skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I followed one of these on US101N the other day, near Mountain View. It was one of the better drivers on the road, although it was an easy driving environment.

I have to admit I wanted to be a dick to it (tailgate, brake check, etc) to see what it would do. I wonder if anyone has crashed into one yet.
thanks - I taught myself SEO by doing it for this website:

- keyword research to know what people are looking for

- creating content that answers specifically to these keyword searches

- link building as in article marketing (ezinearticles, goarticles...) and guest posting on a few small business blogs (example: http://www.marketingbestpractices.com/marketing-articles/off...)
I mentioned index funds somewhere else in the thread; possibly worth noting that if you invest in, e.g., a normal S&P500 fund, then you're de facto investing quite a lot in AAPL since it's going to be weighted by market capitalization.

If that's worrying, you can find "equal weighted" funds, that use the same funds as the index but weight everything equally -- essentially betting against AAPL and XOM in favor of slightly smaller companies. I offer no opinion as to whether that's a good idea or not.
I trade Forex as a hobby. I find it fascinating to learn about an entirely different industry, yet in many ways see similarities with software development.

I've started a blog where I'm going to detail more of my trades and thoughts. To start with, I'm doing a short interview series with established financial traders about their day-to-day work, if anyone is interested: http://trading.martinrue.com
Isn't the Samsung Slate 7 around 1k and uses a Wacom digitizer?
I'm an attorney. I don't know a whole lot about immigration policy, but I know some fantastic immigration attorneys in the Boston area that I can put you in contact with. I'm sure there is a solution to this that won't have you hung up too long.

My email is Chris at LexSpot dot com.
Yes. I split my investment between low risk, good dividend blue chip stocks (National Grid, Tesco, BP), fixed income preference shares (NWBD, SAN) and smaller, high risk companies.

Current favourite that might interest the HN crowd is:

Monitise (MONI.L): Run backend systems on which on a lot of mobile banking and payment systems operate. Growing really quickly, and recently bought Clairmail, a US based company doing much the same. Wouldn't be surprised to see a NASDAQ listing in the next couple of years.

(None of the above is advice!)
I've been using betterment for (non 401k) index fund exposure. They'll help guide your investment strategy, rebalance between funds automatically and allow you to shift between stocks and bonds (both indexes) as you please.
Google's New 'Account Activity' Is a Sham
They are on the most logical track given their assets, i.e. access to the real-time behavior of BILLIONS of human beings, something no entity has had access to in the history of the human race. Maybe you find their recommendation systems currently poor (personally I never leave the first page) but their potential to add value is ENORMOUS. They just need to forget facebook and go back to being google. If google is not mankind's first omniscient benevolent AI accessible through a simple http query within 20 years then google will have failed.
Was? Until what?
Disclaimer: The author is an ex-colleague of mine.

Congratulations, Tommy, even though I think you had bigger ambitions of this project initially.

I am curious what your lessons learned are. Correct if I am wrong, but I would say that initially your niche was gift certificates for businesses, because it would be much better to monetize than personal ones. Now you are also doing personal gift certificates. Is this because actually business owners also don't want to pay for gift certificates or is that market just too hard to address?

Would you do it all again (doesn't sound like it from this post)? If you would do a project like this again, how would you go about choosing your niche this time?
Apple stock is Steve Job's Thriller album
AdSense is still probably the best bet for lower traffic volumes.

Depending on your niche, there may be some boutique ad networks that could bring in more money at lower volumes (for instance DogTime Media for pet sites: http://dogtimemedia.com/).
No, it does add some long tail traffic, but most of the traffic comes from people typing 'gift certificate template' (goes to the homepage) or specific templates, like 'spa gift certificate template' (from where I'm sitting, the first 3 results point to my website).
I can't agree more. There are studies that show exactly what you describe. Also note: The stock market is extremely irrational and chaotic... people have a tendency to think they know better than the average. One study did do an experiment that went like this:

They asked (I don't have the exact numbers at hand) 1000 people to answer the following question:

Do you think that you are better informed about the companies that stocks you hold than the average stock holder who also invests in the same company.

In a rational/non-chaotic market about 50% would say "yes" and 50% would say "no". If I remember correctly 90% said "yes" and only 10% said "no". When you buy stocks you should be aware of that because I think its very important to know...
Currently: MU (+35%), GLW (-10%), NFLX (+30%)

Previously: HP (+50%), BBEP (+180%)

Prospects: HPQ, MSFT, MKC, DSX

I'm 30 years old, so still chasing growth a bit. I've also got a bunch of money in a 403b account that's invested mostly in an S&P500 index fund.
Tell that to Warren Buffet!

Seriously though, of course the average investor cannot beat the market, it doesn't mean it isn't possible for an individual to do so, or that it is all down to chance.

One approach is to focus on small companies.

Most active funds will not invest here (it is not worth the time when they would only be able to invest a tiny fraction of their funds).

As such these companies tend to be under-researched (not necessarily the same as under-valued though), so if you're willing to put in some leg-work and a lot of patience, there can be some good opportunities.
elite?
Some people have accepted the situation and literally use a sausage as stylus: http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/11/south-korean-iphone-users...
Actually, I shouldn't have said the latter is what the OP's post is about, because being overworked and mismanaged is only one reason for resentment. Resentment could be caused by a number of other things. However, I stand by my original point that hopelessness is another reason for burnout.
Svbtle for Wordpress
This is not the first post about Svbtle. It only tries to show how you can easily build the same product in WordPress. Go to GitHub to get this project.

THE INTERFACE

When I read about Svbtle just seemed to me to write great enter without stop from view. Having a list where these ideas “cooking” and another where the already published is just great. Only someone with experience doing great publications could accomplish this interface.

TECHNOLOGY BEHIND

Since I did not want to ignore the features already offered by WordPress and reinvent the wheel by creating a login system, writing (drafts and published), optimizations of queries, features that are not visible to the user’s eyes as the cache (WP Super Cache) , pushState (WP History.js) and minimize js and css files (BWP Minify).
With the exception of the "Monitor Program" (which "was not supposed to be included"), the games included were all developed by Tim and Chris Stamper, co-founders of Rare.

Provided they own their own IP, i don't see how this could be a problem.
Ah I see, thanks for clarifying :)
I'm not saying they shouldn't have a vision or shouldn't change. I'm saying I don't like this particular vision.

(I didn't downvote you by the way. I never downvote)
Reditardation (no offense please - just trying to make a pun in a non-native tongue :-) )
Not directly; only through index mutual funds.

Anything else is illegal, as my wife works in finance (HFT). Unlike congress, employees of trading firms and their families are forbidden from trading any instrument related to what their firm does.
New Java Attack Rolled into Exploit Packs
Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs for phpBB
Hey Maarten!

True, I had bigger ambitions for this - in retrospect, I think I should have talked to spa owners, golf course owners etc. to see if they would buy it (what everybody says about customer development)

I think it's a bit hard for non-native english speakers living far away from the US to do this - in general, I think doing customer development for a different market that you don't especially know or have easy access to is tough (or maybe I'm just rationalizing to avoid being uncomfortable)

What I'm thinking at the moment is addressing a market I feel connected to: for example developers, entrepreneurs, bloggers but then, there's lots of competition :-)
Adsense is the only Network that works consistently for me. The others simply don't have the volume of advertisers, especially if your visitor base is not US/UK. Other ad networks rarely seem to venture beyond the bigger markets.
> So, you accuse the other guy of being rude

You

> but when asked to give a specific example, you resort to platitudes and generalities.

You first reply was littered with immaturity and insults. Everyone after that is combative, abrasive, and immature.

Considering your contribution up to this point, I've put in far too much effort already.

> Thanks for the mature contribution.

You're welcome. At the very least, you can recognize maturity in others, and that's a starting point. =)

Edit: I just realized your complaining about people complaining about sexism when there are "more important" things like homelessness. The irony is quite funny.
This has some exciting applications. Has there been an official announcement on retail price?
The thing about investing in individual companies is that you're not betting on whether that company will grow or not. You're betting on whether the company will grow more than investment professionals expect it to.

I have, consistently (over 10 years) invested in individual companies and beat the market, but I found that it just wasn't worth the time. So now I put my money in index funds.

By the way: the biggest predictor of your returns is not which individual stocks you invest in, but your asset allocation-i.e., the percent of your money that's in stocks, bonds, etc. If you want to invest I would first learn about asset allocation before trying to pick individual companies.
My Asus Eee Note disagrees, and is seen as a Wacom tablet when USB connected to my comp as an added bonus.
ToArray() Vs. toArray(T[])
You know how many bingo activities I've ever written? SQL query Eight, out of the 1,000 or so on the site.

I strongly, strongly suggest you spend one week writing a custom CMS which hooks into your certificate generation backend and then pay somebody $10 to $15 an hour to write boring copy about [pet care gift certificate], [massage therapy gift certificate], etc etc etc. All you need is an underemployed American recent graduate. They exist in spades and many of them are trivially reachable online.

This will 10x your business.
No, you are disagreeing solely because you have been trained to do so in college. Unlike batista you are not reasoning from first principles (which start with the brute fact of XX and XY), you are instead simply siding with those who have the most power among the elites.

There are a lot more feminist Harvard grads than Harvard grads who explicitly endorse Larry Summers' conclusions. Thus if you want to advance your career you mouth the right platitudes and downvote the heretics. But the thing is that men and women are indeed genetically and behaviorally different, and most cultures over most time periods (including the Chinese culture which is going to supplant the modern West) have acknowledged that rather than trying to futilely fight nature.
> I still think tech gives the best 50 year returns, as a sector.

Why's that?
Slab leaks in Tulsa
Simple Sorting Algorithms Implementations in Java
The irony of this being downvoted is palpable.
You also have to consider if you think apple could continue to keep their margins in an established tablet market, and a smartphone market approaching 'good enough' like that of PCs today, and whether consumers will continue to accept a 'walled garden' as tablets become primary computing devices.

E: I'd like to clarify I'm including stuff like no USB ports in walled garden.
A low expense ratio S&P 500 index is the way to go. Put enough in, and it's even better.
Most Runs in IPL Record, Highest Runs by Batsmen in All IPL Seasons
No, the press release is pretty slim on details (volume, price, tech). Presumably the cost/price is OK if they've begun mass production, though -- they'll be competing directly with conventional (glass) e-ink stuff to begin with, so the price will need to be comparable.
In Australia at least, pretty much any electronic device has to be tested to ensure unintended radiation emission between 9kHz and (I kid you not) 400GHz is within acceptable limits before it gets a C-tick (similar to the CE certification) and be sold.

I think most of the time they stick the device in an anechoic chamber and take measurements at certain distances. For example, under the CISPR 22 standard (that information technology equipment with a supply voltage of less than 600V falls under) it must radiate less than 30dB (uV/m) of electromagnetic radiation between 30 to 230MHz, measured at a distance of 10 metres with a quasi-peak detector, less than 37dB at 230 to 1000MHz, and so on.

There are also restrictions of how much interference is caused from the power supply (which shouldn't apply to the Raspberri Pi) and how much EM is emitted from telecommunications ports on the board (which will apply to Ethernet, but probably not USB).
Imagine the amount of work involved in making something look like paper. It really seems to border on a big waste of time. Computers can do lots of things paper can't, and paper can do lots of things computers can't. So why spend countless man- and machine-hours emulating minor details (grain, texture, absorption) of one in the other?
Flat 50% Discount on Baby clothes & shoes by Firstcry
I would certainly agree (especially his work on Merb, since they began offering commercial Merb support and such while he was doing that). The "generously" was partially true, partially facetious. :)
Weather Runs Hot and Cold, So Scientists Look to the Ice
This is a component, not a consumer product.
Yeah, this is just going to be used in normal ebook readers at first, until it proves its worth. We're waiting a year or two before we have rolled up displays we can stick in our pockets.
芙蓉花开
Practical Load Testing of REST APIs
Watch Online Wanted 2009 Hindi Movie
Watch Online Wanted 2009 Hindi Movie,Watchvideo songs, Watch sequences,Watch Filmstars:Salman Khan, Ayesha Takia, Vinod Khanna, Om Puri, Mahesh Manjrekar, Salman, Sayaji Shinde, Asseem Merchant, Govind Namdeo, Mahek Chahal, Prabhu Deva, Govinda, Anil Kapoor, Mushtaq Khan, And Director:Ken Ghosh
Chromium Blog: Moar better graphics (Chrome 18 released)
*.mymachine.me points to 127.0.0.1
Registered domain, free to use, no hacks, anything dot mymachine.me points to 127.0.0.1.

Inspiration: after witnessing people developing complexed solutions to simple problems e.g. platform specific DNS proxys such as https://github.com/trullock/DevelopmentDnsServer

mymachine.me -> -> 127.0.0.1
site1.mymachine.me -> 127.0.0.1
blahblah.mymachine.me -> 127.0.0.1
Startup Sheep Vs. Non-Startup Goats (Or Transitioning From Coder to Founder)
It doesn't intentionally have any radios, but it's transmitting multiple electromagnetic signals. Heck, when I was in school, one of my EE professors insisted that we'd never see CPU speeds much above 100 MHz because of all the radio frequency noise they'd emit.
You DO know Switzerland has more than just banks and the tourism will decrease by a huge factor if there is no snow?
You DO know the Alps are falling apart because ice that broke rocks kept it together at the same time?
You DO know that many water plants will have less water then and energy production will decrease?
You DO know that farmers will lose a lot of soil?
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7 out of 10, where I include Constitutionality and NP-Completeness in one entry
Just a note: The Go distribution itself is full of great examples of Go code, including several uses of the template package, for example in godoc.

Don't be afraid to read the code in the stdlib, is very readable.
Bump now lets you hand out money by tapping your phone
That's because other countries didn't have retail banks or mortgage brokers dishing out 700k mortgages to fruit pickers on 14k.

This was one of the root causes but there were many. You should take a step back and really understand what happened. In fact fruit pickers weren't the problem at all. They never applied for those loans and the ones that did were in the minority. No, what you had were a bunch of middle-class people with houses buying up investment property to secure their future.

The condo I used to live in (in Miami) had a 50% occupation rate and it wasn't occupied by fruit pickers. Instead you had doctors, lawyers, and even hackers looking for a 2nd or 3rd or 4th home to rent out. And they all had good credit.

Everyone likes to think it was poor people buying up McMansions (and I don't doubt there were some) but the mortgage crisis was caused by normal people who were way over leveraged and a Fed that let it continue until it collapsed. This
Hootsuite Sells $20 Million Stake to OMERS Ventures
Our local hackerspace in Chicago hosts TOOOL meetings, which got me hooked a couple of months ago. I heartily recommend this book: http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Lock-Picking-Penetration-ebo...

I read the first half in a day, and was picking locks successfully the next day. Just remember the golden rules: (1) only pick locks you own, (2) don't pick locks you depend on (they're easy to break.)

If you look at TOOOL's site, they sell a nice beginner toolkit for $30. Love it.
No. In my opinion its just betting and that too in place which is controlled by few. Unless I have a lot of money I wont invest in stock markets.
We're a 2.5 man team vs millions in VC. Please review our skunk-works project
Draw Something scam targets Twitter users
OMERS Invests $20-Million in HootSuite
The Power of Static Web
I am guessing that most PCB/PS -like electronics would pass this without any specific attention, given there were no major manufacturing defects?

I'm a little unsure why TI made efforts to avoid it.. or just because they could?
Share Animated Images On Facebook Wall or Own Page - Anontrix
Pay to rewind or skip commercials?  It could happen with this Microsoft patent.
Do You Need Another Micro-Social Network App? You Might. Try Kibits.
Yes. Dividend reinvestment is a powerful thing over 10+ year periods.
I really love e-ink, and flexible displays are a nice gimmick—but until they improve, they are still just that. I’m concerned that flexibility will encourage people to bend the display beyond its limit, rather than serve its intended purpose of insurance against accidental bending.

What I’m really looking forward to are outright foldable (yet uncreasable) display surfaces. Done reading the e-paper? Fold it up and stuff it in your bag, worry-free.
In modern American society there are no intermediates for male and female roles.

Either women are told to act like a man (become programmers, fight like Uma Thurman and Keira Knightley!) or they are told to become a caricature of a female (a pornstar, a hiphop video girl, a superficial Sex and the City-style consumer). Men similarly are told to either act effeminately (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, getting in touch with your emotions) or they are shown brutish caricatures of men (rap stars and UFC fighters).

Ben Horowitz, great as he is in many ways, is the apotheosis of this phenomenon. Punctilious in his text about using the "she" pronoun, he nevertheless quotes rappers like the Geto Boys at the beginning of every essay.

Now the Geto Boys, or Dr Dre, or Snoop Dogg, or Fifty Cent...that's misogyny. But they are allowed to make millions and never ever forced to apologize. Indeed, I will guarantee that many of the women complaining about about the sexism in computer science have listened to hiphop, attended concerts, and danced to it at parties without blinking an eye.

By any measure Snoop Dogg and Jay Z are more misogynistic than a lowly programmer. Yet the powerful endorse them (recall the New York Times' ad campaign with Jay Z, "Mingle with Moguls") while complaining about the far weaker tea that is sexism in IT.

Something is going on here and it's not based upon rational prioritization of targets, going after the loudest and most powerful purveyors of misogyny. It's quite the opposite: going after the weakest.
Google Opens London Campus
I think it's a great idea! I also think you are on the right path with using a barebones environment; I use Linux, but it's not right for the purpose.

The biggest market I see for something like this is games or displaying some sort of video. It seems like it is getting harder and harder to find something that Java/Flash can do that HTML5/Javascript can't but they still have their uses. For Flash it's RTMPS for encrypted video. For Java it's ease of development.

I'm so intrigued because it seems it seems like an awesome way to do some browser fuzzing :D
Hey Patrick, thanks for the comment. I've already got a backend for a designer to create new certificates, but not for creating new articles.

I had postponed doing additional work on this website because at the time it was doing very little revenue. Now that traffic is up and I tweaked the ads, it might be worth it to spend some time as you suggest.
I am wondering, why they haven't thought about those problems before. CE certification, EMC testing, WEEE (european electronic waste regulations) are a big part of why hardware is hard. I don't know about specific regulations in the UK, but I guess they are similar to those here in germany.

You can get around those regulations if your product is for use by professionals and/or for development purposes, that means there is some professional knowledge needed to make the product work (soldering, programming,...). For the rPI you only need a power adapter and a downloadable image on a SD card, thats not really professional knowledge.

For CE certification, you can however put a CE badge on anything you want, and refer to some regulation (I don't have the paragraph at hand atm). This basically means "We think it will be alright". A frightening number of Chinese imports do this. This is absolutely legal, the problem comes when something bad happens, e.g. your product causes a pacemaker to fail, then you have to prove that you took all necessary precautions to prevent this, which is basically impossible if you haven't done proper EMC testing and such.

Designing complex circuits (like the rPI) that do not make any EMC problems is extremely hard. I don't think most computer hardware would go through testing/certification without problems, thats why your mainboard sits in a metal case. My worst case guess is that they have to ship the boards in cases or with some shields.

Disclaimer: I am a ECE student. My father is a consultant in the CE/WEEE field. Statements above are based on memorys of conversations with him, when I told him I had an idea for some hardware product (and he told me to forget it unless I want to spent a lot of money on regulatory stuff)
I invest in 75% index funds, because of Random Walk Down Wall Street and all the related writing on the subject, and 25% individual stocks, largely for entertainment value. It's like WoW but much more time efficient.

Approximately 50% of my liquid net worth is Chipotle. I bought back in 2006/2007 and just held.

My other individual picks include Bank of America (yeah, ouch), Microsoft, and Nintendo. Chipotle more than pays for the shellacking I took on all the rest. It is ultimately irrelevant though as I still have 25 ~ 30 years before I'll start selling anything.