skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In modern society it usually isn't, but it was a survival mechanism for early humans, and still is for animals. If you're an animal (or human) in the wild, and an unknown creature approaches you, you don't have time to think, "hm, I wonder if it's dangerous; let's not be prejudiced and wait until it gets here so I can see what it does." If you do that, and your guess was wrong, you're dead. On the other hand, if you chose to flee or hide, you'd be more likely to still be alive (and you can still choose to come out again once you've decided that the other is not a threat).

The same mechanism still exists in today's humans. Fortunately many of us are not in situations where our immediate survival is at stake. The mechanism is still there though, it just takes different forms, like having an opinion about people or things in a split second, based on what you perceive at that moment. (The reaction is likely to be different too, not fight-or-flight like in nature.) As you point out, it's often wrong, so it's much less useful to us than it used to be (although not completely useless).
or mongrel2
I think its a bloody good idea. Just joined. But wondering if google groups was a good choice. I'm finding it quite slow, probably transient, hoping it will pass.
Why would you need to ban something if you already had a superior product? It's clear that this constant exclusivity of Microsoft products by executives at Microsoft is driven out of fear and acknowledgement that the fruit company might actually be on to something they can't figure out.
I think I'm in the same boat, kinda. I love the idea of visiting places, I enjoy learning about other people(culture, their lives, experiences, history) but the idea of traveling there... It's just not for me, I sometimes wonder if I'm simply stuck in the wrong time, because if we had teleportation things would definitely be different.
This is from Melinda Gates (according to the article). I often find that spouses are far more protective of what their partner does than the partner themselves.
Some software should be like a powertool, not a butler. It really depends on who you're developing for, I guess, but I can think of lots of software (e.g. Linux CLI tools, IDEs, CAD, etc) that should not treat the user like a pampered idiot.
Yeah, so in that field, if you're one of the 5% guys and you're actually right, and can make a convincing case? Total meal ticket. Everyone loves the David beats Goliath story when David wins.

The problem isn't incentives, it's evidence. The overwhelming majority of evidence points towards an existing warming trend that's exacerbated by CO2.
I don't know any particularly good articles/books on this subject, but Morgan Spurlock had a documentary tv series called "30 days" where he spends 30 days doing things like living on welfare, working for a minimum wage job, living in prison, etc. It's a fascinating show, and while he's the first to admit that even this level of exposure is not equivalent to what people in those situations actually feel (largely because he has a safety net, and his is only a temporary condition), it still dramatically shifts your view of what life really is like for people in very different circumstances.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_Days_%28TV_series%29
Probably for different reasons, though.
It's not even amusing. What a waste of bandwidth.
I'm ashamed for not finishing up in so long. 2008!

The post was following Richard Jones' Mochiweb/erlang "Million-user" implementation. And he ended up using a libevent-based solution to handle connections in front of Mochiweb :-/

Also note the post on Linux ephemeral port issue:
http://aleccolocco.blogspot.com/2008/11/ephemeral-ports-prob...

Niels, from /dev/poll (back then) and libevent fame got into the thread.

Well, OK. It's Sunday and it's beautiful outside, but let's see if I can get some update today.
I think articles that "attack" peoples families are sickening. What business is it of mine what the Gates family chooses to do in their own home? What business is it of mine to (publicly!) question a mother's decisions?

Oh well. Guess it's time to cast my first "flag" vote :)
SVG-edit: Vector drawing in your browser
Are you talking about sliding up from home row to the keys above (e.g. J to U)? If so I believe I'm lifting my fingers up slightly (maybe 1mm) when moving between keys. I'm not actually sure if that is good or bad for my typing health, but it does keep me from getting caught in the gaps on an angled keyboard.
I don't understand what you mean, can you explain?
Just watched the demo video. Cool stuff.

How does it handle authentication? Based on an existing cookie?
Wow, so the biggest rebellion a Gates child could take is to become an Apple Fanboy! Kids these days.
+1 for Trader Joe's Strawberry Lemonade. I had it for the first time this summer... great stuff!
Do many startups really do that? I haven't seen much evidence of that, actually.
The expected return is (probability of success) X (value at success). In practice, the probability is what matters far more, and so that's what you optimize for.

It doesn't matter what valuations/etc. are in place if the company tanks.
Hey, let's do something completely differently than users have learned and expect! Why? Because we can!
A tiny % of applicants are going to get in and they've probably already reached out to the 5 or 10% they're considering.

So we should just be working away on our startups - YC would be great to have but there's plenty of other paths to success.
Traveling doesn't have to be a hassle. Maybe you should try doing it in a different way. It's hard for me to offer a specific suggestion without knowing where you're from, where you've traveled, and how you've traveled.
Haven't done it myself, but I'm guessing most startups can and do take on consulting/outsourcing gigs for side money.
I guess it's an assumption, but I remember seeing lots of posts awhile back basically complaining that it was time to "move on" because of YC rejection.
G7 Share of World GDP Below 50% by 2012
OK... Now, how about control channels and "rooting" a satellite? Because there must be some communication from the ground for things like transponder relocation and attitude control.
US: Netcraft confirms Microsoft is dying.

UK: Netcraft confirm Microsoft are dying.
How many of your friends live in the Tenderloin?
Thanks! Yea, it's a browser extension, so it injects javascript into the page.

Your data is never transmitted to a server... it's all done locally in javascript and the text-to-speech is done locally via the plug-in.
Twisted works well but as with most dynamic versions it gets too non-deterministic for my taste. You have to monitor those.

I barely skimmed node.js, it looks very good. I have an nginx-V8 module for a web framwork I'm working on. Both give very good control to keep the system with nice logarithmic resource usage, without spikes. One of my unfinished blog drafts talks about it.
Someone who is a member of a lesser known six person startup (the other five of which Im sure are lovely people) took some front end development work from me, then dissappeared off the face of the earth - no Skype, no email, no phone calls - before the product could be completed, without warning. The guy is otherwise a nice person, but I get the feeling he was desperate for the cash and did a bad thing.
Planetary Defense Coordination Office Proposed to Fight Asteroids
> The book, How to Lie With Statistics, is wrong on this point.

Ugh, the more I read of Tufte the less I like him. He loves to make blanket statements (like calling a point "wrong") in an authoritative way, and he's amassed enough adoring followers that people repeat his words like gospel instead of calling him on it.

It's valid to say that a non-zero-based scale shows the data better. But it's also completely valid to note that non-zero-based scales can be used in alarmist ways to make data extremely misleading.

I thought "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" was terrible, and I went in really wanting to like it: http://www.amazon.com/review/R11NYC3OE3LBE
But this is a company being sold. It's an exit.
I just started playing casually earlier this year and I'm about 13-15k on DGS. I really liked the players on KGS, but it's hard for me to find an hour or two of totally uninterrupted time. DGS is so perfect for the slow pace I like to play that I wrote an iPhone client for it: http://dgs.uberweiss.net

When I started playing, it was frustrating and confusing. Now, it's still frustrating and confusing, but it's also so much fun.
What's a Startup, Anyway?
This seems to me to be one of Apple's key weaknesses right now: who among Apple's top folks is involved in social? There was a big furor when @forstall joined Twitter... he's up to 33,000+ followers, still with zero tweets. Does Steve check his Facebook all the time? I don't get the feeling that he does, based on what I see from Ping.
In America, the convention is that organizations are singular in number. For example, "Bank of America offers loans." In England, the convention seems to be to treat organizations as plural.
As someone who has made regular expression acceleration products, we were aware of this possibility but we didn't ever implement a proof of concept. The range of applications is pretty staggering just in network and host security. I'm interested to see what you come up with.
I use Ubuntu out of the box for desktop machines and Centos for servers. The Gnome/Ubuntu desktop is OK and way better than XP for me. (Yes, I do know my tastes are 3 sigma away from the norm, but I am not sure which direction.)

I am irritated by the tendency of the Linux Desktop designers to clone the Windows and/or the MAC Desktop features and problems, good and bad. I would prefer a Linux Desktop that provides a better interface than the competition, one without the warts of the other products.

I do not see the need all the graphical configuration themes and options, which just seem to add complexity. Few of the people I know use anything other than the "standard" configuration simply because a private configuration needs to be maintained and provides almost no marginal advantage.

I find Desktop GUI tools are frequently cumbersome and using them causes a lot of busy hand work. Shell command lines, BASH scripts, and Python programs work better for me than the Desktop GUI. I am frustrated when Desktop Tools are not easily usable from scripts as sometimes is the case with Gnome.

None the less, I think the Linux Desktop is alive and well.
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Thank you, we agree on the first part.

Re the 2nd, it turns out it's possible to build schools and hospitals without soldiers.

In Afghanistan, the price of every soldier could build 20 schools. In Iraq the ratio may be lower but, it's still a good swap.
Truth about Getting Things Done (Joy of Tech comic)
There are so many amazing places in the USA. I'm astounded that you're saying most places are unremarkable. I'm not sure where to begin with suggestions. Slot canyons of Utah? Rain forests of the Pac NW? Appalachians? Small old coal towns in the NE PA? Snowy peaks of CO? Thousand Islands? Lancaster County, PA? There are big and awe inspiring places that I love and there are small and curious places that I enjoy too. There is so much here. Such a big country! I live in NYC now, and almost every neighborhood is remarkable in some way. You just have to open your eyes.

I'm curious why you thought Japan was cool. Could you explain?

Where in Rhode Island were you? What did you do there? Who were you with? Did you meet anyone?
> Are you seriously saying those who argue AGW is NOT real don't have a financial interest in that?

Are you seriously saying that every single person who has ever questioned the establishment line on AGW has a financial interest in some kind of carbon emitting industry? Bollocks. I am not a "believer" or a "denier" but rather a skeptic, of both sides, whom I find to be very agenda-driven.

Now you might think I'm an idiot, and fair enough, but my argumentativeness is in no way whatsoever driven by financial interests. I don't think I am alone in that. Please factor that into your thinking.
They don't equate it to failing, just to not succeeding.
Great idea, but didn't do what it said on the box. The page asked me to enter a specific song, which isn't what last.fm does - why not just ask me for my last fm login? Also no videos played, with no error message why. It might be because I'm on a iPad and you don't support HTML video, but please just print some kind of error - all I saw was black.
I have the same setup, plus an Macap M4 grinder.

For anyone considering getting into espresso, don't underestimate the importance of a decent grinder.
That's cute but are you concerned about liabilities that might result if what you are doing can be construed as advising people to drink irresponsibly (by giving them helpful instructions for doing it)?
Science is slowing destroying my childhood memories of, well ... science.
Most places in Asia are unremarkable; as my mother would say when my father talks about visiting another Asian country, "seen one temple, seen 'em all". Cities continent-wide are relatively the same beyond superficial differences. I spent a week in Tokyo a year ago, and today I couldn't tell you any way it was meaningfully different from Hong Kong besides 'the eyes on everything were bigger.'

On the other hand, visiting San Francisco as a teenager was really cool.
Trying to treat meals with as much focus on quality and taste as the design or code projects I do. Too often I fall back on doing some really quick dinners, e.g frozen stuff in the pan.

Meals should be prepared with a calm mind, full focus and thought. I love getting each seasons specialities. The fall in Norway has great mushrooms, lamb and fresh apple juice.

I'll make a mental note of becomming more food savvy.
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Too bad, because it's a good question that deserves thought.
Assuming KK considers both critical dimensions of this phenomenon -- capacity and cost -- then the argument for inevitability actually hinges on the much broader and more controversial question of whether markets always work, i.e., whether (1) the emergence of competition and related market dynamics is inevitable in all digital technology product markets, and whether (2) those dynamics are certain to assure that such products will continue to be available to the rest of the market at prices that consistently track their ever-diminishing production costs.

Given the fact that pricing for many products and services that are subject to Moore's Law effects varies hugely by geography -- and the fact that many such variations cannot be explained away based on other factors (e.g., availability of other inputs, transportation costs, national regulations, etc.), it seems to me that the argument for inevitability (esp. continued inevitability) requires a level of optimism that borders on the irrational, a.k.a. "wishful thinking."
This is awesome. :)

I'm wondering, do you have any plans to monetize this? If so I'm curious as to how, I'm not sure about the terms of the YouTube API but the last.fm one says it's strictly for noncommercial use.
If you're interested in the topic, read Sudhir Venkatesh's books, like his most recent _Gang_Leader_for_a_Day_.

It's about his experience of spending 8 years with impoverished residents of a Chicago project community, including gang members, drug users, and prostitutes, as part of his graduate studies in sociology.

http://www.sudhirvenkatesh.org/books/gang-leader-for-a-day
In the chat room someone posted a few nights ago, there were more than a few people who hinted at that being the case for them and their companies. I'd consider any number > 0 to be "too many".

I guess they see validation from YC as an absolute guarantee that they'll reach their end goal, or even as the end goal itself. Really, it's neither. There's a mountain of evidence showing that startups face cold, dark, and lonely times whether they're big or small, YC-validated or obscure, well-funded or strapped for cash. If you can't survive without YC, you probably can't survive with YC.

I've been rejected 2 or 3 times now, and I'm still going at it.
Anyone know where I can play Capture Go at multiple levels? That is, single capture, 2-capture, 3-capture, etc? 9x9 and larger boards?
http://alex.turnlav.net/yarg/ OS X interface for rsync. One of those pet projects I never found the time to give the polish it needs. Github: http://github.com/Pretz/Yarg
My friends always ask why I pull out my phone whenever we go somewhere. I'm hesitant to explain "oh I'm checking into Foursquare" because I don't want to get them hooked too

Basically I agree 100%. There's no reason to tweet or check-in places but once you start it's pretty difficult to go back. Although maybe I'm just a secluded Twitter addict
Thanks - I never noticed that. I think I must have been unconsciously converting the US style to the UK style in my head all this time.
Worth seeing Ray Ozzie in the article:

http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/images/bull...

Bullet No.3: "...interfaces through...interfaces"?
End of an Era: Sony Stopped Walkman Production
Not sure what you mean by prose. His writing was prose, so was yours.
i forget most of what i experience. possesions such as fun to drive car, nice house, extended LotR DVD, games, books, the smartphone im typing this on all provide reoccuring experiences that i enjoy over and over.
This is really handy - many thanks!

Assuming that a release-1.2.1 branch existed and a hotfix was needed, what would the the hotfix be versioned as? 1.2a? 1.2.1a? 1.2.1 and then bump the release to 1.2.2?
A typical day for me is smallish chicken and egg sandwitch for lunch with rice, beef, cheese, and a salad for dinner. I don't often eat breakfast.
Sexy & Stylish South Indian actresses Photos
Most South Indian actresses come from the Tamil language film making industry of the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Many of the country's most beautiful women are in these movies. South Indian film industry, mainly comprised of Tamil,
Can you point me to atleast one "active" group out there ? http://groups.google.com/group/east-bay-hacker-news, check out the post frequency, member size etc.

The use cases you mention are very few and can be easily addressed with HN tags. Example : "HN India : Fundraising event in Bangalore ?" or "HN India : Let's have a meetup in Mumbai." If it's interesting to indian HNers they will upvote it and follow it up.

Realize, that starting a group is easy, building a tribe around it is not. There are many things that made people come to HN, Paul Graham, Ycombinator, Startup School, a custom and simple software. Good content came later.
The company might be more profitable in the long run if it has better chemistry with its acquirer, even they didn't make the highest offer.
I think people can be trusted to make their own decisions about what they can handle. We've been looking for single serve site ideas for a while and this one came to us when trying to calculate how much wine we needed for our first company birthday party.

It's a good point though, maybe it should have a Please enjoy alcohol responsibly disclaimer. Consider it done.
Be talking to customers and building a list of interested people to launch to. You remove a lot of risk for YC if you walk into the interview room and say, "We have 25,000 email addresses for people who want our product". (aside, if you launch successfully that also reduces risk!).

Learn about the market. How do your competitors find users/customers affordably?

Learn about the competition. What are they doing well? What do people hate about their offering?

Learn about your users! Surveys, lunches, etc. If your product isn't something that you yourselves would use, you should spend a lot of time with potential customers.

Learn how to talk about your product. Test headlines, stumbleupon landing pages, adwords ads-- whatever it takes to learn that people respond more to "Nice juicy steak" more than they respond to "Muscle tissue sample of a castrated bull" (hat tip to Robert Heinlein).

In other words, pre-launch marketing (research, understanding, outreach)!
Laphraoig.
Added bonus is that it's web scale.
Breakfast: Quail eggs and truffles.
Lunch: Pizza Hut.
Dinner: Lentil soup.
I personally know of two teams who were rejected from YC and ended up not working on the startup because of it.

I know of one other that probably would have fallen apart had they not been accepted.

It is really disingenuous on their part. There is no foolproof way to filter it, though an suggestion would be that those with little or no product would be more likely to throw everything away upon rejection.
I would think a burr grinder would be a good choice.
For me it's impossible to monetize it yet. I'm located in The Netherlands and I've got to deal with a RIAA similar organisation called Buma/Stemra. If I monitize it I've to pay large amounts of license costs (I'm just a poor medicine student). Since a half year Buma signed a deal with Youtube which finally allows me to embed (music) videos for free, as long as I don't monitize it. Last.fm API is free, but they want to see money if you're getting rich by using their API. Youtube doesn't seams to be a problem. Youtube doesn't seams to be a problem.

tl;dr Not at this moment. Dutch RIAA problems if I do. Last.fm wants money if you are getting rich.
phew.. my first thought was that they also stopped the mp3 player production :/
Ah yeah that's indeed the problem. iPads are not supported yet, but they will as soon as Youtube releases the HTML5 video support to the public! I'll put the 'error' on the todo list.
Underestimating problems has a bad track record, too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_DeLorean#Entrapment

(If you are not familiar with the story, in a last-ditched effort to save his car company, De Lorean attempted to traffic a large amount of cocaine. Turned out the seller was a federal agent. That is dedication)
No, why would we? We're all familiar with American culture from TV. Outside of cities like Boston I'd be more surprised to meet an American who didn't own a gun!
Distributed Creativity: The Softer Skills of Human Intelligence (CrowdConf 2010)
Set some goals for the day. Stop when you've either accomplished them all, or when you don't feel like you can finish them anymore. Then set some more for tomorrow and go do something else.

Alternately, when you've been in front of the computer for 8(ish) hours.
I live in a little house in one of the poorest countries in the Americas, making Flash games every now and then to fund me and my startup.

If I was back home (AU) then I couldn't have come anywhere near as far as I have - my cost of living here is like $500/month. I'm able to devote a tremendous amount of time to my startup.
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Unintended. Apologies.
Haha. One of my favorites is how Mike Arrington does. According to an interview, he'd keep working until he passed out :)

Even when you think you're tired, you always have more juice in you, especially when you're young.
Only because it's illegal to do so in most western countries.

But to be shocked by that in America seems to show a rather high degree of cultural illiteracy.
Not scotch. Specifically single malt whisky.
Ockham's Razor: is the stupid homeless woman (a) stupid or (b) an evil genius who is pretending to be stupid for some unknown reason?
I'm under the impression that a lot of large sales have earn out clauses and portions in escrow, and bad chemistry in the sale could cause big problems getting all that cash. That may be a factor.

(I've never personally gone through an acquisition myself, on either side of the table).
This was an amazingly inspirational article when I first read it a few weeks ago. It clearly speaks to me since I've developed a similar style of working. Though I know how unhealthy it is so I'm trying to better myself in this way

for the lazy here's a link to said interview: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20101001/the-way-i-work-michael-...