skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the relatively external POV (I don't care for facebook), this is just the 3rd round of the social pressure thing, the first two being friendster and myspace. Facebook is the first one that has really also dragged in older generations, but that's not enough to prevent it from ending up like the others. Sure, there's no obvious single replacement on the horizon, but the networks have switched platforms en masse twice before and there's no reason to believe they can't again.

In fact, now that all generations are getting acclimated to the concept of social networking, some of those new people will almost certainly start looking beyond facebook, and with interoperable web services this could result in at least a good chunk of the social web increasingly using focused components rather than one monolithic system.
I don't think Twitter had anything to do with the peace protests in Iran. Its a real time communication mechanism which enables people to do things. And also a very noisy one.
There is no 'universal you' - but there is 'one', which exists for exactly that purpose...
Forgot, something I sometimes do on the side is work on my fake Sean Hannity fan-site @ http://www.fannity.com. This is a intentionally ignorant joke that attempts to fool people, both liberals and conservatives, with sometimes hilarious results. A story of mine was posted on blackplanet.com and it led to some hilarious comments left by a few thousand visitors from that site over a weekend.

Also, at one point the fake news site 23/6 thought my fake news site was real (and actually advocated that Sikhs put flag pins on turbans). This is perhaps the most hilarious thing that happened on the site: http://fannity.com/?p=553&cpage=1 . The users "backdoorman" & "gacracker" were in on the joke and pretending to be Hannity fans.
Sorry for trying to help.
Unmask passwords in OS X
Are you trolling me?

1) Uhm, hello... Microsoft pays their fines and laughs all the way to the bank -- or use regulatory capture. (How many years has the EU been trying to get usable documentation for network standards?!)

2) Uhm, hello... Microsoft and different application areas? History contradicts you here, too.

(Then, I don't know enough about Sony/PS1, but Microsoft entering areas like this is a bit outside of their normal behavior, but open source will change their home market.)
I don't see any reason why you shouldn't enjoy your summer.
My point is that your first priority should be "to get the most complete medical education". This doesn't mean you have to forget about programming/IT.
Exagerrated battery claims = Assault with batteries
We use this pattern for immutable objects in our Perl applications, although I think our implementation is cleaner:

http://github.com/nothingmuch/kiokudb/blob/96f9a380c715b7aa1...
Nice converter. It's very simple and useful.
"to be effective in communicating a story I truly had to believe in what I was saying."

I have a sneaking suspicion that's why some bottom-feeding sales and marketing people are so good at what they do. They actually believe they're selling a great product.
It wasn't at a point in time where sms was even available
Really great read, thanks for sharing.
I think any university is able (or will eventually attain the capability) to do this if it hasn't already. Next-gen sequencing combined with microarrays can make it happen. The only real issue is the cost of doing the reads. There aren't too many universities dedicating a major amount of resources to sequencing genomes though (well, here in California at least), so kudos to you Washington University.
Power sockets can be used to eavesdrop on what people type on a computer
I know a future neurosurgeon who, as a teen, used to code 3D demos in 80386 assembly... Including whipping on his own linear algebra routines, for the fun of it...

That said, I agree with your point, and thank you for your support.
Scary coworkers -- how to survive them
Here you go

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=cache:http://gandol...
Maybe it's running on a tandy server
I tend to agree, but there are obvious counter examples.
If that's the case, intermittent fasting seems like it should produce similar effects to CR. I wait with bated breath for the experiment that does intermittent CR on mice. :)
Palo Alto Idea Den - Office Space for Scrappy Startups
Were looking for companies that want to open up shop into the Palo Alto Ideal Den.

Early stage startups are usually precious on resources and to survive in this market you have to be scrappy. However having a space in Silicon Valley to gain solid traction for your app, product, or service is very expensive endeavor.

The solution is the Palo Alto Idea Den (PAID) - a lair that harbors inception of startups and ideas behind them. The Den cost is $150 per person / month (just a bit more than a typical iPhone bill), and we provide you with a cozy work space equipped with WIFI, Printer, Fax, Power Cords, Conference Room, Pool, and Kitchen. The Palo Alto Idea Den is a place for the really scrappy who want to get there start in Silicon Valley with the lowest cost possible. Email me if you are interested in learning more and getting a Tour of the Palo Alto Idea Den at, chris.r.mccann [at] gmail.com

List of Amenities include:
- WIFI
- Printer
- Fax
- Power Cords
- Conference Room
- Pool
- Kitchen
- Possibly a Secretary
You're a great writer
'This is what an IED looks like. I took this photo near Kandahar.'
I used to go to this place every summer as a kid. The castle is amazing, but Jim Bishop is a total nut. Here's some pictures of the castle, with a few mixed in from my old man: http://www.flickr.com/groups/14196397@N00/pool/
Doesn't do focus groups on products designed and designed again from the bottom to the top?

They even say so in their jobs faq:
Apple hires quality assurance engineers for internal product testing...We also create focus groups to provide feedback on our products.

http://www.apple.com/jobs/us/pro/inside/questions.html
IPhone AppAwards
http://appadvice.com/appawards/vote
The unanswered questions at the end are interesting.

"This area of thinking started out with the hiring process, and the idea that maybe interviews don’t work at all – there’s a bunch of academic research that implies that, actually. So if how would you build a failure-tolerant system around the hiring process, if you assume that good interview candidates actually have no correlation to successful employees?"

I have been partial to contract to hire. You still have to do interviews, but you have a fallback position.
Is Hadoop Cloud's Killer App?
Is Hadoop the killer app for cloud computing? Sort of. More likely, the cloud's killer app will be written on top of Hadoop.
doesn't really help as the picture is still read from the overloaded server.
I'm going by Ive's interview plus off-hand comments I've heard from ex-Apple employees

http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/07/01/a-fireside-c...
I work at a newspaper, and it goes a little something like this: The people in charge don't really think of their website as a part of the world wide web, but as a part of the newspaper.

There are a lot of reasons for this, journalism school, "the way things have always been done", etc. The rammifications are that even the young, 20 something reporters don't see the value of the internet, the opportunity to have users interact with their content. (aside: in newspaper speak, that would be "readers read their content")
In the caloric restriction experiments, the nutritional density of the food the animals are fed is almost always increased. Fewer calories, same levels of protein, nutrients, etc. It's not just a matter of 'less'.

From what I've read, humans on caloric restriction diets have to design their diets carefully, to increase the nutritional density of their own food supply. (E.g. http://www.calorierestriction.org/Getting_started)
If you want a vehicle you can maintain yourself, get a bike.
Your suggestion is spot on. Form distribution and data collection is part of the plan. This is one of the features I am thinking of charging for.

The tricky part I believe is secure handling of user data as these form can contain sensitive stuff...
I don't know if its just me who's noticed this, but if one pans out and takes an overview of the main diet fads over the past 30 years, one will notice that the main focus of a diet changes every 10 years or so.

Recall in the 90's when everything was "low-fat". Starting somewhere in the 2000's the health industry switched it over to "low-carbs".

In the 80's, if one wanted to build muscle they were told to eat as many carbs as possible. Nowadays one is supposed to eat as much protein as possible.

This is just diet information. Methods of exercise change too. In fact, they sort of cycle in a way.

Ever feel like the health industry is trying to pull one over on you?
1. Sites which are useless for everyone e.g.: splogs, etc.

2. Some sites could be useful for a few, while being completely useless for the rest i.e. letting users remove certain sites from their results only

3. Like the ad-block software, people could subscribe to well-defined popular lists to get started.

4. I would also segment by verticals. E.g.:when you do a people search, you could bucket results into:

a.) sites where the user, him/her self has entered the info - linkedin, facebook type websites

b.) sites where a community has created a profile - wikipedia

c.) sites that inteliigently crawl other sites and present the info -- lead411 , pipl, zoominfo, spoke, etc are useless to me
Well if they just want a password keeper than they can use a desktop password tracker and share the master key with the necessary people. What I'm talking about is more akin to being an online executor rather than just a password storage location.

Some of the issues I've considered:

1) Giving a password to someone is a major security hole. They could lose it, it could be stolen, etc. This is going to be a key to your entire (ideally) online presence. And for people with online wealth this poses a significant issue.

2) This sort of system requires updating and ideally you'd want to make it as simple as possible.

3) What if not all of your digital assets are online website accounts. What about MMOs? Or FTPs etc. Online banking.

4) The digital information security as you mentioned will of course be a large priority.

5) What if a client doesn't have someone to give their information to? Then it would / could fall on us to be aware of his death. I haven't found a good way to do this other than a rather morbid dead-man switch. Call them at some frequency just to check up on them...
Linux Chrome now with Flash & extensions
They try to host them on their home DSL, 128kb connection?
Hmmm, good question. I think my target audience may be a bit too broad (I hope!) to define... but I am sure there is a lot of companies that produce PDF forms all the time. So, in a sense, I am mostly targeting businesses rather than individuals.

In any case, form examples, screenshots, etc are an absolute necessity so thanks for pointing that out.
I don't see how prudent it is. What can I do with that information, given the rest of the results of the study?

I don't have anything against diabetes, cancer or heart/brain disease per se. It's not as if, when I die from an infection or pneumonia, I'll congratulate myself that it wasn't cancer!

I guess what I'm trying to say is that, if you consider it "prudent to note the reduced rate of diabetes, cancer, and heart/brain disease", then my response is it's just precisely as prudent to note the increase in non-diabetes, cancer, and heart/brain disease related deaths.
A joke. But too close to reality to be comfortable, I guess.
Anchoring an idea or product
I think anyone heavily involved in a not-too-unknown open source project can get this experience, via mailing lists, forums, issue trackers, IRC channels.
Performance and Evaluation of Lisp Systems
The Tetuan Valley Manifesto
Last time I check slack and crud ("Schlacken" in German) were very popular with quacks and diet fads, but had no science behind them.
Hmmm, I followed the link in the article to the spinning woman's silhouette - has anyone else tried that one? I don't have enough gif fu to confirm that one, but I have the impression that the illusion is actually that you don't see when the animation changes direction, as opposed to the animation not changing, but your eyes telling you that it did. Can anyone confirm that?
What I found to be equally interesting was the effect Twitter (and the themes created by watching it) had on the Western portrayal of the protests. For a newsman, Tweeting Iranians were their perfect subject - people who were (by and large) young, computer-literate, English-speaking, active, social, and in large cities. That kind of person is the easiest one to base a story around, since everything is provided - no need for translation or going to visit some backwater Iranian town (which they weren't allowed to do, anyways) to get the story.

So as the protests went on, you could see that the media was using these Iranians as the center of their stories (and in some cases, meta-stories about Twitter itself) since it was so damn easy. They could simply reports on Tweets that were communally agreed to be "right", get a few file photos and stills off Twitpic, and package it all up as an update.

The problem, of course, is that Twitter is only embraced by a small subset of Iranians (much like it's only embraced by a smaller subset of Ameriancans). So as Twitter grew in prominence as a source, CNN (and many commentators on the Internet) started to see Iran through Tweet-colored glasses, to use a terrible phrase. They weren't getting much information about what older people were doing. They weren't getting much information about poorer people were doing. They weren't getting much information about what people outside of the main cities were doing. And as a result, they showed us a whole lot more "revolution" than there may have actually been.
This was a really good read. I had (thankfully!) almost forgotten how crippling social anxiety can be.
When 95% of the runtime is spent in the benchmarking infrastructure rather than the benchmarked code, interpreting even the intra-implementation results is hard. Here's the results I get (benchmark, original, symbol-function lifted out of time-test). Times in milliseconds:

CASE-10 240 12
CASE-100 244 52
CASE-1000 632 432

NCASE-10 212 20
NCASE-100 220 24

SWITCH-10 276 80
SWITCH-100 272 76
SWITCH-1000 268 72

For example SWITCH looks a lot more reasonable for a small number of cases with the original benchmark than it does when the benchmarking overhead is reduced.

(Edit: try to reformat the table)
IDEO is actually very famous in the product design world. You've probably used more IDEO-designed products than you realize. They are a case study (literally) in creating a creative-productive work culture.
Like the flevoracer (http://members.chello.nl/d.diederik/recumbent/flevoracer/pla...) or a unicycle. They are easy to understand.
I'm a freshbooks customer who's also an ex full time freelancer. I agree with sunir. If you can follow through on your work, you're ahead of the game. Consider your target demographic and how they consider paying for things. I do mostly systems administration and web programming these days, but I have a strong IT background, if I have a client that I want who's on the fence about if they need me, I ask about their monthly costs. Usually they're paying way too much for telephone, internet, email etc. I can usually get them to leverage my price against a year of overpaying for services, but that's just part my pitch. Which is a slightly different topic.

The point is, you're worth spending the money and if they're paying you enough they're worth putting in extra effort. It's mutually beneficial.
Great work, I am trying it.

It is very easy to sign up. But I cannot find the link to log in once you already signed up.

Also the "Mail log in" is confusing. I was trying to use it to log in to Shareflow.
A lot of people like things as cheap as they can get it, but I've noticed a lot of small business owners have learned that you get what you pay for.
What are you talking about? He linked to the study and priced it out for you, but he didn't read it? The article compared the actual findings of the study with what was reported in the media and press releases.

I don't care how careful they were in explaining why they vacated many of the deaths; if you're trying to show that monkeys live longer on calorie restricted diets, you can't do that. At least, you can't if you want to convince me or most rational people.
Why Googlers should read Anil Dash’s post
Muddled Thinkers Need Not Apply
Unknown to you maybe - but IDEO is probably more well known than 37signals. They probably designed something within your reach right now
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDEO
IDEO is one of the most successful design firms in the world.

For reference, check out this book by Bill Moggridge, a founder of IDEO.

http://www.designinginteractions.com/book
Satire is supposed to have wit. Plus, the "angry slacker" humor has been done many times (and better in every instance). This guy's writing is like a much less funny photocopy of Maddox.

I can see tripe like this being on Digg, but why is this on hacker news?
I have an account there that I created years ago, and just login if I want to read an answer. I never paid for anything on the site.

It used to be free to register, so unless they've changed something, all you need to do is create an account.
If I tell anyone, I'll lose my motivation. Scientific fact!
Google, Net Neutrality, and the Curious Case of Let's Make a Deal
What's the use case for this? I imagine most pages you want a PDF copy of aren't publicly accessible (confirmation pages mostly). Bring able to natively print to PDF is such a handy feature of OS X. I hardly print anything to paper these days (the exception being tickets).

Update: I did a quick test and this service completely fails with pagination--images are cut in half and what not when they don't have to be (it just hard cuts the page every X pixels). Ugly.
From the welcome message:

"Stories on HN don't have to be about hacking, because good hackers aren't only interested in hacking, but they do have to be deeply interesting.

What does "deeply interesting" mean? It means stuff that teaches you about the world. A story about a robbery, for example, would probably not be deeply interesting. But if this robbery was a sign of some bigger, underlying trend, then perhaps it could be."

http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

I thought that this submission fell into that category. If you don't agree, well, OK.

(edited to remove personal reference)
I love doing tech support on my own sites, anything for one on one feedback with my users is very fun to me. If one user has an issue it's likely affecting others.

On my full time work though I run into the same problems he mentioned and I make a point to asking the requester (of the feature or project) why they want to do it or what the user will get out of it so I can see if there are problem areas or possible improvements as I implement the request. It might irritate the requester but I feel better knowing I've done a little bit more to make a good final result.
Is the cloud the beginning of Skynet?
US vehicles have cell-phone jammers

What if they wire it to detonate on a jam? I hope the army has taken this into account (seems obvious that they would have.)
Running a Business from Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Agreed. I guess I should say: Don't believe anything you read on Twitter, or anything a "reputable" news agency reports that is sourced from Twitter.
I don't think you've ever dealt with Microsoft before. You can do some of the usual negotiating, but there is no strong-arming them. They have pretty fixed pricing models and are only willing to work with you to a point. Other software vendors, sure, they'll do almost anything to make a sale, but Microsoft is in a whole different universe of software distribution.
But these are three companies that are doing well enough that they can afford to take on failures. So something doesn't work at Google; the company's got enough revenue that they can absorb the failure without a huge problem. If you're running a small startup and it doesn't work, taking a hit is a lot more costly.
Ubuntu prints to PDF too.
Are you serious? How about this part right here in the study title:

Caloric Restriction DELAYS Disease Onset AND MORTALITY in Rhesus Monkeys

...combined with the fact that in the contents of the study you link to, they eliminate significant data points whose presence would contradict the claimed delay in mortality.

I guess we'll all have to judge for ourselves whether it's fair to eliminate a bunch of deaths other than for exceedingly obvious reasons, e.g., someone breaks into the lab and kills the monkeys. I know which side I'm on.
But their market share is still going to be nearly 100% of companies..

Market share isn't a metric of how many people are using Microsofts latest OS compared to other vendors. It's how many people are using Windows (any version) vs other vendors.
Oh, I totally agree. Ignore it or flag it if you don't think it should be here, but don't comment on it as if it's serious.
Hey Apple, help us kill business cards
When you have 10,000 employees (or however many they have now), it's very possible to do focus groups and usability testing completely internally. A startup with 3 guys, not nearly as easy.
Yeah, I heard that OS has its devoted fanatics :-)
And the corollary, from the customer's perspective: The best possible person to get on the phone is a developer with commit access.
Bing Reports 8 Percent Visitor Growth Its First Month After Launch
Splitscrean in Ubuntu is actually quite easy with Nvidia's driver package. I don't know what kind of granular access control Window's 7 has, but I can't imagine it's more granular than the functionality Unix can provide through groups. There are also several terminal emulators that easily match Powershell.

The only thing Windows has going for it is proper DPI scaling for all apps. Everything else is just Windows playing catchup with technologies that have been deployed on Unix systems for years.

Also realize that half of the features you mention have to do with driver support, and nothing with the actual engineering of the OS. Just becuase Microsoft can use its clout to force vendors to write dirvers for its OS doesn't say anything about the OS itself.
House cats know what they want and how to get it from you
not worth reading, everything is obvious stuff that comes to your mind.
There is no suppression of free press in mexico by the military of otherwise. The state is in no way collapsing, no one here seriously thinks that, you are being misinformed. I have no love for the military, I think the drug wars are a terrible thing and I have no particular reason to defend the current government but the situation is nothing like what's portrayed on this article.
The "We don’t do focus groups" statement from that article is referring to how Apple decides what products to build, not how they are built.
Here in the States, I charge $60/hour doing mostly HTML monkeying for a good friend. If I'm not doing friendly or non-profit work, I'll charge at least $75 for non-programming work, and upwards of $100 if it requires actual coding.
With functioning kidneys for all
demonstration was more informative: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=700356
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