skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the relevant part is "Bill Nguyen demo'd", not what he actual demoed.
Google silently correcting search terms. Anyone else having this problem?
I've noticed recently that it's become hard to do google searches that aren't "mainstream". For example, if I search for "riak configure listen interface", "riak" is automatically corrected to "risk" without showing the usual "showing results for..." text.

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/tuNhF.png

Anyone have a good way around this that doesn't involve adding a + to every search term?
Facebook rolls out questions product update
There was an amazing discussion about this on reddit - but its blocked from work... so Ill find it later.
Anyone know of an app people can use to save website designs?
Just wondering if anyone knows of a useful web app that one can use as a kind of scrapbook to save websites into?

When you come across a site that is really nicely designed and you want to save it for later, instead of saving them as screenshots (which you can't 'browse') you can save them as a timestamped browsable website (for which you could set the number of levels you want to save linked pages).

Just saving the bookmark doesn't work because if the site is modified or redesigned you're out of luck.

Just wondering...
Back in the old timey days, you made a product people needed or you were through making said product. Today, I'm astounded by how many products/apps do the same thing as their competitors. Take iphone camera apps for example; why are there so many? Why are they getting funding? Do people need a sepia toned camera app? Is it making their lives easier?

This is not so say that innovative and "cool" apps don't have a place - they do. But it is to say that there's something concrete about making a product people need that solves a basic human problem. “My damn phone won’t take a sepia toned picture,” is not a basic human problem. In terms of a bubble, and more so, in terms of revenue – making a product someone needs assures revenue and harkens back to the old timey adage.

So is there a bubble? Yeah. Can it be quelled by a return to making products that help people with basic needs? Yeah. Do I want a camera app with sepia tone? Sure. Do I need it? No.
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Clickable: http://i.imgur.com/tuNhF.png
Advanced pathology will probably always require human labor to treat (liability, moral issues) and therefore it will always be expensive. Anti-aging treatments will start out expensive but be very cheap within a generation: a $2 pill every month. Technology's pace of change is accelerating, not diminishing.

Aging and dying costs the medical system about $500,000 per person. Then there is the loss of that person's productive potential. Anti-aging treatments are going to be incredibly cheap in comparison to death.

Post-aging population growth is likely to be closer to linear than exponential. Would you really want to deal with 5000 kids for a million years?

There will be a lot of problems with post-aging humanity, but they aren't the ones people propose, especially not the ecological ones. Humanity's ecological load on the planet will max out some time early this millennium. As a cautious transhumanist and a deistic Buddhist, I worry about spiritual emptiness. I think post-aging, post-scarcity might look like the realm of the devas and ashuras in Buddhism (often mistranslated as "gods" and "demigods") which may exist only as metaphor now, but is likely to become reality (for some) in a few hundred years. I see no need and no way to prevent these changes (end of aging and death) and we have no right to do so, but they do run the risk of allowing people to lock themselves into sub-optimal and stagnant states. Also, I may be wrong about the post-aging world and I hope I am. A world with a 50,000-year lifespan may be a spiritual paradise, a pure land. Currently, we have an 80-year lifespan and people only get to use 10-20% of their living time due to economic needs, so we have a world where most people don't develop much at all.
Thanks for the stats, that is absolutely incredible! Hackernews zindabad!

If anyone cares, FeeFighters got 191 visits to http://feefighters.com from the link in your post, representing one of our higher referring sites for a couple of days
What's cool about AAPL is that it inspires such innovative designs. Beautiful.
There is nothing wrong with being rich and in many ways it can be a positive good in the life of any person to have the ability to shape one's time in optimal ways as opposed to being a slave of financial necessity.

But the perils of being rich are legion, as detailed in this interesting piece.

As I grew up, I always had to work for most anything I got and, in retrospect, I believe that the financial necessity that drove a good part of this was actually a big part of my character development. I always wonder what it would have been like on that front if I were continually faced with the temptation, as a rich kid, of bypassing the pain and difficulty of such challenges in favor of indulgences that were readily at hand. This must be an enormous problem for young people who have inherited significant wealth.

In any case, this piece portrays those with some measure of wealth from an interesting angle and nicely highlights that all that glitters is not gold, even if it literally is gold.
https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=ajdtctfhv4hn_264g329...
So don't use it, we already have DNS. If anything "url shorteners" are a step backwards, at least www.whatever.com is human-readable. I simply don't believe that we have enough computing power to add another layer to visiting a website but not enough storage for everyones URLs. It's just a stupid fad. Here's the new one: http://arseh.at/ (real URL)
The thing will only be great if lots of people use it, and it works seemlessly. For THAT, surely you do need quite a lot of capital (marketing and hosting/bandwidth). They could slowly and organically grow the userbase, but to have any hope of fast-forwarding through that phase, large funding is the only option, no? Maybe also deals with phone manufacturers and carriers.
This is gonna be long so I'll divide it into Longer (A) part and shorter (B) part =)

A)

I can relate on the subject from personal experience and give an example of how looking for myself worked out to making new friends from all over the world and having blast of experience along the way.

Some 6 years ago I was very passionate about some musical artists, and I've made a decision of going abroad to see them play live. That's how I discovered the scene of musical festivals(in Europe). Travelling there for the first time(and travelling abroad for first time in general) was so amazing(the vibe, meeting new people, making friendships), that upon returning back home at 5am, after a week at said festival, the first thing me and my gf did was looking up for flight tickets for another festival we read about in some flyer :)

Ever since then I began quitting my job every summer and travel for at least a month to festivals all over Europe. Needless to say I meet many remarkable people (and with most we also shared common passion about music), which lead to great friendships I hope to cherish for the rest of my life.

B) So like it's already been mentioned in the thread, look for things you'd like to do, or figure doing what could make you happy. In most cases that will lead you to groups of people that share same said interest. The outcomes would be priceless !

p.s. - In case you're a shy person and have difficulty communicating with new people, perhaps another goal to be set is to develop communication skills. Those are always valued highly :)

Hope any of this will be of help to anyone.
26 years old, quit my job managing a technical support department (also invovled in project mamagment). I'm doing a few freelance contracts and working 30 hours a week at a web design company.

Previously learn some VB.NET, PHP and HTML/CSS. Now I've properly learned HTML/CSS and starting to learn Python.
a better fix to use the lmin macro. libkern.h.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/sys/sys...
Run, Forrst, run!
Hillary can be a boys or a girls name. Like Lesley.
Other reasons might be the family, kids.
Plus if you know what are you doing, and the money is not a
problem ,there is no need to be at some location.
The guys that thing tat you should move in Silicon Valley are the venture capitalists and angel investors that don't want to move their ass.
Angie’s List Raises $53.6 Million From Investors in Private Share Offering
Data APIs and Exploration with Infochimps
Public Stats: Twitter and YouTube make me care
On the whole an excellent article, but i think there is one big flaw in his reasoning.

Hs opening argument is that back in 2000, Ebay, Amazon, Cisco, and Akamai were trading at ridiculous multiples, but they are now much more sensible. The issue with this argument is Ebay, Akamai etc were the Zynga, Twitter and Groupon's of their day. They are now businesses with 10 years of trading history and relative flat revenues. For example Ebay's current revenue annual growth is just 5% and Akamai's 6%. It's hardly surprising that their multiples are low now (for comparison eBay grew 100% year on year back in 2000)

If he put Twitter, Facebook, Zynga and Groupon in that table then I think the numbers of today would be as bad as the numbers of 2000. e.g. Facebook and Groupon is at roughly 25 EV/Revenue (where Cisco and Amazon were in 2000) and Twitter is prob more like 100 (comparable to ebay). The PE ratios (for those that make profit in this group) would be even more stark.

Obviously the companies I've listed are still private, but that is more a factor of the IPO markets, and companies choosing to delay an IPO where as in 2000 a company like Facebook or Twitter would have IPO'd by now.
Haha this is hilarious! Reminds me of the death clock that was so popular forever ago - oh man, it's still alive and kicking! http://www.deathclock.com/. Wonder how much that guy made all these years.
EMC Loves Stat Geeks
Regardless of the funding, I think if this tech is true it's pretty neat. It's kind of like Shazam for Geolocation:

"A few feats of engineering brilliance hide under Color's slick surface. How does the app determine who's in the same room with you? Not with GPS, which is flummoxed by floors because it can't distinguish vertical distances between people. So Nguyen's team taught Color to use a phone's lighting and audio sensors, stitching their signals together with the sound and light environments of nearby devices to determine which user is where--it's almost like a bat's senses."
Not at all what I meant. I'm proud to live in a capitalist society with a safety net. You can take a chance on a business knowing that you have limited liability and food stamps awaiting you at the "bottom" rather than something much worse.

I merely meant to imply that large amounts of wealth make a small (negligible?) improvement to the top .001%, and that much smaller amounts (like food stamps) can mean the difference between life and death to the poor. The productivity gains (due to dampening entrepreneurs' risk aversion) caused by refactoring wealth from the top to the bottom are another pro-transfer argument I meant to reference.

Communism does not create wealth as well.
Just like Email is a fad, the internet is a fad, the web is a fad, smartphones are a fad, television is a fad, radio is a fad, books are a fad....
sorry for the lack of intelligence, or the excess of ignorance, but what is so special about him? I'm not criticizing, just asking. I might be able to search it, but don't know if I would get the full gist of who he is.
The Dawn of Data as Dusk of Degrees
Google Yahoo and Skype May Have Been Attacked By Iran.
What does that term mean?
Boxer started its life as a sort of frontend but is now a fork of DOSBox. All of the changes are meant to fix (replace) the awful workflow that DOSBox currently has with mounting drives and tweaking config files and etc.

DOSBox is mentioned in the About window, the credits, and Boxer itself when you launch a gamebox. It also used to be on the website, though checking now I'm not sure where it's gone.

Boxer is properly GPL and you can find the source code here:

https://bitbucket.org/alunbestor/boxer
I love nerds.
I find the discussion of misfeatures in protocol buffers to be interesting. I'd always found default values and required fields to be superficially appealing but questionable in practice, and it's kinda nice to see that validated by someone with an insider perspective.
I can't stand this platitude that there are no atheists in foxholes. I have been inches from death and never questioned my atheist beliefs.
How about this take.

Happiness is relative, and your personal happiness likely settle down to the same place. So if you get a huge windfall (millions of dollars), you will be happier for a short term, but ultimately, your happiness will fall back to your normal levels. At that point you have different concerns, but you still have concerns.
Variation on a theme: You can't have three priorities.
In hindsight, maybe. You only know it's a bubble when it bursts and the markets come back to earth. Outside of that it's rational to invest in something that's growing.
Sorry, the comment is confusing: I'm referring to the fact that you prefer your computer when you're at it, and only prefer the iPad when not.

The preference for the microwave is only when you're time-constrained. Otherwise the oven is preferable because of the tastier results it produces.
this has been happening to me when using google instant and really annoying me. if i type slowly, it wont correct on me, if i type fast it does correction. sometimes large ones.
Great idea, terrible execution.
Why do fewer than 1% of startups have a full-time UX designer on staff?
At any time you could have shown up to the AGM and caused a ruckus.
Hosting a scan is not fair use, but linking to a copyright violation is not generally a copyright violation. Though a few courts have ruled that it can be if done for the specific purpose of knowingly disseminating illegal material. See http://www.chillingeffects.org/linking/faq.cgi#QID152 for more.
Tintri launches with VM-aware storage appliance (2 minute video)
Whats amazing about Apple is that even a cover for one of its products makes it to the top of HN.

Update: If it wasn't obvious, I was being sarcastic and sad.
I just amused myself by figuring out when rounding would kick in, I set the delta of cash in and cash out to 100 and put in 99.99 then just began appending 9's to the end until it switched from 'now' to 'one month' never has .000000000000009$ mattered so much.
A Month With Lion
The money: push advert pics into the localized photo streams, even making them geographically contextual, exposing them to an already captive audience, who may even react and start talking about it (the advertised product/service) on the spot.

I wasnt aware of this aspect... I must say - I think it is brilliant if it works, as the geographically contextual adverts has so far been an uncracked nut.

Further - imagine a social groupon-like play where your pics of the ambiance and blast you and your friends are having while eating at [#ThisRestaurant] BECOME the ad and coupon to entice others to come and eat there... click on this photostream of [#ThisRestaurant], watch it then see a deal for you too coming here and having such a greeat experience for a discount coupon...
> Coders hang out on Stack Overflow. Designers hang out on Forrst.

Actually, designers hang out on Dribbble, and - to put it bluntly - those who can't get in hang out on Forrst. It is really weird that TechCrunch included no reference to former, feels almost like it was intentional.
Do your pivots quietly and cheaply in Detroit or Des Moines and once you have an executable and repeatable business model, then and only then consider the Valley.
Checking stats on something (how many followers someone has, or how many views a video has) is definitely a useful heuristic for deciding if something is worthy of your ever-more-precious attention. They call this "social proof."
It's just the next logical step!

First SaaS then PaaS and now RaaS: Relationship as a Service
You're frontloading the question. What if it was:

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

B) Make no money doing something you hate that your friends think is cool?

...

If the question that you're trying to ask is, with all other things being equal, would you:

A) Make a million dollars a year doing something that none of your friends would know about or care about OR

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

I would choose A every time. Also I'm not sure how you can say that writing a video sharing application is a lot more fun that writing software that reduces credit card fraud without knowing about the techniques used in the particular pieces of software. I'm interested in algorithms and neat techniques, not sharing videos or credit card fraud.

I'm still vain enough to think I'm a hacker, though:)
This doesn't work for me in any browser at all.. clock just spins around and message says: is your startup 37signals? Or I have missed the joke.
Of every person told this quote, they tell it to > 1 other new person on average.
Join Forces like Voltron
oops. sorry about that :) we got slashdotted. back online shortly. <3

let me know what you think of the content
Also added, and thanks here as well.
Android StackExchange error page
In both cases, iOS would just kill the app. Why is Android not doing the same? Via limits.conf/ulimit/setrlimit, this should be quite easy to do.
Awesome! Man, the idea of leaving a paying gig for freelance is both terrifying and exhilarating. Glad to see you're making it work. Best of luck to you.
Event Report – The 3D Printing Opportunity 17 Mar 11
You might have caught me mid-upload on a script. Sorry about that it's working now.
thanks for being so quick with this. whuffie++ for you. :)
Carriers are not ready for tablets
The Color Pitch deck
Mylyn 3.5 released
It's a company talking about an internal tech (in comparison to another company's internal tech, no less.) They didn't release it. It is completely useless from a hacker's POV.

I stand by my comment.

Also, my name isn't Josh.
What great movies, sadly such mainstream movies are getting rarer and rarer (I thought Inception was one, but, boy, what a disappointment).

The more you watch them the more new stuff you discover, e.g. it recently occurred to me that the Zion control mechanism is very similar in spirit to "the book" in 1984, called The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism supposedly written by the anarchist mastermind Emmanuel Goldstein, leader of the Brotherhood. It is later revealed that this book was indeed written by O'Brien, the member of the thought police that eventually arrests Smith. I believe other sophisticated autocratic regimes, like China, have similar multilayered control mechanisms in place.
Once you've done that, you probably don't need the valley.

They Silicon Valley's days aren't over, but with the rapid growth of hacker spaces, incubators, angel groups, and other SV "services" in other areas, the need to be in SV is diminishing.

Stay where you're successful and help build your own local SV type services.
Any person I know who is rich and has become so through their own hard work bristles at the thought of spending a lot of money on anything, even a cup of coffee.

I've know some who want a Mercedes but hate the thought of paying so much for one and some who have taken out the motor and put in a Chevy motor to save on repair costs.

People with money don't spend money they have, people who don't have money spend money they don't have.
This isn't about Apple. It's about an innovative 'hack' using organic materials to beautify and humanize a technology device. At least, that's how I see this case.
You're most probably right, works now!
Using sonar in apps is nothing new...I suppose they probably just make a rough map of the area you're in and note the lighting properties and whatnot...ultimately you have probably spent some time outside or on wifi so they know approximately where you are and can narrow it down based on observations from other users.
Isn't Groupon a Chicago company?
So the "r" stands for what, repeatability? Where did this jargon originate (and more importantly, why do web searches only turn up insulation values)?
Lemonade: Detroit: If not cars, then what?
I don't buy this whole "we use the lighting and audio sensors to detect where you are!" Lighting is so variable and there are no APIs to access said things (like exposure) on IOS devices in any efficient way anyway. I haven't done any true tests but when I fired up the app I got Color HQ which is a good 8 blocks away - not 100ft.

That being said, Bill Nguyen used to work with Steve Jobs so there's probably a fairly high likelihood that if there is secret API's and tighter integration with IOS than normally allowed.

Edit: someone should put a spectrum analyzer near the speakers of an iPhone that's running Color to see if they're doing any sonic stuff like Shopkick. I would but I don't have time at the moment...
Trolling commentator.
Of course its about Apple. Think about it, would it have made it to the top of HN if it were a cover for Galaxy tab, or something else for that matter.
$2000 in revenue a month and I'm 37 signals? I'm flattered :)
Relevant discussion/quote from pg from previous thread on "fu money":

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1511104

"One thing you learn when you get rich, though, is how few of your problems were caused by not being rich. When you can do whatever you want, you get a variant of the terror induced by the proverbial blank page. There are a lot of people who think the thing stopping them from writing that great novel they plan to write is the fact that their job takes up all their time. In fact what's stopping 99% of them is that writing novels is hard. When the job goes away, they see how hard."
Someone have drunk too much Kool-Aid ...

What's so uncool about AAPL is the closed platform, that killed so many innovations.
Good point. It is pretty much equivalent to Customer Testimonials.
Are we moving towards a world where people walk around with video cameras strapped to their heads to broadcast for all? While elements of such a world might be cool, it seems a little too 1984 for my likes.

I find it interesting that people would choose to forgo organic real life experiences in favor of these augmented tech mash-ups. If I'm on the beach, I want to breath in the crisp air, feel the warmth of the sun, touch grains of sand, hear birds singing, and see the ocean waves wash ashore. I don't want to have my face stuck to the god damned igadget to see a pic someone else took of the same damn thing I can see with my own eyes.

To others, the matrix awaits.
As a technically lay person who does care about this,
what are some tools that I can use to write web copy
with typographically correct apostrophes and quotes

I use Textpattern CMS, which has built-in support for Textile (they were built by the same developer.) Textile converts marked-up text input to valid, well-formed XHTML and also inserts character entity references for apostrophes, opening and closing single and double quotation marks, ellipses and em dashes.

http://textpattern.com/
A Note to Our Readers on the Times Pay Model and the Economics of Reporting
Are the wealthiest countries the smartest countries?
i liked the idea of color.

it will be massively used at cafes by the loudly laughing teen girls companies, in dreaming that all boys around want to sit at their table.
For $40M+ investment it should be $1B+ market.
I guess they probably pitched something, like: "COLOR - the Facebook for Mobile"