skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
here's the paper by Cilbrasi and Vitanyi:
http://homepages.cwi.nl/~paulv/papers/amdug.pdf

the abstract:

"... Words and phrases acquire meaning from the way they are used in society, from their relative semantics to other words and phrases. For computers the equivalent of `society' is `database,' and the equivalent of `use' is `way to search the database.' We present a new theory of similarity between words and phrases based on information distance and Kolmogorov complexity. To fix thoughts we use the world-wide-web as database, and Google as search engine. The method is also applicable to other search engines and databases. This theory is then applied to construct a method to automatically extract similarity, the Google similarity distance, of words and phrases from the world-wide-web using Google page counts. The world-wide-web is the largest database on earth, and the context information entered by millions of independent users averages out to provide automatic semantics of useful quality. We give applications in hierarchical clustering, classification, and language translation. We give examples to distinguish between colors and numbers, cluster names of paintings by 17th century Dutch masters and names of books by English novelists, the ability to understand emergencies, and primes, and we demonstrate the ability to do a simple automatic English-Spanish translation. Finally, we use the WordNet database as an objective baseline against which to judge the performance of our method. We conduct a massive randomized trial in binary classification using support vector machines to learn categories based on our Google distance, resulting in an a mean agreement of 87% with the expert crafted WordNet categories..."
Thanks! We are working on improving a landing page with some graphics and better explanation.
Actually, the few times I'm in Windows I do use Safari. It's mostly because I prefer the Mac-style font aliasing and it's available as an option in the Window's browser.
the guy seems overly obsessed, almost zealous, about sub-pixel aliasing, as if entirely oblivious to OLED technology, thinking that LCD panels will be the around forever.
400 would allow us to get off coal completely. That would be a stimulus package I'd support.
When John Glidden grows up I want to employ him. Anyone who polls 11 of their friends at age six and has a concept of what a Kuiper Belt Object is is welcome in my company.

(Yes I accept that his mum may have driven the data collection but it comes to the same thing. She's going to make sure he turns into a winner)
Most people learn to be satisfied with their understanding of God, mortality, and the nature of reality by the time they enter middle school. I don't think that makes those subjects less sophisticated than middle school algebra.
that is really excellent news.
The Night I Met Einstein - by Jerome Weidman
Some of them do look like zombies, yes
> It's also notable that he is an obviously white-looking guy. If he had been a brown-ish person of some kind who fitted the above description, would there be all this outrage?

From me? Yes. From others? I can't really say. It would actually make less sense to flag someone for visiting those countries if they were dark-skinned. Wouldn't it be more likely that they had legit reasons for travelling to those countries, like visiting family?
Good point - I've updated the title to indicate subdomain.
It'd be great to have what you're looking for flash off and on like that garbage file, in purple, with an accompanying buzzing tone. But I still don't think it'd get me to wave my arms around like an evangelist.
Quiqi: Quick Answers to Search Queries
There is a difference between "come to expect" and "have a right to."
Yes. I made http://www.filleritem.com about 6 years ago. Copied by many people including Slickdeals.net. Not sure if these people were inspired by my website or simply came up with the idea independently. If anything, it forces you to keep your project working properly.
"""

The ability to interoperate safely and at a high-level between different languages, from managed C++ to F#, has greatly accelerated development on the Microsoft platform. The resulting libraries, like Windows Presentation Foundation, are already a generation ahead of anything available on any other platform.

Linux and Mac OS X do not currently have the luxury of a solid foundation like the CLR. Consequently, they are composed entirely from uninteroperable components written in independent languages, from unmanaged custom C++ dialects to Objective C and Python.

"""

And that's the problem they're trying to solve. Bring some C# Microsoft love to poor dated OS X (and the like).

I abstain.
You are 100% correct, yet upon reading this story my thought is not about that damn entitled kid. Instead I think "wow that is certainly an act of capriciousness that I would never wish to happen to me -- don't use tumblr".
I like to scan the newest page for Ask HN: Review my startup ______ posts. They don't seem to make it to the front as often and I find them immensely interesting.

I also scan the newest page after I'd digested all the stuff I find interesting on the main page. I'm on the site a lot so I go to newest to get more of my fix.
Podnutz Interview With Founders of Ninite (YC W08)
Is there video of this presentation online?
Just because something is within the rules, does not mean that something is a good practice. In this case I have learned that tumblr is willing to not honor a social norm on my behalf, which means I'll take my business elsewhere.
Urban Airship raises $1.1M to provide infrastructure for mobile apps
Strawman. I don't think the OP is rushing to his lawyers, you're putting it to that extreme.

Blog post complaining = come to expect

Calling up lawyers = have right to
That's a great example (and quite a cool tool) - did you decide to continue building it out or did you lose steam after you found the copies?
We talk about our big pivot from Baseshield, how we chose the name, and some other stuff.
Alistair Clarke probably fits the definition of pop psychology, but his book is a lot more insightful than these findings:

http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_releases/source_all_h...
The "Wedding Planning" button made me think that's what it did. I thought "cool idea, they should show that in more places". Then when I clicked the Categories tab I found out that that's just an example. Or I could be wrong about that too, but that just highlights the point further.

I'd suggest putting a tagline beneath your logo that describes what you do. Don't make it too marketesy, make it explanatory. "Helpful instructions to common tasks" or whatever is better than something like "Plan. Do. Share.".
Can you be more specific?

IMHO The TSA personnel should have questioned him, based on the information available - was there response proper and justified? thats debatable. He had traveled to the Middle East, learning Arabic (Farsi?), He would actually fit the profile of a "convert" terrorist. It could quite easily take 4 hours to do a quick background investigation.

Remember there is always the possibility a terrorist operative being "white", and not appearing to be middle eastern.
I don't have any inside information on this score, so like anyone else on the outside of Google I can only speculate. But it seems certain that Buzz was extensively tested within Google itself for a significant period before it was released to the public a week ago.

Okay so how about a quick search, then?

http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/09/sergey-brin-google-buzz/

Brin: “It’s been internally, probably half a year I’ve been testing it internally, with an increasing number of other people, the whole company has been on it for a while now.
It's not a "retweet implementation"--it's hypertext. If nobody can parse that then we've got bigger problems.
Check out http://directededge.com - an YC startup that provides recommendations as a web service.
"Moral of the story"
Totally agree with you, we'll have it fixed by tomorrow! Very helpful comment, thank you.
Yes, wedding planning is one of the examples what kind of plans you can create with planergize. If you like a plan you can then "run" it and get SMS/email reminders before steps.
To post up a counter-perspective here: From our perspective (Weebly) the DMCA is quite convenient for us. We turn away any DMCA complaint not related to copyright (like trademark infringement).

Other than invalid complaints (did not meet the requirements for a complaint, was not a copyright complaint, etc) we have never had an abusive DMCA notice -- 100% of our notices (and we usually get a couple per day) have been valid.

We don't have the issue with our host being able to unplug us that easily (we manage our own network) but we do have the issue of liability, which the DMCA solves for providers like us.

Also -- I'd definitely be interested in the cases you're referring to, where false DMCA claims have resulted in major damages.
Customer Development Checklist for My Web Startup
In Brookhaven Collider, Scientists Briefly Break a Law of Nature
> Strawman

Not really. See this:

Keep in mind that the word “pitchfork” is not a
proprietary name, it is a noun dating back to the
year 1364, so they had no legal right to the word
or the subdomain.*

By talking about how Pitchfork Media has 'no legal right' to the sub-domain, I take that to imply that he's claiming -- at least one some level -- that he does have a legal right to the sub-domain. I may be reading too much between the lines though.

He also goes on about other 'rights' that he doesn't have. See:

Sadly, I apparently no longer control this image or
this information, nor can I exercise my right to remove
it from the Internet.

I'm pretty sure there is something in the Tumblr Terms of Service that gives them the right to redistribute his material, which would probably shield them in this case. He has no 'right' to 'remove it from the internet,' the best he has is copyright which could be used to prevent distribution.
Sometimes the questions are just malformed to begin with: http://lesswrong.com/lw/no/how_an_algorithm_feels_from_insid...

It's cute when third graders do it, but the phenomenon is not limited to kids...
Worse, it won't work on iPhone, iPads or any similar device with a standard LCD when rotated 3 out of 4 possible directions.

The right answer is to just use text, it'll look great on all those devices and more. Yes, it'll look crappy on IE. So does everything else.

Also, since it's bash Adobe month: why does the anti-aliasing in Photoshop suck so badly? Those examples are terrible.
Just like Dubai is rising ahead with the world's tallest building?
Microsoft Ajax minifier 4.0 released with support for CSS minification
Is this really big news? The Skype for Android client has supported Skype calls for over one year. It works around the carriers' limitations by initiating an outbound call to a toll-free Skype number.

Every day, I happily roll down the highway at 75mph talking to my Skype contacts in Europe and Asia.

How is this any different for me? (Note: it's much cheaper for Skype, because they can now offer the same functionality without maintaining the toll-free local numbers that they need to maintain today.)
Anigma: a puzzle game made using only CSS3 Animations and Transitions (no flash)
Wrote up a blog entry with some more information on the development of the game: http://benjamin-meyer.blogspot.com/2010/02/anigma-game-made-...
Can't register because your email field is too short (30 characters max).
How Google Went Into "Code Red" And Saved Google Buzz
I'm all for using something like this to teach a child, but I hope that the mother isn't also teaching the child that polling for results is a good way to come to a scientific consensus on something like that subject matter though.

I think my point was that most of the 'work' was probably not without parental help, and I think that a lot of the subject matter ('double planet', etc) may be over the head of a six-year-old. Though I may be under-estimating six-year-olds.
99 Cent app usually have no chance at making anyone serious money.

The hardest part about selling your app these days is anyone ever finding it, not actually convincing them to fork over cash.
Agree with most of your points, but Chomsky posited the exact opposite - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
Email techcrunch: tips@techcrunch.com

They might be able to help you out.

See:

http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/23/facebook-vanity-url-harman/
Like others have said it's a bit confusing to figure out what it does right away. I think a demo video might be in your best interest. I read this and it was kinda helpful: http://blog.procasts.co.uk/2009/03/why-screencast-if-a-pictu...

You could use Camtasia: http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp
I tried out ScreenToaster as it was free and it works pretty good: http://www.screentoaster.com/

I see you don't have an FAQ page. May I humbly suggest my FAQ script side project: http://breezyfaq.com
I have iterated on the idea a few times. Mostly I have to make sure that I am keeping up with the new versions of amazon's api(they discontinue old versions every once in awhile) Amazon doesn't have a way(although they have gotten much better) to make the relevant queries so you have to be a little creative to get the tool to work accurately.
Very nice, I like it. I agree with the others that you could improve the first impression- Have a nice big tagline that captures what you do in one sentence. I can see this as being very useful in lots of domains (think disaster recovery etc). You could pitch it to businesses even (thought the current look is too casual for businesses) to use this as part of their risk management process.

I stress the point of businesses because you have more money-making potential there as opposed to individual plans.
"at least most of these kids realize they want Pluto to be a planet, instead of arguing that it is a planet by some non-existing absolute standard"

That's called "honesty". Or, more realistically, "not yet having learned how to lie effectively".
You sure can! :-) I'll have a look at it.
We have a screencast, there is a link on the how to page: http://assets.planergize.com/planergize_demo.swf
The website is dead, that's for sure.
How Steve Nash Shines in Basketball--and Business
You didn't read it all the way through. They mention that experience seekers had more activity when viewing the nonsense jokes than classical jokes.
<red faced> Thanks for the correction.
Data in, Brilliance Out | Tableau Public
Snaptalent Lessons Learned - Lesson Three - Spend Time on Things That Matter
i sometimes wonder if near instant translation is a good thing. i think we need to preserve cultures and languages which this helps. But at the same time the move to universal standards in language is similar to the web parallel and should also be sought after. It would seem such good translation services might slow that and create an endless long tail of products/service that do not quite sync up.
That would be cool! But also a disappointment.

I've always read it under the assumption it isn't true - but that it's such a wonderful story Im going ot pretend it is anyway :)
The work discussed was actually done at the PHENIX detector, not STAR.
while i see english as the universal language, i'm not totally pro american here. I think everyone should really be on the metric system.
I'm working on this side as well. Applicability in business environment was the reason I got funded a year ago by Enterprise Ireland (Irish state agency working to support commercialization of research, among other things)
Mailinator for Testing
Amazing slides indeed!
Is it funny because it's completely incongruous?
Why did you decide to use Facebook authentication? Do you have plans for symbiosis with Facebook? Why have the user create a Facebook account instead of account in your startup?
You need to rip out your front page and add the following:

1) One tagline - "Easy simple way to create repeatable processes"

2) A video going through a use case

3) Example plans (the end product), featured on the page

4) Giant sign up button
Not my work, but I posted something on a dial up ISP's forum years ago, and a reader there posted it to alt.humor.best-of-usenet. I did a search a few years later, and found it word for word posted on some advocacy site in Washington DC, attributed to a woman who was not me.

I emailed the group, made my case with proof, and said I'd be flattered if they kept it up with proper attribution. I don't recall hearing back, but they took it down pretty quick. I imagine the "author" was a little embarrassed.

I just searched best-of-usenet, but now it's Google, you know, so I wasn't surprised not to find it. I did find it out on the wider web, so, for historical accuracy, it survives here:

http://www.mail-archive.com/law-issues@mylist.net/msg00390.h...

(scroll down to You Always Remember Your First)
Someone on the previous thread did some good research. I believe it's golden. Yes, RD does occasionally publish fiction but I believe, without heading to my city library's microfiche archives, that it is true.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=591165

"3 points by gry 289 days ago | link

Seems on the up and up to me. Originally published in 1955 in the Reader's Digest by Jerome Weidman.

The table of contents are highlighted in this eBay posting, corroborating the byline."

Updated Ebay auction search for November 1955 Reader's Digest, see the TOC image from [updated] ebay listing:

"The Night I Met Einstein by Jerome Weidman . . . . . .61

http://cgi.ebay.com/Readers-Digest-November-1955_W0QQitemZ38...
I'm curious: what about the JVM?
At some point the message that "web 2.0 is sharecropping" will sink in, one way or the other.
But that's after arrest, and arrest usually requires either a warrant or some sort of immediate probable cause (they find weed on you, they catch you in the act of committing a crime). While police can stop you in the US, i.e. by pulling you over when driving or on the sidewalk or even performing a Terry stop, they have to let you go fairly quickly unless you fit the criteria for arrest.
Just because they do a DMCA request doesnt mean you have to hand it over. Allow the other participant to submit a counter notice if they choose, which puts it out of your hands.
The article seems more to illustrate the pitfalls of incorrectly identifying the bottleneck in a process, thereby fixing the something that isn't broken. He points out, rightly, that time isn't always the bottleneck. But any efficiency analysis that blindly made that assumption without any checking should be thrown out.
From Ryan Schreiber, Founder/President of Pitchfork:

It is not our wish to kick people out of active accounts. For example, the user @pitchfork on Twitter had an active account before we signed up. That’s fair, and in that case we don’t feel any more entitled to a ‘pitchfork’ URL than anyone else. We’ll be happy to surrender the URL and find a home elsewhere if the original register of the account wishes.

http://pitchfork.tumblr.com/post/393233651/dear-tumblr-commu...
This was well within Tumblr's legal rights to do, though still poor form for them to have done it, because there seemed to be no legal motivation to "take" the subdomain. The word "pitchfork" is not something that can be trademarked and pitchfork media has no more right to the subdomain than you or I, no matter how badly they want it. So this doesn't seem like a decision Tumblr was forced into for copyright/legal reasons. They just thought it would be a good idea either for profit by selling it or to get on the company's good side (mind you, however, we are only hearing one side of the story, so that assumption may be entirely inaccurate). I don't blame the guy for being a bit upset. Even realizing you have no actual legal claim to something, if you've been using a url, username, twitter account, etc. for over a year and suddenly it's taken from you without so much as a warning, it would be annoying. So no, in reality, nothing was "stolen" from him, but the manner in which Tumblr revoked the URL they had assigned to him feels a bit unethical.
Verizon Permits Skype: A Revolution Starts
This might not a big issue, but I think the phonetics of the name are a bit off. I didn't quite know how to pronounce it, and realized when I clicked through that it's probably meant to be read as planner-gize. This could be a problem for word-of-mouth marketing as people would probably assume it's spelled with two n's. Plannergize.com seems to be taken already, but something like PlannerMake.com is available.
I agree, but there are other sites that focus on non-tech specific co-founder dating such as http://partnerup.com, http://startupsquare.com (in development), http://efactor.com and such. So I can see the reason to focus this one on just tech.
And Pitchfork responded explaining how it happened: http://pitchfork.tumblr.com/post/393233651/dear-tumblr-commu... - the account looked inactive, hadn't been posted to for ages, and Pitchfork asked Tumblr if there was a way to get the account.

It's key to note, though, that Pitchfork played this right - they say that "We'll be happy to surrender the URL and find a home elsewhere if the original register of the account wishes."
We actually had our own authentication initially, but later decided to use Facebook Connect. We are using some part of data and features available on FB to provide core functionality, e.g. we use friends list for access control, we send SMS and email reminders through FB. We publish short stories on your activity on your wall (if allowed). And we have plans to put more social features, utilizing FB infrastructure.
Many people already have FB accounts, so we decided not to ask people to fill in all these fields one more time.
Google today admitted to the BBC that "hundreds of the world's best engineers" were indeed out of touch:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8517613.stm
Not likely. They have female TSA employees frisk females, for exactly that reason. We've got plenty of safeguards in place to protect against sexism.

Racism, not so much.
I don't find that web site design as clear as it could be. The page you linked didn't make it at all clear what this "green email" meant. Clicking on the banner to reach the site's home/front page, I had to scan to the last sentence of the second paragraph to get some clue of what this "greening" effort was about/entailed:

On your behalf, we pump green energy into the grid to power your website and hence the Internet.

Which is still not very specific.

Anyway, this reminds me of a favorite signature used by a Pac Bell employeee years ago. More or less (I remember the wording being a bit catchier):

This email made with recycled electrons.

Maybe it was:

This email made with 100% recycled electrons.

Of course, this was when paper use was the big concern, and the Internet was not yet consuming -- or perceived to be consuming -- multiple percentage points of total (U.S.) energy production).
Thanks for your comment, we are going to do this!
I'm not a native English speaker, but isn't "minds" more appropriate than "spirits"?
This allows you to avoid using outgoing minutes entirely.

At that point, you can use use skype-out minutes without paying for Both the Skype cost, as well as the Verizon per minutes cost. Further, if Verizon allows a data-only plan, you would be able to use it without missing out on voice calls.
It's quite nasty if you don't finish the job. You can have flu-like symptoms for up to a month if you get a mild case, or worse you can end up with a month of nausea and vomiting. If you're going this route, go for bottle carbon monoxide. A CO concentration over 1% can kill in 2-3 breaths (IE before you have nausea, vomiting and convulsions) so I imagine breathing 100% CO could do the job in a single breath. It'd be as simple as inflating a balloon and inhaling.

The idea here would be to get the concentration percentage as high as fast as possible.
That's because "jrockway" matches "jafar al mkaway" in the no-fly list.