skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is 4chan the Future of Human Consciousness?
Another big win for Chrome is that there is no approval process to get on their addon site as opposed to Mozilla. Mozilla can take weeks to months to get out of the sandbox (although to be fair, Mozilla is trying quickly to better the experience with a new self hosting option and making it somewhat easier for users to find sandboxed addons), and unless your addon gets some secondary approval, you need to go through the process again to push up updates.
I've been doing this for two years, no regrets on ditching cable box. The only time I miss it is the rare occasion when friends aren't doing anything for a UT football game.

It bothers me when companies dismiss streaming/on-demand due to it's "bandwidth" costs because companies like GigaNews seem to be quite profitable and offer unlimited download + SLL for $30 a month or less.
Reading Practice Can Strengthen Brain 'Highways'
Breast Cancer and Turmeric
I realized it smelled like Internet Drama writing, looked at the length, and decided I had better things to do.
Yeah, most of my best learning came from self-directed study under the guidance of a professor. Overall, I'd say my experiences outside of the classroom were the best part of being at a University though, and it's really what the individual makes of it.

I'd say a good public university is the best compromise, as you can get all the experiences of an expensive private school while saving a ton of money.
Slick little app. Horribly trite name.
They haven't got extensions working on mac yet either.
Universe Today has an article on possible explanations, including a comparison between a simulated rocket failure and the actual phenomenon.

http://www.universetoday.com/2009/12/09/what-was-the-norway-...
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I haven't used it but had the Fat Secret site bookmarked for a while. They have an API here: http://platform.fatsecret.com/ Let us know how it looks once you try it.
I'm saying that you need something to transfer heat to in order to cool an object. In a vacuum, there is nothing to transfer that heat to - it doesn't just "bleed off into space" or anything.

And the dark side of the moon being cold has nothing to do with it being in a vacuum, I don't even see where you get that.
Chrome's FlashBlock Epic Fail
Not thoroughly addressed was connections. You could make arguments about the relatively equal quality of education (usually not the case), but the social capital and connections you get from attending elite universities has great value in our world. The morality of that can be debated, but it is true nonetheless.
>I would expect to find this especially true for a math-oriented subject like programming or engineering.

Why do you say so? I would think that this would be more true for the humanities. If your peers aren't interested in having stimulating discussions in class, there's almost no point in being there -- whereas in technical subjects, you could always choose to work on side projects individually if the coursework isn't challenging enough.
It's nice to give a public pat on the back to a good team, but much of this comes across as hubris -- and that can come back to bite you.

Reminded me Jason Calcanis' posts in early 2008 about hiring the best workaholics you can find and then having to lay off some of his stars when the recession started to bite. And then having to admit that his standards and hiring practices were not that sound when it turned out an employee had a serious criminal past.
Dec. 10, 1944: Web Visionary Passes Into Obscurity
>for a UT football game

This seems to be the rub. I can't imagine the networks/cable-cos letting these assets go in a "pay $X to stream this game" way anytime soon. It seems likely that live sports (more than anything else I can think of) will likely be the cudgel for much broader content delivery service agreements for some time to come.
Model it after Tarsnap: http://www.tarsnap.com/legal.html

Tarsnap has the best legal pages I've ever seen.
Blog spot here:

http://hackademix.net/2009/12/10/why-chrome-has-no-noscript/

I think Chrome should consider exposure of more APIs, like context menu items, network stack, direct Skia calls, etc.

Chrome has builtin libjingle for p2p, but currently mainly used tinyxml for parsing XMPP and bookmark syncing. If we can script it with Javascript how awesome is that!
> The minute you introduce a microformat into your HTML, the semantics of the class attribute have been permanently altered.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.5.2

> The class attribute has several roles in HTML:

> * As a style sheet selector (when an author wishes to assign style information to a set of elements).

> * For general purpose processing by user agents.

So not really, he just doesn't know what the semantics always were. Understandable, since like most people he probably first encountered the class attribute as part of learning CSS.

The rest of the article has some decent points.
Programming has always seemed like a language-oriented, not math-oriented subject to me. I think my three years of Spanish have helped my programming more than any of the calc or linear algebra I've done.
It makes me hungry for fractal broccoli...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanesco_broccoli
A picture is worth a 1,000 words with Google Goggles
Learning, adaptation can change brain connections, CMU researchers say
Splitting equity among startup founders
You could always use your savings for football tickets.
I went to a community college before going to UCB. I treasure my time at both, but for the first two years I am totally glad I was at a CC. There is no comparison to the attention you can get, if you want it, at a CC. I made more friends at CC, too. I found UCB a cold and competitive place compared to CC.
NHL, NBA, and MLB have online streaming options. I subscribe to NHL Gamecenter. $160 a season, and streams at 2200 kbps, which is good enough for me.

Sports are slowly caving to the online demand.
I'm a satisfied GigaNews customer, I download on average 30G a month from them.
Thanks for the suggestions, Amir. Web design is not my strong side, but I will try my best!
Looks like they've never heard of the Roku: http://www.roku.com/

It can't do Hulu, but I've used it at a friend's house to access his Netflix account. It's quite nice.
Also a great idea. Thanks!
http://www.bitbucket.org (because I use mercurial as my SCM, and bitbucket is fast, cheap and solid)
Those with nothing to hide can't always see into the future Mr Schmidt.

http://www.stockmaven.com/ibmstory.htm

"This approach appears to have been used in the Netherlands when small-area tabulations of population data by religion from the 1930 Dutch census made up one of several data sources used in the development of the so-called 'dot maps' of Amsterdam," he says. "These maps, which showed areas of the city where the density of the Jewish population was the highest, were used in planning Nazi-inspired attacks on some of these neighborhoods in February 1941."
Looks to me like they have:

There’s also the $80 Roku box, a device that allows you to stream video from Netflix, Amazon.com and other sites directly to your television.
Unfortunately he did not credit Feynman for the 'clock' analogy, who I believe originated this way of describing quantum processes.
I use Redmine (http://www.redmine.org/) on a VPS (RimuHosting). Pretty easy to setup even for a Java developer who's barely looked at Ruby or RoR (like me).
The Mac Mini has a retarded Mini DisplayPort, which doesn't have audio. There is a cable that will combine them into a proper HDMI that does have audio, but it's a little pricey, and doesn't entirely solve the too many cables problem. When I helped a friend wire hers up, we just ran a separate 1/8" phone plug to dual RCA plugs, and configured the TV to use analog audio. Most modern TVs have this option, even for the HDMI and DisplayPort video sources.
Well, some of a killer team is bound to have a criminal history.
Cletus is a male name.

Stats & origin: http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/1/Cletus
Background:

http://www.craigslist.org/about/press/ebay.stake

Note the following:

"When he originally gave a stake in Craigslist to the executive that sold his shares to eBay, Mr. Newmark said, he never expected them to be worth anything. "I made a gift of some equity in craigslist to a guy who was working with me at the time," Mr. Newmark wrote on his Internet blog (www.cnewmark.com). "I figured it didn't matter, since everyone agreed that the equity had only symbolic value, not dollar value."
What is happening here? The escape from the constraints of the flesh? The escape from the constraints of being human? The inevitable purge following the collective unconscious' information binge? With the Internet we can now erase space and time, erase the restraints placed on the mind by matter.

And just a few paragraphs before hand, he accuses Fox News of overstating the matter.
I don't think it comes down solely to the designer, instead think of the company and team of professionals who make a great UI possible. A great UI design trapped inside of a photoshop file is useless. It takes the effort of multiple people to make it happen - I think a better question to ask is what companies are creating the best UI's that are actually being used today.
I got SpeedTracer running yesterday. I imagine others could be run too. The trick, at the moment, is to be running a Chromium developer build - which, on the Mac, is much better than the current beta.

http://pgt.de/2009/12/09/using-speed-tracer-on-a-mac/
Wouldn't it be better for the NYT to focus on their core competencies and just outsource their ads? This is Google's specialty and thus Google should be able to give advertisers a better value.
The closest competitor to Access is FileMaker Pro.

But I don't see anything wrong with her using either excel or Access for the type of thing you are talking about. No need to overcomplicate.
Second that. Good thing I read this headline after getting up, so I have a few hours to forget it before I'm going back to bed.
I'm not sure how they expect to save users' credit card details in a way that can be transferred to the airlines. Can't store the CVV code at all, and everything else is supposed to be encrypted.
I love .net. The developer tools are awesome and wpf and silverlight are phenomenal to work with. They make it insanely easy for me to be expressive with my UI. There is a definite learning curve, but after a month or two you'll be blown away at how easy it is to get shit done.
How Zappos.com Sells 6-30% More Merchandise
HTML has a reputation of being "easy" and it just sad to see how many luminaries just don't care enough to educate themselves at leas a bit about such easy language.
"CSS class" my [censored]. Luckily a lot of commenters set things straight.
FogBugz: http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBugz/

It's free for students and startups and has a lot of extras: wiki, discussions, etc...
Image 1 of your screenshots should replace the two iphones showing a splash screen (they serve no purpose + I don't want to see your splash page - if you use them just for links, just make a get it now button). I had to click the screenshots to find out what the app does. If this wasn't on HN I would have simply left the site and moved on.

Also, I hate links that open up iTunes. If you're going to do so, let me know first.
I grew up in a poor family. We had no TV, used clothes, little food, and very few toys. Don't tell me I don't know what it's like to have little. The difference between my family and most I see today is that we prioritized our purchases to be for what we needed, not wanted, so we could be self sustaining. Today it's the other way around because they know Uncle Sam will step in to take care of the rest.
The 39.95 price includes shipping (UPS ground). Read it wrong the first time.
Henry has done an excellent job with BusinessInsider.com. I read it daily and love it.

Finding a killer team takes a lot of time, and I found the best way to find the right people is to do a culture document. It helps you define who you are as a team and what you want/expect from new people joining your team.

This creates a great flywheel where the team is evaluating people of equal skill on their cultural fit.... and in a world of super qualified people I find the cultural fit is the most important thing to get right.
Redis requires you have enough RAM to hold your entire dataset in memory...which seems impossible for something as large as twitter
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What a silly topic with a silly question. To actually "hate" a language? Or worse, to do so without even having used it?
I test many (all?) of the ToDo apps that cross my path, but I always end up thinking: "Isn't this what my brain is for?"

That being said, this one looks shiny!
Despite the institutional difficulties that you rightfully present, I'd like to see more analytics used in governing.
Confidence is reduced when the blurbs on the first page are coded with the imaginary HTML entity "&apos;" which does not render as an apostrophe in all browsers. (The fix
is just to use a literal apostrophe character there, or if that's hard use "&#39;".)

"TeuxDeux is the to-do app I&apos;ve been looking for my whole life, and I&apos;ve been looking!"

"TeuxDeux is like google cal&apos;s & google task&apos;s better-looking and far more fun sister."
I really, really recommend working with a web/graphic designer in that case... I always used to go solo as I wanted to retain complete control of the finished product. What I do now though is I consult with a graphic designer. He may not make even 50% of the design, but his input always makes a huge difference in the visual quality of the finished product.
It's funny how, given a ridiculous enough title, a Reddit-style zinger can garner a positive reputation here.
This is pretty old, but always fun. I've used it a few times.

The blog post about this is here: http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2008/10/19/friendda.ht...
Does anyone have exposure or experience with stanford's Data Mining and Applications graduate certificate? Details here: http://tinyurl.com/stanford-graduate-certs my email is in my profile if you'd rather respond privately. I am considering applying.
I think the main issue here is that Cletus is in Australia. Assuming things haven't changed since January, Australia accounts for only 3% of the traffic to Stack Overflow[1]. It's hard to expect a critical mass of employers less than a month after the employer beta started[2], especially given how few potential candidates are in the area. Jeff has already floated the idea of offering a coupon[3] to interested employers, demonstrating that he's aware of and working to correct the issue.

Besides, it's way too early to say that Careers has "jumped the shark", considering that the public wasn't even aware of its existence two months ago.

1: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/where-in-the-world-do-...

2: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/11/careers-employer-beta-...

3: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31649/whats-your-cv-...
Ask HN: Are you a student?
I was recently wondering how many HN users are professionals, and how many are students. I figured I'd make a poll. If you're both a professional and a student, tick the 'yes' option.

Cheers.
Asshole driven development
Scammers Scrape RAM for Credit Card Data
Does Redis really require the entire dataset to be in RAM, or does it just require enough virtual memory to hold the dataset? In other words, couldn't you just let it swap?
(Give a reason if you are going to downvote me. I've tried this and know first hand that it sucks.)

OK. In my experience, this is a poor solution and generally a dumb thing to do.

It's hard to use, often breaks, and has pretty horrible program selection. Even with the Netflix membership.

The feeling of not paying "the man" for cable is cool but this simply isn't a good solution. There isn't an alternative to cable and you will regret going through the trouble. The only people with no regrets, are the people who don't watch much TV, or are in denial.

Seriously, what happens when it keeps breaking? It sucks to have your wife call you at work when it's broken. The remote isn't responding, won't full-screen, stuttering etc.

Some of you need to be honest and stop giving everyone the no regrets since leaving cable stuff.

This setup sucks. It's just not as bad as regular TV.
Many community college classes are taught by grad students or post-docs who haven't landed a tenure-track position yet. A friend of mine taught English and composition classes at CC for a few years; judging from her experience, there was plenty of pressure. (It doesn't help that the pay is terrible at colleges) OTOH, they do attract some people who are interested in teaching for its own sake.

I think it's hard to generalize about teaching quality in CC. The professors who teach at colleges are largely the same people as universities, either on their way up or down from the tenure track. It would be as easy to disengage as become enthusiastic about teaching.
sorry, don't mean to go back and forth, but a result based on such a flawed model is not something i care to examine.

he essentially asks why people choose something that is more stressful and has less rewards ignoring things like job and financial security, which by definition affects "stress" and "rewards" however they are measured. So now the question "why is [such and such] true" becomes completely meaningless because [such and such] is not proven true.
yea, with all these NDA posts I thought it would be appropriate to dredge up again.
Analytics make optimizing the "viral loop" much easier, as described by Dave McClure: http://500hats.typepad.com/500blogs/2007/09/startup-metrics....

Of course when you can break this down by feature and integrate multivariate tests, ad campaigns (inbound and outbound if that is your thing,) and so on.. the numbers can get complex, quickly.

Opinion & gut-based decisions are a terrible way to run a business. Numbers! You should be analyzing your numbers from day 0. I don't think that analytics should be an "eventually" thing, it should be deeply ingrained in your corporate culture from the start.
Speed Tracer - visibility into the browser
Neat trick: replace "Microformats" with "XML".
Truthful Answer: What is your Greatest Weakness?
This question has been asked before: you might have a look at the archives. I use Redmine, github's thing, Google code... depending on the project. It doesn't matter all that much. If you want something in-house, Redmine or Trac are both ok.
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Here are some experts (the American Psychological Association) who disagree with your link:

http://www.apa.org/releases/sexeducation.html

The research on adolescents’ sexual behavior shows that comprehensive sexuality education programs that discuss the appropriate use of condoms do not accelerate sexual experiences. On the contrary, evidence suggests that such programs actually increase the number of adolescents who abstain from sex and also delay the onset of first sexual intercourse. Furthermore, these programs decrease the likelihood of unprotected sex and increase condom use among those having sex for the first time.

To put your second link in context, the author is a conservative Catholic writer who calls gay marriage "a threat to religious liberty" and accuses contraception supporters of "Condomism" (sounds like Communism, get it?) The first Google result for her name is her home page, titled "Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse - Your Coach For The Culture Wars," though if you click the link it appears the site is defunct.

Here's what she says about childhood obesity:

"My amateur diagnosis is that the childhood obesity problem is a direct result of the whole constellation of social changes initiated by the sixties. Working mothers, feminism and zero population growth all played a role."

I hardly think the APA committee is unbiased, but I think I'll stick with them over "Your Coach For The Culture Wars" who blames childhood obesity on the sixties.
What? Hate is quite a strong word... Sorry to say this, but if you really hate a language, you might be a little too invested in the world of programming. (Maybe this is heresy to say here, but oh well... I think the word hate is overused).
Cassandra runs on a cluster so "the dataset" maybe more than 10 TB, so maybe more than the disk space on 1 machine.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Erlang's Process Dictionary
Experiences in Failed Startups
Community colleges and Universities typically have opposite cost/benefit curves. At most Universities the first maybe 2 years or so are spent being taught by graduate teaching fellows in giant lecture halls, you're definitely not getting your money's worth at that point. In later years you'll probably end up in smaller classes being taught by competent professors at which point you're probably getting well more than your money's worth. In community colleges you'll get an equivalent or better experience in the first few years (classes taught by actual professors) at much, much lower cost but the quality in higher level classes are lacking. If you want the best of both worlds you can pursue an associates degree at a community college and transfer to a University of your choice after to pursue a Bachelor's degree.
Yes, and also working at a career :)

Open University rocks
It's worth reading the link about the patent he won $150m on:
http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1202425204868

They sued because Sony and Microsoft's controllers vibrated. I'm not sure this patent is the poster child for why the IP system is awesome. I love Steve's work, but I'd like to see some acknowledgement that there might be a wider cost to society from chasing patents like these.
TranslateThis - Embeddable Javascript translation widget
A cool way of finding a good web developer
She spoke a lot about human psychology,so I wondered what her background was. I had wrongly assumed that she was a "techie"-turns out she has a PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience from University of Washington, and a BA in Experimental Psychology from UCSD! What a fascinating lady and incredibly interesting interview.
Maybe but I did some math and Twitter dataset should not be so big... The estimation I posted some time ago in twitter were completely wrong. I hope to be able to post some more data later today.

I think that a few big boxes are enough to take all the twitter dataset in memory, and if you ask me, and seen the continuous scalability concerns Twitter experimented during its history maybe this is something they should consider seriously (Redis apart).
They say the children are our future. But if 4chan is any indication of what they have in store for us, we are in for a very rough time indeed.

Huh? They lost me at the title really - but I clicked through for fun and was greeted with that.

Hmmmmm.
They are, just disabled for the moment due to a security risk

Try: http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/sinobytes/post.htm?id=63015336...
aww.. they've now added password protection. existing ones still work though
Google has no RSS for their newest Chrome extensions, so I scraped them w/ Pipes
Here's the twitter account that uses this Yahoo Pipes feed: http://twitter.com/chromeplugins