skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't redesign just increase font size by one. and lose any unclear text and replace with direct explanations and facts. easier to take in, quicker and makes a site feel more honest. also more likely to contain terms people search for.
My point was just that there is no simple "value" that determines the price point. One of the factors that determines the price of things is unit cost, commodity or no.
From another angle, if I read an e-book and I like it, I can't give it to my friend, because I don't technically own it (for that matter, I can't resell it or donate it to a library either). I just have a personal license for it.

It might be more convenient from a storage perspective, but it turns out you aren't actually buying a 'thing' when you buy an e-book, you are buying a license to a 'thing'.

My automatic assumption was that the crappy paperback version and the ebook version should be about the same price, but thinking about it from a perspective of what I own, the ebook should be significantly less.
That's why it says "Things we’re looking for in terms of more specific skill-sets and experience:" and not "We REQUIRE you to have 8 years experience for each one of these bullets:".

That would obviously be absurd.
hmm, I'm interested on such frameworks. Any Github?
Then ask for elaboration. It's a discussion, not a monologue.
Yes, you are. The only thing I inferred from the article was the existence of inter-agency political conflicts, turf wars, and bureaucratic risk-averse officiousness.
Perhaps a list of potential substitutes for ingredients you don't have with a confidence-level that shows the impact on the dish.
Linux (or more specifically the free desktop) is a great deal ahead of the Mac in terms of user choice, but falls down in terms of quality of implementation.

I'm a Fedora Core user at work (and have been for the better part of a decade) and am consistently appalled at the unreliability of things like sound and clipboard management. Areas that are completely taken for granted on other platforms.
Google needs to see if they can allow unprivileged users to install it (it would presumably only work on the current user, but that's better than nothing.) I'd love to use it at school, but it requires an administrator.
Armdroid
It's a popular captacha script. Not sure why that didn't go with you.
Yes. If you're using jQuery, Ben Alman's jQuery BBQ is great for this.
They could bake in Trident (IE’s rendering engine) and allow intranet administrators /IT to declare intranets render in IE7/8/9 mode. They already do something similar with their browsers, and IETab for Firefox essentially does this.
Though I hardly know anything of wikileaks, the wiki part in the leaks sort of suggests that it is kind of like wikipeia, so that anyone can leak whatever they want straight away I guess without going through some sort of filtering system.

This is not how WikiLeaks works, though it was the original idea behind it and the source of the name. Today all submitted documents go through a series of reviewers, with Julian Assange ultimately having the final say on what gets published.
You should be able to reason regardless of how big or interactive the surface you're messing around with is.

The reason that big monitors are useful isn't because it makes you smarter or more able to reason about trivial problems. It's because it provides more space to cross reference code, more space to look up documentation, and so on.

For the sorts of questions that are being asked in an interview, you should be able to sketch out a solution on a whiteboard no problem.
heres that ActivityStream visualized using bubbRubb (github.com/maxogden/bubbrubb)

http://pdxapi.com/911feedexample
I'm sure you've been told this before but it really matters very little what language you are taught in your degree. During the course of your career you'll learn many languages and APIs. It's the principles of sound software engineering that will stand you in good stead.
Original article from Nielsen, with related charts:

http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/u-s-teen-m...
Android may allow you to design your ui in xml, but go read a tutorial on custom styling WPF -- I were much doubt you can:

create a new list box which works exactly like a normal listbox would but the items in it are replaced by whatever you write between <datatemplate></datatemplate> tags, and all the bindings you make in the data template are automatically set so that they are bound to the object they represent (ie the dynamic properties in data template 3 are bound to object 3 in the source list). And the entire thing takes only about 30 lines of xml.

Bind any property on any object to any property on any other object

Have any properly which is bound to any other property be automatically updated when the value of that property changes

Attach new properties to any xml element, and execute code when that property changes (useful to change a bool in one class to cause a window to close in another)

You can create entire master detail system and bind them together without haveing to write a line of c# code to tell it how it should look or what it should do -- which means that (if you structure your code right) that you can create unit tests that check that when one button is clicked, an item is removed from a list, etc.

Again, MS have created something that is really, really far ahead of anything else here. Too bad it is windows only.
Median would be more instructive than mean, in other words.

Once clearly illustrated by my psychology professor: She said if a student asked her what the average salary of her graduates was, she’d answer with the median, considering one of her students went on to become an NBA star, but most earned small fractions of his salary.
Saving Innovation: Can a DIY culture of unconferences spark start-ups in MN?
Oh man, somewhere on my todo list I wanted to create somewhere to store recipes, via iphone/ipad, instead of just allrecipies etc, which just lets you read them. You beat me, congrats, this looks amazing. I think there is a lot of people who will use this. Also the name is great.
If you don't know Java, what do you have against it?
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Key paragraphs:

At Minnebar’s unconferences, there are no attendees or speakers, only participants. An unconference is to a conference what Wikipedia is to an encyclopedia. Instead of flying in authors or executives, Minnebar taps the knowledge of the crowd. Anyone can volunteer his or her expertise, and everyone collaborates ahead of time on line and votes to decide what makes the agenda. Sessions flow like conversations rather than lectures.

It may sound messy, but over the past four years, Minnebar has shown that it works. The event is now the largest of its kind in the country, with attendance eclipsing even the Silicon Valley sessions that inspired it. It’s the highest-profile example of how new entrepreneurs are building not only businesses but new institutions to support innovation and entrepreneurship in the region.
I can't remember - this was March/April and, TBH, my memory is fuzzy now :(
You want: http://www.supercook.com/
You really seem to have captured how people usually go hunting for recipes, i.e. they type something into Google and browse the myriad available sites. Giving people the ability to easily structure and sort what they like seems like exactly the right thing to do.

I would think that it would be an excellent idea to continue on focusing on exactly that instead of adding shiny features. Recipe apps have to fight proven and battle tested procedures already in place in any kitchen worth its name for collecting and organizing recipes. (I know: 1. Print it out. 2. Put it in transparencies. 3. Put them into a folder. Easy and robust.)

I can think of several things that could help you streamline that process and fight the good fight against paper. Apps have benefits but they are slight so it’s not easy.

You could try to further automate the recognition of recipes on sites you don’t yet know. Try to prefill if you can, the standard selection process of the iPad is not all that much fun to use. If everything else fails don’t force your users to go through that tedious selection process, allow them to save the webpage wholesale. Lower, lower, lower the boundaries of saving a recipe. You are already on that path and I encourage you to follow it. Great app!
Rip Curl launches 3D surfing game as iPhone app
Where are the lessons? In any case, I'll be getting that book. I loved Alan Sugar on the U.K. Apprentice. He doesn't suffer fools, that's for sure.
Poll: Your favorite presentation at Startup School 2010?
Andy Bechtolsheim - Founder Arista Networks; Founder, Sun Microsystems
Dalton Caldwell - Founder, Picplz; Founder, Imeem
Brian Chesky - Founder, Airbnb
Ron Conway - Partner, SV Angel
Adam D'Angelo - Founder, Quora
Paul Graham - Partner, Y Combinator; Founder, Viaweb
Reid Hoffman - Partner, Greylock; Founder, LinkedIn
Andrew Mason - Founder, Groupon
Greg McAdoo - Partner, Sequoia Capital
Tom Preston-Werner - Founder, GitHub
Mark Zuckerberg - Founder, Facebook
TL;DR: Who's going to pay you on Friday? As an entrepreneur, the answer is "I'm going to pay myself on Friday".
I have a theory on this. Let me make an analogy to advice I gave to a naive female friend (personal theory, I'm not a psychologist).

Consider psychopaths. They are not many (in percent of the male population), but if you go out and meet guys socially, you will meet a much larger fraction of them. That is because they use people and have to get new social environments quite often...

I think it is the same when you interview programmers; the bad ones tend to apply for jobs much more. The interview process has a built in selection bias, so people doing interviews go crazy because most people they see are ass hats.

And about white boards -- there are lots of subjects where I have good experience, but not recent enough to do a white board test. OTOH, one of the smartest people I studied with aced all the math courses but could never learn to program. [Edit: What I was trying to say here, an interviewer couldn't see a difference between us two by asking about e.g. a language I haven't used in a few years.]

Disclaimer: I don't know how good I am, but I only look for work at most every few years... :-)
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I'm going to pay myself on Friday.
Unfortunately, my salary ,now, is 0$ for week.
Hard times for italian startupper.
I read up about this theory a few years abo and decided to test it out with some Vibrams Five-Fingers shoes.

I declare total bullshit. You might as well say that human skin has been evolving for 2 billion years (from primordial soup) and clothing ruins it.

It's interesting because of how plausible it seems, and it made me think about how many people follow astrologers or feel cured of something by acupuncture.
Yup, working now.

Thanks !
That's good to hear. During my internship at Google this past summer, I mentioned to the university outreach folks that they should work with schools to emphasize Android in coursework. It'd be nice to have some enthusiasm coming downstream from Google on this one.
Brooklyn Dad and Kid Send iPhone Into Outer Space
There are many possible social graphs
Submission title is inaccurate. The 72% figure is for "best positioned to power a large number and variety of connected devices in the future". The "best long term outlook" figure is 59%.

Ten of the other twelve questions favor iOS, but the breakdown is worth reading.
That is one text every ten minutes counting a day as being 24 hours. As most people sleep at least eight hours, some ten minutes have two texts sent, that is a highly dubious if not an absolute outright made up claim!
Oh man I can't up vote this enough. +1000 times yes.

There is a huge difference between "iPad/iPhone are good now" and "android is as good in a few areas now, lacks the polish and we hope it will be as good in the future".

The eternal optimism and buying into the hype never ceases to amaze me. In fact I don't understand it other than the possibility that those most keen are too young to remember the past (and no, I'm not referring to Fred here, obviously).

One key thing people forget is that they're chasing a moving target. The iOS ecosystem isn't static. Also google are still in their honeymoon period as far as fragmentation goes. That will get worse before it gets better.

I can best sum it up this way: people who buy an iPhone are buying an iPhone. The vast majority of pop,e who are buying android phones are buying... A phone.

There is a huge difference.

That being said, not ignoring android is prudent and I'm certainly not writing it off but taking the iPad as one example, I believe that credible competition is still a year or even two off.
The article seems slightly different from its title. What the body seems to conclude is: 1) the available evidence of ancient cancers is too sparse to conclude anything, given that even "common" cancers would be fairly uncommon in a population of only a few hundred mummies and few thousand skeletons, most of whom died before age 50; and 2) if there is an increase in cancers, it's probably due to preventable lifestyle things like smoking, rather than pollution or other background causes more generally.

In particular, the second part seems to cut against their original point: they first say cancer isn't a disease of the modern world, and then they say well, maybe it is more common, but if so it's mostly because of lifestyle factors.

Both those points do seem likely to be correct, though.
Motivating factor behind this test: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1798953
If you missed any of the presentations, they're available @ http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/videos
Paper has a lot of advantages that I know and love. But, what I'm addressing is a narrow issue I see repeated in lots of areas beyond books. That is that the perceived cost of production has a big influence on the emotional reaction to the price of the good even though it has no tangible effect on the utility of that good.

This has a basis in the fact that high-cost goods do require high prices in order to have margins and that competition does push margins closer to costs. But, most people learn about these effects in the checkout line rather than econ classes. From those experiences, the explanation a lot of people have come up with is "If its cheaper to make, charging as much or more for it is mean."
That's over a hundred a day. Bollocks. This "study" has people in their mid thirties sending ten a day, which also seems ridiculous. Some of them, sure, but on average? Nonsense.
No f# support yet.
Interesting, I wonder if this can be used for Flash sites that do deep linking + SWFObject to show content to Google.
In my case I needed to be able to degrade gracefully when Javascript wasn't available, which meant I had to be able to do it server side as well. If you don't have to support that use case its definitely a lot easier.
I'm talking specifically about interviews here.

(In short, yes one should be able to think about programming problems while away from the computer. However, one doesn't arrive at a solution away from the computer. Napkins don't compile.)

Writing code in an interview will tell you one of two things:

1. This person has encountered the problem before and is simply regurgitating the solution they came to when they had four months to work on it and the assistance of a TA and other students.

2. This person has not encountered the problem before.

While the latter case is considered ideal, it only works if you know how to ask the proper questions. I suggest avoiding it because there are more direct ways to get what you want to know.

My suggestion? Code reviews. Have some pre-made examples or ask the candidate to bring their own code. No one has to be put on the spot. It's much easier to control the dialog.
HN also automatically capitalizes the first character of your submissions title (“iPad sucks!” turns into “IPad sucks”). You can edit, though, and correct it. Maybe that’s also possible with the exclamation points?
yes it is :)

(I have one)
Headlines oversimplify.

A better synopsis would be "Cancer is not a disease of the modern environment; it's a disease of the modern lifestyle and lifespan".
Leisure is one thing that 1900-style riches bought. Winters on the Nile, summers or seasons in Europe, for example. Now for a great deal of humanity, leisure fairly quickly becomes boredom, and booze or philandering are required to maintain sanity. But for the occasional born artist, historian, etc, the Henry James, the Edith Wharton, that can be tremendously productive.

Would I trade that for 21st century medicine or dentistry? Doesn't matter, really--nobody's offering me the trade.
While I agree that will power is based on your belief of your ability I cannot help but wonder of how effective it is to keep studying without breaks for memory retention and recall. If you read in "Use Your Head" by Tony Buzan there are graphs that show that the longer someone studies for the worse memory retention and recall becomes thus making it totally ineffective and pointless to exert the willpower to keep study for extended periods of time.
Thanks! Glad you like the name. :)
I was face-palming pretty hard at the beginning of the article, because my first thought was that, statistically, cancer is an old person's disease. Then, halfway down the article:

Almost all the mummies and skeletons were of people who died before the age of 50. "Ageing is one of the major causes of cancer," says Schüz. He dismissed as "weak" the authors' argument that they could find evidence for other diseases of ageing, such as arthritis and hardening of the arteries, and that cancer should therefore have shown up too. "In men today, 90 per cent of cancers occur after 50," he says. "So if you examined the bodies of 1000 modern men who died before 50, you wouldn't find many cancers either."

--

We already know that individual cancers have different causes and different pathologies; breast cancer doesn't behave like pancreatic cancer, for instance. So, it's incorrect to say that cancer is a modern disease; it may be that some cancers are, and others are not.

However, cancer is certainly a greater risk for older persons, and large numbers of people reaching 70, 80, and 90 years is a relatively recent phenomenon. Along with that rise in median ages, you would expect to see a rise of occurrences of certain diseases, like cancer.
raganwald gave a good explanation in Stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3009380/whats-the-shebang....

Thanks for your GO game link, learned about "fun" alternatives for the game I didn't know before. I'll try them next time I play, thanks!
I've also got Software Architecture in Practice, 2nd edition, by Bass et al.
Watching the commercials alongside this movie is a trip.
What are the best books to learn startup essentials? 
What are the best books for non-business person to learn stuff like: what are the funding series, how are they different, what is the 83(b), what is the difference between LLC and inc, what is the difference between VC and angel investors and so on.
Single page:
http://nymag.com/print/?/health/features/46213/index1.html
Barefoot walking is great. But I live in a climate where we get a snow or two most winters, and enough cold weather even without snow that a Zulu might be willing to risk his pedal health and put on shoes. I live in city that has broken glass on its concrete pavements, and plenty of stones on its park trails. I think I'll keep my shoes for now.
Biologists generally consider lifestyle to be a component of the environment. Perhaps use "ambient environment"? Anyways, your point is clear enough.
Maybe the peddling could power an electric generator - you could still peddle while you're stopped at the stoplight. =)
Yup, that's exactly how I go hunting for recipes, and exactly how I collected recipes pre-iPad (print them out, stick them in a folder).

The goal was to build a tool that suited that workflow the best, while removing the drawbacks of organizing printed stacks of paper: searching through your collection for a specific recipe or a specific category of recipes (e.g. all chocolate desserts).

Thanks for the thoughts, I totally agree on the importance of streamlining recipe saving.
Righhhhhhht... Did you keep a straight face while typing that? Any frequenter of reddit or hn knows this is blog spam, plain and simple.

Oh also, I heard you are looking to fund some companies. I don't want one of your domains, but I do want advice and money. Happy to send a deck with some numbers... No NDA of course.
Top Tech Events in Austin TX, October 2010
Just gave it a try on a site where I sell stuff. One particular item which I sold earlier this week, no clicks were recorded for the Add To Cart button. That may be some odd interaction with how things are added to the cart, but it was something I was hoping to see (like I'd like to know how often each offering is added to a cart, but the sale was never consummated. I like it, but was hoping for more.
AT&T for half price...
My rant about AT&T giving everyone with an ipad or iphone 50% off until they actually provide the service they getting paid for.

more:
http://atthalfprice.com/
yes! a hybrid bike that never needs charging
The GitHub talk was one of the few for me that streamed reasonably. I've been pretty disappointed with the streaming performance today. TC Disupt was flawless for me, this was almost unwatchable.

I agree that Tom Preston-Werner had some great advice especially about "bootstrapping while working your fulltime job to pay the bills."

Watching Adam D'Angelo was a bit painful, he was really nervous and unfortunately due to streaming issues it seemed like some of the bad moments were showed over and over -- that said, the bit of his talk that stood out was "having a good reputation helps open doors". I didn't get to see his whole talk, hopefully he expanded upon how to build that good reputation...
To some extent it's aesthetic. Java seems bureaucratic and verbose and just...clunky.

Part of this is just where I'm coming from. I started programming as a kid with basic, then assembly, like most programmers my age. Then pascal and C in college, got a job doing C++ and did that for a number of years. Dabbled in a working in php at the end of that, seemed a little sloppy as a language.

Then I just stopped programming for a long while. Did other things for a living, other things for hobbies. I'd burned out on programming because I wasn't doing the sorts of things I wanted to be doing with it.

Now I'm getting back into it and I just don't have any interest in Java. It feels like it's designed for slow, plodding steps, and writing code in it feels like I'm doing a lot of favors for the language rather than working on something interesting.

Right now I'm building small stuff in Python and dabbling in Clojure. Python lets me feel like the language is not at all a source of friction. I write the code as fast as I know what the code should be doing. Java does not feel like that at all. It's got its limitations, and there's certain things I'd drop back into C for if I wanted to do them, but Python is a language I can almost ignore while I'm using it, if that makes sense.

Clojure is a whole different animal, and I'm mostly using it to stretch my brain a bit. Get some concepts I'd like to learn.
I have only just aged out of the 45-54 range. In a very active month I might send a few more than 20; in a quieter month I might send fewer than 10.
Does it? If the form was better could their revenue be higher?