skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Link to the youtube video with the actual footage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6a4T2tJaSU
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Read this http://norvig.com/21-days.html
So what are recurring registry fees in your analogy, property taxes?
Ook, ook.
Whatever the reason, in my experience it is definitely the case that marketing and legal both like to sit in the lap of whoever draws the short stick and has to implement the installer.
My test with gradual engagement was an epic, epic failure for my business, for what it is worth. I got vanishingly few customers and they caused hugely disproportionate support issues. (Exacerbated by one poor implementation choice.)
It certainly looks odd, but if there's one time traveller, then why is there only one? Why aren't we up to our ears in time travellers?
Water is so incredibly dense.
its the iphone 5 which has an even weirder antennae problem. the trick is to hold it like a it's a small purse. awkwardly.

just wait until the additions to Iphone5 include "inter-time calls" as a new feature of facetime. then we'll all be impressed.
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Dsp for engineers is a fun read that makes a certain class of problems interesting, approachable and understood
What all these systems lack is an element of responsibility to another person. When a human calls me to remind me of something, I take it a lot more seriously than I do a computer or something written on a piece of paper.

What if a system combined the best elements of an automated system with some human responsibility? What if all of your reminders are text messages from human experts on the type of task you need to complete? And your replies actually go back to that person and they are notified of your failures to reply as well.

People really need help in breaking down goals in the smallest possible tasks, the approach GTD really encourages. That should be a strong element and human experts can help with this too.

And your experts can be anywhere in the world these days. Combine GTD and the Four Hour Work Week.
how did you know?
i've got my money on it being one of those old awkward horns people would stick in their ear so they could hear... you know, pre-hearing aids.
From the video of the guy explaining his discovery:

"It is not an AM/FM radio because obviously it is 1928."

Huh? You're the one suggesting she's a time traveler talking on a mobile phone...
This is so stupid that I will not dignify it by enumerating the myriad other possible explanations that are far more probable.
Mere words cannot describe the odds at which I would bet against this.
I'm excited to finally be getting the book...I just wish I had read comic books as a kid so that I didn't have to struggle with picking up the proper 'comic reading flow' in my thirties ;-)

(BTW, Conrad, I think you meant to say 'geezer' instead of 'geyser' in the comic adapted from your epilogue...?)

I'm hoping I can use the book to teach lisp to some junior high kids in a disadvantaged youth program. Is it appropriate for that, or no?
If domains were $100/yr each would you give up? Do you think it would kill other domainers?
Maybe consider trying to work for a startup where you'll be challenged to understand and solve practical problems. Sounds like you want to feel utilize and see your effect on a company besides being a cog.

I've had a similar experience in the past being laid-off and then starting a whole new opportunity.
Would you care to fix some bugs in my website that I have on a list :)

Such as... my slideshow doesn't look right in Chrome, and my wiki is sort of broken.

It's appengine django.

I'd actually pay for this work!
At the University of Michigan, our classes are taught in C++ although the early courses teach C data structures before allowing us to use things like classes or the STL.

There are a handful of classes taught using other languages (Java, Python) but for the most part we're all C/C++
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It's hard to say for sure, because that ratio is changing too. A few years ago I would not have guessed it could be that high, but now it doesn't seem impossible.
It's 1928, radio was far from widespread, and crystal radios were much larger than that.
Would agree to that, but would still use it.
If you're curious about 'Candy Day' (as I was), see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweetest_Day

"...declaration of a Candy Day throughout the United States by candy manufacturers on October 8, 1922."
A useful technique to head off such misunderstandings is to ask the person who disagrees to pick out a particular sentence or passage they believe is false.
It can't be AM/FM because FM did not exist in 1928.

And AM radios were much larger, not to mention AM was only just getting started.
This story is funny in a lot of ways but my favorite is how people keep noting that there were no cell towers. As if traveling back in time is a bit unlikely - but with a CELL PHONE! - that's just crazy.
Oh :o( I liked the picture of Cleveland! It made me nostalgic for East 4th. Oh well.

(btw, you should minify the new pic. it took forever to load)
There was a great short story a few years ago in, I think, "Analog", that dealt with that. It told the story of the first time traveller. He went to visit Shakespeare, who they had decided would be able to deal with the shock of meeting a time travel.

The Bard dealt with it well, being completely unimpressed. In fact, he seemed familiar with the notion of time travelers. The time traveler was confused, asking how this could be since he was the first. "You weren't the first to arrive" Shakespeare told him. Turns out Shakespeare had been visited a lot--although he said it was nothing like the hassle Jesus had (one of the early ones had thought it would be neat to introduce them).

And then a bunch of time travelers from various future newspapers arrive, in order to try to interview the first time traveler.
Oh look, I found another time traveller!

http://cache1.asset-cache.net/xc/2634356.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAs...

Oh wait, it's just someone using an ear trumpet. You know, the only effective means of dealing with quite common hearing loss before the age of electronic hearing aids.

Never mind!

I'm sure that blurry thing you can't make out in the video is almost assuredly a mobile phone wielded by a time traveler though.
This kind of sentiment is important. Can WePay survive if PayPal decides to improve customer service and cater to small groups?
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We probably are up to our ears. There's just only one careless time traveller.
Yeah, we have no instruments to really get to that scale. Probably won't for some time, either.
That's my point, he's saying it can't be an AM/FM radio but it might be a mobile phone.
You are right, but the question was if such an Android tablet exist. Maybe someone would choose tab due its more portable size.
So, what you're suggesting is basically a PayPal insurance policy? :)
It's like if Microsoft starts disturbing virus and worms to alert you of new bulletin updates, which is what some security experts condemn to do (sorry I couldn't find the article about Conficker with experts saying this as an approach to fight conficker)
A pressure cooker is best if you're using dried beans...you can cook (everything) faster and retain more nutrients.

Also, your body will adapt very quickly if you start consuming legumes consistently...you will overcome the bloating/flatulence issues in no time. It's best to make the transition slowly, though.
Well, that was certainly a convincing argument.
If they really exist, then why haven't I already heard of them? ;)
What a wonderful step in the direction of making Lisp "cool." The site is great, the comic is witty and wonderful, and — after meeting the No Starch guy a few years ago — you chose a great publisher.
> people believe a successful business starts with a domain name

Domain names don't make or break a business, but they certainly help. Factors like name relevancy, and catchiness help draw visitors and create brand recognition.
The website totally convinced me. I'm buying the eBook now!
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What makes for a good inference?
purchased, looks fun!
Python and Ruby aren't functional languages.

You can write code in them in a functional manner, but for anything more than toy programs you _likely_ wouldn't.

They're heavily Object-Oriented, but could probably safely be called multi-paradigm. Not just "functional", though.

Functional languages are Haskell, ML, others, where you express computation by composing functions (in the mathematical sense). You make lots of copies and you don't modify state directly like procedural and OO languages do where you modify state a lot.
Hey, I've got a set of designs: http://collectivejam.com/Homepages/ I was going to ask one of the team members to do it, but if you'd like too (and maybe consider taking one of the initial positions at CollectiveJam) then that would be awesome!

My email is lachy@collectivejam.com
The problem with polls is that they are the end point of a discussion. All history is lost. The options are equal. There is no opportunity to weigh options differently using different scenarios. I'm looking for a way to summarise different answers and let people change their mind as they go. Something that enforces structure would do it.
did anyone get a copy of it before it went offline?
I've been using untodos. It's nice. Thanks for creating untodos.

I also just got GTD, but the book. It seems quite sensible so far.
Ok, so we have a mysterious device that looks a little bit like a cell/mobile phone. Except we know it's not a mobile phone, because there are no towers. But it could be something else that is transmitting to someone from the future, it just looks a bit like a phone. Maybe it evolved from the phones we have today and it's more convenient than using a discreet in-ear device. Maybe it has a hi-res multi-touch screen.

But then I guess if we're entertaining the idea that it's some kind of mystery future technology, maybe we should open our minds to the possibility that it's not transmitting anything to anyone, maybe it has some other purpose that we don't understand yet.

So what we have is footage of someone holding an unknown object near the side of their face. All we really know is that it's some kind of unimaginable technology.

Or maybe it's something completely mundane that they had in their hand.
If you're looking for a weekend project - I am teaching myself to program, and decided that an interesting first web app could be a simple program that generates coupon codes for promotions, and then tracks which coupons are being redeemed (when the user records a redemption).

I only know a little programming myself, and have no real familiarity with working with databases or AppEngine, but Django + AppEngine should work (from what I understand about them) for this project.

I don't know if this is something you can do within a weekend, but if you are interested in helping a rookie get his feet wet, feel free to contact me. The info is in my profile.
I dislike the ^ character in most contexts, including this one (as well as with Apple's "blocks" extension to C, where they are designed to resemble an asterisk -- but IMO, do a poor job of it).

Might I suggest the % symbol? It's full-height (like # and @), close on the keyboard, and not used at the beginning of words currently.
You can do GTD with org-mode, I heard.
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I tried one of those kneeling chairs once. I found that my weight on my knees pressed the cushion fabric and the fabric of my pants into my skin uncomfortably.

Maybe you could get a bar, like this one for $229:

http://www.amazon.com/Coaster-Home-Black-Chrome-Accents/dp/B...

Work on it, or use it as a bar when you have company over. Throw some casters on the bottom, and you can easily move it around.
Not really, it's a well known factoid that their not-invented-here syndrome is pretty much the reason why the iPod is the leader of portable music players and not the WalkMan.

They going with android and SD cards sounds like a good move to me.
yup! practice is the key. Gradually you will be able to start figuring better way of doing things.
Most big cities have "coworking spaces": a shared office with a lot of separate professionals who prefer to work outside of home and around other people. For example, http://officenomads.com/ in Seattle.

I think you briefly touched on a really important facet of not burning out... Knowing Thyself. Whether one uses the MBTI or something else, it's important to accept one's preferences. (And yes... even though you're an introvert I think it'd be good for you to have other people around you. As an INTP, I'm the same way.)
How should designers best take advantage of the current design shortage?
I agree, but I think you exagerate. Banks are often harder to work with. But, since they are the alternative (actually businesses often have both) most businesses I know deal with, it's worth comparing them.

It's not that hard to get an account, especially if you already exist as a customer, even a private one. The costs tend to even out over a certain volume but again, they aren't that high. I'm not sure how easy it would be if you weren't a company, didn't have an address and weren't a customer.

In Australia the most common setup is site + payment gateway (bank or 3rd party) + merchant account. If you are using some existing ecommerce software (hosted, bought or OS) it usually integrates pretty easily with large payment gateways. It all costs about 2-$400 per year plus processing fees, not much different to in store CC processing. I think it ends up at parity with paypal at around 50-$150k depending of total transaction volume (depending on transaction sizes), so you are right that it doesn't scale to micro business levels very easily.

But banks, difficult and bureaucratic as they are do compete for business clients and they do it mostly on the back of customer service.

With paypal you don't get what you pay for. If you transact $7.22 per year you get the same service as $722k.
And who would she call?
I want to ask: do you guys in U.S. really do have that much WiFi coverage so you don't need a 3G? Here in Europe I can't imagine to buy such a thing without 3G... or do you do WiFi tethering through your phone or carry a WiFi hotspot device with you?
Hiveminder (http://www.hiveminder.com) is about the only thing I _can_ use anymore. It's killer feature is its nerd-friendly Braindump syntax for creating tasks — (Need to keep in contact with Paul? -> ping Paul [repeat 1 month] [hide 1 month]). Use as little or as many of the features you need — assigning tasks to people, the IM interface, command-line client, one of it's many APIs, task hiding, repeating, depedent tasks, groups, etc.

GTD is overkill. Just do a braindump with Braindump.
Sure Apple is one of the bigger sponsors of LLVM but LLVM started out as an academic project and even now lots of academics contribute to it. Apple hired the guy who originally wrote LLVM and now uses it a lot. But many other companies also utilize LLVM and contribute back to it (though not as heavily). For example, some AMD compiler folks I know said they were going to commit some changes to LLVM (not sure if they did). Adobe also uses it AFAIK for some specific tools.

However, LLVM and JVM dont have much in common. JVM is popular more for its baked in libraries than its instruction set or VM efficiency (though HotSpot is a darned good VM too).
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I think it'd be useful if you'd explain to folks on HN the tax implications of exercising their options (or holding shares) of their company stock over a 5-10 year period as it increases in value but not in liquidity.

For example, someone with stock purchased at $0.01/share that has a new 409A common stock value of $1.00/share may have a substantial tax consequence, despite not having any actual liquidity. You can discuss this better than I can.
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I saw some of these in Boston... Quite amazing.

http://kmoddl.library.cornell.edu/clark.php

http://www.scribd.com/doc/441240/Five-hundred-and-seven-mech...

The organic gear blew me away though.
Also, you should put more information about who you are and where you are located on your website. There is zero real contact info.

Customer references are also helpful in services businesses like yours.
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I have time of my hands at the moment. I'm not sure what would be useful to offer specifically, but maybe my location can be useful. Do you need anything done down under?

Don't be afraid to ask anything, if it's not something I can (or want to) do, I'll just say so. Go and chat to one of your clients? I dunno. Maybe you do.
And if you're looking for a command line tool to help manage your todo.txt, especially when if it's a large list, take at http://ginatrapani.github.com/todo.txt-cli/
I think it would be relatively straightforward to do accelerated video on USB touchscreens (like the MIMO) using a BeagleBoard. The GPU would be set up to render to an off-screen buffer, the udlfb frame buffer pointed at the off-screen buffer, and the udlfb damage ioctl called for the entire frame every time glSwap() is called (or using normal damage events for non-immediate-mode applications). It would probably be good for about 30fps.
I love stuff like this. :)
http://boingboing.net/2010/04/16/time-traveler-caught-1.html
don't tell me you aren't using analytics!
This sounds like a business idea: Let people upload an image, URL, or copy, and charge for reviewing: $n for a five minute lookover, $m for an hour. Editors reply with an updated draft and visual diff of changes.
ask hn: review my law firm
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I use Google Tasks. I use it both from my PC and my phone. I tried many solutions before and this is the one that worked the longest for me.
You are of course right. An e-ink display is the only reason I would purchase such a device, however. I've used LCDs for reading and I find them difficult to read on for more than an hour or so straight.
How much should one be paying for stuff like this?
Something slightly less improbable: aliens. She was an alien with advanced alien technology that resembled modern cell phones.

Seriously if people have time travel you'd think by then Steve Jobs would have shrunk the iPhone to fit directly into our brains.
I can sight-read Wikipedia faster than the voice can read to me, so that's not adding anything.

The slideshow often seems like a random mish-mash of related images and graphs, with animating flourishes that distract rather than adding information.

I thought clicking them might branch off or accelerate the voice in that topical direction; instead in most cases it's just a zoomed modal lightbox that stops the voice and offers other outlinks. Some of the infographics are wrong where Wikipedia is right; for example its report of the area of the city of Palo Alto is off by a factor of 100. If the same information were just inline, I could read/scan them faster. As it is, rewinding is harder than the same info provided in a scrolling view.

I suppose if Wikipedia has 'too many words', or if you were otherwise of limited literacy, Qwiki might be valuable. I was underwhelmed, but then again I prefer the wordiness of the NYTimes or WSJ to cable TV news, most days.

Perhaps having it be a dashboard for other info sources -- as in the founder's 'alarm clock'/wake-routine scenario at TCDisrupt -- could provide some other value... but perhaps not more than other tech that can read a block of text stitched together from many sources.
This just doesn't sound right. I wonder if this is another of those studies that lumps together technology startups with restaurants.
I think the solution to limit domain squatting is to set domain taxes in the same manner real estate taxes work.
Charge 0.1%/year of the domain price.
So if somebody wants to buy your domain for $10000 and you don't want to sell it, then the tax would be $10/year.
That would make squatting domains without generating any income from them not profitable.
Someone from the future is going to hold a phone up to their ear and make a voice call? Absurd.
Hm, is there a similar command for this on the mac (that is installed by default)?

I looked around and this is all I could find: http://www.sveinbjorn.org/watch_macosx

I have a bunch of while loops written in bash, but would prefer something cleaner.
Why is the speed of zooming text an issue? How much zooming do you do that you can't wait for half second>
Nitpick: f(x) \in O(x) is still an abuse. f \in O(id) would be better. Or f \in O(fun x -> x). Where f \in (R -> R).
Well...because it's not really 'genuine' if it was a PR stunt.

Or rather, the motives wouldn't have been 'pure', as in strictly from the point of view of, I-want-to-help-out-another-guy-type-of-pure.
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The moment you enable the javascript features of firebug, the browser disables its jit tracing leading to a slower experience. You are a victim of your own usecase.
Even scale the review down and offer a templated lite version as a $79-129 service for web sites. Set it up so that each review takes 30-60 minutes, do 2-3 a day (evenings if already otherwise employed) and use it to pay the mortgage.

Perhaps the $79 pricepoint came with the proviso that the customer documented it and their follow-up changes on their company blog.

Could stay afloat using just HN as a source of customers, I suspect.

Ebook has the advantage of being a possible passive earner, but I've never bought an ebook personally whereas I could see myself using a service like this.
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People generally the income generating type of domain names (those investing in a lot of them). If it took a 10k offer to make me pay 10$ more, i'd sell my whole portfolio at 10k each and retire. it would be kind of awesome. :)
I can see color being nice for text books or any book with diagrams. However, not at the expense of the wonderful eye pleasing display that is e-ink. Which, as I stated before, is to my mind, the only reason for purchasing such a device. Otherwise why not just buy a netbook?
If I were an investor I would use my capital to fund better-smelling robots, like this one.

Pluck on, grippy coffee-scented robot. Pluck on.
"If the target market is kids or teen gamers, will they be able to afford the price of the device plus the monthly voice/data plan?"

I know plenty of parents who give their kid a PSP+DSi, and/or an iPod Touch, and a "family phone" that may be one of those cheesy sidekick sliders for texting all day.

If parents can ditch all those and give the kid one thing (presumably this PSP phone), it would almost be like making money on the deal.
Its a nice-to-have and in a very competitive market (information retrieval). it goes up against the following competitors.

a. reading Wikipedia
b. searching on Google
c. asking questions on social networks / forums

Its flashy and attractive but doesn't make the task more efficient and or grant obvious benefits. Might have a market in Education or Product showcase vertical but as a web consumer play? not going to be huge IMHO.
Thanks for the discount code Conrad, I just used it to buy the print+PDF book.

Also: I have really enjoyed your writing on the web for a long time!
jQuery will act as more of a tool rather than the core for your application. It gets done a lot of things fast and efficiently. Your application design will decide how it performs on user's browser. Performance and resource wise I find jQuery very satisfactory.
Thanks for the offer!
i might be pickier, but I would also charge you 10x more on sales to cover costs.
Similar story for Valentine's Day in Japan:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentines_Day#Japan
Technical rationale aside, it's been a brilliantly successful symbiotic marketing strategy for both jQuery and its plugins.
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