skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a young hacker might proactively seek the company of more human beings.

I'm puzzled here. I'm sure it's just an unfortunate turn of phrase, but you seem to suggest that the others are more human than the young hacker. Lovely.
These guys have plants in my home town. Really great, innovative company. The kind of thinking the auto industry really needs more of. Here's hoping they continue to be successful.
Add a line to the end of your ~/.bashrc file with:

. $HOME/.bash/j.sh

(Change that path to point to wherever j.sh is, though ~/.bash is probably a good place for it.)
That's awesome, and a great demo of just how fast Chrome's V8 Javascript VM is! Wow.
It BLAZES on Safari.
Yudkowsky's eudaimonia essays might ease your fears. Truly rational approaches to happiness maximizing don't involve monkey's paw type unintended consequences.

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/01/fun-theory-sequence.ht...
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/01/fun-theory-laws.html
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/12/devils-offers.html -- to start
[Humor] Pigeon Clusters (PCs) and PigeonRank™: technology behind Google's great results
Facebook/twitter need to be free for COMMON users (the majority of them) - specific users with specific needs could (actually SHOULD - that's what most startups hope, at least) pay, for those are the ones PROFITING from a given service...
Man, if this is true it seems pretty pathetic.
Ev responds:

http://brooksbayne.com/post/79132853/the-newest-way-to-game-...
How's Atlanta look? I know http://www.firethornmobile.com/ started here (I interviewed with them) and was bought by Qualcomm for about 240 million.

I am about to try my second startup and am looking to try for angel money this time. Any ATL resources anyone knows about are appreciated.
You are ignoring rule #1 in the financial world: "Past performance may not be indicative of future results."

Don't worry, the entire financial world ignored this rule as well (which is precisely why I think this is likely to be a long downturn - rebuilding financial infrastructure is a long process involving lots of time and social work; you can't simply legislate it into being).
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I tend not to read TC unless I see a link to it someplace else. Sadly though, it seems that only the snarky/elitist/gossipy posts get linked.
We'll definitely be doing this soon! Thanks for the suggestion.
Presumably, though, they keep coming back to you for more work, rather than feeling ripped off:-)
Rational behaviour is, in a way, the problem. When New Labour came to power in the UK in the late 1990s, Gordon Brown launched a raid on the pension funds to fuel his extravagant spending plans. Workers in the UK then identified a need for an alternative asset class to save for retirement, as the previously sacrosanct pensions were now seen by the government as a cash cow. Property was the preferred option, and everyone piled into that market.

But what were people supposed to do differently?
When Barrons starts releasing stuff like this, it's time to put your contrarian hats on.
DirectAnimation was an interesting technology, but Microsoft droped it for Silverlight.
Training Humans
I quite like Atlanta. In the last 4 years the community around startups has grown nicely, from the Goog moving into town to ATLhack growing from 4 guys to ... 20 guys! And with GaTech, lots of great potential hires.

Angle money is a different thing though. It definitely exists, it just is just as that interested in internet startups as hardware / biotech.
Because...neither will work in IE, and this demo slows FF3 to a crawl? I do think this demo shows a lot of potential but several major issues keep these (IMO) superior formats from wide adoption. It has taken flash years to become ubiquitous, and there is still scant support for apng over gif. I honestly think that silverlight/moonlight will take off before, and possibly in lieu of, svg or canvas.
Thanks so much! Makes sense
Now it's clearer, thank you! :)
I disagree. Flash might have some optimization on AVM, and some audio processing dark magic using tools like HaXe.

Flash is like GDI+ or Cairo for the Web. And it may extend to many other capabilities such as webcam, microphone, Argumented Reality, etc.

And RIA should get a nice authoring tool like Adobe Flash IDE or Flex.

Flash is not just graphics
In case someone else is an Arch Linux user and wants to use this, I uploaded a pkgbuild to AUR.

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24014
Macroevolution vs. microevolution is a false dichotomy dreamed up by the Creationism/ID crowd. It's the way they allow themselves to acknowledge incontrovertible evidence for evolution, like acquiring antibiotic resistance, while still denying evolution.

Unless you can give me a strict definition of the boundary between macro and micro, then they're all the same governed by the same laws.
DAO - it’s not about Layering, it’s about Abstraction
Again there were some interesting debates in the near past, which once again discussed the role of the DAO asking for its final Dissapearance with the rise of EJB 3. Read about the top reasons, why a DAO is not a Layer (as expressed in some discussions) but instead is still valuable when seen in the Light of Abstraction.
I'm not much of a twitter user but the uptake in the general public in the UK in the last two weeks is crazy - its gone from no-one to everyone in the space of a week.

Personally I think there was some kind of internal BBC briefing about using twitter for publicity - then the radio 1 jocks logged profiles all in the same weekend, started talking about it daily the week after and so started a snowball from the publicity.

Could that explain some of it?
Office for Mac (does Microsoft really need to sell Mac software?)

Huh? Why would they give up on the Mac version of their extremely profitable software line?
That'd give one heck of a boost to OpenOffice and iWork. I would think they'd sell it at a loss just to prevent that. (But, again, I'd be really surprised if it isn't really profitable)
This is what happens when your research leads you down one path instead of checking the obvious sources first. These people are on the list of suggested users: http://twitter.com/invitations/suggestions Twitter is suggesting people follow these people.
How Facebook is taking over our lives
That was in the title...did you bother to read any further?
Objecting to Objects
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Ask HN: Review ﻿Clusterify.com - small coding project meetups - creators met on HN
All the talk of timeframes reminds me of Asimov's foundation trilogy. (The coming dark ages, and the attempts to shorten it, the use of math to describe the actions of large groups of people which is basically what economics is.) Anybody else read this?
Live Video of Atlanta Startup Riot
iPods and Kindles as public-domain knowledge disseminators
A Physics Engine for JavaScript: Box2DJS
Me and Aneesh have been working hard on an idea I described here a few weeks ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=450810): a site where you propose small coding projects and others can join. The goal is meeting new people and sharing tips while working on fun ideas. We've added a voting twist: you can vote for ideas, and then showcase completed projects on your blog for people to vote up.

We think some of you will be directly interested in this, and we hope for your feedback:

http://www.clusterify.com

Thanks to all who helped/are helping/will help us!
My numerical analysis of automobile vs. air safety
You're not completely wrong, but you're also not completely right. Remember, simply selecting for best fit individuals is not evolution, that's natural selection. Furthermore, reproduction introducing new variants is also not, on its own, evolution, that's descent with modification.

Evolution only occurs when you've got descent with modification and natural selection working together to push species toward one niche or another. Certainly evolution can stop. Take, for example, dinosaurs!

Of course, extinction is an extreme case. So can an existing species stop evolving? For better or worse, the answer depends on a concept which is still not fully resolved: neutral evolution. The general idea of neutral evolution is that, even when you're not selecting for one variant or another, introducing new variants will make you better fit for the next selection event (presuming you subscribe to the punctuated equilibria views). Essentially, you might not be evolving now (i.e. no selection pressure exists), but you might be stacking the deck to evolve better in the future.

...confusing, right? I love this stuff! :-)
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There's a good article in the FT today on a similar theme: how this recession is/isn't like past recessions, particularly the Japanese "lost decade".

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/774c0920-fd1d-11dd-a103-000077b076...
One thing every blogger should know: short lists.
Very interesting interview but I was confused about his predictions for gold and inflation.

He makes the point that deflation is a serious concern so the Fed will devalue and gold will be a great investment.
But then he says that the devaluation will barely produce a single digit rate of inflation and stocks will be a great buy.

So which is it, low inflation and cheap stocks, or gold?

Gold doesn't pay dividends so the only way you make a profit is by it going up, or you simply preserve your wealth when there's inflation.

But why would you hide in gold with low single digit inflation?
Ask HN: Should there be a not-for-profit social network?
A platform where users can control their own data completely and will never be subject to data mining or targeted advertisement.

Facebook and the like will always be around and they have their place, but many people don't want to be at the mercy of a for-profit organization when it comes to what happens to their personal info. The specter of targeted ads and data mining just don't appeal to a lot of people.

If the model was more open-source and not-for-profit, then you don't have to try to balance user privacy vs. company profit.
Yeah! I read it. It was one of my favourate series of all time. Things are exactly as how you have described. I hated the robot series. But Foundation trilogy was a classic!
I was expecting this to happen. It's pretty much a repeat of what happened when Google released Chrome.
The Pirate Bay Trial Day 3: The ‘King Kong’ Defense
Yeah, I wasn't sure what kind of answer you were looking for. OSM provides exports of the street data which gives you the ability to either:

A. Run a pre-existing routing program on it, such as http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Rana, or

B. Write your own (which would require knowledge of algorithms such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A*_search_algorithm)

There are also services where people do these things for you, and for low volume, they might not mind if you programmatically scrape their results. A good example is http://www.batchgeocode.com/

Properly, Rana isn't intended as a package for programmatic access, but it does include code which does what you want:

* http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/PyrouteLib - Pyroute is probably exactly what you want.

* Rana's routing module: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Rana/Modules#route
When to Rewrite Your Software
for what benefit?

why isn't there simply a decentralized for profit social network, where your data is stored on your personal web hosting
you could add a completion for cp commands just like in the last line of j.sh

complete -o dirnames -o filenames -C "j --complete" cp mv

or something similar.
Who would pay the hosting costs in such a scenario? Costs have to be offset some way or other. Unless users want to do "donations" or something like that, as what wikipedia recently did.
Interesting, but "x" and "y" as labels for the axises on the chart made it really hard for me to understand.
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Black is the only non-color. Or more precisely:

The combination of all colors gives white light; the absence of all color is seen as black. (_New York Public Library Science Desk Reference_ p. 288).

I was wondering what kind of crazy bug bit HN the other day with that "Magenta is not a Color" bitty.
It is an interesting discussion.

The article's points about evolution continuing in terms of disease prevention, ability to fight germs, etc. are understandable, as with greater population density, exposure to those things do go up.

On the other hand, every time we make a scientific advance which allows people to continue living/reproducing when they wouldn't have before, we lower the selection criteria, and it seems like this would have to slow evolution as a result, right?
Awesome, very awesome! I'm not to keen on the colours (feels a bit dull), but love the idea!
I think it helps if you build a product that sells itself, through word of mouth, like 37 signals. I also think that is why PG says: "Make something people want". If people want it, it won't be a hard sell.
cool though. But still cheated. Like flash, there is no project transformation here. They use two affine transformation to cheat. Silverlight seems to be the only practical solution for 3d experience in browser.
If you're going to spend money on your blog's design eventually, you should do it sooner rather than later.
I like this not just because it's fun to meet up and hack with other folks, but because it gives people a way to post/discuss/brainstorm ideas. It's always more fun to discuss these things in an open, social setting where the emphasis can be on improving ideas and generating new ones, and can draw people away from the traps of being possessive and defensive about their ideas.

Your main challenge is likely to be getting enough volume on there to keep it interesting. You might try making a dramatically more lightweight way to participate -- a simple "What would you like to build?" prompt where people can type an idea anonymously and other users can vote on the idea, comment on it, or turn it into a proposal.

In general, you need to find a much more concise way to explain how I get involved and what the benefit is than a 150 word "basic concepts" page. Probably there should be a new proposal form that I can see and fill in before registering, and that form should be designed to explain clusterify as I fill it in.
The Open-Source Government
If 37 signals had not written SVN blog and released rails, do you think as many people would have come? I would put that also into the "marketing" category
It seems like everyone's a prophet these days. I understand why, I think -- we all hate uncertainty. But no one knows the future; this is all too chaotic to predict. Let's hope that fact actually works to our advantage.
I just found out that the founding father's intention of political system was modeled after the science movement in the 18th Century. This article and the video link below is enlightening. Thank you.

http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/2009/01/a-video-introduct...
Silverlight 3 will have 3D support with hardware acceleration. This is one area where i see Microsoft taking the lead on Adobe.
Its kinda funny, if some guy did the same exact thing to increase page rank for his blog, Google would come down on them hard the second they found out. Mahalo on the other hand gets a free pass
While I agree that your experience is frustrating, this is one isolated incident. Adobe has been making quality products that I've personally been using for the past 10 years.
Depends on your point of view. Certainly it was profitable for the investors. So is the question has YouTube ever been cash flow positive?

I do not believe that Google breaks out earnings specifically for YouTube, and I am not sure that they differentiate search earnings earned through YouTube as AdSense revenue or for YouTube. But YouTube certainly does generate significant revenue for Google.
+1 to that idea
What support system have you found in Chicago?
The majority of those files actually have nothing to do with Flash--they're the help system, and it's frustrated me too that someone at Adobe thinks that every single help page for every single product should have its own static HTML file that sits on my hard drive. It's completely stupid.

Check out http://www.dearadobe.com for more constructive criticism (which I may have initially found through Hacker News, but I don't really remember).
Almost all our strategies ain't worth much, and since proving things takes a lot of effort, it makes no sense to prove most of our strategies.

But if I were writing flight control software, I'd take the time to formally prove tings, I'd even write the speck in Z.
Add location information to users. I'm more likely to work on a small project with someone local. Also, local user groups are doing this already, if you add location info they could use your software.
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Calacanis once mentioned that they moderate these heavily, and even fix spelling to try and avoid the "How is Babby formed" type posts you find on Yahoo! Answers.
I agree with the comment re: defraying costs, but Open source software has been able to find a way to survive and THRIVE with a not-for-profit model, so there must be a way to do it.

Decentralized and for-profit is an interesting idea, but my main concern is that a for-profit model gives the organization a reason to mine the data and monetize it, which could be done even if the hosting isn't centralized.

The reason I like the not-for-profit model is because it tends to (partially) preclude some of the shady privacy intrusion that the for-profit model could push a business towards.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#Company_history

In March 2008, YouTube's bandwidth costs were estimated at approximately US$1 million a day. [...]

In June 2008 a Forbes magazine article projected the 2008 revenue at US$200 million
Agreed, you do need money from someplace. Open-source projects manage to make it work so I think there must be a way.

Or let users decide how they want their data to be used. Whats say you have the option to opt-in for anonymous data mining but you get a share of the profit? The main point being that each user has absolute control of the personal data.
Wow. How is that even possible? Is there a Javascript port of openGL in the works?
This is something I don't understand about these sorts of grid systems. Isn't using specific classes for the divs of the grid in the HTML just as difficult for maintenance purposes as using a table? You're defining specific rows and columns and because you're doing so with class names, that layout information is in the HTML and not the CSS.

The point of using CSS for layout is to have the markup be relevant to the content of the document, not for it to be relevant to the styling. Just as having class names like "blueText" or "thickBorder" is injecting style information into the HTML, so is having class names like 'g80' or 'g940' or whatever.
This is not how it has always been. The quality of Adobe products has gone down over the last few versions. CS4 is the worst.

Photoshop has an incredible number of bugs. So many that it is almost unusable. It occasionally crashes while trying to save a file, which is the worst user experience infraction possible.

I hope they fix this crap. It's getting more bloated every revision, and their UI is becoming more and more bizarre with each revision (why did they hack OS X to put window resizers on all four sides? It just makes it impossible to click behind Photoshop).
Can't wait to homeschool my children and spend weeks tackling projects like this.
Court Tries 'Google Street View Vs Privacy Rights' Case, Google Wins
I've just started a blog in the last couple of weeks (www.creativitykilledtherecession.com) and I found this post rather helpful and timely. At a time when lazy media (and wishful thinking) has fabricated the idea that online business is quick and easy, Neil's story is evidence that perseverance and hard work still separate the true contenders from the pretenders.
hmm indeed i've never though about offer deadlines.
now i need to find my next customer-to-be to try this :)

many thanks
Not necessarily. I think it's better to start blogging first and see if you actually enjoy doing it. If you're not having fun with it and you don't find it beneficial, you'll probably stop and have saved yourself some money.
Great idea. For now, location can go in the profile. We'll consider adding a separate field for this so you can filter & search by location.
And to save you some time: this is a non-story or at least a mischaracterized one.

At this link he says the follower surges on the accounts in question are from Twitter's new "suggested people to follow" page at signup time.
Makes sense - calls to toll-free numbers always have ANI (number ID) even if blocked, so just redirect calls to a toll-free number.
The principle behind having people registering to post was to make it less confusing. At first we wanted to separate "ideas" and "implementations", so an idea could have many implementations and indeed you could have had anonymous ideas. Maybe we could still have a list of "parentless" projects up for grabs.

I like the idea of a proposal field with instructions. It could still be part of the registering process (it either ends up anonymous or as yours, depending of what you decide). I'll ponder on this.
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Isn't proprietary software nice? It doesn't work well, you have to pay for it, and you are legally prohibited from fixing it.

Sounds like a great deal.
I wasn't offering a counter point or opinion. I don't "honestly believe" anything. I just wanted you to explain your reasoning, adding some more information to your comment. After first read, it sounded like a conspiracy theory. (I think if someone at Mahalo can call someone at Google and get special treatment, that qualifies as a conspiracy by definition.)

I don't understand why Calacanis or Mahalo are important enough to warrant such special treatment, but I don't think I'm Mahalo's target audience. I've never visited the site. That's why I was interested in more information. Thanks!
With J I have to visit directories to add them to my index. This ramp-up is annoying.

With CDPATH, I index it all at the beginning. If I find a new major head in my directory tree, I just add it.
I imagine it was the inspiration for the site design but it's worth noting that your design is very reminiscent of stackoverflow. That's not a bad thing, however, because it looks great and very usable. Thanks for this!
This is why ML and Haskell can be highly advanced languages without inheritance. Subtyping, by the way, is evil in the type theories (causes more problems than benefits, really)... and so it's no surprise that inheritance sucks in practice.

Yes, nitpickers will point out that Ocaml has objects. No one uses them. Also, Haskell has "class extension" for type classes. But, that's much closer to the "composition" that Joshua Bloch talks about in his book than true inheritance.
Interesting play on the definition of "human" indeed. As a hacker myself I find that an interesting train of thought.

If you go by the popular definition for "human" that distinguishes us from the other mammals by defining us as "social beings" then that statement isn't even so far offbase. The process of [computer] hacking is often inherently unsocial after all. Yes, we do spend hours on end in front of a screen, often without or with only very little social interaction taking place.

So, technically, by that definition, our profession makes us less human than, say, a callcenter agent who talks to other humans all day.

Well, okay I admit that argument falls apart pretty quickly.
But interesting train of thought nonetheless...