skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at two McDonald's off and on while in high school and university, for about a total of three years combined, and I have to say that, unfortunately, I still love the way their burgers taste better than any other restaurant chain. It's something I've enjoyed every since I can remember, and that's probably a large influence.

However, I will agree that while I still like their fries, I much prefer the fries sold at Burger King and other various "local" chains, like Steak 'n Shake, etc...
Rails - but without all the Rails
Yes, but it's pretty tough to figure out which times.

Though I suppose the fact that this article is actually just copied (plagiarized?) from The Atlantic may lend it some credibility...
I like how they enable multiple ways to use the service... I know this has been said so much it is probably a dead horse by now, but there is a huge activation energy required to sign up. I would much rather try SoundCloud by sending a track to a friend or even myself then going through a signup form, no matter how short.

The tour is also very well done, and not slapped together at the last minute like some applications...
Now network science and graph algorithms might have some applications in explaining some of the biological phenomena.

Watkins thinks that the dendritic cells could be using nanotubes to recruit other cells. Conventional wisdom says that once a dendritic cell is activated, it migrates to the lymph nodes to alert the immune system. Sometimes, it might have to travel from the tip of one's finger to the armpit - a long and perilous journey that could result in failure. But if a dendritic cell first recruits other sentinels, and all of them march towards the lymph nodes simultaneously, there is much less chance of the message being lost. "It allows you to amplify the response," says Watkins. "That's all hypothesis really. We have to prove it."
It's a fascinating project, but if you made a game in LoseThos, who would actually install the OS / boot via LiveCD to play it?

Still, it's nice to see someone trying to preserve the experience of early home computing; barebones systems with painfully easy access to graphics hardware.

Hopefully he or someone else can improve upon this and make an OS which includes some modern amenities (ahem, network support for multiplayer!) and we'd have what is sort of like an open source console OS, a non-moving software target which could be paired with a non-moving hardware target and bring some of the advantages of console development to the PC. This pairing could even be in the form of a through-and-through open source video game console.
Ready to Hang Canvas Prints
Since the start of the canvas printing, there have been many new an exciting ways to use this unique idea and create some rather interesting canvas art that look really great on your living room wall or above the fireplace. Whatever you happen to be doing with your canvas photos, you need to make sure you have them printed properly and with out any fuss.
You've worked harder than most people I know, but didn't you a) get the first PC in Israel, b) go to Yale, c) get early '90s Microsoft stock, d) have a house you could use as an office when you started your business, e) define the category of software blogging by getting there first, and f) start a profitable company during a tech slump, giving you an advantage in hiring?

Joel Spolsky: Hard work + good luck = success! You could be Gladwell's next anecdote.
Thanks for posting. I'm finding myself in a similar situation, but I've adopted a different strategy. I'm writing a second, semi-related app that I hope will help build the brand equity. There are a lot of insightful comments in this thread.

My marketing and advertising are weak.
The SAT's not great, but it's the least broken component of the US college admissions system by far. High school grades would be better, given that a 4-year window of performance ought to trump any evaluation over 3 hours, but there's a lot of variance in high schools, and a lot of them aren't challenging at all.

Detractors of the SAT don't realize that, without it, it would be impossible (rather than merely extremely difficult) for students to be admitted to elite schools without coming from wealthy or well-connected families. Colleges, understandably, don't trust grades from no-name high schools, and anyone who doesn't realize that the extracurricular/"holistic" aspect of the process is thinly-veiled socioeconomic selection (in favor of the rich, plus a few token poor, the latter being usually mountain-state whites) is not paying attention.
It was released yesterday, I've read the first half so far. It's not because of this though, it's because of parental involvement. You can find the original study in Equality and Achievement by Riordan.
I got Matlab student version 4 years ago for around $140.
I knew it! It's a conspiracy!

I bet Mark Cuban has been on it all this time. That's why he's a billionaire. And he was about to blow the whistle. That's why he's now being sued by the SEC to shut him up!!!
lol. This is funny because I just waited for a month to launch our two newest games; iType and Speed Shapes yesterday. I eventually had to e-mail every contact on the Apple page until finally the finance department responded and cleared out application. Ridiculous.
Actually, they could just take legal action through the DMCA.
SimpleCDN looks like it's already done something like this ("easy API, democratizing the CDN").

While I'm not a customer of either SimpleCDN or CloudFront yet, this looks easy enough to deal with:

http://www.simplecdn.com/solutions#UploadBuckets

It's also MUCH cheaper than CloudFront:

http://www.simplecdn.com/pricing

Also from that page: "There are no contracts or monthly minimum fees, etc."

It looks like they don't have nearly the reach that something like Akamai or Limelight has (but comparable to CloudFront currently):

http://www.simplecdn.com/noc

For a small to medium sized project, this is what I would personally sign up for rather than CloudFront.
i love the taste of g-undecalactone. and the sweet, slightly citrusy overtones remind me of freedom.

isobutyl anthranilate is only so-so though.
I applied to the iPhone developer program this past summer. Last month, I received a voicemail from Apple, asking me to call them back, ostensibly to make progress in the program registration process. I have called many times, with the number thus far always being busy.
Etherpad Shows Google Docs How It’s Done (By AppJet)
Why is it so far-fetched to believe that having fun actually creates value in human lives? I think the biggest stick to measure whether or not an endeavor creates value is looking how much people are willing to pay for it, and quite obviously Trism created a lot of value.

Further, I think that change is best effectuated through being rich. Money makes the world go round, and it's a hell of a lot more effective than just prancing around thinking about ways to make the world a better place out of college. Think about if Bill Gates devoted the first half of his life to just changing the world, he would have done a lot of good, but probably nothing that $50+ Billion can't overcompensate.
Give them a choice: https://ourdoings.com/reg.html
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Trying to find any email in it takes a day.
On that note, what sort of compensation IS acceptable?

I'd join someone with a vision I believed in/thought would succeed for no salary and all equity.

I wouldnt give up any $ salary for equity to work for a concept I didn't believe in.

How much would it take for you to work for all salary and no equity? I feel like the general consensus in the community seems to be that people undervalue/underpay developers but despite all that I've never really had an idea of what the asking price really is, except that its probably somewhere between 50k and 150k
A plurality of anecdotes sampled without bias?

That's the problem: interesting data points become anecdotes while uninteresting data points don't, which is why you can't reconstruct the data from the anecdotes.
Xobni is a very interesting company. It can't wait for the Gmail plugin.

I have been using the Xoopit media plugin. It has turned all my pictures into a very nice and simple photo album. It even works well with my files at work. All the documents are organized and you can see those screenshots within gmail without opening a new window.

Xobni, when is the Gmail plugin coming?
What does Outlook do well for "enterprise messaging"?
What does "enterprise messaging" even mean?

BTW I would rather change career than become an "IT professional".
"Changes are made in absolute real time, something even Google hasn’t been able to do (Google docs update every fifteen seconds)."

To imply that Google 'hasn't been able to do it' is kind of silly. It's more likely that they chose not to do it and/or their scaling requirements made it impractical.
JuicyCampus Gets Banned From TSU, Cries Foul
They are one of the best examples of new UI I've seen in a while. They've clearly done a lot of work here — it looks nice and feels very responsive — especially in avoiding the pitfalls of unfamiliarity.
In a VM scenario, it could be an interesting environment to do some development in. The limitations and OS install aren't a big deal if it lived in a VM window, and the thing is small.

I've been wondering in general if we will get to the "each app in a VM window" paradigm as a common way to do business on the desktop. Really if there was a cross-vm cut and paste and filesystem driver, the os itself would be a smaller part of the picture.
Two words: Five Guys.
Would you feel better if the article was posted on the Atlantic Monthly site instead? Or printed in a best-selling book?

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/01/index.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Food_Nation
Supercomputers Break Petaflop Barrier, Transforming Science
Simple idea, I hoe it thrives. Could no dowwt build a strong communities of.musicians and hackerrs around this......
Not in Outlook 2007
"Breaking the petaflop barrier, a feat that seemed astronomical just two years ago, won't just allow faster computations. These computers will enable entirely new types of science that couldn't have been done before. This new generation of petascale machines will move scientific simulation beyond just supporting the two main branches of science, theory and experimentation, and into the foreground. Instead of just hypotheses being tested with experiments and observations, large-scale extrapolation and prediction of things we can't observe or that would be impractical for an experiment, will become central to many scientific endeavors.

'It's getting to the point where simulation is actually the third branch of science,' Seager said. 'We say that nature is always the arbiter of truth, but it turns out our ability to observe nature is fundamentally limited.'"
Does Your Boss Have to Pay You While You Wait for Vista to Boot Up?
EtherPad: Real-time Editing with JavaScript
World's first stem cell organ transplantation
Python comes to Netbeans today
What would make this application killer for me is if was embeddable in other applications as a widget (think rich-text editor on steroids). This, plus a git-like backend for revision history, would be just absolutely amazing.
Federal paperless prescription mandate is an e-prescription for IT disaster
IPhone sex: Google application baffled by British accents
An online startup spread its wings offline?
Skein and SHA-3 News
Amusing piece, but Google acknowledges on its website that it's only for N. American English.
isn't science must be the new intellectual attack cliché.

Would someone care to define this proper science?
I admit you have lost me here - why should one not make that investment?
If a company forces you to use either of those, they're clearly not going to be around very long.

Sorry, I really would like to agree with you, but there are plenty of companies with IE6+Outlook worker bees that show no signs of dying anytime soon.
Some years ago, I saw a tv documental that was almost identical to this text: McDonalds' fries, natural vs. artificial aromas, the New Jersey hub of fragance companies... I thought that this was a transcript of the show, except the tv version included interviews. Anyway, it doesn't seem conspiratory at all.
I don't know about Gladwell's book (it sounds rather good actually), but I think officially science is defined via testable hypothesises and their tests. Maybe Wikipedia could help?
When Google opened the 800-GOOG-411 in the States it was discussed that they were using it to train voice recognition software. And as the number only works in the US, that would explain why the system doesn't handle English accents.
Clojure’s new regex syntax
<TABLE WIDTH="415" etc etc

Looks like it's a throwback, considering the 90s styling of the site.
The competing formats all originated with streaming video in mind, while flash backed into it.

Just watch a YouTube video compared to the same video streamed over the internet in almost any other format.
From his quote of Kakutani: "Much of what Mr. Gladwell has to say about superstars is little more than common sense"

This is what has always bothered me Gladwell's writings, and when I see someone list 'Blink' as one of their favorite books it pretty much tells me they are someone of little substance. Gladwell is simply a formula writer (and his speeches follow a similar format) and I find it amazing he has extended his popularity this far.
Right, but people always make the statement without qualification. So just saying "the plurality of anecdote is not data" is simply not true. You can say "may not be scientific" or "may be incomplete" but to say it is not data is incorrect.
sexy 21 year old college co-ed looking for an older man to "show me the ropes" if you know what I mean.

NSA.
This is about as dumb as picking holes in Mythbusters episodes. These sorts of books are not designed to be "hard" science, packed with raw data, and reliable, but dull, outcomes.

Books like those you see in the airport, the type that Gladwell, Godin, and the like write, are designed to be science-entertainment. It's just science (or marketing, in Seth Godin's case) as entertainment.

If these sorts of books actually get people interested in and reading about science in the first place, it's awesome! There's no way the general public will read dry academic papers, no matter how scientifically valid they are. If people build up an interest from somewhat exaggerated but entertaining books that introduce certain scientific principles, we are improved as a society.
During the interrogation... he asked the police to check it.

That's the scary part of the story, all right. Perhaps it's time to repost a surprisingly useful BoingBoing link:

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/07/28/law-prof-and-cop-agr.ht...

Attention Conservation Notice: The theme of this video, in free-verse form, is:

Don't talk to the police.

Don't talk to the police.

That's what lawyers are for.

The Fifth Amendment is your friend.

Don't talk to the police.

If you don't just nod when you read this you really need to watch the video.
I hate the way McDonalds consistently undercooks their fries. They come in the bag limp and chewy instead of crunchy. I too prefer fries elsewhere, Dicks Drive-In in Seattle has delicious fries, for example.
Indian space agency Isro to roll out a rival to Google Earth
Agreed. Etherpad is sending a new POST request pretty much every keypress. Considering the HTTP headers and cookies, that's around 500-1k of data per letter typed. At google docs volume that would be a lot.

(Total data sent when I press 'j' was 1073 bytes of HTTP headers, and 123 bytes of program data).

The other reason may be that whilst it looks really cool to see each other typing, is it really needed?

Does look quite slick though :)
jobs doesn't let the customers choose for the same reason that pg doesn't let just anybody choose what gets to the front page of this site. democracy leads to mediocrity, every time.

and no, jobs won't be respected any less after he's gone. apple is the only major tech company ever to be near death for years and then be brought back to the top of the heap. that's steve jobs' work, and it makes him a unique individual among unique individuals.
What's the difference between "something even Google hasn’t been able to do" and "their scaling requirements made it impractical"? When you get past the semantics, it's essentially the same thing. Either way, they're not doing it.
Five whys, Part 3: Legacy startups
I'm not against advertising.
Yeah, but natural strawberry flavor, you know, the flavor of strawberries contains a lot of these chemicals as well.
The trick is to make it so nobody but you can track your movement.
LOL EBAUMSWORLD
Regarding the code:

l = []
def f(param = l): pass
def g(param = []): pass

I would say f should be a syntax error, as languages shouldn't allow a default parameter to be an expression. If people wanted that behavour, they could write:

def f(param =[]):
if param==[]: param = l
#...etc...
You're forgetting Google didn't develop Google Docs in-house they purchased Writely back in 2006 and that's the codebase Google Docs is built on. Depending on how it was built originally the change might require a massive rewrite...
I think they're using comet for the requests so while the activity may be high when people are typing, during breaks it should be very low as opposed to ajax polling.

I do think that real-time is really needed for many applications. The few times I've tried collaborating on a google doc, I've given up because the lag introduced the possibility of overwriting each others edits. That and just a general annoyance with saying "Do you see it yet?" over and over.
Well that's a stupid way to handle it... keep the socket open... read about Comet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming)
T-Mobile USA Data Price Increases - Bandwidth Issue or Greed?
Agreed. Imagine this sort of collaboration in the Heroku editor... Or online collaborative versions of Textmate, emcacs, vim, etc.

Be nice if they offered textile and markdown rendering.
Was Google Spreadsheets built on top of the Writely codebase? Because their Spreadsheet app is WAY better than their Document app.
I'm not trying to be a wise guy but can you define "real" data?
Here's a working definition for you: the construction of interlinked models that are proven/disproven by repeatable independent experiments. Science is tentative and falsifiable. The normal day-to-day scientist usually deals with somewhat boring measurements and experiments inside of a paradigm. Every now and then the paradigm is shown to be broken and a new paradigm takes its place.

Usually to call something "not science" is to say it is not based on 1) testable, falsifiable hypothesis, 2) accurate data, or 3) an inability to replicate/verify
I can see this becoming a good place for professional bands to release music....the end of the RIAA, in the distant future.
So just to be clear, your belief is that poor people being able to afford only unhealthy food causes no physiological, mental, or social problems and is not something that society should be concerned about?
I agree. I did my "2-second-glance" technique - something I use to see if I can gather what a site is about by looking at it for 2 seconds.

My first thought was that it was a personal blog - might be something you want to work on. Perhaps take jQuery/other's examples and state what the application is, in the center of the page?
There is no test etherpad on their page where you can actually test it on a document with others editing simultaneously, so I created one for HN:

http://etherpad.com/a4jtHYAoF9

Just join in and try it!
I hear you. My goal is to get up to 80+ wpm and I'll be throwing cycles at this goal everyday until then, so maybe then I'll be a convert.

I guess I just think the importance to programming is a little exaggerated is all. No doubt it is a great benefit all around, but I'll reserve final judgment about it's impact on my coding until I can experience the difference myself, and then report back to this thread.
Are you being sarcastic?
Does anyone know what comet is? Please explain exactly how you can SEND multiple packets over time from browser to server without sending more HTTP requests, and without using any java applet/flash.

It's a shame people seem to have started saying "use comet" without understanding what it means. Did you read that link?
IPhone Home Automation
Work has begun on a home automation system, controlled remotely by an iPhone. The iPhone connects to a server which controls different devices in the home using a Phidgets board and a homebrewed C# app. Currently he can open and close his garage door from anywhere, and aims to control his thermostat and sprinkler system. The lazy just got lazier.
This is your brain blogging
CIA Agent Warns Against Chinese Trojan Horse Microchip
It always good to keep a copy, you never know when you'll get overcharged for tip or something of the like.
> (although he's probably not yet in the league of those above ;)

those above are not in the same league either...
> So param=[] means param=Array.new, and it gets called every single time you call the method with a parameter missing.

How far down does Ruby copy? (A default value could be deep.) How does the programer specify a different level (including no copying)?

Python's rule seems bad until you try to use the alternatives outside the single case that they were designed for. Python's rule handles all cases reasonably.
I agree Jose, Boudica community seems to cater to the lowest common denominator. I posted the link not because I like it but because it is precisely what the poster asked, a Digg for girls.
NASA Successfully Tests First Deep Space Internet
Ask HN: Good KVM for Mac/Linux Setup?
Anyone using a KVM to switch between a mac and a linux? Any recommendations? I'm hoping to find one using DVI.

I want to buy a mac mini for iPhone development but still use my linux for everyday computering.
Another great trick on Drudge is to group stories with opposing views next to each other. For example, an article about the horrors of global warming directly above an article on global cooling - this is usually done using the subtle lines on the site for grouping - a good graphic technique.
Good-Bye PC Magazine
Like TCP but with less dependence on resending packets end-to-end.
While I don't necessarily agree with everything he wrote, it's hard to argue with the results, traffic and revenue of Drudge Report.

I also really enjoyed his take on "Breaking News".
Sweet funky sounds and some cool vids
Here is some of my music for everyone to groove on
enjoy and spread the word. Thanks.
Canvas 3D demo
Twitpay.me Launches
50 Best Video Games for Your Business
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<i>I would have booked a flight back home as soon as I heard "We don't take the lord's name in vain."</i>

That attitude confuses me. It's a norm of professional behavior that is trivially easy to satisfy. Is it that much of an imposition that he not verbally curse in front of his coworkers? That's like a request that you come to work in the morning with clothes covering your belly button -- I mean sure, it constrains your options somewhat, but is it something to lose sleep over?

Mocking them about their religious convictions is also a bit more small-minded than I'd expect from someone working in a multicultural office. I shudder to think what would happen if he were exposed to someone with beliefs or behaviors a bit more exotic than a garden-variety evangelical Christian.
Twitpay.me was built at Atlanta Startup Weekend 2 just 1.5 weeks ago and launched officially today. Pay others via Twitter and fund those payments via PayPal. Pretty cool and very well designed (I'm biased - I helped in forming the idea but didn't work on the project).
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