skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IE8 no doubt has a lot of features packed in, both for the developer and the user.

Some of the front-end features are really impressive:

http://ajaxian.com/archives/ie-8-better-ajax-css-dom-and-new...

In particular, the ability to make XDR calls without using flash or other hacks is impressive. they also increased the number of parallel connections to 6 up from 2. The web is going to get busier for sure
That's why you should always get the anti-corrosion warranty on your mars lander.
Entrepreneurship is about turning every dollar of resources spent into something worth more than a dollar.

Including your time. Even if you can live on $100 per week, your time is still worth $100 per hour, so that's how much value you need to create with every hour.

But it doesn't need to be $100 cash, but of value. Warren Buffett doesn't evaluate companies by their current price, but by their likely future worth. A key factor in evaluating worth is their economic moat - their enduring advantage over competing companies. Therefore, creating more than $100 of economic moat in an hour is a good use of your time.

Of course, Buffett doesn't invest in startups or even tech companies like IBM. Tech is too unpredictable: a product that is good + a market that actually wants it. Your success or failure is not predictable from data points - it pretty much is the first data point.
Or like radiation cures cancer. Radiation treatment is basically just controlled radiation poisoning. A lot of the side effects are the same. Nothing is totally beneficial, or totally detrimental.
> I would agree that the legislative branch was also instrumental in deciding derivative regulation BUT that discussion is pretty much irrelevant to the immediate question.

To be clear, you're saying that Greenspan's influence over the legislative branch is relevant but what they actually did is irrelevant...

> I simply criticized Greenspan, I didn't criticize-Greenspan-to-get-the-democrats-off-the-hook.

You found Greenspan's comments important enough to criticise. You didn't find other people's actions significant enough to rate a comment.

If your comments don't reflect your priorities....

> Did I mention regulation-like-banks?

And for the ntheenth time, AIG was regulated as a bank - that's what the office of thrift supervision does. AIG was also regulated as an insurance company.

If you're going to claim that "regulation-link-banks" would make a difference, surely the fact that AIG was actually was regulated like a bank is relevant.

You keep bringing up things (unregulated assets and the like) that have nothing to do with AIG. (Banks and insurance companies get no benefit from unregulated/off-balance-sheet assets.) Perhaps you ought to be discussing institutions to which they actually apply.
Only after sex, which basically means no...
Nick Bilton Keynote O’Reilly Tools of Change 2009
I used to smoke between 20 and 30 cigs a day. This was something like
fifteen years ago. Over the years, I've been cutting down
gradually. Five years ago I smoked maybe ten ciggies a day. Generally
I feel that the first 10 cigs were rather easy to skip. The next 5
were difficult. And as the ciggies/day crept closer and closer to zero
the more difficult it got.

The last three months I've managed to smoke a total of seven
cigarettes.

Its a major pain. In reality my ambition was to quit completely
but... when the craving hits me I find myself using my entire mind-
all the logical skills I've learned over the years- completely
focused on convicing myself why I should take that ciggie. That its
ok. That its not _that_ bad for my health. etc.

And its almost impossible to resist.

At least for me, its this last cigarette I find the most difficult.
Biz happiness insights from Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh
Every redesign gets the same response.
Undo Send in Gmail
I also appreciated the advice, though I got some cold chills reading it. For example: Today I'm making business cards for a networking event tomorrow. Oops. But I need exposure! I do...really!
I'll let you know once I finish the other 4,783 pages that DaVinci wrote. It's kept me hooked so far, though. http://www.sacred-texts.com/aor/dv/index.htm
To predict what will make you happy, ask a stranger rather than guessing yourself
It's great that they're doing this, but I wonder: what is causing this sudden swing toward openness? Have they always wanted to open their research, but just never been able to do so economically until the Internet came along?
If you wanted to make something out of it, you could do something like bugmenot.com.

It might be possible to right scripts to automatically create accounts at places like the new york times. So you could get people to go to your site, and they could automatically access sites. The problem with bugmenot is that people change the password on the throwaway accounts, so it is sometimes hard to find valid accounts. This way you could control the password and make sure it wasn't changed. That will get you page views, and let you put up advertising.

I like the site though, it's always nice to have another throw away email account. Especially since this one actually activates the registration for you.
I always click 'print this article', then click my Readability bookmarklet ( http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ ). Works 9/10 times and gives a nice speed boost to reading articles. The page partitioning sounds well-done though. I guess writers put a lot of thought into that. (Edit: ... and then I read brandnewlow's comment above mine which refutes that theory. 'Print this article' links rock.)
The data still exists and it is still collated. It's just recompiled through unnecessary manual expenses by a database vendor and then sold to marketers or anyone else who can afford it. The only people who DON'T have access to the data are regular taxpayers like you and me.
Data is either public or its not. Would you prefer to live in a world where there's no way to compare your house's tax assessment against your neighbors? Dontcha think that might lead to some problems?
there is a real measurable performance increase for smoking while programming.

I used to smoke and found this also to be true. HOWEVER, when actually working with a team at an office I realized it was actually decreasing performance because I had to constantly dodge out back for a smoke break, completely disrupting my flow. Even most places where I've lived the past 5 years weren't really smoke friendly, so smoking just became a huge distraction rather than a concentration aid.

In addition to the obvious health and financial reasons, this was a big reason that I quit. Thus, even though I'm all for less government, I fully support smoking bans.

I wonder if the same technique would work for harder drugs. I.e. legalize cocaine and heroin, but make it so that the only place people can legally do them is in a cold alleyway 30 yards behind the pub, next to a garbage dumpster. This way you'd get rid of the drug-dealing related crime but make it seem like a pretty lame habit to pick up.
who says editors have no outlet for creative genius...
Wasn't a story about this app for the same issue done a few months ago already?

(Googling...)

I found this article: http://www.macblogz.com/2008/12/17/iphone-dev-spends-500k-on...
So yeah 3 months ago it was talked about and nothing has changed since.
Definitely, that's how throw away accounts work. You don't get a personal account. The email just gets sent to a place that any one can access. Just check some common words at mailinator. A lot of those have more spam than can come from one person using it. Especially since I believe email gets deleted about every half hour to an hour.
I smoke both pipes and cigars, but not those nasty ciagrettes. It seems like you are referring to either marijuana or cigarettes, neither of which I smoke!
With all the talk of advertising "crashing" (I've heard a lot of these claims lately), I'd really like to see some numbers to back it all up and prove the point.

Are advertising revenues down significantly more than, say, the Dow average? Because otherwise I would have a real hard time agreeing with the assessment that another advertising bubble is popping...

The problem with a switch to paid content is, of course, that it makes very little sense to assume that the customers that you want to pay you or what they're used to getting for free are any better off financially than you are, or any more willing to pay for the content than advertisers are willing to pay for eyeballs.

However "unproven" the advertising business model on the web may be, the user-pays-for-content model has even fewer success stories - I'm getting a little tired of people claiming that it's the clear way of the future when just about nobody has made it work yet.
Then most sites just add more domains. Mailinator.com has at least six domains that all go to Mailinator.com
5 seconds? Does that really help? How about making it adjustable?
In this case, the first of 5 pages is nowhere near 20% of the story.
Honoring BSG'c Final Episode - home brew ringtone of *the* song...you know which one
Well, it seems to be only a Labs feature... I guess it will be improved in the future.
USA Today coverage of demo day
is "college dropout" really anything special these days?
Yeah. 10MinuteMail.com rotates out domains every month or two.

The problem is that people who actually care about blocking temporary e-mail tend to stay on top of the big sites domain lists. There are even 3rd party lists you can integrate your site/forum with that block all disposable addresses.
The title was misleading in the sense that the article in itself is much more than about creativity. I thought it had more to do with emotions, psychology and effects.
After reading the whole article, I am in awe of how he knows kids so well!
I feel sorry that creative professor mother + phd math father did only so much for their son, putting their own pursuits first instead.
But I guess that is how today's world is and will be.
Ask HN: Anyone know anything about Lua? 
I'm looking at developing a Lightroom plugin (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/photoshoplightroom/)

No idea why Adobe chose to use it, but I thought I'd ask if anyone out there has experience with it.

Is it fairly easy to get rolling with?

Is there much of a community of Lua hackers?

Would it be hard to find some one if I wanted to contract out the job?
It does not seem to work. I sent an email to myself, immediately hit undo. It told me that the action was undone, but there was a new email sitting waiting for me.
...he's done nothing of any real worth for the past year...

Take 10 minutes to watch this:

http://blog.cusec.net/2009/01/05/zed-shaw-the-acl-is-dead-cu...

Then if you don't want to watch the rest, that's fine. But give it at least 10 minutes. It was a fantastic presentation, and your perceptions of Zed might even be changed by the end of it, like mine were.
You'd reject Obama. ;-)
The improved functionality in IE8 + IE Developer Tools (ToolBar) is impressive. Getting much closer to FireBug features and usability now.
There is a difference between "highly competent" and someone who has a Phd in Physics or a degree in quantitative finance. The majority of these positions on Wall Street are filled with Indians and Chinese because not enough Americans are willing to study this stuff, but believe me those people are not underpaid.
If it's being sent to a gmail address, why not allow the user to undo it as long as the receiver has not looked at it yet?
Yes, a pipe.
I usually notice the problem just after clicking on the send button so 5 seconds would be plenty of time for me. I conjecture most people are like that.
The big issue with smoking is not the nicotine. It is the tar/additives that make their way to your lungs and give you cancer.
PostgreSQL Conference: East
smoking is partially beneficial? i'm interested to see the hacker response to forty years of medical research to the contrary
I was slightly curious too, and so did some searching. Surprisingly stimulants can actually decrease risk of addiction to drugs or alcohol. It was found that adults who were prescribed medication for ADHD were at less risk for substance abuse. Now I don't no whether it just reduced risk for addictions to things other than stimulants, or that it just reduced addiction in people who had ADHD, but it at least shows that there is a medically safe dose for some people.

http://www.drugabuse.gov/NIDA_Notes/NNVol14N4/ADHD.html
Privacy. It would become something like a read receipt.
actually one common form of nicotine is in fact a deadly poison
Do tipping customs vary widely within the UK?

_blink_. I don't know.

I've been going to the same barber for a decade, but I don't know if tipping is customary for haircuts in the UK, either in cities or in small towns, or in that establishment. Maybe next time I ought to ask.
If it's past the 5 second point and it is to a gmail address, then it could try to undo without telling you if it was successful.
It sounds like they've done some research to back up their 5 second logic.

I had my own method of "undo" that I've been using - I simply put GMail in offline mode when I am batch replying to emails. Then before I send, I do a quick glance at my outbox. If everything looks good, I go back into online mode

Before this I was just saving as drafts, but that seemed a little messy.

I do wish this was configurable though. It would be nice if I could set it to perhaps 10 minutes with some sort of override (e.g., I am on the phone or chatting with someone right now and I am trying to send them directions or something). Most of my emails are not that time sensitive anyway.
Enthusiastic tobacco bashing is entertaining coming as it often does from from dough boys and girls.

Controlled tobacco use is not really dangerous. A few cigarettes a week are not going to kill you. A coke and a candy bar every day just might. Why the disparity in self-righteous outrage?
One thing I don't like about many of the things in Google labs is the lack of settings like that. I also don't like that there is no way to set how much offline data Gears will store.
That would be of little use; you couldn't resend or assume that they had or hadn't seen it. It would be no better than not having any undo at all.
I'd stop using Gmail, personally. To me, it feels like the receiver has a right to read an email he receives. It would feel... intrusive... for the app to decide to delete some of my data when I'm not looking (or rather when I haven't looked yet).

That said, the "panic button" undo feature seems like a great idea. But 5 seconds is way too short. (I'm envisioning my Dad using this feature in this case, not a techie.) 30 seconds seems perfect -- it's probably not a big deal that your message gets delayed by 30 seconds, and it gives you some 'think time' to remember a detail you forgot to add or fix.
'This useless fluff piece'

I think your getting the wrong idea. A picture of a cat with a caption on it is a usesless fluff piece, a blog post of a video with someone talking about code is a fluff piece.

This isn't an article about start ups or code; but this article I'd argue will give you more as a human, as a entrepreneur, as a family member, as a citizen then any article you'd get from d2h or 37signals.

This article helps you use your brain in ways that people with engineering degrees have a hard time grasping sometimes. Sure you understand the deep intricacies of x programming language or you've got a really cool app, but it doesn't mean you understand people.

Almost every theory of intelligences says that there is more then one way to be a genius, be it in math, art, people, sports anything. And almost all theories will agree that people who are extremely smart in one area and never apply the brain outside of their specialty can be practically retarded in the other parts.

I've been thinking a whole bunch about this lately, as I go to an Engineering School and the sentiment is that Art Majors and Athletes and English majors are idiots cause they most likely won't be making money when they graduate.

I've been trying to make an argument that even they will agree to and understand, but to ask people to change their mind is like asking a rock to be more like sand.
I think it might be in part due to the frustration caused by now ubiquitous availability of articles, but large barriers to actually access those articles. Google lets you see tons of articles online as search results, but even institutional access generally will not allow you to see everything out there due to subscription budget constraints. I'm sure even a place like Harvard doesn't subscribe to every issue of every online journal.
All these missteps by Facebook sounds eerily like the MLS in the real estate industry: a closed database that started as private property (belonging to Realtors) and slowly being pried open by lawsuits and by companies who do a much better job presenting the data (Zillow, Trulia, etc). Maybe Facebook isn't a "platform", it's just a database, and eventually people will stop using the site all together and access the database from a completely different site that's customized to suit their needs/ tastes. People argued that everyone had a right to listing info with houses (even though the MLS has some confidential info, that was resolved), so why not with our personal data (with privacy safeguards, of course)?
The Facebook poll: A Little Case in Statistical Bias
I think there is a shortcut when you email yourself (even if you email to an account that gmail is POP accessing rather than the gmail itself, it will appear immediately) - perhaps this circumvents the undo.
If you read past first paragraph, the whole article is almost exactly the same as your comment:

* Title is controversial, but the actual content of the book offers sound advice

* Don't waste time doing something you hate

* Spend more time doing something you love (like making a difference)

* He even admitted that negativity publicity for the book (like him writing this article) is still good publicity
Might this be a self-fulfilling prophecy? If the 'shifty' group were offered higher interest rate, then this increases the probability that they will bail on their loans, no?
Try the ADO.NET Entity Framework, Microsoft's new LINQ-based ORM tool, released with Visual Studio 2008 SP1. It's very easy to use, and plays well with ASP.NET MVC.
Everything is AI until a computer can do it.

Seriously, in the 1950s a computer was an "electronic brain" when it could add up numbers and get the right total. In the 1980s it was when it could play chess as well as a novice (basic minimax trees). It's always a moving target.
I would never need more than 5 seconds, because by then I will have switched to the next activity and cleared the email from my in-brain queue anyway.

Typical use cases are where you notice just while hitting Send that you: promised a link but didn't actually paste it in; sent mail to a bunch of people and instead of bcc-ing spammed everyone with the whole addressee list; were on auto-pilot and signed mail to your boss with "xx"...

...lots of things that can be caught in 5 seconds. Most of the time I actually just forgot to mention something - so I think undo-send is not so much a service to senders but rather to recipients, who would otherwise have to deal with a higher number of emails.
I'm not saying that it's not horribly detrimental. I'm just saying that it has some small benefits. Nicotine can cause weight loss, act as a stimulant, and reduce stress. Though all of those benefits can be gotten a lot safer ways.

Nature ran an article about how a patent was keeping an arsenic based cancer drug out of reach of patients.

Nothing is all bad.

http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v13/n9/full/nm0907-1005.htm... (subscription required)..
Myspace Mail (which for a long time was bigger than gmail), has always allowed it. Never heard any complaints about this very useful feature.

It's not unprecedented.
I think this is great. During orientation they discuss how to amend copyright agreements so that you retain the rights to publish your papers on your website etc. I'm glad they are making it official.
I also went down the business cards and letterhead as procrastination route. I probably wasted a month all told, dithering about selecting a logo, printing cards, agonising the details. I now have about a thousand of the things. I've changed logo, what I do, telephone number - everything. Not one of those business cards ever lead to anything meaningful. I think I'll use the cards to light fires in the winter.

Next time I print a business card it will just have my name in a plain black font in the middle of the card, with my email address and phone number. The design will take ten minutes.

The authors point is plain and clear : just concentrate on things that bring in money, or are 1 step removed from bringing in money. This is sound advice. I wouldn't agree about stopping blog posting though. Just make sure your blog posts are directly relevant to your business, and try and pick up some related blogs to cross-post with. Blogging carries a very high ROI if you're good at writing.
If memory serves, I think Paul Bucheit mentioned this a long time ago and I wonder what took them so long? But, anyways, a good one I need this one.
If no one sees an email in their inbox, is it really there?
Ideas crisis is not only in my head
Nope. extra() doesn't allow one to do that. extra() can be used to populate an attribute. So, say I wanted to do a comment count I could say

Article.objects.all().extra(select={'comment_count': 'SELECT count(*) FROM blog_comment WHERE blog_comment.article_id = blog_article.id'})

But I can't populate a list of comments objects onto it.

I've talked to Malcom about it (who wrote the QuerySet Refactor branch - or at least a substantial portion) and it's a known deficiency. Basically, the issue is two-fold. First, no one has stepped up to write the code that would make select_related() work in that fashion. Second, people want the implementation to disallow certain bad situations.

The first part is self-explanatory: select_related() should be enhanced to support that, but someone needs to write the code. The second part isn't as much, but it's more interesting.

Let's say you execute this query:

SELECT * FROM articles LEFT OUTER JOIN comments ON comments.article_id = articles.id

How many rows will you get from that? You'll get somewhere in the vicinity of the number of comments (adding a row for any article without comments). Suffice it to say, the results set grows linearly in proportion to the number of articles and comments.

Now let's say we have this:

SELECT * FROM articles LEFT OUTER JOIN comments ON comments.article_id = articles.id LEFT OUTER JOIN votes ON votes.article_id = articles.id

So, we have our article with comments, but also votes now. So, let's say we want to get just one article that has 100 comments and 200 votes. How many lines will that return? In the original SQL query, we would have seen 100 lines (one for each comment) which would have been manageable. Here, we get 100 * 200 lines back. That's 20,000 rows to parse to build a single Article object!

So, the Django folk aren't into letting you just hang yourself out to dry like that. There have been proposals to limit it in ways that wouldn't let you do that, but it's really just something genuinely missing and there isn't a way to do it other than running looped queries or doing something ugly.

extra() doesn't do the same thing as select_related(). I'm not saying that doing ORM over multi-valued relationships is easy or that you can't execute queries that are really bad doing them, but it still means that there isn't support for a pretty basic function.
Add web2py (it's different from web.py!) to list too.
How is this a violation of the TOS? There are plenty of iPhone applications out there for SaaS (i.e. Evernote, rememberthemilk).
If it's cold out and I run around then rip my hat off I do.
It's more a concern that I'd have both hands on the keyboard and the mouse cursor somewhere unknown over several screens ... and not being able to hit undo fast enough, rather than not realising in 5 seconds.
Just tested it and it works.