skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One-way public relationships? Microsoft wants to patent 'fans'
Exactly. Why would you give your employees kool-aid you wouldn't drink? Although I do agree with the author's advice on how to prevent it. Good lord do so many companies need to do 2 and 3.
Amazing Photo of The Sun Eclipsed by Earth and the International Space Station
Great video. At first I wondered "what does she do for a living?" then it inspired me: I work from home now. I'm going to seriously consider renting out my house and work from other people's homes instead.
So, assuming this is correct, then we extrapolate their yearly income to $474m, that puts their P:E at about 105:1
A Deeper Look At Riak's MapReduce Enhancements
Well, a P/E of 100 isn't that outrageous, especially given their growth rate.
Actually, it happened at least once in Russia: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/26/russian_spammer_kill...
And after multitasking research has shown how poorly most humans handle it.
And after computer use research has shown how poorly most humans handle MDI.
And after several products from several manufacturers have proven the change to focused-single-task to be not only palatable, but even preferable and popular.

MDI is a great thing for a certain class of people. And I'm talking about a trend in software for everyone else. Those people weren't a high-res monitor away from becoming power-users. It was never going to happen.
The whole premises of this article is that in-depth Q&A can't have mainstream appeal, which is just wrong.

Look at the magazine racks at your local store to see what's mainstream. Look at what people pay money to read.

Now tell me there's no market for Celebrity Q&A or Music industry Q&A.
Slightly unrelated to the blogpost, but how do your cameras work in low light settings? I'm looking into a similar system for a business my wife and I run.
In the first two of these cases it was thought of as a one off advancement (eg, see the mythology around the discovery of iron - typically it involves a gift from a god).

In the case of the opium wars, the "lesson" learnt was the same lesson as during the subjection of India and other European colonies, ie: the cultural superiority of the white man.

Obviously is retrospect this was the wrong lesson, but that's what people thought at the time.
The typewriter was commercialized around 1870. What makes you think keyboards will go away, and which market do you have in mind when you say "most users?"
Assholes Who Turned Out to Be Right and Other Thoughts About Creative People
Not only the videos are of very high caliber, he's very, very cute as well. Can't go wrong with that! :)
> "but I wonder how they look to the color-ungimped."

awful.
Why wait five years? You should be able to get a Motorola Atrix within a couple of months:

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/06/motorola-atrix-4g-hd-mult...
At that price, it seems like buying into them is a bet that they will be the first company to completely take over the Internet, even moreso than Google.

I'm not sure I can buy that, at least not at that price.

(Or, more accurately, a bet that enough other people will think so for long enough that you can unload your stock on them for a profit. I wouldn't buy and hold, I don't think.)
I use a Chrome extension called Google Search Filter which solves this exact problem - https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/eidhkmnbiahhgbgp...

It lets me sync my config accross multiple machines.

Has nice hacker-ish config. Basically a text file you can share with others. This is my current config:

# Make these domains stand out in results

+en.wikipedia.org

+stackoverflow.com

+github.com

+api.rubyonrails.org

+apple.com

+ruby-doc.org

+codex.wordpress.org

+imdb.com

+alternativeto.net

# SPAM - never show these results

experts-exchange.com

ezinearticles
Ask HN: Transition from Rails development to iPhone/Android?
About a year ago I started learning web dev in my spare time. First HTML/CSS, the moved on to RoR and with it, Haml and Sass. I am in love with the simplicity and ease with which RoR and related tools lets me develop web apps. Recently, I picked up a book on Objective-C and iPhone dev. BAM! Brick wall. This kind of work seems to be much more painful.<p>So HN, I asks:<p>Is there any method, toolkit, library, etc that provides me the same ease and simplicity for iPhone/Android development work?
"Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan: iconic libertarian, preeminent defender of the free market, and (at least until recently) the nation’s foremost devotee of Ayn Rand. When the high priest of capitalism himself is declaring the growth in economic inequality a national crisis, something has gone very, very wrong."

The above paragraph suggests that the author is aware of Ayn Rand and disagrees with both her (who was not libertarian) and the libertarians. Then the author goes on to imply that the free market is responsible for the rising income inequality and to put all the rich under the same common denominator, with no regard for the source of their wealth (note how many names are cited and the widely varying reputations of the businessmen in question). Ayn Rand is very explicit on the distinction of gaining wealth through thoughtful and productive effort on the one hand and through special privileges on the other. It is this observation that the author has ignored.

Second, the author concludes that "the lesson of history is that, in the long run, super-elites have two ways to survive: by suppressing dissent or by sharing their wealth", so they must choose one of these options. This message ends an article that would constitute a weak response to Ayn Rand (if the article was meant to be one). It sanctions a systems that says: the rich, no matter how they got to be rich in the first place, should either abuse the rest of the population, as they often did in feudal times, or will have to see their property seized by force, as it is done in socialist and communist countries. Otherwise, they cannot survive. Well, that's a very dangerous proposition for individual rights.
DimDim aquired by SalesForce.com, shutting down the service
Alexis and I met with the "suits from LEGO" who are flying in. This is one of their laptops: http://www.flickr.com/photos/crimsonninjagirl/5252144238/

Also, they shared hilarious stories with us about making LEGO napalm and gave us some cool LEGOs for answering a trivia question about Blade Runner. They are absolutely people I'd hang out with and I'm glad they're peaceful Northern Europeans or else I'd be concerned they were going to take over the world with LEGOs.

tl;dr Suits from LEGO are awesome.
Find a deal with the data and intuition on Craigslist. Then, meet in person and barter at least $50 off the asking price.

You mean, agree to $X over email and then demand it for $X-50 when you meet in person? That's really, really tacky.
We would love that! After doing a few, we'll definitely look into putting together a tutorial for how to organize a Hack Club yourself. The more, the merrier!
Indeed, the book is incredibly entertaining. Seems like people here seem to put it down, but it's a real hackers' book -- lots of practical, effective recipes for getting results. I'd definitely recommend it.
Scheme as a new portable assembler
Oh! In that case I totally misunderstood.
Aw man, rough story. Maybe even illegal, but I don't know your country's laws. Besides, its probably his loss. Honestly I have wasted a ton of time on the phone too... but it actually can save time emailing back and forth as well.
This seems less effective than, say, burning it.. Or burying it. :)
I wouldn't describe this article as misandrist. In many cases the author hints at female desires being worse.

"...the sex that occurs in between relationships or overlaps with relationships where the buffers of intimacy or familiarity do not exist: the raw, unpracticed sort. If a woman thinks of the best sex she’s had in her life, she’s often thinking of this kind of sex, and while it may be the best sex in her life, it’s not the sex she wants to have throughout her life or more accurately, it’s not the sex she’d have with the man with whom she’d like to spend her life."

So debasing sex is great so long as it's not with someone you care about? Sounds like men and women aren't that different.
Funny review overall through not very telling about the book (more about Ferriss himself). I've only read small snippets of the book (and don't intend to read much more), but it's pretty clear that the writer is outside of Ferriss' target audience for this (especially if the author is afraid of becoming embarrassed in front of some friends for trying to improve his health). It sounds like he misunderstands the point of Ferriss' experiments a bit.
Not only have the client to server protocols been reverse engineered, some proprietary IM services supply libraries for using their proprietary client to server protocols.

When I mentioned IM, I was referring to the fact that service to service communication is closed. With the exception of the XMPP network and some one-off deals between some of the big services, services to not communicate with each other. There is not a single federated instant messaging network.

There is a single federated network for email. I can send a message from my account on Hotmail to Gmail without having an account on Gmail. Imagine what the world would be like if we couldn't do that. We would all have accounts on several services, each with their own inbox. It would suck.
Is it just me or does this FAQ come off as a bit rude? The answers just seem so cold and unforgiving. The email to existing customers was just as rude:

Dear Customer:

Dimdim has been acquired by salesforce.com. Your free Dimdim account will remain active until March 15, 2011. After that date, you will no longer be able to access your free Dimdim account.

Please see the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for additional information.

We appreciate your understanding, and we thank you!

You'd think they'd at least say something like "SalesForce.com is excited about DimDim's technology and we're looking forward to integrating it into our CRM... blah blah." Nope, just "You're account's going to stop working. Thanks."
Hahaha okay, awesome review. Still (and I've said something similar on HN before) for all Tim's giddy arrogance I still think he brings something valuable to the table. Yeah, he thinks his shit don't stink and yeah, he sort of sounds like a walking infomercial but guess what? So does almost every wildly successful person I have ever heard of. (Exceptions might include the likes of Bill Gates.) Tim is out there getting things done (commercially successful author, entrepreneur, etc) while a bunch of bloggers sit around making fun of him for having confidence and for maybe being a bit of an ass.
Yes, this is a model we want copied all over in cities where geek culture languishes. Having lived in SF & Cambridge, I'm not worried about either of those cities, but I know there are plenty others like New York that could use self-organized Hack Clubs to bring hackers together to simply make cool stuff.
Other generations in history probably had more chance of the real thing.
The GCC family of compilers already use an intermediate form that's awfully Lisp-like.
$5 per fax is not cheap. The defenders here are using fairly tortured logic.
Careful, there are LEGO Gatling guns...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp48bL5jgjQ
Salesforce is trading at over 250 times earnings: http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:CRM
"Yes, that means all of us have to hide efreedom ourselves. Doesn't seem like a problem to me..."

efreedom is monetised by Google ads. Might seem like a problem to Google.

Let's say it starts with personal blacklists. Then trusted lists that you can subscribe to (AdBlock-style). Then word spreads and enough people are using it such that AdSense revenue drops 20-30% or more?

(IME, CTR on ads is much higher on these content-light sites than it is on more reputable sites.)
Eerie sound of 3D Printed Flute
I disagree, I think the article is very clearly making that point.

The premise of the article is that the attempt to attack/suppress violent porn is wrongheaded because it's based on the notion that violent porn warps men's sexuality. The author claims it's wrongheaded because men's sexuality is inherently violent.

It's a pretty nasty piece of work.
Phreebird isn't production code. I've been telling people to use it for internal testing only -- and I've even got that into various articles.

What it does do is show what DNSSEC is capable of -- it's a way to separate fundamental limitations of the protocol (which do exist) from implementation faults (like the horrifying things you have to do to maintain DNSSEC with two year old DNSSEC code).

DJB's talk argues that a whole bunch of things are fundamental limitations of DNSSEC. It implies that it must be a offline signer. This is patently false. Actually, any system that supports offline signing can be an online signer, and Phreebird is an example of one.

I'd love to hear more about what you think the biggest problems with DNSSEC are. Perhaps this could inspire new features for Phreebird!
Just be thankful that they fixed app installation from "download .dmg, wait for it to check and mount, open it, open applications folder, drag app to applications folder, drag app from applications folder to dock, unmount .dmg, move .dmg to trash, open app, click through security warning" to "click buy, wait for download, open app".
If you are coming from a rails background then I would highly recommend having a look at Rhodes from Rhomobile (http://rhomobile.com/). There's lots of good things going for it and it also offers in-roads to developing on devices outside of just iPhone and Android.

If you don't find Rhodes a good fit, then have a look at PhoneGap (http://phonegap.com/) which offers similar functionality on a pure HTML + Javascript solution. I can't see you being disappointed with Rhodes though...
I'm the rare defender of Tim Ferriss on HN. A lot of what he says is common sense, a lot of it is crazy, a lot of it is probably wrong, but here's why I think he doesn't deserve the scorn given to him:

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."

I've done his slow-carb diet before and am doing it again now. I lost 25 pounds in two months the first time, and I've lost 5 pounds this week since I restarted it. These results, which are on par with what he claimed, make me hesitant to flatly deny anything else he recommends.
somethings require faxing or mailing. A lot of government docs and things like that

Good point...faxed or mailed documents are accepted as official notification, whereas email is not. But for something that important, I'd be hesitant to trust someone's MVP. For $5, it would be cheaper to send it Priority Mail.
Poking at their marketing material, I'm pretty sure that's only as a dial-up service provider, and maybe some really limited media streaming features that are less subscriber-only rather than licensed by AOL as part of the package but not exclusive.

I was talking about the AOL that fit into the set of Prodigy, Compuserve, and AOL, which I tried to make clear but may not have made clear enough. AOL the online service with exclusive forums and custom client software and exclusive games and exclusive this that and the other with incidental access to the internet begrudgingly provided as a second-class citizen is dead, killed by the open internet. A company called AOL survived (with assorted drama), but it's just part of the Internet now.
"The pretty lady in the video is Venetia Pristavec, who does all the in-house video content for Airbnb, traveling around to different countries and interviewing hosts. She’s great."
I've been using MaxEmail.com for my faxing for nearly a decade. $24.00/year, plus .10 per page sent (I think I'm still paying the old rate of $14.95/year, which makes it an obvious no-brainer, and I'll never cancel the account as long as I'm still needing faxes occasionally and they let me keep that old rate). Free incoming faxes up to 100/month.

I send and receive very few faxes, but I need to be able to do both occasionally, for contracts with old people, in particular, so faxfresh is simply not a realistic option for me, despite the fact that it's probably not much difference in price for the amount of faxes I send.

While I think there are often fortunes to be made in dying industries (capitalizing on the failures of old providers in that space to modernize) I don't think fax is an area with a lot of arbitrage opportunities that haven't already been tapped. And, it's really a dying tech at this point. I'd be surprised if this proves particularly profitable.
This is interesting. I'm also working on a faxing app. It's http://hellofax.com. What software are you using to send your faxes? Asterisk? Or are you plugged into an API?

Ping me if you'd like to chat.
Pentaho - Open-source business intelligence package
If you'll notice, that's glue for ns0, ns1, and ns2. This information from the parent is just there to say "here's where to go to resolve information from the child".

It's not the actual IP addresses for all the child data, like www.wikimedia.org.

DJB's basically saying "how can you say .org is signed when not every child in .org is signed". No delegated solution could ever offer that feature. If DJBCurve doesn't support signed and unsigned children, it's a thoroughly irrelevant technology that should be laughed out of the room.

Bashing DNSSEC for supporting a basic reality of delegated trust is flat out unfair.
That was part of Google's SearchWiki experiment.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/searchwiki-make-searc...

That experiment was replaced by Google "Stars" in March 2010 because, according to Google:

> In our testing, we learned that people really liked the idea of marking a website for future reference, but they didn't like changing the order of Google's organic search results.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/stars-make-search-mor...

I personally think there is much more going on here than Google admits.
You might want to check out the custom DSLs made by livecoders. There's an old Wired article about them (http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/07/71248), and this is a livecoding wiki: http://toplap.org/index.php/Main_Page . I can't find it now, but I recall seeing a really in-depth Lisp language for livecoding. There are screencasts you can check out.
I agree. I don't really want Quora to become as big as Twitter, because then it would become filled with garbage just like Twitter. (Weird, that sounds crankier than I want it to.) I'd gladly pay to keep Quora a bit more "exclusive" for lack of a better term.
Salesforce.com Acquires Dimdim
Yes, you hit on the edge of my complaint about this article, and a lot of the feminist writing I've seen.

This article was just a long laundry list of complaints about the way things are without any attempt to suggest a better alternative, or even any questionings about why things are the way they are.

Also, I never trust anything written about sex that isn't personal or intimate. What does the author like? What does she think would be better? Is this all conjecture?

To make this real, she would have had to get her hands and mind dirty, and that is one thing complainers hate to do.
I think this is a great idea though i did think it was worthwhile to comment on some of the things that I think are actually problems versus the ones that aren't really problems.

Real Problems:
1. Difficult for students to find startups interested in interns. Sounds like a number of folks are working on this which is awesome.

2. Speed. Startups and universities move at different speeds. A y-combinator like organization could go a long way toward solving this problem.

Things that are not really problems:
1. "Many of the best college students at MIT are risk averse and think short term." I work as a Program Manager at the MIT Entrepreneurship Center and was a CS grad Berkeley and neither place is short on risk-oriented CS students. In fact most of the CS students i went to school with either wanted to start their own company or work at a startup. If they ended up at Google it was because they couldn't find a startup that was a good fit or because the startups that would have been a good fit didn't want to hire straight out of school. I graduated about 5 years ago and i think students are even more interested in startups now than they were then.

2. "Startups are missing brand value for parents, relatives, and friends. This is also highly cultural." This certainly isn't true for "friends" and i think it is largely untrue for parents/relatives. With a whole generation now of young and successful entrepreneurs like Gates and Zuckerberg, I think many parents are starting to realize the prestige of working at a startup. Obama's National Entrepreneur's Day this has been brought even further into the mainstream. There is plenty more we should do here to continue celebrating entrepreneurs, but i don't think this is what prevents people from joining startups fresh out of school or for an internship in school.
Well, I don't think I'd buy-and-hold that either.

I want to jump up and down and yell "bubble" as much as the next guy, but I do have to admit this one seems relatively focused... at least at the moment. Just a small handful of companies trading way above what they "should" from a buy-and-hold perspective.
System Preferences > Growl > Applications

untick the 'enabled' option for anything you don't want to bug you
For the record, I thoroughly doubt I was the first person to find that poisoning bug.

I sure as hell wanted to be the last one.

(I'm much prouder of getting DJB's fix in, than I am of finding the bug in the first place. The former took two days. The latter took six months, and convincing people DJB was right. Only now do I understand what sort of a hurdle that was.)
Show HN: Commitie (2 week project)
Offer HN: send me $5 and email me a PDF up to 15pgs and I will personally fax it for you!
The case against the Consumer Electronics Show
This book sounds like it was written by Ron Burgundy.
The funny thing is, the scathing review almost makes me want to read the book. Almost.
My intention was not to imply that Ayn Rand's philosophy is the universal truth, though I find it very logical. My intention was to say that the author, who refers to Rand in the opening paragraphs in a manner suggesting philosophical opposition, goes on to make a weak argument. If the author was really familiar with Rand's work (which the reference implies), she (the author) would hardly lump all the rich under the same common denominator, without consideration for the source of their wealth (ability vs. privilege), and conclude that they are all awaiting the same grim fate - turning either into victims or dictators.
+1, my typical use scenario is faxing medical receipts to the admin of the flexible spending plan. HIPPA violation if the fax were to get leaked, even accidentally.
So excited for this – I just had to ditch 3 boxes of mindstorms during my move to NYC.
FREE Startup Strategy Session and opportunity to PITCH (led by Sramana Mitra)
I wouldn't say New York is lacking a geek scene. They have a major hackerspace of all things: http://www.nycresistor.com/
Yeah, if they signed up everyone on earth they could get it down to a respectable 10.
Mental resource depletion is another factor. Those who had their attention manipulated were more prone to buy and pay higher prices: http://econpapers.repec.org/article/ucpjconrs/v_3a33_3ay_3a2...

Peers influence is strongest in adolescence
"Ferriss' target audience"

Also known as "marks".
The big question here is: is Tim Ferriss that self-righteous naturally, or does he do it on purpose to gain more attention?

Few people can deny that being so self-righteous that other people get provoked is one hell of a personal marketing strategy. I just keep wondering if the people who succeed in personal branding have thought this out and planned their self-righteousness strategically, or if they just are that way naturally and got lucky.