skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I certainly wouldn't go so far as to bet that Windows will go away, but I think that previous predictions about Windows demise were predicated on it being replaced on people's PC's with something else.

That never happened (and I agree may not ever happen), but I think the growing widespread adoption of non-pc computing devices (phones, tablets, tv's, etc.) definitely has a fighting chance. Within ten years, I'd bet that the vast number of people will be accessing the internet primarilly from something besides a PC.
the javascript port is awesome too

http://jsfiddle.net/mrpollo/jeNau/

tho i cant make it run yet on jsfiddle
Love the fact that you can try the demo account without paying or even signing up.
The Space Shuttle (Narrated by William Shatner)
Highly implausible "study". In reality unintelligent kids in gifted classes do very poorly. This is not about hope, it's about convincing kids who would be perfectly happy as mechanics to go into debt quixotically pursuing a degree in mechanical engineering.

If true, every company could turn their employees into geniuses by telling them they were. No need for genes, slogans will do the trick.

In other words, more of the same neo-Lysenkoism that was behind "No Child Left Behind". Lysenko maintained that rye could become wheat if people just wanted it enough. In its pop manifestation today, Gladwell similarly maintains that ten thousand hours of training can turn anyone into an expert on anything.

HN readers nod at such articles and then ignore them in real life, hiring the super smart regardless of prior experience.
You crammed a lot into that video but it looks pretty interesting to me. I especially like the work tracking feature. It would be great for tracking and increasing focus over time.
But it's far more investment efficient!
I think the problem is that he installed software on a private piece of property (a laptop in an Apple Store), recorded people's images without their knowledge (usually you know when you're being recorded) and posted them online without their consent.

Was there any actual harm done? I don't think so, but were his actions "right" or un-punishable? That's up for debate.
Most NBA players are scouted from very early on (AAU), then to college for 1 year, then to NBA. They do not get a chance to learn about how to manage money (compared to a regular joe: summer job, internship, etc..).

Most of the inner city kids have a distrust of "the system" or "the man". Therefore, they would never trust their income to a players assoc.

Whats should be done is to establish a class on How to Manage Your Money 101 by the league/PA.

Here is a article from SI on 'How Athletes go Broke'
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1...
Yeah completely non-standard names (like nicknames, abbreviations, acronyms) are a real pain to deal with, and string matching just completely fails on them. We (seatgeek) handle it the low tech way -- a giant list of name aliases that we run through during pre-processing. Not exactly worthy of a blog post, but it does the job well enough.
The author seems to confuse "JVM" and "Java". The Twitter team AFAIK are using Scala.
A MongoDB Garbage Collection
"This is a privileged worldview."

I may come as a suprise that some, perhaps even many, people who live in a 'privileged' world are neither doing what they love nor are they happy. I don't believe my view is constrained by privilege, I certainly seek to understand bias in my own thinking and to eliminate it.

The claim, which is supported by the author of the cited article, is that better 'alignment' between what you love and what you are doing reduces stress and increases overall happiness. I believe that truth to be universal.

There are people who are enslaved and have no choice about what they do or how they live, there are people who have options. It doesn't change the principle.

"It's worth considering how much first-world suffering is caused by the belief that we somehow deserve to be 'happy'."

Historically the Catholic Church operated on the belief that we deserve to suffer.

The trick is throwing off externally imposed values on what you 'should' feel and figure out what you 'do' feel.

I found validation of that belief in the story acconrad tells of how he came to believe it.
I'm surprised they didn't mention VLC. Being able to play non H.264 content on my iPad has been great.
Visualizing a Social Graph
If I rephrase and edit my previous comment maybe it'll stick better. I had three ideas for you:

* Analyze what you do, figure out the portion of it that your employer cares about, and stop spending so much time on the other portions. Example: the carefully crafted prose in your per-public-method comments might be permitted to suffer.

* Instead of campaigning for a raise, campaign for a role change to something that uses more of your cleverness and less of your sweat. For instance, maybe you'd be better off as a product manager.

* Sandbag estimates to bring unrealistic expectations back into line.
Thanks! If you poke around the demo account you will see that Charles Darwin has a dissection kit in his inventory and Mendel talks about his love for peas in his profile: http://sandbox.quartzy.com/profiles/gregor123

We spent way more time that we should have in making those fake profiles in the sandbox for Curie, Mendel, TH Morgan and others!
Wow, I just accessed the site to check for myself and in two featured bands, Morcheeba and Death Cab for Cutie, the latest comments from fans are, respectively, from 4 and 2 months ago. Surprisingly the layout is actually pretty good now.

Also, one of the link's URL is wrong. Probably just here in Brazil, but it is: "whttp" instead of just "http"
Build a blog. Keep it simple:

Have a homepage with 10 most recent posts

- Post can have many comments

- Only users can comment

- Users must be logged in to comment

- Only you (an admin) can log in and make posts. Or anyone else with credential.

- Use SSL to encrypt your login.

Extra credit:

- Posts can have tags. Harder than you think.

- Comments can have comments. This is harder than you think.

Extra extra credit:

- Implement it once using an SQL database. SQLite/MySQL/Postgres will be fine.

- Implement it using a NoSQL database. MongoDB will probably be the simplest.
Good example of when governments got the job done (P51 Mustang):

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/North_America...

First prototype completed 100 days after the contract signed. In contrast it took decades to build the Eurofighter. Granted a more complex aircraft, but they didn't have CAD back then either.
The graphs are also apparently minus Korean.
Startup T-shirt/Schwag of the Month Club: Feedback Please.
Wait, seriously, who uses Myspace?
Great ideas. Esp. phdcomics! Will try it out and report back in a blog post on what effect it has.
Social network is a broad term. I don't think the demographics of myspace and linkedin are related, in the sense that users dont jump from one to the other, so the title is misleading.
‘Entrepreneurs Shouldn’t Respect Authority’ says Founder of Sun Microsystems
"Or grab one of the lists of startup ideas and try to implement one."

What lists of startup ideas?
Ok, I see the way you're using sexual objectification now. I think people in this thread have been using it to describe both positive and negative reactions to people based on objective characteristics, not using desire as the important quality, but instead placing it on the objectification. Are you saying that reacting to someone as fat and bald as the primary characteristic of them is not objectification in the general sense? I think this is (or at least should be) what many men here are having an emotional reaction to. I'm not saying that this is logical or even necessarily valid in all cases, but there's a desire to have people of the opposite (or same) sex recognize one for qualities other than physical and have that be a basis for sexual attraction.

I think this sort of boils down to a misunderstanding between those who want to be seen as more than physical characteristics and the desire not to have unwanted physical interaction. I think those are both valid desires. The unpleasant experiences both "sides" have had make this discussion difficult. A failure to recognize you as a person with desires that aren't in accordance with someone else's projection onto you is clearly very bad. I don't think rejection is at this same level of very bad action, but it is still substantially hurtful to many men. You could just say "so what" to that and I'm not saying it to imply an obligation to accept. I'm just saying that it hurts to be rejected. Hopefully that makes some sense.
> why shouldn't you be compensated for as long as
> it's a product people want

Even 70 years after the author is dead and gone? I'm not advocating copyright abolishment, but I sure as hell think that something as short as 15 - 20 years (from creation) would be reasonable for copyright. Saying that someone is entitled to still get money into their estate for years and years after they are dead and gone is ridiculous.
Why we kill
If you trust StatCounter's stats, mobile is gaining on desktops, but just barely: http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_vs_desktop-ww-monthly-2010...

(Also according to StatCounter, on the desktop, Windows has a 92% share. Make of that what you will.)
Reading this reminded me of this story: http://gizmodo.com/5417318/my-6247-royalty-statement-how-maj...
>$10 million over 15 years is far less tax efficient than earning that same amount over 50 years

// Presumably you're ignoring investment even at bank base rates?
I do not believe in the existence of fire-breathing dragons outside of fiction, but I can't prove they don't exist. See also: UFOs, angels, god(s), and so on. In logic, the onus is on the person making the positive claim (that such things do exist) to furnish the evidence to back it up. The skeptic's lack of knowledge is not proof of non-existence, of course.
Mail Your Hard Drive to Amazon
LOL but I think you're proving the point Hayek quoted above.

In programming there's always another bug, in economics there's always another unintended consequence or negative externality.
I'm wondering if anybody else has been using this technique with document oriented databases?
Netflix: Is it broadband’s cash cow or data hog?
Cheer up - as I said above, 8 hours a day of productive work is entirely respectable. Life drama and responsibilities are a fact of, well, life.
Mac OS X Lion: This Is Not the Future We Were Hoping
Right now I'm working on a startup called Get On Social, which addresses exactly the market you've identified. The premise is simple - reducing updates on Facebook Pages, Twitter, and LinkedIn down to the simplest means possible - a single daily email which prompts a business owner for updates with their business, at a reasonable price of $10/mo. This is a steal in comparison to the hundreds of dollars a month some small biz's are shelling out to "social media consulting agencies" which essentially act as a proxy for their business's message.

We're pretty limited in our features right now, but we've already gotten awesome reviews from the demographic you've mentioned, non-tech self employed who understand that there is a need to keep a good presence online but don't have the time nor desire to learn a new UI's, remember to log into multiple accounts per day, and determine what and how to post.

Some difficulties we've encountered are:

1. The amount of support that goes into something as simple as signing up for a web-app
2. Many business owners still don't trust using a credit card online and
3. Require a face-to-face meeting before they make any decisions on something

It is definitely an undeserved market, but also one that requires more offline networking, development, and explanation - not just A/B testing a landing page and getting good links on popular tech blogs.

Link: http://www.getonsocial.com
Your observations on the Russian and Turkish subgraphs I think are spot on. There are a few other anomalies that I find interesting as well.

I'd love to see a 2011 version of this same graph.
It is much worse than that. The average NBA player's career is very short. About 4 years, last time I checked. And if you remove the stars that can last 15-20 years, you get a lot of people that play for 2 years and are dropped due to injury or just not panning out.

And after a player is dropped from the NBA you get someone that has devoted their entire life to playing in the NBA and does not have any other job training. There are other leagues in other countries but they are few, have limited spots for foreigners and usually and do not pay very well.
Just to offer a counter anecdote, a friend of mine had the opposite experience. She'd struggled all through school, until her dyslexia was diagnosed, and she could be taught compensation strategies. After that, she was much more successful.
please add azer@kodfabrik.com to the list
Would suggest to go through these - really helpful

1) http://programmers.stackexchange.com/q/43528
2) http://edweissman.com/53640595
I'm interested in knowing how the "Science is hard. Quartzy is easy." widget at the bottom is working for you. Do people know to click that? I only figured it out after attempting to scroll down in vain several times.

Why not just go with a long scrollable page?
LittleBigPlanet 2 Code Swarm
The best programmers are creative in their work, but that's different than being a creative professional. The programming equivalent of a creative (not the verb but a noun) is the person who comes up with the next big thing, or at least tries to do this. Woz, Bill Gates, Zuck, etc. all fall into this category -- but the person slinging .net code to keep an insurance database isn't in the same category. And those in that later group are engineers, and there's nothing wrong with being an engineer -- but that's different than being an architect or a product designer if you know what I mean.
"If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with"
True, but if their grad students tell them "If you buy this product, I will have more time to get real work done", then they would probably be willing to dip into their grants.
Set the body element background color property, even if it's white
Wait, seriously, who uses LinkedIn?
I heard they tried to use an iPhone but the Chinese kept remotely hacking it with a simple pdf exploit.
Good question. We were inspired by Tumblr. We are tracking how effective the widget at the bottom is... Will report back.

Our old page was: www.quartzy.com/current/ so I would say that everything from there is an improvement :)
Thrills - also thrilling parachute jumping, and teaching others to jump, hang gliding, ballooning, white water rafting, and crop dusting to name a few.

Danger - well all of the above have some amount of danger to them as well.

Quick - yup have that covered too.

So if one loved 'thrill, danger, speed' there are many activities you can do which have those attributes, and it is my claim that if can the financials work where most of your time is doing something you love then you will be happier overall.
Since you handwaved over "a much better design exists," I thought I'd give an example.

So, you have an app deployed to seven customers. The typical pattern is you develop an app for a first customer. It is then sold to subsequent customers, doing the least possible to make it work. In this case, as I have seen in the past, you have a properties file, saying which classes to use and which configuration options the customer has available.

These are then loaded up, as global state, so that your code can ask, "Does this application have Widget Processing capabilities?" and gets the answer for its code path. Consider:

if (AppProperties.getInstance().hasWidgetProcessing() {
process(widget);
}

Now, the problems here are pretty obvious. Since you're depending on a single file, your testing is a bear. Getting to the various codepaths is nigh impossible. Ideologically, it's bad design because your software has a bunch of if or switch statements in the code to decide what it should really do.

Now, what would make this code better? Well, you could start with taking all your Widget Processing capabilities and putting them in their own object or package. Then, instead of the above, your code looks like this:

public class WidgetImpl implements Widget {

private WidgetProcessor widgetProcessor;

public void process() {
widgetProcessor.process(this)
}

public void setWidgetProcessor(WidgetProcessor wp) {
this.widgetProcessor = wp;
}
}

In your main code:

widget.process();

WidgetProcessor has two (or more) implementations, in this case: RealWidgetProcessor and NullWidgetProcessor. NullWidgetProcessor just returns without doing anything.
Now, how does your Widget get the proper widget processor? Dependency injection. http://code.google.com/p/google-guice/wiki/Motivation?tm=6 has a pretty good explanation.

Improvements on the design are welcomed, as always. :) Though for simplicity's sake I was trying to keep code to a minimum. Now, speaking of code, my main issue with dependency injection is that the code baloons, especially in java. DI as a pattern makes me feel like there's something missing in current language implementations that would make this more elegant. Aspect-oriented programming was one try at it, but it seems that the cure is worse than the disease in that case.
A startup solving a practical problem, in a niche that nobody has really dealt with before? I call that a recipe for success if I ever saw one. Best of luck, guys!
I think it is unlikely, however they might be willing to help connect you with someone that is technical and that they like, but whose idea is potentially not nearly as appealing as yours is.

Most accelerators have made it clear that they prefer to avoid single co-founders and even more so single co-founders that don't code aren’t likely to be using their time at the accelerator efficiently since they won't actually be building the product on the fly.

Not to say spending time each day reviewing the previous nights outsourced work isn't a bad thing, but I somehow doubt it will be appealing. In short I think you are best off searching for a technical co-founder if you really want to make YC or one of the other accelerators out there.
Maybe something like Google's new Renderscript API could be used to expose this in a friendly way?
The last time I twatted from the twitter.com interface was never. I think you need to multiply Twitter traffic by at least 3-4 times. At least.
I use Tumblr for my blog, About.me for my bio, LinkedIn for my resume, and Twitter.com for people get in touch. When I have to host anything myself I use MediaTemple.
I think I'd trust anybody but Paypal with my wallet — I once tried tried to delete an account and it seemed to take forever. Owning that space is going to require a company that understands customer service as much as technology.
There's nothing hindsight about this. We can make confident predictions: whatever this is, it will prove to be of very limited use or none at all. Why am I so confident? Because like with boosting IQ, researchers keep trying, and they keep failing. Their repeated failures tell us a lot about the probability the next study will succeed...

Education is full of big gains promoted to anyone who will listen as the answer to this or that gap - like this one! - which turn out to be flukes (p=0.05 means you just need to keep trying...), statistical or data gaming (what does it really mean to have some specially treated kids reclassified into the gifted program? are the people choosing for the gifted program even blinded as to which kids they are expected to choose and vindicate this expensive program?) and Goodhart's law, regression to the mean or 'fade out', and outright fraud.

like Head Start; there are benefits - and then they fade away: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Head_Start_Pr... or http://edlibertywatch.org/2011/03/studies-on-effectiveness-o...
Suppose this study had been conducted in this http://www.ajc.com/news/investigation-into-aps-cheating-1001... recently exposed nest of crime?
Apple Store overnight planned for July 13th, new MacBook Airs and Lion
It is human nature to over estimate the impact of events or things we do.
Every one looks at the world with their own view point. They are the center of their own universe. That's all the world we know.

May be not failing often is the reason why we take ourselves so seriously.
Your current view point of looking at things as isolated events is a great way of looking at life.
Beautiful and functional. There are things to nitpick of course, but this is light years ahead of the old blogger. It's nice to see Google making a concerted effort to elevate the design of products across their portfolio. I used to think that visual design wasn't much of an institutional priority for G, but they've proven that wrong.
The author doesn't seem to understand that "taking the good elements of iOS" doesn't mean making OS X into iOS: this will never happen, Apple has no intention of dumbing down the OS or to put it another way, Apple understands that the desktop and mobile platforms are different. However what Apple does intend is to carry over some of the multitouch and other nuances that have been refined in iOS to the desktop: it's visible, it works, and Lion is an accomplishment in my opinion.
Not with a private constructor.
The NBAPA has had a Rookie Transition program which deals in large part with money management for the last 25 years. The NFLPA has a similar Rookie Symposium.
Google+ needs to be less like Facebook, more like Twitter)
You can look for days, and if you don't know any of the alternatives, none will pop out.

As I'm not in the mobile sphere, I wouldn't know how to avoid a singleton for an app that is constrained by speed and space requirements. I've already shown an example above, what's your solution in this environment, with the constraints of the questioner?
True, but managing larger companies is also inherently harder, maybe that's what the grandparent intended to say?
Facebook abuses "their".
Essential Tool if you have a B2B Business
I would be fine with a lifetime copyright, or 20 years, whatever is longer. If you're still alive, you ought to have rights. If you die 2 years after creating something, your family ought to get something for your "property". Obviously, though, very little of what we're talking about in this discussion is 70 years old. Led Zeppelin doesn't tour anymore. They should still be making money from their copyrighted material.
The intro video could be improved, it dragged on for a little too long, but it seems cool!
Gollum

https://github.com/github/gollum

It's the wiki that powers Github, so you use it with Git and it's markdown enabled. I thought it was a pretty great tool
South Sudan becomes an independent nation
GameLoft’s Top HD Games for Android Phones
Why do you keep calling it an Android device? The article clearly states it's a Windows 7 Mobile device-specific app.
The atheist Turing test: Can you pick the real athiests from the imposters?
I should mention that another alternative is to write a domain specific language, which is what a Lisper or Rubyist would advocate. That way, you put together each instance like play-doh. (a la http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2008/11/9/legos-play-doh-and-pro... )
Handling a team member who "talks too much"
Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization [2008]