skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's all good. I almost didn't post the link, but I thought it'd salt the discussion to have another comment in there.
> Why don't they just tilt the fridge?

Reminds me of the joke about the engineer: "hey, why can't those blind guys just play at night?".

;-)
Will iPhone Get Windows’d by Android?
Wildlife photographer stripped of award
Here are some of my thoughts on the iPhone and Android dynamics. Would love to hear people opinions about the subject.
Actually that's an interesting side point, might this improve/increase the business model for freelance editors? The potential is rather interesting, though would that just be line edits or something more substantive?
How does Joy of Clojure compare to Programming Clojure?
Don't just skim through web pages, use Instapaper to read them later
This might be helpful.

http://www.cato.org/pubs/efw/map/index.php
"The Hidden Brain": Behind your secret racism
Because every language from Javascript to Haskell calls this operation "reverse", because "flip" is a more ambiguous term than "reverse", and because the only reason the word "flip" is used is as a result of a bizarre perl idiosyncracy about context-based evaluation.
Sure surprising. Surprising that you can change search engines at all :)

Safari on Mac OS X doesn’t allow for easy changes. (The iPhone uses Yahoo! for example for the Weather app – that’s not the case on the Mac, so this might be the reason.)
Personally I love the idea of authors earning more for their efforts, I think that's great, but there are so many unintended (by consumers, anyway) costs of Amazon using its reach for this kind of thing -- publishers get squeezed, so they produce fewer books, bookstores get squeezed, so more of them close up shop, commerce flows ever more directly to Amazon, choice gets limited... I just don't like it. I buy a ton of stuff from Amazon, but I'm starting to think maybe that's such a great thing anymore, in the long run.
I'm very hesitant to give any one website that much personal information. On a side note, will you be storing passwords / otherwise how would you be updating these sites with information. I think you need to work more on how you plan on securing this information and consumer trust.
I find the below extremely fascinating in terms of both mathematical beauty and applicable practicality:

"There are many theorems bounding the error in solutions produced on real computers. That is, the theorems don’t just bound the error from hypothetical calculations carried out in exact arithmetic but bound the error from arithmetic as carried out in floating point arithmetic on computer hardware."
It's a shame their API seems to be taking an eternity. I gave up waiting about two months ago.
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Ipotpal blog for high tech :)
That would move Google from lawful good/lawful neutral (in theory, "Don't be evil") to chaotic good. It might actually be a good idea.
That wasn't a value judgement about the topic, it was a value judgement about the quality of the discussion the topic produces.
> Well, you know, just as long as she doesn't have a mind of her own.

You read into it too much mate - girlfriends have dressed me to their taste too, encouraging more casual, or more formal, or more scarves, or whatever. It's normal for a romantic partner to encourage and refine their partner's style of dress and aesthetics, and it's usually done willingly by flexible people.

Now, if a girl wrote, "I prefer to find a guy who is quality that other women might overlook, I reckon you can always teach a man how to dress better" would you have batted an eyelid? I doubt it.

> I mean, would you be comfortable with a girl that you wanted to date reading this post?

Yes.

> Speculating on her "quality" as if she was a horse.

No. It's okay to have standards. This isn't kindergarten where everyone is special.
"Programming Clojure" teaches Clojure, "The Joy of Clojure" tells you how you should use Clojure.
There will be shims.

http://www.google.com/search?&rls=en&q=html5+shims
I missed the part about him getting frisked... that is pretty ridiculous.
"Maybe women want a little mystery. What is he looking at? Slashdot? Or Engadget?"

That made me chuckle. Yes, that's _exactly_ what she is wondering!
Me, too, but I hope they get their price-point right.

Paying $50 for TimesSelect to read the OpEd writers and a few other articles was way too much for me.

I'm an American living in Europe, and the NYTimes is the best place for me to get my American news "fix". The core reporting is what I really value and am happy to pay for.
Stack Overflow data dump
I think you're misunderstanding what he meant. At least, it seems that what you got out of what he said isn't what I did. When he said 'quality', I didn't think he was talking about people as "mates" or as gene quality or some such. I took 'quality' to mean exactly what you want it to mean - attractiveness, how much fun they are to be around, etc etc. Basically, whatever you would look for in a 'significant other' - certainly not just gene quality or whatever.

As for the tone, it is a bit unusual, I guess. Our crowd - hackers, programmers, engineers, nerds, whatever you want to call them - does tend to like abstracting things away, trying to model life that goes on around us in a precise and systematic way. The tone is due just to that.
I remember thinking during the first report to come out of Haiti how did the reporters get in there when you just showed us a video of British rescue teams stuck at a near-by airport who have spent the day failing at getting in.
Nah, not even so evil. Plain old ignorance is enough. Microsoft just didn’t care a bit about typography. They were very much content with a knock off because they didn’t know any better.

(Today Microsoft cares quite a bit more about typography so everything’s not the same. They still use the wrong – straight – quotation marks, though. Annoys me without end.)
:-D I'm waiting for the Apple tablet info the 27 of January. It seems too much coincidence that Amazon changes her policy now just at the same fees that Apple Apps Store charges.

They must know something that we don't and want to be first...
Oh I read it in the original post (not sure what gave you the idea I hadn't). It's does drag on although I don't find it notably horrible - the field is highly competitive. At the same time, it's hard to take 'right way to talk to ur customers' [linked post] and 'arr, yer custies' as anything other than snark fodder, especially given the topic.
I am not sure here but none of the screens except index and forums works for me. It just renders blank. I used both Safari and Chrome. Renders fine in Firefox. Even for Alpha, it's just basic navigation. Should fix that, I nearly gave up after it didn't work in two browsers.

Anyway, I like the idea but I am not sure I would trust anyone with all my personal information. Some people might. Security is key point here and it should be stressed out why people should trust you.
Obama Supports $675,000 File Sharing Verdict
Book Review: Inside Cyber Warfare: Mapping the Cyber Underworld
Please stop saying social media marketing is free
Those reporters are taking up valuable resources that could be used to save people. Just imagine the money news organizations spend to have their contingent down there. That money would go much farther if used to fund rescue & recovery activities.
Good discussion on the business models for newspapers and books. He explains why novelists will get squeezed by the ebook distributors (e.g. Amazon). Charles doesn't have a solution. Perhaps novelists should sell their stuff to the distributors and then hire marketers directly. However, in addition to providing marketing, the publishers serve as a (rough) indicator of quality -- someone had to believe in the material enough to put their money behind it. Maybe we need investors instead of publishers.
We just added SQL console (under Try it now!). You can manage your own database (using phpMyAdmin) and run SQL against it.
There have been rumors/leaks that Apple is making content deals with various forms of publishing including book, which if true this does make more sense.
With great power comes great responsibility.
Starting Today, Facebook Apps Can Ask You To Hand Over Your Email Address
I don't do any of those things and I'm only 5 years out of college. Does that mean I'm old?

Either way, I think there's still something to be said for just watching 'tv' in the historical definition. My guess is that you and your acquaintances are still in a very small minority (though I'd be happy to be proved wrong as I'm not entirely happy with my cable service provided).
Don't wait. Do what I did and hack something together with a Linux CLI install of Dropbox on a server. I did that months ago and users love it, even though setup isn't as smooth as it would be if I had an API to work with.
I forgot to attach the URL: http://sirql.dwavesys.com/console/

You have to register to be able to manage your custom database.
Happily, the crash is fixed in 3.5.8.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.5/+bug/4...
Covering the event doesn't amplify the need for donors?
Why NoSQL is Here to Stay...
We use DB as a "file server" in our small office. I also use it to collaborate with other designers/developers for sharing comps, files, and other content.

I currently use git for versioning but i've though about trying to do a build for mediatemple to use that for deployment and updating some of our smaller web clients where git is overkill.
>> You can always teach a girl how to dress and make herself up to your tastes,

> Well, you know, just as long as she doesn't have a mind of her own.

Dressing well and all is a skill worth learning. A mind of your own doesn't hurt. A lot of women seem to appreciate feedback and ideas.
And that's a good thing. But the democratic rich world still has too many costly foreign adventures for my liking as a tax-payer.
I wish they gave a hint where to find the source material.

The Guardian, http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jan/20/wolf-wildl..., has more content including this paragraph:

The organisers were alerted to suspicions about the image by Spanish photographers who recognised the wolf and the location as the Cañada Real wildlife park. Wolf experts also questioned why the wolf would jump the gate when a wild animal was more likely to squeeze between the bars.
Microsoft handed those (well, not the 'double' one) out a couple of years ago as Silverlight/Expression swag, pretty sweet toy and fun to play with.

You can make a continuous folding 2d variant with paper fairly easily as well, though I don't know for the life of me how it's called.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com
http://fivethirtyeight.com
Isn't this what Posterous is for?
Also check out ikiwiki (perl) and yaki (python). Yaki is particularly cool because it automatically populates the bottom of each page with related links on your site. This makes your site feel much less sparse.
Don't forget to hide the beer bottles
This is the problem I see with the cross-domain requests; it puts the implementation change on the service provider rather than the app provider. If I was building an application using PHP I don't need to get twitter to change their server to allow me call their apis, so why is this different.
You don't need to have a team of ~70 over there!
Complete IDE Disk Driver in Forth
TC title: Starting Today, Facebook Apps Can Ask You To Hand Over Your Email Address

HN title: Starting Today, Facebook Apps Can Require You To Hand Over Your Email Address

There's a difference.
I had forgotten about this old article. It is a truly great story. Though I have to say, nothing screams "1990's" like this line:

"...public key is now ubiquitous, on every copy of Netscape and Lotus Notes - and may one day wind up in everyone's wallet as smartcards..."
I dropped my account due to lack of read/only file sharing capabilities.
Yes, but it also depends on the crowd around you. Not everyone likes the same kind of lipstick.
Email-Init: The Dawn of an Open Source Mail Client
Can you imagine the size of the kickback MS would offer for something like that? I wonder if that could impact how much of a carrier subsidy Apple would need for the device.
This is an excellent idea. Though most WiFi is secured these days, so I don't know that even with great range, I'll find many connections. But maybe if I park close to a Starbucks, McDonald's, etc. that has free WiFi for patrons, and buy a drink or something to get access for the day then just point the antenna their way.
New jQuery Forums
My bad, cynicism is not easy to convey via text.

To be clear, businesses are not supposed to be able to remove any review from the site. Yelp makes a big deal about claiming that they don't let businesses, even Yelp Sponsors, remove negative reviews. That being said, I know first-hand that they do remove negative reviews, so... fuck Yelp, I guess.

I'm angry too that Yelp pits businesses against customers for profit while claiming to be an unbiased source. Just the fact that it's even possible for a business to "sponsor" an "unbiased" review site should set off a lot of red flags.

Just ran a search on "yelp unbiased" and this popped up: http://ask.metafilter.com/142694/Yelp-sucks-I-need-unbiased-...
Preexisting high levels of popularity, I'd presume. One could be curious about what makes for a popular Twitter account.

Or Bill could secretly love TMZ shrugs It's not necessarily incompatible with the rest of his life, albeit unexpected.
I wonder if blog posts like this noticeably affect the trends on the site. (e.g. will okcupid see a higher proportion of photos w/pets in the near future?)

Also, the idea of applying results like these seems suboptimal. If you didn't post a shirtless photo or your cropped Rover out of your shot, then that is a hint about your personality and your priorities. Perhaps tweaking your photos will get a higher conversion rate but a lower quality of conversions.
Ask HN: Do BillingCircle, Spreedly, Chargify, Cheddargetter need Authorize.net?
I'm comparing the 4 services above, but don't yet have an Authorize.net account. Would it be better to get an Authorize.net account first?

The end goal is to move off of PayPal to manage our subscription billing.

Can someone explain exactly what I need? It seems like at least Authorize.net, one of the services above, and maybe also a merchant bank account. Thanks!
Here's the first source to break the story, a nature magazine called Suomen Luonto:
http://www.suomenluonto.fi/bbcs-nature-photo-competition-jud...

It includes a detailed photographic comparison of the evidence. It's pretty shoddy work by the BBC not to include a link to this, or credit them at all for breaking the story.
Look, I'm not some lunatic who's saying that all women are equally attractive, or that partners never influence each other's dress. It's the tone of your post that I object to, but I can see this is lost on you. I doubt it will be lost on women that you date, though.

> No. It's ok to have standards.

Some standards are ok, some aren't. I'm not objecting to your having standards, just the particular standards that you appear to have.
Ah, I see. Thank you.

No, the reason for the word 'flip' being used is not due to a bizzarre Perl idiosyncrasy about context-based evaluation -- quite the opposite. Note that the change to using 'flip' is in Perl 6 only (this is not one of those changes that newer versions of Perl 5 has adapted; nor, I suspect, will it ever). Perl 6 does not do the context-base idiosyncrasy thing, and the resulting consistency quite naturally led to the two concepts being separated.

Sure, we could still call both the list operation and the string operation the same thing ('reverse', say), but that would lead to unfavourable corner cases and breakage of the rule of Least Surprise. ("Hey, why does it write my list of one string backwards?")

So, after Perl 6 has removed a function being polymorphic based on list/scalar context, and then removed nasty corner cases, your objection that this is not how "every language from Javascript to Haskell" does it might still be valid, but it might not weigh as heavily against the gain in consistency.
InstantLoop Leverages Twilio API For Quick Phone Feedback
Thanks for the clarification. If you can't tell, it's been awhile since I had to write Perl.
Should you use JavaScript library CDNs?
I wonder how much it costs Facebook to send all of those application notification emails? It seems this announcement is decentralizing the sending of those emails, and putting the onus on companies.
From what I can tell, yes. There's 3 parts to this equation:

1- Logic engine that handles all the complicated stuff (chargify, zuora,etc.)
2- Merchant processor that handles the actual processing of the charges. They're the ones taking 2-3% (or less or more)
3- Bank account that stores your money until you feel like spending it on hookers and blow.
From the first paragraph: "Today, Facebook is granting developers on Platform the ability to request (or require) users to hand over their email addresses so they they can send periodic messages directly to users." (Emphasis added)

So it's up to the developer whether it's optional or not.

Also see the Facebook wiki for more info:

http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Roadmap_Email
Ask HN: Is hiring a PR company a good investment for a startup?
Startup based in NYC. Is hiring a PR firm to get the word out a good investment? Any ideas about what/how they charge?
I don't disagree with your statements but that doesn't mean I'll be paying and here is why: I read articles from probably 15 different sites every day (and not same 15 from day to day). I simply can't afford to pay a subscription to every one of those sites nor do I want pay for just one site and get my news from a single source.

The problem is that this the same dead-tree business model moved to the web. It might appeal to people who consume their information in the classical morning newspaper way but I suspect that is a dwindling market.
Indeed. Though I sometimes think that it might be good to borrow politicians and civil servants from e.g. Sweden, Switzerland or the Netherlands.
The technology exists to do that, but it's not commercially practical, because no-one buys an iPod for every shirt they own.

Clearly the implication of such a prediction is that the technology will be at a point where it is commercially practical.
That's a great idea. Would you be willing to share more details on your hack?
That might be fine for fun, but I generally try to avoid spending a lot of time creating solutions that rely on hacks to work.
Don't you think that "quality" is an odd word to use for that? I make no apologies for responding to the connotations of a word in context as well as its literal meaning.
The actual evidence the Storybook Wolf photo's a fake
"Spanish photographers who recognised the wolf ..."

why would someone be that careless if he wanted to commit a fraud??
And they all share relatively competent and honest government (to some extent) nowadays. Europe also picked itself up quite well after the second World War, perhaps because people there knew how to run a country with some efficiency?
> so-called "linking exception", that releases MySQL under the Apache Software License 2.0, an open source license

The author failed to note that MySQL is already free software under the GPL. Monty just wants to make another proprietary fork. At this point I'm surprised Sun hasn't sent lawyers after him for trying to damage the asset he just sold them.
Actually, I think this particular genre of talk (particularly the influences from pop evolutionary psychology) is pretty much limited to male nerds.
Your life changing experience reminded me of a couple Country & Western songs...

* I Got In At 2 With A 10 And Woke Up At 10 With A 2

* I Haven't Gone To Bed With Any Ugly Women But I've Sure Woke Up With A Few.

* She's Looking Better After Every Beer.

* Her Teeth Was Stained, But Her Heart Were Pure.

* I Just Bought A Car From A Guy That Stole My Girl, But The Car Don't Run So I Figure We're Even.

OK, that last one doesn't apply, but it made me giggle.

References:

* http://www.connectingsingles.com/forum_0_109216_1/top_10_cou...

* http://www.funnyandjokes.com/top-country-and-western-songs-o...
Does anyone have an idea of how many paying customers they have?
Not always. Redfin, maybe, since the middleman in that case is really more like an obstruction between buyers and sellers. Publishers aren't an obstruction in that sense. Sure, some of them could probably run leaner operations and give more money to their authors, but the publishing industry as a whole serves a very valuable purpose we don't necessarily recognize, because we're so used to it.
I'm not sure if you're trying to bash Microsoft here or not, but I'm going to assume you were genuinely curious.

The reason that most people are following him (anecdotally anyway) is that he's a well known (the most well known?) and successful person in the tech space who has just joined. There isn't any reason why he can't turn off seeing "@ replies" from people he doesn't follow either - doing that will only show tweets from people you follow. Twitter's settings are pretty configurable for users who have tons of followers.
Dropbox has just touched the surface of what they are setup to accomplish. Very exciting!
I think a parallel could be drawn to that Sci-fi and futurist favorite: the cyborg. Can we embed electronics into people today? Yeah, actually. But we only do it in extreme cases (cochlear implant, pacemaker, etc).

It's so much easier to just wear a pair of bluetooth headphones. It's far cheaper and lower risk, and it fits the rapid upgrade cycle of tech much better.
Would you also assume that botanists - upon hearing them discuss microsporangia, nectary, and calyx - are unable to also find beauty in a flower?
And if they've identified the wolf as "Ossian", why don't they talk to the owners (?) of the trained wolf?
The dangers of Constructor injection
Good discussion on use of constructor injection within IoC / Dependency Injection patterns
> [...] form of a government that by definition serves it's people rather than a group of subjects who serve a monarch.

There is quite an interesting argument claiming that the German Kaiserreich (1871-1914) served its people better than the modern federal republic of Germany.
Some discussion from a year ago, and a link to another video.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=416514
GWallet Launches Early-Stage Venture Fund To Invest In Social Gaming Startups
Firefox 3.6 to be released tomorrow
Forth is awesome, I used Miller Microcomputer Forth on a TRS80 mdl 1 back in the day, but I have seen this IDE controller before and it has been described as the 'Hello World' of IDE controllers...
Famous Chinese Hacking Group, Hong Ke, Suspected of Google Attacks
Take the nightly news. Of the broadcast networks, one channel (NBC) gets 10 million views. The other two get 8.5 (ABC) and 6.7 (CBS) million viewers. Now add up the long-tail. Isn't the sum greater than the parts?

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/evening_news_ratings/

Sure, in an ideal world resources would get shared. But that's ignoring (1) they're not sharing already, where they can; and (2) they'd have to negotiate a bunch of things when they could be simply covering the stories.
TC changed "Require" to "Ask" in their headline after icey posted it here. Lighten up.
- ask HN threads

- discussions about hacking or start-up related items outside of the mainstream
Eh, not really. You can talk about quality of conversation, quality of life, quality of friendship. Why not quality of people?