skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
so:
1) In the humanities, what you write doesn't matter. It's all about WHO writes it

2) The editors did not really care if there are errors, if the author insists, he can publish any kind of bs.

3) You are right. It seems in the humanities there is no discourse at all, it's all about who has authority and how social you are

C'mon, a little self doubt won't hurt the "social sciences". The article was rife with complete and utter fancy-looking b.s. Even the title is laughable.

Nothing can excuse the editors of this journal.
Harrison Ford Helps Create Eco-Friendly Facebook Game
I was wondering what happened to these guys - I was watching a YouTube video this weekend of PG speaking at a conference circa 2008 and he spend a good deal of time talking about Octopart and their business model...
Its sad how inconstant political terms are. Liberal today implies support for a lot of programs it didn't in Jefferson's time.

I don't understand 'anarcho communism' -- wouldn't that be the overthrow of government to establish communism? How is it different than regular communism?
> It's easy to see that the homeowner "owns" the house:

More to the point, the homeowner is the one exposed to appreciation or depreciation on the open market. The bank has a fixed dollar value worth.
Sublime Text looks pretty cool.
I would honestly love to find a workplace that did this in Canada. To be fair, I'd consider moving back to the UK for that. Bath is beautiful too. I worked in Cornwall as a supply / substitute teacher for a few months. The landscape took my breath away every single day.
I will never use a service that requires me to use my Facebook login. So while you may have a good reason, remember there are others like me who will never give you a shot because of your tying to Facebook.
It's amazing how a couple of well-chosen frames can capture the spirit of an entire film.
Google Navigation on Android now automatically routes around traffic
It's not environmentalism, it's just common sense politeness. There is no reason a users web-browser should have to render something twice just for static content. All just to save you a single `make` before uploading.

I've been joking for a few years that it's only a matter of time until some joker implements a browser in javascript/html5 and the rest of the web development community enthusiastically adopts using it as standard practice. I'm starting to fear that this is more of a possibility than I initially thought.
Intel's New Core i7-990X Extreme Edition Six Core, Benchmarked
Public Projects on Pivotal Tracker
Interesting take. Makes sense. Still rubs me the wrong way, but I can at least see a method to the madness with your reasoning.
Yeah, at least until Twitter decides to extend the Dickbar to the Mac app as well.
I'm not sure reading and fully comprehending the flow of the complete JavaScript source for every site you might wish to scrape is actually easier than making a WebKit-based scraper that runs load and click handlers.
I would love to see what Sin City looks like.
GE's 'EV Experience' Tourdates Announced
Did you perchance see Star Trek: Nemesis? That was the most heavy-handed use of color in film I've ever seen.
I'm guessing the downvotes are because I've crossed the line I was worried about in this post:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2287643

Apologies, I really didn't want to come across as being spammy.
Alexander Graham Bell's Awesome Telephone Sketch from 1876
Sixty-Year Old Technology Could Change the Face of Gaming
Show HN: BandsOnABudget.com - We Make Merchandising Simple & Affordable
I guess it depends on how you define a successful company. In the capitalist sense, something like http://yclist.com/ is probably most poignant.

I wouldn't say that YC has a huge impact in terms of social media; they definitely help with getting press mentions, but getting engaged subscribers is really up to the founders.

Twitter is not relevant to all companies, but it's obvious that many are leveraging it very effectively. I wonder if investors would be interested in a dashboard like this for all their portfolio companies. The correlation to "real growth" is probably small, but still better than nothing.
Just curious, do you have any plans to expand into adCenter as well?
Cultivating Absurdity For Fun and Profit
How to create tabbed screencasts 
Im creating a series of how-to videos(screencasts) for my startup. I was wondering if anyone has experience with tabbed video content.

An example is: http://services.google.com/training/websiteoptimizeroverview/2995095/index.html

I really love how the user can click straight to what he/she is needing help with.

I've been using Camtasia but it does not have this capability.

Any ideas or suggestions are welcome.
maybe they mean (2007Traffic-2006Traffic)/2006Traffic (aka by %).
That's what I'm saying, I don't think they'll do that. I will probably be proven wrong though.
Two possibilities:

1) `ls -la .` to show "hidden" files.

2) Some process is still running, and it has an open handle on some deleted file(s). Deleted file space is not reclaimed until all open handles are released.
You’re conflating dogmatism for a lack of critical thinking.

It’s more important to recognize that a given tool or process is made to solve a set of problems.

If you don’t have those problems or have a better way of addressing them, you don’t need that tool or process.

The goal is to have an intelligent conversation from first principles, while still avoiding re-inventing the wheel.
Student at RPI Transmits Data and Power Wirelessly Through Metal Walls
"We store a lot of data... 2TB"

Given that a pair of 2TB drives is less than $250 on ebuyer right now, 2TB of data is not 'big data'. You could comfortably stuff that in any decent database (SQL Server for example, I'm sure PostgreSQL would work too).

Just because a tiny machine on slicehost isn't big enough doesn't mean that your data won't fit in a normal database.
Check back in 11 months. :) I'm going to keep this showcase running and try to improve the interface to visualize long term change better.
I had to stop and try to remember what the white lines were about.

Twelve years ago, wow, sigh.
Duplicate from a few hours ago, still on the front page above this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2297301 :)
I'm wondering where you draw the line of what is considered moonlighting - do you mean absolutely any paid work whatsoever?

What if it's nothing at all to do with their job?
What if the tech guy wants to work in a dog pound for the day off, or the marketing girl wants to instruct surfing?

Is it "any paid work at all"? What about unpaid/volunteering?
Not necessarily. Some of us are paid to write those libraries :-)
This is dead on. I had a summer internship with a prestigious law firm. During the initial meet and greet between the interns and partners, one of my fellow interns admitted to not working after college in favor of "just traveling the world, surfing." To my shock, the partner was impressed by this answer. I was dumbfounded.

(PROTIP: usually "traveling the world surfing" is only possible if you are independently wealthy or willing to live like a hobo).
The Unintended Consequences of “Polio Eradication” in India?
Interesting data, but unfortunately nothing you can see a trend in (other than the most well known companies have the most followers). One good advice you can take from this data: If you want to have many followers, you have to tweet more than once a day.
I've noticed that interesting things tend to show up in bigcouch before couchdb. So, if I were starting a couchdb based project today, it would be with cloudant.
My problem with the essay is that the author assumes complete causation between social capital and real capital. He goes from socio-economic status to personality traits without acknowledging at all what he has done.
When I was thinking up a name for it, I was trying to be witty and have something along the lines of iRate, which led me to 'App i rate'. Then I added 'er' at the end to make it flow (or so I thought). As you've noted it's not the greatest name out there, but I didn't want to change it after all the linking and discussion that had already occurred based on the blog post.
It's not about general social skills or confidence, but about specific (and subconscious) knowledge about how to navigate certain social dynamics that are foreign to some kids and very familiar to others.
Show HN: Temporal HN Comments
Sometimes you might want to revisit a well discussed HN post just to see the new comments, but if you find the point based rendering on HN a bit difficult in finding the new comments

http://pastie.org/1644053 can help you.

e.g. type "temporalHN.rb 2295834" from command line.
We will add independent login in the future. We started with Facebook because it is easy to bootstrap the network, it is where most people want to share their videos anyways, and it allows us to keep the content clean much easier as most people don't want to troll under their own name.
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SugarSync and the Great Firewall of China
I'm not an expert on this, but each file occupies a minimum area on the disk, called a block. Now depending on the block size and the number of files, it's easy for 300KB of data to occupy 60MB space on the disk.

eg. 100,000 files of 1 byte each taking 1 block of size 4KB would occupy ~390 MB on disk (instead of 100KB as one would assume).
I'm not sure you've really disproved anybody's point.

Consider that a rich kid's parents will likely spend hundreds of thousands of dollars (if not more) on their child's education, on everything from the best preschools to a top prep school to an Ivy League university. Do you really think those schools offer nothing in exchange for all that money, aside from some better social connections and big names on someone's resume?

It's very, very difficult to reduce the impact of a lifetime of educational and social advantages down to something like "different/better personality skill set," and I think in doing so you are woefully underestimating what kind of benefits those advantages bring.
LOVE it!
How does the process of getting a taken name unfold?
Just 2 months ago I was searching for exactly this. This is going to be really useful for a lot of people, thank you. No time to read it now but it's on my Instapaper list.
Not sure if I missed it but what was the comment he posted that flagged him to the FBI?
Also, your videos will upload in the background as you record them, making upload time much shorter (but only be published when you click "Finish" at the end of the creation).
When I read "Kik (avc.com)", I did briefly think of the retailer, and the associated negative emotions. Maybe that's just me, of course.
we use avangate.com and they are pretty good. they even sent us a debit card that we can use to pay for stuff online , or collect cash at ATMS..
Yes, I forgot to mention the -a flag. This is what it shows for the directory: 'drwxr-xr-x 2 jevin jevin 56M 2011-03-07 12:12 .'

All of the involved processes have long since terminated. I'm fairly sure the files are gone for good, I actually have free space on my drive! :)
Watson supercomputer defeated in Jeopardy by lone physicist
Its funny how often successful products and services are just obvious modifications of pre-existing ones. Correct me if Im wrong but this sounds like the Google of electronic parts.
Thats not to downplay the genius or ingenuity of these companies by any means--in fact, if anything, its a compliment to their observational skills. Still, funny how it tends to be the obvious ideas which prove the most successful. Bravo
It's standard-operating-procedure for the US, from my experience.
Skype’s newest feature: ugly ads
IPad 2 forces Samsung to reconsider features/pricing on Galaxy Tab 10.1
Lately, the internet has been calling that 'selling shovels' in reference to the gold rush days. Arguably, the guys selling tools to the miners were much better off than the miners themselves. Levi Strauss did pretty good business selling blue jeans.
Hungary First to Write a Constitution on IPad, Lawmaker Says
You’ve got better things to do than wait in traffic
Book Will Write the History of Egypt’s Revolution in Tweets
Hungary's new constitution is being drafted on an Apple iPad
That's the talk I was looking for, thanks!
GetJar Touts Its "No Fee" Philosophy, Says Developers Keep More Money
The Kinect has a tremendous potential here as well.
This morning I was thinking about writing a tweet why the book is still not available in a dead-wood fashion, because I don't really like reading ebooks/PDFs (I preordered the book as pdf and print version through MEAP). But then it came to me that such a tweet will not speed up the process in any way. So I skipped it...

Nice to see this post now :)
You can actually control when the prompt occurs in Appirater, with the hope being that the developer will know when to allow the pop up to actually appear. It's not perfect, but it's the best solution I could think up given the constraints of the App Store.
That sounds like a good starting point for a discussion about different types of programming languages.
Security experts decipher malware that attacked Android phones
CryEngine 3 Exclusive Tech Showcase at GDC 2011
Because charging money for medical treatment is medieval. But apparently one needs to be born and raised outside of the US to see that clearly.
Heyzap is number 8, woohoo.
Parametric search is a very different problem from text search. It's nothing like the Google of electronic parts.
See also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2286772
I'm thinking I need to add big fat position numbers to each row and start tracking change in that. :P
The funny thing about sample sizes is that they don't scale with population size. [Edited the part where I said they don't scale "much"... they don't scale.]

If you're studying a phenomena with less than 5% impact, you need 1000+ data points to reach 95% significance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_hypothesis_testing
[Fixed link, deleted my incorrect comment.]
I've never done any iOS development but I have a feeling this is going to help me with the things I can't seem to find guidance for - thank you!
Two of the strongest climbers I know started in their late 30s. I'm 39, and I suspect my hardest routes are still ahead of me. You'll get out of it what you put in, regardless of when you start. I'd recommend taking off from work tonight and heading straight for the nearest climbing gym to give it a shot.

Oh, and one nice thing about climbing is that the better you get at it the less it hurts to fall. So sure if you fell off a beginner route with lots of ledges to hit it would certainly hurt. Fortunately you don't do that too often. Once you get past the beginner stage, routes tend to get steeper and less featured. As in, less stuff to run into when you come off.

I spent the better part of October pitching off routes on the Greek island of Kalymnos and never hit anything but air. The routes there overhang up to 45 degrees, so there's simply not anything to hit, and therefore hardly any real consequence to a fall.
I don't think you need the permanent permission just to keep user details up to date. You can use the real-time updates API for that (http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api/realtime/)

Am I missing a crucial detail?
I have been using uWSGI both locally and in production environments for a little while now and love it. I haven't been able to give it a complete workout yet as the "production" environments I am using it in are for sites that are only in beta testing.. but it's doing really well.

I am a django dev, and use uWSGI and nginx locally on my Mac for all my sites. I do this rather than using the built-in server to try and keep my dev/prod environments similar.

Luckily nginx has support for uWSGI out of the box, with a couple of configuration lines you can point to a port or socket and be up and running in no time.
That sounds entirely appropriate if she does branding for hair salons.

However, if your nudge is directed at her core competency, and your authority consists of being a younger relative in the States, that's going to have to be one hell of a nudge.
Icons (including free for commercial use)
Rising Entrepreneurship Reflects Poor Job Prospects
Being able to count from the top is part of the challenge.
Videos from webOS Developer Conference at Mobile World Congress
I am guessing by the constant stream of submissions that MojoKid works for hothardware.com
Yeah, it's not ideal. I think that was the default behavior in the player; will be worked on later.
Ask HN: Review our fun project (myinsanestories.com).....
I run a user-generated site called myinsanestories.com and this is my first time doing this kind of gig. I would like to ask the opinion of smart hackers here since I am not a hacker and don't know about the technical details about websites, etc. The site was built by a friend of mine and his a member here too. I am incharge in the advertisement and promotion of the site. I can ask him but you know I just want some outsider opinions 'bout how do you think we can make the site lift-off from the ground. Any techniques you've done in the past just like this type of site ? How do you think the layout of the site? Right now I'm planning to distribute some flyers in my campus for some promotions. I would gladly hear from you guys. Thanks...
Thank you and good job!
Playing music better
Thanks for sharing. The Android sdk samples dont actually include any parsing/reading data from file examples, so this is useful even for non-iOS devs.
I'm beginning to think their failure to give good suggestions is intentional

I call it conflict of interest consulting. It happens in many industries and people (customers being "consulted") are most times oblivious to the conflict.
actually I don't put any work into getting referrals at all, so I don't know. I wrote a blog post about it and put the link on twitter a few times, and the referrals just keep pouring in - I'd love to know where they all come from to be honest! I've hit the limit as to my free space allowance now.
I was also wondering about this. Not only does it say more than Facebook but more than "social networks" as a whole, including Facebook. Either their success is monumental or something is wrong here.
No, he's right. Boulder falls are nearly always soft, and certainly aren't painful. Usually they're only a foot or so onto a pad. It's actually pretty rare to come off from high up and miss a pad.

Granted, you can still break things. But it still works out safer on a per-hour basis than Volleyball.
"Silicon Valley is so accepting of failure that they came up for a fancy word for it which dignifies it. And that's called pivoting." (0:51 in the second part.)

Brilliant.
Not trying to be harsh, but you apparently haven't been taught this key idea about statistical significance: degree of confidence depends only on the size of the sample and the sample selection mechanism, not the size of the total population. This is a really unintuitive idea. The dependence is something like

confidence = (signal/noise)*sqrt(sample size)

(One caveat: if your population is very small, you may be able to get away with a smaller sample size if you are sampling without replacement. In other words, to make statements about a group of 10 people at any desired level of confidence, you never need to sample more than 10 people. This caveat is definitely ignorable for groups like "the number of families with $10 million.)

I couldn't find a great intro link, but you might find something useful here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_hypothesis_testing
I think the relationship to HN interests is the subtle point that seemingly unassailable dominance in an industry can shift right under your nose.
My reading was that they found CouchDB to have problems and adding complexity on top of a problematic base wasn't an appealing proposition for them.
Looking for startups to cover
I'm working on writing profiles of startups for Techology.org, a tech blog I'm working on.

I want to cover smaller sites that are pretty new / haven't launched yet. Preferably not sites that have been covered by any of the big sites (Tech Crunch, Mashable, etc.) because I don't want to just recycle news from them. I will definitely consider despite previous coverage if I can get some original information.

By that I mean (this goes for anyone interested) a 4 or 5 question interview, maybe a photo of the team (one that hasn't previously been published) a demo of the product, etc.

Here's an example of the types of profiles I'm looking to do:
http://techology.org/startup-profiles/rocket-press-startup-profile-1/

Let me know if you're interested.

You can submit your startup here:
http://techology.org/contact/

I will also be checking this thread for any comments.

Thanks!
Solving the chicken an egg problem could be difficult, you may try partnering up with car services or cab companies

You could look into car services instead of cabs..some times these types of services will have specific routes/destinations planned..making it easier to match people up..a possible problem is people not wanting to share a car service though.

You could also look into partnering up with cab services that constantly service airports. you could set it up where someone could use your app to set up a cab ride prior to taking off at another airport. That way cabbies will have passengers set up, instead of having to sit and wait. you could pair people up who are coming in at similar times to share the cabs.

Just thinking out loud. I'd love to talk to you more about the app, I've been looking into developing an idea that involves pairing people up to share cost. (not related to your idea)
LaunchRock Wants to Give A Boost to Startups Launching at SXSW
you deserve a lot of kudos for this. best of luck.
by the way, i dl the software and the code looks clean. thanks!
Cool merchandise and a great group of guys!!
I mean there's a bit of a protrusion - if I recall correctly, there's an oval shaped area about the length of a finger sticking out about 1/2 cm. The power button is on this area.
Is there any meaningful way I can buy this book in the UK? I'm fine paying $45 for the book + eBook + MEAP, but I refuse on principle to pay $13 for international untracked surface shipping when Amazon will send it to me for free, tracked (but I can't seem to get the eBook through them).

EDIT: "Buy it" in the sense of getting the eBook now and the paper-version eventually.
I think this is a bit idealistic. Especially in the entrepreneurial world, with your mind constantly spinning on new ideas. Sometimes it can even be challenging to take the weekend off.

The one thing i just love about this is the "Do Something Cool". This is something i have tried to do even on my weekends, something as simple as take a 2-3 hour walk. Or try and get lost and find my way home.

Silly stuff like that, but the second you truly relax and let your mind wander you actually start to be MORE creative. I would love to instate something where employees must take a one hour walk a week!