skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course. Closures are, after all, a poor man's objects[1].

[1] http://codermonk.blogspot.com/2007/01/venerable-master-qc-na...
Green Buildings Software Startup, Retroficiency, Closes $800,000 Seed Financing
Unlike B-school they have to be cheap though. What I would like to learn:

-Basic Finance , statistics, accounting

-Awareness around incorporation etc.,

-Hiring: how to get the right people

.. Any more?
Being shy about how much I make
"I went out for dinner last night with two friends in my field, and had the most bizarre realization that I make way more money than they do."
It's impossible for me so far to picture how a dual-OS system will benefit users. I keep hearing about some ability to boot the "little" OS when you just want to surf the web a little... that sounds horrible and I don't at all understand why you wouldn't just unsleep the machine from the "big" OS instance and use that. Is it just that sleep mode doesn't work well? ... So we're gonna throw on a whole other OS, too, to mitigate that? Surely I'm missing something because this sounds ludicrous.
The iPad 2 isn't shipping yet (it begins on march 11). So it would be more accurate to say that he does so when he's really close to shipping it, not on the day he is shipping it.
Its astonishing how good the engineers built this device and such other devices like the land rovers.

Anyone know the specs of Voyager? What sensors it actually has on it?
For another good example of a kinectic logo that works, check out this:

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662367/wolf-olins-creates-a-mov...

and this:
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662139/pentagrams-luke-hayman-o...
This whole situation reminds me a bit of the content farming issue with Google. Most patent farms are manifestly bad. The whole model is ripe for abuse. But there is still an extent to which some of the players contribute.

In the extraordinarily unlikely event that the patent system is reformed in the near future, it seems likely that IV in particular wouldn't have much trouble pivoting. Unlike the bona fide trolls, which are boiler room IP arbitrage operations, IV is staffed with actual smart people; whatever the new bar became for defensibility, you'd figure they'd clear it.

As for right now, I just remind myself that while the term of a new patent may seem like a lifetime, it is actually far shorter than that, and to the extent that patents incentivize people to populate the marketplace with viable implementable new ideas, shops like IV are probably a good thing.
I thought it was well known that sleep plays a very important role in learning?
Even more disconcerting is the sleeping culture/routine throughout medical residency and fellowship; arguably, the most important stages of medical education, where doctors in training learn the hands-on skills to practice medicine. Despite the importance of learning during this stage, individuals are routinely sleep-deprived:

"20% of all residents reported sleeping an average of 5 hours or less per night, with 66% averaging 6 hours or less per night. Residents averaging 5 or fewer hours of sleep per night were more likely to report serious accidents or injuries, conflict with other professional staff, use of alcohol, use of medications to stay awake, noticeable weight change, working in an "impaired condition," and having made significant medical errors."
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15124713

A Wikipedia article focused on medical resident work hours: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_resident_work_hours
Build app to make science more open and win 10k (or a quadricopter)
You're right. It was a noob question. It is a bad idea to hold open an HTTP connection waiting for a long-running job to complete. Good luck with your design, though.
Considering he's a fairly active user on stackoverflow it seems like kind of a silly thing to do.
More likely it has to do with the GUI stuff that you wouldn't want on a server.
Mobile Safari
Can't pre-load sound files, only plays one sound at a
time, severe lag, timing issues, clicks & pops,
completely ignores every other call to play a sound,
doesn't support Ogg/Vorbis. Utterly useless for anything.
Oh, and did I mention it doesn't support Ogg/Vorbis?*

More specifically Apple has crippled the Audio API by disabling the autoplay option, and disabling the JavaScript .play() function. This makes it completely impossible to build web games, or web apps that have any sort of audio feedback in Safari on any iOS device.

Presumably they've done this to prevent web games from becoming popular and eventually dethrone the App store.
As i know, normal price for not fart app is about $1.99, it's golden mean.
Hmm, 32 hour ping time.

I wonder if they can do another photo of the earth or if it would be pointless.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot

("only" 6 billion km away in 1990)
I'm not making the argument that giving a package a static label makes it better, I'm arguing that it makes it more consistently identifiable. When you're trying to figure out what's breaking your system, consistency is the key to isolation.
I haven't had a chance to play with it yet, but has anybody done anything with the VMWare imports?

Specifically, I'm curious how you have a virtual image that isn't ephemeral, or, put differently, how you specify what goes onto EBS and what doesn't.

It's kind of hard to keep up with everything Amazon has going on right now -- I was investigating the prospect of whether or not to implement something like CloudKick to manage scaling, and lo and behold, Amazon offers AutoScaling. I remembered having seen the announcement, but with everything they're doing, even though it's a high signal to noise ratio, there's so much signal it's hard to keep sorted.
Ask HN: Good way to accept credit cards online? 
What are your experiences with the various methods of accepting payments?

1. Ease of setup? Specifically interested in any solution that can keep people on our site.

2. Fees?

3. Customer Service?

4. Hassle when things go wrong?

5. Customer perspective?
The title given by OP is misleading. The title of the actual blog post is: "Ubuntu Netbook Edition folded into Ubuntu for next release"

According to the blog post: "To be clear, this is the opposite of us withdrawing from the netbook market. ... The introduction of the new shell for Ubuntu means that we have a user interface that works equally well whatever the form factor of the PC."
Interview with Guy Kawasaki about Enchantment
DuckDuckGo chat bot: imddg.gg
At a time when I was sleep deprived I felt completely OK. When I caught up on the sleep I felt worse. I think it's because sleep deprivation also deprives you of the ability to notice the negative effects well enough.

That's probably not what's happening with you if you naturally sleep 5 hours per night without an alarm though. If you are using an alarm, you should try sleeping as long as your body feels like for two weeks. Don't block sunlight from your windows, let the sun make sure you wake up if your body thinks you've slept enough. If your body thinks you are still not rested, it will keep you asleep even in sunlight.
Yet people perform worse mentally without sleep - why would that be if sleep was not vital to mental performance? Have you never needed a nap or coffee to refresh your mind? Do you deny a physical influence on mental faculties?
I think there is a kind of availability heuristic effect going on here. You hear about people who regularly pull all-nighters because they do boast about them so that it seems more prevalent than is actually the case.

You don't hear the student bragging about how he got enough sleep last night and got all of his work done ahead of time.

I'm an undergrad at Stanford and I think that if you plan ahead well enough it isn't difficult to get enough sleep and get all your work done. It's not only about managing time during the term, but also about managing which classes you take together term-to-term.

There is also something to be said for developing endurance. Eventually you're going to have to do something you don't want to do while incredibly tired.. so pulling all-nighters is a kind of training for that.
Google itself stated something like: "build the best website and we'll change our algorithms if needed".

It's an endless game between Matt Cutts his team and SEO spammers but I bet long term on the first one.
Is this the North Korean people's chance to do the hump?
Exactly. Great content gets you like 95% of the way. The advanced, fiddly tactics are for the other 5%.
It was for the Sencha blog!
Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 Beta Free Download with Genuine Activation Key
Getting 50% of your traffic from search isn't a success, that's actually kind of bad (depending on the details of course, which weren't given).
Edit: Whoops. My sarcasm detector is broken.

Coffee++
Massive picture of the Sun
Thanks. Sometimes writing can convey a sense of objectivity which is not really justified. It can be a kind of affectation, which I've been guilty of, and can come off as pretentious or even bullying. My post had a pseudo-objective tone, but it was my personal reaction as well.
Step #1: Pick a market that isn't saturated by companies that are hypnotized into selling services below cost.

Step #2: Deliver a technology product into that market.

Step #3: Charge money for the product.

You can skip Step #1 (like 37signals did), but why cause yourself undue stress? All the customer money is outside the echo chamber.
Hard to believe that the video is real. Some of the other findings are pretty interesting though.
Yes, there is also 15 cents worth of milk and energy in it.
He was my undergrad advisor, and I have to say, he never convinced me.
VeriFone Takes The Gloves Off, Accuses Square Of Serious Security Hole
port over the adobe suite and textmate, maybe some other dev tools and you will kill the market...
yeah this is not what I am thinking of, I want some header files or something
Consider the tablet OSs competing with each other these days: iOS, Android, BBOS, Windows 7 and webOS. Out of those, only Android is built from the ground up to be customizable to any meaningful degree and I fully expect that within a year we'll see a dizzing array of tablet form factors with Android: 7" screens, 10" screens, dual screens, netbook-like clamshells, slide-out keyboards, thin glass slabs and who knows what else. A 10-12" Android clamshell is perfectly cable of replacing the majority of netbooks.

Expecting everybody to use the same identical glass slab is no different from expecting everybody to use the same phone, same TV or the same car model. It's not going to happen and Android is the only OS cable of the flexibility required to meet this demand.
Old technologies indeed. It looks like an Apple Newton mated with a Nintendo DS.
Free Download: Web Application Security for Dummies
Why the Facebook-Warner Bros. deal matters
If you read the article, it's clearly not intended to be a "resource for learning about Haskell". It's a gentle introduction to monads for people who don't want to read Haskell code.
The earth takes up only one pixel on that image, that's kinda its significance.

Now they're 11 billion km further away, the earth is obviously never going to be detectable using that camera.

Maybe they could do "Pale Blue Dot II" when it's sufficiently far from neptune.
Nook could, possibly, become a business model on its own. It has merit as a stand-alone product and general audience will be willing to shell out $250 for a tablet. If trend catches on, economy of scale will kick in and B&N may start making decent profit on it.

On the other hand, you can't exactly market a barcode scanner to the general audience...
It's interesting that in this post about "Simple SEO" he does a bunch of "advanced" things that aren't mentioned -- highly optimized page Title and URL (which appears intentional as it does not match the blog post title), post title optimized for social media sharing and CTR, a version that's too large for most blogs so that bloggers will link to it (with optimized mouse-over text to boot). When he references on-page factors and then says "I used to worry about these above factors" -- well, it feels a little dishonest to me.
80+ Can't Miss Things To See & Do at SXSW 2011
Android usage grows 1580% in Europe, outsells iPhone and BlackBerry
Since we don't have In-n-Out in Texas, I was excited to try one out. On a trip to Las Vegas, I made the walk to the one on the other side of the highway, from the strip.
It was mediocre at best and I never really saw what the big deal was.
What really surprised me was Fat Burger. I only knew about Fat Burger from the Ice Cube song, "Today was a good day." I thought it was some made up place, like Big Kahuna Burger. Fat Burger was good stuff and if you have a chance, get one of those!
Google Map Link: http://bit.ly/i6GuZi
Oh well, I at least appreciated the humour.
Placebo effect, more than anything else.
The sound of mspaint.exe when interpreted as PCM audio data
5 Tips For Launching Your Web App In Record Time
your irony detector must be broken.
Not that it's at all related to HP, because they aren't anything more than a niche player in that segment, but Microsoft used to use talking about stuff that wasn't shipping to great effect to beat up on their competitors: even if the competitor shipped sooner, everyone would wait around to see what Microsoft shipped.
MIT Student Inventor Alice A. Chen Receives Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
You can take a look at Dan Ariely's fascinating talk about the topic from DLD
http://www.dld-conference.com/videos/video/predictably-irrat...
I'm very cool with that, and I especially agree that there are many paths to success. IBM was especially famous for pre-announcing things to undermine the competition. Microsoft picked that up as well, and it was an effective business strategy.
I've only got one word for this guide: Refreshing
Great content gets you like 95% of the way

File this away next to "A good product is 95% of marketing" and other patently untrue things engineers like to believe.

Quality content and linkable content, for example, are not coextensive sets. You could write the world's best guide ever to cross-stitching school uniforms (did I just make that up?) and you'd get less links than DHH gets for not cursing during a Rails keynote. If you're doing SEO and you haven't figured out that linking behavior is very different in different audiences, I'm as worried for your future as I would be for a salesman who was doing high-touch enterprise software sales for rooms full of third graders.

There are also easy ways to shoot your great content foot off, and I really wish I could pull in examples from clients here. Hypothetical example: suppose a YC-style company is founded by a noted industry expert who has a great personal brand. They produce a ten-page guide to a particular new technology their startup uses. The guide is, far and away, the best quickstart guide on the Internet with regards to that technology.

Q: Their startup benefits from this a) a lot, b) a little, c) virtually not at all?

A: I don't know. Where did you post it?

Q2: Come again?

A: Like, physically, on which page does that best-in-class guide exist?

Q3: Oh, our Posterous / Github account / etc.

A: facepalm
How so? Maybe I'm just burned out, but I've found the design world to be extremely hostile.
Microsoft could simply add an automatic update service right into the operating system, similar to how they have MSI for installations, and then apps would be updated similarly. It's quite possible they're actually working on something like that -- updates seem to get better and better all the time.
How the new Kernel SRPM distribution impacts CentOS
Its certainly true that to understand a fold at the abstraction level that C uses you have to know more, but that isn't the same as you having to know it in order to program effectively. The point of abstraction is that you don't need to know the fine details of whats happening under the hood. You might talk about how, in a C program you can watch what happens to your loop variable as you execute, but really "variables" are just abstractions over what the machine is really doing. If you were to look at the assembly spit out by your compiler that loop variable might be in a register or on the stack or in some combination thereof, and if your compiler does loop unrolling it might have different values at the same time even in the assembly. And once you get into the reorder buffer or a modern CPU I guarantee you that what actually happens will bear very little resemblance to what you would naively think if you just looked at the C code.

So you can execute a loop C-token by C-token and you can execute a fold Haskel-token by Haskel-token, but both are abstractions high above whats happening at the machine level and I don't see why we should prefer one over the other.
Thank you very much. Really appreciated.
What kind of pricing model are you planning?
I picked a user name whose entropy is high enough that probably no one else will pick it on any site, and I often choose to reuse it on new sites expressly so that I can be traced across sites. (My HN user name predates this choice of user name.)
If forrst users create anything like Orman Clark's premium pixels (http://www.premiumpixels.com/), it's probably very useful for inspiration and discussion. if you want a blog with deep discussions, then A List Apart is hard to beat.
Did you try it?

Null pointer fail on that page, incidentally; the graphic at the top is actually a pointer to null, which isn't the same thing.
If they're selling the hardware at a loss, they're in even bigger trouble (as a company) than I thought. With rumors of the Kindle trending towards a price of "free", how can B&N possibly compete long-term? That's not a battle they can win, not against Amazon's scale and distribution network.

They're hedging their entire company on a product which their main competitor is going to start giving away. They'll need to make a lot from the sale of the books to make up for that.
I'm not sure if anyone remembers, but the very first "iPhone" was Motorola's MotoROKR.

It seems to me they're pretty good at seeing around the corner - just not that good at delivering...
Have you ever seen anyone order the Flying Dutchman? Someone must order it every now and then, but it's more novelty than meal candidate.

(I tend to go with the Double-Double w/ onions. If I'm feeling particularly unhealthy, I'll get animal style fries.)

I wouldn't order the Flying Dutchman (just meat + cheese). If you do, then more power to you.
Nathan Myhrvold's Modernist Cuisine Cookbook Published
Apotheker Seeks to Save HP's 'Lost Soul' With Software Growth
If you use a laptop just move the laptop from a desk to a tall table or shelf.
You’ve got mail: What your email domain says about you
I hope for the day when the Webkit Web Audio API[1] or something like it is widely available so we can build rich audio apps like Audiotool[2] without relying on Flash.

[1] http://chromium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/audio/index...

[2] http://audiotool.com/app [SWF]
What I do is force myself to watch them.

Now, problematically, the wife is non-deterministic, so I get 2/3 movies that I know I want to watch that she doesn't. So, I rotate a couple of DVDs and some just sit around for a month or so.
It's a move over Apple. Right? I mean just because someone botched a copypasta doesn't mean we can't get something out of it. Right?
Not an engineer. You can't promote something that sucks.
This 'open letter' has a ring of dishonesty to it.

> Clearly, Square is a threat to VeriFone, so it’s intentions aren’t so pure when exposing this potential issue.

That much is obvious. The letter is geared towards 'protecting the consumer', but makes the skimming method extremely public (especially with sq-skim.com)

I'm sure this will result in an increase in credit card theft incidents.

I'm also curious as to whether or not the perceived security threat is a bit overblown—there are many opportunities for my credit card number to be stolen (either when I use it online, or for physical transactions.) There's always a risk, and as such, I generally don't go passing my credit card (or scanning my credit card) to vendors I don't trust. I assume that since you'd need to be physically present to give the card to be skimmed, you'd draw on other internal factors of trust (and not have much of a higher potential for card theft than at any other establishment.)
Not only that, sleep also appears to be when your brain reinforces what you've learned... over and over again.
The Ubuntu naming landscape is currently confusing.

I particularly dislike the names Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu and would like to see them all go.

I picked the netbook edition for a laptop - thinking it might be optimised for long battery life as well as a small display.

My concern would be that a vanilla Ubuntu wouldn't be tailored in the same way.

Could you not split Ubuntu into a core (which you call Ubuntu) - with the option of adding flavours (version types/add on packs)? These could be downloaded at installation time or possibly in advance for those with network issues.

So when installing Ubuntu the user is presented with a list of addons/versions to choose from - Education (schools and colleges), Server (For servers) etc. How about calling it the: Ubuntu Tailor (suits you sir) TM ?
It is awkward, especially when you aren't sure how others are going to take it. Because American culture doesn't really condone talking about personal finances, you have a hard time gauging someone's reactions when the subject comes up, which causes a sort of opacity feedback loop.

I have a very good friend who just graduated law school and got his first job with some firm in Virginia. He helped me move cross country last summer, and got the job offer on the drive. On the drive, he mentioned his salary as a way of bragging (he likes to do that), and I casually mentioned that was a great salary for someone effectively right out of school. He asked what I made, and I told him it was in the ballpark of double his new offer, and that pissed him off. I had to remind him that I've been doing this professionally for five years, that I've got a strong track record of getting shit done and that I also have a grad degree in my field. It didn't really help, and it made things awkward for the remainder of the trip. I'm not sure why, though. We have another friend who makes far more than either of us ever will (he's some sort of associate director for a hedge fund), and although we don't know specifics it's fairly easy to come to grips with the fact that all of us make different amounts of money. I'm just not sure why the contrast between my attorney friend's salary and my own was such a shock, and it makes me very hesitant to discuss money with them in the future.
Fluid Dynamics in Clojure
I'm not sure if most people know how dangerous this issue is for Google. If the courts find that they have to suppress ads for TM keywords, they will get into a never-ending battle with every "Jim's Auto Body" across the country.
I just found this, googling for Pat Methenys quote:

Be the worst guy in every band you’re in.

http://apprenticeship-patterns.labs.oreilly.com/index.html
I've begun to suspect this is because we don't notice all the little issues we'd notice if we were more awake - at 4AM, the code is Flying, because I'm not stopping to realize how crappy the code is.
Malware as Job Security
Bat Goggles for the Visually Impaired
I'd like to see some of these studies you cite. I'd wager you're drawing a far stronger conclusion than the studies warrant. Even a very tiny effect, while inconsequential in an individual, can have an impact on the scale of an entire culture.
I thought everyone was saying the iPad is remarkable cause Apple wasn't aiming for an upmarket play?
Fusion-io files for IPO
Aren't there likeness rights?
a little birdy told me they are just a crummy Lenovo desktop clone, which isn't surprising they are just copies, the NKs are exceptional counterfeiters and copiers