skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article isn't really about Bing Crosby, but the guy is on the short list of history's most important technology VCs. From his Wikipedia page:

Crosby exerted an important influence on the development of the postwar recording industry. In 1947, he invested $50,000 in the Ampex company, which developed North America's first commercial reel-to-reel tape recorder, and Crosby became the first performer to pre-record his radio shows and master his commercial recordings on magnetic tape. He gave one of the first Ampex Model 200 recorders to his friend, musician Les Paul, which led directly to Paul's invention of multitrack recording. Along with Frank Sinatra, he was one of the principal backers behind the famous United Western Recorders studio complex in Los Angeles.

Through the aegis of recording, Crosby developed the techniques of constructing his broadcast radio programs with the same directorial tools and craftsmanship (editing, retaking, rehearsal, time shifting) that occurred in a theatrical motion picture production. This feat directly led the way to the use of the same techniques in the creation of all radio broadcast programming as well as later television programming.
What’s On Phil Schiller’s iPhone?
I quit after 1 question. I try to review the apps posted on HN, but this one just offered me nothing.

Sorry, guess I'm not the target.
BTW for Mac try SizeUp
This is actually really good advice. Though money cannot buy you satisfaction in your job, it does help to alleviate some stress in other factors of your life and can give you an outlet. More money means you can take a mini-vacation every weekend or new toys or what ever floats your boat. The point being that stress reduction in other facets of your life can really help one to cope with work related stress. Not to mention that if the rate is good enough saying "oh well at least they are paying me a small fortune" is a coping mechanism in itself.
And there are oh so many ways to totally botch the execution. You can make the best thing in the world and still fail because you couldn't market it and no one ever knew that it existed.
Yup, this is a great point. Writing is an act that requires a lot of feedback. Unfortunately a lot of (poor) writers can't tell the difference between well meaning criticism and soul crushing negativity. I hate phrases like, "If you can't find something nice to say, don't say anything at all."

Criticism is an absolutely fantastic tool in entrepreneurship. Want an idea for a company? Try someone else's product and write down all the problems with it. After having to put up with the Common Application as provided by Hobsons.com I can't wait for someone to take a crack at putting them out of business.
how about asking the guys at stac electronics how reliable they think windows is! that's the kind of thing i'm talking about.
I think people view for-pay information brokerage as unfair, unless it comes with service. If it's something they know costs the other party 0 marginal cost to provide, people start resenting them

I think you are projecting your own personal views, or possibly views which are non-negligible in your social circle of tech-rich cash-poor twenty something males, onto the population at large. Empirically, people will pay for LOTS of things that have zero marginal cost. A short list: airplane tickets, gym memberships, list of bankruptcy sales in Chicago (my dad is a real estate agent and has had stacks of this weekly publication for as long as I can remember -- that info is expensive and worth every penny), and WoW.
Fully on demand cable television. So many people tell me "I'd love it if I could just pay per channel and forget about the other channels."

That got me thinking it may be something to exploit. Not so, with infrastructure costs swallowing up so much of the potential profits. People will just have to deal with all the channels they end up paying for. So, it's either the internet or bust if you don't want to play the cable game.
Matlab is predominantly used by engineers and scientists rather than programmers. I suspect it is an exception to most general rules that govern programming languages and environments for this reason.
There is far less of a difference here than might appear at first blush. These graphs might be useful for getting an overview of the grammar productions for these languages, but I don't think they are very helpful for comparing them.

The author processed Ruby's YACC file into something that ANTLR would accept and I'm not sure that all of the relevant information made it through. For one, it looks like Ruby's operator precedence is not captured here at all. Between this, and the fact that Ruby doesn't have separate statement and expression concepts, everything that's left ends up in one large highly connected graph.

The Java and Javascript graphs, generated as they are from the EBNF-like ANTLR, strike me as much more true to the productions of their respective grammars. Since they were both generated in the same way, they're also more directly comparable to one another. The most eye-catching thing about these two are of probably the chains of expressions which encode the precedence rules of their operators. Java has a boatload of operators, which account for the top half of its graph. It then has two snarls at the bottom, one for statements on the left, one for declarations on the right. Most modern languages in the algol family will have statement syntax rather similar to Java's here; if you're interested in what sets Java apart syntactically you'd likely find it clustered about the bottom right corner of the graph.

Javascript's operators are only slightly simpler than Java's, and there are two variations, one that allows the 'in' operator, and one that does not. This creates the two chains running down the bottom-right hand side. One interesting thing to note is the lack of tight, complicated snarls in the javascript graph. Javascript's grammar is fairly simple, and ignoring the 'in' operator, quite straightforwards, so I suppose this shouldn't be too surprising.
Yes. Practical programming books usually don't talk about "pass by reference" or "pass by value" anymore, because (as people have pointed out) it's rarely a useful distinction these days, and the correct usage just confuses people because people take pass by value for granted. (C++ programmers basically see references as restricted, syntactically sweetened pointers that are passed by value. And that's almost always good enough.)

I use this as an interview question, too ("Is Java a pass-by-reference or pass-by-value language?") Nobody ever gets it, but I let people choose one of several languages to be quizzed about, and the ones who know this kind of terminology are usually game to pick a more difficult language. I don't hold it against them as long as their explanation of why Java is pass by reference shows a correct understanding of Java parameter passing. But I always set them straight afterwards ;-)
And Amazon keeps 65 percent? That sounds like a lot.
Does it? You’re an author, what does your royalty check look like? Are your royalties 35 percent?

I think it'd be incredible to allow more authors to self-publish on an entirely open e-book platform. We've started to see this move in the music industry (e.g. - Nine Inch Nails grossing $750k from their own music sales - http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080304/162842435.shtml ) and I think it could be coming to publishing too.
TSA redaction fail: hidden text easily readable via copy & paste
The author of the following is my new hero of American literature:

To the Editor of the New-York Times:

Let a few of your economists try the following recipe and they will find it is all it is cracked up to be: Take a calf’s left hind leg and let it hang until it will just stay hung without falling, then take it down, after cutting the bone out chop the meat into pieces about the size of a walnut, put them on the roof in a rain-storm for twenty-four hours, after which (if a cat don’t get them) boil with a pound of licorice-root, let the lot gently simmer for a few minutes and then add a paper of Lorillard’s century tobacco with a little old rye whisky, and you will have the meanest mess under the sun except scrapple.

ANTI-SCRAPPLE
I've found the quickest way to speed up front-end development isn't necessarily with the slicing but more with having a robust library of my own code, and my own custom (pseudo) framework of html & css templates with which I begin every job.
The intention behind this kind of event is awesome. Focus on getting the founders and the funders to talk (whilst allowing serious service-providers to come and catalyse the reactions between these two parties) and you're bound to create some awesome companies.
Lessons Learned - Viral Marketing For Entrepreneurs
Not necessarily. They could have designed a physical switch into the receptacle, so that the DC to AC conversion only happens when something is plugged in.
It's a tautology (how do you know they want it? They're willing to buy it!), but a useful one.
Great post. The only detail I disagree with is found in the following excerpt:

"That sucks" is negativity. "That sucks, here's why, and here's how to fix it" is criticism, and it comes from a place of love. That's the difference.

I agree with this in general, but sometimes I don't really know how to fix the thing that sucks. Yet I'm still passionate about the thing I'm criticizing and I'm not doing it as an expression of negativity. It's just that I can plainly identify and explain what is wrong, but the fix is beyond me.
I've said this before: grad school is different for science and engineering than it is for the humanities.
I was thoroughly confused testing this out. What's with all the words on the front page? You need to distill your goal to one to two sentences max.

Second, I didn't understand the questions and answers even though I know AI techniques quite well.
I don't understand why it is assumed that the author's royalty should DECREASE for e-books. If anything, the author's words are even more important than before! I suppose that e-books give publishers an opportunity to renegotiate contracts in their favor, but won't author royalties creep back up again?
Apple Fails at Customer Service
Creating a Flash platform game with Flixel - Enemies
The App Store is only 17 months old; it's premature to say what the long term patterns will be with so little data, and while marketing strategies and Apple's own presentation of "top seller" lists keeps changing.

Old PS2 games still sell, 10 years after the platform was introduced. A good, simple game for the iPhone platform may still be sellable, in some format, in 2019. And the installed base of compatible devices could be 20x larger.

PS. There was an invention hundreds of years ago that addresses exactly the need for paying current costs while waiting for long-term profitable projects to pan out. It's called 'finance'. Considering only 2-month windows of costs and revenues as if we were talking about subsistence farmers is a rookie myopia.
If you don't understand that it's pass by value of references for non-primitives then...

Right: pass by value, of references. That's the complete answer, and it's really misleading to say anything else.

I don't think any Java programmers actually have any misunderstanding here, even the worst of them know how this works. What's the problem?

Also, the article tries to use code like this:

void swap(SomeType& arg1, Sometype& arg2) {
SomeType temp = arg1;
arg1 = arg2;
arg2 = temp;
}

to prove how different references in C++ are from Java.

But the reason something like that might work in C++ is not that the semantics of parameter passing are different (references cannot be reseated in C++ any more than in Java), but that C++ uses the assignment operator to overwrite the contents of the lhs, and invokes the copy constructor automatically. The true equivalent code in Java works just fine, assuming the copy constructor and set method do the right things (which is a potential pitfall in C++, as well):

static public void swap(SomeType arg1, SomeType arg2) {
SomeType temp = new SomeType(arg1);
arg1.set(arg2);
arg2.set(temp);
}
Ask HN: Review my windows/mac/nix application
This app sits in the tray/dock and records everything you copy (text, images, files) to a local, encrypted sqlite database. It has a built in web server which only listens to local connections, so the interface is actually through the browser.It has starring, Local RSS Feed, Is themeable, Full Search, Can Sync contents to controlc.com and more.
Screenshots:

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Screenshots:

Main view: http://ioj.com/v/qzbp3

Alternate Theme, Settings open: http://ioj.com/v/0xret

Individual item view: http://ioj.com/v/yui6v

If you want to try out the windows beta client, You can grab it here: http://harknesslabs.com/setupcontrolc.exe
I don't get why the Abel-Ruffini theorem is relevant here. Plotting sqrt(2) on the picture is impossible too. An n-th root is just shorthand for the root of the polynomial X^n - a. Introducing a shorthand doesn't change your ability to plot it on a picture.
Not all code is in fixed font. Most older Pascal and Algol texts put their code in variable width, sans-serif fonts to set them apart from the text. For many texts, just changing the font is the solution.

URLs look bad in PowerPoint, but sometimes they need to be there.
(See http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/ for info and a screencast.)
Thank you Dalke, I'll take a look at that.
You are right about this one, negativity can spread in an organization like a cancer and once it has set in it is very hard to eliminate. It becomes a corporate culture that is nearly impossible to eradicate. I have seen it happen first hand on several occasions. Usually it starts, with a major corporate event like a buyout or the termination of a highly respected employee.
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The Things That Hold Art
Haha, funny archive of people and things holding up art.
Speak your mind. Even if your voice trembles.
And even if you do market well, the timing may be completely off or you may have bad luck.
The art of puzzles
Introduction: The Uncertain Future is a future technology and world-modeling project by the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (http://www.singinst.org). Its goal is to allow those interested in future technology to form their own rigorous, mathematically consistent model of how the development of advanced technologies will affect the evolution of civilization over the next hundred years. To facilitate this, we have gathered data on what experts think is going to happen, in such fields as semiconductor development, biotechnology, global security, Artificial Intelligence and neuroscience. We invite you, the user, to read about the opinions of these experts, and then come to your own conclusion about the likely destiny of mankind.
LCD glasses that flicker transparent and opaque directly out of phase with the TV signal, so you only see the TV at times when it is between screen refreshes.

Not gonna work on LCD screens, methinks.
Book publishers also provide things like design, layout, and editing.
"The scientists have been tied up and gagged in the back room"
I agree. The most common example for me is visual design. I know when something is ugly, but that doesn't mean I can actually create something better.
Balloon hunt nets $40,000 for MIT-led team
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Even Apple gives you 70%.
How to Extract Text from PDF Files
The article shows you the PDF file types; and then introduces different ways to extract text from different types of PDF files. Meanwhile, it provides some conversion tips of PDF to Word Converter.
>>rankings based on the standard "best seller" definition cannot be maniuplated

Why not?(I don't have an iPhone, so I really don't know anything about it.) It would be fairly easy to buy your own app. A $0.99 app and 30% fee to apple, you could buy your app 300 times a week for $90. If it is really that much of a hit driven market it might be worth it. Apple would love it(cash and being able to claim the next billion sold that much faster.)
Unfortunately I had to force-quit Safari after about 3 minutes of beachballing. Looks like your Java Applet had some trouble loading. This is on Mac OS X 10.6.2, Safari 4.0.4.
and gold connectors on both ends and gold pcbs and solder...
The idea is good, in principle.

The problem is, you've created both a bayesian decision-making tool AND a dataset for the tool for estimating human-level AI. Forcing a user to learn both of these at the same time is asking too much from your users.

Also, your thesis is clearly "nothing matters about the future other than human-level AI." This is a defendable thesis, but you can't use this as a starting assumption without confusing your users immensely. Maybe you should also ask questions about other things and then have them discover the importance of human-level AI naturally. (assuming it really is as important as you think.)

Finally, your java-ish implementation is really buggy and the implementation/documentation in general needs a lot of work. I couldn't get the tool to really work at all on Ubuntu with Firefox 3.5 (The edit fields keep freezing up)

(Dollars to Donuts, the java applet is written in a Lisp dialect and then translated/compiled into a very fat java applet :-)
Many indigenous cultures have evolved a natural distrust of people who smile too much.
Google Officially Launching Chrome Extensions Next Week
don't put windows/mac/nix if you only have a windows executable
Another way of putting it:

It all comes down to details. An effective critic can point out why something sucks, what parts of it suck, under what conditions it may suck, what other alternatives might not suck, and how to improve it so it doesn't suck any more.

A hater only knows that it sucks. A cheerleader only knows that it rocks. In both cases, their opinion is completely binary: it either sucks or it rocks. There's no room for nuance or shades of grey in that assessment.

I suspect that passion is correlated but not causative here. When you're passionate about something, you tend to notice the details. That's the same skill that makes you an effective critic. But you can remain an effective critic even when you're no longer passionate about something. Take Jamie Zawinski, for example. His opinion on software matters to a lot of people, even though he probably cares a lot more about nightclubs these days. That's because he spent 10-15 years being exceptionally passionate about software, and in the process accumulated the skills he needs to make informed, nuanced judgments.
It was nice of Yegge to quote the entire section of the perl man pages on how the .. operator works. Notice it is fully documented, all the different contexts it works in, what it returns, how it returns it, the different types it works on. One might consider perl to be OVERLY documented, and navigating the man pages works pretty well when searching from inside less(1). I wish python and ruby and PHP had their entire documentation, or even just a significant standard library function list, available as man pages on every system they are installed on (although, why Ubuntu's doesn't package up perl man pages as part of perl by default, I don't know).

Then look up the Ruby documentation for .. , which is also overloaded to have two different meanings, one that works inside conditionals and one that constructs Range objects when outside of Range objects, which is just as much syntactic sugar as anything perl provides. And the difference between .. and ... is visually subtle, I wonder how many off-by-one errors that operator idiom causes.
went right over my head :P
Exxon spends a ton on R&D, but very, very little of it is for climate science research. As far as I can tell, they're total amount of spending on climate science research the past few years was about $75,000 ( http://members.greenpeace.org/blog/exxonsecrets/2009/05/26/e... ).

The American Enterprise is not a climate research institute, it's a general purpose, conservative policy shop. It does not fund original climate research, it just funds policy experts who write issue papers. It's comparable institute on the left is the Brookings Institute ( which incidentally has a budget almost three times the size: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookings_Institution ).

As far I can tell sum of the amount of money on the skeptic side, for actual climate researchers, consists of Steve McIntyre's retirement fund and a the salaries of a few tenured professors. On the other side, there are about 2,500 scientists who get their money through grant funding, and the people in charge of dispensing those grants are either governments or other non-skeptical, climate scientists. The overwhelming amount of the money goes to organizations and scientists who believe in AGW.
Not monetarily, but i'm sure you engender a lot of goodwill. By the way, i am in the business of accepting free 100$ bills, perhaps we should meet? ;)
If you call HSV "not very 'intuitive' at all", I'm curious how you'd call RGB! (For colors other than gray shades and pure red, green or blue)
I think in C++... if you want to be sure the method/function does not alter the data globally and speed is not a concern, then pass by copy. If you want the method to alter the data globally, then pass by reference. If you want speed, but don't want alteration then pass by const reference.
Strange hearing a non-programmer read a technical blog post like a page out of a novel.

http://hearablog.com/post/122/MicroISV-on-a-Shoestring-Pract...

"Lets see...

print underscore jobs dot options dot find underscore or
underscore create underscore bind underscore name
parenthesis quotation marks foo quotation marks end
perenthesis dot value equals quotation marks bar end
quotation marks

...oughta do it."
"This truly does suck. Does anyone smarter than me have a way that we might be able to fix this?"

"The only thing I've been able to come up with is ...."

Something like that perhaps? Slightly more eloquent (or perhaps just verbose) and showing an interest in a fix, not just in bashing the problem.
Did I miss the link to check this out?
Intel scraps Larrabee
Given that females are almost universally attracted to confidence/"alpha"-ness, males are better off believing that they're better than they are. (And knowing this may make you worse off, for either gender).
If that's $10K profit after paying your employees and yourself reasonable salaries, then you're off to a sustainable start, and should stick it out. You're probably still growing, and if your marginal costs are not too high, any further growth should be almost pure profit.

If it's $10K without paying yourself, then you've got some work to do, but if you can live lean off your savings, you may still be able to improve the situation to the point where the business is sustainable or better.

If it's $10K before you pay your employees, find a new business, this one's not going to happen.
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Is anyone interested in trying any of these? I've already connected my security system to twitter and I doubt it be much harder to make an interface for my dog to use it.
General Motors

Investment Banks

Railways

Subprime lenders
This isn't the first time this has happened. Several years back, another government agency made the same mistake. On a slow computer, the text would render first, and could be seen for several seconds before the black boxes would appear.

Googling around, it seems to be a fairly common mistake, going back to at least 2000.

http://www.securityfocus.com/news/7272

http://cryptome.org/iran-cia/cia-iran-pdf.htm

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=12907
How hackers should upgrade their glasses.