skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A book on learning x86 assembly on recent processors.
I was also annoyed by that -- the implication seems to be that atheists are necessarily cold, calculating and logical.

I don't find that accepting the existence of emotions in decision making has any impact on my religious beliefs.
A site for people who want to complain about their landlords. It was called DontRentFrom.com, and I only recently let the domain go.
Ehrm... It does now in any case. I didn't see it before blushes (Seriously, how can I miss the only line on a four line page that completely invalidates the point I was trying to make?)

Anyway, that probably was a good demonstration why it should be more in-my-face.

And it also demonstrates why web browsers need to send an im-an-idiot header :(
"Think of what happens when you put a new food into your mouth. You don’t have to decide if it’s disgusting. You just know. You don’t have to decide if a landscape is beautiful. You just know."

Speak for yourself, Brooks. Apparently he was the kind of kid who put ketchup on everything and never really grew out of it.
One guy named Steve Jobs once said, that design is not how it looks but how it works. He had a point.
Truth in Metaprogramming
Only in countries with laws similar to the DMCA is it illegal.
I would love a book on advanced XNA. Everything around at the moment is for beginner to intermediate.
This is a great point!

While PG suggests that it's better to have a small number of rapid supporters than a large number of moderate supporters, it's important to find the maximum on the curve.

The question is how many rapid supporters would you lose and gain by adding prices in more "accessible" locations? How less rabid would your users become by such a change? These are important questions that would need to be answered to gain market share.

My gut is that the fact that you have to hover over the image to see the price is detracting. By comparison, you could show the price slightly more prominently, without having it be an eyesore (show in a light grey under the item picture, that maybe highlights to black when hovered over). This would, imo, make the price conscious happier, without getting in the way of design.
streaming NFL games.
Boiling water + disinfectant beats a shower or any other non-lethal cleaning method. The doll should be more hygienic than any human could possibly be.
I don't agree with his premise that people can't use reason to come to good moral principles, and then act on them.

Figuring out morality his way--by emotion--would be abdicating your power to make positive change and leaving everything to random influences upon your life. A woman was mean to me as a kid? Well, I'll hate women. Everyone I know goes to church, and I have come to love Jesus? Well, that must be the right answer, then. That's what happens if you go by emotion.
I'm not sure how they can have video transcoding as a use-case when their only variables are RAM and storage space. There's no CPU speed variation or the ability to access more cores; you are just stuck with what happens to be available on the server at the time. Gogrid are the same.

Unfortunately my experience with cloud VM providers is that quite a few of them are all talk, no action. Having said that some have been transparent about what you get and how much it will cost; EC2, Flexiscale and Elastichosts to name a few.
Sam Harris covered this stuff in The End of Faith. It's depressing how few critics of "new atheists" have read the people they have beef with; then again, it's even more depressing how few atheists make successful communication a priority.
For starters, the human epidermis turns over with a period on the order of 45 days.
Who Has The Most Photos Of Them All? Hint: It Is Not Facebook
The IO on the EC2 medium compute instances is not good. Would be interested in seeing a large instance compared.

I did a ginormous RAID 0 on EBS on a large EC2 instance, and the IO tests were quite disappointing.
What if Bachelor Chow varied in taste and consistency from can to can?
On the other hand, you're an evolved being with innate biases. There are solid natural reasons that most people share similar moral intuitions (read: emotions). If these intuitions did not exist, there would be no axioms from which to deduce other moral actions.

Brooks' premise is naturalistic, that man is more complex than an avatar of pure reason. I think he's right.
I heard Microsoft was founded in Albuquerque, New Mexico. :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft
Not all universities let students go straight from bachelors to doctoral programs. Many want to see if the student "has the right stuff" by requiring a masters (perhaps because the applicant is weak on research or references). Some want the student to enroll in a master's program because those are not subsidized.
Speaking of which, I was really getting into those Clif Mojo bars at one point, then we got a box of Nature Valley fruit and nut bars at Costco, so I forgot about them for a few weeks.

When we ran out of the box, I went back for my Clif Mojos and found out they were recalled in the peanut salmonella thing. It looks like I missed eating potentially contaminated food by a few days.

</adventures in eating>
That's a hack
Damn, I was hoping this meant: Receive checks ($$) before you even launch your website!
What, people in Mexico don't eat the ribs on pigs? Perhaps they take the shoulder to make carnitas and leave the rest of the carcass to rot under the hot, Mexican sun?
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Pot comes very close, particularly if you make brownies rather than smoking it.
They have "Fair-weighted Quad Core processors (Guaranteed minimum. Weighting scales up with memory)", so larger VMs should have higher minimum CPU performance.
How would an algol language with sexp syntax differ from scheme?
This is an interesting thought. Does anything already exist as a service for college students to rent textbooks?
I use different font sizes for my work on larger screens, for one example.
I have a hard time believing any programmer has difficulty with Macroeconomics. A C in a course like that says 'lazy and willing to accept mediocrity'.
As opposed to everyone else, I liked the menus a lot. However, the actual product selection was completely counterintuitive.
A battery so good that I don't have to worry about battery life again.
There is always a famous quote that supports your point of view, no matter how wrong you are.
I think the problem is most pronounced in the Gulf states (KSA, Kuwait, and south of there). I spent a couple days in Dubai on my way back from visiting family in Jordan, and it felt like a whole different world; supposedly it's all "Arabs" but culturally everything was vastly different. That's been my experience interacting with Arabs from other Gulf states as well (Yemenis are crazy...). I suppose it has something to do with the fact that these countries have crap tons of oil money so their citizens don't have to pay for anything (Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, etc are not oil states).

It's not totally fair to call the "Arabs" the top of the pile. It's more like whoever is a citizen of that state: be it Emiratis or Quataris or whatever. There's a definite hierarchy of "Arabs" depending on what country one's from, and in my experience it's not so much who's higher up, it's who's farther from the bottom and thus more difficult to fire.

I'm not going to argue that it's not a shitty situation for the servants. I know that there is some hired help that is treated fairly, paid what was agreed, and is free to leave if they so desire, but I can't speculate on what proportion that is, and further my experience is primarily in Jordan. In my short time in Dubai, it was pretty obvious that the opulence of the town could only exist by taking advantage of its poor. I guess if you live there the only way to live with yourself would be to ignore that, as this article shows so many do.

About your last comment, I don't think I'd be that harsh about the middle east. It's not all bad, really. The Gulf States IMHO are pretty f'd up, and I don't think I'd want to live there, but the "Levant" region really has a lot to offer, having not been messed up by ridiculous amounts of oil money.
Ghost in the Shell Section 9-spec full robot body. Medical immortality. Nanotechnological bone strengthening, brain-damping mesh, damage repair, bloodstream oxygen cache system. Brain augmentation. Cancer-free cigarettes. Perfect, invisible contraception and STD prevention. Cyborg love doll, again see GitS. I could go on all day!

Maybe a little outside the implied timeframe of potential availability, but that's what I really want, not some minor upgrade of 2009 tech! : )
It actually is. But not in the mind of a kid. :)
The healthier TV dinners come pretty close. Vitamin fortified cereal in the morning, tv dinners for lunch and dinner, and vegetables for snacks.
I believe the constructive criticism was something like "You are a Woz. You need a Jobs."
Economist Uwe Reinhardt on the Hidden Costs Of Health Care (NPR interview)
He just messes up and shows his ignorance/stupidity when he tries to say that "man is more complex then an avatar of pure reason" implies "the processes by which man was created are more than is understandable by pure reason". believe what you want but thats a shoddy piece of reasoning.
No kidding, Spain has great Mexican food. England the best Curry ;-)
Yes, there are quite a few, actually. But they usually don't give you significant advantages over the old buy new/sell used model.
I don't mean to be rude, but how is a service like this actually used? I mean, in your experience, what's different about it versus, say, a blog, or even a simple cms like jottit?
In the US at least one of the latest trends (advances?) are these microwavable single-serving bags of rice (and now pilaf, curry, etc).

A few companies make them, and they're a large enough for a small meal, and pretty good for being a 90sec meal. If they could add a bit more substance (and significant nutrition) and variety we might be able to call this one a win in the next few years =)
(note: parent post is my co-founder)

We were rejected after an interview this time last year, but received some great feedback in our rejection mail. We've taken it to heart and evolved our plan of attack accordingly. We're inching closer to launching a product worth using.

We've been working together remotely on Sundays for 4 to 6 hours and individually a few hours a week. As you can imagine, that is sloooow going. Especially considering we took a few months off to settle into full-time jobs, re-imagined our product based on feedback, and missed a quite few Sundays. The funny thing is, that if you call it an average 10 hours per week since August, it looks a lot like the length of a YC round... so we should project that trend linearly and set our own "demo day" :-)
I'm surprised the answer isn't something Chinese. If it isn't, it will be.
A bluetooth track-wheel mouse.
Stare at the sun for a couple of hours; that might help with the whole "seeing pixels" issue.
For some reason, I can actually respect these guys. I would never buy any of the junk they're pushing, but I must admit to enjoying the show. Especially Vince Offer. Normally that nasal 'yankee' voice sickens me, but I guess it's part of the charm in this case.

Ronco is interesting--I'd forgotten that Ron Popeil actually invented a lot of the stuff he sells. (Didn't he have a daughter that sang with Frank Zappa in a concert or two as well?)
How is the affiliate marketing stuff going? Are you making money?
I assume the big problem with having two SIM cards would be having two different numbers and missing tons of calls. Wouldn't it help to have two different phones so that you wouldn't miss calls?
It wouldn't have any of the following:

First class continuations.

First class lexical closures.

Automatic garbage collection.

An explicit Eval function.

Explicit READER and PRINTER functions for builtin parsing and serialization of code and data (not sure if Scheme requires these, but they make a lisp Lisp)

A full numeric tower.

Hygienic macros (or any macro for that matter; CPP doesn't count)

Symbols as datatypes.

An interactive REPL.

Tail-call elimination.

Variable-argument procedures (with no kludges; va_list, va_start, va_end is not the way to do it.)

Delayed evaluation constructs.

Multiple-value returns.

Quoted forms (a sexp syntax does not necessarily mean QUOTE is available.)

We Lisp2 hackers might pick on Scheme for its Algolishness, but that doesn't make it any less of an excellent language. Scheme is a purists wet-dream come true and a fine Lisp dialect, albeit an algolish one ;-)
To paraphrase the article:

Dear children, your silly worldview of objective rights and wrongs is outdated and wrong. Morality is purely subjective, a matter of taste. I provide no evidence or reasoning for my opinions but I do expect you to be challenged and wowed by their far-reaching consequences.

If morality is purely subjective, then issues such as as gay marriage become purely a matter of taste. One person has taste for self-determination and thinks that gays should marry and another thinks gay sex is gross and that it should be banned. They are both right and totally justified doing whatever they feel is aesthetically pleasing (ie murder) to accomplish their ends.

This is a problem to say the least.

Effectively this means that there is no such thing as right and wrong and what we are left with is shallow consensus (as opposed to a reasoned consensus) at best, and application of force at worst. Slavery becomes right, because I'm a sociopath with a gun.

Let's just say that I subjectively think that it is morally obligatory for people to accept an objective moral norm.
I'm not sure how far digital picture frames are advancing, but you could probably get a wi-fi one, and display an image from a remote server (your desktop), where you generate an image from text on the fly.
"The Singularity is an end-of-history notion. And it is showing its age, as most end-of-history notions do."

-- Bruce Sterling

(video link: http://fora.tv/2004/06/11/Bruce_Sterling#chapter_01 )
That wasn't a defense, it was an acknowledgment of incompetence.

It looks like the FBI is due for a Judge delivered smack down like the SS got for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games,_Inc._v._Un...
Can you just add something that kills all headlines that have an initial number+adjective?

I'd really hate for HN to become http://delicious.com/popular.
Your point say something about the scars you got from your educational environment? :-)

AFAIK, not even the lisp snobs would argue that everything worthwhile happened in lisp; they argue that most of the lisp characteristics was copied by everyone. For some values of "most", it seems like a very good argument.
At least in the UK it's common enough that there are usually notices on the machine to warn you of suspicious devices attached to it and phone number to call...
Strictly speaking, everything is more than is understandable by pure reason.
Twitter reveals the personal details of a user to Skype
CBS Mobile, Loopt team collaborate for location-based ads
This has been known to happen where I live (Greater Toronto Area)
Love the boot time on this.
. . . boxee on the go ?
Absolutely, although I'm struggling to find a good famous quote to support this point of view.
> I end up doing all important checks on the objects, and none in the DB.

Databases, particularly relational databases, have a LOT of functionality specifically for enforcing constraints and consistency checks on data. You will almost certainly need to organize your schema differently, but you can delegate a lot of that checking onto the database engine, and it will probably speed everything up -- you'll be passing quite a bit less data back and forth just to verify it, and databases are generally optimized heavily for that sort of checking. (Databases are also great at dealing with data as collections, unsurprisingly.)

All bets are off if you're using a really crappy RDBMS, though. (Postgresql is quite good, in my experience.)
"everything" might be more then is understandable by pure reason, i have to give you that.
Makes sense, except for the fact that close to half of imageshack's images are of porn, while virtually none of facebook's images are 'adults only'.
Recession Fuels Demand for Romance Novels
The MobileMe preferences sync is close and seems to be more elegant to me.
You can find US physics data here:

http://www.aip.org/statistics/
Migrating From Windows To Ubuntu - A Community Driven Guide
A week or so ago Bruno Marques posted a question on the Ubuntu SA list and the tips that was provided by the other community members turned this into a really great resource. The question that was raised was basically how to migrate from Windows to Ubuntu without loosing any of your critical files. Do you have advice to share?
The field of business is very large:

Sales, marketing, accounting, project management, finance, legal, strategy, intellectual property, human resources, presentations, customer development, branding, writing, business planning and more are all topics that good business guys understand well.

Add into that the market specific knowledge (manufacturing, regulations, distribution channels etc) and you have a pretty broad reading list.

Most do have pretty detailed domain specific knowledge from working in that industry in some capacity.

Tangent: Agreed, though hopefully < 30k.
The sad part is there isn't decent Mexican food in Mexico. I've tried in 6 different cities there, it's not at all like what we eat. Might be that the quality of the ingredients is just vastly inferior.

The only place I found so far with decent Mexican food in Mexico is owned by Sammy Hagar.
I am sorry! It will never happen again.
I would have told you an iPhone that is on a good network, has a keyboard, and doesn't suck to actually use as a phone, but it sounds like Palm is going to come through on that one for me.

So instead I'll go with a tech-focused social news site where I don't have to hear 3 times a day how everyone not in the tech industry is stupid and doesn't get it, and is, by trying to make a profit and protect valid IP, tilting at windmills.
I'd certainly pay for an iTuneslike service for impulse buying old magazines in a digital format. I love magazines but they're rarely justifiably keepable as they accumulate and create a terrible clutter. Unfortunately for the majority of us that throw out magazines after a short time, eventually old magazines become incredibly interesting. If I come across ancient Wired, Next Generation or Nintendo Power magazines at a flea market for example, I almost always buy them, not really to keep, as I usually donate them after reading, but just to really page through and revel in the nostalgia.

I'd love to be able to go on the web and instantly download some obscure issue of the magazines I liked when I was a teenager, or looking back farther, old ancient National Geographics or Esquires or Playboys or whatever. There are rare magazines as well, such as the Beastie Boys' self published Grand Royal, that only had a handful of issues.
I don't really know, and I don't speak from first-hand experience. But from what I've heard, the main concern is not air quality, but humidity. When you heat up air, its relative humidity goes down. So especially in winter, the ventilation system can blow very dry air into the building. There are simple technical solutions that artificially "humidify" the air, but it's definitely something to look out for. Low humidity can cause all sorts of health problems.
why the lack of transparency?
Applied for an got rejected for YC08 - W. I ended up quitting my day job (not because of the rejection) to pursue some of my other business ideas. Currently the one I am working on just launched a successful pilot last Friday and hope to expand organically.

I think the YC application really made me think of making the leap in earnest. While acceptance is always more desirable than rejection I think being rejected by YC has still been a very good thing. As others have said if you're willing throw your idea(s) away because YC said "not this time" you probably don't have what it takes or your idea just isn't what they're looking for. It doesn't mean you should just abandon or that you can never have a good idea again.

That said I certainly would have loved to have the experience and to meet Paul. Oh well, maybe one day.
How many companies are reading this and wondering if their next datacenter project should involve servers located outside US jurisdiction?
More images thank flickr? But then, most of the images on flicker are of cats, well, according to Cal Henderson.
Dude, I was a history student. :) (I taught myself to program with library books and a C-64, starting when I was five or so.)

Just, it boggles my mind how many ideas from barely ten years ago seem completely unfamiliar to most programmers. As Steve Yegge put it, "Oh, right, I keep forgetting: you were born in nineteen-ninety something, and you're nineteen, and I'm ninety-something."

I'm only 27, but I'm starting to feel like I'm at least one programmer-generation back (and, occasionally, the cranky old man yelling, "get off my lawn!"). I find a lot of inspiration in the 70s-80s Unix-era books, for example. While some of the surface details have changed, those guys wrote lucidly about ways to design useful systems without them growing into impossibly tangled monstrosities (even before C++...). A lot of issues programmers struggle with today have been mulled over for decades, and there's a lot of good advice if you look. The field hasn't changed that much.

I see ideas that keep getting rediscovered, and sometimes it's really sad how few stick. Lisp had a lot of great ideas in it, yes, but it's not the only old language that did, and the way it gets exalted that way touches a nerve of mine sometimes. (FWIW, the second paragraph in my response above was saved right as the edit window closed. I was still rewriting it, and it sounds harsher than I would have kept.)
shouldn't the people enforcing the rules, actually know what the hell they are doing? Is a bare minimum level of competency too much to ask?