skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In his case, it'd probably classify under the fallacy of cum hoc, ergo propter hoc given the abuse of statistics.

The seven-digit phone number in the NANP most definitely did not come about because of this; in fact, most quoted phone numbers from the early days of telephones in the US had five digits. You can see parts of the numbering plan reminiscent of this even today.

Case in point, I grew up in a St. Louis suburb called O'Fallon, where the predominant telephone branch exchange was 632. The first two digits correspond to OF as found on the keypad or rotary dial. From there, the extension was five digits. Belleville is very much the same way with the 23x exchanges used there.

If you were calling to someplace out of town, you'd name the branch exchange and then enumerate the extension. For example, to call the Belleville municipal police department from O'Fallon, you'd tell the operator that you're trying to dial "Belleville 4-1218."
You are conflating impressions with clicks.

The only thing that would make such a large difference would make sense is the number of people using adblock is much higher for Digg users than Slashdot users, which doesn't strike me as very probable.
What if you look at those 1 million song plays as advertising. She (or who ever Spotify's agreement is with) actually was paid to advertise her music to 1 million people worldwide.

The article mentions that she sold 4 million records and 20 million paid downloads. Would those numbers be nearly as high if countless people didn't get to try her out through streaming services first?
LOL. This is exactly what I needed to hear in plain simple english. Thanks!;)
I'm referring to two handed chorded keyboards, for example of the type used by stenographers: stenotype machines.

"A stenotype, stenotype machine or shorthand machine is a specialized chorded keyboard or typewriter used by stenographers for shorthand use. In order to pass the Registered Professional Reporter test, a trained court reporter or closed captioner must write speeds of approximately 180, 200, and 225 words per minute at very high accuracy in the categories of literary, jury charge, and testimony, respectively,.[1] Many users of this machine can even reach 300 words per minute and per the website of the California Official Court Reporters Association the official record for American English is 375 wpm."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenotype
For philosophy, I recommend A History of Western Philosophy by W. T. Jones. It's a good overview, providing both extensive quotes from primary sources and good summary/analysis of the material.

A little less sure for physics, but The Feynman Lectures are classics.
Hilarious and true. As a writer I see this on a daily basis. Ninety-eight percent of ideas are turds. This means you have to execute a hundred before you get a gem or two. The moment I have a story idea, no matter how half-baked, I commit it to words immediately. It's almost impossible to tell if an idea will make a good story without trying to write the story.
For well-polished basics, I don't think you can do any better than posterous.
Regardless of your political conviction, there are definitely plenty of lessons that entrepreneurs can learn from our Upstart-in-Chief: product Simplicity, operational Agility, customer Intimacy and financial Leverage (SAIL).

“It’s the simplicity, stupid”.

Don’t try to change the World. Don’t attempt to “fly a new engine with a new air frame.”

Minimum Viable Product is indeed the key.

If your idea is a new product, don’t try to force a change on consumer habit. And if your idea is a new distribution scheme, don’t try to use it to introduce a new service.

Don’t innovate, nanovate.

Good luck.
Tell HN: YC Interviewees come by to Hacker Dojo tonight
I'm a member of Hacker Dojo and a bunch of YC interviewees (local and out-of-town) have stopped by there the past 2 days.

If any of you guys want to stop by tonight or pretty much anytime today, feel free to do so and share your stories.

It may be a bit crowded because of Startup Weekend but we can ask probably use 140B (Warehouse) if needed.
people run MC all the time, not really a new strategy -- expect no breakthrough on that...
Tumblr has post-by-email and customizable themes. http://www.tumblr.com/why-tumblr

Soup.io is another tumblelog platform that makes it dead simple to reblog (literally one click).
http://soup.io
I love posterous.
^^ downloaded a Tim Minchin show the other day. It was brilliant so I went to see him live the following week.

The ticket cost most than £0.00
I actually believe in the free market, and of course it is nowhere set in stone that musicians are entitled to make money off their music. I just wanted to point out that to say "but see, they have more ways of making money than ever" is a bit besides the point.

I suppose some artists will find ways to survive, but just because somebody is a talented musician doesn't make them talented T-Shirt designers or even talented live show performers (making music does not imply performing anymore these days). Film music is also not a good way out, because film is plagued from the same problems as music.
Parenting is obviously broken.

It needs to be fixed ASAP or we just won't have a next generation.

Paranoia is one of those brokenesses, there are much more.

The reason for it: bullshit is free, hence everyone scares parents to mine them for political power and other goodies.
But this breaks parenting more and more because people make wrong choices bases on wrong information.
I use Livejournal myself. Works fantastically well, best commenting system out there, support RSS, Atom and OpenID. Has a well-featured API, so you can use any number of clients to write posts.
The usual suspects are threatening to dismantle our Internet
Wow, this is brilliant - always interesting to read about development in the old days! Thank you!
Millions of PDF invisibly embedded with internal disk paths
I just created a posterous account.

Is it possible to add photos to a post after its been posted? I can see it gives you text editing, but no way of uploading photos?

Do you get to decide where the photos fall in-line with the text?
Unburied bodies tell the tale of Detroit
http://anthonydimitre.com/ is my current fav.
That was really long, but actually quite interesting. It seems as though he could have disappeared if he hadn't been quit so sloppy. Plus, he did a few things deliberately to leave hints. So, if this were a matter of life and death instead of just a game, he probably could've vanished.
In other words, if you come on HN spouting bullshit about what OS you host on while asking for help finding a designer, you're probably doing it wrong.
He probably just did a str.reverse instead of str.split(' ').map {|w| w.reverse}.join ' '
there's always an excuse to skip QA. IMHO.

No, there isn't!
What a loads of bullocks..
Like Oracle is gonna pull out of a $B7 established and well performing business...
Another vote for The Feynman Lectures on Physics. Probably the closest thing to "the" textbook on physics out there.
http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide
The article is sort of boasting about being ahead of schedule by a couple of hours, when originally, they were supposed to be at this point over a year ago. I'm glad they're able to get on with the creation of ultra tiny black holes and all, but it really doesn't seem like much to brag about.
Consumerist: Google bans scammy advertisers
You'll never run out of brain crack if you never execute your ideas.
Yeah he was caught basically because he was still using twitter, Facebook, etc. under his new identity. If he had really "dropped off the net" it's unlikely he would have been traced.
Power Laws in Chess Openings
"Douglas Léon, better known as Swedish rapper Dogge Doggelito"

Ah Sweden. Do a Google Images search for Dogge Doggelito and try not to laugh at what passes as a rapper there. That guy makes '90s Vanilla Ice look like Suge Knight.
This is not actually a letter written by Larry Ellison. It's someone else imagining what it would look like.

It reminds me of the Apple tablet speculation in a way. Not a good way.
This is a very low quality post with a misleading headline and no useful information in it, and it should be deleted. I'm mad that I wasted my time.
There was a metafilter thread a while back that asked a similar question. Here's a summary of the books listed (with a link to the original thread):

http://www.septivium.com/b/2009/05/07/mefi/
Oh give me a break. Every time any American company faces anything other than the easily bribed lapdogs that pass for 'regulators' in the US, the free-marketeer right wing punditry goes into a frenzy of speculation about how so and so company should pull out of Europe and tell those Socialists to fuck off.

Except it hasn't happened and it won't happen. The EU market is about the size of the US market and only a colossally stupid CEO would leave that much money and such a large market to their competition, so that's why they all cave in and Oracle will as well.
Ask HN: How do you handle server security/intrusion monitoring?
I've been wondering for a while now - how do owners of small webapps monitor intrusion attempts, scan for past successful intrusions, and prepare for the possibility of one?

Sometimes the effects of an intrusion are obvious (a blackhat takes down the site), I'm more worried about the case where someone plants something on the system to monitor and send info back out. How would you detect this?
Android's challenge vis-a-vis the iPhone will be that Google doesn't know a lot about consumer electronic devices, and the wireless carriers don't know a lot about consumer software. Apple is among the best at both.
I wasn't talking about low-quality sites, I was talking about low-quality (e.g. unfocused, or hard to monetize) traffic.

I don't want to split hairs - yes, obviously, a song is not identical to a page view - but at a very basic level, both songs and web sites are content. They both cost money to produce, promote, and distribute.

My point is that while $0.16 CPM is low, it's the same order of magnitude as other online content. I don't think $1 CPM would be unreasonable, and that's not a huge difference.

Contrary to the popular belief here, record companies DO add value.

I never said they don't. I'm not really sure what that has to do with what I'm saying.
Interesting ideas Denny. While I agree with the sentiment that sometimes entrepreneurs get caught up in doing too much at first, I think there is something to be said about ‘changing the world’. Without having that internal drive to make the world a better place, even in your own small way, sometimes it makes the startup life unbearable. There has to be that external factor that early hires and founders can hold on to (aside from the promise of a huge payday – which doesn’t happen for the majority of startups) that doesn’t distract them from building their MVP.
If your product is executed properly, or quite frankly you get lucky and are in the right place at the right time, you can inadvertently change consumer habits. There are countless examples of this in the tech industry, from Apple, to Google, to Twitter.
Generally, I do agree with the notion that the founder/entrepreneur needs to be able to focus on the very micro elements of MVP, or as you so eloquently put it ‘nanovating’. Btw, I assume that’s what you meant ;)
Inside the Android and iPhone markets
If, as the poster claims, pretty much everything we care about in the real world can be simulated with classical computers, what exactly will a quantum computer do that is in any way useful to anyone other than a scientist working on quantum computing or some other research related to quantum mechanics itself?
This sounds like a great project for a YC startup: make email secure for everyone, and make it as easy to use as DropBox. It sounds mundane, by I think the comments so far are accurate; no one uses GPG, etc., because it's too difficult for non-techies to use. I've tried using several things over the years (even HushMail), but since my colleagues and friends wouldn't, I ended up giving up. I wish I had the chops to create such a thing (I'm a web designer, so wrong side of the brain). I'm sure there's someone reading Hacker News who could solve the problem.
Given that the LHC is literally the most complex piece of machinery and electronics ever constructed by man, having beams properly travelling throughout the system without problems is an amazing feat in and of itself. I fully expect more break-downs, but here's to a successful first full collision in the next few months!
"I won’t be telling her there are bad people out there- "

hmm... We may have to agree to disagree.
Here's an experiment that might be possible. There are two versions.

Instead, you need to have a violin that is "awake", and get a sufficiently good player to play it, record, assess, and try to remember it. Make notes.

Then either leave it to go to sleep, or have it still being played. Three months later return it to the player and ask them to play it again. Play them the original recording, let them read the notes, and then ask - has this violin been left alone, or played for the last three months?

Do this many times, perhaps with many violins in the same three month period, some played, some left to go to sleep.

If the theory is true then there will be a difference.

Alternatively, take a collection of violins, some of which have gone to sleep, some of which are awake. Then hand each to a professional player and ask them to "wake it up". Some should change, some won't. Get the players to say whether they think it was asleep or not.

If there's anything to this, I think this latter version could be made to work as an experiment. We're looking for a statistical correlation, so we would need to do it with a moderate number of violins.
http://www.typepad.com
Why Music Is Broken – The Artist To Consumer Connection
This post needs to be proofread; the errors in syntax make it hard to read.
Also, what the hell's a running train roof?
Ah, classic zefrank...
Can a mod please change the misleading title? Yes, I know it's the title of the actual article, but it is mere conjecture: "If Larry Ellison were to bid ciao and adieu to the wonks of the EU, here's what his goodbye letter to Oracle customers might say."
Wow, I like your app a lot. Its beautiful and the idea is very good.

I am co-founding a startup and much of the design work will be done by me. Would you be willing to share any tips? What I would really like to know is how are those 160 hours spent? (160hours*$75=$12000)

The software life cycle is well documented in a number of methodologies: XP, iterative, water fall etc. But when it comes to the design phase of a web app I feel left in the dark.

What I am wondering is what techniques are you using during those 160 hours, in what order and what percentage is spent on each?

----------------------------------

For example: (a quick guess) it would be something like this:

- gather requirements - 10 hours

- draw mock ups on paper - 20 hours

- draw prototypes in illustrator - 20 hours

- make designs in illustrator - 50 hours

- review with customer (self)- 10 hours

- iterate on designs in illustrator - 50 hours

-----------------------------------

Do you have any tricks of the trade (http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/how_to/tricks_of_the_...)?
I faced the same question a few days ago. I went for Tumblr in the end, mostly because of the polished feel both of the website and of individual Tumblr blogs, the low barrier to entry, and theme customisability. I've quite liked how little I've had to change to get a basic blog working how I want it (decent look and feel, Twitter feed integrated, etc).

Only nasty surprise since has been that the Tumblr founders "don't believe in comments", so there's no built-in commenting support (instead of commenting, you're supposed to sign up for your own Tumblr account and use their "reblog" feature, which isn't a decision I want to force on any readers I may attract). They do have some integration with Disqus, which I was sort of planning to use anyway, although apparently this doesn't work so well in themes other than the default "Redux". I have had a couple of problems with comments not showing up, but I think it's probably a problem with Disqus rather than with Tumblr.

I found a couple of Mashable articles comparing Posterous and Tumblr:

http://mashable.com/2009/06/29/posterous-vs-tumblr/

http://mashable.com/2009/09/28/tumblr-vs-posterous/
it's "prince" of persia.
It's interesting they don't want symbols. For example, Prince might be better represented by his "love symbol" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Symbol) than a picture of himself.
What about Interface Builder? It's free, and your prototypes just become the UI.
Blogger, WordPress.com, Posterous, Tumblr, Weebly, TypePad, etc... are all good choices, each with their own pluses and minuses. If you get to the point where you want more flexibility, and customization with your choice of plugins, please give Flooha a try, it's free. http://flooha.com You can upgrade later to a traditional web hosting account with control panel, ssh, email, backups, cron jobs, forwarders, statistics, file manager, and more if you like the service.

If you have questions, look me up on Google Talk as "flooha", or email me at matt [at] flooha [dot] com.
That was the biggest problem I had with this piece. Yes, in fact, there are genuinely evil people in the world. It is certainly possible to be overprotective of a child but this guy seems a little too far to the other extreme.
It's a neat idea.

Any chance of OpenID support rather than requiring signup?

Oh, and the ability to link to an intention from elsewhere. I'd love to be able to link to it from my LJ.
I went with tumbler for mine, the only thing I don't like is how it links to the actual post. Instead of linking the post title, like every single other blog on the planet, you have to scroll all the way down and click the "Posted 4 days ago" link
DON'T. All money that can be pumped out of the market by standard ML algorithms has been pumped out by standard ML algorithms.
* you use logs so you can be aware of suspicious events at network, system and app level

* you have scripts to analyze these logs and notify you if anything suspicious happens. This is faster, can be done more often and is less tedious for you

* you have some reference files somewhere so you can compare checksums
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I don't know if you can do that with posterous or not, but I know WordPress is used for a lot of sites whose content relies heavily on images. peopleofwalmart.com would be a example.
This was reported yesterday with a more accurate title, and promptly ignored:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=954066
All of them. Register for a posterous account and you can autopost to other blogs/twitter/facebook/flickr/etc.

Why be limited?
The rest of the sentence puts it in context and is a position I can respect: "I won’t be telling her there are bad people out there- I will tell her even good people can get sick from things like drugs, depression, or anger, and do bad things. "
What are the obstacles for a hobbyist who wants to build a simple quantum computer?
Lawnchair: Client Side JSON Document Store
The Feynman lectures are notorious for being very popular among readers who already understand the physics, but difficult for those learning the physics for the first time.
> having beams properly travelling

It's certainly an achievement to be celebrated, but the beams are more like limping along:

"CERN’s director, Rolf Heuer, said in a statement, 'It’s great to see beam circulating in the LHC again,' but he and others cautioned that there was a long way to go before the collider started producing the physics it was designed for.

"When the collider begins to do real physics next year, it will run at half its original design energy, with protons of 3.5 trillion electron volts. The energy will be increased gradually during the year, but it could be years, physicists say, before the machine reaches its full potential."

The machine will "soon" be at a level slightly above the Tevatron.
I might as well plug my own site: http://www.sachagreif.com/

I've done my share of back-end and front-end developement (php, coldfusion, and of course html, css, jquery, etc.) before focusing on design, so I generally work well with programmers.

I consider myself fairly easy to work with, although to be fair I'm a bit of a perfectionist and I hate being "remote-controled" by a client (like all designers).

I've done a lot of UI work lately but I can do regular websites too.
The claim isn't that all people are good, it's more nuanced than that. Essentially he's saying that some people are dangerous in some situations, and he wants her to learn which situations are dangerous at a young age. I think that's a reasonable point of view.

Everybody has to learn it eventually because the world doesn't get less dangerous as you grow older.
Par for the course. That is the reason you get these link bait titles to begin with, a normal title doesn't stand out on the new page in all the spam and the rest of the linkbait.

So the balance shifts towards more 'sexy' titles.
A watched child never boi... grows!
'New Moon' immediately ripped through a box office record. | BlogHer
Teaching a kid that people (and by implication the kid him/herself) are inherently good/bad (or in any way "fixed") is a really bad idea for a number of reasons. He's trying to keep her mindset growth-oriented.

"There are no neurotics or geniuses or failures or fools. There are only neurotic moments, flashes of brilliance, failed opportunities, and stupid mistakes."
-David K. Reynolds

A much better idea is to teach children to read other people's emotional state in the moment; to develop their intuition and teach them to trust it. It's that intuitive ability that will allow the child to escape arbitrary danger and to thrive in general.
Yes, the sentence provides some context that we can agree with, but as another commenter points out, there really are some bad people out there who want nothing more than to hurt people. That's not necessarily a reason to shelter your children, but denying that bad people exist seems to go against the heart of the manifesto.
The Timeless Way of Building (and A Pattern Language) by Christopher Alexander is a great architecture book that was influential in computer science. Interdisciplinary books like this are a great way to connect the dots.
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Expandrive (Flawless SSHFS for Windows)
My parents were pretty overprotective. In my teens i managed to secure some freedoms for myself by convincing my parents of my capability to not make stupid decisions. They were still quite protective though. Im pretty sure my social awkwardness wasn't caused by my parents paranoia, but I've noticed that I've gotten progressively less awkward as the opportunities to make stupid decisions grow. Its a miracle what smoking/drinking/getting high with peers could do to your social skills.
Getting Redis working with PHP
Don't bother.

D.E. Shaw, Renaissance Tech, Goldman Sachs, etc. have already hired hundreds (if not thousands) of people smarter than you to do exactly this. They have more Math, Physics, Econ, CS PhDs than you can count/
I pretty much agree with him. I've been telling my kid since they were old enough to understand me that the world is a complicated place, and to be careful, but to also live in possibility, not in fear.
If you actually want to know all of this when it happens, they appear to be tweeting: http://twitter.com/cern I've been reading these since they started up again.