skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not really familiar with iPhoto, so I'm not sure if it fills quite the same niche or not, but I find Picasa works well for photo management.
You don't know what you're talking about. Take a look at the average net worth of people in the 50-60 range.
Kindle e-book sales overtake paperback books on Amazon.com
The coldest I have seen this year is about 14-18F. However, the downstairs heat was on the fritz for a bit so I regularly had 50-degree temperatures inside. That wasn't fun.

Oo, you're right. Summers here are absolutely terrible.

Strangely enough, my girlfriend is from New York and finds the cold here unbearable. She explained it as the inconsistency in temperatures as what makes it seem so bad to her. In NY, it was pretty consistently cold in the winter so she was able to expect it and adapt. Down here, you may have a 70F evening and then wake up to 30F and snowing the next day... that or you'll be followed around by tornadoes. :)
Although not as comprehensive as the eclipse refactorings, ctags go some way towards giving you similar functionality in vim.
One of the things in life I really regret is suggesting SOAP on a project. I thought it was just a packaged, somewhat elaborated version of a semi-reasonable XML-RPC type thing --- and worse, that the idea that it was standardized meant that you could count on some kind of half-decent interoperability.

It was initially sold that way, but that was just the first of a parade of sales pitches, hilariously chronicled here, http://wanderingbarque.com/nonintersecting/2006/11/15/the-s-... --- endlessly shifting as if seen through a fun-house mirror.
I'm wondering how many of those are free - a lot of classics are free on kindle.

For instance: Robinson Crusoe http://www.amazon.com/Life-Adventures-Robinson-Crusoe-ebook/...
I looked over the numbers on Wikipedia before making my post. In that case we were slightly talking around each other, because you were talking about net worth, and I was talking about income, but the principle is the same. Here's the numbers on net worth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_in_the_United_States#cit...

In 2004, which seems to be the newest data that I could find (and the one this article uses), the median net worth for a household with the head's age under 35 is $14.2k. By 55-64, that rises to $248.7, which is your point.

My point is that the difference between $14k and $248k isn't enough to move you up into the upper echelon of wealth. From that article:

> This data shows that the top 25% of American society holds on average a net wealth of $1,556,801 which is 33 times more than those of the lower middle class, or the 25th-50th percentile

So your average 65 year old is _still_ far from being in the upper quartile.
I think there's a real difference between teaching wrong-but-very-useful things like Newtonian mechanics and teaching wrong-and-not-at-all-useful things like the four elements.
$400 entry fee, wtf.. have they learned NOTHING from the netflix challenge?
The ‘alternative’ HBS career track: entrepreneurship
I'm pretty sure everybody read this piece:
http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/soap/simple
That's an inspiring quote. But it is flawed. It is designed to instill passion and motivation in the listener's heart. But it is missing a virtue which is a strictly necessary ingredient for making an actual positive impact on the world: subtlety.

If you are motivated by addressing humanity's long-term challenges, please do not attempt to bludgeon others into being more thoughtful or compassionate. Instead, learn first how human society works. Learn how to motivate social change in the least destructive way (all change is costly to someone). Learn why people oppose you, and what their interests are, and try to come to a common ground. Don't go off half-cocked. Learn subtlety.

Nobody talks about subtlety. It is an under-appreciated virtue, and one of the most important.
> Sorry I don't agree.

> Firefox for example hides the protocol details. You don't need to know DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP to browse the web.

I don't think that example supports your argument. Quite the reverse, in fact. Firefox doesn't hide that much of the details. You can still see the gory details of URLs and HTTP requests surfaced quite clearly, and the experience of using the web is that much richer if you know what they are and how to manipulate them. Firefox doesn't actively prevent you from doing so if you want to, which it would if it was trying to present a sealed abstraction.

As regards errors and error reporting, I don't particularly want to get into REST v SOAP, because that's tired ground that's been trodden a thousand times over. However, REST has an advantage over SOAP here in that it uses HTTP error codes. An app which returned a 200 response when it couldn't find something would never be described as RESTful, whereas a SOAP app can get away with anything as an error response. It's simply not possible for a REST API to be bad in that sense where it demonstrably is for SOAP.
Here's the link:
http://philip.greenspun.com/bg/
fuzzy logic ain't perfect
Justin.tv has been revolutionary in terms of online video. It'll be pretty cool to see what they have in store for next.
> "Now, it has long been understood, very well, that a society that is based on this principle will destroy itself in time.

> Bullshit. A society based on the principles of the free market will create unprecedented human health and prosperity[1].

Those two things are not mutually exclusive.
The article says that free books are not included in this count of sales.
Well, pie charts aren't a very good way to represent fractional data because humans aren't great at judging angles.
That is so funny- I remember the last iTunes update they did this, too. I think they tried to spell out the change but I didn't understand it.
That was a good read. Thanks!
Debatable that it counts as a "bug" since the code functioned exactly as designed.
IBM Completes 1 Century
Burn the boats: http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/06/andreessen-media-burn-boats...

disclosure: I burned my boat
Sony wins temporary restraining order against George Hotz (PS3 jailbreak guy)
Most of the OP's problem was the fact that there was no simple way to JUST INSPECT the soap messages going back and forth. You can say that is more a problem of his tools than SOAP. But then XML (and especially SOAP) is so friggin' ugly that of course toolmakers are going to want to abstract into invisibility.

That said, SOAP really is more complex than it needs to be. What makes it worse the ironic name : "SIMPLE object access protocol".
No Windows boxes round these parts, or I would have. I tried WebScarab, but without the server certificate it was a lost cause (unless I missed a trick somewhere).
Mobile video specialist.
Sure. And nobody has proven that Jesus or Vishnu won't come back and destroy the world for its sins, either. Positing a future apocalypse that will envelope the world unless everyone adopts your pet religion has a long pedigree.
? I know perfectly well what libertarianism refers to here, that's why I mentioned it in the context of a philosophy of mind discussion.
SF Hacker House has space
Hacker House in San Francisco has a room available for a month, beginning March 1st and ending April 1st.
It's a little small, but comfortably fits a desk, bed, and other furniture, and costs $700/month. You'll be living with three guys who either run or work at tech startups in San Francisco (ZeroCater and Justin.tv) We'll probably also have a second room opening up around the same time period.

Email jane.x.huang at gmail.com to set up a time to come see the place.

Features:

- Hardwood floors

- Gigantic windows and lots of sunlight

- Rooftop access with excellent view of the city

- Shared common room to put desks and computers (though the room you'd be renting has room too)

- High speed wireless internet access (12Mbps DSL)

- Located in the Lower Haight, with tons of bars, cafes and restaurants within walking distance

- Washer and dryer
Debugging SOAP stuff is a complete nightmare, but trying to figure out and implement somebody's RESTful API that has 100 different types of objects is also a hassle, since there isn't code generation that can help you.

For tiny one-API-call tasks, I'd much rather use a JSON REST API that I completely understand. When I'm trying to interface with a complicated system that has a million different objects, I'd rather spend an hour figuring out the tools, then rely on generated code so I can take advantage of IDE auto-completion instead of digging through the documentation to remember the params and return value. It's the in-between of these two cases that's the devil, especially since big nasty APIs always start out small and simple.
Actually I had the same argument about 15 years ago when I started using vim. Actually vim was forced on me on my first week of uni. We had to use "unix" (woooah)... anyhoo, the first 2 weeks were a total pain as we didnt have (or I couldnt find) alternatives... yes there was emacs but I couldnt be bothered go to another non-UI editor... but after that there was no looking back.. I think it is after that initial two week period that most vimmers remember and appreciate.

I know it is hard to justify plonking down 2 weeks when your current methods work. For me it is the ability to type what I am thinking without having to reach for the mouse (I know in VS you could customize keyboard shortcuts exactly the way you want but somehow it seemed a lot more obvious in vim for me).
"Don't forget how hostile religion was to individual atheists."

That's one of the reasons why I support the movement, but that doesn't make it correct. I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with atheism. That being said, I think Dawkins is kind of dumb, and unfortunately he's the face of the modern movement and the one that everyone cites.

"How do you think the modernist project crashed and burned?"

The eugenics movement and the holocaust.

"Are you a postmodernist?"

I haven't read enough postmodernist lit to feel comfortable putting myself in that camp, though certainly many of my critiques of modernity are along the same lines.
Mostly they just seem to get a kick out of criticizing how other people have chosen to live their lives.

Doesn't it make you sad that a huge number of people are unhealthy, unhappy, die prematurely from perfectly preventable reasons or just plainly do not have any slightest idea about what to do with their lives?

That's especially sad because it happens at the times when there are the most possible opportunities available to almost anyone.

Of course, I understand the common response - "but shouldn't they just live the lives they choose and who are you to tell them what to do with their lives".

This is reasonable and true, but I'm still sad for some reason.
So it follows that the majority of businesses does not make trillions of dollars either. :)

Still, there are several businesses that are making on average over $100-500/year profits on me. More or less my bank, car maker, gas station, energy company, furniture store, favorite soda brand, supermarket, fast food chain... what else? Scary thought.
Maybe that's a plus. It might not be as accessible to the rest of us, but I guarantee you their sites would be plenty accessible to the blind.
As a new vim user, I'm still trying to figure out what to do with them.

What do you find yourself macroing, generally?
Racket has a similar sort of tutorial in its official documentation.

http://docs.racket-lang.org/more/
> Cash in while the shit house goes down.

Now that is depressing.

Surely there must be a way out. If there is one thing that I've noticed as a pattern over the years then it is that mankind will only get off their collective asses when it is proverbially speaking 1 minute to twelve (or even 1 past).

That gives me some hope that our considerable intelligence will be brought to bear in time of need and that we will actually deal with these problems, but first we need to be forcibly kicked out of our comfort zone.

Historically the house going down was the prelude to building a bigger and better house. The problem is that it sometimes took as much as several centuries to recover from the house going down.
I love Justin.tv. I just discovered their live streaming section, which has everything from office episodes to television stations I don't get in my area (I've been practicing my Mandarin Chinese by watching a station in Toronto)
Perhaps it's because Google is behind in the markets that they're competing with Apple and Facebook in, mobile and social, respectively.

There's no doubt there's competition, they're just passive aggressive about it for the most part. Jobs was quoted as saying that Google wants to kill the iPhone -- that's pretty convincing to me.

I don't think we'll see the real competition between Google and Facebook until Google unveils their social network that's been rumored.
I'm curious what kind of sensitivity and specificity qualifies as "good enough".

Here's the prize's website: http://www.heritagehealthprize.com/
>I guess it makes them feel better about themselves to imagine the great majority of the population are rubes and they are some wise sage.

On the contrary, I identify with the article because I know how stupid I am.

I know how manipulatable I am. I know how easy it is to hijack by overclocked-monkey-brain instincts. I know how subject I am to addictive behavior. I know how far I am from my ideal self. I know how much vigilance it takes to get closer to that ideal self.

I know that I am barely conscious for most of my life. The decisions I make throughout the day are mostly automatic, governed by forces trained on habit rather than intention. To live deliberately is a nearly impossible struggle with the meager tools at our disposal, and I'd be the last person to fault anyone for not doing it, or even for not desiring to.

It is not contradictory to believe that capitalism is the most effective engine for driving human ambition towards useful goals, and at the same time, decry the perverse incentives it creates to manipulate people against their interests and to destroy the environment.

I believe that capitalism is the best way to optimize a civilization towards an objective function. I don't believe that that objective function is correct, particularly when the the people optimizing for it have the ability to change it (through brand advertising, government influence, etc.) We ignore the tragedy of the commons at our peril.

In addition, a person freely making a bad decision of their own volition is not moral insulation for offering them that bad decision in the first place.
As an aside, HN best practice is to post the title of the article in the most accurate way. "How to not suck" may imply a more light-hearted article, while "How to Craft an Effective VC Pitch" is clearly informative.

Regarding the article, this advice seems to align with most of the stuff posted relating to pitching.

Number 4, though, may give people the wrong message. It seems to say, "Don't pursue a market with strong competition." If that were the case, Google wouldn't exist. Most VC's and Angels, from what I've read, aren't so fazed by competition, but rather see it as a sign of a lucrative market. The author seems to think that "value" (yes, it was in quotes) is a strange competitive advantage, but I'd argue that if value wasn't your key competitive advantage, you're doing something wrong.

Other than that, it's a pretty informative read. No need to reinvent the wheel.
Pirating the 2011 Oscars
Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean-favoured and imperially slim.

And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
"Good Morning!" and he glittered when he walked.

And he was rich, yes, richer than a king,
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine -- we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.

So on we worked and waited for the light,
And went without the meat and cursed the bread,
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet in his head.

Edwin Arlington Robinson
These guys are very impressive, and that they are so innovative around video is really nice.

The Justin.tv guys really took off after they closed down Kiko. I think that this goes to show that the wrong market and the wrong concept can hold back people, but once they are in big growth markets, creative people really get to shine like these guys have been doing for the past years.

Just the sign-up referral thing is pretty innovative. I referred one person and I'm #26 on the list, so at least 25 people have referred at least one other person? That's not bad.
Is that sarcasm? I think Justin.tv's guys have made some realy progress as far as online video goes. They're pioneers. I'm sure they have some great stuff planned for mobile!
> Physicalism implies non-dualism. Non-physicalism does not imply dualism.

Since they didn't ask about dualism directly, nor, as far as I can tell, any position that logically entails dualism, obviously there is no deductive implication here.

I'm making a probabilistic point - non-physicalism is heavily represented (more than a quarter) among the group Samd specified, and thus there are pretty good odds that at least one academic philosopher espouses the specific non-physicalist theory of dualism.
Two things that weight training doesn't address is inward shoulder rotation/slumping and "turtle neck," something all people working at a keyboard are prone to. You really have to pay attention and make sure you pull your shoulders back, and keep your head and neck in alignment with the spine by pulling your head back and up (you might need to tilt it down, too).

Bench pressing can make the inward shoulders significantly worse by tightening the pectorals. I had a pretty bad problem and didn't realize it until I went to a posture specialist. Now I'm really aware of it - a lot of gym rats seem to have it.

Apparently squats and deadlifts will give you pretty extreme imbalances in the hip muscles (that's what the posture specialist and a deep-tissue masseur told me after working on me). You can fix that by stretching. I don't know if it matters, because it doesn't seem to affect me functionally or aesthetically.
Yeah, I must say that programming web apps and battling with CSS is pretty dull after studying philosophy.
ShiftIt is great for positioning windows, a la Compiz Grid.
(http://code.google.com/p/shiftit/)
Actually, "random" people would be better than the biased voters it currently has.
I don't meet many other vim users who like macros but recently I've had call to use them daily. They completely remove any repetitive text editing actions, even relatively complex ones like "take these words, each on a new line and make them keys to an array, with the values initialized to ''"

The only problem is that they take a lot of practice before you get them right first time. After a while though, you learn to record them fairly quickly and they streamline your workflow. They also melt the faces of anyone pairing with you.

The best part is they get better with age. The more vim commands you know, the more opportunities you find for using them.
This headline is why I went to Babson in a nutshell.
Awesome!! cant wait!
I'm an American who applied and got in 4 years ago (graduated with an M.Sc. this past October).

The application process is phenomenally simple, especially when compared to that for American universities.

1. You fill out an application for Oxford, containing basic biographical information and some information about the course and college you want to apply for.

2. You fill out a more detailed UCAS application, with your academic history, etc. and write a personal statement

3. You get called for interview either by phone, in person in New York/Vancouver, or in person in Oxford depending on what you can do.

4. You take an exam in your subject of choice.

All of this happens between October and November, and you get a response in late December.

Your choice of College is somewhat important, as it determines the life you'll have at Oxford, so research that in some depth. I went to New, and loved it, and my thesis supervisor was at Magdalen which is just lovely in every conceivable way (he's also a pretty kickass Computer Scientist).

Academically, you'll want a decent SAT score, a good mix of SAT II's and AP's, and a good recommendation from a teacher in a relevant subject area.
FP techniques in Lisp: Data sharing
Just to clarify for any others who misread the title, this is comparing paperbacks to Kindle edition, not all paper books. The numbers imply Kindle sales are about 85% of hardcovers and paperbacks combined.

Also, since Amazon sells 100% of the Kindle books its readers buy, but only some of the physical books its readers buy, I think this most interesting part of this release is what it says about how great a business move the Kindle was for Amazon. Every time a customer switches to the Kindle they instantly gain a lot of sales that used to happen at various physical bookstores. And that's before even considering that people who walk around with a bookstore 1 foot from them will buy more books, too.
It seems pretty implausible that he has 1000 true fans who bought 18,000 books in one month when he didn't have any new releases.
How to write a novel
Cycle commute.
This is probably the samething as instagram but for videos...
I'm no expert on video-streaming, but what sets them apart from ustream.tv and livestream.com? Were they the first people out there?
5:15 AM. I have never been a morning person, but I have two kids and a job I commute an hour to and from, so this is the only time that works for me.

As to your problem of not being able to get up: try doing something in a group setting, no solo. My Crossfit gym has a 5:15 AM class, so I know that when my alarm goes off, there are a dozen or more people also waking up to head to that same class. I'm closer with my Crossfit community than many of my friends. Not showing up feels terrible and I've never regretted a single workout.
Notice many aren't free if you live outside the US and a few other locations; you'll get charged the $2 "international whispernet delivery fee" or whatever they call it.

And even then, they might not even be available (like the one you referenced).

If you want classics, much better to just hit http://manybooks.net or the gutenberg project site and get them directly in kindle format through your desktop/laptop and copy them over USB.
yeah they have developed pioneering technology but they failed to build a profitable company, which is what matters if you take funding and present yourself a company.
> "In fact, however, PAM was not intended to forecast the details of terrorist attacks. It was instead intended to forecast aggregate measures of geopolitical stability in the Middle East. PAM would have used speculative markets to estimate economic growth, political stability, and military activity four times a year in each of eight nations, and how those measures would depend on each other and on various U.S. policy choices. PAMs designers thought their plan
ambitious enough without also tackling the added complexities of predicting terrorism."

-- http://hanson.gmu.edu/realterf.pdf

(Hm, how would one estimate things like economic growth? That sounds really hard and my imagination just fails to think of any way to measure a long-term trend like that!)
Gui-dat allows you to manipulate javascript values and fire functions on the fly