skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another way: own your own heavy equipment, and charge an hourly rental fee.
How easy is it to integrate with eye-fi as a partner site? They seem to have quite a few partners. I wonder if anyone from their company reads hn?
for example by using HSV comparision for fitness

I tried with HSB. It didn't produce good results. The image was always too dark.

In HSB, colors that are far apart in our perception can have close distance. For example two colors with the same Brightness, Saturation but a different Hue.

Using HSB in the DNA was perfect. It's hard to mutate a RGB color in the right direction. You have to get 3 composants right. In HSB a single modification can change everything.

BTW, I coded a Java version after seeing the original. It works, but first, it doesn't converge very fast, second, it's stuck at: http://i33.tinypic.com/2yycdc8.jpg

On the bright side, I can easily switch the population size to 50. Java is very good at this. I piggy back on automatic hardware acceleration for rendering.

How did you get yours to converge sooo fast?!
Did it really suck? I was using subversion in a team of around 15, 5 years ago, and all in all it worked pretty well. It was rare that there would be any issue or that subversion got in the way.

Maybe git is better... maybe it doesn't matter enough to bother changing. But you have to admit these types of things are more about what is "in fashion" than what is better suited to a particular task.

Things go in big cycles. For a few years centralization is excellent, offers massive benefits, then suddenly distributed is excellent offers massive benefits etc etc
As the post hinted, I wouldn't be surprised if 5 years from now git is pronounced as a terrible idea, and the trend setters go back to something more like svn.
The two services I'm talking about? How about the one button mouse? That's the primary example. Going against the grain that far is a bit too much. As people use phones in ever more sophisticated ways, the lack of cut & paste will become an issue just as big as the one button mouse. (Of course, cut & paste is not the right way to do it. What people really want to do is to move certain pieces of information between applications. There must be a better, more elegant way to do that.)

I would agree that the vision if valid. But remember, I'm talking about an Achilles' Heel. Maybe it's a little (but exploitable) flaw in something that's overall great.
my electrician friend tells me that electricians, HVAC, plumbing and other dudes sometimes get the same set of drawings, so each of them think in their heads "okay I'm gonna put my stuff here" and conflict happens. this essentially happens because the general contractor or a sub contractor hires everyone in parallel to each other, and while the same drawing is sent to each, none of them talk to each other to "plan" the actual deployment. This will likely change when more and more people jump on the BIM wagon, and move the conflict stage to 3D model space rather than on the site.
"IQ scores obtained when 8,170 boys and girls were 10 years old and their alcohol intake and any problems when they were 30 years old."

[I'm assuming not many of them were heavy drinkers in kindergarten. Go on, call me naive]
As posted on their site...

“Sure, thinking about the future can help. But writing it down and thinking it’s any sort of plan is foolish. The truth is you’re not going to know what to do until you’re actually doing it.”

I think that’s a very short-sighted and foolish comment to make.

A business plan can have many uses, but here you’re thinking about the internal uses (rather than for raising investment or other external validations). For internal purposes, a business plan achieves several objectives:

1) It sets out a clear, common vision for the business. You can have endless conversations in the coffee shop or over a beer, but once you see them in writing, things take on a clearer reality. So the first internal purpose of a business plan is to ensure that all the founders are on the same page and clear about it.

2) It ensures you’ve given at least some token thought to all the key elements of a business. If you’re smart, before writing your business plan, you’ve had a look at a few templates and noticed what is supposed to be in there. Based on that, you’ll spend time thinking about things such as logistics (if relevant), cash flow, marketing, sales, market research, competitor analysis… All those are things that should be at least considered before you commit the next 3 years of your life to chasing an idea.

3) As part of this, a business plan helps you to validate, more explicitly, by putting some numbers into it (those should be very conservative numbers for sales and very exaggerated numbers for costs) that all these different aspects of the business are viable. It’s worth doing that tiny little bit of work to ensure that it is even possible theoretically for your business to turn a profit.

4) If you have more than 2 founders (and even if you only have 2), a thorough business plan can also be a management tool, by making it clearer what the essential parts of the business are and thus making it easier to coordinate those tasks between all the cofounders.

It’s funny, I wouldn’t be surprised to hear the typical SV start-up moaning about business plans, but 37-signals, of the “getting real” school, should understand better than many other people that making sure the business is cohesive and has the potential to be profitable is very important. A business plan can do just that, and all that for only a handful of weeks of work on the side... seems like a bargain.

I’ll just add also that planning – which is the only purpose you’re considering – is actually, imho, the least important use of a business plan. Just because it has the word “plan” in the name doesn’t mean it needs to be a glorified gantt chart.
Chances are, they're not tracking it. In fact, I'd be extremely surprised if they were.

You can use YUI hosted by Yahoo's CDN. We don't track those statistics because the data is simply overwhelmingly large and not very useful even if you could parse it. The goal is speed there, not data.

And, as you mention, many users will have it cached. Their cache headers invalidate the data anyhow, making that data not just expensive to gather, but completely worthless.
It's common sense applied a few steps farther. In the short term, cut & paste can get your job done fast. But after the 12th cut & paste followed by another change in requirements, it starts to look not so good.
The analogy doesn't hold because there isn't a coherent legal system or common language (tho' in practice everyone speaks English) across Europe. Incorporating in Estonia and doing all your business in Germany isn't nearly as straightforward as Calfornia/Delaware.
iPhone version of Safari to be Flash capable.

Noooooo!!! I am actually hoping that the growing dominance of Apple will accelerate the death of Flash. I bet we already seeing the benefit of an iPhone - how many web projects have made a conscious decision to stick to standards-compliant tech in order to be easier available for an iPhone/Touch? I bet quite a few.
Isn't limiting this liability this one of the primary reasons for incorporating?
true. a lot of time is wasted on the job site just waiting for people, for pieces to come in, to unload, to measure where they're put etc etc etc before the machinery is actually used to erect, say, a steel column. And that is not counting "human" factors like breakfasts on site and extended lunches off site and early day offs on fridays. Your machinery will actually wear and tear for only a fraction of the rental time.
If course you could mirror all your resources locally and quickly switch over if Google were to go down.
How many users have even heard of NoScript or know what "3rd-party Javascript" is?

They just care that your page works and loads fast.

You are a vanishingly small minority.
One week later, the Linux enthusiasts demo their new 4-d UI, which features window placement on the surface of a hypercube. The system mostly works, but has a bad habit of turning your browser inside-out.
It sucked because we didn't have the possibility of distributed version control, even if we really wanted it.

Some people and some projects prefer centralized. That's fine. But you can't build a distributed version control system out of a centralized one.
In 1965, he completed his ScD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For the next six years he served as an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT. But after 1972 he seems to have avoided any hands on work in the field focusing on:

"From there, Secretary Bodman went to Fidelity Venture Associates, a division of the Fidelity Investments. In 1983 he was named President and Chief Operating Officer of Fidelity Investments and a Director of the Fidelity Group of Mutual Funds. In 1987, he joined Cabot Corporation, a Boston-based Fortune 300 company with global business activities in specialty chemicals and materials, where he served as Chairman, CEO, and a Director. Over the years, he has been a Director of many other publicly owned corporations."

So clearly he is intelligent, has management experience, and a reasonable if dated science background, but WTF is he doing overseeing the department of energy?
The myth of the low-fat diet
Google Chrome Officially Out of Beta
I don't have access to the full report (roll on open access!), but I'm confused by this:

"Of the 3,895 men and 4,148 women who reported drinking alcohol as adults, those with higher average scores on childhood mental ability tests were also more likely to have indications of alcohol problems in adulthood"

How does the picture change if you include the teetotalers? Did they plan from the start to exclude the non-drinker, or is that just being repeated because it's a more interesting figures?
Internet Explorer 8.0 Beta 2 Anti-XSS Filter Vulnerabilities
Multi-threaded Emacs discussion
As long as you can remember which dimension you left that important document in...
"Even designers can use it."

Why does everyone assume that designers are stupid luddites who can't wrap their heads around complex systems? UI design is full of nuance and complexity. It's insulting to designers to assume they cannot deal with DVCS.
Remembering the Good Days at Bell Labs
Never bc I never wrote one.
I think that, given their style of business, 'external uses' isn't really a consideration.
And Apple's Time Machine software will be replaced with a real DeLorean.
This whole problem is being solved with BIM and Integrated Project Delivery where all the systems are modeled in 3d well in advance of construction thus resolving all the 3d conflicts ahead of time.
no not at all, failing startups are not good for anybody.
Coding Horror: My Scaling Hero
" As people use phones in ever more sophisticated ways, the lack of cut & paste will become an issue just as big as the one button mouse."

Wow, this is a tired meme. How is the one button mouse a big issue? You buy a new mouse. Hell, you don't even need to do that these days with imacs which come with a mighty mouse.

The lack of two buttons is a giant non-issue just like white space in python.
People complain about the one-button mouse, but Apple's done a great job of making it unnecessary to have anything more. Apparently the one-button mouse with right-clicking turned on works splendidly. (I haven't tried it yet, sadly, but next week if I don't like it I'll retract this statement.) In either case, I think they have the right idea. Same with cut-and-paste: I hope they'll have an elegant solution if it becomes necessary to have one.

Achilles' Heel I can see. I'd hope Apple's learned from its past mistakes, but hey: there's always a chance of things going wrong.
99 Cent iPhone Apps Not Significantly More Popular
Exactly who asks this? Even my non-technical friends seem to be aware that innovations seem to be coming at a faster pace now.
#1 has some truth to it. I was offered two options: head up a larger project or work on a few small projects. I opted for the latter because I wanted to focus on a side project so I thought it was the path of least interference. The small projects wrapped up and there wasn't any work left in the pipe for me to do and I caught a nice case of the layoffs.
> ..and even salting passwords with randomization modifications to help protect against dictionary-style attacks

Wow. That's like almost a computer rocket science. I simply stopped reading their review at this point, because if they are excited by salted passwords, I don't really care about what else they have to say. Especially if the final rating is 9.3 out of 10.
My guess is that strength training sends the message "we need more muscle mass" to the body. More muscle mass requires more calories.

On the other hand, aerobic activities are inhibited by excess mass - even muscle mass. So the other side is, my guess, aerobic activity sends the message "we need less mass, fat and muscle." Decreasing appetite will result in a smaller person.
Movage: Keep your digital media moving or lose it
$4.5 Million; they deserves more credit than that. We cannot blame them for what people chose to blog for. Not being a YC company should not be a liability on HN.

Keep it up guys!!!
The Top 10 Everything of 2008
When I was weighing up blogging sites, Tumblr fast ended up on the bottom of my list for having terms and conditions that were suspiciously unclear:
"Tumblr will have a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, transferable right, under all of Subscriber’s intellectual property rights, to copy, cache, publish, display, perform, distribute, translate and store such Subscriber Content and to allow others to do so."

So they have copyright to do what they wish with my content, and I can't withdraw it? Hm...

Contrast this to Wordpress.com's much clearer T&Cs:
"By submitting Content to Automattic for inclusion on your Website, you grant Automattic a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting your blog. If you delete Content, Automattic will use reasonable efforts to remove it from the Website, but you acknowledge that caching or references to the Content may not be made immediately unavailable."
I am as shocked as swombat by this post from the "Getting Real" team and want to reinforce two key points about a business plan:

1. It keeps the founders on the same page both in terms of vision and key objectives.

2. It's an agreement on how you will keep score: what are you going to measure.

If you don't have a set of goals and a simple outline for how you plan to achieve them you can end up diverging from your cofounders/partners. I have always found it useful to have a one page plan that gets reviewed/updated every 6-12 weeks in small ways and every 6-12 months in a in a large way. These updates need only take an hour or two but it forces you to look up from firefighting and urgent but less important questions to have a discussion about focus and key next steps.

Unfortunately "business plan" has two very distinct meanings: a "tool for selling investors on your firm" and an "operating plan." You need an operating plan, it doesn't have to include three years of imaginary financials (although a couple of key targets that get measured routinely can act as a very useful compass).
It's the act of developing a business plan that is important, not the plan itself. There is also much more to a business plan than just projecting revenues.

If you are realistic, planning forces you to actually think critically about things like startup and ongoing costs, cash flow, suppliers, sales pipeline, time/resource requirements, the window to achieve profitability before you run out of money, and most importantly the critical steps you need to take before you start.

After you're in business the game changes. Then it becomes much more about flexibility and adapting to new information and changing situations. There is no doubt that if you blindly stick to a plan no matter what your business will fail, but this doesn't discount the value of the up front planning process.
I couldn't agree more. That's a terrible interface.

If he had just put his thoughts on a web page I would have read them. By putting the onus on me to waste my time clicking over a hundred times and only feeding me a sentence or two per click, he just drove me off. Unless people who like clicking a lot while reading slowly are his target audience, this is a bad thing.
What is the Value of a Virtual Gift?
Out of curiosity, do you purchase subscriptions to digital products or services on the Internet?
The issue isn't that designers are stupid, it's that, since they tend to have a better design sense (the good ones, at least!), they're generally less forgiving of ugly, needlessly hacked-together systems than people who spend most of their time immersed in them.

Designers are often helpful for a reality check. People should listen to them more!

(There is also nothing about DCVSs that necessitates a bad UI, of course.)
Funny, but obviously my comment doesn't apply to anyone's spare time.
It's actually "The Waste Land". I realize I am being over-anal, but assuming I am one of the few English graduates here I will grasp an opportunity to shine. That said, I fully agree.
"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. " - Eisenhower
I would agree except that they have taken funding from investors (e.g. Amazon) and owe them a briefing on results and some plan for the next quarter/year. Otherwise they risk getting out of sync.
The author sets up a false dichotomy: Subersion or git. But those are two different models of source control: centralized and distributed. If you want to use centralized source control, the choice is more likely to be cvs or Subversion.

The popular notion isn't that Subversion sucks, but that it's pointless. The claim I hear is that it's a reinvention of cvs, but it doesn't actually improve much. Personally, I had to learn cvs, it's simple enough for my needs, and I see no reason to switch to something that's fundamentally the same thing.

I think most cvs users are in a similar situation as me. We know Subversion is better, but those benefits seem marginal and not worth the effort to switch.
Was breaking backwards compatability a good move for Python 3.0?
Amen.

Meanwhile: To claim that SVN is intrinsically easier to understand than DVCS is to be very shortsighted. Subversion is a more mature technology: It's eight years old, and is conceptually based on CVS, which goes back to the eighties. DVCS is all of eleven years old in its eldest incarnation (according to Wikipedia) and the current generation of tools (git, Bazaar, Mercurial) date back only to 2005.

DVCS is a maturing technology. One of the things that happens as a technology matures is that people learn better ways to explain it to new users, build better interfaces, build better infrastructure.

If you don't think that DVCS makes enough sense to non-geeks yet... give it time.
Off-topic, but Youtube has that feature too.
Because designers, unlike programmers, have much higher standards for tools. They don't jump on a new "ground-breaking" toy every 2 months, just because someone famous had said "this is THE shit - use it".

Whenever someone says "even X can use it" about some technology, it usually means that either X is stupid, or X is very busy and has no time to waste on "yet another Y".

That said, git can be used in a perfectly centralized fashion, just like SVN. (I use it for automatic synchornization of all my files across 3 laptops via central NAS). And there are some cool GUIs popping up.
I don't want to work very hard
I've been a professional developer about ten years now and I don't want to do it any more. I don't mean developing, I love coding. I mean work.

At every workplace (big to small, profit and non-, startup to hegemony), I'm enthusiastic the first couple weeks but inevitably slide to keeping up appearances with 2-6 hours of actual work per week. Sometimes I like coworkers and projects, sometimes I haven't. In any case, after a year or so I'm completely frustrated and I leave, to happily live off savings for a few months. Yeah, the million-dollar question from 'Office Space', find a way to make a career of whatever you'd do if you didn't have to have a career. It's possible, but it's the "career" part I hate. I fail to understand the Protestant Work Ethic. I don't see any reward in work, just lost time.

I've studied history some, things are great in America: abundant food, clean water, safe streets, no civil strife, no wars (yes, two occupations), effective medicine, efficient sanitation. It's not utopia, but there's no need to bust my ass to 'change the world'. The last 50 years are some of the best in history and the good times will likely keep rolling, so why waste them? Any if they're going to stop, why waste them?

Does anyone else feel like this?

I'm winding down on the best job I've ever had, two years at a small non-profit. It's taken longer, but I'm just as fed up with working. My plan is to take the money I've saved up and start a business. I think I've found a niche with a need, and if I can put enough in my pocket that I can buy insured and very low-risk securities to quietly live off a trickle of interest.

I've already done all the lifehack stuff, so I don't own or want to own much. I want my time, all of my time, to pursue my hobbies and relationships with friends and family. Consulting doesn't work, I'd have to charge hundreds per hour to work as little as I'd like, and that's before the client management/sales overhead. I've read 4 Hour Work Week and found the nuggets of good info in the fog of bad writing and hyperbole, but it basically comes down to becoming a manager. And if I was OK pushing pills I'd probably go hang out on the Digital Point forums to pick up some shady deals, but I have too much of a conscience.

I know it's not the PG startup plan, where you work like hell for a few years to make something people want. I just want to make a bankroll and get out. I'm not sure why I'm posting, except that hanging out here and reading about startups has made me think it's possible to break my frustrating cycle of work, and I'm curious to hear what folks think.
I was hoping they would have a linux version out before it (windows version) was out of beta.