skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have daily deal fatigue? Here's a new approach to local merchant loyalty
After this week, I'm actually setting aside this entire weekend to being with the family. :)
A defiantly nerdy take on Twitter. I appreciate it for what it is, but I don't agree. Twitter and its constraints aren't silly.

An arbitrary and mostly-irrelevant technical limitation is responsible for the 140 character limit. But, it turns out that limit or no, 140 character messages have utility. Forced summarization means that you can benefit from updates from hundreds of people simultaneously.

Compare Twitter to the Facebook feed (I follow a comparable number of people on both). In neither case can I reasonably consume 100% of the stream. That's OK. But: I am objectively capable of benefiting from a far larger percentage of the Twitter stream than I am of the Facebook stream. I go two or three pages down Facebook and I'm saturated. I could never in a million years pay attention to it all day; I dip into it maybe 2-3 times a week.

The fact that Twitter sort-of works for this broadcast-y use case means that is sane to build things on it, like news services, or conference CFPs, or recruitments for open-enrollment classes, or announcements for new blog posts.

There are clearly things Twitter has wrong, and hashtags and inband metadata are clearly at the top of the list. But that doesn't make Twitter silly. The Twitter team apparently didn't know Twitter was going to work this well when they started it. It isn't some crazy scheme to trick the linkerati. They're still catching up to what they unleashed and I'm inclined to cut them some slack.
37signals chief strength has been in building a following around their dogmas. Remember that their customers are small businesses; they've positioned themselves as an expert among their peers and interviews like this solidify that. That audience is what allows them to sell (generally mediocre) products into very crowded markets with a reasonable premium.
> Recent research using DNA analysis answered this question about two years ago. Today’s human population is descended from twice as many women as men.

Does anyone know what research he's referring to?
facebook will suffer the same fate as myspace and google+ will suffer the same fate as facebook.

early adopters are already loosing interest in facebook and moving to the next thing(s). the masses will follow.
I found this paper interesting:

The "Chaotic Ball" model,local realism and the Bell test loopholes

(http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0210150):
I think people need to be educated that SQLI bugs (errors in escaping) lead to usability issues as well as security issues. I can't count the number of times I've searched for something on a clearly handmade site and watched in amusement as my search query grows backslashes while paging through the results. Also, single quotes show up in more places than people realize: I've seen them in proper names, street addresses, uploaded filenames... if those things break your app or damage data, that should be a tangible concern.
This is really looking cool. But now I have to ask for receipts when I get doughnuts.
I just took a look at the last offending Googlebot IP and it seems to originate from Google.

http://www.ip-adress.com/ip_tracer/66.249.71.203
Hoorah! This is great news.
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Yup, we extract the Venue, purchase total, and assignit a category, in about 3 minutes.
We're working on an android app, but before that we'll probably have a submit by email solution. Would that be enough for you if it were available?
The normal flow for this would be.

Browser -> Email Message -> Inbox -> Email Message <<back>> Inbox -> Email Message <<back>> Inbox <<back>> First Email Message <<back>> Browser

You'd only be 3 back button presses to get to your browser session. Of course it's possible for users to create gigantic stacks of history where you wouldn't want to go all the way through them. If that's the case you can get back to your browser using the Multitasking UI or by going back to your home screen.

I think most users use the back button frequently however. If you do, you're always only a few presses to be back to your original activity.
For people interested in this, learn about "stereotype threat"
Previous submissions and interesting discussions at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=589346 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1634955

The first submission points to http://denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm (which has the same post with better formatting than this submission)
Lots of positions, but very little citations to research, etc that backs it up.

I'm curious how many of his contentions are borne up by science (other than the outlier study).
Get in touch with me on Twitter. I'll happily follow and retweet exciting stuff going on for you. I'd also get in touch with @TravisWebster on Twitter. He's local to you and currently working on something in the co-working/incubation/hackerspace arena that might be mutually beneficial. Worst case, a great person to know!
Sure, 'twas obvious sarcasm, my bad. But there are good reasons for China's economy to grow sustainably for some time yet (emerging middle class, manufacturing going more high-tech, etc). They have major structural problems too, but it's not all doom-and-gloom like Japan is/was.
There's lots of people out there that simply don't use cash anymore. Does this service have anything to offer people like me that mint doesn't already offer? I see the use if you make most of your purchases in cash...just not otherwise.
They released a bunch of videos about what to expect from SIGGRAPH this year: http://tideart.com/?id=4e124799
Of course telling creditors to suck it up is a great way of guaranteeing that you'll never see a red cent from them - or their buddies - again.

Pissing off your creditors is like pissing off a business partner - you do so at your own risk; the more powerful the partner, the larger the fall out.
I'd say a better link is to the issue we marked 'fixed' :

http://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=2454

Or to the project creation page:

http://code.google.com/hosting/createProject

We hope you like it.
The 140 character limit is actually a nice feature. It's like reading a stream of headlines rather than parsing articles and animated gifs. G+'s circles are kind of a pain to manage and post to. In addition, they ruin the serendipity that you find in your twitter stream. For example, discovering that a programmer acquaintance also enjoys running or one of your favorite bands.

I'm not saying that G+ is going to fail, but it doesn't make twitter archaic or obsolete.
On a regular PC suggests you might be using consumer disks which may not be 100% reliable about committing transactions it is hard to know. You should probably test first. Some SSDs hve enough capacitors to commit in flight commands on power failure.

I would be inclined to use Postgres. Built for robustness.
Columbia != Colombia
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"In the 19th century in America, middle-class girls and women played piano far more than men. Yet all that piano playing failed to result in any creative output."

Well, I'm convinced!
You can choose some at www.socialstatistics.com
What are the advantages of using google code over github?
I'm not sure it's even the correct action to do within your app. Most of the time there is going to be more than one way to launch an activity even within an app. So going up can ruin the user experience even within your app.

The only time I see a reason to override the back button is in games. When playing a game you don't want the back button to accidentally bring you back to the main menu screen. Most override the button and either ignore it or bring up a pause menu. In non-game apps overriding it just causes problems.

I've also seen apps override it when they choose to have a lot of different functionality in a single activity. This is poor app design.
Are there really any reasons to use Google Code when GitHub is kicking so much ass?
totally reminded me of http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell
This strikes me as a somewhat naive understanding of human motivation. While these kinds of reframing techniques might have some impact, most people procrastinate because of subconscious motives they have rather than conscious ones. If you procrastinate to the point that it negatively impacts your ability to function effectively, by definition you have a psychological disorder (of whatever severity) and would do well to tackle that in some form of therapy.

Cognitive psychology might offer a more sophisticated version of this article's strategy, where psychodynamic would try to identify and work through the underlying cause of your motives not to work (e.g. part of you wants to experience the sense of crisis that comes from being incredibly behind on a deadline, so let's try to understand that part of you).
This is the kind of mess when you have 5 different libraries to do the same thing. PHP should never have allowed there to be multiple MySQL, Mamcache, etc. extensions.

Instead, they should have introduced the new libraries in a big version bump, and immediately deprecated the old and unsafe libraries. A couple languages / frameworks that are good at doing this is Apple with Cocoa, and Ruby / Rails.
Ask HN: Feedback for SXSW Startup Contest (and paid project)
We are planning to run a startup contest for SXSW and need help and suggestions. We plan to ask startup participants to post a short video clip explaining their technology or a visual demo, then have an internet audience vote on their favorite entry. The top 5 startups would be flown out to SXSW, put up in a hotel, given free passes, and will be able to present to a panel of judges at a large event where a winner will ultimately be crowned.

We were hoping to run the contest through an additional page on our website www.thomvest.com and my initial thoughts on how we wanted to do this:

A clean design that shows small video clips as they are uploaded in either rank order by the number of votes or by latest upload. Was thinking that porting YouTube video might be best, but open to suggestions? I would think that for those entering there should be a few fields such as name, email, website url, and perhaps a posterous-like simple "paste your video link" that would automatically post onto the website.

For the users deciding on which startups make the final 5: a voting mechanism that would use Facebook and Twitter as login credentials to help reduce fraudulent votes. I realize that twitter will most likely contain additional spam accounts, so if it is possible to make some type of following/follower ratio requirement or number of tweets that would be helpful. I don’t know if IP vote tracking would be difficult as well, but perhaps there could be an additional anti-spam layer through insuring the same connection doesn’t vote multiple times. Some type of vote count tracker would be helpful as well.

Moderation tools that allow for curation of videos, potential to flag and invalidate spam votes as they come up.

I am sure there are other things I am not considering, and I would be open to hearing any other suggestions. While I have been searching around for other examples of a similar contest, I haven’t found many that fit the bill (I am most likely missing something so links would be appreciated). In addition, we are looking for someone that can code the above and has some ideas about the design, please feel free to send some information about your ideas and a price quote to info (at) thomvest (dot) com. Thanks!
would be for me
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Thanks a lot, great answer!

I indeed solved some problems in a more complex way than it was necessary - though I wasn't proud of it.
I want this on Android. According to their website, it will be here soon.
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from the linked post - "ZIP and RAR archives that are embedded inside other archives also work. For example, if you have a RAR file inside a ZIP file (like in our example above) you can just click on that file to access the embedded archive. "
Wow! Thanks for your generosity. I have a site called "IT Leaders Today" - its about leadership and management for geeks - http://itleaderstoday.com. Could you take a look and critique it? Pls. be brutally honest. I'd like your thoughts on the content. Does it seem useful, interesting, entertaining? What to do to make it engaging. Email me your thoughts at raheemm1 @ yahoo Thanks.
Newsflash: Banks have been prevailing since they were created. Tanks and Guns are nothing against the power of credit.
How about for starters don't do this:

<body onload="window.print();">
I see it also still supports horrible UI. Pass.
That's an overly simplistic view of animal behavior. Spend some time studding game theory and you will find cooperation is natural in all but the most ruthless environments. Aka 3 man enter 1 man leave suggests creating a temporary alliance. Shure animals may posture 1v1 but both competitors are trying to avoid injury.
Besides extracting the data from the recipt we also keep the image.
From beta testers this has been useful for expense reports which require evidence, as well as for returning items at stores.
Of course returns depend on the original vendor, but we've had beta testers return stuff at grocery stores, brick and mortar tech stores, and such.

Ultimately this is useful for submitting tax returns come April.
While I think the advice is applicable, I'm not sure how it really differentiates from the shotgun resume approach. Either method involves making first contact, and nothing starts without some form of communication with the company you're interested in. The issue isn't throwing resumes at every company with no plan, the issue is actually getting to speak to someone at the company who knows what they're hiring for and is willing to talk to you about it. I don't think this article covers that first step (and nothing can be done without that initial contact).
The PrimeSense patents I found were filed in January of 2008, Hei-D patents weren't filed until March of 2009.

It looks like PrimeSense had the technology first.
And my favorite place, email addresses. Valid. Rare, but valid.
I dunno about you, but while my credit card company does itemize my transactions, they don't provide any sort of reporting tool to track how I spent my money. (They do provide a CSV export, which is suddenly looking like something I should try to analyze.)
Totally respect and appreciate your comments. I think this is a case of "agree to disagree." :-)
Well, it offers a lot to people outside the states for whom nothing like mint is available.
"Newsflash: countries have armies..."

All the Red horses and all the Red men could not put Soviet economy together again.
I've done that, and unfortunately attempting to switch those to ctrl+tab and ctrl+shift+tab instead changes them to cmd+ctrl+tab and cmd+ctrl+shift+tab with no way to not use the command button.
Death is one way. Immortality is usually not. You can always cease to be if you think that existence is horrible.
Though clunky and perhaps not entirely well thought-out, it does get at the question of how to meet the literally like-minded. While I doubt that I'd poke around with Mensa-esque puzzles to prove my intellectual worthiness, I do think there needs to be some way to get male and female nerds in the same room with the potential for more than just a keynote speaker.
We'll have the android app out probably within the next couple of months. In the meantime we're working on a submit by email utility which should be ready much sooner.
> (not Harvard, but hear me out)

You pretty much spelled out your won counterargument.
I think you misunderstand altruism. And no, he's not wrong.

Since altruism is itself a value, it's erroneous to say that altruism requires a person to not work for things they value. So, whether or not academics are working for things they value has nothing to do with altruism.

Altruism is primarily about whether your motivations are driven by the welfare of others, or by the welfare of yourself. If you are motivated by the welfare of others -- if, as Bertrand Russell once said, once you find yourself thinking about human suffering, you find it difficult to think about anything else, and if you then decide to work on alleviating the suffering of others -- then you are acting altruistically.

Someone who makes the conscious decision between a lucrative career and a career in academia, and chooses academia in order to advance the field of their choice, even though they expect to make less money for themselves, is making an altruistic decision.

Your original reply said, "Never confuse non-monetary rewards for no rewards." That has nothing to do with altruism. It doesn't matter if a person is receiving a "non-monetary reward", in the form of a sense of fulfillment, or in satisfaction.

If a person chooses to do something which will benefit others, and not themselves, they are acting altruistically.

Now, I happen to think that a person can be selfish and still be altruistic, because of the non-monetary rewards you're alluding to. I am self-interested in improving the lives of the people around me, so, although my actions are altruistic, it still benefits me in a sense. But, that's not a very popular way of looking at it; by definition, when people talk about "benefits" and "costs" associated with altruism, they're talking about things like money or physical health. So, again: if your actions cost you money and benefit others, then you are acting altruistically. I would say that choosing a life of academia fits that rather nicely.

By the way, you and I have gone 'round about this subject not all that long ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2695906). Your "envy driven versus greed driven" argument is still one of the most peculiar things I've ever heard in this subject, so I don't expect you to agree with what I'm saying.
my favorite part of the article:

Algorhyme

I think that I shall never see
a graph more lovely than a tree.
A tree whose crucial property
is loop-free connectivity.
A tree that must be sure to span
so packet can reach every LAN.
First, the root must be selected.
By ID, it is elected.
Least-cost paths from root are traced.
In the tree, these paths are placed.
A mesh is made by folks like me,
then bridges find a spanning tree.

Radia Perlman
Gmail plugin Rapportive now gives you insight into the people you're emailing
Google Code now has native git support
Nice work, it's an great app for people like me. Juz curious, how this technology works?. thnx
Colombian.

/pedant
West Palm is totally part of South Florida. (In my mind.) There are lots of great efforts happening and it's still young. Developers are in great need. I hear about possibilities for jobs frequently. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2767949)

Why don't you take the hike down a few times and attend some of the events down here to get a good feel for yourself. There's no reason that you have to take the jump without being able to cheaply come down once or twice a month. I live near Sunrise and often drive down to Kendall or as far north as WPB for some events. This is a good site for events and covers much of SoFL: http://www.miamitechevents.com

I talked about this briefly last month and it still largely applies: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2545770
Mint does a pretty good job in analysis. It categorizes anything I spend at Schnucks for example as "Groceries" and allows you to track how much you've spent this month compared to previous months and such. It only fails in purchases from places like Wal-Mart, where what you purchase can vary wildly.
I found an interesting profile for "Space Chronology" on G+
https://plus.google.com/102560378763128345323/posts
We have a site called Kongoroo (http://kongoroo.com). What is one thing we could we add, and one thing to take away, to make it better?
He is almost certainly referring to research based on Mitochondrial Eve being far, far older than Mitochondrial Adam

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve#Not_a_contemp...

Initial studies, such as Thomson et al. 2000[7] proposed that Y-chromosome Adam lived about 59,000 years ago. This date suggested that Y chromosome Adam lived tens of thousands of years after his female counterpart Mitochondrial Eve, who lived 150,000-200,000 years ago[8]. This date also meant that Y-chromosome Adam lived at a time very close to, and possibly after, the out of Africa migration which is believed to have taken place 50,000-80,000 years ago.

One explanation given for this discrepancy in the dates of Adam and Eve was that females have a better chance of reproducing than males due to the practice of polygyny. When a male individual has several wives, he has effectively prevented other males in the community from reproducing and passing on their y-chromosomes to subsequent generations. On the other hand, polygyny doesn't prevent most females in a community from passing on their mitochondrial DNA to subsequent generations. This differential reproductive success of males and females can lead to fewer male lineages relative to female lineages persisting into the future. These fewer male lineages are more sensitive to drift and would most likely coalesce on a more recent common ancestor. This would potentially explain the more recent dates associated with Y-chromosome Adam.[9][10]

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-chromosomal_Adam
Two things sometimes irk me: How much code there is to write for simple DB interaction + coupling of two different languages (SQL + [programming lang]).

In Rails I'd write:

Folk.create(:name => some_name, :addr => some_addr, :city => some_city)

One line, easily readable and only one language (Ruby).

This is not meant to be a flame post - I'm just asking: Is it the preferred way in PHP to prepare SQL statements yourself?
Obvious problem: Genghis Khan is dead. The fact that a full third of Asia and consequently a sixth of the whole world has some genetic similarity to Genghis Khan does not make him any less dead. Evolution is not teleological and genes do not "want". Genes just happen; they're chemicals. Working to ensure the continuation of your genes is not mandated or valuable -- it is likely. Your parents probably did, because you exist, and most people are like their parents; modus ponens you probably will. It's not a command or an idea or a system of value, it's a description.

The other obvious problem is that societies which played into the competitive heirarchy were only successful for some weird definitions of successful. If the Mongol empire is your idea of success, you have some crazy ideas about success, because the empire flared up and disappeared within 100 years, leaving Asia in ruins. On the other hand, the British and their methodical boringness not only conquered the world but lived to tell of it, and they did so largely by exploiting the willingness of less organized and "fair" societies to turn on each other -- how, precisely, did the tiny island of Britain conquer all of India (which had 20 times as many people)? Mostly because the Indians of the 19th century were backstabbing assholes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divide_and_Rule

And how were the British kicked out of India? Well, by none other than some pacifist self-sacrificing guy named Mohandas Gandhi.
In my experience, people fall into two categories when they know what they're co-workers make.

1. They don't care because money isn't the main reason they are at their job.

2. They do care and they A) are unworried about people they outearn and B) are jealous/contentious with those that outearn them.

I see no advantage in informing an office of what everyone earns.