skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, most people like freedom to drive whenever, whereever they want.

Count me in that group. I rarely ever use cruise control (even on long trips) because I've noticed the lack-of-focus effect. I also drive a stick and when I had a rental car it became quickly apparent to me why people can lose focus when driving a slushbox sedan - it's incredibly boring driving an automatic.

With respect to cars, I'm a big believer that technology and systems should do everything they can to aid the driver without interfering or taking over the core human task of driving the vehicle. The Nissan GTR is a great example of a cutting edge car that enables a human to rip around a track faster simply because systems are faster than humans when it comes to managing braking, shifting, steering correction, etc.

F1 cars are the same way; they're incredible combinations of technology and computer systems, but in no way will a computer ever take the place of Michael Schumacher.
And the "culture" of software organizations, the procedures, the bureaucracy, the personnel feedback, is based on accumulated anecdotes, and not on anything remotely scientific or any other rigor.
Well. The user's reaction when the news finally went mainstream - "Is this enough proof you fucking retards? I was right" - suggests to me he was just someone who got frustrated that his (correct) edits were being removed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_S._Rohde&...

If his intention was to help the man's captors spread the word, that edit wouldn't serve any purpose since he had already escaped. Though I suppose you could argue he wanted to stay "in character" for his own protection...
There were no humans 500,000 years ago. "The term "human", in the context of human evolution, refers to the genus Homo," "The Homo genus diverged from the Australopithecines about 2 million years ago in Africa."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_evolution granted Homo sapiens are younger than that.

Nobody fought for "dominance" at any social institution I've been involved with. I recall doing this on several occasions in unscripted environments. I don't know if you are male, or if you spent much time unsupervised with groups of 8 - 20 other young men, but it's seemed really common.

This might also be more obvious to those who win these games. And there are edge cases. I recall having 12 people watching me play video games and when my mother asked me to share I offered and got a “we just want to watch” response. This seemed more like a completion to find the best followed by watching the master situation. But it was still odd and even though the observer never saw the dominance play it still happened and if I was less talented we would have kept sharing for longer.

I also recall being a member of a crowd watching the master at an arcade even if nobody watches game play videos. It's also customary to have the person who wins keep the table in pool or fighting games. This is normally less obvious than simply beatings ones chest, but watch how people walk around a body builder some time.
The free-verse version really is better.
As long as focus is on the window, I've had few problems with the spacebar-to-page-down behavior in Firefox 3 or Safari 3. When it does break, I do notice, because that's my default paging mechanism, so I think it works way more often than not, even now.
Sadly, this gem isn't mine, but...

Social conservative: one whose concern for life begins at conception and ends at birth.
This has already been talked to death here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=678330

Salient detail: WP:BLP, the "bio of a living person" rules (which are the strictest rules in the project) already explicitly covered this case.
There is actually one point missing from his list. I would put it after #5 and that is "write provable programs". I suspect Paul does this anyway, but it is a good thing to mention. This is scary to some, but PAIP has some very nice examples of this.

And rereading this essay again shows at least part of the motivation for making arc a smaller language than lisp.
Universal cellphone charger on its way
Getting a LLC EIN (for non US residents)
James D. Scott, La Jolla
San Diego is an attorney or law firm which offers compassionate & experienced representation to clients involved in divorce, recovering from a car or truck
Of Catty Rants and Copyrights: News Reprints MySpace Content Without Permission
I'm working on some tech that resolves some of these problems, and I'll be unleashing it first in the Ruby circle (merely because that's the topic I know most about). Since you seem to have a real feel for what can be irritating about videos (thoughts I share), I'd love to let you (and/or others here) have a look at the alpha stage in the next few weeks.
This reminds me of a Hindi joke:

Q: What does the Indian pirate say?

A: Yaarrr !!!
Extending Google services in Africa
Money? Sex? Not for computer techies
Nice. I'd definitely pay for the patronage and access to my favourite journalists. They act as the best information filters on certain issues.
I'm not sure if he was writing stories for them or just testing products. Either way, sweet gig for a 13 year old.
Startup 124: Term Sheet – Valuation and Dilution
"Fully homomorphic encryption is a bit like enabling a layperson to perform flawless neurosurgery while blindfolded, and without later remembering the episode."

Wasn't that a Star Trek episode?
NetBeans 6.7 Released: New Interface for Mac OS X
Cyber armies are gearing up in the cold war of the web
A major online attack could bring a country to its knees. Nato's hawks back a strategy that threatens cybergeddon
CTR cyphers a value that changes with only a few bits, while CFB uses previous output which is much more random, though exposed, since it is the ciphered text.

PS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher_modes_of_operation makes it clear.
I love the design and the font. You should definitely save the list of students emails. Have a page where it has the class roster and be able to email students individually or groups of students.

Be sure to submit it to http://AppUseful.com also!
Experience Report: Erlang in Acoustic Ray Tracing [pdf]
This article is pretty discursive. Also, it closes with a mangled version of one of my favorite anecdotes, which I will reproduce here to counteract the bad juju:

A carpenter is called to repair a wobbly floorboard in someone's attic. He arrives on the scene, examines the issue, and subsequently hammers a single nail into place, fixing the problem. He leaves a bill of $100, for which the customer angrily demanded an explanation.

"$1 for the nail," said the carpenter, "and $99 for knowing where to put it."
Making Blenders for the Blind is Like Making Software for Normal People
To me this is a cycle. One of the traits that defines "Macho" is being a risk taker. People who take risks are usually more successful than those who don't. Especially in the "Great Risk, Great Reward" world of getting financed. The problem with this recession was that these risk takers became increasingly bold until they got to the point where they were taking foolish risks. And with that it all came tumbiling down.

But everything will recover eventually and when it does those same people who bankrolled the risk takers in the first place will again be looking for ways to beat the market. Which will again mean investing is those who take risks. If you need proof of that ask yourself this question

"how long did it take after the 90s dot.com bust for investors to start pouring money into web startups again?"

As long as there are rich people not satisfied with a standard market return there will be risk takers and as long as there are risk takers there will be "Macho" men.

(and Women. I'm man enough to say I know a few women who could kick my @$$)
I can only think of this one: http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Spock%27s_Brain_(episode)
This touches a lot on why the UI of your application is crucial.
Moving your script tags: The quickest way to improve site performance
More suggested reading: "The Design of Everyday Things" by Donald Norman. http://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Donald-Norman/d... -- I've lost count of how many times I've read this book. As the article goes, it talks about what it really means to be intuitive, and how common objects fail miserably at achieving that goal.
Why the negative title for the story? I mean you can hate techcrunch all you want but honestly this is not the way to discredit them.
This article is from last year. The Durbin/Grassley bill he talks about came and went, but it's back this year. Here's a pretty decent discussion:

http://seeker.dice.com/olc/message.jspa?messageID=128406
HTTP PubSub: Webhooks & PubSubHubbub with Ruby
I recently read an article about visas for foreign nurses on businessweek. President Obama is quoted: " "The notion that we would have to import nurses makes absolutely no sense," Obama said at a health-care forum in March. "There are a lot of people [in the U.S.] who would love to be in that helping profession, and yet we just aren't providing the resources to get them trained—that's something we've got to fix." "

(the link is http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/jun2009/...)

It's interesting that our president, who supports an increase in H1Bs for the high tech industry, would take this position where it comes to nursing.

It's made me very cynical. Ultimately, this all comes down to power.

Nurses have a shared experience (a specific education requirement), as well as a specific licensing procedure that can be used as a gateway. They also don't compete with each other the way programmers do (yes, programmers share knowledge, but a nurse a kaiser clearly isn't competing with a nurse at beth israel the way a programmer at google competes with one at microsoft).

Nurses also have a very, very powerful union, and society pretty much backs them up, as the profession is held in high esteem. If a hospital tried to bring in foreign nurses, engage in "knowledge transfer", and then fire the older americans with higher salaries, the union would vote to strike, the hospital would cease to operate, the public would back the nurses, and management would completely capitulate.

I don't even know if Obama sees the potential inconsistency. That's what power does. People often don't see themselves as "capitulating" to power. Instead, they respect power, and negotiate accordingly.

I used to be much more in favor of "free markets". I still am in theory - what I say is "I'm all in favor of free markets - if you find one, please let me know, I'd love to participate". But at this point in my live, I've concluded that working in a "free market" is like wandering around the wild west without a gun. Sure, it'd be nice if we all put down our arms, but if you're the only one who does this, you're just a chump. To me, that's what free markets are - a chump's game.

I applaud Prof Matloff for fighting this. People who have read my posts probably know that I'm in favor of a small number of visas for very talented people (in any field), but I think we're unintentionally eradicating our home-grown STEM (science technology engineering mathematics) workforce. The last line is especially chilling - parents in Silicon Valley know what's going on, and they no longer encourage their children to pursue the field. I actually think that this, in the long run, will severely hurt the US economy, and we're doing it to ourselves. Yes, allow talented workers to come here. No, don't issue so many visas that young Americans are rightly deterred from entering the field.
I've watched over a thousand truck ads on tv and never considering buying one. That doesn't mean the ads don't work.
That's a 13 year old writing stories for the BBC. And the kid's better then half of Techcrunch's writers, unsurprisingly.
Already on HN at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=678236 with a link to Nature at http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090628/full/news.2009.603.ht... .

The physorg article does have one advantage over the Nature one: it has a picture of the solid-state device.
I believe that IFR-certified GPS systems have the added capability of factoring Differential GPS. This is an additional GPS beacon (aside from the satellites) originating from the airport you're landing at, which have a location that's very accurately known.

High-price civilian GPS receivers are capable of this -- except you rarely have access to such a beacon. I mean, the restaurant I'm going to eat at isn't going to provide my little TomTom with a differential signal. With aviation, it's important enough that high-traffic airports provide the DGPS beacons.
Interesting non-heavy story, but I don't really think this was "written" by a 13-year old. Such as "handy belt clip screwed on to the back" or the use of the word "plethora". Really?
I think Gladwell and Anderson are both right. Anderson is right that many products that once cost money will now be free. Gladwell is right that many more products will never be free for many reasons, and one good reason is there are hidden costs that make it impossible for someone to provide the product for free.
Don't worry too much about your bloated competition such as Blackboard. I am currently a college student and I hate having having to check blackboard. I would much rather have assignment and announcements emailed to me. Most students are lazy like that too. However there are several things that schools need.

-roster page where students can email the whole class or select number of students

-discussion board

-some communication channel for parents, parents heavily invested in their child and a lot of them have zero clue of what they are learning

-A simple class page incase the student wants to login and get their assignments without their clutter of their email.

-Clear subject lines for emails that are sent out
Stressed Out? Watch Video of a laughter yoga session
How about this then? http://www.nexcopy.com/usb-secure-flash-drives/

Does this not work?
> Another person on Perenson's blog wrote: “I had my iPhone under my pillow playing music through the headphones for a nap, I awoke with a sharp pain on my left arm under the pillow. I had been burned from the iPhone getting so hot."

This might be part of the problem. User behavior does matter.
After reading some comments, I just want to give some words of encouragements.

Don't worry too much about your bloated competition such as Blackboard. I am currently a college student and I hate having having to check blackboard. I would much rather have assignment and announcements emailed to me. Most students are lazy like that too. However there are several things that schools need.

-roster page where students can email the whole class or select number of students

-discussion board

-some communication channel for parents, parents heavily invested in their child and a lot of them have zero clue of what they are learning

-A simple class page incase the student wants to login and get their assignments without their clutter of their email.

-Clear subject lines for emails that are sent out

submit to http://AppUseful.com
I'm working on getting re-motivated and attempting to avoid burnout at work. I'm also trying to get a side project up and running in Django with a coworker of mine. Just installed gitosis and created the first repo, so its time to write spec and check some code in. Hopefully we can put one of my old domains to good use. :)
I think this might solidify the fact that I'm a terrible person, but I'm pretty sure I up-voted this entirely because of the schadenfreude elicited when large corporate software projects fail miserably due to user experience issues. It's kind of like watching a dog trying to stand on its hind-legs, and inevitably wobbling onto its side.

That said, I feel kind of bad for Dunkin' Donuts. This kind of problem was probably not on their radar, but I'm glad that their users sent a clear message: "You must take user experience into consideration when you develop software. It is profoundly important and you simply cannot get by without it." Hopefully Dunkin' Donuts won't be the only company that learns a lesson from this experience.
Google Voice Poised to Set a New Standard in Business Telephony
I asked my friend, who is a teacher, about using the service. She had replied that it is too difficult to discourage cheating on Math-related assignments (she still has students hand-write).

A potential idea would be to have students do there assignment online, and have a "playback" button to show the student working. A crude cheating measurement (or genius measurement) would be the time between answer submission and the time to completion.
Wake me when one of these stories has something interesting or actionable to say. Obama or not, China or not, Web 2.0 or not, people have been writing this exact same story since 1994.
Thesaurus? I was using them at 13
I think this topic applies to any work-a-holic, startup or not. The question I have is though, is working all the time really the most productive for your startup?

Sure people can work all the hours that god sends but they can't do it indefinitely. From my own personal experience I know that when I do an hour of exercise every day I sleep less and have more energy. That goes for food too, fast food carb-bombs reduce my productivity dramatically.

I think anyone that suggests that you can optimize one things and ignore everything for success is not offering you a complete or balanced picture. Sure one (or more) people might have been successful while doing that, but was it the thing that gave them their success? Personally I would content Mark Cuban's success comes from his drive, and he'd still have won if he'd got a few more early nights.
As a former 13 year old journalism intern and 14-18 year old software intern, I can say there's no better way to get started.
I was thinking the same thing ... but I think you could monetize it ... at least I think I could (by putting links to our products on the side, I could make up the hosting cost easily).
I think the thing is that a lot of the media has turned to on-demand through DVRs, hulu.com, podcasts, etc. Also, there's probably a part where FM tuners don't sound new enough for it to be worth being included. Kind of like having an iPhone with new telegraph functionality!
Terrible idea, actually. The productivity gained by the health sacrifices is dubious and might be counterbalanced by the negatives.

Sacrificing most of the fun but not productive activities that fill the hours of less-ambitious young people (video games, TV, social drinking, chasing tail) is reasonable (I haven't had a drop of alcohol, or been on a date, in months). An occasional 5-hour night of sleep can be justified by a freakish, almost hypomanic productive streak. Sacrificing one's health for work is idiotic, and going 7 years without taking a vacation is nothing to be proud of.

[Edit: I developed panic disorder from working through a severe flu, in an overbearing environment. I'm still on meds, over a year later. So I have personal experience to support my claims.]
This sounds impressive: "Google Voice has a ‘Call Switch’ feature. If I’m chatting it up as a walk in the door, all I have to do is press ‘*’ on my phone and my other registered phones will ring. I can pick up my home phone, and then hang up my cell, and I can continue my call uninterrupted."
This is sadly true. I've ranted here about the very high cost of regulation in human biotech before.

Because veterinary medicine is much, much less regulated it advances much faster.

Sad but true.
Scientists Create First Electronic Quantum Processor
Well techcrunch said this
"Wee Scott Campbell of Aberdeen, Scotland is 13 years old and sent us an email last week asking if he could write for us."

So I would assume he wrote the piece and sent it to the BBC, they probably didn't do much except take a picture and publish it.

What I think is interesting is that this kid is able to think up a story good enough for TechCrunch and BBC. If he could do that again it would be really interesting.
Nor would any of them dump their iPhones for Walkmen, I wager. I wrote about like that kid does when I was 13 years old.
He has written some pieces for CrunchGear. http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/29/one-of-our-interns-make...

Articles on CrunchGear by Scott Campbell: http://www.crunchgear.com/author/scottcampbell/
Your own stem cells from your own body which may (can?) regenerate damaged parts of your body, and people are against this.

Why are we allowing these people who are anti-science to control our governments, there can't be that many of them out there, or maybe more of them vote than we do.

I want the option to have such a treatment, I want everyone to have that option. If you choose not to it's OK but don't decide for me.
I've seen this story before, and I just don't get it. Mel doesn't sound to me like a "Real Programmer." He sounds like the kind of person I wouldn't even consider hiring or collaborating with. I would have spent most of the debugging process muttering curses at Mel for writing undocumented, unreliable, invalid, highly fragile code.

Here's my version of a "Real Programmer": When Melanie left the company, I dug into her code to try to add the cheat feature. Turns out she had split everything up by functionality so that all the parts of the complex application were carefully encapsulated, and I only had to modify a couple methods. They were carefully commented, so I was able to grok the code just by skimming it. Once I made the changes, I added a couple more unit tests to the thorough test suite Melanie had left behind, and confident that the program still worked, I went home early.

I think times have changed...
I wrote my first book when I was 13, it was a bestseller...It's definitely possible to write well when you're 13
I hope I never have to work with that guy. He sounds ghastly.
Jason Rohrer interviewed about "selling out" to make iPhone and ad games
Few but high quality and nice CSS menus
That's what I'd heard in the past - but the my quote is directly from the article.
Laboratory tests of vegan restaurants in LA find some aren't
Banging at a keyboard constantly - you're doing it wrong. More thinking, less typing. That, or give up the Java.
This is all true, but except for stall avoidance, when navigation or landing you care about ground speed. The old ILS doesn't know airspeed or ground speed.
Like 13 y/os can't have seen The Three Amigos?
$10,000 Prize for Unblockable, Anonymous, Encrypted Mobile Internet Access
Krugman on the Climate Change Conspiracy
You can always offer your help for free and decline the "compensation". So it's not a problem.

And by the way, I'm talking virtual equity, so there won't be any lawyer fees, even for a minuscule amount of virtual shares.
This sort of thinking is the same thing we see in economics as well. Overextending your debt to bet on the future. The problem is, nature always is payed what it is due. Always.

You can skimp on sleep, skimp on eating, skimp on personal relationships, but you WILL pay for it someday, and in spades. Maybe not today or tomorrow but this sort of 'deficit spending' when it comes you your health will absolutely come back and bite you.
You might want to try to make your point in a more succinct manner next time...
Pakistani girls
Different circumstances are sometimes, well, different. Sometimes a captive's life is more in danger if the captors consider him or her valuable (like a NYT reporter). Sometimes publicizing the situation helps bring attention in a positive and helpful way (shaming the captors, forcing the government to do something, etc).

And sometimes - often, in fact - you just don't know, and you make the best judgment call you can.

I'm not claiming that the Times always acts correctly in these situations, and it's certainly worthwhile to question what the motivating factors are in whether, when and how to hold a story.

But it's also not really correct to say that all kidnapping situations are exactly the same and must be [not] publicized. They're simply not.
So how do you launch and in a few hours get this huge traffic like he's doing?

That's a trick I'd like to learn.