skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to agree with your thoughts on real-time search, but check out http://thoora.com, and it might change your mind.

They are able to grab the streams and create it into something more akin to a real-time news site, rather than just random tweets.
IIRC OkCupid uses a webserver and application stack that is all C++

Ref: http://www.okws.org/doku.php?id=okws
Dude, get over it. Let me guess: you grow all your own food and you abstain from all media (oh, hey, wait a second..)? Apple devices are useful problem-solving technology, and they bring a lot of joy to people's lives.
I haven't seen the actual article of this study, but I assumed they referenced previous studies of this effect. That is, I assume it's an established phenomenon, not something they are surmising from their results.
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infinitely horrific and highly recommended. made me love my infrastructure.
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I remember in art class in 4th grade, a friend of mine drew a person with a black crayon (he was from Nigeria). I was completely baffled and asked him why he didn't use flesh color.

I guess it's kind of nice how ignorant I was of racism. On the other hand- come on, dude!
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Why aren't we building our own Printers?
I love how, all these years later, we're still destroying the village to save the village.
> if you want to gauge the popularity of the movie, the best measure is probably something along the lines of tickets sold per capita.

Not really. 1946 tickets per capita in the US: 34. 2004: 5.

There's no way to do this right. Box office "records" don't mean anything, no matter how many variables you take into account.
Disney made money from proprietary content last quarter (they paid $0.35/share dividend), and censorship helped the Chinese Communist government remain in power. So the system "works" in the sense that it performs as designed. I don't think I asserted anything that isn't obvious, and that wasn't Bucheit's point.

The question Bucheit raises is whether copyright protection is bad because censorship is bad? Which isn't fair because the ends are always more important than the means when human rights are at stake.

For example, if Bucheit wanted to show copyright protection in a different light, perhaps he could have shown its virtue by comparing it to keeping secrets about underground railroad stations?

But showing counter-examples is merely proving Godwin's law. Which I think is what Bucheit's analogy showed to begin with.
I'm a big pirate of books.

I mostly do it for a few reasons:

1. Price: I typically read a lot of business reference books that are primarily sold to professionals and as a result are pricy. When I was a college student, I usually just checked these books out from the library, but now that I have moved cities and am away from such a well stocked library I find downloading to be my best bet.

2. Convenience: I really like to have ebook copies of all of my books. I often like to work outside of my home and find it extremely convenient to have all of my books in my laptop. They are also amazing for quick reference. Having a searchable copy of a book is very useful for referencing key items.

3. Preference for E-books: Lately, I have noticed that I am quickly coming to prefer ebooks. Most of my work involves being at a computer, performing research and being able to quickly switch to an ebook whenever I am there fits in with my work flow.

I still buy books, on Sunday I picked up three at a used bookstore. But for new books I use publishing contacts for review copies or wait or them to become available online.
There's an intro article on this on Hackaday as well http://hackaday.com/2010/01/26/why-arent-we-building-our-own...

With all the excitement around 3D printers, it would be nice to see something similar in 2D or at least a combination.
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Could anyone tell me what map_htab and write_htab are?
Has anybody published any studies about what it would cost to move a massive web service like Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, etc. to having 100% of communication over TLS (HTTPS)?
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But for a "fair" comparison you would also have to adjust based on the cost of attending a movie compared to average income (it's increased disproportionally, even over the past 20 years), and take into account the other forms of entertainment that are available today compared to back then. Heck, forget video games, Cable BluRay, DVDs - even the choice of movies available today is likely to be far larger than back in 1939 :)
Thoora is impressive. I'd never seen it before. But I still have to wonder about the business side of operations, i.e., where the revenue comes from.
Haha sorry about that. I thought I saw someone else in the comments talking about the UK and got thrown off.
Better link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870490560457502...
Finally!

I've always hated that saying. "Absolute power corrupts absolutely." Nonsense.

Just look at the types of individuals who gain access to absolute power. Either they're ruthlessly ambitious, men for whom the ends always justify the means, or they're born into royalty/nobility and have a distorted sense of their own worth-- and the worth of others.
For private companies, I suspect you may have an issue dealing with pricing your product based on their revenue.

If your product is something that multiple employees use, then it is easier to make the definition based on the number of people.

You didn't really give us much to go on.
Take a look at how companies like 37Signals (basecamphq.com), or freshbooks.com seperate their offerings.

Hopefully for you, there is a model which is either # of people using your service, or some other metric you can charge by.

For instance, if only 3 people in a small company would use your product, but only 4 people in a large company would use it, then you can't really price based on # of people in the company (or else, how would you know when the company has grown to the new pricing).
thats C not C++. geesh :P
While not genome centric (it's genotype-based) Promethease is one example

http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Promethease

23andme's software does a pretty good job.

You can also use the UCSC genome browser although it probably as a learning curve for most.

http://genome.ucsc.edu/

Honestly, I believe that people need to understand the biology, some depth of what genes are, and what SNPs are etc. It's important as molecular medicine becomes the norm (still some ways away).
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Its a little weird that the top estimate, when derived via their dropdown for its actual year, is off by 4x:

Gone with the Wind: unadjusted in 1939: $198,676,459
"adjusted" for 1939: $ 46,470,300

Makes me not trust their "adjusted" for 2010.
The raw data (the original image files), while mostly transient today, is massive. At some of the big genome centers they are in the double digit TB's of data processing per day
Yeah, $0 for my latest comp sci class. Someone found a pirated pdf of the book and offered to hand it out to the class. The professor made no objection.
>Bob Sauerberg, group president of consumer marketing for Conde Nast, expects digital versions of its titles on the tablet may one day command higher ad rates than those of their print versions, because readers are highly engaged with mobile devices like the tablet and can make impulse buys.

I don't understand why major media companies—News Corp., NY Times, Knight-Ridder, Condé Nast—haven't already cartelized their advertising. They seem to depend on a market rate for internet advertising, which obviously isn't paying enough for them to sustain their operations. Why haven't they banded together to create the equivalent of The Deck? http://decknetwork.net/
it sounds like unpaid developers write some really concise code.
Is there a "personalized" social news site that shows me stories based on their user-vote correlation to the stories that I vote on?
I was like that for a while until I lived with 4 other people who would often accuse me of caring too much about semantics (although semantics often had nothing to do with it... had to let that slide too). I started doing the following:

1) Hear something incorrect.

2) Can I immediately tell that this incorrect fact will change the conclusion. If so, correct the fact.

3) Else, let the conversation continue but remember the incorrect fact. Keep looking out to see if it changes any conclusions.

I started doing this consciously and eventually its become fairly automatic.
I find the topic of color dictionaries fascinating. I compiled some information while working on an app here: http://colordictionary.info and made my color dictionary data available for download as a Ruby hash here: http://colordictionary.heroku.com/data.rb
AT&T To Launch Yelp Competitor
I don't mean to criticize

Bullshit. More like: Oh shit, I didn't realize you were not only here but classy enough to respond in a professional and friendly manner to my calling your startup "garbage".
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Have a background lookup of the URL and/or title, so that before you hit Submit on an item, it can tell you in the submit page whether the item has already been submitted (something with the same URL or same/almost-same title).
Yes, there are many ways to measure this. You can look at number of tickets sold, tickets/population, gross, profit, etc...
Reexamining Python 3 Text I/O
I know that the masses are going to fall in love with the upcoming Apple Tablet, but I still don't understand why its getting so much hype =/

Hopefully to stand up to the buzz, it is more than just a souped up iPod Touch.

Am I one of the few to think that it might not be "all that"?
Canonical/Yahoo revenue deal; Yahoo is the new Ubuntu search default
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The joke being, they screw over their customers instead of the businesses being reviewed...
Adults have had those things, it's only recently that it's become common for children to own them as well.
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Don't forget the $3.50 fee for 3D glasses even in non-IMAX theaters. (at least in the theaters I've been to)
Alright, own up - who left the stupid tap on? We're knee-deep in stupid!
It's important to point out that Rails3 is build on top of this. It was started as a Google Summer of Code project. It's an amazing piece of engineering.
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I like that playing dungeons and dragons

"foster[s] hostility, violence and escape behavior" and "'could make it more difficult to rehabilitate prisoners and could endanger public safety'"

ironically, they cite a lifer as an example (rehabilitation?).
the thought of D&D gangs roaming prisons is tragicomedic
Done http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1079784
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"Lines of code written for money are evil and execute more slowly."
Oh, come on! Do we have to be so deliberate?
Andrew Ng on unsupervised feature learning (teaching a machine how to learn)
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If it's making Canonical some money, that's great. It is easy enough to change the defaults to whatever you want after you install. It's a shame they couldn't cut a deal with a search engine that's actually useful, like Bing, though.
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Hah. I think either one would work.
With all due respect, I think bland whining about C and its partisans isn't really a productive way to advocate for your language ("wasting his life"? good grief). C is, after all, what the world is built on. If you really want to show us a better way, you'd be better served by trying to help build that world.

How about just one core library that does something useful and irreplacable on a modern system, and that works significantly better than the dinosaur code you keep complaining about? We've seen enough toy implementations and cute hacks (and, gack, web frameworks!) to last a lifetime.

How about a clean, bug-free and parallel implementation of zlib instead? Or a better h.264 codec? Or a crypto/TLS implementation that beats openssl? Regular expression engine better than pcre? World-class numerics library? GUI framework? SVG implementation? HTML parser? 3D modeling and rendering framework? ... Anything that isn't mostly a joke compared to the standard C junk you keep sneering at?

Seriously guys: get off your butts and write some real software. Most of us tolerate the sniping most of the time, but this bit was just over the line, sorry.
Its interesting how Godin is doing so many interviews close to the publication of his new book. Plus he talked about 'giving' so much in his interview with Andrew Warner - just feels weird (not entirely convinced its wrong)
I bet it's more than 75%. I bet there are plenty of companies that send in patches from anonymous email accounts so as to not give away to their competitors what they are currently working on.
Is there more to this story? It just seemed to end...
Paper is lighter, more durable, higher resolution and has a much more flexible input system.

I keep all my to-do lists, notes, first drafts, etc. on plain paper. It's not synced over the internet, but since I can just fold it and slip it in my pocket, that doesn't matter. It's not backed up, but since what I write on paper is all temporary I don't really care.

The most important part is that I can scribble things out, and add meaning to things by varying the size, font, color I'm writing in. I can write things sideways, in margins, with arrows connecting them, circled, with my own made up punctuation marks.

I guess I'll see if this Apple tablet catches up on any of these fronts, but I kind of doubt it.
He forgot to mention that all the rain means you'll stay indoors and do more work.
Well, I'm happily surprised.
It's not exactly Facebook, but I've seen plenty of small network-connected appliances provide web admin interfaces. Routers are a common example, I've also used network console servers that do this.
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Yahoo has already agreed to use Bing to power their search, so while I don't know whether that has already been implemented, you'll soon indirectly get your wish that they'll support Bing.

The reason I find this unfortunate is that I'm still boycotting Yahoo over their treatment of Chinese political activists; a FOSS operating system using Yahoo as a search is something I therefore find highly odd.
Wow, where's that? The glasses were free when I saw it in SF.
Worldwide it became (as of today) the highest-grossing movie of all time:

http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/

However, inflation-adjustment is harder for the worldwide figure since inflation varies by country and you'd need to know the individual grosses for each one.
[Edit: actually, is that true if the figures are in USD?]
awesome, i'm a costco member as well!

thanks for sharing.
If someone tells me that the DVD player they recommend costs $297.89 at Costco but I can get a $49.95 mail-in rebate, then I need to spend some time rounding that to $250 before committing it to memory.

Did anyone else file that as 'less than $250' in their brains?
Why Isn't Apple's App Store More Profitable?
Ethan Zuckerman has an excellent essay on the film, its context, and some different ways to interpret it: http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2010/01/25/liberia-shock-...
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A quote from the article...

"I’ve interviewed many developers who applied to a position that was attached to a specific programming language, and didn’t even know that language, but I still gave my recommendation to hire them. The reason was that I felt comfortable enough with their current skill set that I knew I could not only mentor them to transition in another language, but they could become really strong. Truthfully speaking, I never once saw a negative recourse from one of those decisions (thank goodness!)."

Contractors have even more reason to identify themselves as an X developer. Most contractors get paid for what they can do "right now." They don't get paid to learn a new language or for any transitioning period. In most cases, a contractor just needs to get the job done.
the film studios only see part of (I've heard ~50%) gross box office when taking theater operator's share out (+ cost to manufacture and distribute film reels, etc). Plus Avatar cost >300 million to produce + >100 million marketing + James Cameron's share, etc. Film studios make most of the profit from accounting/tax tricks, dvd revenue, tv deals, etc.
Well, it's a rev share, so it won't make them any money if you switch back to Google.
Not really true. I can write the same algorithm in Perl as in Haskell, and the Haskell always runs faster.
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This article is just a bit too gushingly complimentary. PR Hit for Wagg-Ed, right?
I wonder how much money they'll really get out of this. Even Ubuntu, the most user-friendly Linux (and please don't try to argue otherwise; that's not the point of this comment. Pretend I said "a very user-friendly Linux" if you have to), draws a pretty tech-savvy audience. I think the vast majority will make at most one search with Yahoo, realize they're using an inferior search engine, and then switch.
Episode of "24" to feature Apple Tablet
Seattle gets less rain than NY.
I hear C++ can call C functions these days.
From the title it sounded like they are starting a franchise of Bars where gamers can socialize.

Anyone else find it weird that it seems like almost everyone under 30 plays video games but they are entirely confined to home? I wonder why there aren't more places like Portlands amazing http://www.groundkontrol.com/ .
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Seriously guys: get off your butts and write some real software.

http://github.com/jrockway/

Oh.
That's a great point gexla. I wasn't taking into account contractors in the article (naively so). I'll add an annotation to the article that mentions how contract work is slightly different.
A further instance of the type of behaviour you discuss: There has been more than a few times where there "just happened to be a new OSS project" or "new patch to $FOO" covering the use cases my bosses were talking about. Without such behaviour by me and mine, we would find ourselves re-implementing perfectly good OSS projects for one little change all the time.

Also, academics are frequently "paid to play" in essence, so the contributions from them should prolly count.
Ubuntu users hopefully are savvy enough to change the default search engine, one funky thing about firefox and ubuntu is that an extension is installed by default and can only be disable not removed by most users.
They won't be unique to the device. The iPhone already has crosswords, writing apps, twitter apps, sudoko apps, etc.

The only things unique about Kindle apps will be the slightly larger screen, lack of animation, lack of color, and lack of unlimited data transfer.
They're syscalls in the PS3 hypervisor. map_htab maps the entire page table. write_htab writes to the page table.

More here: http://wiki.ps2dev.org/ps3:hypervisor
So obviously only for the money. Seriously, Ubuntu users -- people who willingly changed their operating system to get away from a crap product -- are not the same people who would choose Yahoo search over Google search. Good for Canonical to make some money (so long as that means more Ubuntu), but lame.
True. According to the USGS, New York gets 45.4" of precipitation yearly, while Seattle gets 37.2".

That said, I'd like to find out how to compare the number of days with rain in both places. Seattle gets drizzle. The year I moved here we had 86 days of continuous drizzle and no sun sightings. New York most likely gets its precipitation in the occasional downpour -- not to mention snow -- and probably has more overall sunny days during the winter. (Just a guess, though.)

http://countrystudies.us/united-states/weather/new-york/new-...

http://countrystudies.us/united-states/weather/washington/se...
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hahahaha ... good one.
The competitive landscape on search/browsers/os/user-engagement is getting fascinating:

Mozilla, who doesn't have an operating system/distribution and therefore isn't the last team to touch an app, has a revenue distribution deal with Google by making them the default search engine of the firefox browser, which has a 25th percentage or so share of the browser market.

Said Revenue Sharing deal, is now being undercut by Canonical, the Operating System Vendor, that uses the Firefox Browser, but who has now entered a revenue sharing deal with Yahoo, who uses Bing! as their search back-end. Bing! of course, is owned by the company that Canonical seeks to upend with its 2-3% market share in the Operating System Market. I wonder how Mozilla will feel about their "Branded" firefox browser having it's search engine (and revenue) reprogrammed to point at Yahoo by default? I wonder if they'll force Canonical into switching over to Ice Weasel?

Google, has decided to create their own browser, and is now working on their own OS (a linux distro). Google has the ability to do a full stack integration (OS/Browser/Search) - But is weak in everything but Search in terms of market share.

Apple, meanwhile, who has a both a Operating System, and Browser, and is now becoming increasingly competitive with Google, may be turning to Bing! for a revenue sharing deal on the browser. Apple has no search engine, has some (but not overpowering) share in the browser/OS market.

Finally, there is Microsoft, who, continues to move along with Dominant Operating System and Browser share, and, slowly, increasing their small share (in the teens) of search (though mostly at the cost of Yahoo).
Way more overcast though. The winters were just too hard for me to bear. I moved to LA and am not looking back.
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I've always questioned whether there would be a killer use case for AR. Holding a phone up to view details over camera footage isn't it. It leads to gorilla arm and makes you look silly. I'm still waiting. Until then, at least we have shirts to play rock paper scissors with.
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Ask HN: Developer world Mac obsessed? 
Is there any specific reason that much of the vocal developer's world __seems__ to be made up of MacAholics?

Or is it that Mac developers are more vocal about their OS beliefs?

I'm honestly wondering if theres something magic that I'm not seeing (considering the fact that my 650$ laptop is more powerful than a 1700$ macbook pro...)

For reference I mainly use Linux dual booted with Win7.
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Ask HN: How to get started with start-ups?
I'm a computer science grad currently working on a government contract, but I want to get into the world of start-ups.

Should I try and start my own? What if I don't have any ideas?

Should I join an existing start-up? How do I find one that's looking?

How did you get started with start-ups?