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Where is the explanation, let alone the data, to support the claim that happiness has not increased? There’s a compelling data driven chapter in Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now t…

Manipulating Ableton Live directly using python is tricky as you need to impersonate a proprietary device. However, there's a fairly there's a fairly straightforward Open Sound Con…

Regarding learning Ruby in Portland, make it out to a PDX Ruby Brigade meeting if you haven't already. They have meetings focused on learning Ruby: http://calagator.org/events/1250…

Should work now. Thanks.

Startup school is a great opportunity to meet fellow hackers. However, I would find it most useful to meet fellow hackers interested in solving problems in the same industry as me.…

I just hacked together a large standing desk this weekend using cabinets from Ikea: http://petermarks.info/2011/04/11/the-spaceship-2-0/ The criteria for this project was 1) Cheap …

@adamc - I understand you want to do everything you can do encourage your daughters education and I'm sure that will serve her well. I'm my experience, however, I had more to do wi…

I agree standardized tests focused on memorization aren't educational, but surely tests that require problem solving ability (math) are worthwhile. Without standardized tests, how …

My startup -- http://feastery.com -- was founded to address these problems for great restaurants. In general the issues around retention and customer quality have been around since…

This has worked well for us at http://feastery.com . No issues with the quality of the invitees.

Surprising to see this on HN. Regardless, here's my favs: 2009-03-10 Jamie Jones, 2007-02-18 Danny Howells, 2006-10-14 Trentemoller, 2003-08-24 Sasha live at Creamfields

Fritos and YouTube, no. Chicken McNuggets and Call of Duty, yes: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/family-and-relationships...

I've been using jashkenas' ruby processing for a simple gui: http://wiki.github.com/jashkenas/ruby-processing . Processing is a pleasure to use once it's liberated from java syntax…

Redmine (redmine.org) is a free, open source alternative to basecamp/trac written in rails. It's great for tracking issues for your own projects, but especially useful to small tea…

I used prepaid sims from MTN and SafariCom when I visited Kenya and east Africa this summer. 50 cent activation fee and $5.00 for all the minutes I needed (including to the US) for…

Agreed. I thought the most spine tingling part of the trilogy was at the end of the second movie when Neo uses his powers in the real world. This is reminiscent of my own hacking e…

Agreed. This account of his 4am workouts and non-stop icing routine on gameday is truly inspiring: http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=4068270 I like Kobe more than Lebron m…

I grew up here and moved back after college in CA, so I'm a little biased. It's a great place to live. The tech scene is really inviting and impressively sophisticated as others ha…

Awesome. I'm interested to see what you come up with. Shoot me an email at the address in my profile.

Wow, awesome to hear there are other people into lighting on here. I'm spending my weekend working on a Max/MSP patch that spits out patterns onto an LED grid controlled by a 4/4 t…

Facebook already possesses and uses this sort of personal information for ads and they still don't have a great monetization rate per user. Twitter certainly has less overhead per …

My biggest criticism of 37 Signals is how easy they make selling simple products out to be. It's hard to imagine their success without the onslaught of positive attention rails has…