skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was wooed away by Chrome's speed around a year ago, but after using it a few months I naturally was looking at extending it. It's night and day compared to Mozilla. All the interesting UI bits (tab switcher, menu, location bar) are hard-coded in C++; none of it's extensible via JS.

Once I realized this the magic was gone and Chrome held zero appeal to me. Luckily that was right around when the improved JIT in FF4 started getting usable with Conkeror, (http://conkeror.org) so I was able to switch back to the Moz without a noticeable speed hit. And what an amazing difference in flexibility... I don't know what I was thinking.

This is not so much about Firefox itself; as an application it's pretty meh, but as a platform it's excellent. It's the only thing I've ever seen that comes close to Emacs in terms of hackability.
My pitch for the motorcycle giveaway was that I'd try to trade it with pg for 30 minutes of his advice! Almost thought I had nailed it. Much sadness :'(
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Or you can use
http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/
and you get other nice features as well
Hedge fund star calls for Microsoft CEO to go
Ask HN: How/Where do I Find a Mentor?
Does anybody have any tips for finding a mentor? I'm an 18 year old college student in NYC and I'm interested in tech startups and computer programming.
TL;DR - A lot of traffic on the Internet comes from search engine bots like Google’s and Yahoo’s indexing pages. If Google’s index was open, search engines could share each other’s resources and not have to repeatedly spider pages. This would significantly boost traffic speed and the idea was even supported by Larry Page, one of, Google’s co-founders. Page initially resisted Google going commercial.
University of Arizona picked to lead $800 million mission to asteroid
Perhaps http://ropas.snu.ac.kr/~bruno/papers/TypeClasses.pdf is the paper that you're looking for?
... ultra-cool would be rankings by mutual information ...
That's phenomenally stupid. Rather than getting best estimates, they are explicitly requesting that scientists over-estimate the probability of disaster and cry wolf. That in turn will mean they will have even less warning should something genuine turn up.
I imagine that the applications for the next batch are going to grow at an even faster clip after the entire interwebs have seen this.

It really is fascinating to see how good PG is at zero-ing on the most essential stuff and asking the tough questions and how genuinely happy (almost excited) he seems when he comes up with a suggestion that the company can use.

Not that I had any doubts about YC before, but it definitely is here to stay.

Edit: I was also surprised at the quality of the startups that he spoke to. I expected wishy-washy 'social media' crap, but these guys seem to be onto something.
Well, that's a question with no easy answer. I mean, sure, I want to be wealthy, in terms of pure, raw, green $$$$. But I don't necessarily want $$$ for it's own sake. I don't need a super fancy house, super fancy car, etc. (although I'm not necessarily saying I wouldn't indulge a bit if I make it big), but what I really want is more freedom... basically, enough money to constitute "FU money" so that I'm not beholden to a tyrannical dipshit manager in some inane, soulless mega-corp with a kafkaesque bureaucracy and Dilbert style PHBs. I'd also like more freedom to travel and explore, and $$$ helps with those things.

But perhaps an even bigger reason is simply my need to prove something, both to myself and to the world. Growing up fairly poor in a rural part of the South, and being the shy, awkward, geeky kid through most of my school years, I felt a touch of resentment for the guys with the fancy cars, the pretty girls, blah, etc. Not to mention the rich people in the fancy house who lived around where I lived, but who were in a different world in a sense. I - even after all these years - still feel a need to prove that I'm just as good as they are, and just as capable of achieving whatever I set out to do.

And I'm still pissed off about not getting voted "most likely to succeed" in my high-school senior class. :-)
Something tells me that Einhorn may get his head bitten off by Ballmer for this. I completely concur with Einhorn in this matter, although, I'm sure a lot of people do nowadays. The question is, how many levels below Ballmer also need to be replaced? Maybe the entire executive management team is stuck in the past, not just Ballmer?
There are about 5 questions that feed into "who is going to pay you?" All of them are pain points for the vast majority of startups (anecdata). Idea + development + customers = Business. I'm not saying PG is a dope or anything, but it has to be apparent that the "customer" chunk is an Achilles heel for just about all dotcom-y biz. The ones who aren't getting funded for being gadget new tech, who aren't going to be bought as a team for implementing a possibly-useful technology, are going to have to figure out who the customer is, and from reading HN it seems most are counting on the first two options.
Ask HN: Girlfriend making the hacker switch.
My girlfriend recently told me she would like to get into the wonderful world of computers. I work in computer and am enjoying the prospect of this. However, I am not sure where she should start. I asked her what she would like to do and she has said webpages. What is the best course for easing her into this shark tank?
Can anybody see the video right now? I just get a black box and the page takes ~30 seconds to load. If I load the player .swf directly, I get Ooyala's throbber forever.
As a former science major, this kind of stuff is scary...

1) Scientists, with a crapton of data, interpret results to the best of their ability.

2) Scientists report results, with caveats, to Country.

3) Country reported results to Public, (possibly without caveats) in an effort to "look good".

4) Public ignored caveats (if given), took Scientists words as absolute proof.

5) Public ignored Common Sense during what must have been a major seismic event, and instead of blaming themselves, blame the Scientists.

Oh, what a demon Science hath wrought.
I was actually a hostile reader the first time I read Ender's Game. I was totally turned off by the horrible cover and not very interested in reading it, but it was assigned for school, so I read it and it became one of my favorite books.
Firebug Lite is now available for Chrome. http://getfirebug.com/releases/lite/chrome/
How a CEO can build a strong culture
Cool, sounds a lot like my answer. Money doesn't really push me all that much-- yet. I'm still in college so that might have something to do with it. Right now it's more intrinsic for me.
The qualifications for these retail jobs are character-based; the employee must present himself well and make the customer feel at ease. Looking like a thug has nothing to do with race or age, but has a lot to do with scaring away the clientele.
That only works if the air you are cooling down is very dry. It then adds a bunch of humidity to the air, so it couldn't really go back to the DC.
Spite. Spite is a great motivator. "I'll show them," so you keep at it. (Why do I feel I need to put this footnote in: That you know and understand WTF you're doing and not be blindly delusional. Spite is reasonable, rational opposition; not having your head up your ass.)
Has anyone here worked on a start-up for a few years which did not become a success and then successfully transitioned back into the workforce? If so did you have any trouble transitioning socially(i was a sole founder) and or keeping the jobs you landed?
And since they've already got damn near every book ever written scanned and indexed I can see big... uhhh, synergies. Or whatever the non-wanky synonym for "synergies" is.

I google for "obscure topic X" and I find a few crappy websites combined with what looks like a great discussion in the book "An Advanced Course In Obscure Topic X". It tells me I can find a hardcopy in the library three miles away, or for 99 cents I can rent an e-copy from Google for four weeks. Why the hell not? Everybody wins -- me, Google, and the publisher.
What's next, jailing doctors who fail to predict the common cold?

I bet there won't be very many seismological press conferences in the near future.
Can't we make distinctions between the guy's philosophy and his writing? I for one do not feel the book (or any book) is diminished by my perception of the author as a person.
Ditch needless clutter, go minimal with greatly designed apps
Is LinkedIn the New Netscape?
At the risk of sounding BarneyStinsonian my answer would simply be "'cause it's awesome!".

Seriously, if you really like what you do motivation comes by itself. If each time you think of something related to it you go "yeah, awesome". If each time you improve it (by polishing the idea in your mind or over email/irc with your partners, or by adding a feature, or by fixing that bug) words like "awesome" come to your mind, then the motivation is auto-generated. But I truely believe this can only be acheived —at least if you're honest with yourself— if the thing we're talking about is the top idea[1] in your mind.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/top.html
Yes, make em pay for kicking your ass in high school.
I could only get through half the interview because the interviewer was horrible and obviously quite biased in the beginning trying really hard (too hard) to portray Card in a certain light.
I posted this late in the last thread you made, don't know if you saw it. I think it would help. The [ask a question] -> [get the link] -> [upload mutations] workflow seems very backwards, threw me off at first.

The site would really be helped by a WYSIWYG editor. What you see is what you get.

Basically, a new user creating an A/B test isn't going to understand the flow and terminology of the site. The workflow is quite confusing really.

But a new test taker will understand how the site works immediately upon seeing a pre-created test. A question and two pictures on the same page, simple.

To bridge that gap, make the test creation process look like the final result. Make it feel as if you're filling in the page with your info, rather than uploading separate pieces of info. Something like:

http://i.imgur.com/BzsNy.png
Reason #347 the Italian justice system should be used as a Model of what NOT to do...
"I haven't heard anything good" is not exactly a high bar either.

I actually said I'd heard only negative things. But close enough. That's a pretty high bar to me, especially if the feedback isn't a trivially small set.

I don't care what people's agenda is if they do not advocate focribly making others conform to it.

His goal is very likely to get people to conform to it.

If you think people expressing a view without violating someone else's rights is somehow wrong and must be fought, your position is not keeping with the spirit of free speech.

You clearly don't understand what free speech means. My vocal opposition to his views and agenda are very much in the spirit of free speech, in fact it lies at the foundation of free speech.

as the good ideas will win without coercion involved. If his ideas are bad, he will fail all by themseves. No need for a hatchet job, ever.

First, not a hatchet job as far as I can tell. Second poor political ideas can succeed, in the short-term (long enough to kill millions, if not billions at the extremes) if people who think otherwise remain quiet.
I generally agree, so long as you remember that talk is cheap. If you shouldn't respect someone too much for talking about the great things they'll do, you shouldn't hold it too hard against someone for talking about terrible positions.
Altly's anti-facebook manifesto
There is a "Custom Search Engine" for Go: http://go-lang.cat-v.org/go-search
This is a terrific documentary, one of the most best I've ever seen. In my opinion Edward Bernays was one of the most (negatively) influential people of the 20th century.
playing devil's advocate here (from what i've read, i don't think this is a good idea at all), my limited understanding (i develop software related to seismic detection, but was not educated as a geophysicist) is that we really have no clue about earthquake prediction. so the "best" scientific advice may well have been "we don't know"; perhaps they were guilty of being too confident?
New startup by Dmitry Shapiro, the founder of Veoh and former CTO of MySpace Music.
New Clue in Obesity Epidemic: the workplace
Why loading JavaScript over SSL from a third-party CDN is a bad idea
Note: they're announcing 2.0, not releasing anything ready for prime time.

The announcement indicates that they're releasing SproutCore 2.0 Developer Preview with the caveat:
"SproutCore 2.0 is still under heavy development and APIs are likely to change."
That's right. In flat rate contracts, the client is paying for the value being delivered, not time.
Getaround Wins TechCrunch Disrupt
pro-tip #1: standing desk.
Expressing hateful ideas about others and bragging about oneself are hardly opposite concepts. Slightly tangential, but generally both negative.

If however, someone expresses and endorses kind and progressive social statements, I certainly do use that when judging their character.
I still believe Firefox is well on track on the desktop, however, I'm becoming frustrated with it's performance on mobile devices (in my case Android 2.2 Galaxy Tab). And I'm wondering if this is a strategic failure. Firefox is not available on all Android devices, and in my case, it does install, but is unusable.
My none-tech opinion: I don't care what processor my phone or tablet has, when I go into the Android Marketplace, I expect to find Firefox, no matter what device and what Android version. There is a browser preinstalled (I guess some chrome/webkit thing), so it's not rocket science.
I'm more and more tempted to play around with other browsers to share bookmarks and stuff between desktop and mobile, and Firefox is falling short.
I've noticed a lot of companies have started doing that.

Some have automated software that finds good targeted domains purchases them, auto populates content, and then pays freelancers to create relevant articles. Octante360 did a good job of it.
What really killed Netscape was Microsoft — but if you're looking for a real example of the web 1.0 bubble you can look at theGlobe.com (which by the way was a social media website). My guess is that some of these companies will crash and burn, but somewhere in that class could be the next Google.
I felt similarly. “Why not write a blog post?” I thought.
Assuming the court has any sense they will agree with: Low probability of X doesn't mean X isn't going to happen.
As someone working in the field of earthquake engineering this is very scary for me. Earthquakes are caused due to buildup of stress between two giant pieces of rocks trying to slide past each other. A swarm of small earthquakes can sometime release the stress thus lowering the probability of a big earthquake, so the scientists were not entirely wrong in their statements.

Also earthquake predictions are discouraged since false positives can have huge adverse economic impact (people and businesses fleeing the region) the best way to prepare for an earthquake for a community is to build good safe earthquake resistant houses rather than blaming scientists for not predicting some inherently random phenomenon.
Well providing a competitive analysis of your website/company is purely automated now a days by SEO companies. That is one big example.
I used to run FIG Forth on my Apple ][. It was a pretty fun and instructive experience. Not sure if I would choose Forth on larger systems but it's great for resource constrained environments.
I started splitting my time between Chrome and Firefox maybe a year ago. After I read about how difficult Chrome is to hack I started using it more faithfully. My only complaint is that it tends to crash a lot more than Firefox. Not sure why that is.
There's also significant value in knowing when to re-index sites due to changing conditions. For example, if some new iSomething is announced, re-indexing apple.com as well as a number of popular Apple-related news sites would be very helpful in keeping the index fresh. There's also feedback from the ranking algorithm in determining how often to re-index, how deep to index, etc etc.
I always thought of Ender's Game of something like a child's book. Something like Harry Potter to LoTRs. I don't think there's anything wrong with that, I mean, Harry Potter got a whole bunch of people reading. But seeing this explanation helps me better understand why I feel like that, and what it means.

I'd call this an analysis more than a review. Whatever you think it is, I found it a pretty honest and open piece coming from someone who has such a personal stake in the book.
Aside from the question of whether or not these seismologists gave truly criminally bad advice in this case, it's a good bet that after this prosecution Italy is going to have a very hard time getting anyone with a clue about seismology to go on record with their objective scientific opinion.
I updated the title of the post to more accurately reflect that this is a Developer Preview release. Apologies for any confusion on our part.
Google _invented_ it.
It'd be nice if a music service came out that didn't revolve around introducing you to new music or alerting you to what your friends are listening to. Or one that realizes the music you might like could be based on more than other bands you and/or your friends are already into (would any of these services assume that a Metallica fan might also dig Katy Perry?). There's a limit to how much stuff Facebook needs tacked onto it. And how many "hubs" for media already exist? At what point does this start looking like putting the VCR inside the TV set?

And not everything gets to become FarmVille.
Why would Heroku let you be an add-on provider in order to under-cut their pricing model? Makes no sense.
No, if its a ritual it takes energy to not do it. Its almost impossible to forget about it when you don't do it.

Example: Try to go to bed tonight without brushing your teeth.

Of course, if you can completely outsource a task, that is even better. But I guess you won't be able to outsource your workout, sanitariness, writing down of ideas, going to bed at the same time etc. any time soon.
If you thought that was the point of any of Card's books, then you must not have read them very carefully.

The point of Ender's Game was to explore the notion of the ideal human. Ender's shadow also addressed that topic. The adults merely represent forces beyond the protagonists' control, as most adults are in books featuring child characters.

The process of character development is one in which the children discover their own nature and the natures of those around them. The reader is intended to ask him/herself which nature is "best" and to thus view a difficult and opaque moral question with the clarity of comparing a group of friends. Quite ingenious, especially when you consider that this is a children's book. I challenge you to find a more insightful novel of ideas with equivalent appeal to the same young demographic.
Couldn't you just have the TV show or commercial flash a QR code on the screen, or on the corner of the screen? I've already seen subway ads using QR codes, though I'm not sure how effective they are. The business model sounds solid though - advertisers flash QR codes on screen, users scan it with their app and are entered into contest/sweepstakes. Once contest is over they get a message on the app stating if they've won or not, and informing them of new/upcoming giveaways.

The only hard part would be convincing shows and companies to participate. They have incentive but I imagine they'd want to see numbers in regards to cost vs viewer acquisition, or perhaps loyalty. Pretty interesting stuff..
The built in dev tools are comparable (and personally, better) than the full firebug plugin. firebug lite doesn't quite cut it.
Yankees Bedding Set
This fun yankees bedding also has many accessories so you can create a Yankeee paradise right in your own bedroom!
Personally, I can't: The book may not be diminished by itself, but my enjoyment of it certainly is, because I keep searching for evidence of the author's personal beliefs and/or agenda in the text, disrupting immersion.

We're talking about someone who writes stuff like this:

"The argument by the hypocrites of homosexuality that homosexual tendencies are genetically ingrained in some individuals is almost laughably irrelevant. We are all genetically predisposed toward some sin or another; we are all expected to control those genetic predispositions when it is possible.

[...]

Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books, not to be indiscriminately enforced against anyone who happens to be caught violating them, but to be used when necessary to send a clear message that those whoflagrantly violate society's regulation of sexual behavior cannot be permitted to remain as acceptable, equal citizens within that society."

(Source: http://www.nauvoo.com/library/card-hypocrites.html)

And there's a lot of similar-level, oddly familiar sounding looneyness in his writings on various other political topics as well. It's perhaps most disturbing - or fascinating - that a writer as articulate would be content to be such a cliché. At times I wonder if it's all an act.
Wondering how to deal with stock & options in a startup?
Tangentially, I wonder if Mac users, as malware victims, are bigger buyers. Will a Mac user (typically higher educated and higher paid than an average Windows user) spend more money on average than victims of attacks on other OSs.
Made this exact counteroffer last night. Thanks for validating my thoughts.
I don't think the claim is that no book can survive any hostile reading, but that you can always approach a book with enough hostility to ruin it.
Sure it's reasonable. But do I judge Steve Jobs by what toppings he likes on his pizza or what kind of rap he listens to? No. I may agree or disagree with him, but his opinions on those matters have no bearing whatsoever on my primary relationship with him, which is as a purchaser of the hardware and software he designs.

Similarly with Card, I am a reader of his fiction and so I don't care what color socks he wears, how often he showers, or whether he has a framed picture of Ronald McDonald on his wall.
Wow! That's truly mind boggling.

Thanks for the great link!
Well, she's not going to get anywhere if she can't ask questions for herself...
I switched to Chrome initially when I upgraded to Fx4 and had some stability issues - it was a good excuse to try it fulltime. I've been using it since then. The only feature I find myself missing is the AwesomeBar, but that's on the Chrome roadmap, so I can't complain just yet.

Chrome feels a little lighter/faster, and I also like that themes don't take over the entire browser. A lot of nice FireFox themes absolutely destroy readability in certain places like the page title, and FireFox's chrome by default doesn't look as nice as Chrome's.

For what it's worth, I'd love to give Opera a fair chance again, but it doesn't play nicely with inertial scrolling on Mac.
Indeed there's no addressable need here for cab companies to find passengers when there are not enough cabs to begin with.
I think the founder was fooling himself: being bored waiting for an airplane is a problem, but an app that connects you to people closeby isn't gonna work.
Ask HN:  Have you ever bought something off Google Paid search link
I realized today that I've never purchased anything online via a Google paid search link. To me, it seems ridiculous to click on a paid search link when Google returns the best search results anyway. I imagine that I'm not alone among my friend group but obviously, millions of people buy off Adwords. Maybe the "average" American doesn't realize the difference between sponsored and organic results.
No. Although Scala does introduce many more temporary objects so you might want to be careful with allocations and the types e.g. undiscriminated use of tuples. This may not be an issue depending on your performance needs.