skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a similar, uglier vein: http://selectioncollection.tumblr.com/
not a criticism, just noticed this looks like rdio's landing page. glad to see someone else liked theirs as much as i do
SF's Rising Rental Prices beat NYC: $3500/month for single family homes
That is correct. However, Google Consumer Surveys is accessible to laypeople for a relatively low price. I would assume that when a company commissions a Gallup Poll, Gallup ensures the poll is properly designed. On the other hand, people without the proper knowledge could spend money on Google polls only to draw wrong/useless conclusions.
You know, our plan is to eventually make this Anki-as-a-service. It's dumbed-down spaced repetition as it stands, but the long-term vision is to try and make a more mass-market friendly Anki. It's all pretty basic since we built this thing in 24 hours ... but hopefully more to come soon.
But the T&C sets up the relationship between the people running the campaign and Kickstarter themselves. The project creators and the contributors still have a direct relationship with each other, irrespective of Kickstarter as an organization - the fact that Kickstarter's website is their medium of interaction doesn't necessarily make the Kickstarter organization a party to their agreement.

If the project creators promise to deliver a particular product to a contributor when certain conditions are met, and those conditions are subsequently met, wouldn't that constitute a contract? Sure, if the Kickstarter admins terminate the project before it's funded, then the conditions of the contract can never be met; but once they are met - i.e. once the project has reached its funding goal - then no action on the part of Kickstarter admins - who are not themselves a party to the contract - can invalidate the contract.

By way of analogy, if you and I arrive at an agreement via a conversation on HN, and PG comes along and decides for whatever reason to delete the thread containing our discussion, the agreement is still valid.
I would posit that the issue with the original post referenced by Diego is, in fact, that the conclusion he draws is poorly stated. Reading the full post by Jamie, it's clear that the title "34.5% of US Internet Population not using Facebook/Twitter" should actually read 34.5% of US Internet Population not using Facebook/Twitter to manage their identities on third party sites."
Things seem to be moving in this direction. I'm not clear on details, but:

• "The USPTO Prior Art Submission Site, scheduled for launch on September 16, 2012, will deliver prior art directly to examiners at the USPTO." Any individual can make three submissions for free, beyond that I'm not sure how it works.

• "Google’s new Prior Art Finder searches for relevant inventions that precede the publication of a pending patent application."

• Stack Exchange is also going to launch a new site whose mission includes collaborative searching for prior art to submit through the USPTO's new system to block patent applications.
The average IQ is, and always will be, 100. By it's very definition.
No, but I didn't claim that I have it.
That bit of back-of-the-envelope calculation in the article does not justify a claim anywhere close to 'verifiable wrong'.
> “if Apple gives up its position” which it clearly hasn’t.

so, moot?

> Amazon is copying Apple’s playbook, page-by-page...

> What, after all, has Amazon (or Microsoft) actually
invented here? Nothing. They’ve emulated Apple at a
lower price point and to some extent
disintermediated the mobile carriers.

Not according to Jeff Bezos, who spend a good portion of his presentation explaining how Amazon make money with their pricing strategy of the Kindles. The difference between iPad and Fire HD is not in price, but in their producers' business models.

The author clearly doesn't get it.
Oh, I didn't know that. That's very interesting.

That might explain why Japan has, apparently, something like 30% of the world's child porn website (vaguely remembered probably wrong statistic)
> This is supposed to be reassuring?

I guess I'll worry about it when and if it happens to me. But no, it's certainly not something I think about on a day to day basis, just as I also don't worry that someone might steal my car in the middle of the night and commit a crime with it -- another scenario in which, yes, you may also be arrested or at the very least questioned.

I'm inclined to believe that such arrests are quite rare, but that's just speculation, and I'm open to evidence to the contrary.
Love the concept and that page shrinks beautifully.

Small typo: Every forgotten somebody's name? should be Ever.
It's not exactly the same question. Wouldn't that response include much more than Facebook and Twitter? E.g. Pinterest, LinkedIn, Reddit, Google+, a long tail of social media sites?
I think they want to move the CPU into the hard drive so Oracle is faster (IA64)
Wouldn't the slower RAM mean either inconsistent performance (yuck), or having to slow down the CPU memory? (like today's user RAM with a slow and fast card)
I dont think this article is comparing apples to apples. There are no single family homes to be had in most of manhattan and parts of Brooklyn. I'm living in pacific heights now and also live in lower manhattan. Manhattan is still a bit more expensive IMHO.
Because, as TFA points out, it's very hard to distinguish the kinds of sharing. Sure, if you're seeding CP, that's clear cut, but sending erotic pictures to your girl/boyfriend is sharing too, and it's illegal if you're a minor.
And despite there being a huge market for depictions of murder thee has as far as I know never been anyone producing a snuff video for the money. People like Luka Magnotta either keep the videos for themselves or upload them for free.
I did several years at a burger joint and it was a bitch and a half just to get that. I found out while I was at said joint that you and I are nightmares for such places because they know that (a) we're out at first opportunity and (b) we're likely to get said opportunities relatively quickly. Hiring and replacing people is expensive so it's beneficial to avoid people who aren't likely to stay long.

I know it's a small point to make but it seems the gp covered most everything else.
That may be why they were also inclined to help him "tweak" the survey questions for better results. I noticed that "Sign in with Google" wasn't included on this list.
How is someone to know how problematic the database is without looking at it first? His criticism would be much less warranted if he'd never look at the registry.
I can't find many examples in the UK of this, nor of many US bands of the era, possibly with the Beach Boys as a major exception.

Group singing - yes, some, but not multiple people rotating the 'lead singer' role. There was no 'lead singer' in the Beatles.

Many of the similar merseyside acts of the time were "so-and-so and the foobars" and such. Lead singer name with accompanying band ('rory storm and hurricanes' for example).
Show HN: New online charity fundraising app
Maybe we shouldn't be so scared about dying and instead try to make the most out of our (supposedely short) lives. After all, a guy like Alexander the Great was only in his early 30s when he had already conquered half of the known-world (yes, this is a Euro-centrist view)
Thanks! Still a few issues with the site responsiveness that I'll need to sort out - at least once I get some sleep!

And I'll get that typo sorted out, heh.
I don't know about you, but for my double-posts, one always appears as dead to me.
Do you care to go in to more detail?
Mobile phones absolutely do interfere with aeroplane systems. You know how your radio goes dit dit-dit dit when you change cell towers or receive a message? Happens with aircraft radios too. Extremely annoying when your passenger ignores your request to turn off their phone. VOR, ADF, NDB and ILS also all use radio waves and could therefore also be subject to interference.
That may not even be the biggest flaw; using DateTime.Now as the timing mechanism for small benchmarks is pretty inaccurate because the resolution is rather poor.

The recommended way is to use System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch, since that uses the CPU's built-in high-performance timer (HPET).
I was asking, not implying any position on my part.

I don't think website owners should be prohibited from deleting user content as they see fit. But I do think the takedown bots are different. They are mainly used to avoid lawsuits and to appease the RIAA/MPAA; websites wouldn't choose to use them if left to themselves. I think they cause as many problems as bogus DMCA notices and should be discouraged.

I don't necessarily believe the discouragement should be legal, but maybe. For example, if human oversight was required before the content was removed, that wouldn't necessarily restrict companies' ability to remove content, but it would minimize bogus takedowns by bots.

Again, I'm not really staking a position here, I'm just trying to start the conversation while I figure out my own views on the subject.
even validation of first & last names is usually awful. For instance many sites tell you that having a dash "-" in your first name is invalid... yet a lot of French (first or last) names contain that character..
Maybe I'm missing out on something here but I just don't get it, is this really art?
Wonderful idea. Thank you.
Show HN: tunes.io - a new playlist of great songs every day. my weekend project
Whether or not it is art is in the eye of the beholder, and these beholders have shit in their eyes.
I love seeing things built in 24 hours. Great job on that.

The idea is so-so. There is probably a low upper-limit to the number of things you want to remember this way. More than 5 text messages like this a day will get a bit annoying I think.

Take a look at memrise.com. They see to have the learning things through repetition thing down.

Great job though, and keep working on it.
34.5% chose the answer "No - I'm not on Facebook/Twitter", there were other ways to answer "no" that didn't imply that you weren't on Facebook or Twitter, and in total the poll showed 77% responding that they didn't use Facebook/Twitter to manage their online identities with third parties.
It's a question of problem domain. Would I rather design a shader using a visual graph system or text? Probably the graph system. Would I rather build a user interface using Interface Builder or pure code? Probably Interface Builder. But there are plenty of cases where a visual tool will be more cumbersome than text, perhaps because no visual tool has yet been built to deal with a given problem domain, perhaps because it's not really amenable to visual representation.
In a similar vein, try out the space repetition software, Mnenmosyne: http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/

I'll add to that a good article spaced repetition: http://www.gwern.net/Spaced%20repetition
AirBNB has recently released a library for infinite scroll lists which has great performance and lower memory usage: http://airbnb.github.com/infinity/
Helma.org
Very cool job getting this to number 1 in real-time for your demo presentation.
Really? Are we still using bookmarks for app executions? I personally find terrible UX to mix real bookmarks with your extensions/apps
Lings Cars and the art of persuading visitors to buy
I hadn't heard of stacked DRAM. For anyone else looking for a reference, I liked http://blogs.intel.com/research/2011/09/15/hmc/

The description of "getting rid of DRAM" sounds misleading if this is what they are deploying.
It's a great point. To compare benchmarks, we'd have to consider...6 months in behavioral changes since the Pew survey; the likelihood that long tail users also use the main social properties; what we actually classify as a social network; medium effects on answer bias and more.

I couldn't agree more with your points about the importance of survey design. Our hope with GCS is to provide a real time, affordable, iterative mechanism for conducting this type of research.

The challenges faced when benchmarking against Pew and others, is, I believe, an indication of the value of continually collecting and updating data.
> Most chronic illnesses reduce both. Alcoholism reduces both

Guys like Hafiz and Hemingway were both alcoholics by today's standards, and thank God for that and for their creativity
Performance is already so inconsistent today you'd never notice.
If you're a prosecutor and you can't find anything in an average teenage text-exchange that constitues a quid-pro-quo ("I'll show you mine if you show me yours"), you simply aren't fit to do your job.

Hmm, yeah, good point. Looks like there needs to be a specific exception for sending an image of oneself, or receiving an image directly from the subject of the image, or, in the case of an image with multiple subjects, sharing the image with the other subject(s).

I like this, actually. It would clarify that there is a huge difference between sending a photo of oneself to one's lover, and sending a photo of a victim to a fellow child pornographer. Also, I like that a photo with more than one person in it could not be shared with anyone who was not in the photo.

I recall a case where a girl sexted her boyfriend, and the boyfriend's kid brother found the images and circulated them on the Net. In this case the kid brother is the one who would wind up in trouble, and I think that's the right outcome. (I'm not saying he should be on the sex offender registry, but he did commit a serious crime and needs to be made aware of that.)

As for your proposal -- I think that was the status quo before any of these possession laws were passed. I think it was felt that that structure did not give law enforcement sufficient leverage. Criminalizing possession allows prosecutors to pressure consumers of child porn into naming their suppliers, so that investigations can find the people actually making the stuff. It also attempts to stem the flow of money to these people. I have considerable sympathy with these purposes; but I also agree with Falkvinge that criminalizing mere possession is intolerable on free speech grounds.

So I'm trying to find a solution that gives law enforcement at least some of the help they want (and that many people agree they should have) while not criminalizing mere possession.
Happy to help here! Please email me.

Edit: Found an account for you and for BC, approved both. Let us know if we can do anything else to help.
Yes, I realize that is the reason it is done, but I will bet someone in PayPal has a nice spreadsheet of how much money they have earned on money that is sitting in an account without being accessible.
Sounds like a good plan, SRS is definitely under-used for how powerful it can be as a memory tool, so it's good to see some more development in the space.
Very relevant demo of Intel-Micron a year ago of a Hybrid Memory cube with stacked DRAM:

http://blogs.intel.com/research/2011/09/15/hmc/
> What, after all, has Amazon (or Microsoft) actually invented here? Nothing. They’ve emulated Apple at a lower price point and to some extent disintermediated the mobile carriers.

Well, perhaps Amazon. But while Microsoft have emulated Apple in hardware a little, they certainly haven't with the OS. Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 have a very different, very fresh UI. They only use some of the same gestures, even.
It also doesn't do any warm-up (run the code a few times untimed) which puts the JITer at a disadvantage.
I feel like most skilled engineers would end up re-writing a crappy version of a framework in the process of writing an app--so why not start with one? I think it depends partly on whether you're really writing an app, or hacking together an MVP.

The reason I feel this way is that most apps have a great deal of simple CRUD (SELECT * FROM [table] WHERE id=? and UPDATE [table] SET [...] WHERE id=?), which is exactly the problem ORMs optimize for. Any skilled engineer is going to notice they're writing the same boilerplate SQL -> data structure of some kind (maybe it's a dictionary type structure) code over and over again and write a framework around that. Congratulations, you now have an ORM, except that it's one hacked together by a busy engineer, far less tested, and missing features that would save you writing a lot of boilerplate code.

Meanwhile, your engineer realizes that one should separate view logic from business logic, and maybe have some glue in between, so you've got a request-handling layer, a view (+view model?) layer, and something that handles business logic and database access (or maybe those two things are separate, depending on your engineer.) Congratulations, you now have an MVC stack! Except again it's one that's far less tested, has no documentation, and has been hacked together by your engineer, who I should mention is very busy trying to write all this boilerplate code.

So now you've got all that taken care of, it's time to allow people to login. Your engineer is now spending their time writing an authentication system. Your engineer is certainly skilled, but there are a lot of nuances to get right with this sort of thing, so your authentication system has a lot of little security flaws and subtle bugs that you will spend the next several months fixing.

You see where this is going...
Honestly this sums up what I have been trying to articulate for a while now. I find people put too much stock in "what x uses" or "what is x written in?"

That doesn't mean it's impossible to make bad decisions about what you use of course.
I feel I should point out that the header in the mast container has white text and on my browser, with a window size width greater than 1600 px, it overlaps with the white in the image making part of it hard to read. Other than that, job well done :)
Who is this author? Since when does "disintermediating an industry" mean "selling and subsidizing the products of an industry"?

And what pundits -didn't- predict a larger Kindle Fire? I thought that was a signed and sealed rumor straight from WSJ+Amazon themselves.
are you kidding me? this is on the front page?
Jury nullification isn't "let's nullify what the jury did."
Why not generate a Spotify playlist too?

That way, I don't have to open a different website for each song...

You could use the Spotify API...
Here's some background on David Eagleman.

Eagleman gave a talk at TEDxHouston a couple of years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LENqnjZGX0A

After watching that video, Sam Harris asked Eagleman to debate via e-mail. Eagleman accepted, but never responded to Harris's first message: http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/whither-eagleman
Great usability. This is awesome, put a big smile on my face. Very rare for a gadget to do that.
I think Amazon is taking the right approach. I love the Amazon Doctorine: Above all else, align with customers. Win when they win. Win only when they win.

This approach will serve Amazon well if they follow through.

Apple's approach of making the best products in the world and selling them at a profit works for Apple, but to carve out a niche, Amazon has taken their own way.

Interesting, with the Nexus 7, Google admitted basically that they are willing to follow Amazon's lead and try and be more of a content/commerce oriented device, but Amazon already got there and it does it better with the Kindle Fire than Google does with the Nexus 7 and the Play store.

Google trying to follow Amazon's lead seems like a mistake. Google has never really been a media/content or even a commerce company. They are an advertising and technology company. Google doesn't love selling things, they love giving things away for free and wrapping them in ads. Google isn't good at getting people to pay for things yet. I'm not sure that Google wants to be good at selling things.

Google should play to their strengths and make a 7" Motorola tablet that is advertising subsidized and sells for $100. Just matching price with the previous Kindle Fire is not going to get them success in the tablet market.

So, Apple is built around selling high end devices that delight customers. Amazon is about getting you to purchase stuff from Amazon.com and is building an ecosystem of devices and software to make that the best experience in the world. Google is built around repackaging 3rd party content and wrapping it in advertising. Microsoft is built around selling entertainment and productivity software and services.

All of these companies have a different approach that will take them different places. I don't know that any of them executing their strategy will be a huge detriment of the success of the others.
Arch Linux Handbook for Kindle rejected by Amazon
Would probably be better to use IMAP for this. Then it will work for Exchange systems, GMail, and nearly every other mail system out there.
At Newsvine, we capitalized on an opportunity when John McCain and his campaign people hijacked some graphics from my MySpace design tutorial without permission. He referenced/hotlinked images hosted on my server on his own MySpace page so one day I "hacked" his site by changing the graphics. The prank got us on TechCrunch immediately (no surprise), the local news in Seattle (kind of a surprise), and then featured on The Daily Show (huge f'ing surprise and still a career highlight!). Here is the coverage:

TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2007/03/27/john-mccains-myspace-page-h...

Local News: http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2007/03/king-5-co...

The Daily Show: http://www.mikeindustries.com/scratch/dailyshow.mp4
Yep, Memrise is awesome. We think that spaced repetition has the potential to be more mainstream ... it's quite an empowering use of technology, and there are lots of similar cognitive enhancing tricks that are in the same vein. You're right - more than 5 text messages isn't great, but down the line we're hoping to create mobile apps to make the reminder process much more streamlined.
In the last few days, I have been imagining an ethics pledge for start-ups.

I think start-up culture tends to be a bit unethical - we favor expedience and results over rules and regulations, and that's generally correct, but also leads us into murky territory.

The most important guideline might be this - build a company where you'd want to have any of the jobs, and where you'd want to be a customer. But specifically:

1) never send someone an email without explicit opt-in (make them check a box, don't start spamming just because they registered).

2) make it easy for a user to delete themselves from your database, entirely

3) make it easy for a user to port data elsewhere

4) don't make up fake email personages, or otherwise overtly lie to your customers

5) don't use misleading numbers for marketing or fundraising

6) give employees warning and/or severance when you plan to fire them

7) don't discriminate based on gender or sexual preference, even though it may be legal for small companies to do so in your locality

8) if you store financial or sensitive data, make security a priority
Yeah, that was ridiculously awesome! Just in time :).
Draft Cybersecurity Executive Order “Leaks”
trying to keep it simple, but i'll look into it. no spotify here in canada yet, so it's not something i had considered.
Yep we totally "drew inspiration" from Rdio. Good catch.
"Given Amazon’s ability to experiment and execute, I also wouldn’t be surprised to see the company also look into aerial drones as delivery channels"

Seriously?
Quirky blog | What Raising Money Means To Me
The division between "leisure" and "work" proffered is too coarse and binary.

A continuity of work-y-ness makes more sense: the degree to which something qualifies as "work" is proportional to how distal the reward is.

Most leisure provides immediate reward for some amount of effort/energy expended, or at the very least provides little reward but demands little, too. But when the only pay-off for one's effort is years away, this is when true work takes place.
13-in 2009 Unibody Mac with a Magic Mouse and wireless Apple Keyboard.

I normally just sit at the kitchen table.
I know! At least put the windows together to create something interesting...