skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On Twitter, you don't follow people who talk about things you're not interested in. It's that simple.

Now, obviously, nobody's 100% interesting all the time. So, yes, there is a "magic tool" to filter out uninteresting things: your brain. You see something that relies on context you're not privy to, you skip over it. It's that simple. You don't read Twitter, you scan it.

Everyone who criticizes Twitter seems to think that people use it to read boring things. No, I don't usually care what the people I'm following had for breakfast - except when Patton Oswalt describes his quick eats on a busy day [1]. Now, you might not find that funny. In which case, you stop following him, or you just furl your brow and keep skimming.

[1] http://twitter.com/#!/pattonoswalt/status/23362445531684864
"commit often" is fine. It's "push often" that gets you into trouble. With an interactive rebase, you can polish up your commits and their messages before pushing them, presenting to your peers a finely crafted (readable, reviewable, maintainable) publication.
I'm no fan of SOAP, but as a C# guy I'm curious to know what took so long?
Interesting how much money there is to be made mining the disposable incomes of adults nostalgic for the pleasures of childhood.
I love slow motion video, always fascinating. I get what they are trying to show here, but I would rather see an actual train breaking and some way to show the energy that comes from that process.

On a side note, I always wondered why trains wasted so much energy from breaking and the whole systems they used to use. I am glad that GE and other companies are realizing that things can be better and smarter.
From which language, out of curiosity?
Do We Know the Impacts of Net Neutrality?
Or, as Neal Stephenson taught me, phosphorous.

Burn, baby, burn!
Get an iTunes or Mac App Store account without a credit card
A patch that changes X to Y will always change X to Y. Maybe you applied the patch in the past, but the patch itself will never stop changing X to Y.
“If at first you don’t succeed, then use stickK.”
I agree on scrolling and side-by-side. I also note that the overwhelming majority of functions and core loops still fit on wide screens 'missing' those 300 pixels along the bottom. How often are we simultaneously considering multiple functions that happen to be located directly above or below one another in code?

Also, the Code Bubbles concept IDE from a while back would really shine on a wide screen, as compared to 4:3 for that same 'side by side' reason. I really hope that project gets more traction and flourishes.
I thought the PAGG data was pretty clear. I have it down as AGG before breakfast, lunch, and dinner and then PAGG before bedtime.

I'll have to go look again to confirm, but that's what I wrote down when making my personal supplement/meal schedule from the book.
Why do the poor remain with us?
Very cool. Total "wish I'd thought of that" idea with excellent design.
Yes, I guess on-processor DRM and any kind of virtualisation (will the real hypervisor please stand up?) are prime suspects for this kind of thing. But they are also the most obvious, it could be cramped into everything.

It'd be mighty interesting to tear apart / scan / reverse engineer some modern CPUs like they did with the 6502. Then again, these beasts are so complex that's similar to looking for a needle in a galaxy-sized haystack.
Ever see a poor person in a Hugh Grant movie? I propose ending poverty by shuttling Hugh Grant all around the world.
House Budget Chief Ryan Says No Bailouts to Prevent U.S. State Defaults
Apple's Mac App Store Fundamentally Changes PC Software Usage Rights
That's definitely important for some people. As I said, the exact questions are unique per person/idea combination. What you prioritise first will depend on your skills, your concerns and fears, your past experiences, etc.

For example, if you got burned by building something great that no one actually used, "Can I find users?" will be pretty high up the list.

This is not a method for avoiding all mistakes - it won't save you from all your blind spots. But it gives you a better chance of leveraging your experience and getting somewhere.

I'll write another article at some point about how to generate those questions.
Addressing your third point, I had a lot of trouble with this as well, especially since I'm trying to do the same thing as you, put together both a workout plan and a meal plan (in my case to aid weight loss).

This sounds like an opportunity for somebody to read carefully through the book and generate a bunch of one-sheet summaries.
10 business models that rocked 2010 | Board of Innovation
Sure, I agree that's the dictionary definition. But I needed to make a distinction between someone who owns and operates a lifestyle business, and someone who seeks to grow an organization. Colloquially, I find entrepreneur is used to describe the latter.
My guess is that it's because it was designed from the point of view of someone looking at patches to be added, rather than from the point of view of someone who writes a bunch of code. Imagine you're looking at a patch and asking what it does. It's more natural to describe that this patch will "add support for feature X" than "added support for feature X".
We're not big fans of the "NoSQL" term. ;)
Data Processing: PLINQ, Parallelism and Performance
My opinion is that the difference is all about growth. Small businesses (lifestyle businesses) focus on quality of life and happiness of owning their own business prior to growth. Startups tend to sacrifice everything for rapid growth. Small businesses are in it for the long haul (20+ years) where most startups are looking to cash out quick (~5 years). Startup entrepreneurs generally don't want to run the business forever.
I write my commit messages in the present tense, but I have no idea why anyone would care about it in the slightest.
I'm with you for the photo frames but losing the space on the TV has already happened. Most of the content your watching will be widescreen so you'll have the bars top and bottom effectively giving you that 27" 16:9 TV. Unless of course you are full screening everything and not seeing a lot of the content as the sides are being chopped off.
Verizon iPhone to Launch February 3rd?
AES did a pilot project of the same type with Altairnano batteries back in 08, you can see some of the numbers and details here (warning pdf): http://www.b2i.cc/Document/546/KEMA_Carina_validation_report...
Too Many Ph.D.’s and Professionals?
GCS is rather personalized, which makes sense. For example, I don't want experts-exchange showing up, but some people have paid for their service and want it. I'm also a Flash developer, so my list probably won't be useful for most HN readers.

GCS is really easy to set up - takes only a few minutes. I spent the most time hunting down rouge sites - which was actually kinda fun and cathartic.

Big tip: keep an easy-to-get-to link to the GCS Sites Control panel, so it's easy to add new sites. I've added ~40 more in the past two months.
PreTED: Feynman: Knowing the name of something versus knowing something.
The models, from the slideshare notes[1]

PatientsLikeMe.com
Flattr.com
Groupon.com
Spotify.com
PayWithaTweet.com
HumbleBundle.com
Free with in-app sales
Quirky.com
Airbnb.com
Kickstarter.com

1- http://www.slideshare.net/boardofinnovation/10-business-mode...
Chopper 2 Grosses Nearly $30,000
Windows 8 Too Late For Slates?
The Graying of the Barbarians
Derp? If you're getting the damn results, who cares how many hours you spend?
I had heard this advice many times before, but he added just one comment that completely made it for me.

He advises to have just a few basic meals to choose from and then stick with those. Don't try to put variety in your diet at all or try and keep it interesting. It's that wandering eye that will cause you to go off diet.

That simple change made it completely easy for me to stick to my diet because now I don't have to think at all. It's like I'm stuck on a starship and this is what the kitchen computer makes every day, and it doesn't matter if I want something else, because this is what the meal is.
At the last company I worked for, which was a manufacturing facility. They installed a giant flywheel as a line conditioning device. (We manufactured NAS, and it is terribly costly when a power outage interrupts 5 days worth of testing forcing you to start over). I think it gave us about 17-18 seconds of power, in the event of any brief interruptions in power (Most of the outages we received were 1-2 seconds in length)
Looking forward to reading your article on how the questions are generated and what else goes forward. I have been thinking about this quite a bit after doing a failed startup, working at a startup with funds, and pursuing a startup currently. Thanks for the great blog post.
I really agree with this perspective. I think folks get too hung up on the actual appearance vs. the usability. Sometimes I don't like the look when apps recolor standard controls, but I don't find them less usable. Just don't change usability patterns like keyboard shortcuts or the ability for a window to be minimized to the dock.
Yeah, everything is switching to the 1080p TV glass. I bought a Dell Latitude this year just before they switched as well. Those 120 pixels really make a difference.
There was an IBM display with ~3800x2560 22" a few years ago. Sadly, it was discontinued some years after being introduced. IIRC 2008 or 2009 some manufacturer wanted to make them again, with a roughly 10k$ price.

Edit: That was the IBM T220/T221. In 2007, Toshiba announced a revival, but didn't end up producing them.
Omigosh. I wonder if that's why my boss keeps looking at me funny lately. This is no good at all.
Small firms may have to work harder for sales and cut costs
Only 9100 of last 10500 years were warmer than 2010
I also find writing commit messages in present tense unnatural.

Possible Explanation for present tense commit messages - Commit messages are treated as Instruction(s) to a third person, as if she is applying the patches one-by-one.

"Implement Feature A"

Now, "Fix the bug in the previously developed Feature A" etc.
Simplifying eBook Creation
ICAO VFR maps contain the magnetic deviation as information - you just have to apply it to all your directions and be able to remember in what direction you have to correct ;) Not so trivial under stress. Anyway, on US and EU latitudes, the difference is not much bigger than 2 or 3 degrees, right?
Blue-shiftin' the autistic spectrum. Yeah.
MMOGs and Social Media Players: The New IT Thought Leaders
Exactly. It's not any illusion of being 'better'. Some level of distrust is pretty rational, governments have their own agendas and those might not always be aligned with that of a multinational. And if multiple governments want to be involved in your IT infrastructure it could get pretty messy. You're inviting the "cyberwar" on your turf instead of keeping it out.
Wow, that is awesome. What is up with Rio being a third (or more) of the overall network volume?

EDIT: I guess since it's the percentage of geolocated tweets the most likely answer is that the most popular Portuguese client geolocates by default.
I made my custom search secondary.

By this I mean I added it to my browsers, but I still use regular Google search daily. If the results is laden with bogus sites, then I switch over and start again, weeding if necessary.

Initially I thought I'd use GCS all the time, but it lacks the Google menu (Images, Maps, etc) which comes in handy more often than I expected. I use GCS most for code/development related searches.
Why did SOAP win, and XMLRPC not win?
Maybe just for a half-size car.
In defense of RSS
I actually only saw johnCOW.com (not CHOW).
I was ready to give you guys my CC number.
2010: The Inevitable Fall and Destruction of EMI
Statements like "..., it's cost slightly more to produce a penny than the one cent it is worth, leading to a loss of of about $20 million dollars, total, in 2009." are wrong minded. If every penny cost exactly one cent to make, we wouldn't be "breaking even" -- we'd still lose one cent per penny produced in production costs. The cost of producing money compared to its monetary value is irrelevant (though there is a problem if you can extract more than a cent of profit from melting them down).
You're right, his children had de facto differences, and that's OK. What annoyed me was his exasperated tone when he mentioned that his daughter liked having the same story read.

As for womanizing, again it shocked that after so little time passed after her wife's death, he jumps into the scene (and with a vengeance).

But maybe, I'm reading too much into this. Here's what Michelle Feynman (daughter) has to say about what kinf of father Feynman was (http://www.basicfeynman.com/qa.html):

"Fantastic. Fun, supportive, sweet, silly. He went to great lengths to entertain us. When I was young, the nightly ritual included him scouring the house for the correct stuffed animal, with me rejecting each and every offering until I had the desired one, or until he had made me laugh with his efforts. I'm not sure which was more important. He also made for an excellent radio. I would sit on his lap and turn his nose, and he would make up songs from different radio stations."
Just because it's "active" doesn't mean the FOB needs a battery for the RFID to work. The car could periodically check for the key.

If your RFID required a battery, and required that it constantly be on, then the battery would need to be replaced often. Couple this with your car potentially shutting off in the middle of the highway and you've got a very unsafe car.

I know for certain that VW keys do not need the battery for the RFID to work. The battery is only used for remote lock/unlock. Perhaps other cars are different, but I'd consider that a design flaw.

edit: forgot to mention that my VW does not even have physical locks except for the glovebox. A dead rfid battery, if it had one, would mean i was stranded. I'm actually not sure what happens if my car battery dies while the car is locked.
Why do people think Apple will make a huge acquisition? There biggest purchase by far was NeXT for 400m back in '97 with PA Semi and Quattro coming in 2nd/3rd at ~275m. A 30 Billion dollar purchase doesn't seem at all in their nature. Apple builds products and purchase companies as talent/ip acquisitions to help them reach their goals.
I wish I could downvote you.. :S
>iOS apps aren't content.

Under what reasonable definition of content is this true? Angry Birds and Plants vs Zombies sure feel like content to me.
Top Ways to Blow a Job Interview
Bailey Button 5803 (grey) Ugg Boots UK,
Yep - when a phone causes someone to waste £1500 on a flight they missed, it's tragedy.

When a phone causes someone's spouse to find out they they're cheatin' .. comedy gold.
A corollary question, Who Are the Poor [1]?

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[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S-O6WDalug
Remind HN: KC Meetup, January 26th 5:30pm, McCoys (Westport)
This is just a reminder (and a notice to those that don't have a public email in your profile) that on January 26 2011, there will be a HN meet up at McCoys at 5:30.

I'm building an email list, and if you could send me an RSVP to my email (in my profile), then it would be make coordinating things a whole lot easier.

Thank You, and I look forward to meeting some of you fine folk.
Much of this seems to have more to do with the way Lisp environments work than with the language itself.

Couldn't the same sort of thing be done with any language that can be interpreted or incrementally compiled or is there something fundamentally different about Lisp that makes this possible ?

For example could Python be used this way ? I usually use a traditional edit/run development cycle with Python programs but I'd be curious if anyone finds other development modes more productive.
That's like 9 articles in as many years. How many did he write in support of them? Not that there's anything wrong with it - just that I don't think I can count his writing about Apple as "objective criticism".
Date, Venue, Time set:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2080049

Thank You
Connecticut here, pdenya at gmail.
Plug and Pray in GPS-land
Surely, if the system is server side, then it's not in the hands of the attacker? For webapps, etc. it's not the client side code that's protected, but the server code and data.
Maybe the fallout will be a valuable lesson to carriers.

They've (in some cases) loaded phones up with crap, and in so doing made maintenance difficult. Any patch will have to go through their crapification process, and re-testing, leading to customer dissatisfaction.

Depending on how much dissatisfaction the bug causes, and the degree to which people clamor for Android phones anyway, carriers might decide to change their attitudes toward crapware.
I built a DVR about 10 years ago for a major media provider. At the time we were all about ATVEF, it was a media driven effort. The interactive TV never amounted to much.

Today, there are more software and computery type companies playing in the field, there are more computers in your entertainment center, those are huge steps in the right direction. Then I don't know if you call it Apple's iPhone apps or part of web 2.0 but there is a renaissance in lean, light weight, simple applications with specific tasks. The media companies won't do it but software guys will, apps like netflix are sweet, people love that stuff. Even some apps like the CNN news app, I could very easily see that being on a TV. People don't seem to want full browsers and email on the TV. The flickr and youtube apps? Yep, people like that. Basically simple and small amounts of information to the TV seem like a positive thing and then getting media to the media center. Internet radio apps? Probably things people want.
Apple Store Hacks: Is Malware Coming?
Why is this article on ReadWriteWeb, an online zine for web-design?

Come to think of it, how would one classify RWW? "All the news that's currently popular"?
PubSubhubbub was built to work with Feeds, but works with any type of data (including JSON obviously). Feeds are a great first step, because it's a lingua-frenca! They are ubiquituous from Craisglist to Twitter, thru Flickr to CNN.com... etc

Also PubSubHubbub is an open protocol, which means that anyone (including you!) can easily implementing it without locking themselves in a proprietary protocol.
Right--Quora needs to set up a walled garden. Either a $5 pay-to-post system (worth it for the exposure and recruiting taking place on Quora), or a QA team that frequently audits questions and answers...something to keep their bottled lightning alive. Quora is at an important point in its development here.
Boston Companies to Watch in 2011
> A world of tweets is compatible with every browser supporting HTML5 and the <canvas> tag, and degrades gracefully to Flash on older browsers.

Who would have thought...
Cleaning Up Online Conversation
Detroit in ruins (Photo Gallery)
Based on the critiques below, Chile should revise its bankruptcy laws, mandate more government procurement from startups and SMEs, encourage partnering with Silicon Valley and other high-tech regions, set up a Silicon Valley incubator like the Nordic countries are doing now, and encourage more university research collaboration with high-growth nations.
What about some sort of hydraulic "battery"? I have seen water pumps that can be used as generators and vice/versa, especially during offpeak periods, water is pumped uphill, and during peak demand, water is sent downhill to generate electricity.

Would a hydraulic turbine/pump/generator be feasible?
I can see all kinds of hilarious subplots coming out of this- Man texts vacation plans to mistress, text goes to wife, wife thinks its actually meant for her, man ends up having to buy same trip twice for both of them, etc...
Why Your Form Buttons Should Never Say 'Submit'
Was that link an attempt to point out something good on Twitter, or to point out one of the tweets that you have to filter out to get use from it? It took a while to parse, then turned out to be, well, let's say I want my 5 seconds back.

Actually, can anybody here point to a single good Twitter message so that I can see what one looks like?
OLPC cuts XO 1.75 laptop to $165, power use by half
I'd just use my iPhone or iPad for that. It's more intuitive and doesn't block what I'm watching on the TV.
Tell me about it. My wife recently discovered that her mom kept the family's Fairchild Channel F system 2 and she is now scouring the net for games. She even had me teach her how to solder so she could fix the old controllers.
Creating And Distributing Presentations On The Web
I'm on the "wrong" side of the Flash/HTML5 debate, so my average post value is really low. It wasn't a big deal until the HN algorithm got tweaked recently.
What SaaS pricing models are out there?
It's very simple to understand - when Apple does something that's inconsistent it is bold pushing-the-envelope. When Android (to pick one of his favourite targets) is inconsistent, it's because a bunch of socially retarded engineers don't know any better and they should be more like Apple.

Really, Grubber is the tech writer equivalent of Ann Coulter or Michelle Malkin - he's got so much vested in his ideology, he's gonna push it as hard as possible no matter how much mental gymnastics are needed. Amusing, but ultimately worthless.
Apple's Jobs Takes $1 Salary Again
Why can't you? Cat got your mouse pointer?

P.S. I was a commie myself, just yesterday:

http://twitter.com/BigThingist/status/23033284455833601
When I checked Rio was number one by a large margin, which Indonesia being second. It'd be nice I could click on it and see some of the tweets so I could get some idea why.
What a cool country. The more I hear about Estonia the more I like it.
PhpMyAdmin 3.4.0-beta2 is released
Indeed, I only discovered that recently and it makes git pretty cool.

It has the added advantage of being able to merge commits that fix intermediate bugs that you introduced yourself and fixed immediately. There is no reason to bore other people with those.
"They have life expectancies, security of food and shelter and rates of possession of consumer durables that mark them out as among the blessed of history."

I think this guy has never walked down skid row in a big city. If we act like a whole subset of people don't exist we can make crazy claims like the poor are blessed.
Show HN: Our iPad app for music notation & composition
Here's another favorite story from thinking machines: The Rise and Fall of Thinking Machines

http://www.inc.com/magazine/19950915/2622.html

For what it's worth, last I heard Sheryl Handler was running Ab Initio. I wonder if she's really the nutcase the article makes her out to be.
To clarify -- is your house the same as the former Facebook house 819 La Jennifer Way?
Clearly there is an ordering between commits -- parents and children -- but I don't see commits as having much temporal value.

Branches and commits can be merged and rebased left and right, and it only seems to follow that commits have an intrinsic state that's (not to be cliché) timeless. Patches and commits, regardless of when they're written, provide changes and accomplish X Y and Z -- it's only when one runs the code that time comes into play.

Semantics, I suppose, or I have had too much coffee this morning.
We just released an iPad app called Symphony Pro. I'd like to know what you guys think! We applied to YC on the basis of music composition on the iPad last spring, didn't get in, but eventually pulled through. Development did take a while due to some obstacles.

Some Promo codes:

P6R7WHPKMNTP
63X7RFEPHTP6
4KKYR9TX7KNA

I can give more if they are used up
Intro to Nested-RAID: RAID-01 and RAID-10
Well yes, and that's what the system you mentioned does. In addition to pumped hydro, there are schemes for pumping air into underground caverns.

You need too much volume to make artificial tanks cost-effective. That's why natural formations are used.
Thanks for organizing, mathgladiator. I'll see you all there!