skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Gandhi was erratic,irrational, tyrannical, obstinate. He sometimes verged on lunacy. He believed in a religion whose ideas I find somewhat repugnant. He worshipped cows."

That line from the article is ridiculous. Anyway, it is not an original idea to claim that Gandhi was a puppet of the British Government, an opportunist, etc. by Western AND Indian thinkers. Yes, the Indian Government has, in many ways, manufactured his character, as the article claims. Most Indians are aware of that. However, establishing hero figures is not different than what many countries, religions, and other "imaginary communities" have done to move past horrific injustices like Britain's brutal occupation of India. This article serves no beneficial purpose but to restate: history is written by the victors.
It wouldn't need to be much. Per one of my other posts in this thread [1] computers that can emulate a C64 (but lack a keyboard and other features of the original) have been sold in the past for around $20. I'm guessing the cost of the machine I am envisioning would be dominated by the cost of the Cherry keyswitches. I'd buy it for $100 and I bet they could make a nice profit margin selling it for even less than that.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2408752
I am assuming you are talking about Android/iOS Native Apps. From my experience, the development time for these 2 platforms are essentially the same, assuming the same level of developer for each platform.

The amount of time needed can vary a lot depending on amount of 'polish' required as well how thorough the design and specs are.

With all of that said, I would give an above average developer 2-3 months to develop something like the Yelp app. This is assuming the back-end and web services are ready and available.
WakeMate Shipping Internationally
"Groups such as the Business Software Alliance have acknowledged that Canada is a low-piracy country"

This statement is in stark contrast to the story the U.S. government tells. They claim Canada is one of the five worst countries for piracy along with China, Mexico, Russia, and Spain.

http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=3047997

Interestingly enough, Canada's status as a pirate country is usually upgraded whenever copyright lobby groups are trying to get draconian updates to Canada's copyright laws shoved through parliament. They were getting close this year, but the election has thankfully nixed that. Again.
Do Natural Resources Fuel Authoritarianism?
I think another thing that perhaps affects games more is having zero knowledge of other studios' development approaches unless you or a buddy go and work there. I'm clueless about where the industry is as a whole.
News coverage/summary here

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-04/islam-blamers-ignor...
If you click around their website a little, you'll find that they're doing more or less exactly that. Most of their products are modern "computers as keyboards," and they say that they are working on a Commodore/Amiga-flavored Linux distro with a heavy emphasis on emulation for backwards compatibility with classic Commodore and Amiga software.

I'm a little skeptical about the "inexpensive" part, though. No prices are posted, but from the pictures and specs I don't think that they've driven costs low enough to tap into the netbook market.
Yes you certainly can, see sshuttle (on the frontpage just now) for example. But you will not get transparent end-to-end connection (which hardly matters). Idea is to reconstruct something similar to kernel socket calls from actual TCP packets and send those calls to the other side (with retransmission handled only by outer reliable transport).

It's similar idea as "User"/"NAT-only"/"Outgoing only" networking option offered by various virtualization systems and emulators. Probably original historical implementation of this hack is slirp, which is unix tool that works as NATing SLIP endpoint without needing root access (or anything OS-specific), that was often used in early '90s to get "full" IP connectivity from UNIX account on internet-connected modem-accessible system (usually without official approval to do so).
Peter Norvig's mini tutorial on NLP
> If you click around their website a little, you'll find that they're doing more or less exactly that.

I tried to, but the server was overloaded...
Why seals can't secure elections
The elusive inventory of your projects
One of the old ideas of globalization was that it makes things cheaper for the US and Europe by doing jobs that we see as "beneath us" economically. Its also a way to skirt laws and minimum requirements of safety by repositioning that 'dangerous' manufacturing in India or Bangladesh.

Now, these companies have been doing this stuff for quite a while now. The people in the US would grumble about children workers and unsafe conditions. Yet those very goods would still be bought. This was the whole idea behind globalization: make more money by exploiting the difference of economy of foreign nations. (Note)

Yet, when the masses finally have access to what the large corporations have had for quite some time, they throw a fit. This battle now is only over music and videos. Just you wait and see the world war of a battle over devices like RepRap.

(Note) After thinking of this, I have a great analogy: Globalisation is a Stirling engine for economics.
no it is not.
And still, be blocked by IO.
Unfortunately, I think this is fundamentally how 3G works, isn't it?

Wich is why carriers around the world are all melting down as soon as their customers start using the 3G service they're paying for. And somehow the "network experts" at AT&T (or in my case, Vodafone) never learned from the exact same issues when the whole world was tunneling tcp over ppp/slip back in the late '80s...
If there's one thing you don't do, it's offer any criticism of Mother Theresa, no matter what information there is in the world about her outside of the perpetuated religious and media portrayal of her to the masses.

If there's a second thing you don't do, it's offer any criticism of Ghandi.

People cling so irrationally to the persona that have been drilled into their head throughout their entire life that offering any insight or raising any contradictory perspectives on certain characters draws the same response you'd get if you went up to a devout religious person and started asking about their crazy mythology. That is, you encounter a brick-wall that only spouts that you are wrong, because (instead of The Bible Says So) "she was a saint" or "he was a pacifist". And that's as far as you'll get. People who have no investment or interest in either person will be highly offended that you would dare make any assertions.

Hyped figures perpetuated by media and society are destined to be remembered this way for eternity and any contradictions -- no matter how scholarly -- will always be categorized as hateful.

Oh, if there's a third thing you don't do, it's offer any criticism of Nelson Mandela.

Oh, and if there's a fourth thing you don't do, it's offer any criticism of Che Guevara.
My point about science and polticw was that there are attempts for politics to become more scientific, but politicians (along with big business managers, to a degree) want definitive answers, not equivocation and hypotheses that haven't been proven. Thus we get "scientists" guiding them based on their political views, charisma or communication skills, not on the actual evidence. I am not advocating for anti-intellectualism, but I am notimg that there is a reason for mistrust of science: it too can be abused to push an agenda by "acting" before the science can give you clear answers. Examples include Jean Mayer and Ancel Keys in nutrition (heavily influenced The first US policy on nutrition via George McGovern in the early 70s); Greenspan in economics (free money for far too long, pushing the belief the financial market wouldn't screw itself over even though they have time and again)

On the other hand I'm actually kind of happy that the Internet has made a meritocracy of expertise via blogs and mailing lists - credentials are too easily abused.
Wow -- thanks for that. Great lecture. Little golden nuggets like this are what make HN so great.
There's also picoev to look into if you're interested in seeking alternatives to libevent. I don't know a huge amount about libevent and it's a bit niche, though. The meinheld WSGI server uses it, and I got nearly double requests/second compared to gevent (libevent). Not that that means much, but it's interesting.
> I never heard a woman say: "I'd find him attractive if only he was bald, that full lustrous head of hair just doesn't do it for me".

I have. I've read it, and I've heard it in conversation. I've also heard some women prefer short men, fat men, etc.
Wow, that was... crazy. A slightly less frothing at the mouth response:

http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.indian/msg/38b451...

The OP article had me going, because it was partially correct about the film being a hagiography. But it went quickly into looney-land about half way through. If you look up the author and his other writings, you'll realize why.
Got an email from Home Depot and Target... Looks like Home Depot is missing from their list.
Why is this a link to the reblogged article on a popular blog, and not the original article?
Masterbranch scrapes github, pretends I'm using their site
Apologies if this was posted recently. I couldn't find it in a cursory search via searchyc.com:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/apr/28/differe...
The link to my project is not clickable, and masterbranch tells visitors they need to sign up to talk to me.

Classy.
I was thinking of signing up, but couldn't be bothered to fill out the form.
I guess the answer is maybe. One person non-software businesses run into all kinds of scaling problems that sellers ran into trying the quit your day job thing. I'm not sure the quit your day job is the right approach for most sellers. After reading the book E-Myth I realized that every Etsy seller should read it immediately if only to realize that they'd be better off doing something else. It seems like it's a good way to make some extra money if you make something nice. There's nothing wrong with that approach but it's less exciting than quiting your job to make cool things to sell on the internet. The people I've met who sell their crafts on Etsy typically have no money to do anything fun and no time to do it anyway.

I think the basic problem is that by taking all that money the expectations are far different. If they had bootstrapped then they'd be looking at a great business that could grow organically without the pressure to big a billion dollar business. It seems like (to put it in Joel Spolsky's framework) they are a Ben & Jerry's business playing with an Amazon model.
He could sell the guide on Gumroad
Some thoughts on incumbents
I went the same route, though I did OS/2 for a couple of years in there (even had a team OS/2 t-shirt).

In 2000 though, I switched from Linux to Mac because I was a bit tired of X tweaking. I found that the hobbiest culture of the Mac and NeXT crowds reminded me of the C64 days. What sealed the deal was OS X where basically I had a BSD workstation with a good desktop.

Most of my old Mig and Commie friends are sadly on Windows 7. They don't care for UNIX for some reason and dislike Apple. Maybe it's like those folks that "outgrow" the music they liked when they were younger...
Could someone scroll that page to the right? I wondered if there was a signup link over there, but I didn't feel like scrolling.
DotCloud gets NodeJS support
Pure Python/C Accelerator Module Compatibility Requirements
What? Being bald is awesome!

Baldness is caused by excess testosterone (not the muscle-building kind, unfortunately). It's associated with maturity and power. The best thing a bald(ing) guy can do is get in decent shape. You don't have to be Arnold, but a strong, bald guy exudes masculinity (look at Picard).

You don't have to waste time with barbers or hairdressers. Just buzz what remains every few days. You're automatically considered lower-maintenance and more masculine because of this.

You don't have bad hair days.

The only things about baldness that suck are sunburns (this is actually the worst thing about going bald, because you're exposed but can't just slather on sunscreen), and hitting your head on stuff. Hair provides a bonus inch or two of sensory input which helps you avoid banging your noggin.

Being young (25-ish) and bald(ing) is less fun, but a lot of the shallow negativity goes away when 50% of your friends start losing their hair by 30. Best of all: the ones who lose it later haven't learned to cope with it, and look hilariously desperate just as you're getting extremely confident.
Freelancer? You mean the Swedish site (GetAFreelancer) that was bought by some Australians?

Sure, it has been cleaned up a bunch, but doesn't seem like a massive entrepreneurial success (other than as a vehicle for self-promotion).
Video-on-Demand Startup Zediva Gets Slammed by the MPAA
I wonder if it will play my Frogger cassette tape that I still have up on the shelf? :)
This would be incredible for online classrooms.
Do the iPad's only fetch data from a host iPad or can anyone with any of the iPads change the data that everyone is seeing?
"The strongest words, however, have come from Richard Grenier, film critic for 'Commentary'. Not satisfied with simply attacking the movie and the man, Grenier in a March article for the magazine went on to vilify all of India, all of Hinduism, and then to flail at a target closer to home, and close to the hearts of his fellow neoconservatives: American liberals. Grenier's 13,000-word tirade was widely reprinted and subsequently released as a book dedicated to Norman Podhoretz and Midge Deeter."

No wonder.
You should try a really cool hat or beanie. Did your stress levels rise in your mid-20's? Do you remember what it was precisely?
http://jacquesmattheij.com/Free%2C+Public+Data+Sets
And discussion:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2165497
Is enforced sign-up a new trend?
Such a practice is a throwback to the days when porn sites entice you with great pictures at the front with possibly poor quality stuff beyond =P
Does it help the site that it can then boast to VCs about its 100k signed-up users? The user-base size does not reflect the site value but rather the enticement.
Infochimps?
5th: Dalai Lama

Well, unless it's to the Chinese. Then you can't compliment him.
I believe Steven Levitt used the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) from the national highway traffic safety administration (NHTSA) for his seatbelts vs carseats work:

ftp://ftp.nhtsa.dot.gov/fars/
I made a similar Chrome plugin called GIF Scrubber: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gbdacbnhlfdlllckel...

It also uses a canvas element to render each frame but it does support weird disposal methods. You can see the (very sloppy) source by just viewing the source of the plugin window.

You mentioned getting test images for the disposal methods and I found these to be very helpful: http://algif.sourceforge.net/#18

I'd also recommend using some kind of movie player-style control like I used and some kind of "explode" function. They both proved popular.
Grr... posting from my phone does not a well spelled comment make. And I hate how the edit function is not available seemingly arbitrarily.
My Facebook ads experience in a nutshell: mega-targeted towards US women interested in elementary education & etc, used a seasonally appropriate image and tagline, spent $140, got 275 clicks (~$0.46), four free trial signups (pick email and password), and (unsurprisingly) no sales. $140 of AdWords would typically get about 2.5k clicks and $300+ of sales.

This was a year ago. Every couple of months I wonder "Hmm, should I take another whack at FB?" and then I decide to do something useful with my money instead, like buying Frontierville dresses.
None of them are readable at that size, it's about the general look. I don't know if these links are permalinks or not but here's the images at Facebook Ad size:

http://creative.ak.fbcdn.net/v41818/flyers/94/8/130096468117...
http://creative.ak.fbcdn.net/v41818/flyers/79/27/13017869721...
http://creative.ak.fbcdn.net/v41818/flyers/37/60/13017863821...
http://creative.ak.fbcdn.net/v41818/flyers/50/27/13009629761...
Violent Games Can Hinder Development of Empathy in Children, says Study
Don't hesitate to ask on the ML (while I know numpy fairly well inside out, I am not the best person to talk about parallelism). There is also a lot of talks available in the scipy conferences video. See http://conference.scipy.org/scipy2010/schedule.html for 2010.
Freebase?
This is a vastly better business model than the dickbar.
I love the line, 'you can't commoditize good design.' I just want to read it over and over.

Design has been so further commoditized in recent years, it's a wonderful reminder that design is much more than application of style.
The article's thesis seems to be that you can't actually -- or it's very difficult -- to run a successful business on etsy, particularly given etsy's requirement that everything be handmade. This in turn is bad for etsy, since sellers will eventually give up once they realize how little they're earning. I'm at a complete loss to see how your comments have anything to do with the article...?
I havent upgraded at all in years (I think that the little icon next to the app store has a forty in it) so I dont understand the limit. Is it five free tags overall or five a month/day etc? I have at least fifty on mine and I tag things almost weekly.
I found my old C64 in my parents basement. Just before I ebayed it, I hooked it up. The old disks were surprisingly resilient and my 300 baud modem still worked. I transferred many of the programs I wrote as a child in basic.

It was damn near a visceral experience to hear Renegade whistle out its ancient tune as my C64 connected...

I can now say that I have code I wrote when I was 10... and then goto ashamed.
The old truths of the OJ trial still rings true. Justice is not black or white, the only color that matters is green!
Imagine there are two doors.

Behind door 1, baldness. You'll be bald and have a high risk of getting prostate cancer.

Behind door 2, keeping your hair. You'll have a thick, awesome mane to call your own and to do with as you see fit for the rest of your life (including shaving it off occasionally).

So you're telling me you prefer to go through door 1, right?
What I really appreciate is they've gone and found a reshipping service, obtained a special deal and are using them to allow them to really ship internationally, not just to three continents.

That's an excellent example of trying to help people buy your product.
Eh, PyPy does not use reference counting. Are you saying PyPy + fork() is what you want?
Che Guevara was Stalinist murderer who ran a gulag. Those are facts, not a criticism.

http://www.slate.com/id/2107100/

http://reason.tv/video/show/killer-chic
> The OP article had me going, because it was partially correct about the film being a hagiography.

I think the idea and principles that Gandhi stood for are nevertheless important just as the ideas and principles the Founding Fathers of the US had in mind when framing the constitution are considered important. The details of Gandhi's life are slightly less important. Also, people fail to realize the context behind a lot of Gandhi's misgivings. It was a different era (which is no excuse) but even Abraham Lincoln wasn't of the opinion that blacks are equals and the Founding Fathers owned slaves themselves.

The lesson is to take their stories with a pinch of salt, but nevertheless feel motivated and inspired by the goals and ideals these famous people represented, not the minutiae of their actual lives.
Be grateful you don't have yellow teeth. I can think of other physical characteristics that'd fare worse for you than baldness in terms of creating negative unconscious signals in others. I also think that even congenital conditions can be reversed through epigenetic change, but the awareness needed to do this is superhuman.
The Cluetrain Manifesto
http://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/
FYI: Ben Metcalfe warned about problems with .ly domains back in October 2010. (see http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2010/10/the-ly-domain-space-to-b...)
Will Twitter—and tweets about traffic—change the way we drive?
Awesome, Otto shall arrive home safely quite soon.

Though, it looks like you can't serve port 80 from nodejs? That would make it impossible to run normal web applications using node.js on dotcloud, no?
That article used a lot of words to say next to nothing. It only mentioned what is going on without describing any effects at all.

I personally don't care if administrators have no educational background. They may be very strict professionals working in these roles. I'd rather have data on whether those inexperienced administrators are getting results.
Related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2328116
I'm still intrigued by the WakeMade concept. The last HN thread I remember had all sorts of good unanswered questions.. one I remember being: do these bands help you feel more refreshed all day or is it just an initial thing?

Has anyone found more information about how well these work?
"Yes you can!"

Sorry if that's not very clear; but although your app has to run on port 8080, it will be reachable through (e.g.) http://nodechat.ramen.dotcloud.com/ (after bouncing through half a dozen internal proxies, load balancers, discarded Otto's toys, and other funky stuff that you don't want to hear about).
I almost commented a second ago, too, on how Che is actually controversial, because hippie kids wear him on a t-shirt they got at the mall as a generic symbol of resistance, and then some conservative asshole always has to come in with an extremely selective outrage towards human rights, and use overheated terms like "stalinist" and "gulag". Was Che ever in Russia? How did he run a gulag?

Meanwhile, neither the hippie nor the conservative could likely tell you offhand what country the guy was born in. I had to wiki it myself.
It's been 17 months since I preordered the product and I still ordered it (internationally) without a second thought.
I heard on This Week in Tech that all the history they sent to Library of Congress was 4TB in size. So yes, the storage isn't the issue.
Hey, it worked for GetSatisfaction.
I don't think outsourcing it = commoditizing it.

Perhaps you don't have time, or it's not a strong suit.
This is awesome, reminds me of the days of writing CGI apps in bash.
In the version shown in the video anyone can interact with anyone, but during the conference the client will give to the attendants a read-only version (they will still be able to answer to the questions) so that the only in charge will be the presenter.
And one really driven CEO!
I feel silly asking you of all people this, but did you A/B test the targeting and images used or were you picking them based upon what worked elsewhere ?

If you want to take another shot as trying out Facebook and want to have someone look over your campaign, feel free to drop me an email.
I think you may be old and grumpy. No one under 30 uses email? Where are you getting your stats from?

I think you have valid points about how useful social networking features would be; although I think it's moreso about reaching your contacts anywhere they may be, a la rapportive.

I don't even want to touch on your rant about keyboards. I'd hesitate to ask if you own a mac.
Just having the data alone for me is worth $60. How you make it actionable is still largely up to you. If you're having negative sleep patterns, Wakemate will likely help you identify when they are happening or possibly the cause (ie tracking workouts). But Wakemate won't make you go to bed earlier, thats up to the user.

So it might be difficult to find empirical data on whether it improves your daily energy.

I've had a similar issue with my own product that tracks health data.