skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a crucial social aspect of queuing that the article doesn't discuss - it makes you feel like a punter. It puts you in your place. And it's far worse when you're in a tiered situation - such as having to board a flight after business passengers, or being kept waiting outside a nightclub whilst some beautiful people are waived past the velvet rope. Perhaps the thing about walking through the airport isn't so much that it's less boring, it's that your social status is more anonymous. But as soon as you reach the carousel your true caste is revealed. Non-priority baggage. Economy traveller. Punter.
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Your Words are Wasted
For me, this was well worth watching. I bet the age of the viewer (amongst many other things of course) has a large affect on the individual impact.
And the definition of active accounts...
New Zealand is a pretty awesome place! I left my home of Scotland to do a years backpacking around NZ and ended up staying for 14 months. I didn't want to leave but my visa was running out so I jumped across to Australia where I'm now working on my residency.

What I loved about NZ is that you're always close to nature and amazing sights. I climbed a glacier, I walked through national parks and I visited some amazing beaches.

Kiwis are some of the nicest people I've ever met, though some of the younger generation seem to be similar to those UK.. lots of binge drinking and fighting.

Auckland gets a lot of bad press, it really is a lot different than the rest of NZ but one thing I will say: If you want to party then Auckland is a great place to do it! The bars don't seem to ever close!

There are some downsides though, Internet access in most places sucked ass and was expensive. Wages are low and the weather wasn't too great, though I'm used to that being from Scotland.
how is it flakey?
My criticism of the article is so harsh exactly because it does not represent itself as merely an idea, it instead attempts to convey the impression of being a groundbreaking scientific discovery.

> Depends on what you mean by "very well". Aggressive data compression is usually considered a good way of storing things.

We're fundamentally in agreement on this. It is, however, not lossless compression, and that's in part where I would assume the speedup comes from.
Not sure but according to Von Bertalanffy, brain "frequency" tends to slow down with age anyway. The same amount of perceptive events are spread onto longer periods of time thus appearing speeding up.
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It can be a configuration setting like `willfully_ignore_sql_rules_and_act_broken=1`. Postgres can be cantankerous to the point of frustration, but at least it sticks to its principles.
HTML5 is a terrible trap
I am willing to assume that the whole aggressive attitude stems not only from this encounter. I am willing to assume that it wasn't first time that Steve failed (for whatever reason) to make Ben happy.

Thus I agree that the whole rant was needless. If Steve was a repeat offender, then he and his underboss should just be fired on the spot and the reason for the termination should be explained to the rest of the company to reinforce the importance of the core values.

If this was one of Steve's within margin of error blunders, he should be explained the rules again and probably made charge of inspecting the status of adherence to this particular rule by the people within company.

This is my take.
> My criticism of the article is so harsh exactly because it does not represent itself as merely an idea....

It's literally titled "Why time appears to speed up with age (idea)".
thanks for the link, I combined that with https://github.com/mhoofman/wordpress-heroku/ and now we can have one-click svbtle clones on heroku!
Different people will have a different of opinion on this. As full disclosure, I am NOT a fan of 50/50 splits in general and have had my fair share of businesses and startups.

Here is my take:

1. Your first bullet point is irrelevant. You not having a job doesn't mean you couldn't get a job to lower risk if thats the way you think (although thats not a good way to think at all). Him having a job doesn't mean much. What matters is what you each bring to the table and what you contribute. If your argument was more base on time commitment rather than risk, I'd agree.

2. I HIGHLY disagree with this argument. A lot of HN love to downplay the non-technical founder (with good reasons) but a valuable non-technical founder who have the skills (which many who start out don't) is worth their weight in gold as well. The non-technical argument here is more of a bias use case than a fair assessment of what each is bringing to the table and how that will contribute towards the startup.

3. This one is valid. As someone else noted, check for liabilities regarding this. The fact that you are going to be putting in more time makes it somewhat valid that the split should not be 50/50 starting out. Unless he is investing some money and willing to put in equal time, among other things, it would be very difficult to justify a 50/50 partnership. That said, if you value and trust him, and he does bring the goods as you say (not just perceived), then you will need to figure out fair compensation otherwise.

TL;DR 50/50 probably doesn't make sense in this case but some of the arguments presented are invalid in my personal opinion.
I can agree that this is true for the consumer market, and the Facebook mobile app is a good proof for this story.
But I'm more interested in enterprise apps and I can see a lot of value there with HTML5.
Build simple app (front-end site, usually in the backend there are dragons) apps with a "branded UI", that work the same on all the current, and future, mobile platform.
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Not all accounts are used for open software. Lots of paid users are hosting private repos
Agreed. Which is why I would never wait outside a nightclub.

I am a customer, and i expect good service.
Something just occurred to me: Why exactly does microsoft still put any time into developing IE? Is there any benefit to them besides driving users to bing and other microsoft sites? Based on their licenses couldn't microsoft take the latest copy of firefox/chromium and just rebrand it, wouldn't they get the same exact benefit without wasting money on development?
I'm in the preliminary research phase, and it's too early to tell. But I'm investigating the feasibility of using the Open Annotation data model (draft: http://openannotation.org/spec/core/), which they are also basing their work on, so the possibility is open.
I still care about Flash on mobile. Why? A lot of Asian sites (Chinese & Japanese) still use Flash for video and nav menus.

I have a rooted phone, so I'll probably find some way to sideload Flash back on.
Hmmm... second link not working!

Try:

http://www.chewdesign.co.uk/wp-content/gallery/latest/ogc-lo...
Except there are plenty of other Android devices with those features (except tablet battery part).
I like the balance between the pain of total uncertainty and the overwhelming knowledge of being stuck
I know this is blasphemy in the Java world, but I'd probably use a preprocessor to transform some clean syntax into the normal Java code. I'd rather have the slight increase in build complexity over the potential issues with the extra classes and the breaking of assumption about how things compare and such.
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/pyusb/
Collie: A high performance animation library for JavaScript
Your milage may vary. I live in Auckland, retain a presence in Wellington and feel ridiculously safe in both.

I lived, stayed and travelled all over the USA and felt a lot less safe there by comparison with NZ, UK, Canada and Australia. South Africa on the other hand was off the scale dangerous.

We have our issues, as all locations do, but it's a marvelous existence, and a great place to consider for start-ups.
Agile is singularly the most talked about thing in our university while simultaneously being the least understood.
I don't think so. IIRC UPS can deliver alcohol but when I search for UPS on that site, I only get one UPS store in Napa (are they selling wine too? I would think maybe given the location). So my thinking would be no. There might still be rules as to what one could do and alcohol rules in many states are just insane.[1]

[1] I haven't read the California laws but Washington State exempts from all such laws any beer or wine which is produced in the home and not sold (the only law that does apply interestingly is a section for home-brewing competitions which is another exception!). If a 17 year old brews at home and then invites friends over and drinks beer with friends his age that violates no laws but if his parents had bought the beer that would. Similarly you can do paid workshops for brewing and let people under drinking age sign up, attend, and learn to brew but if they are under drinking age they can't take what they actually make out of class--- they are required instead to go buy more ingredients and make a new batch at home.

Federal law is a little more complicated however, and involves issues of gallonage taxes and complicated questions as to whether home-brewing exceptions apply. In a college environment this involves the question of what constitutes a household and if there is anyone above drinking age in the household. I don't know of any case where BATF has stepped in to enforce gallonage taxes for home brewing that was legal under state law though.

You are mistaken if you expect alcohol restrictions to make sense. They usually don't and anyone with some effort can usually find enough holes to get whatever they want legally.
It is this Friday! I'll be there. It's an awesome event.

Swing by TREx sometime too (http://downtowntrex.com)
This just shows you don't understand how their technology works. They don't capture the data at half a trillion FPS. They take very short exposures and shift the phase very precisely, which creates an illusion of 1 trillion fps.
Cortical layers tend to be more of a way of dividing a specific low-level task up into sub-functions of information processing. For example, they do different networking/interconnect jobs in different layers and as one would expect different areas of the neocortex have varying layer counts (ranging from 1 to 6).

A more comprehensive computational unit of the cortex is actually the neocortical column which is a "horizontal" patch of neocortex. This is a functional unit that is probably very close to a microprocessor in analogy in that it contains a set of variables, some processing rules, input and output wires, and the capability of executing functions. A whole patch of cortical columns forms a sort of processing center, and interestingly enough, those tend to be specialized for certain kinds of information processing tasks. That's why in an fMRI scan whole areas of the cortex tend to light up together, and it's often the same areas geographically even if you scan a lot of people.

So if we're talking about a theory of localized neocortical involvement, my first impulse would be to check out those specialized areas for (non-)activity - something that led to pretty good empirical results before in related studies - as opposed to using the layers for that hypothesis.
> resulting video is one trillion frames per second

No, the resulting video is 30 frames per second.
I love it! I'll be there.
The sad thing is I've seen hackathon's happen that have similar terms. One was a student one where 50% of whatever anyone made would be owned by the founder and he had the right to invest if he saw fit.
What's so hard to explain about rugby? It's no worse than most others; try explaining gridiron to a total novice (ie. most Kiwis) or soccer (why is that player lying on the ground pretending to be injured?).
I'm open to suggestions :-)
I already did it http://code.google.com/p/qantiqa/ It was my CS degree final project.

It is based in an obscure P2P framework from my university (based in another one) and it uses GAE as an overlay's entry point. The network is fully functional and independent of the entry point, but it is needed to do authentication.
>That's a stunningly ignorant risk assessment.

Or maybe it's just a rational one. None of what you've brought up contradicts my point. The problem isn't ignorance on my part, but rather hysteria on yours. Really, if this is the way you approach life I'm surprised you have the courage to get out of bed in the morning.

>Unit 4 has significant structural damage, and contains the most (and most recently used) fuel rods, stored outside the containment wall. Another 7.5 earthquake could cause a collapse triggering a fuel rod fire that could not be put out.

Or it could do nothing at all. You do realize they spent the first part of this year pouring concrete and putting in steel rods to stabilize that building, right? Did you think they've been drinking sake and shooting the breeze all this time?

>"There is as much cesium in the fuel pool at Unit 4 as there was in all of the atomic bombs dropped in all of the tests in the 1940's, the 1950's, the 1960's, and into the 1970's."

Yes, the reactors and pools are contaminated. And it will take a few years to get all that ugly stuff into completely safe storage. And? As long as the fuel doesn't go anywhere it doesn't matter how long it takes to clean up.

>Fukushima is now classed alongside Chernobyl as a category 7 reactor event, the area surrounding Fukushima will take decades to clean up

I find it amazing people can say (presumably) with a straight face that because shares some subset of characteristics with Chernobyl that it's OMG JUST AS BAD AS CHERNOBYL!!!! It's not as bad as Chernobyl by orders of magnitude. It never was.

As far as the exclusion zone goes, it's only 20 km. Even for a country as land-poor as Japan that's not much.
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Don't use this website. It's a scam.

http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/50dollarlogocom-c1...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080324152924AA...

Plus my own experience.

If you want to pay $50 for a logo, google "Stock logos". If you want an actual good logo, 99 designs has a logo section (they start at like $300).
Interesting. Because in Latvia you can get best of the breed software developers for only 66 000 USD a year. And that includes all possible and impossible taxes! (without taxes it's about 32 000 USD a year)

By the way, I'm a freelancer - feel free to drop me a line at spiritus.emortus@gmail.com.

Sorry for the spammy note. :)
Still, if persistence to get a "yes" is to be equated with rape, then this ought to be really offensive to all rape victims out there because it totally trivializes the crimes perpetrated against them.

"No means no" means everyone has a right to control bodily contact. It does not make asking a girl out for coffee the 100th time and getting shot down the equivalent of rape. It does not mean taking that as "try harder" (however stupid that may seem to be in context) to be the equivalent of rape. It is only when non-consented bodily contact is at issue that any equivalence can be drawn.
As an Australian i felt far safer in NYC and San Fran than say in Melbourne or Sydney, which went against my expectations. I think both Australia and NZ are extremely tolerant of youth crime which is a big part of the problem. That combined with limited legal protection for those acting in self defence means you often feel like criminals and gangs have greater rights than ordinary citizens.
Stack Overflow, perhaps? This is not the place for that sort of thing.
The Indian people do not passively wait for government permission to have a voice, they buy it every day with action and sometimes with their lives. Large areas of India have reduced or virtually non-existent government control thanks to the efforts of the Naxalites to free themselves from a government still mired in racist traditions and an economy shaping itself to the worst excesses of neoliberal capitalism.

If the poor have no food or homes it is because they have been taken from them by a greedy government and a brutal police force. They will reclaim their lives and achieve justice not through waiting for liberal reform or by surrendering further control to a government instituting bare-minimum programs in an attempt to appease away the inevitable, but through continued people's war.
Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 (PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On CentOS 6.3
The post also mentions that hot tub interviews at Facebook New York are completely untrue. Then goes on to say what is true, which is that there's a non-functioning hot tub in Facebook Seattle which is never used for interviews.

To be completely sure, I contacted the author and will post another reply when he verifies what's actually the case.
I think this bit from an older article sums it up nicely:

http://www.the-haystack.com/2010/12/17/death-to-web-services...

What if we flipped this all on its head? What if we hosted our own data, and provided APIs for all these webapps so that they can use our data? I can imagine that to be a substantially cool use of RDFa/Microformats and whatever metadata/semantic web technologies you prefer. Isn’t one of the points of the semantic web to make decentralized information meaningful, retrievable and mixable?

So instead of having our own websites aggregate our own data from other people’s websites, we’ll let other people use the data from our own websites. Photos, meaningfully tagged, can be pulled in by Flickr via our own personal API, if you will. We provide the structured data, Flickr provides the functionality. The sharing. The social. Why not?

Personal publishing platforms like WordPress, Drupal, [your favorite here] could be extended to make use of microformatting, RDF, etc. and provide tools for syndication, as we now do with simple blogposts. Services don’t need to host our data. They only need to do cool things with it.
Sounds great! Is there a mobile version by any chance?
"... I have never heard Auckland described as walkable. It's easily the worst city I have been to in that regard, unless you have a car, you're pretty much stuck ..."

Disagree. Spent a week walking around Auckland city last year along Hobson St, Beach Rd, Quay St, Khyber Pass Rd, Parnell Rd, Symonds St. This is pretty much the outer 5km boundary of Auckland. When I was tired or needed to be somewhere fast, I caught a (free) bus. Great city.
I'm new here, so maybe I'm a bit of the "bad new crowd" OP is talking about, but seriously, this guy doesn't seem to have a leg to stand on.

His last (current?) venture 11kclub http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4323459

1) asks for your PII

2) wants you to do viral MLM on it's behalf

3) has ToS http://www.11kclub.com/tos.aspx that explicitly state "you are applying to join a club you know nothing about"

4) and finally, the submitter lied about his affiliation (in the comments)

That said, maybe the behavior he's stating does go on "nowadays" (again, I'm too new to know) , but really from what I see of 11kclub, He as a person does not gain my sympathy.
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Another thing this would neatly explain is why it seems harder to make new friends when you get older.

With someone I meet at 15, when I'm 20 i'll have known them for 5 effective years. If I meet someone new at 30, on the other hand, I won't have known them for 5 effective years until I'm 40.
I love this. Exactly. There's no reason we can't do this other than the will to do it. The social web could be open and distributed and web-like while still looking centralized like twitter.
"MySQL's paradigm is fatally app-centric, however and I have a hard time seeing that as a good thing. I'd be happier if the app-centric db chosen was SQLite or Firebird DB."

I googled app-centric after reading this and I've come up with comparisions made with mouse-centric, computer-centric, user-centric and I don't really understand it. Are you using it as a synonym for single-user?
Inspired by Big Bang Theory? Pretty sure it'll get the same reaction at first...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bIoeBpSeU4
I really don't get the all or nothing attitude of this article.

I have a blog - and a facebook account and a g+ account. The blog gets my best content. But it's not easy to integrate a standalone blog into an existing social graph (social buttons notwithstanding).

G+ gets my less well thought out rants - short stuff. It allows me to cheaply signal to like minded people and hopefully establish new readers/relationships. I don't care if I offend people on G+ because I'm there to attract the like minded. So I say what I think.

And facebook is just a socialisation wheel greaser for local friendships. Here I'm much more guarded. I use content posted by people as conversation starters for when I see them in real life. I might have to deal with these people - so I keep it light, fluffy and fun. I personally don't care if facebook deletes all that content. (I see it as a medium risk since facebook isn't a particularly diversified business)

I decided a while ago that I need to engage on all these platforms - because concentrating solely on a blog only increases your overall isolation to your local life - cause it takes an enormous amount of time - and even your closest local friends aren't likely to even read it.

It might mean that I'll never put enough time into the blog for it be a standalone success. But the odds of that ever happening were slim to nil anyway - even if it did get 100 percent of my time. And there would have been a very high chance that I would have been miserable because such dedication would have led to a high degree of isolation.

This is the right balance for me. I don't expect everyone to have the same view - but then I'm not claiming it's right for everyone.
I toggle between reaching for my smartphone and not-doing, but not doing is better. We all have inner wisdom but it's often ignored in favour of reading the latest comment or opinion on HN. We need to switch that priority around.

Where the smartphone gets in the way is when you want peace or when a situation is slightly uncomfortable but we retreat to the smartphone out of mindless habit. We use smartphones to not only connect with people but also to avoid people.
FYI you need a powered USB hub to attach that wifi dongle.

I also got one of those small Realtek RTL8188SU wifi dongles and found that it worked very poorly. I don't know if it was the particular vendor I got mine from or the drivers or that particular chipset, but the interface would just stop working if you tried to do anything data intensive or prolonged on it. SSH and VNC were unusable.
my own subjective data:

in my childhood, a day seems to go pretty slow, probably because of just "messing around" tends to get boring. However I never felt the years as passing at a different rate than they do now (in my mid 30's).

I'm the type of person who "looks to the future" however so maybe if I was past-oriented I'd feel different.
I suppose. I speak from the limited experience of reverse engineering a driver for a PCI device that would freeze the entire system if its interrupts weren't acknowledged immediately.
Very cool! What saddens me is that there is already an embedded computer on the camera! There is just not a good way to program it.

While there are some great efforts, like Magic Lantern, to reverse engineer and improve the firmware, I wish the producers just made the source part of their product. (I don't believe their trade secrets are that valuable to be honest. Not more valuable than letting people builds apps for your camera, at least)
My assumption would be that he's hellbanned
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Yes, because you could not search for your libraries before github existed. I don't see any logic in your claim.
I Love this list
I would add also David Gerrold and the
first Chtorrs invasion episode.
What do you think about "the possibility of sn. Island" - Michel Houellebecq ?