skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a stunningly pointless article.

I understand that a number of the things in the article are good sense... But they're common sense and also aimed firmly at the middle of the road plans... Average market, average profits, average... CNN reader.

I think there's a lot more merit of focusing on building good shit and not shooting yourself in the foot, and showing it to people at the same time.

Oh look, HN's persistant theme.
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Rule #1: Never drive to meet someone if you're the seller. Let them come to you. If they can't, someone else will.

Half of people on CL are flakes or cheapskates, you have to assume they will either never show up or lowball you
"Despite its emphasis on security, OKWS shows performance advantages relative to popular competitors: when servicing fully dynamic, non-disk-bound database workloads, OKWS's throughput and responsiveness exceed that of Apache, Flash (the reigning king of Web server performance) and Haboob (an academic system reputed to be the fastest Java Web server on the block). Commercial experience with OKWS suggests that the system can reduce hardware and system management costs, while providing security guarantees absent in current systems."

That's why.
Also their recent strategy of suing successful developers on their platform shows they're serious about keeping the Blackberry competitive!

I know that's the kind of company I'd bet on.
I enjoyed both of Tim's books. Yes, his methods are a bit... unconventional, but the underlying principles are good:

Book 1: "Do less..."

Book 2: "...and measure it."

Book 1 (4 Hour Work Week) is especially interesting in contrast to other productivity books; books like GTD are about cramming more into your day. 4HWW is about identifying the highest impact things and cutting out the rest.
Thanks for the explanation - I didn't catch on.

Every author has a target audience. Although I find Ferriss' marketing strategies unethical, I think his judgement on the book itself to be a bit unfair.
He covers that type of diet in the "living forever" chapter, I believe, if it's what I think you're talking about (having an 18 hour minimal protein "fast" once a week where you eat anything except protein, while the rest of the week you eat a very high protein diet). Or, if you mean a cyclical ketosis high protein diet, he merely mentions it in passing rather than delving into details.

The primary diet he advocates is a "slow-carb diet", which means lots of legumes (the slow-carb part of the diet), lots of vegetables (usually spinach), and lots of protein, and no carbs that have a high glycemic index or insulinemic response (nearly no grains, for instance). The prototypical slow-carb meal is spinach, lentils, and eggs. It fills you up with very sturdy, nutrient dense, calories, and supposedly prevents the self-reinforcing hunger cycle that fast carbs (like white rice or bread) triggers.
Just to clarify, Snow Leopard is OS 10.6.
I think you could take the manuscript for a Tom Clancy novel, replace each instance of "Jack Ryan" with "Robert Langdon", "CIA" with "Harvard", and "Kremlin" with "Vatican", and you'd be 80% done with the next Dan Brown novel.

How, exactly, an Italian, crypto-Opus Dei-member, 747 pilot crashing a plane into Harvard's Tercentenary Theatre during Freshman Convocation would result in Langdon becoming the next President of Harvard, though, would indeed require an amazing storyteller. That one doesn't quite write itself.
So based on $133/million per month in revs is ~ $1.6 billion this year.

Current valuation on SecondMarket = $50 billion

$50 billion/$1.6 Billion = a 31.25 multiple.

5 to 10 times revenues seems to be a reasonable way to value startups/private companies nowadays (for the most part). But a multiple of 31.25? Wow.
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Here are some of my thoughts (sorry, I wrote them word vomit form):

1) Concierge services -- Early space travelers will undoubtedly be wealthy and have numerous needs, from planning how to get them from their home to the nearest Spaceport, to scheduling training exercises to prepare for their trip.

2) Airport logistics -- Virgin Galactic is already planning 3 flights per day at the Spaceport America in New Mexico. Spaceports will get busy and technologies to manage busy spaceports will need to be developed.

3) Online booking -- As providers emerge and flights become more common, people will want to look online to learn about the various space travel offerings that are available to them (and price shop).

4) Freight/science travel -- While tourism is clearly the sexy side of space travel, it stands to reason that there will likely be a significant industrial need for this service.

5) Maintenance -- Space travel wears heavily on the equipment involved. As more companies offer private space travel, new services and technologies will be needed to maintain their fleets.

6) Post-flight -- Early civilian space travelers will belong to an exclusive club of thrill seekers that have similar interests. There are countless services that could be targeted at this group, from private club memberships, follow-on adventures.
If you drag a window to the edge of a space it'll flip after a brief delay.
Kawasaki offers to trade a completely free ebook for a "Like" on his new Facebook page. Carr - the blogger who wrote this post - calls Kawasaki "completely corrupt" for it.

You get a free book. The author must have spent thousands of hours working on that book. All you give in return for the free ebook is one Like. It's like trading an ebook for subscribing to some newsletter (nobody's writing blog posts on that subject anymore, Facebook is all the fuss lately).

Let's burn Kawasaki for his sins! All this, coming from Carr, a published author. I don't see a Facebook icon on his website, he probably don't even have a Facebook page. I would love to see how Carr intends to promote his new Facebook page, if he ever creates one. After all, he claims that internet makes us stupid.
> What people don't like to admit about spam, is that it created value for somebody. This is why some people clicked on the ads and why others profited.

By this same logic, you can justify the heroin trade, the slave trade, and the child pornography trade.
Raise debt limit to avoid national catastrophe, Geithner warns Congress
I'm not sure "hardware and system management costs" are the biggest challenge a startup like OK Cupid faces. When you look at the cost of development for something like a web server, you really have to ask if that money wouldn't have been better spent acquiring customers while building your app on one of the myriad of excellent server/framework/language stacks available today.
Arbitration does not mean what you think it does.
Good point, but unfortunately in wavefront .obj there is no "elevation mesh" alike object, so it's a bit more complex than this, but still not too hard.

Btw while VRML as a plugin and the idea of a 3D web sounds now 90s, the data format itself is too bad.
> that is, not merely to freeze a market, but to enter one

I would be more inclined to believe that if Windows 8 on ARM had, at least, an announced shipping date. As it is now, I increasingly believe Microsoft saw the threat Android on higher-performance flavors of ARM represents to Windows on x86 and decided to create some confusion by announcing Windows 8 would support it.

I have to admit they being able to actually demo it, along with Office, with credible performance surprised me. They sure came a long way since the NT on RISC of the mid-90's.

However, Windows 8 is, at least, a year away. Does it mean these products that were demoed will not ship before Windows is ready? I could run Linux on them by next week.
I wrote a (fairly) successful e-book on this topic, freely available over at my site.
Now, now, it might not necessarily be an erotic thing. He could simply have self-loathing issues mixed with dominance issues. Strangling is considered to be one of the most dominant ways to kill someone (due to the proximity). I wish... it would be such an interesting psychological study to read.

Alas, I believe he was simply illustrating a point.
>As another person pointed out, "adverse events in the PDR or on product packaging are simply a list of all reported adverse events, with little data to demonstrate causality."

Which country is this in?

I don't really buy that the pharma corps would print a huge list of negative side-effects without any causality demonstrated unless of course it's to hide the known side-effects by making it all appear absurd ...?

Is it encouraging to know that the reported negative side-effects weren't even investigated enough to establish if they were likely to be caused by the drugs taken? My instinct is that this is a very bad thing.

If this is true they're basically saying we get lots of reports from patients who've taken this and get side-effects that they report and that medical professionals then collate and report to us but we can't be bothered to look and see if there's any credence to those reports.

Something seems wrong here.
Ask HN: Which is the liberal opensource license with the least legal overhead?
Based on my own research I've generally opted for the MIT License, but I'm wondering if others with more experience with the legal side of OpenSource can offer some clarification regarding this MIT vs other licenses.
But i still can't cancel a print job in Windows...
Major dating sites likely still largely pull revenue from advertisement and pay-to-message hurdles.

As a photographer, however, I can attest that there is a market for people looking to pay to have a better Facebook/LinkedIn/Dating-Site profile photo.
> You may need therapy if it saddens you to see Microsoft port its OS to non-Intel chips, like they used to do with NT

I would prefer some other player, like Android and the Linux ecosystem it piggybacks on, to do it. As for the therapy, I have long ago realized I just don't like the Microsoft Way Of Doing Things. The fact they have abused their monopoly to actually prevent the market from progressing away from the x86 ISA doesn't help either.
Actually, the company that seems most promising to me at the moment (as an undervalued stock) is HP.

WebOS is a solid OS and HP has a lot of experience making and shipping hardware. There's a lot of potential for integration between WebOS and the other devices they already make: laptops, printers, netbooks, phones, and tablets.
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Matt Mullenweg Tried to Get Me Fired
Get your checkbook out: http://www.amazon.com/Hello-Kitty-Samsung-S5230-Limited/dp/B...
With the flood of android tablets that'll be coming out later this year, the price point for the blackberry tablet is way too high. Even apple will likely have a price drop associated with iPad2.

Blackberry is heading back to enterprise, and that's where it should try to solidify.
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Csound works similarly to this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Csound
Either they've completely documented the stack and API so that new employees can get up to speed quickly and if their lead developers get hit by a bus they can continue as a viable business. In which case they've spent lots of valuable resources working on documentation.

Or their technology is poorly documented and basically an oral tradition. God help them if their lead developers get hit by a bus.
I think that taking off on one side of the Pacific and landing three hours later on the other, while spending some time in space, in zero g, would be an amazing product that could, conceivably, scale a lot.
Mounting Grape API inside rails application
oh my. I just had a very long, body shaking, completely unable to function, tears and snot, laugh attack off of that link.

Thank you so very much.
The author's comment on this[1]:

NY Times - Dwight Garner's snarky review of The 4-Hour Body: http://su.pr/16Eh4w For 100% ad hominem, it's pretty funny.

[1] http://twitter.com/#!/tferriss/status/23166933377486848
In terms of word count, I'm sure the MIT License is one of the lowest. But if you're looking in terms of total legal overheard, you may want to consider that a more modern license crafted by a legal team could possibly be better tuned for the laws than a license with a smaller word count. IANAL.
And don't miss his upcoming book "The 4-hour hair-loss"!
Me. I've used Opera since roughly 1997ish?. Back then it was the Tab king, and I was amazed at having so much flexibility in my UI.

I still use it now.
How to live life well
All of the OCW courses are available on Udemy: http://www.udemy.com/courses/Academics.html. (Disclosure: I am the co-founder of Udemy)

If I'm not wrong, we have the largest library of OCW courses on the internet (equivalent to YouTube's).
Well, dragging itself is a chore.

I get that he hates the desktop metaphor, but it still needs to be improved. Little things like the cube metaphor & wobbly windows go a long way.
One of my New Years resolutions is "Be more ridiculous more of the time." As I get older, I realize that being embarrassed of the things you want to do, or the experiments you want to try, is one of the most damaging aspects of human behavior.

There's an interesting idea in, I think, Next: The Future Just Happened by Michael Lewis, that part of the reason the Internet is such a huge phenomenon is because people can try on a new "self" just by creating a new account on some website. So, I thought, "Why can't I do that in real life, too?" There's no reason I can't wake up one day, and decide, "I'm going to be a really healthy person, and if it takes doing some odd things and causing friends and family to be a little baffled by my behavior now and then, that's OK. It's a worthy endeavor and a price worth paying to have the body and overall health I want."

In short, yes, my friends think my new diet is odd, and wonder why I'm not having pizza or beer with them (except on Saturday, my chosen "binge day"). And, yeah, some of the exercises look a little strange when I do them at the gym. But, so what? I just explain to my friends what I'm experimenting with, and why, and whether it's working or not (it seems to be, two weeks in). And I'm only at the gym for 20 minutes a couple times a week, following the protocol to the letter, so it's a small price to pay. I'm not touching on any of the extreme stuff that I can't back up with reliable science, but the diet and the muscle building regime are both well-backed and entirely fit with pretty conventional thinking. I could have constructed both from existing research on my own, had I taken the time to do so, the book just made it easy to follow (I have the book with me on my phone whenever I buy groceries or go to the gym, so I know I'm doing the right things).
I did a double take myself.
> Everything he says is backed up by this premise: "Don't just accept this - try it! I'm only recommending it because I found it to work."

That statement only shows he only cares about selling his book. If the method fails you, it's your ($15) loss.
I should buy RIMM because - google and apple haven't eaten their lunch in corporations, yet, and the playbook, a product that doesn't even exist, might make #2 in the tablet market? And how many new tablets are being released at ces?
I'm willing to give it a shot with an open mind, since it doesn't seem completely unreasonable and I sure as hell am not taking good care of my body right now.
I've noticed this too, with spam that doesn't look too different from the usual.
Yes, if the player happens to be called to war and has to engage in battle. They are being shown what to expect, including the points where CoD doesn't simulate real life war situations.

By my original point the watching of modern porn has trained young men to expect 100% willing partners, shaved body parts, intense libidos, and guaranteed orgasms with little to no reciprocity. That's going to lead to a lot of failed sexual relationships.
HN: A side project from nearly a year ago I finally put online, enjoy.
Public musician image database with API?
I'm working on a lyrics posting site as a personal project and would somehow like to incorporate images of musicians/authors. Ideally, I'd like to pull them from a store of images if one exists.

Does anyone know of such a thing?
The yellow pages can still be useful in some situations, although like you I mostly use them to start the BBQ. I'm playing devil's advocate here...

- You're in a metro area with lower-than-average internet uptake. There will still be a lot of businesses you can't find (easily) without the yellow pages.

- If you're searching for a business where net presence is not a big differentiator, their yellow page ad may well give you more information than google would. My favorite guitar store barely exists, as far as google is concerned.

- You're stranded in the middle of nowhere and you don't have a smartphone. If there's gas station nearby the yellow pages are the best way to find a mechanic/locksmith/etc. This has happened to me.
Notes from a Perl 6 course by Damian Conway
yeah, it's cool right now. but, to get big they are going to have to let the 'unwashed masses' in. Expect more questions like, "why is paris hilton such a sloot?" and less about interesting topics with interesting answers.

Once that happens, and it will have to happen for them to have the number of users that twitter or facebook has it will descend into yahoo answer hell. I don't see how they avoid that and get mass user adoption.
Interesting that the WSJ changed the title of the article. It now reads: "Facebook Opens Door for Financial Disclosure or IPO in 2012"
I used PamFax [1] yesterday. 12 cents per page, hooks into your existing accounts (I used Google Accounts, but there was Facebook, Skype). No subscription.

Far, far, far better proposition, and likely just as quick as it uses accounts for authentication that you already have. And for 15 pages, it'll cost you $1.80.

[1] http://www.pamfax.biz/
As a lab instructor at a community college, I explained this to hundreds of people. None had much trouble with it.
I think the logic of a growth investor differs from the logic of a P/E chaser.

Dividend yield is probably 0%, too, so if that's what one is after, it would seem like a crappy deal.
I would consider it but I am skeptical that it would be a worthwhile change. E.g. Something like "CompassionPlane" might promote more of a sense of equality but it also negates the dark truths that, if more readily confronted, would perhaps have helped certain people avoid the "pit" they are in. When you are feeling awful it does not help to pretend otherwise. You are truly feeling awful and not resisting it is the first step.

I welcome your thoughts
The hard part doing this is not the programming side, it's the physical interface side, and doing it in a useful and cost effective manner.

I'd love to have whole house lighting control, but at $20/node, it's not going to happen. I'd love to have some sort of datalogging and computer control of my 6 thermostats and the wood stove. My research was showing something like $100/node for the thermostats, and less than that for the thermocouples for the stove, but then I'd need a datalogger for them. I'd love to have killawatt meters in all my sockets, with wireless reporting. Etc Etc Etc.

Their system is a usb->xbee, and then xbee->arduino on the other end. That's like $100 of control systems, and you still don't actually have interfaces to anything, you have a low power board that needs a driver to even drive a reasonable relay. (but, there are easy driver circuits for that, even $20 pigtails with embedded relays)
> Here’s an interesting graph from the data that proves the price difference increases with price: [followed by a graph of nearly random data]

Drawing a straight line through loosely correlated data doesn't "prove" anything.

> I didn’t do Craigslist arbitrage for long because it was not worth my time and effort.

So a more appropriate title for this post would have been "Failing to bootstrap a startup with Craigslist arbitrage"?
Great talk about MetaFilter by founder Matt Haughey [video]
The only form of literature that women ever invented was the erotic romance novel, and they're even trying to take that away from us. Will wonders never cease?

In dead tree form, yes. In electronic book publishing, yes. In fan fiction, yes. That's the "high quality" stuff he was talking about. Sure, men write some of the graphic and romance-less stuff on the internet, but not the erotic romance novel- at least not as much.

I looked at the tube sites again, and sure there's a lot of amateur, but the popular stuff is the most graphic stuff, as far as I can tell. I don't know about "degrading" since I don't find any pornography particularly degrading, but it is in fact hardcore.
You are funny.

I was responding specifically to the assertion that kids can’t legally download anything from the App Store if their parents are not willing to hand over their credit card. That’s patently untrue. It’s easy to get an account, it’s easy to pay.

Now, teenagers might pirate for other reasons than not wanting to pay (I don’t know what those would be), I can only guess. They are not in any way forced to pirate, though.
This is exactly what happened I clicked this link.

1) clicked link from my RSS reader.
2) Ah great looking page, very simple to the point.
3) Wth.. $5 per page??
4) closed the chrome tab, to comment on HN and seen that everyone else raised the same point.
So your point is that people who voluntarily it tend to have a less favorable opinion? That is not exactly surprising. Not to say your priorities aren't right for you, but I don't see the larger point here beyond "I prefer different things!"
To the contrary, anyone who's seen a herd of bulls when the cows are in heat knows there's a big difference between boys and girls -- and that the difference is principally nature, not nurture. Testosterone is powerful stuff.
I like the sentiment, but I just want to share pictures from my latest beer pong victory man!

The point is that humans are horrible at risk modeling, particularly teen agers and those in early adulthood.

We as a society seem to be heading towards an expectation of less privacy, which makes Facebook and Google easier to tolerate.

The reason Facebook will fail is when a fundamental shift happens in society that Facebook isn't designed to handle. Facebook really came about because of a mobile population coupled with a need to track our social graphs. Even 30 or 50 years ago facebook couldn't have existed, because everyone you wanted to talk to was only a few minutes drive away.
> * 100+ years after the invention of the Telephone
> we have Skype, which is controlled by a single company.

Bad example. See Ma Ball ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_System ).
Working four hours a week is revolutionary. Working out four hours a week is ... average. If you spend four hours a week doing any sort of strength training in a semi-competent manner, you are going to look good after a period of months. (And you won't even need to weigh your feces!)

I fail to see why we need 571 pages of rebelling against conventional wisdom here.
Apparently you didn't read my post carefully, because I said "innate or otherwise." Your point would be about the otherwise bit.

However, since you wanted to argue this when I was specifically avoiding it, I would point out that females are the sex more reluctant to mate in almost all species, with the exception of a few species that prove the rule. It has to do with the expected costs of mating. Females bear most of the cost of child bearing in almost all species, so they are also a bit more choosy as to how often and to whom they mate with.
Mac App Store DRM broken (Here's how)
My wife just came upstairs wondering why I was laughing so hard.
Someone Claims To Have Already Cracked Apple's Mac App Store DRM