skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Structurally, it's easier for something to hang (well in places that have gravity as a constant) than it is to prop up. You could mount something above the wings but than you would need additional hardpoints to keep it from falling over and smashing into the wing. If it's hanging you only need one hardpoint.
The next event will definitely be more structured and planned out. thanks for the feedback!
This gets at the root cause of what is wrong in our civilizations today. Most of our genes were evolved pre-civilization. Civilization itself is just an experiment. An experiment that hasn't been going all that well if judged by what has been happening to our planet. There is wisdom from the pre-civilization days I hope we can tap into while using new technologies to actually have sustainable civilization.
Hey Jamie, something might be wrong with my key, but the vote page gives me an internal error. I will check it a bit later and try to see if there's a pattern.
My granddad just visited me, he's 87, does every day 40 x 25m pool laps, dances, sings and almost beats me at armfight. :P

EDIT: he's also great-granddad to my kid :) My great-grandmom from grandmom side lived to 95...
yeah, the big differentiator here isn't just the short url and name, but that extra message you can give, either a warning a funny inspirational image, or your own comment.

I used it recently to link to a photographer's portfolio, noting the pictures I really enjoyed. I could send this across any medium and know that as it's shared, people will see this message.
I still have a great-grandmother who is almost 100. It was a very surreal experience when her daughter died, at about 68 or so, and she hosted the viewing.

Can you imagine burying your own elderly daughter?
Arrington writes: "They likely have a liquidation preference that lets them get their $15 million out of the company before others can take part of the pie."

But, such a liquidation preference wouldn't get them their full $15 million back if the company sells for far less than the assumed $750 million valuation, would it?

For example, the total capital raised is said to be $119 million. Lets say the company sells for $150 million. Would Lightspeed really get its full $15 million back, even though that sale price is an 80% decline from their purchase-time valuation?
Longer generations mean we stay mired in the past, and our elders are around to advocate for the world views of their era in a way that can be good and bad, my guess that its leans more toward the latter.

Also, considering how much time I waste now, who's to say I won't just take more resources to complete what I'd have done in a shorter span?
This is one of the better resources for learning iPhone development out there. A lot of nice gems of tutorials there.
Engines of Creation:
http://e-drexler.com/d/06/00/EOC/EOC_Table_of_Contents.html

Nanosystems:
http://e-drexler.com/d/06/00/Nanosystems/toc.html
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Seems very slow via a Level 3 uplink. (is that normal?) Probably something else going on here but I suppose overreacting is more fun?
I actually think that alien life won't be very alien at all.

Given that the laws of physics are constant throughout the universe/s in question, I think they're probably very similar. Why? Well, DNA and RNA are self replicators that, to the best of our knowledge, arose independently. Given that the emergence of self-replicators is improbable to begin with, it's even more improbable that two different types of self-replicators arose that are so similar to each . This probably means that there is some about the way natural laws are shaped that means that certain types of self-replicators are more probable than others; and those that use heterocyclic aromatic organic compounds as code fall under this category.

What about other aspects of life? All large forms of life are modular; that is, composed of many smaller but similar types. It's likely that alien life will follow this basic structure as well, because it's much easier to evolve that way. Evolving a larger body without modularity requires fundamental changes in structural composition which may be difficult to achieve with incremental changes.

The temptation with exploratory thinking is to deliberately think as much outside the box as you can. Doing so is good, but it's not always correct.
Yes, but there's a catch. The human race has existed for 140,000 years or so (edit), but has only been civilized for 7000.

The population of nomadic humans was lower, but there's evidence that they were much healthier than those who settled down to grow crops full-time. Agriculture was a win because it allowed for many more people to be born, but it's not a life for which we're well adapted.

ADDED: If this guy is right, 99% could turn out to be an underestimate or an overestimate:

http://www.ted.com/talks/aubrey_de_grey_says_we_can_avoid_ag...
What evidence is that? The average lifespan is on the increase, not the decrease.

Or are you using some other metric to measure what you call "healthier"?
Feynman was cooler.
Context: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came...

First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me--
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
In Defense Of The Software Craftsmanship Concept
I am not saying they are exclusive, I'm just saying that from my point of view, cash-flow muses are not worth it.
I've been able to do this in the past. It has always happened by chance.

These experiences often left me in a state of well being.

But I've also experience (quite often) what could be called a lucid nightmare: I understand that I'm dreaming and I decide to wake up. I shake myself, I slowly open my eyes and I start to see the room I'm in. Only to discover that I am still dreaming. At this point, fear kicks in and now I really want to wake up. But the cycle repeats three or four times before I'm relly awake, and each time I'm increasingly more scared of not being able to wake up anymore.
How To Setup Your Own Open Source AVR Toolchain in Linux
My grandmother, still living, became a great-great grandmother last month. Living members of 5 generations of the same family.
I liked Hotbot's UI and switched to Google because Hotbot's results where terrible in comparison over about 2 months.

improved our result sets until they were at least as good as google

You may have fixed the problem, but at that point your reputation was already shot. Ford makes high quality cars today, but it took a long time and a lot of effort to change peoples perception that American cars are not total crap.

PS: When company's selling something think it's a good idea to outsource their core product there is a huge problem.
Around 2 years ago I started a job as an asp.net developer and this was exactly how I felt. It felt like everything I wanted to do and every problem I wanted to solve had a solution that just didn't quite fit.

It was the whole square peg, round hole scenario. I would need to do something that I knew I could easily do in another language and the asp.NET solution was almost the solution I needed except to get it to work right I had to spend as much time modifying and extending it as I would have spent on a much more elegant solution in another language.
Is there any commonly accepted reason for this? I would've thought it would have been the exact opposite, something along the lines of:

As engineering graduates with more money and insider knowledge send their children to engineering schools, this large marketplace of private schools have to provide more value since the parents are now more likely to have the tools to spot value. I'm sure there'll still be lots of mediocre schools but wouldn't the better ones be getting very good very fast?
1) It's "Hacktivist," not "hackivist."

2) I appreciate the sentiment, but this is a bad idea on a few fronts. It's more proof that we (as in the US as a state) don't know how to engage, manipulate, or antagonize an opponent properly.

It's very tempting to just go ahead cowboy-style with technology, as it's politically pretty innocuous. No soldiers in harms way and no collateral or even property damage make for very few apologies. But, they're still playing with fire they don't understand (and in capitol hill's case, can't even see or hear).

Then again, outside of a full-on war, state actions seem to follow an "everybody do their own thing and only worry when we conflict between departments" pattern that's depressingly familiar.
You could propose this at Quirky (http://www.quirky.com/)
You'd still need to build relationships with companies or have some experience with a "normal" company and identify a problem that is common among a bunch of similar businesses.

I wouldn't put much money on a just out of college programmer's ability to come up with a great problem that needs to be solved... without some exposure to the industry in question.

That's where the years part comes in.

Although I am confident a qualified programmed could solve the problem in question with little effort. Marketing is the hard part.
If "healthier" is measured by number of mastodons killed with bare hands, yes, it's been a precipitous decline.
http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/94pf2/att_is_now...
more things were invented in the last 100 years, than during the entire world history combined

note: I'm note sure if that's right or not, but it sounds like it might be
Even our age as a species (it's a range depending on which estimate you take and how widely you define species) is very young. Even less if you consider our long generations (which we are). A thousand generations is nothing on an evolutionary scale.
I was practicing this for sometime, and was able to do it for a while. At some point, I completely stopped remembering my dreams, and once that happened, lucid dreaming stopped too.
Works on my iPhone as well.
I don't really care for the font, but the marketing stunt was executed beautifully and reading about the process was fascinating. This is a very cool idea to get techies talking about your product.
Fair enough, but what does that add?

We should use the tag so that some yet-to-be-invented web spider might be able to automatically extract contact info for the pages it crawls?
Ask HN:  If you could 'reinvent' anything what would it be?
I was discussing looking into reinventing the 'umbrella' making it something less clunky, more compact, and certainly something lighter (maybe a string type of mechanism)?
Cool stuff. If you are on debian or ubuntu then you can also install the avr-gcc and friends package. On OS X I use the excellent CrossPack for AVR from the guys at ObDev. Check http://obdev.at/products/crosspack/index.html
In Wave you can edit previous text.
The goal of life is to live it, not to go anywhere particular. No matter what we as a species do or where we go, we're trapped in the universe. There's no escape, ultimately.

Yet you're arguing that people should hurry up and die so 'we' can move on and not stay 'mired in the past' and 'wasting time'. What do they matter? Where are we moving to that's so important?

If we can live until we choose to die or die by accident, feed everyone, keep the planet in good condition, hit virtually 100% nanomechanical recycling / construction and have enough resources for people or virtual people to set off exploring the universe, what else matters? Why do we need everyone to be young? And we might be able to step usefully close to those things in a thousand years or so - and if you agree with Kurzweil, 1000 years of progress will happen in much less than 1000 years. We might even live to see it.
Online business cards. A site where you can create your business card, choose from many different designs, upload your company logo, customize the design, add links to your [choose your favorite online service] account, etc. Something like this: http://rogieking.com/ but for everybody.

Then you could have private and public information. You could share your private card via invitation or a special code, you could also share your card via sms, facebook and a phone app (iphone, bb, palm pre, etc).

You'd also be able to choose a print design and order some prints (possible partnership with Moo?).

I have a few more features in mind, like click-to-call and other stuff, but I guess you get the idea.
Entirely different explanation:

1. India sets up the first few research organizations in Bangalore. - IISc, DRDO, HAL - decision being entirely strategic to keep them away from Pak. nukes.

2. Some engineers think too much on the long lunches afforded by most govt. sector instituitions and see an opportunity in exporting software. One of these guys is narayan murthy.

3. Infosys is born and soon Patni, TCS and Wipro - each drawing from talent pool of DRDO, IISc and HAL. Obviously most start in Bangalore.

4. Engineers from across the country flock to these new high paying jobs. Some again extend their lunches too long.
I wonder how advances in CPU design compare to slight variations in arrow design. In 10,000 years they might consider computer evolution to basically be mechanical, vacuum tubes, transistors, optical, then quantum. Even if we see huge advantage to smaller and faster transistors it's still mostly learning how to make a better version of the same thing.
I used to be quite successful at lucid dreaming when I was younger and had more time on my hands. One of the most enjoyable experiences was when in one dream I found myself atop a very high multi-level office style building, seemingly around 20-30 stories from my vantage point. I knew I was dreaming, and jumped, knowing full well that I wouldn't die. It felt awesome. I landed at the bottom amid a large pile of cardboard boxes. Perhaps the boxes were my minds way of making my survival of the fall vaguely plausible.

I also had a number of dreams where I consciously decided within my dream that I wanted to wake up and did.

My strategy for reaching this kind of lucid dreaming was to use a reminder of some kind. I had read that some studies were using a kind of apparatus attached to ones head, like glasses that detected when you had entered REM sleep by the movement of your eyes and turned on and off soft lights pointed at your closed eyes to alert you that you were dreaming.

I had nothing so sophisticated, so I went with a simple radio next to my bed, playing softly as I went to sleep. I would at times hear the radio in my dreams and it would alert me that I was in fact dreaming.

It's a fascinating area of self exploration that I would recommend to anyone who has the time.
What can we do to help accelerate this?

I'd like to see everything encrypted and opaque to carriers all the time. How do we get there?
Given that the laws of physics are constant throughout the universe/s in question

That actually turns out to be a pretty big given, and there's some evidence that the "laws" as we know them are contingent and could be subject to variation across different regions of the universe. Of course, those regions are in principle unobservable by us, but if it can vary on a large scale it'd be rash to rule out variation on a smaller scale.
I have one of these businesses. Took me 2 months to build the product (on the side, after my full-time job). A few more to market and see sales (it takes time to close sales and generate site traffic). It should generate 10-20k this year, hopefully more next.

My advice is to focus on a niche market filled with people w/ money, willing to pay for stuff. And avoid any market/problem that your typical computer geek would be interested in or aware of (you want to relax on the beach, not code away 60hrs a week fearing some other startup will catch up and take the market away).
This article mentions it in passing:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=533743

"We know roughly when and where farming began, because of the archæological evidence: domestication is a shock to the physiology of man and beast. The skeletons of people change, they temporarily grow smaller and less healthy, as the human body adapts to a protein-poorer diet and a more arduous lifestyle. Likewise, newly domesticated animals get scrawnier at first."

I'm sure some google wizardry could find a real source.
I don't read either as much as I used to, and I'll explain why quickly.

Mashable for me is often filled with very Fisher-Price-like news, as if it's written for an eighth grade reading level. Not to rag on him specifically, but I think Ben Parr's level of insight is negligible and just downright boring.

Techcrunch used to be more of interest to me because they covered, ya know, startups. I've said it before, and I have no data on the amount of stories about fresh startups, but it seems they have trailed off significantly in the last year.
Wow, a data point! Thanks.

May I ask, broadly what kind of product and what kind of market?
While the fight for human rights and equality is certainly commendable, we must not fall into that pit that westerners always do and risk doing more harm than good. Not all societies are built to accept democracies, and not all cultural mindsets are ready for it. Taking China into perspective, if you are not Chinese and haven't lived in China in the past 50+ years, there is no way you can say or claim that you know what is needed there. I'm not making any assertions that their govt is something praise worthy, but who are we to say that a western style democracy will work best for their society? It's the same thing in Iraq and Afghanistan: We are trying to apply OUR ideals to a culture that doesn't have a clue what to do with it. Just because it works for us doesn't mean it'll work for them. Just look at the African states, and well, closer home, the Philippines. The Philippine constitution was modeled after the US's, and so far, all they've had were a succession of presidents that have made a mockery of the system. Why? Because western govt ideals don't allow for unique Philippine cultural attitudes.

So,

I know the chinese govt is oppressive and has yet to embrace the concept of human rights. I do believe the ruling regime and its system of govt should be abolished and wiped off the face of this modern world.

I know that working conditions in China will make the average McDonald's burger flipper in middle america thank his lucky stars he was born on american soil.

But, without knowing the nuances of its culture, what it considers 'tolerable' and what makes it 'tick', all you are doing is applying western ideals AS YOU SEE IT, to a culture that isn't nec. asking for it.

The best analogy I can give is it is like forcing a 6 month old baby to walk. You can't without damaging the hell out of the kid's psyche. It will walk when it is damn well ready.
lamnk
And change happened at a much slower pace for most of that 7,000 years. The 21st century is going to be very interesting.
Mashable's rise can attributed to being a selected friend on Twitter. When a Mashable story is released a lot of the times it becomes a trending topic on Twitter; not all, but I've seen this happen more times with them over Techcrunch.
You sly dog, you.
There's always wikipedia:

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

The first subsection is "variation over time". The drop between the paleolithic and neolithic coincides with the development of agriculture.

This is a pretty contentious issue. The idea that humanity's single most (evolutionarily) successful technology caused a massive decline in individual quality of life is pretty disturbing, and some of the evidence is contradictory. It seems like a debate best left to experts, but I thought it was worth mentioning.

I still agree with the original post -- we're very lucky to be alive now.
The biggest problem I have with regular expressions is all the differences in syntax between java, ruby, grep etc. I find that I could use them about every other week but I have to go and google for how to use them in each environment. It isn't just the difference between how to say "match digits" but in java you use a few lines of oo code whereas in ruby there is an operator ~= to match or replace.
Then oracle started to support them in one of the more recent releases. So that is yet another syntax/api to learn.
I find I can remember how to do the basic searches but for anything more advanced I have to spend a while debugging it.
4chan is unprofitable/barely profitable (depends on the month). The only way they can legally defend themselves is through the generosity of a third-party (EFF).

Or just hack AT&T into oblivion.
The Cloud and independent developers: Will "big boys" crowd them out?
Why wouldn't ISPs then just block all traffic they couldn't read?
Customer help crowdsourced by customers.

The basic idea is this:
- You have a site where you sell something online (ecommerce)
- Someone wants to buy what you sell (product/service)
- Before buying it, you offer something (discount, points, prize, etc) in exchange for doing customer service for what you are selling. This should be measurable somehow (number of calls attended / duration of calls / attended customer feedback)
- If this person agrees, you ask for his phonenumber and availability for taking customer help calls (days/time)
- When someone else comes to your site looking for help about what you sell, he can enter his phonenumber on a simple form and click on 'receive call'
- Then (if available) the person who bought your stuff gets a phone call. When he answers, a recording asks him if he'd like to take a customer help call. If he agrees, the person seeking help gets called and the calls are connected.
- After the call, the person who got help, gets redirected to a short customer satisfaction survey (1 to 3 questions) to rate the help he got

Calls would be logged and recorded. There would be call and satisfaction statistics, etc.

You could charge for each call or on a per minute/hour base, so that you could profit from the assistance or at least pay for the discounts you are giving to the people who are helping you out.

What I like best about this, is that customers would be getting assistance from other customers. This is especially useful when you buy a product from an online retailer. Usually if you call customer service, the person who takes your call will know nothing about the product you bought, because doesn't own it, and he's never used it.
You could do the same with the logging bot if it supported line-editing command messages, then just put a GUI on top that translated the visual-editing commands to line-editing semantics. I'm not saying any IRC server/network I've ever seen does this now, but it's not out of the plausibility range and far easier, I think, than pushing an entirely new protocol. But I digress: perhaps I should just set it up myself and see if it really can be done.
I believe that one of the ANTLR examples (as provided in the source download), is a Java parser. http://www.antlr.org/
Sounds like about how Silicon Valley came to be what it is today. Government funded r&d.
The first iPod - look at those stats! So limited! - was $400. So I wouldn't pronounce this one dead out of the gate. (I wouldn't pronounce it a home run either, but with the right marketing, who knows?)
A wave isn't a flow of synchronous text (or asynchronous posts, for that matter) - it's a standing unit of editable text + widgets + threaded comments. Sort of live-wiki-ish.
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