skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The wonders of a Kenyan safari
Although there are a variety of safaris in Africa, the one safari that still manages to hold its place against most of the competition is the Kenyan safari. Kenya safaris are word famous as nearly the whole of Kenya is considered a safari which in turn added to its popularity.
Frank Zappa talks customer development
A way to tag text using google backwards. Don't ask :)
10,000 lines of forth is going to be quite the monumental task, forth is very 'small'.
A blip.tv video (that doesn't specify length; I'm guessing ~50min) from O'Reilly OS Convention, 2008

Abstract:

Paul Fenwick, Perl Training Australia: "An Illustrated History of Failure"

The average individual is given little scope for failure, at least not the type that really matters. The opportunity for catastrophic failure, that influences nations or continents, has been traditionally reserved for royalty, parliament, and others in a position of great leadership.

However in recent times we have developed a profession who have the opportunity to fail like never before. A profession that can make mistakes that are so monumental, so wide-reaching, and so costly they can shake civilization to its very core. This elite group, rarely seen by every day society, are the foundation upon which modern society depends. The few, the proud, the Software Developers.

Join us for a voyage of discovery, as we travel back through history to some of the most monumental failures the world has ever seen. From the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Portland, OR, July 25, 2008.
'Smart' house texts you if there's a problem
speaking for myself, the idea that everything has an id from the same range and that the context figures out how to use that id was a neat thing. I'd have split it up into several structures simply because that seems to make the most sense but this works well and in fact makes the code very compact.

Articles, comments it's all the same.
Maruti sx4 diesel version hits the market
Maruti Suzuki all set to launch their most efficient car model SX4 Diesel version with new variant engine. The SX4 could have a 1.3-litre or 1.6-litre multijet diesel engine in it.
I love the idea, but doesn't $20/mo + $1.50/scan seem high?

EDIT: They raised their fees a few weeks ago.. a lot. They would've charged $120/year to handle my business-y mail before, but now they'd charge >$400/year. Maybe it'd make sense if I mail myself other documents I need to scan for filing.. like 600 page legal documents.
The title of the article is "Inside Google: Eric Schmidt, the man with all the answers" and for the sake of the HN and its quality, lets stop giving fanboy spins to the articles.
what is your hardware platform?
There is no reason to suppose that dying under anesthesia is related to the diet.

Anemia?

Wonder if they could've run another test group with a diet halfway between the control and the calorie restricted group.
A slight side step from the main discussion (do apologise for that), but does anyone know whether price discrimination is regulated/protected for consumers ? Just wondering if there's a legal side to it. i.e. is there a limit to how much a seller can price discriminate ? etc
You miss the point of a monopoly -- Microsoft is able to eat losses to take over markets as long as they have a safe cash cow.

Then, the monopolist have a new "owned" area to milk money out of, for taking over the next application type.

The result is that in the process of getting a monopoly of something, there is lots of development. Then, the developers/money is being sunk elsewhere and the development speed in the monopoly areas are really low.

That is why you haven't seen any revolutionary changes in e.g. office products for quite a few years. Which we all lose by, since productivity isn't increased.

(Or maybe there just haven't been any new possible ideas in writing documents? Hardly. Computer linguistics hasn't been standing still the last decade.)

Edit: Clarity.
Look the idea's are really simple. You just have to do it better, faster and cheaper.

It might be simple but that doesn't mean its easy. Hard work is what it comes down to.
From your page: "Mark Bao (formerly Steven Bao)"

Interesting intro :)
My advice - launch soon and start making money (charge as soon as possible - tomorrow preferably). There's a unique advantage to not having funding: when you make money, it's all yours.

You should also keep in mind that funded companies are going for the "home run" — which means they're far more likely to keep their services free for longer and tagging on more expensive price tags. It also means that they don't want to make money in the early stages else they be judged on how much money they make rather than the size of their userbase.

When you're developing solo, you don't need to worry about this. You get to focus on developing a financially sustainable product (VCs could care less about this). Financially sustainable for a solo developer might be $5k/mo, while a funded company might need $100k/mo just to break even (which is a loss to the VCs). Use this to your advantage: you can keep lower prices and worry less about becoming "mainstream" and more about getting enough customers to pay your bills and spend more time on the product.
Historically, Wired have reported that a technology is the next big thing just before it has sunk without trace. They are excellent industry forecasters, just not the way they imagine...
Autonomous Soaring - Defining the Problem
Blue and Green color illusion
Ask HN: Help My Survey
Hey all,

This is one of my most active communities (or largest) so I wanted to aks for help with a small survey I have put together. The results will be relevant / of interest :)

Feel free to take the survey yourself (please avoid the temptation of gaming it :)). Having HN take the sruvey might bias it slightly but I will take that risk if it gets lots of response :D

The real help I would like is with getting the word out. Spread it amongst your friends, post it on message boards (if you feel like it is ok to do so) and so forth. The more of a cross section I get the better.

If I could also ask you not to speculate too much on the purpose of the survey - results will be posted soon. But it features aspects that could be influenced by speculation :D

Survey is here:

http://www.errant.me.uk/survey

btw all results are anonymous and wont be handed out to ANYONE, ever, at all, nada. Same applies to email addresses and IP's (which are stored to provent gaming and then dropped when the survey period is over)
clicky link

http://www.errant.me.uk/survey
I can see that. We thought we'd keep it wiki-style at the beginning, possibly setting it up as a foundation. we think its more likely that legal clinics & others are more likely to trust it & use it that way. We would start as narrow as possible, possibly focusing on mental health working with the clinic I used to work with and then expanding outwards.
There is always something you can do better than a competitor no matter how well they are funded compared to you.
And there's more scientific research than ever and more in the US than anywhere else in the world. Please use reddit for mass emotion articles.
There is a simpler explanation. What do you suppose the availability of government grant money to most purchasers does to the price of a product?
The new version of Arc was released 31 days ago.

http://arclanguage.org/item?id=9700
How to Have the Best Wedding Kiss?
Wedding kiss has been the part of our traditions and it is not less than a sacred ritual of our society. It symbolizes the commitments made by both individuals for the start of their new life.
?

The title is also "The unstoppable Google." See the title bar. Probably submitted via the bookmarklet.
What's up with the headline? Did anyone seriously expect Microsoft not to come with an updated version of Office just because Google has some (currently) vague plans about a Netbook OS?

I think some people overestimate people's general willingness to run crucial applications in a browser.
excellent. will email after my breakfast & coffee this morning. -hitesh
Seriously people, You can disagree with me if you'd like, but Office has been solid software that has become the industry standard. It's done an admirable job in recent years.
Top Scientific Music Videos
Starting a Programming Blog, Part 2
Only $800? That's great--what are the specs?
How did such a lame fanboy rant get upmodded so highly?

Wii sales are double Xbox 360 and PS3, the sales of Wii Fit (bluetooth connected bathroom scales!) are more comparable in number.

Microsoft invested Billions in this and after two generations they're sparring with a self-destructing Sony for a distant second place.

I agree that it's not all about games or marketshare, but building a big, noisy, failure-prone box and backing the wrong horse in Hi-Def media aren't exactly great moves in the media centre space even if the latter failure got them belatedly onto the right track of movie downloads.
Fujifilm's New Dimension (A 3D camera)
Very cool interface! I love the 3D effects.
Some Pixily User E-mails Released
Lark. Go to the gym, get in a strong workout and power through the morning.
I do not want google to tell me where my keys are. I have eyes and a brain to navigate and remember thank you very much. However, when I say what can I do if I am diagnosed with some illness, I want goggle to show me some sites saying that I need to exercise, or perhaps some diet site, or maybe some site saying I should not drink, and not sites about how someone else lost their mind and jumped out of the balcony.

I think the quality of google search is falling. So many times I search and I get countless of irrelevant results and I would rather google showed me what I want them to show me rather than go on about my keys. I do not even understand why would google want to focus on telling me where my keys are. They seem to be loosing it and slowly moving to some cooko land. The world is not yours to save google!

Go back to basics and try and improve search and make my results more relevant and try and find those cool hidden articles and stop going on about my keys.
Here we go again...

People whose only involvement is friendship with the author defending said author from comment from the peanut gallery and using arguments such as "you probably don't know anything about this subject", "stop thinking and just trust the publication", "don't criticise the reviewers, they're smarter than you. Smarter than you can even imagine. How dare you think you have anything worth saying?".

And of course, the brilliant: "You're failing therefore I'm looking down on you, why not stop now?"

This is HN, not a peer reviewed science journal. Comment here is no real threat anyway, and even if it was a real threat, if the paper is as solid as you say then it wouldn't be affected anyway. Get down from your high horse and let discussion happen. Some of us might even make mistakes and clarify our understanding of some part in the process. (How dare we!)
Paintings for sale, abstract paintings for sale, painting, paintings.
Canadian Artist - Paintings for sale, landscapes, abstract, painting, paintings
Boids - Simulated Flocking
One of the biggest advantages of not having funding is you are not going to eat if you are not successful. That's the best motivator there is.
How liquidation preferences work
Just unbelievable. Same color is perceived (very) differently by the brain depending on its surrounding colors.
In my opinion, this is an excellent article because of the attention given to both Schmidt's remarks and the reporter's individual insights. Wired could have easily misquoted / twisted Schmidt's words, as seems to be the practice these days, yet instead the reporter included Schmidt's corrections in the piece. Very objective reporting. Can all articles be like this?
New zero-day IE bug triggers mass attacks
I started to write a comment on how/why this could easily be a business. I have recently been involved in this area.

But then I remembered some interview with the founder of betterworldbooks.com: "This idea would be best embodied in a company." In this case, maybe it's not. Lowering the barrier for a non specialist lawyer to work on the kind of cases that attract pro-bono attention is good work.
Awaiting Windows 7 RTM: A MS Windows History memory jog
Yep :-)

http://tengrandburiedhere.com/winner.html
I have been, for the past year. I'm just getting out of the hole.
Twitter Suggested for Nobel Peace Prize
you're in the wrong website. try: love the almighty dollar, with all your heart, and your mind, and join a startup with your fellow, as you promote yourself.
There's a lesson for startups: Marketing need only give people a feeling that you're "the thing" to give your sales/visits a boost and/or staying power.
The Time Has Come To Regulate Search Engine Marketing And SEO
It's not uncommon to get corrections/clarifications from the subject when writing an article about them. That it's so explicit in this article I don't necessarily take as objectivity, but as more stylistic choice to show Mr. Schmidt in a certain way, as perceived by the author. Which is fine, it's a good article.
Consumers won't pay to remove ads on websites
The article in Science concludes with this:

"Weindruch and his collaborators plan to continue monitoring the remaining monkeys, which could stretch the study's length past 3 decades. "If we reach the 40-year-old life span, the study could continue for another 15 years," Weindruch said."

The NY Times article says:

“Ultimately the results seem pretty inconclusive at this point,” Dr. Austad said. “I don’t know why they didn’t wait longer to publish.”

So, I think it is too early to draw any conclusions about longevity. Though, it does seem prudent to note the reduced rate of diabetes, cancer, and heart/brain disease in monkeys with reduced caloric intake.
Social Network Design: Examples and Best Practices
Download Google Earth Pro 5.0 with GPS Support
Super Human Filters
On our signup form for our time tracking service, the password fields are clear text, with a checkbox available to hide it that says "I'm being watched!"

Because... the credit card numbers are also clear text.

People on HN, for example, will have a freakout about the password but never the credit card number. It's extremely unusual to shield a credit card number on entry, because of mistakes.

We chose to treat passwords the same way.
Ai yai yai! If you could avoid the first thing I see on your page being a naked man attempting to contort his body to look like a woman, that'd be awesome.
What does "anyway" mean?
As listed in the release announcement ( http://purepistos.net.twi.bz/f ): a basic git extension; a Selector extension (isolate-as-you-type searching, using CSS or XPath); a comment toggle extension. Links to these are in the announcement.

More extensions to come. With the extension system, you can: create functions in Ruby, map them to any keys; bundle editor configuration (key config, syntax highlighting, new language defs); integrate the functionality of gems; you name it.
I think people are expecting so much more then what I think Google will in fact produce. I may be wrong, but I just expect Google Os to be something to be used in a pc with small hard drive, some good networking capabilities small disk and no graphics card with the os booting up in 10 seconds and with an UI with some giant buttons pointing you to the web and to the apps of google. In the meantime Google will certainly figure out some inovations like the way to store files which will certainly have a web based option, but nothing that will compete on the same market as the regular OS. It will be the return of terminals (but under the hat of cloud computing).

And if I'm right there will be a huge wave of disapointment.
Ye Olde Scamme
Visual Studio 2008 Intellisense for Ext JS
Go with the girl, man. I'm surprised most people would even think about this. You'll always have a great idea to work on, but once you get older, it won't be that easy to find a soulmate. I'm getting the feeling this misunderstood entrepreneurship costs more and more for young people. People are always, ALWAYS, more important.
One of the not so nice side effects of having a site that allows people to broadcast themselves on the net is that it attracts people that in normal life you'd not want anything to do with.

This was our 'hidden cost' that we didn't bargain for when we launched the site, we never figured that this would happen (call me naive...) and how much work it would be to keep the site clean.

It is also the main reason that I'm working on different stuff these days, I am in no way 'proud' of my achievement, it's been amazingly successful in monetary terms but I could really do without all the side effects.

edit: This individual has been 'taken care of', thanks.
> If GM built a car that killed its inhabitants when a radio station played a certain song, GM would be to blame, not the radio station.

If the radio station were aware that playing that song would result in loss of life, they would not play it, and would be at fault if they did, or at least in for a percentage of it.
After keep saying to myself - C++ is good enough, I wound up in having all my projects being in different language: http://volnitsky.com/project (bash, python, c++)
Government regulation of search? So now we have a right to be included in the top of search results? Whenever someone says that "free trade has broken down" you know what they really mean is "I want to use the government to my advantage because I can't compete in the market."
That's what I was afraid of. It seems like Android is still something for the (hopefully near) future.

Let's hope Google gives it a boost somehow, don't know if they're hoping more devices hit the market.

It would be very nice for developers to have an alternative to the Apple App Store.
Hm, interesting. In any event it looks the same in Chrome as it does in Safari 4.0.2, to me.
@embeddedradical, unfortunately, no, this wasn't an ad for BSA and I did not ask them to write this. Looks like we just have one very excited publisher who is making some money with us and likes the software/service.
We are talking about real-time, live events. Probably DRM or paid events that require as close to real-time as possible. Sure you could delay and push out chunks of video into your CDNs and then people woudl all be in different parts of your "live" event. For live events streaming is almost always required. For DRM like sites like Netflix this is also the case.

Yes HTTP hosting is massively cheaper than streaming but the topic was real-time live events or controlling the content like DRM.
Define 'stress', especially for these animals. Wouldn't you think that living in a laboratory cage is 'stressful'? If that's the daily baseline, I can't see how 'stress' can be a catchall explanation for even borderline cases. Administering anesthesia is a form of surgery. Even if they're related, would you want to say that death during surgery is a form of aging?

More importantly, deaths are just one of the variables being measured. The diet seems to improve quality of life, not just raw quantity. That's reason enough to be interested in these findings.

Furthermore, the author of this blog seems to doubt the role of Science in publishing these findings. The money they make has no bearing on the results. Other scientists, doing closely related work, reviewed the work in excruciating detail (read the footnotes, not the press releases) and found its clear scientific value. Sure, blame the media for the headlines. But the work, as a status report on the field, is very encouraging.
Having the ability to do more system programming on .NET (without having to P/Invoke all over the place) would (should?) make a lot of it significantly easier and faster. Also, the security issue is not to be overlooked -- with managed drivers and lower-level libraries, there'd be a much lower chance of fatal security bugs (e.g. buffer overflows). Also, writing this code in .NET allows developers to take advantage of a great number of new testing tools like Pex and Code Contracts (for fuzzing and static analysis, respectively).

Also, .NET 4.0 includes some additions for doing parallel processing to help developers take advantage of multi-core processors. I've been playing around with it for about a month now (I'm writing an open-source managed numerics library in C#) and the new parallel stuff is really quite good.
um...the federal reserve directly controls the interest rate paid by banks, which affects how much money is injected into the system. via the money multiplier new money disseminates out into the economy, causing inflation.

how is it not government?
LyricSift: Discover New Song Lyrics (useful tools review)
Direct URL for LyricSift: http://lyricsift.com/
Economic View - The Invisible Hand, Trumped by Darwin?
Vista failed

Vista failed? That's news to me. Care to elaborate on your definition of success?

I've been using it since it came out and like it just fine.

I can understand saying Vista had problems, or bugs, or that it had a lot of PR issues, or even that some vendors didn't like or want it. But fail?

I think maybe you've been listening inside the web echo chamber a little too long.
60% of companies plan to skip Windows 7
Basically I like to hack on money

http://www.getrichslowly.com
http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com
http://www.budgetpulse.com

but I will be starting to hack in internal designs also, because want to buy an apartment ;)
You really think a blog post is enough to justify this conclusion?

Here, read the journal article:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/17316946/Caloric-Restriction-Delay...

Please tell me how it's junk science.
Too much trust in Facebook, new app launched to back it up and make it fun
True IT confessions
Oh boy. Just what Biz and Ev need.
Intensity and focus matter more than stamina.

The stamina that matters is over the course of months or years.
I'm none of these. I have a shifted variable rhythm, composed of 16 hour days followed by 10-12 hours of sleep.
There's a mention here that a Larva Labs app stayed at number one for a while and is now number 2 :
http://www.flourishconf.com/flourish2009/?q=node/36#hall

If they disclosed concrete numbers, maybe we could size the Android App Market.
One of the few negative things about the growth of the internet is how much people rely on it for health information. Sometimes I think they'd be better off flipping a coin.
Uh oh!

I hope they don't find out about HN.....
I think you overestimate how much people actually understand/care about how computers works.

Did you see googles video asking people what a browser is? if you provide an office like interface in a browser and it works and is stable, then people will use it, and probably be completely oblivious to the fact anythings changed.
PINs and passwords: Experts offer tips on how not to be an easy target
Have you guys seen Windows 7's math input thingie? It does the same thing for formulas (as opposed to symbols) and MathML. I was amazed to see this in a default install of a Microsoft OS.
Err... That's ridiculous.

Although important, that's was not promoting peace, it was promoting a revolution. And why should the creator of the platform receive the credit for its user content? If it was not Twitter people would be doing the same over email. Should we award instead the creator of the the web, or the creator of the integrated circuit or ...
So search is broken and the solution is to bring our government into it to monitor and regulate it? What about foreign based search engines?

This is bad all around.
>"areas of high footfall, but well away from postboxes, litter bins, vomit, and dog faeces."

Having lived in Edinburgh for many years, I can say that does limit the options considerably.
Have you done it both ways? I'd be interested to see any stats you have if you are willing to share. Good point about the credit card number too.