skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course until it is harder and more formal nobody will use it. But the writer doesn't really imagine how or why could be video superior to text and audio.
I am talking about the feelings that are missunderstood or the joy of the shared (virtual) place.
There is AR, there is auto-tune, there is WOW, there is no need to get your pants when you can have a virtual avatar that mimics your feelings and movement.

There are many possibilites why could be video better when we want to hang out.. Think of kinect when they play together etc.

This will never exchange good old sms/email (delayed communication) when you just need an answer but don't really feel to talk, but there could be a place for it.
I bought Pixelmator years ago and it's great for what it is, but it's not really in the same class as Photoshop (or really even GIMP). The UI is clean and functional, but even as an occasional user I run into missing features.

Seashore looks interesting.
I've been taking notes too. I can't publish most of them because I use note-taking as a way of heavily criticising articles, which contain mostly fluff or wrong conclusions. It helps me think thoughts which, if I shared with others, would almost definitely offend them.

It's hard to criticise people's work seriously without hurting their egos.

So, I hope to turn it into a comic one day.
Mass Effect 2 auto-saves seamlessly before every battle, before most non-battle challenges, and at regular intervals when navigating or collecting resources. It even saves at different stages of boss battles. You hardly ever lose progress--yet it's a runaway success, both critically and commercially.
+1, although, to be correct, economically "the fact nobody does it" means the cost is higher than the benefit. You could purchase a copy of photoshop for much cheaper than the cost of hiring a good developer for a week.

Open source economics are tricky.
Swaziland turns to mass circumcision
While NVidia has had the most powerful single chip for the last while, AMD has had the most powerful board and until the last half year or so generally beat NVidia on performance/price to. Before the 4000 series NVidia had the lead, and before that I hadn't been paying attention.

One area NVidia has held the lead in for the last few years in GPGPU, but thats a pretty small market.
Martin Odersky on the Future of Scala
Or South, the de-facto standard data migration tool for Django.
What Your Facebook Profile May Be Telling ID Thieves
Responsive web design course - free for 24 hours
I don't know any specifically, but the syllabus has required/suggested reading that would probably be a good place to start:

Required Text

Designing Virtual Worlds. Richard Bartle.

Character Development and Storytelling for Games. Lee Sheldon.

Suggested Reading

Developing Online Games. Mulligan and Petrovsky.

Massively Multiplayer Game Development. Thor Alexander et al.

Synthetic Worlds. Edward Castronova.

Community Building on the Web. Amy Jo Kim

My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World. Julian Dibbell

A Theory of Fun. Raph Koster

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
The State Department Has $30 Million to Spend on Internet Freedom
Deducting health on typos might be a nice addition, now there is almost no penalty

EDIT : oh never mind, there's a multiplier that resets on typos ...
Washington's support for online democracy is bad for the Internet
While this is cool from a techie perspective, I can't imagine mass market appeal for a dual booting tablet. Most average users have trouble with one operating system, let alone two. One of the great things about all the recent innovation in the mobile space is that it has provided the best opportunity in decades to tame the thicket of complexity that has developed around computers average people use every day.
However often Google Reader hits the RSS feed. I only visit when there's a headline I like.
That's a lot more insightful than some of the tutorials I've seen. Thanks!
House of the Rising Sun
CLM Mechanix Closed Loop Marketing 
ZSL's CLM Mechanix is a solution conceived and developed to accelerate the pull-through process in Managed Care for pharmaceutical marketing.

# Digital aggregation of marketing materials, key ordering processes and feedback communication to help pharmaceutical brand teams improve upon their day to day performance
So basically I should like put it in the side bar or something? I made a contact me tab which lists all the ways of reaching me.
...among 21 companies selected from the top 100...
> I still spend half my day on HN though!

You should fire yourself. ;-)
I used to have a different prompt color when SSH_CONNECTION was in my environment, to distinguish local terminals from remote connections. And also root/non-root, although I didn't know about $EUID and used the less-effective $(id -u).
Honeycomb Is a Quantum Leap in Usability and Functionality
Why do all of these examples always focus on physical tasks that are obviously improved by practice. Playing a musical instrument like piano or playing a physical sport like tennis takes hand eye coordination, strength, agility and endurance. These examples are so horribly one-sided. Of course practicing a repetitive, manual example for 16 hours a day will make you better at it. That's called motor control skills and luckily for these mothers it has nothing to do with interest or liking what you're doing. Yes you can force someone to develop better motor control skills. But please don't start conflating that with "life skills" and "determination". Training your kid to be the best at fine motor control and manual dexterity is not exactly the way to be successful in the 21st century. They can learn that from video games.

And don't call this Chinese parenting, my Russian-Jewish mother made me study in very similar ways when I was younger. Fortunately, for me she realized that rote memorization is not the linchpin of a successful career, but at best a tiny foundation stone in your studies.
How to use last 5 minutes of a day
No, as it is my decision to visit the site, or to close the window. It's not HN but myself which hurts my productivity if I can say I have...
How Societe Generale tried to Scam me
#11. The proper marketing can make even the most mediocre content irresistible.

- turn prose into a list
- target a specific audience
- challenge them by telling them they're doing something wrong

For example:

"Common Sense" --> "10 Simple Truths" --> "10 Simple Truths for Smart People" --> "10 Simple Truths Smart People Forget".
Inside Uncle Sam’s "trusted identity" plan
Scala == Effective Java?
For more information on Circumcision and HIV [1].

----

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision_and_HIV
This is the guys Jesse Schell talks about in his Dice10 talk

http://g4tv.com/videos/44277/dice-2010-design-outside-the-bo...
That's what I typically do. I used to have it in the footer until someone indicated they couldn't find my email address on the site. They thought I didn't have one on the site at all. So I made it more prominent.
Cool & Crazy Apple iPhonies: iPhone 5 edition
I can't seem to find the link at the moment, but someone wrote up a parody patent on something like, Method and Apparatus for Converting Random Data to Publishably Significant Results. Basically involves taking an infinite stream of random data, sampling N points at a time, checking for statistical significance at the p < whatever level, and repeat until you get it. Obviously an unsound statistical procedure, but many corners of science follow something not that dissimilar from it: collect data, analyze it to see if it's interesting, and if not, collect different data and repeat.
I think you could replace "smart" with "ambitious" because a lot of this is advice for people to simply slow down a bit and reflect.
A Simpler Page
I see your point---my point is that this article is not a good jumping off point for discussions about philosophy of science or epistemology (bold title notwithstanding). It's about bad statistical practice. More importantly, it's about a bad practice that is well-known (at least among statisticians) and has remedies.
Riak's Bitcask - A Log-Structured Hash Table For Fast Key/Value Data
Does this mean you can emulate the functionality of the Motorola Atrix which becomes a netbook, webtop or htpc when you connect it to a screen and keyboard/mouse via HDMI and USB?
Startup interview gone wrong [video]
This is the first time I've seen a product and couldn't find a price anywhere on the site.
How about a Linux distro where Rush is used for startup and admin tasks, Gems are used to install everything, and besides the kernel and the VM, just about everything is in Ruby?

I know there was a RubyOS once, where they were trying to use Ruby in place of the shell.
Also: Microsoft is charging for updates. I'm not sure people are ready for a paid subscription service for windows.
Snippets of code for things you do all the time in R
I did not see the original format, but I have seen "You know what, fuck you!" said over the dinner table in such a situation. A short expletive is IMO appropriate for denoting intense emotional reaction.

It would seem odd if someone said "wow, this hurts would you mind backing your car off my leg" to the point where you might wonder if you had actually driven over them. However, "Back your @#%$ car off my #%^@&^ leg is less ambiguous". So, if your having dinner with the queen it's probably not appropriate but "I was deeply hurt by their actions" is somewhat emotionally ambiguous.
For a more interesting (yet still incomplete) rundown of business models, check out The Art of Profitability by Adrian Slywotzky: http://sivers.org/book/ArtOfProfitability
I'd normally agree, but many of the points resonate well with entrepreneurs and the psychological issues therein.
Hacker reNews?
Welcome to the 80's, sheesh. Doesn't anyone realize that this is exactly what TERM, BGCOLOR, and PROMPT have been being used for, for years?
http://www.fractureme.com/about/prices
I am starting to think that certain people upvote things to read later if they are blocked by their corporate firewall (like this site for me). As HN gets more popular, I think the trend is for these votes to get more frequent while the old-timers still don't upvote much at all.

I have been thinking of this for a while, and this might seem like a good enough of an example. Anyone else have any thoughts?
Gemedit - open up the source for any installed gem
It's kind of like saying, I've heard of this wonderful book on learning French, can I use it to learn Spanish? They're similar languages, but not the same. The grammer is close, but different. The vocabulary is close, but different.

That being said, Land of Lisp is a fantastic way to get your feet wet in functional programming. I would highly suggest giving it a whirl. Learning Common Lisp will definitely help in learning Clojure. But you really need to look at it as two distinct steps towards your goal of learning Clojure.

There is also a new Clojure book coming out at the end of the month called the Joy of Clojure, which I'm really excited about. Currently the only two books out are Stewart Halloway's Programming Clojure, which is excellent. and Stuart Sierra's Practical Clojure, which is also very, very good. They are both focussed on Clojure 1.0, however, so you'll miss out on some of the features brought by 1.1 and 1.2. I own both, and can't recommend one over the other, though I might lean towards Practical Clojure purely for personal preference.
Haha, quite true. I guess I'll have to get over it.
I am going to just hack up some dirty HTML for this. Any suggested widgets?
Live from Verizon's iPhone event -- Engadget
It would be really poignant if it made you type the words to "Anthem for Doomed Youth" by Wilfred Owen:

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
---Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells;
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,---
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.
The problem here is that our hidden assumptions about the way things work don't match up to how they actually work.

It's because we've invented all these new technology concepts. Trying to make things easy on ourselves, we apply old analogies incorrectly to new situations. So if I "own" my email at GMail, somehow I feel put upon when somebody else comes along and reads it.

We have centuries of examples of social norms to call upon when discussing concrete things like vehicles, houses, or personal effects. So if some official comes in without notice and takes my personal papers, not only is it possibly legally wrong, but it's wrong for a good reason and everybody knows it's wrong simply from using their common sense.

We just naturally assume that these assumptions will hold true with new stuff, but they don't. Lawyer-types are defining things like electronically consuming a work of art or reading a book (in ebook format) in ways that don't match up to normality. The system is working as it has always worked -- government and special interests see an opportunity and they take it. Nature abhors a vacuum.

So we're either going to need to educate a lot of people on what the new rules are, change the rules, or stop participating in technology the same way we are doing now. Otherwise we're going to keep getting results we don't expect, and it's just going to tick folks off even more.

If you ask me, we're at the point where (at least in the U.S.) new constitutional amendments need to be considered regarding electronic anonymity, the relationship of computers to people (it's an extension of their mind, not a device to play things on), and the right to peaceably engage in international commerce as individuals without any government observation, taxation, or interference whatsoever.

I doubt that will happen, though. But it's nice to dream.
"it is extremely slow"

Why are people approaching a task which has a prerequisite of being speedy with the shell in the first place?

My only complaint about modern shells would be the lack of data structure support. I think it's slowly being remedied what with bash getting basic associative arrays.
‘Kinect’ for PCs being developed
Kanzi (an awesome great ape with language ability)
Italian man shot in head sneezes out bullet
A more interesting question is what will the AT&T ratio drop to as iPhone users switch carrier now that they have that option, and AT&T starts pushing high-end Android exclusives like the CES-wowing Motorola Atrix. A possibility which seems to have been overlooked in this curiously one-sided "analysis".

A serious answer is that the rate will probably be somewhere around 1:1, the current US install base ratio across all carriers. To get even 2:1, given their current Android install base they'd have to get every current iPhone user in the US to switch, or generate a similar number from new users or RIMM and Android defectors (with Android defectors counting twice since they reduce the Android count too, so they "only" need the same number as half the US installed base of iPhone to switch from Android).
But it's good to be remembered of common sense, isn't it?
I think klenwell has at least part of the answer:

Chua probably believes that its her strictness and strong principles that are leading her children to excel. And these have their role, no doubt. But I would propose, following Harris, it is her oppressive control of their social lives which is the much stronger factor.

Piano and violin are commonly played in isolation! This supports the Chinese parenting style in several ways:

• You don't have to practice with other musicians. Sure, a dedicated trumpeter spends a lot of time playing scales by himself, but to actually perform, you typically need to be in a band, orchestra, quartet or whatever. This means practicing as a group, and introduces opportunities for social interaction which might undermine parental control.

• Soloists don't have to share their glory. From what I can see, the Chinese drive to push their children to succeed has a lot to do with the way a successful child reflects on the parent. Shared
success doesn't help the parent compete with other parents.

• It allows the parent to control the material. An awful lot of music is fundamentally rebellious, and the last thing a Chinese parent wants is their child learning jazz or rock or reggae and thinking about what it means.

I fact, I have to wonder if the point of pushing music so hard is to soak up the child's spare time, with an activity that leaves no time for a social life.
3Dud TV
Evernote: Great Example of Optimizing for Native Environments
Usability is key for a lot of users.

I don't care if my photo editor is good enough for a pro. Pros use Photoshop. A good, free, lightweight editor is what most people need for removing red-eye, putting daemon horns on their third grade teacher, and cropping out their ex.

An open source editor will always be able to do high-end stuff, as long as it has some decent scripting capability. The rest of us just want something simple.

Take Open Office. The reason I switched was the better equation editor, and the tab-complete. I like FireFox because of the tabs and extensions.

There should be more focus on a minimal but usable product, and letting the extensions make up the feature gap.
It starts to get more difficult around level 40 or so. I made it to 51: http://i.imgur.com/McY0g.png

When there's a lot of large words coming down at the top of the screen, the app definitely began missing input. I'd type a word correctly, but it would not recognize a character, so I'd have to context switch from deciding on which word to type next to finding which one was partially finished. Fun game, anyways.

Running Chrome 8.0 on OSX 10.6.5
I'm looking for a new book. Has anybody read this and/or could recommend it? I hear it mentioned on HN from time to time. Any good? More to the point, has anybody read the book and created something of value from it?
Bye bye iCal, welcome org-mode
30 All-Time Greatest MooTools Plugins
Wait, so Apple gets excluded

> We would have loved to have seen this innovative company included in the financial analysis, but Apple still makes far more than 50% of its revenues off hardware and devices.

But then Dell is included...

> Dell is known for being the classic direct sales company – without a bricks-based retail presence

Apple's brick and mortar stores are doing well, but not _that_ well, right?
I strongly disagree - Success is "The accomplishment of an aim or purpose" (OED), not "becoming a high-powered executive with a tastefully thick, subtly off-white, watermarked business card" or whatever mystery definition of success this article seems to be using. It has absolutely nothing to do with other people.

Anyone who claims to be successful but not happy, has failed in setting the right goals, and is therefore not truly successful.

You are evidently successful, because you are happy. Your goal seems to be to retire from work and chill out in the park. A goal which you have achieved. The surfer in the article appears to have the succeeded in being able to surf all the time.
I am a little slow on the mobile devices front and do not own one. So never knew that android 2.3 can run native code. Now that is something I find exciting.

http://d.android.com/sdk/ndk/overview.html

Not sure about the android 1.5 reference
Fun! A game I'm good at for a change. It'd be great if you could add an estimate of typing speed at the end.
http://www.mit.edu/~jcb/jokes/viola.html
Michael Douglas: The tumor is gone
Agreed. For all the complaining people do about wordpress, it has one of the best theming design.

I was using "liquid" the other day, and it's not as flexible as wordpress in my opinion.
Looks interesting, but many of the links to larger versions of the screen shots seem broken.
I should have been more clear - My goal is to become a competent lisp programmer first and foremost. I will probably end up choosing clojure for my projects because I already have lots of java code and a jvm lisp dialect is more suitable.
Classic joke: “What’s a Jewish dropout? A boy without a Ph.D.”
I take notes, but mainly from the books I read. I did see a site that gave a condensed version of business books, but I can't seem to find it off-hand. What I think would be useful would be a site like Read Later, but where you could annotate and others could find your notes prior to reading the full article. Personally I never read a HN article before I read the notes to see whether its worth reading!
Google Announces the World's First Online Global Science Fair
Have a widget on the homepage that shows the top 10 links of the day so that we don't have to read and sift through every single submission. Just reading only 10 links per day would be less of a time sucker.
The "executive summary" has evolved. Remove hockey stick financials, inject social proof / traction.
I don't have his book in in front of me, but I remember him introducing and using helper function on the Object prototype to aid in inheritance.

I read his book because it holds such an authoritative place in JS literature. Last year, I began writing an application which has grown to over 6K lines of JS. At this level, pure JS become unwieldy, IMO. I went looking for a technology to help my code stay organized, optimized, and well documented. Closure Compiler was it. But since I had created my inheritance structure following Crokford's functional methodology, CC wouldn't work with it. Also, the only game in town for documenting JS, is jsDoc, in it's various incarnations. At 7K LOC, I wanted good docs for future developers. jsDoc doesn't work with functional inheritance either, strictly prototypical.

The bottom line for me is: Read the book, for sure, but if you plan on writing a large JS application, and go looking for help from a technology like CC (or maybe even DoJo), beware, that Crokford's recommendations (and they do come authoritatively) might put you in a place where you have to do a lot of refactoring down the road.
Is this the site you can't find? http://sivers.org/book
> I am assuming the worst possible situation here. I do firmly believe that OS X will eventually be just like iOS...

This will never happen. As others have already stated, Apple would lose their developers and because they don't command the market with OS X they would never risk doing that. Let's not forget the professionals that use Macs: the design industry, the film industry, the music industry: these rely in some cases on third-party applications like the Adobe Suite, these industries are another reason why OS X cannot ever become iOS; they require a fundamentally open, extensible environment. Add that to the fact Apple has stated that the App Store will never be the only method through which developers may publish their applications to the OS X platform, and it just will not happen.

Your paranoia is irrational.
Why So Many Rich People Don’t Feel Very Rich
Definitely needs an "About" page. Here's the first blog post for those looking for a little more information (not much more):

http://elementary-project.com/news/what-is-elementary-and-wh...

EDIT: still digging. Here's another interesting post:

"We mean that we want to be the first to offer a desktop OS that doesn’t include any way for the user to manage files. ... We think that files should be accessed from the applications that the user will use them in."

http://elementary-project.com/news/just-do/

Later, however, they talk about adding Nautilus (a file browser) and somehow adapting to adhere with the above philosophy.
In question 5) regarding Canvas vs. SVG, Remy Sharp lists Canvas as a "non-interactive" technology.

Could someone clarify this for me? Why does he consider it to be "non-interactive"? It was my understanding that Canvas is picking up steam as a medium for web-based games (highly interactive).