skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And also, a long discussion thread (571 messages at the time of posting) at the WebMasterWorld forums:

http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/4261944-15-30.htm
And a few of the students even donate all the money they get from Google Summer of Code program. Atleast one of my friend did this - http://www.python.org/psf/donations/ [ #2 Shashwat Anand ]
Irish insurance startup Chill.ie is hiring in Dublin
Still, the reason they doesn't support epub is most likely because it would make it easier to get books from sources other than amazon. The OP was finding it regretable that they have the motivation to do things like this.
IOS Programer needed
Need a competent programer who can finish a Clock Radio application with weather.
The application has a customized interface based on .png images.
This app must be stable, it should be able to run for weeks and have a reliable alarm.

The app is working now but has problems, I have redesigned version to make it simpler and need someone who can incorporate the new graphics and make the app stable.

The Clock and Alarm have a 24hr mode and a 12hr mode.

Location services need to be implemented for the weather, maybe should use Yahoo weather API (it is using weather channel now). We will possibly add the moon phase. the weather portion should work very close to the way apple weather works now.

Alarm accesses itunes library and the user can wake to itunes music.

The interface animates when a selection is made, there are no opening new pages, if a selection has been made the interface elements animate off screen as new menu items animate on screen.

Has custom volume and brightness sliders.

please submit samples of your work and your rate.

Thanks, Mark

support(at)beautifulclockradio(dot)com
Could I make it a Chrome extension? :P Could be official or unofficial, I have my bookmark bar hidden so an extension would fit better with my workflow.
Even with a rapidly-developing strong AI, though, humans have to give the initial machine the ability to limitlessly acquire resources and alter its own hardware. Despite the likelihood that a highly intelligent AI could easily convince some humans to do its bidding, the resource acquisition limitation gives me some measure of confidence that strong AI will not be the downfall of our civilization.

I would be more concerned about unexpected emergent behavior in our existing networks as more and more intelligence is added to various systems than a purpose-built self-modifying AI.
Google Pwn2Own... Apple is the first to fall every year.
Motorola Xoom now for sale at Verizon. $799($599 w/2year contract)
Matt, I've seen some high quality smaller sites (Internet versions of traditionally published books with original content) drop as well. Is there any place to submit such sites in order to help this algorithm improve?
3 Of The Best Free Pomodoro Productivity Apps
Everything I've read and heard indicates it's really not that cut-and-dried, what with the founder of Kik having been an intern at RIM and then basically re-implementing BBM.
Houston Startup Weekend - There right now
Great job. I found it immediately useful.

May I ask which api you are using? Your site has piqued my interest in domains.
Good luck finding deals off of Angel List, because those deals will be in companies run by very stupid entrepreneurs. If you’re an entrepreneur you’re going to embrace Angel List because that’s where the passionate, low-return driven money is.

Are you saying that if a startup would rather take money from someone like OATV then they are stupid entrepreneurs?

Good luck playing with your ball in that backyard with mommy. The rest of us are going to Naval’s playground.

Am I correct to think that Naval does an initial screen of applicants before sending them on to members of the list? If so, aren't you trusting Naval's selection bias / pattern matching? What if you don't want that as an investor?
http://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/41601641299984384

"we've still got several changes in the pipeline"

Matt, are these changes/domains related to the farmer update specifically or just in general? Any idea when we can expect to see something?
At least my reading of this was that the author was obviously just having fun with the idea that "Hey from just 4 points of data we can extract that the kindle will be free in nov 2011", however Jeff Bezos' reaction of "Oh you noticed", even if also somewhat in jest, was interesting enough for the author to ask in what ways would a free kindle be possible.

Even if Arrington's idea is a year and not a week old it certainly would seem to make sense, especially with Amazon adding free video to free 2day shipping with Prime.
I see, thank you. I'll look out for it also.
Did anyone else think "Wow, 2 years already"? (I remember people claiming the moratorium was a signal of Python's demise...)

I'm happy about PEP 380, it seems like they might as well do PEP 3152 as well since they're highly related...
> Yet in ways, this paper seems like a confession that he's reached something of a brick wall with the problem.

If "the problem" is that of providing accurate, fully static types for this type of transform, then of course yes. ;)

I think the end result is improved (easier to learn and more flexible) for consciously relaxing that goal, however.

(Edit to muse: I think 'relaxing' is a far more intelligent & interesting approach to overly-ambitious goals, as opposed to 'abandoning'.)
Dr. Sudoku Prescribes: Thermo-Sudoku
disclaimer: one of the "apps" featured (tomato timer) was created by me in the past
Not really. Unfortunately, while the Nazi doctors did a lot of stuff, it was almost all useless to the scientific community because they didn't really apply the scientific method. There are only a few citable results, in particular the Dachau hypothermia experiments (for example), and even those are rarely used for obvious political concerns. So actually, the Nazis have not advanced modern medicine very much at all.
Libya's 'Love Revolution': Muslim Dating Site Seeds Protest
This is a disingenuous comparison. AngelList is a community, while Google Finance is merely an aggregator of many other communities.
You Can’t Play a New Media Game By Old Media Rules
As a single live-alone late 20s male, I do not understand this position. eHow's content often seems perfectly tailored to people like me (I suck at cooking, carpet stain removal, calcium buildup removal, ..., all questions I've found perfectly satisfactory answers to via eHow).

In the meantime I'm deeply disappointed to see that the collateral damage of a change largely driven by a problem I don't understand includes faqs.org losing most of its ranking.
The race to the bottom in iOS gaming
An interview with Rob Janoff, designer of the Apple logo
Why I never design a site in Photoshop
A Patrol for the Web’s Playgrounds
I've been on the receiving end of this complexity explosion

Count me in. Been there with Twisted and (partly) EventMachine.

Imho node should really abstract this away before the eco-system turns into a giant spaghetti ball. Of course you can't bend javascript into a concurrency model as elegant as erlang's. But co-routines or a similar abstraction is urgently needed at least for the code that the users end up writing.

On a related note; I recently switched to coffeescript in an effort to bring my (still small) node codebase back into a half-way readable state.

The simple act of removing most curly brackets had an astonishing impact on readability. I still have to reason about callback chains, but at least I no more have to wade through half screens full of closing brackets while doings so.

That observation was a bitter-sweet reminder of what I'm (willfully) getting myself into with node - all the while keeping my fingers crossed that this wart on an otherwise beautiful environment will be improved asap.
My Big Fat Greek wedding, cost $3M to make, grossed $400M and made a loss!

Forest Gump made so much of a loss the writer refused to do a sequel since he didn't want them to lose money

But that's nothing compared to universal selling the DVD rights to spiderman for $1 to universal so that Stan lee didn't get a cut.
Donald Norman's videos for "The Design of Everyday Things"
I appreciate the positive outlook expressed in these letters, and it's helpful to reflect on progress our society has made in so many areas.

Coca-Cola's performance is striking. In 2011 you can still make a fortune, as Steve Jobs put it, 'selling sugar water to children.'[1] Does Mr Buffett care about, or even consider, the public health and social costs of the success of Coke and its products?[2]

Philip Morris has traditionally had strong financial performance as well. It's safe to say drug dealers can be financially successful. Should we be celebrating that fact?

I admire Mr Buffet's modest, down-to-earth style. He seems proud that his investment in BNSF will promote the greater good. I wish he had that goal for all his investments.

[1] Jobs was referring to Sculley's work at Pepsi, of course. http://www.pbs.org/nerds/part3.html
[2] Lustig, Sugar, The Bitter Truth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
Perhaps we should just leave it at "there are humans that can do incredible things, but most humans just sit around and argue about who should be allowed to do incredible things, who should be allowed to allow these things, and who should get credit for those things if they ever happen to get done."

In that context, the technical wizardry isn't the miracle, the miracle is that the stupid monkeys could cooperate long enough to actually get it done.
US Web Giants target China
How Social Media Is Pushing the Limits of Legal Ethics
with all those nasty unions stealing all your money it's amazing that the executives want to carry on running the airline - it must be the pure love of flying that keeps the CEOs in the job
When the value it provides to the customer becomes less than how much you're selling it for. If someone is able to make >$20 (and the cost of their time) as a result of buying that book, then it's worth it.
Minecraft hit another tipping point? Systems overloaded
Yeah, but a DX is still going to cost the earth AND be taxed by customs for UK buyers!
Prime is great if you're going to use the free 2-day shipping feature, but Amazon streaming is horrible IIRC. It uses Flash, and I'm guessing doesn't have the selection Netflix does.
I don't go on reddit often enough to have any idea about the uptime, but out of curiosity, do you think there's anything that could give someone the impression it was worse recently?
That's not the impression that I got, but I guess that's just a testament to how customizable the experience on AL can be.

Perhaps a closer analogy would be something like WealthFront. I can choose to follow certain money managers and co-invest with some if I feel like it. Some are heavily into equity, while others are pursuing commodities. But to call it a community and look for WealthFront investment philosophy would still be a stretch.
I'd be much more interested in seeing the differences in median wealth (for the population as a whole, and broken down by race/ethnicity), adjusted for inflation.

The term "wealth" refers to "private assets (such as savings and property) minus debts. It is what you own minus what you owe. In other words, it is net assets. Income, on the other hand, refers to wages, salary, interest that you earn, Social Security benefits, etc."

"In the 22 years between 1976 and 1998, the share of the nation's private wealth held by the top 1% nearly doubled, going from 22% to 38%. During those two decades, the size of the overall "wealth pie" grew, but the ownership of that wealth is now more concentrated than at any time since the 1920s."

Source: http://www.osjspm.org/101_wealth.aspx#6

The stats above are kind of dated, but I'd be willing to bet the disparity in wealth between the richest and poorest in America is even more pronounced now.

Here is a measure of the increase of "U.S. median family net worth by percentile of net worth" from 1989 to 2007:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/MedianNet...

From:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_in_the_United_States
Approximately 60% of all questions on #ruby-lang could have been answered by ri, just for the core and stdlib. It's a shame it doesn't get used more.

It's an orthogonal problem, though. The main issue with doc generation is that it is really, really slow (compared to the rest of the install process). If it can be sped up – patches are surely welcome – it'll just leave the envs that flat-out don't need the docs, ever, and those can use the new --no-doc.
Close. An online brokerage firm is probably a better example than Google Finance, because they both give you the information and facilitate the transaction. The firm selects the numbers to they show you that they think are relevant to the decision, and the means to make the decision. If you want to look at other numbers, it is up to you so find them by digging through reports or looking at other tools.

With AngelList, you get what AngelList thinks are the most relevant pieces of information, and it's up to you to contact the entrepreneur to verify information or get more information if you want. AngelList thinks that social proof is one of the most relevant pieces of information, so that's what you get.

The obvious problem with turning off AngelList is that with ETFs and public companies, there are many portals to get information and invest, while with startups, there is currently only one.
I have to give props to Sriram...I usually don't get the NYTimes calling me about being in a story. He sold them all on his own. Great personal effort on his part.
This is a great demonstration of the fundamental issue with node. His code goes from:

function insertCollection(collection) {
for(var i = 0; i < collection.length; i++) {
db.insert(collection[i]);
}
}

To this:

function insertCollection(collection, callback) {
var coll = collection.slice(0); // clone collection
(function insertOne() {
var record = coll.splice(0, 1)[0];
try {
db.insert(record, function(err) {
if (err) { callback(err); return }
if (coll.length == 0) {
callback();
} else {
insertOne();
}
}
} catch (exception) {
callback(exception);
}
})();
}

Hopefully this article will work as an eye-opener for anyone who was not yet convinced that node badly needs a concurrency abstraction.
Redis Sharding at Craigslist
another lesson could be: "don't make a site that appeals to people who use ad-block. revenue won't keep up with demand."
Google isn't necessarily cheating.

Perhaps, just perhaps, when people search Google for those things, they really do prefer the Google.com results that come up. It's a name they already know and trust, so clicking the link seems like a no-brainer. They don't need to cheat to get their own results to head to the top of the list.
And Snow Leopard was only $29 if you had Leopard.

Most expensive Service Pack I've ever bought, though.
1) Split your work, so that you don't have to be in the same room all day.

2) Do spend time with your co-founder which has nothing to do with your startup. Watch movies, relax, have fun.

3) Have other friends who are totally different.
another troll article
as expected
> I disagree. The speed is definitely a big part of the problem, but there is also space to consider. Yes, drives are big and space is cheap (relative to many other things), but it's not nothing, and on a production system, there is zero reason to have the docs take up space.

“Production system” isn't the default. Given improved speed, you can --no-doc it on your production systems.

> Additionally, now that we all use bundles, gemsets and who-knows-what to isolate and manage gems, we get massive, massive duplication. See for example, the output of this gist: https://gist.github.com/834302*

Choosing to use external tools that behave poorly with Gems isn't without its tradeoffs, nor germane to this.
Why is it cloud everything now?
When you put ethernet, make sure to use Cat6 or Cat7 - it costs more now, but will serve you far longer. Do that at least to the farthest places in the house (so you can put the wifi access points). Or to every room -- you can use them also as speaker cables, wired phone cables.

Also, I've seen a few places with collapsible walls - one of them had a wall between the livingroom and a bedroom, that was collapsible (so that they become one room), and had a flat screen tv in the middle that could rotate (so it would point either at the bedroom or the livingroom) and would collapse to be on the side wall when the whole thing collapsed.
I know this is an aside, but if there were ever a Disqus comment thread that came close to the conversations on HN for quality, the one at the end of this article would pretty much be it.

Some heavyweights have weighed in with some insightful thoughts, there's far more signal than noise, and a variety of opinions on offer. Well worth the read!
My first three days with a data plan
#define TRUE FALSE //Happy debugging suckers

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618?tab=votes#tab-top
Beware the Google Adwords sharks
I assume you would succeed if your target audience is willing to accept that you will be filtering information that they've given to someone else for reasons other than dating (at least it's better than the "dating site" that scraped Facebook for prospects).

It's possible. I would guess that people would be willing to take this "deal" if they believed that they'd be guaranteed that others also have to take your deal. However, aside from a person's desire to present themselves as they choose rather than as you choose, the problem might that some would create Facebook accounts only for dating and thus control their presentation better than the average person who wouldn't bother. But perhaps your users wouldn't consider such deviousness (and don't tell me you'd filter those people out - the account themselves could perfectly real, just accounts only created for a purpose).

Personally, I wouldn't accept this since I want to control how I'm represented. I don't fully trust Facebook but I might trust them with something things. I don't trust you but I might trust you with some other things. Giving you and those like-you my FB information means that I'd have to suddenly start putting unlimited in both FB and you. Maybe some people are OK with unlimited trust and "openness". I doubt there will be increase in such people over time - I could be wrong.
We tend not to pre-announce ranking changes, because priorities and timing can always shift. But broadly speaking, anything I mentioned in my blog post a few weeks ago at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/google-search-and-sea... is still open for improvement. The topics of that post included scrapers/copiers, spam, and low-quality sites.
ESR's insight is almost trivial on the surface, but reveals a deep understanding in the same sort of way Eliezer Yudkowsky demystifies most nonsense philosophical questions.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/no/how_an_algorithm_feels_from_insid...
http://lesswrong.com/lw/of/dissolving_the_question/

The real problem to address is not finding the answer to "mysterious" questions, but understanding the algorithm that makes our brain categorize those questions as such.

I have had somewhat the same realization ESR gives here, but never so transparently elucidated. With no irony, I translate the statement he addresses into a mathematical like nature: "Out of formal models capable of giving predictive powers to informal models, there exists a (unique?) maximally such predictive model."

Proving the maximality is then easy if we simply define "maximally predictive" to be "best we've done so far!" (I do not think it is an interesting question to ask whether there is some sort of fuzzy idea of partial order on predictive power, or if this partial order has multiple maximal elements.)

The existence statement is the real beautiful reduction, to me, showing the absurdity of the original question. What ESR describes to me is precisely a kind of selection bias; we ignore talking about "predictive formal models" for all the situations mathematics has not come galloping in as saviour!

This latter argument is eerily similar to one of the arguments given forth by Dawkins when I read his The God Delusion as a child and turned atheist. Namely, the idea that I was already an atheist to every other religion out there, so why not go one further? The power of such arguments to actually sway and rethink my opinion as an advertised rationalist makes me tremble in their powers, curious whether this effectiveness is deserved, or somehow a way to hack a rationalist's brain.

I feel and believe ESR answered reasonably well the question he also posed fairly well, but my mind can't help screaming "Is an almost trivial reformulation really all there is to it?!" This is not so much my expression of doubt as of awe.
Yes (thus the delay in my response). I hired in two groups between weeks 5 and 7, and have since had 1 person leave. One of the employees is a manager.

FWIW, in Corporate America the most people I managed was 4 contractors. I'm aware of an entrepreneur in another state who has ramped to 500+ employees in less than a year.. that's way too fast for my style.
Nice job that's really sweet.

NASA has an excellent Flickr photostream and you could incorporate it and the Astronomy Picture of the Day pretty easily as well.

I know it's called NASA Tweets but aggregating more content could make this the only place I need to visit when contemplating space travel.

Cool project!
I agree and I keep hearing people say node should use co-routines but I did not think that co-routines where available until javascript 1.7. Would it be possible to implement them without support in V8?
Based in Austin, TX... if anyone's around for SXSW I'd be happy to meet up.
Really interested WHY eHow wasn't hit harder, especially compared to Wisegeek. Maybe eHow tends to rank for more obscure, less competitive stuff than Wisegeek... So the more search volume for a keyword, the more the algo punishes a content farm? Or maybe the more ad real estate, the more careful the algo is to let you in (wisegeek ads are beyond aggressive)? If anything, this should be a major vote of confidence for DMD.
"The early bird may get the worm; but the second mouse gets the cheese."
I disagree. The reason you get a lower valuation from Angel Groups is because they act as a group so they have more power to put in more cash and to determine your valuation. Angel List is not an angel group by any means. They do not act as a group and using them is like talking to many individuals. It's just a more efficient way of doing so.

[In the past I have presented and received offers from Angel Groups and from Angel List.]

"it just produces valuations that more closely reflect the consensus of the times. The true value of the startup's equity has little to do with it."

This is a strange statement. How do you determine the "true value" of a startup's equity without the consensus of the times ie. the market? :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort combined with windows auto-run would seem to already be an example of this in the wild.
headlines dependent on subjective interpretation = bad
Plus with another few million kindles out there you approach some newspapers about a special kindle subscription deal
> The biggest feature the interface adds is the ability to restrict the results by whether or not a recipe contains a particular ingredient. I don't think that this is very interesting or useful. Did anyone who really cooks use this?

This is, in fact, exactly the way I cook: "I want to make something with couscous and feta cheese", or "I want to make something with pasta and chicken". I find this search extremely useful, since it's the sort of search I've never felt was adequately implemented on other recipe search sites I've tried.
Don't want to give away the farm yet.. I'll say broadly it's professional services. It's an obscure niche full of NDAs, a culmination of my past jobs in different industries. Will share more as I can. Sorry for lack of specifics.
Wealth distribution isn't the same as wealth though.
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