skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually cloned it with Carbon Copy Cloner before switching it in. It was about another 5 minutes of work, and then letting it sit and run in the background for an hour. Not much to worry or complain about.
OSX Lion with feature to put your signature in PDFs
added Quora to the list. anything else missing?
Steli here from SwipeGood! On average our users donate over $20 per month to charity and stay enrolled for a very long time...so this move is a win/win/win. It's great for our users to be able to instantly give away money for charity ; great for our partner charities who receive the donations and good for SwipeGood since it makes economic sense for us :)

Cheers,
Steli
The general form -- and I forget who first said this -- is "Better that n guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer. Solve for n."
There are counter-examples. Objective-C is a strict superset of C and a reasonably clean language.
Creationism Ignorance in its greatness - Interview with creationist Wendy Wright
Is this stupid or what ?
I had to look at the domain twice to make sure I was seeing it correctly. I grew up in Richmond and VCU (Virginia Commonwealth University) is overwhelmingly known as a great art school; its other disciplines are seen as average at best.

To see a mathematics textbook from VCU appear on Hacker News was a welcome sight indeed!
> Another favourite is typing "shutdown -h now" into the wrong terminal: I know a few people who have admitted to doing that.

http://packages.debian.org/sid/molly-guard is a good remedy for this :)
Mike Greenberg's notes from SuperConf
Every user on SwipeGood is generating $20/mth/user in donation revenue for the charities. Users stay enrolled with SwipeGood for a very long time and we take a 5% cut out of every transaction that is happening on our system! You see, it's a very simple business model :)
The Internets
That doesn't really answer reynolds' question at all.

How is this better than spending $150k on hiring, for example, 2 engineers for a year? Or 1 engineer and 1 designer? Or 1 customer service person, 1 community manager, and 1 developer? Etc.
It's a little clumsy if you're working with two images on one screen (especially when drawing/painting with references). A single-window interface has a menu option that lets you tile them.

I'll be happy when the single-window version is released.
It's not just black people, although that's the majority where I live (Oakland, California). In most states that border mexico or western states with large agricultural economies, it tends to be hispanics. Among those hispanics are a lot of first generation kids ("anchor kids" in many cases) whose parents don't speak english at home.

Never mind that the US doesn't have an official language; a lot of people are offended if their tax dollars go to people who don't "learn our language!"
For you and ErrantX, I think you're reading too much into my parallel: I was just replying to a statement made in the parent. Obviously I'll expect that someone making changes to my code is qualified to do so. It's presumably parallel for interactions between multiple designers on the same project – one can make reasoned changes to the other's work.

In the described event, there clearly wasn't communication but we don't really know anything more about it.

Here's a question, though: let's say you're designing something, say a logo, and there's been a fairly clear idea/requirements laid out, there's some sort of a feedback loop etc. Do you at some point settle on a finished work that you'll offer up and that's it? Or if the client keeps asking you to add more ninjas and make that T red &c., will you acquiesce whether or not it works for you?

Edit: or if there's a second designer who has a slightly different idea of how the finished work should look, how is that resolved?
Mutual fund that pays you to own it (negative expense ratio)
following the same topic... http://www.barbarianmeetscoding.com/blog/2011/2/23/best-prac...
That makes sense. At least you guys are using it to get user referrals rather than throwing it in a wheel barrow and burning it :)
Thanks :)
I'm actually working with illustrator Galia Offri on another project along the same line as this thread. It is called Wikipedia Illustrated (http://WikipediaIllustrated.org) and is trying to address a similar question: "Illustrators, how do we get you guys to contribute to Wikipedia?"
Oh wow, I'd describe that writing style as "stream of semi-consciousness". I couldn't read all of it.
Interesting number paradox
It is better if NGOs are promoting the service to their existing and potential donors. It is possible that revenue from giving away $150,000 with a buzz brings in more users than 2 engineers can.
Even PayPal with millions in funding only gave away $5/referral. $150,000 there brings you 30,000 users, but "SwipeGood is giving every user who enrolls on the service $1000 that they can give away to charity." That's 150 users or am I missing something?
Our investors are really happy with us... we are in fact hiring engineers & designers right now as we speak. And this money is accelerating our growth today. Believe me when I tell you that if you can acquire new users for less money than they generate you revenue your investors will be happy to see you invest money this way! Let me know if this answers the question :) Thx, Steli
That really sucks. I'm sorry that she had such a poor experience.

On our project, we've been working really hard to meet designers (and developers and users) where they are. Most of the time when someone asks how to contribute, we list the:

* Ideal way, easiest for us;

* Less ideal way, maybe a good middle ground;

* Difficult for us way, still possible, but likely to take longer to get incorporated;

It doesn't always work but it usually gives people a starting point. Also, on the plus side, it leaves little trails & tips all over the place on how they could contribute better.

My 0.02.
Kinect’s Exciting Future as a Musical Instrument
It remains, with its chemical relatives, off in a part of chemical science that's safe from human exploitation.

Although Sodium Azide is used in systems which save thousands of lives every year - car airbags.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_azide
I wonder why they used the OS 9 L & F? Was very odd seeing it start on a MacBook.
Stanford is closer to Sand Hill Road.
The whole affair is reminding me of how Ivy League colleges (and Oxbridge) work. They used to be places where the privileged, moneyed elite could educate themselves in relative privacy, save for a few exceptional commoners allowed in on scholarship.

Nowadays, the proportion of talented commoners to moneyed elite is considerably greater than it was even 100 years ago, but the basic principle remains: foster connections among the elites, and give them first crack at any emerging talent. This way anyone with a potentially destabilizing talent becomes attached to the existing power structure at an impressionable age. Better to invite them in and dilute the pool a bit than risk them draining it later.

Any commoners who don't work out, they will drop without hesitation.

I'm not saying this is evil. If you were among the elite, you'd probably do the same thing. And I also don't propose that this was all cooked in a room full of cackling conspirators rubbing their hands together. It's just the way a power structure works. From their point of view, I'm quite sure they see this as noblesse oblige: they're just reaching out, "giving back" and trying to help useful and interesting people succeed. But it nevertheless has embedded in it the idea that the most important part of success is meeting people who already have power.

And as the complainant in the letter writes, it sounds like all the hoi polloi ("Group B") at TED actually buy into this as well. Maybe he should be working on something amazing instead of hoping Bill or Steve or Sergey notices him.
Perhaps person Y thought that once you're in, you're in. Apparently the little people are on perpetual probation at TED.
> try to find PC hardware Windows won't work on

Sure, any ARM NetBook or tablet. But they're fixing that.
I produced for-profit conferences for years, including executive-level events. It's an invitation-only event. They have every right to do this.
Every user can invite up to 100 people who each get $10 if they sign up (thats a max of $1000 for 100 users). Hope that clarifies it a bit :)
is there a version of SwipeGood that rounds transactions up and puts that amount in a savings account? I'd love that.
google apps added. Github, Heroku, Balsmiq and Dropbox are already on the list.
I know of one that will be a major pain: the Apani VPN client. It's the only way to VPN into a Nortel VPN from OS X and has never been ported to Intel. It is the only reason I had to put Rosetta on Snow Leopard. I get the feeling it will likely never get an upgrade since it feels a bit like abandonware already. Here's hoping my employer switches to Cisco.
Actually, a lot of laptops have decent DACs. My thinkpad has an AD1984:

http://www.analog.com/static/imported-files/data_sheets/AD19...

With a SNR of 96dB, you should be able to get all your resolution out of anything originating from a CD.

HOWEVER,
Sometimes recording equipment drives inputs much better than cheaper chips, so you get that difference in sound quality.

I have some Audio Technica ATH-M40fs headphones that prefer pro stuff because of their 60 ohm impedance, but even on a laptop they sound great (Which for me means flat)
http://www.audio-technica.com/cms/headphones/7c784888146c212...

They also handle up to 1.6W power (8 times that of an AKG k240 :)
Records and structs can grow at runtime (insofar as immutable data structures grow).

user> (defrecord Foo [x])
user.Foo
user> (assoc (Foo. 1) :y 2)
#:user.Foo{:x 1, :y 2}

user> (defstruct foo :x)
#'user/foo
user> (assoc (struct-map foo :x 1) :y 2)
{:x 1, :y 2}
It looks like $10/referral up to 100 referrals. If they make $20/user/mo this is a no brainer.
I don't know if it's the "little people", but person Y knew that she was only going to TED because the donor had assigned a substitute. If the donor decided to go himself, or to send another substitute, why not? I don't see why person Y would assume the situation was permanent, when reading the one explanatory sentence person Y wrote immediately made me (an observer) understand otherwise.
> OS X version of VLC is unmaintained, because the mac community doesn't care about it...

Do you mean the Mac development community, or the Mac user community? Because based on my admittedly anecdotal research, i would say that the latter almost certainly do care. Why none of the developers have stepped forward, i don't know -- maybe they feel like their talents would be wasted given the past administration of the Mac client? Maybe they think it's a hopeless cause? Have the VLC team made it clear what sort of developer they're after? Do they want someone to just expose their functionality changes to the OS X version, or do they want someone to take charge of the OS X version, in the same way that Transmission's Mac UI team take charge of their OS X version?

> Editing a NIB and not making it open source, is near useless for the community...

Of course it is. But why do you think people do that? If they felt that the work they were doing anyway could influence the design direction of the official VLC project, wouldn't they jump at the idea? Almost certainly they would. They don't because they feel like no-one at VLC cares about their work. (And given that the OS X version is unmaintained, i guess that's true.) They don't know that they have the opportunity to use their talents to make more meaningful contributions to VLC.

> Not to mention that the developers don't have to court those people, it should be the other way around... They should propose their design. This goes for everyone, developers, translators, technical writors... Why would designers be different?

There is a well-known path for developers to submit their contributions. Everybody knows it, it's understood, it's easily accessible for people who do their sort of work. A designer is less familiar with these processes.

Not only that, but a designer can't implement their changes on their own. Any random developer can look up a bug on a tracker and write a self-contained patch that gets merged with the trunk and then boom it's fixed. That's not how interface design works. A random designer can submit mock-ups or image files to a bug tracker, but they require another person -- a developer -- to actually put their ideas into action. This is a much larger barrier to entry.

> Finally, about the transcode part, this is not a designing issue, but a usability issue...

It is not an aesthetic issue, no. But the work flow -- the steps you need to take to complete an action -- is another aspect of interface design.
I don't like how he points at the negative 10 year VC return numbers as implied proof his strategy is superior. On the other hand I don't know why I'm arguing against someones alter ego.
Flash Player Molehill preview released
Im a designer and I would be happy to contribute to open source projects. contact johnatjohncozendotcom if interested.
How Facebook can become a bank through YC.
It seems like Apple have discovered Terminal Services, or the basic networking functionality in X11.

Hopefully it'll be much shinier than X11 and less restrictive than Remote Desktop Protocol.
If you install the Incubator release of the player, there are some live demos to try out at http://away3d.com/away3d-4-0-alpha-release-broomstick
USA Inc. 2010 Income Statement
I don't think that it's a necessity, but we're talking about the Romans, who are pretty notoriously paranoid about security issues since Rome was sacked by the Gauls. This concern seems in line with what I know of the general attitude of the average Roman citizen, especially if you're talking about slaves that came from the outer provinces, as most did in later years.

I just don't think you can ever be totally secure psychologically while you own slaves, but as I said elsewhere in this thread, there are a lot of things about the Roman mindset that are very difficult for the modern mind to identify with, so at best, this is marginally informed speculation on my part.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1802016
"Japan: To Fix Your Economy, Honor Your Failed Entrepreneurs"
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1803426

http://www.forbes.com/2009/05/29/japan-entrepreneur-conferen...
Bank of America already does this for their debit cards through their Keep the Change program.

http://www.bankofamerica.com/promos/jump/ktc_coinjar/
I found the review ridiculous but I wasn't expecting anything better from Pogue. Yet another case of non-Apple products bringing the worst out of Pogue!

It sounded like he was marketing the iPad more than reviewing the Xoom. His point? Copies the iPad neener neener neener!

The bezel on the Xoom is considerably smaller than iPad and has no hardware buttons but Pogue finds only the differences worth a ridicule.

The browser on the Xoom is way more desktop like than the iPad - Pogue won't give a damn about that either.

He is bent on making himself look stupid by sigthing the 5 vs. 11 scrollable desktops on Xoom and iPad when Android desktop is nothing like the I pad.

He found the similar iBooks and Google Books animation similarities amusing but chose to neglect the fact that you can actually buy a book or two on Google Book Store ;)

Wow. Just wow. Watch the video as well while you are at it.
I think he's acknowledging that there is still risk in his strategy, but that's it's not as risky as critics like to say.
If passing the test requires some specific skill or knowledge then passing the tests demonstrates that one possesses that skill or knowledge.
Whats the advantage over typing a money transfer order in the online interface of your bank?
Here are some stats on teacher pay:
http://www.epi.org/economic_snapshots/entry/webfeatures_snap...

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/teacher-pay-aro...

So while we may spend more on education, the delta is not going to teachers.

I suspect admin is a big part. There's a big controversy here in Seattle, the second in recent years where there was either large corruption or tens of millions of dollars that disappeared (the last ended up in the super of the school district losing his job -- the Seattle Times has asked for the current super to either resign or be fired).
No mention of the (likely) most common mistake, 'sl' instead of 'ls'.

Its no type, its a steam locomotive. http://www.freebsdsoftware.org/games/sl.html
What Stock Option Pricing Models Tell You about Courting Controversy
Photostream from ISS astronaut Paolo Nespoli
He also tweets - https://twitter.com/Astro_Paolo/

via http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/02/27/a-...
A reader of the list.
The hard part of any startup is execution. How will this person contribute to your execution? What is your plan to finish beta 1 and get users to sign up? Will this person get you there sooner?
As with any project, you have to have a plan and milestones. Then you can start this person out with a small percentage. Give additional percentage as incentives to complete milestones.
Make sure you leave some behind to attract other people to join you!
> Over time, I started seeing fewer eye-opening talks and more politically focused ones. Now, while I still regularly check TED, it's a very mixed bag.

Is that because eye-opening ideas and correspondingly talks don't come out as often as TED conferences are scheduled? Also, a lot of amazing insights only become insights years after the ideas are proposed and collectively understood by society.
Bank of America does this with their Keep The Change program.
Previous submissions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1148425 (with discussion)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1560128
I really can't understand how the people that are participating in this discussion (on AVC and elsewhere) are failing to see this - especially given some of their CV's...

Fred has made three posts about marketing this week, and has missed the point on all three, despite being corrected by Seth Godin on the first day.

Am I alone in thinking that this is really scary?
I don't get why people are upvoting this. Didn't anybody read the article? It clearly says that the donor made a call and requested that person Y be uninvited. It's also very clear that the donor was not involved in inviting the person to the 2011 conference.

I sent a personal email to Chris Anderson, TED’s ‘curator,’ asking for an explanation. I got it. Here it is: I was uninvited to this year’s TED conference because the major TED donor I’ve referenced above and with whom, for reasons unknown, I have now not spoken to for more than two years (TED’s leadership tells me that this is because this person and I have had a ‘falling out’ of some kind) had seen my picture in the TED 2011 ‘Facebook.’ This person had called the conference organizers to express that my presence at the conference might result in this person feeling some ‘stress’ and – perhaps – not enjoying the conference as much as this person otherwise might..

Edit: No, it clearly wasn't just a matter of withdrawing sponsorship. It's right there two paragraphs further down the article. Please, just RTFA!

The point is that TED’s leadership was unwilling to run the risk of one of their biggest donors feeling ‘stressed’ at TED
too late. no basis for it anyway.
Sure, the users like it.. otherwise they would not have become your users. And sure your charity partners like it. Who wouldnt like to get money?

But "easy"... typing a money transfer order in the online interface of my bank is easy. Giving away ~50cent everytime I use my credit card is a much more complex thing.

How much do you keep from that money? Is there something about your business model anywhere?
I would think it would be impossible for her (and the then-boy) to not be aware, unless they are now dead.
I read recently that 90% of HTTPS traffic for Google properties <> Chrome is handled using SPDY. Interesting also that Google continues to put more and more of their properties on HTTPS.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/spdy-dev/TCOW7Lw2scQ

I think Chrome is useful for them for just this reason, rather than solely trying to cajole others, they can just do things. I imagine this will continue to accrue benefits to them for quite some time.
The worst I've done is unplug the internet connection of an ISP, who happened to be a competitor of the company I was working at. Not a good day at all...
And out of all the apps I use there was only one that triggered the Rosetta prompt; an open-source disk usage utility called Disk Inventory X.

For what it's worth, the website (www.derlien.com) for this project still calls the universal binary version "beta," but it's been that way since 2006 and has worked just fine.
I don't see how it is unreasonable to expect immigrants to adapt themselves to the country they voluntarily choose to enter.

I'm contemplating a move to Pune - if I go, I certainly wouldn't expect the Indian taxpayer to pay for me to learn Hindi. Adopting yourself to the local culture/conventions/language/etc is your job - if you can't handle it, stay home.
Esquire's not a magazine I'm particularly proud to be a subscriber to, but articles like this one are what makes it worth while.

They may be a trashy lads mag, masquerading as a high-brow product for upper class gentlemen, but for stories like this, few publications tell them better.
I disagree. The article gives the distinct impression that this is a marketing strategy - a very noble one, but I don't see how you could equate this to "throwing it away", as a moment's calculation will tell you it will bring in ~15000 new users.
Sometimes, I think that the only way to integrate them into a FOSS project is to have one lead designer who has ownership over the design and to have the coders work with that.
In the intrest of bi-lingual education could you explain what you mean when you come in talking about alignment? Developer here, and I would definitely be thinking 'right, left, center'?
It's largely the same at private schools. The budget crunch and parents who insist their children are A+ stars, often worse.

The big thing you don't have at private schools is often the child who can't speak English, or is special needs (whether learning or behaviorally). They simply reject them or kick them out.

To put it another way, you hear a lot fewer complaints from teachers in public schools that teach in the gifted programs.
Patterns Emerge From Chaos: Detecting underlying behaviors
Same, especially on Linux where I can just give it its own workspace, the lack of container window isn't a problem.
I think rich and powerful will always find subtle and less subtle ways to signal their status and power. Creating special clubs, with invite-only lists, and then exercise their power and influence in applying modifications to that list is one way to do it.

- "Say John, how many people have you uninvited today?"

- "Well, only 10. What about you?"

- "Ha! I just booted 20 attendees whose haircuts I found deplorable. Then invited this one cousin of a friend who is a blogger and maybe he'll say something nice about me and TED to his online audience."