skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you an introvert? I'm pretty introverted, I have a good deal of social anxiety, but not quite agoraphobia. I think one of the scariest thing about trying to talk to someone you've never met is not knowing anything about them. I can't just go up to someone and say "Hey, how 'bout them giants" unless I know they are a Giants fan.

Color provides this weird insight into people's lives you wouldn't normally get. It's what I absolutely loved about facebook in 2005, I made some awesome friends that way, who often happened to be introverts, and eventually people got up tight about it and locked stuff down.
+1 button from Google
By way of agreeing with you I will say that yes, easier for IT is "better" than easier for the users, and this has nothing to do with PCs and Macs, it has to do with the fact that there is no spot in the company's financials for the time and efficiency lost by products that do what they are supposed to do, but do it poorly.

Whereas, it's easy to measure the amount of time IT spends supporting the product. So if there are two different UIs, it's easy to see that you need two different training sessions for users, but hard to measure how much time the Mac users lose struggling with the UI.

As I said, this is hardly a Mac/PC thing. You often see it in horribly designed internal applications. It's easy to measure the cost of development but hard to measure the productivity lost due to craptacular UX. So in 2011 I still see RFQs from clients asking for search pages where you fill in a complex form indicating which field you want searched and how to search it, instead of implementing a single full-text search across the application.
Coworker of mine wrote this: http://ubuwaits.github.com/css3-buttons/ (no need for sass/compass)
Do you mean there is a one year commitment if you win? Or do you have to stay in Boston for the year?
As before, if you want access to the Mac desktop app right now, append "+hn" to your email (ex: email+hn@domain.com)
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We check HN every day for comments / feedback from founders, but haven't looked at the app on YC. We constantly look at our copy to evaluate changes since submitting, and reform answers as other incubator programs have started following us. However we have not submitted to any other programs than YC. We feel the anticipation is awesome and look forward to checking HN daily until the final say is issued.

As for our video, neither of us like the camera so its terrifying to look at it and we haven't except the following day to verify it was posted. We really hope to get the chance to meet everyone in person. There is a lot about personal contact (meeting someone) that comes through, that you just can't portray in an app, or video.
Can you point to a US city that does have a competitive broadband market? Surely they can't all have rigged the market as you suggest.
Using colour to find things of interest
If you look you can get the windows 7 isos from microsofts' servers (or in this case their distribution network through digital river).

These have worked for my OEM licenses, XP though I remember you needed to use the disk with the correct service pack to install with your software key. (A sp1 key wouldn't work with a sp2 disk and vica versa.)
If Tablets are a Fad, So is Everything Else
I'm participating as an entrant this year and think it's a fantastic program for start-ups! Great to see it in Massachusetts, too.
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Type "man hier" at a command prompt.
Sorry if that's true. I couldn't find a Who's Hiring submission for this month:

http://searchyc.com/submissions/Who%2527s+Hiring?sort=by_dat...
The obvious: I'm sure it won't be long before Google creates an embeddable +1 button, for you to include in your site/blog/webapp. Because right now I don't see why I would run a search, click the result, go 'whoah, good article' and then hit back to the results page to '+1' aforementioned article.

What I really like about this, though, is that it sounds so good.

"I'd +1 that."

"Have you +1ed?"

"Where's the essay? Uh, it's in my +1s"
Nice. Having home schooled our children I have to say that it is definitely a conversation starter and not always in a good way. Its interesting that the list posted though only tangentially touches on the the crux of the issue.

The public is being bombarded with messages every day that education in the US has apparently fallen below every country in Africa in terms of how much we spend on our children and fallen behind every other 'first world' nation in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). The outcome is that people who are unable to home school but wish they could apparently feel threatened by those who do.

At our house the decision to take our kids out of school was not easily taken. It meant that either my or I would be spending our 'life capital' investing in the elementary school education of our children rather than on other aspects such as maybe career points, starting a new company, or building a service organization to help the less fortunate. Since we were looking at what was essentially a 8 to 12 year commitment (we weren't sure if we'd want them to go to an institutional type high school or not) there was a potential to use that time to do any number of things. So if someone tells you they are home schooling their kids understand also it tells you what they are not doing.

Not everyone is a good teacher, but anyone who has graduated from college and is committed can teach their kids what they need to know prior to entering high school.

Public education is broken in a number of ways, both in how they allocate resources and how they evaluate effectiveness. Private education more able to evaluate and allocate effectively is not necessarily affordable to everyone, home schooling, for those who have both the time and the ability to make the economics work out, is, in my experience, very effective at providing the foundation.
It's an interesting way of arranging a link aggregator, in that the links are already present. That said, I don't see this taking off. People compartmentalize their life based on functionality. Some will see google only as a search tool, digg/reddit/hn/slashdot/etc as their social news site, gmail/hotmail/etc as their mailing client - and wont use those products for anything other than their mentally compartmentalized purpose.

The other issue that I see here is the culture that is present. Think of everyone that uses google - do you want all of their votes to influence the content that you see? I don't want to see the eggplant tofurduken recipe that Aunt Millie +1'd. Sure, you can limit the influence to just your circle of friends, but that doesn't bring much new to the table. Reddit has done well because it allows for this context of culture to be one of it's primary features (via subreddits). Even HN has this driving niche focus sitewide.

All that said, while I dont expect this to take off, I do expect to see a "+1 THIS!" button next to the "tweet this!"/"digg this!"/"reddit this!" button on every blogspam post out there.
Amazon isn't paying licensing fees on music stored in Cloud Drive
On the other hand it's important to weigh the risks of nuclear power fairly, relative to other power sources. These reactor accidents are novel, noteworthy, and dramatic, but how serious are these accidents in proper context?

Jumbo jet crashes are similarly dramatic and noteworthy, yet air travel remains one of the safest forms of transportation available, by a significant margin. Is the same bias for flashy and scary events happening with nuclear power?

Fukushima and Chernobyl are notable, but so is the failure of Fujinuma Dam (also due to the Tohoku earthquake), and the failure of Banqiao dam, and the Texas City disaster.

So far the record of the non-Soviet civilian nuclear power industry compares favorably with that of other industries and power sources, even including extrapolating some rather severe further evolutions of the Fukushima reactor disaster factored in.
Don't tempt me, my brother in law lives in Murfreesboro and it's absolutely gorgeous down there. Beautiful brick homes all over the place, and very mild weather. Throw in gigabit broadband and you've just about got me convinced.
One of the best things, from my perspective is that it will give Kansas something that is positive for a change. There is lots of good tech here in Eastern Kansas, but all anyone knows is about our issues around teaching evolution and Fred Phelps. Sometimes makes it hard to convince a client on the coast that we really do know what we're talking about and aren't running a consultancy next to a barn.
Dumb Things People Say: develop on and deploy to the same platform
I have nothing against HFT but I don't buy your liquidity argument. Liquidity is needed most when markets are falling outside the norm. Any algorithm with a fail-safe or kill switch will immediately shut off when times get bad thereby ending their contribution to liquidity at a time when it is needed most.

Please help me understand this better if I'm incorrect.

(edited for clarity)
Now I know I've seen this recently ...

(searches)

Yup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2377458

Submitted by pg, no less.

ADDED IN EDIT: Really? A down-vote? For pointing out something is a duplicate? OK ...
Mentors and speakers last year included the founders of billion dollar companies (Desh Deshpande - Sycamore/Cascade/A123, Josh Boger - Vertex Pharmaceuticals), billion pageview websites (Alexis Ohanian - Reddit), and successful entrepreneurs from all fields, including consumer web (Jeff Taylor - Monster.com), B2B software (Dharhmesh Shah - Hubspot), energy (Tim Healy - EnerNoc) and life sciences (Ken Bate - Archemix).

What makes you think you can't learn from these people?

Last year's finalists raised well over $30M in outside funding in the 7 months following day 1 of the accelerator program ... with 100+ startups on one floor, there is a lot of opportunity to learn (and teach).
Hard to say. They were at this peculiar point where both courses of action would be beneficial for them. Personally, I think they should have sold it. I'm usually the one that is pro-founder's ownership and control. Nevertheless, there aren't many barriers to enter the coupon market and as much as I understood Google's strategic reasons for wanting to buy Groupon, I've always thought it was overvalued for what it offers as a service and because of how easy it would be for a newcomer with a better take on the group coupon phenomenon (think Hipmunk in travel industry).
I live just down the road in Lawrence. We have AT&T, Knology, and a small, scrappy (disclaimer: that used to work for) community wireless startup in Lawrence Freenet.

Freenet has been pushing hard to work with the City of Lawrence on a fiber project that would be very similar to what Google would like to do. Having this happen in KC, KS will, I think, only help the Lawrence project.

If I am not mistaken, KC,KS is also getting 2000 Cerner jobs sometime in the next year(s). I can imagine the presence of Google Fiber will help draw a lot more area tech companies. At least I hope so.
Without Woz, Jobs would have never even had a product to begin with. Forget having a company, there would have been no reason to form a company.
Contrails impact climate more than planes' carbon emissions
I don't think you should down voted. Even though you're taking a "jocular" attitude, I think you've hit on something.

I've been following the pro and anti nuke arguments here and I have found them quite useful. I might not agree with the pro-nuclear arguments but they've given me a better idea of what realistic and unrealistic fears around nukes are.

For example, claims that truly minute amount of plutonium can automatically cause cancer seem distinctly over-done. See the wikipedia page.

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

On the other hand, I recall the article which talked about how a reactor melt-down couldn't break containment structure because "This structure is designed, built and tested for one single purpose: To contain, indefinitely, a complete core meltdown". Well, given that an escaped-meltdown is currently considered plausible-if-not-likely, it seems there's a difference what something is designed to do and what a human-built artifact is capable of doing.

http://mitnse.com/2011/03/13/modified-version-of-original-po...

And point of this is we're at the point that ... some large of folks confidently said we could never get to... Yes, things quieter now but it does seem like there's more reason to worry...

Nuclear radiation is "natural" in the sense that's around everywhere. Given that the world's a large place, the reactor won't pollute the entire that much. Now, making significant area around the plant uninhabitable for a long time? That's looking much more likely and that's not a cost that anyone is going to see as small.

We have water giving off 1 Seivert(1,000 mSv)/hour at the plant and apparently this water is building up. Look at xkcd chart and see where that rates...

http://xkcd.com/radiation/
Practically, it has to be playable by iPods, if a lossless format is to be agreed upon. (and you would need hardware decoder for that format, otherwise battery life becomes an issue.)
I've had bad experiences with Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft. Amazon's recruitment process was lengthy and somehow all records they had for one of my interviews mysteriously vanished and I had to start all over again. With Facebook, I didn't get too far into the process, but our campus recruiter has a reputation for being disorganized.

I'll give MS recruiters the benefit of the doubt, as all other candidates I met had positive experiences. They just matched me with the wrong team, and it seems like the recruiter overlooked some paperwork related to scheduling and traveling.

Other sloppy recruitment experiences include some with trading companies such as Jane Street; one such company rejected me by saying "we're only looking for juniors" after calling me on-site. The only truly positive experience I've had is with a YC startup (I was eventually rejected).

Nothing, however, compares with how bureaucratic and mismanaged Google was. I went through a smooth but lengthy recruitment process the first time, and was given a rejection letter after 1 month. Second time, I had to do some juggling between 4 recruiters before getting the paperwork settled for my first interview. I was out of the country and clearly told a recruiter that I should be reached by a different phone number, after which I was asked "are you legally allowed to work in the United States?" even though I'd already answered that in the paperwork they had given me, and I had clearly stated I was studying in the US. Then, I end up scheduling interviews for 2am and 3am my time. The 3am interviewer is not informed about the change in phone number, and is a no-show.

A couple of interviews and 6 weeks later, I get no response. So I end up sending a follow-up mail to my recruiter, who, the very next day, tells me I've been put in the rotting pool. I get no more feedback after 3 weeks, and send another mail. Apparently, I'm still in this rotting pool. I'm guessing this is just equivalent to getting a rejection.

As for interview questions, Google isn't any different from other large companies. I found it odd that they still require candidates to code in Google Docs rather than some Etherpad equivalent that formats code.

So far, searching for an internship has been just a ridiculous time sink. I'd probably get more experience by hacking on my own projects, but that's no guarantee of job safety.
I am guessing that this could do some great things for helping to grow the tech community in Kansas City. Should be very interesting to see what the response will be from other cities if this helps to drive growth.
Ask HN: Why is Posterous so slow?
I created a blank template on Posterous that loads nothing but their files and it has 42 request. Page took 7.60 sec to load with a primed cache.

Couldn't some of these be merged, minified or conditional?

Here's a screenshot http://dl.dropbox.com/u/558799/jing/2011-03-30_1428.png

Posterous is a great service but page loads take forever.
I read that as convicted!
Is it as creepy as taking 6% equity from a company that is still young and strategically weak?

To me that is molestation.
How Websites Have To Adapt To Google’s Constantly Changing Algorithm
> he forgot to mention that this is a non-standard, specialized setup. In normal case, /var is on the root partition.

Specialized it may be, but nonstandard it is not; the entire reason for /var to exist as a separate directory is so that it can be mounted from a local disk in cases where your root partition and /usr are NFS-mounted or otherwise read-only or shared between multiple machines.

It seems to me that moving /var/run to /run simplifies the filesystem "hierary" rather than making it more complex.
Apple Launches a Mac Attack (1984)
NoSQL Startup Citrusleaf Launches, Promising the Moon
NYC had a better port. Back when this mattered, a deep-water port at the end of the Hudson river was a big deal (D.C. was never in the running, but up until 1815 or so Boston and Philly were bigger commercial centers than NYC.) For the first 100-150 years of its existence the early colonies traded more with England than with each other, so a good port was a necessity for a city but it did not need much else beyond that. Post-revolution most trade was still external rather than internal but England and France shut down most of this trade during the Napoleonic wars. At this point the advantage went to NYC because by sitting at the end of the Hudson river it was able to serve as the trans-shipment point for goods coming down from the Hudson river valley out to the other states. After the Gibbons v. Ogden court case established federalist supremacy over interstate commerce the maritime merchants of NYC were better positioned than their competitors in Boston, Philly, or Baltimore to take advantage of this explosion of commercial opportunity.

The reason people gathered at a certain buttonwood tree in lower manhattan was to trade shipping interests -- early finance was all about commercial shipping and the fact that NYC was an early leader in shipping led to the development of a finance hub and the two sides of the same coin propped each other up.
Ask HN: How do I get health insurance for my employees?
I'm at the point where my bootstrapped business is getting profitable enough for me to start looking into getting health insurance for me and another co-founder and whoever we bring in. Where should I start looking?
The +1 button
I just figured that most people wait until the first to look for the hiring threads so you'd likely get better exposure once the big April one comes on Friday :)
> Am I missing something obvious? Is there an important reason why the FHS is considered so important and unchangeable? Or is it just political?

My beard is long now, and the FHS has not changed since I was a child.
It's still pay to pitch. We had this fight on HN last year too. They're good people with good motivations, but it's still pay to pitch and, as a result, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
Founded by Gordon Moore and Bob Noyce, led to juggernaut status by Andy Grove (employee #3)
Well, it would split the initial karma four ways, then. It would be better than not splitting.
It's a beautiful part of the country. I love it down here.
The fifth response (by gmane's sorting) says it's a "crack ridden idea" and acuses the authors of raping the standard. So, yeah, flame on.
When it comes to hiring, I'll take a Github commit log over a resume any day.
BC Claims Using A Wireless Router Is a Sign of Copyright Infringement
From revision one to revision done
He saw it on TWO laptops.

Using the same methodology and the same software - granted, it's "false-positive proof", but there are variables here he didn't account for. Methodology matters.

Samsung supervisor

No, Samsung SUPPORT supervisor. I'm comfortable going out on a limb and hypothesizing that:

A) The Samsung Support Supervisor knew exactly as much about the situation as the author - that is, Nothing. He called telephone support, not the engineering department.

B) It's entirely possible said supervisor bullshitted something that sounded plausible and positive. Again, it's a call center support supervisor, not a press release or any sort of official statement by the company.

The author has an extremely small sample, a very small amount of extremely limited evidence, and nothing that could be called a credible statement from Samsung.

IF Samsung is knowingly doing this it's a terrible policy and a serious problem. IF it's for the reason the supervisor said, it's Incredibly bad policy. IF the article is true, it's possibly criminal. We don't have enough evidence to claim that yet, and until more testing is done and Samsung makes a statement, it's not an Incident, it's a curious event that certainly calls for further investigation.
This is heading in the right direction, but I remain skeptical of the simple "you're connected to this person through some service (probably unconnected to the search query), so you trust them" symbol as the main recommendation symbol. This is one way Color actually interests me, they're exploring new symbols for connection, even if I think they're kind of weird and hard to understand at first glance.

Won't know for sure until I try it though.
Call me skeptical, but I'm not convinced by Google's partial rollout of their new social layer.

A while ago they rolled out the new top-bar and a little later they rolled out the new profiles and now this. It all kind of makes sense, but there is no killer app/driver for all these features.

The number of integration points seems to be a problem, too. Until last week Google Mail, Reader and Groups all used different revisions of the "Google bar" on top. Disabling Google Buzz in Gmail also removes your new shiny profile, etc..

I'm anxious to see where this is going.
Nano 'mummies' a real horror show for infections
I lived in KCK for a year in the mid 1990's. Yes, there was crime. Yes, there was poverty. Yes, there was a lot of blight. However, there were a whole lot of good, hard-working people there.

In particular, Kansas City Kansas Community College is a bright spot. Here's hoping that their CIS program can work with Google to place some interns!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAyUNI3_V2c#t=0m45s

"And soon you'll be able to +1 more than just search results. You'll also find the +1 button on sites across the web, making it easy to +1 pages after you visited them."
Fukushima Worst Case?
I just did it and there was a warning about unfollowing everyone in Google Reader.
The accelerator is ~3 months.

It runs from June 27 through Oct 1. Final judging takes place in the first two weeks of October, and the final ceremony is on Oct 20.

Founders do not need to be present for that whole period, but we do strongly recommend active participation -- surveys and data demonstrate pretty clearly that startups perform much more effectively if they engage in the accelerator rather than "dialing in".

There is zero obligation to stay in Boston following the accelerator.
Ouch! That's a great "incentive" for the system to work well!
Seems like an interesting way to try and tie in a social aspect to their search, but I think they're at a bit of a disadvantage when compared to Facebook mostly because Google profiles are not ubiquitously used. If you don't have anyone to share your +1s with then after some time I'd suspect people won't bother. I think redesigning the profile page was a step in the right direction and I think they have to come up with something to get people to fill them out and use them.
As well as ubiqitous WiFi access points?
My bank requires me to use a on-screen virtual keyboard to log into the online account.

That is ridiculous.
I had never finished a chess game before. Well done!