skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Starting with uTorrent "enhancing" their users' experiences with bundled adware:

http://www.ghacks.net/2012/05/04/utorrent-update-comes-bundl...
Try to get into the hackathon and build something semi-related to your startup. $1995 then becomes free - the hackathon gives you a free ticket to the event.
He has been an Emacs fan for a long time now. You should probably check out his "Effective Emacs" article. Lots of good advice there.
I love this essay but would find it more believable if it did not come from one of the people who best exemplifies genius in mathematics.

Sure, hard work may be the way that he experiences himself. But read http://www.davidsongifted.org/db/Articles_id_10116.aspx for an account of his childhood, written when he was 10. Teaching yourself to read and do math before most children can use complete sentences requires something more than pure effort. My son is well above average, but there is absolutely no way that it would be possible to get him to work hard enough to compare with average high school seniors on the SATs before he was 10, let alone scoring near the top. (For those who took the SATs in the last 20 years, the scale used in the 1980s was much tougher than it is now. 700+ would have been easily in the top 1% on the test.)

All of that said, he would not have his current success without constantly working hard. And it is possible to succeed without being at Terry's level of genius. But he's the worst possible example to use for saying that what appears to be genius is just hard work. Because sometimes what appears to be genius really is genius if you dig in.
I don't know about you but getting real autocomplete and refactoring in Emacs for M languages is a dream come true for me. I don't want a different IDE for each language. I want one Editor to Rule Them All.

Making the infrastructure to understand a programming language shareable between all the ways to edit/refactor/analyze code in that language is far from dumb. It's something Eclipse/IntelliJ/VisualStudio should have done a long long time ago. Heck I once attempted to pick apart the tooling in Eclipse into something I could use headless without booting the entire thing and the code was so tightly integrated into their GUI I gave up in disgust. I mean this is architecture 101. Clear API's and division of labor should have been on everyone's mind but instead the whole thing is a pile of spaghetti code.

Even something as simple as a CLI interface to your IDE's language support features so I could integrate them into editor of my choice would have been smart. But no one did that. I work with 4 different languages minimum every day at work. I'm not going to context switch my editor/IDE for each one of them. For this reason I'm cheering Yegge on like mad.

(Full disclosure: I work at google same as Yegge. I've had these opinions for longer than I've worked there though.)
The sites that host all the content found on sites like tvlinks.co.uk, surfthechannel.com - those have been shut down but they were link directories of movies and tv shows making bank on ad impressions and referral fees funneling traffic to the videos hosted on other sites.

One of the arguments against Mega was they affiliated with these sites and knowingly paid these indexing sites lots of money for referring new customers who paid to watch or download pirated content on MegaVideo and MegaUpload.

They all pay lip service to the DMCA but their entire business model is to hold content just long enough to entice people to pay to access it or the next upload of it.

Really though I think the link sites are going to be the real losers in this action rather than the actual video sites, if you go to google and search for 'watch <any tv show or movie>' you'll see a lot of intermediary link sites competing for that traffic.
Am I the only one that really, really hates the word "grok"? I was hoping it would eventually lose favor among us geeks, but now with this project's name I fear I may just have to get used to it.
A patent troll is what is referred to legally as a non-practicing entity: A corporation that owns and enforces patents without producing any products or services using those patents.

It's not an insult--it's actually a descriptive term in this context (albeit one with strong negative connotations).
That's amazing.

The area toward the top center, where you can see the color striations in the hills is, I think, the rover's primary destination.

I played with it a bit in Photoshop to attempt to correct for the atmospheric haze and wound up with this: http://orng.us/faquvj which may be (probably is) highly inaccurate, but it does make it very evident that there are a variety of rock types and a good deal of exposed geological history there to be sampled.
BryanB55

this video might help: https://vimeo.com/28247681
ajays,

Here is a video we put together a year ago while at Singularity University when Matternet was a concept and before there were two groups.

https://vimeo.com/28247681
Read your post and did a search could be a good starting point. Worked for me. Give this link a try. //lmgtfy.com/?q=hackerspaces+nyc
You are not alone, it's a horrible horrible word.
After reading Daemon, should I be worried?
Hmm. Well that's interesting. I guess I was wrong. I'm even more surprised with the 150-200+ miles cycling. I suppose intensity does have more influence than I would have thought.
For specialists, sure. But for a GP shouldn't it be essential to be knowledgeable and effective about basic fitness and nutrition?

My (relatively uninformed) impression is that studies of fitness and nutrition are surprisingly unsophisticated relative to research for curing specific diseases.

This is basically the debate of preventive care vs. palliative care (and, I guess, the argument that one allows for much higher profits than the other).
Sites down...
Come off it, you take an old school accounts department, put in any accounting software and boom, massive ball ache solved. The majority of the accounts department suddenly turns into credit control.

There's a very good reason why the enterprise software industry sells billions. Because they save 10s, 100s or 1000s of billions.

For custom software, that's what a good consultant/PM is actually for, to translate 'what we thought we were doing' into 'what we're actually doing' into the final product of 'what it should actually do'.

I once worked for a company that sold project and document management software. The strangest call I ever got was from a small 20 person company phoning us up and saying 'What is Sue supposed to do now, she doesn't have anything to do'. That's what you bought the software for, to save money. Added bonus, management gets massive strategic oversight. But in the end it's up to them to use it.
This isn't out yet, but it looks like it's going to be awesome:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/eallam/try-ios-iphone-ap...
Here is one alternative: http://www.tonido.com/app_torrent_home.html. Manage your torrents from anywhere.
An Open Letter to Youtube
Around 9 months ago I wrote about my iOS development at http://cherrypopapp.com/blog#iPhone_Development

Take-away is; I started with the stanford tutorials (great!), but then just decided to dive in and learn along the way.
Nathan Myhrvoid defends patent trolling
The black strip in the top looks like a dried-up river valley. Or is it just rock/soil patterns?
Wow: Craigslist loses Craigslists.com domain dispute
The LEGO Story
> And perhaps the most mission-critical of all mission-critical applications are the ones that underpin the securities markets where a large share of the world's wealth is locked up.

Really? I don't even consider the stock market software as mission critical. I mean, Jane Street's software is written in OCaml...

Mission critical is software that controls lives. Airplane, spaceship, heart pacer, ...
http://www.businessinsider.com/nsa-whistleblower-says-the-go...

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/4/20/exclusive_national_sec...

Isn't internet traffic a non secret now after the warrantless spying program fiasco that whistleblower Diane Roark allegedly leaked? And if you have cell phone information you have movement information, I haven't heard anything specifically about movement other than that.
That will work, you have to ultimately adjust the diet to perfectly fit your lifestyle of choice. I don't eat crap or drink in the first place, in large part because there's indication that sugar, refined grains and alcohol are the major cause of the most common western diet diseases (obesity, diabetes, cancer and so on). I'm shooting for the long term here.

With exception for the time when I'm out meeting people, I'm chained to a desk (either sitting or standing) and thus lead an ultra-sedentary lifestyle. I can get better health than most and free up time for things that matter to me by simply avoiding unnecessary food. It's a worthwhile sacrifice, and I think a very smart bargain.
http://hacking.meetup.com/cities/us/ny/new_york/
... usually of the crappiest, lowest-paying ads. A lot of businesses don't want to be associated with TPB or some of the content on there so sometimes they're really scraping the bottom of the barrel.
That doesn't make any sense. All those other sites get DMCA requests and handle them and don't even tell google about them.

Only search takedowns matter, and there is nothing special about youtube when it comes to search takedowns.
Woa mama! Sorry guys, site-owner here - wasn't prepared for HN. Trying to get it back up. Anyway, the conclusion - in order: Derby, Meteor, SocketStream, Express, Tower. Express was less in the ordered list and more an "if you don't want the full-fledged framework"
I solved this problem -- I had my search preferences set to return 100 results. If I change it to return 10 results, I no longer get duplication of results. Seems like google really wants to push users to refresh their ads.
Humans are the resilience in any system. No system is ever perfect, and no system will ever be. I think we'll be fine.
That reference states that it's about $4k for low earth orbit, $10k for higher orbit (geosynchronous transfer orbit). So the cost to get a pound to Mars is certainly >$10k.
The posting of this news is starting to become a little excessive, in my opinion.
Out of curiousness..what support will App.net have for analytics/data? Obviously this is a more user driven platform so I'm curious what data will be supported or what the intent for this API would be besides publishing.
Having lived in India for most of my life, I can say that you are correct about the business plan. Cable costs less than $10 at most places (less than $5 at some), therefore being easily accessible. By putting everything up on youtube, I think they earn some handsome ad revenue because of Indians abroad, a sizeable population, who otherwise would search for the shows online and end up watching them on sites where ads outnumber content and which more often than not are virus infected. End of the day it's a win win for everyone. Indians viewers abroad get to view the favorite shows via reliable means and the producers earn some youtube ad revenue which they otherwise would have never earned.
3D printer to print a house in 20 hours
Content Type Page Templates in Drupal?
Gallup is highly respected and aren't stupid. If you actually continued reading:

"Samples are WEIGHTED by gender, age, race, Hispanic ethnicity, education, region, adults in the household, and phone status (cell phone only/landline only/both, cell phone mostly, and having an unlisted landline number)."
Sounds like one of the Craig's needs some new lawyers.
If you're interested in building games and have done some programming before you should check out MakeGamesWithUs (www.makegameswith.us). The tutorials take you through building a clone of Angry Birds and are tailored to beginners.
Whenever you see an article like this, it is always useful to check out what they've made:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Polyclef+Sof...

Speaks for itself.
When will we have LINQ in Java?
The game also had the advantage of free ideation and fun-testing; Tiny Wings is a zynga-style copy of the best flash game from a small flash dev's one-experimental-game-a-week-for-a-year personal project. Tiny Wings' contribution was mostly brought art and a few extra weeks of development.

http://nmccoy.net/2011/02/24/on-the-whole-wavespark-tiny-win...
http://nmccoy.net/2011/02/26/setting-the-record-straight/
SurfTheChannel was rumored to make around $2000/day off just 400,000 daily visitors at its peak - TPB probably hasn't had traffic that low in years.

http://torrentfreak.com/surfthechannel-owner-found-guilty-of...
The most common degree of CEOs hired into Fortune 500 companies is an MBA. Marissa appears to be the first computer scientist.

There are more. Eric Schmidt springs to mind. When hired into Google, he had a PhD in electrical engineering.
It sounds like you can use this to determine if someone is a mapper or a packer.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MappersVsPackers

http://the-programmers-stone.com/the-original-talks/day-1-th...
I don't understand the negativity towards this article. I don't think Derek's message hung solely on the removal of the 'What's New' section, but it being the final straw in series of issues for indie devs. Yes, there are other channels for promotions, but this was (or had the potential to be) and important one.

I'm an Android user, so I hope that if this experience is indicative of many, that there will be new tools for indie devs, to help them get that initial bit of momentum.

I'm very interested to see if the OUYA can deliver on promise. It looks like a fantastic machine and at its price point, there will be no reason not to have one on every tv in the house. That will be an exciting new frontier in game development.
I'm not sure I completely disagree with his argument--folks I know who are not putting out crapware like this say similar things--but you're right in that it's hard to take it seriously when his products are apps like this.
I have questions: who owns Mars? Who owns Mars land? If, say, somehow 200 people go there... Which laws will apply? What do they do if they found (i know unlikely as 99,99999999%) Martian bacteria everywhere? Will they need to go back and leave the whole planet to the bacteria?
Blogspam, flagged: http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=itsclearleon
Arch + xmonad + Screen + urxvt + Bash + Vim here, though I've found my use of Screen has dropped significantly since switching from KDE to xmonad, because the tiling is done right in the WM. I've got certificate-based login and Bash aliases set up for all my frequently accessed servers, so it's easy to open new terminals. The only real need for Screen is for stuff that needs to be persistent, but I try to avoid using persistency whenever possible, because it would just lead to me opening 100+ terminals in a Screen session, much like I do in Firefox (also not a good thing, but I haven't found a solution yet).
It is not excessive until there are as many space related startups as consumer software startups. At that point, we can complain about space being annoying, and look forward to teleportation and time travel startups.
At least "wayfarer" is a word. I worked at "Adapx". Don't feel bad, everyone except the employees pronounced it wrong. The fact that the marketing company that charged them for it wasn't laughed out of the room amuses me. The decision makers had to have asked, "how do you pronounce it?" And they wrote a check anyway.

("Adapts" or maybe "adaps" is the intended pronunciation, I'm still not exactly sure and I worked there.)
How would a private corporation profit from this? I can only imagine it could be possible if we pay them with our taxes more than the value of the mission so I wonder why shouldn't we use the NASA instead since they are the most qualified to do it.
Ha.. ha.. Actually I missed the 'r' while posting it on HN and I noticed it after an hour. No way to change the title. I tried to proof read my article to make it correct as much as possible.
It is dumb the way it's phrased. The easiest way to achieve it is to define a super language that all other languages can be shallowly encodes into. Describing this as ambitious is dumb.
Could lasers solve the military's friendly-fire problem?
The psych is covered in the 3rd set of slides (Pricing Under Consumer Uncertainty). As someone who took the course, it was excellent and the outlines actually do cover the majority of what is offered in the class. I would highly recommend reading through them, though they are a bit dense and lack the color and charm of her slides (not on OCW).
Your about page claims that you do not have ways for freelancers to ask questions about unclear project descriptions because "vague employers are unsafe anyway". Since employers are not paying anything to post projects, how can you ensure that they write detailed project descriptions?
NASA might be the most qualified to do it (debatable, but let's take that statement at face value for a moment), but they're hamstrung by Congress. Budget priorities change every two years as a new Congress comes into place, powerful Congresmen require the use of a particular company in their district, etc.
No. Unless you get to present on stage in the Battlefield, of which only a handful are chosen, the Alley is a complete joke. Majority of the people there will be focused on the Battlefield and hardly any will frequent the Alley floor except mostly other TCD Alley folks and some random people here and there including MAYBE some off handed press folks. Of all the conferences I've attended, by far one of the worse from an attendee perspective (Launch is up there too), much less, a company with a table.

If you're hoping for exposure, this isn't it, unless again, you're in Battlefield. Just about any other tech conference would be worth your money instead, and a lot less generally speaking.
I'm curious, Why? I have no problem with grok as long as anyone that uses the term has actually read 'Stranger in a Strange Land'. Honestly if there ever was a word that needed to be tossed out with the bathwater I believe it would be hacker.
The problem isn't Google the problem is this: http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/08/02/34-best-new-android-...

They found 34 games worthy of review in a 2 week period. That implies that there are hundreds of others that didn't make the cut. That's a lot of competition.
A co-worker of mine lost 125 lbs because of r/keto!
underwhelming?
Sincerely? I hope never. And I don't even like Java very much.

For Microsoft, who makes a lot of money selling a relational database server, marrying their flagship language with SQL makes sense, but I doubt it benefits anyone else.

Not even the developers who use it.

I can easily imagine all the programs that now rely on a relational database (or something hammered into a relational model) when any number of other data storage strategies would be a better fit. When all you know is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Idea: pry open compilers, run their “guts” on distributed clusters, output a language neutral index. Serve the index via service APIs. Write client plugins, etc.

Isn't this similar to what Microsoft is trying to achieve with Project Roslyn [1]? Was someone at Microsoft inspired by Yegge's vision and decided to implement it for the .Net Common Language Runtime?

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=2774...
Ask PG: When is the next Startup School application open?
Please and thank for letting me know.
Obesity and Fitness are not revolutionized by a forum full of people telling you what worked for them. The revolution comes when people find what works for themselves. So far, it's very far away.

News flash: Most people don't go on Reddit. gasp Calm down. I'm sorry I frightened you. But it turns out you don't get a revolution by a small number of people who use a particular forum looking for fitness tips from their formely fat peers.

In the future, you will be able to go online, fill out a questionnaire, and for a small monthly fee receive one of several pre-programmed diet and exercise programs, complete with local gyms that are part of the program and can help you perform your exercise requirements. A local food store will also be part of the program, with a special aisle of diet food for you to buy from. The solution comes from tailored, marketed, cult-of-the-self products that suck you in for long enough to make a dent.

The problem I see with the fitness portion is creating a fitness product without real user engagement. You've seen it before plenty of times: CrossFit. P90X. Tae Bo. Yoga. The Brazilian Butt Lift. They can all pretty much work to get you in better shape, but there's nothing keeping a random person engaged in it enough to continue for long. For someone starting out for the first time, they have to have an enormous amount of motivation to continue once they see how difficult it will be to begin.

To my mind, the easiest way to get people stuck on fitness is to Facebook it. Make it addictive and interesting, and make them obsessed with how they are doing. Give them micro stats. Gimmicks and social fluff to turn it into a game. Anything to keep them hooked, to the point where the exercise is just a small component to them. The diet becomes the same, giving lots of interesting variables and an infinite number of simple user-friendly options to continue getting healthy while being obsessed with a new toy.

If it's done right, they'll have gone weeks with the program, eating right, and working hard, and suddenly find they've made some noticeable gains. The rest takes care of itself. The revolution comes when people don't really notice that they're being healthy.
My friend Joseph (http://josephcurley.me) and I created ExploreMore as a fast and fun way to find interesting local events and happenings. We used Flask and the Eventful API. Feedback appreciated! http://bit.ly/O5b2jU
[tutorial]: Writing Notification Center Widgets for iOS.
It's just a weird sentence in general, an MBA isn't a degree.
Martin Fleischmann, Cold Fusion Seeker, Dies at 85
http://pouchdb.com/

in browser version of couchdb, mostly its a database that works offline and syncs online.
there's nothing wrong with being a math genius. there's nothing wrong with not being a math genius.
What is it that you found doubtful? Or did you not understand the message behind the sentence? It meant that I did not use any gimmicks or pills or surgery. I relied (still do) on the community as a tool to achieve my fitness goals. Of course, I still run about 20 miles per week, and bicycle an equal amount. I control what I eat by counting calories and I also calculate how much to eat in order to keep a deficit of 3500 calories per month (one pound of fat per month basically).
Same for fats.

This is why nobody should be taking fitness advice from random non-professionals on the internet
It's very harsh sounding-- like an expletive or a loud bird.
Estimates vary wildly from $100,000/year to $1.4 million/year http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay#Funding That's about $270/day to $3,800/day, although some of that is private funding as well as advertising.
Eric Schmidt wasn't hired into Google when it was a Fortune 500 Company.
Good point. I think that simply stating that somewhere on the "Post a New Project" page would help a bit. Beyond that, we have some ideas we're working through. Any suggestions?

Thanks again!
an MBA isn't a degree.

Its a Master's Degree in Business Administration.