skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But if you're looking at satire for clues about what to expect, you're already screwed. Catch-22 doesn't really tell you what the military is like; Liar's Poker doesn't tell you what being a trader is like; and The Prince pokes fun at idiot Borgias and their revoltingly clumsy politics.
Some people make do with eight:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck

But it can't be too hard to create a second language that maps onto a more common language. What would be hard is to design a 120-word language that you could teach someone, such that they could learn English a few years later and still get a decent score on their SAT. But that would be cruel.
Not sure why you need 3 points for 2D image registration. You need four variables here: two to determine the origin (x,y), one each for orientation and scale. You get these variables pinned with 2 points.
"When all else fails" seems like a decent answer they should understand.
The Global Map of Broadband Services
eh...but their base claim is "comprising", but it's a business method and i fell asleep about half way through. i'm no patent attorney though. what makes you say it's tight?

patent: http://tinyurl.com/2lomvg

1. A method for a computer system to use human assistance in performing tasks, the method comprising: automatically and under control of a first computer system, causing a task to be performed by, identifying a first and a second subtask of the task, wherein the first subtask involves speech recognition; retrieving information about past quality of results of one or more humans when previously performing subtasks other than the first subtask; using the retrieved past quality information to facilitate performance of the first subtask by one or more humans, the facilitating of the performance of the first subtask including, identifying one or more required capabilities for performance of the first subtask; dispatching the first subtask to a remote second computer system of a first human for performance by the first human, the first human identified as being one of one or more humans who have capabilities that satisfy the required capabilities for the first subtask, the retrieved past quality information including past quality information for the first human when previously performing multiple subtasks other than the first subtask, the past quality information for the first human being at least part of the capabilities of the first human that satisfy the required capabilities for the first subtask; and receiving a first result from the first human via the second computer system, the first result generated by performance of the first subtask by the first human; providing payment to the first human for the performance of the first subtask; and generating a result for the task based at least in part on the first result.
Social Networks: Your online friends aren't real
Social networking: Is social networking changing the face of friendship?
An oldie but goodie.

Like the one about the millionaire who asked "How much for these shirts?"

"Two for $25."

"How much for one?"

"$15"

"I'll take the other one."
I suppose the best way to differentiate from home is either far superior quality/comfort or to build a community around your cinema, like the Watershed [http://www.watershed.co.uk/].
How a quantum computer factorizes numbers
Google SMS Adds Location-Based Personalization
I thought this was common knowledge? The sounds are similar to other sounds made by sharp, light, heavy, dull, etc. objects based on our universe's physics...
Bringo: Stop talking to machines and talk to a real human
Entrepreneurialsm as a Darwinian phenomenon
Weird how everyone is commenting here, and not on our blog ;) Common thing for news.ycomb.com?
More to add to this topic from yesterday:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/13/apparently-old-people-a...

I'm not surprised really. It's a hard audience to win over.
How Some Geeks Can Produce Better Wi-Fi Than BT
Last weekend most of the FourStarters went to BarcampBrighton. Not only was it weird to see so many Dutch people there (at least 7 on 100 campers, including Reinier, Alper, Melinda, Sjors and me) but it was also amazing how smooth the open Wi-Fi was during the weekend. The last few conferences/camps I went to were a disaster when it came to Wi-Fi. Either it was tedious to get into with day passes that expired during the night, or it broke down within minutes due to overloading. The strange thing about the perfect Wi-Fi at BarcampBrighton was that there was actually no Wi-Fi planned!
This is a bad submission. False headline. How do you vote an article down?
Free idea.  Is it worth more than that or has it been done already?
I'm working on an easier to use database for my school district. I was watching my son play The Sims and was wondering if anyone has adapted this concept as the front end to a database. I'm visualizing our superintendent sitting at his desk where he sees a map of the city and can scroll to the building or classroom and then click on a hyperlinked object to get information about that place. The principals would see their buildings, the teachers would see their student's faces, etc.

This might speed up the decision making process - if it were networked the stakeholders could meet virtually.
A millionaire doesn't even have his own private parking space? Sounds fishy :)
The study mentioned by the article failed to take any biological recordings from the participants. My guess would be that playing the violent video games causes a rise in testosterone. Since women have less, a rise in their testosterone levels would impact them more hence the evening out of the test scores. Just my theory.
I meant to say "the iPhone gets to launch no more than twice a year"
Sounds really hard to make.
i find it funny, because as i write this response, i am in a cafe, working on a consulting project, i think this is as close as i will get to a real job, until i have a huge company to run.

I was hopping to hear some really good ones, so far we have had a few serious responses, and no one has really had an over the top response.
For me it would be, but watching my son play The Sims makes me think the hardest part has already been invented. I asked him if his creations could have hyperlinks added, he said no but that people make add-ins.
Can you make the text bigger?! Just kidding.

I think it's a great idea. My first impression was "What is this?" in a curiousity way that I wanted to learn more. Then the Learn More link explained things very clearly.
Making a comment saying it is a bad submission is great, just please don't say "This article should be on reddit!!!!!!!!"
Entrepreneurs to VCs: Stop sharing my ideas!
I've heard that a lot of billionaires are extremely frugal. They'll do things like drive three hours to save a couple hundred bucks on a new car. Apparently because they get solicited for money all the time, a lot of them get very paranoid about being taken advantage of.
Men throw better (whatever the definition - I'm assuming you mean accurately) and faster than women because our muscles are stronger. You can take a boy and a girl who have never thrown anything and the boy would throw better than the girl.
Well, this of course points out that there are not many online equivalents of going to a friend's party, volunteering with others or a business mixer -- facilitated real-life scenarios where people are, effectively, socially introduced. Somewhere you can meet someone, have some one-on-one chat and maybe exchange a business card, phone number or email address. That's a socially acceptable starting point for a friendly relationship.

People need those starting points. If you meet some guy at a TechCrunch party and talk for a couple minutes, it is perfectly acceptable to email him with some question a week later. But if you just comment on a blog post he makes, even if he responds in another comment, you're still effectively a stranger. You can email them, but it better sound a little apologetic. You sure as heck aren't going to ask to add him to your social network.
There's still nothing stopping you from emailing him a question after that kind of exchange on a blog, unless he doesn't post his email address publicly.
I totally agree (I'm reasonably comfortable with total strangers emailing me), but if I, say, meet someone at a trade show then there seems like there's a higher level of acceptability to it than "hey, remember me, I responded to your blog post." Maybe it's just me, though?
Agreed, but I think the distinction is becoming increasingly arbitrary over time.
My Facebook News Prediction Game App (beta, feedback wanted)
Is it clear what this simple game is all about?
What if a millionaire lived in some other city and drove to New York City to get to the air port?
My god, I wish I could downmod.
> 3. Breaks are good

Uhmmm... no they're not! Movies are quite long as it is, last thing I need is to break a story and spend extra 15min at the theater.
Used to work in Sunnyvale and I have friends who live in San Jose and Mountain View. Have lived in SF, Foster City, Burlingame, and San Mateo now.

Sunnyvale got its wide variety of low cost rent places and decent Indian and Cheap and good Asian food places. El Camino Real is basically a mobius loop of America e.g. McDonalds, Starbucks, Ethnic Zone, repeat. Sister used to live in Mountain View off 85 by the Albertsons. Personally, if you're gonna live in Mountain View, somewhere close to downtown Castro Street would be cool to get food and beers and that kind of stuff. A bunch of startups (Meebo?) are around that area too.

Foster City is quiet. They have a bunch of golf courses and a Costco going for it. San Mateo is just about in the middle of everything, I like it because of the laid back downtown and being 5 min from the airport, 15 min from SV, 20 min (no traffic) from the city. That being said, San Mateo dies after 9pm. So if you're one of those party types lookin for a midnight saturnalia, the city is your only hope.
Demo of Photosynth from TED conference - mind blowing
This is some really awesome technology. Lots of cool stuff here, but at one point he demos a 3D metaverse created from scraped Flickr photos. Worth y of the multiple standing ovations he gets. Apparently this was bought by Microsoft about a year ago.
Hey man, thanks a lot for the overview. This is some of the best information I've gotten yet.

We've seen a bunch of places in Palo Alto and Mountain View that we could see ourselves living in. We've walked around Castro and University Ave's to get a feel for those city centers.

Thanks particularly descriptions of those other areas I've haven't heard about but now see popping up in the craigslist ings.
You guys are cool with me. Ever in South Jersey, we'll meet up for a beer.
Google To Present At TechCrunch40
Valley morale continues to sag
The ass won't kick itself - Jeremy Zawodny on staying at Yahoo
No prob man. Startup guys should help each other out :D.

Drop by san mateo some time. Drive up 101 and get off the 3rd Avenue exit heading West. Check out the area around 2nd to 4th Avenue, and B Street to El Camino. Got a movie theater, a Japanese Tea Garden and Central Park that hosts Free Concerts and Outdoor Shakespeare events, Caltrain station, and Ramen shops galore. Not to mention there are/were a bunch of techs that made it big time here. Youtube and Napster to name a few.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q...
Trust me, it's not competence I'm questioning...
"You mean one like yours?"

"When I lose my fake one."

"When I've run out of real things to really do."

"When the gun jams three times in a row, the rope breaks, and I discover I'm immune to cyanide."
End of Tor: Rogue Nodes Turn Tor Anonymizer Into Eavesdropper's Paradise
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another millionaire http://www.teenwag.com
I guess while we're on the topic, I might as well kill it with TMI. The city in itself has its own little zones and flavors. I'm sure there are readers more familiar with the intricacies of each area, but Mission is really grunge and you could get mugged but in a cool way kinda thing. Major street cred if you pull a startup off from the Mission. SOMA has a bunch of newly minted apartment buildings. There are quite a few startup incubators (e.g. South Park) and existing startups (Six Apart) in the area. You'll also find office sharing available in that area. North Beach has its coffee shops and food. Potrero Hill is cheap and got its share of bars and convenient local good eats. On the west side of the city you got Golden Gate, Sunset, New Chinatown. If Soma and the Financial District are the respectable areas but culturally dead (unless you count Pacbell Park and Sony Metreon as culture) and Mission is the Wild Indie Fest, the rest are all somewhere in-between. Worth looking at if you're concerned about fit. And you can't afford Pacific Heights so skip it. Friend of mine was thinking of moving out to Russian Hill, claimed it was nice and close to a lot of clubs so it was convenient for the wink wink. OH yeah. Check out the Castro too. Walk ALL around the area... thats where you whip out your leather pants with no buttcheeks.
The point, however, is that social news sites (so far) are not replacements for editorial front pages. They exist solely because the mainstream news sites aren't very broad (10 stories are 50%, sounds like the long-tail book again). If I want LolCats, I go to digg. If I want news about Iraq, I'll listen to NPR. If I want something about hackers, I'll come here.

Comparing them to eachother is basically a waste of time, except to indicate that there might be a market opportunity (is there a community not being served by ANY of the outlets listed?)
Social Media for Firefox extension: monitors digg/reddit/delicious to help you detect rising stories
Keep on clicking, but I can't help noticing your punctuation and use of white space!
Reverse Engineering the Human Diet
Viral marketing, randomness and the difficulty of controlling growth in social media A
The genuine goal of the project is to simplify the process of mass collaboration. The command-line junkies can use it as a tool to seamlessly extend certain parts of the project out to the public. Artists without any collaboration or development experience, scattered around the globe, can within a minute set up a virtual studio to collaborate on their animation project. It could be used by high school kids to create a digital scrapbook. There are tools available to do all of these things, but I think it is still a lot more difficult than it should be. I've seen many projects with potential vaporize simply because it was a lot of work just to keep all the pieces together.
And I have to disagree with this... or at least, I don't want the distinction to become arbitrary. The Internet and Web were meant to make communications easier. But it seems like all this online social network crap is replacing real world meet-ups.
then have the butler drive the car back
Well, "agree to disagree" and all that.

Might be a generation gap, I'm solidly Generation Y. Are you Gen X?
An oldie but goodie TED Talk. These are consistently the most engaging and interesting speeches. FYI I run a video site called Chime.TV and we created a channel just for TED Talks:
http://chime.tv/tedtalks

Recent ones I've enjoyed are Erin McKean's Redifining The Dictionary ( http://chime.tv/tedtalks/3l9sg ) and Rives: Is 4AM The New Midnight? ( http://chime.tv/tedtalks/2gdlw )
Another misleading title. These numbers are for all N Cal businesses, not tech cos.
This is a known issue with Tor. It doesn't encrypt data, it just anonymizes it. If you put unencrypted info in Tor, it comes out on the other side unencrypted.
Conlangs - Constructed languages designed by language inventors
registration required, someone copy/paste in here?
That's a good idea if your time is worthless. "Penny-wise and pound-foolish"
This is not how any millionaire I know's brain works. Maybe I know an unrepresentative sample, but most focus their ingenuity on novel ways to create wealth rather than novel ways of avoiding expenditure.
is it true that some of these other cultures don't suffer from schizophrenia and other illnesses like that?
See the "Millionaire Next Door" for an elaboration on this. That or another one of the books in the series has a long chapter on automobile purchasing habits.
Well, out of 101 tips, I'd hope a few of them hit the mark. :) IMHO, the best one was this:

14. Do something creative with the design of the box and separate yourselves from the pack. The original Macs stood out because of their innovative look. Repeat that.

Steve Jobs got the authority and the designs are great. That's why I've got an iPhone in my pocket and a MacBook Pro in front of me.
The YouTube of Games: Microsoft Game Studio's Shane Kim on XNA Studio Express
AFAICT, this submission is spam for a shaving product. No hacker content whatsoever.
This story makes lots of sense. Most of these millionaires live on a month to month basis, there4 they need to save every little dollar. To me money buys time. Forget a Ferrari, get a prius. besides, the new millionaire means 5M+
isn't the main hub of N Cal in the valley?
No, there's nothing to this field. The people doing the research have to be qualified, but all 23andme is doing is marketing and sales. They buy chips from www.illumina.com and resell them with service for twice as much money.
Yeah, I'm thinking the dude who wrote this is batshit crazy. Must be something he ate.
Citations needed. Otherwise this is the random ravings of a crank on the Internet. (Which is fine...that's what the Internets are for, but I don't have to listen to them.)

Sure, some of the suggestions are valid, but other assertions just aren't backed by science.
This article is spot-on. The major problem with this diet (where 'diet' is what one eats on an average day, not necessarilly as a weight-loss tool) is you'll have so much energy, and your body will be so happy, you'll want to be physically active. It will be very hard to stay on the computer.
He doesn't sound angry at all. I've read similar discussions. Most foods in the supermarket are manufactured and flash-baked, not baked or picked. This really works and you'll feel great. Avoiding grains, milk, and corn syrup (found in sodas and juices, hot dogs, and other places you wouldn't think of) as well as all manufactured foods is exactly the best way to go.

The problem is, this can get much more expensive. I'd love to be able to follow that for sustained periods of time. On the other hand, everything you eat that's not manufactured gives much more energy throughout the day. Who cares how much 'heat' a food generates in calories? What matters is what kind of energy you get from it.
Farewell, ogre
Misleading title. Tor promises an anonymous source IP and nothing more. Its still good for that application.
I'm not sure I'd call two sentences an article.
Vinod Khosla: Hybrid-electric cars won't make a difference
I like the Lisp link:

The Volkswagen Lisp is the most configurable and powerful car in automotive history.

The Lisp was invented in 1958 (some say discovered) and the automotive world hasn't been the same since.
> He doesn't sound angry at all.

Mellow people can be crazy too. Though, whether he's crazy or not, there isn't a shred of evidence presented besides the picture of "tribal health" he paints.
Parking spaces in NYC can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. As a mere millionaire you can expect to spend 10-20% of your net worth on a parking space.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/12/us/12parking.html?ex=11899...

NY may not be the best place in the world to start your startup, but it will certainly cause you to reevaluate your notion of what it means to be a millionaire. Less valuable, maybe, but also much more achievable.
This is a forum for unique thinkers so I'm putting this out here. The price of cars and gas is insane. But also, the price of building and maintaining roads is mind-blowingly high.

What if we built a track system, like a single rail roller coaster. The single rail would be fairly cheap to make, take up minimal space, eliminate the need for everyone to have their own cars, intersections, speed limits, snow plows, collisions, gasoline, human drivers, traffic, etc.

I think it would be an awesome solution all around. There would probably need to be some significant engineering behind designing that single track system that allowed so much track hopping and to handle cars smart enough not navigate the web. But I think its nothing we can't do with current technology.

Is this stupid? Most non-tech people seem to think so.
I forget what all the letters mean, but I'm 21. I guess I'm just old fashioned!
It's not really to save money though. It's more like after getting dozens of emails a day begging for money, some percentage just develop a complex and have trouble trusting others.
My contention is that throwing well is a skill, dominated by practice, while throwing fast is an ability, dominated by talent. Girls who practice a lot can throw better than almost any boy, but they can't begin to compete in terms of speed with even moderately well-trained boys.
What is Yahoo Mash?
Yahoo recently leaked its new social networking site
Xcerion: The next Microsoft killer?
Has anybody tried out any of Xcerion's software yet? I've been hearing a lot of hype about it being the product that could seriously dent Microsoft's domination on the OS.
"On Albert Einstein", by Robert Oppenheimer: innovation and tradition
"He doesn't sound angry at all."

raving: talking or behaving irrationally

"The problem is, this can get much more expensive."

No, the problem is there is no science here. Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence. Claiming that all grains are toxic when uncooked is an extraordinary claim.

As I said, I have no doubt that many of these claims are true. I also have no doubt that some are false. The author gives me no basis for knowing which is which. I happen to be a bit of a nutrition and health nut (vegetarian for 14 years, vegan occasionally, avoid processed foods generally), but I'm also a believer in science. The often ill-informed assertions of some random dude on the Internet are not going to convince me to eat like a cave man.
Verizon unhappy with 700MHz open access requirements, sues FCC
Though I'd agree with his portrayal of 7 Habits. Reads kind of like those How To Get Rich books that are meant to get the author rich.
Machiavelli seems to have gone through a lot of trouble just to write a satire.
I don't think he meant this to be a scientific paper, otherwise, as a physician, he could be liable for giving out medical advice. I can see how he would make this message appear informal. A lot of writing by nutritionists aimed at the general public is similarly informal and easy to understand.

I've read many stories and know that avoiding cereals, grains, and milk is a good idea for weight loss and sugar management.

I was able to google some sources. Note that pesticides may also introduce toxins. I'm with Steve Pavlina on trying things and seeing if they work. The advice seems to be true.

http://www.nourishingourchildren.org/parents/cereal.html

Like he said in the article, he doesn't mean toxic in the unsafe sense. He means toxic in terms of, it's not good for your body. He means it's not the natural way every species on earth has consumed this food for thousands of years.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten...
It's their new social network (with a bit of a twist), and the beta launches tomorrow afternoon. It's supposedly going to tie together a lot of their services, so it'll be interesting to watch.
It would be difficult to verify. Many cultures have great stigma associated with mental illness, and their people will go to great lengths to conceal it in their family. China is a prominent example.
Google releases new Moon map