skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my case the effort was minimal. I certainly wouldn't measure the effort in "man-months". Here's how it went for me:

0. Research. This is one small part of why I read HN, and other assorted "news" sites. I like to stay current with the tools I use. I don't jump at every new tool just because it's new, but I understand that my current set of tools is not perfect. Sooner or later, I'm going to replace every tool in my toolbox with an even better tool. I may like my current set of tools today, but I understand that it's important not to get so attached to them that I stagnate as a developer. I think it's critically important for good developers to stay "intellectually curious".

1. I decided that git was worth trying. So, I started using it with my next new project. This allowed me to establish a new work flow without interrupting active projects. Yes, you'll need to read man pages, cheat sheets, etc. There's no point to adopting a new tool if it behaves exactly like the old one. So, it shouldn't be a surprise when you actually have to commit to learning the new tool. That said, I found git to be more user friendly than I'd expected based on the negative comments I'd read online.

2. I decided I liked the new work flow and that git was worth switching to. I moved my old projects over to git in less than a day and used git for all my work moving forward.

I'm sure this transition is different for everyone. I'm also sure that git is not yet (and may never be) a good fit for some people. But, I really don't see the point in disparaging those who think the switch is worthwhile for them.
You can sometimes pick out the quant plays on the very short term. If there's a super obvious area of support, the algorithm will force the bid below that point, causing a good amount of stop losses to be taken out, then the market will snap back up when they cover.
I like the idea. If one founder is working harder/more/intently or taking on more responsibility I think the reward should be equal to the "effort"...
Will this happen in roughly more, less, or the same amount of time it would take all the typewriter monkeys to produce the works of Shakespeare?

(just need to know how long after I arrive I should book my return flight)
This shall be a much lonelier depression than the last one, and all thanks to our electronic distractions. It is sad.
The Dating Game
Freenode: #physics, #math, #trivia

UnderNet: #philosophy, #trivia
Didn't watch the video, but I have also heard bad things about soy, which is also in a lot of processed food.
Found this post off reddit:

Don't be so quick to condemn "unnatural, synthetic" chemicals. Some of the biggest troublemakers are plant estrogen that is sprayed on crops to increase plant yields. This has been known, studied and re-studied since the 1960s. Here's the science:

About halfway through gestation, a male fetus emits a small amount of testosterone that travels from its testes to its brain. This tells it that it is a "male" brain. If it does not get that bit of hormone, the brain remains "female", by default. Importantly, while in animals this may determine mating behavior, it DOES NOT DO SO IN HUMANS. So please set aside any ideas about homosexuality, which is much more complicated than this.

If during early pregnancy, the mother either uptakes a chemical that blocks this transfer, interferes with this transfer, significantly increases the amount of estrogen in her body (usually from eating Tofu), or increases the tiny amount of natural testosterone in her body (from other chemicals), it interferes with the process.

While again, this will not determine sexual attraction, it will play some considerable part in the secondary sexual characteristics of the offspring. Either androgyny, more feminine males, or more masculine females.

When this was first discovered in the 1960s, they evaluated the gamut of variations, even putting testosterone in just half the brain, but not the other half, which resulted in both male and female mating behavior, the animal, but not human, version of bisexuality.

To conclude, once again, humans are a lot more complicated. But this is a serious problem.
I'm also searching for a reliable and not too expensive VPS-host based in Europe. Seems like dedicated servers are cheaper here than a decent VPS.
Truly. I think we should ban the submitter, he clearly has no understanding of the way this site is supposed to work.
Microsoft makes a phone with Nvidia
I have the impression it's some plastics but not all. A rule of thumb many people up here use is to avoid plastics with recycling number 6 (polystyrene) or 7 (polycarbonate). These are said to be the worst.

Alex, does the film contain specific recommendations to consumers? (Normally I hate using the word "consumer" to mean "citizen" but in this case it could hardly be more accurate.)
Poll: Major Cause of Your Successful Growth?
For those of you with current or previously successful Internet sites (however you want to define it): what is/was the major cause that fueled your growth? If you don't know, don't answer.
Organic traffic from search engines, i.e. SEO
Paid traffic from search engines, e.g. Adwords
Paid traffic from other Internet sites
Write-ups on blogs
Traditional press, e.g. newspaper, magazine articles
Traditional advertising, e.g. TV, radio, newspaper
Engineered viral solution intrinsic to product
On-line word of mouth, e.g. twitter, facebook, digg, delicious, etc.
Off-line word of mouth, i.e. magic
Presenting at events, e.g. conferences
Developing media, e.g. a book
More than one above
None of the above (state in comments)
I've been using linode for the last 8 months and so far it has been a wonderful low cost, high performance solution. My only complaint is that they don't appear to offer any backup solutions. I an under the assumption that I'll be rebuilding my linode disk image from scratch if the physical server is involved in a fire, corrupts my disk image, etc. It would be nice if I could do the equivalent of take a snapshot, encrypt it, and upload it to s3.
This seems like a bullshit claim to me. MobileSafari renders webpages nearly exactly as it does on the desktop, not a "simplified navigation interface". The only big difference between desktop and iPhone Safari is you need to pinch to zoom in/out and drag to pan around, which this patent doesn't seem to cover at all.

The methods described in this patent for browsing the web sound like the exact sort of thing Apple was trying to avoid: the crappy sorta-kinda-web provided by WAP, etc.
Undoubtedly "the quick-money architecture of the jobbers of the prefabricated" presages Blub.
What I found interesting about it is that it shows the increasing tendency toward social fragmentation is even affecting France.
Robert Putnam noticed this change in 1995 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Alone). Networks will make the problem (or at least the trend) much worse. My wife and I have a couple friends staying with us at the moment, and it's striking how often all 4 of us are simultaneously sitting using laptops.

Historically this is quite a big change. The last social changes on this scale were probably the ones caused by cars. Though indeed this is partially caused by cars too.
I like things like this because if I come across anyone who thinks it's cool I can make sure to avoid them.
Would love to hear about this also -- sounds like a brilliant example of reuse in software engineering.
"Don't be so quick to condemn 'unnatural, synthetic' chemicals."

Completely wrong. Phthalates and bpa have already been proven harmful. Certainly there are other chemicals that mimick estrogens as well, but saying we shouldn't condemn bpa and phthalates is ridiculous.
This is tragic, one of the delights of travelling in France was you could stop off in any small village, walk in to what looked like a café-bar and get the most amazing tasting simple food - an omlette that would make you go "wow".
Doesn't this happen about once every 24 hours? Wake me up when it reaches appellate court.

I would expect that Apple-suing patent trolls have their own online forum and FAQ by now.
Why is it on a wednesday?
Timeline of World Inventions
Yes. The solution is to demand that services allow us to backup our data in some meaningful way. This might mean XML that we can transform on our own, or something else. There are groups like http://autonomo.us that discuss these issues.
I wasn't aware that this was an actual problem.
...And the entire Windows API?

Quite simply, you've shown why some of us prefer to work with compact frameworks in the online space.

The normal web stack, as a vocabulary, is really only a few thousand "words" in size: HTTP verbs, HTML tags, CSS selectors, JavaScript/jQuery/etc. API, and your choice of agile web framework interfaces (perhaps with a little SQL mixed in for good measure).

Once you're relatively literate in the weird pidgin that is the modern web stack, it's pretty easy to rely on the auto-complete engine already wired into your head.

If your class member names are too long, or your method defs are buried inside some 10Kloc monster source file, perhaps you should consider some light refactoring to clean things up. Similarly, if you find yourself heavily relying on search-and-replace outside of single files, you may may have a bit of a coupling problem in your system.
"An LP may have seen the percentage of his/her assets in venture capital increase from 10% to 14%, leading him to pull away from the very asset class that is likely to provide the best returns in this environment. The magic of this math is that it encourages LPs to invest more in the most troubled asset classes, not the healthiest."

It's funny that when consumers do this, it's called "dollar cost averaging", is generally considered a good thing, and assumes that assets that are priced low are good values. Apparently when VCs do it, the assumption is that assets that are priced low are "troubled" and this is a bad thing.

Then again, if you take this out to meta-assumption level, it makes perfect sense. Consumers assume VCs are idiots, and so when assets are priced low, it's because the institutional investors are irrational and there are bargains to be had. VCs assume institutional investors are geniuses, and so when assets are priced low, there must be a good reason for it.
There is concern about inflation from the level of Fed lending & rate of M1 creation. However the bigger inflationary threat is when banks start lending again and this huge amount of money starts moving. There is also a threat of deflation though, offsetting this inflationary pressure, at least to some degree. For example, falling house & stock prices do wipe out a lot of wealth (real or otherwise, and perhaps good or bad) - which adds deflationary pressure.

So it is a balance between inflation & deflation. Clearly the fed sees deflation as a bigger issue right now - the fed can fight inflation, negative interest rates that plagued japan for a decade are much harder for a central bank to fix. They've cut short term lending rates as much as they can, effectively wiping out interest rates. Personally, I don't know if they're lending too much or too little, and I'm sure Congress doesn't either, so I'm not convinced regulation (and the attendant political pressure) would be a net gain.
Sorry, I'm not sure I buy that explanation. It's what the top-down folks are saying, but plainly, and perhaps naively, I just think of what credit is used for - to buy what you can't with cash. Giving everyone cash would filter up to businesses; mortgage payments to brokerages, savings to banks, investments into the stock market and bonds, and purchases to retailers including automakers. Americans would have to do something with that money and there wouldn't be the huge management/distribution fees that are now going to get collected. In effect, you'd be giving the American people a vote about where the money should go based on their everyday needs. And that huge of a sum wouldn't be as easy to fritter away as a $300 "stimulus" plan. Heck, at $7.4 trillion you could give every man, woman, and child over $20,000 (for argument's sake, ignoring infrastructure which would be a mistake).
From what I could tell in the video, bisphenol a's a petroleum derivative that is used to harden polycarbonates. The other one, pthalates (also a petroleum derivative) is used to soften PVC. So technically, not made out of plastic, but used to make plastic.

Edit: Realized I misread your comment. Yes, the problem is with some plastic products, which use these chemicals (but not all, since the video mentioned that one hospital using safe plastic products).
> This method works because your mum is never going to go into conspiracy with your business partner to gain access to your information.

Unless your mom is Lucille Bluth.

I think a better way would be to have one person click 'Mark is dead' and it immediately sends an email to Mark saying 'Joe says you're dead.' If Mark doesnt' access the account within x days, then it sends further confirmation emails to Mom and business partner who also have to confirm that Mark is dead. If so, then it set 'Mark = dead' and opens the vaults as Mark configured.
Well, it depends. :-)

Drop me an email with some information on where you're coming from and what kinds of roles you're looking for and I may be able to point you to the right people. (bchandle at gmail)
Not to worry mf.... The problem isn't that French Cafe's are dying. The problem is that the New York Times is dying. They just don't like to talk about that subject in first person singular. Replace "French Cafe" with NYT and you are starting to understand what the article is really about.
Haste, Scorned: Blogging at a Snail’s Pace
Google Layoffs - 10,000 Workers Affected
Futurism was a pre WW1 art movement in italy. The leading menbers mostly became fascists in the 1920. I don't know what someone tries to say if he places himself in this tradition.
His point is that the problem with Phthalates and bpa is not that they are "unnatural and synthetic" but rather that they are bad for you. They'd be just as bad if they were natural.
Phthalates, which are in products made of PVC plastics (like the pipes) which includes childrens toys but are also found in tons of other things like cosmetics, deodorants, and fragranced products.

Bisphenol A (BPA) is the other major offender. Many companies are at least removing from baby bottles and teethers now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phthalate
Tektonic looks nice, but:

* Their 90-day money back guarantee only applies if they have failed to meet industry standards for performance and reliability. So, if you just don't like the service, you're out of luck.

* Their 90-day money back guarantee actually doesn't give you your money back! They give you a pro-rated refund of your charges for that month. So, even if you can argue to them that they are slow and unreliable, you'll still only get a refund of your unused portion.

http://www.tektonic.net/tos.php#money

* Click on the Virtuozzo link: http://www.tektonic.net/vps.php#features I always wanted a Lorem ipsum!

Maybe they are really good, but their public presentation leaves a little to be desired. I'm ok if someone doesn't want to offer a money-back guarantee. However, why word something so poorly? A pro-rated refund is not a money-back guarantee.

Going into their order system, they're definitely cheap - they divided their costs by 100! So, that $53 level becomes $0.53! It just seems like they don't have their act together. It could just be that they put all their effort into the product itself and didn't pay attention to the other details, but it isn't a great way to run a business.
NOKIA 7100 SUPERNOVA (UNLOCKED) US VERSION
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Try Help > Colloquy Chat Room. I'm there as 'jane', and maybe I'm not there all the time, but I can try to help when I am :)

Also you might want to try building from svn, I've got some builds up on http://janeylicious.com/colloquy/ if you're interested.

Also if Colloquy isn't your thing, there's also LimeChat and Linkinus. I've got lots of bitching that Colloquy's a dead project (with commits from a day ago...) and people who decide to switch have found those two clients to be useful, although Linkinus is shareware.
How about adding one more to the list of options: Invite only/ closed beta similar to Gmail.
You left out phthalates, which are also in plastics, but are not the same thing as BPA.
They do exactly this. There are several layers of checks because getting it wrong is kind of a deal-breaker.

A lot of things happen after confirming someone is really truly dead, and many of those things can't be easily undone :)

(Full disclosure: I work for the company that developed the site)
Invite only/ closed beta similar to Gmail
AFAIK, Markram (leader of Blue Brain) isn't officially connected to SyNAPSE. He's one of the external advisors for a closely related project housed out of my department, though, so you could say he has an informal link. (it's a small field)
Official google.org Blog: Why local content matters
Video description:

The Disappearing Male is a CBC documentary about one of the most important, and least publicized, issues facing the human species: the toxic threat to the male reproductive system. The last few decades have seen steady and dramatic increases in the incidence of boys and young men suffering from genital deformities, low sperm count, sperm abnormalities and testicular cancer. At the same time, boys are now far more at risk of suffering from ADHD, autism, Tourette's syndrome, cerebral palsy, and dyslexia. The Disappearing Male takes a close and disturbing look at what many doctors and researchers now suspect are responsible for many of these problems: a class of common chemicals that are ubiquitous in our world. Found in everything from shampoo, sunglasses, meat and dairy products, carpet, cosmetics and baby bottles, they are called "hormone mimicking" or "endocrine disrupting" chemicals and they may be starting to damage the most basic building blocks of human development
That is an interesting perspective.

I've always thought of little cafes as France's startup industry. With the tourism and people expecting quaint little local eateries, it would seem that throwing a few tables out in a location where you had an oven and some floorspace would be a good way to bootstrap a little operation.

Perhaps your little eatery grows and you move into a larger space and attract more customers, and so on. Kind of an analogue to what many of us do with a few thousand lines of code on a little server slice somewhere.

I was curious (from my first comment) if anyone else would draw a solid link between French Cafes and startup hackery.
Los Angeles is a tech city? I've lived in LA forever, but just now started to really notice an actual tech community..I never really felt the same vibe here as I do in the bay. And of course it annoys me to no end that half the tech events and startups here are entertainment related. I can see why, but I'm still annoyed :)
I hadn't thought of that. You'd then be revision-ing the link, and not the file itself.

Unfortunately we are tied pretty tightly to Windows dev. environments.
I'm curious to see what the 64-bit memory-tax is for various languages/runtimes.

I took a quick glance at the Language Shootout to see if I could find any patterns, but at least for the few I checked, it's all over the place. For example, on the "n-body" problem, both Ruby and SBCL grow 31% on x86-64. But Ruby on "pidigits" grows only 2%, while SBCL on that problem adds a whopping 111%. On "spectral-norm", Ruby grows 61%, while SBCL grows 31%.

So this appears to be a place where moving to 64-bit is completely unknown, and you have to test for your specific application. It might double your memory usage with no change in speed, or (if you're running pidigits.rb) it might double your speed with almost no change in memory usage.
Somewhat--but phthalates are also in cosmetics, carpeting, deodorants, and many other household items.
Ask HN: Is there a HN for music?
I have been thinking about this recently and thought I would throw it out to the group. Is there a destination online that has meaningful discourse around music?

Hype Machine is the first thing that comes to mind, but I'd love to hear more thoughts about any HN or Friendfeed type conversations that are going on out there. Perhaps even suggestions of Twitter or Friendfeed people to follow to get a better idea of what's going on in the music world.
I didn't watch the last few min of the film, but here is a good list of things to avoid:

http://www.sailhome.org/Concerns/BodyBurden/Burdens/Phthalat...

Realistically it will be impossible to completely avoid the stuff until it's made illegal.
That or just have a service setup to monitor a Twitter feed for updates. So in the case of Robert Scoble, more than 2 hours and he's probably dead!
Docstoc is a rip off clone of Scribd. An LA company copying an SV company.

I don't think it's a coincidence that Scribd is Linux/Rails and Docstoc is Windows/ASP.NET.

SV vs LA indeed: http://trends.google.com/websites?q=docstoc.com%2C+scribd.co...
http://thesixtyone.com may be what you're looking for.
This shows up periodically on Digg, reddit, and now here. It's a joke, like Futurism itself was, at least in part.
Hehe, yeah I'm trying to try it.

Unfortunately it doesn't like any of the large files (anything over 10megs), and the windows shell plugin causes explorer to run like a dog.

I've done some research on it and I want to like Hg. any advice on having it play nice with large files?
Good question - had it on a Monday last year and that's a bad day for VCs to attend (partner meetings). So I decided to go with a Wednesday to hopefully maximize the number of out of town (and in town) VCs who might show up.
SREs are on call. That means they carry a pager/cell phone and must be accessible at all times. He should be happy he didn't get picked ;).
What about "If you are reading this, there may be a serious problem. I usually log into my system everyday and since that hasn't happened, please call or try to find me to make sure I'm OK"

That way it's only slightly alarming to your loved ones.
Quantum Computing Spins Closer
"Americans would have to do something with that money"

That was the assumption behind the last stimulus plan, too, but it turns out only 10% to 20% of it was actually spent (http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/WSJ-2008Sti...)

Even if people did spend the $10k you'd like to give them, it wouldn't make a dent in terms of home or auto sales unless there was financing available, too.
Ahh I see now, thanks for pointing that out.
I would argue no, without any revenue. But then that opens up a large can of fail for a lot of popular web services.
Did or doing, not 'would do' or "should have done" or "will do"
Astronaut Invents Zero-G Coffee Cup