skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Or rather, the temporally-updated equivalent. Withal sounds erudite because now it's dead, and a sign of sophistication to know the word at all. Much less so then, albeit perhaps not zero.

The problem with some modern game shows isn't vocabulary. It isn't even necessarily spectacle qua spectacle, because if they could have done it and afforded it in the 50s their shows would have been bigger, too. Humans haven't changed in the past 60 years. The problem with modern game shows is something more like they have more resources than they know what to do with, competing against ten other shows with the same "problem". I'm not convinced there's a good argument for modern people being more relatively degenerate than people of old... the set of which, I would remind you, really does include actual, factual people who considered combat to the death fit entertainment.
My current project aims to address many of these concerns with a new kind of reference website. The goal is to be complementary in license to Wikipedia, but with a different organizational model that is better able to accept any topic and casual contributors. (That is, it's definitely not Just-Another-MediaWiki-Install or content fork.)

I'm still pre-launch but I discuss the themes and motivations in a blog at:

http://infinithree.org
New Fed CIO is former Microsoft Exec Who Went on to Advocate Open Platforms
Don't worry, we don't keep our Airbnb earnings under the mattress
I think I read about 10 pages of it one random day for kicks. I don't even remember them assigning any readings from the book (they might've been on the syllabus, but you could just watch the lectures and do the homework and you'd be fine).
It's known that Mars has both ice and water vapor, and that further, summertime temperatures are warm enough to sustain liquid water.

It's the atmosphere that makes this a bit surprising. Martian atmospheric pressure is less than 1% that of earth in the deepest valleys, and about .006 atm on average. If you look at a phase diagram for water [0], you can see that at .006 atm and below, water goes directly from solid to gas ("sublimation"). Even slightly above that pressure, there's only a tiny temperature range in which liquid water will exist.

I would guess that's why they've theorized very salty water. Its lower freezing point is going to allow for liquid water in a bigger temperature range at typical Martian atmospheric pressures.

[0] http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gladish/teaching/eao/week2.html - top of the page
What separates you guys from Kinvey and StackMob?
Are you saying you are generating revenue from something other than people renting out rooms?
Congrats on making it through both. I haven't gotten to the dragon yet... For those interested, you can get a red dragon for significantly less than the newer editions (check amazon).
Fair enough, but I think you'd appreciate the point more if you were imagining Zork instead of Linux.
It might be a matter of order. After writing Startups Open Sourced, if I had just put it on the Kindle store and let it sit there, nothing would have happened. But I was pretty active in blogging, which has resulted in it becoming a bestseller. I tried to get people to engage before, and it didn't work (example: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2163427).

I'm not a musician so I don't understand that creative process, but it sounds like Mayer was trying to engage his fans while writing an album. The only musicians I've known to effectively pull off something like that is 50 Cent, where he wrote in 50th Law that he would intentionally leak parts of his album just to understand how his fans would react. He would then reconstruct the album based on that feedback (one leak resulted in fans complaining it was too "soft" so he released newer tracks that were more aggressive, and the response was more positive). Nine Inch Nails is probably the band that comes to mind when I think of musicians who engage with their community, but Trent Reznor had even admitted to being fed up with Twitter at one point and shut his account down. He eventually came back to it. But I don't recall Trent Reznor doing much while he was in the process of recording. It seems like one of those "goodbye world, I'm off to create, see you on the other side" types of things.

I guess what I'm getting at: it seems like I never really see the creative process while it's happening. I only see it from artists afterwards. For a while, Ronald Jenkees was doing this on YouTube, although I don't know if he has done that for years now. There might be a reason why artists work that way (I recently read an Eminem biography, and he has the same pattern for producing music: he locks himself in a studio for long hours, doesn't engage with anyone until after the work is finished). Produce first, engage later.
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See also the discussion 51 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2651745
Mozilla Cracking Down On Firefox Crapware Add-Ons
It feels good to read this kind of article after all taht storm. I'm pretty sure that guys at Airbnb are doing a great job.

It feels really nice when the community stands up and somehow defends/promotes the products they like, specially when that product is a result from hard work.
Ideas:

Collection of videos and articles explaining various technologies. Make money with ads.

Same as above except feature courses teaching internet stuff. You can make your own courses and/or feature other people's courses. For example, Laura Roeder sells courses on internet marketing for small businesses (http://www.lauraroeder.com/resources/). You could work out an agreement whereby you get some commission for selling her courses. See affiliate marketing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affiliate_marketing).
I think that the point of LPTHW/LRTHW is that you type everything yourself instead of copy-pasting the examples:

"You must type each of these exercises in, manually. If you copy and paste, you might as well just not even do them. The point of these exercises is to train your hands, your brain, and your mind in how to read, write, and see code. If you copy-paste, you are cheating yourself out of the effectiveness of the lessons."

http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/intro.html
I hadn't thought of that... I tried flipping the first 7 bits of google and got woogle, ooogle, coogle, eoogle - which are all registered. I don't think it would be that hard to write a bit-flip miner though. It wouldn't surprise me if sites other than the biggest (maybe ycombinator.com, techcrunch.com, makezine.com) have bit flipped versions avilable. I guess it would be more likely with longer domain names too.
That's more or less what I read as well. Keep his audience in mind: Berklee music students. Talented, young, bright and ambitious - he's just telling them to sort themselves out and "find themselves" first. Promotion can come after quality content.
I took 6.001, and that's about how I remember it from back then. It's a great book but if you were going to lectures or willing to wrestle a bit with the problem sets, you didn't really have to touch the text. Sussman (as I recall) was a great prof, but one of the risks of having the book for the course written by the prof is that they may not be as objective about how well it's actually being used by students.
NASA satellite may have found water on Mars
This is the problem. The numbers aren't accurate!

You have no idea how many they're issueing, and they'll keep it that way.

Also a single request can contain information for multiple individuals. One request could represent data on 1000 people.

The entire process is fudged. There is no accountability.

Domestic wiretapping is being used on all America citizens 24/7.
I had a similar thought when I saw the Ok Go treadmill video about the same time as I was reading Keith Richard's memoirs. If the Stones had spent as much time obsessing over choreography of their Youtube videos in their early days as they did just playing gigs, would they have ended up as the Stones? Will we ever see a pop band again with a repertoire that deep?

Then again I guess the Richards himself had time to nurse a heroine addiction and do some other extraneous stuff at the height of his creative powers. So maybe it is possible to be a prolific music composer and obsessed with social media. Just avoid the heroine.
How many people in india have cellphones?
“Real Names” Policies Are an Abuse of Power
Great point that most people don't get. As Robert Zubrin said, you could drop 100 Spirit/Opportunity level rovers into the Rocky Mountains and probably never find prehistoric fossils, while a team of four human scientists would easily find a lot. The probes are amazing and important, but no substitute for sending humans.
I think raise of startup culture in Finland is quite independent of Nokia's current fall, but Nokia's earlier success has been an ingredient for the raise of the current movement. The godfathers of this movement started their companies in late 90s in either mobile or gaming sectors and are now acting as angels and mentors or serial entrepreneurs. It's clear that Nokia's success did help mobile startups a lot. Success of gaming companies was independent of Nokia and was due to Finnish demo scene, but also for mobile gaming companies, Nokia's presence was an obvious benefit.

However, the raise of the new startup movement in Finland started earlier than Nokia's problems became obvious. I think it's part of the same global startup movement that e.g. Y-combinator has been creating. As it's mostly cultural phenomenon, role models and blogs like Arctic Startup has played very important role. I was part of Jaiku that was acquired by Google, and although it was just a talent acquisition, many people have said afterwards that it really inspired them to become more interested in startups.
Wikipedia produces consensus, not data.

That's a great description of what Wikipedia is.

I keep thinking of it as an open source repository of human knowledge, like an infinitely large encyclopedia. But in reality it is more like a forum where useful information "gets voted to top", so to speak.
I hadn't noticed the one before. It's tricky the way products and blog posts get mixed together in HN. The former should have a longer lifetime of being interesting. Also i assumed that it hadn't been posted because HN didn't kick it back. I guess it didn't notice that the www and non www versions were the same thing. It would have been nice to notice that.
Ask HN: Review my chatroom web app
I'm look for feedback on my enhanced chatroom web app.

http://www.rapportapp.com

u = hacker
p = news

Or create an account:

http://www.rapportapp.com/code/hackernews

Has anyone seen Durarara? Well, I'm trying to start a group using this web app I made. The idea is that it's private and invitation-only. I'm looking for tips on design, interface, functionality, and how/where to find more people to join.

Thanks in advance!
The only open phone platform you can actually get
Wow, I kid you not, I sat down with a friend who pitched me this exact idea yesterday.
No, it's just renting out the rooms. I know the "CPM" analogy doesn't really fit perfectly but the point is that the Airbnb service is so effective at driving traffic it makes me more than a dollar per pageview on avg. Of course it's their site but you can think of it sort of like an e-commerce platform where I can open a store and sell my extra space. It works super well.
Instagram + Lollapalooza = Lollagram
Instramming from Lolla this weekend
> or potentially deleted (after say a decade of never being edited or looked at or linked to.)

You've got to be kidding. I no longer edit Wikipedia in part to the deletionism, but a decade of zero interest before deletion? Wikipedia itself is only a decade old. They'd just now be deleting the first vanity pages.
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Please don't spout vitriol when you don't understand what you're talking about. Trading is obviously zero-sum in wealth, but the important thing is that it is not zero-sum in utility. That is the fundamental reason that people trade: to transfer risk. American Airlines does this every time they want to hedge against the price of oil. The fact that there are competitive market makers makes this cheaper for the airlines to do, and that savings in cost is transferred to you every time you sit on an airplane, go to the gas pump, buy orange juice or wheat products, buy a car, or almost anything else.

The fact that market makers don't service you directly by selling you an apple does not mean that what they do is useless.
Because not everything is notable. Wikipedia articles are supposed to be encyclopedic. Why should the article that some local band creates about themselves be allowed? Aside from being shameless promotion, they're not notable in a larger context. The same is true of products and people. Actually with articles on people, you also have an issue with libel.
Look, it's hipchat!
It amazes me how much people prefer to have 100% of NOTHING to give someone 30% for handling most of the distribution problems.

Apple App store has been just barely profitable-just break even for a long time. It takes time and money to maintain it.

It lets you access millions of people overnight. Not so easy to do for an startup.
that's like saying that your car dealership website generates $20,000 CPM because they sold a car from their website.

CPM would be for AirBNB and they make a lot less than that.
Voyurl watches your web browsing to create custom infographics
You should by all means do it, because you don't have a CS degree. Don't worry about the math too much - it is all explained there, and whatever isn't you can easily find out. Don't forget that the most important thing here is the learning experience. It may take you longer to complete, but you will learn more in the process.
So what was the big strike - or viable threat thereof - in the 1980s? Was young then, but do remember a big looming question of whether the trucks would continue running.

Don't need an actual strike for an event to count, just a viable threat thereof.
To clarify, the poster is making $1,129 in rent per thousand views of his property page on Airbnb (as opposed to, say, craigslist). He is not trying to suggest that advertising (something besides his property) earns any revenue.
Yes, I have :)

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/category/programming/lisp/sicp/
Ok. Now it makes sense. I had the same question others had. I think you're saying if the money you earned from renting were divided by the visits to your listing, you'd end up with the number you posted.

Question, are you breaking even (rent - sublet earnings)?
Check out part of the guide: https://www.parse.com/docs/ios_guide

The API is simple and does exactly the sort of things you need it to do. Awesome.
Dow down more than 400 as market plunges
In the discussion of the New Yorker article (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2830998), a few commenters (including myself) objected to the (original) article on the basis that it heavily relied on one source. All of these comments were downvoted to hell, and a unfriendly argument about conspiracy theories ensued.

Why is it instantly deemed a conspiracy theory when people are questioning of matters such as this? Healthy skepticism is good in most discussions, and I would hope that the HN crowd would be open to having a good debate about these topics.
Maybe wikipedia should start to move to a git-style of collaboration? Anonymous or semi-committed members can make or arrange small contributions that may or may not fit all the requirements. More senior members collate and merge contributions together. There would be multiple branches of a page to support re-organizations or new page sections....

I dunno, just a thought.
Sharing Is Caring: The Rise Of The Sharing Economy
Basecamp gives you the comfort of not having to think about running your own project management software.

GitHub gives you the comfort of not having to think about hosting your own git repositories.

Doesn't every Software as a Service and Platform as a Service company strive to "give you the comfort of not having to think about" running some piece of software on your own servers? The incessant comparisons to Heroku are just silly now.
I'll give it a go thanks

I remember switching to Firefox nearly 7 years ago and swore I would never look back, that's why I am insulted at their latest efforts
Interestingly, the last widow of a Civil War veteran died only three years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maudie_Hopkins
Clickable: http://www.rapportapp.com
The aptiquant.com site now says this was all a hoax.
Iron-rich dust fuelled 4 million years of ice ages
Correct. Only in relatively recent times has the distinction "class" become solely delineated by income or wealth.

Wealth has always been a big part of it, but throughout much of human history, wealth didn't create class; class created wealth. Your access to the monarch or ruling body granted you certain monopolistic privileges and land, from which you derived enormous wealth. But the wealth was the byproduct of, and not the generator of, class. (In fact, many extremely wealthy people, such as successful merchants and traders, were nevertheless denied elite class status because their class ranking had been fixed at birth).

This equation was turned on its head to some extent by the industrial revolution. This was the first time in history when the wealth generated by industry and trade began to dwarf the wealth generated by land ownership and agriculture on a massive and undeniable scale -- thereby wrenching power from the nobles/landowners, and placing it in the hands of newly minted industrialists. But even in the following century, it took a long while for wealth and social class to become thoroughly decoupled, and then reassembled in a different way.

What's happening now in America is that we're once again returning to a system where parentage and class beget wealth, which fixes class, which then repeats with the next generation. There are always notable exceptions to the rule, and these exceptions are held up in support of the "American Dream." But they are very clearly the exceptions. (And, in a surprising many of those rags-to-riches stories, a closer examination of the events behind the narrative often reveals that the "rags" origins were exaggerrated to varying degrees).
I started off doing this to teach myself Ruby. I enjoyed the Python version so much and thought it would map pretty well since the languages are fairly similar.

After about 15 exercises, I saw that it was actually coming out quite nicely and reached out to Zed. Zed was super cool about releasing it under his license as long as the end result was high quality.

I wouldn't have cared if he said not to release it because I got to learn Ruby and play with Sinatra, Jekyll, etc.
Is there a single-page version of this available that I could put into my Kindle? Alternately, I'd be quite happy to pay for a copy if it was posted to Kindle Self-Publishing (https://kdp.amazon.com)
I think there's also an element of the scientific bias for assuming the mundane leaking into the public. Which is fine, but scientists have learned to temper that by maintaining a strong sense of curiosity and determination.

Personally, my gut instinct is that the chances of life having existed on Mars at some point are quite high, above 90%. But the evidence for such may be very hard to come by. What if all life on Mars had never advanced beyond a unicellular level? What if most/all life died out one or two billion years ago? How challenging will it be to find evidence of that life? Especially when we only have a few robotic explorers to work with?
He lived long enough into the era where his speech or interview could have been filmed. I couldn't find anything on YouTube; perhaps he was too frail by the 1930's to be doing such things.

I like finding these old film clips featuring performances from ancient legends.

Thomas Edison (born 1847) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftii6D68Veo&feature=relat...

Sir Ian Hamilton (born 1853) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlRruY4WRjw
Can I query the data gathered by mobile devices with a web-application?
Awesome site design.
There is a large gap between pitching an idea, and executing on it well.
Ah. Mayhaps. I thought they did that with some custom api translation, but I could indeed be wrong.
For inspiration, visit http://arborsmith.com
WHATWG Hates Twitter: Says, "discouraging intelligent discourse"
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You have to remember the audience is a college of music. In a venue like this, the primary question is not how to become a commercial success, it's how to become better at your craft as a musician.

Mayer is also speaking from the unique perspective of being a serious commercial success, wanting to nurture it, but still having the "burden" of creating music to (his) high standards. I don't think most normal people need to create such a black and white line between posting on Twitter and writing a song, but Mayer needs to, and it's at least somewhat interesting to hear his reasons.
To me, app design goes beyond just looks. Its how it works... how well it flows the user into getting exactly what they want done when they want it. Every color has a purpose for main and secondary actions, every shape has a purpose. Well designed UI will draw a users eyes to what is critical, what is major later, and what is 'be cool to use'.

Ive ran across apps that simply look good but terrible user experience. User experience is what separates the amateur apps to the full blown mega millions..
I can't imagine anyone using that word today. Perhaps "withal" was in wider general use in that time period?
Set your preferred search engine on Firefox.
I've freely given many, many hours of my life to improving Wikipedia, and here's why I left:

Except for technical, completely uncontroversial articles, Wikipedia is dominated by people with apparently unlimited time on their hands to devote to pushing their point of view.

I got really tired of the endless arguments I needed to engage in to contribute new information or improve the wording of existing articles.

Some person or group of people with apparently unlimited time on their hands and who feel they "own" the article would inevitably come by and start reverting and endlessly arguing every little change.

I just don't have the infinite time on my hands (or interest, frankly) that it would require to out-argue these people. They can keep their articles. I've got better things to do with my time than argue with no-life Wikilawyers all day, every day.
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HT: http://crazybear.posterous.com/from-the-official-html-specif...
Absolutely. It's just sort of deflating to see the exact idea you were talking about 24 hours prior pop up on Techcrunch. grin
It's possible, but not yet as easy as it should be. We're working on a really nice way to do this for an upcoming release.
I agree with alanfalcon. After watching that video I'm not exactly sure what the app does. Sure there are a lot of marketing buzz words and flashy animations but that doesn't sell me on why I should bother installing it.

That fact that the app isn't free wouldn't be what would dissuade me from downloading it (although I won't lie it is a minor barrier). It is the time I'd have to spend on figuring out why I want to use this app.
I've been on both sides of the spectrum of this--I've "vandalized" (I was young, it wasn't malicious but I can see now it was disruptive--and for those wondering...it had to do with wild cats slowly taking over my city... haha) and I've legitimately tried to post useful and factual information and I will say this, the thing I universally found to be my biggest obstacle was this elitist structure of the "higher ups"--the big editors held way to much power (I can't speak to the present as I no longer even try) but I can't tell you how frustrating it was to try and be helpful and good, and then being told I am an idiot/noob and to cease from attempting to write wiki articles. It always seemed like some of them were just on power trips, and didn't care for your
"help".
Only non-coders think chat is dead. We still live on IRC.