good shape. Less than 18 and you're Lance Armstrong. Don't go down Old La Honda, though -- go north on Skyline a bit and take 84 down since the visibility and view are better.

Castro Street - This place really wants to be a hip, urban center, but believing whether it is is up to you. Bike here and, like PG said, stop at Red Rock. Or grab a gyro and some baklava from the Gyro House, which is terribly underrated.

Google - The Google campus is so bike accessible that they provide clown-like bikes for employees to ride around. Hit up the main campus and see the dinosaur and, currently, granite head sculpture exhibit. Of course, you should probably show up with someone who works there and can throw in a free lunch.

North of Google - If you're biking from Palo Alto to Google or vice-versa, cut north through the Shoreline Lake reserve and the Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve. Keep your mouth closed during the spring months so you don't inhale a cloud of gnats.

Skyline Drive - A mixed bag. In the morning this is beautiful, and when the fog clears you can see the entire valley. It's epic. Unfortunately, the road is used as a testing ground for Porsche and motorcycle lovers -- people have died, and I have more than one friend who was almost hit.
These sorts of endeavors are usually doomed by vague thinking (see most of AI research in the 70s and 80s). However, I've read a few of Mitchell's papers-- he's a really good researcher and his involvement makes me more curious.

Also, I'm impressed that the NY Times linked directly to a paper* on NELL--- I wish more articles did that.

* = http://rtw.ml.cmu.edu/papers/carlson-aaai10.pdf
No, he means: http://www.halted.com/

Profiled in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/technology/personaltech/05...
I've never heard of variadic functions not being declared cdecl (_cdecl, __cdecl, whatever). This is also the first time I've ever heard that "C requires that code be able to call functions even if their prototype is not visible, which means the compiler doesn’t necessarily know if it’s calling a variadic function at any given call site." Can someone point to an authoritative reference for this?

On Win32 (and presumably most other systems as well) it's perfectly kosher to require variadic functions to be declared cdecl. This all sounds like a giant nonissue to me. Add support for cdecl functions and move on.
When I Am Forced I Might
Whew! Some great comments here already. This article more than most needs a reference to Peter Norvig's online reminder

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

about how to check out reports about supposed scientific findings to see if the reports are really accurate.
> SPAM.

False. Carefully chosen, hand-transcribed, edited-for-brevity excerpt of a relevant and obscure book, with a particular quote bolded.

> There's even an affiliate link at the bottom

I've had 40,000 unique visitors in the last four months, and I've had $0 in Amazon commissions. Does it mess credibility up? I'm tempted to cancel the damn thing, if anyone buys from the link I get like 20 cents or whatever. I thought Amazon commissions would maybe help me pick up a free book every month or two, but they've done no such thing. I should ask other bloggers if they've made anything from Amazon on book recommendations - even a very small credibility hit isn't worth the 40 cents or whatever.
It's one thing if your boss calls you a rock star after the fact - ie, based on your performance. It's something else entirely if a company says they're looking for a rockstar in a job ad.
Based on the poll over here :
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1756193 :
the answer is "Almost Everyone."
Martin Odersky Announces Scala Solutions
"We have founded Scala Solutions to provide the tools and services needed by Scala developers to create mission-critical applications that are reliable, quick to develop and easy to maintain.

Scala Solutions also provides commercial organisations with a certified source of stable Scala versions, migration utilities and the consulting services they need to take advantage of all the new Scala features as new versions are released or maintain the stability of deployed applications."
I got invited to present my startup, Marrily, at TechCocktail Austin (http://techcocktailaustin2010.eventbrite.com/) this coming Thursday. Marrily is an online wedding planning service that I've been bootstrapped in the past 6 months. TechCocktail Austin is the first major event that I have the opportunity to demo/pitch to spread the words out.

I'm a single founder so I've been pretty much staying on the technical side. But I'd appreciate any tips or recommendations on how to grab people's attention and to spread the words out. The event is an expo-style, which I will have a table to setup whatever I want. My plan is to set up a couple laptops (3 at the moment, 2 Macbooks and a Dell laptop) and a 24" monitor. Then I'll just answer people's questions as they come visit my table.

I don't have any budget for other promotions besides handling out business cards. Any tips on how to grab attentions for free at a crowded tech event will greatly be appreciated.

I also setup a new facebook fanpage here: http://facebook.com/marrilyhappily/ so feel free to "like" it.

Also, during sign up, please use the coupon code "tca2010" (valid till 11/01), which will upgrade the subscription to the Free plan permanently. Just a way for me to say thank you :)

Thanks!
While spot-on in the big picture, I think this is a little pessimistic. Chemotherapies have lost the severity of their side effects in the last six years, even, although it's hard for me to say if that's a result of innovations that had been preloaded from even earlier, if those techniques are sustainable, and if detailed focus on those problems which affect a few people have detracted from large scale problems that might overrun us.
Excellent. I'm happy to support one of my favorite services. Instapaper is one of the few apps (on iPad for me) that have actually improved the quality of my daily life -- how often can you say that about an app?

Specifically, it's retraining my brain to slow down, go deeper, and think critically.

My only concern would be rewarding the content producer, because I often skip the web page all together.

Perhaps integrating Flattr's API for those domains that have it set up?
I guess I'm probably the last person on earth not using GMail, but I downloaded this and poked around with it some. The conversation view is nice, but the app is clearly a long ways from complete. I don't often find myself saying this (because my computer is very fast), but better performance would be great. Also, stricter adherence to platform UI convention would be good, if not perhaps minimalist.

For me, I'll stick with my idiotically baroque setup (fastmail + offlineimap + dovecot + Gnus), and keep wishing for something better to come along.