skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use reversed scrolling and also hide the scrollbars. I just think my parents aren’t ready for that. I’m not using their iMac and I’m hundreds of miles away from it for most of the time.
Canards have been used quite heavily in fighter jets for the last 20 years... Gripen, Typhoon, Rafale, Kfir. All delta-winged designs with the same basic layout.

For that specific example however I was thinking civilian aircraft, in which canards would be a huge step forward but are never seen.
> Of course the energy requirements are virtually impossible to satisfy in addition to all of the other problems.

That's what they used to say about powered flight ;)
10% of a population is the tipping point for intellectual disruption
Try the Chrome extension "Google Reader Open entry in background tab":
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lcimnckjiicikfpppc...
Very important for me !!!
Thank you !
Actually, Google just launched an in-app payments system for any web-app. It started in the Chrome Web App Store but now can be offered on any app in any browser.

They charge a 5% transaction fee.
Opa (the cloud language) is now open-sourced
> only works if the cars behind you (extrapolating: ALL other cars) handle just as quick and automatic as well? No 'rollout', you need to require it for each and every car if this should make sense.

Better a fender bender than a dead kid.

Human reaction time hovers at about .2 seconds, last I heard. Machines have much better reaction times. I would place far more trust in a self-braking car than in a human-braking car.

Furthermore, a machine is always watching the road. What percentage of the time do you think the average driver is watching the road, scanning for dangers, taking note of other cars and obstacles in the vicinity? I would wager that it's less than 60% of the time, though I admit that I don't have numbers to back that up.

> (You SAVED a hedgedog. Grats!)

Hitting animals can inflict significant damage to a car. Just putting that out there.
How Justin Timberlake bought into Myspace
Currently not too often. I go back and forth on RSS overall, and am sort of undecided.

Pro, versus normal webbrowsing: I don't end up doing the nervous-tic "reload to see if there's anything new on site A, then site B, then site C..." procrastination dance.

Cons, versus normal webbrowsing: 1) Everything gets put into a standardized layout, while I like the different kinds of design around the web, some of which aren't just aesthetic but include different paradigms (magazine-type versus forum-type versus link-sharing-type site layouts); 2) I end up feeling like I have this constant backlog of stuff to read, as if it were another email inbox, while it's easier to ignore old content when loading up a website.

My compromise is that for now I have only 4 blogs in my RSS feed, which update infrequently--- some of them not even more often than one post every 1-2 months. I have them there because they update infrequently enough that I'd forget to check, but I do want to see new posts when they arrive. Other sites I either check regularly in a browser, or I read whenever someone shares an interesting link to them, or whenever I remember, depending on the site.
I used to go through cycles reading RSS feeds and declaring RSS bankruptcy, but I've given up.

I need a priority queue RSS reader. Show me the N most "important" posts across all my feeds since I last visited. Importance would be calculated a number of ways:

* Prioritize posts from low volume feeds. I probably want to see every post from a friend who blogs once a month, but not every post from Engadget.

* Most favorited/liked/whatever, especially among my friends.

* Similar posts to things I've favorited/liked/whatever in the past.

* Manually tagging certain feeds as important.

Also, I have this problem other "streams" of information, like Twitter, and email (Gmail's Priority Inbox is a good start). Some people I follow post a lot of useless stuff, but I still follow them because they're friends or sometimes say interesting things.

Is there anything remotely like this out there?
I'm totally ignorant of mongodb: what does it do for you (in the way of data aggregation) that's not easy in numpy?
HackerNews is easy to include in your Google Reader Send to menu (just like the bookmarklets functionality).

Go to settings: http://www.google.com/reader/settings?display=edit-extras, click the "Send to" tab, click "Create a custom link" and add these strings:

Name ~ HackerNews
URL ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=${url}&t=${title}
Icon URL ~ http://ycombinator.com/images/y18.gif
The was an article by a retired judge and law professor explaining how the law could be interpreted differently to suit the circumstances. Regardless of the rights and wrongs of what Aaron did, I'm very worried that the book is going to be thrown at him to make an example of activists in the area of intellectual property.

I telecommute. Most people today do most of their personal communication over the internet. A charge of wire fraud carries hefty penalties and would tax the finances of most people to be able to defend against such charges.

If the scope of wire fraud isn't reduced, then if I even do something like tell a lie on news.ycombinator.com, I could potentially be charged with it.
I use NetNewsWire every morning on my iPad. However, it is pulling from Google Reader.

My feed reading has changed drastically though. I used to subscribe to over 200 feeds, now I try to keep it under 20 (and not every feed has updates every day).
Why NASA Is Vital for Our Survival—According to Neil deGrasse Tyson
Code Hero: Make games with a code gun that shoots code.
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I think it is more targeted along the lines of what Amazon does. They create new products, but do it in a way that they don't bet the house, so its great if they work, but controlled if they fail.

You don't need to have epiphanies to be remarkable, but they sure can come in useful. The key point being don't bank on them, with the unwritten subtext of don't ignore them.
yes it was.
I actually use a version of FeedDemon (http://www.feeddemon.com/) which is essentially a desktop application that can integrate with Google Reader. So technically, the answer is between "Yes", and "No, but I do use another RSS reader on a daily basis".
We already use Help Scout for managing support emails, so it would be nice to have the option to forward the contact form requests to an email address instead.
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Not anymore, Twitter lists + Flipboard have totally replaced Google Reader for me.
Google Reader's "sort by magic" (under "View settings") might work for you:

"""
A third option, Sort by magic will rank items by "magic." Personalized magic ranking is automatically generated, taking into account your past reading behavior (including liking and starring) and global signals. We'll do our best to display items in the most relevant and interesting order -- click the Like button on things you think are important or enjoy reading, and we'll learn to put items like that first.
"""

http://www.google.com/support/reader/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...
what site is it ?
I used to use Google Reader, but I found that I missed seeing the original site and that I couldn't easily filter out stories I didn't want to read.

So I built NewsBlur -- http://www.newsblur.com. It's open-source and I'd love if more folks followed my development: http://github.com/samuelclay.

It's been a weekend project but it's been a wild ride so far. One of my main goals is to have much of the functionality of Google Reader, most of which has slowly made its way into NewsBlur. I'm currently working on a free iOS app for NewsBlur. I also put out an API so that others could also make their own feed reader.

But really, I missed seeing the original site more than anything. It looks like a security hole, but NewsBlur actually just proxies the site and displays it back to the user. And the intelligence slider keeps me sane, since I slide it towards green and my unread count comes down to a manageable level.
Its interesting to see the time spent on the site from the two sources compared!
"He grabbed me, pulled me in to him, and kissed me. I tried to push him off, and told him I wasn’t interested (I may have been less eloquent, but I don’t think I was less clear). He responded by jamming his hand into my underwear and fumbling."
Led by LinkedIn, Social Recruiting Continues to Grow [Infographic]
It seems Bloglines is back, sort of... I'm trying it out as we speak. For some reason I really dislike Google Reader's user interface. :-/
Sillybee is absolutely right--I warn everyone that I am valuation sensitive, and that I'm not as aggressive as other angels.
MGG 343: Lion Tips Galore
Yep, see the discussion around Figure 7 in this section of the paper: http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/users/adrianth/ices96/no...

They drew a graph of any units on any connected path from input to output, and then ran a search to see if any others had any effects, by clamping random units' values to 0 or 1 and seeing if that degraded the result. They found that one unconnected unit in particular degraded performance significantly (the bottom/right gray-colored one in Fig. 7): it had several active connections routed through it, but its own output went nowhere. So they hypothesized that it was modulating the signal in a way not captured by the mathematical abstraction of the FPGA as a digital circuit.
I stopped using RSS a year ago. Too much shit. I filter what's important through my Twitter followers now.
>A week later all four groups were given a short-answer test that assessed their ability to recall facts and draw logical conclusions based on the facts.

The problem with this study is they measure learning using test. Of course the groups that had taken tests while memorizing scored better, they got practice.
I've worked extensively with the FF guys as an entrepreneur, and from what I've seen they really live these values.

The consumer internet startups FF funded were often intended to become something more than they turned into. Slide was supposed to be about cross-site predictive analytics on a massive scale. Silly widgets were just the data capture vector. Frogmetrics (my FF-funded YC startup) had similar ambitions for the real world. Both companies fell way short of our secret ambitions, but not for lack of effort.

Also, many of FF's most interesting investments aren't on the site for secrecy reasons.

One more anecdote:

Last year, when I told some VC friends that I was working on strong AI as a startup, they laughed. When I told Luke and Brian at Founders Fund, they said they wanted to invest. It's obviously too early to say whether we'll meet the same fate as past AI companies, but we're off to a good start (http://vicariousinc.com/), and that's thanks to Founders Fund taking the kinds of risks they discuss in the article.
(cons "lisp joke" here)
I think it has more to do with Facebook and Microsoft taking away quite significant parts of the online ad revenue. Facebook is economically destroying Google in terms of display ads.

Companies don't have loyalties to either company, they just go where the best value is. Currently thats Facebook.

Google developed an attention economy, and Facebook has improved it.
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What's Invisible at Harvard: A Conversation
This is based on a computer model/simulation. One of the assumptions in the model was that if a person talks to 2 people who hold a different opinion than him/her, they will then change their opinion. I am not sure how realistic that assumption is. Do you change your opinion or belief if just 2 people disagree with you?
Yes, and it really needs to be improved! It's been neglected for too long.
Alternatives to malloc and new
Poll: Android developers, what IDE do you use?
If you use multiple IDEs, just vote for the one you use most frequently. Thanks! Sorry if I left out your favorite.
Eclipse 3.7 (Indigo)
Eclipse 3.6 (Helios)
Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo)
Eclipse 3.4 (Ganymede)
Eclipse (another version)
excited!
Shaun Inman's Fever[1] tries to do some of this. Items that are linked to from multiple feeds float to the top of your reading list. You can also add "sparks", which you will never get to see the contents of however they will be used to help figure out which other items to float up to the top of your list.

Self-hosted, PHP, $30. Works on Desktop and has an iPhone skin as well.

[1] http://feedafever.com/
The more so because get() can also take a default value to return if the key is not present in the dict ;-)
Looks promising, I'll try it.

Ideally it would hide all but the top 10 or 50 or 100 posts, and if I finish reading those I could see more. Opening up an RSS reader and seeing hundreds or thousands of unread posts is discouraging.
C.D. Darlington, Sociobiology, and Reductionism in the Sciences
Exactly how could you be charged with wire fraud for lying on HN?
If its economic growth you want, you should move to China. But not as an overseas expatriate but as a Foxconn factory worker earning below China's mandated minimum wage and long hours beyond government sanctioned safety limits.

Or you can just move here to my country, Singapore, as a lowly paid foreign labourer being exploited in the same manner.

The problem I personally have with the majority of right wing ideologues I encounter in my daily life is that they suffer from massive cognitive dissonance and subscribe to various variants of the Horatio Alger myth.

They don't really like it when you call upon their logical fallacies and expose the inherent asymmetries and flaws within existing public education, healthcare and pension fund systems. And then they troll me by calling me naive, etc.

I find it really amusing.
I gave up on RSS... I get most of my news through Twitter and HN actually.
See this link: http://www.mobileburn.com/news.jsp?Id=9546 for non-information. Basically unregistered communicaitons are harder for law enforcement to track/monitor/etc. So there will be efforts to make them illegal.
Yes it should, I read the title and thought there might be an interesting new twist when there was not.
$I $wish $they $would $get $rid $of $prefixing $every $variable $with $a $dollar $sign.
Browserify - write client-side javascript server-side
I believe a link to a related event would be borderline appropriate here.

Your comment is an annoying, longfrom ad for a conference:
1) in a difference place
2) on a different topic

If you delete this spam and make a new submission on this topic, there'd be no reason for me or other HNers to object.
So, they are deliberately misleading the judges. I really would like that to be recognized as "lying under oath" (or is there no oath attached to such briefs?).
Looks very similar to http://helpjuice.com/ by @hajrice.
> “When the number of committed opinion holders is below 10 percent, there is no visible progress in the spread of ideas. It would literally take the amount of time comparable to the age of the universe for this size group to reach the majority,” said SCNARC Director Boleslaw Szymanski, the Claire and Roland Schmitt Distinguished Professor at Rensselaer. “Once that number grows above 10 percent, the idea spreads like flame.”

So how does a small group reach 10%? This description of their model appears to claim that it is impossible for the beliefs of the majority to change (because every group begins with below 10% adoption of their ideas).
I use google reader on my Transformer tablet (Android). While it's not perfect, its reasonably usable and works well.
Repeatable process: Hire brilliant people!
I think Digg tried to do that with a company in Australia and failed.
Is there anything in Java close to the parallel collections in Scala?
Well, that's just another app. I haven't actually tried, but I bet old crusty copies of Lotus 1-2-3 in which I've actually done development, would probably run just fine under DosBox on any Intel platform.

There's very little reason to cruft up the OS for everyone, for that stuff.
A good start would be for them to obey EU law vis their G+ policies regarding use of real names.

EU citizens have legal protections that are being broken by Google:

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2426/regulation/18/m...

This matter has been reported to the EU Data Protection Commissioner's Office.
"clarifying that ads aren't allowed to be targeted using real identity."

Sooo... when I see ads using my name on Facebook its illegal?

I think if your statement is true there will in an opt-out clause when joining and they are just by-passing that law.

Also that Robert Scoble article is a joke, it seems more like emergency PR work than real content to me.
Well, here's the problem with that: patent trolls aren't actually operating any systems. Thus they are not violating patents - it's an asymmetric game that the troll can't lose. That's why it's so pernicious.
Simply downscaling the image will also turn Einstein into Monroe, which demonstrates that it's non-trivial to even define what correct downscaling means.
Myths and truths of customer loyalty in online communities
Great TEDtalk by Ligaya Tichy of Yelp and Airb'n'b
I think OEM are by far their most effective action again GNU/Linux on the desktop. FUD may help, but I think it helps much more to offer a (possibly conditional) discount the hardware vendors simply cannot afford to refuse (especially if they know their competitors will have the same discount).
"Pachter noted that developers are well compensated in the form of bonuses, and as such, overtime is not a factor. He cites the fact that Infinity Ward had a profit pool of $84 million to be paid to around 100 employees."

I wonder how much of that goes to those below executive level.
There are a couple ways to achieve this:
Sites like: Lynk.ly, Summify.com or thesharedweb.com rank your twitter and facebook feeds and give you top links across them.

I follow digg, techcrunch and mashable ... on twtter and get the links across these sites ranked for me.

BTW, disclaimer, I did write lynk.ly with a friend hence I also provided some of the alternatives.
Yes, multiple times a day.
Change it to Show HN: QRganize - Your QR code library.

Clickable http://qrganize.com
I've had an "ssh buddy" for years, but for a variety of things such as asking for a "download on how to hotwire a motorcycle".

I have an agreement with many friends to be an operator so they can look something up on the web, or anything else requiring some efficient technical prowess.

We just call up each other and say "operator", and if you're near a computer, you help out with whatever it is.
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(Shrug) If a computer can drive a car, it can also steer a bicycle or a Segway-like pedestrian transportation appliance.

The same ludicrous reasoning that will eventually force us into computer-driven cars will do the same for other forms of transportation, rest assured.
Wow... One of the few websites for which I immediately bought a premium account.
It's irritating at first, but try getting used to it - the "real" scrolling is very much worth it.
Three to six months is an acceptable period of 'crunch time'? That's just shitty planning.
I've used browserify to "compile" node.js files to a single, browser-includeable JS file. It has worked remarkably well.

Also, James (@substack) is a rockstar. He's continuously made the library better and better.
Network Link Conditioner in Lion
We have a couple of people using Textmate at Heyzap so you should add that.
I'm not sure I agree with the author, but Apple doesn't really need to make easy-to-use desktop operating systems any more. That's what the iPad is for.
Yes, I read (or skim through) about 200 articles a day (it takes me 30'). I refine my list on a monthly basis and make sure only relevant RSS feed are listed to make sure I am not overwhelmed.
That was Jack Welch's famous method at GE: fire the bottom 10% of management every year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Welch#Tenure_as_CEO_of_GE
You are practically correct about that last thing, though I must point out that never is too strong a word: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-144
He cites the fact that Infinity Ward had a profit pool of $84 million to be paid to around 100 employees.

... which they avoided paying out by firing the relevant employees before the bonuses were due.
Another test: if you can read the text, you can see your computer screen.

(I sort of see Monroe out of my right eye with my glasses off. But the text is so far gone at that point that I would have no hope of reading why I'm looking at a picture of Monroe with a mustache.)
I've been using Noir for a couple of small projects and it's been really enjoyable so far.

No real questions, I guess - just a thank you!
I've had glasses for most of my life, but had a similar problem studying. Recently found out I have convergence insufficiency, which rarely gets diagnosed. So even if you have glasses you might want to get a more comprehensive eye exam :)

EDIT: Also, this image makes me queasy.
I leverage Google Reader, but never go to the website. It stores my subscriptions and current read state. A variety of clients synchronize the latest results. NetNewsWire on the desktop, Reeder on the iPad and NewsRob on my NexusOne Android phone. Not sure which one this falls under, but I picked "No, but I do use another RSS reader on a daily basis".
Just added the Textmate option - thanks for pointing it out.
It matters because if people can change names at will, they are effectively anonymous. And anonymity can bring out the worst in people.
Hey, not my thing but the way you detect the current post and synchronize the list and content is really slick.

Also, no offense, but you should ask some designer friend to polish the UI because this looks very good already and it can be even better.
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It's not a bad suggestion. Their friends are going to be better off without the +1s of anyone whose account is compromised by a bot net.
Usually for me fonts in Chrome/Win7 look worse than they do on FF5/Win7. But in this case, they both render the text as in the OSX screenshot above.
The 'Propaganda Department'? At least they are honest about their aims, I suppose.
While that's despicable, if true, it's also partially up to employees to ensure that their work agreements don't do that. Unfortunately, human nature is to see bonuses as part of expected comp rather than upside to expected comp. If you're going to do that, you'd better make sure you've papered things up to protect yourself and get paid for the work you did. (And trust me, I've paid dearly to learn that lesson.)
Counterexample to their assumption: religions.
This employer behavior is nothing new, its usually eventually solved with unions. Organised strikes tend to be the next step in most other industries.

Also its terrible blame shifting. It sounds like they are trying to create games with insufficient timing and budgets, and the people are to blame are the workers not the money men.

I'd have walked as soon as I realized I only get paid my due wage if the product succeeds. The onus shouldn't be on me to make sure I get paid making someone else product work.
When the funded SCO, they came after all of us.