skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could be. Or it could be that a large public sector leads to both high taxation and happiness. My point was just that there doesn't seem to be enough data in the article to assert the conclusions that it does.
I'd file most of those under "domain knowledge" >_>
Heh. I was just over there, but it's between other machines and the sides aren't visible.

I just told the guy who runs the site (my officemate) that he's at the top of HN though.
Which would cause people to ignore things that might be weapons.
As cperciva said, the HN code comes with Arc.

If you're looking for something on the MS stack, I believe stackoverflow just released their code and Kigg is decent.
What points that out to you?
I think most people would be amazed at what you can get by paying the slightest attention to what a company offers, and asking nicely.

It shouldn't take that much time... every few months just make a list of what you pay per month to each service, and go and check their websites for any cheaper prices or deals. If there are any, call up and ask NICELY to have them lower your rate. I'd bet most are going to be willing to do that.
Iron claims to be a "privacy-oriented" fork of Chrome...
It's a direct forward to news.ycombinator.com, it was small contribution from me and I'm willing to donate the domain to the ycominator folks if they are interested.
Be careful of most JavaScript markdown implementations! Their live preview (showdown-based) JS has XSS holes.

Their ruby version seems to much better!

Perhaps it should be renamed "developer markdown" - DMD - and then github/stackoverflow/... should all have a standard markdown fork?

Also having a standard test suite that tests for XSS and other holes would be nice :)
Every single objection you make to downvoting can be applied to upvoting, including this one.
But here you are comparing apples and oranges. The 100 dB limit is regulation – doesn’t mean that you can sue Apple (as long as they don’t violate the regulation).
UKI – Simple UI Kit for web apps
I really don't know what kind of girls you have been hanging out with. Are you sure you aren't just assuming they are going to be like that before actually getting to know them?
No, they just reuse the rubber gloves. The security people at LHR doing the body pat-downs are a great example. I watched one sneeze all over his gloves, and then immediately pat someone down. Mmmm, body fluids...
It has been over two years since I was last in that arcade, so that piece of paper may be long gone. Maybe you would be so kind to print out and post another copy for Googlers who visit the arcade in the future :-)

I really should spend some time reading the other top articles on your officemate's site. It appears that there may be many other gems on there.
Apple's Heuristics: The Good, the Bad, Some Ugly
Is air terrorism a problem? More people have died from the pilot flying the plane into the ground than have died in terrorist attacks. And that "more people" is "not very many".
So thereby it becomes clear who the gloves are protecting. Not the passengers.
A couple years ago I built IVR apps with Voxeo. Then Twilio came out. Game changer. You can make calls from a bash prompt, through an utterly simple API, and its cheaper than any alternative on a per-call basis. Twilio is disruptive, and they will go far.
I will second this.

I tried for a few days to use Visual Studio to link some C++ code to a DLL that was supplied by a third-party vendor. I never got it to work. This was literally "hello world" calling a function in a DLL, and I couldn't get it to compile.

After much googling and asking around, I gave up and used gcc instead. It worked the first time.

As someone who has always used free software, I always assume that if someone gives me very expensive proprietary software, it will be problem-free. It hasn't happened yet.
I found this too.
It's funny because they are supposedly looking for (sharp?) syringes, but are only protecting themselves with a 1mm thick piece of latex.
How Game Titles Work
At first glance it seems like a java version of couchDB on top of a clustering system.
Giles Bowkett: No New Languages In 2010; New Businesses Instead
The point is not that anyone would mistakenly believe that Digital Subscriber Line was the correct interpretation of DSL in that context. The point is that the nature of human cognition is such that Digital Subscriber Line is the term most likely to pop into consciousness first and it will be the wrong answer. The abbreviation DSL is not widely recognized as meaning Domain-Specific Language, or at least not so widely known that one may reasonably assume that any practitioner in the field will immediately know what you are talking about. They'll know that Digital Subscriber Line doesn't fit into context, but they won't necessarily know what meaning the author was trying to convey.
les brown should learn some basic astronomy.
While I, personally, have no experience trying these thresholds, NearlyFreeSpeech.net seems to be committed to giving their customers the widest possible range of legal freedoms and playing everything by the book legally, including giving you and opportunity to respond to legal papers filed against you, etc. And they seem to value your right to privacy quite highly.

Added perks: fairly reasonable prices and at least a decent level of technical competence.
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Same for +.
Seems that it should provide some selection bias, as the more intelligent you are, the more likely you will have a good idea and survive longer/provide better for your family etc.
"They are not supposed to work on campus (although they may attend meetings, etc.) and should not have an office or telephone assigned to them. These contractors are called "v dashes" because the first two characters of their alias/userID are v-. There are no restrictions on how long a "v dash" can work for Microsoft." http://www.edsguild.org/contracting.htm
Y Combinator Startups' News Dashboard
Yeah, I remembered that, but I couldn't find it on searchyc again.

And even if I did, I wouldn't want to resurrect a long-dead thread.
Much like http://codepad.org (codepad), but still interesting.

And hey, does anyone know about "Text"? http://ideone.com/samples#sample_lang_62
'True, but you're essentially arguing for a "nanny" language model that doesn't let you do things that someone decided is "unsafe" or "bad design."'

Isn't the same true for, say, garbage collection? Higher level languages are often defined by the things they don't let you do, compared to lower level languages, in order to make your life easier.

Of course, if you're a C++ programmer, you probably agree that both mandatory garbage collection and immutable state are equally nanny-language features.
Thank god. It's the user's responsibility to know how loud they should be listening to music, and if it's a child then the parents should use the Volume Lock feature. This is like when people sued McDonalds because eating there 3 times a day, 7 times a week made them fat.
Yes, exactly. "v-team" is Microsoft-speak for a virtual team, most often a subset of people in a larger team who do not all report to the same lower-level manager. If you have a team of 12 people, then select 4 of them to deal with issues in the product's installation and set-up, you might call them "the setup v-team".

Not to be confused with "v dash", which refers to a contract employee from a vendor. In the Microsoft email system, contractors have an email that begins with "v-" and temps/interns have an email that begins with "t-", and just as employees are sometimes referred to by their abbreviated email aliases, contractors and interns as a group are referred to as "v dash" or "t dash".

Now you know... although I doubt you'll ever need to know :)
Good question about why they offer it, if they dont use it or look at it. I think its just for propriety.

The mechanical turk thing, however, im not sure about. Understanding a good idea and good team is not something everyone can do before the idea and business is out there. If anyone could do it, anyone with money would be a successful VC.

Ideally, this is what Associates at VC firms are for, but web-based sourcing is sort of the last resort.
Damn those idiotic ingrates, I wish they'd get off my lawn.
"...but with proper practices, documentation, code reviews and what have you, one can make simplifying assumptions on what _will_ happen."

Or you can leave out the practices, documentation, and code reviews and use a functional language and get the same result. Yes, those things are useful for other reasons, but the current argument is about avoiding the inherent dangers of global variables.
Tone-wise, one comment makes a peevish accusation while the other offers an idea and opens a debate. If the first one were at +20, I'd still throw a downvote at it.

On a separate note, would a terse downvote really be more discouraging and more likely to cause friction and ill will than seeing a list of comments like "Downvote: whiny troll who thinks people only disagree with him because they hate themselves"?
RFC 1337
Tom's also advised the Labour Party. Should that make MySociety ineligible for any government grant or contract for all time?
anyone else getting errors when trying the online demo applet?
...On further consideration, I can't think of any prominent airline terrorists of recent years who have not spoken English. The shoe bomber and the liquid bomb plot were British, and the 9/11 guys trained at flight schools in the U.S. midwest.

So, if history is any measure, a total inability to speak English is actually a great indicator that someone is not a terrorist. If the author's proposed system worked exactly as his example goes, it would not only have failed to catch any past terrorists, but it would add huge amounts of false positives due to the large number of similar-thinking people finding a lack of English suspicious.
gruber approves: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/10/23/github-flavored-...
I never thought I would say this one day, but I believe that puritanical attitudes exist for a reason. Not that long ago, one could die of syphilis. Many other STD's would result in infertility. The sexual revolution is only a few decades old, and it was made possible by penicilin, antibiotics and advances in Medicine. You call anti-sex attitudes "ridiculous", while "anachronistic" would perhaps be a better word.
A friend co-founded http://www.localytics.com/ who have a real-time solution in this space. It is free so worth a try though I haven't tried it myself.
great post! :)
Prediction. The whole point of a recommendation engine is to change the set of apps you download in the future. Otherwise it might as well not exist!
So you are office-mates with Andy Hertzfeld? Man, that dude is my hero. Didn't know he was at Google now.
I lost my virginity at fifteen. I didn't, and still don't, think it was a bad idea. I was emotionally prepared for it, in a committed relationship, and took the necessary precautions. I don't have sex indiscriminately, and I'm not emotionally damaged because of it.

It's easy to look at the average and say that a fifteen year old shouldn't be having sex. The average fifteen year old one would encounter is not necessarily emotionally prepared for sex, but I wouldn't say that's indicative of their being a problem with sex. I'd say that has more to do with the pressures of society. The idea that sex is a bad thing that should be suppressed is the problem. We're surrounded by sexual images and ideas as kids and young adults, but we're also told that we should wait until we're married. Fortunately, I had a mother who was open with me about sex, who told me that sex was a beautiful, natural thing and while she would prefer I wait until I was married, she realized that was unrealistic. So, I came out of my teenage years without any unwanted pregnancies, STD's, or emotional baggage in regards to sex.
Imprisoned, Attacked & Dead Bloggers Increases Worldwide in 2009
Agreeing with @pwnstigator I think the important thing is to separate the pure functional code from the impure code with side effects. And be very explicit that this code is impure and does change state so when you use it you must take this into account. If this is done properly you generally find that the impure code need only be a small portion of the whoe program.
It wasn't meant as a rant, more as a business opportunity. I agree that if you really want to get VC money you should do whatever it takes. I've done so myself with success (In Europe) and couldn't help to notice that the system is broken - say the right buzzwords, namedrop the right people and have a slick power point and your chances are good. It just seems like a bad decision businesswise for VC's to primarily invest in companies that are referred to them. They must miss some gems.

There might be a startup hidden in there somewhere. Maybe you could charge to read through businessplans? Maybe you could crowdsource it?
Root Nexus One on Android 2.1
Oh but you don't place the speakers "deep into your ear canal"... ;-)
I wonder how much of that he got almost-for-free just by using Terracotta?

Terracotta itself is in effect a transparent ACID object database where collections can be larger than RAM and objects can be accessed efficiently on one machine or shared and updated in implicit transactions.
Believe it or not, that type of staircase design is used for pets. I only know this because my coworker encountered a problem with his aging cat and found that there are many solutions (some pre-made, some custom)

Photo #1

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/pet-decor-2006-news/my-de...

And there is a photo blog..

http://catladder.blogspot.com/
The only XSS vulnerability in the code is the ability to XSS yourself, which you can do with any browser with a javascript console.

Unless of course you're using Javascript to parse user generated markdown instead of doing it server-side, which is just silly.

Markdown is a formatting language, not a method to protect against XSS. It belongs in a different tier of your code.
I was there too :)

It was a very Lawnmower Man moment.
Ever been to a pop concert ?
I'll be there if you set it up.
Not to disagree, but when I see DSL (and other acronyms of its ilk) I treat it the same as any other homonym.

In fact, when I read in general I read the whole sentence and parse it all together and not on a word by word basis. I thought most people read this way so that they are more resilient to typos and other small errors.

So if they simply do not recognize the term DSL->Domain Specific Language acronym, readers simply mentally flag it as a possible typo/other error instead of confusing the telecom notion with the um.. trendy ruby-world? term.
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I'm not impressed by Flash splash pages. The few genuinely beautiful ones like Karimoku employ Flash for a few cheap (and oddly ugly) effects. The actual page designs could be managed in HTML.

Others, like DyDo Drink, are visually derivative to the point of being rather retro (and obnoxious when navigation starts happening due to mouse-overs).
Tell HN: Google just updated the page rank for all sites
It looks like Google updated the page rank.

How did everyone do? I went from 0 to 5 :)
Yeah, so, you got four choices here.

First, you can use something off-the-shelf.

Two, you can read up on Naive Bayes, a very simple way of solving the problem which sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. The reason it's called "naive" is that it assumes that each tag, for each user, makes the same contribution to the likelihood of the user liking or disliking something, independently of any other tags assigned. Like it says on the label, sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't.

Three, you can get a copy of "Elements of Statistical Learning" and read it, after which you will actually understand all this stuff.

Four, if your problem is actually important, hire a professional machine learning person.
Russia may send spacecraft to asteroid
Oh. Pretty awesome then! :)
This is one of my favourite stories about how to get really good at something. I frequently say it to myself when I discover I have thrown myself in at the deep end of a technical problem :-)
Perhaps, but in times past physical strength was probably as much or more important than intelligence. Note that the least intelligent also have less opportunities to pass on their genes. It would seem that there's a sweet spot where a mix of intelligence and strength is most favored(note the testosterone hypothesis in the article).

Now, however, intelligence is much more important to success. How long will it take for evolution to smile on those with higher IQs such that potential mates find intelligence to be the most attractive trait?
We may think that it is the user's responsibility to know, but that is not the law in most jurisdictions.

Apple didn't win this case because the Court thought personal responsibility should triumph. Apple won the case because the plaintiffs didn't plead sufficient facts, and therefore the Court dismissed the case.

A better plaintiff, that is one that has actually sustained an injury, could prevail against Apple. The plaintiffs in the case do not allege any personal harm. Secondly, a court in a different state may rule differently. This case applied California law only.
The Androidification of Everything
GitHub did this a while ago, actually.
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Differential equations often map to physical scenarios - waves, heat diffusion, etc.
> Most college students go through the motions and get their paper, then go home thinking science is just more made up bullshit like politics.

But I don't see how anyone can come to a conclusion that "science is just more made up bullshit" when the application of science can be, and has been, practically demonstrated to be accurate, in cases such as sending people to the moon, a lander to mars, and even detonating an atomic bomb.
So it's not just about the iPod's output, but the inclusion of "stock ear buds...designed to be placed deep into the ear canal rather than over the ears, which increases the danger of hearing damage".

I always thought it should be a crime that iPods don't come with a pair Sennheiser PX100s. Though not because of any "danger of hearing damage"...
Yeah, my original post was just my opinion.

edit: change accidental exclaimation point to period. Stupid iPhone keyboard.
If the Tories really want to be innovative, they should just cut taxes, cut spending, reduce regulation, and let people naturally and without coercion figure out what they want and how to get it by cooperation. This is called the free market and it doesn't require a fancy computer program to work.
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I'll take door #2, Naive Bayes, perhaps combined with a bit of cluster analysis.

It's for a startup, so the job is to get something that partially works up and running. Worst-case I can tweak it later.
To my way of thinking the ear buds which are placed within the ear canal are actually better for preventing hearing loss. They allow you to focus just a small amount of sound and still get that perfect musical sensation.

I can't believe that people are wasting their time and money trying to sue Apple over the matter. That is like people suing a car manufacturer because they played music too loud in their car and ruined their hearing. I'm suing GMC because they made a car that has sub woofers that can play music at tremendous decibels and which has a gas tank which allows the car to run for a long time.

When you compare the two it is clear that both are ridiculous.
> We have a government mandated military. Most governments do. What keeps them from using it to enforce it's will?

It's a whole lot of work to do so. Govts are lazy. Waging war on their people is hard work, so they tend to avoid it.

"Misusing" equipment or information is easy, so they do it.

Remember "Joe the Plumber"? As soon as he hit the news, various govt flunkies were rummaging through govt databases looking for dirt and releasing it to the press. (And, in at least one case, they either made up stuff or didn't know the law.)

And no, they don't do that as a matter of course whenever someone is on TV.

And yes, Repubs are probably no better. That's why we can't fix these things by voting for different people - we have to take away their toys.
Great game.. 1:54am here and still playing xD
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I don't think there is a more effective vetting system than networking. If you haven't worked with someone, or with someone who has, up to some degree of separation, how can you really know if they're worth a crap?
Robokill 1 is the only Flash game I have ever paid for, and I did so happily - very much looking forwards to this.

My only complaint was that by the final few levels, my robot was so heavily armed that finishing was never in doubt - it was just a matter of time. That, and that the final boss "room" was pretty lame and short.
YouTube currently can not compete with regular television because while they may be getting 20 hours of video being uploaded every minute, most of that video is ridiculous home videos of people like Boxxy.

For YouTube to compete they will have to do a better job of helping people find the quality videos while convincing major television producers to allow their shows to be "broadcast" on YouTube.
Very true, they are incredibly useful. But as taught in most class rooms the application is far removed from the instruction. A differential equations class is often not much more than showing some techniques and then assigning numerous quantative problems that use those techniques.

So, taking a differential equations class by itself can make it seem abstract and with limited connection to the physical world.
Networking is a marketing and sales methodology, not a vetting methodology. It leads to groupthink, popularity contests, and running with the herd.

Or put another way: if networking were the do-all, end-all, then how do so many technology teams do so well when assembled without using it?

I agree with max -- there's a big business opportunity here. I know these criticisms sound like sour grapes. All I can say is that I know for a fact that putting together teams with great execution intelligence can happen in a lot of ways. Simply because it happens naturally in one way in the valley doesn't mean at all that's it's an optimum solution.

EDIT: I don't want to come across as criticizing all things SV. There is a huge convenience factor when working near so many startups and Angel funds. I just also think that there are problems associated with the current setup there as well.
I don't think anyone said GitHub is "the one true way". I think you'll find more and more people putting code on GitHub, because of the general uptick in contributions when code is hosted there.

(disclosure: I work for GitHub)
Ask HN: Can you use twilio to create a tech support call center?
It looks like twilio doesn't provide everything needed to create a tech support call center -- in particular it doesn't offer VIOP phone service?

In the past Ive worked at a company who's asterisk sever would often overload and calls would drop or get choppy. What are the best solutions for a tech support call center? Do you have any recommendations?
That only covers half the argument ("I am in a better position to judge those opportunities referred to me"). You still have to acknowledge that there are good opportunities a VC can't/won't find through the network, or won't correctly evaluate. "That's life," though. :)
This article is sadly ignoring BB King, who is 84 and still plays 200-300 shows per year. He's been doing this since before most of our parents were born.
This is not how it works in practice. In reality a "v-team" is made up of "vendors" who are not full-time employees but unlike agency temps they don't have a limit on how long they can work at Microsoft without a break. They do very much work on campus, though often they tend not to have their own offices (instead they work in bays or are doubled up with others).
Do you guys even know what the spoken language of Nigeria is? It's english.