skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seneca and Stoicism might be interesting to the HN crowd:

“There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.” -Seneca

" Emotions like anxiety and fear have their roots in uncertainty and rarely in experience. Anyone who has made a big bet on themselves knows how much energy both states can consume. The solution is to do something about that ignorance. Make yourself familiar with the things, the worst-case scenarios, that you’re afraid of.

Practice what you fear, whether a simulation in your mind or in real-life.

Then you, your company, and your employees will have little left to keep you from thinking and acting big."

The downside is almost always reversible or transient.

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/04/13/stoicism-101...
To be honest, I've never liked the screensavers on my Kindle (probably makes me uncultured, but I read programming books almost exclusively.) Always wondered why I couldn't change it easily - guess this is the reason. $25 isn't a great deal of a saving, 30-40 seems like a better saving, but I'd still choose it, I'd actually prefer to see advertising which may interest me on the main screen, especially if it uses Amazons recommendation engine to show me books that I would like.

I guess the main advantage of this is that Amazon can say things like "starting from $114!" even though many people will choose the ad-free upgrade. I'd also imagine that down the track they'll move it down to $99 ad-supported, which would be great for marketing.
Will the Rise of Javascript Mean the End of LAMP?
The project is a web app with an associated mobile app; html/css/jquery/php/mysql type of project.
Use Citibank Global Transfers. I think this option requires opening a Citibank account by both parties, but once done you can transfer to most countries in the World, Mexico and India for Free and other places for $10 (less than a third of BoA)… https://online.citibank.com/US/JRS/pands/detail.do?ID=InterC...
I love the lack of points showing when it comes to Apple discussions.
I don't think append-only has much to do with seek time [1]; as you said, it has to do with corruption & consistency.

Second, they actually tout that their data structure is better on SSDs than btrees (due to block-size obliviousness):

> One major advantage is that they are
naturally good candidates for SSDs, where a large asym-
metry in read/write block sizes makes life very hard for
B-trees. In contrast, the arrays making up the SDA can
be written with extremely large effective block sizes.

Footnote in edit: [1] in the case of search trees; for large objects that will be read front-to-back it does become a seek-time issue.
> Be aware that if you fail to provide a passphrase or decrypt information upon request, there are a number of possible consequences...[t]he agent may detain you at the border.

Encryption should always be accompanied by steganography when dealing with the government if you're concerned about your personal well-being as well. Preferably have an innocent-looking dummy OS that boots up by default.

Does anyone know of a way to boot a different OS based on what BIOS password is entered?
Stoicism 101: A Guide for Entrepreneurs
This has already been posted several times, and you know, it's just not that important.
Thanks for the info. If you have shops you've worked with that you had good experiences with I'd love a referral. The project is web app + mobile optimized web, very data-driven and straightforward.
But that's not what the exploit is. It's an exploit against a swf file embedded in a Word doc. So you have to open a bad Word doc. There's no evidence to suggest "you click, and your entire computer is compromised". This isn't just any random swf file on the web that you access with a browser (ie a search result or link). Instead it's "you get sent a shady email with an attachment, you ignore your better judgement about not opening shady attachments in emails, and then you're compromised".
This is the intent, isn't it? Force people to disagree by replying.
First, thanks for the discussion. Always appreciated.

What type of restriction did you encounter with the iPhone. Let's say I buy an unlocked iPhone (from France for example), and then, add the AT&T simcard, would it work?
Also checks (or cheques) are being completely phased out in the UK. Hardly anyone uses them. Direct bank transfer is cheaper, safer and clears much faster.
Virgin Galactic hiring fulltime astronauts
Great idea. It's little apps like this that make the app store awesome.

I can see this being really good for brainstorming business/product names too...
My first impression was that he was a moderator. Green typically means safe and OK, after all.
> That said, there is room for someone to develop a filesystem API designed with solid state in mind...

What about the Journalling Flash Filesystem? It's been around for quite some time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFFS2
While, by default, this would definitely not be my mindset, ("how can I take money from these people since I don't have anything to give them right now?") this is a good question.

This is probably a good idea:

- to validate your idea with real customers,

- motivate you to actually finish it

- and get a growing list of people who can give you feedback.
mobile-optimized web app/site + standard web app/site
Canon vs. Nikon cameras?
It only lists Yahoo and Bing here to come up with that 30%, what about Facebook search? Is that not counted (or counted separately)?

It's "Powered by Bing"
Does Facebook hurt actual social interaction?
This is not entirely surprising. If you take Yahoo's share of the market and add Microsoft's own pre-existing share with Bing, you get to about 30%.
The question is whether or not their share increases any further. My guess is probably not. It's not that Bing is any less useful than Google - it's just that it's not really more useful. As such, there isn't much impetus to switch over.
Thanks for the feedback. I'd be very happy if this inspired better solutions. My goal was to solve a problem that was slowing down my work, and I reached for multiprocessing from my toolbox since that's my first choice to run work in parallel. Since I didn't find an existing implementation, I decided to share it. It would be great to learn from some alternative approaches.
You can use a service like www.spyfu.com to get keyword lists for competing websites. Also, be sure to install the Adwords editor. It will make your life much easier.
The Pyramid Method: A Simple Strategy for Becoming Exceptionally Good
EDIT: jesus - typed this in the wrong place :)
>Does anyone know of a way to boot a different OS based on what BIOS password is entered?

http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=hidden-operating-system
When people say "Deep South" I take that to mean something a little more restrictive.. Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, etc.

Why do we Floridians get forgotten every time someone mentions the deep south culturally we are (where) similar to South Georgia and have a lot of Spanish and Southern history. We are like the Rodney Dangerfield of the south.
Ask HN: How do you like HN's new karmaless comments?
Looks like HN has implemented one of the suggestions on the previous "How to stave off decline of HN?" thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403696

Now there is no longer any display of how many upvotes a given comment has received.

What do you think? Is this really an improvement?
From the article "Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss (a.k.a. "the Winklevii")"
I'm surprised by the price as well - I'd have thought that with ads it would be much lower. Guess not.

Reading tech or any material that could be considered educational might be difficult, as it's oftentimes necessary to switch back and forth between pages to look things up again.
Despite the Australian Dollar currently being higher than the US Dollar, Adobe are charging an extra 20% to Australians.

I used to use Photoshop daily, but I don't any more. I'd love to be able to use it though I would only use it casually. Their price point is still too high for me so I'm going without.
Check out http://www.xe.com/

I'm living in Australia at the moment and lots of people recommended them for sending money abroad.

Not sure what the ramifications are for commercial purposes, but for changing large amounts of currency for personal use they give a damned good rate. I'm a BofA customer in the States and as you found, their rates are a joke.
I'm a happy Google user, but it's nice to have some choices. Nonetheless, I agree that Google will probably dominate until something game-changing comes along.
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
From my experience if you are any good you might get some income dive when you go independent but it should sort itself out within a year or two.
That being said, working as a consultant requires different skill-set then just hacking on some software for 'the man'. You can be super brilliant when doing tech work but miserable when dealing with people, selling, managing your own time, etc. In such situation you have only 2 options: a) change and learn to deal with people, or b) work for a company that can utilize your skills while "protecting" you from the outside world. some people choose (b), others choose (a).
The road to being a kick-ass public speaker
I think the main difference between a weekend project and a startup, is a startup explicitly has the goal of becoming a sustainable business.

A project is just a project; throw something at the wall and see if it sticks. A minority of really sticky projects may have the potential to become startups. :-)

[edit: and conversely, some startups may have been better off left at the project stage. :-P ]
Profiles of a Twitter user
Or Australian. If Photoshop was $500-$600 AUD I would probably buy a license. For $1.5k I could buy a new computer instead and continue to use free tools.
Where were you guys in 2009?

http://vimeo.com/7489601
I'm allergic to anyone who says, "The war of northern aggression." The civil war was fought over slavery. And yes, I heard that phrase from the owner of the bed and breakfast we stayed at within the last three years.

Almost every time I have heard that term used it was used in half hearted jest. Not saying that it is the case in your experience but more than once I have seen a southerner use it to, as we say down here "get your goat". I have meet few who seriously use that term and I own a 68 bronco, a gun, go hunting and fishing and generally associate with the stereotype that would use such a term. If someone used that sentence seriously they would most assuredly be laughed out of the camp. Contrary to popular belief most guys like that are libertarians and pretty well informed about how they are getting screwed by both sides (Contrary to popular belief the religious right down here are not the "rednecks"), they like to joke and are the type of people who would say "war of Norther Aggression" to a northerner just to get a rise out of them. They joke with each other in the same manner about other subjects.
I think removing the display of karma will be a big benefit. It tends to be that when a site gets popular, you attract idiots who want to use it purely in the pursuit of having a "high score" on a popular site. Keeping the karma, but not displaying it makes a lot of sense to me.
Not too surprising. Just yesterday, I found that Bing had managed to get itself back in the list of search engines in my Firefox installation. I use a Mac! The only thing I can think of is that I must have updated the Flip4Mac WMV codecs, but I didn't even let it install Silverlight. If Microsoft is trying this hard to push Bing in so many ways, I'd be surprised if they couldn't manage to hit 30% while the competition is resting on their laurels.
If you follow the link to Contour wiki you will find Screenshots and Videos page → http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active/Contour/Screenshots
It does look like an interesting library. It's weird that the community seems so small.

Here is Michael's blog:
http://blog.bolinfest.com/

And the HN discussion from when it was first open sourced:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=924426

Compiler : http://code.google.com/closure/compiler/

Library : http://code.google.com/closure/library/ (UI / widgets)

Templates: http://code.google.com/closure/templates/
This doesn't foot with the traffic to our site. Would be cool to have our own little unscientific survey, as I'd like to see what experiences other folks on here have... can you fill in the following?

1) Domain

2) Audience

3) Google/Yahoo/Bing % of traffic

4) Notes
Individual comments sans karma-per-comment is superbly smart. Seems like it will encourage higher quality comment quality across the board, as a function of less-biased individual comments in aggregate.

Another + side-effect: decreasing the number of attack down-votes. It is annoying to see scores < 0 due to another person (coward) who uses downvote to "disagree" w/a valid point, and then everybody jumps on the bandwagon. It is possible to disagree without downvoting; just takes a little more thought / energy.
Crashes safari on my iPad
I wish you would post. I don't even really have a handle on what 'integration with enterprise resource planners' means, but it is interesting to me because I am interested in making money.
I'm probably missing something obvious, but why are all the titles in English?

Edit--
It wasn't too obvious, but I've answered my own question: these are "Books published in the Soviet Union in English for export to the English speaking world."
if anyone is interested, the purpose of this project was really just to implement the communication as simple as possible. osc is just used to get the data from kinect to nodejs- and it's parsed and forwarded via websocket. i chose osc because the kinect lib that's used falls is terse as well.

there is a more robust, similar project called depthjs that runs on python and opencv, but as it's more robust it's quite a bit larger. node hands serves a simple purpose, which is to get x/y/z positions from your hands into the browser.

i'd like to thank johndbritton as well as scatman john for making this possible.
Personally I am not a big fan of Facebook search. I can barely ever find links I've posted or any non-person/group/game/widget content.
Actually, given the ps3-owning demographic, the widespread impression that geohot was trying to enable piracy may actually have increased support for him. Gamers are a notoriously piratey bunch, so if the story had been "George Hotz wants you to be able to play games from bittorrent", he might have enjoyed wider support.
Why Apple, Google, Microsoft or Yahoo Should Buy MySpace
Note: the US search market only. Bing's share is much lower worldwide (partly because it's not fully launched in most countries)
For western languages, yes - for others, not so much. It's still pretty bad for chinese/japanese/korean - even if it's better than anything else out there.
... in 24 Hours for Head First Dummies.
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It is too soon to tell whether this is an improvement.
Businesses do that every day. Look at the price of a book which often has two or more currency prices on it. Of course, what happened here in Canada is that stores started offering discounts or "US Pricing" models when our dollar went up. If we're to nitpick we're talking physical items which have associated local costs involved (local staff, local vendor space leases, local energy costs, etc.) whereas here we're talking electric bits and bytes. However, in sales and conversions, it's all the same... no?

I have to admit, I was looking at Grahl Software's PDF Annotator which is listed at $69.95USD but when I went to the site it said C$79.95 (using my IP to give me a price). Did I convert? No. I was turned off. That's 19% more expensive than if I used a US IP. I've a feeling, only from my own experience, that different currency prices in a flat-earth internet environment is a big turn off for consumers.
1) http://feefighters.com

2) SMB focused site that helps companies reduce their credit card processing fees

3) Google was ~88% of our search traffic, and Yahoo/Bing were ~5% each.

4) Numbers for past 30 days. We are ranked far higher on Bing for our key terms "Merchant account" and "Credit card processing"
This is how I build consensus or vet out ideas with a team. I make a statement for a solution based on the information I have, and ask for a better solution from the team, for them to poke holes in it or simply ask "please tell me why this wont work".

Invariably, you get a lot of good thought.

The reason I have found over the years is that great designs are iterative and by giving out a starting point - even if it is wildly wrong, the team can use that to build upon.

If you simply say "give me a design" you get a lot of hesitancy, especially when in a group environment like a whiteboarding with the team.

If you say "here is an idea, whats wrong with it" you get a lot more engagement from the team because the people involved don't have anything at risk, instead each individual only stands to gain should they be able to improve the design.

If there is a headstrong tech in the group who is divergent in opinion, this approach can provide him with an opportunity to say exactly why his opinion differs and an alternate plan inclusive of his comment can be drawn in parallel and then either direction can be taken. with the other plan as a backup.
I'm not so sure about that. Just as reCAPTCHA seems like it's just aimed at blocking robots but is really digitizing thousands (millions?) of books, this project claims to do education and translation.
There is really no connection between the likely macro and branch prediction here.

The gcc built-in simply will organize the code in a manner that makes the likely statement faster to execute (e.g. branching the unlikely block).

Branch predictors are a runtime mechanism so the processor guesses which outcome of the "if" is more likely.

One is a static optimization, the other is dynamic; if you like to think about it that way.
Along similar lines, I wonder if you'll be able to pay for an upgrade later to an ad-free firmware.
One thing I've noticed about the way I use HN, is that I find I keep going to my page, then my comments/posts to see if there are any responses, so that I can decide to respond or not.

I think it would be nice to have a number next to my score, showing me that their are responses, and maybe link that right to my comments/posts page. Would save me wasting time looking at those pages when there hasn't been any activity.

Thanks, keep up the GREAT work.
It is a computer voice saying each character, timestretched to a fraction of their original length, likely the fraction needed for the longest one to fit into one frame.

I've wasted a lot of time messing around with different sound sources in granular synthesis, and the timbre it produces is unmistakable.

You get a similar effect fast forwarding an audio book, depending on the software.

EDIT: maybe I spoke to soon, upon further inspection it seems to go up in pitch much too linearly with time. It's definitely a voice synthesis algorithm though, or perhaps one of those synthesisers that use parts from those algorithms to make musical sounds.

EDIT2: I think it may be the voice algorithm reading out the character code, with the pitch set to the code * some constant. The jumps in pitch are from when there is a run of undefined codes. Higher numbers take longer to say, so the sound becomes more continuous as it goes on.
If they find they make more money than they expected, you'll see $50 off by Christmas. They're probably just testing the idea, and went with a safe discount.
That seems to be a large increase. I was under the impression that Bing/Yahoo made up 10 or 15%. Wonder what the change has been.
That's because Android vs. iOS is really Linux vs. BSD!
Although great points were made in the article, I find this to be a failure on the part of the CEO and COO. Their individual profiles on justin.tv are both vague and lacking in focus; public statements often reflect management styles and objectives. If the key directors of a company don't direct, the whole company will suffer regardless of the number of management books they read.
I like Bing and I want to use it more often, but I just keep using Google out of habit. This, no doubt, is the biggest challenge that Bing faces.
I like it. Let things move organically.
Put your email in your profile so that people can contact you.
Stop Acting Like a Startup, Google
I can't talk for others, but I love that page. The "Call to action" button took me literally no time to find and I was happy to click on it. A bit half-page button would have just frustrated me and I wouldn't have subscribed.
The other thread states one problem is mean comments. A good solution for this is to require the use of real names.
Both systems are used, though the shape-based methods use a more sophisticated granularity than simple strokes (for example, there is one component consisting of a diagonal stroke, three horizontal strokes and a square). Relevant Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_input_methods_for_compu...
Stop Google's Exploitation of Open Communities
I did the same double-take. They both make up between 10 and 15% -- when MS bought Yahoo's search traffic, they effectively doubled their traffic and jumped to about 24-28%. So that's the number they've grown from recently.
Winklevoss twins lose Facebook fight
Awesome idea! This is exactly the reason why I made QuietWrite. I also have an integration with WordPress, but having a plugin is awesome too. I'd definitely use this.

Also, WordPress is going to be integrating a fullscreen clean editor in an upcoming release (from what I hear).
This is why there's a push for high-FPS video — 25 FPS is really too slow to look smooth without a lot of blurring or an audience that's very willing to overlook slight flicker.
These numbers are bogus, as far as I can tell.

I help run a popular music forum that gets over a million pageviews every month, and our search referral numbers show Google at 98.7%. The numbers are similar across 10 other domains I own.

I challenge anyone to show me a site that gets 30% of their search engine hits from Bing. Seriously, if your Bing stats are even close to 30%, please share with us.
Thank you for your feedback. I try to add as many synonyms as possible (5 for Dutch in the case of "near the sea"), but some always slip through.

Also, any words that are context dependent should have an example that clarifies the meaning: e.g. for "the friend" the example given is "After I told my friend, she started crying." so you know it concerns a woman, not a man.

In general, inglua works much better if you use it as intended, that is, to learn languages you barely speak at all (and that's obviously the use case I aim for).
>For others trying to overcome impostor syndrome, consider this: that you have benefited from multiple strokes of luck that have no basis on your actual ability or performance is highly unlikely. It's much more likely that you've gotten to where you are because of your achievements.

uhh, dammit. not helping.
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Instead, get rid of people you don't trust enough not to micromanage. If you look around and that's everyone, then the problem is probably with you...
"

Good stuff. I think leaders in general need to be more proactive pruning their employee tree if they want it to bear good fruit.

I'm amazed how difficult it is for managers to admit that they made a hiring mistake, even if the person that needs to go is just a contractor.
The important thing to note is the 'considering' part and also that this is based on total radioactive material release since the tsunami and not on any new events.

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/84721.html
"Lesson learned: I need to know what people need and what they will pay for"

Yes and no. Sometimes, with something as simple as this just try scratching your (most urgent) itch.

You can always build on that.