skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Translation: "I want to jump on the cloaking bandwagon. But I'm a BEC guy. I know, matter wave cloaking!"
Who folds it? That's so anal.
Maybe one day it'll be useful and support openid logins
The first slide says that the presentation is by Mark Maunder with an email address at http://feedjit.com so I'm guessing that's the site being optimized.

The content in the presentation does make sense for what feedjit does.
The best advice about newsletters I've heard is: send them out when there is news. News the recipients will want to know about - not marketing spiel, that'll quickly cause it never to be read again. (c.f. crying wolf)
Rack-A-Node - Desktop Tower Defense Type Game
Do you care to say why you think that?

There haven't been too many people who have really had bad things to say about Clojure once they've accepted the fact that it targets the JVM.

I know I used to be one of those guys who reflexively went "Java? GROSS!", but then I actually took a look at the language and think that it's one of the better thought out languages to emerge in the past few years.

[Edit: Sorry, my tone seemed a little confrontational here - I'm genuinely curious as to what you perceive the problems with Clojure to be? So far I haven't heard many negatives about it and I'm curious to hear what people think those negatives are. So far, the only real "negative" I've heard is that Clojure is not multi-paradigm in the way CL is.]
I rate this an F. And an extra F- for Arrington.
"But now there’s a reason to rethink going to California. If you do, you’ll be sending your employees to a state where a majority of the voting population says gay people aren’t entitled to equal rights under the law."

How is this any different than Connecticut? If the majority of the voting population supported same-sex marriage then it wouldn't have had to be done by the courts.

As bad as prop 8 is, at least it will be overturned in a couple years. Whereas if they hadn't passed the prop to fund a high speed train it could have taken another thirty years. So yeah, the people of California are bigoted, but New England is no better, and in another two years your state is going to have both equal rights and the beginning of a functional mass transit system, so really you're going to be even better off than you were before.
Poor Laffer, though, can't seem to get anything right.
I don't use a toilet paper like billion others in my country ;P
yes, any marriage is a dumb idea, straight gay or otherwise.

but acting like your "rights" are being violated and the injustice is unbearable...

well that's not heterosexual at all
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Since I like to try out a ton of different services, I normally end up with a bunch of accounts and a bunch of passwords. I don't exactly like this. I'd much rather be able to try out the app and then decide later if I want to sign up. (This is one great advantage of OpenID, but you still have to leave information on the service)

This does two things in my opinion. It would save me from having to worry about information leaking (email address, etc) to services that I'm actually not interested in using. Two, it potentially saves the product developers from getting their hopes up when they see tons of users signing up at launch, only to realize that most of them never come back.

I really like the way jaanix.com takes care of this, or rather used to take care of this. They gave you an account like guestXXXX or something strange, that could then be converted into your real account, when you actually sign up.
here's how leora did it - she's in nyc which is a larger population than 6,184.
http://www.centernetworks.com/leora-zellman-booth-babe

her butt went for $30, arm $10
Related reading: "The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance", http://projects.ict.usc.edu/itw/gel/EricssonDeliberatePracti...
Branded prosthetics of future.
"We should've realized there was a problem when low income workers making below the poverty line became the hot new commodity in finance."

Except for those loans aren't what caused the problem. Rather, the problem was caused by the investment banks betting on those loans.
Fifteen Digital Media Personnel Without Whom We Would Have Been Watching Television
If I could tell my 21 year old self one thing it would be: Just be consistent with your work and build upon something, it will pay off for you. Don't work feverishly on something for months/days and then slack for months/days expecting your hard work to pay off. It's no so much 'slow and steady wins the race", fast and steady can win lots of races, the important part is steady.
Equal rights? sure. But is it really that much of a big deal to just call it something other than 'marriage'?
What pisses you off on the web? (Video)
Regarding "what if you get hit by a bus" question from potential "big license buyer", you could offer to put the source code in escrow so that they can have it if something goes very wrong.

Comunque, congratulazioni:-)
Maybe you will find nice ideas for new startups...
A slight oversight? The whole thing is an oversight!

There are plenty of reasons why a person might want to use on a treadmill and quite a few of them stem from not wanting to run or walk outside. Weather, safety, embarrassment about one's weight, just another excuse to watch more TV, etc. Not to mention this thing looks incredibly dangerous. What if you need to stop quickly to avoid being run over by a car or something? All of those considerations managed to escape the inventors of this monster so I'm not the least bit surprised that they forgot about steering.

I really want to believe this is some kind of practical joke.
Awesome news, and as Biggy once said, 'mo money, mo problems'

Good 'problems' to have though ;)
He was thoughtful enough to admit that his previous ideas about investing were untenable in the current market. That is a good thing. It beats all hell out of screaming that you are right nevertheless and what is really wrong is /..whatever favorite scapegoat../

... as an aside, HN only recognizes the British spelling of "favorite" as being correct...
We are in the light cone of the light that they emitted several hundred years ago. The light that they are emitting "now" [1] is still a few hundred years outside of our light cone, just as they still a hundred years or more away from learning about our discovery of radio.

It's theoretically possible that they know about Earth's IP laws as of a few hundred years ago. But in Dickens' day England couldn't manage to enforce their IP laws in the United States, let alone the rest of the Milky Way.

These days I'm sure that many lawyers wouldn't hesitate to sue Pluto for misappropriating the name of a Disney character, but that news has yet to reach many of our extrasolar neighbors.

[1] Keeping in mind that, in a discussion involving relativity, you have to be very careful with the word "now".
By that logic, moving from Boston to Cape Cod would be even wiser, as Provincetown is pretty much the Northeast Gay capital of the United States (and as a bonus you get beaches and quiet time in the Winter when all the tourists leave)

/lives on Cape Cod ... not gay ... not that there's anything wrong with that
Possible upsides: Running on a rubber mat rather than cement or concrete.

Downsides: Completely unnecessary. Possible safety risks depending on the speed you build up going downhill or through normal use and then falling off the back somehow. Completely unnecessary.

But the other thing is that the video has no voice track to try and sell it. We have no pitch in this video and therein lies their major problem.

Maybe they do have other benefits we don't know about. Maybe there is a medical case for this sort of thing. I'm no fitness expert, so I would be willing to hear them out, but it sure looks ludicrous.

Though, riding that thing down a hill has to be rather fun. If not horrifyingly scary.
Separate but equal huh? I think I've heard that one before.

The racists of the 60's called, they'd like to work with you and your brilliant ideas.
They showed that it can be angled in the shot with the camera on the ground and the thing shifts to go to the viewer's right. Definitely not good steering but it has some amount of control.
Videos piss me off on the web, especially when a nice article would suffice;-)
I'm very good with frameworks - I've got several years' experience with Drupal - but this project I want coded by hand, because I want to be absolutely certain of what's going on on every page of the project.

The UI elements are pretty much set. This is an idea that's been a long time coming, and we've got ourselves almost entirely planned out.
It's been excellent to follow Balsamiq's progress and I'm stunned by the progress he's made. Congrats and here's hoping for the best for you.

Just remember, don't overdo it. $100,000 isn't much in the grand scheme of things, so keep pinching those pennies!
> They can live someplace nearby and commute.

The problem with that is that commuting distances is it's own expense. It also rules out people like me who don't have a driver's license to drive a car in the first place. I can only work in heavily urban areas (Most of Chicago, or even parts of Toledo) because of it.

Also, note that the argument above had nothing to do with ecological or foreign dependence concerns, which is what most people think of when they pan commuter culture.
Cuba opts Linux for technological independence
Ruby on Rails has much more support and evangelism than Django and Python. Learning Ruby, in that sense, has a much more direct impact on your opportunities.
advertisements, pop-ups (in various forms), and then malware
The loans were the consequence of betting. Or, more precisely speaking, of false belief that AAA rated papers, which were betted on, are safe.
No signup wins by a mile. Having to create accounts on every two-bit website is annoying, and I usually just go somewhere else.
Traditionally, California's been used as the test state: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22as+california+goes%22
Balsamiq is fascinating because following Peldi's discourse is almost like a real-time Harvard Business School case study on an evolving, successful business (not that HBS would study microISVs in the first place). Congratulations, here's to scaling to $1M!
Being gay myself, I concur with the sentiments expressed in this article generally. Though I must say that I have read enough H.P. Lovecraft to give me pause about wanting to work in New England! Too many eldritch secrets there! (OK, just had to go there.) :-)
Maybe I'm getting old but ..

"OMFGz i h4x0red the JS" is something I am glad I don't see anymore, that's so ... 8 years ago? :)

Think they are trying to hard to be all AWESOME AND ROCKSTAR

The idea is interesting though, as I have not seen a big JS conference yet.
Where's the Community Reinvestment Act? Specifically, the revisions made to it in 2002.
No, the loans were just bad investments. That is different than betting, at least in the sense that wall street people use the term betting.

C.f. http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/11/13/201226/64/403/6...

Or listen to the NPR series on credit default swaps.
This one looks better:

http://www.humancar.com/overview.htm

http://www.humancar.com/videos.htm
I'm glad he mentioned that he never uses minimize button (the yellow minus in the left-hand corner), because it seems even people who have used OS X for years don't get this. Hide (CMD-H) is what you should be using when you want to minimize. Hide others (CMD-ALT-H) is also very useful.

The only time minimize is useful is if you are using a particular application with multiple windows open and you aren't going to be working in one of those windows but don't want to close it because you might come back to it later. In addition to getting it off your screen, this is also helpful so that when you are hitting CTRL-` to switch between the app's windows the window you aren't working in doesn't come up. But if you want to get the whole application out of the way, just use hide.
Facts always trump arguments in the end. The problem is that we may not always like the end.
This reminds me of one of the projects I built in my high school Basic Electronics class. I wired a solar panel directly to a light-bulb, to create a Solar-Powered Night Light. The instructor failed to see the beauty of the thing-- I kept trying to explain, "You see, you shine light on it, and the light shines!"
They aren't equal. They can never have children naturally.

They should have equal rights in terms of their union, but in terms of procreation and furthering the species etc, how can they?

Racism doesn't really have such an argument does it.

I just don't see why the word matters all that much. Surely as long as you are equal in the eyes of the law, why not have a different word to mean same sex marriage? Then if you say "joe is married" you don't have to ask "to a woman? or another man?".
Also, note that the argument above had nothing to do with ecological or foreign dependence concerns

Those are some of the resaons why we have mass transit.
Regardless of the merits (or lack thereof) of the parent's argument, your comparison is facile. So-called 'separate but equal' legislation never provided for anything close to legal equality. Civil unions, on the other hand, could provide the same legal rights as marriage.

But that's besides the point. The real story here is that Prop. 8 passed mostly due to the high turnout of African-American voters as a result of Obama's candidacy. As a block, American-Americans tend to vote against gay rights and gay marriage issues, and so the high turnout was what swung the ballot in favour of Prop. 8.

The lesson here should be that the gay community of the US has not done enough to reach out to the African-American community in order to gain greater acceptance and understanding. Despite all the advocacy against white religious conservatives and high-profile court campaigns, there has been precious little effort in convincing voters why they have nothing to fear and why gays should have the right to marry because that would be fair and just.

Until that happens, gay Americans are going to have to be content with winning brief victories through the courts while fearing each and every time the general public is given the chance to have their own say on the issue.
The way to phrase your suggestion: marriage is a cultural institution, not civic. There shouldn't be laws about cultural institutions.

People should just do whatever they want.
The problem timr was describing is that Beverly Hills needs some low skill workers. I'm sure sufficiently many low skill workers have cars/bus passes to meet the needs of Beverly Hills.

I'm not a fan of car culture either. I'm just pointing out that a "living wage" in beverly hills can't be more than a "living wage" in Compton + cost of commuting.

Incidentally, the market adjusts wages in exactly that way: the 50'th st Qdoba in Manhattan pays a couple bucks more/hour than the Hoboken Qdoba. Most likely there is a similar wage premium to work in Beverly Hills.
That's hilarious. Since Tipjoy has moved back to Boston, I can assure you we have not yet been attacked by Cthulhu - though our daily prayers to Him have probably helped.
My Product Owner is a Robot
It does not have to have a problem to be a fad. Programming languages all require a big time investment in learning them - so those that exist tend to stay around. People only change languages when there are very clear benefits. Clojure seems to have pulled up to the same level as other much older and better known programming languages - there are no benefits (at the moment) to it that would make the mass of programmers switch to it.

Ruby is a good language, but it only became popular when it offered a clear benefit.

For a language to enter the mainstream and stay in the mainstream, it has to do a lot more than just not be bad. It has to be better than others in some way.

(By the way, being a functional language does not make it better, it makes it worse, since most programmers have trouble grasping functional concepts)

At the moment, clojure may not have any negatives, but it does not have any strong positives, so I don't see why it would catch on.
The power of something belonging to meme? That doesn't make sense.
Yeah it's all well and good to say you should be able to do what you want, but you have to take responsibility for society as a whole. Is poligamy valid in law? not here and rightly so I'd say.
Also, it's just not very nice to hijack words.

It's like people who call HTML a programming language.
Why do sentences that start with "I'm all for gay rights, but..." make me feel all skeevy?
And there's much better ganja anyway
Not unless they're fabbing their own processors they're not.
"SEO is dead" articles, "anything is dead" articles for that matter. Oh and linkbaiting.
I close almost any window with the word "rockstar" in it these days. No thankyou.
Monetization free verse paid
The world’s most super-designed data center – fit for a James Bond villain
Brown clouds threaten world food supply
YouTube Sells Video Ads For Searches
15 Web apps built in 48 hours
What significant technical work is being done in Arabic? (Note, I didn't say "in Arab countries"; the point is that they're using English).
She is charging $30/hr, and is also going to tech tradeshows. That too is an interesting angle, although not very unique. I have been to many tradeshows, and have seen a lot of hot-to-semi-hot girls walking around clad in various T-shirts.

If your target market is mid-20's guys, I think this angle could have some merit. If your target market is the "average" consumer or corporation, I'm not sure how much marketshare you are really going to get from a pair of tits or an ass logo.

I think the real angle for these girls is to do a "Social Media Starter Kit". This T-Shirt girl would be better off not just "mentioning" the product and flickr and twitter, but setting up accounts for these companies and "seeding" the social media sites, then handing the keys over with a bit of training to the organizations. Basically teach the companies that want to leverage social media but don't know where to start how to jump in.

That would likely be a week-long effort, and she could probably charge $3000/wk, based on what I've seen from the current crop of wanna-be SEO hacks.
Erlang is a great language, but I've never managed to do any useful work with it. Very few people are actually working on things that are othogonal to telecom switches. Single-paradigm languages will always be stuck in niches (this isn't necessarily a bad thing).
Engineering: Suddenly Sexy for College Grads
She'll have to work on selling her "personality" once she hits 30..
Is anyone here using this framework?
Why Cisco and F5 Love VMware and Microsoft
Yay! You know you are an inspiration to a lot of us at news.yc, right? Now get working for that 1M.
"Comunque," sei italiano? Non ho conosciuto molti programmatori italiani quando vivevo a Firenze!
Pizza, Spaghetti and... Coal
What's wrong with poligamy? I am all for protecting the young, but WTF do you care what three forty year old people do in their own home?
Whiteboard Friday - PageRank Part II
I wonder if it's agreable to work in an office which is filled with fog and only has a limited number of light beams through that fog.
I want my data stored there. Now the data can have as enjoyable a living and working environment as I have!
Boston is for Science Lovers
Not a word on the Cmd+Opt+O, or holding down option while double-clicking a file (closes the source window)?
Two women could have children from their own DNA with a little genetic engineering or just cloning. Plenty of heterosexual coupples can't have children do you want to forbid them getting married? How about if they decide not to can they get married?

PS: I honestly just get creeped out when people start talking about labels as if a word by it's self means something.
Daniel Ha, Co-Founder of Disqus, talks about the YC experience (and how to get accepted)
Ticketstumbler (YC summer 08) "growing 50 percent a month"
Talk about a let down. Javascript is so far past this sort of behavior. JQuery's perfect example of the level JS has reached. It (Javascript) is a corporate programming language now and the conferences for it need to respect this.

The site design is puerile and it is completely devoid of content. If the page's are going to be blank, then don't have them and don't link the title bars.
On a side note - Prop 8 raises a very interesting constitutional question for California. The first initiative to ban gay marriage passed by a wide margin, then was struck down by the courts. The next initiative was framed as a constitutional amendment, and passed narrowly.

If the initiative process can be used trivially in a "%50 + 1" way to deny civil rights to a minority group, then does California have a meaningful constitution? If an initiative appears to violate the constitution, and it's fairly trivial to get it on the ballot as an amendment to the constitution, then the notion that an initiative could be unconstitutional becomes meaningless, right?

So I actually do hope that the courts strike this one down. Partly because I'm opposed to prop 8, of course, but also because I don't want a state constitution that can be changed in such a meaningful way by a "fifty plus one" majority.
So should my parents marriage be invalidated, seeing as my mother has undergone menopause, and thus, they can "never have children naturally" anymore? What about anorexia survivors? Malnutrition plays hell with uterine linings. Should we deny them the right to marriage? Is an eating disorder more or less of a 'a choice' than homosexuality in your eyes?

Alan Turing was gay, and never had children. He developed the code-breaking machines that allowed the Allies to win world war 2. Don't think for a second that Churchill being able to read Hitler's mail before Hitler read it didn't "tip the balance".

So it sounds like gay people can further the species without procreation. In fact, I'd argue that smart people (gay OR straight) are better off not having children until their career has 'peaked'. For the truly brilliant -- the Turings and Einsteins of the world -- a child is not going to be "their greatest accomplishment".

Seriously, a gay man basically did more for Western civilization than you or I or any Veteran still alive has. He was shamed into killing himself because of his sexual orientation. You'd really object to his happiness?

sigh. I'm going to stop here before I pull a Godwin.
..or much "larger" (in number of CPUs/cores)... now you can have 8 cores per CPU where you used to only be able 1.

You can never have too much computational power.
Protonotes: HTML prototyping collaboration tool.
Massachusetts: Come for the gay marriage; stay for the weed!
The idea of solving problems by breaking down solution steps and running them in parallel is exciting. However, identifying areas where the solution to a problem can be parallelized is the largest problem. As critical is analyzing whether or not the administrative overhead that goes along with parallelization is going to negate the benefit. Put more succinctly, computer science curricula should emphasize this kind of analysis well before introducing the techniques for achieving parallelization.

Donald Knuth's skepticism over the benefits of concurrency makes me want to rethink my own assumptions.

I haven't really seen anyone describe the changes that should be made to curricula. Do any educators on this thread have specific changes in mind?
Yeah. I'm all about the 'traditional marriage' myself. You know, where my lord's regent picks my wife from one of the other serf's, pays her father a small dowry, lets my lord enact Prima Nocte, and then unloads her onto me, where she's my property to do what I wish with.

(NOT).
Sorry perhaps I should have been clearer. I think there is something wrong about "marrying" multiple people at the same time.
What you want to do in your own home is up to you.
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