skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had this going at http://www.mindwallet.com (demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNpAH7AGhIk ) about 6 months ago. I'm glad to see it finally come to workflowy in a much more usable way. Keep going guys. You have the dedication and the funding. I don't so I'm hoping you'll make this tool into all that it can be. This deal could be the next big thing with a few tweaks.

Add embedly and let me post facebook and twitter posts from workflowy and you'll be all caught up with mindwallet and I can start using workflowy again.
Nokia Windows Phones To Hit Europe This Year
The Clock in the Mountain
Having pretty much sworn off XML, at least for my own projects, I've been pondering what JSON should look like that if you are going all the way to HATEOAS and you have links in your data returned from your REST interface.
I remember the first time I looked at a map of New Mexico and saw there was a town called Truth or Consequences. It sounded like the most awesome name for an old west town ever.

I was so disappointed when I found out that it was named after a 1950s radio game show.
LOVE it...I would completely use it and I got it from the first look!
I really like the site design. Kudos. Will slides or videos be posted?
I prefer this explanation by Richard Feynman:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8
So what's the reason for a kinect sensor then? I'd rather hit a key on my keyboard (which gives me instant physical feedback) than hovering my hand in the air and trying to grab a file or something.
Silicon Valley: There’s no bubble but there could be a bust…
Are we in a bubble? This is the common question as I chat with people at various events around Silicon Valley. The concern that many are expressing is that if it's a bubble, then a crash is not far off.
Thanks, and yes. We'll have both slides and videos posted.
The Economist Debates: Tech Bubble: Rebuttals
I'm actually a big fan of several Microsoft products, and think their stand on WebGL is completely right.

OEM video card drivers have a history of already being unstable. In all likelihood, this represents an attack vector that, up until this point, I hadn't even thought of.

That said, it highlights something that has become somewhat of a trend with Microsoft. They seem to have decision making in almost every area being done by different teams who don't talk to one another. While I agree that OpenGL isn't "safe", what about ActiveX? Isn't allowing a browser to execute arbitrary code directly against the processor (regardless of whether or not its "signed" and the user had to click a few dialogs), a far greater threat? I'd love to see a press release that indicated they were ripping that functionality out of all currently supported browsers. What about Silverlight? I thought that had elements of hardware acceleration (perhaps it's protected enough, who knows?).

Kudos, to them, for taking a well reasoned stand for security in an application type that is routinely used to attack users, but I'd like to see the other 'harmful' features addressed as well. For now, I find Firefox with NoScript and Adblock+ to be the safest bet.
A little more detailed explanation. In Gulf War 1 we demonstrated what happens when you crush air defenses, hard targets, and communication networks and then simply roll though huge areas quickly. It was basically a vary well executed blitzkrieg with both technological and tactical superiority. At the time we where expecting tens of thousands of US casualties but it turns out mostly the Iraq soldiers simply surrendered vs fighting losing battles. We also had much better medical treatments now than in prior wars with people often surviving extremely traumatic injury which relates back to treating car accident victims among other things. (The stabilize side of stabilize and extract work vary well.)

PS: This is an unclassified summery I got while working on software that's designed to estimate casualties in both human lives and materials during conflict. It was developed because most of their existing models vastly overestimated US casualties in GW1 and this better estimated what happens when you take out air defenses and communication networks quickly.
Partial government involvement into innovation process would limit the damage, but it still would be damaging.
Main priority of the government going forward should be limiting government expenses. That would be the best thing to encourage innovation.
I was probably mistaken, let me rephrase: it's awesome that you, as a business guy, actually took the time and had the patience to learn Rails, no matter what the results - and it will surely impress the developers you will try to hire in the future. Between that and Rails is easy, learn it yourself and save money there's quite of a difference :-)

If you want to be an awesome business guy, learn how to code so you can talk with your devs more effectively. But for the sake of your project don't try to replace them :-)
You will reinvent XML with uglier syntax, all while hurting yourself and Open Web. I've managed to somehow get into that argument before, so maybe there's something worth reading there: [1], [2].

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2623824

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2588606
> construction workers don't pour concrete for kicks on the weekend

My father was a contractor (now a building inspector) and over the last 20 years he has rebuilt his house one room at a time.

He gets excited when a new dumpster is delivered so he can start tearing another room apart.
Knowing why is extremely important, as Feynman describes in this essay: http://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education
Reading this leaves me troubled. Why not the XLink vocabulary, for instance? I can understand something like this appearing for JSON if only so that people have an intrametalinguistic transition path for their JSON APIs, but letting so much existing work on interoperable XML representations fall by the wayside could be unfortunate.

Did you actually register the media types?

“Any and all elements are legal in a HAL representation provided they do not conflict with HAL's reserved elements.” If I'm reading this right: please, please, no. Not in XML. Allocate a namespace URI and use it. Let's not start down the path of everyone having to watch out for everyone else's element names again.

The idea of identifying multiple packed related resources (which could otherwise be top-level resources) in the same document is interesting. I don't immediately recall specific prior specifications there, but I'd definitely want to go through the W3C site with a fine-toothed comb to check. E.g., Atom feeds already can embed XML fragments of almost any other type (though most commonly XHTML) as entry content; there may be some evolution of that available.
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How is that government business to decide what innovation to accelerate and which businesses/innovations to decelerate by taxing them (so funds would be available to accelerate cherry-picked innovations)?
I think it's fair to say that will be available soon. I think dual boot to ubuntu on the ee-pad transformer is coming within the next couple of weeks and chromium os shouldn't be far behind.
just curious, where does one work researching mathematics?
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I would rather not work with any developer who underestimates business guys at this level.

Now, if you want to make the next "To Do" app, a dev can be fine, but if you want to do something useful, you will need a biz guy.

I mean, this thinking from the dev side is exactly why companies today are full of crappy products (SAP, Windows, etc.).
Not a problem, I stumbled onto it by accident. Since I am interested in mathematics, but lack a lot of basic knowledge, it's nice to have this handy in addition of resources like Khan Academy.
As a math teacher, his branding/personal presentation makes me bristle.

One of the hardest things to do is to convince a struggling student that "only nerds can do math" is not a truism. By presenting himself as a stereotypical nerd (i.e., taped glasses, etc.) I feel like Patrick only helps to reinforce that stereotype.

For many students, my concerns are overblown. For some, though, they are very real; students do psyche themselves out of being able to solve a problem and shut down.

The world needs more math experts who break stereotypes, not reinforce them.
It would be valuable to read your spin on these from running VWO and seeing A/B tests for the last X years.

For example, should I bother putting in images from different angles? Are they any demonstrable advantages of doing so.

Appreciate that you should test pretty much everything, but some of these seem superfluous.
China was the prototype.
The Art of Space Filling in Penrose Tilings and Fractals
The words show up in a standard font for me...
Changed My Mind: Massive Changed To Embrace C#
Of course, you're right. And I think we agree.

The other thing is that in tech startups, being the "crunch the number and shit slides" guy can be quite frustrating. Knowing how to put up a prototype yourself is pretty satisfying!
Definitely gets an upvote from me. Probably the neatest music site idea I've seen since the now-defunct Muxtape.
And the bad pun award goes to jh3!

Seriously, though, I'm not one to be easily offended -- and I think fake umbrage in our society has been taken to a ridiculous level (especially in politics). But the reason I like good design is because when something is well designed it gives me a sense of calm and peace. Having "I eat text and shit out whatever" is just very bad design to me.

And it's offensive enough that why would I risk offending somebody? Why do I care enough about the site to take on that risk?
That was insightful - Thank you.
Good tip.

Unfortunately when I was working as a PHP programmer, I once made a typo in a variable name, a variable that had my WHERE clause in DELETE...

Back then I fixed it with a box of chocolates and flowers.
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Deep Shot: Google, MIT Sync PCs and Smartphones with Snap of Camera [w/ video]
New malware steals your Bitcoin
How To Share Photos From Any Flickr Set In Seconds?
http://sarchasm.net/
There's a limit to how much you can trust trusts. Political dissent is beyond that point. Yet again, we have a demonstration of the need for something like the FreedomBox. http://freedomboxfoundation.org/
Discrete Intervals of Work and Play: Minimax Productivity
Sounds like they were channeling the ghost of Richard Nixon.
FYI: As both a neuroscientist and a user of desktop mind-mapping software, I can tell you that every time I visit your homepage, I leave laughing. Occasionally I've even called in colleagues for a group chuckle. I assume you don't mean for your site to be a joke. It comes off as even less informed than Psychology Today.
Look at the label on the fridge in the video. "Shit Burger"
As the original author of that quote, no. I was running MongoDB in "safe" mode where it doesn't return until the query has been ack'd. Furthermore, I was running with w=2 meaning that at least one other note also had to ack the data.
Slightly off-topic, but how did you make the SecretPoke video?
http://vimeo.com/19517022

Did you make it yourself or was it done by someone else?
High Performance Ruby Part 3: non-blocking IO and web application scalability
SSDs remind me of the old "the russians used a pencil" joke [1]. Artur's presentation was funny, and maybe a little ridiculous in its presentation, but 100% true. We all spend a whole lot of time fighting IO on our infrastructure when we could spend a few bucks and fix the problem at it's core: spinning magnetic platter storage sucks.

1 - Yes, I know it's not real, but it's funny and it makes a great point.
Looks like a separate post of Steve Blank's rebuttal has already been linked

http://steveblank.com/2011/06/17/are-you-you-the-fool-at-the...
Entrepreneurship and the importance of being wrong
Seven Developers - a non technical founder's search the One
I think what he meant to say, is that the Smart Money typically does not talk about it or hype it up. However, there are exceptions - and promoters are those exceptions. Perhaps he's making a moral value call, saying how most good investors aren't actively trying to screw the public?
Slightly off-topic: looking at his graph, I remembered the idea that internet traffic is fractal-like in time domain. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?InternetTrafficIsFractal

...because the graph looked just like a fractal fragment to me. That coincidence, or are stock prices indeed fractal-ish in time domain?
Vive la resistance Overcoming resistance to implement UX at your organization
YAML specifies standard way of including multiple documents in a single stream/file. With XML (assuming XSD-compatible parser), you can always extend the NS and have several documents in a single container (thus single stream/file), but I don't see how that would be preferable to just using MIME/Multipart.
I think this summarizes the article: "Why? We don't really know, but we can observe some consistent rules."
Google is in a tough position. If they keep their algorithms secret, they are accused of not being transparent. If they reveal their algorithms, they get gamed by spammers. If they reveal only vague hints and guidelines, they are accused of manipulating content. And if they don't use ever more elaborate algorithms, they get overrun with spam.

By becoming defacto ruler of the internet, Google has put themselves in a position of outrageous power and responsibility. They are fighting a vicious war with spammers and content farms and the rest of the web is caught in the crossfire.

Personally, I agree with you that Google should not be telling people how to run their sites. They should never have said a word about how their algorithm works, or even what it's named, when it's updated, etc. They should tell people "just make great web sites, searching them is our problem".
Hope you don't mind if I ask you here, I can't find your email. I saw on your twitter feed you recommended two great non-obvious resources for SEO - In the Plex and schema.org. An other resources (sites/books/etc.) you can recommend?
Programming isn't like any of those examples, though. Try making the same argument but use 'painters' and 'musicians'. Code is an art-form. I experiment in my spare time because I enjoy it.

I don't actually think not programming in your spare time will make you a 'bad' programmer, though. Only that being interested in it hobby-wise is a good sign. Practice helps you get good at anything, for one thing, and keeping up with the industry/etc is a big deal.
Agreed. I don't think that anyone has suggested that he shouldn't talk to the police. By all means, go, be helpful, give them the information they need. Don't be a jerk, but also don't be foolhardy. That means don't do it blindly. Bring a lawyer with you, who can make sure you don't say anything wrong.

Trivial anecdote: a number of years ago, I had a couple of cops come to my door, saying that they'd had a report of someone in the neighborhood shooting a BB gun at a car. They wanted to know if I saw anything. I hadn't, but volunteered that I had on my refrigerator the names and phone numbers of the rest of the neighborhood, and seeing that list might save them some legwork. I invited them into the house to get the list.

Once I got into the house with them, I remembered that I had just been target shooting with a friend the previous afternoon, and I had a bunch of spent shotgun shells still sitting on the table (if you don't know, the shot in a shotgun shell of the appropriate size, are BBs). Now I realize that I've actually invited them to look at circumstantial evidence that might implicate me.

Luckily, they didn't notice, or didn't put the pieces together, so they didn't even question me about it. But I sure wish I'd had a lawyer whispering in my ear when I invited them in the house.
Don't get me wrong - I'm not an XML hater by any means it's just that JSON appeals to be as a syntax - possibly as I did Lisp development for a number of years and the relative similarity of JSON to s-expressions appeals to me.
That particular author has a chip on his shoulder about H.264 and WebM. I would consider taking anything he says on the matter with a grain of salt. His calling anything "unambiguously open" when the word "open" itself is so ambiguous is very poor rhetoric.

But if you look for precise definitions of the phrase "open standard" you might find that H.264 fails 14/16 of the various definitions offered by governments and standards bodies on the wikipedia page for that term. All failing for the same reason of charging patent fees. One of the other definitions is a historical accident that I doubt the same body would stand by today, or at any point in the last 5 or so years. The final definition, the one that it passes, just so happens to be written by patent attorneys of the people who developed H.264.
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Apple accepts Javascript in EPUB ebooks in iBookstore
TECHWORLD: Apple releases update to MainStage 2
Eek! Defaults are all "yes" == bad survey design!
I've been coding in my spare time in and out since I got my first computer. I didn't do it because I wanted to be a good programmer, but because I love creating stuff and programming is the easiest way I know to create stuff. I'm not happy if I'm not creating something.

Also, a few months ago I quit my job and I'm now making a living teaching people what I've learned during my "spare-time". I now have more free time than I could ever imagine, and the notion of spare-time is starting to disapear.
When I clicked on a "Death Cab For Cutie" video in the list I was shown a 50-minute academic video about search engine quality. Slightly ironic.
HP computers FTP hacked by HexCoder
Well said! The ability to handle fraud in this manner has a big picture effect as well.

Banks are powerful. They can do things that you and I can't. If a bank transfers money as part of a fraudulent transfer, it can reverse that transfer electronically. This reversal traverses the banking system all the way back to the entity that accepted the payment.

This system diffuses the impact of fraudulent transfers and places the ultimate responsibility on those accepting payment, rather than those holding currency. I know that sounds harsh, but the person accepting the payment probably has the best chance of detecting a fraud. Without this check & balance, there's very little incentive for merchants to verify the validity of the funds being used.
I wonder how many different iterations is in this set, taking out environmental variation. If it's true that males, but from the future and the past, are harmful to a female's health, then your assessment of iteration prior makes sense - but...

If there's no distinct improvement from iteration to iteration, that means there could possibly be (and should be) iterations of males that are less harmful to the females than the current time frame males. In other words, some set of iterations before or after, should mimic conditions like one iteration prior to that of the female - correct?
I call BS. There's a continuous five-hour stretch between 1 AM and 6 AM when you're not being productive.
Could you please remove this link. I get upset when I see people copying other people's work.

Go buy the book instead (Surely you're joking, Mr Feynman), it's worth it!
Show HN: BugSense is a free bug tracking tool for mobile apps. Would you use it?
This is also exactly what I thougth (with the starwars scroller and all!), but the website is pretty self explainatory once you visited it and cliqued "enter txt" link.
There are a few services online where you can download after effect source files, and then edit. we used videohive, but don't tell anyone :)
Ask HN: How much time do you spend on HN?
I use to spend at least 1 hour/day on HN. Sometimes, when things are slow, I end up spending 2 hours.
But today I noticed that the board is really active, and wondered.. How much time do you spend on HN? Do you stay here for more time on fridays?
Finally! A good replacement for radioblogclub. I was so unhappy when they took that down since it was my main source for discovering good artists.
If my bank gets hacked, sucks for them.

Who do you thinks ends up paying for it? The cost will certainly be passed on to the banks customers.
While I want to share that optimism, I worry precisely because of Apple's many flirtations with censorship and their having built an amazing architecture for such on their iOS platform. This patent, whilst it wouldn't make any marketing sense or design sense, seems philosophically quite compatible with modern Apple.
simple and great idea! vote up it is.
Not a single mention of RDF throughout. Am I missing something, or is this wheel reinvention?
restore from backup?
The match they thought could never end
Google.com has 35 W3C erros while MSN.com has 0?
>So it seems like a good idea to play nice and make them be on your side.

In Europe maybe, but not in the US. You are not a cop so they will never be "on your side". They have cases they are pressured to close, so anyone coming in volunteering information is also showing that they know.

If you make a profile of a perpetrator of a given crime what traits will he have? First of all he/she will know all the details of what happened (since they did it). Someone who wasn't there and wasn't involved wont. So if you witness a crime and describe it to the police you've just proven that you fit that part of the profile. That would automatically make you the number one lead if they have nothing better.

And who knows? When I was a kid I did something I shouldn't have. When I saw a teacher was about to discover it I quickly "informed him" of what some bad child had done. I thought this would divert suspicion away from myself. That person going to the police and being "helpful" may actually be trying to divert attention from themselves, try to figure out how much the cops have figured out, etc. The cops can't know so the only logical thing to do is peruse the different leads according to which one is closest to the likely suspect.

And I'm not even describing the cops doing anything bad like framing people (which isn't unheard of).
Startups: Going Big vs. Living Comfortably?
It's most useful if a) Always (settable option?) HD videos, b) uses less cpu time/battery/memory than playing the video (when hiding the video) c) youtube playlists.

Mostly b. Even on an imac youtube can take 10% of cpu I'd rather be used for something else, like a lagging game.
Groupon’s legal risks and hidden gift to merchants
I'm not sure I understand the distinction between the arms race and merry-go-round models of male-female competition. The former concept seems to indicate that gender dominance is a zero-sum game, whereas the latter seems to indicate that dominance swings back and forth among the competitors. In other words, they don't appear to be in competition.
I've had a chance to attend one of his guest talks and talk to him for a few minutes after it. He came across as a very modest and smart guy. He has graduated from Wharton, had previously launched a detergent product Dropps which was very successful. I am not surprised that he is doing something nice.
What a simultaneously mean-spirited and content-free comment. Not appropriate for HN.
Well, also not asking your company size, market or any other context also shows bad survey design.

Also 'public data stream' seems a bad term. Google keywords tool seems to fit that description to me.