skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I kinda take issue with his thesis:

"Every idea that you have is worth testing, no matter how crappy you think it is."

It took him all of 45 seconds to put that new test ad together. That is a very, very small time investment, thus making such a test worthwhile.

For instance, if one wanted to create some sort of live-action commercial with actors, lighting, equipment and CG, and test it as an ad, the investment of time and money would be so great that negative results would be disastrous.
It's a C5 Corvette, yes.
Easily Backup/Restore Apps, Data, Contacts and SMS [Android] » Bytewiki
I hope they fired the marketing experts who made the decision to have flying cars and zooming coke cans in my face and disrupting the home page. What a joke. Yahoo was my home page for years and when they started that non-sense I switched to duckduckgo.com and haven't been back.
it's stable to me. It's been at like 4.90 for the past few weeks..
head on over to www.gfy.com, a forum for adult web masters.
I think your spot on. I wonder if PHP might get more usage at larger sites because of HipHop.
It would be instantaneously annoying to someone, who would downvote it and push it off the front page. So the net effect is that the frequency with which you saw "low vote garbage" would increase, but probably not by much. And IMHO a reasonable argument can be made that this is a good thing, because it increases visibility for new posts.
What your describing are reasons for merchants to adopt Bitcoins not consumers. Because, merchants charge people paying with cash the same price as those paying with credit cards and distribute the costs between them. So, as a system you might have a point, but as with a classic prisoner's dilemma there is zero advantage to me for giving up that protection. And, if I have a rewards credit card I can extract money from those who pay with cash or theoretically Bitcoins.

PS: I still think Bitcoins are an interesting idea. I am just describing why their adoption has been so slow. There is simply no compelling reason for significant legal transactions to use Bitcoins, which covers for their inherent risks.
* A kickstarter like website that has an api available internationally. It should include functions for adding many campaigns (maybe a limit of 1000) and also detailed historical data (so I can see other people's campaign histories and see what works and doesn't). If you can make it an investment site in accordance with the recent jobs act crowdfunding even better.

* Rentacoder like website with all functions exposed as api.
I think Notch is thinking the same thing:
https://twitter.com/#!/notch/statuses/184933588754628609

I'm guessing it's 80x25, 2000 words starting at 0x8000, high byte is the attribute and low byte is the character. Just like a CGA/EGA/VGA display (except that started at 0xA0000). But it's sort of silly to speculate at such an early stage; for instance, is this emulated on the server? client? both, kept in sync somehow? If on the server, do you have to constantly send framebuffer updates?
Google[x] Brings You Project Glass Your Personnel H.U.D.
I think that's been true in the past, but it's going to change as more and more college students end up moving back in with their parents after college.
Ask HN: Getting Legal advice for non-SV startups
I've spoken with a bunch of lawyers and accountants to get advice regarding how to form a legal entity, taxes etc. However, so far, most of the advice I got would be great if I was buying a subway or opening a restaurant, but not quite what I needed for a tech startup.

Any recommendations how one could get legal advice on how to form a corporation/LLC etc as it pertains to a tech startup? I'll be in SV over the weekend, are there any Startup Lawyers who are available off times like weekends?
Groupon is the typical Chicago-based startup. After experiencing enough sleazy startups in the mold of Groupon, I decided I've had enough with Chicago. That type of business plan is typical of many Chicago startups.

The same investors behind Groupon are funding many other startups. They've got plenty more ponzi startups waiting in the wings.
Bignum cryptography is more dangerous than block cipher cryptography and (in secure systems) invariably depends on hash functions anyways (they're the worst of both worlds). The idea that public key algorithms are "more secure" than "shared-key" (symmetric, block cipher core) cryptography is exactly the opposite of true.

Meanwhile, the utility of public-key cryptography in SSO systems is minimal. Public key is useful, and sometimes the only viable solution, when you have a potentially unbounded population of verifiers or signers. But that's never the case in SSO schemes, which have a bounded number of cryptographic participants (or, if they don't, are badly broken).

Long story short: public key crypto is a last resort for systems that can't be deployed in any other way.
Gumroad is a year old, today.
My humble request to NoSQL techies
Spending money doesn't make you a business. Making money does. - One of the best quotes I've heard in a long time.
Something else you can get punched in the face for while walking down the street.
I don't mean selling to them, I mean disrupting them. You can steal a lot of people's business right out from under them simply by bringing the efficiency of technology. But you need the domain knowledge, that's the barrier to entry.
dynadot.com is a good option. Cheap and always do promotions for customers.
This looks like a recurring fiverr.com type service (whereas Fiverr is more one-time). Am I mistaken?
It was recently (2011) rewritten on top of Symfony2 -- http://symfony.com -- and more importantly a modern, documented, and stable framework. It was likely done because finding quality PHP programmers is easier than finding quality Perl programmers.
It really is, and it was kind of designed for that. Robert Scoble mentioned that he likes useing Google+ now more than sharing his news on Facebook or a Twitter link to his blog because he gets much more engagement from Google+. It's Blogger meets Wave with a built-in social network to allow for sharing things to other people. Google+ was never meant to be "Facebook... but by Google!" like I sometimes hear people talking about.
No, they did not disable it because of yield issues... The double precision logic is there, on the consumer GTX line, not disabled. Nvidia just limits the rate of DP instructions per clock for merely differentiating it from the enterprise Tesla line. Even Nvidia admits doing so.

I hate that, but I guess it makes sense from a business perspective.
Now add the fee to get money into the exchange and another fee to get money out.
Last night, Yahoo's CEO chewed out top execs
Exploit Pack vs. Metasploit
Do any solar-powered generators of hydrogen produce carbon dioxide? Is the idea here that this would be a primary source of hydrogen for cars? Or is it only competitive in certain restricted applications?
Sparrow 1.1 iOS - Send & Archive
These guys are working on this exact idea. But the options seem limited.

http://www.mealdrop.com/
Because standarized SSO systems would require the maintainers of multiple unrelated app stacks to agree with each other about something.
Summary/review of local arts and community events, mainly underground stuff. I don't have enough time in my day any more to look up who's playing a local show, what they sound like, when they're playing or where. Also don't have time to look up art shows or indie movies, or community-planned events and classes. There's a buttload of these things in big metropolitan areas, someone just needs to get paid to take the time to sort through it all and summarize it each week.

None of this is covered by local magazines or blogs. I can go out to record stores and coffee shops and collect flyers, search through myspace and facebook profiles for event listings and index twitter posts, but it takes all freakin day. If it was collected, summarized and publicized properly I think a lot more people would get out there and see what up and coming people are creating.

Even if it were all covered by blogs (a lot of it is on twitter), I don't want to search through blogs or twitter or whatever, I just want an e-mail telling me what's coming up and describes it. That'd be worth $10 for me.
I just (3 days ago) moved into a new city (Brighton, England) and this exists here[1]. It's amazing, seriously. I assume there's all manner of licensing crap associated with doing it as a big company (which is why the people that do it here are very low-key and haven't expanded beyond this city) but something like this globally would be so great, although there's little room for making money unless you do the aforementioned licensing.

I've used them twice so far, there's an extra time associated with delivery because they first have to go to the restaurant and order, then wait and deliver to you, but it's worth it, although I've only used them for McDonalds and Burgerking so far, both were delivered in ~90 minutes. They support about 100 different places, fast food and real restaurant.

[1] http://www.dinner2go.co.uk/
> How many people can you convince to wear glasses that do not normally?

It's fashionable (on the wane) at the moment. Lots of people are wearing frames with plain glass lenses.

> What about sun glasses? Will I need two pair of Googgles (2)? One for day, one for night?

The article covers this point - there will be a version that fits on existing glasses.

> Do you really think young women (or men) are going to wear these things?

Define young, and who cares? People with the money would, if there was a use. Link these to certain professions and I could see people deliberately, just as annoying students wear their lab coats out of the labs.
No fans!? I don't need high-end performance, just good performance with long lasting battery and no heat.
what is wrong with http://wetransfer.com ?
Any scheme that makes it easier to further inflate the money supply(=debt), especially one like this that avoids even the minimal inconvenience of printing cash, is sure to be welcomed and promoted by the banksters.
Work/Life balance is very important to us. Lots of us here at Puppet Labs have young families, and being flexible in that regard is really important.

Living in Portland helps a lot too. I moved up from the Bay Area and my previous job because Portland is a much better place to raise a young family. Much cheaper rent/housing, good public transport, better schools, it all added up to a much better life for my whole family.
/r/futureworldproblems: I'm wearing glasses because I can't afford LASIK, but everybody around me thinks I'm an AR douche
What kind of UI would it have? For interactive use (ie: not just reading), an e-ink UI seems hard.

Newer e-ink type screens are better than the older ones about reducing the "flashing" between screen draws (to avoid ghosting) but they still need to do it every once in a while (I believe new Kindle does it every 6 page turns).
Oh, I thought you were talking about the fused off shader groups. Yeah, you're totally right about the DP stuff.
...and then you're dead.
When you sell it, however, you'll be selling the source. No pre-compiled binaries, here. Might be a bit difficult to charge for something people can trade for free.
Not sure if this is helpful, but I feel this is the wrong crowd to ask. Developer needs are pretty efficiently met. I'd suggest asking other groups, such as doctors, lawyers, moms.
What's exciting about this project is that if the software is an open platform, this is exactly the sort of thing that could be easily implemented for incredible benefits. They don't even need to implement it themselves as long as the hardware is solid– just spark enough interest with the public, get some contracts with other corporations (as you said in technical fields) to subsidize the cost of making it widespread in a short amount of time, and hackers will do the rest.
Awesome! Email sent!
I've heard of companies asking you to sign a non-disclosure and non-compete agreement. Typically for a period of 3 years post exit from the company. But I'm surprised to learn that they now want to own everything you do even if it's done during your free time and in no way competes with their business. Maybe you should consider talking to a lawyer and find out what your civil rights and equal employment laws entitle you to in this regard.
Rdio is pretty close to this.
Or the add for the same book cheaper at Amazon...
Everything I've heard about the self driving car gets me more excited than Search ever did. But then again I've never seen it.
Ask HN: How do you change your handle on HN?
I've gotten quite afew jabs for my handle, and more recently advice from someone I highly respect that I change my HN handle. However, how does one change their handle?
May 2012 $15.00 puts are $2.10/share, so at the current market price the insiders are still ahead. They may put a premium on diversification, but they also sold stock before the IPO.
foodler.com and mixmenu.com offer this service in my area for (often) a small delivery fee. but then they have deals, so you often end up saving money. I think that the delivery fee model beats the fixed subscription model in this case.
I owned a Nissan Altima once that had this feature and loved it there. The technology was simple - 7 segment display in the dash reflecting off the screen above. Now I'm driving a '11 550i that also has this feature - with the beautiful full color presentation. It's not distracting. If anything it makes me painfully aware when driving other cars that I'm constantly forced to move my gaze from traffic to check my speed.

I do understand BMW's hesitation to load too much information into this display. Most car companies are notably horrible at user interface for the new technology they integrate into the car (BMW has a spotty track record here too with its early iDrive iterations). For example the new Lexus GS appears to persistently show radio station information in the HUD. This is not something that I need to see full time, only when I'm channel surfing. Jaguar does a nice job of showing relevant info at the right time in its non-HUD LCD instrument cluster, replacing the tach with other info at relevant moments.

One thing I've really wanted is for a car's display stack to be built on a customizable platform, like Android or iOS, where third parties can integrate data. This way you can change the UI to suit your need, or integrate third party modules (like a radar detector). Definitely some care needs to be exercised here so as not to produce too much distraction, but I do think some of the features in new cars may have jumped this shark already (my 550 lets me do simple posts to Facebook from the dashboard screen - while driving!).
How great a night we're talking here? Because, in general, experiences are worth more than gadgets (see below what I mean). Though (sky)diving lessons or vacation would probably be better than a night out.

"Asked which of the two purchases made them happier, fully 57% of respondents reported that they had derived greater happiness from their experiential purchase, while only 34% reported greater happiness from their material purchase."

"If Money Doesn't Make You Happy Then You Probably Aren't Spending It Right", Journal of Consumer Psychology

"In 5 studies, we find that people's material purchase decisions are more likely to generate regrets of action (buyer's remorse) and their experiential purchase decisions are more likely to lead to regrets of inaction (missed opportunities)."

"Buyer's remorse or missed opportunity? Differential regrets for material and experiential purchases.", Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol 102(2), Feb 2012, 215-223.
Not sure the example of fitting a square peg into a round hole is a good one to demonstrate the adapter pattern.

Also, would a Java programmer really reach for that pattern first for this example?
I'm not agreeing nor disagreeing with you, since Groupon is the only startup I know from Chicago, but Chicago has this same problem with politicians. Pump-'n-Dump. 1 in 5 Illinois state politicians have seen jail time in the past 100 years.[1]

I can't honestly put anything down to words that could describe why, or if it's just coincidence. Just an odd trend.

[1]http://articles.marketwatch.com/2011-12-07/economy/30779893_...
The Secret World of Submarine Cables
Pron doesn't have that much of a negative stigma attached to it when it comes to the tech industry. At least none that I've experienced. I do admit that I use the holding company's name on my resume/linked in profile but I always disclose pretty early on what it was just to make sure. If they have a problem with it I don't want work for them anyways.

Also, you try to stop saying the word hard after working in the adult business....everyone snickers when they know where you've worked. ;-)
Metal as a Service: provisioning for the hyperscale era
The guys at TechCrunch put on a good show.

http://techcrunch.com/events/disrupt-ny-2012/
by making a new one
Spammers (er, social media experts) don't use anti-spam browser extensions. Let's fix this on the server side.
Daydreaming and "wasting time" are correlated with creativity and insight. There is a tendency these days to trivialize the mind by being permanently preoccupied with little things, like checking the news, checking the social network, checking the email - things that require a narrow, restricted perspective and effectively kill wider thoughts.

This is akin to eating junk food. There is an innate tendency in us to consume this sort of garbage (burgers, email updates), and it seems nourishing and useful in the short term, but over a longer range it may well prove disastrous.

Just like we learned to keep our instincts in check and avoid junk food, we may have to learn to keep the trivia-hungry part of our brains in a leash, and once in a while, or perhaps several times a day, purposefully unplug from the data hive and let the mind soar, roam, wander, or whatever it is that it wants to do.

So, I'd say, the answer is "no", you're not a Luddite, you're pointing out an important issue.
I like this service more and more. The user experience is excellent and I appreciate the fact that it supports multiple languages.
Very impressed with what Sahil did here in just 12 months.
CPU is rather a small power of total platform power consumption these days. Switching x86 to ARM won't magically get you from 5 to 50 hours of active usage. If you compare MacBook Air and the new iPad, you'll see that the difference is actually rather small:

MacBook Air 11.6 - 35 WHr battery and 5 hours of Wifi Usage at 7 W [1]
New iPad - 42.5 WHr battery and 10 hours of Wifi Usage at 4.25 W [2]

e-ink screen may make that last far longer... but if you've spent any time trying to use the e-ink Kindle browser, you'll quickly realize that the lack of fast refresh rate is a very difficult problem to solve in terms of usable UI.

[1] http://www.apple.com/macbookair/specs.html
[2] http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/
Good question.

I'm familiar with two 'unix' networks that stood apart from the windows networks in an enterprisey setting.

- NIS+

- Scripts to copy a 'master' /etc/passwd to all other unix hosts. Keep the master under version control.

But I've been here for over a decade. When I got here we were using vintella which hooks the unix hosts into AD.
Works for me (newly installed Opera 11.62 Build
1347 on Windows 7).
Not only what tptacek said, but it's somewhat related to NIH syndrome. People look at the specs for standards like OpenID, OAuth or SAML2; think it's way too complex; and decide they can write something much simpler to suit their needs. After dealing SAML myself for a couple years, I agree it's huge and possibly over-engineered, but it also has years of work put into it, and there are well-tested implementations that you can use, just maybe not in your favorite language.

Note: I'm talking about Web-SSO. Host SSO pretty much consists of LDAP+Krb5 (which is the basis of Active Directory authentication), or just LDAP. Everything else is pretty much dead, though NIS still sticks around the *nix world due to it's ease of configuration.
Have you looked at vend? (vendhq.com) interesting startup from NZ
You might also want to examine the OpenID way, in which case you can use for example, this https://github.com/jondot/passage, or this https://github.com/dbloete/masquerade (depending on how complex the project you want to build on)
The idea that public key algorithms are "more secure" than "shared-key" (symmetric, block cipher core) cryptography is exactly the opposite of true.

That seems backwards to me. How is having one key that can sign things be less secure than having multiple? If someone pwns a box with the shared key, they can forge credentials. If someone pwns a box with the public key, they can't. I would make sense to me that you'd want the important key that can be used to sign credentials in as few places as possible.
"It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them."
-- Steve Jobs, BusinessWeek, May 25 1998
I believe Rich Hickey discussed Datomic in his Clojure/west keynote:

http://clojurewest.org/sessions/

I'm looking forward to the release of the conference videos.
The Internet didn't go dark on sunday.
I have a feeling this game will be the driving force in making me learn up on this area of CS.
Wait, does the text shuffle around for anyone else when you click on a sentence?

EDIT: It looks like an odd CSS issue: the first line of each paragraph is being hidden.
"Software Estimates are Hard", said the stone mason.
That place is a joke and cesspool of everything that is wrong with the industry.
Note that this VM can depend on behaviour that is explicitly left undefined by the C11 standard. For example, this DCPU-16 program can cause a shift by an amount greater than the width of uint16_t:

SET A, 0x1
SHL A, 0x100
> I decided I definitely did NOT like being poor

"Money doesn't buy happiness, but having no money can sure buy a lot of misery." On a related note, it really grinds my gears when I hear well-to-do young adults from middle class families say money doesn't matter when they've never struggled to pay rent or for basic medical care.
PHP is the most used language in the adult realm.
I didn't read that in this article. I thought the data was showing that even in roles where that were more male or female dominated, there was either no difference in how effective the people were seen to be at their roles (or the women were seen as more effective).
Link building service.
Article writing.
I tried to use twitter to aggregate this data, following relevant things related to minneapolis, but it was a complete failure.
The logic of his statement doesn't stand up however.

Prohibition laws regarding popular and easily obtainable narcotics do not reduce other crimes, but rather, in several measurable ways increases them, the most obvious one being that it then directly finances a lot of other organised crime.
What about Vend (http://www.vendhq.com) ?
Who made fun of Google for not doing social? I do recall them being made fun of for not doing social well - Buzz and Wave come to mind.
One service that I love and used many times is GrubHub.com to find restaurants delivering late at night to order. Another competitor that I've seen ads for but have not tried is seamless.com
wow, for crowded city like New York City, where there is thousands of amazing restaurants where they _dont_ deliver, this is a huge market and amazing idea coming together!
Also

* prediction market/betting site (with ability to bet on anything) with api and detailed historical data.

* Also, a stock exchange where I can invest in houses, small local businesses, commercial property. Should have api and historical data.

* A patent stock exchange (api+data)

Not $10 a month service, but something I'd pay for (maybe up to $10 per hour)
Internet access to a factory robot.

$10 service - rentacoder like site except for factory automation services (bids/fulfillmnt on design of turn-key automation systems) along with api.
How about kicksend or wireover?