skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is awesome. It is an utter waste of space to put SSD's into a 3.5 or 2.5" hard drive case.

This also opens up the door for some very compact PCs. Rather than having flash memory soldered onto the motherboard, I would like to see slots on regular PC motherboards for this.

Lots of questions: Is this some standardized connector, or has Toshiba created a defacto standard? Is this just an alternate SATA plug, or is the SATA daughter controller integrated onto the motherboard itself?

Edit: It's just standard mSATA. Controller on each drive. From the horse's mouth: http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2010_11/pr0801.htm?from...

mSATA is a standard: http://gizmodo.com/5364485/msata-its-like-sata-but-smaller
Just like semantic indentation, ":" is ABC's heritage. It was discovered that newbie programmers comprehend block operations better when they end with ":".

http://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/02/early-language-de...
It sounds to me like your saying that if someone wanted to work an 8 hour day, they'd have to match what you do in (say) 12 hours ?

i.e. if someone was equally productive (or even 25% more productive), but still produced less than you purely because they worked the scheduled hours, than they'd be less likely to get promotions, etc. ?
Link to buying dollar coins with free shipping to generate airmiles/cashback: http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/$1coin/?action=directShi...
Works great in Chrome; Firefox has a border around each pic, since they're links.

Of course, it's horribly, horribly broken in IE. Then again, that goes without saying ;)
Well, that's why I called it confounding, if he maintained the same diet and cut calories, that would be a much better experiment.

Instead, he both cut calories and massively altered his diet, so there's no telling why he lost weight. I mentioned cutting meat as confounding his results, but the other alterations count just as much, too.

Both the article and the diet are sloppy. Yes, he lost weight but even the nutritionist can't explain why, or even if it's a good idea to eat Twinkies for meals.
They provide $6000 per founder for up to 3 founders. They get 6% equity stake in return (I'm not clear if they still get 6% if there's only one founder).

See this page: http://www.techstars.org/details/

(BTW, I'm doing a startup in Boston. I'm sure they'll get lots of applications, but this isn't for me.)

Edit: I saw someone recommend their book. Let me plug another one. I'm loving Steven Blank's Four Steps To the Epiphany (http://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steven-Blank/dp/09...)
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Why mention being a girl anyway?
- Works well in Chrome / Safari.

- Works without transactions in Firefox

- Does not work in Internet Explorer 6, 7, or 8.
Poll: Opt-in or opt-out when reusing the crawled HackerNews database?
I am currently building a site that relies on the HackerNews database that was published yesterday (amongst other sources).

After reading the discussion that followed its release (http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=1881262), I'd like to get a better understanding of how you feel with respect to reusing the content on HN inside a new site.

Can you help me out by answering this poll ?

(in any case, I will always provide attribution and links to the discussions and authors profiles on HN).

Thank you!
I prefer to opt-in to enable you quoting me
Opting out from the site is good enough
It doesn't matter to me
Because technically, as a citizen of the United States (in this case) are protected by freedom of speech rights. If you ask me what I think of my neighbor, I might tell you that I think she's a whore and that she probably has syphilis. That is in no way illegal, BUT if I start a campaign to slander her name publicly, it can be taken as a deliberate attack on the victim's reputation and even then it's not so much that it's illegal, but that you caused another citizen damages from your actions.

I have a right to tell the world you're a rapist, there's a freedom of speech inherent to being a US citizen which allows me to do this, but you have the right to seek damages for the troubles you're being put through.
Its a cool idea, but I am slightly dubious that you can learn an interesting amount of knowledge about any of those topics in an hour...
Completely agree, and I'd definitely recommend an integrated history management component.
I think it's becoming a tradition to post this every month or so.
Due diligence for the entrepreneur
> Just to prove the point there were apparently 40,000 deaths by industrial accident in the first year or WWII alone. So clearly there was a cost to that speed of production.

How many industrial accident deaths were there in 1936-39?
Not really sure to what extent Node is embracing coffeescript, unless there's news I haven't read you could link to.
I just started a poll here http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=1883576 to get a better feel of what most people would prefer as a policy (opt-in or opt-out).
Zetalisp sucked for systems programming? That's a pretty strong word. Have you ever used it at all?

I doubt that Allegro CL is easier to port than Open Genera.
What makes Sizzle different?
Template first, redesign later sounds like a plan to me. I'll try and pick a template that isn't very common and doesn't look templatey in the meantime. Thanks for the advice.
Because it breaks the paradigm of

HTML = Content

CSS = Style / Design

JS = Interaction

Once you start to mix them up you start down a hair path
Visualizing Data Patterns as art - MIT Presentation
Same story from different sources:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1882332

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1880489

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1880263

No comments on any of them.
Very cool.

I didn't see a link to back out of the page for adding a component, for example a hard drive, other than the browser back button of course. Maybe it's there and I'm blind?
Fifty Second Physics with Professor Jim Al-Khalili
Au contraire, the back button behaves exactly as it should. It's not how users would expect it to function, but it does obey the stack.
It's Yoda's version of NIH.
Oh...Thanks for the head up! I just updated it.

We would love to have you on board!
Article on SAI: http://www.businessinsider.com/android-developer-is-making-o...
I disagree about the Kindle 3. Its screen is physically too small to be good for information dense pages. PDFs are especially bad because their layout isn't reflowed, meaning you must X-Y pan around with the plasticky buttons.

I like my Kindle 3, but for reading I think it is only suitable for novels and plain prose. I actually use the web browser a lot. It's terrible, but it's free! (3G data, no fees or contract)
Ask HN:How do you optimize your environment for productivity?
I'm trying to figure out what type of office space I should get. How much do you think ambient natural light plays on your productivity for developers? I have Good keyboards, dual monitors, comfy chairs do you think plants are important? Just seeing if I'm missing anything.
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An Open Letter to Apple Computer, Inc.
Apple Computer, Inc.,

I have watched, with a certain amount of surprise and agreement, as the nerd elite have rallied in response to your announcement of the Mac App Store. I will summarize their concerns here, for your benefit: First, if you ever decide to distribute software solely through the Mac App Store for Apple Computers, independent software producers will not have an easy way to distribute their software on their own terms. Second, A lot of software licensing requires that it be redistributable, but if the only way to load software onto a machine is through a third party, that licensing is not satisfied even when the software is free of charge.

That's it. That's the whole reason that people are upset. Other people can talk about various other issues with your approval process, but they would frankly get over it if there was an assurance that it will always remain as easy as it currently is to install software on a Mac outside of the App Store channel.

To be honest, your assurance would probably not mean very much. Apple made it very clear that they would never make a netbook, and now we have the new MacBook Air, which absolutely meets the requirements to be described as such. This is but the last in a long string of what I will generously call misdirections.

I have a solution which will, however, satisfy the nerds and make them happier than you have likely considered possible. It's a solution that will lessen the load of your approval team, not cut into your revenue streams, and lower your bandwidth and infrastructure costs. I'm asking you to harness the power of open standards and the internet, something that you have spoken in favor of a number of times, but in a slightly different light.

Open your App Store protocol. Allow people to host their own App Store servers. Provide a single, buried configuration dialog that allows people to add the urls of these servers. Don't even worry about payment, because the nerds want to distribute their software for free. When you have done this, you win.

Of course, it would mean one more dialog, one that would likely be very confusing to some of your users. But then, I might consider buying another Mac or 50 over the course of my life, and I am fairly confident that there are others who feel the same way. Please don't underestimate how many of your customers care about their computers.

Thanks very much for your time,

Chris Rhoden
Adobe’s Next Flash Excuse: If You Want To Save Power, Don’t Turn On Your Machine
Minor reasons: less performant than Javascript solutions (the transition is sluggish and jittery in Chrome for me) and the fact that I have to click a little target to shrink it back, whereas most Javascript solutions will let me hit Escape or click elsewhere on the page to shrink it back.

Major reason: Separation of concerns: CSS is for appearance, Javascript is for behavior. They don't work well trying to do the other's job. This is touched on by the shrinking problem I mentioned above - it's easy to watch more events to make the behavior of Javascript functionality more flexible or more user-friendly, but not so much in CSS.

That said, it's a toy demonstration of transitions; it's cool that the bear dances, even if I wouldn't take him on Dancing with the Stars.
I think I would like to use it.

I consider lightbox functionality to be related to the layout of the content, and hence logically a part of CSS rather than javascript. In CSS3 world, I like to use javascript for the tasks not related to the layout: such as making ajax queries, manipulating user inputted data, etc.

Is there a case for relying on javascript for functionality such as lightbox?
I worked at Apple for 5 years (ending in summer '08), and one of the most amazing things about the experience was how well most people understood the core vision of the company, even in departments where you wouldn't expect that – like call center management.

I've worked with other big tech companies and frequently heard people talking about doing things "more like Apple". It was funny to think that was exactly the way people inside Apple talked too. Everyone's on board.
Seeking Social Media Intern
15 Secrets of Transmit 4
You can be unhealthy and be a vegetarian as well. I know plenty of overweight vegetarians. I also know a tonne of VERY healthy vegetarians. Mostly, vegetarians are just more interested in healthy eating than the average person.

There is nothing inherently more healthy about a vegetarian diet than a non-vegetarian diet.

How do you think they fatten up animals before slaughter? By feeding them meat? No, by feeding them grain.
If you go up a directory, there are some other neat things in CSS:

http://playground.deaxon.com/css/
White House Fielding Questions From The Unemployed On Facebook
Any idea why this is? Our opthamologist is the same way. Says it is seems safe, and all her patients have had great results, but when we asked her if she had it done, she said no, not for herself (she wears glasses). I just find that a little odd.

We're in the U.S.
taking away my ability to edit and delete my own post

Posts are locked from editing/deletion after a certain amount of time - I doubt any admins manually locked it.

Censoring my title (which previously mentioned being a girl)?

I don't see how being a girl is relevant at all to your post. Check out the guidelines for a much more detailed list of what's expected: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
First, this looks like a huge project; congrats on getting it done and out there!

I think you should stick with your title here as the main hook at the top: "Open, democratic project management." The rest seems like too many buzzwords and still doesn't tell me what your app is/does.

I agree with a couple of the others that the front page has too much on it. I think you could definitely benefit from a tabbed set of panels with all of this info on it so people can navigate through it all.

Other than that I like the idea, and will be trying it out with some other team members.
Works beautifully on the iPad. Very nice work.
Computer Program Recognizes Human Emotions from Conversation Analysis
This is probably what he means. It's the case at a lot of companies, and particularly tech companies. There's probably no set rulebook along the lines of "You will spend X years in Y position in Z department, then you will be promoted to Y+1, where you will spend another X years until Y+2," etc.

That kind of structured progression seems to be going away in a lot of industries, with the notable exceptions being the big client-facing industries (consulting, banking, law, and so forth).
Heh, that's a pretty laid back response. Bummer though if it turns out to be true, I really hope they'll not be stupid enough to do this.
Social Media Post Mortem - High Fives and Free Clothes
Stupendeous. Absolutely life-changing.

My wife had it done about 5 years ago. She went in to do Lasik, but due to thin corneal tissue had to go with PKR. She could barely recognize my face from a few feet away. Now she has 20/20 vision. She has slight issues with hazing sometimes at night, but overall the best money we've ever spent.
Lightbox functionality encompasses the JS domain (since user is interacting with the page) as well as CSS domain (since the change that is happening on the page is purely of style/design).

So, the breakup which you have given does not unequivocally argue for the use of JS.
Why would lightbox functionality or any other animation and interaction be part of "layout"?
I am wondering though how the content providers themselves will react to opera deciding ad strategy on content provided by them if this happens. Right now opera is stripping all the ads and so even now content providers are only getting traffic and are not actually making money by any ads that they may be serving or any other content monetization strategy. How much benefit the providers will get really by opera's this move if any? Will the providers be then asked to pay to be in control of ads served on their content? Will they will need adapt to different ads system if the user is using opera as compared to some other browser?
Strange Loop 2010 talk: "Android Squared"
AWESOME... GET IT DONE...

It cost me just over $4,000, 6 years ago, got both eyes done at the same time, took a total of 5 minutes and now I see better then 20/20. Before with glasses I could only get to 20/30. You get to 20/20 the day after the surgery.

Just make sure you find a good doctor, ask his success rate. The two worries are 1)cornea thickness 2) if you have diabetes it's under control and not a problem. My doctor had done a couple thousand procedures, owned his own laser, and only had failures when the patient wasn't honest about their diabetes.

Don't go cheap get the wave front/adaptive procedure where they take a topography of the eye.
Why use the plane's internet when successful authentication to the (non-advertising) wifi router embedded in the bomb is the trigger? Which is probably less reliable than a timer or altimeter trigger, anyway, as I gather from other comments. If you don't keep explosives off the plane, you've already lost.
Cool idea. I suggest also asking for feedback over at Reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc

http://www.reddit.com/r/hardware
Thank you for article. Acid3 is not so good CSS test but we don't have better mainstream css test anyway.
Test shows Apple's iOS 4.2 further improves iPhone 3G performance
one the few reasons i like jython too!
I also noted the sluggishness that you point out. Do you know the reason? Is it something that could be corrected by changing some parameter in the CSS?
Designing a Robust Failure Indicator
Glycogen isn't excess. There's a fairly fixed upper bound to your glycogen stores. In fact there's a whole class of glycogen storage diseases which are very life-limiting, all due to excess storage (inadequate storage would be lethal in utero). Calories burned through activity are by definition not excess. I suppose you could argue that in diabetics with blood sugar above 200, then yes, the sugars become an osmotic diuretic and they literally pee out the calories, but otherwise, excess calories go to fat. Fat is the ultimate, infinite sink in this equilibrium equation.
I did it because emailing a few times didn't work, I wanted to do something nice in return (preemptively, I guess), and I think doing stuff like this is fun.
I don't know. But I think they force you to deal with other issues. For example, in Hawaiian, the grammar for possessive pronouns forces you to indicate whether an object has a permanent or temporary relationship to the subject. In Japan they have different number systems for different kinds of things. Something like we have for a gaggle of geese, a pride of lions etc.
You're not blind. :) Once you click from the System Build view to choosing a component, there isn't a backlink to get back to your part list. That's a part of the navigation I couldn't figure out a clean way to present well, at least with the current design. You can, however, click on the System Build button along the top to get back to your part list from any page.
They actually told me specifically that they'd check to make sure he wasn't just logging in and reading other tweets with the account.
I never understood why Java never got some nice utility functions for dealing with common stream actions such as looping through an InputStream or slurping a text file. Every developer ends up carting around their own version of these functions when they should just be in the standard library. Many complaints about Java's verboseness have to do with this type of boilerplate that could easily be hidden away in utility functions.
bankruptyservice.com
Could be a lead generation for people who are looking for this kind of service (more and more people are going bankrupt and need services for this).
ha, you're lucky.

i started in a room with one door, into another dead-end room.
bankruptcyservice.com
Could you elaborate more on the system?
Ten Worst Places for Your Social Security Number
Thirty-two percent of all ID theft victims had their social security number compromised according to Javelin’s 2010 Identity Fraud Survey Report. In honor of National Identity Protection week, McAfee set out to reveal the most dangerous places to leave your social security number...
Can't say I agree with you. Even with weekend projects I'll throw some analytics and other quantification tools in from the beginning as I want to see what kind of traction it gets. How else would I even begin to know if there's interest in what I've created?
I started two months ago, and I'm the only guy managing a network of 24 machines that hasn't had anyone managing it full time for about a year and a half. I've been trying to focus on obvious improvements, and avoiding touching things that mostly work. Though it's a little flaky, it's a little less pressing than replacing 6-year-old laptops and upgrading machines running XP SP1.
What you just said makes no sense. If a button doesn't follow what the users expect to happen then the button is broken!
Great suggestions, thanks. I'll definitely look into both.
IntroductionAgent - Double opt-in introductions
Things said to be ineffable
It feels very awkward to me.
And if you go up one more directory, he's got a list of work he's done in HTML, JS, and SVG: http://playground.deaxon.com/

I especially like his Custom Checkboxes: http://playground.deaxon.com/js/custom-checkboxes/
It would be nice to be able to change the columns in the matrix when selecting a part, and sort/filter on arbitrary criteria that you already know about.

For example, when I pick CPUs, I like to compare cache sizes. You already pull those items out in the View section, but they aren't available in the matrix.
Not productivity related, but the most important thing IMO that an office should have is a view of the outside. It is more than just something nice to look at. If you spend as much time as I do in front of your monitor(s) you need to regularly focus on something in the middle to far distance to reduce eye-strain. I've done a quick search on the internets to find this:
http://www.pasadenaeye.com/faq/faq08/faq08_text.html

I've no idea if this is scientifically proven or anything, but looking away from the monitor every once in a while can't be bad for you.
In Ruby, with ruby underscore (http://bit.ly/9dwWAX), you can write it as:

all_users.select(_.is_admin).map _.username

Other languages have similar ways to write it concisely as well (http://bit.ly/a6QmgL). Coffeescript (which compiles to javascript, and therefore, can run on Rhinon inside the jvm) in particular:

allowed_usernames = user.username for user in all_users when user.is_admin()

Yeah. Reminds me of http://gag.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/javadoc/com/google/gag/a...
A cancel button?
I have the kindle DX (in graphite), latest generation. I love it.

I read a ton of programming books for fun (mixed with business and fiction), and spend a ton of money on amazon buying paper books, so I was naturally interested in the Kindle DX as it would save me a lot of money and space in my apartment.

Anyways, I've had mine for about 2 months now, and haven't regretted it at all. Every programming book I've purchased reads just fine, and I have had no issues what-so-ever. The only thing that kinda bugs me is that some books (I'm looking at you, pragmatic bookshelf) don't have a kindle version, however, most do.

Also, if you turn your 3G off, the kindle will run for well over a month without a recharge. I've had mine on for the past 1.25 months or so without charging, and that thing still has 25% battery left. Crazy.
yes, capitalism is myopic and you can justify many myopic conclusions by limiting yourself to its framework.

> ... it's just that we look down upon the product.

that's an amusing misdirection. it's actually more about the lives ruined and suffering experienced by way of the product.

> What is your definition of wealth? Paul Graham says, and I tend to agree with him, that wealth is "things people want". If people want these apps (or drugs), then the apps (and drugs) create wealth.

wealth is control over other people. having lots of money in a capitalist system is a proxy for being able to control lots of other people in this system.

taking advantage of neurological hooks (chemical in the case of drugs, or sensual in the case of advertising / apps / etc) is certainly one way to gain controller over others (by the proxy of money).

i suppose if your concerns are entirely contained within the bounds of playing that game (very much the case for many entrepreneurial types) there's no motivation to challenge its definition of "value".
Irritation with an over-hyped hiring process