skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My photo site, OurDoings, offers two solutions to your "friends don't look at photos I mail" problem. First, you can send in seconds an email message in html with thumbnails of all your new photos. They don't have to leave their email to see if interesting (to them) photos are part of this update. Second, you can in one click create an album on Facebook for a given month and send that month's photos to it. The album has a link back to the month page on OurDoings where they can see the photos in a nicer format if they so choose.

http://ourdoings.com/
Could be that you are getting older.
Correct. At least, that's the info that's currently available. :) If you try fitting 4/5 fingers on the phone, it's way too small to work well anyway. I don't expect them to show up there. If they do remove the button, I'd expect to see it only removed from the iPad.
I don't believe his radio show is still on air, but yes.
I haven't used windows since 98SE, but I learned my lesson and have recommended all family members put programs in the default locations.

I used to have Windows on C:, Program Files on D: and My Documents on E:. Everything broke, to an approximation.
Some. Memoirs from some survivors suggest that. Memoirs from other survivors suggest otherwise. The long-term response to the trauma varied, widely.
> About 25%-30% of Google searches each day are searches that Google has never seen before

Can you cite that? That's very interesting.
I'm saddened by this. They were my favorite web service and startup. Concur is probably going to shut the service down, or just freeze development on it.

Nokia acquired Dopplr and they abandoned it completely, that's why I switched to TripIt. Since the acquisition no development has happened with Dopplr, their latest blog post is from September 2009. Neither have I seen anything similar come out of Nokia.

Sad day.
I will almost always research rather than click to the next page of results.
"Community driven support can hurt your startup" – Interview with Paras from VWO
Individual organisms don't work for "the system of evolution"'s benefit. They work for themselves.
My (non-photography) friends look more at my photos on Facebook they're where I get the majority of personal feedback.

Flickr is a much better source for me of reference material and examples when I'm looking for inspiration on how to approach a subject - not as a straight copy but to stop me ever further refining my old work. It's also overwhelmingly where I get unsolicited usage enquiries from - got one yesterday as it happens.

If what you want is social sharing with your pre-existing network, I agree - use Facebook. I do. If you want a service more geared for photographers, Flickr is better IMHO.
There are also significant benefits to coffee, from being a great source of antioxidants to "Coffee drinkers may be at lower risk of liver and colon cancer, type 2 diabetes, and Parkinson's disease."[1] There is also research regarding benefits to inhibiting cognitive degeneration.

[1] http://articles.cnn.com/2010-04-28/health/coffee.studies_1_c...
"If you value your online photos, pay for the hosting and they'll still be around next year"

That's been Smugmug's matra for years and I truely believe it, which is why I've been hosting my photos there for about 4 years now. I was burned by the closure of other free online galleries back in the early 2000's.

It's also helped to shape my strategy when choosing other online services: if it's important to me and you won't take money for it, I'll assume you'll be dead soon and avoid your service altogether (the exception is Gmail).
There should be a universal law that makes people who blog about a talisman of productivity revisit their post and comment on it, say 3 months later, then 6 months later etc.

Now is there a service that does that? - enables me to setup reminders (like Outlook calendar) but send them to my long-term (not work) email with a link to a website to be commented on and for that matter any other long term reminders.
It would be so cool if the Dalai Lama posted on Hacker News.

Just sayin'.
Have you read Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn? http://www.amazon.com/Wherever-You-There-Are-ROUGH/dp/140130...

He is my favorite author when it comes to meditation because he focus on mindfulness and not Buddhism or more "spiritual" things as most meditation books do. He also has tapes for guided meditation that are a good way to start meditating everyday.
Hmm... individuals or small groups who have made over $1 million lately.

* Pocket God - 2 people

* Doodle Jump - 2 people

* Minecraft - 1 person (?)

If you are a great programmer, your best bet is to sell your own apps. The app ecosystem has the biggest momentum.

It's not going to be easy, and it's going to take a lot of time. But it's there for the taking.
I read somewhere (not sure if this is actually true), that Fred Wilson coined the phrase, so he probably has great perspective if you can get him to do an interview.

Evernote has had several stories written about them explaining how crucial the freemium business model has been in helping their rapid growth. I think the CEO did a piece for Fast Company if my mind serves me correctly.

Hopefully these help.
Bunch of virgins.
The two biggest possibilities are:

1) WebM infringes on h264 patents AND h264 infringes on VP3 patents. Remember VP3 is the predecessor to WebM and came out before h264.

or

2) neither infringes on the patents.

So the 3rd unlikely possibility is FUD, yes.
I read it in "The Art of SEO" which I just finished.

I believe it was sourced as part of a speech from a Google VP sometime in 2007 or 2008.

What's happening is that the scammers are training the users to use longer and longer search queries. It's much harder to trick a system that is working off of 6 keywords than it is a system that is only using 2. Long-tail stuff continues to get more and more important.
>"Google is in the unique position of being able to learn from billions and billions of queries what is relevant and what can be verticalized into immediate results."

That's the problem with search in a nutshell. I don't want what Google thinks is relevant, I want what I think is relevant. As the article points out, for searches which might be monetized, Google treats monetization as a highly relevant factor (unsurprisingly since the relevance of search terms to the advertising they sell is the basis of their business).

In other words, over time Google has worked hard to "curate" search results (even if the curation of links is primarily done in bulk rather than more selectively) so that results are tied to your geographic location (e.g. "football stadium" is likely to return vastly different links in the US compared to the rest of the world.)

Localization and monetization go hand in hand. For example "weather" provides a generic local forecast with options for detailed forecasts from three commercial sites: Weather Channel, Weather Underground, and Accuweather. But tellingly does not provide a link directly to a NOAA local forecast which contains the most uptodate complete and reliable information even though providing such a link is trivial.

Yes Google looks at billions of searches, but in order to monetize those searches to the greatest degree possible. Their analysis is to see what the traffic will bear, not to make the results more relevant to the user.
good luck recruiting Indians to be MOTU :p
motu = fat person in Hindi.

For the humourless, MOTU is the acronym used on that page.
Can we all please collectively stop abusing 'Openness'? Google is the guiltiest of them all- shoe-horning open source, open standards, royalty-free, patent-unencumbered and god knows what else into the same overly-generic term complicates the debate. In fact, its clearly harmful- look at the way Gruber has hijacked the debate and refocused everything on Google's 'hypocrisy' for bundling Flash with Chrome.

For the love of God, stop saying 'Openness'
Where to Find Essay Prompts
The essay prompt provides the writer an idea as to what the essay should be about. The type of essay prompts given will depend on the types of essays assigned for writing. Therefore, students will be at an advantage if they understood the different types of essays.
If you like Test::More you should try out Test::Mini[1]. It's xUnit-style testing like Test::Class but with less syntactic overhead and fatal assertions instead of non-fatal TAP.

[1]: http://search.cpan.org/~pvande/Test-Mini-v1.1.1/

edit: link
I highly recommend Pema Chodron's 'Taking the Leap'
http://www.amazon.com/Taking-Leap-Freeing-Ourselves-Habits/d...

Having been there wrt depression, part of being with the moment is to not let habit take hold. This book is the clearest I've seen on seeing habits and letting go of them.
In my first job as a Real Programmer (rather than as a tech writer looking for excuses to write code), one of my first tasks was adding features to a script that read a particular kind of XML file. The parser, such as it was, was entirely hand-rolled; if you changed an input file so that it had a space in between tags instead of a newline, the whole thing would break. I wasted no time rewriting it to use XML::Parser.

In my second job as a Real Programmer, I had to add features to a script that parsed scripts in the Informix Perform Screen language. Again, this was hand-rolled. I wasted no time rewriting it to use Parse::RecDescent.

I think simply knowing where to look things up puts you in the top half of professional programmers. Possibly the top quartile.
> In the example provided, is there a reason Google should return first in a search for PageRank? If so, what is it (described technically, not emotionally)? It may be (but probably isn't) that these other PR firms are actually honestly more cited than Google is.

What? No one said that the ranking algorithm is implemented incorrectly when it puts these sites above Google. The example is supposed to illustrate the (obvious) fact that it isn't always the best at ordering the most relevant results for a search. Describing "relevant" technically is not easy... that's the point.
The Impact of Chrome Dropping the H.264 Codec
convincing the upcoming generation to innovate in sectors that have a direct impact on the quality of peoples’ lives (Internet, healthcare, energy, education) instead of wasting time on sectors that were historically prestigious (e.g. finance and law) but add little to negative economic and societal value.

And that, my friends, is why we're in this mess to begin with - industries that don't generate any progress, and therefore should not become profit centers. Just like ISP's and other utilities, in an idea world they should be regulated and forced to compete on a fair and open market.
Zooming isn't necessarily defined as a system-wide gesture, but more of a convention. I believe the rules say that your app will get rejected if you use a pinch gesture for anything but a zoom-like operation, but it isn't enforced by the system because there could be other valid reasons for having two fingers on the screen moving in a way that might seem like a pinch gesture if viewed out of context.

These new iPad gestures cannot be overridden by your app because the OS will cancel touch events out from under your app and take them for itself when it detects the gestures are in progress.

For VoiceOver (which I've not spent a ton of time investigating yet), it seems the app doesn't even get the touch events until a VoiceOver action is "committed" in some way. VoiceOver basically overlays the entire screen with an invisible window and intercepts all touches, so it basically redefines how apps work and defines a set of its own gestures regardless of what you might have defined in your app.
The Effect of the iPad on PC and Netbook Sales
Interesting, thanks.

The scope for my contest would be more loosely based than solving a specific problem criteria, although that could be an added fun twist! I anticipate people would build apps for phones, plugins for other software, services to help users, etc. Many companies run competitions of this nature, e.g. Twilio.

I could run off some ideas for what's needed if you'd be interested in expanding Coderloop to support a contest like this?
Oooo. I need to read this.

http://www.pediatricneurology.com/adhd.htm

Or would you recommend another source?

Note to self: reading medical textbooks means you always have the symptoms, so you are always ill.
For me to hire you for a senior web Perl programming position, I expect you to have experience with OO, that's all there is to it.
i read the whole piece, but you did the right thing, the article is stupid, without any noteworthy information and it seems to be based on fairy tales.
And then there's smalltalk.
I don't know where you are, but in the UK $30 (so £19) or roughly £160 a day is a very low rate. I would say that, depending on the location, the normal rates are from three to ten times this figure (depending on area of expertise).

[Edit - any time I see "daily rate" I think of contracting - £160 a working day as a salaried employee is probably on the low side, but nothing exceptional].
http://ipad.sarien.net/ offers an iBooks-esque iPad specific library view of the games available.
Modern Java is downright painful to develop longhand, in a regular text editor.
Summary: slow to adapt to internet; didn't have "book people" running it, whatever that means.
When I quit coffee completely for 6 months I felt completely unproductive and slow, so I started again.

That said, coffee culture has trended towards very potent coffee. I now feel like most drip coffee I get in a coffee shop is too strong, and an espresso is the only manageable dose. This is a weird reversal of the situation 15 years ago, where drip coffee was just dirty water, and an espresso is what kept people up all night.
I never understood how Borders became so big and powerful. They charge list price for everything! Walmart's destruction of local stores is easy to see. Grocery chains too. But Borders? They offer little advantage over an independent bookstore, and plenty of disadvantage.

I always assumed I just missed something along the way. Or I'm just too young to have really compared them.
Break it into 100 tasks and start chipping them away. One a day. I started on this in Septeber http://alpha.beepl.com currently stuck on broken down computer.. Kind of sucks.
Search in Google Books - not working?
Running out of hex words?
deadbeaf and cafebabe is so 2010
I'll recommend Whitaker's book, too.

You can check out some of the original scientific studies he cites on his website, though it of course makes more sense with his context http://robertwhitaker.org/robertwhitaker.org/Depression.html
> I think simply knowing where to look things up puts you in the top half of professional programmers. Possibly the top quartile.

Having just re-read "A Deepness in the Sky", I really want to make a programmer-at-arms reference.
In a similar class, we were given the problem of designing a large yo-yo. The judgement criterion was the diameter multiplied by the return ratio (how far back up it rebounded). There was no hard-and-fast definition of a yo-yo.

Experimenting with various designs, my buddy and I saw that the biggest challenge was preventing precession, which caused the string to rub against the disks, wasting energy and killing the return ratio.

After plying the prof with leading questions about the design requirements, we submitted a yo-yo made with a single disk, cut from a fridge-sized cardboard box. It had two strings, one running down each side of the disk. That ended precession nicely.

Our entry had both the largest diameter (we had to test it in the stairwell, because the doorframe used to test the other entries wasn't tall enough) and the highest return ratio (in the high-90%).

The best part was that, in response to the predictable storm of objections from the other students, the prof turned it into an object lesson. He made the point that he had never stipulated there had to be one string and two disks, just that there had to be a disk to measure, and a string by which to calculate a return ratio.
Ha, I liked this one: "we’ll look back in amazement that in 2011 we still used brokers to help us find houses" - I haven't used a broker to find a house in 12 years, actually.
Would you prefer we test these things on humans?

Yes. I would prefer we test all drugs on humans as soon as volunteers can be found and the researcher thinks it would be beneficial.

I am assuming a volunteer free from political or even financial pressure, doing it out of desire to help. And possessing great and detailed knowledge of the side effects and both the known and potential dangers. I admit this is a bit of a straw man.

There are two reasons I want this.

1. Political. I am a libertarian and and thus think that if an adult wants to jump off a bridge they should be fully within their right to do that. The same goes if they want to test completely unproven or even fully known to be unsafe drugs.

2. Practical. This would speed up research tremendously, it would speed things up by years. We would save more lives.
I had no idea that Borders was in financial trouble. I have always preferred them over Barnes and Noble because they always have a wide selection of technical books. Unlike B&N which has aisle after aisle of VB, * for Dummies books, and their ilk, Borders is a place where I have discovered great books on niche technical topics. It will be sad to see them go -- buying a book physically provides a far greater visceral stultification than buying online.
stack overflow (+the other stack exchange sites) have 88.2% traffic referred from google search. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/

so even if it is a nice story ("direct traffic is becoming more and more important") it is ultimately just bullsht
Chatroulette Founder Andrey Ternovskiy Raises New Funding: "50,000 Naked Men"
I've seen companies that have tried this and failed miserably. While programming languages share a common basis there are significantly different paradigms between say Ruby, C++ and Perl. While a good programmer could probably pick up any of these languages it'll probably take them a few years before their productivity is at the same level as someone of the same ability who has experience in that language.
Tell HN: Biology.Net, coming soon
Any Pubmed / Medline users out here?

I just put up the 'Coming soon' page for my next website, http://biology.net

It's gonna be a Pubmed clone with a twist - personalized recommendations, just like on Netlfix. You rate papers you like as you find them and the engine will recommend what you should read next.

If you know of any student in biology / life science related fields, or any Pubmed.com users, feel free to tell them about it, the site should be live in the next few months!

Even if you're not a life scientist or a physician, I'd like to have your opinion on the general design, logo, loading time, or anything else you can think of :)
5ca1ab1e, ca11ab1e. to mention a few
There's a great document to point people to who say they can't use CPAN for some reason, Matt S Trout's "But I can't use CPAN!" (http://www.shadowcat.co.uk/blog/matt-s-trout/but-i-cant-use-...).
Sweet! They need to add Quest for Glory I and II though - those were the best.
How many did you to ----> Invite at least 3 friends using the link below. The more friends you invite, the sooner you'll get access! out of those over 100 invites?
Possibly, but the iPod nano doesn't have a home button and instead uses gestures for everything. Perhaps the nano was partly an experiment to see how well that concept worked in the wild.
My experience, or at least my recollection, was quite different. I had no complaints whatsoever with AltaVista not adding pages to the index quickly enough; rather, it is that the results increasingly appeared to be random pages that happened to contain the search term, and you might need to wade through several pages of results to find what you were looking for. With Google, the page you wanted seemed to almost uncannily be located toward the top of the list. At the time, it seemed like magic.
The Rules of SCRAM
That's also a great way to avoid stupid coworkers. If a company thinks you can't get up to speed on a new language quickly enough to be useful, it's probably because their current employees are incapable of doing so.

You don't want this job - just move on.
Spring framework without XML
IBM computer taking on 'Jeopardy' champs for $1M
How to customize the Blue Screen of Death
For us it has directly impacted how we approach incorporating feedback into our product. Appropriately responding to user suggestions is arguably the most difficult problem our startup and many others will face. We test and release many experiential features, but we have become harsh critics for keeping features on board. I can’t think of a more impactful lesson so far. Is this not as meaningful as I think?
I remember back to the days of my youth. My friends and I were participating in Odyssey of the Mind one year, and we had a problem to solve during the state finals.

The goal was to build a bridge that could transport marbles from one side of a 12-inch square to another without anything touching the surface within the square. With a meager set of supplies (postcard, paperclip, rubber band, etc), we scratched our heads for a bit. But in a flash of inspiration, we built a bridge spanning two adjacent sides.

We thought it might've been too clever, so we asked the judges to reiterate the rules. They didn't mention the opposite side. Just another side.

We took home 1st prize.
The US is too large to just say $30 is low across the board - $30/hour plus good benefits is quite livable in some areas. In other parts, it's pretty hard to raise a family on $30/hour.
Yes, if you have 3-5+ years and are a great programmer. $30 is what, $60k a year?
Ah, I see what you mean. These link farms are getting clever, and using content "real" enough to pass the automated sniff test.
Imagine a scenario where an ink/printer producer patents blending of the colors and every newspaper in the world has to pay $0.25 for every paper they print after 10,000 units.

It's far worse than that! My city's newspaper is printed with patented ink[1]. They pay for every drop they use, even for papers they don't sell, even for ink they wash down the drain.

And your numbers are way off. Imagine if I had to pay a one time $0.25 fee to read my $22/month newspaper would be more like it.

I look forward to a time when I can code and not worry about patents[2], but hobbling people to make a strategic move is not the path to that end.

Cost Thing
################ Computer hardware: $400/year
####### Computer software: $200/year
## Power for computer: $50/year
############################ Internet connection: $720/year
. H.264 license: $0.25

(Note: The graph is probably off. I have 26 pixels in a #
so the '.' would need to be a single pixel, but is four.
So, mentally expand the '#' lines by 4 to get the
perspective right. Oh, and that is not annual, so
maybe another three times.

And while we're at it, notice that video is probably your
biggest bandwidth need and that by using a more efficient
encoding you can use the next tier down at your ISP or
pay for fewer bits and save 100 times the cost of the
H.264 license.)

[1] Probably. They announced switching to the new eco friendly ink with great fanfare. I suspect if they went back to a traditional ink I would not hear.

[2] I've personally cancelled a lucrative product after development was completed over patent fears (needlessly it turns out, the patent owner in question never elected to go hunting and we probably didn't infringe but were unwilling to endure the legal distraction), and just this week was discussing picking the bones of a local company that briefly stepped on a ridiculous software patent and had their plug pulled by the parent company instead of fighting the lawsuit.
I agree $30 is low but It would be rare in Australia to see $90-$300 for fulltime employment pure development. It's certainly possible as a freelancer or as a more senior role though. Definitely as a consultant of some kind.
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