skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Your email account is a de-facto master password for your online identity. Most -- if not all -- of your online accounts are secured through your email. Remember all those "forgot password" and "forgot account" links? Guess where they ultimately resolve to? If someone controls your email account, they have nearly unlimited access to every online identity you own across every website you visit."

...and...

"how can I take your privacy policies seriously if you aren't willing to treat your competitors' login credentials with the very same respect that you treat your own?"

Solid gold.
You can get by, but you won't enjoy yourself as much as if you spoke the language, same as most places.

Italy is a fantastic place to visit, it has almost as much natural variety as California (mountains, rivers, lakes, estuaries, the arid south), with a quantity of culture, history and man-made things unequaled in the US - or pretty much anywhere else for that matter.
In my opinion it would be a mistake to see only the cities.

I traveled on the west coast a few years ago and I was amazed by the beautiful nature. Yosemite Park, Tahoe Lake, Death Valley, Grand Canyon are a MUST. Santa Cruz, Monterey, Carmel are very beautiful places to enjoy ocean view and beaches.

If you are not afraid to walk, go to the top of the Dome in Yosemite Park. You won't regret it.

Grand Canyon is very impressive. I specially recommend a flight with a small plane over the canyon. Unforgetable.

For the cities, I didn't see a lot, but SF and the bay area is great. I also liked spending time in Santa Monica. Vegas is good to see, but I spent only one night there and I think it was enough.

I also enjoyed visiting Universal Studio in LA.

Enjoy your time there !
I've always self taught myself stuff through example code, blogs, and misc web resources. It's typically more up-to-date than books as far as web languages are concerned... However, I'm sure there's one or two worth grabbing.
Actual Contact Finder using the Social Graph API
Alternative ways to scrape your email addresses without asking for your login credentials (from a comment on the OP):

Google Contacts API: http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/

Yahoo! Contact API: http://developer.yahoo.com/addressbook/

Windows Live Contact API: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb463989.aspx
You might be underestimating the amount of bad ram you have. I have often had RAM that would pass memtest but the system still became far more stable after changing the ram.
A new OS that focuses primarily on performance and stability?

Finally people are understanding it doesn't have to be all about fancy new UIs and features. OSX is solid in that area already.
The ECMAScript 4 support is only part of the goal of the project. Another part is to check integrity in existing classic JavaScript by performing static analysis. For example, inheritance through prototypes or other JavaScript patterns can (at least to a certain extent) be statically inferred, which allows us to catch a number of errors.

One idea I have been toying with, is to allow type annotations in comments on existing JavaScript, eg.

/* type Point = {x : int, y: int}; */
var p /* : Point */ = {x: 10, y: 100};

Ugly, yes, but might be a viable path for developers who are not ready to jump ship to ES4, but still would like better integrity checks. I believe this becomes more desirable the large the code base.
http://friendfeed.com/nikpay
... but then this entire submission would be overblown!

I can't imagine it!
and arches! in moab.
There is, however, the possibility that the people who got tumors were somehow susceptible to them (i.e. would have likely gotten them anyway) and that the cellphone use merely influenced which side of the brain the tumor formed. Or perhaps there is some other factor (handedness, the side you sleep on, the side of the car you usually sit in, etc.) that both biases cancer to one side of the head and influences which hand you use to talk on the cell phone.
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Nah, I don't think it's crazy to prefer JS over Java.

I use Python as a hobby myself.
My shame is complete: Fizzbuzz with Monads
http://friendfeed.com/metajack
I have all three "JQuery Reference", "Learning JQuery" and "JQuery in Action"…

Of the three, "JQuery Reference" is the best — granted, you can access similar like reference material online, but I found it was nice to have in book form, with more examples, so you could leaf through when not gazing at a monitor…

"Learning JQuery" is decent, but dated, and many of the examples given use deprecated features. Also, some of the examples are quite contrived, and accomplish presentation tasks that I would never ever implement as JS. But my philosophy on JS is that it should enhance, and not be a replacement, so YMMV.

"JQuery in Action" — wish I would have foregone purchase of, not that it's bad, just that it seems to be packed with lots of verbiage and ends up being a poor man's ORA style "JQuery in a Nutshell".
SquirrelFish is 1.6 times faster than WebKit’s previous interpreter.
GNU Make Unleashed
Don't worry, many people use one password everywhere, so websites like Yelp probably already have lots of email passwords - even those that don't use any of those providers.
It's a self selecting population so a lot of statistics ideas need to be tossed out. If you test random 5 year old people with IQ's under 80 are unlikely to become successful doctors / chemists etc. If you look at the IQ of people graduating from Medical School it's hard to correlate IQ's with job success because you are looking at a population that passed a lot of tests to get to that point. If you look at the median pay of Harvard Graduates its well above that of the average Collage graduate but it's also taken from the high end of the High School talent pool.
Plurk vs Twitter Fight! | Live Crunch
> From the IQ tests

IQ tests actually do a pretty good job.

http://iqcomparisonsite.com/occupations.aspx
I don't think I believe those benchmarks. Many of those numbers are significantly slower (!) than main memory bandwidth, and for code like strlen() which can be naively implemented in about three instructions per byte.

Something is wrong with the testing, I think.
I use linkedin often too but I can't remember having an error message.
I don't think the problem is finding great teachers it's finding any teachers. I was a great tutor in Collage but I would never become a teacher because the pay sucks. If we payed teachers 100k / year and fired the poor ones we could have a great talent pool but as long as they make 1/2 what I do there are just not going to be a huge pool to draw from.
Obama's rise: A fantastic case-study for new startups.
I think new startup can learn a lot from Obama's rise, he was virtually a non-entity and no one could have believed he would oust Hillary Clinton. Defeating Hillary Clinton means defeating Bill Clinton, the heavy weight lobbyist, the money power, the experienced power-broker all together in one shot.

By winning the democratic nomination, Obama has proved that:

1. Where there is a will there is a way : Founders of new startup has to be determined and just start without afraid of anything.

2. Slow and steady wins the race: Keep improving your product/service on regular basis.

3. Technology is the key : see how you can use technology to bring the change that you're planning.

4. Newbie can take over giant: the new startup shouldn't worry about the giants. The will power and confidence will certainly keep you going.

5. Find the real problem and try to solve that: Founders should create product/service that solves the problem and concentrate on that by engaging to be customers.

6. Finally, its all about "team": Build the best of the best team, at the end of the day it is all about how good is your team and your team work.

There could be many more lessons that can be learn and YC readers can share it here...
Amen! I'm not really a web developer by nature. The client environment has always driven me nuts: layer on layer of slightly-incompatible cruft. And giant javascript libraries just make the problem worse, not better.

jQuery is like a breath of fresh air. I find it absolutely amazing that a library like this (based on minimalism of all things!) actually got mindshare in the modern world. Bravo!
Targeting Ads Difficult For Social Networks
"58 percent of nearly 800 users of social networking sites say that very few of the ads and offers they're currently seeing on social networking sites match their specific interests and preferences, and another 29 percent say none of them do. Only 13 percent say that "most" ads meet their interests and preferences."
Meta-comment: These comments exemplify the classic Usenet culture:

"What's the best way to X?"

//blow to the head

"Do not X! You must Y!! Only the clueless and terminally insane even consider X!!!"
Does anyone think it is worth it to set up your site/service on EC3 with something like Scalr, so your site automatically expands to handle the load?

It would take time away from adding features and delay your launch, but it may help you handle huge bursts like this. But then again, it could slow down your development enough that your competitors get the huge burst, and by the time you're ready your niche is already passe.

With the ridiculously quick news cycles we have today you may only get one chance - so is the ability to capitalize on it worth the cost?
Till it's dead.
Talk about a Coding Horror!

What are these people thinking?
Why Apple's iPhone apps platform could spark huge iPhone sales
One interesting question is how non-IT people uses IT for competitive advantage. If non-IT people doesn't know what IT is doing and IT likes to keep the veil from them. Then how can non-IT people uses something when they knows nothing about it?

If people like us was thrown a programming problem requires us to use a new programming language and we are interested in. We will start to play around both and try to understand them. Then maybe an idea came up so we just leverage what we learned from playing around to solve the problem.

So for us, we learned from our very beginning to play around things to "understand" the problem and learn how to tweak something. I understand successful business people also learn from trials and errors. But probably most mediocre IT and non-IT people both lack such aptitude.
Ask YC: is webpy dead?
i have noticed a lull in the development of webpy and also on the site, i wonder if aaron is interested in the project? I have moved on to web2py which is great, but sometimes, i long for webpy. any hints on what is happening?
Acer bets big on Linux
FriendFeed has surpassed Twitter in that I can change my status in GTalk or place a message in the FriendFeed and it is like writing a tweet.

How much innovation has Twitter done? FF can absorb that functionality so easily...
It only took us about a month to build so we're feeling pretty good about the investment.

We've had an affiliate program for a few years now, but we only paid credit towards your own Basecamp/Backpack account, we didn't pay cash. It's been successful for us so we're bullish about this system.
Digg meetup NYC: Kevin Rose meets his sweatiest male fans
Python - Generating Sparkline Graphs For Stock Pricing
I have excuses also.. but I'd really rather not eliminate this excuse (getting married, and need the money to pay for it) :)
Ah, thanks for the reply. Would you blog about, at the very least the % increase due to this, say 6-12 months down the line?

Cheers!
This is an excellent introduction to REST. I like how it includes concrete examples and answers some of the most obvious questions one encounters when first introduced to the REST model.
Nope. I use http://talkaboutadate.com/about/greg. It just might get me a date. ;)
Is EF the New IQ?
You can clean up ff to make your eyes not want to explode with userstyles

http://friendfeed.com/e/db892745-dd31-45fa-a197-83146025f8c3...
"Then how can non-IT people uses something when they knows nothing about it?"

From their customers. Especially the ones they're losing.

Do you think that everyone suddenly just had a website one day?

Here's more likely what happened...

"Hey Joe, you haven't placed an order with us this month. Anything wrong?"

"Sorry Fred, but we've switched to XYZ Company for our widgets. I meant to tell you but I forgot. They have a website on the internet that lets us automatically configure our widgets specifically for our customers. Our purchasing people love it. They'd rather use it than calling your 800 number."

A simple example, but the same story plays out all day long all over the world in all kinds of technologies.

It's management's job to stay on top of this and insist on what they need. Or, as they say, they're toast.
A few people who've build products that hook up with Basecamp (http://www.basecamphq.com/extras) or Backpack or Highrise via our API have a referral link inside their products. I know some of them have generated a lot of affiliate credit that way under the old system.
I can't promise that, but we usually report back on experiments down the road if we can.
This is a huge blunder a lot of companies are making. I was shocked when I saw it on facebook. And now, with all the APIs available, it's simply inexcusable.
Very helpful. Thank you.
Ahh. Makes sense now. The first one I got, more than a year ago had a big fan and ran quite hot. All the ones since then I've gotten without a fan. I checked a recent one. Not D.

Looks like there may have been a short lived D version thats not as nice. Good eye.

Also disregard my power measurements since I did them on the first one. The consumption on more recent ones may well be lower.
The Next-Gen Web: HTML5 - Will We Ever See A Real Standard?
I can't remember who originally said this, but if an idea is good you don't have to worry about keeping it a secret - you'll actually struggle to have people accept it.
Yeah, that's pretty much the perfect problem. Your servers go down since you're getting too many hits.
This is a great talk so far. (I'm about a third of the way through it.)
I think the big red FAIL said it best.
Google Drops Ability To Watch Video Directly In Search Results
14,000 Changes In New Firefox, But We Only Want One
While interesting, the article is almost a year old. Have they made any advances since this was originally written?
20+ Tools For Reading News On Your iPhone
It's a pretty big lifestyle change, and what if ...you fail?!

You do need to prepare and then be able to live without the security that comes with a full-time job.

It's not easy, but it is worthwhile.
New Tutorials - How to build a service-enabled Android app
He does a good job of explaining why it is powerful, especially easy to debug.

Unfortunately you can't see the screen during the demo
Ohio company gets $13 mil of investment for predicting when a cable technician will arrive
Inventing contact schemas for fun and profit
"Most people can recall a kid from grade school who couldn't stay seated, who talked out of turn and fidgeted constantly, whose backpack overflowed with crumpled handouts and who always had to ask other kids what the homework assignment was. Those kids weren't bad kids, but they seemed to have absolutely no self-control, no internal disciplinarian to put a brake on their impulses, to keep their attention focused. Not surprisingly, they were almost always lousy students as well."

Heh, I think I was that kid - but a pretty good student as well. My grades were relatively poor (because I forgot or didn't want to do the homework), but it wasn't uncommon for me to have the class high on exams.

Fortunately, I had one of the highest set of test scores (SAT/ACT/AP) of my class and that more or less made up for the poor GPA and class rank.
So, rather than improve the infrastructure, his solution is just to cap everyone that downloads more than he does? Doesn't sound like the best long-term solution to me.
Ask YC: Enhanced Index Funds
Fidelity offers these so called "Enhanced Index Funds" that claim to offer better returns than a traditional Index fund. According to their site, "The funds' managers use computer-aided, quantitative analysis of historical valuation, growth, profitability, and other factors to select a broadly diversified group of stocks that may have the potential to provide a higher total return than that of the benchmark index." Doesn't this defeat the point of an index fund and is more like a traditional mutual fund or am I missing something?
I used to be exactly that kid, until school got challenging (university)... Then I had less time to fuck around in class...
The fake bus stop hack
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Prophet of Doom an Boom
While executive functions are crucial in controlling primal urges, some of which arguably trigger uncooperative behavior in group settings and blind them from competing perspectives, I really dislike this buzzwordification of something that isn't surprising nor new.

The whole principle of Diamond's education method seems to be teaching kids how to inhibit their urges, or "think before your act" (I'm sure there's an elegant quote/prophrase for this in English. Anyone know?). Big deal. I bet you can achieve similar results or even better via dialectics a la Plato. Once they have the patience, teach them and all their best friends Go/chess.
posted some days/a week a go.
I was that kid too. I got top grades from a leading British school, a Master's degree in Physics from Oxford University, worked 4 years in a top consulting firm, and started 2 startups.

Article: FAIL.

I'd suggest to the author that perhaps being bored at primary school is a sign of higher EF - you're making the decision for yourself that all that stuff they're "teaching" you isn't worth paying attention. But having good enough EF now, I realise that's a waste of my time, since the author doesn't know what he's talking about.
http://friendfeed.com/brlewis

But if it's hacker or startup news I post it on news.yc.
The Curious History of the Kama Sutra
Why I use the implemented definition of "better" in favour of my (admittedly completely subjective) definition?

If you surveyed people's definitions of "better [thing that they care about]" you'd get a lot of different answers, but I suspect few would say "more people like it" (even if an algorithm based on "more people like it" would be good at finding things they think are better).
I think the point is more to weed out people that can't do pointers and Big O than to determine greatness.
Have Mathematics Exams Become Easier?
Friend Suggestor
They aren't the only ones asking for this. However, I notice that you have the option of skipping that steps, just as you do on Twitter when it asks for the same info. Just opt out.
the point of an index fund is to buy and hold a specific group of stocks for a long period. because of this, it means that you don't have to pay much to own the fund, because its not being actively managed.

enhanced index funds do a little more shifting around, from what i can tell, and because of that, the expense ratio is higher. based on the (admittedly cursory) research i did on enhanced index funds, they don't really provide you any truly better performing stock picks, but they do provide you with some different ones.

they're slightly more like traditional mutual funds, but only a bit.

edited to add: save your money and just buy normal index funds, unless you have some serious money and really want to diversify.
I do as well. I really think it's the best of the social media programs out there - particularly since twitter stopped working. FF is also evolving frequently, yesterday they added multiple admins to rooms as an example (much like a cosys or admin on irc). If you haven't given it a chance, I recommend you do. BTW I'm at http://friendfeed.com/pbrush
A Timeless, Desert Island Language
Smooshing this together with your previous statement, we get:

> Even without the ability to downvote, doesn't the position of the article indicate that there isn't an article with more points?

It does indicate that. So what?
Yes, http://friendfeed.com/trev
yeah ive seen this on several places lately, cant remember a specific instance though.

my reaction is like "wtf ofc im not gonna give you my emailpassword".
I wonder if Google's Director of Search Quality or Head of Research or whatever his title is had anything to do with this.
Mossberg: Firefox 3.0 Is the Best Browser, for Now
Dot Com Relationships | Tech Jaws
Like IQ, EF is creating a self-fulfilling prophecy with regard to success and failure. IQ was used to justify the failure of some students relative to others--so the students with a reason why they were allowed to fail did so, and the teachers paid more attention to the students expected to succeed, so that they did so.

EF, being a measure of "mental discipline" (read: obedience + creativity) separates the students that teachers typically like to teach from those that teachers typically do not. But the students that teachers like to teach are the ones that they focus on, so those students do well academically. Presto--instant self-fulfilling prediction.

Of course, this implies no correlation at all with what it takes to do well outside of these sorts of environments.
Developerlife - Tutorials » How to build a service-enabled Android app - Part 1/3 UI
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I was that kid. When school got more challenging, I spaced out and did worse.

It's a source of frustration for me. I know, and always knew that I had the intellectual acumen to to better, but I never had the self discipline to do so. I tried every day to just buckle down and finish my work, but it is easier said than done.

On the other hand, it was always those mandatory literature classes that hurt me the worst.I always did better in the courses that required more thinking than reading.
The printer-friendly version is much easier to read without all those annoying ads: http://www.newsweek.com/id/139885/output/print
The article is also pretty misleading and fluffy.
Here's a study on the heritability of EF:

http://scienceblogs.com/developingintelligence/2008/05/99_ge...
I'm not sure what you did differently, but your comment has retarded formatting. You have to scroll to read it. Any way you can edit it back to normal?
Awesome. I was looking for this in a HN post a couple days ago.
His point wasn't that you have to do it, but that it's a bad option to give people.
We have to remember that email-based import is a service aimed at the masses to make life easier for such people.

Although most people on HN and the like will usually opt out or refuse such a request, many people will not care about the privacy/security issues if it means less work for them.
7. Marketing, Marketing, Marketing. Obama was an amazing orator, and a great salesperson for himself. Find someone who can be just as convincing marketing/selling/evangelizing your product.

8. Love your customers. Obama got millions of people to give him money and he wasn't even giving them a product! The Obama campaign kept in touch with supporters by email, made them feel important and empowered. That's what matters at the end of the day.

9. Respect your competitors, but be intimidated. One thing that Obama never did was disrespect Hillary Clinton. At the same time, he was always confident and never was intimidated by Hillary's name and brand.
Google Gadgets for Linux: One Step closer to Open Source
no details. Wanted to call the writer a wanker but there's nowhere to put a comment on the page. So I'll do it here: "Wanker"
Why We Don't Skip Photoshop
Jeff Croft's writeup in response to a recent article by 37Signals' position against the visual mockup. Jeff cites that this may work for 37Signals because of their simple, established products and because they are not working for a client.
"New research shows that EF, more than IQ, leads to success in basic academics like arithmetic and grammar."

This research is from the 60s. It isn't new, and plus we've already had better stories about this same concept on news.yc before.