skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. If I don't trust the charity to decide how best to spend $50, why should I be willing to give them the time of a person who is paid that much? It's not like the charity itself can't use Exec to purchase the same services.
Leaded: containing tetraethyllead.
Effectively Communicating Software Requirements - Part 1
Thanks for the suggested perspective, Daniel. It is interesting to consider using fiction to help spread business Truths. The trouble with that notion, however, is that business is not all that profound; at least not at the level where most people actually want to be informed. It's one thing to write about BIG ideas that relate to business (like the great education in professional excellence we got from Ayn Rand in The Fountainhead). But business non-fiction is dominated by, essentially, How-To books. I find it doubtful that the mundane requirements of transferring tactical and experiential business knowledge to lay readers are compatible with producing great literature. Even the "best" non-fiction business books (like Chris Anderson's Long Tail, for example) fall far short of literary greatness. Great literary works achieve their universality and timelessness by aiming higher, and for a bigger picture. Business books are concerned predominantly with business usefulness, which has a very short shelf life.
Great service. I used it a few years ago when I was still playing Eve. One thing I had been hoping would be added for a long time was json formatting in addition to XML. Have you ever been able to add this is in?
Swifty on Mobile With PhoneGap
Non-Chomskian linguists? I was under the impression that, post-Chomsky, linguistics was defined as Chomskian; everyone else had left the field for whatever related discipline most closely matched what they wanted to do.
I've done this too, scraping a doctor's site with flu shot information back when we had a flu scare a few years ago - my wife was worried about missing the notification for our daughter, so I whipped up something to ping me when more shots became available.
Skip the Factory, Visit the Store
We have a 10+ year lockup on our money -- we can go to 13 years without too much effort, and longer if necessary -- so there's no near term pressure for financial return.

The goal is to build Meteor to its full potential both as a technology (including open source) and a company. If that happens, the long-run return will be fine.
By all means, if you see raising a child as trivial, mundane and boring, then I would like to recommend not having any children until that outlook changes. Children require love, empathy and sacrifice.

What really intrigues me, though, is your statement that you "look down" on people who decided to raise children. Does that include looking down on your own parents for that decision?

I freely admit that I don't understand and can't identify at all with that kind of thinking. It's one thing to say you don't understand why someone would sacrifice certain things in their life to raise children, but looking down on those people is a whole different beast.
Those budget 27" IPS displays from Korea are for real
There are numerous eBay listings for off-brand Korean monitors boasting 27" IPS panels with 2560x1440 display resolutions. These puppies cost less than $400, or roughly half as much as the name-brand alternatives. We've tested one against a 30" Dell, and a few caveats aside, it's nearly as good.
As you point out, this is a hard thing to test. Add to this the fact that the question may be a sensitive one, similar to differences between men and women.

How can one go about testing the effect of language on thinking? Consider this example: English has an explicit grammatical structure for counterfactuals (CFs), e.g. "If I were a rich man ..." whereas some languages, e.g. Chinese (Mandarin) do not (they do have some other means but not as overt). One can then think presenting stories containing complex CF situations to native English and Chinese speakers, and somehow test how quickly they grasp them. This exact experiment was performed by Alfred Bloom in 1981 and indeed showed some differences. Later researchers noted some points that might have affected the results. You can see why this research may be sensitive, it may be mistakenly used to argue that Chinese speakers are somehow linguistically deficient.
Cute hack, remindining me of "Defender of the Favicon": http://www.p01.org/releases/DEFENDER_of_the_favicon/

Which is a JS version of Defender that displays wherever your browser displays the sites favorite icon.
It would seem they also dropped Snow Leopard support. Not entirely unexpected, but potentially bothersome nonetheless.
Better solar panels with nano optics?
Other amazing entries from the OpenStack contest
I'm a dedicated GMail user, but I think it's good to give credit where credit is due.

Autosave was definitely not first in GMail. Thunderbird also allowed messages to be sorted by thread a while back (which you could argue was a rough precursor to GMail's conversation view).
"But my Android can do it, why can't the iPhone, another reason why Apple sucks!" :rollseyes
Of course government invented the Internet. And of course it didn't.
Simple answer, yes.

More detailed answer, I would think statistics show a single founder is less likely to persevere through to "success". Most investors I know like to base decisions on statistics. Once in a while they will take a chance on an outlier, but startups are so risky anyway, why would they increase that risk, trying to buck the trend?
AI research, including speech recognition and machine vision, are currently ENGINEERING disciplines trying to make artifacts that do interesting things. Success is an artifact that works.

Several basic science disciplines are trying to understand how brains work. There is mostly tremendous amounts of experimental facts, difficult to put together, and some theory and modelling to go with it.

Norvig would be confused if he thinks that engineering AI systems automatically counts as models useful for understanding the brain. If there is application to understanding brains it is a welcome accident. It happens that there are signals in basal ganglia that look like the temporal difference error signal from reinforcement learning. So maybe RL research can help understand some brain circuitry in that case.

But in general the engineers are trying to get stuff to work, and they are deluded if they think they are simultaneously making progress in understanding how brains work.

EDIT:

For example: why does speech recognition use hidden markov models and N-gram language models? Because they're the best model of how brains understand speech? No! Not at all. HMMs and N-gram models are above all computationally tractable. Easy to implement, not too slow to run.

We have algorithms (such as baum-welch and N-gram smoothing techniques) to get them work work well in engineering applications. Nothing more. Might they help us understand brains? Maybe, but not at all necessarily so.
Sounds to me like some type of legacy code that never was revised.

Things were probably moving so fast that revising it was always an option. Instead of changing how that main file worked, it was "best" and part of Ning's policy to just note that its "important" not to mess with.

That said, if you have the resources to create a team of people to revise early code and how it relates to the whole system, its important to just get it done instead of waiting for something to "blowup".
38 Studios' spending topped $133M
Hadoop: job runs okay on smaller set of data but fails with large dataset
I have a "department store" bike from about 13 years ago, purchased as a birthday gift when I was young. I'm sure it was less than $300. I probably rode it around 1400 miles in the past year, and I've been riding it heavily for the past ten years or so (my high school was about 5 miles away).

Whatever the intent of the manufacturer, I'm convinced that a metal "bicycle shaped object" will get you pretty far if you want. I find it serviceable enough despite its rough origin. The brake levers, derailleurs, frame, and front wheel are all original, but everything else has been replaced.

I doubt much of it would end up in a landfill, metal recycling is far too profitable for that kind of outcome.
I know by employees coming to me or emailing me saying they enjoy the music.
There is no such thing as a "three-dimensional surface" in plain English. I don't know why that is even coming up.
Agreed. I finally bit the bullet and upgraded my 4GB MBP to 16GB of memory. Officially unsupported, but it works like a charm.
"These people"? Sounds a bit hostile.

Anyway, many social networks attempt meet pain points. Women with naturally curly hair deal with alot of issues. Lack of products, good stylists, societal issues (e.g., "is curly hair professional?"). It's the kind of thing you probably don't think about unless you have curly hair. Lots of bonding among curly-haired women is already occurring online. A central network is a great idea--I'm thinking it will be really popular. It's part of The Long Tail.
Yeah, not all pages on anandtech reviews clock in at a thousand words, usually, and the number of graphs (especially for GPU reviews) make flying through much faster, almost slideshow-like in some cases.
It used to be I would check the color of the talk tab, and if there was text there I'd go read it.

Then someone had the idea of putting a template with the "importance" of the page in the talk page. So now every page has a talk page with text, and I never check them.

It used to be I would ask questions in the talk page and get an answer within hours, now I'm lucky to get an answer that year! (Not exaggerating.)

The amount of content that has been lost by vandals changing text to garbage, and then someone comes and removes the garbage - but doesn't revert the edit, is staggering. I think it's time to auto-lock virtually all old pages, require a second opinion on every edit.
My biggest pet peeve with 10.7 (besides the loss of arrows on my scroll bars) is the dumbing down of the Network control panel. In 10.7 you couldn't configure your WiFi to connect to 802.1x networks (i.e. WPA Enterprise.) You had to download the iPhone configuration utility, build a config file, then import it. 10.6 would let you set the configuration in the network control panel. Even iOS doesn't require ICU to connect. I didn't see anything about it in the review so I assume 10.8 is still set up the screwy 10.7 way.
Are we a nation of Makers?
$1,000 For the Cheapest Surface?
Excerpts: THE MONEY SPIDERS, First Bank of U.S.
Yandex: Get free 10 GB cloud storage.
Is IFTTT too generic to do something like that?
I think you already know the answers to many of the questions you've asked here (including the post title, which can be easily answered with a 'Yes' with several examples).

I am a single founder. And without going much into the topic itself, I would suggest:

1. Several accelerators and investors play safe, and common world statistics go against single founders. These accelerators are not the ones to blame for it.

2. You have to convince them that you're an exception to the common statistics they see everyday.

3. A good way to do this is to show that you can build a worthy team (but I guess you're not yet at that stage).

4. You didn't make Point 2 happen with this accelerator. Try again, elsewhere?
How to Ace a Startup Engineering Interview Part 1
What they're dreaming of is: lots of big companies write their vital business apps on top of Meteor. They spend billions of dollars on middleware and application servers that helps them deploy, monitor, and control these apps across their 100 divisions and 5 data centers, similar to the billions of dollars they've spent in the past on Oracle, WebSphere, Tuxedo, Tibco, etc. Meteor does an IPO.

Failing that, they're hoping that we can replicate the success of JBoss ($420M to Red Hat), XenSource ($500M to Citrix), or SpringSource ($420M to VMware), all of which took open source software and sold it to the enterprise, and each of which did it under the direction of one of Meteor's new advisors (David Skok, Peter Levine, and Rod Johnson respectively.)

As for time frame, they are patient and expect it to take a long time. They know that it takes years for a platform to be adopted.
Those are design patents which are more like a copyright of a physical item. For example, the design of a Coca-Cola bottle was originally protected under a design patent.

Yes it's a weird name. They're also easy to identify because the registrations all begin with the letter D.
Netflix Struggles to Win Subscribers, Profit Falls 91%
Really? Cocoa and Objective-C are ungodly messes that best be avoided, me thinks.
I would not worry about what an accelerator tells you. I am a single founder and having sold one company, and failed at many others I can say that I have been successful. Subvert the dominant paradigm. Just build it and sell it like your life depends on it. It seems like you are equating success as "received venture capital" I can tell you that success =/= receiving venture capital. Success is defined by you. You already know this. You have a wife and four kids. I am sure you have more life experience than I.

You are a builder and an innovator as an entrepreneur. By definition entrepreneurs find opportunity, create opportunity and build success based on those things. I would not worry about what a single accelerator has to say. They might have interesting credentials but the appeal of authority is far too alluring for entrepreneurs to ignore at times.

My advice:

Just go out and kick ass regardless of what the current cargo cult belief is. If you need help, find it where you can, outsource if need be. I recommend not outsourcing core product though.

Make your own road. Just because three people say "don't do x" doesn't mean you shouldn't do x. It just means that they heard that they shouldn't do x somewhere and are disseminating that belief or, they failed at x and now advise against doing x rather than advising against experiencing their failure.

If I listened to what other supposed "mentors" told me I would:

Still be stuck in a small town working in a restaurant for minimum wage.

Worry about employment.

Worry about the opinions that others hold about me.

Never have had hitchhiked all over the country and experienced what I experienced.

Be broke and worrying about how to make ends meet.

This is my opinion, take it as such or just ignore me. I have asked myself this same question and now when I think "can I really do this without help?" I just keep moving until I cannot do it without help... Then I find help.
> How about a crowd-sourced 'Siracusa style' review

I don't think a crowd-sourced review could ever be that, as it most likely won't be a cohesive work and will have a hard time finding talented writers (which I hold Siracusa to be). And will probably fail to balance the emphasis (at all) between features of differing importance and levels of interest. Furthermore, Siracusa's reviews are also the result of more than a decade of writing these things.

Don't aim to write "Siracusa-style" reviews, aim to write in-depth reviews which are not complete dreck. That will probably work better. Or work at all, for that matter.
Green vs Santiago LIVE,WATCH Santiago vs Green STREAM free Boxing FOX HD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5REakSlTPg&feature=youtu.behttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5REakSlTPg&feature=youtu.behttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5REakSlTPg&feature=youtu.be
Looks like I will have to start using IE then
Barca!
Playful UX Design: Building A Better Game
Looking awesome
i'm pretty sure south is the only schema migration app recommended at this point.
My impression was that one of the primary drive of having Safari on Windows back in the day was to get more users exposed to WebKit and to gives developers on windows a way to test there sites. With Google Chrome on mac/windows/linux that seems to be a much more solved problem, not to mention all those old "windows devs" have an iphone now.
Honor the assist and great culture will follow | Sneakerhead VC
Luckily, Ning did (does) have a nice way to handle network deletes. Once "retired" it is gone from the system in all visible ways, and then a month later an auto purger comes along to clear database content and blobs for good.

I don't take credit for that -- it was the work of smart folks who came before me. But it sure saved my bacon this time.
Show HN: Filepicker.io web widgets - Easy DragDrop & Cloud Uploads
America, the Law-crazed
Matt Gemmel has earned himself a place among the great Apple apologists, too. http://mattgemmell.com/2012/07/23/closed-for-business/
It doesn't sound as bad as you make it out to be. If a charity really does need a warm body for some task(s), then what is the harm in paying someone to do said task? The charity gets the work done the same as if a volunteer came in.

You make it sound like there is some huge downside to doing this.
Show HN: Hipmob for iPhone - add live chat to your iPhone app
Not actually, the Accept header isn't a mere suggestion. If the server chooses not to fulfill it, the correct response is 406 Not Acceptable. This is why browsers send something like this in their Accept header:

Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,/;q=0.8

This says "we would prefer one of these formats, but we'll take whatever you got".
"The day I did something very very bad" can happen to marketers too.

I owned a pay per click management agency from 2005-2009. In 2008 I decided to buy some Enterprise software to help me better manage big clients in competitive spaces. I migrated these clients over to the software, set up a bunch of automated rules to change bids and called it good. Then Saturday hit and we suddenly exceeded a single account budget by $40,000.

That was the day that I lost $40,000. I took responsibility for every penny of that loss.

After a thorough internal investigation, we determined it was a bug in this Enterprise software. We took our records to the software company and they admitted or confirmed that it was indeed a bug on their side. Unfortunately, they were such a big company that we couldn't get anywhere when seeking a refund. They lawyered up real fast upon our request for our money back. I didn't have the means to pursue it at that point, so we took the hit as a business and continued on our way.

The lessons I learned: audit every automated task, find ways to lower your risk while implementing changes, and hire/retain a business lawyer for the duration of your business.
Tech Stocks: Cheaper Than the Market, Profits Rising Faster Than the Market
Are hobby projects with monetization potential considered "outside employment"?
I am attending grad school this fall in engineering. I've been reading the graduate handbook, and it states that working as a research assistant (20 hours a week) constitutes a full-time job and outside employment is not allowed.

However, in my free time (for entertainment), I have lots of little programming projects I've been working on. Some are simple mobile apps; some are large web applications. If I began making money off of any of these projects, would that constitute "employment"? Note that I'm not working with anyone but myself, and I don't plan on becoming a business any time soon, so I'd like to think of it as "hobby that makes a few bucks", but I want to be sure. Also important is that none of this would interfere with my school work; as weird as it sounds, programming is a relaxation activity for me.

I'm a little bit hesitant to ask the school about it, because it may come across wrong and I'd prefer to keep my personal life independent of my research activity.

What do you all think?
The Asus zenbook prime 11" and 13" are shipping with full hd ips screens.
The $50,000 Question: Can A Master's Hurt Your Job Prospects?
Does mutt include your sent mail in that view? This is one of the gmail features I love. I don't have to dig around to see the flow of a conversation with gmail.

Also, if I receive a message, reply to it and archive that thread it goes away. But if that person reply's again it brings the whole conversation back to the inbox so I can see the previous messages as well.

As someone who uses the inbox as a partial todo list that is amazing. It makes it difficult to switch from gmail, although I've been using mu4e[1] inside emacs.

[1] http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html
Thunderbird has a conversation view (needs to be turned on in the settings)
Fair point. I had tested that delete/restore had worked, it's just the "what are you deleting" criteria that I'd missed. Our test environment didn't match production that closely so the difference in data is what bit me.
I would expect Siracusa to have read books in the past. Possibly more than a handful. Books tend to be indexed by page, teaching readers to remember their position through pages when not using book marks for whatever reason (or when said book mark falls out)

This would lead Siracusa to have an easier time remembering his position through page number due to his personal experience. Note how that's exactly how he worded it, that he preferred page breaks because he can remember it better? At which point "MatthewPhillips" asserted Siracusa was plainly and simply wrong?
Parse is a great platform, however could use a performance speed boost.
CoffeePHP is a little language that compiles into PHP or JavaScript
Application Performance Tuning Tips
What's the difference between conversations and threads?

I use gmail, and I use Outlook and PINE and Netscape Mail and Eudora etc and I can't work out what was improved.
Office Next: The Social Enterprise
Meh. Safari's only utility on OS X is to install Chrome. IE fills that role on the Windows systems.
You're only proving my point. "ClimateGate" was the framing of real data intended to show a stronger trend. It wasn't a smoking gun. ClimateGate showed a human lapse of ethics which occurs EVERY SINGLE DAY on the opposite side of the debate. The mere fact that the Heartland Institute cannot decide whether to prove climate change does not occur or merely whether climate change is not anthropogenic presents an omnipresent ethical lapse. They do not even attempt to explain the inherent contradictions of their logically-challenged shotgun approach.

Climate denialists complaining about selective presentation of data is exactly like the National Rifle Association complaining about Fast and Furious. The only problem with the Fast and Furious investigation was that it actually TRACKED guns sold to the eventual criminals who committed murders. If the NRA had their way, guns would be sold every day at gun shows to straw buyers without background checks where they eventually would be used to kill federal agents and innocent civilians. In that sense, they work for manufacturers and against responsible owners. The only difference is without federal investigations, the NRA would still be able to continue claiming with impunity that gun show purchases are never traced to crimes.
GMail freed us from the tyranny of trying to build a single ontology for organizing email. To me it's the most radical and admirable thing Google has done by some measure. I would very much like to see this approach applied to other areas of HCI. The fewer flawed assumptions baked into semantics, te better.
Julian Assange defence to be led by Spanish jurist Baltasar Garzón
With one line of HTML, you can pull a photo from dropbox, convert and resize it, and dump it into your S3.
Concur about big changes on Friday. In our daily release meetings, we always used to ask people who wanted to release things on Friday -- "will you be at your keyboard all weekend in case something goes wrong?" Answering no to that meant no Friday release.
I started using South about two months ago for both my personal website (http://ankursethi.in) and a large-ish CRUD app that I'm working on. In both cases, South has been able to add to and modify the types in my schema. You should give it a whirl again.
I think http://fullscreenweather.com is pretty good.