skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a negative comment on there right now (something about Windows 7 VPC running slower than Vista)
You can set up forwarding using the instructions here:
http://www.wireless.att.com/learn/basics/choosing-features-s...

Note that you will be charged as if your phone is dialing the GV number. When I was in the UK and had forwarding set up, I was charged the $1.79/min as people left me voicemails as if my phone was dialing the GV number.
Antidepressants Target the Wrong Thing, and Only Work 50% of the Time
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Apparently it is possible to do this with PDFs, see khoury's post on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9x2es/hi_reddit...
It really is your two cents, what goes for you does not go for everybody else.

Some people will learn just for the fun of learning.
I dunno. I drink coffee because it good.
What information would a chatbot provide about the founders that you couldn't already get from the application?

Chatbots usually have some sort of factpack that allow them to parrot out responses. Whatever facts you'd want in the factpack would just be the responses to the application questions.

I think it's an really interesting idea actually, but in the general sense of building and training an online agent that could 'stand in' for you in a conversation. I don't see how it solves any problem with the YC application process.
Did that vacuum coffee pot look like some sort of weird drug setup to anyone else? I had never seen something like that.

I don't really drink coffee except maybe 1 cup after dinner once a month or something along those lines but I do drink black tea which probably still does have about as much caffeine as half a cup of normal coffee. However the times that I drink tea probably differ from the times that people drink coffee, rather than drinking it in the morning I usually drink one cup around 5 o-clock.
If you did the same experiment on Jupiter, then the speed of deceleration absolutely would be affected. When you hit the ground, you stop because there is a large force accelerating you upwards. On Jupiter, there is still the same upwards force on you, but a stronger downwards force from gravity, and therefore you will decelerate somewhat more slowly. Not a lot more slowly, since the upward force from the ground is much larger than the gravitational force, but it still makes a difference.

On the other hand, if you're on a planet with more gravity, the ground is likely to be harder since there's more force compressing it together, but that's a whole different issue.
To the extent that it's only a signaling mechanism, though, it doesn't make sense to subsidize it. Encouraging everyone to go to college with the state paying half their tuition doesn't confer any benefit on the public. It just appears to because it's inflating a common metric of intelligence, thus providing impetus for further subsidy, and so on. It's as if the government noticed that people with large diamonds are happier, healthier, and smarter than people without (which they probably are), so they started subsidizing diamond mines for the good of the public.

It might be advantageous for any given peacock to have a bigger, flashier, and more cumbersome tail than the next peacock, but the arms race makes it ever more certain that the peacocks will go extinct if a new predator shows up. Money that's spent on escalating signals is money that could be spent on other things, and once the public cost becomes high enough that people get disgusted and stop respecting the signal (e.g., large SUVs) its value plummets.

I don't think college is at the breaking point just yet, and it might still be rational to get that generic bachelor's. But if tuition continues to rise at its current rate, which greatly outpaces inflation, there will come a day when the bubble bursts.
I HATE how they now obnoxiously suggest who I should write to.
Got degree envy? No worries, you can still make it big.
The periodic table
There have been many studies that look at error rates on hard disks and in DRAM, are there similar studies about how often CPUs hickup?

I don't know of any published results, but anecdotal reports I've heard from the supercomputing community are in the range of one error per 10-100 CPU years on well-maintained (adequate cooling, clean power, and not overclocked) COTS systems. This rate would be much higher were it not for the fact that most die area is used by caches with internal ECC; I believe that some recent CPUs apply ECC to some internal busses as well.

That said, internal CPU bit errors are a problem which must be considered in high-reliability environments -- this is one of the major factors behind interest in byzantine algorithms.
Why aren’t location-based networks growing like they were expected to?
Worse is better is a conscious design choice. Unix/C follow that philosophy but does not mean they are "less designed", but simpler designed.

> Simplicity is the most important consideration in a design.
I have a few tests for people before I can trust them in any professional capacity, and from a quick reflection, I think I developed it to avoid theorists:

Are they able to solve simple logistics problems: How do they deal with missed trains or planes? how do they deal with lack of seats when we go to eat at a busy restaurant? how do they cope with rain, snow, excessive traffic, or crowds if we need to hail a cab? How do they treat bar and waitstaff? how about hotel staff? Are they able to book and change rooms in a sold-out hotel? How fussy are they about limited options for a late night meal? lack of internet? flat tire? a massive brawl nearby? road closures? power outages?

If you want to test someone's will to survive, in this day and age, put them in the stadium part of town immediately after the big game and watch them fetch for themselves and compete for food and transportation, not to mention personal space, with hordes of drunken and volatile masses.

The ones who whine, wince, or the least bit annoyed or confused should be dropped like dead weight.

[Edit: s/smirk/wince]
One thing, if they start charging for service, they better not try to go the cable way and charge for service but still air commercials on their content because most tv channels now offer free viewing of episodes of most of their shows on their website with similar viewing experience to hulu (except for linux users).
I agree that this is much ado about nothing. I would expect that the pay version would remove the ads, or offer content sooner (eliminate the 1 day delay for most TV shows).
They might be real entries, that doens't mean they're randomly chosen. MS probably selected a bunch that made them look good, and then threw in a few that were somewhat neutral to make it look fair (I'm thinking the downloading, what are the new features one)...
Some one should write this and apply to YC.
I thought coffee was an excuse for breaks. I drink when I'm bored or need a short break. I have never ever felt that a coffee can give me a kick not even when I had to drive for 2 days or learn for exams.

On the other hand if I find something really interesting and/or exciting it can keep me awake till morning and I can't wait to get it solved not needing any stimulant food or even going to the bathroom.
No hard data on actual rates but you may find this interesting:

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2108

You might find upper bounds by talking to people who build space-hardened systems.
> How do they treat bar and waitstaff?

That's one right out of my playbook too!

I think it is a major indicator of how people are put together, if they're not treating people that are in a temporary position of having to serve them in a decent way then that speaks volumes about their mentality.

Neat to see that as a more widespread thing.
A very nice earl grey (if you like stronger tasting teas) is earl grey bravo from adagio http://www.adagio.com/black/earl_grey_bravo.html
I just recently dropped my $80/mo satellite bill and switched to Netflix+Roku for the TV and Hulu and Netflix streaming on the computers. If Hulu really does start charging it needs to be a very low fee, I'm not interested in paying any more for entertainment than I already am.
No mention of expenses for passengers. Given transportation to/from the coast, I'd guess a plane ticket in/out of here would be prohibitively expensive in both time and money.

And building a 4 story metropolis underneath doesn't make sense unless there is a reason to visit. Hotels, conference centers and shopping centers, wouldn't be enough, at least for me.
I spent a whole summer looking at that map of downtown London (I was living in the area) and feeling a vague sense of frustration in finding tube stops, restaurants, and local roads. But I could never have identified the specific aspects of the UI that rankled me. I'm glad there are people who can.
I know folks who have trouble giving up cigarettes in part because it's what they do on breaks and there is a social element to it. I used to spend time someplace where the entire staff seemed to smoke and smoking was about the only break activity available. If you tried to quit and went out front to chat with someone else on break, you could guarantee they were smoking. That made it hard for anyone to successfully quit.

So I can see that being a factor with coffee in the work place.
Or allow greater back catalog access. "want to watch that whole season you missed?" it would compete directly with Netflix and Amazon on demand that way.
How did you notice/know you were having serious blood sugar problems?
A Manifesto from the Snake Oil Association (SOA)
Safari doesn't really "support" 1Password. They had to hack their way. Ask the 1Password guy when he'll support Chrome.

Lastpass is already there: http://blog.lastpass.com/2009/10/lastpass-for-google-chrome-.... Though it crashes instantly for me.
You say electromagnetic interactions dissapear at any significant distance, yet they are responsible for holding materials together?

Therefore the rigidity of things around us cannot be caused by the Pauli exclusion principle.

Not true. The necessary condition for rigidity (disregarding amorphous solids) is crystalline microstructure. Subject to that condition, the Pauli exclusion force is responsible for a significant fraction of the rigidity of the material. In non-rigid materials, the atoms (or molecules) have more freedom to get out of each other's way under application of a force, all the while obeying the Pauli principle.

As for volume vs. hardness, for rigid materials, if you accept that the Pauli force is making it much more voluminous than it would otherwide be, I would say that the same force is also making it hard.
Hulu is competing against torrents and DVRs. Their entire value add is convenience. That makes me doubt the viability of a subscription model.

Other ways hulu could make money:

- allow viewers to purchase music played in the show (or even just related music)

- link to the products that have been not so subtly placed in the show. In all likelihood, seeing James Bond use an awesome new gadget will prompt a few people to click a link to see more of it.

- per show fees for things like HBO and showtime shows that cost extra already.

- sell dvds of the TV shows. If I can watch 4 episodes of Sons of Anarchy and am brain dead enough to like it, I might buy the first season on DVD.

Hell, I'd actually consider some of these "content" more than "advertisements".
Demand Media – the Myspace of online content, or blogging by the numbers
Duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=900086
Hehe:

"It’s all deliciously absurd. And according to Paul Eggert, Ben Franklin is having the last laugh:

From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06):
Daylight Saving Time was first suggested as a joke by Benjamin Franklin in his whimsical essay “An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost of Light” published in the Journal de Paris (1784-04-26). Not everyone is happy with the results. "
hi, obviously you have more experience here--I have just provided details straight from memory and did not want to disseminate misinformation and apologize if you or anyone else got that impression.

Many of the lock-free algorithms use CAS native machine instructions, however. What exactly do you mean by "reasoning about them is hard"? Do you mean in formal methods sense, or just difficult to grasp in general? I am just glancing over your ISMM'06 paper which looks very interesting--it seems you are using CAS instructions there, too (which makes me wonder that I was probably too unspecific in my "simplifying locking", which at least for my sloppy thinking includes "lock-free" algorithms too, sorry for that...)
Mobile use is linked to brain tumours
For me to consider paying for Hulu the following would have to happen at minimum...

1. Content in HD

2. No commercials

3. ~ $10 - $15 per month
It's a nice example. Another one I like is "It takes the whole earth to attract this small iron object, but only this small magnet to overcome that pull"
Well, I don't know...

If you postulate beforehand that the ground won't deform, that means it will match any force applied to it, including that of a plummeting experimentalist. On jupiter, the force of gravity is greater, so the force applied to the ground by the experimenter's face will also be greater, but since the ground always matches it, the decelleration will occur in the same timespan (which is in fact zero provided neither the ground nor the experimenter's body deform).

If you do allow deformation, your point is valid. However, the thought experiment is still not accurate as two people of different weight performing the experiment will take different times to decellerate, due to the heavier one having gained more momentum. However, since they would have reached the ground in the same time (Gallileo's finding), they would arrive at different conclusions regarding the relative magnitudes of the Gravitational and Electromagnetic forces.
Microsoft values backwards compatibility ahead of everything else because that's what both users and developers want. Because Apple has never been in the business market, their is very little custom software written for it. They can toss out backwards compatibility every few years and someone will write a new zip utility or port a web browsers. If Microsoft broke backwards compatibility, zip utilities and browsers would be ported too. But companies that have invested literally millions of dollars in their software don't have the time or money to do that.

If Apple were to ever capture (and keep) more than 10% of the market, you'll see that they too will slave to maintain backwards compatibility. Their niche status affords them ability to make the sorts of changes you want.

I don't understand this intense desire for speedy change -- do we really need to replace the desktop metaphor as quickly as possible? Doesn't that just hurt, rather than help, adoption and understanding of computers? Everytime the GUI changes half the planet has to re-learn how to use their computers. If we had more than 3 primary desktop operating systems, all implementing new ideas, the learning curve for users would be impossibly high.

The fact that one operating system won is good for the industry.
You could argue that Atom wasn't a waste of time because it got the RSS people to fix their stuff.

It's a great example of why competition is good.
RSS is alive and kicking, plenty of really big applications depend on it for their functioning. FB, Google News, Twitter and a whole pile of others would be unthinkable without RSS as a service underneath to take care of a good bit of the 'plumbing'.

RSS is not very 'sexy', but then again neither is a transistor.
Story of Linked In Founder
It would be good if they had more back catalog. With Hulu you can't start new series, just continue ones that you're already interested in.
Or to allow streaming to set top boxes. If they want to compete with netflix that'd be a great way to do it. What makes so great netflix (beyond selection and the ability to drop down to a dvd in the mail) is the ability to easily stream to a tv. Relaxing on the couch is a way better watching experience than in the chair in front of the computer I sit in all day.
Something that might have something to do with this is the difference between the DRAM in RAM and the SRAM on the CPU die. On DRAM, the bit is stored as a charge on a capacitor, which is (apparently) susceptible to cosmic ray bit-flipping.
Perhaps SRAM is less delicate in that regard?
A Week with Google Wave
Much clearer than: http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-03-0...
I also like http://www.ptable.com ... it would be great if they would incorporate pictures like this too.
thank you for letting me know. good catch.
The vacuum pot (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_coffee_maker) appeals to the geek in us. The brew is supposed to be more "pure".

I think just like with smoking, coffee brewing is a ritual and people enjoy the ritual just as much as they enjoy the taste and the effects of coffee itself.

I like tea. Recently I have gotten to like this strange black tea called pu-erh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pu-erh_tea). I you like black tea, give it a try it definetly has a unique flavor. Some people really like it, some really hate it.
I quit caffeine cold-turkey around March, because I was drinking too much (effects of tolerance?) and feeling jittery throughout the day, as well as having trouble sleeping at night. Slight headaches subsided after a couple of days.

Now I don't necessarily feel like I have more energy overall, but it is a lot easier to get out of bed in the morning and I feel like my energy levels are a lot flatter and more balanced throughout the day.

Still love the taste of coffee though - decaf soy latte is part of my normal breakfast routine.
Did anyone actually scroll all the way?
The best kind of troll, the one who is correct. Or is that the worst?
Amazon Dumps Sprint for Kindle 2, Embraces AT&T
Try slamming a red bull next time you go dancing. Great legal high ;)
I use the IE Collection for this - http://finalbuilds.edskes.net/iecollection.htm

Every possible build of IE that you might want to test against. It is too bad he got hit by this bug, but he and/or his designer should be looking at the site with the same tools as his customers. Thanks to non-standard standards you really can't trust that anything you make is cross-browser until you confirm it.
Why no commercials? People pay for cable TV and almost every channel has them (save premium movie channels).
Steep Decline In Americans' Belief In Global Warming
I think that the location based networks are probably growing how you'd expect.

The exemplary demographic willing to have their location disclosed (with the biggest upside from doing so) is the 16-25 year old groups of mutual friends that live close together.

I'd expect the adoption rate to grow over time, but not as quickly as the more anonymous social networks.
Coffee stimulates brain activity across the board whereas ADD treatments such as Ritalin and Adderall target just the specific parts of the brain used in learning and for concentration.

So does juicing your entire brain increase concentration? My money is on no. It just gives a good energized feeling and the illusion of being more focused.

Drink coffee because you enjoy it not as a productivity hack.
And if you're using paper filters you might as well get yourself an AeroPress. Great coffee with tiny paper filters.
I worked through Assembly Language for the PC(http://www.amazon.com/Assembly-Language-Brady-programming-li...) in highschool. You start with the basics and at then end you have a working hex editor, for DOS anyway. In terms of programming knowledge gained it was more than any college class I took, heck more than most college semesters.
I've got a more interesting question: Is RSS the best technology for delivering daily reading?

I tended to think so and I have been an avid user of Google Reader, which diligently delivers a new stuff to read every day.

But after some time I discovered one negative side of feed reading - namely, it fosters the attachment to always check whether there is something new to read. For example, I go through all my feeds, and then one hour later I again would check whether there is something new. Of course, everything can become an addiction when one does it too much, but in case of RSS, it seems to me that it is something innate in this technology. Simply, the way it works it might create a feeling of "obligation" to clear all unread feeds.

Currently, I am working on developing another system, which would deliver interesting stuff to me more efficiently and my ultimate goal is to get rid of feed reader. For same websites I read daily like HN, I am now using old-fashioned bookmarks.

Then, there are some other areas I want to follow, for example, "minimalism". Now, instead of subscribing myself to 10 feeds about minimalism and check them several times per day, I am now using twitter search and services like Tweetmeme. The rationale behind this is, that if someone writes something worth reading, it will almost sure be retweeted. At least in my case, I think the future is to use some service built on twitter to find what is being tweeted, without being psychologically shackled by "subscriptions".
Well, I think lots of people feel smarter with a better programming language. For instance, my ability to come up with better solutions is better when programming with Clojure than with PHP. It's like that saying, that perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

(Of course, I don't put any stock in IQ; it's just a saying.)

So maybe a more charitable view is that these people (who think Java is too constraining) wish to be smarter than than they currently are. And anyway, who wouldn't get a little frustrated with all the childproofing features in their everyday tools?
The why may be a matter of whether you own a smart phone or not. People tend to have more desktops/laptops than smart phones. I believe most location based networks rely on smart phones capabilities. For example before I didn't have an iPhone, so I didn't have a loopt account, now that I have an iPhone I use loopt. Other social networks are easily accessible with either phones or computers therefore a greater user market.
Not a duplicate exactly, but carrying the same message.
Because if I wanted to watch commercials I'd pay for cable and get a DVR to fast forward through them. Sure there are commercials on most cable TV but that is because there is no alternative. If hulu turns into a cable tv provider there is no compelling reason to choose them over cable/FIOS. Also I've been told that Netflix currently offer unlimited streaming in HD for a pretty low price commercial free.
Number of times author mentioned he went to Harvard: 4
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+1. Got a Samsung BR a few months back that does Netflix and Pandora streaming. I've used the Netflix Watch Now since it came out a few years ago but I watch far more now than I ever had before. Contrary to conventional belief, their selection is really rather good. It of course wasn't always this way. But when they inked a deal with Starz that helped a lot. It also has always carried a lot of TV-On-DVD selections.

We use cable far less than before. I get free basic cable from my Association. The absolute only reason I haven't canceled is the HD content. Netflix BR selection is still sparse and there is no streaming HD.

When the day comes that I can stream HD, i'll be canceling my cable. Doesn't even have to be 1080. I'll settle for 720. And I'd be happy to pay $20-30 a month. It would be cheaper than Cable and I could use it away from home. Sign me up.
Pointing out the long-term benefits of something without acknowledging either the long-term or short-term(which aren't really short-term if you continue to use it in the long term, but simply take effect sooner) costs doesn't justify any conclusions about whether the benefits typically outweigh the risks.
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What you want is a new and innovative OS that is also backwards/cross compatible and standards compliant?