skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's amazing how fast such tiny projects* can raise. I just watched the video, and then refreshed the page and the funding jumped from $1,055 to $1,700.

* I mean here the actual size, and the idea (clock, ipad cover, watch...). Execution and build of the product can take a lot of time and experience.
Show HN: breakupwithyour.tv
NFC is Fighting The Right Battle With The Wrong Weapon
Motorola made a lot more than just phones. Did Google buy all their radio business as well.

Think about every Law Enforcement vehicle in the US; every single one of them has a motorola comm system in them. Will Google be making these?
9. Designate a referee to say

If the guy who _called_ the meeting isn't doing this, it's time to leave.
looks like you just got your first dupe. you need some way to flag books for review, so that they can be merged, or deleted if they're spam.
Ubuntu 11.10 vs. Windows 7, benchmarked
This site has a ton of potential for the design minded web savvy people. I'm excited to see it develop.
Thx:) been sometimes since SF in Sept. Cheers!! (I am in meeting just blown away appreciative by the response & constructive feedbakc) DidThis it's a TEAM and Team wins!
What happened here? Double account-ing? Seems a strange post to want to deceive on if that is the case.
Chrome should report the favicon request in its network inspector.
Falling Out of Love (W/ Your Company)
The first-hand account from founder of Manpacks about why he walked away from the company as they were starting to take off.
Do you have corrupt databases?
It seems to me that someone is whistleblowing on mafia-like behavior... and you comment on the tone.
XML and Json are much more mature ideas for data sharing.

edit: google results for:

"python xml" : 359,000
"python json" : 48,600
"python s-expression" : 5,440
the spy example is fair, but i think what has most potential are the immersive theatre experiences. like other comments referenced, sleep no more and secret cinema.

i really can't do sleep no more justice in a comment. "immersive", again, is probably the best word for it. it was quite successful and ran for several months beyond the final show last summer.

obviously it's a business, but i think it would be more apt to compare it to a play house, which still thrive where they can.
Chrome's behaviour may mimic other browsers, but they're all perpetuating a bad practice by guessing at the existence of a resource, instead of following explicit URLs in the page source. A client shouldn't request a favicon unless it sees something like this in the head section:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/path/to/favicon.ico" />

The same goes for robots.txt, sitemap.xml, crossdomain.xml, apple-touch-icon.png (really?) and all the other poorly conceived ideas that fill web server logs with unnecessary 404 errors.
You must not be describing it very well. Provocative pictures of teenagers in swimsuits hardly seems "seriously perverse". It neither qualifies as child pornography under the law, nor would being attracted to that make somebody a pedophile.
If you're willing to do some work with survey weighting, there is an awesome amount of well organized data about US presidential elections that is freely available in the American National Election Survey (ANES)[1]. I would love to see some pretty charts made from that data.

It's obvious that this website was meant to be tongue in cheek, and it's actually pretty cute (I like the daily horoscopes, they set a fun tone for the page). Still, I think there's a lot of value to society that could be created by making pretty graphs with good data.

[1] http://www.electionstudies.org/studypages/download/datacente...
Fashion Tech Startups Emerging From Harvard B-School Runway in Droves
In the last month, I attended fifty hours of meetings. Fifty. In the last week before I gave my notice, the week had seventeen hours of meetings.

It's not just where work goes to die, it's also a great way to drive individuals out of a company who just want to do good work. Meetings were exactly why we were missing deadlines and were forced to deliver assets that were lower quality because we didn't have the time (thanks to meetings) to do anything right. Meeting-itis is like dropping a nuclear bomb on the morale of some of your team members.

Moreover, I'm convinced the reason why projects might devolve into meeting-itis is because none of the attendees can agree on A) what is to be done B) or how to do it. In which, since no one's yet done the legwork to get all that sorted out, there should be no meetings until said A and B have been established and taken care of.
You're not responding to what monochromatic said at all. He(?) asked how having a patent portfolio of your own is supposed to protect you from trolls' suits, since you can't very well countersue them for patent infringement (as non-practicing entities by definition don't actually make anything). Your response, that patent trolls do successfully sue people, just seems to strengthen monochromatic's point.
To solve the clojure script startup time: http://www.martiansoftware.com/nailgun/ "Nailgun is a client, protocol, and server for running Java programs from the command line without incurring the JVM startup overhead."

I only know about since vimclojure uses it (to good effect, so it obviously works fine with Clojure).
That's what college is advertised to do: show that you can put up with tons of work and stick it out to see the end you wish to achieve even if the means are not what you had hoped.
I've been to two 'Immersive Theater' 'experiences' which sound similar to the spy experience mentioned in the article. And I found them rather contrived.

The actors stick to a script, and any attempt to interact or change the outcome of the experience is largely ignored. If I wanted to be ignored I'd go to the cinema, musical or a normal theater production.

Other experiences, e.g. Clay Shooting, treetop walks, jetboat rides and the such are generally prohibitively expensive to do once a week, and aren't really accessible unless you live close by. At least with the cinema I can afford to go once a week, see something different each, and it's a short walk/train/bus journey from home.
Newt Gingrich a werewolf? Data doesn't lie.
Check the Election Effect for more weird relationships
JavaScript: Warts and workarounds
Snacking Hierarchy
Yeah it's good when it comes to rendering neatly done content websites - i.e consumption.

But when it comes to creating the content, such as having an email done with browser based rich text-editing, or file-input for attachments it falls flat on the face.

Example of a discussion: http://answers.37signals.com/basecamp/2659-ipad-file-uploadi...
The Testing Rut
Employees Clueless on, or Disregard IT Security Policy
They bought all of Motorola Mobility which includes all of their radio business.
To continue with this train of thought, I'd check out the webdesign tuts. They have a lot of step by step tutorials to help you get started. Many are super basic, but they are supposed to give you the foundation to develop your own. They also have some articles that break down why some designs are good and others aren't.

http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/
Great idea. Hard to execute. I've been trying to find organized lists of data on some topics for the last few days, but haven't found a single reliable site.

As you're looking for user contributions, getting traction would be the hardest part. Good luck!
I submitted a dupe and wanted to remove it but couldn't find that option.
Okal, I added that resource, though you may want to consider truncating the author listing like you are doing with the description on the index page (this book had ~40 authors).

Great job on the site, and thanks for making it - I've already added several books to my shelf.
If you want the flying experience, there is Thrill Park near Dallas.

http://www.gojump.com/

Their bungee jumping on steroids, dropping face up from 120 feet, is so scary that it was used in studies of time perception:

http://www.k2i.rice.edu/EventsList.aspx?EventRecord=17603
Most doctors won't bother with ordering tests for disease with 0.1% incidence rate (or much higher) until more common and probable causes are excluded. And even then, they would most likely defer you to someone who specializes in the very narrow field who could potentially make correct diagnosis with the existing data.

Double blind trials are for clinical studies. You don't do double blind trials on single patient :D.
What do you do?

Sometimes I get bummed out over work. As others suggested, if you don't love what you do, don't let that define you. You have a family, and hobbies outside of work. Think of your work as paying the bills for these.

Additionally, potentially look for a new job that is more interesting. No downside in looking/ applying right?
Whatever, you asked why you were downvoted, I just told you (for the record I didn't downvote you, I don't care).
My high school lends MacBooks to all of its students throughout the school year. I will say that it is nice to be able to look something up at almost anytime. I have learned a lot from it, but it's nothing I couldn't have learned from using a shared desktop computer or my family's home computer. Still, for students who don't already have computers (the target market of the OLPC project), having an internet connection is really nice.

I will also say that the first year we were lent computers, everyone procrastinated a ridiculous amount. Games, everywhere, all the time. Very little work was being done. But now, three years later, people mostly just use the computers for work.

I don't think a laptop in itself is that valuable. Maybe I'm just jaded - computers are pretty fantastic. I'd say that by far the most valuable part of a laptop is being able to go on the internet: wikipedia, forums, google, it's all incredible.
Can't speak to Khan, but this is what we are doing at Knewton.
American culture has always had an anti-intellectual component. The country was initially settled by merchants and religious fanatics, two groups not exactly known for intellectual curiosity. What's more interesting is how successful intellectuals have been in this country, considering half the population has generally held them in contempt.

This book is a bit dated but is a pretty good history of American anti-intellectualism:

http://www.amazon.com/Anti-Intellectualism-American-Life-Ric...
They're using D3.js. The script is present inline on the page.
Performance of promoted badges for following someone on Twitter
Rspec best practices
Try Joinads - F# ext for parallel and asynchronous programming.
The community which had 'we cum when we kill men' as their slogan for a good while? Really?
Super easy way of drawing random followers, hashtags and RTs
Motorola split into Motorola Solutions (the robust, profitable part you're thinking about) and Motorola Mobility (the volatile, floundering part that was weighing Motorola down) early last year. Motorola Mobility are mobile phones and cable top boxes, that's the part Google bought. That other stuff is Motorola Solutions.

After the split Motorola Mobility went into "ah oh, somebody better buy me or I might do something stupid" mode playing Microsoft and Google against each other. This is also when Motorola was leaking the rumors of a full private Android fork that cuts Google out (replacing the market, gps/navigation libraries, etc), threatening to sue other Android manufacturers, etc. After Microsoft/Apple et al got the Nortel patents, Google couldn't afford for Microsoft to also get Motorola's.
IPad 3 will be released by Apple on Wednesday ,7 March
I'm hoping this leads to Android being developed completely in the open, with open-source drivers as well.
>Every meaningful point might not be on the agenda, and refusing to have a pertinent discussion because it was not on the agenda will lead to a second or third meeting, who knows when, with revised agendas that still might no be good enough. That's largely inefficient and a time loss for everyone.

But this is exactly how it's supposed to work. It's efficient to table side discussions that don't apply to everyone. Otherwise, you're just wasting a subset of the participants' time.

A proper agenda should contain everything that absolutely needs to be talked about at that time. That is the focus of the meeting. If additional discussions are spawned that aren't covered by it, they should be taken offline, either with an additional meeting, or with an informal discussion after.
this is disingenuous. there are other elements to immersive theatre than being included in the script. would you say the same about going to a play?

that said, i've been to shows where they use the audience. it depends on the production. likewise, i'm sure there are some movies you enjoy and some you wouldn't.
To be honest, many people that have PHDs that I have met have horrendous people skills. Yes, I want an intelligent person to run our country, but serial killers also many times have very high IQs.

I want someone that is good with people and has intelligence.
Don't get hung up on the "immersive theater" examples: Similar arguments would have been used to shoot down YouTube and the social web years ago. Instead, I think there's a lot of ground to be covered in lightly immersive, highly tailored experiences that reflect and tell stories through and about you, your friends and your environment. Narrative art doesn't need to be pinned to a screen, and neither does the magical shared experience of theater.
It really is.

javascript:void((function(){jQuery("body").css("font-family","hevetica,arial,sans-serif");})());

Changing it to Helvetica (or Arial) make a little bit easier to read (Putting above code into URL bar does this).
It doesn't look like it would include government communications hardware: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Solutions
Even at $500 a share, Apple is not the most expensive tech stock
In case anyone finds this while Googling, this seems to be a bug in the Dev build of Chrome, I have submitted an issue: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=114190
Americans don't elect scientists for a simple reason: scientists by their nature lack the skills necessary to succeed as a popular politician.

Singapore isn't a democracy in the same sense as the US or Britain. China is a not a democracy at all. So comparing the education levels of elected officials isn't really an apples-to-apples comparison.

In the US, a person's charisma, ability to relate to and attract the attention of voters, ability to build a political organization and ability to get things done within the political system define your success as a politician. Politicians start local, and build tight social networks as city councilmen, mayors, state legislators, etc. They then use those networks to get into Federal offices.

The great exception are candidates that skip the political process and reach high office by spending prestige capital (ie. President/General US Grant) or by spending lots of financial capital (ie. New York City Mayor Bloomberg). Even in these cases, these folks are actually buying access to someone else's political infrastructure.

None of this means that the US government does not have scientists working on policy. Scientists do work for the government as political appointees (ie. Secretary Chu of the US Department of Energy), as civil servants (ie. employees of NOAA), as contractors to government (ie. the RAND Corporation), or indirectly via unaffiliated think-tanks (ie. Federation of American Scientists).
The public safety and radio businesses are a part of Motorola Solutions. Google's acquisition move is on Motorola Mobility. You might already know that Motorola Solutions and Motorola Mobility are separate companies after the recent split. Mobility stays with consumer focused mobile devices, home and media.
The Communist Manifesto leads directly to the "dictatorial regimes of the 20th century". The Communist Manifesto is not founded in any reality (psychological, political, economic), and as it is applied but fails to bring the promised benefits as it is completely ungrounded in reality, it also encourages the leaders to come to the conclusion that the only reason this can be is that the people aren't trying hard enough. This requires a stronger centralized rule to fix the problem and force the people to comply, but strengthening the centralized rule just causes more problems because centralized rule doesn't work, and it certainly doesn't work with the horrifyingly wrong Communist economic model. This causes yet more centralized power to be amassed and yet more crackdowns, until it crumbles under its own weight.

It's utterly predictable, mostly because we've seen so many try to apply it and fail in exactly the same way each time. We're well past the point where we can say the Communist Manifesto directly leads to dictatorial regimes. I will recant this statement when someone manages to apply it without turning into a dictatorial regime, but don't hold your breath for that.
Visual nitpick - the tags are very distracting. When I scroll through a page, I want it to be static so my eyes can follow what I'm doing. Things popping in and out of existence really jars me. The tags' color doesn't seem to mesh well with the rest of the site either.

Other than that - great idea. Best of luck!
The perfect V-day article. :)
HTML5 does not mean that any markup is valid. The specification simply defines what a user agent should do when it encounters invalid markup. Previously user agents had to guess what others (IE) did when they encountered a piece of invalid markup.
I think a Singaporean would be amused to hear this comment emanating from (or at least served by) a nation that contains Detroit, Oakland, etc.

I've visited Oakland a few times in recent years. I haven't been impressed by its wealth or modernity. No capital punishment, however. And as for drug possession - woo-hoo! The labor laws are quite strict as well, I'm told.

Tolerance of other cultures isn't just a slogan to be mouthed at freshman orientation. Sometimes it actually requires a nigga to consider dissonant perspectives.
CBS News Coverage of MeetingBurner
Why are you using URL shorteners in links?
I've discussed it before (here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3439732), but how much TV watching is borne out of inertia? How many people are plopping down in front of their television set every night because it's a formed habit? Personally, I've found that I replaced my TV habit with other habits. The new activities still fall into a similar schedule pattern.

Is anyone with a psychology background able to shed some further light on these types of behavioral patterns?
Show HN: My Valentines Day App, Dovey
Search would be great, as its going to be a pain when the size of the list grows to beyond a few books.

Tagging would be nice too.
Hearts: Where did the ubiquitous Valentine's symbol come from?
Svn or Git? Both! SubGit new EAP build.
Pretty cool that the Xoom has a barometric sensor. Other than this nifty use case what is it used for?
It isn't click bait. If you follow the network of blogs Dan talks about you saw the blatant self-interest machine hard at work in realtime. I was disgusted by it, but I'm not a tech writer, thus no platform to weigh in on. I'm glad someone picked up on it and gave it to them, and you only have to glance at the comments he got to know that I'm not the only person who felt this way.
Hopefully the fact that he/she spent 160 on an alarm clock and would feel like a doofus if they kept the keypad by the bed.
Add other options besides products only available on iTunes - not everyone uses all of the Apple suite of products.
YPG: Revenues Down Yet Online Shares are Up
They might be first or quickest to get the update, but it's certainly not happening quickly. The Nexus S still doesn't have an official update, and AFAIK there are no signs of it being rolled out anytime soon.

It should be pretty obvious at this point that something is badly rotten in either the Android development or deployment model. Even Google can't get ICS ported onto their own previous flagship device, despite a huge incentive to do so (get ICS on real hardware onto as many developer's hands as possible) and having had access to the source code all through the ICS development cycle.
Also consider clojurescript on node.js, might be more worth the effort than a python implementation at this point.
If the door to a meeting is ever locked, I would assume that they could get by without me and never show up for a meeting on that subject again.

Also when should the referee say 'so what'? Whenever somebody complains? Because in a company which needs these rules, that is the only thing that right will be used for.
This is a nitpick but the author has missed the historical context of Eric Reis's lean startup methodology.

"It was Japanese management theory in the 1980s. A few weeks ago, before our collective attention shifted to the Facebook IPO, it was whatever Steve Jobs had done, from hallucinogens to yelling at your employees."

His link for Japanese management theory points to "theory x" but what it should point to is the toyota production method. Eric Reis's lean startup methodology is a repurposing of lean production methods pioneered by toyota. It's an extension of the same management theory, not just a random fad in business thinking.
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Facebook has more than one mobile problem from UNTETHER.tv
Reinventing the Printing Press
Yup, I'm selling the Nixie Ramos also. The thing is I really want to make the Ramos alarm clock available to people, and the nixie clock costs a lot to make. That's why I'm also offering the cheaper LED model, so that more people can benefit from the Ramos alarm clock functionality.

EDIT* Oh and by the way, the wood in the prototype is the same as what will be used in $160 LED Ramos, it just has a darker stain. I'm glad you like it :)
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Here's what's missing from that article ... how many 'scientists' ran and lost compared to
'non-scientists'?

I do think that Americans have this weird 'anti-nerd', culture where being brainy without being rich (ever notice how having money makes it okay to be nerdy in the States?) is something to be mocked or made fun of, but I also think that the way the American political system is set up discourages scientists/engineers from running.

Just take a look at Ron Paul (whom I disagree with on a lot btw) in some of the debates, trying to tell Americans the hard, very obvious truths about their country and getting roundly booed and you can understand why ... say ... a software developer would never even want to go near the process.
great story! thanks for posting.
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"8. Lock the door at the start time and don't unlock it for anyone. People will soon learn to show up on time."

Great one. I will never forget the embarrassment endured when I showed up 2 minutes late for my (very first) senior high-school business class and the teacher had locked me out of the room.

Needless to say I was never late for that class the rest of the year.
I apologize for doing so. I think my idea of holding your own patent was not for the ability to counter-sue, but (and I am quite obviously not a lawyer) so you have a legal basis to petition for dismissal of the patent troll's suit. If there were any effective way to savage non-practicing entities, I'm sure we'd have fewer trolls out there.

It would be a weak form of defensive patent aggregation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_troll#Defenses), but it would still be better than nothing.

My larger point is that, by vocally opting out of the patent game, the author of the original article has practically painted a bullseye on himself. Averring yourself to be above the fray seems to me to be a sure-fire way to be victimized yourself.
Laser scanner may allow passengers to take bottled drinks on planes again
The economist wrote a similar piece a few years back: http://www.economist.com/node/13496638

I remember seeing a good discussion here on HN about the article, though it seems to have disappeared.