skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course nothing can be compared to the Holocaust. Nobody else made a religion and an industry from their own Nation tragedy.
I know a couple of PHD's from top UK universities who are currently struggling to find a job (in big sectors too; nothing niche).
He also wears sandals.
civil coverage (damage you cause to third parties) and law expenses coverage.

BTW : when bullet trains are not clogging it (like last week), we have a tunnel to go to the UK.
Just finished writing a minimalistic wordpress theme. The focus was to hide all the unwanted noise (categories, tags, rss buttons, ads etc) from the view and make the text highly readable.

Demo: http://clear.kera.la/2009/12/a-theme-for-wonderful-writers/
I read the article, and I see that number for "the rest of the world" are in one column.
She thinks that is indeed the case, but she isn't sure. She just knows it isn't a full serval.
may be a Replacement Revenue Strategy, but I am not convinced it is Decent.

That was my thought - but for different reasons.

Whenever anyone talks about starting a Yoga (or other fitness) startup it usually strikes me as a field full of "false guru's" and depending on "sheep" followers.

I know that is a stereotype and such setups are mixed among plenty of non-scams. But even so it seems like a minefield of a business to get into (especially if you enroach on a guru's turf!).

(I'd say fitness is very very high on the list of businesses I would never touch)
BabyZoink is the place to come for unusual and new names.

If you want your child to be beaten repeatedly at school, yes.
Thanks, it makes sense. I just wanted to check if there's any connotations not on dictionaries.
> A preliminary FBI analysis has found that the device allegedly found attached to Mr Abdulmutallab contained the high explosive PETN, also known as pentaerythritol.

> PETN was used in the device worn by British "shoe bomber" Richard Reid, who is serving a prison sentence for attempting to blow up a Paris-Miami airliner in Christmas week of 2001.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8431470.stm via infowarrior
No. They hate it. In fact, they're making it against the TOS and adding a special "game friend" feature in Q1 2010.

http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Policy_Example...
Hmmmm. Palmissano says:

“Is Google going to become the computing platform for the enterprise? Is a bank going to run itself on Google? Is an airline going to run itself on Google? Is IBM going to run its supply chain on Google? Is Bharti Wireless going to run themselves on Google? Is the banking system of China that we’ve built going to be on Google? Is the Russian Central Bank [network] that we’re building going to be on Google? No.”

Problem for this argument is that many US state governments already have "gone Google":

http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2009/12/26/mr-google-woos-stat...

I don't see how any of the industries Palmissano mentions (banking, airlines) are more mission critical than state government, which is involved with firefighting, police work, healthcare, public services, etc.
Yep, XUL components are indeed stylable (So will be charts).
For example:
xul|menuitem[type=radio]::image {
background-image: url(media/menuitem_radio.gif);
}
or
xul|listcell {
padding: 5px;
}
Yeah, completely agree, supporting the 2.0 standard is essential to remain on par with the iphone and not make android phones look like second class citizens.
The wave of "handheld-console level" 3d games on iphone is coming soon, so if not in 2.1, it would be ok even if they slip it in one of the next minor releases.
Just one thing bothers me, the introduction of gl2.0 will further segment the market...
So if a part on your bike breaks then you're gonna cast a new one out of raw metal? Machine it yourself? How is this different than any other part you have to replace?

It's an electric motor, a battery and a cellphone in a red plastic shell. Nothing to get religious about.
About that terrorist in the plane
When dealing with technical books, the only reason you'd need to read boring material, you can try one of the following:

1. Run a Google blog search on the topic. Stories are always good introductions.

2. Utilize the knowledge to build something very simple. Work by example. If you encounter something you don't understand in the example, don't overlook it. Go to your reference book and read up on it.

I find that this way I really understand and appreciate what I'm learning. I am able to make an opinion of it, and compare it to alternatives.
> The best way to show that (say) Linux is an "inferior" operating system is to build one better.

One of the most valued metrics of "better" is "how does it fit into the ecosystem". Plan 9 is clearly superior to Linux. It has cleaner interfaces, one person can understand it, lot's of things are unified that were disparate etc. etc. Everyone who uses both extensively berates Linux at every turn.

Mention it in more general spaces as HN, Reddit, Slashdot etc. and you will be told it is a failure, flop, doesn't have program X so it's useless, etc. etc.

Popularity means nothing

http://www.tiobe.com/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

The previous winners of the "Language of the Year" award are shown below.

Year	Winner
2008	C
2007	Python
2006	Ruby
2005	Java
2004	PHP
2003	C++
Ah, I see. That's apparently something that should have been detected by sniffers.

Also of interest while on the subject of airborne terrorists: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/17/flying_toilet_terror...
Because then you need a motor and a battery, adding weight and cost to an already heavy and expensive item.
Aren't you confusing messenger and message? The fact the messenger is partially responsible (and that is debatable) for some misery has no influence on the legality of the acts described in the article.

I would also add the corruption of the 90's benefited some of the same government officials that ate being accused here.
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Ease of building new stuff brings fragmentation:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1013716
Can you explain how my following argument impugns the character of the author? The article claims to be "about how Stalinism and the gulags are alive and well in Russia today". My counterclaim is that the article sets up a false moral equivalence from the start measuring a death of a lawyer to events at scale of Holocaust or Stalinist repressions. If you read my comment, it is obvious that it attacks the editors of Foreign Policy -- NOT the author. The author is entitled to his opinion but Foreign Policy should have reconsidered publishing the article that makes such outlandish claims.

Further, why are you so being so defensive that you feel the need to call my opinion crap? If I feel offended by how the author belittles most horrific events of the 20th century I will let people know about it. It is up to the readers to form their opinion about my reaction to the article.

While my claim doesn't attack the character of the article, you are explicitly defending him by interpreting his intentions to label the leading statement a hyperbole. How do you know that the author wanted to set up a hyperbole?
Sure, when you come to Shanghai, send me an email :-)
Incredible paper sculptures - many cut from one sheet of A4
Maybe offer a notification when the server version changes.
It's going to be really hard to graft that on there given the fact that a lot of the computational horsepower is directly related to the bandwidth to the 'local' memory store. That would mean that the local memory store somehow has to be turned in to a cache that stays coherent across many 100's of processing units.

I'm not sure that's impossible, it just seems very hard.

If nvidia manages to crack that nut then the only thing you'll still need to keep in mind is how big your cache footprint is (as on every other cpu with a cache) in order to maximize throughput.
...not for what he has done, but because of who he is" -- you should have posted the entire quote otherwise the meaning is out of context.

Are you using Kofi Annan's point to claim that Russia government has a policy of genocide against lawyers?
I wonder what the break-even mileage savings (to "cover" the cost of building one in the first place) for one of these would be?
The comment problem is template-settable -- you don't need to go to the generic Blogger comments form. Mind you, the documentation is a little on the opaque side, and one really needs to be interested enough to go through all of the tags. The CAPTCHA time-out issue is a bit of a problem for longer comments for us slow typists (or, I suppose, for deliberate thinkers), and the only real answer for including background images is to base64-encode them in data URI on the stylesheet -- the browser will give up before getting them from the associated Picassa album about half the time if you use a URL as a src. Since the stylesheet is part of the page (not cached), that means the images need to be kept small -- good discipline, perhaps, but it ought to be a choice.

The only real missing link I've run across is the ability to create honest-to-goodness static content, something that won't show up in the blog archive -- although there are values available in the latest template tagset that indicate that something of the sort is at least under consideration. (At the moment, there is no way to intercept entry generation in the archive menu-writing loop, although you can use content tagging to rip a full-length or abstracted entry out of the normal page run.)
Sorry, Shoppers, but Why Can’t Amazon Collect More Tax?
the last part above is not clear.

the code referred to as "kernel code" is actually code that runs on the client to invoke the kernel. opencl uses a library api, which cuda takes a dsl approach. so opencl is more verbose.

as far as i know, the actual kernel code (which describes what happens on the gpu) is pretty similar.
I think this is one of the single most valuable lessons any startup can learn. Having been a founder of 3 or 4 startups, and learnt from successes and also from failures, I cannot emphasise enough how important product/market fit and timing is.

Incidentally - this comes from a blog post he actually wrote some time ago that's been republished.
Poor Americans.. I hope we won't have those stupid rules. I love peeing when flying!
Fluid layout isn't a problem -- line-length is. Anything beyond about 50 ems is too long for most people to read comfortably, and multicolumn layout will only work effectively if a spread of content can be restricted to a single screen before scrolling becomes necessary (ever read a multicolumn PDF with a minuscule typeface?). One can easily float the major elements around so that screen size can be accommodated, but allowing the text in any one container to expand beyond a usable width is poor design by any standard.
Facebook explicitly stated that they will never inform people if you unfriend someone, this app does an end-run around that, of course they're going to disallow it.
Hehe. Weird things happen.
Very nice. I love the realtime data on the binder while it is sitting on the table.
"You can use your phone to shift gears".

I'm looking at the calendar, and it doesn't appear to be April 1st...

Who wants this?

I've got $100 that says that this is just more grad student wankery that will never amount to anything, because it solves "problems" that don't actually exist (in the sense that no one would pay for the product).
GPUGRID, volunteer computing for biomedicine
You can flag submissions you find inappropriate.

That said, I'd have to agree with you though, there is a lot of non-hacker stuff that makes the homepage and stays there.

What frustrates me more than that though is that there is plenty of hacker stuff that gets drowned out by non-hacker stuff.

Basically if a submission doesn't have 5 votes or so (on a normal day) before it scrolls off the 'new' page it will never make the front page.

That's not a bit loss for the submission itself (I use the 'new' page as though it were the homepage) but the discussion can be as interesting or more so than the submission, and that is a loss.
Scott Rafer, in the first comment, summarizes what I immediately thought - even if the other 90% of the advertising moves to the web, it doesn't mean that all those dollars will move to the web. It'll be used to cut cots.
The problem of scrolling for multiple columns can be solved by scrolling horizontally.
"I wish that, just once, some terrorist would try something that you can only foil by upgrading the passengers to first glass and giving them free drinks."

That's pretty much the best summary of the issue I've ever read.
she should breed it with a female house cat and make
a ¼ serval
Alan Perlis: Epigrams on Programming
What frustrates me more than that though is that there is plenty of hacker stuff that gets drowned out by non-hacker stuff.

This is a good point. The chances of a "rate my startup" or a good discussion around a startup business idea making the main page are a lot less than they were a year ago. I've seen submissions roll off the new page within 30 minutes when the site is humming, drowned out by mass-market non-hacker stuff. That's simply too fast for HN'ers to spot and upvote good stuff -- and the number of upvotes required to have staying power on the main page has increased as well, compounding the problem.

ADD: The problem is, with a loose definition of hacker-worthy news and an increased audience, the field of potential material broadens immeasurably.

It's the same problem with humor: I love to make a joke or read something funny once a day or so. But if 10 thousand people each joked on HN once a day, the place would completely change character.

At some point, this paradigm simply doesn't scale. To me at least, looks like pg and others have been tweaking things under the hood for a long time. We might be reaching a natural limit.
You can flag submissions you find inappropriate

So long as you don't find too many things inappropriate, apparently. I've had my flagging rights revoked. The first time I made a case to get them restored. The second time I simply decided to stop being as involved.
Ryan Tomayko's theme is even more sparing; his name is the only hyperlink above the comments. See http://tomayko.com/writings/rack-cache-announce
Do you think that there's a need for a HackerNews feature or maybe a separate site altogether that would allow one to add their favorite HN links ( both the original post and the HN commentary ) as public bookmarks?

One could then link to their faves list in their profile so that others can see these links. Like-minded individuals could then see what links their counterparts found interesting.

I suppose this wouldn't have to be a specialized site. Any HN member could build a page in static HTML or whatever programming-language listing their favorite links.
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"As mentioned earlier more people are using iPhones, net books, and other portable devices for viewing the internet. The future of internet browsing will probably involve smaller screens, and thusly larger fonts should, in my opinion, be adopted."

Really? Why don't you stop sizing everything exactly an use a relative measure. Surely it is the job of the device to chose how big a letter should be displayed. One of my biggest frustrations with the web is how long it is taking to get to a point where we can stop using bitmaps to build sites.
"Russia government has a policy of genocide against lawyers"

Stop giving them ideas ;-)
I'd say yes. I'm not a major contributor and do comment some but I've been here since the beginning and have noticed a general decline in the content and quality of comments.

It's a reminder to me that I ought to vote more. Thanks for posting this.
"I frequently encounter writings that belittle the history of Holocaust", you bring this up but it's a red herring as I don't see any mention of the Holocaust anywhere in the article. In other words you seem to be trying to conflate some of the issues. A guy who tried to expose corruption was imprisoned and died from abuse and lack of medical care and the real culprits walk free and your first response is to call for the resignation of the editors of the publication exposing this because an admitted non-journalist compared the substantial corruption of Russia today (which directly descends from KGB et al) to Stalinist treatment of political opponents (i.e. putting opponents in dreadful prisons). That's your first response, really?
When I looked at this thread, I counted twelve programming/technology posts on the front page, and seven directly related to start-ups. Of the rest, I reckon at least half were hacker-ish, though not directly related to computers.
That it retrofits without cables onto any bike is just it. Plenty of business for this wheel in Copenhagen itself, Amsterdam, and other cycle-able cities. The Facebook part they could have left out IMO.
The smart thing to do, if you want to set up an effective TSA-like organization, is go to Israel, the UK, and other places which have a history of significant terrorism and which have developed effective or mostly-effective responses. Study what they do, learn what they've learned (since often they've learned it the hard way), then come back and use it as a basis for your own general counter-terrorism plan.

The way the TSA is actually doing things, however, is simply to ask "what did the last terrorist do? OK, ban that." Which doesn't stop the last guy, since he already did it, and won't stop the next guy, since he's going to do something else.
Mind if I ask why? US is in a serious decline and the future is looking pretty bleak both politically and economically.
Would the SBCL be able to spread across the many cores a common desktop has today? How is threading implemented in CL?
That's a moments view though, if you monitor the site over longer periods, especially when it is busy (which right now it is not) you can definitely observe what the OP stated.
I dunno, I always wanted to see more startup stuff here. Maybe I'm in the minority.
It may sound bizarre but I want to move there because it's way more fun than living here and when I've visited before I've always found great people. Also I have some friends who live there and I would like to visit them more often.

On a related note, here the situation is not better in terms of economy.

EDIT: Also I can't see but more opportunities in the programming industry in the USA than any other country.
Ask HN: If there was a bury/upmod brigade on HN, how would we know?
Has anyone reviewed HN Arc source code to check if there is any log data of up/down mods? Is there a way to perform analytics to look for a HN equivalent of a "bury brigade"?
My initial idea was to do something similar - do away with everything other than the article title + text and push everything else to the footer, but then I thought that it would be a radical design decision (as far a blog is concerned).

Will try to clean up a bit more.
Between the 'aggregation posts' (techcrunch, crenk.com, digg reposts, /. reposts, schneier.com, fastcompany, greenspun, gigaom, oreilly, wsj, stackoverflow and a pile of others) there is only so much room anyway. Those will get posted regardless (and usually by the same small group) and it's not as though people wouldn't know where to find them.
nice. i don't know if this is any help, but something i played with recently is making parts of a page invisible until you mouse over them. obviously it only makes sense with certain use cases, but you might find it helps reduce things further.

(my example - http://www.acooke.org/ - where the links bottom left are intended only for my own use, as "bookmarks"; also i don't claim to be a designer - i'm a programmer - so please don't be offended by my relatively unsubtle design compared to yours...)
What do you think about a feature that makes a vote from someone with an older account count more than a newer account? I know this sounds anti-democratic, anti-"one man one vote", but it could help preserve the original character of the community.
If you are hoping to turn this into some kind of business or money-generating thing, it's not. You are creating very little long-term value, as the others have noted, it seems mainly an SEO play.

I do like the basic idea though, If you really wanted to make it good, you'd have to create much better navigation/browsing/finding options (that's the only value you're adding), and you'd have to seed it with 10000s of videos, and you'd have to add something, like forums or reviews something, that increases the value for users.
If an analogy helps, think of a traditional hard-disk in your workout mp3 player.
If general site dynamics hold here from other sites, a small number of folks are actively pushing as much mass-market stuff as possible into the site.

These are your golden users -- great people to have.

I simply think it's a matter of just too many people posting too much stuff.

I've toyed with the idea of a site like HN except it refuses to work with any domain that has too much traffic or submitters that submit too many articles. This would force folks a) to actually evaluate the material instead of the popularity of the source, b) be constantly re-tuning as certain sites grew in popularity, and c) spotlight some truly original thinkers/issues

I liked HN when we almost exclusively talked about startups: pitches, VCs, iterating, marketing, sales, etc. But that got boring to everybody (including me) because after a while it seemed like we were hitting the same material over and over again.

These are not easy problems to solve.

EDIT: You know what I'd like to see? Anonymous startup failure stories. I would pay to read a few insightful startup failure stories each day. The way it is, we get a good one about once a month here.
how well does "sign-up date" reflect "original participant"? for example, i've got one of the older signup dates, but only started using the site a month or so ago.
Only if it doesn't result in a competitive disadvantage. If ad spending is effective it will get done, because those who do it take market share from those who don't.

Only if it turns out that ad spending on the web is less effective overall than ad spending on traditional media the ad pie will shrink.

There are no indications that this is actually the case though. The interactivity on the web opens so much potential for much more engaging types of advertising. I hate it, but I'm afraid it's only going to increase.
Me too, I specially enjoy posts about monetization/customer acquisition etc. I was a little sad when it was renamed to Hacker News from Startup News.
Agreed.

I'd be curious to know, however, what those ratios look like over time.
I remember early on, I almost exclusively visited links under the "new" link. These are almost always more diverse and usually interesting.

These days there is too much spam to make the "new" page work.
> Have you seen the Intel/AMD CPU manuals?

Yes. I've programmed the x86 architecture in assembly extensively, including an embedded system BootROM, as well as various high level languages.

By simplicity, I'm referring to the simplicity of the instruction operations, not the complexity of the architecture with its dearth of general purpose registers and heavy use of special purpose registers. (Once you get into expanded 32 bit and 64 bit modes, the register mess is somewhat better.) The complexity of the x86 architecture was due to inheritance and expansion from the 8080 architecture which drove the use of special purpose registers. It had nothing to do with high level languages and definitely not C. The world has wasted an incredible number of engineer-hours working around the limitations of the x86 architecture.

The "designed for C" label on architectures is simply marketing-speak for "you know how bad the x86 is, we are much better" without actually naming their competition.
I'm not clear what point you're making. CSS isn't a logical language, and they don't really have enough in common to compare them. (And FWIW, I find SQL clearer than Nahuatl.)