skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems to me their 'innovation' machine stopped working long time ago. It was expected though, after all those acquisitions. In reality, I haven't seen anything 'new', but just 'better'. This could be their way to go through the downturn..
As for us, we've applied at YC, but when I weigh it out, it's not the money that we really need, but guidance. Real costs of doing a startup, in the beginning, cant be a lot more than 100€ per month. If they are, you are simply not an entrepreneur...
Sounds like a scene out of "Angels & Demons". Dan Brown did a pretty neat job at explaining Matter, Antimatter, Photons, etc..to the average person.
The 15 most disturbing documentaries
One method to fight "the fastest gun" problem, is to cherrypick good questions, and actually write well-written, detailed essays, along with samples. Although more time consuming, these answers usually float to the top in rather short time frames -adding more quality.
One accident and this company will be history. It isn't technology and business that holds aviation back, it's bureaucracy, law, regulations and existing systems. There are way too many actors that have big stakes in the status quo, on all fronts: existing infrastructure and regulations, money to be made on lawsuits and people's fear of flight, the huge personal freedom that comes with flight (leaving the country becomes pretty trivial if there are small planes everywhere), the tens of thousands of people employed in traditional aviation, ensuring the continued safe operation of the current system etc, etc, etc. The technological problems come on top of this, so no "investor in his right mind" would bet the required amount of money to make an attempt. You would have to be crazy.

Someday we will look back at this period as the dark age of flight. I'm annoyed out of my mind; there are hundreds of cool things to work with in this area.
Google’s New VC Fund Lacks Domain Name
I like the texting idea, but extend it to any barcode in the world, not just books, and then extend it to receive scans from phone cameras.

I know it's been done before, but if you're gonna enter the market, enter with both feet at once.
Interactive Case-Shiller housing price graph: individual cities vs. mean
Transcript? I prefer reading/scanning to watching.
Is this not in direct competition with their "hire-by-acquisition" model? Generally, Google acquires companies early on for a price that is favorable to the founders, but wouldn't be favorable to any institutional VC since it wouldn't "move the needle" enough. If Google Ventures invests, then this means that they'd be hesitant to sell for a founder-friendly price to google itself.

Then again, maybe companies that say no to an early stage acquisition, are prime candidates for investment. Something that was impossible before Google Ventures.
"Don't Try To Get a Job," says Seth Godin
Rich Miner talks to Xconomy about Google Ventures
Learn Discrete Mathematics and Computer Science via Primary Historical Sources
Action video games improve eyesight
FWIW, Amazon has an iPhone app that makes it pretty easy to look up books and other merchandise, including a team of mechanical turks that'll look up photos of unidentified products to find info on 'em.
- intelligent, capable, agreeable, etc (obvious)

- complements my skill set

- understands, and unafraid of, risk

- if a programmer, compatible with my philosophy (ie not a super-perfectionist who will spend 3 weeks on the "perfect" deployment system, or someone who will argue with me about text editors or some crap)

- someone who has travelled and has some perspective of the world, ideally having lived overseas .. maybe this is a personal thing but is important to me

- understands what he/she is getting into and will not bail out halfway before we even have a chance to succeed because they can't live frugally (or whatever)

- single, or is willing to act like they're single

- committed, as in they have resigned or will soon

- I know they can work independently and finish things, ie in the (recent) past they have decided to do something (anything!) and actually done it and can show me. Can be anything at all. This is unbelievably rare, you know

- Just have that je ne sais quoi air of "this person is serious, they are going to do this, I am comfortable getting on board with this person" feeling which, on the flip side, would be the kind of ineffable quality which makes investors invest in someone

There are probably more but those spring to mind.
Google Ventures Launches with “We May Steal Your Idea” Caveat
shallow? possibly. but depressing? i think that's a tad dramatic.
Where do we go to see commit messages and such? I'm trying to gauge how open the project is, and am curious about details beyond the source itself.
Ask HN: how do you prevent computer related eye fatigue?
Many of us works many hours per day in front of a computer monitor. Eventually the monitor's light may cause eye fatigue and related symptoms and so I wonder if any of you is using a particular method or combination of them to prevent this effect. Thanks
A StackOverflow for the business of software would be a big success.
Yes, it would be AWESOME PR for google to laugh in the face of everyone who submits a 3 page pitch tomorrow! HAHAHA suckers. Maybe they should publicly bash every entry that comes in.

Come on.
.LY is for Lybia, what if the nutjob that rules the country decides to shut down their internets?

A billion links linking to nowhere...
Because he's a Hall of Fame Self-Promoter?
Better yet, sell it to restaurants, bars, etc. for those completely noddy trivia and keno games.

That's about the only place I can see it really succeeding. I don't want to play even an RPG with laggy, video-compression-artifacted graphics.
You're right. If you wish the natural events to unfold, and hacker news to turn into reddit, then trust the mob.
MalwareDefender2009 a Misleading Application | TechJaws
As complete an analysis of the difference in latency between OnLive and a local game as I can be bothered making is:

- player input to server: ping/2

- game engine + rendering: same as local

- video compression: worst possible is 1/framerate

- first video bit back to player: ping/2

- whole frame back to player: worst possible 1/framerate

- decompression + display: worst possible is 1/framerate

So assuming video compression, decompression and transmission are all as slow as they can be thats a total of ping + 3/framerate. So they can rightly claim a perfectly smooth 30 frames a second performance, but the latency could be ping + 100ms worse than a local game. The best case latency approaches the ping.

I doubt the compression and decompression is much faster than 60 frames a second, although the transfer time could be quite low in the case of a connection good enough to do HD sending SD. So a more realistic estimate might be ping + 2/60 or ping + 33ms, where a good ping is ~20ms(?) to your ISP or well peered server location. So assuming things work quite well you're looking at >50ms latency. I think that'd be a fairly unsatisfactory experience.
A better title than "The 15 most disturbing documentaries" would be "15 partisan left-of-center documentaries...including some for lunatic conspiracy theorists".

9/11 was a demolition job done by American forces?

Fractional reserve banking is an evil scam?

Come on ... what are we, uneducated freshman at a low-IQ school, passing around a bong?
No! Nor do I think that it would necessarily be a mistake if they did it the other way.

My idea is that what works for them, works. If they think copywriting tests help, then by all means they should go ahead - and apparently it worked for them.
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Apology, then - if it's doing more than summary, then it's a creative thing. I didn't know Sparknotes entailed all that.
Deleted means deleted

and resume doesn't mean undelete. Pause / resume, and delete / undelete should be kept separate IMHO. So resume should just resume paused campaigns and a new undelete option should allow you to reverse the status of deleted campaigns.
Here's another option if you want a (hopefully) well-formed and de-duped news.yc RSS feed: http://friendfeed.com/api/feed/room/newsyc?format=rss
You can do as I did and listen to it and not watch. There's no actual need to watch these two poseurs on the sofa.
I don't understand why techcrunch insists on always being negative about things. There are many worse issues than not having a domain name.

And I feel like most people who would apply for funding through google would see the trend:

http://reader.google.com - Google Reader

http://mail.google.com - Google Mail

http://???.google.com - Google Ventures
Agreed. Good grief.

Google always launches their April Fools' joke on April, it's always themed to look like a preexisting Google theme, and it's always obviously a joke. This one uses custom font sizes, a custom logo/theme, and it's not funny.
I mean, you don't have access to pg's version control, but he released the News.YC source as a part of Arc (http://arclanguage.org/install) with the directive "go now, and bring forth clones."

That fits my definition of open.
Openlife virtual world starts to use virtual currency
You've never once clicked the up arrow by mistake?
My Web 2.0 Expo Keynote: until Best Buy adds people to its website our jobs are not done
www.gunnars.com has a range of glasses to deal with this; I have a pair from them and they really do work.
I have noticed that the surrounding brightness conditions should match with monitor, that way it is not so bad for eyes. I am also using lower resolution to make everything look bigger on screen. Taking a hourly break is a great idea as well.
I have to confess that my first thought wasnt googleventures.com. Indeed I tried (without looking) ventures.google.com - following that logic that that is how they do pretty much everything else.

A load of rubbish :) - flagged.
Digg is on the phone. He wants his submission back.
Want to be a better speaker?
I prefer reading/scanning to listening, too. If I'm listening and doing something else, the moment the something else gets a bit complicated, I tune out what I'm listening to, and find I've missed half of it. If I sit down and really listen, I can't do much else... I'm just not much of a multitasker that way, I find paying serious attention to audio to be incompatible with working.
Honda connects brain thoughts with robotics
Irrelevant is a tricky word, but I agree with your points. They're irrelevant in that they are no longer leaders. Arguably they still have a creative drive with the 360, but I'd argue that Nintendo is doing vastly more to change the world of video games than Microsoft is.
Sorry graemep, I think your statement is a bit of a generalization, not all Indian languages are from the same family as English ( Indo-European Languages ) . There is a significant part of India which speaks the Dravidian languages, which hasn't been derived from the Indo-European languages
Sorry graemep, I think your statement is a bit of a generalization, not all Indian languages are from the same family as English ( Indo-European Languages ) . There is a significant part of India which speaks the Dravidian languages, which hasn't been derived from the Indo-European languages

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dravidian_languages
Mark Essen’s brutal, lo-fi video games are about to make him an art-world star
Learn to type really fast? ;)
Ultimate Hackathon nourishment: Unroasted Walnuts and Dates. I'd stick to water as well.

You can have them without leaving your seat, and they keep you going.

http://qurl.co.uk/2cab http://qurl.co.uk/5237 http://qurl.co.uk/qfky - combining the two means iron, omega 3+6, protein, fiber and carbs - perfect for recharging.
Facebook's Monetization Strategy: Scammy and Deceptive ads 
Facebook's ads are like Adsense.

Except they give awful ROI, CPC is through the roof, the ads are irrelevant to users and they allow these sorts of ads to be shown across their network.

Hands up if you think Facebook is overvalued and overfunded.
It's not necessarily the banks. Wall Street bankers made a lot of money.
Comparing UK and US investors
A question which has recently come to my mind is:

Are American Investor more willing to take risks than British ones or is it just that there are more of them and that they are easier to get in touch with?

I may be very wrong in saying this but I really do believe that investors here in the UK fear taking risks and miss out on the amazing companies that come from doing so.

On a regular basis, British news reports on some new start-up that is making waves in the business world but every time without fail these companies are based in the US.

It seems to me that investors seem to make themselves much more accessible in the US and are far more open to looking at peoples ideas.

I honestly wouldn't know where to start looking for money and help from investors over here even though it is where I was born and the country I know and understand the most.

Richard
What ever shall we do without proper journalistic newspaper outlets?!
Can we also get the url, or at least the host, of the link in the RSS feed, as we get it on the homepage?
How about regulation that requires revealing everything, but that does not require any minimum standards?
Manage your expectations :)

There are questions that are challenging by nature (objectively hard problems) and those that are challenging to me, mostly because of my lack of experience in a particular domain, but are no-brainers for an expert (or even someone who spent an hour RTFM-ing). For the latter ones, SO works like magic.
I'd like to know. I've been having eye problems for months now. Doctors (I went to 2) just give me eye drops.

My symptoms are a little different though, when I press on my eyes (the upper part) it actually hurts (nowhere else) and when I don't put in drops I'll get a grainy feeling in my eyes, like there is sand in my eyes or something..
Feedback/review my weekend website project: Band-Twit
I notice a lot of white musicians with lower scores. Aerosmith listener? Buzzer! You're down near the bottom.

I get into this argument all the time, but - isn't it just a teensy bit possible that classical music is better than rap? I've given rap a lot of tries, I've slowly gotten into it, but I'd still say that some of the best rappers I listen to pale before even some of the lesser composers. To pick a name that even classical enthusiasts: I'd pick Pachebel before I'd go with, say, the Wu Tang.

Are we allowed to hate rap despite the fact that it's predominantly black? I've been called racist for expressing my dislike of rap, which I think is grossly offensive.
You all know this is spam, right? Take a look at the rest of the site. There was an article just last month about a guy who set up sites like these to cash in on AdSense.
the top schools have done two things:

1. Aggressively market themselves to students earlier and earlier.

Here's a link about how Harvard recruits students:

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_34/b3998441....

Harvard sends out 70,000 letters to high school students to get enough applications to warrant 2,000 offers of admission, which will result in 1,600 new students enrolling in the next class at Harvard.
Very neat! Could you explain a bit how this would help with memcached and Redis? Is the idea to keep memory usage down (apologies if this is obvious, I haven't used memcached (yet))?
Modded to zero a few days after posting... I wonder if Microsoft employees found this place...
Slightly off topic, but what the hell is the point in me buying an xBox360, with a large HDD, so I can store the games on it, if I still have to put each disc in when I want to play them? The next games console that actually solves that issue will do brilliantly. An improvement would be to just distribute the games on memory cards, and make the console have say 64 card slots. Then you can just load in all your fave game cartridges and play them, and the piracy issue is addressed.

I agree, Nintendo is really pushing innovation which has paid off for them in terms of profit.

My main point @ irrelevant was that most people these days wouldn't really care if their computer came with Windows, Ubuntu, OS X. As long as it has a browser.
I've definitely done this, too. And I do tend to get mad at myself - but it is exactly that: mad at myself for making a clumsy mistake. If you start designing things to handle peoples' occassional mistake, you run a real risk of ending up with something bloated and clunky.
I use program to force short breaks (see workrave.org). I also use short play of fast arcade game (sopwith to first death, 20-30 seconds) to relax a bit.
Make sure that you mention to your eye doctor that you stare at a computer screen all day. I have a separate prescription just for the computer and since I got them my eye-strain (not to mention neck-strain and headaches) has all but vanished. You could need a pair of computer glasses even if you don't normally wear glasses especially when you get into your 30s.
The powers-that-be have long ago declared that the non-medical use of any drug is "abuse." Thus, coloring the problems of everyday life as medical conditions is the only way people have been able to fight back against this restriction:

http://www.etfrc.com/ChemicalImbalances.htm

The idea of "perfect health" - especially in a society which forces us to live in ways we are not evolutionarily adapted to (i.e. externally imposed sleep schedules, processed foods, on-demand performance) - is entirely mythical. There are drugs which make the modern condition more bearable, and millions of people have decided that hacking the medical profession in this way is an acceptable price to pay for the freedom to control one's body.
some tips here:
http://www.ipnlighting.com/blog/2007/02/22-ways-to-reduce-ey...
One tip I learned ages ago is to look at and focus on differently distant objects regularly. So every 5-10 minutes (now it's a second nature habit), I scan the room and randomly focus on objects nearby and objects at a distance. Focus on 3-5 objects per scan, each at a different distance.

If you have a window nearby, even better: look outside and admire far away things.

Of course, if you get out of your seat and take a walk while looking around, you get the double combo of moving and reducing eye fatigue.

Also adjust the brightness. After a lot of experimentation, I discovered my comfort zone of having relatively dim screens. And get a flat screen!
The problem is that classical music enthusiasts tend to be rarer than rap enthusiasts, and the so-called "classical" music world is much more diverse than the world of rap, seeing as it spans many more centuries. You can be a die-hard classical enthusiast and never have heard of some very prominent composers, because there are so many.

For instance, more people know Philip Glass than Steve Reich, but they're part of the same contemporary classical scene, and that scene contains a ton of people I've never heard of (plus it branches out to the rock minimalists, such as Brian Eno).

Obviously this isn't saying much, since absolutely this chart isn't proving anything, but I doubt it would be easy to find significant statistics for students liking other musicians. For instance, I've got a ton of various musicians and composers listed, but the ones that most likely correlate with other people's lists are the biggies: Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Bach. Even huge names like Holst and Ravel are less likely to be found in a good listing of profiles.

(Also, in the interest of finding out new stuff: what sorts of things did Marsalis and Einaudi do? What pieces of theirs would you recommend a novice begin with? Personal favorites?)
I use Time Out on OSX. It forces both long and short breaks.
I can hardly imagine that adding a down-arrow triggered by having previously pressed the up-arrow would require more than a few simple lines of code.
I agree with that. I don't think most Windows users care what OS they're using, whereas a larger proportion of Mac/Linux users have made a firm commitment by picking their OS.

I don't know much about the 360: I'm a Wii/PC gamer myself. The only really cool thing about the 360 is XBox Live, and I'll take online PC play over that any day. PC gamers are much classier, from my experience: the TF2 players are all pretty awesome.
And why do they not let you delete things? because then you'd moan that all your stats were wrong and don't add up.
Can design save the newspaper?
Is use AntiRSI also on OSX - http://tech.inhelsinki.nl/antirsi/
I don't understand how the market for this will be large enough to justify the investment. Let's determine our market size by the process of elimination:

- Executives who value their time can't justify this. You have to fly it yourself, so you can't use the trip to get work done. And, you have to become a pilot, another time drain. Furthermore, the range is an issue compared to even the least costly business jets -- more time drain. And, even though Eclipse is shutting down, there's a new class of cheaper biz jets available for rental/frac ownership.

- A guy who likes to fly on weekends for fun. Why pay more for a more complex system that you don't need? Just buy a used single-engine Cessna for $40K. At least the maintenance cost structure is known.

Another article I read (can't remember where) cited the benefit of being able to land at a regional airport and drive to your meeting. Never mind that the FBOs all have rental car agencies. [And, they'll drive your car out to the plane to meet you!] Great, you bought an expensive contraption to save $30 in rental costs. Oh yeah, you can also drive your plane home if the weather is bad! So, your market is now the intersection of people who can afford $200K aircraft and those who don't value their time (biz jets can fly in much more extreme weather conditions than this thing).

So, what's left? The niche markets described in the article. A vineyard owner who wants to visit his land. Early adopters. I don't see how the overall market can exceed a few thousand units. Would this be interesting to people outside the US? Rich people in under-developed countries? In these cases, one would think that the ability to drive the plane would be of little interest -- no good roads, therefore no need to drive. You'd probably want to buy designed for short, dirt runways,
Interesting idea. It'd be a great story for a band who "makes it" to say, "yea, we got the name from band-twit.com." Which begs the question, how big is the market for band names?
"However, please do not send us information that you consider to be confidential or proprietary."

Well, what do you expect? Heed this advice from Google and you should be fine. It would be stupid for them to bend the other way - people would spam them with half-baked ideas to have grounds for bogus lawsuits, should they happen to implement something roughly similar later on.

Nothing to see here, IMHO.
I was using regular red eye drops on a daily basis, but they seemed to increase the damage. Now i use this natural eye drops made from Hamamelis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamamelis) and they help a lot, seemingly without side effects.
This is documented: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247(VS.85).aspx These names are reserved names from DOS which got them from CP/M. Back in the CP/M days they were pretty important.

For example, to print a document it was common to do:

PIP LST:=filename.ext

to send the file to the LST (list) device which was typically a printer. Dumping a file to the console was

PIP CON:=filename.ext

PIP itself goes back even further to the PDP line of DEC machines.
Yeah. I got to that, and just hit "Back".

Anyone who takes this seriously needs some real brain food.