skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow! That is incredibly detailed and seems like a good system but sadly I gave emacs a try and just couldn't get into it. As of right now I just keep some plaintext files, one with a TODO list, another thats an brain dump of each day, and another for brainstorming projects. I am new to using vim (about 6 months now) and was wondering if anyone knew of a similar process or setup for managing projects and TODO lists?
> People who regularly blog shouldn't self-post.

I think a better rough policy there is people who regularly blog shouldnt self-post every story :D

One reason I like HN is the community doesnt seem to care much about shameless self promotion or casual self posting so long as it is interesting :D
"Twitter doesn't work for me in this way. News at 11."
The nightclub comparison isn't like dating sites - the traditional dating site is more closely related to matchmaking agencies. I mean sure, you pay to get into a building with other single people - but the purpose is not to find a date, or heck, even converse with them.
My wife and I met on OKC!
I know the github guys are on HN, so I'd love to hear how they arrived on those prices. They seem very reasonable if not cheap to me, and I'm very interested in the inside scoop.
256mb ram and a 600 MHz processor. Also, improved battery.
Old one had 128mb ram and 412MHz processor.
Universities don't have monopoly on networking. Yes it's easy to network while you're all students but it's also quite random. Probably only a handful people of those early networks will be any use for you since people tend to go different ways.

It's actually more effective to find your own area and network there.
Your last point raises an interesting question - when the current business model of social networking sites is "keeping in touch with people you know", might a future business model be:
"Helping you find people you don't know but will find useful - for work, dating or sports"?
Definitely something that would benefit from the new Javascript "web workers" (worker threads). http://blog.mozbox.org/post/2009/04/10/Web-Workers-in-action
Autodesk has an iphone app called "Fluid". Pretty much the same idea.
That's why you use Google Chrome. I turned it up to 512 and that particular tab got hosed but I could easily kill it. :)
HIV-1's "hijacking mechanism" pinpointed
Ron Conway: I'm not on Twitter or Facebook
Good questions. What value do intermediate players provide?

Is it in them playing cupid or is it in them being a trustee? Why do people who are introduced to each other go along and talk to the other one - is it because they are interested in a stranger or because they trust the intermediate player?

I tend to think it's the latter which is why anonymous suggestions may not work. What do you think?
My university has existed for nearly 500 years, and I seriously doubt that this new interwebs thing will change the world so much that universities will become irrelevant. I cry Hogwash!
Instead of large sheets of flimsy paper, we are using 4x6 note cards, binder clips, and pencils. At first, the small cards seem like a problem, but they work well because they force you to break your ideas into meaningful chunks.

Make a mistake? Chuck a card. Missed something? Insert a card. Need to reorganize? Lay them all out on a floor and shuffle as necessary.

I'll never go back to notebooks or pads (or pens) again.
This strikes me as a 64k will be enough for everyone kind of statement...
Unless another institution springs up allowing rich kids to get drunk before they're 21, I suspect the University isn't going anywhere.
New iPhone Aiming at Gamers
The iPhone 3GS Hardware Exposed & Analyzed
When did FB start requiring flash 10 for video? Yesterday?
Could you set aside just 15 minutes a day everyday (say, after lunch) for learning Emacs and give it another go? That is how I got into it. The effort will pay off big time.
Am I missing something? Just install gitosis and save yourself the $600/user/year
Inspired Interview - Jerrod Landon Porter | Graphic Designer Extraordinaire
That's nice. I avoid USAir at all costs. They have a terrible reputation with tracking baggage, and, sure enough, last time I flew them (to a multi-week gig, no less) it took me 2 days of constant phone calls for them to locate my bags.
Sure at the individual level there are plenty of people who do good work but I'm referring to the companies themselves. A government contract company's only real goal is to get more contracts in terms of numbers and dollar amount and run them in a way that maximizes profit. A contract companies success in the government realm has little to do with actual performance and a lot to do with salesmanship.

I'm not suggesting contractors beat their children. I am saying that if one wants to move up within a government contracting company they will reach a point when they will have to push a course of action that is not in the best interest of the government at which point the individuals and company are indistinguishable.
A Hadoop/Hive driven analytics site
People had similar ideas when television came out. Televised lectures were an early part of the American public television movement and Open University in the UK. Yet they never managed to make much of a dent in the established way of educating people, mainly because interaction and the process of dialogue does not easily carry over to the electronic realm.

The same can be said for many online education now -- asynchronous communications with professors and classmates using email and discussion boards is hardly a substitute for being able to raise your hand to ask questions or start debates on the fly.

I've seen some interesting experiments in real-time online class sessions using virtual worlds and other tools, but the technology still needs a lot of work to make it easier for educators and students to use.
I couldn't agree with you more - but, the challenging part is, what does it mean to take on a healthy lifestyle for a particular individual, to maximize their sleep health?

I've found not eating a snack at night means that the next morning I have a _very_ difficult time waking up. But, at the same time, eating the wrong type of food (heavy on carbs, too much liquid) means that my sleep health is reduced, though I am able to at least wake up quickly the next morning. A half-cup of caffeinated coffee around 6:00, counter-intuitively, seems to let me transition into a deep sleep a bit better (particularly with a walk at that time) six hours later.

A walk around the neighborhood 3-4 hours before I go to sleep seems to be about perfect for increasing the value of my sleep, but has little value 6-8 hours, and, is counter productive 1-2 hours before.

I think the goal of devices like the "MyZeo" isn't so much to improve the health of your sleep, but to let you know whether the tweaks you are making to your lifestyle, are actually having a positive or negative benefit. Does opening my blinds (and allowing night lights in) improve my wakeup with the morning light but reduce the quality of my sleep? What about adding one of those eye-shades? How about putting on headphones with some nice background noise?

What I like about the MyZeo is I can get some quantitative data and "Hack" my sleep and see the results.
Angry iPhone owners blast AT&T
The site is, for now, a demonstration of how you can use Hadoop and Hive to power a simple data driven website.
What's surprising to me is that the government is actually demonstrating competence by doing this. Gambling is against the law. The executive's job is to enforce the law. That they hadn't clued in or figured out a way to handle this problem before is a "happy" accident. Similar accidents, less happy, got us stuff like GITMO and black sites.

(Clearly, we should fix the law here.)
What's gitosis? I was thinking of installing Gitorious, but from the sounds of it, it's quite complicated. Yes, it's a Rails app, but there are lots of background queued activities, cron jobs, daemons, whatever to setup alongside it for things to function right. If GitHub:FI is really as easy to install as they say it is, then it might be worth the cost for a whole lot of people (something they're counting on no doubt).

Edit:
Here's the blog post I was using to judge the install complexity of Gitorious: http://erikonrails.wordpress.com/2008/05/11/how-to-get-gitor...
And after all that, several things still aren't finished:

What’s left to do:
* I haven’t configured ultrasphinx, so search doesn’t work.
* I haven’t set up script/graph_generator, so there are no graphs.
* I have no idea what script/fixup_hooks does. It might be important.
Gah, this is some awful abuse of statistics:

"There are three times as many dentists named Dennis as any other names. Number of Florences living in Florida is disproportionately high, same goes for Louises living in Louisiana."

This is interesting, but it proves nothing. Of all the possible names and vocations, of course you're going to find at least one combo with a disproportionate number. Perhaps the "Dennis/Denist" combo has more to do with the popularity of that name coinciding with a growth in the numbers of professional dentists.

Similarly, with names and states, you're going to find some overlap. Know any young people named "Florence"? Know where retirees move to? And perhaps people living in Louisiana are more likely to name their kids something similar to the state name than the other way around.

I'm toying with the idea of starting a blog that highlights abuses of statistics and misunderstandings of probability in the press. They drive me nuts!
I need to correct something here. The temporary RSA key generation is never used for ephemeral DH, but rather for the situation where RSA key exchange is requested and only a signing key is available.

The server does not even verify an explicit signature on the client DH value because this is covered when the entire handshake is validated in the final step (The finish message).

Since the server does not perform an RSA operation on the client value, my conclusion about performance is totally bogus.
The short answer to your question is "yes."
I wonder if this has to do with actual intelligence or if natural selection has led to blue = desirable and credible
I always thought a good online dating site should have you _do_ stuff with somebody else. Like playing a game and chatting at the same time, or talking on a certain topic - stuff that would make initial interaction easier. I think this is more important then selecting your best partner, and then just giving you his/hers email address.
web workers don't have DOM access.
IPhone-themed anti-AT&T whining: Some justified, some not
Very true. Another point that often gets ignored by those who think online education will replace standard lectures and discussions is the fact that a decent lecturer can get a lot of feedback just by watching the non-verbal responses to the progress of the lecture. It is not hard to notice when everyone is bored, when most of the class has that universal puzzled look that lets the prof know that she needs to go back and re-explain the last point, etc. None of this comes through the real-time virtual channel and until this problem is solved the online course will be a pale substitute for the real thing.
Actually, the ads often help to keep the price of freemium not as high as was mentioned in the article.

Also the Micro-Payments are good for sellers because the customer have less control over what he is consuming, because it's a pain in the %$# check every time how is your consume.

So having less control over your consume the pop up comes faster :D
Testing the business continuity plan
RSA is elegant and secure. MD5 is ugly and broken. RC4 is really elegant and not-quite-unbroken. I've extended the data set now to three points, and the graph looks like a pretty good correlation between elegance and security, actually. Your text implies the opposite, and I think that's wrong.

Crypto stuff is just hard. But I think that elegance is as good a guide to correctness there as it is anywhere else. Elegance never gets you correctness automatically anywhere. But it's not a bad place to start your analysis.
Hmm, good question. If you knew it was through a mutual friend it could still work, but maybe it should not be anonymous.
More generally, write down ideas when they happen. An idea may be crap or brilliance, but it's worth nothing for sure if you don't remember it in the first place.
That's not quite what I meant. Maybe it's exclusive to programmers, but newsgroups, blogs, and sites like HN, GitHub, StackOverflow, and Twitter all serve to allow someone to distinguish themselves and be recognized by their peers. If networking simply means getting drunk and chatting, online or no, then I fail to see how that's helpful as a career-builder.
but the purpose is not to find a date, or heck, even converse with them.

I don't know if you quite understand the colloquialism "being on the pull"

That is the entire point of going into a nightclub/pub in this scenario, to meet people.

All of the ingredients are there - a gathering of people and social lubrication (alcohol)... perfect for the dating scenario.

That's why there's an entire industry around picking up in bars/clubs.
Facebook vanity URLs coming this Friday
Ask HN: Review our Twitter MMO
Hey guys,
At itch.com (a 2 person browser gaming shop) we've been making browser games for quite some time now. We'd been discussing/working on an MMO that leveraged some of Twitter's unique features, but it hadn't ever been priority #1. When we saw Spymaster released we figured the rush was coming and we'd better get our 'buttocks' in gear. 10 days of no sleep and drinking way more diet coke than I'd ever like to admit to, we launched yesterday!

What we feel is special about our game compared to the flood of Spymaster-eque games that are inevitably going to released is that you can issue commands to perform a lot of the in game actions via your favorite Twitter client and we pick them up and process them using the Twitter Search API. We also started with the mindset of, "how can we build a unique, fun experience on twitter" rather than, "how can we port an existing gameplay mechanism to twitter."

We've known Shoemoney for a while and he wrote us up, if you want to read a little more about the game -

http://www.shoemoney.com/2009/06/10/snods-a-fun-way-to-play-with-twitter/

And if you'd like to check the game out we appreciate any and all feedback

http://snods.com

Thanks!
-- If you question your own intentions and observations, you can avoid making big mistakes.

This is the big fallacy of questioning your every thought and intention. If only I could just monitor every thought, every motive, question my every step, then I could do it perfectly -- I would avoid the big mistakes. Wrong. You might have perfectly reasoned every thought, justified every intention, and still fail simply because you didn't have all the information.

I like to compare this to Gödel's first incompleteness theorem. No matter how much we examine our thoughts, we're still applying the same brain to them. You might hope to catch some of the problems by applying second, third and fourth thoughts to your first thoughts, but there's bound to be a flaw you can't work around, "an arithmetical statement that is true, but not provable in theory" ;)
Opportunity cost. If a developer has to stop his work and spend the next week wrestling to get a sub-standard system up and running, then deal with maintenance and security fixes, $600/user/year starts to look cheap.
It looks really nice, but where can one purchase those? And for how much?
"In which I learn to use the appropriate medium for the message".

Or, I suppose, "the appropriate message for the medium", Marshall.
"I’ve always figured out that there 24 hours a day. You sleep six hours and have 18 hours left. Now, I know there are some of you out there that say well, wait a minute, I sleep eight hours or nine hours. Well, then, just sleep faster..."

The Governator (USC '09 Commencement)
Pricing looks to be comparable to what you spend on Perforce.
You might also want to look into the UK site "Mysinglefriend" - my understanding of the site is that it is designed to help you find your friends dates.

I've been told (by a english female friend) that its quite successful in the UK, can anyone else confirm this?

My understanding is that it's the amateur matchmakers heaven. For friends who like to meddle in the affairs of others (eg, the female population) - which is how you also attract males to the site.
Going to a more prestigious and expensive institution isn't just about the diploma anyway. It's a 4 year long networking event where you build relationships with people that will help you for the rest of your life.

Has this effect been quantified? I've heard this repeated over and over again, but I am skeptical that it would be the deciding factor in the success of a very capable person. (It might well be the deciding factor for a less capable person.) None of the people I know who went to expensive private universities got their current job through a college-related connection, though I work in the tech industry, which may be biasing the results.

But I think the bigger point is, once online classes are regarded as every bit as educational and valid as in-person classes, going to a more prestigious and expensive institution will no longer be about the (perceived better) education and the networking, but only about the networking. This may be a harder sell, both for prospective students, and for the image of the institution in the wider world.
It's not just the networking; it's the status you get from going to such an institution, especially if it's 'elite'. I guessing there are relatively few 18-year-olds who consider the networking potential of university, wheras lots probably go as it's the thing they're expected to do. I'm a student now, and a lot of my friends don't seem to have learning as their main priority, in fact I'm not sure what their priority is. Thus, even if this guy's ideas do provide a better learning experience, it's not like people will abandon uni for them.
Ask HN - I need a user to user payment system in my Rails app any suggestions?
I'm building a site that needs to allow users to pay other users without us, the company hosting the site, getting involved. My first thought was paypal but I thought it may be a good idea to ask the community if there are any good options that I'm missing. Any suggestions?
John La Grou plugs smart power outlets
You completely missed his point. He's saying because you didn't have eighty bajillion websites, fancy games, and Facebook to waste your time on, kids who were just playing around on a computer were much more likely to start learning something like BASIC (or, as you mentioned, assembly and C). Now those same kids are posting YouTube comments that make me fear for our future. :)
If you're all so damn mad, push for public mobile broadband and you could use Skype on your iPod Touch.
The form factor is wrong. The iPhone form factor is a good communications device that can offer a web/search/computing interface in a pinch. It's not comfortable to use in a lot of situations, and its interface soaks up all of your concentration.

What's needed is an interface that can convey information but which is not a soak for all of your attention. A 5x8" form factor which is extremely lightweight and daylight readable could be held like a cue-card. Add accelerometer, compass, camera, good contextual voice recognition, and GUI which is easily operated by one thumb, and you have it.

Heads-up displays on your contacts, or direct neural inputs would be dandy. I think we'll get the above before that, though.
I certainly won't complain about faster boot times, but it seems like an odd thing to focus on for the netbook market. Do people really power down netbooks instead of just suspending them?
I just found this, which is the (rather limited) youtube html5 site, as demoed in the Google I/O keynote:

http://www.youtube.com/html5

No Plugins at all! Try mousing over the thumbnails of the related videos.

Tested and works in Midori (http://www.twotoasts.de). Apparently works in Firefox 3.5, and presumably, anything else which supports HTML5 <video> (Chrome on Windows, Safari, etc...)
Sadly, the extra 200$ is a fair price. They recoup that money over the course of your contract... Perhaps they could prorate the discount for the amount of time you're through your term?

Further, the only reason they were able to offer the discounted price when shifting from 2g to 3g was the additional 10$ a month they made off the new data plan. For the 3gs, they'll actually lose money on upgrading customers because their bandwidth costs go up.
LinkedIn has got the first covered.
This article has piles of problems. First of all, apply all of the usual caveats about scientific research

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

to this 2007 article.

Then lets consider that other stories on this dubious claim

http://www.google.com/search?q=Joanna+Rowe+eyes

don't even seem to have intelligent discussion of the genetics of eye color.

http://www.thetech.org/genetics/ask.php?id=29

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

The article is junk science based on other junk science, and old besides. I'll flag, but post this comment for the record, in case onlookers want to look up better facts.
Broken in Chrome on Vista Ultimate 32-bit.
I'm an optimist too, but there are a few statistics less pleasant. The average person in developed countries consumes over 10 times what somebody in poorer countries consumes (I won't look up the exact number right now... I remember 30 from the last source but I think 10 is reasonable). I'm talking about resources available with our current technology. We still have to grow crops for calories and forests for wood.

Anyways, if more countries are to reach developed status then no matter how you look at it we have a problem. It's not the apocalypse, but we'll feel it.
How about structuring it like an MMO, with the ability to get points from successful dates?
OKC is definitely one of the best sites out there in this field. I made a very good friend on OKC and met my wife through her. OKC doesn't feel like a typical dating site and there is no actual dating required. Most of the people who go there are mostly in it for the quizzes.
Does the iPod Touch have a microphone?
... The big thing the article seems to skip over is the fact that people on an online dating site are actually LOOKING to date someone. While people on your friends of friends social network may or may not be. And approaching someone online without that context established is considered creepy, and especially so considering you're putting your 1st degree friend in the middle of it.

Someone may argue that the search should be restricted to facebook ppl with "looking for guys/girls" checked in their profile, but in my experience almost noone checks those for fear of looking desperate to their other friends.
SharkScope, which tracks the results of all the major poker sites' Sit-n-Gos--which are basically short tournaments--says about a third--33%--are winners.

That doesn't include cash games, which probably has a lower win rate than 33%, but likely not as low as 10%.
What's your rationale behind your proposal to force users to do stuff? Is it to make initial conversation easier? Well, could be an icebreaker, that's true. Do you think it comes across as sincere intermediation or as some kind of forced thing both parties will rebel against?
Forgive my naïvety, but what's wrong with LibTomCrypt?

And did you mean Crypto++?
I will be angry if these people do get the subsidized price. Being logical, I skipped the 3g hoping for more features around the time my contract expires on my 2G that I paid $600 for. Just because Apple releases a new phone every year, doesn't mean you should get it every year for cheap.
As someone who spent about 18 months building a No Limit Hold'em bot, I can safely tell you that the "bot problem" is not as big of a problem as it might seem like it would be.

Not only do you have to program a winning strategy--which is very hard--but you have to not get caught--which is also very hard.