skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more fun to spend your free time copying git-svn's features and implementing them in Subversion. Or something.

Personally, I would find it more useful to sit around and watch paint peel off my wall. But then again, I didn't write a book about why open source projects should have 100-message-long votes on every line of code to be added to the project... so I clearly don't "get it".
Exactly. I would say the story about the California Highway Patrolman and his family being killed in a rental car really got the media avalanche moving.
IE to lose Windows monopoly next week in Europe
Climategate 'scientist' attacks bloggers
Must be a odd discussion to have in the office... "servers went down due to an over-welling demand for our unsubscribe page -- subscriptions are up 3000%"
Although this is really cool stuff and it looks like it's going to get merged in, the title is a little misleading here. GHC hasn't switched to an LLVM backend -- they're currently reviewing this patch and possibly merging in this support for LLVM output (not necessarily switching over to it entirely).
Very crafty signup strategy! Exclusivity creates desire and demand
I didn't know about the early history of Pixar and the Pixar Image Computer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixar#Early_history).
Very nice, this seems like it might be my first successful attempt at understanding the importance of the Y combinator. Question:

As an example of the power of this approach, this caching turns the naive, exponential implementation of Fibonacci into the optimized, linear-time version

What role does the YC play in this? Is it not simply due to memoization? Does the Y-combinator version grow the stack?
As a math grad student and professional DBA most of the reading I do is technical, and there I have to read it slowly, often stop and think, and often reread after stopping to think.

When I do read fiction or the news, I read much faster and I can skim for key words easily. I have never tried formal speed reading techniques, but I suspect I could apply them in a context like that.

So I agree, type of material makes all the difference in the world.
The title is accurate, as simultaneously, the GCC backend is being dropped. [1]

1. http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2010-...
Here's a short summary of the benefits: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/b3tby/the_new_llvm_...
Oddly, copy/pasting the link into the address bar and manually adding a plus to the end of the URL seems to take far more effort then just clicking on the link. If only there were a usability trick to actually see the link directly in the post somehow...
Of course I read it. IMO, it's the-sky-is-falling linkbait. Just one example - a woman not realizing the privacy settings the Buzz account she opted into is not comprable to publishing Eric Schmidt's home address. If I were a Google shareholder, I would either expect him to move, or a security detail at his house for a year after such a leak. The cost of his being killed by a disgruntled employee/shareholder/user/random person are just too high.

What percentage of facebook users would you guess know what "Facebook Beacon mess" you're referring to? In particular, more or less than 0.1%?
How much time did Picasso spend following other people?
Very true ... it hadn't occurred to me since due to my family's business dealings I'd absorbed that by the time I was making agreements.

Putting it down on paper forces a minimal level of clarity and detail, and gives all the parties concerned several chances to get it right, enumerate and specify details such as the above, etc.
I think you misunderstood the exploit for identifying the anonymous comments. It works with pretty much any survey where you can individualize communications:

I create 20 accounts on your service. I put my picture on all of them. I send out a different link/profile to each one of my 20 friends and track which one went to which person.

I then compare notes to see who said what.

Note that it's also really easy to do this using a URL shortener service that keeps track of times clicked, user agents, referrers, and IP addresses:

http://➨.ws/anonymous_survey

By using the timestamps you provide for the comments, I can tell which of my friends most likely made each comment.
I would post this video right smack on the home page.
To the right of the signup/tour buttons and try to make it btwn 30-90 seconds. Maybe with a heading like... See it in Action. And to stay consistent with the high end feel of your site I would try to make the video high quality.

Yes. Email away - I love providing feedback.
While I do think a yammer style service would be useful I would try to focus on one thing and really knock it out of the park. If you are making the choice to pivot your product towards a yammer/bookmarking combo product that is new tech this is a new hypothesis and should be part of your overall strategy. As opposed to adding bells and whistles.

In my office, we all have common links... email, time tracking, bug tracking, PM web app, etc. And having a centralized bookmarking network would be useful. Especially if I could publish a bookmark to say all the sales people and say - read this o sales people it's useful. But you would have to ask people in management (which I am not) for a more important opinion since they are ultimately the ones making this decision. Or aim this new product at the front line employees and move it up the chain verses down.
Sorry, English major, the engineers have triumphed
You'd be issued stock options giving you the ability to buy the company's stock at a very low price. These typically vest over time so that you can't just take the equity and quit. The paperwork is a bunch of legal forms. Have a startup lawyer look things over to keep yourself covered.
I'm a regular Aardvark user and I never go to the vark.com website...so it wouldn't surprise me that their Quantcast stats are very low.
Personally, I prefer the shorter links. Since HN makes you put the full link text, it ends up really cluttering up comments.

Also, I'm surprised by your passive-aggressiveness. I almost made a comment about how you must be new here, but you've been here longer than me!
I couldn't immediately get the video to play (IO_ERROR), looked around for something else that would tell me what the site did, failed, gave up. My recommendation - add a text based explanation of what your site is for.
tl;dr - Arc comes with a DSL designed for just the sort of problem described in the Arc Challenge. What really matters is the ability to create DSLs.
With hindsight I would suggest the following:

(01) Most PhD Research is unremarkable. Do some research in your field, list all PhD theses over the last 30 years and give them a score. How many made a mark on the field? My guess possibly 1/1000. You can do the same with journal papers, possibly 1/3000.

(02) Citations is not a measure of success of a research paper/topic. Is this research applied today? Is it useful?

(03) The Dons in the UK had one measure of success of a PhD. It had to advance the field and be original. Most Science advances this way. There is one major breakthrough and hundreds of small steps to advance it forward.
(this would probably fall within your second group).

(04) Do a social graph on 3-5 topics. Who is working where? If you want to land in say one of the big Research Institutions, make sure that there is on-going research in this area by that Institution.

(05) Decide who you want to get married to. Your thesis supervisor would be the most important person for you over the next few years. Is he interested in the research you are interested in?

My late professor used to advise that your PhD is you license to carry out research and not your major work.

If I had to do it all over again, I would do the social graph and go from there. I would also try and get into an area that scales rather than purple cows or black swans. At the moment anything with a prefix bio is still virgin territory as far as I am concerned.

Perhaps if you could let us know your field, people might be able to give you some ideas. You could also try reposting the query as If you had three-five years to do research in Computing/field, what would you choose as a topic and why?
I agree with your comment.

FWIW, shock absorption has implications for control on uneven surfaces. A very stiff wheel bounces on obstructions while a flexible wheel deforms and maintains contact. Thus, softer tires and suspension font forks are extremely useful for off-road bikes.

Really stiff wheels work well on extremely smooth surfaces, so time trialists and track riders love them. Weirdly, cyclo-cross riders also love the "deep dish" rims, although more for their ability to resist mud build-up than aerodynamics.
The worst is to come... (1926 letter from Edison)
Twitter plans to analyze 100 billion tweets
Hey why the downmods? Knobs are a very important part of an oscilloscope...
Most .com's are US based, and a lot of them don't deliver outside the US. While I agree that's not ideal, it's hardly a surprise. I do agree more services should work international: There's a lot more foreigners than people in the US :).
Permissionless Innovation and Patents
But that link only says that via-C is being dropped which, as I understand it, is not currently the default backend -- NGC is[1]. This means that (1) via-C is being dropped; (2) NCG (native code generator) has been, and is still the default; and (3) this LLVM backend support is currently being considered to be merged in.

[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Compiler...
I went months without having any significant problems... was really happy with their reliability. But for about the last month it's been really bad. It feels like I'm on their beta site or something.
What happened to C--?
15 features Apple must build into iPhone OS 4
Yeah, that's pretty bad.
I know nothing about shipping physical products, but how difficult would it be to make 50 different kinds of labels, ship each kind to a different set of stores, and measure the sales of each store? That seems like it would be more reliable than trying to detect differences in people's "emotional responses".
I wish I had read this, or something similar, when I learned how to solder. I initially was doing "cold soldering" by just melting the solder and using it like glue. Soldering became much easier once I learned the right way.
PCWorld: Chinese Schools Fingered as Source of Google Cyberattacks
Not two weeks ago, a more polished, designer version has been making rounds on twitter, sometimes going as far as asking for donations to help with making a prototype:

http://minimalissimo.com/2010/02/a-hubless-bmx-and-a-helples...
"This article is for paid subscribers ONLY".
ShopItToMe is really smart about retaining users that want to unsubscribe: http://emailmarketingvoodoo.com/blog/tags/tag/unsubscribe
I love how, as "Correlation does not prove causation" becomes more and more well-known, it is frequently added on to the end of an article with the basic approach of: "Correlation is not causation, but gosh, isn't it tempting?!"
I would guess "no," regardless of the answer in cities, but education probably does make me more right, or at least more right than not.

And once I have enough education, I can read books like Daniel Gilbert's Stumbling on Happiness: http://jseliger.com/2009/04/23/stumbling-on-happiness-daniel... and hopefully (re?)learn about happiness.
six billion five hundred seventy million rows?
The investors acquired Twitpay’s assets for $100,000 and
plan to plow an additional $1 million in product development and marketing.

http://atlanta.bizjournals.com/atlanta/blog/atlantech/2010/0...

Good luck, guys.

edit: that link is to a blog post that isn't behind a pay wall.
I'll second the 1MX Express shirts - they always look really sharp and half the time there's some 2 for 1 deal on them anyway.

As far as polos, make sure to buy polos that are actually "polo" material and not some weird synthetic fiber since they look weird. The GAP actually has some decent styles without obnoxiously large logos.

The one point I'll disagree on is designer jeans. I'm not saying you have to shell out $500 for some crazy Japanese designer jeans but jeans in the $120-200 range consistently fit me better and generally feel nicer than the stuff you'll find at Walmart.

If you don't have a significant other or girl to go shopping with (or even if you do and she's lacking in the style department), hit up a Bloomingdales and find someone to help you out. In my experience, their sales people have always been knowledgeable and helped me find stuff that looks and fits great.

Don't forget to buy a decent looking belt.
Review my startup: Ledgerble Small Business Accounting
http://www.ledgerble.com

A simple, easy to use accounting web app for small (1-5 person) companies. We've been testing it for a little while now but I'm looking for feedback on how we can do better.

We are already putting together a screencast for the homepage, and revamping the support section. Just rolled out a full API this week. Thanks!
(I did not downmod you, but...) The part about knobs on an oscilloscope being important is probably true. In contrast, many computer users find the mouse far less useful than the keyboard - so much so that they go to great lengths to discover all available keyboard shortcuts. This minimizes the distance your hand travels for each command, and can greatly increase the speed at which you perform a task.

Therefore, a more agreeable analogy to those downmodding you might have been along these lines: having multiple simultaneously accessible knobs on an oscilloscope is like having multiple keys on a keyboard. You don't have to go into a menu to select which key you want to press. You just press the correct key. Likewise with an oscilloscope's knobs.
I'm not so sure---I mean, I've sure read some papers that I'd love never to have been published, even if that means tweaking peer review a bit.

EDIT: in a sense that the results are obviously false and come from either some ideological stand by the author or from some crude conceptual mistake that is hard to respond to.
Marketing is from Mars, Business Intelligence is from… Betelgeuse?
Getting started with Duby and MongoDB
A gentleman carries a handkerchief in his front breast pocket

Looks like he still has some things to learn
Soon on Hacker News:

How to eat with a knife and fork!

How to do "number twos"!

How to brush your teeth!

Sheesh
I also think the opportunity is ripe to create a web app that allows companies that sponsor online events say... podcasts/vlgos to measure effectiveness via tweet mentions as a direct result of that show.

So I'm company x sponsoring show y.
Show y says "listeners please tweet out thanking our sponsor company x on twitter" (jason calacanis does this on twist) the web app would sum up the number of people who tweeted and then count the number of followers they have to give you a general idea of the reach and allow for measurement on a per campaign basis.

Of course this could lead to the downfall of twitter which is why it has to be targeted and tasteful.

Please tell me if this sounds crazy or already out there.
Google Can Now Buy & Sell Energy, What Next?
Yes; at present, adding code generation for new architectures is kind of a nightmare (google "haskell Evil Mangler"). LLVM will make this much simpler (or, at least, foist it on the LLVM guys :) )
Draft: MapReduce Algorithm Design
Maybe this happens for most but for those companies who can take this concept, iterate on it and make it work it's a good move.
Penelope Trunk has written a bunch of articles on people who are interested in happiness vs living an interesting life. I can't speak to the validity of her sources, but it's something interesting to think about:

http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2010/01/14/do-you-overemphasiz...
Just because the Communist Manifesto calls for violence does not mean that everyone who self-identifies as communist has to accept it. Modern communists can change, re-interpret, or cherry-pick parts of the doctrine. I know at least one person who explicitly identifies as both a communist (small c) and a pacifist. Marx defined the original meaning of the word, but he doesn't control its definition through the end of history, and the modern conception of communism is the resulting economic system, not the means to achieve it. Hell, in some contexts, communism is a tool of literary analysis.

Communism (big C), in practice, has lead to a lot of slaughter. I can't deny that. However, to say that it has created "more misery and destruction than any other movement in history," I will provide the counter-point that it is the only significant social-historical movement to occur in the industrial age. The Crusades (to pick a Goodwin-level example) or even the French revolutions did not have the means to cause misery and destruction on such a scale. Controlling for that accident of historical (technological) context, I would need additional evidence or argument to convince me that Communism is significantly more malicious from any other abstract idea (including democracy in both ancient and recent time as well as most religions) that people have used as an excuse for killing each other over the years.
> Just one example - a woman not realizing the privacy settings the Buzz account she opted into is not comprable to publishing Eric Schmidt's home address.

No, it's not, because in her case there was probably far more sensitive information than just her address, and it was being routed directly to someone who was known to be physically abusive and to that person's friends. Schmidt's address, on the other hand, is presumably a matter of public record already as he's a director of a corporation, and as far as I'm aware he has not personally been physically abused for a prolonged period at any point in his past.

Also, I'm not familiar with exactly how the abused ex opted into Google's new service and thus attracted the unwanted attention. She certainly seems to feel that the information was shared more widely than previously automatically and without her knowledge or consent. Could you explain her misunderstanding and how she opted into the extra service without knowing it?

> If I were a Google shareholder, I would expect a security detail at Eric's house for a year after such a leak.

You don't think one of the most high profile and wealthiest men in the US makes any security arrangements normally?

> What percentage of facebook users would you guess know what "Facebook Beacon mess" you're referring to?

I don't know, but it was enough that Facebook themselves pulled a fast U-turn when they got the feedback, and they haven't gone anywhere near the same idea since. Presumably they have a pretty good idea of how strong the opposition was to pull out like that.

To answer your other question, I find it unlikely that if 99.9% of Facebook users were happy with a change, they would work so hard and so fast to revert it.
That article is a populistic bullshit. Sure social media are good source of information about target person and it is good to point that out, but there are zillions better ways how to plan a robbery.

If some low-life is so sophisticated to plan it using google buzz technology, he would probably do this instead:
1. find initial set of rich individuals/families in your operational radius (use whatever technology)
2. evaluate their behavioral patterns (using google buzz or whatever)
3. evaluate level of their protection (like alarm systems etc.)
4. evaluate risk/outcome chances and focus on the best one(s)

So using Google Buzz has very little to do with your changes to be robbed. You have much better chance when you are visibly rich.
"This however does not imply that I agreed that Google can package their "Facebook-Killer" without as much as asking."

I'm curious; did you sign into Gmail one day and see the Buzz splash asking if you wanted to check it out?

If so, did you click yes or no?
Evil climate scientists conspiring to prove global warming.
Yeah right, this all looks like a private correspondence expressing personal opinions, and how the hell this thing could be treated as sinister?
93% is great! but this would have been ~100% in pre-automobile era. And would keep falling as we become more and more mobile. Humans may be creatures of habit but not humanity.
That was my thought. A small amount of friction at the center of the rotation will be much less noticeable than the bearing being essentially on a lever at the edge of the wheel. Thus even small amounts of friction will make pedaling harder.
ah that would explain it, I guess it's like loopt.com
It's relatively easy to find Python guys; It's harder, but still possible to find someone with Erlang or Lisp experience. It will be a couple more years since I would consider Clojure and friends.

I would say that though it's easier to find a Java programmer than a Python programmer, it's easier to find a _competent_ Python programmer than a competent Java programmer.

Java is NOT the only option.
Is it a fact that it's more expensive? I would imagine that lining up the spokes is harder than making bearings and circles.
I agree that there's a lot of stuff that doesn't get used in a given site. However, I don't think it would be too difficult to pare it down -- perhaps a step in the compilation process would be parsing your code and removing any functions from the jQuery file that aren't necessary.
The take a break/less often features are killer. I wonder if Constant Contact would jump for something like that (or already has).
Anyone else find it a bit ridiculous that 45.5% is considered a "monopoly"?

Anyway, as much as I disagree with Microsoft being required to do this, as an Opera user I only stand to gain from increased Opera marketshare. :)
I hope Twitpay' new iteration will make available a linkable button like PayPal offers that says, "Sponsor" or "Donate," etc. We have raised money 8 times this year on http://techdrawl.com and used both Twitpay and PayPal. PayPal's catchy Donate button has garnered 9 out of 10 donations (correlation but not necessarily causal), although we we trying to support local southern startup Twitpay!
What makes you think it doesn't run on Linux? From the article it sounds like it only runs on Linux since they say "contributors outside of Yahoo! can choose to build the code on more modern, non-Linux OSes as they see fit."
Unlike other similar ventures posted recently in HN (iAccelerator and the other one I am forgetting now), this looks much more credible with a portfolio of companies already under their belt.

They also have a cool name :)
Not a bad device but the 1MHz sample rate kills it for me. Anyone can recommend a good USB scope?
Agreed, this post is a big deal. It could have saved me a year of work on this front if I'd have access to these information earlier in Shopify's lifetime.
That's right. The GCC (-fvia-C) is being dropped in favor of LLVM. Work on the native codegen continues separately.
There is no drink in that drink. :(
I think that the "monopoly" comes from the fact that IE is installed by default on any new Windows computer.

Opera is the best browser ever... but I don't use it because it doesn't support Firebug. In fact, there's always a good reason to stick to Firefox as there is always a good reason for a non-techy person to stick to IE if it's installed by default.
Next they buy walmart, and after that... the US govt.
Such that google will control our power, data infrastructure, commercial goods, and govt!
it would only be valid if people fully understood the transaction they are making and chose to make it anyhow

It's really not that hard: if you're trying to keep something from your ex-husband, don't tweet or Buzz it publicly.

it should be possible to not conduct these transactions

But that's the case now - I have the option to exert complete control over who gets to see my facebook profile, my tweets, and my buzz-es.
For reference, part 1 of this series was discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1134370