skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What he's doing is exercise. He's working a muscle to exhaustion, which is essentially weightlifting without the weights. I guess the value is that he's found a simple workout that gets the results he needs in eight minutes a day with no equipment.

It would be interesting to find out if he would get better or worse results through cardio instead of working a muscle to exhaustion, and whether or not it is important that the legs be that muscle. Some people suffer from restless legs syndrome which keeps them from achieving deep sleep, and maybe exercising the legs is countering this.

(I wish there was some way he could experiment that wasn't subject to the placebo effect, though, which makes the results moot when applied to anyone else.)
I want to know what they're doing with those 77,216 other colours they're hoarding.
I have a serious question: why do people get upset at bubbles? Is it jealousy that others are getting investment or flipping their companies where you perceive little value? I'm not asking to be a bitch - just curious cause i feel some of those emotions myself but I rationally know that they are counterproductive.

Shouldn't we be happy for our startup brethren? Does color's funding hurt you (or the industry?). I imagine all this froth is serving to make it easier for worthy people to get investment, raising developer salaries and other generally good things.

Would appreciate serious feedback.
It does sound silly ("Millionaire Fastlane" pff), but this book is actually quite amazing for realizing what it takes and how you can hustle your way to real success (not necessarily just financial success)
http://www.themillionairefastlane.com/
Methodologically isn't this close to nonsense?

His measure of how well rested he is is completely subjective. There's obviously no blinding (as he's subject and experimenter) which makes it almost certain that as he knows the hypothesis he's looking into and the measure is subjective, he's going to either subconsciously or consciously push the data towards proving or disproving it based on his preconceived ideas.

He talks about randomly choosing (possibly sloppy language but if you choose in any way it's not random, regardless it's not clear) and he's failed to adjust for or control any other variables that might influence sleep like, oooo, alcohol or caffeine or stress or a whole bunch of things that will make more of a difference than standing on one leg which given the relatively small data set is a pretty big deal (again some of this may depend on the method of randomisation).

And then the variation is within fractions of one percent (the scale showing 99 and 99.4) which given that the measure is subjective is essentially insignificant.

Please, please tell me that this is a wind up about how people believe anything scientific looking and trying to get people to stand on one leg for lulz rather than something serious?

Given that what he's doing is basically exercise and that linking sleep and exercise makes some sense, it's not a totally stupid hypothesis, but his experiment proves nothing.
Migrating from Wordpress to Jekyll - Part 1: Why I gave up on Wordpress
I have a question..

In the Middle East forbidden words and topics get their own 2nd secret language to avoid censorship.

I assume that in China the same cultural effect is in play so what idiot would use the full non allowed words?

The story sounds somewhat questionable..

That is why in the Middle East class are recorded and not dropped as everyone is using a 2nd secret language to talk about forbidden subjects.
"... each with 512 CUDA cores". So it's a Giga-core machine? Wow.
That is an awesome comic. I'm going to totally use that.
If I took all these money would have beaten Bill Gates by now.
How could I forget DEAR SIR/MADAM? Typing 419 scams is harder than I thought.
The site is dragging quite a bit right now, but you can download from their Bitbucket page https://bitbucket.org/alunbestor/boxer/downloads
FBI: How to be an expert at the black art of cryptography
I made an abortive attempt to learn C++ by myself long ago, and was frankly scared of programming for a while because of it (was fine with BASIC, but.. a good idea of how I felt: http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1178).

But a couple months ago I decided to give it another go with Scheme and I have been pleasantly surprised by how much more natural it seems to me. I'm having fun!
This is true hacking news! Discusses a possible new bug in TCP, teaches how TCP works, has links to useful and relevant books on the subject, AND includes remarks about how difficult it is for a newbie to actually make changes to open source software and not get yelled at. I love it!
Yeah, but we did see the release of Volume 4A.
Making a Contribution Online
As a social experiment, I want to start addressing emails to people I know with the salutation, "BELOVED IN CHRIST ,"
Recalling the .com bubble, when the bottom falls out there is a lot of collateral damage, and not just to the players involved. Those of us on the sidelines and not involved in the idea-investment-flip cycle will suffer when the industry inevitably implodes upon itself. Facebook's valuation, specifically, has a lot of echoes to the past.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble#Aftermath briefly mentions the ripple effect on programming jobs.

As a result, there tends to be some animosity toward watching the cycle repeat itself.
Free Internet Browser developed by indians for indians
Metrics Driven Design
Number of web pages / number of people in the world
> IMO, 99.9% of the time you don't need the more obscure data structures

Absolutely, and familiarity with these data structures is what's required to prevent these mistakes. I think a good understanding of these is more likely to prevent one from using them, or in some cases, "inventing" them.
Using invariants in Binary Search code
Actually, that news was what made me think of submitting this in the first place. I was struck by the applause from some people towards Apple for rejecting the app, but I kept thinking that Apple doesn't deserve to be congratulated for the latest rejection any more than for the previous ones. Because really, you'd be praising the very same grip that Apple has over iOS's software ecosystem which in other cases infuriated you. The same process is responsible for outcomes you like, and outcomes you don't. The question remains: what do we actually think of the process, and what do we do about it?
Well, yeah. It just seems a little strange (and likely less efficient) to do leg raises, when a decent workout of real exercises would be just as easy and more effective.

Even if you stick to the legs, exercises like bootstrappers, squats, and lunges would be significantly better.
Epic Pinball! Woo! Donated 10. Should probably give some to DosBox too :)
> I have a serious question: why do people get upset at bubbles?

Bubbles collapse, generally with painful consequences for the entire industry. Great business ideas that would've gotten funding during a non-bubble often can't find funding after a bubble.
Ask HN: are there any disadvantages to incorporating in Hong Kong?
My cofounder and I are in the process of creating our company. We are both from Europe, and the service we will provide will be available worldwide. When reviewing options for incorporating the company, we thought of Hong Kong (we both lived in nearby Guangzhou for several years). Taxes are low, incorporation is easy, so it seems like a good fit. However, I am wondering if that may cause us trouble down the line. Will it make it harder to raise money, or any other large scale transaction with US or European companies?
"The thumbnails are sent with a expiry time of 1 day from a server running snapshot_btfe. No surprise there."

I couldn't find what "snapshot_btfe" is. Can somebody explain it to me please?
If you're curious, there are GPS location spoofers in the Android Market. Just remember to Menu -> Settings -> Applications -> Development -> Allow mock locations. Then you can use Color + your location spoofer to see photos from people in other places!
I have a serious question: why do people
get upset at bubbles?

Because bubbles are unsustainable. Almost anyone who gets into a bubble, even at the beginning, will end up losing in the end.

But more importantly, a bubble doesn't keep going. It eventually pops and then the entire industry suffers. Why would you want the industry to suffer? You make money in it, I assume.
Well said.

So, long ago, the heart was considered the center of intelligence. It made sense - when you were worried or anxious or happy, you felt something right there.

Then later when medicine was invented, the heart was a pump. It moved, blood flowed, obviously its a pump. Also not quite right - it also measures blood components, gives feedback to and accepts from the brain, has glands and enzyme responses - so lots more than a pump, more of a synthesis organ with many functions.

So now the brain is a computer. See, I was going somewhere with this! And 'consciousness' is just an algorithm. Its obvious, especially to computer programmers.

I think that there is more going on than that. Because when I'm asleep, somebody is not 'at the wheel', and when I'm awake I'm fully present and thinking, and sometimes thinking about thinking.

Behavioral algorithms can simulate this up the wazoo e.g. Watson, and what you have is a puppet, not something that is really thinking or conscious.

Oh, but they say, when we get a computer big enough/complex enough, it will spring into consciousness and then you'll see! Talk about mystical thinking - if a big computer thinks, then a small one thinks but just smaller. And that is clearly not the case - I tried asking my pocket calculator what it was thinking, and it just said 5318008. (joke)

So maybe the answer lies in the electrical state/dynamic wave functions held in place by the brain, or in quantum mechanics, or whatever. But just because I don't choose A or B in the quiz doesn't mean I'm a mystic or anything.
A message to you, Larry (Page)
Bubbles tend to burst when they become over inflated. If it pops it'll likely take the rest of the 'industry' with it.
> you’ll then be able to see all of the photos that have recently been taken within 100 feet of them.

Why are they restricting it to time? Given such a focused physical proximity, seeing what people were doing where you're standing a year ago might be interesting.
Quick ssh and and start screen:

function s() { ssh $1 -t screen -dRR }
Fiber/coroutine support for node.js and V8
I wouldn't be so sure they have caught the actual guy. They might have payed him off to confess just to look good in front of the public/officials. Russia's court system is corrupt and this type of behavior is especially prevalent durring the election year.
And this is exactly why an open device like Android is so much better.

The problem is that what speech is "icky" depends on the person, and if you ban "icky" speech then you'll be banning all sorts of things others do not find icky. Apple has also removed apps that were basically soft-core porn. But for me, a "gay cure" app is far more offensive than a "girls in bikinis" app, but other people clearly feel the exact reverse.

When you reduce the world to speech which no one finds offensive, then you find yourself using Newspeak, in which you can't communicate meaningfully at all because every offensive thought and image has been eliminated.
Here's how to deal with tech expenses when doing your taxes
DNF was more like a series of half-finished games, all worked on for a couple of years and thrown away. Nothing they showed the public ever had more than a year or two between it and one of the many restarts.

The analogy to a 20% project is actually pretty apt. 3D Realms was mainly a publisher. The cash from that business let them screw around on DNF almost indefinitely without worrying whether it would ever ship or make a profit.
Design is more important than technology in most consumer applications.

- Dave McClure (@davemcclure)

http://startupquote.com/post/4064358646
I may well be somewhat jaded because my job is coding for the financial side of things. When you're dealing with money and banks things... suck. A lot.
I'm assuming it's the codename of their custom built thumbnail server.
Sounds like a great way to have a random stranger's private parts show up on your phone.
Why Intelligent People Use More Drugs
Fall - a kinetic sculpture
Everything your "research" has turned up is nothing at all. Of course overall appearance including perceived breast size is considered when classifying, but it is certainly not a direct small breasts = child porn situation.

The key concept you seem to be missing here is the "appear to be a minor" concept. If an actress had small breasts, shaved pubic hair and was deliberately made up to appear underage then that is unacceptable under Australian law, if that same small-breasted actress was instead dressed appropriately and made up as an adult, then there would not be a problem.

There is a huge difference between something being refused classification and "all pictures of flat chested women (A cup) are kiddie pron".

As for your comics example: the pictures depicted children, that's why it is classified as child pornography. NOT because "all cartoons are kiddie pron. So if you see a cartoon depiction of two people in their 80s getting it on technically you are considered a sex offender."

"I find your accusations and subsequent downvoting rude and baseless. You may not like the sex party, but they are one of the few organisations in Australian politics devoted to transparency in government (for their particular hot-button issue anyway)."

I gave my first preference to the Sex Party in both the 2009 Higgins By-election and the 2010 federal election - not that I see any reason for you to have brought this up. Your original post was totally and utterly factually incorrect. Your second post is similarly misguided.
I wondered that myself.. you still get the free PR for claiming to be late (which everyone expected), but then you get MORE PR for being early, and an April fools joke..

who knows..
It isn't just the industry, it is the entire economy that suffers. The rush of funds to the industry drives demands for service industries and their jobs, among other things. When the bubble bursts, the industry certainly takes a hit, but so does everything that built up to support the industry.

Think outside the bubble.
.. and comes from a cool hackerish domain (42.org)
I like Boxer/Dosbox, but why does it burn my CPU though it doesn't/shouldn't require much processing power?
The comic touched on a good point, too. The controversy behind Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's airport massacre level went on for a little while but has since fizzled away-with that in mind, I can't see how long people will be really taken aback by this game mode.
Something I've always wondered: assuming all other things (connections, community, alumni, funding, etc.) being equal, does YC win out over other "incubators" simply because of Hacker News?

YC startups (quite rightly) get on the front page easily, which obviously drives a lot of traffic. Most other "incubators" don't have anything comparable.
Bubbles create large wealth when on the upside but wealth creation at a rapid extend creates a high volatility in markets until a point where people can no longer follow their current way of life. By then the bottom of the pyramid falls and the economy collapse. Your clients are to one bringing the business and is wealth is not properly give away they cannot afford them anymore and your the one suffering and the end. Read Henry Ford's theory.
Retro (playable) handheld game collection
I desperately need a Qwiki on this subject.
I do the same.

alias co='git checkout'
alias gb='git branch'
alias gd='git diff'
alias gr='git reset --hard'
alias gs='git status'
alias gc='git commit'
alias ga='git add'

But I'm moving away from using git status as much, since adding the following to my $PS1:

get_branch () {
GS=$(git status 2>&1)
if [ $? -eq 0 ]
then
STAR='*'
echo $GS | grep 'nothing to commit' > /dev/null 2>&1 && STAR=''
echo -ne "$(echo $GS | grep 'On branch' | cut -d' ' -f4)${STAR}"
else
echo -ne '_'
fi
}

It's a bit slow some days (up to a second to pop up a prompt when the box is busy), but the constant visual reference to my branch name & uncommitted changes is nice.
These aliases are truly useful, but watch out for mistakes.

I can still vividly remember the moment I mistakenly typed in "g co src/" instead of "g ci src/". I immediately changed my checkout alias to "cho".
You had me at slide #2.

Seriously though, how many "social"...excuse me "elastic" networks do people need to be a part of? I'm one of those weird people who doesn't care that my "friend", whom I've never actually met or spoken a single word to, is getting ready to brush her teeth (yes, I know she is probably a he). With Color in particular, I don't understand how sharing photos with people who are within eye sight is interesting considering you are seeing the same thing!?!?

The presentation of Color is slick, but from a usability aspect, the video looked very confusing. Admittedly I haven't tried using the app since no one I've talked to about it has installed it and the app store description clearly states "Warning: Don't use Color alone". I personally hold nothing against the Color team for taking the money, but VCs COME ON! Even if VCs are investing in apps like this in hopes of a Facebook or Google acquisition, $41,000,000 seems ridiculous. Then again, I'm just a developer hoping someday I'll create something that someone thinks is worth a buck.
That would be it then :P Finance is very very definitely in the category of "industries not to pick" in my experience.
Bernanke has regularly referred to "Core Inflation" when discussing inflationary pressures. You can see his use of it as recently as Feb 3, 2011 in his speech to the National Press Club: http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/bernanke2011...

The Fed's version of core inflation is the core PCE price index as you stated. The "core PCE price index [...] excludes the more volatile and seasonal food and energy prices" [1].

While you may reasonably take issue with my wording of "quite narrow" as I perhaps wasn't choosing my words carefully enough, core inflation/core PCE certainly isn't "the most general measure of inflation that is theoretically possible". I assume you weren't meaning to refer to "core PCE" - but never the less it is clear from federal reserve speeches that it is this measure that has been playing significantly into federal reserve monetary policy.

Core inflation makes sense in trying to smooth out seasonal or short term moves. However, the effects on global food and oil commodities that are traded in US dollars seem to far exceed any seasonal or short term influences. In that case discounting food and fuel influence on actual inflation rates seems unwise.

Bernanke seems to be acknowledging this. The WSJ reported on the 13th of March in an article titled "To Avert Criticism, Fed Avoids Saying 'Core'": Now, Mr. Bernanke is taking another tack in his public communications. In two days of testimony on Capitol Hill earlier this month, the Fed chairman never uttered the words "core inflation" while explaining the central bank's aims and policies. [2].

As a side note, as I've noted I'm in no way trying to put myself forward as an expert on these subjects. I get a significant amount of my financial news and analysis from the WSJ and Marketplace (public radio) (and Morgan coverage, which admittedly is not particularly hawkish here). I'm not above admitting that I could be making some serious mistakes, so if you'd like to suggest better sources of information I am all ears.

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Personal_cons...

[2] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870489360457619...
Theory confirmed with Wall Street traders!!
http://issuu.com/thinkquarterly/docs/01-data#download

Requires you to sign up to issuu or sign in via facebook connect but I was able to get a pdf.
I fully expected that some part of your app would involve porn. In fact I think by using a .xxx you're obligated to include porn...well, at least you should be obligated.

Add porn, raise the round to 80 mil and we have a deal.
"Good, gradual inflation" is how The Man keeps the proletariat busy working. They can't afford to stop.
Using Redis with Ruby on Rails
I agree. I was thinking about trying to compare it to a profession like structural engineer, pilot, doctor, etc., but each of those has rigorous training and certification.
"But we all know, being inside of a brain and thinking as we read this, that something other than behavior is involved with consciousness

You shouldn't say "we all know". I definitely don't know that.
Social links
Links from social networks
I'd love to see the points flash according to their subject matter. Red for war, blue for peace/neutral.
Things that will be obsolete by 2020
The good news is that we're hiring: http://profitably.com/jobs.
So there is no ego inside your head, no awareness of yourself? Am I talking to a spam bot or something?

But you're right, I should have said "I know" since I can't know what's in your head.
It simulates a computer entirely in software, which is expensive. This is different from for example Virtualbox which virtualizes a computer, and still executes most of the instructions directly on the processor.
Serving Multiple Sites with Django
Today we released django-dynamicsites, a pure django solution for hosting multiple sites from a single django project. Looking for feedback/comments on the code and design for subsequent releases.
Hauntingly beautiful fun: the story of iPad's Sword & Sworcery
PeteSearch: A Hundred Machines for Only Ten Dollars an Hour
I did an IAP on Linkeddata, thought of sharing. Might be one of the best resources for you all semantic guys,

http://dig.csail.mit.edu/2010/LinkedData/res.html
I'm thinking that I and 10 other people did. Doh.
Yeah. My personal, inexpert opinion is that if we are ever able to simulate/generate what appears to be consciousness, it won't be as a result of identifying the appropriate algorithm or whatever - it'll be an emergent property of complex systems comprised of individually comprehensible parts, but the behavior of the whole may well still escape our complete understanding.

I think that still leaves a bit of mystery while being somewhat satisfactory in terms of not requiring something supernatural.
Drugstore.com, Veteran of the Dot-Com Bust, Grabbed by Walgreens in $429M Deal
Sequoia To Color Labs: Not Since Google Have We Seen This
"I expected to begin about 4 billion years ago, for the entire history of our world."

"History" means written records. That's why 3.999994 of those 4 billion years fall under prehistory.
How many computers can share a network - Size of a Wireless Network
Wireless access points (Wi-Fi) can support a considerably ample number of devices on a network. Theoretically, it is possible to hook up to 4 wired devices and 221 wireless devices;
41 million (and growing): The number of views for Rebecca Black's "Friday" video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0
3D Scanning with a regular camera or phone
Finance fail?

If you discount the investment to 1999 value, it's under what Sequoia gave Google.
Why learning TDD is hard and what to do.
All this shows is a correlation between IQ score and drug use. There's not even an attempt to explain why more intelligent people would use drugs more often. I'm not terribly surprised THAT more intelligent people use drugs more often, but it would have been really cool to see some data points or a survey trying to explore the reasons behind that fact. I suppose, though, that would be too much to ask from an article entitled "Why Intelligent People Use More Drugs."
Reminds me of a tweet by Angus Davis I stumbled upon a couple of months back.

Amazing how many brilliant minds and millions of dollars have been applied to enable people to share photos.