skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The 'market' is not new, there are already some products out there - but they are crap."

It doesn't matter if they are crap if there's no demand for the service.

"Does this validate my idea? Should I just jump in and build the MVP product?"

No, there are lots of failed to-do apps, does that mean u should build one too?

Everything is secondary if you have a good understanding of your market and the problems your potential customers face.
Crash course on the CSS line-height property
Try checking out Stanford's opensource online course platform:

https://github.com/Stanford-Online/class2go/
Congress Focus on Real Climate Cliff, Not Manufactured Fiscal Cliff
I've found that it's easy to let your life become unfocused after leaving college. Up until graduation, you always had built-in goals on which to focus: pass that test, find scholarships/jobs, graduate, etc...

After graduating and finding a job, I was suddenly without any pressing objectives in my life. What's next? Retirement? That's way too far off (probably). I was working and living my life day-to-day, not unhappy, but sort of drifting without direction.

As cliché as it sounds, trying to answer the question "where do I want to be in 1, 5, 10 years" honestly helped. I thought about it for a while and came up with some vague ideas. Every once in a while, I do a mental progress check and that helps me see past the daily routine to something greater.
I'm curious what's unhealthy about these:

> striptease, hookers, "bad girls"

Maybe I'm just thinking slowly this saturday, but couldn't it be argued that those all have the virtue of giving social interaction that porn does not give, and giving a realistic view of what sex involves?
I've thought about this before but the issues is that the energy is dinged 3 times by inefficiency losses. First when you capture it from the sun(or whatever), then when you pump it and convert it to potential, then when you let it out and use it to generate.

They actually already do this to some extent, I think the "St. Lawrence Pump Station" is one facility.
After a generation of false dawns, is the sun starting to shine on Japan?
When you read the article, what did you find out on the score?
Paraphilia in its finest form
Well, a starting place is to just read about the structure of the human brain on Wikipedia, versus that of other mammals. One of the key differences is just the size of the human brain compared to body mass.
Hydrogen Cyanide is actually a colorless liquid that would evaporate in the sunlight. You may be looking for Prussian blue, which has got a lovely blue color, but isn't very toxic.

Anyway, this is orthogonal to the effectivity of your analogy, but I thought you may want to know.
"We need to meet up" also translates incorrectly "我们需要满足". In fact, I did not originally use a fragment, I wrote a full sentence that Google repeatedly incorrectly translated. I only used a fragment here to simply my example.

To avoid the wrath of the Google fan boys, a better example would have been the pinnacle of statistical AI :
The category was "U.S. Cities" and the clue was: "Its largest airport is named for a World War II hero; its second largest for a World War II battle." The human competitors Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter both answered correctly with "Chicago" but IBM's supercomputer Watson said "Toronto."

Once again, Watson, a probability based system failed where real intelligence would not.

Google has done an amazing job, with their machine translation considering they cling to these outdated statistical methods. And just like with speech recognition has found out over the last 20 years, they will continue to get diminishing returns until they start borrowing from
nature's own engine of intelligence.
I charge $20-25/hr though I used to get paid 5 times that in the US (that's cuz we moved to India and I had to charge based on those standards as opposed to the US ones!)
I dont usually bring it up, but curious - am I the only one who finds a blurb like this a bit unseemly:

If you enjoyed this post, I’d be humbled if you’d follow me on Twitter.
Except, you know, when you are $2 away from being thrown onto the street. Pride only goes so far.
Facebook ignores minimal user vote, adopts new privacy policy
Any discussion of The Beatles & Entrepreneurship that does not mention Brian Epstein will have completely missed the most important point.

One that also fails to mention Apple and Neil Aspinall clearly has no point. Unless, maybe, it was discussing HandMade Films.
I don't think unrealistic expectations are the issue, Forrest Gump gives unrealistic expectations about life and success but nobody is trying to ban it; not to mention there is tons of amateur porn with fairly normal sex.

The issue is social perception, dumbness by the masses pretending there is something evil and inmoral about watching other people have sex.
The comfort zone one is important. I know a lot of people that stop growing their skills because the money is flowing and it's easy. When you stop growing, it's probably time to move on.
How print media can learn from blogs
Remember how those first few weeks of college were intensely social. You meet a lot of people you'll know the rest of your life. It's a critical time. I recommend:

Social > academic. But they're intertwined, so work hard, and work with others in your core area. Be helpful and smart and humble. Don't worry about your non-core subjects (let others help you).

Don't go nuts with freedom. Go to parties, but drink very little, avoid drugs, don't get caught up in sex. It's fun, but save it for later.

Don't go back home. Don't have a girlfriend back home. Don't have a girlfriend at all, this is a time for lots and lots of friends.

Avoid toxic people.
Just a thought: I wonder if we could help the awareness of white tigers by making a meme with a picture of a defect white tiger that look "fun". Similar to all of these [0]. By spreading the awareness of the white tiger more more people seek information on them and hopefully more would be enlighted of their bad shape.

[0] https://www.google.dk/search?q=animal+meme&hl=en&tbm...
or if its a lot of money -- you're probably under-valuing what you're learning (assuming a semi-rational labour market..)
Where can I learn JQuery and is it worth it? (2008)
Slash: A markup language for styling text on iOS
I didnt literally mean "in your house", if you as a parent allow your child to have a smart phone, again thats your responsibility to determine what you want your child to have access to.
I love the thinking presented in this article: if you do good by your employees, they will do good to you and the organization.
My dad always said, "Son, if it's worth doing, it's worth doing for money."
If I worked for any kind of intelligence agency I'd set up several TOR exit nodes. Which makes me wonder about who runs them.
I'll bite. Tell us, concretely, what is to be gained from a biological approach.

Honestly I imagine we'd find more out from philosophers helping to spec out what a sentient mind actually is than we would from having biologists trying to explain imperfect implementations of the mechanisms of thought.
For the most of my life having those external "goais" and having to meet them was extremelly painful and frustrating for me.

You would not believe how happy the lack of "objectives" made me. I can just work, have my salary and not be bothered. It's like as you was under cripppling pain for all of your life and then suddently it is relieved forever.
Except for short-term consulting gigs.
Why use version control systems for writing a LaTeX paper?
15 years ago you could have called someone anywhere in the world on a device the size of a pack of cigarettes. It was a great phone:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_StarTAC

Everything discovered in CERN today could have been discovered 20 years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_Super_Collider

Yes, because of semiconductor advances (Moore's Law) computers and communications advance at a blinding pace. However, we would all benefit if we could push other areas too.

It's not about how far we've come, it's how far we have yet to go.
"Eco-wise" the infrastructure to build and deploy solar and wind, including batteries & storage, is substantially far more un-environmentally friendly than the other main options that are environmentally friendly, which are nuclear and hydrogen. On almost any measure, nuclear power and hydrogen (which can be produced cheaply at off-peak times for vehicles) are the two key power sources we should be investing far more in, rather than the current damaging technologies being deployed on increasingly vast scales with little thought to the real environmental damage being created.
Help Santa Plan His Tour (Twice)
Isn't splat() just an implementation of partial application around a specific function (map)?
Thanks. I've bought it, because the article was very informative.
Man, those are actually some pretty tame predictions, especially if most of them were already in some form of production. I guess the future ain't all it's cracked up to be.
We're Better At Design, And That's Not Good
The amount of effort you have to put in is going to be different than someone else. It would be a much better idea to choose something you are familiar with. Something you can can get excited about.
What would a pardon do that the formal apology not already has done? Posthumous pardons rarely have any point.
"Why a CS Degree Matters" is totally different from "Why Choosing a Good CS Program Matters". In the end, we all get similar pieces of paper, but what they teach you can be completely different. Some schools offer CS by the Faculty of Science; some schools teach software engineering in their CS classes; some schools do not distinguish between computer and software at all.
I believe the equivalent quote for the OP would be more like "Son, if there is money in it, it must be worth doing." Quite a different thing.
Yeah, there's a theory that people tend to get promoted to their level of incompetence.

Also related is the "Dilbert Effect" where the incompetent get promoted to management so they can't screw everything up by doing actual work, so they get to just have meetings instead, while the competent workers continue working away.
Yeah, that is not going to have any effect. What the military-industrial-congressional complex wants, the military-industrial-congressional complex gets.
Aaron Sorkin is jotting down ideas. Watch for something in theaters in 2014.
Don't do it for the money, really

But when times get tough, it's nice to have something to pay the bills

Bottom line, pick what you like, but something that pays some money, and you're good at
Windows 8 App’s Security Not Much Better Than iOS and Android Apps
As sambeau said, there's no mention of Epstein, nor is there a mention of George Martin. The production values he brought added a nuanced yet immeasurable quality to their output.

Perhaps another lesson is no matter how awesome your raw product is, you can improve things by delegating to specialists.

Interestingly, though, Epstein was really not a business specialist, and lost the Beatles millions.

Somewhat unrelated, but interesting collection of beatles money stuff: http://www.beatlemoney.com/
Dwight K. Ipsum: A Dwight Schrute Filler Text Generator
I saw this Ad by a legal services company on Facebook today
Murders in the U.S. have decreased steadily since 2006, dropping from ~15k to ~12k. Firearms murders, which made up 67 percent of all murders in the U.S. in 2010 have followed this trend, decreasing by 14 percent.

California, a state with one of the most strict gun laws had the most gun murders in 2010. 69 percent of all murders that year, according to FBI data.
Hookers and "bad girls" make the risk of STDs higher. Also they all cost money. Also you may end up in places that increase the risk of being robbed, damaged, consuming harmful addicting distances such as alcohol, etc.

The lack of sexual education before sexual encounters is a real issue, not really with porn.
The Ergonomics of PC Video Games
Or e-mails it to them, or uses Dropbox.
I flagged this as spam, new account, pushing his own website, thin material at the website that mainly pushes a political lobbying effort and very tenuous relation to hacker news.
I wouldn't hire a company to protect my brand that did not know how to spell (loose - > lose)
To be a little nit-picker here, but he specifically said children, wereas you said teenagers.

I too believe it is a good idea to make sure 6 years old don't stumple on a inter-racial shemale anal-gangbang site before they are old enough to understand what sex is.

Teenagers are an entirely different catagory.
If only Ads can be Oxymorons
Should be? Don't guess, figure it out for sure.
> This is the part I don't understand, what are those worries?

Not a parent, but I think the problem with kids watching pornography is that you're basically letting a random person teach them what sex is. If a kid who's just beginning to get curious about sex stumbles on hard-core BDSM/rape fantasy sites, it's probably going to have some sort of impact. (I picked an obvious bad-case scenario, I'm not saying it's always like this, or that it'll certainly traumatize them, etc., etc. I just wouldn't want my kid's first experience with sex to be a video of a gagged woman being whipped.)

> And is not like porn randomly plays itself in the browser, you have to use explicit sexual words for Google to respond with links to porn sites.

I was going to come up with an example where little Billy is searching for his uncle Dick, but most of the results are about Dick Cheney, which is arguably more frightening than pornography.
Does hydrogen have anything to offer over synthetic petroleum as a vehicle fuel?
26 Moments That Restored Our Faith In Humanity This Year
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If only Twitter could bring him back...
I thought the original concept was a satire of VCs and incubators meant to point out that you don't need a lot of cash to build a startup, you just need drive and hard work.

But now, it seems everybody's taking it seriously? For example, the comments on that Wired article are dead serious.

So I don't know if I'm the one who's missing the point, or if everybody else is…
Very much so, thanks for pointing that out!
When I was a young person in the 1970s reading about technology, space travel was the focus of futurism and predictions. I read a lot about the "accelerating rate of progress" in space technologies, and many experts confidently predicted permanent lunar colonies around 1990 and luxurious martian and orbital space colony living post-2000. The reasoning was more or less the same as the "AI singularists". If you look at the "curve of progress" in space tech from WWII to 1970 and extrapolate from it, we ought to have the full "Star Trek" technologies now.

However, as we know, the pace of progress in space travel and settlement technology slowed down and almost stagnated, despite a lot of very smart people who thought fast space colonization was a sure, inevitable prediction.

I think the same goes for extrapolations from our current computing technology - as exciting as the blue-sky scenarios are, and as fervently as I hope that brain uploading and similar goals will be achieved, I think the barriers to computational transcendence of the current limits of our bodies will probably be at least as challenging as the barriers to permanent off-earth colonization.
Wiki articles can be maintained by anyone, feel free to correct/improve the ones I referenced.

I did not fail to consider the poetry route, I ignored it because poetry comes from human emotion and human feeling.
s/absorbent/exorbitant/ ?

Also first sentence is really awkward. Better:

I will be the first to admit that I absolutely despise the state of higher education. The concept is fundamentally flawed, and I am not thrilled to have spent 3 years (and only 3, thankfully) working towards a piece of paper that “proves my skills”. In my opinion, it does not do that in most cases.
CPU development seems to be petering out compared to the gains of yesteryear

This is arguably true if your primary metric is single-threaded performance on branchy-integer-type code. Admittedly this is what normal users see most of the time, which is why consumer desktops and laptops haven't been very exciting the last few years. But the cost to build a petaflop supercomputer keeps dropping.
I think it's an intentional play on the infamous "you should follow me on twitter" sign-off popularized by Dustin Curtis[1] and propagated by bloggers who don't understand the limitations of split-testing.

[1] http://www.dustincurtis.com/you_should_follow_me_on_twitter....
Apparently it is only 3 years because they skip all the classes where they teach you to not use run-on sentences.
Hey, this gives me a great idea: I could write a program that will gather email addresses on the web and automatically email my sales pitch to every single one of them. And I could sell both this program and my email lists to other companies willing to pay for them.
We also lost Flash. Screw you Steve Jobs for killing it. I remember the days when futuristic sites were built using it with all the advance animation and stuff that nobody is doing these days.
SQL injection style security problems are merely a subclass of sanitizing user inputs.

Bad user inputs can cause crashes/catastrophic problems
e.g. buying -1 shares from a stock market system.

Therefore computer science teaches to always sanitize inputs. I was taught this in high school in the 80s.

"I know I built more than one perl cgi script that concatenated user-input values together without thought or concern."

You have no excuse.
> How often does that concept come up when you are tossing together a web app?

I end up using some kind of state machine just about every time I build a web app. If you're just tossing PHP together to make something work, you might never happen upon a pattern like that, but as a professional developer these things definitely shouldn't be a mystery, even if you "just" build web apps.
htmlspecialchars does not throw E_WARNING on multibyte problems
But it's 2012! it's late.
Even forest gump has an (IIRC) 15 certificate here in the UK.

The issue is that you don't necessarily control which porn your kids would see first. And there is certainly a disproportional amount of "extreme" content available prominently.

I'm not sure it's necessarily just hysteria, I know people who would happily consume porn themselves but would be very mindful of what they expose their kids too.
I wouldn't really be into it for the money, just the mentorship and publicity. $137 worth of mentorship and publicity.
It's... rather odd to redefine a term in use so that it's very different from what everybody else in the discussion talking about. Also, exponential economic growth has been with us since the rise of homo sapiens, but what we saw 200 years ago was a drastic shortening of the doubling period. You can also look at the invention of agriculture as another increase in the rate of doubling, and talk about how ~human level AI might cause another decrease in the doubling period. This is, at least, how Robin Hanson thinks about these issues.

http://hanson.gmu.edu/longgrow.pdf
they already do this a lot more than to some extent, it is quite common. Batteries have an internal impedance as well which means losses putting energy in and taking it out. 15% loss on a battery is a reasonable estimate
"Starting Jan. 30, 2013, only Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government customers can set up new devices with Google Sync."

Am I reading it correctly that only new setups will be disallowed while existing devices will continue to work as-is?
Cimicifuga Racemosa, Actaea Racemosa, Black Cohosh Benefits and Side Effects
Thanks so much! Grammar is not my strong suit.
It matters so you can win programming competitions?
That is good advice but, I'm interested in knowing, which revenue models are known for generating higher amounts of money, generalising and removing the specificities of the people who might be implementing the model.
Sorry I don't fully understand, you can invite collaborators on sharelatex into the project via the project settings area. Free accounts are capped to having 1 collaborator (1 person + yourself). Please drop me an email henry.oswald at sharelatex.com
Ok, let's think this through. Maybe if I pull both drives from the mirror my life will be interesting againpanic: ZFS: I/O failure (read on <unknown> off 0: zio 0x8aab9678 [L0 SPA space map] 1000L/800P DVA[0]=<0:5a0006b000:c00> DVA[1]=
<0:760005e000:c00> DVA[2]=0:910006f000:c00> fletcher4 lzjb LE contiguous birth=30357 fill=1 cksum=826e30d130:8ee58de6107a:5f1171be2ea
Etsy for iPhone loophole allows attacker to hijack Accounts
Ask HN: Foundation supported set of social web services?
Access to the web and its free flow of information is I believe not only healthy for personal development but societal development as well. Tools such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google have been seen as instrumental in transformations we have seen throughout the world (i.e. Arab Spring). Even still, they are still owned by corporations and maintain a corporate interest. When I look at the positive role that non-profit foundations have had in developing essential tools for accessing computers and the web (i.e. Wikimedia Foundation: information, the Ubuntu Foundation: operating system, Mozilla Foundation, browser), I can't help but believe that a foundation or non-profit whose aim is to provide and support a set of social web services like Twitter or Facebook or even Gmail, could be beneficial to the world.

Web services cost money and often OSS contributions are not enough to drive user adoption and especially support server systems. While I applaud App.net they too are ultimately a company. A foundation could adopt Identi.ca or perhaps start from scratch and build a robust, and privacy aware, social platform that could become and remain a basic right for internet users.

Is this thought I'm having a good one and something people would be interested in? If so, KickStarter campaigns and awareness could be developed. Looking for some validation on the thought first.
Poll: What kind of tool do you use to write code?
I'm curious not for people's specific tools, but the types of tools they use. When you go to write code, which of these do you use?
Text Editor (vim, sublime text, etc)
IDE (Eclipse, Visual Studio, IDEA, etc)
Online Editor (e.g. @koding)
Other (please specify!)
http://www.swiftkey.net/en/

This is the main reason I can't switch to IOS from android. I type a lot on my phone, usually work related email.
When You Fall Into a Black Hole, How Long Have You Got?
> Not a parent, but I think the problem with kids watching pornography is that you're basically letting a random person teach them what sex.

That is certainly not the opinion of the masses because they don't want kids to see porn even years after they have been educated about sex.

If you need to hide something is gore, sites like Reddit are full of it and contrary as porn it can be a little bit traumatic.
This is a question that was bothering me as well. It seems like evolution will always eventually lead to a singularity, so why don't we see it all around us?

Jason Silva has an explanation that I think could be on the right track:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQOyJUDTKdM&noredirect=1