skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sort of.

I haven't read the book yet, but from Eric's blog, he mentions three books as big inspirations: Beck's "Extreme Programming Explained", Poppendieck's "Lean Software Development", and Blank's "Customer Development".

The first two books were also important in the Agile community. (Although in my view what now gets sold as "Agile" has watered both of those down almost to the point of meaninglessness.) The third is new, and provides an approach to business that complements Agile software development practices very well. So you could look at the Lean Startup approach as Agile (or perhaps the best of Agile) for startups.

So far, though, the Lean Startup movement still has substantial depth. I think that's because startup people all know they're in a do-or-die situation, and they are willing to work very hard for a competitive advantage. The real question for me is whether the Lean Startup community can retain that depth as it gets more popular.

Business is terribly faddish, and now all manner of large companies are going to want to pretend they're lean startups. They will pay people lots of money to help them pretend. Let's hope that money isn't enough to corrupt the actually useful material in the Lean Startup approach.
Font rendering too is pretty aliased in Chrome on Windows - but fine in Chrome on OS X, Linux.
It's strange that Google would introduce Google Web Fonts and then not make it a priority to bring rendering on Windows Chrome up to a reasonable standard.
OK, try http://ourdoings.com/ourdoings-startup/2011-07-28
Someone ported Redis to Ruby
Beautifully written. As somebody who could probably best be described as some flavor of agnosticism (I've heard my viewpoints described as Apathetic Agnosticism) I agree with many of your points about the shrillness of Atheists.

I was raised in a highly religious home and at a very early age, six or seven, found myself quickly asking questions that were not answerable by even the most educated theists in my family (I have two doctors of theology in my extended family) -- or rather were answered with what could be summarized succinctly and disappointingly as "because God says so".

I can understand the beauty that such belief can create -- and the nostalgic view of that beauty that can color ones worldview...even if in the end their deep explorations into the questions of faith is met only with more and more elaborate phrasings of "because God says so".

There is a beauty in the brilliant work and mental energies gone into constructing elaborate philosophies and edifices of the soul justifying that simple phrase.

I've found many atheists capable of enjoying that beauty on many levels, but with so many being the first generation of their ilk, have lived a life of persecution, disaffection, dissatisfaction and disappointment blended with feelings of betrayal often end up as harshly rejectionary of anything that smells like something they've already defended themselves and dismissed thousands of times every day.

Personally, as a person of math, science and engineering, I've come to the conclusion that "is there a God?" is a non-question in the same vein as "should trees take accounting classes?" and find atheist consumption with answering that question with a "NO!" to be both tiresome and wasteful, but I understand why they feel the need to answer it, and why they need to answer it in a shout.
Hacker Forces DigiNotar Into Bankruptcy
Marx recognizes the _material_ productivity of capitalism, while claiming that its _human_ consequences are so destructive of spirit and values that the material productivity is besides the point. That's what the "alienation of labor" is all about. Any form of bourgeois wealth, no matter how benign it may seem, necessarily dehumanizes and is thus unjust. And that's before we get into its perpetuation of a system that will lead necessarily to more openly malelovent wealth. His vision of "productive capital" occurs in a set of social arrangements lacking any feature which we might recognize as economic wealth.

The viability of those economic arrangements is hard to assess, as he himself couldn't actually specify them. (They would emerge, he claimed, upon destruction of the bourgeois framework that limits our imagination of other possibilities.) But whatever his merits as an economist (he cribbed heavily from Adam Smith) or a social theorist (cribbed from Rousseau), he was a lousy historian and completely missed the inevitable distortion of high-sounding ideals in service of the accumulation of power.

#OccupyWallStreet likely aren't Marxist, if only because they don't strike me as the sort to buckle down to "The German Ideology" never mind "Das Kapital". (And I don't conflate them with "the left", which comprises great variety, some of it considerably more thoughtful.) But phrases like "unjust creation of wealth" show an uncomfortable similarity to the Marxist technique. Such phrases are written to be undeniable -- geez, who is in favor of unjust creation of anything? But the power lies in adopting the vocabulary beneath them, the definitions of justice which turn out to reflect a particular agenda that is considerably more controversial than our common disgust at the unjust. It turns out that these organizational procedures create considerable power for those determining the language by which "just" and "unjust" shall be determined. The organized, having accepted the adoption of language as an organizational tool necessary for the correction of "injustice", lose the use of language for independent analysis -- and perhaps so deeply they don't even notice the loss. At that point, it becomes impossible for the organized to challenge the determinations of justice made by those controlling the organizational language.

The Tea Party types are necessarily unsophisticated. But they've noticed that they've gone along with a lot of fine-sounding language, only to find themselves with the short end of the stick. It's hardly to be wondered that they prefer to keep it simple, or that they find the #OccupyWallStreet types all too recognizable.
Importance of steel frame buildings
These days there are very few people who are aware of steel frame buildings and the rest of population still construct their homes and office with old construction process which is more expensive than this new one. People, who are not aware of this, definitely don’t know what the benefits steel constructed building offers.
These days there are very few people who are aware of steel frame buildings and the rest of population still construct their homes and office with old construction process which is more expensive than this new one. People, who are not aware of this, definitely don’t know what the benefits steel constructed building offers.
Fast-Evolving Genes Control Developmental Differences in Social Insects
Rationality won't Make You Rich, or How to Think About the Internet of Things
That does seem odd. I'd file a ticket and see what they have to say about it.

In certain datacenters (think might be dallas05?) you can even get a 10Gbps uplink brought to a box so they have pretty big pipes available.
Samsung Launches Offensive Against Apple
Meh, screw it.

http://talkasaur.us/
access code: "rexy"

Have at it. :)
Musical Expertise Boosts Language Perception
India to topple Japan as world's 3rd-largest economy
Fuck the business-type, and fake entrepreneurs. Just hire a sales-guy on commission to get you good clients, and make sure he doesn't get paid until you get your final check. Next, make sure you get 50% up-front. If the client is shit, just walk away, and keep the money. Those idiots aren't going to do anything useful with their website, anyway. Tell them it costs a $1000, and get $500 up-front. Spend a day on it, and then make excuses or whatever. If you aren't into making excuses, spend $100 an expert. If they keep complaining, demand more money.

Those business idiots don't deserve anything. They just want bullshit excuses when their bullshit doesn't work. Don't try to please them. it is a losing endeavor.
wow this is a great insight....never thought of it like that..I often make the mistake of correcting people when they point out flaws!
StackExchange Creative Commons Data Dump
Japan's largest defense contractor reports massive malware infection
A direct link to the project is https://github.com/dturnbull/ruby-redis
Lengthening release cycles can be a sign that a platform is dying
Complex Electronic Banking Fraud in Malaysia
Practicing 2000 hrs (The Dan Plan: a 10,000 hr deliberate practice experiment)
Open source promotes open competition.
Commercial entities do not like competition.
Stack Overflow Creative Commons Data Dump
"For most businesses this is the case. If you manufacture something or provide a service then you are adding to the overall wealth of the nation. "

Actually not always. As companies get big enough they could care less about patriotism, they send jobs away, the pay politicians to have special treatment, they take advantage of huge tax cutbacks, etc...
Google updates Chrome with 32 bug fixes
I worked on a compiler that did not support recursion, dynamic memory allocation or dynamic function calls (function pointers). We could statically guarantee the stack depth and thus the total memory usage of the program.

You'll probably be wondering "what use could that crippled compiler probably have?". Well, most of the people here are carrying code emitted by it in their pocket.
I recall reading that HN's karma algorithm dampens the effect of rapid downvoting somehow, precisely to mitigate this sort of karma vendetta. Anyone know for sure?
Extra people being born "steal" a lot of the growth, but they create a lot of it too. The GDP per capita figure, according to the Wikipedia article linked to your graphic, grew by only 1.35% per year over the same period.

Typical household sizes have shrunk too, so your median household income might well be feeding 2 people rather than 3.
http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/hh-fam/hh4.csv
Driving theory test: Complete information
Writing software (hacker) != Selling software (MBA) != Selling consulting (Bodyshopping)
I think in general this is a good lesson for founders in all aspects.

Shutup for a bit and listen. You might like what you hear, or at least learn something.
"The techniques used in Thief were never written up and I thought it might be nice to write them down for once, even if they're now totally irrelevant."

No Sean. To someone who's currently reverse-engineering Thief for the purposes of remaking it for modern platforms, this is a wonderfully helpful document. Many thanks.
Briefly, Dan is testing the hypothesis that 10,000 hours of deliberate practice is what it takes to become an expert (in this case, at golf).

I've been following his blog with interest, and he's now crossed the 20% mark. Honestly, I'm pretty impressed with where he is, given so much time to go.

Previous discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2438300
I agree with you. I just wanted to point out something you wrote yourself in your second note:

"In some situations, you won't have a chance to correct mis-understandings."

I think this is more important than to be in footnote. Its worth to listen patiently where you can expect to be listened to patiently. [1] Otherwise you should take initiative and perhaps politely interrupt and say something to distract from the misunderstanding. Arguing with customers is almost always a disaster.

[1]: Although you might want to know what the customer thinks even if you are sure you aren't making a sale.
(edit: slight clarification note)
If you want to prove the maximum stack usage of a recursive evaluation, you need to prove how deep it goes. Since that would depend on the inputs, you need to statically determine the limits on the inputs. It's all possible, but cases where it applies would be rare.
Feel free to correct them once they stop talking, but let them get their initial braindump out of the way first. It's auditory gold!
That's like saying: "it's not the shooter that killed you, it's the hole produced by the bullet".

Fannie and Freddie facilitated the risky "private sector loans" big time. In fact, they profited and built their whole scheme on ever riskier private sector loans...

So, there...
It's nice indeed, however it doesn't work in EU which makes it worthless for most things we do @ Observu :) Any idea if that will ever be solved?
You're using the Turing Tarpit here. You do not need to "solve the Halting Problem" in order to make useful static analysis software.

When the software can prove X, return True.

When the software can prove !X, return False.

When the software can't do either, return Sorry.
great graph
Yes, but that's a form of dynamic analysis. To prove its applicability, you need to run it for every possible input (or a reduction that comes down the same thing).
A future for drones: Automated killing
Oh hey no you're right, sorry.
Expats Rediscover The Good Life In Thailand Upon Retirement
Hardly surprising since killer robots are within near DIY reach: http://blog.jgc.org/2010/08/within-diy-reach-flying-killer-r...
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New version 3.6.0 of ApPHP ShoppingCart was released
Writing software (GNU) != Selling software (Microsoft) != Selling support (RedHat) != Selling solutions (IBM) != Selling gadgets (Apple) != Selling advertisements (Google) != Selling privacy (Facebook) != Selling books (Amazon) != Selling consulting (Accenture)
Arcane ?
The problem is that you then have to

A) Find those businesses

B) Sell it to them

I suspect B) is the most difficult, especially for programmers who may not have a deep network into fortune 500s.

I also have a feeling that if you could sketch out a way to do B) in a blog post you may write the most valuable post ever made.
The Island Test (2006)
Considering the companies that have won - I have little faith in whomever picks them to go on stage. qwiki (dead on arrival wikipedia reader) and shaker (virtual world with social graph, wow). Give me a break, not disruptive at all.
The Spanish translation is no longer available on the given link, but here it is curtesy of the WayBack machine:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080819144501/http://www.simpleo...
Facebook to announce profile redesign
And you open sourced it too! You are a great man.
I thought the post was going to be about how start up founders are like moths and how most investors are podiatrists with a light on. Then it didn't make any sense to me. Maybe I'm getting old or something
I once witnessed a debate between two leaders in Bing about whether Microsoft network proxies should be modified to redirect all employee traffic targeted at Google towards Bing instead. Never mind that employees were using Google; someone actually thought the way to win was to force them to use Bing. “I know, we’ll make them use it!”

I love this mentality. With everyone else, it's dogfooding and is a highly recommended practice, especially here on HN. With Microsoft, it's forcing your employees to use something against their will.
Cool stuff.I'm keen on creating apps though I'm only a novice in programming but that doesn't prevent me from making complex and profitable apps.I'm using snappii.com and consider this service to be the most flexible concerning design opportunities among its competitors.
From the kernel's COPYING file:

NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs
that use kernel services by normal system calls -
this is merely considered normal use of the kernel,
and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived
work".

As I read it, the non-Linux part of Android is entirely in user-space, and thus exempt from the terms of the GPL with respect to the kernel.
You certainly can find people smart enough to make sure that their fraudulent statistics will meet Benford's Law (or any other data model you wish). The article points out that Greece didn't find people this smart.

Not meeting Benford's Law is a good indicator that there has been some dodgy dealing. However, meeting Benford's Law is not a good indicator that everything is above board.
Programming from the bottom to the top with complete control
My journey from high-level programming to generating binaries one byte at a time with asm and elf. Why I got here and where I'm going.
what about fusing more than one lens? isn't the issue with resolution essentially one of variance, so by using a second, independent lens, one should be able to improve resolution by a factor of two or sqrt(two)? (not that it's so simple; registration must be a pain.)
Implementing approximate matching has been on my todo list for some time. I'm planning to either implement http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=5362... or http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1570866704...

The data structure for the mealy recognizer described in the paper can very easily be changed to support minimal perfect hash numbers for all elements, without using more space (my implementation uses less space because of it, because the same information can be used to calculate the number of strings with a prefix in O(1) time).
Oh, no doubt. I have long ago realized that from a psychological point of view, it is purely axiomatic whether to "have faith" or not, and is primarily a factor of one's upbringing. Unlike formal systems, the brain has no need for internal logical consistency. (And it could be argued that many religious systems are internally consistent given you accept their axioms; in which case there is absolutely no hope of resolving the argument without appealing to Bayesian inference and noting that my choice of axioms is a better fit for the evidence, but this is a very subtle point to grasp. For example, read the story of Luke Muehlhauser, who read mountains of philosophy and theology and in the end was only convinced by the dissonance in historical evidence for Jesus, an implicitly Bayesian argument: http://commonsenseatheism.com/?page_id=3)

Another nice argument is by Occam's razor, that the scientific choice of axioms has less complexity and is devoid of localization, whereas systems like Catholicism have strong focus on arbitrary notions like Jerusalem or sacristy. These arbitrary notions are explained on-the-nose by evolutionary thinking (our ancestors made up stories because of their psychology), whereas they are inexplicable in Catholic thinking. (Why did Jesus choose to come alive when did? He just picked a time and place at random.) Of course, Occam's razor is only an aesthetic choice that agrees with evidence, again a Bayesian argument. It's difficult to base one's life philosophy on an aesthetic choice, so naturally a religious upbringing overwhelms.

EDIT: I should point out that the Bayesian argument is locally uncontrollable. My mother claims to have had a sensory experience--when facing doubts about divorcing my father--complete with vivid sounds and imagery, of Jesus appearing to her and telling her she must stay with him. I admit if I had such sensory evidence, the scientific axioms would be hard to swallow, and the Catholic system would be a strong contender (Bayesionally speaking). Thence stems the problem of faith.
On the other hand, there are people doing what I do - sometimes I will disagree with the point that a person makes in a thread, and I downvote them, but as I found their point well-argued, though ultimately wrong, I will then search their history to find a post that I can upvote to balance out the karma...
How Augmented Reality Allows Cybersquatting of Real Retailers
Cute Belly Button Rings
I work on projects from http://www.vworker.com/

Some of the project descriptions are comedy.

The thing that usually bugs me the most is that the client has already decided the platform and programming language before searching for programmers.

The next sadness is the "half finished PHP project needs finishing". So often it's like arriving at the scene of an accident. SQL injection and XSS everywhere. Zero factorisation. Top down everything. Terrible MySQL schema. The list goes on.
This may be a reference to a televised discussion between Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Richard Dawkins. The internet has managed to lose the full meaning (and the quotation marks) of what Dawkins actually said. He was quoting the editor of New Scientist (I think) who said something like "If you don't think science is interesting, you can fuck off".
From the article:

"The KH-9 would image a wide swath of terrain, later scrutinized by imagery analysts on the ground for so-called ‘targets of opportunity.' Once these potential targets were identified, a KH-8 would then be maneuvered to photograph the location in much higher resolution."
Not sure if you skimmed the linked article and missed this or not:

statistics from the Czech Republic, Sweden and the UK meet the Benford distribution particularly close and hence appear unsuspicious. All those countries have no interest in joining the Euro and therefore do not have to meet the convergence criteria. On the other hand, statistics from Latvia, Belgium and Romania (the latter notorious for its corruption) appear very suspicious, as well.

And from Tim Harford's article in the FT: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/171aaa36-d8f1-11e0-aff1-00144feabd...

Romania, Latvia and Belgium also have abnormally distributed data, while Portugal, Italy and Spain have a clean bill of health.
You could easily write a plugin which enables file sharing.
Well not just that, large organizations have policies which perfectly echo with saying 'No good deeds go unpunished'.

In my case I observed a few things which I could not believe from my own eyes. When you put in a lot of effort to deliver to things you are considered not a good team player, some how even the guy who performs the least is considered better than you. You are expected to share both credit and hard work rewards with some one who had absolutely nothing to with your work. Refuse to do so and you suddenly become a bad team player.

You are always expected to be in full dress code, sometimes this takes so much precedence that its often taking as bargaining thing in performance appraisal discussions. You have to be good to your boss, revere him as hacker extraordinar even if he is actually a Jack ass.

The list goes endless. If large corporations spend even 10% of the effort they spend on these things on work, they could move mountains.
There's a lot of truth to this.

If someone misunderstands me -- be it in a pitch, a presentation, or a discussion -- then I assume the blame. Either my point is muddy, or my delivery of that point is unclear. That's on me.

While that isn't always true, it's a good rule of thumb by which to operate. Always assume you're being unclear, rather than that your audience just doesn't "get it." Be humble and be open to course correction. And pay very close attention if everyone misunderstands you in roughly the same way; that's usually a leading indicator of some fundamental flaw in your pitch.
The S Corporation
What's the big diff between homebrew and macports?
Some do. Some don't. All processors have different underwriting policies.
Even without a debt ceiling increase the US wouldn't have defaulted. There were a couple of plans to keep things going. The actions taken increase debt by a rather large amount, so I do believe it was meaningless theater which is pretty much business as usual.
"so it's refreshing to see the company go on the offensive. "

No, it's sad to see that the company HAD to go on the offensive. But the only way to stop the bully is to bloody his nose.
The Power of Open (live Google event)
Nice work on callinwith.us, have been looking for a sleek solution for conference calls lately. Assuming you built it with Twilio, how are you handling the random access codes?