skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great news, terrible that he was denied a Visa. I'm sure Google are pretty happy too.
He's probably underestimating the costs; cf. the Commuter's Paradox http://ftp.iza.org/dp1278.pdf And then there are the health penalties... http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1490117
Just a heads-up. If you had the iPhone version already installed on an iPad and do an update you'll get the new universal version. That one is pretty crashy right at the startup screen.

Deleting and reinstalling it from scratch seems to solve the problem. Nice looking app.
L-Carnitine hydrochloride
Craigslist is prob the largest web company with no funding. MSFT basically had no funding.
Interesting, I suppose people want up until the last minute to work on their application, demo, etc. Maybe they just decide to apply last minute.
Current State of Social Media: The Big Four
You make good points, but won't the vast majority of iPad users be logged into Facebook both on the app and in Safari? I know on my iPhone (where I primarily use the FB app), I'm also logged in Safari (for FB connect, when sent FB links, using features not on app, etc).
Leutton Postle Spring/Summer 2012, London
This is assuming that there is a trial at all. The Obama administration has already made clear that it has the power to execute US citizens without trial.
Is this sarcasm? Do you work for News Corp? This kind of insanity from governments shouldn't exist in the first place!
You should read a bit about Nicholas Merrill who got a National Security Letter and subsequently sued the FBI and the DoJ.

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Merrill

Wired: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/08/nsl-gag-order-lifte...

Talk at CCC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C25EkdWLU1k
The dawn of Morpheus’ era. Google’s supremacy and your privacy
I don't think Spotify can easily sell themselves. It would immediately void all their current licensing agreements.
All good points, but I thought I'd point out that...

> I read books when I want to escape computers, the internet and the distractions they bring. That's part of what I love about them.

... the Kindle is actually fairly good on this count. Checking email on it is so clunky as to not be a temptation at all. It doesn't make noises or have alerts, and it has a very long batter life. So if you get into a book, the fact that you're reading it on a device does fade into the background, leaving you to concentrate on the content.
NATO SOFTWARE ENGINEERING CONFERENCE 1968 [pdf]
It's pretty sad that you can buy a law for $20K. They only spent $3,600 in Virginia.

They spent $0 on lobbying in 2007-2010: http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientlbs.php?id=F21559&...

Characterizing the political process as "buying a law" doesn't do anything for your argument. It's a silly reduction. I actually think your white paper is a very thorough and serious proposal -- your message comes through very clearly and it's a good example of a professional communication.

Also, "waive" and "wave" mean different things.

Apparently you have no argument left, but thanks for spellchecking mine. You seem to be unable to distinguish legitimate criticism of the tenor and delivery of your comment from opposition. Obviously I am not opposed to loosening money transmission laws. I just think you could communicate legitimate complaints in a positive, engaging tone instead of ranting, and then becoming defensive and petty when questioned about it.

It was a while ago when I was looking into money transmission and I ultimately decided against it for other reasons.
I disagree with everyone. The best language to learn first is BASIC. You can probably find some emulator that's web based. After that, you can learn whatever floats your boat.
cool :-)

(I'm a VP at a large company and I write code as well)
About Hyperink, the publisher: [...]

There's no writing required and it's a unique opportunity to build your own brand and earn royalties.

No writing. That's disruptive to traditional publishing.
That's interesting. I wonder what the trade off is between submitting a possibly imperfect application early, vs. a polished-as-possble entry on the last day.
I really hate this attitude. Static variable initialization is not "detailed minutiae of the standard" (nor is operator precedence--I know you didn't mention that but others in the discussion have). If you don't know those then you don't know C! It doesn't make your code harder to read if you understand the language. And if you don't understand the language, then why, oh why are you trying to read or write it?

It's like encouraging people to speak in baby talk because the people listening shouldn't have to understand all the detailed minutiae of the English language.
Don't know if this is Dart bashing, but... Java with actors? An emphatic no thank you. I fear these guys are committing the perennial mistake of designing a language for someone other than themselves - as always, for someone more average than themselves [†] - and are following Java's example in this respect as well. Personally, I don't want to program in PL/I.

The Go guys seem to have gone the opposite route, designing the C successor they themselves most want. That's far more likely to please others in the long run.

[†] Edit: someone misunderstood me here. I'm not advocating this supercilious attitude, I'm saying it's a mistake that leads to worse languages.
How to make unpalatable decisions:

1) Make two bad decisions.
2) Go back on the first.
3) Hope nobody notices you didn't go back on the second.
4) Praise.
Genetic evidence? Really? They managed to get Neanderthal DNS, sequence it, and understand it?

Where was I during this earth shattering breakthough? (Actually understand DNA by looking at the sequence?)

This is probably just someones conjecture based on living conditions and such, there is no way it's based on genetic evidence.
the part where you categorize income & expenses automatically is pretty hard. so there will be a lot of manual labor involved and lot of clarifying with clients if you want to do it properly.

you said it yourself on your website, bookkeeping is expensive and time-consuming... your idea is like waterbed. you off-load your clients only to have this problem on your own plate now. it just won't become magically cheap and fast just because you do it.

and if you execute this idea, it will be nothing more than an outsourced bookkeeping service. there are thousands of bookkeeping firms already doing this.
MSFT did have institutional funding from memory[1].. of course, they would be in the category that pg just talked about.

[1] - http://msstudios.wmod.llnwd.net/a2294/o21/presspass/BillG/Ma... via http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/billg/videos/video-l...
Impressive, but does it make sense to measure things per yer on a 2 year old company? I'd be interested in a more granular breakdown and how/if market cycles effect them in the same way it does retailers in general.
Building a 'distributor cap' for our digital product experiences
It does. And will. So we might need News Corp.

“In normal times, evil should be fought by good, but in times like this, well, it should be fought by another kind of evil”
Investing more in owning less
URDU SEX STORIES: Kunwari Larki
Humans have been fighting, yes. Fighting things humans understand, and for traditional human reasons, at their discretion.

What's new-ish (5-10k years) and completely against individual success, is a large and largely unwilling army driven to kill for reasons they don't understand or are lied to about.

It's slavery, or at best a cult, pure and simple.
While I was a kid I was going almost everyday to my father's bookshelves and I was browsing random books: science fiction novels, books about sports and their rules, encyclopedias, novels, poetry, whatever I could find. I am sure that this experience made me love knowledge more and give me a also an additional bond with my father. Maybe people do not realize that yet, but giving to a kid a GB of ebooks is not the same.
most of them are likely spam bots. last activity on those forums was like 3 months ago.... it's dead
> I see a problem here:

No, that's not a problem. It's a disaster. Whoever wrote that should be shot. If you're going to stick things from a cookie into your database, at least have enough brains to use a prepared statement.
Its just speculation of course. But 2 angles:

1. Communication capacity is the reason empathic capability is important. Human-human communication relies on perspective-taking and evolves over time as our brains get more exposure to people. Emotional empathic capacity is just the bootstrap for perspective-taking. If human cultural norms evolve for communication capacity, then there is a case that empathic capacity will simply use too much cognitive capacity to fit within these cultural norms.

2. We communicate more and more with non-human devices than humans. I can't even imagine what this looks like 100 yrs from now or 1000, but there is a chance that natural selection will favor brains optimized for communicating with devices and machines where emotional empathy is not present.
Good to see the interest is still growing! Hoping to see a lot of useful things coming out of this batch.
Agreed, if you are able to make it to any of the Mongo events, don't miss seeing Dwight talk (particularly about MongoDB internals). He's an even better lecturer than my favorite college professor.
Thank PG: pg recently exceeded 100Kk. Thanks for keeping HN up
It's a landing page, the only thought you should give it is what is the fastest path to deleting it and launching.
Actually, I'd bet that if there's one biggest thing that stands between me and pg giving me a big check it's my ability to set goals and meet them in a timely fashion.
That does not seem like a plan that will scale well. I think this kind of thing inevitably ends up like the Zuckerberg anecdote, where the CEO eventually has no time to code because being CEO is a full time job, but he still does it to prove he can.
Thank you for this! I almost feel embarrassed not knowing the extent of lsof's abilities; I've used it for a long time just for basic things (e.g. lsof <file>, that's it!). Very awesome, I can't wait to use some of these in my scripts.
For mobile in-app sharing, Twitter tops Facebook 3-1
Does that quote really apply? I don't see how is worrying about where you stand socially a result of empathy.

Sure, if you analyze with less emotional involvement, it's easier to control that "social game", but as the letter describes, they still validates themselves for their ability to do so.

Seems to me like the disregard for the whole thing -which is what that character seems to be saying- is more common in the stereotypical "nerd," which either is either oblivious to it or simply uninterested, and that doesn't necessarily indicate less empathy.
august 2006 was 3 months ago?
I assume there will be much tighter integration of Google+ into the next major release of Android which should help solve the 'ghost town' problem so many people are seeing with Google+ at this point. Ultimately they may have to give SmartPhone makers some incentive to stop bundling the Facebook app/integration on their devices. (or just make their own)
so let me get this right: you are arguing that a problem with Dart is that other browser makers won't get on board, and you happen to be CTO of one of those browser makers?

That seems a rather circular reason for dismissing it.
Uh, the NY Times is the closest thing we have to an official government newspaper, so I think you're severely mistaken if you think this counts as holding government accountable.

The NY Times convinced a lot of people to support the Iraq war when it ran its poorly fact-checked story fed to its reporter by propagandists funded by the CIA. I remember how profoundly my view of the Iraq situation changed when I read all of that in the paper I trusted at the time.
The review explicitly stated that the low end kindle was worth it because you could just buy another when it breaks.
so does it address the iPad's biggest shortcoming? (multiple users)
WebOS isn't a server OS, it's a Linux userland for touch-based mobile devices.
"Really? They managed to get Neanderthal DNS, sequence it, and understand it?"

Not sure where you were during the sequencing, but yes, it's happening.

http://www.eva.mpg.de/neandertal/
What depresses me most is how Obama is no better than Bush at this sort of thing. It's not Democrats vs. Republicans: they're all out to get us.
I suspect this article only applies to those with hindsight.

During the Great Depression " the United States economy was quietly making enormous strides during the 1930s. Television and nylon stockings were invented. Refrigerators and washing machines turned into mass-market products. Railroads became faster and roads smoother and wider."

But if you had asked people during the Great Depression about economic or technological progress, I suspect most would say it was almost non-existent.

Today we have significant advances in robotics, energy development/conservation, and medicine. These and other fields may be later referred to in the same light as the authors examples in the great depression.
Free Texting Apps Are Threat to Wireless Carriers
YC getting over an app a minutre
What an awful interviewer.
The data in question is suspect as no hard data is shown nor are they saying on how many users the report is based on or how they were able to measure traffic at all. Chitikta is a Google competitor of sorts their business is ads and they do have a strong partnerships with Facebook.
Cloud makes open source 'inevitable' for Microsoft, others
Please note that it was Starz who had a contract with sony that had subscriber count as a term in the contract, not netflix.
You can make bignums pretty close to the efficiency of machine words -- when storing values that fit in machine words. You do that by simply using tagged machine words.

A few extra instructions protecting the bignum's use do not have a significant cost.

In http://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/edu/seminare/2005/advanced-... Tim Sweeney says:

Factoid: C# exposes more than 10 integer-like data types,
none of which are those defined by (Pythagoras, 500BC).

In the future, can we get integers right

Neat Trick:
In a machine word (size 2^n), encode an integer ±2^(n-1)
or a pointer to a variable-precision integer
§ Thus “small” integers carry no storage cost
§ Additional access cost is ~5 CPU instructions
But:
§ A natural number bounded so as to index into an active array is
guaranteed to fit within the machine word size (the array is the
proof of this!) and thus requires no special encoding.
§ Since ~80% of integers can dependently-typed to access
into an array, the amortized cost is ~1 CPU instruction
per integer operation.

This could be a viable tradeoff.
All the StartupBootcamp's talks
Maybe. There's always the aclu [1], and I'm a proud donor. It's also worth noting that the NYT hasn't always been on the side of the angels. See for example the iraq war -- if Judith Miller wasn't literally blowing the administration she was certainly doing so on the pages of the paper, and it's hard to imagine the NYT's support for the war didn't have an impact on the politics of the support on the left for the war.

As for something like fox news, well, I recently saw a survey that I can't produce on hand demonstrating their audience was actively misinformed about the issues of the day.

Anyway, I feel better about not for profits like the aclu than about the NYT or fox or whomever acting as bulwarks against government overreach.

[1] http://action.aclu.org/site/PageServer?pagename=FJ_donationh...
Highlights of Dart
their double standard on real/fake names is a disgrace.

they ban people for using their internet handle that they have been using for the last 15 years and on the other hand celebrities like madonna or 50 cent are allowed to use their artist names
Decisions that are made easier by tracking your hourly rate
I would guess 500 or so. I think people still have a lot of enthusiasm, but camping out and taking care of all the practical details is exhausting and that is starting to show. I think it's extremely important that this movement gets moved online and finds a way to exist permanently. The camping at City Hall will eventually end, but I don't think that will be any type of failure of the movement. This is something that will take years to fully manifest itself.
You are looking for http://Shoeboxed.com plus any of its various integrations.

The Shoeboxed part is hard. The reporting is less hard insomuch as it is a UX challenge, not an operational challenge.
My first reaction to this was, "OMG, a new book from pg! Why didn't I hear about this before"? The comments here cleared up things for me. I think having the word "interview" in big letters somewhere on the cover would be less misleading.

You do explain things somewhat it in the Product Description, but in a very PR way "hold the answers, etc." without mentioning the book is based on the interview. Some people here say that it's just the interview? Can you clarify if it is more than that and if that what have you added?

In addition to the blog post, I think you should have a better description on Amazon.
Natural selection would only benefit those who are more able to communicate with devices if that trait led them to produce more offspring than the people without it; that's the selection part.

Do you see people who have a more natural ability to work and understand computers as having more kids than the rest of the population? If anything, it's the opposite.
I've been told there is currently a queue of 1-2 hours to enter... I am in the queue :)
I would recommend trying out the Kindle app. You could download the app in Chrome and read out of one of your tabs. The books overall are a lot cheaper; you don't need a Kindle device; more of the money goes directly to the author.

You still have all the same benefits you mentioned above, minus the ability to turn off distractions:

• You don't need to own an ebook reader or tablet. Amazon's Kindle App is free and works on practically anything: Mac, PC, iPhone, even a Chrome plugin if you don't like having a desktop app.

• You keep a physical collection in your reader just as you do a bookcase. It's not the exact same thing, but that's something I noticed recently: hardly anyone visits me at my apartment, but I am often going to meet people at cafes and with me I bring my laptop or phone, and on those I have my entire collection of books.

• You can loan a Kindle book to a friend on Amazon, and it's free.

• You can read on any device, and you almost always will have your cell phone with you. I usually do most of my reading on the BART or CalTrain, or waiting in lines.

• You don't need to carry a bag or remember any books, if you have a digital collection they're always with any of your devices. If your device is stolen, you still have your digital book collection.
Oracle's port of DTrace to Linux is not DTrace
Every post on this blog appears to be this guy fanboying about Dart with next to no information on it.

Something smells, here.
There is also an addon for Requests that lets you make OAuth requests: https://github.com/maraujop/requests-oauth-hook
That is pretty impressive. But it was the "understand it" part that I'm surprised about.
If you can get some flexibility with your work days and go up Thursday night (after 7:00) and come back Saturday night, then the drive to Tahoe is a really quick and nice 3.5 hours each way with no traffic at all.
You got banned after changing your last name? Are those bans done by hand?

I know, that they have a real name policy but so has Facebook. A lot of my friends and family changed there real names into fake names on Fb. Nobody got ever baned.
If your goal is alpine hiking or skiing, then yes, you're going to need to head up to the Sierra. Most good spots are about 100 miles (160km) from the Bay Area. Depending on when you leave and traffic, that's 2.5-6 hours (the last during peak tourist season).

But if you're talking about hiking hills and lower peaks (to ~5,000'), surfing, windsurfing, etc., then from any of the major population areas (San Jose, Penninsula, San Francisco, East Bay), odds are good you're within 45 minutes of good waves, 20 minutes to water period, and in many places, can simply walk to a trailhead.

Sacramento is a good 80 miles from San Francisco, and isn't considered "Silicon Valley" by any means. Even there, you can find recreational cycling pretty much anywhere outside city limits, or the American River Trail. The Sierra's that much closer, with a 1 hour drive up I-80 or US 50 taking you to prime hiking spots.
Not to rain on your parade. Shoeboxed* does this type of thing already. I am currently using their limited trial. http://www.shoeboxed.com/receipts-for-taxes/ I'm not sure how you would differentiate yourself. You might have in mind other ways to tackle this problem.

You have an excellent idea and the space ripe for disruption because I for one dislike receipt management for expenditures. It is a necessary evil.

*I'm in no associated with any of the above.
Well, having the only link on your homepage be to generate an invite probably helps.
It looks to me that the Attribution is only conditionally waived. That is to say, if you're using it you don't have to add the attribution but if you're sharing it or a remix of it the attribution is still required.
You must be joking. Spotify paid out 0.003 per play on my last royalty statement. Pathetic. The sooner Spotify goes under, the better for the music industry.
Probably because HP-UX is a technical liability that they are keeping around just for the support contracts involved.

The hard reality is that while these operating systems (like HP-UX or Solaris) may still have some technical or commercial advantages, what really matters when you want to scale is the predictability and support for all kinds of cheap/expensive/old/new hardware and the availability of up-to-date software packages, and you really can't beat Linux there.
Facebook acquires friends.ly
This is seriously impressive. Speaks to the value startups anticipate getting out of the YC experience.
That depends on the goals; you could define the Three Laws[1] as inviolable goals.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics
Isn't this basically the exact same thing as pinned sites in IE9?
Must some historical fact or pattern of facts be "all good" or "all bad"? Grow up!

Microsoft added XHR to IE when they gave Java the boot in a spat with Sun, in order to keep Outlook Web Express in working order in IE. Was that "all good"? Clearly not for Sun or Java!

The browser wars phase I had no winners. Yes, IE's DHTML innovations such as innerHTML were a win, and Netscape should have agreed to implement and standardize them. No, the long IE6 stagnation and legacy were Not Good.
Oria's o'shay
Redundancy is noise.. How is it any clearer to read?
iKaddsh - A Kaddish Mashup (for Steve Jobs)
To whom it may concern; I've published a Kaddish for Steve Jobs which is actually a literary masup work using mainly Allen Ginsberg's materials (Kaddish for Naomi and Howl).

Hope you find some, if any, interest reading it.

http://ikaddsh.com
Company strategy or not, putting your all into something that never ships is a frustrating experience. Jeff presumably never expected his personal venting to be covered by TechCrunch.