skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All my visualization came with was the words "bloody fucking racists", "typical Goggle" and "screw that, they are available on certain ship related sites for free."

What did you visualize?
The Amazon Boycott: Blaming a Victim
From a business perspective, if Wikileaks is charged with federal crimes, and Amazon is still hosting it, that would roll amazon into the investigation and open them up to whatever charges the US govn't might throw at them. Is it good business for Amazon to potentially get sucked into federal investigations or congressional hearings? Not to mention all the bad mainstream press they began getting. And I wouldn't be surprised if the federal govn't is an AWS customer.

Whether its right or wrong thats just a mess nobody needs. While I support Wikileaks first amendment rights I don't think you can blame Amazon for not wanting to get embroiled in the battle
Mirror their site I-AM-SPARTACUS style?
Another suggestion is removing waste words.

"If you look for them, you can find millions of occasion to write. Join almost any active online community and you will have many chances a day to write about whatever it is you have an opinion about. An active business will generate countless emails, each of which is an opportunity to write. And, of course, there are more traditional options, like blogging or otherwise writing for an audience."

"You can find a million occasions to write. Join an active community and you can write about anything. An active business generates countless emails, each an opportunity to write. There are also traditional options, like blogging or otherwise writing for an audience."

Phrases like "almost any" only work to weaken your claim. I know that this weakening is purposeful (I used to shy away from overly strong statements too), but the reader is already automatically weakening any statements you make, and doesn't need any help.
They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

..

It's OK to ignore abuse when by doing so you are enabled to maintain your financial status.
I moved from NY to SV this year. NYC is great but it is so large that the tech scene gets diluted by all the other industries. The suburbs are a tech wasteland (fine for other purposes I suppose).

That said, the banks there have very large development teams, but it's all in the service of banking and trading. I've been there, done that; so I could be biased. Overall, the vibe is very un-tech--unless you think algo trading is the tech's ultimate expression.
The new audio support is the most exciting thing to me here. Multitouch interfaces have such enormous potential for musical applications that have not even begun to be explored.

iPhones and such have long had the ability to drive PC-based instruments by sending MIDI or OSC signals through bluetooth or wifi, I have been to many gigs in the last year and seen people using iPads running touchOSC in their performance setups; however the high specs seen in current devices are easily enough to run fullblown synths, samplers etc on their own. This will open up the burgeoning art of musicians creating their own instruments to a much wider audience.

We're going to be hearing some pretty fun noises over the next year :)
English hyphenation rules are very simple and relaxed by continental standards. It is about the only language where such a simple and straightforward algorithm as the one in TeX (it doesn't even contain a full list of word stems and a rule engine for the (de)construction of composite words) can work.
Good move by Skype. Perhaps this is a form of beta testing for upcoming enterprise-grade features.
At the default zoom on my G1, the results are poor. Pull back a bit and everything looks swell.
This reminds me of a post I wrote, "So you wanna be a writer: What Anthony Bourdain can tell you even when he’s not talking about writing": http://jseliger.com/2010/09/20/so-you-wanna-be-a-writer-what... . That's geared toward people who want to be professional writers, though.

I would emphasize Tenner's "read a lot" and "write a lot" parts. You should edit your own work, of course, but often you don't have the skills to do so incredibly effectively until you've built up a lot of knowledge about what works and what doesn't, which you won't be able to do until you've read a lot and written a lot.

Also, if you read one or two books about writing, you'll be much better off. A handful I consult regularly: 1) Write Right! (a simple, ~90 page book on grammar and rules that will see you through 99% of situations); 2) How Fiction Works, by James Wood (which is mostly about noticing what you read); 3) On Writing Well by William Zissner (a perennial recommendation); 4) On Writing by Steven King (which is so fun to read that it's hard _not_ to recommend).
The large tech companies are a big part of the Bay Area startup ecosystem, though. Both as training grounds for future entrepreneurs, and as potential acquirers with lots of cash, and as research shops that create the fundamental technologies that entrepreneurs exploit.

Necessary but not sufficient conditions. A bunch of big companies by themselves do not make a viable startup ecosystem. A startup ecosystem without the big companies won't get off the ground, though.
And lo, all sugars were created equal, except for HFCS, which is just pure evil.
There's more to unprocessed food than sucrose. Unprocessed food is really quite dirty from a chemical point of view.
What if something gets marked as a dup when it isn't? What if it's nearly a dup - same story, different source - should that get marked? What if each submission already has some discussion?

What if the submission with discussion is poor, and a better source is submitted?

Interested - interesting.
It would be nice if they added this service to their management console; I'm lazy.
The Engadget review talks about talk time and internet usage as the same thing, so I guess 6 hours.
no freakin' keyboard
Excellent suggestions: practice often, review what you've written thoroughly, and expose yourself to great writing.

One other thing I'd add is to continually seek out feedback on your writing from different people. Blogging or journalling are great ways to do this. A lot of people have told me that my writing's improved a lot over the last three years, and it's really interesting to compare-and-contrast my current blog posts from the ones when I was just getting started.

've been amazed at how much
Foxconn uses ex-workers in major retail push
The phone is part of the Samsung Galaxy S range of phones which is where the S comes from.

Don't worry, I don't think they are trying to rip the iPhone branding off.
Congrats Patrick. The link anchor text I used is:

>easily setup automated appointment reminders for your customers

Hope this helps. You can see my post here: http://marcgayle.com/appointment-reminder-launches-congrats-...
For reference:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1975555 - 66 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1975572 - 14 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1975621 - no comments

Those are just the ones on the front page. (as I've written this the techcrunch and readwriteweb items have now also both made the front page, giving 5 so far)

For further reference:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1975555 - google.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1975572 - googleblog.blogspot.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1975596 - techcrunch.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1975621 - google.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1975764 - tbray.org

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1975796 - google.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1975802 - readwriteweb.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1975809 - allfreereview.com
I think the "S" stands for Samsung.
My hair gets really greasy if I don't wash it with shampoo. That would be my one concern if I were to try this experiment. From what the article was saying, I got the impression that the body evens everything out, but I'm not sure if his hair behaves the same ways as mine. This experiment probably only works well for a certain subset of people.
Substring searching in sub-linear time
You should be able to get a Samsung Captivate from Rogers, which looks to be very similar hardware-wise, though a couple of revs back in OS.
Same as "anything... anything".
Cranberry juice, soda water, and simple syrup is even closer.
GQ on Social Media: Contempt and Confusion
I've found that when I'm in the backseat we can be most productive as a pair if I spend my time trying to keep the driver in flow. When I first tried pairing the programmer control freak in me made this very difficult. I was effectively trying to write code by commanding someone else's hands to do what I was thinking.

By focusing on keeping the driver in flow you begin to appreciate when it's better to shut up and let them get on with writing the code, accepting that people have different coding styles is important here. You can then use your attention to either help out when they get stuck or maybe to tell them what the next test should be.
Yup, this blows. I was getting excited for the Nexus S as an unlocked supplement to my iPhone for when I travel abroad, but not being able to use it on AT&T 3G here in the U.S. is a dealbreaker.
WTH? 51 comments and nobody's mentioned vacation time yet? I would take a job with a proper amount of vacation time over a job with the American mandated minimum (1 week) but double the pay. It was different before I had a wife and child, but now, vacation is more important than anything.

2 weeks to visit family at Christmas.
1 week to visit family during the summer.
2 weeks for a proper vacation in Europe or Asia or whatever
1 week for home renos. There's nothing like swinging a hammer for a week to destress.
1 week to create a few extra long weekends to get stuff done, show visitors around the city, et cetera.

total: 7 weeks, which is relatively common for professionals in Europe. Unfortunately, I don't live in Europe.
>> English hyphenation rules are very simple and relaxed by continental standards.

Really? From my experience, ESL students often don't understand the logic behind english syllables.

My point though, is that if different languages hyphenate differently and we're talking about sites with international user generated content (Facebook or Orkut come to mind), then it's not exactly trivial to hyphenate correctly.
The iPad, Kindle, and the future of books
I used to have the same opinion.

Until I found Swype keyboard. Since I tried it, I had no problem switching to non-qwerty phone. Give it a try.
Here you go: Masdar City http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9004209...
...and FM radio is free to listen to and Apple will quite happily sell you music from ITMS.
The only difference between Amazon and most other hosting companies is tha the others don't let you start if your site will violate their TOS or AUP. Amazon has automatic activation, so violating sites get a few days service before being rejected.
What is uranium enrichment?
It's always cool to move on if you're not happy.

Met one guy who started a web shop out of high school, ran it for eight years, jumped to a design portfolio school, went on with an agency, got 3 AIGA awards, jumped ship to an internship and then took that to be a windowdresser and contract creative director for a lot of the high-end shops in New York.
The only Galaxy S phone with a keyboard is the Epic on Sprint. The others (Vibrant, Fascinate, Captivate, and the I9000) do not have keyboards at all.
Absolutely. The market has a lot of unfortunate issues like that.
Gingerbread new hardware constant: MultiTouch JazzHands
Nothing wrong there is. To understand and read them quickly difficult it is.

Subject verb noun, to process, is easier.
The kindle is also implemented with Java (on top of Linux).
> Instead of efficient allocation, you'll have something more akin to musical chairs, which could have serious consequences for the local economy.

It seems to me that you're neglecting the economic reality that, were rent control dropped, landlords would be buying up land within the city left and right. Since price ceilings wouldn't be inhibiting profit potential and introducing negative incentives into maintaining apartments, opening apartment buildings would be an extremely attractive investment. The market would be flooded with new dwellings. Thus, should rent control be killed, a natural market equilibrium would be sought, the middle class could again reasonably live in NYC, and the city itself would bloom.
I think it's important to separate a rejection from a termination. Apparently, Wikileaks has been hosted on EC2 for over a month[1], which makes Amazon's decision a termination instead of a rejection.

I could also understand if Amazon didn't notice Wikileaks for a few days, but weeks?

Getting rejected poses no problem for anyone; there are grey areas, and everyone needs to draw a line.

But getting pulled after being hosted for several weeks? What changed?

Amazon pulling Wikileaks has created a Damoclean sword in the minds of people who consider to use AWS in the future.
Or root your Android phone.

I'm finding more and more people outside of tech-circles are doing this as it allows you to run WifTether, extra apps, etc.

Those "Mobile Phone Repair Shops" that used to unlock Nokias are doing a roaring trade rooting and changing firmware on 'regular' user's phones.
jumped ship to an internship? impressive!
Anecdotally, I've heard much negative and not much positive. My regular cafe tried them out and had basically the same reactions I've heard elsewhere:

- 50% off coupon + 50% to Groupon = 75% off to the biz.

- The customers using Groupon don't translate into repeat customers.

- The customers using Groupons get nastier than regular customers - especially those who try to use four coupons in a row.
Just read this in the last month and devoured it. I'm currently doing a lot of thinking about how to apply the ideas that drive entrepreneurship to the international development sector and the ah-ha moments from this book were incredible. Interesting to see the parallels - both sectors are trying to solve poorly defined and understood problems with new solutions, especially in the case of a new market.

I think this leads to a lot relevant lessons to be learned between the sectors - mostly international development learning from entrepreneurship. Just started a series of blog posts on this here: http://theborrowedbicycle.ca/2010/11/tech-startups-and-human...
Domain name unreachable? Use the IP! (thanks Google) So, what's next? Will US government force Google to not return any results on keywords "wikileaks", "cablegate" or similar as they have (OK, it was... senator... Joe Lieberman) pressed Amazon and others (EasyDNS for example: because of the pressure on the Swiss DNS provider by the US and French governments we can suspect they [EasyDNS] were pressed, too)? Two words: "Chinese Democracy".
Maybe it was a temporary problem. I did a search for machine learning and the results look fine to me:
http://books.google.com/ebooks?q=machine+learning
One small thing, on this page: https://www.appointmentreminder.org/pricing

The strings from the "hot" tag to the "Small business" column are wrong. One of the strings needs to come from behing the column, otherwise it looks like there's some weird bug sitting on the column, holding a "hot" tag.

See: http://imgur.com/gjVbb
Wow, I am trying to do what you did.

In fact I tried your option 2 (get a job at big co and ask relocation), though that was in Canada, but got rejection after onsite interviews.

You relieved my feelings -- most of my friends say it's absurd not to go through the usual university path.
Same here. Searching for books I already own on Kindle returns completely different books unrelated to the book I am searching for. Searching for author and title does not help. For instance, searching for "probability theory sivia" returns books on biology, the JFK assassination, fish oil, "standards and expectations", theatre, etc., and one book on "Le raisonnemet bayesien" which may have something to do with probability theory. But it does not return the book on probability theory by Sivia.

Edit: See for yourself: http://books.google.com/ebooks?as_brr=5&q=probability+th...
Thanks for the response, and to give you an idea of what kind of experience I am getting, I am able to load everything except the article text rather quickly, but I've yet to read the article itself yet because even after leaving the tab open for 10 minutes, I am still "transfering data."

I want to read your article, I really do!
It's not really another suggestion, since it is really the essential point of "Does it have a point? Is the point clear? Could it be more concise? Could it be cut entirely?", but yes, absolutely right.

I'll hasten to add that I am by no means a perfect writer. As I said, writing can always be improved.

That said, I do take exception to getting rid of, for example, "of which is". You might call those waste words, and that's your right, but I think that without them the phrase's rhythm is dry and unfriendly.
I was told by my English teacher to just not hyphenate because the rules are crazy and inconsistent. Might be a British English thing, though.
I think the point of the experiment is to get rid of all chemicals. Like for shampoo, you don't know what the effects of the conditioner are, and what would happen to your hair.
I have been doing this for a few months. Some notes:

I always had oily skin, and it seems to me now my skin was likely overreacting to the use of soap as it now is a lot more stable and to me it just feels finally "right", no longer needing to so frequently wash my face. I also believe tone and texture are better.

Soap. I do use it when for whatever reason I become "actually dirty", like handling greasy stuff, or after swimming in a pool (chlorine or salt water), after outdoor play, etc. And yes, for the nether regions, er, daily.

Shampoo., It's definitely much easier with shorter hair, and during the warm months. As weather gets colder it's hard not to think I could benefit from a little shampoo/conditioner, most noticeably right out of the shower my hair becomes harder to manage and I have to make more "adjustments" as time passes. But during summer, no issues at all. Or perhaps is related to humidity? Anyway, I am sure I will be relenting and using some shampoo/conditioner the next few months.

For odors, I have a quite reliable barometer, my little daughter and wife always notice when it's time to get cleaner, and it is my observation that their admonishments have been conspicuously absent in the few months I've been doing this, still unbeknownst to them.
It depends on the size of the can. That's IIRC the 8 oz size. There are also 12 and 20 oz cans. (Yeesh.)
There is no contradiction. The second paragraph is just paraphrasing the standard calorie-in->energy-out theory of weight gain and averaging the 'graph' of weight gain for analytic purposes. Ie. he never states that you are storing exactly 19 calories per day, simply that over 20 years, you are storing an 'average' of 19 calories per day. This is a very normal way to discuss these numbers. For example, a scientist might describe the PHV (pubertal height velocity) of a typical male as 9cm/year but these are growth spurts and are not actually continuous.
Diplomats fear that China used Microsoft source code for cyber warfare
After a while that stops. I used to get cuts and bad razor burn, right after I stopped, but I don't anymore.
Is that policy or merely benign neglect? I keep seeing comments to the effect that a certain HTC model has been rooted, implying it's an accomplishment that was in doubt or at least troublesome. I feel obliged to support the vendor that openly decides to treat me like a tool-using human being pour encourager les autres.
Trippy: An App to Give You Just Enough to Read on Your Commute
This reminds me that this would be a great time for a hosting or DNS provider to profile themselves on expense of Amazon now.

Privacy is the new green because of the Facebook scare. Maybe this could be another interesting trend to capitalize on.
It's a cute idea. Though I think the limiting part is the tube itself. Installing underground tubes is going to be expensive. Maybe it would make more sense to forgo the tube and just use electric vehicles. You could install overhead power lines in some of the busier corridors. Delivery vehicles could trolley along until the last half or quarter mile. Then, they'd have to switch to batteries.
You also have to thank T-Mobile. That's the only sane carrier in the US who lets you buy plans without bundled phone loans, i.e. if you don't need to borrow $500 for a phone you just get a plan without loan payments rolled in.
The author bills it as 'freedom of choice', but I would argue we already have freedom of choice when it comes to advertising on the internet. In the same way that I can mute the TV when commercials come on, I can also turn on ad blocker, flash blocker, cookie blocker, and other such plugins or extensions. These steps will foil all but the most invasive advertisers, for whom you can still foil by more sophisticated methods. The choice is there, but it's up to the consumer to take action.
For native speakers of English and other Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) languages, anyway; it sounds like a weird variant of passive voice. There are also SOV, VSO, etc. human languages, though.
1) Patents 2) Talent 3) Java 4) hardware(not so much but they could have killed it) , that's worth 8 billion to me and apparently to Oracle too.
I would be interested in seeing a comparison between a reasonable amount of caffeine and a 15 minute nap.

For years now (High School, College, now work + grad school) a power nap followed by continued work has been a mainstay in my fight against the need to sleep regularly. (Although lately I've been trying for better time management... because I like sleeping regularly, and I suspect all-nighters are bad for the health).

I don't think caffeine has any benefit in terms of getting work done. It will make me 'feel' more alert, but it doesn't seem to improve my brain function at all. If I'm tired, my output is still just as bad as it was before the cup of coffee; I just will not fall asleep at the keyboard... (Akin to being a wide-awake drunk from mixing alcohol and caffeine). After the nap I might be able to pull off intelligent thought for a few more hours.
"The first 40% of the thread" is not dedicated to Wikileaks; one comment branch is. This page is a tree, not a list, and should be treated as such. It currently has 27 children, 3 of which mention Wikileaks.

That you have to scroll past the entirety of those 3 children's discussion to get to what interests you is an incident of the way the comment tree is rendered by default. If tangential threads started collapsed and had to be expanded (assuming there's come clever way to detect tangential threads, or just people such as yourself to tag them), your complaint would vanish, with no change to the ratio of Wikileaks posts:"on-topic" posts.

And just as, well, a tangential argument: if someone is planning to avoid using all AWS products, they will avoid using this one as well, thus making such avoidance relevant to the story. What you're reacting to is the fact that the topic has already been beaten to death in other HN threads, not that it's particularly irrelevant to this one. For a while now, I've been thinking that we need some form of super-threading (such that article posts which form a sequence will have a single, merged comment thread), but now I'm starting to think we need aspect-oriented threading as well—such that this sub-thread, with its connection between this article and Wikileaks, would actually appear in the comments of both super-threads, and if you had hit "ignore" on the Wikileaks thread, the comments in here that also apply to it would disappear. Sound workable?
Typo:

"Sense the the features that matter ..."

Not sure I got any other message from this page ...