skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"OnLive will supply players with a small set-top box, not much bigger than a Nintendo DS, which will plug into your TV and your home broadband connection."

You mean like a console?...

"OnLive also includes some features you might associate more with your DVR than with a gaming console, including a Replay feature that lets you save the last ten seconds of your gameplay, and send it to your friends."

Only the last 10 seconds? That's nearly useless. First, 10 seconds is really short. Second, you might not want to interrupt your gameplay immediately after accomplishing some feat.
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This is dreadfully trite. According to this article, here are the four ways to spot the "uncoachables":

1. She doesn't think she has a problem.
2. He is pursuing the wrong strategy for the organization.
3. They're in the wrong job.
4. They think everyone else is the problem.

Between the four of these things, you remove 99% of the people who really need "coaching" in the first place.
I think this executive and all those who want to bury this guy are missing an important point.

In financial markets, you cannot judge performance simply by results, because it is very difficult to determine whether the good performance was due to any intelligent effort or simply due to good luck. Those guys making money off CDS were also being profitable for a long time. But now we know what they were doing was utterly shortsighted

So if this guy wants to prove that he deserves that bonus, he should show that he was doing something intelligent. If he knows this, than his letter is a deception. If he does not know this, he is not really that smart and does not deserve that bonus.
Yes - the search right now is a simple database search. Fixing it is high on my todo list - I've been debating between implementing something on my own or just farming it out to google custom search. Which is more recommended (given that I don't want to do anything fancy with search right now - just looking up names of Representatives, States etc. would suffice for now).
I wonder how much sustainable revenue something like this would bring in. I imagine any number of us on this site would throw down a couple of bucks ($25/year like flickr et al, $3-10/month, etc) in support of twitter... initially. If they compromise the API feature set for advanced account features, that will reduce the feel of twitter; if they do not, any twitter feature will be replicated elsewhere. Tough situation, except they've got a lot of good will right now (ie, I would pay today for an account without much more of a bonus than a supporter button).
My ex gave me an ultimatum: we move to FL, or we break up (she hated IN). We moved to FL, and about 10 months later it was over. By my estimate, doing that cost me about $500k over the last 20 years.
Latency is mostly a solved problem though when it comes to high speed connections though. Early when cable was released in my area there was high burst rates but bad latency - so back then I went with a dsl connection that had lower band width but better latency. These days though the latency is low enough on the cable connection in my area that I can play FPS perfectly fine.

From the article it sounds like the were able to play an FPS like Crysis just fine. FPS seems to be the gold standard, if you can run an FPS you can play any other type of game because they don't have the same type of split second reaction times.

It definitely sounds like an interesting system to try. I can't see how they could possibly stream HD content fast enough to make an FPS playable - but maybe that only works on a fiber connection.
6 Reasons OnLive Could Be a Bust
I find this interesting. Like many I can relate to the article too. I live in the midwest and some of my problem is seasonal. My doctor specifically told me that I should consider moving to a more sunny climate. I have toyed with the idea of moving somewhere more sunny like CA for years. I always wondered if it would actually make a real difference.
Good idea. UI-wise, I would get rid of the "Welcome to GovCheck" text and replace it with a tagline. Saying "Welcome to..." doesn't really tell me why I should be on your site. I need to know what's in it for me, otherwise, I'm heading off to another site. I would also de-emphasize the logo (eg. make it smaller) and emphasize the search box more.

On your search results page, I would change the label of the "submit" button to "Search" and remove that secondary search at the top right. If you need that global search for some other page than the search results, I would suggest adding a button to the right of the text field and label it "Search".

It would also be a good idea to add a "you-are-here" indicator on your tabs.

Colors could also use some polishing. Try http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes/ for some great color palettes to choose from.

Good luck on your application!
In other news, TechCrunch has a bigger audience than The Bold and the Beautiful amongst male programmers that do not own a TV.
I agree, but this does not guarantee there will be no driver issues and monitoring packages (such as the HP PSP and Dell 'OpenManage') do not come as part of third party operating systems so take time to install. In my opinion this does not detract from Linux in the enterprise, but does mean that it's not quite in the same class as OS X on Apple or [Open]Solaris on Sun.
as programmers, we always know it is "the users fault." but as users, we expect a service to have value and "just work." i do specifically mention getting meaningful information from following users you know.

but how do you find those users? enhanced filtering keyed on multiple vectors will become the only useful mechanism for consuming information from not only those you dont follow but also from those you do.

as it stands i tweet on both professional and personal topics. and so do those that i follow. now if i know these people personally than i may be interested in their personal tweets. but if i do not, than i dont want non-relevant tweets cloggin up my feed.

enhanced clients with better, granular consumption controls are the only way forward.
Does anyone know how much of that is essentially pirated content? The reason I ask is that I have trouble imagining there are 15 million people watching live streams of random people (i.e. the original stream of Justin's). It's more believable that they watch stuff like sporting events that have no local coverage. I could obviously be wrong though!
Exercise + Cognitive Restructuring Therapy helps a lot.

It's hard not to feel anxiety and depression in today's world and some events can't be controlled. But how we perceive those events can definitiely be controlled by analyzing and challenging them for correctness.

Vilayanur Ramachandran's talk at TED on phantom limb pain addresses this idea very well.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/vilayanur_ramachandran_on...
For Google custom search you will need to expose all your content, I’m not sure if you want to do that. I will advice for you to look at open source, stuff like Lucerne.

Who knows later in your evolution you may want to get Intelliverb DBCSS (http://intelliverb.com/DBCSS.htm) we are currently doing a private beta for enterprise level; the hosted solution will be a perfect fit for you but that is down the line.
So the guy's mom talks to his dad like a child, correcting his grammar and such, for 50+ years, and DAD's the one that's uncoachable?

Maybe this whole article is sarcasm. It makes more sense that way.
Start@Spark [Capital]
... or apparently not, for those with little intellectual curiosity about a task quite well suited to Erlang.
Could, but won't. I woulnd't want to subject myself to the lag inherent in sending commands from my controller to a remote server and then recieving live video back to my screen again. Multiplayer would simply not work.
Remember, the camera adds at least 10 pounds.
I still wonder about the responsiveness of their games. If there's more than 2 seconds of lag between pressing a button and seeing and hearing the game feedback, it will likely become too frustrating to play.
Or wants to be a lucrative commercial niche offering, like Neurolucida is for neuroanatomists?

(http://www.mbfbioscience.com/neurolucida)
How To Denfenestrate a Politician
I agree with Fenn, it's definitely c. They have form for leaking such headline-grabbing 'information', including one about introducing business class with rude 'extras'.
The article was a bit short so is there anything to be understood about YC from the photo where Jessica and Trevor are sitting up in the front and Paul is standing way in the back?
I am trying to speed up a machine learning algorithm.
There are a very large number of possible output classes.
It would be too expensive on each training step to perform an update for all outputs.
I use an exponential moving average to keep track of an estimate of which outputs are correctly learned (low weight) and which are not well-learned (high weight). In this way, I can focus training on the what it currently has not learned well, and not spend training time on what it already knows.
Airlines already have pc's in their seats, and restaurants already have this tech available to them as well. (Think debit card processors - my pizza guy comes to the door with one.)

While the tech is getting better, there's really nothing new here.
Is Your Organization Designed for Humans?
DeadPool for Doc-Film-Net
Change the word "item" to "edit" in the URL.
Rejection sampling is perhaps not a good option, because the assumption does not hold: "the maximum weight isn't too much greater than the average weight"

In learning algorithms, the distribution of the weights can get piqued.
Apply! Tell them whats going on when your up for your interview. If they can't do that you will understand and you will need to get another co-founder or YC might understand.
Oh, I'm not denying the merits of pipelining - no one can. I'm just saying that nothing is good when taken to the extreme.

The "more interesting option" you're referring to is implemented in P4 and Nehalem under the trademark of "HyperThreading."
I'm always amused when someone who clearly has a job he loves (and that has made him a ton of money) has the temerity to label those less lucky (i.e. those who think they're in the wrong job) as being somehow difficult.

People can endure a lot of boredom, so if they're worrying that they're in the wrong job, they are either extremely bored (in which case they clearly are in the wrong job) or insecure (because someone higher up either isn't giving the person reason to feel secure, or is even actively feeding the insecurity by threats of dismissal).

So how do you make someone feel insecure? Saddle them with a lot of responsibility, but little or no authority. At least, that's been my experience and I've had this done to me a couple of times.
Rockstarapps.com also provides a general set of Eclipse-based tools. You can configure S3, CloudFront, SimpleDB and Simple Queuing Service, little I mean no EC2 support.

There isn't a basis towards any one language just trying to make it simple to work with AWS in eclipse.

http://www.rockstarapps.com/joomla-1.5.8/products/amazon-ws-...
The Global Warming Heretic - NYTimes On Freeman Dyson
It appears that Binary Indexed Trees are appropriate only when the weights are integral?
You can still apply with him working from Mexico City. http://ycombinator.com/faq.html
I think that was intended as a bit of a silly example.

At least I hope so.
You need to approach it like any other habit. Take smoking. At first, smoking sucks so you actually have to work at it to make it a habit. Eventually it becomes rewarding to smoke. Exercise is no different, except for the fact that it's actually healthy for you, but I've never found that to be a convincing argument (just like nobody ever convinced me to stop smoking by telling me it was unhealthy). With that in mind, here are some tips:

1. The most important tip is simple: Exercise six days a week. What you do in the beginning is basically irrelevant. Your job is to form the habit which is much harder to do if you only go three days a week (who smokes only three days a week?)

2. Some may disagree, but I also highly recommend doing your exercise in a gym. It's too easy to put off if all you're doing is going for a run outside or some sit-ups inside. If you fail to go to the gym, you'll feel worse. This is mostly about making yourself feel bad for not going. Also, other people exercising around you will help motivate you (and the scenery is nice... unless it's an all-male gym ;)

3. It helps to be somewhat vain and narcissistic, both of which I admit to being. I don't like being flabby because it presents a poor image. Even if I have nobody else to impress, I still have to impress myself, which when it comes to physicality is not a trivial task.

4. If your discipline is based on seeing quick results, you will fail. Nothing happens quickly at the gym, except injury. It takes about six months to transform yourself, anybody who says differently is wrong. You need to find the granular results; weight lifting helps with this. If you gain weight, even a little weight, every week in your exercises, that should be enough.

5. It's hard being a "noob", especially at a gym. Don't let it get you down. You need to quickly learn one very important fact: at the gym, everybody is always in better shape than you, no matter what shape you're in.

Sooner or later, and probably without noticing, you'll have a fitness addiction. You'll begin feeling terrible if you don't exercise every day. You'll feel bad unless you're slightly sore. Oh, and you'll have a body worthy of admiration (or at least fear ;)

That being said, I've been awake almost two hours so I really should get to the gym... it's back and shoulders day! Good luck!
How does unladen-swallow compare to PyPy?

PyPy has an LLVM backend: http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/home.html
Wikirank: New project from Jeff Veen and Co.
Google Rolls out Semantic Search Capabilities
Actually, Numpy 1.3 is available and does work with Python 2.6, in case you want to upgrade:

C:\Users\Shawn>python
Python 2.6.1 (r261:67517, Dec 4 2008, 16:51:00) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import numpy
>>> numpy.array( [1, 2, 3] )
array([1, 2, 3])
>>>

The Numpy SourceForge download page has the 2.6 installer: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1369&#...

That said, I'd like to take a moment to express my frustration with installing or compiling PyGtkGLExt ( http://gtkglext.sourceforge.net/ ) on Windows with Python 2.6. The only installers I've found for PyGtkGLExt are for Python 2.4 ( http://www.stephanebrunet.net/gtkglext/pygtkglext-1.1.0.win3... ) and Python 2.5 ( http://www.stephanebrunet.net/gtkglext/pygtkglext-1.1.0.win3... ). Building it from source seems like a daunting task. Various build system utilities have to be installed first, such as MingW + MSYS, and pkg-config (which seems incredibly difficult to set up correctly on Windows). Also, it appears that the default maketools installed with MingW are too out-of-date to be used to build it. So far, upgrading MingW's autoconf / m4 / other tools is proving to be difficult at best. So at this point I'm planning to downgrade from Python 2.6 to 2.5 to save time, since it's basically impossible for non-ninjas to install or build PyGtkGLExt on Windows. I guess sticking with older versions is sometimes beneficial...
I'm also not one looking to bulk up w/ weights, and when I'm away from work I like meditative things

I find it a bit funny you say that because I used to be "bulked up with weights" (now I mostly walk/run with a little weightlifting added) and I found it to be a very meditative experience. The euphoria of pushing a barbell off your chest, the total physical drain at the end of a set of heavy squats led me to a place where I was completely focused inward and totally at peace.

In fact I think it was that mental relaxation that kept me doing it for all those years.
Isn't the major point of this that it makes piracy impossible? I think that if there is no benefit (or even a small detriment) to the game experience, industry will still embrace this.

As I understand it, piracy is essentially the reason PC gaming is dead now.
This reads painfully like a commercial for OnLive. No need for big clunky consoles! No download times!
What connection scheduling mechanism are you using? Is it non-blocking asynchronous, or are you using threads? What's the resource overhead per open connection?
"So how do you make someone feel insecure? Saddle them with a lot of responsibility, but little or no authority."

That, right there, is hitting the nail right on the head.

:added to my list of quotes.
> one Texas legislator [ filed ] a bill that would exempt any private, nonprofit institution from certification by Texas ... the broadly worded bill will allow anyone to set up a nonprofit diploma mill in the state.

Oh Noz!

Without legislation to stop it, an idiotic Creationist university will be allowed to issue sheets of paper that say "doctorate in biology...from the school of creationism".

Clearly no one hiring biology PhDs will be able to tell the difference between this diploma and one from, say, MIT.

The world is ending!

Seriously, I get quite annoyed when anyone left of center acts as if removing a regulation, or failing to pass a regulation, is the same thing as "assaulting society" or "attacking science".

Right now people are allowed to call themselves software engineers without passing any government run tests, and I have zero problem telling superstars from dolts (whether they are self-educated, like some superstars I know, or university education, like some superstars AND some dolts I know).

Is computer science "under attack" because the government isn't certifying engineers?

I think not.
Jeff Veen (formerly of Measure Map and Google) and Small Batch, Inc., with some help from Dan Cederholm, launch a site that tracks "what's popular on Wikipedia"
From the FAQ:

"You can leave one founder at home, but the rest, including the CEO, have to live where we are that cycle."

That's exactly what I needed to know, thanks!
How did MailChimp confirm that only 20% of the users even opened his email? If I use a mail client that doesn't load external images, is there an alternative way email 'read time' can be determined?
1 Picture, $12 Trillion Committed ($3 T spent) to Save the System
Stop pouring hot water down the drain
This is what bankruptcy is for...
AIG Resignation Letter
Open letter by Jake DeSantis, the head of business development for commodities, to Ed Liddy.
Hating Twitter Is Like Hating a Hammer
Ask HN: How do you stave off food comatose after lunch?
My friends and I have found that for programming jobs where you sit around, the 2 hours following lunch are incredibly hard to stay awake and focused. Should we eat different food for lunch? What are some good caffeine alternatives to staying sharp?
Maybe they don't take a board seat but you still have to take their phone call when they have an idea for you
It's working fine for me, at the moment. Thanks.
Exact, I forgot that point.
Each time you do an update step, if you renormalize the algorithms becomes O(n)
"known for his prowess with all things tech"

seriously?
Which language are you using ? Matlab, C/C++ ?

What would be an estimate of N : 10^3, 10^6, 10^9 ?
The more I think about your solution, the more correct and elegant it seems. Cheers!
Subject matter - interesting.

Purple prose by author earnestly trying to convince you of his erudition, and constant asides that do nothing but distract - not interesting.
The FACETS group now plans to further scale up their chips, connecting a number of wafers to create a superchip with a total of a billion neurons and 10¹³ synapses.

I just thought that they were going to have some serious problems with yield at that kind of scale, but then it struck me that that's kind of the beauty of it: it doesn't really matter if a couple of neurons don't work - if it's anything at all like a brain, it'll be remarkably failure-tolerant.

(based on my admittedly limited knowledge of brains, simulated brains and semiconductor engineering)
Reduce sugar & other carbs during lunch (replace with protein & fiber as much as possible.)

Instead of caffeine you could try Yerba Mate tea... more brain energy, less jitters.
"There's nothing hacky/quirky about comet... long polling XHR."

Now, unless I'm misinformed, long polling XHR does not work in Internet Explorer, although you do list it as a supported platform:
http://wiki.mibbit.com/index.php/Platforms

Could you expand on this at all?
You dont! You take a nap.
python/numpy with C.

Funny story, that. At our lab, we are developing an optimizing compiler in Python for math expressions.
You write the function you want to repeatedly evaluate in Python. Maybe there's a gradient thrown in. Our library optimizes the function graph, converts in to C, and compiles it. You can then execute your function in python, but it's fast.

We should be releasing 0.1 in a week.
Eat protein and increase your dopamine production, which is a "happy and alert" neurotransmitter (http://frank.mtsu.edu/~studskl/food.html). Going heavy on the carbohydrates spikes your serotonin, and if they're simple carbohydrates your insulin vs. blood sugar will suck the energy right out of your brain in an hour. Ergogenics like Adrafinil are a more extreme and expensive alternative to caffeine, but cheap nootropics like Piracetam or Vinpocetine may do the trick, if dietary changes alone don't.
This is a very cool site. I can quite appreciate the amount of work you've put in here. I was trying to get something along these lines going myself, albeit unsuccessfully - I was unable to do a good job scraping LS/RS :(

Second sgrove's suggestions. Further, it isn't immediately obvious that I can click on the graphs to get participation details, attendance details, party members in LS, etc. When comparing records, I found it difficult to identify exact values in the bar graph - there are no axes lines or values provided.

Testing in IE7/IE8 is a must. IE6 has certainly diminished in popularity, but your target audience doesn't necessarily live on cutting edge (or even close to it), so some testing is required (atleast so the site degrades gracefully).

As for UI, I think you could make better use of the white space on some of the pages. The search box at the top right is too small, yet search is a primary navigation tool. The logo is a bit jarring on the blue bg. A breadcrumb would be nice too.
If my search returns a unique result, like your example for 'Gujarat', it would be nice to be taken directly to the result instead of seeing the intermediate page with only one result - one less click, but a big step in usability, friendliness. Also, are you using exact matches only, for the search? Would full-text be applicable here?

One thing I see you haven't addressed is localization (unless it's there and I'm missing it, I apologise). Translations to regional languages is important when targeting the rural markets.

It's important to make this information more accessible and I think you've made a great start.

PS: I know you've done a lot of the work already, but I'm interested in helping out if needed. Email is in the profile.
The United States needs to adopt the siesta! With the proper implementation, the productivity gains could be tremendous!