skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like this interface. It's super clean and easy to use. They should really get a customized error page though. I had a typo in the first domain I tried and it kicked me to a vanilla server error page with no other information or a link back to the home page.
DreamIt Ventures Announces Program Agenda - Kickoff Weekend April 17th - Philadelphia
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For those who want great design at a low price, then Motorola has delivered their saving grace in the form of the W375. This sleek clamshell phone delivers all the goods, including features that will help speed up your work and ensure that your leisure time is well spent.
I think ec2-bundle-instance does something much like what you're asking for.

EC2 VMs are not mounted read-only. They are reconstructed from S3 and mounted read/write as a local file on the Xen node.

The changes to this file (your instance's storage) are saved across reboots when you type 'reboot' or use the external ec2-reboot-instances command.

It's just that the terminate operation does not copy the changed file back to replace the AMI that was launched (it would be quite limiting if it did that).

ec2-bundle-instance is a program that will bundle a running instance into a new AMI upon its next reboot. So it requires a reboot and is not like a live lvm-snapshot which is what you will get from EBS snapshots.
It's a horrible title really.

Entrepreneurialism has always been cool. Everyone has always envied Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. Fred Smith's mythical paper is the stuff of business legend. Nothing has changed here.

But like the article correctly states, what's changed is that entrepreneurialism has been introduced to the middle class. It's been made so easy that all those future CEO's and ladder climbers are starting to realize there is another option. High quality talent sees another way of living life - and they like it.

Not touched on in the article is the fact that this change in viewpoint from "climb the corporate ladder to success" to "launch a business and iterate to success" could be as revolutionary as the printing press. Think about it - the appeal of being an entrepreneur attracts the same people that would find getting an MBA and working their way up to C level positions appealing. We could - in effect - be at the very early stages of an extended "brain drain" of talent leaving large corporations without the leadership they need to survive. As the company finds itself less and less attractive to high-end talent, they struggle to keep up. And the spiral continues.

What we actually may be witnessing is the very early stages of the death of the corporation as a viable entity - all due primarily to the birth of the internet. That type of changes is revolutionary - we're talking industrial revolution scales here.

We're living in amazingly exciting times. I would love to see what the history books say about us 250 years from now.
Is it just me, or does the "bin" seem MUCH shallower than an official Tetris game?

Otherwise, pretty impressive for not using Flash.
Obama Helicopter Security Breached By File Sharing
More vendors and reach than TicketStumbler?! IMPOSSIBLE!

EDIT: That was tongue in cheek, since when did 'more features' and 'more interactive images' make something a better product? I thought 'less' was in these days.
Firefox 3.1 beta 3 officially released, may become 3.5
The usefulness of site-blockers as anti-procrastination tools depends on how much of a hassle they are to override. Having to use a special bookmark to visit websites doesn't do anything to make the override process more of a hassle. If I can train myself never to visit a frequented website by typing in a URL, using a regular bookmark, or Googling, then I arguably wouldn't need a site-blocker in the first place.
> A definitive reply to most of that outmoded thinking about g can be found in Nisbet's new book,

If you feel that these views are outmoded – give me peer reviewed research articles (not books). I do not have immediate access to books and books are not peer reviewed. The article that I referenced above was written in 2004 – you can find more recent articles in Google Scholar if you want to. I did not see that the above article (or any of the others) have been refuted. I doubt that you can refute thousands of research articles (a lot of them recent) and a discovery that is probably the hallmark of modern psychometrics with a simple reference to a book (calling anything that you oppose “outmoded”).

> Stanovich is very clear on the distinction between "intelligence" (he is a mainstream psychologist in calling "intelligence" what I would simply call "IQ")

Also I think you are confusing “intelligence” with the general intelligence factor (g) (also intelligence does not equal IQ. IQ is just a standardised intelligence test that is fairly well correlated with the g factor). The general intelligence factor is a factor that is common to almost all different tests on intelligence. While the general intelligence factor is immutable other parts of intelligence can be changed by training/learning (i.e. by the environment).

> "intelligence" (he is a mainstream psychologist in calling "intelligence" what I would simply call "IQ") and "rationality," an aspect of human cognition hardly tapped

The purpose of intelligence tests is to test intelligence – not factors such as rationality, emotion and inter-personal skills such as Stanovich's book suggest. The latter are all factors that is undoubtedly environmental and the value of such tests are doubtful to the intelligence debate.
AngelSoft Launches First VC and Angel Investor Search Engine
Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Tools (online editions)
I don't think that's a solution for procrastination problem. There are three causes for procrastination:

1. Innate rationality in procrastination from lack of meaning in doing any work in general or doing anything at all.
Solution: Felicity's Feather Philosophy from More Secrets of Consulting:
"Since nothing matters in the end, it doesn't matter if I pretend it does matter".

2. Fear.
Solution: diassociatives, rest, sabbatical, running, etc.

3. "What the hell do I do first?" factor.
Solution: I'm actually working on that right now.
Mozart-Oz http://www.mozart-oz.org/ is by no means a toy language.
It is used and have been used in some serious commercial applications (I've used it myself in some even if it was never talked about or said in a even a single word (big secret)).

It's been awhile since I did any heavy lifting in mozart-oz but I keep it in my reference stack together with lisp, smalltalk.
It works just like Kayak.com, really easy.
I would say the % means that out of 100 investment decisions, the rats have been correct at x-percent. I have seen this before and it looks like work in progress, but maybe more art then science, the man is an artist...
The opera widget has been around for quite a while.

His other demos seem to run pretty well too (using Flock):
http://www.benjoffe.com/code/tools/functions3d/
http://www.benjoffe.com/code/demos/canvascape/
http://www.benjoffe.com/code/toys/spirograph/
Upvote for raising clear points, but at heart I think I disagree with your premises. Your thesis seems to be that by throwing more resources at the problem the vault could be made more secure. Likely true, but at what cost, both in hassle and money?

You seem to be arguing for overengineering without considering the costs. Should the failsafes also have failsafes, should the backups have their own backups? And what if the additional security measures add additional risks? Take #4, "human patrols". Unless implemented very carefully, greater access for security personnel could well add more risk than benefit.

I'm not even sure that one should argue that the vault failed from the point of view of the owners. It was designed well enough for them to do their daily business and such that they were able to obtain insurance on the contents. A vault doesn't have to be impregnable, only visibly difficult to steal from.
Whoa.. this is neat. So using this anyone can run an IM network?
The SMS feature on Google Voice has got to be the one I use the most often so far. Especially because I don't use my phone, so there isn't a reason to get unlimited text messages for $30/month. With everyone else getting this unlimited plans, makes it really easy to communicate with them for free.
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And you do this without breaking SSL how?

Above and beyond the fact that your browser will throw certificate errors every time you hit an SSL site, there is a really easy, really bad failure mode where scripts are injected based on user content delivered over insecure links, into connections to your bank. You might as well just not use SSL if you'll accept that risk.
Doesn't work in Chrome, but extra points for being the first Canvas thing here in a few weeks to support IE!
Oh, on that count, I have no doubt.

I've long ago learned that nice nerds pretty much never get the girl, unless they dramatically lower their standards for what makes a compatible mate. Nerds that make girls laugh and don't kowtow to their every whim, on the other hand, very often do get the girl. Girls are interesting and complex systems.

I should also add, it was a girl flirting with me that introduced me to the idea. She asked what I did, I told her I worked in technology, "Internet stuff", and she responded with, "Oh, so you run a porn website?" I thought it was funny, and it just automatically became my default response.
Thanks, you guys have been very helpful. Good starting resources here.
A newly created link should allow a first visit, rather than immediately assuming a time interval block. This made it harder for me to test in my case.
Frank Addante, who's built a few successful teams, gives the high points on what to look for in your first hires.
Born a Creationist, Merck’s Schadt Leads Open Source Effort to Unravel Genome
Complilation of davesecretary's stories:

http://www.storylog.com/time-for-some-stories-corrected/
Cool, works great in FF3 on Ubuntu.

The only thing is that pressing up and down to rotate the tetromino moved the page up and down as well.
> The Romans never explored significantly outside their Empire.

I can put this another way:

EVERY place that the Romans explored, they conquered.
Opera Turbo, a server-side optimization and compression technology, now available
I really like that they provide an option to sign up as a "Hacker" and provide the opportunity to be matched with a startup that could benefit from one's coding skills.
I played around with clicktake but it doesn't handle user logins at all.

Wish there was a way to simulate then but then you do run into privacy issues.
Aardvark intelligently routes your question to someone who knows the answer
Yeah, when I released a free little Windows-only app called Temptation Blocker (blocked programs for set amount of time) the "hassle" part was the most important to me. The user had to type in a unique, random 32 char string every time they wanted to override it. That seemed to walk the line between too annoying (i.e. "Crap, just remembered that deadline and have to get to www.XXX.com now!") and annoying/time-consuming enough to make you remember "I should know better".
This year is more about building successful teams and matching them with promising concepts. They seem to have gained a lot from the feedback provided by the first batch of ventures and from the Hacker News community.
Only issue I had is if the window is sized too small to require a scrollbar, then pressing down/up actually scrolls the page, as well as controlling the game.

Perhaps need to cancel default action in the key handler...
Haha I think we have a similar number of events (we just added theater tickets this week), but they do have more vendors. However, many of the long tail sites they include also list tickets on Ticketsnow, Stubhub and Ticketnetwork so they're already included on TicketStumbler anyway.

I'll give credit where it's due though; they've done a great job.
Well, OK .. but I have no idea what your application is even for. Timmy? Evolved? That means nothing to me. Who or what is Timmy? And don't say "go and find out" - why should I have to go and research what the nature of your product is?! I've already visited the web site, and it didn't say!

I'm sure you and your team are well versed in everything to do with Timmy, but please understand that no-one else has any idea what you are talking about. Uh-huh. I see a lot of lightning. That's a nice slideshow you put together there. Very impressive. I might look at the source to see how you did it. WTF is Timmy?

Imagine I pointed you to a link called Michael Evolved, with a nice slideshow and music, telling you that now, Michael is moving to the Next Level! Sign up now for the Michael private beta! You visited the link. You gave it several minutes of your attention. You have no fucking idea what it is talking about. You'd be posting the exact same thing back to me. Who, or what, is Michael? Who knows! Maybe ask Timmy!
Even better is patching Net-SNMP to output %util over SNMP, then pulling the numbers into cacti for various graphs.
> that little bit of secret gibberish

That makes me wonder if root keys are some of the most valuable information in the world (in terms of financial value per bit).
And who was the main guy behind that bill? Yes, Al Gore. http://w2.eff.org/Legislation/Bills_by_name/Old/info_infra_t...
The Chinese language and the grass mud horse
I've tried almost everything to curb my procrastination. Nothing works. I know this won't work for me, but I'm sure someone less jaded will get some use out of it.
You want to discourage your employees?

Promise them huge bonuses at the end of the year if they exceed expectations and give them none blaming it on the crisis.
Numerous studies have been done on siblings and twins who were raised separately. The IQ correlation between hereditary siblings is strong, that between twins is overwhelmingly strong and that between adopted siblings is almost non-existent past adolescence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inheritance_of_intelligence#Fam...
New coatings can self-heal in the sunlight
Nice to see someone who knows their Latin! :-) Servus!
This seems like a smart approach. I'd guess that there are a lot of people who might want to participate in a startup but don't necessarily have a new idea or concept to bring to the table.
Scientists Create Superhydrophobic Material
I haven't written it off as a language. It looks very interesting, I just ran into trouble porting it to OpenBSD on amd64* and haven't gotten back to it. (I've done several ports for OpenBSD, and when/if I get it ported I will submit it.)

I prefer to work in languages that are reasonably portable across Linux, BSD (inc. OS X), and Windows. Combined with my other priorities and general taste, this means Lua, various Scheme implementations, OCaml, and C. (Your taste and priorities probably differ, though. Peace.)

* Which is an interesting portability test - Linux-isms are invalid, stuff that isn't 64-bit clean won't work, it's not quite i386, and OpenBSD's randomizing malloc tends to expose interesting bugs as well. (The only real loss has been Haskell, but I'm uneasy with how Haskell's de-facto standard seems to be "whatever the newest GHC does" when GHC has bootstrap/portability issues, e.g. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1346 .)
Self Replicating C code
Behold the Appearance of the Invisibility Cloak
That's not true. They went on plenty of expeditions
at the edges of territory they controlled.
How To Tell Your Software Project Is Doomed
At the level of anecdote, the misfortune that many lottery winners eventually encounter (lose it all, and/or enter social isolation) makes me think that luck is not sufficient. Without work and preparation, you will not be able to capitalize on luck when it does occur.

Now, if someone wants to prove the contrary, feel free to give me a bunch of money I wasn't expecting.
"Because many times, you don't want some parts of your program to know about the internal fields your datatype has, as the implentation can keep changing all the time."

There's no reason why you can't hide a data structure behind a set of functions in Clojure.
Fair enough. Keep up the good work.
NASA Launches 'Eyes on the Earth 3-D'
Who's dumb enough to steal diamonds?
Safari most certainly does support HTML5 Canvas. The canvas was originally introduced by Apple in 2004. (http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/hyatt/archives/2004_07.html#0...)
An Interview With The Developers Of FFmpeg
Aardvark Social Search Service Arrives
Apple logo converted to second monitor
Twenty Years Later, The Web Is Finally Turning Into a Computer
"We could have had much of the world of 2001: A Space Odyssey, by 2001."
What Does the Future of Capitalism Look Like?
There is incorrect information in the submitted article. It bugs me to read wrong information about Chinese on the Internets because Chinese was my undergraduate field of study.
Too many newspapers today are just publishing tons of stuff from the wire and then writing one or two local fluff stories to go along with the local sports scores and grandma's bragbook.
4 gebruikers?! It has to be worth reading!
This is a prime example of why organ sales should be legalized.
IoDrive, Changing The Way You Code
I've been a beta user of this since the middle of 2008. It's a great service.

(I have invites if they're still not open. Use the contact info in my profile if you want one.)
There's no mention of equity for people applying as "Hackers". That position is a whole lot less meaningful (financially and otherwise) if you're not a stakeholder.
Yeah, I know you can't do it over HTTPS -- with HTTPS over a proxy, all the proxy can know is the hostname. Such an extension system would be HTTP-only, but I don't think it'd therefore be useless.
I don't understand by giving blood is assumed to be a duty either. Every time you put a needle into a blood vessel, you are bypassing one of your body's major defenses against disease: your skin. The needle could easily have been infected, possibly with a fatal disease and in that case, the donation is a death sentence.

Admittedly, this is extremely infrequent (at least in 1st-world countries with advanced medicine) but that is only a difference in degree.

If people really want more organ donation, there is a very simple method for doing so: pay people for it. Balance the risk with a payout that is more tangible than goodwill. The sad thing is that many organ recipients would be happy to pay for the organs they get. Its federal regulations which stop them from doing so.
The Future of Internet [pdf]
Agreed. Sometimes "more features" and "more interactive images" doesn't always translate into a better experience for the user.

I may be a bit biased on this one, but I'm curious to know where the 10 million that they raised went to? Some more features and more interactive images? I have a feeling that Ticketstumbler will out perform in the long run as they're still motivated by the "innovate or die" mentality.
TIME FOR STORIES, by davesecretary
Obama Puts New CIO Vivek Kundra On Suspension
Entrepreneurship has been cool for a while now - and is now a part of the establishment - all the major universities have jumped on the entrepreneurship bandwagon, and governments avidly promote their support for entrepreneurs.
So becoming an entrepreneur can now be a socially validated choice. But is this a good thing? Historically, entrepreneurs have come from the disenfranchised - religious nonconformists, immigrant communities - people who are forced to find another way of making money because they could not get on using traditional social paths. They can change the world because they have always seen it partly from the forced perspective of an outsider.
The question is bad, the binary options are false.

Imagine I build and launch twitter2.com. I put a lot of hard work into it. It fails, of course. Was I unlucky?

Obviously there is (at least) a 3rd dynamic at work. It's hard to nail it down, but let's called it insight.

When I first saw twitter, soon after it was launched, I thought it was stupid. Actually, I still think that. But obviously they were onto something. Obviously the market for that kind of service is much larger than I would have imagined.

They worked hard, no doubt. They had luck, I suppose, that the idea first occurred to them, that they had the skills necessary to pursue it, that they were born into a rich society with the leeway available to pursue speculative opportunities, etc. You can go as far as you like with that kind of digging.

But without insight, that people would want such a thing, they'd have nothing. "Luck OR hard work" is meaningless. It removes any kind of decision-making from the equation. That decision, of what to work hard on, in which arena luck might have the opportunity to shine on you, is critical. Anyone can work hard. Anyone can experience a little bit of random luck. Insight is what ties it together, turns good into great, turns mere effort into rousing success.
Seems too easy to override, I tried the gmail "take a break" lab feature that locks you out of gmail for 15 minutes... but then I accidentally clicked it, and it was so easy to override with firebug (just delete the div covering everything) that it doesn't really do anything since I know its so easy to get around.

Maybe I will make one that you have to add a credit card too, and if it catches you it will draw $20 to a charity you hate. That might be a little more effective ;)
Maybe it's a mirror neuron thing?

Assuming the mirror neuron theory is true (I only read the NY Times version), we actually feel a little bit like we are scoring a touchdown when we watch someone else score a touchdown as a spectator. This is even more true if you have played a little bit of football.

Watching an intellectual sitting there thinking deep thoughts, you are mirroring, what? Since you can't observe what is in his head, how can you get any kind of thrill of vicarious participation?

The super model case is more complex. I remember another NY Times article about a study in which women got equally excited seeing beautiful, scantily clad women as seeing good looking, scantily clad men. The hypothesized reason was that the women were putting themselves in the place of those women, their mirror neurons imagining being desired/desirable as those women were, perhaps.

I'm guessing if the super model comes on the screen while the boyfriend/husband/other men are in the room, then it is more a sense that the image on the screen is a rival for attention? Or maybe a little of both.
hovering over the link to see the status bar url is probably easier
You're right -- my bad. I guess I've always called extensions "plugins", partly because I don't care about actual plugins very much. (Time to change.)

I'll add an update to the blog post to clarify.
Ooh, speaking from experience?

How about telling your employees that "We're too top-heavy and therefore won't be promoting anyone", and the only way to make more money in the company is to move up?