skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He didn't write he's a consultant, but a startup.

His profile says he is a consultant, so I sort of assumed that his startup was run concurrently. Thus, he's perfectly capable of selling the time he saves by using productivity-enhancing software, which makes the "It costs money!" objection rather unpersuasive to me.

Its not like I'm telling him rent, ramen, productivity software: pick any two. (Although I would say it.)
Car stereo
There’s a unique taste of every individual to spend their leisure accordingly. One of the most common past-times is listening to music. There is lot of advancements in technology so that one can easily listen to his or her favorite music while driving the car at an incredible volume level and high fidelity.

for more info:- http://www.soundandalarm.com/articles/car-stereo.asp
How to Be Jason Bourne: Multiple Passports, Swiss Banking, and Crossing Borders
The two elements of a great presenter
Is this what "jumping the shark" means?

While I can totally relate to the adolescent fantasy of having super-fugitive skills and money stashed all over the world, it seems wasteful if folks take it too seriously.

If this guy had put all this effort and cleverness into a startup rather than paranoia, he would probably have made off quite nicely. Who knows, maybe he will with his book and that was the whole point.

It's funny to see this kinda stuff coming from Tim Ferriss though. Even though his stuff can be pretty cheesy - I love the usual emphasis on simplicity, experimenting, and outsourcing. While a post like this drives traffic, it seems counter to his "message".
Let the awkward bedroom conversations commence...
Whoever taught you that has poor understanding of biochemistry. Ever heard of futile cycles? Heat dissipation in the mitochondria? Hormonal effects of food? Anabolic/catabolic foods? Let alone the short, medium and long terms effects on the transcriptome.

The major thing you don't understand is that what you do now has effects on your gene transcription over the next few months. Small changes can make huge differences not just in the short term, but longer term as well - in terms of your bodies energy efficiency (which you want to decrease if you are wanting to lose weight) and hormonal state (testo/corto relationships et al).

There is tons of research on timing of nutrients. Transcriptome effects of nutrients. Short term hormonal effects. Thermic effect of foods. Etc etc. If one nutrient causes a change in energy out, then that nutrient has less of an effect than one that doesn't. Therefore, some nutrients affect energy balance differently than others.

Tell me this if you still don't believe me: are there any foods or combinations of foods/timing that may cause a statistical difference in energy output in the short, medium and long term in humans?
hg push -r bookmarkname

does exactly what you want.
No. We're mainly open standards oriented - which means a mix of FOSS and licenced proprietary software.
Nice try. ;)
OMG!

When I started watching that I was thinking that if I was ever in a situation where this robot was chasing me uphill through a forest I would just run up to it and kick it over to slow it down. Then 30 seconds later they demonstrate how well you can expect that plan to turn out :)
That's about 6 seasons of entertainment there for a sitcom, or about < 1 minute of Pixar animation.

Are you saying that you can produce 6 seasons of Frasier with the cost of 1 minute of Pixar animation? Sounds doubtful.

You seem to be talking about growing an animation studio from the ground up.

Everything has to start somewhere, but the kind of content you could put out with minimal costs might not attract many viewers, which would make it difficult to grow.
Atlas won't be the first iPhone app-bridging framework, though easy Cappuccino may make it the most compelling.

John Resig blogged about a few extant frameworks in November: http://ejohn.org/blog/iphone-javascript-apps/ . PhoneGap ( http://phonegap.com/ ) seems like the most capable (though my rating of capability is "number of times I've seen it blogged about"). For those of us with little Objective C and lots of JavaScript experience, these frameworks offer an easy vector to begin developing (basic) iPhone apps.
They acquired a whole bunch of home rental sites from around the world. That's one way to go, I suppose. Even with all of that money, I bet more people know about AirBnB from their inauguration housing thing than have ever heard of HomeAway.
i see the reason for that:

django/contrib/auth/models.py:
username = models.CharField(_('username'), max_length=30

fail. had to work around this before.
IMob brings down GeoNames, other iPhone apps
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We agree!
The sandbox is ridiculous for a 'desktop' application.
You can delete a users entire hard drive but cant launch an application!
Shu (http://shu-player.com) does deal with the shortcomings of AIR and we also recently released a version that is compatible with Adobe's license agreement.
Here (Ireland) it's pretty typical for phone plans to come with all sms free, or at a low price, such as 3c a text. Even on the worst available plans you might pay 9c per sms (and only the sender pays).
You Wouldn’t Let The Kids Play With Them: Ludicrously Expensive Toys
Collecting. It’s a bizarre habit, isn’t it? Be it stamps, coins, bottle tops, beer or anything, there is some innate compulsion to amass a set of items that only truly have value to the collectors or to others that share their passion. To outsiders, collecting might seem like a pointless waste of time and money, but beauty – as they say – is in the eye of the beholder. Here’s a list of items created with their price tags becoming vastly inflated due to this infatuation the human race has with collecting things.
IsNaN( Dunbar ) == true
My pet theory is that if people weren't able to to spend time setting up complex and impressive looking spreadsheets they would be bored out of their minds.
100 Essential Legal and Privacy Guides for Bloggers
The legal issues, privacy violations, safety concerns and other problems require lots of thought and often, action. In these guides, you’ll learn all about the legal and privacy issues that concern bloggers.
Using Resource Obfuscation to Reduce Risk of Mass SQL Injection
Might be a better thing for backtype.com to do, since you could set up your HN profile and your Disqus profile on there already.
Google Launches Tip Sharing Site
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Neil Strauss is a writer. His last book was about his descent and experiences once he got into the world of pick up artists, guys who follow a system to pick up women.

Ferriss sells hope about the better life, living a life that would normally be above your means. The secret agent life is part of that dream.
Time only needs a beginning, it doesn't need and end.

Nobody can prove the Big Bang theory without-a-doubt: we only could rise theories against it, or bring facts against it, but it will stay an unproven theory forever, very similar to math theories: you can't prove them without-a-doubt, you only can give it credit currently, and because there hasn't been found any counter example yet.
I experience this already with my six year old when he plays with the neighborhood kids. We have a TV, but we don't have cable, nor do we have bunny ears to get the local stations (not that we could get them in the future anyway). We don't bar them from watching TV (much like the friends and grandparents exception someone else mentioned), and we do all watch kids' movies at home once a week or so. The only bits of kids' culture that they know are Sesame Street (because of a few videos) and the various Pixar movies (Cars, Wall-E, etc).
Hydroponic Systems
Plants with plenty of oxygen in the root system will also absorb nutrients faster. The nutrients in a hydroponic system are mixed with water and sent directly to the root system.
"Despite Franklin Roosevelt’s aggressive spending, unemployment reached 25 percent in 1933, fell only to 14 percent by 1937, and was back up to 19 percent in 1939.1 "

The level of ignorance in this article is astonishing. If the author knew economic history, he would know that Roosevelt's actions and the departure from the Gold Standard were responsible for the expansion of the money supply starting in 1933 and the massive reduction in the unemployment rate between 1933 and 1937. Roosevelt cut back on federal spending in 1937 against the advice of Keynes, making it ludicrous to claim the subsequent downturn was the result of aggressive Keynesian spending. It was the result of exactly the opposite.

He also conflates monetary and fiscal policy. He questions why fiscal expansion is expected to work when monetary stimulus has failed and TARP is not working. Disregarding the obvious reasons why banks aren't lending (they are insolvent black holes that are hoarding cash instead of lending), this shows a colossal ignorance of basic economics. It asserts that public spending cannot stimulate the economy because government spending will somehow crowd out private investment and push interest rates higher. But if interest rates rise then monetary authorities can lower them and increase the money supply. We would be very lucky to have this problem.

There are definitely long-term problems with current government policy. It is appalling to see to the public purse so eagerly take on such large amounts of private sector debt in starts and dribbles, especially when shareholders in institutions should have been the first players liquidated. I do not find Greenspan's argument that senior debt-holders need to be protected by the government to be very compelling. But these problems are overwhelmingly in the current efforts to salvage the banking system. The worst that can really be said for the fiscal stimulus plan is that it is probably too small, and about 10% of the funds spent will not do much stimulating at all, but were necessary to buy the bill through Congress so there would be ANY stimulus.

As the far right passes further into ignominious lunacy I am very glad the Internet is here to preserve this sort of dreck for posterity. May it come back to haunt them, each and every one.
Why Designing Interactivity Is Hard - Chris Crawford
Suite One8One - Suite 181 - Club, Lounge, Bar,
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Opinion on these synopses seems to be strongly divided. Sometimes they get lots of upvotes and "that was helpful" replies. Sometimes they get snide comments about what a waste of time they are and how their authors are just looking for cheap karma. There doesn't seem to be much correlation between which of those happens and how helpful the synopsis actually is.

I think having two different voting mechanisms would cause more confusion than the benefit would justify. What about showing the first bit of (1) the original author's text, where present, or (2) the highest-rated toplevel comment, as a mouseover? Even when the highest-rated comment isn't "representative", it probably gives some idea of what the article is about.
OK, I didn't check his profile.

I don't think it's ok anyway to use pirated software. But I don't care that much that it would for example stop me from working with someone who does.
Remove cap on H-1B: LinkedIn CEO
does GA and GP behave somewhat predictable then?
Couldn't it, if you are unlucky, take a very long time to converge?
Are you kidding? Not being able to talk about pop idol wannabe got booted is a serious problem for you?

"My problem comes when everyone at school is talking about some element of popular culture, and one kid doesn't have a clue what to say because his parents don't let him watch TV."

This sounds like your projecting your own issues onto your kids (believe me when I say I know how that plays out, ask me why my kids aren't going to school sometime). Actually forcing TV on your kids or insisting that it's vital is utterly ridiculous.

Forcing your kids to eat unhealthy is cruelty, locking them in a closet is cruelty. Not having a TV is un-American, not cruelty.
Coming from James "Dow 36000" Glassman, I think this article can safely be ignored.
I'll highly recommend this book:

http://www.amazon.com/E-Myth-Revisited-Small-Businesses-Abou...

It talks about setting up clear roles and expectations from the beginning. Contracts typically aren't worth the paper they're printed on - where you're at in life right now, you're not going to go to court if you fall out with someone. Contracts protect you a bit if you're further along, but a contract isn't worth a damn thing without a good relationship and clear expectations. The most important thing a contract can do is to lay out clearly, in writing, what you both expect to do and have roles set up. But so many of your assumptions will likely be wrong that you might have to redraw some elements of it over time. It happens - but getting down who does what, when, where, and how they're measured is huge. A basic operating agreement goes a long way. Check out E-Myth, it reads fast. Probably my favorite book on small business ever.
Hey Gruesom, I'm upvoting you because you've got some good points in your comment and I've seen quite a few comments from you I really like. But...

"I think your only true protection against getting burned again is to deeply face what it is in yourself that created those painful situations in the first place."

That's... not really true. The rest of your advice is sound and good, but there are bad people in the world that do bad things. There's also normal people, and between normal people, there's friction. Almost everyone I know who is successful in business has been burned a couple times, and you just need to learn from it. Certainly the original poster did some things wrong via contracts, relationships, etc, but it's also quite possible that he was just dealing with some rat bastards. There's a lot of them in the world, and unfortunately, you usually start by working with them. Established people typically only work with people with a great track record, so when you don't have one, you're usually working with someone else who doesn't have one. So you've got a 1 in whatever chance that a random person is a donkey chance that you're working with a donkey.
SelectorGadget: point and click CSS selectors
Putting on the right would mean it can't be more than one line (give or take), and I think that's too short to be really useful. At least a few paragraphs are needed if the article isn't very short.

A mouseover might not be the best way, maybe a hidden div beneath the current metadata?
5 Outrageous Pickup Trucks [PICS] 
Weird and wonderful, strange and terrible, the crazy lorry stories just keep appearing - here are five of the oddest ones out there...
A 10 per cent payroll tax for each H-1B visa can be reinvested in whatever it takes to get American talent up to the same level.

Interesting comment. Critics of H1B note that it's not actually a skills problem, it's that you can pay an H1B with the same skills less and treat them worse because the threat of deportation hangs over them if they lose their job.

The solution is, if you have X skillset and have been paid at least Y dollars for Z years in your home country (to prove experience), have a visa that isn't bound to a particular employer, and also here is a defined process for getting a green card before that visa expires should you want one.
The Top Longevity Trends and The Extreme Future
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Having multiple voting systems would be confusing, true.

Scraping the beginning of the article wouldn't be as useful as a summary, I think. It's often just a longer version of the title.

Maybe put up a Mechanical Turk system and pay someone with too much free time a dollar to write a summary/synopsis that way? :)
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I think it is debt owned by banks not national debt.
The crawler is written in Perl, and has been optimized such that the amount of resources we need to produce our list is actually not that much.
One of the mantras of an information assurance course I took as an undergrad was that "security through obscurity is not security." (I think this came second only to "proprietary encryption is crap.")

The first trick, in particular, seems pretty useless, unless I'm missing something. The second one is probably slightly more useful, but won't stop a determined black hat (it doesn't feel right to say 'hacker' on HN, even in context).

If someone is dedicated to gaining access to your machine, and has the skill and knowledge to do so, then, in general, a little extra obfuscation will annoy them but not stop them. The only potential benefit of this kind of obfuscation that I can see is that it could shut down script kiddies who don't really know what they're doing. But if you want reliable, provable security, don't rely on tricks like this.
A Proposal for Handling Transparent Legislation
Compass -- Adding Semantic Markup to CSS grids
Greeting card companies are still so profitable because generally inkjets can't match their quality. It's not going to be email or the web that kills their current business model, it'll be higher-res printers.

I bet a fair share of desktop software persists soley because of how awkward it is to print from the browser. (The reason no one realizes that the URL, page number, and timestamp can be removed is entirely because of the unnecessary complexity of the UI.)

If Mozilla, Google, or Apple made their printing interface dramatically better (which would be synonymous with making it dramatically simpler) they might be able to win a surprising number of IE users. The correlation between technical proficiency and a penchant for hardcopies seems roughly inversely proportional. While, for instance, my parents don't see much additional value in using Chrome over IE for browsing, they'd probably use it exclusively if it made printing significantly more comfortable.
The Internet Is Fun Part 1
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The way to make a program faster is to never let it get slower.
Two supermassive black holes spiraling towards collision
I really like the idea and the execution :)
I don't like the large middle-men cut :-/

> For each rental, AirBnB takes a 7 to 10 percent cut of the traveler’s payment (as the rental
> price of the accommodation goes up, AirBnB will take less of a cut) and also takes a flat 3
> percent cut of what the seller receives.
Today I figured there is Greasemonkey, Firebug for IE now. Has anyone tried it? Firebug esp helps me a lot to resolve JS/CSS issues in my web development. If I can do the same on IE, esp to sort out infamous IE CSS issues, that'll be great.
Also, digital watches existed in 1975. In fact, one of those ten Bond films you mention (Live and Let Die, 1973) featured Bond wearing a digital watch (it was a cool gadget).
> What more do you want?

An indication when there are no results. I did a vanity search and ended up with a long blank page.
It's not about punishing anybody, it's about getting them to learn.
"Recorded music was a little scratchy, but sounded better because engineers did not kill dynamic range to make it louder."

I thought they compressed the dynamic range in those days too, in order to compensate for noise in tapes and vinyl?
It won't help you get new users, but it's a good way to let them know you are having problems and communicate when things will be back up. You can't do that if you host it on your own web server and the server fails (unless of course, all your users are following you on Twitter too!)
This book sounds like it's entertaining, but laughably out of date. He's saying you should hide your money with AIG? The company that's losing money faster than the US government can bail it out? Then move to Iceland to escape the depression? Isn't Iceland the country that's been hit hardest, with the government now completely bankrupt?
Not to the extent that they do now, at least in pop music.
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What search? There should be a no results message if there are no results.
Spotify hacked
Why link to TC when we already have an interesting thread going on here in HN wich points directly to Divvyshot without the middle man?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=503739
Legislator moves to limit Google Maps because of terrorist threat
Even if I agree with it, it's still politics.
You cannot just say they are similar. They have a similar concept maybe.

Homeaway caters to a different type of audience, the one that can drop a few thousands on a vacation trip.

AirBnB caters to cost savvy individuals who just want to spend a couple of days in one location and don't need that fancy pool.

Also AirBnB is a small team so they could be lean and mean. homeaway has been around for nearly 4 years and that massive amount of money they have is to not only cover their operation costs, but also acquire innovative young companies such as AirBnB.
"You have a dog, and I have a cat. We agree that they are each worth a billion dollars. You sell me the dog for a billion, and I sell you the cat for a billion. Now we are no longer pet owners, but Icelandic banks, with a billion dollars in new assets."

What a wonderfully simple explanation of mark-to-market!
I think those "tricks" are a little simple and probably don't deserve to be on the front page of HN, but they're not targeted at "someone dedicated to gaining access to your machine". They're targeted at reducing your profile to someone trolling google for vulnerabilities, which is not a bad idea.

I like the idea of not transmitting any information about what software your site is running. I already do pretty much what the post says, plus other things like using generic and unguessable directory names for admin apps.
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Dhoondte Reh Jaaoge is a comedy movie.The concept is simple, brilliant, failsafe, unique and guaranteed work,’ says Anand Pawar (Kunal Kemmu) an honest Charted Accountant but looser in life, to Raj Chopra (Paresh Rawal), a veteran film Producer with no money. All they need to do raise 100 Crore from various financers and produce the film in 5 Crore. They would then make a film that will never work, a film that will be hooted out on the first day itself and run away with 95 Crore.
I have his same age but things were a little different in my home country in Europe:

- No automatic doors in supermarkets. Actually there were no supermarkets, just little shops.
- Coffe: we had espresso in every bar/restaurant.
- Only one and a half tv channels, no tv in the mornings, no cable of course.
- University was free and it's still basically free (small fee)
- We had no pizzas, (or cereal for breakfast or burgers)

oh well, too many differences, political and social etc
I'm amazed SQL injection attacks have the level of prominence, and are as common as they appear to be, in the field of web security. Anyone with more then just a cursory understanding of web development should be protecting their commands.

It seems to me like it might be wise to have a standardized qualifications test for the web - something that tells employers "this guy won't put security holes in my program"
To improve US fuel economy, forget MPG
I thought they went to tape to avoid the popping.
Is this on Hacker News because of the word "Transmission"?
Startup Founded by Apple Vets Aims to Develop Business Apps for iPhone
The Quest for the Nearly Empty In-Box
> I'm going to call my normal lawyer tomorrow, but he mostly does criminal defense stuff

Get another lawyer.
A little recession, it seems, is all it takes for do good hackers to start entertaining the dark side. A pity.
Never mind - ignore me; I'm running the NoScript plugin and although I'd allowed for duckduckgo I'd not done so for yahoo.

Might want to add a noscript javascript required warning though :)