skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we should all take a few moments to reflect on the debt that computer users and developers everywhere owe to Steve Jobs for his work in these last few years. Yeah, most of us have our differences with him (I am not a fan of the "closed garden" approach), but there is no denying that he opened huge new markets and product categories that all of us will benefit from.

It takes a lot of drive to do that kind of work while having such major medical troubles. I really believe that what drives him is the desire to give the next great thing to users, and to take Apple to new heights. Money can't be the motivator - he's got plenty, and it's probably not at the top of his list anyway, during such life and death struggles.

Speaking for myself - I recently had some surgery which was nowhere near as complicated and life-threatening as what he went through - I know I wouldn't have the drive and commitment to return to work in such a big way, especially if my family was already taken care of financially. So - thanks to Steve Jobs and best wishes for his health, and no, I don't think it's right to wish for him to return to work soon - he will decide how to spend his energy, and he's already spent more of it at Apple than anybody had the right to ask.
I'm not sure if you know, but Bulgaria is in Balkans. And sane people are thrown in the loony bin (or just killed) if they talk too much.

Bulgaria is considered the most corrupt country in the 27-member European Union. For example, just recently, Asen Drumev, former head of the State Agricultural Fund, was sentenced to four years in prison for embezzling $34 million worth of EU assistance (and as far I know he was just a sacrifice lamb). And crime journalist Bobbie Tsankov was killed "execution syle" last June.

Of course, Bulgaria pledged to work harder at "combating high-level corruption and organised crime" in response to renewed criticism from the European Commission (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/01d19cdc-942a-11df-a3fe-00144feab4...).
Nice work - I like it!
I think the piracy marketing effect works especially well for iOS because not all devices are jailbroken. If Alice jailbreaks her phone, and Bob doesn't, Alice can show Bob her pirated apps, but can't easily share them with him. If Bob sees somethings he likes, he must buy it.

The same might be true for game consoles, but probably not for PCs.
He is supposedly collaborating with Walter Issacson for an autobiography.
Spain and Portugal as well...
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Is Cyc/OpenCyc dead?

http://blog.cyc.com/ - last post Nov 2009

http://www.cycfoundation.org/ - last post Nov 2008

http://cyc.com/cyc/company/press - last post Sept 2009

If Cycorp is dead, what is Doug Lenat up to now?
>ignore the fact that our emotional patterns are not tied directly to our genders. Social/antisocial patterns are not strictly female/male patterns. I know plenty of wonderful women who are antisocial and dislike direct contact with lots of people;

Why is it so hard to accept that biological sex can and does have a strong affect on emotional patterns? Testosterone and estrogen are the driving hormones behind our sex differences. It's a fact that testosterone affects aggression. So why is this so hard to accept?

Of course there are going to be outliers, but anecdotes do not disprove the general trend.

>are bordering on downvote-worthy. Are you really suggesting that women can't handle male careers? Really? Are we living in the seventies still?

Again, you're countering his assertion with an anecdote. It's wonderful that your mother was able to balance both, but that doesn't counter the apparent correlation with women's increasing career aspirations and the breakdown of traditional families. This isn't being sexist, it's being honest.

>This is really, really, really stupid. Your argument only holds water if you think that "wanting to be a mommy" is a genetic trait, that women are born either wanting kids or not wanting them.

You're missing the spectrum in between. You're right that career aspirations are social traits, but ambition in general is likely strongly rooted in genetics. So the question is does one outweigh the other in a particular individual. While his conclusion is a major leap, it's not without a semblance of reason.

This is the problem with discussions like these. Any non-PC point of view gets immediately shot down and accusations of sexism fly. If we truly want to get at the root cause of the imbalance, we must be able to ask the tough questions that might have uncomfortable answers.
F-Secure 2010 Wrapup Video about Stuxnet [video]
Here is the thing: LinkBait works because it makes people naturally curious about the content of the article. Technical people dislike it because they feel that it's a calculated attempt at manipulating your actions, making you click and/or link to it.

Used in moderation enticing headlines are a valuable tool, as proven by this little parody; I would have loved to read a third of the articles generated or some variants of them.

The most important thing still is to deliver with your content. If you have a hyped headline, ensure that your content is just as awesome.
I'd also add, "eat everything in sight". I've found that more than anything, nothing can symbolize that you respect a culture more than eating their food with them, respectfully enjoying it and just trying to have a good time. It shows an interest beyond superficials and most people enjoy sharing something about their culture with you through food.

You are what you eat, and if you eat what they eat, you are in some sense made of the same stuff.

Humans like to put other humans in two boxes, "us" or "them" and nothing can get you over the threshold and into the "us" box better than eating their food. In my experience, I've also found that most people want people in the "them" box to be in their "us" box and will lightly test your suitability with various social normalization tests -- often in the form of some local delicacy that they know foreigners won't be into. "Here! Try some of this delicious fermented cow stomach!"

(it also helps that most places have a friendly social structure around alcohol consumption, and chasing bites of random animal innards with some hard booze seems to do a good job of killing off whatever might not agree with you)

It also usually follows that they'll see you put a good effort into meeting them (culturally) and most folks will give you a wide berth to stumble through their social customs.

Without knowing anything else about a place, I've managed to muddle through relations with Peruvians, Ecuadorians, French, Russians, Chinese, Koreans, Saudis, Germans and a few others simply by sitting down at a table with them and breaking bread and trying to mind my manners.

In a few places, this immediately broke down walls of outward hostility and the night often ended with some kind of embarrassing duet at a Karaoke bar or similar.
Needs more question marks. You can get away with any title, no matter how bogus, if you make it a question.
Fixed, because it happens in the long run. That is, they can't buy another server in response to your additional search.
Could someone give a brief explanation on how this compares to R? When should you use one over the other?
It is vastly impossible to run something like Apple in a successful way with just an outstanding guy like Jobs, you need N outstanding people. While he is a for sure a remarkable personality in the computer industry and the "soul" of Apple, I think they'll be able to succeed even with N-1.

On the other hand, generational turnover is very, very important. Maybe at some point, even a terrific figure like Jobs may be as bad as it is good for Apple. For instance, how much big role he played in the culture of closure of Apple?

So it is even possible that an Apple without Jobs could be, all in all, a better company.
Passwordless signup or guest mode would be good - I want to try your app however I do not want to commit yet by creating a nother password. Perhaps link it to ip + username and once logged in have the option to enable any other ip using a password?
Can a Business Operate With a Web Site
It's not respectful to talk about Jobs if he wish to stay out of the press, but it is surely possible to talk about "Apple without Jobs" without any kind of privacy violation I guess.
Researcher warns of smartphone security flaw, impending 'baseband apocalypse'
برنامج أبشر نجوي كرم
Is there a powerful, free alternative to DimDim?
Seeing as his viewpoint has at least some support here, why not take the time to give a reasoned rebuttal rather than dismiss him?
I've always wanted to try Numpy for this purpose, but I get exposed to so much MATLAB code in research papers for DSP that it hardly seems worthwhile.

Furthermore, I've built an entire Objective-C math framework (https://bitbucket.org/liscio/smugmath) that operates very similarly to MATLAB (i.e. vector-oriented) and allows me to easily translate DSP algorithms found in research papers over to shipping products (http://capoapp.com, http://fuzzmeasure.com).
Probably %
iPhone 5 will be "Completely Redesigned"
Like OP posted before, it's probably more that he was on the frontpage here.
You just assigned SteveJobs to immortal...
Here's a great explanation of a) what promises are and b) how the promises/deferreds code in the $.ajax method is being refactored out for general use: http://blog.rebeccamurphey.com/deferreds-coming-to-jquery
What are you referring to? I don't see how the word pocket has any "negative" connotations. It's a little confusing in how it relates to note-taking, but that isn't really negative to me.
Leila Chirayath Janah,Founder Samasource on Being Female in a Male World
Good catch. The #1 result for "Better Placement" right now is the article this post links to!
Computer History Museum opens in Mountain View
It seems that you are offended by some of his ideas. If this is the case, you will not give any of them the consideration they deserve. Perhaps this is his fault but it is not easy to write about touchy subjects in a way that will be non-offensive. As it happens, his ideas are well in line with expert opinions on the topic of moral development from infancy to adulthood and deserve to be considered in a more candid manner.

The statement you made about what he was implying demonstrated what I mean. You're offended by what he wrote, so you are trying to find things to object to. He never said it was impossible for a woman to be a good mommy and an astronaut. He said that women would tend towards being good mommies.
I didn't forget anything.

The iPhone had overwhelming dominance in the consumer smartphone space. That is absolutely without question. That dominance is how it moved into the enterprise market, the gaming market, and so on. Exactly how Windows invaded the server room based upon the massive dominance it had outside of the server room.

If Google didn't have their huge amounts of cash, we'd still have the Blackberry OS, which is still enormously successful (though it's taken a hit recently), and we'd have Windows Phone 7, which is actually a really damn decent operating system.

If Android didn't prevent absolute iPhone dominance, RIM would be dead in the consumer space (and dying in the enterprise space), and Windows Phone 7 would have been DoA. Every single review would say "it's cute and all, but without the apps its a nonstarter".
My feeling is that /b/ has a surprisingly high density of Japanese cultural experts -- what with considering the large number of high quality Anime subtitle work coming out of parts of that community.
A Guide to Reading in the Dark
Rousseau And The New York Times
Back before Pinch Media merged with Flurry, when we had piracy detection in our analytics, we found that less than 1 in 200 people did this. You're not alone, but you're in a small minority.
This totally matches my experience on the issue.

It is a bit of a pity to see the effort split between two huge projects with roughly the same goal. Anyone has any ideas why it is so? or is it like a vim vs emacs(i.e. quasi religious) issue?
If you can arrange things so that some (but not all) of the functionality in your app is unavailable in a pirated copy, then piracy becomes a form of trialware, and can be a huge marketing channel.

Way back in the day, I co-wrote an early networked multiplayer game on the Mac, Spectre. We didn't use copy protection, as it was too much hassle for legitimate users. However, there was a nontrivial-to-hack requirement that you have N serial numbers for an N-player game. This led to people pirating the game for the single-player mode, enjoying it, and buying a second or third copy for multiplayer. I don't have hard data, but we believe a lot of our sales originated this way.

There's probably some psychology at work here: if you let someone download a "trial version" for free, they may not value it as much as an app they had to "pirate".
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"I would ask if there are moral implications of selling what you believe you can do (to employees/customers/investors) as if you actually can/have done it."

I totally agree and think it's SUPER important to be honest. Example: I'm a coder. If someone wanted to hire me for a Python job, I would be totally honest, yet confident: "I've never coded Python, but I know Ruby, and I think I could learn Python pretty quickly."

At a previous job, I sat next to a manager who often interviewed programming candidates on the phone. If somebody was trying to BS him, he always looked and sounded irritated. In contrast, when I interviewed, I gave confident answers for what I knew and said "I don't know" if I didn't, often asking questions about what I didn't know because I was curious.

If I were hiring a company to do something and felt they were BSing about what they could do, I would run. But if they said "we THINK we can do it," and explained why, I'd be way more comfortable.

Even better: "we think we can do it, but since we haven't done this before, we're willing to work more cheaply so we can get the experience." That way, I know exactly what I'm getting, and I can weigh the risks. And if all goes well, next time they bid, they can truthfully say "we have experience in this."

That's how I sell myself, anyway.
Steve Jobs steps away from Apple
Well, no, obviously not. But that doesn't mean that it doesn't remind 'llgrrl' of A Beautiful Mind. "reminds me of" can be triggered by the most aribtrary things. I am reminded of things long ago and far away by a few notes of a song or a particular smell wafting on a Spring breeze.

Of course, if someone claims this is just like A Beautiful Mind, that's another thing entirely...
another way you can go about it is just store things locally on a client machine.. although you may need to explain that unless they sign up their notes will not be saved globally.
You get priority based on the severity of your illness. And you'd be surprised how many liver failure issues have nothing to do with alchohol.
that feels pretty hacky to be honest.

the real issue is that one person may have multiple accounts in the app, and they may want to use the same email address for all accounts... I have no reason to enforce a unique email address.

It's odd that Sunnytrail would when there is usually a common unique identifier across all apps for users.. user id
But given that dark colors also radiate heat, wouldn't the white be better year round anyways?
Is Traffic On TechCrunch Moving Away?
I think so, yes. Though I love the blog, but lately its quality seems to have deteriorated. Say thanks to AOL and sisterly love.
The site looks great! Unless you stole the layout ideas from someone else, you should be quite proud of yourself and what you've got started here.

A few pieces of input:

1. Like others, the logo doesn't stand out. In fact, I didn't see it until I read some of the other comments and adjusted my monitor position a bit.

2. Emphasize the txt'ing capabilities a little more. Assuming you're using something like Twilio, why use that validation code in front of the texts? That makes it highly unusable. You should be able to see what number the text is coming from and attach it to the proper account.

3. Put in an sms reply feature. For example, I text #todo or #grocerylist and it returns my notes that haven't yet been completed with that tag. Which leads to... You've already got the ability to post notes, now retrieve them.

4. The simplicity is totally nice, but how about putting these things into different buckets? Mark as complete, next week, etc... ? That way, you can manage the "boards" on which they go in a level beyond the hash-tag boards. Make sense?

You REALLY should be VERY PLEASED with what you've got here. I'm so impressed with the visual appeal of the app.

My guess is you're using authlogic for authentication. Is that right? If so, there are some good articles out there that will walk you through implementing password resets - in fact, I think it might be in the main authlogic page (been a little while since I've done it). It's really easy to implement.

Looks like I was your 84th user! Congrats and keep it up. I love hearing stories like this.
When it comes to CAPTCHA...

Effective, Cheap, or Simple...

Pick any two...

As for your question, I switched from reCAPTCHA over to a different scheme, though I might test with reCAPTCHA with different settings again in a few months.
The author who was complaining that his book was being pirated (on HN yesterday) should read this article.
Storytime on the Interwebs
Rands in Repose: Managing Nerds
I think he mean's the phrase "lets pocket" could mean "let's steal/take/grab". That use of the word is a little British...
No worries. Totally agree with your message, just don't think "mediocre" is the right word for it. Every decision in a company is about compromise. If you can't compromise intelligently you're screwed.
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It's difficult to decide what should be funded, just because you throw money at a problem doesn't mean a solution will suddenly appear. For a look into the history of cancer research I recommend http://www.amazon.com/Emperor-All-Maladies-Biography-Cancer/...
I have an amazingly similar pattern at the moment. The lunch time walk while at $DAYJOB is perhaps one of the most productive 30 minutes of my day. The combination of fresh air, getting the blood moving while walking and some caffeine is perfect for thinking over ideas. Do not neglect this.

I posed this question to HN for motivational purposes: how awesome is it when you aren't balancing full-time $DAYJOB and full-time hacking. When your startup is profitable, steady and you can finally go fishing at 11am on a Tuesday simply because you can.
Unless you want CUDA support...
I like the ones that follow the pattern:

#{famous person} doesn't like #{programming language}

These are all brilliant and funny. I got

Assange doesn't like VB.
Obama doesn't like Perl.

I would love if someone would write any article in this format.
Dark coloured surfaces will tend to absorb more heat. You want that in the winter to help melt snow and ice.
"The net effect of which is to make "programming" an exercise in (a) wanting to do something, (b) realizing that someone's probably done it before, (c) looking up what they did, and (d) tweaking it a little bit. As I tweak I begin to understand, and to become less a user of all this wonderful mess than a contributor to it."

I wouldn't say that's what programming is. I would say that's a good way to just create something simple. A thoughtful understanding of the entire stack is necessary to create a solid base, but given the fact many people just wan't something quick his approach should be fine.
Questions VCs Will Ask and What They Mean
DIY LED Star Map
This is similar to my experience when Glancely was on TC. The TC traffic was great, but the Lifehacker/Gizmodo traffic that came later were actually bigger. Beyond that, there's some credibility in saying your startup was on TechCrunch, Lifehacker, etc.

It's great to be written up in TC, but the real benefits come from more than just the article itself. A TC article is a great accomplishment for a startup and has benefits beyond the article. But it's just a step, so don't celebrate for too long.
Why have to redistribute donated organs at all. In an ideal world medical research wouldn't be impeded by a religious agenda. Think about how much research could have been accomplished if there wasn't an effective ban against stem-cell research? How many lives are lost because organ donation is double opt-in? You have to agree to it before death and your next of kin has to agree after your death. And how could preventive medicine allow people to diagnose a problem before organs were lost.

Steve has the money to see the problem and take effective countermeasures. A lot of people don't and the way the current government is carrying on you would think some don't want the help.
Is this not a comparison of libvpx against itself using various parameters from GUI frontends?
Service oriented architecture
I had never seen this page, its very clear how services are running independently on Twitter:
http://dev.twitter.com/status
Well said. Reminds me of the "1.0 Is the Loneliest Number" [1] post by Matt Mullenweg. A balanced mix of compromise, iteration, and vision is a healthy thing to strive for.

By the way, we use and love Redis. :)

1. http://ma.tt/2010/11/one-point-oh/
And where you are driving to!
Givers & Takers
I'm just not sure. Analysts have generally been clueless when talking about apple, and I don't see that changing. And now they're saying that things would be alright for 6mo to a year, no matter what. That's a code for: I'm selling first thing.
If you're on Linux, try cmus. Its the greatest there is. Vi shortcuts, simplicity embodied, and as fast as you can type.
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/tomcat-announce/201...

"This is the first stable release of the Tomcat 7 branch.".

I'm a little confused by Tomcat's version numbering:

http://tomcat.apache.org/whichversion.html

Shouldn't 7.0.0 instead of 7.0.6 be the first stable release?
> like his own child

It might not be a good thing, then.

> In California, my mother had raised me mostly alone.
http://valleywag.gawker.com/357073/lisa-brennan+jobs-on-her-...

> She briefly raised their daughter on welfare when Jobs denied paternity, claiming that he was sterile; he later acknowledged paternity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs#Personal_life
The button is there, but it doesn't work on Linux(Ubuntu 10.04 with Chromium). The regular listen button does work.
Sunnytrail does not enforce an unique email address or an unique username. We are tracking users based on the supplied internal user ID (or an email address hash if an internal user ID is not provided).
Done and done
http://www.inventables.com/technologies/heat-reactive-paint
"Startups: How I Closed My First Round of Financing In 34 Seconds Using Only A Rusty Can of Beans"

If somebody could honestly write that, I would read it (And probably upvote it too!)
Correct, HVAC systems are designed to handle variable capacity and to stand down as demand lessens in the same way as a data center is. It's such long standing practice that most recent homes even have variable speed compressors on the condensing unit and multi-speed fans on the air handler.
Octave has classes since 3.2, but only the older @class directory flavor. The newer classdef style classes are not yet working.
I agree with LRM about the logo... little too dark. Didn't even realize it was there.

For your issues:

1) Try using Authlogic (https://github.com/binarylogic/authlogic) to handle users/passwords... It's a great solution and is super easy to implement. Once you have Authlogic, use this (http://www.binarylogic.com/2008/11/16/tutorial-reset-passwor...) to figure out password resets.

2) Dunno about this... Twilio + some logic?

3) Here is a fix for the jQuery UI + IE9 problems -- http://forum.jquery.com/topic/jquery-ui-does-not-work-on-ie9