skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO this is one of the larger dangers and why SCMs that can be audited are essential.
Engineering Paradise - Rap by John Cohn(Mad Scientist from Discovery channel)
the problem with all of these is the chicken/egg problem. I do not come to hacker news primarily for the articles (many of which show up on my other feeds). the primary value is the intelligent comments I read here.
Hammertime: An interactive error console for Ruby
Quite a rude comment, then. I guess I deserve it.
Has Hadoop been out since 2004?
Yes! Please.
Ghostery gets Acquired
Why are the culprits in the story referred to as "actors"?
Yes, I use many computers. I also share reviews often with friends who have no problem seeing them in context. This sounds like paranoia to me.
Snark is a terrible way to comment. You could offer him constructive advice, not upvote him, or even flag the post if you choose. There are many less damaging and less mean ways to express your displeasure.

See the section on comments in PG's essay here: http://paulgraham.com/hackernews.html
The software patent situation is getting more and more ridiculous by the day. This patent is so general, it describes basically any data-mining software (that may or may not be distributed over multiple computers.)

I think that all patents should have to go through the peer review process, unless there is some kind of extra-ordinary reason that it can't be made public:

http://www.peertopatent.org/
Not to mention cyclists and rowers.
There's a lot of spammers on Yelp. I have no problem with this on new users as businesses will often post reviews of themselves to drive up traffic.
The rap was surprisingly well shot, I have to say I am impressed. I'd probably pick this over Weird Al's White-N-Nerdy lyrically speaking. What do you guys think?

Btw, John Cohn is a CMU alum. All my HN CMU ganstas, holla back at your boy Johnny Cohnizzle!
that is pretty neat. any plans to open source it, make it more generic or open up separate sites for other cities?

is it using APIs for CL/yelp or is it a custom job separate from the two and the description is just a comparison of functionality? i'd love to run it for mine and see how it looks.
Journalists, the ones who still have jobs.
Start From The Finish
Remember, there are more important things in life than increased economic output. Like happiness, health, etc. Chances are good you can get increased economic output at the expense of those two things.
I'm trying to search the internets to see if I can find the details of the 3 hour presentation and discussion on the malleability of intelligence given to the 7th graders using a science based article that describes how intelligence develops.

Has anyone else searched and discovered?

From this part under Practical Applications:
"Blackwell, Dweck, and Trzesniewski (2002) recently replicated and applied this research with seventh-grade students in New York City. During the first eight weeks of the spring term, these students learned about the malleability of intelligence by reading and discussing a science-based article that described how intelligence develops."
I suspect the broken window fallacy takes place, but in the other direction. If a parent stays home and takes care of their children there is zero apparent economic activity, or less if the stay at home parent cooks. No childcare, less eating out, no maid services etc. However, the stay at home parent is doing that work which benefits the family and is probably also doing a better job of it than low cost help.

PS: This also depends on how much the primary income is, how much time it takes, and how old the children are. If a family with three young children is supplementing a 140k primary income with a full time job that pays less than 50k it’s probably of little net benefit. If on the other hand it’s 40k and 40k and the children are in school it’s probably a significant net gain. Time is also a factor; one of the better and more common setups for families with school age children is a teacher parent. They share the same breaks, and the added stability can be a huge help.
It's a pretty good start but I would suggest doing the same as for new events with the bars and restaurants. When I clicked on the "are we missing" link, I expected a form where I could add one (either automatically or moderator-approved) but instead got a popup window with a single text field.

If I could easily locations I would (well, actually I wouldn't because I know nothing about Iowa but if it were available in my location I would) but I'm not going to start writing prose to get a location added, especially not on a mobile device which is where sites like these are most useful.

EDIT: Another suggestion would be to rename the Events header to be more in line with the verb theme leading up to it. Drink - Eat - Play for example or something similar to that. Breaking the theme is jarring.
So, that could be a Plan-B in case we can't contain global warming.
No; it seems to have been inspired by Google papers as a solution to Nutch's scaling issues. See http://research.yahoo.com/files/cutting.pdf [pdf]

:(
I did numerical analysis too...I don't think most CS departments cover it though, so chances are a lot of people would be interested in it.
> Someone needs to figure out how to scale this model.

It sounds like your standard referrals-only community model (I love the idea of anti-SEO) but how could you keep elements further down the tree ("compromised" referrals, for lack of a better term) from unbalancing the community as it fans out into too many degrees of separation?

Perhaps with a one-level-down moderation model. Each degree of separation from the origin is responsible for moderating posts one level down from them, so in theory there is an unbroken chain of moderation from the earliest users to the newest ones.
does reddit gets to keep the ads revenue?

good luck
Or maybe a daycare worker, taking care of someone else's children, instead of her own...? You think that taking care of and raising your child is inherently unproductive?
It is a student newspaper
How air conditioning created the modern Republican Party
Sounds like he wants to just make the filesystem less transparent and handled solely by the application that uses it.

It's nice, and user friendly, until you want to switch. One of the reasons the Mac vs. PC debate is almost moot is because of how easy it is to move from one to another. A JPEG is a JPEG, no matter where it is. A folder of JPEG files can move back and forth no problem. But moving from iPhoto to Picasa on a PC? Not so easy, esp since you may need to write a specific routine to handle each programs individual "filesystem".
Max (the article's author), I saw that you're posting in the thread. Reading the account on the first page, the bookstore owner sounds troubled. She won't clean her store, and when someone leaves (what I think is) a review with valid criticism, she responds with vitriol. Considering her prior behavior and the fact that the authorities sided with him, I'm inclined to believe Clare's account of the altercation. I don't always cede to the authorities. But considering that the stereotypes were stacked against Clare - male, younger - I bet the cops who interviewed the two decided that Goodman was unhinged.

Others here have the same impression. So, two questions. Why did you decide to lead the story with her? And are your conclusions regarding her behavior similar to ours?
Tweakable Constants
A useful hack for C/C++
the latter "a pretty page with links to the various destinations" like the blog, their consultancy, their about, their work...

So you believe that a splash page in that context is fine (and I agree)?

Two of the forward thinking designers there argued that unless the person is a pretty big deal that a splash page would be a barrier and it would be better to have people land on the blog and design a better way to link to the other info.

Thanks for the reply.
Perhaps from the standpoint of at least a portion of the imagined target market, that's a feature rather than a deficit (aka more fun/interesting that way). ;-)
5 years, multiple thousands of almost illegal intercepts, 'blanket' PIs to cover up the unauthorized intercepts.

Surely redefining 'rare' is not the answer.
Yes, there have been some studies on that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand

Christ almighty, people. Also 1+1=2.

Here's another clue: Haiti is poor because it's full of Haitians. The latitude and longitude of your feet isn't what makes you successful.
While I'm normally the first to pile on and complain about Google, in this case I'm going to hold off unless/until they try to enforce their patent. The big companies like Google and Microsoft need to preemptively patent everything they can, in order to stave off the real patent trolls.

Of course, the necessity for defensive patenting itself just goes to show how silly the current patent system is.
I guess I'll have to go back to my lecture notes. There was a reason why we did LU-decomposition (and similar things) instead of inverting matrices directly.
And if they do that, then they aren't working as a full-time child-care provider, cook, cleaner, errand runner, concierge, etc.

The broken window fallacy says that purely destructive actions don't actually stimulate the economy in a useful way. In no way is one adult staying home to perform "home work" logically equivalent (at least, not in my opinion).
Restoring faith in the financial markets
Excellent! I think it's a great field, and I think that there's room for a bunch of different economic social news sites out there. And, all those different sites tend to have different flavors right now.

http://www.viewsflow.com/ Strikes me as being more from a journalistic sensibility, so the vibe I'm getting from them is that the list of articles that is curated/edited by high reputation people on the site. I think it's an interesting take on the social news site, and it leverages the founders backgrounds in print journalism. I'm interested in seeing what they end up with.

http://www.markenomics.com/ Its a HN clone that's devoted to financial and economic news. There's some good stuff posted, but it doesn't seem like there's a great number of people involved on the site. I really wish you guys the best. I loved NewMogul when it was around. I was sad to see it go.

http://newsley.com is my baby, and it's where I'm putting all of my spare attention for the next year or two. Right now, it's a bare bones social news site. After the site and community gets to the point where it "lives" on its own, we're going to be spending a lot more time building different types of recommendation and following systems into the site.

My hypothesis is that when a site gets too big and passes dunbar's number, the sense of community and camaraderie on the site slowly dwindles, and trolls start to run rampant.

So, if you can segment the community members of a site into smaller groups via recommendations and following, you can sub-communities and sub networks that still are under dunbar's number.

That's the theory at least. We need more active users before we can test some of this out, but I'm pretty excited about the prospects. We've been growing at a steady clip the last 3 months. If people are interested, I'd be happy to post our traffic stats.
Does not work on iPhone
"What Is the Chinese Economic Model?" author reports server attacked
When people join an economy they add supply to the labour market and with the money they earn they add demand to other markets like the one for consumer goods.

If we are throwing around Wikipedia entries, I might as well post http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Says_law as a counter.

Reason has an interesting article about why poor countries are poor (http://reason.com/archives/2006/03/01/why-poor-countries-are...). The efficiency and honesty of the governments (or the lack of those qualities) play a large role.
FDM patents? Explain more please.
You'll be interested in the JazzMutant Lemur - a touchscreen MIDI controller for live DJ performances. Some well known DJ's like Deadmau5 use it - that's how I first heard about it. Check it out at http://www.jazzmutant.com

A video of it in action is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_BMnwIbWJw
The original essay was discussed extensively here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1054989
> ... 20% more money while working twice as hard.

The idea that there's such a correlation between pre-tax income and expended effort is...profoundly difficult to accept without substantial evidence.
Stop Blaming Bad Management On The Recession
Clojure refactoring: flattening reduces
Lose Chin Fat & By exercising the muscles in your chin area, you can tighten
a baby car seat?
I don't know about any lumps, but common sense and history dictate that when 100,000 low skill laborers show up in a city inside a few years it will cause a lot of problems. Especially when they are not culturally assimilated. School budgets alone are a catastrophe.
um, I guess the sarcasm punctuation mark is not common parlance round these parts. though I guess </snark> or something would be more universally understood.
I would assume the vast majority of people using IE6 are stuck with it because they need to use some crappy old web app that requires it.
May I ask you for permission to translate this article to Russian? I'll drop you a link.
Discount: Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja print book for $20
Venture Capital as an exit
To be fair, there are then four more pages to this article which focus on Yelp and it's growth and impact and have nothing to do with this woman's story.
Though not very convincing.
Thanks Scott. I led with her because I think the incident, while extreme, is a vivid illustration of the way that Yelp (and not just Yelp, but all online review sites) is making business owners feel. This owner is not the first or the last to take criticism personally and respond without thinking.

As to your second question, I don't think anyone thinks that the the owner's actions were reasonable. (As I say later I the story, she feels terrible about what happened.) Sean C.'s review was negative, but not overwhelmingly so. And whatever someone says on a review site, I think that everyone has a right to privacy.
For the rest of the world to stop aiding and abetting them becoming the next great economic superpower based on principled reasons.
Before reading this I'd never heard of Yelp. It sounds like a good example of antisocial networking, of which we might see more examples in future.
> [...] but common sense and history dictate [...]

I can't argue with your version of common sense. But how about some examples from history?
could be an FTP hack. you using filezilla?

otherwise, if you're using a downloaded software package, upgrade it and report the problem.
Neural Networks on C#
Sounds like it should be integrated into the browsers although I won't hold my breath.
I guess he's talking about "At some point, I think we're going a lot further down than just one point on the scale."

I doubt that statement, too.
I tried them all and not much changed for me... just some reshuffling of tweets and a few new ones.
There are many ways a site can be hacked. This could range from a silly error in one of your PHP scripts, to some other software on the server being vulnerable.

Often sites are hacked by automated bots rather than an actual person. Which means you are using some popular piece of code with a vulnerability. Whatever you run, you need to keep track of security announcements for that product. Especially if it is popular, like Drupal for example. I'm not saying Drupal is bad, it's just that lots of people look for vulnerabilities in it.

Look at your server logs (assuming they are still there). This should give you a clue as to how they got access. Also, you say permissions are 755. And the owner is...?
It looks like doing a foldr with key pairs and then a foldl violates that patent. In parallel Haskell, it can run on multiple processors, with the assistance of the RTS ('master process').

It's bullshit.
Do you remember the thirties? Retaliation against retaliations are a recipe for shutting down world trade.
Most claims of "luck" don't hold up when examined closely.

There are rather few cases of some technology being superior in every conceivable way to its active competitor; usually, each has relative pros and cons. Beta wasn't superior in every way to VHS - at every point while they were still earnestly competing, VHS tapes had longer run times. Early Beta tapes only lasted one hour, not even letting you record an entire movie. (ETA: It was very popular to record on LP and SLP modes in VHS, further reducing quality to get extra recording time. Recording fidelity wasn't a winning factor.)

Almost as bad, Sony waited a long time to license the format, turning away interested manufacturers who then produced VHS machines.

End result? A (more) open format that was both more available and distinctly superior in an key aspect won out. Not exactly a roll of the dice.
What's great about his axe isn't that it looks like a normal instrument -- it's the way it maps touchscreen interfacing to the guitar form. I'm an electronic musician too and have seen plenty of history and modern experimentation; something that takes his touchscreen-guitar idea to the next level (full touchscreen neck?) has much more expressive potential than a normal guitar with a MIDI-transcribing pickup.

Plus it doesn't throw away one of the biggest lessons of rock: people will scream for a guy with a guitar in a way that they won't for someone behind a piano (or god forbid, a theremin).
I'd like to ask what the public cost has been (and which continues to accumulate) for this line of pursuit. Both in outright expense, and in allocation of limited resources (thereby removing them from performing other work, pursuing other leads, etc).

Of course, the personal cost to the Twitterer has been extreme and will likely continue to accrue at a rate difficult to match against the resources the State can (wastefully) afford to invest -- afford at least for the moment, until its stupidity overwhelms even it.

(The caveat being that in democracies, the State and those resources are (purportedly) ours. Just blaming "the State" ignores our own culpability. If you don't like it, vote them out. If you don't know for whom to vote, inform yourself. If you don't like any of the choices, run,)
Twitter Slows, What Blippy Thinks It Knows
I don't remember who it was or what their business was called , but someone else got called out for something similar. It was under the guise of brand management as the site aggregated social media, blogs, etc about what people were saying about a company on the Internet then charging business owners to make replies.

It came down to brands being held hostage and the story that broke was very similar. I wish I could remember the guy. I remember his blog posts sounding very proud though.

As far as yelp goes, Its probably only the sales or a small portion of the operation (maybe). I have a friend that works at yelp and I'd be dissapointed if he stayed there knowing this was going on.
What do "they" do with the energy? Reproduce? Nothing? Do they die without it? The article leaves much unexplained.
Are you a bot? It's like eliza wants a citation.

How about the city of Los Angeles, for starters.
So we would all be better off in a society with no policies to increase the education of the poor/working class? Lower literacy rates are a boon to society? Or just a boon to you because you are literate and have money so screw everyone else?
Credit card companies are also making money on fees when you buy stuff.
Encoding integers in the EMV protocol (glitches behind the date-change fiasco)
Just to note, this is from 2003. Not that it's not interesting.
They are patenting MapReduce. Seems pretty specific to me.
Ribbon Hero turns learning Office into a game
There appears to be a major dip every Mid-December to January. There also appears to be a moderate, but much longer, dip starting in May and ending in July.

I'm guessing this speaks more of the average age of users. I expect users with children tend to get less online-time around the summer holidays and especially the Christmas break. I know personally, without children, that I had much less time to access HN around Christmas.
We had a similar issue over at Extreme Kung Fu where I teach out of. A Yelp rep called (this was maybe a year or year and a half ago) and same thing: We notice you have a lot of positive reviews and we drive a lot of traffic to your site. The implication of the conversation was that if we wanted to stay that way, we better sign up as a sponsor.

I even wrote a blog post about it, and that got picked up when the whole Yelp thing blew up last year. I used to recommend Yelp to everyone, now I feel dirty even talking about it.
Apache Pivot RIA Platform Leaves the ASF Incubator
I don't see the anecdote as an example of how Yelp is making business owners feel. I see it as an example of how one sadly troubled woman got into trouble - the mechanism through which that happened seems incidental to me.

By the end of the first page, I'm thinking "This woman sounds crazy," not "Yelp can cause trouble." I don't think she's a good example for the problems Yelp can cause.

I'll read the rest of the article later. But the problem with leading with such an anecdote is that after thinking "This woman sounds crazy," my next thought was "Does this reporter not see that? If not not, is it worth reading the rest?"
Or it could incite a discussion on the relative merits of Apple's industrial design approach, how accurate Stross's assessment is, and what should or shouldn't carry over to the industry at-large.

I realize OS wankery is pretty much standard amongst techies, and that anticipating it is far from unwarranted, but there's always the chance that a discussion might actually pan out alright.
Up voted for creative design, and pics of the dentist-kid in the car freaking out in the last div.

Anyone seen practical application of this, or is it mostly for funzies?
The Dog Flu
Like humans, dogs also have their own "Flu" called as Dog Flu or canine infectious tracheobronchitis, as contagious as human but against which vaccination is specifically only just over 1 percent of these animals. This disease does not cause zoonoses and therefore are not transmitted to humans, but their virus could cause distress to people who are immuno-suppressed.
Sorry, I am not familiar with American history. What happened Los Angeles and when?
Fast. Easy. Clean. Shoelace Knot.
That's what we would often call them in crime stories, and it's a common word in a lot of newspapers. It's nice because it doesn't imply guilt... it just states who is involved.

I used to edit The Tartan.
Doesn't work with lynx either.
If you need more local content, you can try pulling some data from Oodle (http://developer.oodle.com/oodle-api). I know for a fact that CL is very guarded about scraping their content.
No offense, but shouldn't the standard be a little higher than "there are lots of parallel systems which don't fall under those claims"? It looks quite shockingly broad to me.
We should also add transactions to file systems. Reiser4 also had some interesting ideas, like having aggregators, so that you could interact with e.g. /ets/passwd as one single file, or as a directory, where each record is one file. In a transparent manner.
The same could be said for any startup, site, or business that's just getting started. We should care because that's part of the reason the HN community exists.
Is Your Organization Prepared for a Disaster?