skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Finally, a business contest that chooses a winner based on revenue!

I'm amazed other contests don't use this simplest of objective measures to pick a winner.
The problem is they cannot measure that as they are going off the shopify sales stats. Everyone would have to have a full fledged business and submit your financial reports to them for final judgement in the contest.
From the wikipedia article on Paul Erdős:

His colleague Alfréd Rényi said, "a mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems", and Erdős drank copious quantities. (This quotation is often attributed incorrectly to Erdős himself.)[6] After 1971 he also took amphetamines, despite the concern of his friends, one of whom (Ron Graham) bet him $500 that he could not stop taking the drug for a month.[7] Erdős won the bet, but complained during his abstinence that mathematics had been set back by a month: "Before, when I looked at a piece of blank paper my mind was filled with ideas. Now all I see is a blank piece of paper." After he won the bet, he promptly resumed his amphetamine habit.
The Archos 5 is Android-based and connects to a TV via HDMI. All the usual Android apps are available on the screen, you can watch (and download) video, and you can connect a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse. So I think we are there, actually.

(The device then detaches from the TV dock and is a portable media player / Internet tablet. It was buggy at first, but I am liking it a lot now.)
WOW does this title need to be edited. I didn't bother reading it via my RSS feed, figuring, "uh, ok, Intel is buying nVidia". That's because the RSS feed doesn't include the "cringely.com".
I haven't stated that spending 16 hours a day painting is the only way to produce great work. But it certainly has worked for some people. How many geniuses do you know who were not insane by someone's definition?

The reality of the universe we exist in is that genius and insanity are not very far apart (and sometimes hard to tell apart). There are no doubt exceptions, but for most geniuses, insanity is part of the deal.

Your bias in this is also enormous, whether or not you're aware of it. You're assuming that your chosen life goals (to have a healthy balanced life) is valid for everyone. Perhaps Ramanujan didn't give a toss about having a healthy balanced life, he wanted to solve mathematical problems, and fuck the rest.

Do you honestly have the arrogance to walk up to a five-year-old Mozart and tell him he needs to chill out and go play in the kindergarten rather than compose symphonies? That he'll produce better work if he takes it easy?

You say:

But being a great artist is more about persistence than intensity. It is actually far better for your development as a musician, for example, to practice a few hours a day for a long series of days than to try to pack more practice into each day.

But being a genius artist is not about "developing as a musician". It's about something else - music is just the medium via which you convey it. Developing as a musician is just one of the early steps along the way. And being a great artist is not about craft, it's about that other thing - the intensity, the passion, the flame burning bright. Craft is necessary like the wick of a candle, but it's not the wick you look at, it's the flame.

Now, of course, most entrepreneurs (and artists) are hardly geniuses, let alone world-changing geniuses, and I can only agree that working yourself to the bone doesn't lead to a healthy life, but to then turn around and tell those who choose to live their life in a certain way that they've missed the point is incredibly arrogant. Not that that's very surprising coming from 37-signals. People (especially driven, passionate people) choose how they live their own life, and they don't need a DHH on a soap-box to lecture them.
For those with privacy concerns, Iron is a fork of Chromium that targets privacy and security.

Download link: http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_download.php

Comparison with Chrome: http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_chrome_vs_iron...
I like the idea of connecting designers and developers, although I fear that "designers" may end up being business folks who simply bring an idea to the table and nothing else.
No, Cringely is generally untrustworthy.
Calendar looks great for me.
Sell the most, based on your 2 best revenue-generating months, using Shopify in 6 months and win $100k.

To get started, maybe start by going through eBay auctions and buying warehouse and manufacturer contact lists that will send you demo items for free!
Great idea! I would buy this service, but @ 9.99 per year. At 25,00 actually makes me think... but good luck!
Tell this to 90% - 95% of the world who has Windows as a desktop.
Personally, compared to PHP and RoR, I am not a big fan of JAVA as far as loading speed for the user on big sites.

PHP is said to be more scaleable than RoR, (we use PHP with Zend Framework) and like Eclipse/Zend Studio, but many say RoR is easier to learn.

If it is not something that needs to be scaleable RoR seems like an intelligent choice, but if you are looking to build industry skills too, you might want to figure out where the demand for coders is greatest.

PHP has been around for quite a while, RoR is more of the new kid on the block. Either will produce a fine user experience for the customer.
Cringely means well, but he tends to get these sorts of hunches that don't necessarily have any basis in reality.

From the article: "If this reads like a huge conspiracy theory that’s because it is."
for what it's worth, I've been able to use the chromium daily builds without any problems for about 6 months :)
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Google launches Real-Time Search and Living Stories
> Too many wrongly characterize the debate as "security versus privacy." The real choice is liberty versus control. Tyranny, whether it arises under threat of foreign physical attack or under constant domestic authoritative scrutiny, is still tyranny. [...]

Personally, I phrase the debate as Security and Privacy versus the Government.
Google Living Stories
Radical Solutio to US Health Care: Kill the Hybrid Model
Or that the equation was built to fit those characteristics.

At first I looked at the things and thought: "So what it doesn't provide any insights". Then read on and was glad that the authors point is that it's made up.

Pick a few measurements, pick their units and pick how to combine them so that it sort of fit. Voila, claim to fame!
Games enhance brain power, creativity, career opportunities
Here's the same table sorted by hours for easier reading:

hours count percent
0-4 7 3
5-20 14 5
20-30 11 4
30-40 42 16
40-50 66 25
50-60 52 20
60-70 35 13
70-80 16 6
80+ 21 8
This is one of the supreme challenges of having a society with ample leisure time. Just like all animals we are survivors, and are built to struggle. Once you provide for the immediate survival needs, we are left on our own to define what we want to make of ourselves.

There's no right or wrong answer. Maybe some people really can squeeze the extra productivity out of working 100 hours (I know I can't). But to truly answer the question requires brutal honesty with yourself. Are you running to your goals or away from your fears?
i believe this is because they started including this in some search results and it got attention...

anyway, at least i don't feel bad anymore, thanks :-))
Of course, during the bubble, the leverage shifted greatly in favor of entrepreneurs.

The main advantage today for entrepreneurs (if their business model allows it) is to use bootstrap/angel-based methods of working around the VCs while building the core parts of their companies and dealing with VCs later, if at all. In other words, many entrepreneurs today have the luxury of being able to work around the VCs and to use them only when and if it suits their purposes.

Believe me, this is huge. I have many serial entrepreneurs coming to me today who used to go strictly through large firms because, in the old days, their only option was to work with such firms and their VC allies. Today, they readily avoid such large firms precisely because they want the independence of developing their companies in a more flexible way.

It is the power not to have to come to the VC table at all that gives the new-found leverage (of course, for some companies, this is not possible). This is very new and very significant in today's climate. When combined with the added knowledge available to entrepreneurs today, the power balance is definitely shifted to a degree in their favor over the old ways.
Free classified ads in Tamil Nadu, India 
Free classified ads search engine in Tamil Nadu, India. A free, easy and fast way to find or to place ads in Tamil Nadu.
Pretty good idea. To go full circle, the info product should be "How to Win the $100k shopify contest!"
Exploring a new, more dynamic way of reading news with Living Stories
Note comment above (using adwords to churn with 0% margin, but winning the contest for the $100k). Profit might be a better indicator, but obviously much harder to measure.
Are there any advantages to running this over Chromium?
I'm more concerned that this is a single anecdote. If it was an explanation of the fascinating government subsidized insurance model that the german health care system uses I would approve.
Sure if instead of making a solid line cut around the middle you use a wave or zig-zag you'd add more cream cheese.

Or start from the top and cut in a spiral pattern like peeling an apple and you can get a long strip of bagel with tons of cream cheese application surface.
Distributed computing is a waste when you already have a supercomputer available for your exclusive use.
Cool hover effects.
Thank you for that. Very interesting meta-search engine, clean results. It appears that Google is not among the engines they use.

I like that they don't record your IP, and that they offer https access. Hard to say whether they really do what they say, but they do have the European Privacy Seal, for whatever that's worth.

I'm using it now to see how I like it, so far so good.
As any Christmas movie will tell you, thinking only of yourself and your work is not going to make you fulfilled.

Oh well, if the Xmas movies, those eternal repositories of human wisdom, say it is so, the it must be! It couldn't possibly be that life is more complicated than Xmas movies would have you believe, and that some people are perfectly fulfilled without the relationships that you and I feel are important.
Wget does exist for Windows, but your point still stands. Most people don't know what a browser is, it's just "the internet."
Setting aside the antitrust issues...

Intel needs nVidia because it (arguably) cannot make a GPU part (the ones it has are slow, Larrabee is a bust). nVidia is (arguably) less dependent on Intel since it has standalone GPUs as well as low power integrated ARM+GPUs. This makes nVidia well positioned in the low power mobile world, a place where Intel just started to aspire to.

In "An Inconvenient Truth: Intel Larrabee story revealed"
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/print/2009/10/12/an-inconven... (discussed on HN yesterday http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=980927), skip down to the section "GPU is dead" and the war with nVidia. In it, the author asserts Intel started a war with nVidia before it had real ammunition (Larrabee) and is in a world of hurt as a result. His speculation is "...on Intel giving an x86 license to nVidia in exchange for cross-license patent, but only time will tell how the situation will develop."

If true, that would give nVidia a x86 CPU in addition to their ARM CPU and graphics GPU. Pretty interesting thought.
In a world where everyone has an equal lack of privacy (e.g. everything everyone does is filmed and can be watched by everyone else), don't you think social mores regarding what is "embarrassing" or "shameful" would change?
However, with AMD holding a clear lead in the GPU market at the moment, and the GPU market probably being of more concern to regulators than the chipset market, now is probably the easiest time for Intel to buy NVidia.
I really never do manual memory management anymore, unless I'm doing a performance sensitive project in which I feel like I want to be really close to the metal.

I'm usually programming in Python/Ruby/Erlang...GC!
What Makes Cities Great
Thanks .. and i feel '?' should be added to the title ...That was some news when i saw the title...but now one of those predictions...
Not a privacy contract but Ask.com has a feature called AskEraser that will remove all your personal information.

http://sp.ask.com/en/docs/about/askeraser.shtml
> always feeling guilty when I'm not working

This I can relate to as a big problem when you start working on your own company. It took me a long time to realise how counter-productive this is, and to free myself to start saying "yes" more often to invitations/ideas. Now if I have the opportunity to do something outside of normal business hours I just weight it on its merits, and not against what work I could do. If I happen to be free on the weekend I might do some work, but I have no such expectation of myself.

For me this means I can sustain a lot higher productivity during the week, and overall.
Something simplistic: maybe, something custom... probably not. There's nearly always more value in using something that other people use too due to the positive network externalities. Granted, they may be weaker in cases like this where there is not a great deal of code sharing, but one-off languages tend to end up being a burden.

Which is why they seem to have ended up with Lua, which is probably the best fit for that problem domain. Cut down versions of Tcl probably would have been ok, and have been successfully used for things like embedded systems, but probably are more work than Lua, which is 'cut down' by default.
Yes, that's a fair point. I wouldn't wrap dead fish in the NY Post. So disrespectful to the fish.
News issues law damages: Richard Branson unveils Virgin Galactic spaceplane
Yes, that's been working in the dev version for a while.
What's the alternative?

Even if it encrypts the password before storing them on disk, the encryption/decryption key are necessarily on disk anyways, no?
If you have something to hide, don't do it on the Internet. Sure. But Schmidt's careless disregard for privacy? Look, 1984 was a warning, not a textbook.
I've used adsweep (user script, not extension) for months and it works beautifully. Sadly the project is no longer updated, but it's yet to be a problem.
Richard Branson unveils Virgin Galactic spaceplane
Sir Richard Branson has unveiled the rocket plane he will use to take

fare-paying passengers into space.

SpaceShipTwo was presented to the world in Mojave, California.

The vehicle will undergo testing over the next 18 months before being

allowed to take ticketed individuals on short-hop trips just above the

atmosphere.
You mean searching for "illegal hot nude child porn photos for download in the usa, my address is 100 Foo street", is a poor idea?
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eunit is good for simple functional tests (etap is another option here) but it is not really sufficient for testing things like gen_servers and more complex behavior. OTP includes a testing framework (common test) that does these sorts of tests and is in fact used to test the rest of OTP, but it is a PITA to configure and documentation is rather thin so most people opt for low-level eunit tests and hope for the best when it comes to the more complicated bahaviors of the system...
It looks like they've just taken the release that we've already had (4.0.249.30) and made it more public. If you've already had the developer channel build, then you've already got it. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Thunderbird 3 released
What Happens When You Put FarmVille Vs. Twitter? (FarmVille Wins)
What's the point of buying AppleCare?

Like any other extended warranty, the point is to make a nice profit for them and give a warn and fuzzy to people who are not strong on math.
What is the Anti-Aging Medicine
No extensions for Mac yet.
Something else to do, something else to forget. You could run your own bookmark server for not much work too, but for the price of a round of drinks, I'm happy to let Maciej handle it for me.
If you need to justify your non-privacy policies with accusations, maybe you shouldn't be collecting so much identifiable data.

There are plenty of legitimate, even honorable actions which are threatened by poor privacy policies.
Free Speech and Facebook: A look into Facebook's judicial system
Official Google Research Blog: Machine Learning with Quantum Algorithms
Generally speaking, you want to fill up as much RAM as possible with passenger processes without utilizing swap in order to maximize you performance and throughput.

Uh, what?

On a single-app box with real traffic (as the article implies), look first to CPU. If your average request spends 50% time in db/services and 50% time in processing/render, using more than 2-3 passenger procs per core (i.e. 100% core utilization) is less efficient and a waste of memory. Multiply by cores. (Back off a bit for db on the same machine.)

You want plenty of spare memory for OS cache, to keep your code and static files in memory -- that is, your disk reads should be zero.

And don't do swap, kids.
You can make the user enter a master password.
It's just been expanded. It's now, "don't be evil, dear users, or we'll get ya!"
Vimperator fans will want to monitor the Muttator add-on page for updates: http://www.vimperator.org/muttator
Links please. I'm interested to hear of other projects like this, where you get HTML + CSS + JS all ready to customize. 960, Blueprint, and YUI aren't quite the same. This is a front-end starter package, not just another grid system IMHO.
Have you noticed the 5 second computer freeze every time you type or hit a keyboard button when Chrome is active? Cause I have.
Wow.... Great website.
- You can do this access Google Document
- Create a new doc named it "My Personal Links"
- Copy and paste the link into your "My Personal Links"
- FREE!!!!!!
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=849642
No.

You can use a master password to decrypt your encrypted password database.

Your operating system might have a keyring service or an encrypted filesystem you can use to store your keys in.

You might even use a hardware token, or some specialized on-board hardware for storing your passwords securely.
Unlike many numbered lists, this has some good, concrete suggestions. (Though I don't think that HN quite qualifies as a 'job site' :))
Acorn Computers dissolves
Thomas Jefferson would not approve of that opinion. I actually think less of Google for this stance.
The email they sent to announce the beta (if you signed up to get it) has some interesting stats:

Hi there,

Thanks for signing up to hear from us regarding Google Chrome for Mac! We're excited to let you know that Google Chrome is now available in beta for Mac OS X.

Here are a few fun facts from us on the Google Chrome for Mac team:

-73,804 lines of Mac-specific code written
-29 developer builds
-1,177 Mac-specific bugs fixed
-12 external committers and bug editors to the Google Chrome for Mac code base, 48 external code contributors
-64 Mac Minis doing continuous builds and tests
-8,760 cups of soft drinks and coffee consumed
-4,380 frosted mini-wheats eaten
Thanks for waiting and we hope you'll give Google Chrome for Mac a whirl.

Google Chrome Team
www.google.com/chrome

The 8.43:1 ratio of LoC to soft drinks/coffee consumed made me laugh.
Submitting this at the same time as the Google Mac Beta is just cruel.
Climate Change Deniers Vs. The Consensus
would probably lead to some pretty crazy GPU/CPU rigs. especially if the CPUs were "aware" that workloads could be offloaded to the GPU.
You're confusing Cringely with John C. Dvorak.
> And is he pleasantly surprised at the 250ish Euros or did he consider it too high?

He was very pleasantly surprised. In response to a comment on his post, the author wrote:

"According to newchoicehealth.com, an abdominal ultrasound in a major American city costs $340 on average at the cheapest service providers. At hospitals it’s much more expensive – $1350 at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

And that’s just the ultrasound — without the ER fees, the blood tests, the surgeon consultation, etc, that I also received in Munich. So I think 265 euros is extremely cheap."

[Source: http://nat.org/blog/2009/12/no-waiting-room/comment-page-1/#...]
Moon Colonists: Expect 3000ms ping times using Lunar Net
No, Dvorak is just mad
So when are people going to start poisoning their search histories by collectively performing mass searches for "bad" content? I've been expecting that to be the eventual reaction to Google disclosing search history.
I already have this. It's a $25 HDMI cable that connects my netbook to my TV.
Did he think it would be a good idea or not - I can't remember
Errr.... I don't think that you got the service idea.
Some dis-advantages, I guess. Since it's beta, it won't run plugins (yet). Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Properly, Flash is another tier in the storage hierarchy. Faster than disk in important measures, but more expensive. Slower than RAM, but cheaper, lower power, and durable. Unfortunately, the infrastrucure for taking easy advantage of Flash isn't very mature yet. SSDs make flash act like a hard disk, but OSs and applications generally don't allow transparent fined-grained data management to take advantage of it. I guess ZFS is best in this regard, since it can migrate hot data to fast devices, but I haven't seen good options on Linux, and I haven't seen hardware RAID controllers that could fill the gap. In your DB, you can place tables on different devices, or use table partitioning to separate recent data from cold, but that isn't as easy as adding more RAM.

Ultimately though, cost effectiveness really depends on your workload. MySpace is apparently finding it cost effective to use SSDs for their cache tier. A few months back James Hamilton linked to a study that suggested that for some common workloads, the case for SSDs had to include both price/performance and performance/watt, since it didn't pencil out for each individually. That'll change though, as prices drop and performance improves.
Just the government? So you have no problems with Google, Microsoft, etc. violating your privacy? It's only a problem if the government does?
Worthless gossip. "The netbeans developer says he can't update because of low disk space!!!"

First reply: "There's 75Gb free."

No other replies, no information, no resolution, no explanation. Save yourself the bother. C- would not read again.
For an application launcher, I love Quicksilver [http://www.blacktree.com/]
Time transitions should be explicit
Welcome To My Life Video by Simple Plan - MySpace Video
Didn't Intel sell the ARM division to Marvell or something?
Autism seen as asset, not liability, in some jobs
An Edge for eBay in Its Dispute With Craigslist - DealBook Blog
Damn, no discussion, I was curious to see in what manner this article would be deemed irrelevant....."nothing to see here, move along Deniers".
Actually, not it is not. I am on linux and the link went to a Windows binary
Diverging further from the topic - it sounds like you need a bag (a man-purse if you will). There is quite a wide selection these days in many styles. Also it's quite practical.

(edit: apologies if you are female, but since you need a place to put stuff I assumed you were not)