skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, to be fair, the ability to send messages to the past really only becomes useful once such messages are receivable. For the messages to be receivable, we must know the properties of the medium that the messages are to be sent on.

Basically, this limits the very earliest that such backwards going messages can be received to around now-ish.[1]

As a consequence it may not be a paradox anymore, since there will be no point at which we can operate without a suspicion of future interference, thereby reducing the paradox effect, and in fact encouraging it by divining the outcomes of our actions. Of course this divining rapidly loses power anyway, as multiple messages are sent conflicting with one another - it gets messy quick. It gets messier quicker if you choose to go with a "many worlds" interpretation of the universe. Further, there are questions regarding observation: does observing a message from the future cement that future into being, possibly incurring an absurd chain of events but not causing any paradox (the 12 monkeys thing)?

What I am really driving at here is this: Your paradox claims are amusingly simplistic, the real deal here is that we just don't know enough to say.

[1] I am ignoring two big possibilities: 1. that this has been known for some time by, say, evil wall street bankers with secret labs (and their ilk -- governments, supervillians and such). 2. That there aren't aliens at some point in the very distant past whom we get messages to, and convince to do our bidding, who show up at various key stages of history an change everything. This may or may not have happened, depending on what you believe from the history channel (ancient aliens) and Stargate.
If you watch Fred's interview with Chris Dixon, you can see the honest regret of not having invested in AirBnB. My sincerest congratulations to the guys over at AirBnb for all of their success. It is truly a remarkable startup.
Assuming that your MMO gains enough momentum. Otherwise, the cost of setting up massive server infrastructure and distributed software, and hiring people to manage and moderate all of it, might well be more than you earn back every month.

Those odds are incredibly stacked against you:

- an MMO inherently requires a lot of the player's time, so the by-far most won't be playing more than one. Would they choose your game?

- network effects: players will usually flock to a game that has a lot of players already.

- people that know Elite are generally older with jobs, the target audience for MMOs are younger players with a lot of free time.

With EVE Online being the big elephant in this room, I doubt an Elite MMO will be much of a succes. Then again, feel free to prove me wrong, I'd probably sign up just for old times sake :)
Little things - A list of all the simple things we should appreciate.
If they're operating on a higher level of abstraction, surely they'll still need compilers in the presence of a JavaScript runtime - they'll need them to compile whatever higher level language they're using into Javascript!
A Robust, Reconfigurable Atomic Memory Service for Dynamic Networks
that code almost looks like it was generated by a wizard ( not the pointy hat/white beard kind) or some other nefarious RAD tool.
I'm honored to be mentioned, but am kinda busy at the moment. (There's another Twilio-using spa-helping revenue-generating app which wants my attention.)
This an amazing visualization that does well to bring home the impact of these quakes. I've never been scared just by looking at a Google Map before.
hate to be a stick in the mud, but aren't passwords hard enough to remember when they're not randomly generated?
An "instance in time" is simply the state of all energy at any one moment. I say "all energy" because our reality is comprised of 1) energy in many different forms and 2) space - the container of the energy.

To travel back in time would be to reverse the course of all energy - from the perspective of a segment of the energy. Given the total amount of energy in our reality - that's not very likely.
Find the meaningful stats in your company (customer churn rate, monthly revenue, etc) and show them to your investors.

If you are doing a bad job, they will scream bloody murder. If not, they don't care, and you are doomed anyway.
JAPAN: 'Greed' preceded nuclear crisis
This blog posting gives an overview; see the primary paper, Understanding policy in the great recession: Some unpleasant

ﬁscal arithmetic, http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/john.cochrane/research/Paper..., for more detail.
For a second I thought you meant that all variable names were a varying number of X's, and I almost crapped myself.
"The following six criteria must be applied when making this determination:

1. The internship, even though it includes actual operation of the facilities of the employer, is similar to

training which would be given in an educational environment;

2. The internship experience is for the benefit of the intern;

3. The intern does not displace regular employees, but works under close supervision of existing staff;

4. The employer that provides the training derives no immediate advantage from the activities of the intern;

and on occasion its operations may actually be impeded;

5. The intern is not necessarily entitled to a job at the conclusion of the internship; and

6. The employer and the intern understand that the intern is not entitled to wages for the time spent in the internship."

Source: [pdf] http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&v...
i've had really good luck w/ all the newborns i've had code for me.
This article pretty much sums up exactly the process I go through when wireframing a new web app. Personally, I use adobe fireworks to do this, and I've gotten fast enough with it that when I'm in the zone, I can express myself in it almost faster than writing it down or talking.

The most important point here, IMHO, is that wireframing should be done in a medium that you can change fast without much effort or fear.

This is why I don't like the whole HTML/CSS wireframing technique. That works great if you only have 1 or 2 directions to go in, but what if you're exploring 7? You end up having to manage 7 different html and css files. In fireworks, I just click "duplicate page" and nudge a few UI elements around.
It wasn't!
Living Social seeking $500M to compete with Groupon
Only for the UK, at this stage. No way to enter a US work phone number.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation
I've had a couple of people recently ask me about the exchange software about Smarkets so I wrote about one of the systems I still remember. I've poked the Smarkets team about writing more technical articles. I also just noticed that their web framework is now on github: https://github.com/skarab/smak
Oh, but buttons are fun. Especially ones that you push and things happen. The home screen is fun. The search screen is fun.

(and the big grey button on the ups in daddy's office is fun too. makes beeping noises.)

There should be a way to enable kid mode, and use the switch to disable the home button for a while. At least till he figured that out.
Since he is selling firearms, he'll be shipping to a FFL located in the state of the purchases. Buying firearms is (usually) highly regulated, so the background and ID checks to complete the purchase should rule out most chances of fraud.
Lesson 7 quit on me. How do I skip lessons? Ze mouze clickz, zey do nottingz.
When you said 'actual Java class name' I thought for a moment that those were actually classes in one of Java's libraries. I googled the names, though, and fortunately, they're not...
No, no, a hundred times no. "Am I Making Progress?" is the worst question you can ask yourself. It results in answers like:

"I've decided on which web framework to use, so yes."

"My tests now have 100% code coverage, so yes."

"I added a new feature that I think may or may not help 1% of my hypothetical customer base, so yes."

As someone who hasn't launched yet, it's easy to wrap yourself in the security blanket of "progress". But progress that doesn't involve customers paying you more money than yesterday is bullshit.

/me leaves to lock himself in his office until he launches.
> I would love to read more about that system and its implementation.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2332633
This is the best "Looking for Tech CoFounder" I've seen in a while on HN! I've been commenting on the bad ones and giving them advice on how to word it correctly. Thanks to this post, I can just reply in the future with a link to this thread. ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!

I so wish I were in a position to help you - I would use this service in an instant and can tell that you will be wildly successful. Sadly, I have to work full-time to pay my bills and I'm a rails guy, not a django guy.

Someone is going to be very lucky to get involved with you. Please come back and let us know when you get that hockey stick curve - it WILL happen - I'm CERTAIN of that.

FYI - if you decide to expand your offering to Southern California, please let me know. My email is in my profile. My fiance can get the spa's signed up - this would be a dream job for her (not partner - just sales rep).
He proposes the following scheme

* !Ial2eNwNaBatcIPTWI (Twitter)

* !Ial2eNwNaBatcIPFBK (Facebook)

* !Ial2eNwNaBatcIPLIN (LinkedIn)

Why would this be good? When a hacker sees the name of one site in the password, couldn't they simply guess the others?
Linaro: Using Linux in embedded systems
Gorgeous design; a tad reminiscent of Daytum (http://www.daytum.com/). One of the hardest tasks in this space is developing a consistent, usable and pretty visual representation of the data—you seem to have that sorted out. I can't tell if those are screenshots of an existing HTML interface or mockups, but if you can/have pulled that off then colour me impressed.
Again:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2332001 (since deleted)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2324245

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2321408 <- This one has lots of comments.
The implications for computing might be interesting as well... (Charlie Stross mentions this in some of his stories).
I meant for me personally
All great reads: http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/best-of

I've never heard of this guy, but I like him already. Anybody that can produce documentation of this level of quality for a relatively advanced codebase is a good person to have committing, or even just hanging around.
I'm surprised about the number of Vermonters on here, but I guess a post like this would bring them out. I'm in Rutland myself, but have business in St. Johnsbury / Lyndonville.
Why Use Nonverbal Cues?
you're entirely right bigsassy. the very polite woman in my post was definitely making "progess" - progress on her studies to create plans to set a schedule to discuss launching a site.

launch, launch, launch, launch.

marc
Did that guy just suggest reading Twitter and Techcrunch are requirements for being a web developer? Not impressed...
Most of these facilities are still in use. Some are occasionally decommissioned.

IIRC, one such place out in the woods, back east was decommissioned and purchased for use by amateur astronomers some years back.

They probably had a field day opening the door for the first time. The equipment was all stripped out prior, but I'm sure they got a kick out of the expensive wiring & elaborate shielding everywhere.
Britain's Chief Scientific Officer :  Tokyo you are ok.
I think progress means : How many users, pageviews, leads (or whatever other metrics matters to your bottom line) you are adding daily/weekly/monthly.
I'm always wary of free labor, mostly because I did some before so I know what it can feel like.

When you work for free, you never feel obligated to deliever or perform at your best because nobody is paying you, so if you get fed up you can just leave -- why put up with the bad environment? Sure it might be fun for a week or two, but people get bored, and it is usually monetary of personal incentives that keep us going. Working for free provides neither of these. It isn't my project, nor am I getting anything in exchange.

Now I'm not saying that he will be like this, but this flipside of mentality is definitely something to consider when you hire "free" labor.
only once a year pxl? that's better than i did! :)

marc
Definitely, but a point should be made that design patterns themselves are not a bad thing, quite the contrary, actually. It's overuse of design patterns that should be a crime. I came across some pretty difficult to understand abstractions, but fortunately nothing like the monstrosity that you described.
Exactly. It's totally a mental barrier as well. It took me a long while before I put up a simple donate via paypal link. That alone has generated $15k in revenue in basically the last year. Just putting that up took alot of guts, but it's been easy collecting donations to help bootstrap us along since then :)
Fair? Absolutely.

As has been mentioned though, you may miss out on some real gems.

I'm working hard to change it of late, but almost everything that I am most proud of has been done for intranet-work. I've built a number of quite impressive applications, all of which are shrouded in secrecy behind a firewall -- happily (and ably) servicing the requests of the customer. This means, of course, that none of that work is 'showable'.

I often ask permission of my customers to keep screenshots (with details obscured), and except for my government customers, most of them are pretty amicable, but of them, many won't allow it to be online where their competitors can see them.

Does this make me a sub-par developer? I don't think that it does. It does imply other things, of course, in that I might have trouble building to internet scale, for example, but I'm happy to SHOW you my work, it just might have to be in a zip file, or behind a password-protected website.
I was looking at the usgs data last night, so it is quite nice to see somebody else made a visualization of the data. I looked at usgs, and was quite surprised to see there were over 100 >5 magnitude earthquakes off the coast of japan in the past week. Most seemed to be relatively shallow (10-20km), so i can't imagine what it must be like there right now. This isn't something I've read about in the papers, and I can't imagine why not. A single one of these aftershocks would be noteworthy in Seattle, and it appears these are hapening nearly every hour. Incredible.
It is a Photoshop effect. Fortunately, if you focus on getting real paying customers, you can eventually afford people who are better and smarter than you and know how to create cool effects!
The Day I Made My First Sale
The problem with Bart is 1) cloth seats, and 2) a large homeless population. Not a great combination. There's been some talk of replacing the cloth seats with plastic seats, which will be less comfortable but much easier to clean. I'm not as creeped out by bart as you are, but it is kind of gross.

Vancouver is a great city, no question about it. I think San Francisco is bigger, more disgusting, more thrilling, and in my opinion uglier and more beautiful than Vancouver depending on where you're looking. Keep in mind that part of the reason for our homeless problem is that we're a magnet for the cast-offs of an entire nation with less of a support system than you have in Canada - it's not like San Francisco manufactures homeless people in some factory south of market and dumps them out on market street every morning. We're not purely innocent victims in all this, San Francisco has done plenty to earn that magnet status. Every now and then a mayors of some other city starts a kerfuffle by offering homeless people $50 and a one way bus ticket to SF (though SF actually used to bus its own over to Oakland).

I think a very well implemented national health care program can be a competitive advantage. The other things you mentioned seem less important to me, valuable at the margins, but not game changers in any way. It comes down to UBC vs (Stanford + UCSF + UC Berkeley). UBC is a wonderful university, don't get me wrong, but as long as the Bay Area has those three, it will be a huge player in high tech.
I totally agree, but we're on different wavelengths here. I've always had the impression that launching was the first thing you did, and progress was what happened after that.

And then there is that whole thing about results...
Code injection (SetWindowsHookEx, WH_CBT) and API hooking allows to filter out other programs requesting topmost display.

But this is intrusive. And it can be bypassed by other vendors, whether they workaround it by using other APIs/tricks or unhook their own process' APIs at runtime themselves.

As said here in this thread, the only way to ensure full control is to patch the kernel (Window management related syscalls). And even there it's tricky to be exhaustive.

VM is the safe way to go.
I've fallen into this trap as of late... definitely need to shut up and tinker...

There are so many wavering viewpoints and opinions on topics like Rails vs Django, what to use when, does your framework hinder acquisition possibilities, etc, that you can easily wander off path; Above all else: Play, build, learn.
Grow Your Company Like Google
Ask HN: Node.js developers, what projects have source code worth reading? 
I'm interested in how a good large Node.js project is laid out and written. Small projects with interesting source are welcome as well.
If you are not an existing Erlang user, there is no sudden change here that should drive you to try it specially. Erlang is a mature platform and is beyond that in the same way that Python or Ruby is beyond it; yes, the next version of Python or Ruby will have some nice improvements but they are extremely unlikely to have something that will make a non-Python or Ruby user suddenly cry out "Yes, suddenly this is an acceptable solution where it never was before!"

The big changes that struck me were for scalability of deployed systems, which a new user won't care about as they don't have deployed systems by definition. The 32-bit Erlang process memory space in a greater 64-bit system is really interesting in a number of ways. It's certainly a common Erlang deployment pattern where no one Erlang process needs more than even a handful of megabytes necessarily, but the system as a whole runs past several gigabytes by sheer scale of accumulated processes that themselves may only have hundreds of bytes allocated. I've also got a use for smaller SSL footprints.
IOS dev: View Details Of Any Issues During App Review
Nice modal dialog:

jPlayer 2.0.0 : id='jquery_jplayer_1' : Error! No solution can be found by jPlayer in this browser. Neither HTML nor Flash can be used. Review the jPlayer options: support and supplied. Context: {solution:'html, flash', supplied:'mp3'}

I'm using Firefox 4 without Flash plugin on Win7. Both VLC and QuickTime browser plugins are installed, so the site can throw any audio file at me that it wants. Too bad that it doesn't even attempt to do so.
You can't be a web developer unless you can code. I think a good exercise would be copying a website. When I say copy I mean the whole thing front end and back end. Start with something easy like twitter. The whole front end is pretty much done for you. This is not super simple but I don't think you can become a developer in 12 months with no code experience anyway.
Thanks. It's been a tough road...always going up hill. I hope your prophetic words ring true. We'll get to SoCal eventually...I'll be sure to knock on your door when we do.
Google changed the Chrome icon in the latest dev build
GroupOn Has a Drinking Problem
Hollrback: A Different Business Card For Every Situation
The PragProg books are great. Can anyone comment on the quality of their classes?
Seems like they're trying to improve communication with developers. Have you noticed how there's very little talk about how bad the review process is, how unfair, etc...?
I have never heard of that language before. But it really looks interesting!

You should also take a look at some of the examples:

http://code.google.com/p/pure-lang/source/browse/pure/exampl...

http://code.google.com/p/pure-lang/source/browse/pure/exampl...
You could restart them all again after your program is done. Of course, if the other programs do more than just display a message, which is hopefully on disk rather than just in RAM, then you'd still have data loss, so... yeah.
I just noticed it this morning. I saw my dock as and thought “What the hell happened to the Chrome icon?!”

The new icon is really terrible. It might look okay at 256×256, but the tiny little 48×48 taskbar icon looks like a child drew it in MS Paint. It is by the far the ugliest icon I have on my taskbar, desktop, and start menu combined.
Android Hacker (Koush) Rejects Interview Offer w/Sony for Fellow GeoHot
One thing I think is missing from that list.

Sign up for Lynda.com.

Find a subject for instance jQuery or PHP or JavaScript

Just watch it don't do anything to get a feel of the bigger picture.

Then Watch it again start doing some of the things and start to experiment.

That at least helped me learn to code although I am still very much a rookie.
How a Dadpreneur Found His Entrepreneurial Mojo
Actually the _id is usually created client-side so the timestamp will reflect when the application created the object rather than when it was processed by the DB. The only major exception is when the DB creates the _id for an upsert.
FIGURED IT OUT. Ad Blocker Pro was killing it. Apparently, it was thinking it was an ad. ;) Works now.
I just meant that financially MMOs are much more attractive for the publisher than a single player console game.

The cost of the infrastructure servers isn't high compared to the 1000s of man years salary to build a major game, and with cloud services it can scale so you only pay as new customers come in.

MMOs tend to be older players, mostly male in 30s. These are the audience that can pay $30-60/month without noticing. The Teenagers tend to be casual gamers and a bigger market for phones/consoles - especially 1-2 player games.
Actually useful.
There's no way 14 year old girls using Facebook are gonna figure out that shift+enter submits, all you'd see in that scenario is a bunch of people complaining about how they couldn't submit any commits... or not, as they wouldn't be able to submit.
I made a similar map the other day for the LA Times: http://lat.ms/gJWWEK. Starts Thursday at the 7.2, and has every fore- and aftershock magnitude 5+ (until late yesterday, I need to update it).

The nice thing about this guy's map is that the circles are huge, and they fade out.
Lessons Learned From The Old Spice Campaign & Its Imitators
Andrew,

What success or not have you had in going through the local Django/Python groups say meetup, etc?

Your choices:

1. Contractor that has built up savings for long-haul.
2. Contractor that has had one startup success already.
3. Current site attracting Incubator interest and low seed capital round.

VC wise it may be too niche..Lightbankk has a better place site called Betterfly(its also the startup name as LightBank is the incubator)..that is not niche based and seems to overlap your area.
Clojure Entity Component System
If you do the 'good/bad' candidate, 'buys/doesn't buy' the election grid then a system that prevents bad candidates from buying elections would seem to be sufficient. All the other results are tolerable / unavoidable.
Introducing discussions in Google Docs
There's a bug on the front page. First the mentions said 0, then I tried mentioning it and now it print out JSON. (http://i.imgur.com/zRC3i.png)

Otherwise it looks really nice. What metric services do you plan to integrate with?
Cool, it's good to have some more choice in this space.

I'm currently using Geckoboard, I really like their visual style and fast customer support, my main complaint with them is that they don't have that many custom widgets (yet).

Your data gathering and realtime features are nice to have, but for most of my statistics their ~3 min update speed is enough.