skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you've done a combination of qualitative and quantitative research you wouldn't say that...
The real problem being addressed by government intervention is preventing human trafficking and exploitation of minors among other reasons ...

My reason to post this item on this forum is to highlight potential problem solving opportunities that may exist for hackers :-)
Interview with a bootstrapped product design firm. [video]
You say "charity" like it is something bad.

From http://www.paulgraham.com/good.html

Another thing we tell founders is not to worry too much about the business model, at least at first. Not because making money is unimportant, but because it's so much easier than building something great.

A couple weeks ago I realized that if you put those two ideas together, you get something surprising. Make something people want. Don't worry too much about making money. What you've got is a description of a charity.
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And maybe give the UI a slight upgrade.
Blast!

You win.
Speaking of, does anyone know the latest on gathering stem cells from cord blood or teeth? I haven't really kept up with this in a while.
It's interesting that the article seems to be using a reddit backend. Notice the url of the vote links: http://reddit.wired.com/ceos/...

It's nice to see reddit integrated into Conde Nast's other properties. I wonder what else they have in store for the technology.
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i've never met zed, but am always impressed with his honesty in everything i've read written by him. I don't think one can ever say that he doesn't actually believe what he claims.
Selling to Big Companies: 3 Hard-Earned Sales Lessons from the School of Hard Knocks
Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year. Obama will encourage retiring Americans to serve by improving programs available for individuals over age 55, while at the same time promoting youth programs such as Youth Build and Head Start.

(from http://change.gov/americaserves)

Compulsory volunteerism?
I got really into Songbird a few months ago but it started to feel bloated and slow. The one benefit of iTunes is that its relatively quick and simple.

The blog integration is its best selling point though.

Edit: I tried 1.0rc1 on OSX and I can confirm the above is still an issue, I actually think its gotten worse.
ha ha ha love how stupid some people are.

if you're going to make an internetcapable smartphone OS, who better to do it than Google who is practically synonymous with the Internet

first generation has its flaws sure, but it's no Vista. i hope google makes them pay for their idiocy later, these kinds of people can't be educated without pain.
Financial companies take calculated risks for themselves to make profits. But they don't have to take into account the effect of any losses they may cause in the economy as a whole (or more precisely, they only have to consider their share of them). How do you propose to get out of this collective action problem without some form of government regulation?
Slogger

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/143

Scrapbook

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/427

Both are configurable. Not sure whether they would achieve what you want, but they are worth a look.

For myself, I use Scrapbook to save interesting pages for future perusal. This is very convenient, and it can help limit the growth of large numbers of open tabs and the resultant resource consumption and slowdown. Scrapbook also has integrated search.

Scrapbook can be set to save every page visited, and to save a bookmark rather than the entire page. I'm not sure whether the two can be combined.

HTH

P.S. Looks like Scrapbook is supporting Firefox 3, now. I'm still on 2 and so don't know how that support is going. Earlier lack of support was one (of several) compatibility issues that kept me back on 2.
Redhat and AMD migrate VMs across CPUs
The campaign's over buddy - transitioning the office of the Presidency is a national concern, not a partisan one.
Sure, but HD doesn't imply H.264, nor does H.264 imply HD; the choice of resolution and the choice of video format are completely orthogonal.
Argument list too long :(
But when writing code for yourself succinctness is power; Because abstraction is power; More stuff, smaller space.

But when writing for others, abstractions kill clarity.

It's true in language too. You use fewer words explaining something to yourself than to others.

For example I can say to myself, "Our election are no different than high school elections (decided on popularity, not issues)."

It would be seen as heretical to most, and wrong to others. But I'd be sure that I'm right.

They can't see that behind that thought is long reflection on high school popularity, evolutionary psychology, and more things than I can recall.

Incidentally, Paul makes this same point in, It's the Charisma, Stupid. And while reading it I thought, "He's just saying that things don't change (after high school). What an elegant theory; Occam's razor at it's best."
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Basing a business on an illegal activity isn't the wisest thing in the world to do.
Ack... That makes me cringe. In my school district (in MD) you are required to have 75 hours of community service hours to graduate high school. It's also nearly impossible to earn them doing something interesting - most people resort to sorting books or working at a library or something.

100 hours of community service in college every year? That'd really sucks. It may not seem like a lot, but it is if they're spent on drudgery...
I spent so much time on Maniac Mansion but I never got into Day of The Tentacle (I don't remember why). Was it good?
ACM Looking for Heroic and Solutions-Oriented Buzzwords to Attract Students to Computing
I agree with you. I too gave Songbird a try but it just felt too bloated. Your comment on iTunes reminded me of this Steve Jobs quote:

"Wait wait - put your hands down. Listen: I know you have a thousand ideas for all the cool features iTunes could have. So do we. But we don’t want a thousand features. That would be ugly. Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It’s about saying NO to all but the most crucial features."
I might just be really tired and not getting it but you joking?
I've had a quick download and play with it. I'm on a Mac, so if an application closes when you press the close button it's really annoying. Songbird does this. There is no equalizer control either.

Is it meant to look like Firefox with a different skin under the covers? (because the menus and the preferences point to it)
What shit do people toss his way? Is it because of his personality? Because I tend to find him a very amusing writer, and I think that most of what he's written tends to be pretty spot-on.
It does. If you run a site, open up Google Webmaster console or Yahoo's Search Explorer and see for yourself.
Then host the site in a country where prostitution is legal.
I really want to like Songbird, and have even praised it several times in various places but sometimes it just lets my down. I tried the 1.0 RC but it could never get past "Updating Library" which is a dialog that just sits there before Songbird actually opens.

Granted I have a large one but I've left it on over night for two nights straight with no luck, so I'm giving up until 1.0 is fully out.

Until then, I'm just using Banshee. It seems to do the trick but it's not my optimal choice :/
The Big Bang Theory TV Show
But still I can not believe the actions of the great Sheldon (Jim Parsons) in the last episode and I am still laughing from the grand final-nightmare on its “mode” of reproduction by mitosis … I already have the hearing in the next episode and I met the two first images promotional.
Golden Ratio in modern CSS
It was exciting back, what, in 2006? Back when iTunes was much simpler and a bit slower and its new slew of features seemed marvelous. Back then, I'd kinda hoped that its problems - poor design, ugly theme - were beta bugs, things that would disappear by launch. Unfortunately, they seem to have gone the other way: added more instead of refining.
My hacker news profile was intended to be funny, but I'm now considering dropping the 'but close'.
Pretty much every video site out there (from YouTube down) are encoding HD videos at higher resolution. For example, YouTube's SD video is 320x240 and their HD is at 448x336. What you're suggesting is technically true but not really based in reality.
Harnessing the power of computers to verify mathematical proofs
That is an excellent question, because that's exactly what I said prior to using them.

The answer is that their customer service is so good, and it seriously so easy to do exchanges that I don't mind not having my shoes right away.

So, what I sacrifice in instant gratification I gain in selection and the ability to see reviews. Additionally, they have enough information to say whether or not shoes are sized funny at all (a little too big in general, a little too small in general).

Seriously, the next time you buy a pair of shoes just try them out, it's mind-blowing.
Yeah. The rule for Macs, I think, is that your app only should close if the window is inextricably linked to the function. iPhoto, for instance, where the window lets you look at pictures and modify photos, and that stuff happens instantly when you're looking at the window. When you close it, it means you're done using it.

With a music player, you should be able to close the window and still have the music play: the app is linked to the music, in other words, and not the window. Similarly, if I stop the music and close the window, it shouldn't close, because music being stopped is just as much a function of a music player as is music being played.
You could incorporate in Nevada...
Microsoft aims Windows 7 for 2009 holiday season
Barack Obama and Cloud Computing
If data is code, how does it get interpreted and executed?
How to Change People’s Attitudes
Instead of "Make something people want", how about "Make something people with money want".

Think twice about building something for someone that is either cheap or just flat out broke. It sounds like Meetup dropped a lot of users that were broke.
Donut Caching (in ASP.NET MVC)
Interesting idea, but if you made a site like that with the intent of covering the US and only the US, there would be problems: it's not legal if you're hosting it in another country only to bypass restrictions. (ThePirateBay, for instance, is legal because it serves as a hub for countries where torrenting isn't as illegal. If it were an only-US service, then it would be in trouble.)

Are there any sites for other parts of the world that already deal in this? Perhaps they would have the biggest opportunity for crossover here.
I have a feeling the page rank of change.gov will be just fine, even if some googler has to hard code it.
What is a secondary strike?
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BitTorrent co-founder to launch incubator for tech entrepreneurs
Yeah it didn't work for Napster or YouTube ... oh wait
According to the article:

Early this year, the attorney general of Connecticut, Richard Blumenthal, representing 40 states, sent a letter to Craigslist demanding that it purge the site of such material and better enforce its own rules against illegal activity, including prostitution.

Craig's List voluntarily decided to curb the ads. Although they received a letter, it doesn't mean that they violated the law or were committing illegal acts themselves.

US newspapers have had these types of escort ads for a long time so I'm not sure why it would be illegal to do online.
It's because they were told sometime in the last decade that you could make a site profitable through ads alone. Because it worked for Google so incredibly. They forgot that Google works because they target massively relevant ads to people who are looking for links to begin with.

Interestingly enough, Facebook's revenue plan involves making money off of Live Search ads, as of the last month or so. Essentially, they're ripping off Google as honestly as they can: by emulating them. I'm interested in seeing how they'll fight against embedded Google search: that's their huge competitor right now.
But Facebook isn't acting like a charity. Not like Wikipedia is.

If they start asking user directly for money, I'd be incredibly surprised.
That reminds me of Barry Crimmins' reply to the question, "If you don't like how things are in this country why don't you just leave?"

"Because I don't want to be victimized by its foreign policy."

Heh.
I like it. Most things I play with a projector don't start with higher than 640x480 resolution, anyway, so the picture quality is actually quite good. It tends to get a little hot, which causes me to worry, even though I'm sure the engineers worked out all the details. The VGA cable is a bit finicky, and it's a little too short. It also came with an RCA connector.
His point is that Facebook IS making revenue. And they do it from ads, mostly.

If you gave away DRM-free music on an ad-supported site, and found a way to make people want to click those ads, you'd have a good model - providing you found a good way to provide DRM-free music that people wanted. For Facebook, the problem is that they took a long time getting an ad model to work. Their new one is a pretty effective one that takes advantage of the best parts of Facebook. I think they've rounded a difficult corner.
Because going to the mall is a soul-destroying experience, at least for me.
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Selection, selection, selection.

I pretty much exclusively wear Doc Martens. In any given shoe store there are at best 1-2 different styles of Docs. There is one outlet store in the US, in Portland, several thousand miles away from me.

Zappos has dozens upon dozens of styles of Docs, pretty damn close to every single one that's available. They have most of them in the size 13/14 I take, which can also be an issue at shoe stores.
I've heard two independent VCs mention 3-5 times current revenue as a reasonable figure for start-ups, but with this bleak economic outlook, who knows.
Ya, they were ranked "The Best Company to Work for" in British Columbia in 2004 and 2005. I'm not sure what that says about Vancouver and British Columbia in general though.
Yeah, thats the quote I was thinking of when I wrote that ;)
You must have a Mac. iTunes on Windows is a dog. It's like Apple isn't even trying.
does anyone know when this new incubator is supposed to open its doors and any idea of a name?
You know that guy at the shoe store who goes into the backroom and brings out different sizes for you to try?

That's Zappos.

You find the shoe you like. Then you tell "him" the most probable sizes.

They send them out to you for free (with competitive base prices). Then you send back the ones, also free with printable label, that didn't fit.

It's actually easier than the shoe store, because they come to your door, and with a better selection. The only cost is the two-day wait.
An introduction to Hypercard (from 1987)
But who remember that in 1998, how many webpages Google indexed and how many Altavista indexed? Data is important, for spam filter, translation etc. but is far from a "king". We have the fancy that data is much important than algorithm Because now we actually get some really good statistical learning methods.
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Why hasn’t Digg made any progress? It’s worth only $164M now
Maybe I didn't see it, but at any point did you just sign up on one of the web forms and see what response you got?
It almost sounds like you're describing Subtext: http://subtextual.org/
Obama is likely to appoint a Chief Technology Officer to the White House.
538 indeed kicked ass. They also got all of the Senate races right, except for the Steven race in Alaska (way off, apparently, but who'd have expected a felon to win?) and possibly Franken/Coleman in Minnesota, where they gave Franken a 52% chance.
No. National angel fund can be found in Russia and China. They are not work very well. Basically because the managers are more care about the safety of the money, they are not tend to invest business that will spend and revenue tens of millions in future. They invest 50~100k$ roughly and expected to get back in 3~5 years with ~10% revenue.
The original Macintosh: insanely great
The House is the part of government that initiatives spending. Anything that takes more than two years is beyond their time horizon.
You should probably have known what you were talking about before you said that. Space-related stocks did incredibly well during the 1960's. Some of them -- satellite companies -- did, in fact, get into space.
I doubt they'll need hard code. This is a big new thing. I'm sure there'll be hella linking to this from around the Internet.

I posted the URL on Tumblr a few hours ago and already had 7 people reblog the link. That's one isolated instance. This'll be passed on quickly.
has he open sourced his model for election predictions?

I would be curious to see if it outperformed a naive averaging of the major polls.
They lose tens of millions each year because they are relying on cheesy display ads. That is not a sound business model. Ads are not going to support users on a social networking site like fb, in my opinion.

revenue!=profit
"[...] and that's how the cyber-pimps took over until now."
Companies that benefit from the status quo won't buy ads on networks that advocate change.

I know of only one oil company that advertises only on right-leaning blogs and news sites.

What happened is the papers of the rich started being subsidized by advertisers, so the working class papers couldn't compete and all went out of business.

Really? I would think that rich people would be harder to advertise to. If you're in the top 1%, you spend your time around the people you take cues from -- if the New York Times says one thing is cool, and Trey Wellborne the Nth says another, you're going to emulate Trey.

That's why poor people are largely illiterate and uneducated today, whereas only fifty years ago it was the working class that drove the progressive movement.

A more sensible hypothesis is that our economy is better at using smart people than it was fifty years ago. For one thing, fifty years ago, half of the smartest 50% were restricted to working as housewives and secretaries. There are now many more jobs for which a high IQ leads to higher pay -- so the problem isn't that the poor were under-stimulated and thus became dumb; it's that the smart, regardless of stimulation level, didn't stay poor.
Does anyone find the phrase "americaserves" ominous?
No, and he probably won't. His baseball projections are based on a proprietary algorithm (PECOTA).

They did seem to do better than Pollster which is a naive averaging.
Like mandating community service hours.
apart from a full fledged cpu, apple might be going for a h/w based encryption/decryption for their iphone (among other things). this would be similar to whatever happens on the blackberry. pa-semi folks do seem to have done significant stuff here e.g. with sibyte (which was bought by broadcom).
Obama appoints lobbyist to head FCC transition, reports say
Your problem is, you're thinking up ideas everyone else has thought up. I find when I'm demotivated, I'm really working on something I know will fail. If you don't believe in your product, you're going to fall short of any motivation very early into development.

Here's the tip, work small, but think big.

Focus on a niche, not the entire world. A dating site is nice and all, but, you've got eharmony.com, match.com, singles.com, and you're real big competitor, plentyoffish.com. A social network is nice and all, but you've got Facebook.

It sounds like your taste exceeds your skills. I know the feeling, and trust me it's the worst thing in the world. But if you want success, channel that frustration and make it work for you. Learn the fundamentals, and just try and try and try. Before you know it, you've gotten better. And as time progresses, you've become the best in your industry.

So three things. ONE: Be innovative. TWO: Be small. THREE: Hustle your face off.

--EDIT--

Oh yeah, another thing. Don't get caught up in the little things. If you really want to be an entrepreneur FOCUS ON THE BIG PICTURE. If you like programming, but feel like you're getting lost in all the fiddly bits, then find a framework or language that doesn't cost you time. If you like designing, but feel like you're wasting your time trying to figure out where elements go, find a great design and understand what makes it great. Look to others to show you the way so that you understand the bottom line. Time == motivation. Motivation == success. Success == Awesomeness.
Do something - anything - even if you know it's wrong. You're bound to hit upon something eventually. Just don't waste good time.
I understand where you are coming from, we had a 40 hour requirement at my high school.

But I can't help but feel you aren't being creative enough or looking hard enough. I mean I'm sure homeless shelter's need volunteers, as do toy donations for under privileged children, political campaigns need volunteers (see Louie Mantia's contribution to the Obama campaign here: http://louiemantia.com/blog/?p=31), and so do Boys & Girls clubs.

Not to mention taking 1-2 weeks off and helping people in other countries.
Lorem Ipsum? Nah, that's just that fancy soundin latino elitist talk ;)
So I look at your profile, then your website, and now much time has passed :)

Those some of the best flash games I've seen. All your own work?
For the few of us that bought Netshare... it still works.

Though it was banned shortly after it's release.

http://www.nullriver.com/
Net present value.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_present_value
while it would definitely be nice if more people volunteered, i highly doubt that this will ever happen.

the mandatory part, that is.
Unknown "Structures" Tugging at Universe, Study Says
What you said isn't true either--and I can confirm it, because two weekends ago I met with the guy who wrote the Youtube video encoder ;)

Youtube has no "HD video"; the "High Quality" mode just sends you to the H.264 video, which isn't there for the primary purpose of being "Higher Quality"--its in iPhone-compatible Baseline Profile, for the purpose of being compatible for mobile devices, in particular phones and such that they intend to provide support for. If Google was really aiming at "higher quality" they would have chosen full-on High Profile H.264, but they intentionally chose Baseline for mobile compatibility. Apparently storage was at enough of a premium that they explicitly chose not to have two formats available, and just chose the most compatible option.

The resolution chosen for the H.264 encoder is different because its meant to be targeted at the iPhone. Again, the "higher quality" mode is a secondary feature; the real purpose is to target mobile devices.

Edit: Also, reading your post, what you said makes no sense--"they're encoding HD videos at higher resolution", well, obviously, that's what HD means. Are you sure you didn't mean to say "they're encoding H.264 videos at higher resolution"?
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