skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that looks awesome.

but if i go to $20, i can get xbee parts. any suggestions regarding differences?
Downvoted that much, yet nobody even bothers to suggest that the quoted statement is not fallacious, nor that my conclusion is therefore faulty.

For shame.
the last picture on this link really tells the story of all those years of hard work. really captures what accomplishing your goals feels like. good for him.
sounds pretty great, except for all the hard parts.
iNewton :(
I like these threads, not because I'm looking for book recommendations, but because finding out what people are reading gives me some insight both into the people and into publishing.
Download IE 8 and donate 8 meals to charity
Ayn Rand was able to name so much of what I've felt growing up. While she may have used the literary technique of exaggeration to heighten the contrast between her philosophical views of moral vs. immoral, I don't think she took it "too far" as others are commenting. I think that's like saying Philip K. Dick took the ideas of technological advances and psychic ability too far in his story, "Minority Report", or like saying Pablo Picasso took multi-perspective simplicity too far in his Cubist paintings. Of course they did, it's part of their literary freedom. Exaggeration helps to make an underlaying principle become self-evident by speeding along conclusions that could eventually be drawn from observation.
Yeah, and those were the G1s.

After the whole bad firmware thing, the G2s are even worse. Amazon doesn't have them in stock at all, they are $300 over MSRP at Newegg, and I haven't seen them for less than about 150% MSRP anywhere.
While finance firms in NYC did indeed snatch up many bright technical folks, the same could be said for large software shops with NY offices like Yahoo and Google. The startup world here looks about the same as always - perhaps there's less of a particular sort of risk tolerance among technology investors on this side of the country.

I'm thrilled by the idea of a "tech revival" though. Bring it on!
Sure, they probably were not the first ones to come up with the idea of bringing a social farm game to facebook either. However, it is clear that once Zynga and Playfish found this idea they could rapidly turn it around too.

It is a bit scary as a small developer to know that you need to share your idea with publishers, but to also realize that they can turn around and dump so much money on your idea that they could produce something much much faster that you cant even hope to compete with them.

It is just a different climate than web based startups. Console game especially are pretty much not possible without publishers, which is not something a 3 man web startup ever really has to worry about.

If VCs were keeping tech teams in house that could potentially jump an idea i think the startup community might see the value of ideas a bit differently.
yeah, I also missed that step about explaining to the FCC why this unapproved device should be allowed to "send a stronger signal than of your typical internet router." As a bonus you do get a FREE visit from some government bureaucrats though :)
ramen profitable means not trying to raise money?
Make sure to polish it up with a selection of Robb's Report :) Gotta be prepared, you know.
Here are some reasons why:

1. Poor availability of app store in many countries in the world compared to iPhone

2. Ability to purchase apps outside the appstore - I bought an app from an author's website directly, paying by Paypal.

3. Fewer actual handsets in use worldwide.
This conversation comes up time and again.

The mistake people make in framing this conversation is that while some people come up with high concept ideas and don't think about the execution. Most people at least, myself and other professionals I've worked with(In game development or web development) tend to come up with clever implementation hacks as well as ideas. And really it's the cleverness that you don't want to share, often you've spent much time figuring out and collecting economically creative implementation details. It's these that we worry about sharing easily, and really are what make an idea feasible beyond it's artistic merit.

I don't favor keeping all things to myself, just wanted to frame the debate more succinctly to discuss the aspects of the debate separately.
Tell HN: Craigslist is sick
Tomorrow I was scheduled to sign a lease on an apartment with two other people.

At 4pm today, one of them informed us he was bailing. I posted an ad to Craigslist at 4:45 PM. I received 21 responses over the next 7 hours. Five of them came to see the place. We picked the one we liked best and then called him to confirm. Problem solved. Craigslist is sick

Now all I need is a web app that lets me manage contacts generated by e-mails sent to my anonymized Craigslist e-mail. That's a pain in the neck.
It's very neat to see some musicians (especially those as talented as Rudess is) down in the trenches working on things like this. A few years back, the company I worked for was a sponsor of BT's This Binary Universe tour, and he came in to talk to us about the technology used. He and his team of developers hand-wrote a suite of software for sequencing and editing audio in a native surround sound format. He talked about the C++ used to develop it the same way I've seen so many musicians talk about their guitars. Quite an amazing experience.
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain De Botton

recommended in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=760771
Intel’s Tick-Tock Model
It's different money. We raised a fund, just a very small one; structurally that's the only way to do it.
I just love this idea. Everyone wins.
Not only don't be put off by it's size, but don't be put off by the press it got from when it was released. The book is way better than anyone could possibly sum up in a blurb.
Language is usage is language.

Although I believe there to be no "correctly," I do believe that this is a deplorable case of a word losing meaning, without a suitable replacement.
Actually if you assume education is information transfer it's quite easy. You can even sell it twice or more times.
1. The Annotated Turing - Charles Petzold
2. SICP (going very slow)
3. Findability - Peter Morville
4. Making Things Happen - Scott Berkun
More like not being ramen profitable means trying to raise money.
If you're in contact with that person alert them that their adsense account may be at risk, adsense has flagged the page for review or ban (PSAs appearing).

Best to either change the tone of the page or yank the ads...
AMD makes low power, 6-core chip
If you rent all of your gear then diving is not really a hobby, it is just something you know how to do. After the last cycling thread I will try to avoid looking like a purist, but rental gear usually has a poor fit [esp. fins and mask], is not of great quality, and unless you are going to overpay by renting at the water's edge you need to deal with the hassle of filling out forms, picking it up, dropping it off, etc. Once you know that you like to dive you are better off putting together your own rig.

I can rent a bike, but if I don't actually have one sitting in my garage I would have a hard time claiming that biking is a hobby.

That being said, you can get a good basic rig for a reasonable amount of money (~$500) and just rent tanks. If you really like diving you will save that much money after 15-20 dives over renting all your gear and you will end up with something that fits you and your diving style better.
ZFS the file system, probably. Putting a reliable and fast implementation of ZFS in the OS X codebase may be a different story, as is working out a good UI for migrating users. ZFS is pretty complex, I wouldn't shrug off the challenge of implementing it well.
John von Neumann and the origins of modern computing
The Machinery Of Freedom by David Friedman
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

I'm in the middle of writing a book on emulation, and I'm finding it really hard to read anything tech-wise these days. There's only so long you can see such material before you can't take it anymore, and my own book pushes me over that line most days.
Hacker news delicious account
I had read about a delicious account with all hacker news stories. Can someone help me with the user-name?
Just in time for Zed to leave for greener pastures...
Microsoft can't convince people to download their browser without doing this?
Previous reviews:

http://bit.ly/osx10-5

http://bit.ly/osx10-4

http://bit.ly/osx10-3

http://bit.ly/osx10-2

http://bit.ly/osx10-1

http://bit.ly/osx10-0
Reading the small print at the bottom, the maximum Microsoft will spend through this campaign is 1MM. I downloaded it anyway (on Ubuntu :).
The Almost Hopeless Challenge Of Web Security
A Look At fbFund’s First Summer As An Incubator Program
Summary: "Should you buy Mac OS X Snow Leopard? If you're already running Leopard, then the answer is a resounding 'yes.' If you're still running Tiger, well, then it's probably time for a new Mac anyway. When you buy one, it'll come with Snow Leopard."

I love Ars; a lot of 'em are here in Chicago, but man, this shit can get out of hand. At least they do the summary themselves on the last page.
I've always found the continuation of that cliche to be interesting. In full it reads "jack of all trade, master of none, but ofttimes better than the master of one."
Let us know how the advice seems after you've made your money.
The Rock Band / Guitar Hero situation doesn't fit your description. Harmonix developed Guitar Hero. Red Octane makes the guitar peripheral and owns the rights. Activision bought Red Octane, and along with it, the Guitar Hero brand. MTV Games bought Harmonix, and with it the developers who then went on to make Rock Band.

This is a situation where those responsible were split in two, not one company looking over the shoulder of another.
After reading what you wrote South Africa comes to my mind. On the one hand there are people who think that "black economic empowerment" should stop because it's causing reverse-discrimination towards young white South-Africans who were born after apartheid and therefore have nothing to do with it.

On the other hand the reverse argument is that although many young white South Africans have had nothing to do with apartheid directly, many of them are indirectly better from it - eg - the suburb/area they're raised in, the business connections they have, etc.

I don’t have a concrete opinion on this, because I’m not South African. However, being an Australian, I can see how important the public apology to the indigenous Australians was.

Before the public apology was given, many (particularly older generation Australians) disagreed by your line of argument – which is that we shouldn’t apologise for something done by people in the past.

It’s true that the atrocities committed towards Indigenous Australians are in the past, but where the Indigenous Australians are now is a result of all that has happened to them. To these people the apology goes a lot deeper than just a symbolic gesture. It's a form of closure that begins and allows the healing process.
Haroun and the Sea of Stories :)
I'm actually sick of reading countless shallow reviews that just reiterate the crap that you can find by booting Snow Leopard on your own. This article has an amazing amount of information that has not been previously publicized in detail.
For those of us who are particularly introverted (contrasting with shy, though, together, they could be a double whammy), this ideal has never existed and probably never will.
Free software contributions.

Nothing else comes close to contributions for demonstrating passion, coding ability, and communication skills.
Performance in Factor, Java, and Clojure
That's less applicable for customer development.
I think you just get an account and upload your stuff. CPAN has a lot of great stuff it also has a lot of crap. That's how it's supposed to be.
The article wants to portray Paulson as a likable guy. However, I will never forget that he help his old firm Goldman Sachs steal trillions from the pockets of the American people. For this is what he should be remembered in the history books.
And don't be put off by the slog through the first 100 pages or so.. it does have a pay-off.
This is great except one still has to manage on a machine by machine basis. Not scalable. Why do we move the ball forward with cloud computing only to go right back to old habits?
It sounds like you're saying replace the space limit with a time limit. Obviously you would not want to do that because your competition could shut you down pretty quickly. Perhaps you mean to add a time limit in addition to the space limit. You would have to tell that to prospective users in advance and that might increase their hesitation to register. I don't use the service but, if there was a publishing component to it, then you would want free content as a way of attracting others.
Hey, I've got no problem with this type of marketing.

Though personally, I'd rather just send $10 to a local charity. (Here's one here in DC that does fantastic work: http://www.miriamskitchen.org/HELP/Donate/tabid/67/Default.a... )
Having no time to check up on the sources, I would say that my only objection to the overview of the study is the comparison of "what 'organic' _might eventually_ be able to produce" with conventional agriculture as if it were a static target and presenting current production as if it were a sufficient long-term target. Organic production methods might be able to provide a theoretical caloric output that is equal to 180% of current conventional agriculture caloric output? Well done, but if global population is going to increase by 50% within 50 years this approach is not good enough.
A re-read of the Wheel of Time series - kindof following along with the tor.com re-read (Which is worth checking out if you are a WoT fan). Going to push through the last 4 books in the next 2 months as Book 12 is coming out in Nov.
I always love John's OSX reviews; I've been hitting refresh compulsively for the last few days, reloading the URL where it would be.

What I find interesting is what he chooses to cover and not cover- The review is 23 pages, which is quite a codex, but choices had to be made.. There is a page dedicated to the specifics of GCD's C interface, but only a paragraph about the revised Services design.

In all, I think that Ars does a wonderful job with these reviews, and like 10.6 itself, a lot of the depth is built on top of previous (excellent) releases.
For example, we know that John thinks the hybrid finder, which is neither Spacial or truly a file browser, is a strange beast, and he's linked to his epic discussions about the finder in the past. In this review, all that is needed is discussing the changes that bring us into SL, and the review does that well.

I've joked to my friends before that sometimes I'm more excited about the Ars review of a new release than I am about actually installing it, and the new version delivers as promised.

Snow Leopard looks to be doing a great job in laying the foundation for the next few years of OSX- It's interesting to watch how the relationship between the iPhone and Mac code continues to evolve.
This does more good for people than being told to Get Firefox.
Bill Hicks's Principles of Comedy
Why is Posterous grouped with Twitter and Facebook in the title?
Sanctioned by EVERY government on Earth?!? I'm not sure where you're getting your facts from, but from what I've read there have been many cultures, particular in the East, where homosexuality has been acceptable.

In India homosexuality had only recently been decriminalised. The only reason it had been illegal was due to an old British rule. From what I know there was nothing in Indian law punishing homosexuality prior to this.

I imagine pre-Islam India must have been even more liberal, given some of the carvings on the ancient temples ...
Not sure what your eating habits are but I went from 140 => 200 pounds when I spent a year mostly in bed (my eating habits were not too healthy to begin with).

Make sure your activity/eating ratio is adjusted as necessary.
Programmers and Startups
Give Android Market some time. Recall iTunes was hugely successful before the iPhone came out. Also purchasing music for an iPod is almost identical to purchasing an app for the iPhone (relatively small price for a relatively small item). So App Store just has a huge lead. Doesn't imply Android won't catch up. After all compare Apple vs MS today to Apple vs MS 10-15 years ago.
Recent submission to blog post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=775616
Lots of introverts have active social circles. I'm not quite sure what you mean.
23 pages when you're gonna buy it anyways.
This has me quite excited about Android's future:
http://www.cnet.com/8301-19736_1-10307673-251.html?tag=mncol...

If it had come a month and a half ago Verizon could have saved me a switch to T-Mobile!
I was wondering this too.

On the one hand, it's for charity.

On the other hand, it's a well known fact that Microsoft is losing browser market share, and that their browsers often lack the features of their competitors. I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that other browsers will support HTML 5 way before Microsoft does.

I'm venting a lot of IE6 frustration here, but I think Microsoft has been holding back the progress of the Internet for the last several years. Standards could have evolved so much faster...

EDIT: I'm a little cynical. And for those people who will vote me down and go on about how it's for charity: Microsoft is losing browser market share, and Google is rolling out a browser-based OS. Do the math.
Damn -- now I'm going to have to get Object Oriented Perl.
Reading "Q for Mortals." Highly recommend it for ideas for your next Antlr project. Whitney is a sharp character.

Also trying my best to read some fiction - it's gotten progressively more difficult to do over the years (the programmer has become programmed). Best I could muster was to re-read "The First 20 Million is Always The Hardest" by Po Bronson. Precious read.
Halfway into "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" and im liking it so far, specially its hindsights on philosophy and rationality.

"Beautiful Data", a couple of chapters, i like the "Beautiful" series cause you can take any chapter as a more or less isolated topic.
what you've sold in the past, and how much of it.
"Dreaming in Code" was ultimately so depressing I couldn't finish it.
I followed the language of Beazley's slides on Python coroutines: a 'generator' is a thing like this:

def g():
for i in range(10):
yield i

and a 'coroutine' is a thing like this:

@coroutine
def c():
while True:
x = yield
print x

The code in the original post is like the latter. g() produces successive outputs when you call .next() on it; c() consumes successive inputs when you call .send(input) on it. The g() style has been in Python longer and is better integrated into the language -- you can say "for x in g():", for example. That's the point I was making, maybe too tersely.

Your point 2 is still correct, though there's a PEP to make trampolining to work around it work nicer.
Real metrics showing how kickass of a job you previously did in a similar position.

If you are just starting out, then your ATTITUDE towards customer development. Again, emphasis on measurable results.
It was an amusing anecdote that started with a harsh indictment of anyone who likes Ayn Rand's writing. Are you sure you didn't expect people to be offended at what you said? Are you, perhaps, being a little disingenuous here?
It may surprise you that words have different meanings depending on the context they are used in. Chemistry and agriculture are two different fields, each with their own version of some words.
To a certain degree he does have something. Big companies CAN work on problems startups can't. Lots of people can come up with ideas, but certain concepts aren't going to get huge VC funding easily if they are complex and require infrastructure. More complicated = More likely to fail. Having to establish that infrastructure is just one more potential failure point.

Google acquires startups that they think are interesting. Maybe they can have it both ways to a certain degree.
The real payoff in that book for computer science oriented people is the end, where Dawkins basically invents memetics as a field of study.

The Art of War is good, too, though.
Best advice: "If it floats, flies or fornicates, better to rent it than own it."

I wonder how Dennis would feel about the fractional ownership model for each of those items.
Just like a nice recursive call, the article you link to relies on a lot of information from the Soil Association which the parent article is refuting.

I agree that organic is not the same as 'low externalities'. Pricing in all the externalities would be the best thing.

As for the 'non-externality' costs the may be some extra demand for land but for that happen the demand for non-organic would have fallen significantly - most likely faster than supply. So in the short and medium term the prices of non -organic would actually fall.
Me too. I am struggeling to get through it though.
- SICP by Abelman, Sussman, and Sussman

- The Black Company I: Glittering Stone by Glen Cook

I try to stick to two books at a time -- one fiction, one nonfiction.
I'm one of the ones that has too many books on my reading list.

Programming in Scala - Odersky et al.
Code Complete 2- re reading, its a good read actually
Godel Escher Bach - Hofstadter
Go It Alone (http://www.brucejudson.com/) by Bruce Judson

You can read it free online.
Paul Graham: I'd like to encourage you to write up any insight you may have had not about startups. Your essay about high school (the one that compares the assiduousness of high school students to Navy Seals) was one the most helpful and insight-dense things I have ever read.
The adsense text classifier caught too many F-words; it now looks like porn to the machines. AdSense doesn't deliver porn ads or serve ads on porn, or otherwise vulgar websites.
Wikipedia's information about it confuses me. It says xcompmgr is a window manager, but it says it "does not replace any existing window manager". Does this mean it would replace AHWM, or that it would just add compositing to AHWM -- or something else entirely?

Also . . . what about it is difficult to "stomach"?
I've been cranking out reasonably full-size games every 8 weeks with a few guys for Blurst.com, so we're in the idea generation phase pretty frequently (Off-Road Velociraptor Safari, Minotaur China Shop, Time Donkey).

As a general statement I think it's fair to say that game ideas are worthless. If you want to get semantic on it, though, I think the problem is that most people think theme/treatment/context ideas are game ideas ("You wake up in an insane asylum with no memories").

If you define a "game idea" as something that clearly states what the player is actually doing, from second to second, then I think game ideas have worth. People who demand NDAs just to hear their brilliance as still full of shit, obviously, but ideas distilled to the brink of execution have merit, and can be bandied about in discussion in a useful way.

Of course, boiling a game idea down to that level of granularity is quite hard, so if you have that done you've done much of the mental clarification already.
Ah, but if one aspires to an ego the size of Howard Roark's, he wouldn't be offended by anything whatsoever.
I also started reading the same sometime ago. After 60 pages or so I put it down. It may be a good book (everyone keeps telling me that) but life's too short to try everything I don't like. :)

Currently on Simoqin Prophecies and the Camel book ( a fre chapters). Both are highly recommended.
> Computational Pharmacokinetics

Woa, this sure sounds geeky. What is it about ?
sorry Snopes should have been in there too.
Better a few hunger stricken souls than install IE 8