skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, I welcome chess news here, thank you for reminding that WCC is here!. Anyway, mnemonicsloth, are you sure with your title? At which point do you see Kramnik's position superior?
> Bzzzt. Frequent eating keeps your insulin levels up, which encourages weight gain as well as stresses your body in various ways. Eat two hearty meals and a light one. Digestion dulls the mind and saps energy, so why do it more than three times a day? Preparing good food should also take some time.

Interesting... I read that eating smaller amounts more often keeps your metabolism in high gear, and shrinks your stomach by never having too much in it... can you point to some sources for your assertions (not saying you're wrong, just trying to solve a contradiction).

FWIW, I got my info from The Abs Diet book.
Worlds: Mutable States as Immutable Objects [pdf]
Good! It was turning into myspace...
I'm not sure that my title accurately captures the essence of the paper, but it sounded like an attention-grabbing first cut.

EDIT: you can try out some of the ideas in the paper (in a JavaScript implementation) here: http://jarrett.cs.ucla.edu/ometa-js/#Worlds_Paper
World Stock Markets At A Glance
The record companies are ceding ground very slowly. But Apple's been pushing for a long time. I mean, honestly, what do they have to GAIN from DRM? It's all a matter of the people they deal with.
Jumping the gun I know since there is no verification but this, if true, is totally world changing, isn't it?
I for one couldn't be happier. I think long-term this is a good thing for Facebook users and the site's growth. Not so sure about the company's bottom line though.
Transactional email & confirmation messages
Circuit City to Shut Down Stores
The invisible man: is it only a dream ?
I for one thought this article was incredible. I'll recommend it to my student group.
"Early-stage VC investors like DFJ look beyond near-term economic conditions"
Be honest: who has never dreamed to become invisible? To go everywhere, to look at everything without being seen, just a dream. The invisibility is a subject of comics (the invisible woman in the Fantastic Four for ex.) and movies (the cloak used by Harry Potter to be hidden from the enemies).
New PC is small as a cell phone
That's interesting, you must have been selected for a promo price or something fun. I checked through the AWS API and it's $325.99 there. But then from a free web proxy it showed as $299 and being fulfilled from a third party named MOBILESHARK. Maybe it's geography?

It's a deal at either price point, I bought one off Amazon last month for $329.99 (though while I got the same model, it was from Amazon directly so it qualified for Amazon Prime and I got free 2-day shipping).

Update: figured it out--I see the $299.99 pricepoint from MOBILESHARK when viewing Amazon.com while not signed in. That's curious. But since it has $16.99 shipping, there's not much of a difference (it's free from Amazon).
The iTunes Store hasn't existed six years.
You already do.
Criticism taken. I was thinking more along the lines of what umjames is saying, but that's besides the point. I want to improve my writing as much as any other skill, so this kind of feedback is much appreciated.

The reason I tacked the whole Questions section on was to:

1) Stimulate the feelings deep down inside those who want to start a startup, but for one reason or another, aren't.

2) Ask the question, how can we compensate people for what they actually contribute in a way that scales better?

Any ideas?
Was.

http://blog.assembla.com/assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/6986/R...

Okay, it still is great in terms of features, and maybe for open source/public projects. But their flakiness in the past week and their management's communication issues put them to the "was" category for us.
I think syntactic sugar can make some things so convenient that people find novel uses for them. The ranged slicing operations in Python are really nice, for example; so is templating Lisp code with ` , ,@ once you get used to it.

Adding SS also adds to what you need to remember to use the language effectively (and to read other peoples' code), but a little bit of syntactic sugar can go a really long way.
The Facebook Music mess
The poster likely already uses Assembla. They're the ones who announced the change.
There were signs of this back in May: http://20bits.com/2008/05/06/the-state-of-the-facebook-platf...

It was only a matter of time before Facebook put the final nail in the coffin. Given how Facebook rolled out the Platform it was the correct strategic choice, IMO.

They made it too easy for third-parties like Slide and RockYou to come in and set up shop, effectively ceding control of part of the social graph.

There's a reason Apple is taking the opposite approach to distribution, starting out by being too restrictive and easing up as the marketplace matures.
I always wondered whether or not Facebook would have done better to have an "App Store" instead of nothing but free apps. Perhaps it would have worked out better in some ways.
finally a pocket terminal
Load Jacking latest security buzzword
Yeah, I do - but wanted to list it to make sure all of them are here and can be commented or voted on.
SanDisk may escape Samsung hostile takeover through a deal with Toshiba
The researchers put a site up with the videos mentioned in the article:
http://lasecwww.epfl.ch/keyboard/
Yahoo in the Hands of Developers
Design Concepts in Programming Languages is now available
Agriculture: Unsustainable Resource Depletion Began 10,000 Years Ago
definitely a nice post to start a new blog.
Inspiring stuff, thanks a lot.
Just to reiterate, what you say is true, and I pointed out I conceded pretty much your major points to coworkers at Apple when I worked there (it was just a couple coworkers, and just a one time comment, but it did get a laugh of agreement).

My only argument is that Apple has caused much less damage than Microsoft because they have been less successful, and in that sense Microsoft maintains the greater negative karma balance. Difference between attempted murder and committed murder, I suppose.
The article noted this: "They faulted cost pressures on keyboard manufacturers for not making keyboards more snoop proof."

So if this is true, at least it appears that new keyboards could be improved to block eavesdropping.
For job seekers, end of the Google gravy train
I love getting insights into how our government truly runs. Now all we need is billions of dollars to spend on lobbyists and maybe the people can have a true say in all of this.
What do you want to know about Google's Android-powered G1?
Great post. Congrats on a great idea, great execution, a great team. And Good Luck.
For me I was glad to see Joost become web only. With everything on the web that once required an install(IM, Music players like WinAmp) , I no longer install applications. Rather I just open Firefox to enjoy the media Im interested in through various startups/sites.

I think I dont see the need for a media viewer because I have a Mac Mini connected to a large LCD TV, use wireless mouse as remote and firefox add-on fire gestures to enlarge text.

Do you guys have a web service? Everyone is different and many may want a front-end, but Windows Media Center has been out forever...

Just some thoughts... I just think everything will be through a web browser. Maybe turn boxee into the first media web browser!
You're right, I'm sorry, I was looking at the date for the program, not the store. It was 4 years.
"We publicly launched the site on April 10th. TechCrunch was not invited."
Totally inspiring stuff. "When in doubt, don't follow the crowd". Works for me.
They gain vendor lock-in. Everyone who buys songs from iTunes with DRM is forced to either buy iPods forever, or lose the ability to play them on their player of choice.

Without the DRM, we'd see a much more fragmented player market. iPods might still be the leaders, but they'd almost certainly have a lower market share.
To be honest, I have no negative feelings about either. They're both just doing what they feel is in their own best interests. That's the responsibility of a corporation.

I find the grudge most people in the community have against MS a little juvenile and not very well-reasoned.
Why I hate video
Day 91: Write a linkbait article about how to launch a successful blog.

j/k, these tips are good, but only about 5% of the overall picture. 95% = must love blogging. There's a pretty easy test, just ask yourself if (honestly) you'd rather write a blog post or watch TV.
Actually, I made that number up. :) I roughly multiplied 1,200 x 12 in my head and rounded up. My point was to make it just high enough to be an entrepreneur's greatest savings per month, above a car payment, utilities, insurance, etc, to get the point across. It also sounded about right.
Taking a peek at the experts’ genetic secrets
ESL Assistant Helps Non-Native English Speakers Help Themselves
To put things in perspective, Microsoft also paid Jerry Seinfeld something like a million dollars a minute for his on-screen time, or $183,000 a second. $300,000 over three years (almost 95 million seconds) works out to be 1.73162648 nano-jerries. Nice to know what you're worth.
Tom, if you read this, think about turning on comments. Would have liked to have given you a nice "Great post, congrats!" on the post directly. :)
correct. You could make do with servlets. Or if you want to use JSON you could use anything.
"Nice to know what you're worth."

Should be - Nice to know what Microsoft considers worth
realistically though, if you don't care about your credit rating and if you are in a house you can't afford, just make payments when you get a delinquincy notice. you can likely get two more years out of living in the dwelling....banks are so swamped with foreclosures that making a token payment will bump you back in the queue and buy you some more time
The next question: Will they turn down $3 million from an acquirer?
or what I left out "...to Microsoft."
He also mentions that part of the reason the housing bubble helped mask/stop a recovery from the 2001 crash was because unemployment in many sectors went back down, but that was due to a huge economy of realtors, banks, and brokers coming out of nowhere. Thinking back, I have to agree--I used to see 3 real estate or realtor ads on every page in some of the local papers, but not any more. It makes sense that realtors made a lot of money, and so did newspapers, so a lot of jobs were created for that short period of time (more realtors, and more journalists, who of course reported about the great benefits of owning real estate.)
DIY: Blender Defender keeps cats off counters.
How I Turned Down $33/share from Microsoft to go Full-Time on Yahoo! (jerry-yang.com)
Isn't that what comments here at HN are for? =) In all seriousness, from past adventures in blogging, I'm sick of managing a commenting system of my own. I love HN and the people here, so this is the only place I plan to notify when I post. I'm working on a different blogging methodology this time around that I'll talk about it in my next post.
You're the best! Around! Nothing's ever gonna keep you down!

Great story. I appreciated the Karate Kid and Indiana Jones references.
I agree that that would have lost Apple some ground, but I think they'd still be vastly ahead of other people. The DRM doesn't stick people. The incredible branding does.

People think iPod sounds reliable, and MP3 player sounds unstable. They go for the iPod because they think it's the only one there is.
Increasing 3d-Games-Rendering by factor 50
Hi Hackers,

Sounds Unreal?(sorry for the bad pun, am German)
Well, did you know that the Human eye only percepts approx. 2° of it's total vision(110°x170°) clearly? Through multiple jumps per second of the eye(saccades) we combine the sharp spots(highest bitrate/secondmm²) in our brain to an overall sharp and steady picture.

My question is: Using a given high end 3d-Graphic-Card and an Eye-Tracker, one could concentrate half of the Render Power on this spot, which is usually displayed on a 20 to 40 ° degree screen. So take the worst case: 0.5 20°/2° * 20°/2° = 50. And there is my factor 50.

So why aren't we using this device:
The Eye-Tracker cost about 15000 to 40000 $.
And lots of the Render-Force is used for focus independent Rendering (reflection, etc..).

But: The price could be reduced by mass-production within a few years to 100 $, and probably 10 % of the Render-Power would last for the non clear vision degrees, so one could take 40% for independent rendering.

I came up with this idea after understanding objects and though about how the brain could save render power by only checking parts of a new object and recognizing it as real, and afterwards simulating it in its own Semantic-3d-Room Matrix-Engine.

Post me if you find the idea cool, have questions, or tell me that I am far outdated(never heard or read about such a application)!

Regards
I found it interesting that he pointed out workstations and "PC and Macintosh", then directed NeXT into a new market.

The same market that Apple went for after they bought NeXT.

Was it Steve Job's influence on Apple to push them to do it, or were they after that market first and bought NeXT because they were a good way into the market?
Wouldn't the cat eventually learn that nothing happens besides the noise and light? They're rather smart, aren't they? (I've never owned one to be honest.)
Now Is the Time
Sometimes the language is not what needs fixing
"Researchers" are always doing unlikely sounding fun things.

It's like the "Doctors recommend X" or "scientists {anything}" sentences which are mostly indicators of poor content, but "Researchers do/create XYZ" is often a good indicator.
Microsoft is probably more concerned about repeating the fiasco around the Vista launch. Nothing hurts adoption of your new OS like having third party drivers broken on launch day. It's not like you avoid getting the new Ubuntu just because you know another one is coming out in April of next year. Apple's OSs are special in that regard, as Apple also control the hardware.
A true entrepreneur.
it is better to have cash on hand in case their own asset-backed securities become worthless. Even lending it to a __perfect borrower__ is riskier in that case, because even if the borrower can repay, it's no good to the bank if they need the cash in a pinch.

In other words, the issue here is that the banks are reducing their leverage and not because they don't trust each other, which is my main point. If the Fed inject so much money into the banks that they can afford a few loan defaults here and there, the credit market will start to go back to precrisis levels. An interbank lending guarantee without the capital injection won't help much.
Motorola ZN200 Light PINK Unlocked
Sleek is the order of the day with this phone and no one will deny your taste in style when rocking the Motorola ZN200. This slider phone operates smoothly without missing a beat and when it comes with Quad-Band GSM support, you know you’ve got a worthy phone in your hands.
Some companies do genuinely believe in reviews for their own sake, but I suspect that their current ubiquity has more to do with the fear that a laid-off employee might sue for wrongful dismissal if a paper trail hasn't been established.

It would be interesting to know if performance reviews are as common in jurisdictions where employers can fire staff at will.
Rails is perfect for building that.. that's what we're using it for on my current start-up.
Paul, a timely and encouraging article, thanks.

- Varun
www.homecamera.com
I suspect latency will be a problem. As your eye scans around things will "come in to focus" and that will be noticeable.

Another issue is how wide the normal eye jitter is. There is a normal 30-100Hz jitter in eye aiming that will require your high quality area to be larger than 2°, but I don't know how much.

One last trick, the low resolution areas will need to be the correct average brightness. For many surfaces this is easy, but if you imagine a surface with a tiny, bright reflection... you could miss that until you processed it at full resolution making a bright spot that only exists if you look at it.
This is exactly what I came in here to say; write a simple blogging app. For learning languages, I like to do some problems from projecteuler.net till it starts sinking in.
I just bought GEB cause its the 3rd time I've been suggested to read it.

Good ol used books.
I don't know anyone who would be on HN and NOT understand what a website called domainr does...
That one made me laugh, but I liked this one better:

>When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say “wow, that was an adventure,” not “wow, I sure felt safe.”
I found http://wh.at is available, to register from GoDaddy - that says it's an invalid domain name. :(
Way to go Tom. You and Chris are two of hackers I respect the most on this planet, so I'm sure you guys are going to be ludicrously successful, if you aren't already.

Don't forget your ex-coworker when you guys make it big.
This is a horrible idea, because it invites abuse. If someone sends spam advertising your site, you'll have to deal with the fallout. You might think that a few simple checks will prevent fake members, but a botnet can create fake members and make them log in as many times as the botnet's controller wants. Can you really afford to police a referral system?
Yep. He writes a bunch of columns for Bloomberg too. They tend to be quite sarcastic and witty.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/commentary/lewis.html
I read this, and the Wired article on PGP that came out earlier this year.

I think it's great that researchers want to improve access to genetic data correlated with behavior, habits, illness and other traits, but I have to ask: Why not just keep the subects' names obscured? It doesn't matter to most researchers if they are looking at the results from subject #098352 vs. John Smith, either as a single record or in aggregate. Tacking on the other part of the project -- seeing how subjects' benefit/suffer from the release of their personal information -- may be an interesting experiment on its own, but it could have some very negative impacts on participants and skew the data toward people with a different set of values and lifestyles than the population at large.
Let's Be Serious: Online Display Ads Will Fall Sharply In 2009
"Ydnar is in 'America' but not in 'Spam' - what is ydnar?"
First, hard disks are written from outside to inside making them faster in the beginning and second, linear IO does not count for databases.
I think thats extremely easy to answer.

If you are willing to turn down a 6 figure salary + 300k, you will not settle for halfish of 3 million with way higher risk. Especially if that buyout forced you to work at a large company too, which he doesn't seem interested in.
You can put ASCII on a pig...
Experts Exchange actually include the "member-only information" at the bottom of the page. The top says: "Sorry, you need to be registered to view this!" but it's a lie.
Good point. I'm actually considering the opposite: Linux running XP or Vista virtualized (mostly for browser testing, but also for Photoshop). Right now, I run Leopard with XP virtualized.
Apparently I should have spelled out the difference. Apple sees more than a dollar back from every dollar it invests into advertising. Microsoft will have a very tough time tracing back more than $200 million in revenue to this ad campaign.
Ask HN: What ad network do you suggest and why?
Hi.

In our startup, we're going to be partially using advertising, specifically interstitial ads - you know the full page ones that appear between clicking a link and arriving at your destination.

Pros and cons of those aside, they are the only ones that make sense for our application.

Where do you suggest we go as a publisher to get ads, and why?

Do you have any success stories you can share?

Thank you!
Are you sure? I've read in the Google policies that you're supposed to serve the same content to Googlebot as your users or you're penalized in PageRank.
I liked this story very much. I think the key decision point in the post is exemplary. I took a similar decision 4-5 months ago. I can recognize my thoughts and feelings perfectly.

The moment I took the decision to leave the company, my well paying job as Team Lead for total insecurity, adventure but freedom and fun was a jolt of energy.

An energy that permeates my life to this day. There is no comparison between doing something because you're told to and doing what you love. The act of creation and the sense of freedom are in themselves an incredible reward.
Why are you guys posting stuff for sale here?

I am afraid this will lead to mass spamming here.
Absolutely!!! Where I work we try to take on the attitude that the review is a formality: the employee should already have a good idea of what's coming. The reality falls short of that, but give us credit for trying :-) The review covers everything from what you did during the year to what you need to do next year. Basically we have a set of core competencies that you must have, depending on the kind of work you do and one of the reasons for the review is to make sure you get the training you need.

My personal take, and what I try to do with my reports, is to give periodic feedback, good or bad. That way people have plenty of time to either bask in the glory or improve before the final review is upon them.
Interesting, but it doesn't gel with my experience. My parents had such disdain for the box that we kept a black and white T.V. until it expired in the late eighties. Not only do I dream in colour but I have 178 channels of absolute crap to chose from.
Apple won't catch on with business because why the hell would you pay for Apple when you could just get *nix? It's their own grave, but hey, if they're happy making consumer crap, be my guest.
Ask HN: What shopping cart system do you use and why?
Hi again.

For our startup we also need a shopping cart that is:

Capable of recurring payments with Paypal and Authorize.net or the new Canadian Paypal Website Payments Pro.

Sends all the needed emails about expiring credit cards, missed payments etc, branded as our company, coming from our email addresses.

Preferably is something we host ourselves, as opposed to a hosted solution.

Can allow us to upgrade and downgrade accounts such as from Gold to Silver level, without having to cancel one account and start another.

Has a built in area for customers to update their information, branded to our site.

Is relatively easy to use and flexible.

Any suggestions? I'm having a hard time finding anything.

Thank you!
Here here! I've a friend who lives very, very cheaply, has no debt, and makes bank. As a result, he simply doesn't make work decisions based on money -- pretty amazing to see the freedom that his lifestyle choices afford him.
Here's a nifty color blindness simulator for OS X: http://michelf.com/projects/sim-daltonism/
Netflix CEO: No material softening in online ad rates
Capitalism FTW! The current crisis, far from being a failure of capitalism is actually a major success of capitalism. Because, despite contrary to the best efforts of some people, the market place has not been hoodwinked and is currently, of its own volition, revaluing assets inline with their true values. That isn't to say that this readjustment won't be painful, for some people it will, but that is not the fault of capitalism but the fault of people playing silly buggers.
Creating Your Own Logo, For Free
Are you the one that offered him 300k?