skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sitepoint has great books about design. Although they are geared towards web design, most of the principles are universal. There's also the obvious recommendation, "The Non-Designer's Design Book."
The Frontal Cortex: Jung and Dreams
Rebranding fail: 10 logo changes that fail to change consumer perception
Benefits of using Clojure (Lisp) in web/enterprise development
Some of the things the commenters find surprising really aren't. For instance that starting a business when married is risky. If anything I think its exactly the opposite. My wife started her first (non-tech!) business about a year after we were married and a large part of the reason is that if she had done it while single, she would not have had health insurance. She's now on her second business venture.

A single data point to be sure, but it does lend credence to the idea that losing health insurance is a significant factor in people not quitting their jobs to go out on their own.
How to keep visual design consistent while A/B testing like crazy
Yahoo Open Hack (Day) NYC Oct 9-10
Physical Evidence Shows Sleeps Role in Memory Formation
Oh yeh I agree. Thing is though - they will still sell buckets of them.

To be honest though I think Arringtons proposed price for the Crunchpad was crazily low (and it seems his initial estimate was too low). That had to be his competitive edge: he cant begin to compete with Apple on brand and I seriously doubt he has the capacity to compete in terms of baseline discount (i.e. how much discount you get for bulk manufacture).
Worse - error 500. ;)
If only it were that easy. As it turns out, default behavior is sometimes to drag (as when you have already selected text). In my experiments this business of preventing default became quite frustrating, as sometimes you want to stop drags but not selection, or vice versa, but end up stopping both.

The correct way to do this is to allow the programmer to start a drag. As it stands, it is impossible to do things such as only allow vertical drags and not horizontal drags since the API is completely declarative and takes place on an element-by-element basis.
Russian Billionaire Installs Anti-Photo Shield on Giant Yacht
Everyone must have a CD, even if free
Presenting data on the elements that aren't subject to self-bias would bolster his case - absenteeism and failure to complete homework (as opposed to completing homework poorly), from the list you gave. I'm not sure that he would have gotten much use out of the rest of them, as they would be self-reported in most cases and difficult to quantify in the others.
I had my head examined...
From 2007. Try this:

http://lwn.net/Articles/348445/
If you like the Random Native puzzle, try this one for size!

http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~te233/maths/puzzles/evenharder.htm...
That's pretty cool. Did you go to a private company to get your MRI done or was this something that was covered under your insurance and they just happened to let you keep the data?
Initially, the first point (1. The average and median age of company founders when they started their current companies was 40.) surprised me the most until I re-read the first paragraph and realized that the study was representative of the entire start-up landscape, not just software. This proves that it is never too late to have a profound impact in this world!
Thanks for sharing that - the human body is crazily fascinating and the brain has to be one of the most intriguing parts of it.

Seeing "inside" one's head is a little awe inspiring.
Absolutely. In fact, I think they are possibly some of the most educational posts on here.

Even if you don't want to review the site or provide feedback, you can learn a lot just from reading the comments.
It's truly a work of art
Yikes, definitely not being sarcastic here.

It is an honest comparison of two transforming functions (bschool vs. seed accelerator); the preconditions and postconditions are surprisingly comparable even though the algorithms are quite different.
Saving trees is great, but think of all the dinosaurs that died to make the DVDs.
Sea-Cooled Data Centers?
I'm curious too how you got the data? Did you give you slices like that, and you scanned them?
http://en.flossmanuals.net/CircumventionTools

This could be a valuable resource, too, although it might not cover setting up a large proxy server, it shows quite a few ways to reach that goal.
My favorite is to use Star Trek TOS names http://www.ericweisstein.com/fun/startrek/
Things to Avoid in a Demo
Not quite the same but some years back my parents bought chickens for eggs. A lot of people nearby sold eggs from their house, but my parents set up a stall, put all the eggs out and a sign saying people could take eggs and pay what they liked. They ended up averaging more per egg, even with the freeloaders, than other people were selling their eggs for.. with none of the sales labor!

Back to Derek's story though, yeah, I've heard a lot of bands that were "so so" but I could probably get into their music on CD, but the mandatory $10/$20 put me off straight away even thought I might have donated that anyway!
This is my favorite image btw - my eyeballs look awesome!

http://abstractnonsense.com/mri-images/top-to-bottom/0117.jp...
I'm all for thinking outside the box, but the whole point of a puzzle is to set up a set of constraints and work your way from there. The solution to #1 seems to contradict that spirit - without spoiling it, it's true the description didn't say they couldn't do what they need to do, but it also didn't say they couldn't riot, kill all the guards, and just escape to avoid playing the game altogether...
Maybe this? http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=clarence+thomas+uncle+tom
Actual link is here: http://www.openforum.com/idea-hub/topics/the-world/article/s...
A whole new meaning to the phrase "you have beautiful eyes"
Different guy here, also had an mri done. I simply got a cd-rom with the image slices and a software to view them. There's about 600 images if I can recall correctly.
"The Digital Millennium Copyright Act has notable safe-harbor provisions which protect Internet service providers from the consequences of their users' actions." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_harbor

Every legal opinion I've ever read thinks scribd, youtube, etc can only exist due to this law.
Google Docs opens up to search engines
I once figured out it might be possible to 'fold' a martingale so it occurs in less spins. I think the basic idea was making full use of the table limit from the first bet (eg, table limit is 100, normally you'd bet 2 to double the loss of 1, so bet 64), and making full use of the table limit 'bandwidth' before you reach the limit (possibly starting with 64 and halving thereafter to 32, 16, etc).
It was covered under my insurance (which means I'll pay an apparently random out-of-pocket amount between 0% and 99% at some later date, judging on previous uses of this insurance).

They didn't offer me the data, but I asked, and they gave me a DVD full of scan data. Had to do a little research to figure out how to convert that data to jpeg images, but it wasn't too hard - it turns out imagemagick understands the formats involved, and can do all of the required processing steps.
When you get a scan like this, they give you all the slices. When I had it done I got them physically, they might just do them digitally now.

I even got a 3D model of my skull, it was pretty awesome.
I have no knowledge of this stuff but it occurs to me the extension of the idea could be to utilise heatpipe technology to transfer heat DOWN to the ocean thereby removing pumps from the equation too.

Is that feasible? We just had a solar heating system installed on our house that seems to be quite efficient at heat transfer over a few meters - would it work over a few thousand?
Julius wouldn't have the job if Obama wasn't certain this was the outcome.
Development statistics for Linux kernel 2.6.31
Via insurance or private company?

I would really like to do this, but I have no medical reason to do it. I'm just curious about what my insides look like. If anyone knows of a place that will let random joes get an MRI in exchange for money, I'd be interested in hearing about it - as well as how much it costs.
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Would you mind sharing the scripts? Would love to have something similar. :-)
Interesting that the statistics haven't changed a whole lot over the course of 2 years - except that the unknown category is way smaller.
Yes, thank you for sharing. I had a lot of fun poking around your head. I hope that whatever was ailing you has subsided.
I love the example of "one provider blocking access to political content" - that was Verizon Wireless blocking text messages from Naral PCA. That moronic decision, more than anything, is why the wireless carriers are subject to NN.

<nelson voice>Ha ha.</nelson voice>
Also previous discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=808761
I fail to see how the solution to #1 contradicts the plain meaning of the constraints. I think it's an ingenious and surprising result.
Fun paper, but I got pissed off with the first one because it depended on something not stated in the problem; in brief it requires multiple interdependent participants to adhere to a pre-agreed algorithm for searching a data structure whose topology they cannot know in advance.

The solution is interesting and worthy, but the problem as written is poorly stated. I hit the right idea while I was thinking about it but then rejected it because it seemed like an unjustified assumption. More than one of these seem to depend on the vagueness or incompleteness of the problem specification resulting in a meta-solution rather than a formal one.
He's right, immigration is insane. My wife is British, one in several million smart, highly educated, and she could barely scrape in.
Pokemon? Genius!

Well defined, very large set, built-in ordering.
That reminds me of here, my small province, it's harvest time and you see small stands at the ends of lanes where farms are located. Offered for sale is honey, potatoes, corn, turnips, apples etc. often with just a box for the money, a sign of how much it costs and nobody there to make change or watch out for anyone stealing the money box.
"... and make sure that the garage, the basement, and the dorm room remain places where inventors can not only dream, but bring their ideas to life."

Fuck yeah!!!
It's disappointing that Google isn't more prominent on that list given their dependence on open source in so many places and having acquired such deep talent over the years.
I used to work at a clothing store. I always hated (and still do) having salespeople approach me when I first enter a store and pitch the current sales, new items, etc. so I never did that. I did however greet them for three reasons 1) to acknowledge that we see them and are available for help, 2) to let them know I was an employee, which wasn't very obvious with the casual dress attire allowed and 3) to let potential the thieves know we are watching them.

This always pissed off my district manager who would insist on demonstrating to me how to greet customers by basically attempting to instruct them on what to buy. Anyways I don't have any explicit proof that my approach produced better sales, all I know is that when I enter a store and feel like someone is trying to help me solve the problem which prompted me to come to their store, I'm less anxious about buying things. On the other hand when I feel like someone is pitching a problem to me that I'm not interested in solving I just feel disgusted and often leave.

In my mind that roughly translates into building an emotional attachment. It's the difference between listening and talking. Good salespeople make you feel like they are listening to you even if at the end of the day they're just trying to take your five dollars.
SeedcampWeek09: Recession-era startups emerge blinking into the light
There is a way to test the 'advantage' of a gambling method. Take the bankroll (eg, how much money you have now, starting at 0), and the amount bet EVER (on whatever number the bets were), and divide the amount bet by the bankroll. So we've bet 100 dollars, and won 100 - the advantage is 1 (or 100 per cent).

If the advantage over 1000s of spins is < 1.3% (or 2.6%, or 5.2%), you won't beat a roulette wheel.
Better option would simply be the "write us a big fat check" visa. Presumably, the only people who would be willing to pay, say, $50,000 over the course of five years would be those who can make enough to make it worthwhile. It would also get rid of the perverse incentives related to having to stay with the employer you got the H1-B from.
> "race" and ancestry are not directly related

Of course they are.
Tightwads And Spendthrifts Attracted To Each Other
I don't need a whiny top 50 [insert inane opinion about inane subject here] story. Bad OP!
I work at a large university with a fairly flat domain. This means just about every computer is is name.university.edu, and every computer needs a name for the central database. The hardest part about this naming is avoiding conflicts. Most "common" naming schemes were taken two decades go, so adding a little prefix allows me to reuse a lot of names. Basically, adding another prefix exponentially grows the name space.

I opted for the most boring naming system because it made logical sense. [department abrev]-[PI abrev]-[usage abrev][Number]. This leads to names like ee-she-s03 for the third server for the Sheron group in the electrical engineering department. I can always create aliases for stuff that's commonly referenced.
I'm just making a difference between the goals and the means to achieve those goals. The goal is to produce the goods and services we want. Trading is a means to do that efficiently, similar to computing.

Computing, just as trading, has no intrinsic value. It has value only insofar as it achieves its goals. I doubt that trading has been achieving its goals in the most efficient and effective way possible recently.

In 2007 the financial industry in the US made 70% of all corporate profits. Obviously, something was out of balance and it's rebalancing now. Part of that rebalancing will no doubt be a shift of labor away from that bloated financial services sector.

I don't think this critique should be taken as offensive or disparaging at all.
How can you write an article called 'Amazon’s growth is shaking up retail' without discussing, at all (even mentioning), how Amazon has been moving more and more to becoming a platform for other people to sell goods
I once worked at a company that used elements of the periodic table. Was nice in that you had ready made short abbreviations.
I fully agree. The described solution is easily defeatable without violating the other conditions.
He dared to have political views which differed from those of the black establishment.

Like Colin Powell and Condi Rice, if he was a Democrat he'd have a road in every town named after him.
Crossing the Finish Line — The surprising facts about high school GPAs.
Light Absorption by Various Beer Bottle Glass
You can say that you are feeling very bad headaches, I think it's a good reason and it would be in benefit of science and curiosity
TechCrunch assumes the answer is a phone number. But maybe you're on to something. And the answer is something like "QUIT MIT JOIN STANFORD".
Best news in a long time!! At first glance it would seem this policy effects ATT more than Apple. The devil is in the details. It will be very interesting to see how this pans out.
I didn't save my work unfortunately ;-)

I'll have a look when I get home tonight though - there's a decent chance everything is still in my bash history!
Correction to the Roger Federer problem: the setting must be the U.S. Open for the solution to make any sense.
Just because you cash out doesn't mean you have to retire.

Exactly. You put it perfectly succinctly. A big exit should be a beginning, not an end.
It's still very, very possible to earn a living from blogging, but it takes more creativity than just slapping some bland, unfocused articles up on a wordpress installation.
I guess it depends on how you interpret 'lined up'. What if the room is circular, the table runs around the circumference, and you enter the room through a trapdoor in the center? Then your entry point to the list is effectively randomized and on any given trial the algorithm will work no better than chance.
There's every chance I'm being sloppy with the term reentrant. The factor vm obviously isn't functionally-pure as it accepts user input so I guess it can't be called reentrant by that definition.
You can start multiple copies of the program running in different threads though.
The end of growth?
Vortex of Doom
I'm sure the intricacies vary by state and country, but you typically have a legal right to access your medical records, regardless of who pays and who performs the care. In the US, these rights are granted by HIPAA.
DHH's car says so:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/symmetricalism/2860363997/

;)
Awesome :)

Really interesting to see it in an easy to use UI like that.

All we need now is a zoom -> enhance, zoom -> enhance. Down to the neuron level.
Infographics: Who Owns What - A Map of Organic Brands
Game theory started out fun!

But this is a neat thing, good for Yale.
Pirate Bay Appeal Judge Faces Ban, Works For Spotify
I don't get that at all. Why? The scoring at the US Open is not different to Wimbledon as far as I know.
I think also though, the type of people who want a tablet PC, are the ones who will happily pay $1k+ for such a device. It's a niche market. It was never going to be in the same league as netbooks.
I wish I could say that I didn't fall victim to this sort of thinking all through school, but I'd be lying if I say that I hadn't. There is indeed a culture of not pushing to your top potential academically, or at least there was when I was in school.

I seem to have moved on from that, and now work pretty darn hard at learning stuff, but only once I was away from my peers culturally as well as physically. It sucks but it is the truth.
It’s based on a survey of 549 company founders across a variety of industries (that’s my first mistake, as it turns out entrepreneurs start companies other than Internet software companies — who knew?)

Paul the only people confused between the concepts of entrepreneur and starup founder though are people that think all entrepreneurs are startup founders. :)

I'd say that's a "Valley" focused viewpoint, and it shows a lot about how insular "Valley" thinking can be. I don't think it's a bad thing to be reminded that "Start Ups" are a small sub-segment of the entrepreneurial path.
"On average, black students earned a 1.9 GPA while their white counterparts held down an average of 3.45"

The ratio between black and white GPAs = .55

"Ogbu worked from the 1990 census data, which showed that 32.6 percent of the black households and 58 percent of the white households in Shaker had incomes of $50,000 a year or more"

The ratio between number of blacks/white making above $50k/yr = .56
AOL Says Content Is Its Future
My main PC/laptop is always called BOOBIES.

People tend to find it an amusing talking point.
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Don't underestimate the willingness of third world families to send their children to the US under this "fat check visa" scheme, regardless of whether they would have any source of guaranteed income.

Currently Africans are commonly paying over 10,000 euros for an illegal trip to an undetermined European country. The families raise the money for young men even though there's no guarantee whether the kid will end up in Norway or Italy (and often no further than Morocco). Compared to this, a five-year US visa for $50k would be an extremely attractive option. I doubt that desperate young men whose families are hopelessly in debt are the kind of immigrants that the US would want to specifically attract.
I disagree, this is a great puzzle and is pretty well specified.
Scribd sued over copyright
Clarence Thomas is conservative.

He also allegedly sexually harassed a subordinate of his, Anita Hill, though the allegations were never substantiated. This was prior to being appointed to the Supreme Court.
Note that they aren't talking about regulating non-ISPs like Apple. Apple won't sell iPhones to T-Mobile? Nothing to do with net neutrality. Apple rejects (er, not accepts) Google Voice? Ditto.

When it comes to 3G, this part worries me a little: "there may be benefits to innovation and investment of broadband providers offering managed services in limited circumstances. ... I believe such services can supplement -- but must not supplant -- free and open Internet access..."

I can see it now: Crippled 3G? $50/month. Neutral 3G? $200/month (because "that's what it costs us to provide it").
Why ever shake babies?
That's insane.
All you need is a doctor's referral to get an MRI. Go to your doctor and ask nicely, that should be enough.

Once you have that, you can shop around to any hospital or clinic that has the right equipment. MRIs can start off at $1,000, so I hope you really want it!
The U.S. Open is the only grand slam tournament that uses final set tiebreaks. Hence the marathon 5th set (16-14) between Roddick and Federer at this year's Wimbledon.
This is just a total legal farce.

I am fully behind prosecuting them - or rather challenging their tenacity - in court (because I believe they do a lot of more harm in the campaign to bring digital media into this century)..

But dammit you do this properly, by the book and get it really really really right. And if you lose then you lose, deal with it.

You don't make martyrs out of them.
It was a funny reference to Federer blowing it against his final opponent at this year's US Open, despite dominating the whole tournament.
Yeah, adding stickers on the fly is also the way to go.
Nice work! Fascinating to observe the differences between your left and right hemispheres. Are the barrel distortions constant or a function of the scanner's travel? eg move the Z/blue line all the way to the front or back of the head, and the sides pincushion inwards. I couldn't make out if it was constant or not, but the shape of the Y/Red frame seemed to change as it moves from top to bottom.
Ask HN: please review my start-up (baseloop.com)
A new process can be considered very crude threading. I use the database to send messages between the different processes.
As a salesperson in a retail store myself (I'm actually at work right now), I understand completely what you are saying. People can be very cold when you first approach them as they walk in, but you can turn their attitude around instantly with simply being polite and staying out of their way. If you're good, you'll know exactly when and how to engage them.

Steve Blank is a huge proponent of this methodology which he refers to as consultative sales. I encourage anyone and everyone in business to look further into it.
Im not hugely surprised since I saw the Scribd links appearing automatically next to PDF submissions here on HN.

If they made it that easy to break copyright it was only a matter of time before someone sued.

EDIT: I dont mean to say HN/pg are at fault - I just mean they were providing an API along the lines of scribd.com/scrape?url=[url of the pdf] (which is/was what was used here) which scraped and saved the document. That's just asking for trouble.