skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. You're right. Unless you also want to have a social life, or fulfilling relationships with people. I won't say that it can't be done, or that it can't be done to some degree, but it's much harder to sustain other parts of your life if you're spending so much time on one thing.

If you're spending 16 hours a day painting, then you might change the world of art. If you're spending 16 hours a day working on your business, you might change the world of business. Or at least your business. But you sure as hell aren't going to have a happy spouse. You're going to lose connections to friends.

This is especially relevant at this time of year. As any Christmas movie will tell you, thinking only of yourself and your work is not going to make you fulfilled.
Does anyone know of a similar service to connect designers with developers for open-source projects?
Google and Popeye the Sailor Man
Today marks the birthday of E.C. Segar, the cartoonist creator of Popeye, that comic cartoon hero from the 1920’s and Google has made the pix shown here, come up on our google.ca page as their logo...
Yes, you could interpret it that way...
Do you really think apple examined the ownership of each IP? Oh, comcast ip XXX happens to be the mom of the lead sales guy of this app! ban the app!

Seems unlikely to me, but I'm not privy to apple's internal investigation system. I'd wager you aren't either ;)
Not having a keyboard is a good idea. The keyboard is a waste of space.

It should just have bluetooth so you can hook up a keyboard if you want.

They have all this hardware... it wouldn't be hard to turn it into something good. That's why I said what I said. Because all they need is an OS and bluetooth and IMO it would be worth the price they set.
Like participating in the democratic process?

(see voter privacy)
The winner will be an info product which bids their 97% margins down to 0% or negative margins by buying AdWords ads to juice volume.

What do I win?
From the post:

Let’s take unstructured search as an example. Assume I hide a ball in a cabinet with a million drawers. How many drawers do you have to open to find the ball? Sometimes you may get lucky and find the ball in the first few drawers but at other times you have to inspect almost all of them. So on average it will take you 500,000 peeks to find the ball. Now a quantum computer can perform such a search looking only into 1000 drawers. This mind boggling feat is known as Grover’s algorithm.
Celebrating Computer Science Education Week
Does anyone know whether this has auto-update?
A fine tribute to XKCD. Good to see Google give credit (and a direct link!) to XKCD right on the page, too.
Google Chrome for Linux
This is a direct link to a Windows-only binary.
It's hard to get away with anything less than full 1080p on a standalone player these days, due to the advent of low-cost 1080p players like the WDTV (~$80).
Yeah, I appreciate interesting device design, but I think they'd be better off with something MacMini shaped (they could still make it black and shiny).
Bovril	Morning, Squadron Leader.

Squadron Leader	What-ho, Squiffy.

Bovril	How was it?

Squadron Leader	Top-hole. Bally Jerry, pranged his kite right in the how's your father. Hairy blighter, dicky-birdied, feathered back on his Sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harper's and caught his can in the Bertie.

Bovril	Er, I'm afraid I don't quite follow you, Squadron Leader.

Squadron Leader	It's perfectly ordinary banter, Squiffy. Bally Jerry...pranged his kite right in the how's yer father...hairy blighter, dicky-birdied, feathered back on his Sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harper's and caught his can in the Bertie.

Bovril	No, I'm just not understanding banter at all well today. Give us it slower.

Squadron Leader	Banter's not the same if you say it slower, Squiffy.

(http://www.ibras.dk/montypython/episode42.htm#2)
Google Launches Chrome for Mac
Actually you're mistaken in all 6 cases:

1. easy refutation - go to sistine chapel, look up

You're claiming that the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel is better (not just as good, but better) than everything Leonardo and Bellini ever painted. The number of art historians who'd agree with that statement is zero.

2. This is not how people painted with oil until the 19th century.

http://static.squidoo.com/resize/squidoo_images/-1/draft_len...

3. completely unsupported.

Your counterclaim is likewise completely unsupported. But anyone who wants to settle the matter can choose any "how to paint" type book published in the 20th century, and they'll see that was considered the default technique.

4. carving marble is much easier

Carving marble requires more specialized training, but the kind of difficulty I was talking about was how critically viewers judge the result. They are tough on sculpture too, but I think they are as tough on line drawing. The less there is, the more closely it's examined.

5. At the time it was painted in thin, transparent layers that did not allow the kind of reworking

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentimento

http://www.escholarship.org/editions/data/13030/d9/ft1d5nb0d...

6. If you want to offer any actual counterargument about Cezanne's drawing, feel free.
Whereas: "Bumped into biffo in the rug the other day, didn't he fag for you at big school?" Would be perfectly acceptable.
you can have an adblocker that works for every browser by editing your /etc/hosts file :)

this guy has a collection of blocked ad sites in this hosts file :

http://zelut.org/projects/misc/hosts

btw windows has a hosts file too ;)
Is it entirely accurate to frame Netbeans as a "flagship Sun project"? Does Sun actually employ a significant number of people to work on this project anymore?
I think entrepreneurs had more leverage in the '90s.

In 2009, with the economy in such a damaged state, VCs know that entrepreneurs would be in severe pain if they entered the traditional labor market right now, and they're using this as leverage. Taking the $120k job at mid-size, promising startup is not an option for as many people right now.

Knowledge (of VC tactics, terms) doesn't help the entrepreneur very much. This is about power, not knowledge. Everyone knows that multiple liquidation preferences are evil, but how many people are going to select death over bad terms?
Google releases Chrome for Linux beta - Linux Critic
Not sure if this is just me, but Google autoupdate is just broken for mac. It pops up even when the program is not running and the update only works if the current user is an admin. It does not prompt for admin password like all other updates do. And there was no way to not have autoupdate. That led me uninstall all Google software a while back.
I'd put money on this being Ion based with 1080p support.
Eons Founder Jeff Taylor Launching Dating Site for the Over-40 Set
Top Semantic Web Products of 2009
Might not be an expert, but I'm in a similar boat in that I have a firm footing in PHP and want to develop a web app on my own. I chose to go with PHP and Symfony, as it seems to be a pretty powerful framework with great documentation (they have a complete guide on how to set up a job posting board, for instance).

I had started out with raw PHP, and I'm pretty much scrapping my initial work since it can be done so many times faster and with better quality using Symfony
Pinboard Now Offers Bookmark Archiving for $25 Per Year
It's not. General-purpose scripting isn't necessarily the best choice if the scripting is used only for designer tasks like directing cinematics, movement patterns, simple event-trigger relationships, etc. Between that, the soft real-time requirements, and the historically tiny memory space of consoles, something simplistic and custom is preferable..
Terrorists!
We buy GPS modules for our surveying systems, one of the requirements on the export licence is that they are not allowed to be programmed to follow a pre-determined course.

Now the italians have discovered the technology for navigating a model aircraft we are no longer safe.
Absolutely. It is their tools platform for Java, Glassfish, JavaFx, etc. Besides, it's featured in the second position on sun.com (with only Java ahead of it).
This makes me happy. I am not sure why.
One of the most reliable rules on the internet is that Cringley is always wrong.
Okay, lets take this to another level. Throw a couple dozen more sensors on there and you can have bluetooth-enabled keyboard pants.

Hell, slice one of those roll-able keyboards in half and bond them to the garmet.
I wonder when we're going to have Android, Chrome OS, or another of its ilk running TV sets?
This article doesn't even really say anything, blogspam it seems.
I've been using chromium for a while now and have been fairly happy with it (other than a bit of scrolling performance and some flash funnyness). Has anybody done a side by side comparison of Chromium and Google Chrome on the Mac?

The UI looks identical, functionally they look very similar, and performance seems about the same as well.

Thoughts?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola
US only, of course.
Is it as simple as wiring them to a 1/4" jack and plug them into some sort of midi "drum brain", or is there more to it?
Same thing in Belfast.
Once it was realised that the 350years of civil war had all been just a silly misunderstanding they started running tours of the murals.

Some of them have to have preservation orders slapped on them to stop developers removing a 30foot high IRA painting to improve house prices.
They may even have to start paying people to repaint them as they weather away.
Should I become a project manager?
Berlin has some designated "grafitti walls."

Since they get overprinted so much, nothing there lasts long. People use them for practice before going elsewhere to do their masterpieces.
Social networking has "everything is free" stigma attached to it. Linkedin probably wants something along the lines of "everything that's valuable costs money", so they are trying to look all businessy.
If you have a cancer, maybe you shouldn't have it.

It is very easy to get caught with this type of argumentation. It is wrong.

Keywords may actually reveal a lot more that one would assume, and prone for des-interpretation as well.
inside of the tv or as a HTPC with an os specifically made for the tv?
AT&T digs Pit, Creates Network app for iPhone
I don't know what OPA is, but I think that building an application on top of Gemstone/S and Seaside (GLASS), or their upcoming Maglev product and Rails would be a "one pot application".

I've been a Rails developer for years, and just recently started using Seaside to build an application and I used a basic object database for it. Eventually I'll port it to GLASS, but either way the lack of plumbing has been refreshing. So "OPA" isn't a new idea and there are existing technologies out there for it already, AFAIK.
Don't link to any kind of download before the official download pages go up. The bits may not be final, and Mozilla typically hasn't finished distributing stuff to mirrors. I assume if you know where to look for these things you also know that Mozilla's been asking people to knock it off for years now.
Hard work != addiction to work.
Collection of quotes compiled by Jason Fried
Maybe we'll start getting some decent open source graphics drivers.
There are legitimate reasons why people who have done nothing wrong would want what they have done not revealed to those in power.

Mr. Braithwaite? We're investigating a co-worker of yours for possible misuse of computers for XXXXXXX. Can you please tell us: have you ever observed him doing XXXXXX? Do you think you could have a look at his computer the next time he takes a bathroom break and tell us if you see any signs of XXXXXX on it?

"That sounds pretty bad but to be perfectly honest, I'm very comfortable with your ability to gather surveillance information using normal means, including obtaining a search warrant for his computer. I'd like to consult a lawyer before answering any questions about anybody, thank you very much. Please excuse me..."

Mr. Braithwaite? Let me see here... Oh yes, you're they guy who likes to look at pictures of XXXXXX. And I see here you purchased the following toys... Do you keep those in the house where your... let me see... two kids visit? Does your ex-wife's lawyer know what kind of movies you like to watch? Would you like her to know? Sit down please, we have much to discuss.

You don't want to get all legal with us and demand a lawyer, do you? You don't want us to have to bother with a lot of troublesome search warrants, do you?
With sports, one of the critical aspects of success is adequate sleep and nutrition (and exercise, obviously).

At the very least, sacrificing sleep, nutrition and exercise for "work" is obviously counter-productive, regardless of your personal values.
There is no other half. It's a quote taken completely out of context and blown out of proportion with absolutely moronic commentary. I can't believe this is the kind of thing that makes it to the front page of HN, much less to the #1 spot :(

But the bigger news may be that Schmidt has actually admitted there are cases where the search giant is forced to release your personal data.

Oh, you mean Google follows US laws? They don't participate in acts of civil disobedience in a suicidal effort to protect our privacy!? Eeeevil!
The video clip is available at http://gawker.com/5419271/google-ceo-secrets-are-for-filthy-...
I am not referring to the general google updater that comes with the google pack. I mean the silent autoupdate that chrome for windows has.
The link points to http://download.mozilla.org/?product=thunderbird-3.0 which is a redirector to the 'appropriate' platform version.
and it shares safari's inability to view XML documents. What's with that...
Internet of Things Products of 2009
Octopart (W07) Powers Product Search for EETimes
How to Find Programming Mentors
The ordering of health/family/God is certainly debatable. This was his ordering and I don't always do it that way, but the point that your work can't be sustainable or offer your life much value without the right priorities is the key. I've been fortunate to have had quite a few great mentors in my life.
Sadly, articles like this are always timely.
My wild speculation would be that (related to tc's above) it's a mutual "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" with the DOJ. I'd be surprised if there weren't regulations in place which required them to keep the data for that long.
In the sidebar, "Sik" means "cool", where cool has magically been promoted to a non-slang word. Or at least to the BBC writer's ears.
Here's the problem: most technology entrepreneurs could, with a couple years' training, do the VCs' jobs as well as they do. The only thing they lack is the connections necessary to get the job.

Yet VCs hold the cards, and the reason for this is that they have rare social resources, which are (unfortunately) valued more highly than talent.

I'm not disparaging VCs as a class. Some of them are great, but I'm a 26-year-old with no MBA and know for a fact that I'd be a better candidate for an entry-level VC position than 95% of the people getting them (because I've worked on Wall Street and know some of these people).
>Why would they intentionally make it difficult to compare prices when travel agents and price comparison sites make it easy?

Most people don't know about these sites. AA makes money for every person who is clueless. And there are many.
Congratulations!

Octopart has gotten some love in the How to Make (almost) Anything class here at MIT, too. We used it to find a good, cheap source for ATtiny44's when Digikey was out of stock.
If you do online checkin and don't check any bags...
I agree. This is an important thing to realize. It's also not just analytics. Every site that links to advertisements controlled by google or one of the many advertising companies they've acquired can also be used to correlate data about you. I started worrying more when they bought doubleclick.net. I wonder if that same google opt-out cookie works for those sites? What if you're concerned about your privacy enough to clear your cache and cookies every time you close your browser? Google is in a stronger position to track more of what you do on the net than many people may realize.
Intel will not buy Nvidia. More like Intel can't. The deal would never go through all the checks. Intel doesnt need Nvidia and Nvidia cannot make a CPU part. At-least not an x86 CPU part (licensing).
There's an extension for that: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gbammbheopgpmaag...
I kinda like the feeling of being sleep-deprived.
A little light on content?
a lot of great points. very insightful
I often see startups and software development referred to as "creative professions." But the industry is lousy at practicing habits based on knowledge of creativity from psychology.

Take the four stages of creativity, for example: preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification. Work habits like those discussed here all but destroy any potential for unconscious incubation of creative solutions.

Another oddity about this industry: perks like ping-pong tables, free food, and Rock Band tournaments. These seem to be attempts to lessen the psychological load, with the ulterior motive of getting longer hours from workers. If you believe in the psychological theories of creativity, such benefits should have no great effect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incubation_(psychology)
Exactly.

Finally, a reasoned response. I came in here just to say this; Can't believe what an uproar this is causing...
> In general, the single threaded evented model tends to scale better than the process/thread per connection model for large numbers of connections. Having to context switch between 10,000 threads/processes typically means the OS spends a lot of time doing context switching instead of IO.

Right, the evented model works, and you get that for free with Node.js. I dunno if that specific codebase would handle "thousands of users" though. Test it, it'd make a cool blogpost. :)

> I'm not sure how Clojure implements agents, it may already handle having 10,000 concurrent agents efficiently. I'd be curious to know.

Well right now it's 1 thread per connection, which I will have to change. As for agents, they dispatch on a threadpool with a number of threads corresponding to the number of cors in the physical hardware. So that part of the code should scale of fairly arbitrarily (although a specific room with many, many people may experience some latency, and many such rooms might bog down the thread pool).
I can't decide if the idea is demeaning or really demeaning. After reading in the linked article that the original plans called for the tourists to be "shot" by local kids with a water pistol and then sold a "I got shot in LA!" T-shirt, I'm not sure that the tour companies' hearts are in the right place... I'm leaning towards really demeaning.
Flash surf competition: 7 times in 25 years, streaming live now
Production Rails Tuning with Passenger: PassengerMaxProcesses
Stream: http://live.quiksilver.com/2009/bigwave/live.php?btn_live=_o...
Thank you for posting this :)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=976659
Google - Be Evil.
I've been using the Ubuntu Chromium PPA builds for the last two months and as far as I can see, it all works just fine. Granted, the Delicious plugin didn't start working until a few weeks ago and I haven't yet tried any other plugin, but the developer tools are very good and those are the majority of my Firefox plugins.
Yeah, they should've specified "most net profit" instead of "most revenue".
I don't think that you won't get the MacTablet for under $1000. I actually think it will cost around $1500. It would be a macbook air with a nice capacitive 12"ish screen.
For the record I ran the last Berlin marathon - - and I think exercising, eating healthy and sleeping well can go well with working hard...
How can they call this a beta when there's NO BOOKMARK MANAGER?
just don't use it for anything you'd rather keep private, i guess...
Looks good, imported all my bookmarks from Firefox, seems really snappy and responsive. Unfortunately extensions do not currently work under OSX, so no AdSweep extension. Once extensions work I'll give it a shot at replacing Firefox on my desktop. I can't go back to the web with advertisements, I just can't.
> What do I win?

100k, apparently. Since you know how to win, go for it!
MIT floats ideas in DARPA balloon challenge (Q&A)
System Monitoring Tools Package for Windows
I'm sure some other cutting gives maximum cream cheese.
How do you get developer tools working? I'm using PPA builds as well, and I have no access to dev tools. Tried launching it with some flags and still no luck. Can't find documentation anywhere :/
indeed, that term describes it very well.
That's pretty much all The Register does.

As more practical advice, if you're doing something you don't want others associating with your IP address, use an anonymizer you feel you can trust.
take a look in synaptic, searching for "chromium" and you'll find that there is a separate package for the dev tools
pardon my ignorance..Is it trust worthy Source ??
To get to the firebug-ish dev tools, right click and select "Inspect Element", or pull down on the "Control" menu (top right) and you should see a Developer menu.
Cringely called the HP-Compaq acquisition perfectly.

He gets out there a ways but is not as wrong as often as he is really right in my experience.
Ask YC: Essential Mac OSX Productivy Apps
I come from a linux/windows background, but a recent small project requires that I work on OSX 10.5. Being that I am a productivity/efficiency junky, I can't help but feel that I am missing out on something. Can people recommend some essential apps that they use in their day to day workflow? At the top of the list would be a good application launcher which would enable launching a terminal with a keyboard shortcut.
Trying to be an actor with a Computer Science degree
Or you could wget pages to a dropbox folder to accomplish the same kind of functionality for free.
As the possibility of the Earth having the exact required characteristics to fit the equation by chance is remote, and the equation has, in theory, been in existence since the beginning of the Universe, this means that the Earth's orbit, rotation and weight must have been engineered to fit this equation.

The chance is apparently so remote that it couldn't be accomplished even given an infinite number of chances.
The Register being sensationalist? Impossible!
No, anything on Google would be their papers and effects... it's on their servers.
A re-instatement of Glass-Steagall
Great...looks slick and runs fast...but with comments like this (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/07/schmidt_on_privacy/), how can I trust it?
It should be noted that you "must" be selling something through a Shopify store in order to be eligible.

Perhaps the title of this post should be "Build a Business using Shopify, win $100,000".
Stores passwords in plain text on disk: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=25404&...

I noticed that detail when I was trying out Chromium a while back, and it still hasn't been fixed. It seems like a simple but basic security feature. I don't know what else isn't done yet, but it does make me worry. No guarantees that Firefox isn't doing similar things I'd object to, but I don't know about them, so for better or worse I have more confidence in it.
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