skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cush. I know plenty of people working even at big companies who can't spend that much time with their kids and spouse. How did he do it as a founder?
A work in progress. Building... but building what?: un álbum de Flickr
Good Job Done !!!!
Clicky is nice specially that SPY Feature rocks. Just have a query does the Daily Pageviews limit are very stringent.
Debate featuring Milton Friedman, John Mackey, and T.J. Rodgers
Researchers to Debut "Veiled," the Darknet Powered by a Web Browser
With google wave, deeper use and understanding of xmpp seems highly relevant. As a ruby-ist I appreciate the link - excellent.
Wow, Nvidia's guy is really full of crap.

"The world soundly rejected the first netbooks that came out with Linux," he said. "Printers didn't work, and devices didn't get recognized. The whole thing was a mess."

So their master plan is to ship Windows CE? An OS with even fewer drivers?

I'm also not sure where he got the "soundly rejected" from. The first generation Linux-based Asus Eee were sold out for months here in the UK.

I'm also not entirely convinced on Android on a netbook. I own a G1 and absolutely adore it but while it's a great fit for the size of the screen and capabilities of the phone, i'm not sure i'd want the same thing on a 10" screen.
Maybe a correlation/causation thing. Personality issues that make people bad at marriage could also make them bad at child-rearing, statistically speaking. Does not mean it is impossible to do a good job as a divorced parent, but does add a degree of difficulty and some, at least, should examine whether the underlying issues that caused the marriage to fail can also impact relationships with the children. Workaholism, abusive tendencies, lack of empathy and other traits could cause trouble for both kinds of relationship.

This is all in the abstract, of course, and I am implying nothing at all about your specific situation.
Ask HN: are independent Canadian ISPs viable?
I am moving to Toronto from Boston, so I have been researching Toronto Internet providers.

At the same time, I have been reading that independent Canadian ISPs are crippled by reselling bandwidth from a monopoly provider. (http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/13/canadian-isps-need-y.html)

Do you have experience with Toronto ISPs, and what do you think about your ISP? Would you recommend them, or recommend against them?
It's all just FUD, sadly. They need the MS cooperation to get the sale, and MS wants something back. So the business guys cooperate on a technical-sounding press release. Boring.

I counted only two technical points in the article. The first is that Android's icons are too big (?!). The second is that "all video and graphics rendering in Android is done today by the operating system's Java code", which just plain incorrect.

Edit: I should probably elaborate. Android on the G1, at least, does video decoding using the Qualcomm DSP cores on the chip. 3D work has access to an ATI-based OpenGL ES 1.1 part, with relatively good texturing performance. The media frameworks are in C++, and available to native code. Only the UI library and top-level application framework is Java/Dalvik.
Please, Spring is NOT J2EE (in a good sense) ;)
Frugal innovation: What GE does in Bangalore
Avoid Credit Card Fraud and Identity Theft by Taking Precautions
Would you buy something in a store if you knew the credit card machine would broadcast your financial information to an organized gang sitting anywhere in the world?
I don't understand your point of view. The sun certainly can affect climate in large ways, but that does not mean that all climate change is due to the sun or that human activity can't cause climate change.

"But even if solar forcing in the past was more important than this estimate suggests, as some scientists think, there is no correlation between solar activity and the strong warming during the past 40 years. Claims that this is the case have not stood up to scrutiny (pdf document).

Direct measurements of solar output since 1978 show a steady rise and fall over the 11-year sunspot cycle, but no upwards or downward trend .

Similarly, there is no trend in direct measurements of the Sun's ultraviolet output and in cosmic rays. So for the period for which we have direct, reliable records, the Earth has warmed dramatically even though there has been no corresponding rise in any kind of solar activity."

source: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11650-climate-myths-gl...
Getting SDL, SDL Image, and SDL TTF to work in Mac OS X
Writing is the cure
Customize Blogger Comment Message to Boost Post Replies
Is Bing Really Biting Into Google?
Without opining one way or the other about the young entrepreneur myth, is this the best metric to prove or disprove it?

I'm assuming the "rate of entrepreneurship" means the percentage of people in that age range who are entrepreneurs. If that's the case, wouldn't the mid to older age ranges have an advantage, since people who started being entrepreneurs in their twenties, could conceivably still be entrepreneurs in their 30s and beyond?

In other words, at the upper age ranges you're counting both people who just started being entrepreneurs as well as people who are continuing to be entrepreneurs. Whereas in the 20-25 age range, the only pool of people to count is the just-starting entrepreneurs.

I think it would be more informative to show the median age of first-time founders. The article linked in this post mentions the average and median age for founders is 39, but in the context of this myth it makes a difference if that's a 39 year old first time founder or if he's on his seventh company and has been an entrepreneur since he was 19.
It is interesting that in all of this analysis the obvious explanation is not explored. That is, perhaps re jiggering election boundaries IS the fraud that makes the UK election results fail Benford's Law. After all, Benford's Law does not indicate HOW fraud occurred, only that there is a good likelihood that some sort of manipulation is going on.
Building Voldemort read-only stores with Hadoop
Well I didn't know the provenance of the writers, but I'd consider the lollipop article mention as some form of corroboration.

I don't care if it saves a thousand drunk/not-drunk women or Eddie Izzard breaking their ankles, it simply is not the job of the police. I much prefer the way things are done in the States, for example in Des Moines, Iowa there's the party bus that takes pub-goers bar-hopping. It's not a cop-initiative.

Oh, hang on, I do care about Eddie Izzard after all!
I agree in spirit... but the delivery needs work.
Wow, what 7 year old doesn't know what Google is? My 7 year old has been using Google for years.

And I suspect he/she has overheard you ask that question so many times (how does X make money) that they were simply trying to ape you, because 7 year olds are not concerned with making money, or shouldn't be...
when you’re gone would you rather have your gravestone say, “He never missed a meeting.” Or one that said, “He was a great father.”

A lot of good stuff in this article, but what a weak ending! "He never missed a meeting" is a straw man, here. Tougher would be to have to choose between: "He was a great father," or, "He changed the world/discovered something great/made something that millions want."
This seems to be new behavior (possibly to stem losses to StackOverflow?). Several months ago, they did not display answers, even when coming from Google. At some point before that, they displayed answers overlaid with an image to make the answers hard to read.

They were pretty obviously experimenting to find out what kind of annoyance would convince free users to sign up.
My dad is doing exactly the same. He's in his late 60's and officially retired so he already has a good pension meaning he doesn't need to make money straight away to survive.

He's doing it for fun, it's much better than sitting around doing nothing but drinking chardonnay and it keeps him young and sharp.
Arkitip follows Shepard Fairey
Pretty awesome video of Shepard killing a new piece.
I just happened to watch "Pursuit of Happyness" last week, and if you want inspiration for attaining work/life balance, that story provides plenty. According to Wikipedia, most of the events happened in one form or another. And some of the techniques he used to get more work done in fewer hours than his younger, single fellow interns was pretty impressive. All while picking his son up from day care then standing in line to get a spot in a shelter every night.

If you ever think your situation is too tough to continue or that you can't make time for both your kids and your profession, this movie is a pretty good rejoinder.
Google currently will take canonicalization suggestions into account across subdomains (or within a domain), but not across domains.

(that's why rel="canonical" only works in theory)
9-1am?? When do you sleep?
Playa del Carmen Real Estate
Playa del Carmen Real Estate
IMHO, this list contains only BS books. Tim Ferriss? Seth Godin? Malcolm Gladwell? Please. This is a list for those who need self-help and "motivation" books. Only exception is Livingston's F@W. The rest is pretty much junk.

Please allow me to write down my personal list for those who love to learn:

- The Art of Computer Programming

- Algorithms (by Dasgupta, Papadimitriou, and Vazirani)

- Algorithm Design (by Kleinberg and Tardos)

- Feynman Lectures on Physics

- Landau & Lifschitz's series

- Vladimir Arnold's books on ODEs and Classical Mechanics

- Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays (by Berlekamp et al.)

- Elements of Information Theory (by Cover & Thomas)

- Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms (by MacKay)

- Network Optimization (by Bertsekas)

- Convex Optimization (by Boyd & Vandenberghe)

- Nonlinear Control Systems (by Isidori)

- Visual Complex Analysis (by Needham)

- Lasers (by Siegman)

- Game Theory (by Fudenberg & Tirole)

- Trading and Exchanges (by Harris)

Plus a bunch of books on Classical Mechanics, Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Differential Geometry, Real Analysis, Algebra, Theoretical CS, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Cellular Biology, Evolution, Game Theory, Mechanism Design, Auction Theory, Economics, Finance, etc. That would be a reading list worth considering! It would also take a lifetime to read all the books...
Please review my startup: Eating out in Veliky Novgorod.
Hello, I'm a web programmer from Veliky Novgorod, Russia. I decided to create a catalog of cafes in my city, make it popular among tourists and local residents, and then charge monthly fee from the cafes.
We also try to make money by producing brochure for tourists and distribute it via administration of the city and hotels.
Top two features yet to be implemented are reviews and interactive menus.
I think you just figured out what those easter island statues are for.
my guess: he was the boss, made it important and just did it. I think its often the mid level managers / engineers at big companies that are pushed and push themselves to work crazy long, life impacting hours.
Don't look at those stats. They are totally meaningless.

Take it from a guy who had similar traffic early on. You really should pay no attention to Hacker News traffic stats... just pay attention to the suggestions.

I have many many thousands of Hacker news visits to my website, and the traffic doesn't at all resemble what I now know to be real traffic.

Overall, using Google Analytics for anything but trend analysis is a fool's errand. Absolute numbers mean nothing.
I still don't get it? There's nothing interesting at the bottom of their pages...
I think nuance and charitable reading -- which should be granted to everyone in online forums, especially forums with constrained context -- can save it. For example:

It's not clear exactly what "Iranian twitter activity" Hoekstra's talking about. Is it the activity of people in Iran, or their outside supporters, or of dilettantes just cheering from a distance?

He says 'similar' not 'the same as'. And both do involve a partisan group, locked out of a political process, using Twitter to coordinate a response. That aspect may be a tiny dimension of what's happening in Iran, but it is one dimension.

And he's not implying his analogy gives him any special empathic insight into what's happening in Iran. He's talking about "twitter activity", which is not the same thing as mass protests against a repressive state (as much as Twactivists would like to think it is).

So those who mock Hoekstra have changed his tweet in their own minds into the least-charitable reading possible: "Iran's protests of repression facing violent crackdowns, I understand because it's just like a challenging parliamentary maneuver we faced." But that is not what he used his <140 characters to say; that's only what people already predisposed to hate him chose to hear.

When a Zen Master says something perplexing, comparing things completely of a different scale, or things that don't seem to be comparable, the proper response is not "U R dum ha ha!", but to try to understand those ways it might be true.

Hoekstra may not be a Zen master -- he may very well be a gaffe-prone idiot, I don't know -- but it's never fair to any speaker to rip a statement from its context, interpret every word in the worst possible light, and broadcast it to others hungry for things to be enraged about for partisan advantage. That cheap maneuver is one of the worst things about both politics and the speed/atomization of online communication.
Yep, they do it. But they don't, apparently do it enough to please AMD.

Having somebody decide to test some random product when the feeling strikes them, is different from somebody who is religiously testing all available products creating a database where all the data fields are the same, all the test conditions are the same, etc.
Does your cell phone turn off if you don't use the full allotment of minutes?
you're assuming he doesn't just use twitter as a megaphone; that he actually reads responses.
Personally, I'd still pick "He was a great father".
Bill Would Ban Unfair Data Plans, Even for Mobiles
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=san+francisco+developer+events+october+...
It suggests that instead of displaying "0 comments", you invite the user to be the first to comment. It's one more of those little tips that in the aggregate raise a blog or website above the pack. The article is well written and worth a look.
Tweetdoc: Generate PDF copies of twitter events via their hashtag.
Generate PDF copies of twitter events via their hashtag.
I think HN needs a "spoiler" tag.
Couldn't agree more.

Thermodynamics by Enrico Fermi is a little jewel.
Clothing Gets Computerized
I didn't know Fermi's book.
Thanks for the suggestion :)
I remember when the multi-touch first came out and everybody was excited. Few years and thousands of iphones have passed and the only "revolutionary" thing we can do with it is still zoom-in and zoom-out pinching pictures.

I am quite amazed by the resistance people have when thinking about HDI: take the multitouch pad on the new mac, for instance. I love it, but why there isn't even a way to do something like middle mouse button?
I wholeheartedly agree that the stats from an HN or TC post are useless, but it is still fun to know.

Also I am always interested to hear the number of requests/second generated from a link. This is useful in benchmarking your site setup to make sure you'll be able to comfortably handle the load.
And you can specify the page number, to refer to a specific passage: http://books.google.com/books?id=f8ANAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA92

There's a link button, but just editing the "jtp=92" in your URL seems to work - the important thing is that urls work now, because it turns bookpages into (text) webpages, in that you can refer to them as easily as a wikipedia article. Great for consumers, I think it's the best advertising for a book (provided you can't get everything you want from the online version). I've had need of this several times.
This seems to be a trend in our society. Hard knowledge is too often considered secondary to "metaknowledge": motivation, time management, self-help (like Billy Connolly said, it's not self-help if someone else wrote the book to help you, it's just help).

Or maybe this was just a ploy by OP to squeeze some money out of that Amazon Associates Program ;)
I use todo.sh:

http://ginatrapani.github.com/todo.txt-cli/
Simply encode your data into the the digits of pi and then create your own universe with this value - that's what I did!
Ruby has entered the Enterprise thanks to the Enterprise gem
I don't get what your startup is about after 30 seconds of reading your front page.
I really like Derek Sivers' blog but I have an issue about affiliate linking. Maybe it's just my issue but when I see Amazon affiliate links for all of the books on this list, it makes me hesitant to click them. Call me crazy perhaps.
It sure is. I find that writing about a dilemma solidifies the pros and cons. It's much better to spend a couple of hours at the keyboard, even a day, than to go charging off in the wrong direction. The real problem with going in the wrong direction is the difficulty of backing away from sunk costs. Don't take that to mean that I'm not in favor of a little coding research to get my mind around a problem; it is usually a win.

I have also found that verbal requests, especially from a boss or client, need to be fleshed out in writing. Avoids spending a week on a feature, only to have the client pissed off, because I couldn't read his mind.

Even HN helps. I'm finding that frequent commenting here is improving my ability to capture ideas concisely. (Or so the illusion goes :-)
Whoops, I didn't stop to think that CIA analyst trainees might be reading this site! Anyhow, they had this bit on freaking NPR!
Sorry, please see comments rule 1: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation."

I assume that, in their presence, you would not make insulting comments about others' children.
What is so important that it can't wait until tomorrow?
not sure how smart it is to favor a proprietary OS, that increases costs for device manufacturers, when the world economy is in a downturn
Hello, I'm a web programmer from Veliky Novgorod, Russia. I decided to create a catalog of cafes in my city, make it popular among tourists and local residents, and then charge monthly fee from the cafes.
We also try to make money by producing brochure for tourists and distribute it via administration of the city and hotels.
Top two features yet to be implemented are reviews and interactive menus.
Or MTG - have it show 3D models of creatures, etc, and when you tap them they actually attack. Cast a spell, and you get to see its effects.
I was at TNRIS, a Texas GIS conference, and MS had a Surface there. I admit it was really cool to fly through Virtual Earth imagery with it, but it was pretty buggy. After a few minutes of light use I managed to freeze the interface, crashing the surface service, subsequently sending the machine back to the Vista desktop.

Unfortunately, this is my typical experience with most Microsoft software products.
>How did he do it...

He made it happen. Simple (and difficult) as that.
The context got a bit messed up due to the way HN ranks comments but _giu is referring to the experts exchange answer pages that are returned from a Google search.

If you receive a search result on Google that points to an EE question page, you can see the answers at the end of the page. EE tricks casual visitors into thinking they need an account by putting a long list of things at the top of the page and the real answers all the way at the bottom. This way Google ranks the question/answer but people think they need to buy an account.

Example Google Search (Click 2nd link): http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&...

note If you visit the link directly, the real answers disappear. Yet another sneaky EE trick, this time preventing bookmarking/direct linking.
> Whenever you see the word ‘force’ used to describe a technique it looks like some of the fun may be leaving Google along with its talent. Once again, is this kind of thing avoidable when a company becomes the size, scope and influence of Google? Few have enough experience to even know this especially in a company that has gone from 0 to world leader in such a short amount of time.

Well, they used force in the sense, "Hey, let's force management to pay attention to all the crazy ideas engineering is coming up with," not, "Hey, let's force engineering to pay attention to all the crazy ideas management has."

Doesn't actually seem like there's a talent leak, but rather a talent utilization leak. See: Dodgeball.
Agreed. You would probably have to start by explaining that there's important data, and that it is stored at a nanoscale. Then you would have to proceed to explain how they might get access to that data.

But that's not the whole of it. Once they can read the 0's and 1's, you need to tell them how to interpret them. So you need to provide (at least) an ASCII table in some extremely durable material.

The rest of the information (on how to interpret the data) can then be stored in the first mega/gigabytes of the binary data. Plain text ASCII only, ofcourse. No pictures, audio, or video. You could only include such data once you've told them how to build a computer and all necessary software.

I think you're better off storing a computer and a self-sufficient powersource in a vacuum, virtually indestructible structure. Has the added benefit that you can make cool movies about it :)
there's always the computer history museum in mountain view, if you're just in the area for a few days.

also, when i was there, i found a lot of the typical "touristy" things fun and interesting - fisherman's wharf, street car stuff, Alcatraz, Golden Gate....even just walking through Chinatown.

hell, if the weather's nice while you're there, rent a car and drive down the PCH - one of the most beautiful drives in the entire country. there's more to life than computers :)
Useful Wordpress Cheat Sheets
A little late, though, as most of the "Enterprise" frameworks have started to shun XML configuration.
The Adventure of the Camera-Shy Computer
There's already a service called Picky Domains at http://www.pickydomains.com/ where you pay a deposit in exchange for suggestions for names from their contributors.

If you see a name you like, you register it yourself and the site pockets half the fee, with the other half going to the contributor.
What kidding around about sexual predators and teens says about us. And them.
"Writing doesn't just communicate ideas; it generates them."
http://www.paulgraham.com/writing44.html
I thought this was interesting:
"She found selecting, moving and orientating the photos very intuitive using natural gestures. She took a little guidance to get a handle on photo resizing but by the time she’d played for 15 minutes she had got to grips with it and could shrink and enlarge the photos with relative ease."

So moving images was easy and resizing them was hard. 15 minutes seems like a long time for a 4 year-old to learn a skill like that relatively well.

I think the conclusion you can draw from this, and the rest of the article, is that she could quickly do things that behaved exactly as they do in the real world (e.g. pushing a picture across a table), but things fell apart as soon as a new action had to be learned. That's why some of the actions seemed "intuitive," because they fit exactly into previous experience. I wonder if it would have been easier for her if they had played the "stretch a newspaper comic with silly putty" game a few days before.
Fixed.

Sorry, about that. I misread your method the first time around.