skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Becuase the university signs my paycheck, not the state. Some of the money to fund me comes from Federal grants, some from federal contracts, some from private contracts, some from private donations and some from state funds. (I work on several projects). So while the institution is subject to state regulation, and can be claimed by the state it is a separate entity. Thats why claiming government is wierd, it is not the only source of my income. Most people in academia have a similar mashup of funding.
I was driving on CA-46 last week and had 5 mins of driving at 55mph left to get onto I-5. Suddenly, all traffic just stopped. I booted up google maps on my iphone and saw the remaining segment (to I-5) yellow. After a few mins, it had turned to red, and I hadn't moved an inch. It was very impressive to see the data change in such a real time fashion. Of course, it was too late for me.
Regarding cookupbooks specifically, you already can read the entire book online, just click the magnifying glass associated with a particular book. And as mentioned, we're working hard to improve the user interface!
but it's important to understand that the people never elected Tony Blair to the position of Prime Minister either.

That's legally true but pragmatically false. Sure, we vote for the MP to represent our local seat and then a majority of MPs results in a leading party, but that's not how elections are pitched.

Back in 1997, we had a worse than useless Conservative party headed by John Major and a fresh, rebranded "New Labour" party headed by Tony Blair. People voted for Labour MPs in their droves to get Tony Blair into power. He was not technically democratically voted to the position of PM but that was considered the natural result of voting Labour.

We did not, however, vote for Brown in any form, legally or pragmatically. Indeed, it was not even considered at the time that he would be a successor. The same situation occurred with both Callaghan and Major but I personally feel the British public has less of a taste for the old school Westminster style and has a better feel for the almost presidential style brought in by Blair.
If you read this columnist, Google AdSense thinks you might be a birther
I would ask directly, then. For example "How many people work in your company?" or "In how many countries does your employer have offices?"
Yeah, that's the same reason why nobody makes money or develops for the internet.
The Truffle Pig and the Waiter: A Tale of Two Sales Strategies
My recent approach to learning Clojure:

-First watched the Peepcode screencast that compresses everything into an hour to get a good jumpstart

-Started reading Programming Clojure

-While converting a ruby app I wrote last month into pure Clojure

So far I've been very impressed with Clojure. I was already sold on LISP + functional programming from reading SICP.

I'll be using it in production over the next year.
Sure, but don't discount the fact that having the VC money is a non-trivial component of the company's success in many cases. So it's not just "is this a good team/business" but also "is this a good team/business and do they have enough runway to reach profitability?" The VC money doesn't change the first half of that equation, but it changes the second half.

In other words: would you join an awesome team that's about to run out of cash? How about joining an awesome team with an 18 month runway? The answers to those are going to be very different.
Yeah, I do the downvoting thing from time to time.
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Anyway, I hate to "game" sites like StackOverflow, but there is no incentive not to.

So why do you do it?

Your "hate" doesn't overshadow the good feeling of getting a lot of points?
Myspace was born of total ignorance.  And porn and spyware. [podcast]
Wasn't this the whole point of Dash Navigation? I love how old companies can totally obliterate new startups' differentiation with a quick, single stroke. Now, Google Maps needs to be better integrated with turn-by-turn directions (like Dash was) to make this a real killer.
I never claimed that the punishment was right, only that it should be illegal. I'm in favor of whatever punishment helps the addict and society at large the most.
There are iPod owners out there with tens of gigs of music (the biggest iPod has room for 120 gigs of music). To say that iTunes can't handle that is to ignore this observable fact.

It not striking your fancy is not the same thing as it not being a music manager. It is one, it is even the most popular one, regardless of your personal opinion of how good it is.
Ask HN: What health insurance company do you use?
We're a small, angel-funded company of three. Two are still insured from school, one is uninsured. Does anyone know of a reasonable small group policy? Or should we consider something like tokic.com for each of us individually?
For example, I figured everyone would continue to write one-line responses, making this thread continue in its pleasing diagonal venture across the page. Guess I was wrong.
Apparently the mass graves were indeed a false quote I found, sorry about that. I was at times drawn into the discussion and started to look for some facts (especially on all the anti-revisionist web sites I was pointed to). But ultimately I ended up deciding that the subject is not important enough for me to invest the time. It would have to be a full time job, and I am not a historian.

I am sorry I mentioned the issue.
Where do they get the money for their large advertising campaigns? Does the game really make up for it in money?
> You know the answer to this question.
> Wow- it is so impressive that you run
> two businesses in two industries. You're
> my hero.

Well, my sarcasm detector just got triggered, but I'll answer seriously anyway.

How many times have you been trying to complete a form, only to discover that there aren't enough places for your phone number, or your name is too long to fit in the provided box, or the field for the address will only take 32 characters, etc. It's a pitfall that so many web sites fall into again and again - not anticipating the wide range of inputs that it will have to deal with.

This is a major issue, and I don't think I've ever seen it covered properly in a college/school/university course. The OP is doing a project - it's maybe a good thing he sees this problem early and learns to deal with it.

And I really don't see why you had to be so obnoxiously childish. Perhaps you could explain what you resent about my running two businesses in two different industries. After all, if you're an employer programmer you probably take home more money than I do.
Twittering from the Womb
Wired isn't ambiguous in the way it chooses to package this article: a title like "Why Craigslist Is Such a Mess" and an "Extreme Makeover" section showing how it should look like (at least one of the suggestions resides firmly in Designerland, where users upload nice little arty photos of their bikes, all in the correct size and never a goatse image..)

As for the text itself, I'm still not sure if it's an intentional self-parody or whether Wired seriously claims CL is closed and distrustful for letting anyone post anonymously rather than requiring them to register and partake in some "networking features", or that it has less value for not having tags.

I find the conclusion that all this has to do with "Newmark and Buckmaster's wariness about what humans" particularly weird. Personally CL's approach of getting out of the user's way seems a lot more humane to me than forcing the latest UI trend on your users because the CEO read about it in last month's Wired.
I don't know enough about it to comment. It's just the kind of criticism I have heard in discussions. Sorry for bringing the subject up at all.
Following along the Dawkins theme from the essay: Dennett (Freedom Evolves, or others) takes the implications very far. I suppose there's nothing that will cause a little mental revolution, but it's definitely "consciousness raising".
Not Getting What You Want? Time To Change Your Actions
rags, I wish you still wrote your blog. There was no better place to find mind-blowing stuff like that. You talk about different things because they're important, not because you were trying to be contrarian to get attention.
Supply demand.
It seems like this author has several unrelated points:

* some people post boring updates;

* it's easy to miscommunicate emotional content;

* some people overshare;

* SNSes collapse our multiple public masks (heavy metal and kittens) into one;

* dumping people is more painful.

They also include a single sentence about the advantages of SNS web sites.

So what's the article about? Why did they feel the need to write a 1300-word editorial about every negative aspect of social networking sites? It seems weird to devote 1300 words to the negatives and one sentence to the positives.

The author's experience is fairly different from mine. My Facebook signal-to-noise ratio is somewhere around -5 to -10 dB. Here are the most recent interesting bits from my Facebook stream (just the front page):

* A friend's youngest daughter is about to go off to college. Major life transition for him.

* Another friend, who's mostly famous for his anti-spam efforts, is DJing at a community radio station I hadn't heard of before. Add to my mental list of friends involved in community radio.

* A new online video site called Magma has launched and been recommended by someone trustworthy.

* Some details on my ex-stepson's microbrewing experiments. Sounds like he's getting pretty serious about microbrewing, and would be a good person to ask if I have questions.

* Another friend, who I thought was going to be at Foo Camp this week, is still in Montreal. Maybe Foo Camp hasn't started yet? I can't find information on the web about it.

* Another friend has decided to get a Singer 6510 sewing machine because the less expensive machines weren't worthwhile. Useful data point for the next time I buy a sewing machine.

* My sister's cousin just visited San Francisco to visit family — but apparently my sister wasn't included in the outing. Maybe she was busy?

* Another friend is having a hard time recovering from surgery a few weeks ago, and can't type. He's not finding Dragon Naturally Speaking useful for coding.

* Another friend is starting her first day of work as a full-fledged lawyer. In Puerto Rico.

* Another friend has just joined a chorus. I didn't know she sang.

None of these are so urgent as to justify a phone call to tell me about them. But they are all very interesting to me, and it's highly beneficial (I think) for me to know things like that about what's going on in my friends' lives.

And then there's the opportunity to respond to people — just to remind them that I'm thinking about them sometimes, but also sometimes to offer my advice or thoughts, or to let them know I appreciated what they had to say.
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The author has some good points, but none of the things he complains about are a required part of OOP.
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Ask HN: Review my Startup -- MyPlenaryIndulgence.com
Idle hands are the devil's tools. I had just enough time between switching jobs to play with GWT, AppEngine, Google Charts API and iText PDF library.

Here is the outcome:
http://www.myplenaryindulgence.com

Web 2.0 implementation of business idea that peaked in early 16th century.

At least this time I don't need to worry about the question: "Nice thing, but what is your business model?" 0:-)

I would like you to tell me what do you think about it? What kind of experience would you like to have while you are buying an indulgence on line? How far is this web site from it? Am I missing something important? Do you have any other suggestions?

Oh yes, I almost forgot. There is a special discount for first 30 customers. You can get 50% off if you type "launch" as a coupon code in the purchase form.

Thanks, Johann.
..such as customer loyalty

...the result of which is usually more profit.
Disqus Forks Into Two Products, Launches Revamped Real-Time Comment System
Jeresig's testswarm released on github
Perhaps this is old news, but I just ran across it.
90 bucks for one of these things? I don't think so.
LOfreakingL.
Peak Oil isn't the issue...it's the declining ROI of its extraction
Also official homepage: http://testswarm.com/
How popular is your API? - Review of apigee.com with screenshots
P.S. - I might have said something that led people believe he is bringing investment too.
Well, He is NOT.
He is NOT investing or bringing in money of any sorts.
So more I think about it, it's more like consulting.

Now, what are your thoughts, after I told you guys this explicitly (somehow I thought it was obvious...should have mentioned this in the minus points, now I don't seem to be able to edit the post...anyone willing to help me with doing that....that way whoever reads the post gets the whole scenario.)
Papa John's founder finds his old car
It's in your best interest to contact a broker. They can advise you as to the best way to go and it doesn't cost you anything extra to use them.
2009 Report on Internet Speeds in All 50 States
It seems like people are making the mistake of generalizing from a sample of one. Craigslist does things in a certain way, and craigslist is a success. The latter doesn't necessarily follow from the former.

Sure, it's a lean organization, and sure, that's good. They've cut out a lot of stuff that they can truly get along fine without. But if craigslist didn't exist and you wanted to launch it today, you would never launch the design it's famous for. And yet you'd stand a good shot at real success.

So craigslist has been successful in spite of its design. In the face of the things people like about the site, the design ultimately didn't really matter. I don't know why people can't just leave it there and instead feel the need to infer causation.
Sure, why not? There are plenty of roman ruins to be seen everywhere. Then again, I was just told they are roman ruins...
Betashop: 10 tips for founders
Some updated tips for founding teams.
Michael C. Feathers: Seven Blind Alleys in Software Design
Short transcript of Michale C. Feathers talk "Seven Blind Alleys in Software Design" at the Norwegian Developer Conference
Sorry to "hurt your rep"...I want one!
The US lags behind top countries in Internet speed. It will take 15 years to catch up at this pace!
I wish. Then it wouldn't mean spending ~$160 to visit the doctor and get a prescription if I wanted to try a different medication to treat the same problem.

I do not favor direct-to-consumer advertising of this kind; for one thing it might well create a reverse placebo effect where people believe there's something wrong with them because they're bombarded with lists of symptoms, for another you can't actually buy these medications yourself, as above; for a third, most people don't have the inclination (and maybe not the education either) to read all the small print.
Enforcing Type Returns in Ruby with Pedant
I've used it before in G.ho.st (http://G.ho.st) and I'm using it again in a new project I'm building.
Well you've got to consider how many computers are on the internet and how much bandwidth a server is capable of handling. IPv4 is being replaced because it's running out of addresses, and there's estimated to be far more computers than currently available IP addresses; we have about 7 devices with an IP in my house, but we still only have 1 IP address as we only have one modem.

So imagine if all 4 billion computers on the face of the planet requested 1 byte of data from one server. That server would need at least 4 gigabytes/second bandwidth, likely higher, to cope. This can, in theory, be done with a DRDoS attack. This scales quite considerably, considering I have about 1MB/S up-stream bandwidth. If every computer in the world transmitted 1 megabyte of legitimate data requests to a server, its fiber connection would likely melt as it would be hitting 4 petabytes of data.

DDoS attacks usually use fake packets to clog up the server, which then it usually doesn't require too much effort to crash a computer. I'm sure with the 3.6 million registered users that even a small percentage taking part in a DDoS attack could easily take down a server and that's without counting on the use of botnets and such.

The internet works like a bridge; the traffic only runs quickly when there's no congestion in the toll booths. If people start getting out their cars and arguing with the person in the toll booths (fake data packets) it won't take long before you've got delays, which then it won't take long until the traffic comes to a complete halt, which is the time you pray the bridge doesn't collapse! Servers are usually reset after a DDoS and business carries on as usual, however I'm sure that's not always the case.
As far as I remember the book The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size makes the measure to 16 bits/sec.

A very interesting read now long ago. I must read it again.

http://www.amazon.com/User-Illusion-Cutting-Consciousness-Pe...
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It's almost September.
I would answer "who knows" to both of those things ('s not like i'm in HR) but I'd still be able to get a sense of whether I was working at a business or a corporation from the culture.
While we're on the topic of conspiracy theories, maybe this is just some sort of scheme to promote dcurtis' adventure in which he'll spend a month running through airports, sitting for hours in airplanes, and sleeping in shitty motels? The guy is nuts! I wouldn't want to bring that upon my person.
They have launched in Sweden, UK and some other countries.

It has completely changed the way Swedes listen to music.

Magazines publish spotify-links (any playlist can be shared with a weblink) etc.

Playlists can be collaborative so that friends can add to them.
Thats a good description, thats what I was really going for.
Based on the number of popular essays Joel Spolsky has squeezed out of FogBugz, you would think it was a revolutionary software project on a par with Engelbart's 1968 demo, rather than... a bug tracker.

I have never used it myself. Perhaps it is the Platonic bug tracker. Still, like Manila or fetchmail, the project itself seems out of all proportion to the mighty river of wisdom that its author has coaxed out of it.
You can still buy it; it's just behind the counter at the pharmacist and they copy your drivers license number when you buy it.
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"I hate to "game" sites like StackOverflow, but there is no incentive not to."

Not being a douchebag is not an incentive?
also, "set -o xtrace" is quite helpful
Why are artists poor?
Oil is one energy source amoung many. Even if gas took twice as much energy to produce oil as you got from burning oil it would still be useful for automotive transportation.
Security of a Web Application
They are essentially the same thing, or at minimum, result in the same thing. The ROI will rise as the use of oil is relegated to more important things than powering cars. Oil is also used as the basis for the organic molecules in pharmaceuticals for example, which many believe serves a higher and more valuable purpose: Saving lives over Transportation.

So, oil will continue to be extracted. Remember, it doesn't take oil to extract oil, it takes energy. The value of oil is more than simply for the production of energy, therefore, as long as uses for oil can be found that are more valuable to consumers than energy, it will continue to be extracted. We will use solar energy or hydro to extract the oil, then package it up into more valuable forms to sell to the public. More valuable that is, than solar power or hydro.
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To infer the opposite truth without investigation or evidence to back it would be equally wrong.

I would put Craigslist's clean/basic design in the list of reasons why it succeeded while others failed. It may be a small % but they certainly didn't succeed despite it.
Peak oil is tied to the cost of oil. The more expensive it is, the more money is spent to extract it. The more money spent, the more advanced tools are available. That makes the effective reserve size greater.

It is an interesting effect of the markets that the price of oil dropping makes the effective reserves smaller.

The problem with the argument here is that EROEI is proportional to the monetary cost of extraction. They largely measure the same thing. More energy means more money.

That is why solar is not worth it yet, unless it is concentrated or heat based. The cost is evidence that you shouldn't buy solar - but also evidence of the amount of energy spent on making cells.

New solar cells can sometimes take greater than the life of the product to recoup the energy spent on creating them. If you live in, say, Massachusetts, or don't clean your panels well, you'll probably never net an energy savings.
It's already back up for me, I don't really get what the purpose of spending money to take it down was.
Print media begins its final epic but ultimately futile attack on the internet before it dies.
Yes! That's the one.

. . . and no, I'm not willing to buy a trackball off eBay. Maybe I should start searching for old stock of these things again, though.
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I used to work on software that did economic forecasts for oil and gas projects, i.e. figuring out which ones it would be economic to develop. At the time, I was surprised to learn that this kind of software wasn't used much in the Middle East. The reason given was that it didn't matter much where you drilled ("oil comes out of the ground everywhere there"). Instead, it was used in a lot of places you wouldn't necessarily think of as major oil, like the US and China (as well as more obvious ones like Canada and Venezuela). Such analyses become more important as oil becomes harder to get out of the ground.
I never claimed that the current war on drugs is effective, only that meth should be illegal. A more effective methodology for shutting down meth production is fine by me.
Terrible textbooks aren't evidence that object-orientation isn't a useful style. They're evidence that it's popular and not trivial to understand. That's evidence that it is useful. Your post is more evidence that it's popular (since you're bothering to write about it even though you don't like it) and not trivial to understand (since you didn't bother to mention any of the important aspects of it).
I wonder how many here prefer txt based communication over talking on a phone, except while driving.

With Facebook you can state something and a conversation may or may not happen. With txt, email or IM you can communicate one to one what's going on now, where & what time to meet up and other conversational subjects.

Due to bootstrapping I got rid of my cellphone and really have not missed it; only once when I had a flat-tire I wish I had one. Now & since then I just carry my iTouch as there is WiFi all around. I'm probably anomaly?
It appears to be a capture of the articles on this page: http://ycombinator.com/lib.html
Sorry...I do not understand this really. What is this for? Why would I pay for it? I am missing somehting...