skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me, it suggests that they don't think the recipient's time is worth paying for, which isn't the same.
Well they got a good deal, but it doesn't strike me as an intrinsic strength in the product itself. I think they traded a product weakness for making money, just as if they had used cheaper materials or lower-quality processes.
bump:~ yan$ ps waux|wc -l
69

Minus the header line, so 68.

Edit: This poll excludes me.
Into the Future: Man and Machines
These responses, with all due respect, remind me of the answers that Linux promoters provide to mainstream consumers when trying to defend that particular OS.

They don't address the core need that the consumer has, which is a whole product that just works. Apple, at the moment, is doing a far better job.
Since, in effect, he's the one paying to receive the message and, potentially, paying for reading it with his time, I agree with him that his convenience is more important than that of the sender.
I believe that each new update takes up more space.

When my G1 was upgraded to Cupcake, it started slowing down. What I did was I uninstalled a number of apps and deleted a number of photos and my G1 was snappy again.
so sorry to hear this.
> But during the renaissance, critical thinking, creativity, and logic separated and became science.

But modern logic was developed by philosophers in the late 19th and early 20th century. Frege, Tarski and Russell weren't scientists. And it's surely absurd to suggest that there isn't any critical thinking or creativity in the entire philosophical literature since Descartes.

> There is no progress in philosophy,

That's clearly false in some areas. To stick with the same example, our understanding of paradoxes has been greatly increased by the development of modern mathematical logic, which is largely the work of philosophers. To take another, we now have a much better understanding of the possible ways in which the mind might relate to the brain, thanks to the development of behaviorism, functionalism, etc. in the mid 20th century.

In some areas, such as moral philosophy, it's true that there has been no progress if you define progress as consensus. But so what? Would you rather no-one ever thought seriously about moral questions? Just because it is difficult to reach a consensus on some topic doesn't mean that there's no value in thinking hard about it.
>Prosecutors accused her of being involved from the beginning, but Roberson says he isn’t sure

I think I agree with the prosecutors. The set-up sounds like she was in on the plan, taking a stroll with her husband (without the child) so as to be the eye witness in the charade but I reckon they probably made a pact that if he was found out, they would protest her innocence and say he did it behind her back and swam below the frigid water until he reached another dock down stream out of sight. That would be hard to do especially for someone who sounds like he was fairly out of shape. I doubt he got his toes wet. I'd say the dog got a dipping and they said their goodbyes.
Quick comparison between Google's Webfinger and .tel
I used to agree with you, but I think that both people and companies have an interest in preserving the conversation. Not every, or even most, conversations, but certainly some.
I wonder if any of you guys have thought of quitting on something you have been working on for years but cannot do so mainly because of the amount of time and effort spent on it.

Yes I have. I found that one project I worked on for most of my adult life just fizzled out when I realized that there just hadn't been any return on investment there for a long time. Because of the sunk cost, it was indeed hard to "quit," but I got busy with other things until that project got squeezed out of my life.
Totally agree. There is so much vanity & too much noise.

Also, it's very difficult to have an interesting conversation.

It's better to follow interesting people using a reader (i prefer Google Reader)
General concurrent programming is hard because of the shared mutable states and their interdependencies, which are ripe grounds for deadlocks and race conditions. However, there are many successful attempts to solve large chunks of problems by avoiding shared states in user/application code: e.g., actor models (popularized by Erlang) and map-reduce frameworks, which can be used to solve a large class of parallel programming problems.
this is the best designed aggregator i've ever used. it's easy to customize, and it matches my current searching patterns: i rarely look beyond the fold, so if a result is not within the first 3 or 4 results, i'll do a different search or go to other sites (such as youtube or wikipedia, which webmynd does for you). they've focused on the important bits: this is fast, well designed, and easy to customize.
How did it exclude you?
Because there is no option for 61-69
Invitation cards printing, presentation folders printing, folders
I was doing something like this that I called "the ugh2yay project" (a webapp). I abandoned it after some time as I thought there is no real need for it as people will just talk to their friends to feel better. Do you think it will be useful? It had features like ability to save stuff when you are happy (say a hilarious lolcat) to be shown to you when you are not so happy etc...
Robots Evolve to Deceive One Another
Where people live
The comment is a joke on how Readers Digest edits stories.
One important way referenced in the article is to evaluate failures as well as successes for the likelihood of a trait: for example Jim Collins describes certain features that successful companies have, but does not evaluate the pool of losers to see if they also featured the same trait.

Another example is when evaluating various corporate traits against stock market performances, many people will choose a list of companies that exist today and then study their history to identify correlations of various traits. This omits those that no longer exist today, and it is a common problem among, for example, beginning hedge fund equity analysts. Instead, one should study the cohort from a random sample as existed at the beginning of the study, not at the end, and then study their performances from that point forward.
Re: All Programming is Web Programming
61-70
> (”Brunch at Hi-Spot at 1!”) becomes impersonal and meaningless when it’s sent to so many

This somehow happens to all social networks. They try to be more open when what we really need is a closed network. I have > 300 friends on facebook (cause I just can't say no), constantly spammed with meaningless invitations like ("lost my phone need your number," and I barely know the guy/girl) and whatnot that i've finally completely stopped using facebook.

Proud abstainer of facebook and twitter here.
Sorry about that, I fixed it.
In which case you should be using your own shortener if you want to preserve your own links. Or if you're a company scanning other links then you should be resolving the short urls as you receive the entries.
Here's mine:
Becoming a Business Ninja: Mastering What Actually Matters: http://su.pr/1lOe90
Beautifully designed page, very nice looking product website, but they lost me at "Install". Sorry, not going to happen.
Many more since I started using Chromium as my everyday browser.
Why not do both? Some tidbits of information don't merit an entire blog post, but in aggregate they can be quite useful. I do agree with you regarding the noise level, but followcost.com has helped me a lot when deciding whether to follow someone or not.

Incidentally, @newsycombinator on twitter has been one of my favorites, due to the steady stream of interesting links :-)
Do you read business blogs where the author has failed three times without success?

Am I the only one who regularly reads blog posts by an entrepreneur analysing how he's failed and what he would do differently next time? They pop up on HN quite often.
Who is this guy? the next Anthony Bourdain? come one...
Audio White Paper - The VDC Maturity Model - Moving Up The Virtual Data
Capital markets recover but tech must wait for cash
Just in case you didn't find it, "FluidDB high-level description. A fairly non-technical overview of FluidDB." further down in that blog post is probably the link you were looking for.
specialist is an interesting alternative to "tit".
The Get-Started-Now Guide to Becoming Self-Employed
Also, SQL injection being described as "complicated"?
Bing lets you find other domains on an IP
Your Movements Speak for Themselves
Those 5 sites are a plague on the internet. They toss poor workers pennies to churn out reams of forgettable content which clogs up the search results because of the huge authority of those sites. Most of the writers simply research the content at other websites and rehash the exact same ideas. If they even attempt to credit their sources with a backlink, those links are always nofollowed, with pagerank only allowed to pass to related internal pages. The ones that do allow followed links (Squidoo) are relentlessly spammed. The result is bad for users and smaller competing sites. I remember reading on the eHow CEO's twitter page how they produce the amount of words equivalent to War and Peace every day, as if flooding the web with more watered down garbage was doing the world a favor.
Side-projects are always confusing because the answer to "Should you do a side project?" is always "Yes - if that side project will eventually become your main project." Unfortunately, it's almost never possible to tell that a priori. So it always comes out as "You should do side projects, except in the cases where you shouldn't", which isn't terribly helpful.
I don't know if that would be a good startup idea, but it would make for a nice side project to create on a weekend.
Quite a thin piece this one. The interviewer at one point says: "Old-line psychologists such as Piaget thought that children didn't understand cause-and-effect until they were well into their school years."

I'd like to know where they think Piaget said such a brain-dead thing. Piaget described cause-and-effect manipulation behaviour in what he called the circular reaction phase in infants. (Baby cries, baby gets a result; baby cries again seemingly specifically to test whether it gets the same result).
He did. Its right before Ruby and Python.
There's lots of great things. First of all, we have an Open Coffee Club, there's lots of great people there. DevHouse suffered some leadership changes, but they're going strong again. My own HackPittsburgh is doing pretty well, we've got about 30ish members. refreshPittsburgh just announced on their Twitter that they're doing something towards the end of August. I didn't see it on their blog yet. Entreprenurial Thursdays is happening, too...
No... don't. PLEASE don't.
Why I Don't Care If You Don't Use Twitter: because if you don't get it, you just don't get it. It's ok.
This is a wierd perspective. You need users other than developers on a platform to make money selling the platform and the devices. If the company doesn't make money, it can't continue to upgrade the platform and make new devices. Do you really think that a platform just for developers and gadget geeks is even sustainable over the long term? This is a whole new level of crazy...
Android 1.5 might be last version that will fit on the G1 -- bummer
Galileo, four centuries on: As important as Darwin
Am I the only one that thought PG was going to come out as an extropian?
I'd never heard of him before. I like finding his portfolio more than I liked reading this article. I wish there was a directory of sleek, cool designers that I could spend my days on.
There's a link to HN library at the footer. You can browse that at your own leisure.
Not to pick on you, but this is a great example of why open source usability languishes.

Customers don't want to get into the nitty gritty on anything. A stock iPhone "just works" (syncing, videos, etc) without needing anything extra. It's hard to overvalue this.

Second, people love to do feature-by-feature comparisons. I liken this to having a choice between 1) a sandwich and 2) the same ingredients in a blender.

"Oh, the nutritional value is the same! It's easier to eat!" The value of "taste" (literal and figurative) is completely lost -- I don't know how to explain it aside from that. We don't want our food in liquid form, even though the results may be the same. Yet the blender vendor continues to be confused about why people don't want his "identical" (superior?) product.

And that's assuming the products are identical but packaged differently. Dozens of annoyances like "just install this, just tweak that" turn into "Just add salt, just microwave it, just use this spice and my blended concoction will be great!".
> The low just got lower.

That would depend on the wife.
My sense was that he wanted a generalized version of NewEgg. In other words a way to take all the products in the world and be able to create many lenses that view them. The products seen by the lenses could be determined by whatever criteria you / your customer / your customer's customer sees fit. That is how I understood it.

Disclaimer: You have never met anyone worse at following directions than me so that could be a misread.
Any way we can get something like this on a non-Fx browser? I love it, but I'd love it more if I didn't have to leave behind my Safari romance for it.
The part I found most useful is where he quotes Paul Buchheit, and about pleasing that first small set of users. He doesn't tell you where to find them, but at least once you've found them, you can hang on to that through thick and thin to protect your morale (given that morale is what motivates founders not to quit)
i am jack's complete lack of surprise
No one doing anything important uses Twitter.
Android is open source (http://source.android.com/). The hardware is proprietary (AFAIK). People have run MT demo applications.

It's so frustrating when progress gets stuck against someone's greed.

I would actually argue that greed has driven the majority of progress over the last century.
Having everything is not what I want.

I go to Fry's for fun things, Banana Republic for work clothes and Neiman Marcus for gifts for the girls who care about those sorts of gifts.

No website will ever give me all three in a sane format; nor do I care for it to do that. Nor does my mother.
Top 100 Aussie Web Startups Index is Back - August 09 now up
"I wonder how he managed to find time for everything"

He didn't have TV and the internet to distract him. That was one benefit of living in his time.
Good traffic is not the same as exploiting sources of traffic. That's actually called spamming.

There's a lot of code in delicious (or at least there was) to prevent that sort of gaming.
Before the sexy new "HTML5" moniker, that specification was known as "Web Apps 1.0" and aimed to specify extensions to HTML that would make creating richer, desktop-like cross-browser applications possible (largely by reverse-engineering IE's implementation). It was only after Hixie realised how woefully under-specified the rest of HTML was that the spec shifted to the more useful goal of formally specifying all current browser behaviour.

So, in a sense, you have it exactly backwards. :)
Hey, yes - likely same dude! Google John Cramer brings up http://faculty.washington.edu/jcramer/ and http://faculty.washington.edu/jcramer/novels.html
Facebook to face off with new Web rivals
It sounds a little better than "using a relatively trivial attack known as 'SQL Injection'" :p
Brighkite & Layar: Augmented Reality Friend Finding
If he was, he wasn't from this Earth. His painting style is not very modern, much less futuristic. He was a man of his time, though one of extraordinary talent, interests, and energy.
I have to change my username and pass for my $7/month Backpack account just so 37s can bundle their underfeatured software? This sounds like a good excuse to learn a new web framework by building a Backpack clone.
California users file civil suit against Facebook
More academia than government, but mostly on government's money.
He doesn't use Twitter because he can't rattle on and on for paragraphs saying what he could say in 140 chars or much less.
Talk about survivor bias: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1165768/The-man-surv...
Virtualization: The Next Step is a Big One
There's a very good reason for that.. it would cost too much to have a car available everywhere it would need to be.
Squeaking by on $300,000
It seems less like a luxury and more like a burden, but, then, I love the suburbs.
In Lisp: http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~meidanis/courses/mc336/2006s2/func...

In Haskell: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/H-99:_Ninety-Nine_Haskell...

I found that actually solving these in Haskell reduced to "how familiar are you with the standard library"". It seems to be very similar in Python.
37signals specializes in "punt to later" problem solving.

It's why I tear my hear out while using other company's basecamp installations and continually run into bizarre failure modes and lore-based work-arounds.

Accordingly, I think there's room for a 37signals that works. I'd sign up -- although I'd probably want to host it locally for our 3rd party partners to use -- so perhaps you should consider my opinion on web-hosted services slightly suspect.
Paul Koenig: The Entrepreneur’s Risk Matrix
"Laura Steins doesn't mind saying that she is barely squeaking by on $300,000 a year. ... By local standards, Steins occupies the lower rung of affluence -- the rung where every dollar now matters."

My heart bleeds for these people. Oh the injustice of it all!
I'm getting really tired of people saying, "just use Twitter, then you'll get it and you won't know how you lived without it."

I tried, but I still don't get it. If I am just not using it "correctly", perhaps someone could enlighten me as to what I'm looking for?
John Carmack on keeping id small
Forex Trade Robot Fraud That Promises Millions
Okay, fair enough, but I have a soft spot for Reader's Digest. When I was growing up in a small country a long time ago on a continent far away, Reader's Digest was a window into american life in easy-to-understand English. The coupons were for unimaginably weird stuff like Jello (I had no idea what it was, but the colours looked neat) and a zillion different kinds of painkiller (we just had aspirin). The stories were full of bizzare-to-me pre-occupations, like how to chose the right dentist.

And I still remember some of the funny stories. Here's one for any of you doing user support:

Two older folk are traveling and end up in this bar. It's packed, the music is so loud the poor waitress has trouble getting the orders right and the clientele is a bit rowdy. When the waitress comes to take their order, the old lady sympathetically says "My, you have a lot patience!" The waitress drops her voice and hisses "Shhh! We're supposed to call them customers!".
I wrote a 2D real-time spaceship shooter in Python with PyGame (called Ganymede, maybe a link from my site) and found the performance excellent. Most of the hard bits are done by native code or hardware anyway. Plus your application architecture has a big impact on performance. And number of polys or entities, etc. Perhaps trying to write a state-of-the-art 3D FPS would yield poor performance, is that more what you were talking about?
I have actually found it too easy to start things and equally easy to just let them fall away. What I have found distinctly difficult to do is actually finish something I've started.

I have enough half finished projects to keep a team of 50 busy for months.
Why I don't use techcrunch:

Its always about twitter.
Do you mean "any company that accepts credit cards" or "banks that issue cards"? In the first case, they care about security because breaches like this get them in hot shit with the banks. And the banks care because they have to refund the fraudulent charges. They probably don't care too much about your privacy, but they definitely would prefer to keep credit card numbers safe.

Also, the usage of firewall is totally appropriate. The firewall kept the bad guys from connecting directly to the database, so they had to bypass/penetrate via the webapp.
Reminds me of a quote often attributed to Cicero, Pascal, Twain etc.

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
Re: @newsycombinator

But then you've thrown out the voting and the comments, which is the whole reason I come to news.ycombinator.com.

Did this article get 100 points or 10? Does it have 50 comments or 5? Time is precious. I need context!
I don't use Twitter, but I do update Facebook a few times each week. I enjoy the mental process of distilling my message down to its kernel.

This comment was much longer before I clicked "reply".
The simple 13-line Haskell solution to P27 is an interesting contrast to the 27-line Python solution with its two layers of indirection. The Haskell solution is much more declarative. (If you ported some of the Haskell Prelude to Python you might be able to write something similar, though without the nice List Monad syntax.)
"people tend to react fairly violently, because it runs counter to a lot of their intuitions."

When will they ever learn? Wasn't it Thom Watson himself who said the world only needs about five computers? (Sorry, no record can be found.) Or Gates who said 640K is enough RAM for anybody? (Sorry, no record can be found.)

Many great things are counter-intuitive. Like, beating the House in Vegas. But, then, when they react violently, can't you show them a simulation that demonstrates that their intuitions can be beat?
Brevity is a skill.

Different things require different amounts of space to adequately explore, and there are different depths you can go to for different audiences. This post was rather long, but I agree that 140 characters is generally too short.

As an example, just look at the abuses of language that occur so that people can fit everything into their 140 character limit.
I'm enjoying my first SF (well, Emeryville actually) summer after three years in Sacramento, where "summer" means "90 straight 100+ days". I think it's nice that even on the hottest day of the year I can still walk around outside for an hour without feeling like I'm going to die of heatstroke.

Unless you're planning a day at the beach, I think "hot" is overrated (and I say that as a Sydney native).
My reason for using twitter is on my site that provides vital information on weather, its the easiest way for me to currently connect to all my followers cell phones...
I've heard of SQL injection attacks to log into websites, but this new use on firewalls is unprecedented! This man is a hacking GENIUS. We have our next Kevin Mitnick right here...
I'm from Pittsburgh. Moved back 4 years ago after living in Boston for 6. Moved because I believe that Pittsburgh is a great place to raise a family. My wife is a stay at home mom and we couldn't pull this off in Boston.
If you look hard enough, you'll see quite a few startups.
I'm working at one now, Conviva.com
Finally someone said it, tr.im comes off as a bunch of whiners. Also, it takes balls accusing someone of a publicity stunt when the only reason anyone cares about tr.im right now is because they pulled the best publicitiy stunt of 2009 ("Were shutting down....Nope, just kidding!")
If you don't get it it's fine. Nothing special, nor good nor bad.