skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks. No mobile app yet, but for now you can certainly use it on iPhone browser (HTML5 audio integrates surprisingly well with the native playback controls) and you can subscribe to your channel in iTunes using the iTunes icon.

I've stuck a couple of skeptic podcasts in Science channel, but don't want to flood it, so I'll look at adding a separate Skepticism channel as there seems to be enough content for it. And there's already a Spirituality channel to balance it out :).
Did somebody spend too much time trying to be meta-funny?
But the apps aren't "server-less". The server is just controlled by a different party.
Battle of the css preprocessors
Agreed 100%. This is not a bubble that is going to burst because this "bubble" consists of VC's, angels, and private investors putting their own cash into the businesses. These people are already wealthy. If they stop nobody will notice except the people who are desperately seeking funding. There are a few tech stocks that are insanely overvalued (Linkedin, Zynga, Groupon, and Pandora to name a few). But even those only represent a very small amount of money relative to the market overall, and they are all crashing down to earth as we speak.
Argentina no esta al borde de una dictadura, argentina da educación gratis y te paga si vas a la UNIVERSIDAD y te dedicas a estudiar, en Chile su educación es privada, acá nosotros tenemos derecho y libertad de expresión, y no somos censurados por leyes absurdas incrustadas en leyes de comercio, Chile lo esta por hacer de forma secreta, ocultándole al pueblo la verdad de leyes como ACTA o como le querían llamar ahora, YPF es nuestra y nuca se debería haber vendido, REPSOL no cumplía con los pactos de abastecimiento (hs estuve esperando para cagar nafta en mi moto), si es verdad los políticos todos son horribles, ladrones, deshonestos, pero por lo menos no tenemos una dictadura como Colombia, Bolivia o Chile.
You are right but it seems that the CEA is an établissement public à caractère industriel, while the ones I cite are établissements publics à caractère scientifique.

However, you are right, this distinction seems pretty arbitrary to me, as the ONERA (aerospace) too is classified as "industrial" and not "scientific" research establishment.
I'm trying it myself and love it. You can get real far in 5 whys. Speaking or writing it in a stream-of-consciousness fashion (first thing that comes to your mind) is quite insightful.
I wonder what happens to access to archives of electronic journals when subscriptions are cancelled -- with paper journals, at least they're still in the library.
Full Show 5/7/12: Austerity gets booted in Europe
Completely useless and unfunny documentation.
500 Startups Announces New Accelerator Batch
Sounds like Firebase.
The purpose of asking this question is to find whether the person who answers understands the subject matter well enough to reason about it and arrive at the correct answer. It doesn't even matter if insert is a typical use case or not; if the candidate knows data structures he won't even think about it.

And what's with the name-calling? Aren't you capable of having a normal, polite discussion?
I just discovered Notch's screen captures of his development process: http://www.twitch.tv/notch/videos

Interesting to see that it isn't as different from mine as I expected.
The discussion wasn't focused on this specifically, just a few comments made in passing. You can find a few like that here in the replies.
Very cool.

But this would be even cooler if it would be a timeline of all the projects, organizations I am part of. Sort of the Github Dashboard as a timeline, but with additional logic to group certain events (commits for example) per project to reduce the clutter and with all the organizations in one dashboard (currently you have to use the dropdown to switch between them).
This looks really neat, as long as each lesson remains fairly small and self-contained (could be a bit unwieldy otherwise). It also appears to be using the page visibility API, so bonus points.

I'd like to know what's up with the typing speed, though. Surely nobody really types that slowly!
Facebook was Abraham Lincoln's idea? Oh, please
The market for the distribution of peer-reviewed academic journals fascinates me. It is ripe for disruption.

More often than not, the content that gets published is created by the same institutions that are forced to pay for Elsevier's services. Elsevier acts as the middleman. Institutions pay academics to produce journal articles. After production and peer-review, ownership of the scholarly work is transferred over to a publisher. The institution must then pay to reacquire the same content they helped produce. In the past this made sense as distribution involved printing and mailing thousands of pages worth of journal articles. Nowadays everything is digital, which negates the publisher's purpose.

There is a burgeoning movement toward open access journals. More info on the subject available here – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serials_crisis
Agreed. These apps are "serverless" in the same sense that outsourcing development makes your application codeless.
Argentina is not on the verge of a dictatorship, Argentina provides free education and you'll pay if you do the UNIVERSITY and to examine, in Chile is private education, here we have the right and freedom of expression, and are not censored by absurd laws embedded in trade laws, Chile it is done in secret, hiding the people the truth of laws such as ACTA or wanted to call him now, YPF is ours and neck should have been sold, REPSOL did not comply with the covenants of supply (I am waiting to shit on my bike naphtha), if it is true politicians are all horrible, thieves, dishonest, but at least we have a dictatorship like Colombia, Bolivia or Chile.
I don't see it in netstat -s.

Possibly you'd have to hack up a netfilter rule.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_health_care_s...

"A 2007 review of all studies comparing health outcomes in Canada and the US in a Canadian peer-reviewed medical journal found that "health outcomes may be superior in patients cared for in Canada versus the United States, but differences are not consistent."[7] Life expectancy is longer in Canada, and its infant mortality rate is lower than that of the U.S., but there is debate about the underlying causes of these differences."
If anyone's wondering what the JS code in the .zip does:

http://jsfiddle.net/N9TNy/
> Let’s say Angel and VC money dries up, and Series A funding also dries up. You then have a bunch of start ups that don’t get funded at all, or who burn through their first Angel/VC raise, and then can’t get any further funding. They then can’t afford to hire or keep talent (hackers, system admins, designers, etc. – i.e. the people here) and there are only so many positions at companies like Apple, Google, Facebook, etc.

This is precisely what the view looks like for those inside the bubble. Outside the bubble, that would be called a return to normalcy. A world in which solid businesses that have a prayer of actually returning investor money are rewarded and those that don't, die on the vine. The reality is that if you can't raise money for your startup and you aren't making enough to pay your employees, your business sucks and it's time to do something other than create slide decks and beg people for money.
True, but we're talking about hiring a software engineer here.
Well, three things about modern Jazz to understand:

1. Dissonance isn't bad or good, it's just more or less tension.
2. You can alter chords with substitutions, effectively creating a "chord abstraction theory".
3. If you can get abstract about chords, and that lets you play similar chords where other chords are, then you can do the same thing with scales.

They then just play fewer chords. If you only have 3, or even 1 chord, then you can simply stay in one key and solo all day long. You can then go outside the key to add tension with dissonant notes by picking a new "abstraction".

This reduction in the number of chords in the song then lets you play with abstractions on the chords being used. You can start doing substitutions with chords that are similar to give the song a feeling of progression where there really is none.

If I remember correctly, Freddie Hubbard's "Mr. Clean" is just a F-7 chord for the whole song, but check out what they do with it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5CNYsmAJwI

BTW, I hate that song.
Any ETA on a rollout of the service to people on the waiting list?
Great point. I had a friend who worked as a salesmen at Thomson West when they still owned Thomson Learning which published all their academic materials. To say the industry is entrenched is an understatement. My friend told me once a publisher was in with a university, there was virtually no way other publishers could get in there. Even the professors had little or no say who they could buy their books from.

It's a few steps removed from organized crime.
The <html> is also optional here.[1]

<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>TITLE</title>

Look at that, I saved you another indent.

I think the recent Google Style Guide [2] has made this en vogue, but hipster points for anyone who knew about it before.

[1] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...

[2] http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/htmlcssgui...
Round 1 - Fight!
Designing a Programming Language Can Be Fun
The Social Network of One
Awesome post Jeff! We have already pushed the view of the comments to the public to the next update. SEO should gain considerably.

As far as specific communities, we are currently pushing to specific markets and are making our way to some influential content producers.

We are currently working on increasing the policing of spam type content and profiles. We also have a few ideas that will revolutionize the industry in cutting down spam.

And as far as cool frien-e-mies... we play well with others :)
Without admitting or denying the F.T.C.’s charge, Myspace
agreed to a tentative consent order announced Tuesday
that requires it to obey its stated privacy policies, to
establish comprehensive privacy controls and procedures
and to submit to audits of its actions every other year
for 20 years.

I'd be shocked if Myspace was still around 20 years from now.
A big reason manufacturers don't produce durable devices/clothes is because durability is invisible at purchase time. It is also hard for a manufacturer to signal durability to customers who care about it.

It is similar to the reason for which all restaurants being unhealthy --- because the healthiness of a meal is invisible. A meal may have lots of vegetables and nice-looking meat, but also lots of salt and transparent sauces that are unhealthy but tasty.
It might work directly: http://wolfenstein.bethsoft.com/game/wolf3d.html
US sets $1.4M to get metaphor-recognizing software system humming
rubygem the lymphnode.. definitely got a chuckle out of that one!
1.9.3 here I come!
No IE7/8 support because it doesn't do CSS generated content or the :before and :after pseudo-elements.
Thanks for the link add!
Polymer clay core crystal ball bead bracelet
I guess its time I made my own language... everybody's doing it!
Flipboard on Android is here?
Yes, we do need a larger submit button. We also have some things in mind that will make submitting easier. Thanks for noticing!
Have I been too hard? :(
Ask HN: Collecting Emails Ahead of Launch
I was wondering what your best practices were to collect emails for a classic pre-launch page? Are you using some pre-built scripts or Wufoo (free until 100 contacts), Google Docs (branded), Podio (not styleable yet) etc? I'm not such a fan of the Launchrock based implementations, so I was wondering what people were doing. What are the things that you pay close attention to? I would argue that the best solution would be easy to implement, export to something like Mailchimp and no form branding (styleable with CSS).
That canvas renderer is really buggy.
Lost it at shawarma!

I would never have taken the time to do this, but pretty hilarious ...
The Future of CyanogenMod 7
This is how SaaS Startups *should* sell
Lack of money is generally not an issue for telecoms providers and SMS is an area that is so ridiculously overpriced that you could cut it by a factor of ten and still make money.
Depends on if you are talking corporate tax rates, personal income tax, etc.

http://slumbuddy.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/comparison-of-us-a...

Though it feels like some of the statistics are biased towards Canada.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Canada provides a comparison of personal income tax with Canada being higher than the US.

Canada Single no kids - 31.6%
US Single no kids - 29.1%

Canada Married 2 kids - 21.5%
US Married 2 kids - 11.9%

My experience is that I have less disposable income in Canada (based on my living previous in Pennsylvania, Illinois and Texas), but I have more available services including healthcare.
Non-existant ecosystem is a harsh assessment especially given the massive amount of java code our there. Any jar file can be used so the Java ImageIO package can easily be leveraged. It's early on for this tool chain, but all you have to do is get a 3rd party jar file in the class path of the server, and you can directly call Java methods from Javascript.

importPackage(java.io);
var file = new File('/blah/blah/blah.txt');

Other languages would be equally easy as well. It's burried, but here is some relevant information from the docs on integrating 3rd party libs:

-cp <path> The path on which to search for the main and any other resources used by the verticle. This is ignored if you are running an installed module. This defaults to . (current directory). If your verticle references other scripts, classes or other resources (e.g. jar files) then make sure these are on this path. The path can contain multiple path entries separated by : (colon). Each path entry can be an absolute or relative path to a directory containing scripts, or absolute or relative filenames for jar or zip files. An example path might be -cp classes:lib/otherscripts:jars/myjar.jar:jars/otherjar.jar Always use the path to reference any resources that your verticle requires. Please, do not put them on the system classpath as this can cause isolation issues between deployed verticles.
Show HN: EdgeCase — Fitts' Law screen edges for your OS X multiple monitors.
Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/z1dfU.png

EdgeCase:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/edgecase/id513826860?ls=1&mt=12

I made this app to solve the biggest annoyance I have with using multiple monitors.

EdgeCase stops your mouse at the screen edge, even when you are using multiple monitors. When you do want to move between screens, you can do so by holding [ctrl] or [⌘], dwelling for 1/2 second, or 'bouncing' on the edge. In-depth description below...
Not really. It shows that this benchmark is crap (likely benchmarking disk io versus disk io + some caching). Read Isaac's comment for more detail. He sums it up pretty well. No profiling info, using a custom test, no analysis besides some pretty graphs.

I have a hard time believing the JVM is really 10x faster than v8 for such a simple server.
Rocket Internet In India: What’s The Big Deal?
I see where you are coming from: You're from one of those big banks that (IMHO) strangle the innovation, almost without paying attention. But as you seem so much more knowledgable about this, a few answers from you can save me a lot of money - hopefully you'll agree to answer?

> Sort of like what you do with an FX trading account?

Can you name an FX trading account that matches two users (rather than user and market maker?) I'd like to move my money there. Doubleplusgood if it's anonymous like the CME.

> Or, if you think the spread is so sinister, you can go and make a market on the spread as well.

Have you tried that? I have. And got thrown out of multiple FX venues because I was profiting at the owner's expense; all of these venues profit by making markets and netting locally. In a symmetric market, there's no other player who can throw you out when you're smarter than they are. The best they can do is not trade with you (and if the market is anonymous, they can't even do that without stopping trade entirely).

And depending on your strategy, the spread might be very sinister. I can (could, anyway) make money on the super competitive EUR/USD if I'm allowed to make markets. I can break even on the buy side if the spread is <1 bp. I can make more on currencies with larger spread if I'm allowed to make markets. But I'm not.

> You pay the spread to an MM on all of these.

Dude, have you ever traded CME, Eurex, Liffe or almost any exchange other than NYSE and NASDAQ? (or, traded NYSE/NASDAQ these through the old INET or ARCA?) If you paid to an MM when you did, your broker was cheating you. There were no privileged market makers on these exchanges.

> As a former trader at a multi-trillion dollar Swiss bank

Funny. As a former quant whose software traded trillions in notional (not that it says much, given that 3 eur roundtrip could get you >120,000eur notional) I can assure you I know what I'm talking about. And no, it wasn't in the NYSE or NASDAQ. And no, I wasn't paying any MM. And yes, if I had to pay the spread, I wouldn't be able to make any money.

> there are a number of de-centralised, inter-linked currency trading venues in place.

Can you name one that has symmetric anonymous trading, like CME or Eurex or LIFFE does? Because the biggest names that claimed to (Currenex, HotspotFX) didn't - and I know that because I witnessed that first hand.

If you can, I'd be happy to start trading there. Please let me know of one.
Somewhat odd that "Germany's leading Technical University" isn't able to handle a few Hackernews visitors showing up
Clickable Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/z1dfU.png

EdgeCase [Mac App Store]:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/edgecase/id513826860?ls=1&...
Not only is poetry dead as a market, it's arguably even deader as a form. The profession of poetry is all about making the connections you need to get a book published, at which point you can work (for pennies) at a community college teaching poetry, and have as good a right as anyone to introduce yourself to chicks as "a poet." You can't be utterly illiterate, though, unless you're a protected minority.

But "Poetry," capital P, is an entirely different and quite solid business. I wouldn't at all count this startup out. It's called a vanity press, honey! The profession of fleecing people who want to be Poets may not be the oldest, but it's got to be at least fourth or fifth.

(It's also worth noting that before, I don't know, 1850 or so, the distinction between a vanity press and a real one was by no means clear. Plenty of reputable authors invested in the production costs of their early works. It was almost embarrassingly easy for a good writer to acquire a reputation based on one work - Dr. Johnson went from nobody to lion after one 300-line poem, his imitation of Juvenal's Third Satire. Of course, the tennis court had a net then.)
Yes, Simon, yes it does :)

In certain cases you have to check the whole DOM, in others not. We make our best effort to not if we don't have to, or at least to only do it once from up high in the tree if DOM changes are hot and heavy.

Is it efficient enough? So far it seems to be - but on a paradoxically hard page (like the HTML5 living standard, single page edition) with the wrong query, maybe not. But that's ok because a whole lot (far the majority I think) of Web pages should perform reasonably.
If you like this sort of thing, you might be interested in my "Let's Play TDD" series. 187+ episodes (!) developing a real-world Java application using test-driven development and evolutionary design, with audio commentary. http://jamesshore.com/Blog/Lets-Play

My experience with the screencast biases me, but I prefer the straightforward video recording approach to thecodeplayer's approach. It's a nifty hack, but a screencast is simpler and more flexible. An audio track is particularly important for this sort of thing, I think.
5 of the Dumbest (and most costly) Startups Mistakes, Part 1
I think the main reason older people don't like younger peoples' music is because over time you start to forget just how terrible most music for a particular era is. The crap of today is more readily apparent than the crap of the past.

Give this a try: Listen to the radio-top-100 songs of a particular decade and see how much of it is any good. 80% or more of it is utter crap. Its only possible redeeming quality would be the triggering of some nostalgic episode of your past which nobody else outside of your generation shares.

I have favorite songs going all the way back to the 17th century, but rarely are there more than 20 per decade (or 20 per century, going beyond 1920 or so), because most of the stuff was crap.
Anecdotes are not data. The whole of South America is fairly mediocre vs. the world in education but Argentina doesn't seem to be ahead of Chile in a relative ranking. Chile has two unis ahead of your university, which is top in the country (although Argentina does make up some ground in the tail).[1]

The Spanish have a different story on the oil company. It's hardly an advertisement to set up a business there anyway, which is what I am talking about.

Finally, I don't think being the best government in Argentine history is a very high bar to reach. You were the 7th richest country in the world in the 1920s, with plenty of resources, and now a place starting poorer than you like Japan with hardly any resources (plus getting burned to the ground and nuked twice) is three or four times richer. There are tons of examples like that beyond Japan, the governments of Argentina have been a string of disasters in terms of providing for the people and not filling mass graves with them. Taking the current government though, I'd hardly say inflation three to six times higher than Chile is a great government. But when inflation in the past has been measured in hundreds of percent I concede that this could be a reasonable government when the only comparison is past Argentine governments.

[1]http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/latin-ame...
I'll vote for an audio cue as well. And ideally, the counter would show in the browser tab, so that when I'm looking at other things while waiting, I can just glance and see how long I have left before I need to input anything.

Excellent game.
Wake up call: 59% of mobile apps don’t earn enough to break even [infographic]
The ink sponge inside print cartridges grows ever smaller
Blueseed is close enough to Sand Hill to let companies raise from them easily, and near enough that investors will personally make the trip -- especially for demo days, although those could be held onshore too.

There is a clear quality of life advantage (aside from startups, living in Vancouver or Montreal would be amazing), but no bucks, no buck rogers, as the expression goes.
Indeed, former Ukrainian PM Yulia Tymoshenko was a Cyberneticist-Economist in the oil industry before going into politics. I suppose we in the West would call that Operations Research.
I can count on one hand the number of times I've had Windows-specific Chrome or Firefox issues in the past 7 years.
My question is less about the quality - which I assumed is more-or-less similar - but in the acquisition of and payment for.
Also, a friend's lab at NIH is using mechanical turk...
Really? Sarcasm and absurdity are great ways to talk about meta-anything.
I meant to say, that even when I get 1100 points in a game, it doesn't show in my player stats that I won the game. I suspect this is because it was a tie.