skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is, you are being negative. If the person you're talking to can't see past that to the positive aspects of what you're saying, then you have to be more explicit about it.

(revised) You: I know we have a really short deadline, but here's a list of critical Pandora features that we can complete in that time along with a timeline of when each one rolls out. I think these are the most important ones you need, and we can implement the rest once we see how the initial release is received.

TV weather forecasters are famous for always finding something positive to say about the weather, no matter how bad it is. "Sure, it'll be raining cats and dogs all weekend, but these guys over here in Dubuque are seeing cows and horses falling out of the sky! Lucky we're not them"
well you know what they say ...

sex sells.
The irony here is that Tufte goes on about bad interfaces etc yet his own web site is hopelessly locked in 1995.
Sounds like a good use for bayesian statistics+options.

Prime your database with liars/truth-tellers. Then Search through press releases for CEO's that repeatedly "lie" then buy cheap options on their companies.
New macbook air: 2.3 pounds
One thing I like is that the full-screen feature bakes in a better approach to virtual desktops; instead of futzing about selecting an empty desktop and getting the app I want to full-screen onto that desktop and then finally full-screening it, the act of full-screening creates a vitural desktop that I can jump out of at any time.

Subtle by nice.
You have a point in some ways, but I think that there are many counterpoints to this as well. Ever sit in an airport terminal and hear over the PA that todays threat level is orange? Some people might also question the necessity of such devices, which instead of alleviating fears, creates them. A lot of these types of measures only solidify some peoples irrational fears as being legitimate.
I got a 404 as well. Somehow elcron missed an apostrophe in "I'm" in the address he posted. Interesting that the URL shortened version actually preserved the link integrity in this case.

Ironically, you can read an argument against shorteners on this same blog here-- http://jacquesmattheij.com/Down+with+URL+shorteners

Note: I avoid shortened links like the plague, just an interesting observation.
I've also hidden my dock. I use it to empty the trash and that's pretty much it.
perhaps you confuse style with design?
There also is a huge difference between the two groups with respect to what they think math actually is. Many lay persons do not know that logic and discrete mathematics are math.

The moment you reason about the control flow in your program, or even when you figure out that a for i=1 to 10 loop will terminate, you are doing math.

If the problems aren't hard, the math isn't hard, and you can even get away with some trial and error math (aka debugging). However, for harder problems such as a file system's source code, an encryption library, or a multi-threaded program, tweaking the code until it 'seems to be robust' is not the way to go. For those, you need good maths skills.
Young & Stupid: How I Made 2.5 Million
It would be even more correct to say "My husband and I have grossed $216,688..."

And yes, it was a great article.

--
Edited per Amy's feedback to not include her friend. Sorry for the mistake.
If command line work is such a large portion of what you do with your mac, why aren't you using X11?
The pilot has written up his own account, on a bulletin board, which I saw sometime in the last day or two. I don't recall whether it was posted here.

Yeah, I posted it to HN on the day the pilot published his own account cos I thought it would be of interest to this crowd...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1801369 - sadly it didn't get any up-votes :/
I would like to see pictures or schematics of these tree bombs. it says they are metal cones, but that the metal is designed to rot away. i'd think we could make a corn based plastic that has fertilizer in it or something now, which would disintegrate and not leave traces of metal everywhere. right?

I think if this had a better name like "Aerial Seeding" rather than tree-bombing, it would stand a better chance of getting off the ground (pun intended). Someone should call up lockheed and see what happened to this 11 year old plan.
Apple CEO on $100 Bill
Couldn't they just require you to install Xcode to get an "unlocked/developer" system?
Target iPhone and iPad with CSS3 Media Queries
Yup, I suspect that site is looking for local weather stations nearby and using the current conditions reported as a basis for a suggestion. That will be most accurate for current conditions.

With Coat I used projection data to give the whole day in a (hopefully) simple and concise single page.
I wonder how much of this "fever" is coming from the sense they have that the typical job path is becoming less and less of a dependable option.
Most "normal" people don't assume there's a moratorium on data. Data is forever. You put it on a floppy disk, it stays there forever. All you can do is lose the disk. Same thing with flash drives. Same thing with online services.

The different here is, as you said, safety is pushed even harder with the cloud. There's nothing to lose anymore. The people who are savvy enough to realize that storage can and does die are now being told that people far more competent at it than them are managing backups and such. Why would you think your stuff would go away? Who is telling you that it might? I don't think it's ignorant/naive at all.

I do think that what Google is doing sucks, because I don't think it costs them much/anything when they're handing out 7GBs to anyone with a Gmail account. There's orders of magnitudes less Groups than Gmail users, and Groups was a great way of organizing small project teams privately, in a way that Sites isn't (eg. mailing list, files, pages all in one place).
Concerning the full screen feature: Notice that the lowest end of the Mac laptop lineup is now 11 inches (only slightly bigger than an iPad!) instead of 13. The smaller your screen gets, the more apps you will want to run full screen.
More specifically, there's so much more to math than the 'boring' number manipulation long division stuff that everyone hated in 4th grade.

Any time you combine previously separate if's and use Demorgan's law, that's basic mathematical logic at work.
This sounds like it could be better to use RFID. Depending on the application of course. Could you go into more detail?
Actually it's just my husband and I, since my friend kept his share and paid me mine, and that's all I counted.
At least on TinyUrl, you can preview links (prefix the links like: "preview.tinyurl..) But you are correct about sites going down. Biy.ly or TinyUrl goes down, so do the links.
"How much do you make?" "$90,000." "After tax and healthcare contributions?" "Huh? No... before." "Misleading!"
No, this is characterized as a "sneak peak". The main objective seems to have been to get the Mac App Store rolling. There is plenty of time (and at least one regularly scheduled press event) between now and next summer for Apple to pace the revelations.

There is a precedent for this in Leopard, where a significant UI overhaul and some other features were actually announced and demoed many months after the initial showing.

(Also: it's amusing that you skipped Vista.)
Very Beautiful Waterfalls
Breathtaking photos of gorgeous waterfalls.
The sticky wicket isn't the protocols used to schlep the video, it's the session initiation. Apple's mapping phone numbers (for iPhones) and email addresses (for iPods and now Macs) to a central hub to initiate calls. That's how the FaceTime Mac application launches when someone initiates a call to my email address; on iOS I presume it uses push notifications.

Open-sourcing the protocol doesn't solve the integration issue, and Apple hasn't said anything publicly about letting third parties join this particular sandbox.
Did I miss something or did $130,000 come from workshops rather than products? To me workshops aren't where I want to spend my time if I'm developing products. They are too time intensive and costly. The gross amount is nice but I suspect the actual income is a lot less.
>Apple+spacebar

How?
Joe Hewitt: Android and Open Source
Frankly, I'd be _extremely_ happy if they just changed the damned Finder so that I can right-click a folder and create a new folder within it instead of placing it alphabetically so that I have to go find it and drag the new folder into the folder I want it in.
Plenty of jokes on Reddit about atheists, Christians, Muslims, etc. Seems pretty equal-opportunity to me.
Totally off topic: have you read PopCo by Scarlet Thomas? If not, you must.
Almost certainly a loci based system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
There was a post not to long ago about a guy who made drum sticks that make drum sounds as you beat them in the air. His first prototype was sensors strapped to cardboard tubes. I would suggest doing something similar have your first prototype be anything you can get to work regardless of form factor. After you prove the concept then work on more realistic prototypes.
Somehow, I doubt it. Adobe won't even deign to use the standard browser download mechanisms for linking to downloadable files on their web site, and "downloading a file over HTTP" is about as close to a solved problem as you can get!
In that case, you'll also need a bill for Bill Gates, rms, Steve Wozniak, Linus Torvalds...
At least full screen apps will satisfy Windows users who complain that Macs can't "maximize" a window.

Actually, I think it's a nice productivity boost myself. Of course, the app I most want to fullscreen is Terminal.
If Microsoft can't consolidate client OS market, it can't monopolize the cloud.
> anything works if you just have to deal with Scandanavians (or Mormons).

Not true. The school systems in Sweden and Norway are far behind Finland in terms of results.
Yes, but if someone makes an OS X malware app, they would still need to think of the distribution channel. Few will download from my-amazing-toolbar dot com. But if your malware is in official app store ... there we go.

What's to stop something like this from happening: http://venturebeat.com/2010/07/28/android-wallpaper-app-that...
Computing Zen:  How to switch to a console lifestyle
Sorry I didn't turn that up before posting my comment. I'll see if I can change my URL to that.

Edit: Unfortunately, it looks dead, now, so I guess changing to it wouldn't be useful at this point.

P.S. I did find it interesting, and read the entire thing. I probably found it via your post, so thanks! I normally would have voted up something I found that interesting. My apology (again) if I missed doing so.
Excuse my terseness, I was responding to someone who seemed legitimately confused about the difference between game maker & publisher, I thought the analogy with books was sufficient to at least grasp the basics of the differences without being overwhelmed by specifics (and all of their exceptions).

In both cases the creator makes the primary product while the publisher packages that product in a format suitable for manufacturing or distribution, interfaces with the relevant distribution channels, handles revenue and all that, etc. The broad strokes are the same for books and for games even though the specifics are widely different.
So a single scientist from an unrelated field (nuclear physics) unravels decades of study by climatologists, based on a contention that the energy industry side of the debate is the underfunded side?

Figures that the author of the article is a meteorologist. Meteorology is to climatology what day trading is to economics.
I'm wondering if a somewhat larger portion of the Mac user base is now people who chose OS X because a Mac looks great next to their iPhone?
Business's Hottest Rising Stars
First impression:

- I think the font choice is unique but a little too distracting.

- I have no idea why I'd want to give you my IM address, because there's no demo or screenshot of what it provides.

- TimeTracking.im is way too large.

- You have unnecessary visual element of the blue background box, which is distracting.

- .im being red is distracting.

- Time tracking and timesheets shouldn't be in red unless they are links. I actually tried clicking on them.

- Since there is no apparent business model, as a technical user (whom you'd be trying to attract), I think you are going to take my IM and start spamming me.
"i.e. Is it meaningful to loathe an increase in the size of government if the effort will reduce the net cost of government?"

When has increasing the size of the government EVER reduced the net cost?

"Suppose we could hire a thousand accounts at a hundred thousand dollars a year to go over the defense budget with a fine-toothed comb. If the effect of adding these accountants was a cost reduction of several billion dollars per year, have we expanded government?"

The question is: If they hire these accountants and they don't reduce the overall cost by several billion dollars, can we fire them? Also, who decides how long we are going to wait and see if they will be successful..and how long would be considered successful? 1 year? 5? 10?

My other problem is that the Democrats will never admit when something just doesn't work. If a tax hike fails to improve the economy, we either didn't increase taxes enough (or fast enough) or the economy is so bad because of Bush that anybody in their position would have a problem. The faithful Democrat voter believes this crap and we get to keep repeating things that have already been shown to fail.
Ask HN: What to do with $1 million
Posting from a fake account...

My friend has just about $1 million (inherited) in cash (well, it's being managed by a money manager right now, so it is being invested in I believe index funds and bonds, but it could become cash quickly).

He's in his early 30s. Good job-- $125k/year or so in bay area. Not a hacker, but generally interested in computers. No family yet. He is somewhat risk-averse, however.

The question: what should he be doing with his money?
Pretty simply; the buyer's location is known, and Canadian sales tax rules are much simpler than US ones: the buyer's province is all that matters. They add the tax rate for that province (if any) and the Federal GST, or a blended HST if that exists for the province, or no tax if the buyer isn't in Canada.

It beats having to set a bunch of money aside and work it out yourself at year end.
Clojure and Complex Event Processing CQRS
Oh, it wouldn't really be a primary method of learning a language, more like a supplement. e.g., take a course or online program at night, then at work you run this on some news articles for practice just to extend yourself on certain words.

I know very little Spanish but just by reading Cormac McCarthy books (which have some dialogue in Spanish only) I have picked up a few extra words and certainly enough to have a rough idea of what is being said in those books.

Thanks very much for taking the time to look at it though.
> The Mac App Store

You skipped over an important aspect of the current iPhone app store - updates. A unified update experience for 'all' our apps should be a pretty easy sell. (Not that there aren't already frameworks that do this like Google's Update Engine - http://code.google.com/p/update-engine/ )
We manage hosting for a number of complicated traffic sites, including this one... It's curious to see court processes reported in the news so fast.
Yes very sure.
nthbit will extract the nth bit from an integer type. The bitwise logic is the &&& and <<< in F# you use triples for bitwise. But there is a bug in there, i forgot to times sz by 8
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd469495.aspx

bitstream turns a sequence of integer types into a sequence of bits.

So if you wanted to turn a stream into bits you'd do something like the following.

new System.IO.FileStream('foo.txt')
|> Seq.unfold (fun s -> (s , match s.read with
| -1 -> None
| x -> Some(x)))
|> bitstream

I just realized that the bitstream function is unnecessary and you could instead write

let bits (bitContainer:'T) : seq<bool> =
[0..(sizeof<'T>*8)]
|> Seq.ofArray
|> Seq.map (fun nth -> (bitContainer &&& ((1 :> 'T) <<<nth))

And change the above code to:

new System.IO.FileStream('foo.txt')
|> Seq.unfold (fun s -> (s , match s.read with
| -1 -> None
| x -> Some(x)))
|> Seq.map bits
|> Seq.concat
It appears to me that workshops are a good, high-margin offering to create short-term revenue in the early months/years of a product business. Workshops aren't all that scalable, but they don't need to be, if you're building a product business alongside.
His site definitely lacks style but I would argue the design is from that era as well. To be fair, I doubt he designed the look and feel of his site - and the truth is most great designers tend to have crappy sites because they are busy with real work and dont need to market themselves that heavily. I would guess he is probably in that boat, he doesnt really care about his web site because he has much more important things to do.
is there any reason not to use iTerm?
Prezi is awesome for some sorts of presentations, even if just to be different from ppt / keynote for a while. It's got really simple primitives, which forces you to deliver a pretty clean presentation.

Recently it has been used at NYU poly in their reverse engineering classes:
http://prezi.com/a5tm-lf0879-/reverse-engineering-101-nyupol...
http://prezi.com/e5a2tumdqocj/reverse-engineering-102-nyupol...

and has been used by the immunitysec guys quite a bit too:
http://prezi.com/kmyvgiobsl1d/pyretic-rich-smith-blackhatdef...

This year i used it to demo a timeline of memory corruption bugs over the ages too:
http://prezi.com/iemlmzvpnk_d/the-almost-complete-history-of...

It rocks..
He's talking about using Spotlight as a way to launch applications…
knowing nothing else about chrome extension development:

Rapportive appears to modify page content in chrome
I expected that number would be much higher.
The original article had 'to drop' when I posted... I changed nothing except to erase the treehugger tag stuff. If any moderators read this, please change the title to 'could drop'.
College Coding project
For one of my next classes we have to develop a piece of software with a group, we get to propose our ideas to the teacher and my one requirement is that it be something useful.

So I figured I would throw out the question, what simple tool is your computer-life lacking? The limitations are Java and 5000+ lines of code. I have considered trying to do a re-build of code-bubbles IDE, or an Expert System as a coding aid.
TUAW has posted a summary of the Mac App Store guidelines, for those not in the developer program. http://www.tuaw.com/2010/10/20/apple-posts-guidelines-for-ma...
Nice. It must be a thrill to be able to win your local 10-K if you want to.
I would imagine that if you're a billionaire, you don't really much care what version of your name people call you.
How to build a successful startup in 21 days (Hint: Add bacon)
It would be good to make that more clear in the article. The paragraph about 30×500 gives the impression that that income is being shared, since you point out that the YoH income is your share of it.
Sports App Roundup – Must have apps for sports fans
Right now we’re in the middle of the MLB playoffs, almost halfway through football season, at the beginning of hockey season, and the NBA regular season is rapidly approaching. That’s what it’s essential for anyone with any sort of interest in sports to have a sports app.
Scvngr Set to Surpass 500,000 Users on Tuesday
Just walk away. I've had personal experiences with these kind of douchebags, and I think it's better to stop wasting your time on these energy-sucking discussions. Inform him that you will not deal with his racial slurs, sever all connections and walk away with your pride and a valuable learning experience.
people are no longer afraid

Of terrorists? Perhaps. Of being strip-searched for no good reason? Not so much.
I think about that passage all the time when I'm enjoying myself enormously during a video chat with my lil brother or girlfriend.

I think DFW was either talking about awkward video chat technology of the era, or simply trying to make a prediction.
Spotlight? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_%28software%29
I don't think that's true, and I cite Newton -> iPad.
perhaps with the imac, but if you can create a macbook that elegantly swivels a la the HP and Lenovo laptops, it would just be a big heavy ipad.
keep the money invested (maybe in lower risk products) and enjoy life? ;-)
Were people able to play during this outage? My understanding is that you must log in to notch's servers to play and I find that really asinine. I am not exactly clear on the point, however, because he claims that there is "no DRM", but obviously requiring approval from his server is a pretty draconian form of DRM in effect, whether he is actively deploying DRM-like functionality at the time or not.
I love the idea of the Mac App store, however I'm not sure some indie devs will like taking a 30% hit. For example, would TextMate want to be here?

Also, it's not like CS5 is going to show up in the Mac App Store.
Hmm, I wasn't under the impression that there was large areas of land in need of tree-planting. I though most de-forestation was to free the land for agriculture (in which case you'd probably need to mix the trees with land mines if they are to have any chance of actually growing)..
Announcing auto-updates only for store apps feels like a poke in the eye when they could have developed (any time in the last decade) an auto-update system for all apps.
That is so dependent on what he wants to do. Does he want to quit his job and shoot for the stars? Does he want to retire in 10 years? Does he have a family?

Being risk-averse and getting a 10 year income windfall really says to me, fucking live it up. You can retire on that in some countries, keep and orchard and live like a king.

Personally I'd buy a small estate in a nice part of a shitty country with decent prospects for getting back and forth to the states. I'd look to buy things that are simultaneously fun/useful and investments. I would definitely quit my job unless i loved it and spend years and a couple hundred k figuring out how to make a living what I love doing.
How not to get a job with a startup
I've been redesigning the homepage (one of the many new things that need to be deployed). As monitor resolutions get higher I think font sizes will go up (there's certainly a trend that way). I'll have a bit more of a think about what's acceptable. Thanks for bringing that up.
That link has been there since... oh, I don't know exactly, but I definitely remember it from 10.2 or so. So something like eight years.
you can play single-player and on non-authenticated multi-player servers without the central authentication server being up.
Vizor, and iTerm seems slow (last I checked, which was a while ago).
Miguel de Icaza: Missed Opportunities at Microsoft and Ray Ozzie Departure