skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article shows me that the "societal standards" of what "bright" and "very bright" individuals are, have fallen. I refuse to believe that "bright" and "very bright" individuals are in the range mentioned in the article. Maybe the "dumbing down" of society has been instituted through the mindless activities that humanity participates in like watching t.v. or movies.

As social networks have taken over the internet, live social interaction has diminished as well. Humans need live social interaction for personal development, they don't need to see/view social interaction on t.v., in a movie, or online. There is neurological reaction that occurs when you meet someone for the first time. This can not be duplicated through viewing/obtaining the action from the outside. There is an electrical transference the occurs when shaking someone's hand, or giving them a hug that cannot be obtained through "poking" someone online.

I agree with the article that drug use by more intellectual people would be higher in the fact that there is no escaping the mind. The mind needs a break periodically, and rest for the mind comes in more ways than just sleep. Even while sleeping intellectual people are still calculating and/or working on projects.
Then you will probably be unaffected by the paywall, since it sounds like you read less than 20 NYT articles a month.
> In the first 24 hours following the browser’s official release, consumers have downloaded it more than 4.7 million times

In fact, downloads on the second day after launch eclipsed the first day, breaking the record that Firefox set with the Firefox 3 launch for "Most Downloads in a 24-hour Period": http://twitter.com/#!/asadotzler/status/50876424030130176
Why USB transfers slow down in parallel
Fukushima's Impact on Nuclear Power
Ask HN: Inverse of SendGrid.com
SendGrid replaces _outbound_ email infrastructure. I'm interested in something similar for _inbound_ email. The key is that I need to be able to create and delete accounts through a simple API. The use case is that I want to setup emails as an intake to my app. The emails will only ever be read by machines, so a full-featured hosted email solution is not necessary. Rackspace offers a $2/mailbox per month solution. A per/inbox price is probably not viable. Something with (nearly) unlimited accounts where you pay more for more storage is much preferred.

(Why don't I just setup my own box? A slick cloud service could potentially get me going much quicker.)
This is a very low-quality post and an even lower-quality thread. Stop to think. Sequoia have the best track record in the industry. Is it likely they're completely fucking stupid? Because that's what follows if these snarky comments have merit.

Man am I thankful I have something awesome to do with the rest of my day.
No no, you missed the point. It's not that 187 photo sharing services will exist, it is that each American will personally use, on average, 187 photo sharing services. About a thousand will exist. Forrester also projects that Scoble will be the top user on all of them.
The response to the bug report looks depressingly typical. Rejects the working fix with a wall of text speculation on numerous other possibly better fixes (without deigning to actually choose one). Nirvana fallacy in action!
24 productivity experiments I tried, plus a QS time management recap
Maybe I'm not average, but I've used around 2-3 photo sharing services in the past 5 years.
It's time's like these I refer back to my favorite HackerNews comment of all time: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2133161
I heard (from the official irc channel) that it's hard coded to never scan mp3 files. That was the main purpose I wanted it for, and I think it's wrong to hard code anything like that. I suppose it's a good lite partner to something like MSE, if it does now scan mp3s.
http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.iproute2.html#LARTC.IPROUTE2.WH...
That's a fair point.

Though another way to avoid making the mistakes is to not invent data structures. That's what libraries are for, and anyone not using a library data structure should be able to defend why they're not. Odds are, they've got no chance of writing something better than what the libraries provide (or they'd be a library writer and already know these things).
Noob question: I hacked together my little mobile website and am looking to cut down on search time for a "similar search" I built.

Short Description: Each "unit" has x attributes in the form of strings (tags). Searching queries a database using a standard mysql regexp search for each tag across all "units" and sorts responses by # of tags matching Desc.

I know this isn't StackOverflow so this isn't really a tech question. What I want to know is if the problem is just that I'm a noob (just learned to code/do web development in the past few months) and need to learn more about data structures or if that's just the nature of php/mysql regexp queries (if its a database structure issue, let's not even get into it lol)
Remind HN: RSS alternate link on your blog
It's very easy. Just add to your blog template a link like:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="YourBlog - RSS" href="http://example.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss" />

This helps people subscribe to your feed and share that post.
Would you please explain why you prefer it to rb-redis?
Ask HN: hardware design help?
HN: I have a design idea for an external camera for smart phones which would be driven by a client on the phone. I would like to get it sources and built through alibaba, and need some guidance on the hardware design. Anyone have any advice on where i can take a spec to get an affordable design done?
For one, she's a she, not a 'guy'. Second, that's the whole point - to get noticed!
Death by Fire? Probably Not
Different perspectives can be valuable, if only to feed the narcissism of youth, but I have my doubts it will be enough to grow or sustain this thing.
SendGrid also has their Parse API which handles parsing inbound email.

http://wiki.sendgrid.com/doku.php?id=parse_api
I think the knee-jerk cynicism about valuations and raises is blinding a lot of people on HN. Sure, Color's 41M is a lot, and it is YAPSS (Yet another photo sharing service). But Reading the techcrunch article about it, it sounds like one of those "sum is more than the parts" things, like the iPad or Google search results.

The integration of all the sensors and data to automatically determine your connections and maintain it for you with no work could be huge! Don't be fooled by the fact that it started with photos - that's a convenient vector to start with and fuel growth, but there's nothing stopping them from hooking into phone and sms messages to make the implicit social connections more robust.

I'm not bullish on Color, but I'd take Color with $41M over Path, Instagram, or any of a zillion other sites with their raise. They have a huge chicken-and-egg problem, but isn't that what the money is good for?
The QEs simply brought the inflation back to a good, gradual rate, and put more liquidity into the economy so businesses can start hiring again.

How is that working out so far?

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/EMRATIO

The fundamental flaw in this idea is the assumption that increased production/consumption will in turn increase employment. At the end of the last two recessions, production and consumption have increased, but employment has not. The old theories no longer work.
Tom Smith and His Incredible Bread Machine
Yep, I'm fully aware of ifconfig. I use "ip link" just out of habit, and, given that ifconfig is apparently deprecated, it might disappear some day.

Anyway, the point of my post was showing some basic things which can be done with ip, and how to do them.
BDDs are already on there (I'd never heard of them before Knuth's fasicle, but I guess he's sort of popularized them), as are a lot of persistent variants.
No more. Use http://toutapp.com.
TripAdvisor's email list compromised
I've used clam-av as a mail scanner (combined with postfix on freebsd 5.?-8.2) and on my mac desktop and it's very effective. I can't see any reason to not use it.
Why I Don’t Do Sales On The App Store
Another endorsement for Zferral here. Awesome software and company.
You should try out Stacked Git, it provides a very easy way to deal with temporary commits.

http://www.procode.org/stgit/
Poll: Do you ever click through on HN?
How often do you click through on the "More" link from the Front Page and from "Newest"?

Please click two arrows, one for each ...

Thx.
Front page: Never
Front page: sometimes
Front page: often
Front page: Always
Newest page: Never
Newest page: sometimes
Newest page: often
Newest page: Always
The response to the bug report was by Bruce Evans, who is listed as the "Style Police-Meister" for FreeBSD. Apparently his job is to enforce standards & code style. Seems like he was doing his job.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committe...

Edit: edited for clarity. Thanks, pinko!
More likely, this Colors app is probably a very, very tiny part of what they really got funded for.

Conclusion: no one really knows what they got funded for. Sure, a stealth company getting 40M in funding is bad; but getting 40M for an app called Colors is what's got people ticking.
Color.com Was Acquired For $350,000 (The Domain Name, That Is)
I agree - but it's funny that there's only a handful of comments. You just can't have an uninformed rant with such technical correctness (the best kind of correctness)!
WebGL-2d: An Implementation of the 2d Canvas Context in WebGL
If you have any pointers to advice on how to go about this kind of selling, that would be very interesting.
Because overinvestment in a specific sector of the economy necessarily results in underinvestment in other sectors of the economy.

In the case where investment capital flows to ultimately unproductive enterprises like photo sharing, and away from productive enterprises like efficient batteries, cancer drugs, etc, humanity suffers in the long term.

Now it's possible that the proliferation of photo sharing services is increasing the efficiency of photo sharing that people were doing previously, thus freeing up time to engage in other productive pursuits, so it's not necessarily a bad thing to sink investment capital into ventures that appear unproductive in and of themselves.

But I would highly suspect that this is not the case for the current bubble. It's quite likely that photo sharing apps are actually generating demand for photo sharing activity, thus being a net drain on actual economically productive activity.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SoCalization
Excellent execution on a much needed product. We love it.
While I agree with most other replies to you, I'll provide an alternative point.

Bubbles sicken me because they truly bring out the worst of the investor types, the ones who will throw money at anything regardless of its use case.

This is $41 fucking million dollars we're talking about here, and it's spent on a god damned mobile application to connect people with others in random arbitrary situations. People do not have a difficult time doing this, an application on a phone isn't going to make a difference. We're all human at the end of the day.

Now stop and think about what that $41 million could do in this world. This is nothing more than a bunch of rich kids circle jerking one another in what's a disgusting take on business principles in general. $41 million could create several businesses that could further create more jobs for the US economy; $41 million could be fucking used to help Japan out of a bind.

Instead, it's being used to buy a domain name for $350,000. It's being used to build another mobile application that isn't even that technically impressive. It's sickening, and I would never consider working for a company like that. As an engineer, I'd very much question those who'd consider it.

Get the fuck over yourselves.
Ask HN: I have a 3,500 subscriber email newsletter. How do I make $50/mo off it?
The details:

I have a daily emails newsletter which, basically, acts like a blog. I write a story sharing some true, typically unknown item (Abe Lincoln created the Secret Service the day he was shot, for example) with the readers. I'm not putting the URL here because I want to be clear that this question isn't intended as a promotional vehicle.

The email costs me $50/mo to send. (I'm using Mailchimp and that's their monthly fee.) It'll cost me $75 when/if I break the 5,000 subscriber plateau. It's not expensive, but I'd like to break even, and I'm looking for easy ways to get there. (The list is waaaaaaaay too small to consider direct sales brand advertising.)

I can't run AdWords or, for that matter, any standard ad network's banners, because the content is delivered via email. I occasionally drop in an Amazon affiliate link but I don't want to overdo it. (Perhaps a "Book of the Day" line would be good, or "Related Reading.")

I'm looking for ideas which are out of the box. Anyone?
Well I heard that Steve Jobs puts subliminal messages in MP3s on iTunes to make you buy Big Macs because of a conspiracy by an international group of ......

You can set an ignore list (at least in the clamwin gui) by default a lot of data files (images, mp3s, avi etc) are set to ignore since they shouldn't be executed anyway unless your player is buggy
Interview with Hillary Mason, Chief Scientist of Bit.ly
You're missing the point.

Most geeks that I know aren't trying to build apps that make money, they're trying to build apps that are fun, and that their friends think are fun.

If you offered me two choices

A) Make a million dollars a year doing something you hate that nobody will know about or care about

B) Make no money doing something you love that your friends think is cool.

I will almost always choose B, and I think most hackers will also always choose B. I would go as far as saying that choosing B is one of the defining characteristics of a hacker.

I got into computers because it was fun, not because I saw dollar signs at the end of it. Writing a video sharing app is a lot more fun than writing a software that reduces credit card fraud.
Not that I disagree with your premise, but an issue with this is that people like to see punishment that fits the crime - I'd expect public outrage over a misdemeanor prosecution for an infraction that may result in loss of life.

If someone got stomped to death in a stampede triggered by someone's cry of "fire", methinks the person or people who did the stomping would have a lot to answer for. You shouldn't do that even in a real fire. The only difficulty is that it may be hard to identify the culprit(s) if everyone was busy panicking about their own escape routes; and I can see how a mob, with no other targets available, might place all blame on the original "fire"-shouter.

But perhaps this "loss of life" thing is an incidental flourish, and your main point is that people, responding legitimately to a fire alarm (not stomping on people), suffer a lot of inconvenience (they drop whatever they're doing and evacuate), and the "fire"-shouter is responsible for all that and perhaps should pay for it. I agree with that. I don't see a problem with assigning a large punishment to the simple crime of trespass when the trespass has large consequences.

Suppose I gain access to a Toyota plant and press a few buttons or rearrange a few materials in such a way that a batch of several cars comes out ruined. I haven't done anything beyond simple trespassing, but I am responsible for thousands of dollars of property damage, and I can be made to pay for it, right?

So either this is a case where a trespass is a huge crime; or I can be considered responsible for massive property destruction, even though I just pressed some buttons or rearranged stuff (possibly without realizing the implications of my actions), and even though it required the actions of other people in the assembly line to completely carry out the destruction. (In the latter case, what makes me guilty and the others innocent is that I committed a crime--trespass--and they didn't.) These choices seem largely equivalent to me; the former has the drawback that you can no longer hear "trespass" and think "Oh, ah, trespass, a misdemeanor, with maximum punishment X", but perhaps this could be remedied by calling it "trespass causing major property damage". Either way, I think something similar could be made to apply to the case of a false fire alarm.

Those fines are actually due to local ordinances. As such they are an example of government imposition on individual freedom in order to protect the public, and are a bit of a counter-example to your point.

Interesting. I didn't know that. Still, couldn't you call it a form of trespass and still punish it with a fine of approximately that magnitude (see above for further discussion)?
Startup idea:

A photo sharing service sharing service.
Ms Connie Jones,
Thank you for your offer. However I am always distrustful when offers appear to good to be true, as I am sure you are yourself.

In my circle, it is customary for such investments to be accompanied by a Ruby, some railway track, and sometimes a small mammal called a 'mongo', or if one can't be found, a couch is acceptable.

As an act of good faith, please post a photo of yourself, proving that you have said items.

Thanks and best regards,
Swannie
You are what you eat. The work you take on can define you
What was wrong with the identical question you asked two minutes earlier?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2364567
Steve Jobs Email: 'No Interest' In Radiation iPhone App
Is there a way to do that in hg?
Lossy compression involves throwing out redundant data; if you look at the data as a vector, you are effectively reducing the number of dimensions in the vector. Speech recognition involves rearranging the data to find its primary components (e.g. pitch, timbre, etc.). Most voice / audio compression schemes perform a similar rearrangement, as this is a convenient way to find (and eliminate) redundant data.

In particular, Fourier transforms, wavelet transforms, cepstrum transforms, subband filtering, and principal component analysis are techniques common to both audio compression and speech recognition.
Set up a strawman ("zomg. Look at all these people saying firefox is dead!!!").

Hack it to bits.

Mission accomplished.

rubbish.
Lumberg: A Ruby Gem for the WHM & cPanel API
What is Quora? #SO
I used to bet on sports, now I'm betting on this
You may not be aware but there are a lot of other websites taking money from women. IE. shoe website innovations. I recall there was also some fashion site at TC Disrupt that reminded me of Swoopo. I wonder what happened to it.
This Code is CRAP
It's a great newsletter, and here is the URL: http://dlewis.net/nik/ (I subscribe and actually read it often.)

Regarding your question, check this out: http://www.kehalim.com/ It's contextual advertising for pretty much anything, including email.
Yo mommaboard.
Ya know, the guy is just not thinking things through. He clearly could put up any video, so he could have put up a simpson's episode or one of a zillion 'can you believe this?' type videos that get posted to YouTube every day, but instead he chose to put up a porn video. That's just not smart at all.

I helped a guy who was doing sign art for a new billboard in Las Vegas (really basic, the sign gamut and pixel geometry needed to be taken into account in transferring his drawings from Illustrator to the sign) and after showing him what he needed to do (and about 150 lines of C code) he said "lets see" and proceeded to upload the image by calling the billboard (it had a modem), it gave him a command prompt and he uploaded his image, we drove down to see it.) I asked him if there was anything preventing me from calling the sign and uploading random stuff, his answer "Oh sure, you don't know the phone number." !?!! After I explained war dialing to him we went and had a chat with the Casino owner ...
If you're going to try to be funny, at least include it as part of an otherwise worthwhile comment, otherwise it just adds noise to the discussion (and encourages more of same). I know HN seems kind of neurotic about this, but we're trying really hard to keep away trite "first post", "[citation needed]", etc. comments, and given HN's age, it actually seems to work.
This seems pretty much in line with my own numbers. I had a post get to the front page for about ~36 hours and held one of the top few spots for a couple hours.

Over approximately 48 hours, I got ~35k uniques, approximately 18k were from Hacker News directly, with the bulk of the remainder coming from Twitter. Many of those twitter referrals came from people RTing HN aggregator feeds and the like though, so in reality probably more than that 18k number can be attributed to Hacker News.
"If only" - totally agree.

Just building something people need/want, or improving upon what works, is a deceptively simple generalization. It boils down to execution, and that's where our originality still comes into play.
Thanks TJ - we <3 BatchBook too :)
Diabetes explained in plain English
"Will $25 million help you get five years into one?"

Can 9 women produce a baby in one month?
First off, Discourse looks great!

I have a background working in large tech enterprises. A couple of comments:

> 1. System will be open to external parties (customers and partners) - you can invite people per Topic (see my comment above)

1. This is very dangerous in the enterprise. The strength (traditionally) is it's ability to utilize it's own knowledge and share within it's own teams. Opening up knowledge (and potentially proprietary knowledge) is potentially dangerous from a legal and a strategy standpoint. For example when you leave a company they stick a contract in your hands with words like "all knowledge of business processes, blueprints, etc. cannot be shared"

> 2. Form factor - Facebook layout is not efficient - we are looking at something like much better looking HN

2. I agree Quora/HN has a great UI, but yammer/chatter are both very compelling as well.

> 3. Karma and competence profile - we will by (just like HN) building your competence profile counting karma points and average karma per submission. We will also find out which topics you are best at.

3. I think this is a great feature and adds a bit of meritocracy to the workplace. Unfortunately it also adds some complexity to HR. Let's say I'm a manager and I have a Senior guy who has 1,000,000 less karma points than a junior guy under him. They're both in the same competency, do I promote the Junior guy?

Enterprise ready? Probably not yet, requires a massive culture change. Start-up/SME ready? Possibly. Good luck, sounds like a good challenge!
I'm sorry - do you think that people on Wall Street were stupid when they were creating CDS and pumping huge speculation bubble around subprime mortgages?
I think that we have enough evidence that smart people make mistakes - actually much bigger and more expensive mistakes then anyone could have expected.