skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't disagree with that in principle, but I'm confident it won't happen in the US. (I don't know enough about Canada to have an opinion.)

Cable companies and telcos won't willingly give up their internet business, especially since a spun off ISP with large amounts of bandwidth to their customers' homes could trivially compete with them. They have a lot of lobbying power and they'll use it to fight that. Whenever you're dealing with infrastructure like roads or utility lines, progress moves at the speed of half-frozen molasses even when the existing stakeholders are on board, and it takes very little for them to halt it entirely.

Instead what they'll likely do is find ways to align their interests with Netflix's. They'll institute bandwidth caps as a first measure. Then they'll perhaps sell you the Netflix service with bandwidth for some monthly fee that gives them both a cut.
Ask HN: looking for tech startup funding in the UK?
are thier any known startups funding investors in the uk, that are interested in tech startups?
Is this a good space to compete in? There are zillions of sites like it, it's really easy to duplicate, and hard to make money off of? Nevertheless, best of luck to you.
Current stores nearly unisono suffer from poor search functionality, lack of social discovery features

There are all sorts of sites like appshopper.com, though, that provide alternate interfaces to enable such things. It's not like Apple's App Store (and I'm sure Google's Marketplace is no less open in this way) is closed to outside linkage.
I would respectfully say just the opposite. In a 45 second video, they showed the product, I saw someone using it who already knew how to use it and I had no more commitment than clicking "play".

In my book, they got it exactly right.
Good points, although I'm pretty sure the editor, after determining that Monica was not a threat, was writing in this way simply to stick it to her for her own amusement.
Yes, this is a good point and I actually noted it in my issue tracker while troubleshooting. I made sure that inserts & updates weren't negatively affected to an unacceptable degree after adding the indexes. The overall win was huge, because it eliminated wait times for a sizable staff and client base.
It is now online:
http://www.atariarchives.org/APX/showinfo.php?cat=20095

Porting it was a good idea when the Motorola RAZR was the new hotness, but it doesn't hold up as well now that the processor in my iPhone is almost as fast as the one in my laptop:
http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-eastern-f...
Of the people who would be using a tool like this? I'd say ~100
It's been a legal issue: Greenberg v. National Geographic Society

http://www.publaw.com/erights3.html
Using Safari Reader to Send Multi-Page Articles to Instapaper
Agreed. I didn't get passed the homepage.

1. Why not have an anonymous demo page to play around with before asking us to sign up?

2. Why not have a big "Log in with OpenID" button so people can just link in with Google/whatever?
InnoDB Storage Engine Dropped From Oracle MySQL Classic Edition
When marking a task as completed, all the subtasks should automatically be completed, too.
The post I was responding to said that all global warming data is falsified. That's blatantly untrue and not even worthy of discussion.
First thing first, you need your sleep. If you don't sleep the brain stops working properly and everything becomes increasingly difficult. Short term (cramming before an exam) -- OK. Long term, don't do it, it's not worth it.

Better to look at productivity strategies which someone else will be able to help you with. You're right about the exercise as well, getting oxygen into the brain, and generally being fit, will help the brain work.

But please, sleep. If needs be do it in 2 or 3 shifts over a day/night, but one way or another you should have at least 7 hours in every 24.
If drinking causes you problems then do not drink. This course of action is simple and cheap.

If not drinking causes you problems (physical withdrawal symptoms, mental distraction, emotional upset) then get help. This course of action involves other people, and may involve money.

What got my attention was that I twice got drunk and wrecked cars, and twice got drunk and got arrested for DWI. I stopped drinking. I could not bear the thought that I was so stupid or insane. I could not bear the thought of going to jail, losing my job, and losing my ability to support my father, who was hospitalized with cancer at that time. I wanted to die.

I went to the Employee Assistance Counselor where I worked. She said, "People who repeatedly get drunk and wreck cars and repeatedly get drunk and arrested are alcoholics. Alcoholics who don't want to drink go to AA." I went to Alcoholics Anonymous. That was 26 years ago. I have not had a drink (or killed myself) since. I still go to meetings.

I required very little counseling. Some people might need more. I did not go to in-patient treatment. Some people benefit from this.

Alcoholics Anonymous accepts contributions from members. Professional treatment may cost money.
If your first version is so impressive that trolls don't make fun of it, you waited too long to launch.

http://www.paulgraham.com/really.html
Use SSL for the connection to the update server.
Really? I know plenty of people who use Evernote that do all of their text editing in Word or Google Docs.
That's worthy of about half a comment on the original...
Information organization.
Also from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_X-ray#Health_effect...

"However, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, have argued that the amount of radiation is higher than claimed by the TSA and body scanner manufacturers because the doses were calculated as if distributed throughout the whole body, but the radiation from backscatter x-ray scanners is focused on just the skin and surrounding tissues"

"Furthermore, other scientists claim the health effects are backscatter are well understood whereas those from millimeter wave scanners are not"

Some of the machines being deployed by the TSA are millimeter wave scanners, BTW.
I just wanted to thank you for linking to the full version of the article (rather than the paginated one).
I assume you are just joking with the reference to entropy. It is only relevant to closed systems, and organisms are not closed systems. We can remove entropy from a system using energy. That is what food is for - it gives us the energy to remove entropy from our bodies.
The other day I was thinking it could be fun to mine Github for developer personality traits. It could pull down their info and plot them along various axes, such as

* how much they follow through with projects
* how much they contribute to other people's projects and how much other
people contribute to theirs
* frequency of swear words in their commits

(edit: formatting)
> Cut out ALL sugar.

Considering sugar is fruits, vegetables and milk, this sounds like a bad call.
I highly recommended trying out http://Justin.tv. Great resource for starting your own internet show.
The best advice I can give is: Don't use Smashing Magazine as a source of design education. Their articles are superficial at best and I've never seen one written by anyone who exhibits real expertise in the topic. Learn the basics first - color theory, composition, etc - from good art or design texts, and from learning to draw.
This caught my eye: "On Android 2.2, we’re now around 25% faster on the SunSpider Javascript benchmark than the stock browser." I was under the impression that main reason anybody would use Firefox would be for the features and plugins and doubted they'd ever be significantly faster. It's nice to be wrong.

Granted, 2.3 comes out on Monday and will probably be even faster, but that won't help those stuck on 2.1 or 2.2...
I do my best in the morning. I also feel much more productive after a run or some sort of light exercise.
People use OpenID?

EDIT: I know people 'Login with Google' and 'Connect with Twitter', but I don't know anyone who dives at 'Login with OpenID'.
It's an outline program (with a great UI), rather than a simple task list. The video makes it pretty clear.
I'm unable to be productive or study effectively because I'm tired.

If you're too tired to be productive, then there is only one productive thing you can do: Sleep.
Definitely it's biased... but interesting.

I'm #1 for python only because the true pythonistas in Seattle don't use GitHub.

As for you and PHP -- that I can't comment on, because we haven't yet run into each other at a meet-up. :-)
resisting the urge to quote the movie office space here...

I would pay off debt, save a portion, and invest the rest. in my case it would work out to be just about equal parts. That solved, I would probably spend a few months recharging and starting a business of some sort- most likely some sort of software plugin creative tool for musicians.
Ah, counting profanity in source code, a favourite pastime: http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/
I should have qualified my remarks. I recognize that the technologies of the future may only be affordable to the rich. And when I said "die", I meant "die" of old age. I realize that there will always be the risk of getting hit by something large, moving faster - whatever the equivalent of a bus is, 500 years from now.

But seriously, will (wealthy) people age 500 years from now?
Yes, debian and ubuntu do this using OpenPGP. I'm sure other distros use something similar. Yet another reason to stick with free software.
Glad you liked the interview. Thanks for submitting it to HN (though a bit late for it to get traction, I suspect). Plenty more insights to come on blog.hipmunk.com if you're interested!
The post you're replying to contains three questions you don't know the answer to without signing up for the service.
Thank you for this. Yahoo! should copy and paste your comment onto the S4 homepage.
Yes, I was about to comment on that and saw you'd spotted this too. Bonus points to you!

So the techno dance track is "PPK - Resurrection". One of my favorites tracks of all time until now.

I'm guessing that what we heard in the film is either a a traditional Russian song or a song from the late 80's -- either way it means that PPK ripped it off and didn't write that catchy hook themselves. I'm very sad to learn that.

anyone reading this who has no idea what we are talking about, listen here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipE9QFiWhzQ
We don't have continuous testing set up for ARM processors, but on x86, Mozilla's Jaegermonkey VM is faster at SunSpider even when compared to the latest development build of Google's V8:

http://arewefastyet.com/
I think he was referring to the product, not the website.
I think http://www.learningjquery.com/ is one of the better (besides the official site) all-around jQuery site. You can filter posts by beginner/intermediate/advanced to meet your skill level.

14 Days of jQuery series is pretty good too.
http://jquery14.com/

Also, stay away from things like "30 Most Amazing jQuery Plugins to Make Your Site Mind-Blowing-ly Awesome".
I imagine if your app provides widgets for others to place on their websites, !important declarations could let the widget make sure its appearance is not dictated by the stylesheet of whatever page it's plopped onto, without putting the whole thing in an iframe.
I like it. I definitely will forget the name, so I made it http://bit.ly/worklist
Sounds like you're compensating for a lack of sleep with alcohol. I notice that when I'm awake for really long stretches that only stimulants or depressants offer reward to the brain (I.e. Coffee, alcohol, no-doze, ambien, crack, etc). Once dependences (even though they may not be addictions) become a habit, it begins to affect moods and health in the long run. Mind you, I'm not a doctor... But I would prescribe more sleep and less drinking if I played one on TV. Har.
It's unavoidable - Toronto and Vancouver are much the same. That's also why you live in a city where driving is not a requirement - where you can reasonably live without owning a car, or at the very least get your daily commute done 100% car-free. Then you get the perks of a big city with none of the gas-brake-honk.

Seattle pretends to be such a city, but its transit is so ludicrously broken that it's actually a PITA. The buses are so notoriously bad that UW developed a mobile app (OneBusAway) that tracks where the buses actually are, as opposed to where they're supposed to be. It is pathetically typical for a every-15-minute route to have buses delayed by 14 minutes. And don't even get me started on the light rail line, ugh. Or worse, Paul Allen's pet streetcar.

FWIW, I've had extensive experience with transit in Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, London (Canada), Windsor, and Montreal. None of the above are anywhere close to craptasticness that is King County Metro or Sound Transit.
And conversely, when all the subtasks are completed the parent should automatically be completed.
TastiPad - The iPad Infomation Kiosk
I agree. The risk of setbacks is great. In some sense, extended lifespans makes the gap between the rich and poor seem more unfair. Right now, in the USA, the poor live to be 78 and the rich live to be 84. In the future those numbers might be 78 and 184.
Hence the aforementioned hefty penalties for abuse of process.
It's a simple tool that only needs a simple explanation and simple signup box.

That said, a text explanation would make the process even faster. Also it would be interesting to see a usable mini-version of their hierarchical list right on the homepage that I could play around with before even putting in my email address.
This thread is interesting to read. Since the audience on Hacker News is likely to be tech-savvy and forward looking, the pessimism here displayed suggests that even tech-savvy people do not see massive extensions of life-span happening any time soon.
"and then sue in small claims court"

AFAIK there are no federal small claims courts in the United States, only state ones. The DMCA is federal legislation, and from 28USC85§1338,
"(a) The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action arising under any Act of Congress relating to patents, plant variety protection, copyrights and trademarks. Such jurisdiction shall be exclusive of the courts of the states in patent, plant variety protection and copyright cases."

As I understand US law (IANAL), it costs $350 to file a case in the federal District Court, but the statutory damages you will be awarded if you win range from $750-$30,000 (depending on what the court).
A secondary method for authenticating updates would also be wise. When Moxie Marlinspike's null-prefix SSL bug landed, people with vulnerable versions of Firefox were somewhat screwed: Firefox used only SSL to ensure the authenticity and integrity of updates, but SSL was broken, so the update fixing SSL security couldn't be authenticated!
There are also penalties for most other things /b/ does, but that doesn't stop them... they _are_ DDOS-ing a government office right now, after all.
Why not let the community decide whether your posts add value? Isn't that why we have an upvoting system?
This belongs on a smart phone.

Until it is... anybody know of a good outlining app on the iPhone? All I need is "infinitely" nestable items.

EDIT: OK, Outliner seems pretty good. As far as workflowy goes, for desktop use I think I'd prefer a standalone app.
Indeed, it was exceptionally high, but look at it more like just reading Hacker News, or Reddit or digg for interesting stories. I happened to read a lot of blog posts, quite a few really good.

I don't make any really interesting amount of money from the blog (I'd love to, but it is hard). The number of subscribers that resulted is hard to tell. At most, I can tell how many people clicked on my subscribe page after visiting, but they don't necessarily subscribe in the end. I have added event tracking, now I could do it... But in September I could not (Google changed its code).

It was exceptionally high, but from what I've seen, the blogging community suggests the best ways are guest posting "by far" and the blog commenting. And from what I've seen... It is false. Guest posting results in very few visits which result in very few more subscribers.
Thanks for submitting it to HN ...

Thanks for buying me a beer in DC at a Drankkit a long time ago. :)
Thanks for calling me on that. I guess I shouldn't have emphasized 'all' because I don't literally mean all.

To not be misunderstood, I meant cut soda, froot loops, twinkies, candy bars, and other assorted not-really-food items.
It says it supports Adium (Sparkle) updates, but Adium definitely uses digital signatures, see /Applications/Adium.app/Contents/Resources/dsa_pub.pem . So...is there something I'm missing? Has anybody tested this?
"Type like you would in MS Word" might be better.
One difference is that Jammie Thomas-Rasset lied under oath, tried to destroy evidence, tried to blame her kids and others, and has refused quite reasonable settlement offers.
Who said life was fair? Why should death be?

I look at it this way: the near-eternity that occurred before my birth didn't bother me. So I won't be bothered by the eternity that occurs after my death. I won't be around to contemplate it.

You can take this line of thinking to either of its natural conclusions: the morbid one or the "seize the day" one. I'm somewhere in the middle. I try to seize the day, but I'm a realist.

Some days I grab life by the nuts. Some days I count the beads.
Ah, well then same as everywhere then. :) I suspect the large proportion of very smart and/or very competitive employees might also result in more gaming of the system than elsewhere.
You can write clients that stream data in (much like Hadoop streaming), however.

If you want to stick with the JVM, have you considered using Scala and the cake pattern?

http://jonasboner.com/2008/10/06/real-world-scala-dependency...

If you want to stick with Java and want to use IoC without the hell that is Spring, I suggest Guice (which consists of a smaller, cleaner core and uses annotations and DSLs in place of XML):

http://code.google.com/p/google-guice/
Yeah, good point. We've found that conversions are pretty good with a super stripped down site, but we're probably going to add some descriptive text too.
Hangovers cause severe dehydration. It's an extreme case, but a British soldier died last year from a combination of a severe hangover and punitive exercise. Just fell over on the running track and didn't get back up.
Hence the comment about penalties for abuse of process. You can't send a DMCA takedown notice anonymously, and I suspect most people on /b/ won't want to sign their name to something which could land them in court.
I really like the product. I currently use Things for my GTD, so it would be competing with that. I would have to have an iPhone app version to make the switch. The UI also lends itself to a useful project management tool, which I always thought was a space in need of some simplification.
Tech4000: 3dfx Voodoo Emulation In the Works - Technology News
Make Money to Make Moments Memorable...
Thanks for your support Travis - your suggestions are appreciated. As I said before, I definitely do not want to unintentionally rule out people who are not LGBT themselves but support the issues that are affiliated with it. What I'm ideally looking for is a strong developer with an infectious passion for this issue.

As opposed to someone who would just be hired to make the site, I'd love to find a developer with staying power who would be interested in becoming a co-founder with me.
Here's the list of supported apps:

* Freerip 3.30

* Jet photo 4.7.2

* Teamviewer 5.1.9385

* ISOpen 4.5.0

* Istat

* Gom 2.1.25.5015

* Atube catcher 1.0.300

* Vidbox 7.5

* Ccleaner 2.30.1130

* Fcleaner 1.2.9.409

* Allmynotes 1.26

* Notepad++ 5.8.2

* Java 1.6.0_22 winxp/win7

* aMSN 0.98.3

* Appleupdate <= 2.1.1.116 ( Safari 5.0.2 7533.18.5, <= Itunes 10.0.1.22, <= Quicktime 7.6.8 1675)

* Mirc 7.14

* Windows update (ie6 lastversion, ie7 7.0.5730.13, ie8 8.0.60001.18702, Microsoft works)

* Dap 9.5.0.3

* Winscp 4.2.9

* AutoIt Script 3.3.6.1

* Clamwin 0.96.0.1

* AppTapp Installer 3.11 (Iphone/Itunes)

* getjar (facebook.com)

* Google Analytics Javascript injection

* Speedbit Optimizer 3.0 / Video Acceleration 2.2.1.8

* Winamp 5.581

* TechTracker (cnet) 1.3.1 (Build 55)

* Nokiasoftware firmware update 2.4.8es * (Windows software)

* Nokia firmware v20.2.011

* BSplayer 2.53.1034

* Apt ( < Ubuntu 10.04 LTS)

* Ubertwitter 4.6 (0.971)

* Blackberry Facebook 1.7.0.22 | Twitter 1.0.0.45

* Cpan 1.9402

* VirtualBox (3.2.8 )

* Express talk

* Filezilla

* Flashget

* Miranda

* Orbit

* Photoscape

* Panda Antirootkit

* Skype.

* Sunbelt

* Superantispyware

* Trillian <= 5.0.0.26

* Adium 1.3.10 (Sparkle Framework)

* VMware

* more...
I am in the same boat, though not with your exact setup. It's easy to acrue alot of individual components, especially if you are a tinkerer, when developing a non-trivial application.

rails, sinatra, mysql, resque, custom email server (looking for a name...), memcached.

How the heck do you mix in mono?!?
Is it possible to make video full–screen in this version of Skype? I can’t for the life of me figure out how.
Sorry to correct you, but that single atomic wristwatch is totally inadequate to reliably detect the effects predicted by general relativity.

You'd better use at least three (and compare their readings with the home-based hydrogen maser) for that experiment, which TVB dutifully carried out - on a weekend-trip with his kids.

http://leapsecond.com/great2005/
I don't think you're being totally fair to Seattle (but maybe it's because I came from SV).

Some ethnic food is well-enough represented. The Vietnamese food around 12th and Jackson is as good as anywhere (came here from SV and it matches up fine), there are significant Korean communities in the Lynwood and Federal Way burbs where that food is good, Ethiopian food is pretty good in the Central District, Indian food on the eastside isn't as bad as you imply, there are some great taco buses, etc. And on Chinese food, the restauraunt I would most miss if I moved away is Sichuanese Cuisine; it's dirty, spicy, greasy, and fantastic. There's a big step down from there though.

The homgeneity is split usually on neighborhood and economic lines; the rich neighborhoods are all WASPy but get down to the southside and it's generally all minority. That's what happens when housing prices are so disparate.

The styles you talk about are present in seemingly every major city that hasn't experienced complete suburban flight. It's the other ones that annoy me; Capitol Hill is like a lookatthisfuckinghipster theme park and everywhere else there's an obsession with appearing outdoorsy. For a fun time, count the number of North Face logos you see in a crowd at any time of year.

I like this city for staying down to earth. It's not perfect, it clearly isn't for everybody, but it ain't that bad. It's desperately alternative; so showing up as another one of an already huge crowd you shouldn't expect diversity.