skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Now every entrepreneur will be able to say to a VC, "we have a term sheet...and need to know whether you are in or out..."

Maybe if there is another boom and certainly not in this economy ;)
At what point is freedom maximized on the IQ curve?
While it is obvious that low IQ will not give you many options in life, I think it is also the case that very high IQ will take away your freedom as well.

There are after all expectations on what one should do with a very high IQ as not to "waste" it.

For example, if you are the sort of person who can win a gold medal in the International Math Olympiad, then maybe becoming an entrepreneur will not make optimal use of your brain power.

Moreover, entrepreneurship is risky. Why should a very smart person take such risk? Isn't academia safer?

And so the question becomes, what sort of IQ is best to maximize freedom?

P.S. Very high IQ people who have exercised significant freedom in their projects/career have often been ridiculed. Consider for example Wolfram and Marilyn vos Savant.
Yeah, I know what you mean. Every time I get in a "serious business" environment and fall for mentioning F/LOSS, I get the strange looks (and obviously freak out the admin). Better not even to mention the word "hacker" at all.
From Highly Successful to Unemployed to Becoming Mr. Mom
> without risking someone else stealing it?

There are tons of good ideas out there.

What there's a shortage of is risk takers willing to work their balls off to make a good idea into a good company.

Just go ahead and post your idea here. I promise that I'm way too busy with my own startups to steal it!
O3D: Google releases 3D API in a Browser Plugin
Well, you could gold plate and tin shield every nanometer of conductor to make sure that no bit is ever lost...

OR you could, I don't know make some sort of algorithm that, I don't know calculated some sort of sum of every block of data transmitted and then, like checked the sum to see if it was right. You could retransmit the block if it wasn't since Gig-ethernet is what like 1000 times faster than cd audio?

My plastic cables available with this revolutionary data integrity algorithm on sale now for just $499.
All Indiatimes articles are essentially trolling attempts to generate page views - they divide a fluff piece into 10 parts and add tangentially related photos to each. This seems to be a universal problem with Indian news websites (Rediff.com is equally bad).
No, I'm pretty sure I understand the technology. I've written thousands of lines of queries, triggers, stored procedures. I've read the source to Postgres.

In the article, I specifically say ORMs are a terrible idea. I specifically say Relational databases, data integrity, foreign key constraints, declarative queries and ACID are all good things. I forgot to mention normalization, but that's good too. My point is that SQL is a terrible interface to get to all of the good things about RDBMs.
Where does the article claim causation?

"It would be easy to test the theory, said Steven Pinker, a Harvard cognition researcher: "See if carriers of the Ashkenazi-typical genetic mutations score higher on IQ tests than their noncarrier siblings."

Cochran and Harpending readily acknowledge the need for such experiments. But they have no plans to do them. They say their role as theorists is to generate hypotheses that others can test."
Can someone with knowledge of the underlying OS mechanisms answer this for me: What is the deal with file access on Windows? In Linux (on the Mac too, I think) I can move, copy and delete files freely, regardless of what applications currently have that file open. On Windows, I always run into some situation where it won't let me do what I want to do because the file is open. So I have to hunt through 10-20 windows to see who has it (9 times out of 10 its a command prompt or explorer window holding on to a directory that I'm trying to delete.)

I don't use windows often so maybe I'm exaggerating, but this is the single most infuriating windows usability nitpick I have. Have they fixed this in Vista or 7?
Supermac War Story 8: Cats and Dogs - Admitting a Mistake
Last.fm radio subscriptions
I don't even know where to begin.

Aaron has noticed that a simple goal like "transparency" can't be immediately, directly implemented, because the system is such that it's like trying to dig a hole in water. Of course, you can put a hole in water, since that's what a boat is, but doing it incrementally (a piece here, a piece there, then bailing out the water, checking for leaks, etc) is going to be much more difficult than just building a boat out of the water and putting it in. Activists always seem to start out wanting to "just make these specific changes" from within the system, and that usually works, in general, when the changes are in the direction the system is already going, "with the flow," as it were.

If you want to make a change that is against the flow, it's far, far easier to make the change away from the system and then drop it in so that the system (government, a corporation, a church, or whatever) is forced to deal with it whole.

This is a very interesting topic: part economics, part psychology, part politics, and more; I've spent a lot of time thinking about it over the last 10 years, but I am just an egg, understanding little. :)

Re-reading, I notice that this is still unclear, so what I'm saying is that we need to focus on solutions that are primarily technical, because social and political solutions almost never work in the first place and tend to roll back as soon as the pressure lets up. The internet is killing copyright in a way that we anti-copyright folk would never have been able to do with "education" and "reform".
There's a surprising amount of things this works for - I reply to emails, type up blog entries (and comments), etc all inside an open document in my text editor.

Of course, I could just work a little harder.
I don't think anyone ever claimed transparency was a simple goal.
Sun: Let us now praise the ponytail
I've been doing this for a really long time ... it started when I was asked to research a piece of malware we were fighting at work and discovered that our proxy filtered every useful site on the subject.

Nice recommendation, though, change the port you expose to the outside world to something other than 22 and you'll see a lot fewer attempts to brute force your ssh server.
Rakudo Perl "Bratislava" (now passing approx 65% of the available spectest suite)
Really, spam is pretty much solved. It still gets sent, but if you have a decent spam filter (I've been fine with gmail's), you'll never actually notice.
Their "source" was a random tweet from someone with no relation to the situation. They should be embarrassed. I'm going to tweet that Microsoft is switching to Linux to help them with their next article.
Hacker News is bookmarked on my Firefox, and i did get a question (and a smirk) about it during a demo. The word 'Hacker' has been blown out badly by the media, and i don't know how long would it take before regular people start looking at it positively.
He's not just talking about the GUI though. He's talking about the actual usage of the machine. Personally I find Windows to be a complete pain to use. The console is weak, the way files are laid out on the system irritates me, and their politics as a whole stinks.

To each their own, but I concur with the GP.
I'm certain that 500 meters of 10base-5 cost several times more than this cable.

This was the "original" popular ethernet. It was a coaxial cable about as big around as a finger and had a stripe around it every 2.5 meters. Wherever you needed a connection you found the nearest stripe, drilled into the cable until you just reached the core and inserted a special vampire tap attached to a transceiver the size of a shoe which sent another finger sized cable down to your device.
Lean Development for Lean Times
Try Vimperator (http://vimperator.org/trac/wiki/Vimperator).

My Firefox is only a tab bar and a status bar/vimperator command line (I used Hide Chrome to get rid of the top window bar). It won't make websites more minimal, but it will make your browser much less obtrusive.
I don't know whether or not it's fixed in more recent versions, but there are programs which get around this for you (by killing processes, or telling you which process is using the file/folder). E.g. Unlocker http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/
The cat doesn't look that fluffy :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQCrBUIscug
That's why business internet filters are so restrictive. IT people assume everyone is as disturbed as they are.
We can never be sure of anything (because everything could just be a simulation in a computer etc.). We can only be certain to a degree. I suppose just finding some causation is not sufficient to make a new scientific discovery. It can give pointers for directions of research, but then somehow you need to make the new hypothesis testable.
I don't think brown is the problem. The problem is that their brown is orange.
very strange business model !
Notes as I come up with them:

1) Site feels very 'selling' more than a site that is a service.

2) Pro doesn't get rid of ads? That seems pretty sucky.

3) I was going to say push monthly over yearly, but then realized yearly probably makes more money for you since you lock them in for a year rather than a season. Though you might offer a 6 month package too, to be closer to a team's season while still locking them in.

4) 'Buzz' is not a good title for that page. It should be Testimonials or something similar. Buzz is what others are saying about your site, like if TechCrunch wrote you up, etc.

5) The big customer support number discerns me. This isn't a service which strikes me as being a big need for phone support. Sure have it in the header on every page, but size it down.

6) The pages all feel VERY busy and crowded. It's nicely organized crowded, but crowded.
Ask HN: A replacement for last.fm?
Since today you can't really listen to radio on last.fm outside US, UK & Germany, can you recommend something similar but for free?

Thanks.
It's good that the name deters. If the site is difficult to use, then only committed users will remain. A socially inappropriate name does this without killing usability.
I feel entertained

And enlightened by this prose

The beauty of graphs
Most common reaction is "are you a hacker?" from classmates as I browse HN during lectures.
Fixed: "The Majority of People Got Some Closet Issues Going On..."

Yeah, so IT folks have some overlap in the issues they share, but they're far from the only ones. Ever see a salesman drink?

We're all only human.
Douglas Adams never hinted at any sexual preferences of electric monks in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.

http://www.mat.upm.es/~jcm/adams.html
I find Sumatra PDF to be far better, it's even lighter than Foxit and installation is optional. http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/index.html
If my car can only reach 50mph, I can't drive at 100mph. If my car can reach 150mph, I can cruise at 100mph if I wish to do so.

What is it that a high IQ prevents me from doing that a lower IQ would allow?
5 IT essentials: A recession-proof priority list
Most radio stations have individual feeds on their sites. That's the best tip I can offer.
I wouldn't even say that. In most cases I'd say it's all about familiarity - both OS and application.

Perhaps a project manager needs MS Project, or an architect needs AutoCad or something but for the "teenage girl" demographic you would be hard pressed to find any particular application they absolutely needed that doesn't exist on Linux, or there isn't a ready counterpart (eg Adium instead of MSN Messenger). They're just not used to it and dislike anything unfamiliar, since computers are basically mystic black boxes anyway.

I think for many typical users it's simply a matter of preferring something they (mostly) know how to use.
I don't fault them for not copying OS X like Microsoft did, but they do need to improve the default.

Optional community themes don't help much because people need to turn the machine on and think:

"Ooohhhh"

not

"Hmm, I bet I can make this look cooler if I go searching through the Preferences menu"
Family Lawyer San Diego
San Diego is an attorney or law firm which offers compassionate & experienced representation to clients involved in divorce, recovering from a car or truck
Exactly. Powershell is some improvement, but still a pale imitation.

Windows feels fragile, and often is when you try to do anything difficult. How to bring an ethernet adapter down then up with a script in Windows? Very difficult, WMI calls and such.

In Linux? A line (really, a few characters) of script. Just one of the differences I've run into recently.
How to Save Newspapers (Or, Why the NYT Should Acquire Twitter)
I will often get shouts of "Nerd alert!"
It's not so logical. As explained, there's the feeling that you are "wasting" your IQ if you pursue certain career paths.

Even if the individual does not fall into this trap, there is social pressure to worry about.
And there we have yet another complete communication failure from last.fm.

As if they didn't piss of people enough with their previous announcement, they sure as hell didn't pay attention to the feedback they got there and walked right into the same flaming pit once again.

With communication skills like this it will be interesting to see how last.fm develops from here on.
IE6 isn't all that hard to support with the ie8.js plugin
It does have some interesting lessons in there of how not to do things. Startups would do well to read and analyze all the countless mistakes cuil made.

I think it's still being written about because it was such an epic failure of mammoth proportions.

They did some things right, they got a ton of buzz, tons of visitors, but they totally messed up their chance. Unlikely they'll be given another one. (Unless they rebrand at least)
Car Insurance Online: Sage Car Insurance
You're asking an illogical question about a test built on logic and wanting a quantified logical response.
`iPod will die by next year`

They quote Alan Sugar saying that the iPod would die by Christmas 2005 and then state "Incidentally, at the time Sugar's Amstrad and Apple were reportedly neck-and-neck in the personal computer race. "

Amstrad haven't been in the computer business since the 1990s (and I doubt they were ever "neck and neck", except maybe in the race to launch a PDA in the early 90s). If they can't get the first item factually correct, I'm wondering if I should bother with the rest.
The main question this raises in me is: isn't it illegal to claim such cables are better? Should we try to make it illegal to sell stuff at artificially inflated prices that are solely based on make belief, misinformation and a lack of knowledge in the customer? Would a class action lawsuit have any chance? In some sense, it's a con.
The exact same thing happened last year.
Would RSTP have survived this situation (eight cables cut)? I think it was a single point of failure though (no other branches for the graph).
"Society can't exist without newspapers" - Really? It looks like we're happily heading down that path.
From what I've observed, those with an IQ more than two or so standard deviations above normal have social problems because they relate to others poorly.

Especially if they are introverts. Extroverts do better, but often have hidden difficulties masked by their outgoing personalities.
They can't see I'm reading Hacker News because I use #000000 as my top-bar color.
> Is a blanket license really something the activists are wiling to live with?

It doesn't matter what the copyright activists want. What matters is what the masses want.

The Ipod is about as much friction as the masses are willing to tolerate, for now.
Can someone with knowledge of the underlying OS mechanisms answer this for me: What is the deal with file access on Windows?

The Windows locking defaults when opening file-handles actually includes locking and has done so for such a long time that applications have come to depend on it.

If you check the Win32 API you will see applications have several options for requesting (or not requesting) file-locks when doing file-operations, but not using them, the defaults are to play it safe and ensure that no data is lost due to improper access.

Technologically speaking, this is kinda the same as you have in Linux, except that the defaults are the polar opposite.

Changing the defaults now would break havoc among multiple applications relying on the defaults and cause massive amounts of corrupted data. So Microsoft have kept them as is.

IOW: If you are having issues with file-locking, you need to blame the application-developer for not properly signalling what level and type of locking is actually required, because Windows will respect the locks set on file-handles. Maybe I'm the exception, but I consider that a good thing.
I like the ideas, but terribly written.
Hmm, I tried 10-20 times and MXHR was always slower. Sometimes a full half-second slower. I had some times approaching 1-second load time, meanwhile the "normal" load was consistently between 350-400ms.

I know it's just a proof of concept and yes, YMMV, but couldn't they come up with a demo that clearly showed this new technology they invented was worth using?
It's fixed in Windows 7 by telling you which application is using the file (http://lifehacker.com/5132227/windows-7-tells-you-why-you-ca...).
The use enom, so their domain is in holding atm, so only the owner can renew it. They will mostlikely have to pay ~135$ is it is considered in a redemption period.

Enom does offer an auto renewal option, but its an option, not a default.

Domain Name:RUBYONRAILS.ORG
Created On:19-Apr-2004 22:40:29 UTC
Last Updated On:23-Apr-2009 00:07:53 UTC
Expiration Date:19-Apr-2010 22:40:29 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:eNom, Inc. (R39-LROR)
Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Status:AUTORENEWPERIOD
Except in the case of Ted Stevens, everyone realized that it was corruption, and the people that "let him off the hook" are now under investigation for corruption.
http://thesixtyone.com
Ubuntu is a fantastic distribution of a magnificent OS. I just wish I could run design apps like Flash and Photoshop on it (and no, GIMP just doesn't do it for me).
Also, it helps to be ethnically homogeneous, as much as that displeases some people.
That does look nice, thanks!
This happens because of underlying implementation of file systems. UNIX-based systems have the notion of "linking/unlinking" files: a file is a link to a set of sectors on your hard drive. One can create many more links to the same data (using ln command). Deleting is the same as unlinking, i.e. removing a link. When the last link disappears, the file is considered "deleted". When an application opens a file, it creates yet another link to it, so nothing stops you from removing the link - the file isn't deleted yet since your app still uses its own.

I'm not sure how Windows can be "fixed" in this regard, since their filesystems don't have the notion of hard linking nor does Win32 API: there is no way you can move/delete file on Win32 while keeping existing open file handles alive.

However, the biggest issue with Windows, in my opinion, is Registry. Nearly all "popular" Windows gripes can be tracked down to registry abuse: decreasing performance over time, adware/spyware, viruses, etc... Registry is like a secondary file system, but much slower, more primitive, less secure and, most importantly, nearly completely hidden from the users: there are no tools with exception of primitive regedit, to deal with it.
Children, Christians and audiophiles say the darnest things.
Bay Area rents down for second straight quarter
Oil has contributed. But the real culprit is monetary policy. The Keynesian model, where every dollar in your pocket is someone else's obligation, is a balloon that always grows too big and has to either deflate or pop.

You cannot borrow your way out of debt. If all money is created by debt, then ultimately things like oil, speculative investments, and creative financial instruments can only pop the bubble faster. Even without them, the bubble will continue to grow beyond the breaking point. It will just take longer to get there.

It's simple math. You can argue against the principles of sound currency and the laws of supply and demand about as successfully as you can argue against the law of gravity.

What do you expect to happen, honestly? When you push out cheap money, when you take away risk, when you create a moral hazard which prevents investors from being burned by their own bad choices, they WILL spend and invest recklessly.

Wall Street is not the problem. Oil is not the problem. The man behind the curtain who is setting interest rates at artificially low levels such that the expenditures exceed the available capital in the economy, IS the problem. And that man is called the Fed. This is the fundamental force driving our economy, and it is broken. Until this is addressed, all the focus on oil, investment banks, and Wall Street is just a stage show.
In sweden there are usually several "judges".
The one at the chair is the "Judge" (educated at law) and the rest is lay assessor. But they have the same voting power (therefore they are all judges). The lay assessor should,could consult the judge about what the law says about a subject.
Reusing .NET Assemblies in Silverlight
Adding continuations in a "dot" release seems a pretty big deal!
New NIST guidelines for organization-wide password management
I think this is the same as saying "You're very tall, you should be a basketball player!" or perhaps "You're very well endowed. It'd be a waste not to go into porn!"

We all have different motivators. The true freedom is being able to choose your career path because you have more options than someone with more limited capabilities. A career is a significant life decision and to a degree it's imperative to disregard what other people want or expect from you in order to have long-term satisfaction.

Perhaps some people are "too smart" for business because the inherent illogic and stupidity of it all can be a constant source of irritation, but that's something you can learn to accept.

Since when are people like Wolfram ridiculed? Maybe you're confusing the perverse American-style backlash against intellectuals with some specific grudge against polymaths.
I'm down with the brown.
With emacs you can do this natively.
Especially considering that these markings are bi-directional:

http://www.usa.denon.com/AKDL1_G.gif

I'm sure this is going to confuse the hell out of any true audiophile.
> you can't stop members of Congress from associating with each other.

Actually, many states have open meeting laws where, if it becomes clear that politicians met and discussed certain topics, it is a crime, and it's punishable.

They don't often get used, but I think that the threat does alter behavior at least a bit.
the fact that it happened twice I think is telling though. At that point they have only themselves to blame.
Shoutcast radio on winamp is what I have used for years, many stations there.
It's a combination of brown, peach (the colors from the original 'human skin tones' Ubuntu concept) and orange/red (newer, based on the Canonical logo).

I actually tried to organize a theme contest in conjuction with DeviantArt for 8.04, working with Ubuntu Artwork team, with prizes etc.

The first thing that happened was that winners were limited to working with the existing palette. The directive comes from Mark Shuttleworth and Ubuntu art are powerless to change it. The contest didn't go ahead.

However Mark seems to have recently changed his mind.
As long as you're paying for PS, check out Codeweavers' Crossover Linux. You can run native Windows programs under Linux (Crossover is a tweaked version of Wine).

It looks like Photoshop isn't quite there yet though:
http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/cat/?cat_id=...

It is one of the top applications that they are working on:
http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/toplists/