skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couldn't agree more! We at NIXTY think this is particularly important for a person's future educational and occupational opportunities. A blog is great and a LinkedIn profile is great too; however, we think what is needed is a more robust ePortfolio - an online presence that has a cv/resume, recommendations feature, and work display. The work display is particularly important because it allows the person to post work (documents, videos, papers etc.) that illustrate their competence. Further, it allows those w/credibility (professor, supervisor) to comment on the work so that others can get a better way of assessing a person's competence.The url for the person's eportfolio is www.nixty.com/name.

People definitely need to be proactive about defining their presence online. This is just one small way that we are trying to help.
http://www.cherokee-project.com/benchmarks.html pretty easy to find them.
Are native Americans simply exempt from the basic courtesy of not being depicted as ridiculous cartoons?
> VCs have the right to block an exit.

I don't know too much about the terms of VC funding, why is this the case?
For FreeBSD, there's Debian GNU/kFreeBSD (http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/), and for Solaris there's nexenta (http://nexenta.org). I'm guessing Solaris won't have useful drivers for your netbook, but FreeBSD might. It's always fun to play, anyhow.
My reaction to success is to aim higher, and fire again.

I was going to say that my efforts are uncorrelated to my wallet, but I don't think that's true; I think they're inversely correlated.

I hate to cite a second anecdote as rebuttal, but I don't have any controlled studies available :-)
Yeah. Plus, creating an account takes like 20 seconds and eventually there will be OpenID support too.
Cool. I like the momentum when scrolling left/right
FYSA: There's a "Print" option on the timelines that let you print a list of the events.
Wouldn't you get the exact same situation with this Second Life scheme?
For the ui JavaScript? Certainly none of the places I've worked subject that to real code review.
> Edit: Oh, right. When I read the comment I was thinking more of it letting them steal all of the info on the page, or something, which would be doable if they inserted extra code.

Stealing info from the page is still possible. It would be hard to crowd-source the detection of such things if they were either: 1) randomly inserted into <1% of all requests; 2) they were targeted at specific IPs/IP ranges; or 3) they were targeted at requests coming from specific sites.
Implementing it made me appreciate high school physics:

http://id.mind.net/~zona/mstm/physics/mechanics/kinematics/E...
I have. The decisions of the respective bloggers to, instead of relying on facts, rely on misleading half-truths, misquotes and outright fabrications makes it difficult for me to find any reason to associate either site with skepticism. Rather, I find that both Climate Audit and WUWT are perfect examples of a sort of knee-jerk denialism that I find to be such a perversion of the word "skepticism."

The parent article, on the other hand, lists several examples of honest skeptics as well as of dishonest denialists. I would encourage people to evaluate the arguments of those skeptics, and not the pseudo-skeptics at CA and WUWT.
if you work for a company where writing extensions to the server is common-place, i would say the code quality of cherokee is a strong feature as well.
I love the (distressingly common) attitude that the only code exempt from review is the layer that interacts with the user, which can completely obscure or invalidate the correct functioning of all the other layers.
> Most online places charge about $10 per trade.

I think the OP is talking about index funds, not stocks. If you invest in the fund that your broker manages, there usually isn't such a "purchase fee" for index funds, only some of the more risky funds that want you to demonstrate that you're willing to eat some losses in hopes of a bigger payout later. The bigger fees tend to be associated with more active management, which generally doesn't apply to funds that simply track an index.

I've never been charged this transaction fee on Fidelity Spartan 500 (or whatever it is called now), for example. Vanguard also has a pretty good reputation for their low- or no-fee funds.
Are you sure they were really "worse"? There are people who come from different backgrounds, who will feel different things are better... I've seen some translations and even though they were done by natives into my native language, I would change something, because they just didn't feel "right" for some reasons.

Just ask a person from UK, US and Australia to translate some text into English. You're likely to end up with 3 completely different versions. The same thing will happen with different regions in the same country. For one person a sentence will be ok, for another it's something they'd never say, and for you it will look like an "irrelevant mistake".
Will do another benchmark of my own, but on Windows it had a pretty much standard, Apache-grade webserver performance.
Taro's Ramen Cafe - My kind of Ramen Profitable
... you may end up with your document saying "I translated some text for a second life guy and all I got was 50 Linden $." ;)
Ask HN: An HN for biology/medicine/biotech? Would you want one?
Does such a site exist? Would you be interested in one?

Edit: If any of you want to help, email me at kyro@kyrobeshay.com, if you wish.
Canada-EU Free Trade & Labour Movement Proposal
Ask HN: Best Place to Have Logo Designed?
99 Designs? Craigslist? Another idea?
99 Designs and CrowdSpring are the two popular ones. I've seen really great logos designed by users of both services.
The sharp ones get a different lesson from high school algebra: Apply your mind, find the pattern, and you'll get better results out of less work than everyone else.
Krugman's point is not that countries don't compete, but that global trade sums to zero, unlike the case for corporations. You can't tell if a country is 'winning' by looking at its balance of trade.
Mommy, Where do Hashtags Come From?
As soon as I saw the title, I figured it would be something like that. But I mean, if people want to waste their time like that- meh. Let em?
I went through law enforcement training (though never ended up working in law enforcement) in Florida a few years ago. One of the firearms drills was to draw and fire two shots from the hip while blocking with the weak hand at 9 feet in 2 seconds. It was intended to simulate exactly that sort of scenario.

The outcome of a gun/knife confrontation at short range is not at all certain. Most wounds from a knife or handgun are not instantly incapacitating, and are often survivable. I would tend to bet on the person with a gun, but both are likely to be injured.
For translations from non-Latin scripts to English, I've seen people put up PNGs on Mechanical Turk, which seems hard to game--- OCR is usually bad for non-Latin languages, and people who don't know the script usually can't even retype it well enough to put it into Google Translate. Might not work well for alphabets that are easy to learn (Greek, Cyrillic), but if you put up a PNG of Arabic, you probably aren't going to get many non-Arabic-speakers who can do anything with it.
It's an optimization problem:

The positive side is the decreased risk of heart problems.

The negative side is the increased risk of stomach problems.

If you are at a low risk for heart problems, the negatives generally out-weigh the positives.
If you are at a high risk for heart problems, the positives might out-weigh the negatives, since heart problems are more likely to be fatal than stomach problems.

According to TFA, recommendations for daily aspirin are too common.
could you try with a higher concurrent client count as well?
Wow, this link was awesome for introducing me to http://www.mathforprimates.com/
which was a fun set of podcasts! Thanks!
To me it is interesting to attempt to guess the winners in such a scenario (where robots for a lot of tasks are cheaper than asian unskilled workers). Could it be that countries like Dubai would become manufacturing centers? Some advantages for it as opposed to China/India would be: less corruption, no taxes, flexible and business friendly regulations in general and cheap energy.
Aside from the ones that took something that was correct and turned it into something blatantly wrong, you do raise an interesting point. However, I'd maintain that if you end up with linguistic inconsistencies and it's affecting your bottom line, then that's "worse" in my book.

I've learned that it must be made clear to the translator exactly what the target audience expects (I've had to tell British translators to use U.S. spellings, mainland Chinese to use terminology that's specific to Taiwan, etc.). The most experienced ones know of these distinctions and make sure to observe them. The ones who don't (or can't) are better reserved for the jobs that are matched with their background.
I have to admit, I was annoyed when I discovered the world of discrete maths that high school focused so much on calculus and algebra.

I think my class maths would have been better off understanding how to tackle counting and probability problems to restore some balance.
Thanks!

Note that I didn't mean to be negative about your product. I'm sure your goal isn't to lock information down without a way to get to it. It's more that from the examples the one that resonated the most with me was the life timeline, and I feel that's the kind of information that I would want to last "forever" and that I might be more inclined to implement myself for that reason. (a simple version of it)

Ideally, I would even love a timeline gathering all kind of information. Some kind of ultimate mashup of timelines, with pictures, movies, events, people… that link to Picasa/Flickr, Facebook, Gmail… But that's besides the scope of Preceden :)
Nothing happens when I hit return after 5 + 7. I tried Safari and Firefox :/
I've used god quite a bit (that's actually how I found github in the first place, I believe) and found many of its facilities useful.

I was mostly aiming for the stuff your system already does (and daemontools for when it doesn't do what it should already do). As this was becoming a rather large work of writing, I didn't want to spend some extra time to, you know, praise god.

Some of these things do go into the basics, though. At the very least, memory usage. Using rlimit for memory usage and death-of-child events for signaling restart gives really quick turnarounds for almost free.

But rlimit for cpu utilization is less useful for long-lived processes. And for things that are entirely outside of the scope (the most common one for me is, "is my log still growing"), it's just not helpful at all. These are the types of process monitoring where god helps a lot.
Amongst other tigns VCs typically look for three types of rights regarding equity in a term sheet that get transferred to an Investment Agreement. Most of my transactions have been with European VCs, so some of my naming is slightly European/UK specific, but the principles are generally the same around the world:

* Drag rights - so that under certain circumstances they can force a sale even if the founders (who might own the majority of equity) don't want to. Typically this is set 3-5 years into the future. This is because the VC doesn't want to be sitting on illiquid private equity once their fund returns and the partners typically get 20% of any exit. VC funds have a target lifetime, so the VCs argue this is key to their business model.

* Approval on any sale of new/existing equity. In a UK company this would be typically enshrined in the both an investment agreement and as a class-consent within the Articles of Association. VCs normally end up controlling the board of start-ups (either in themselves or 'their' NXDs that too often follow the VCs). The VCs don't want you to sell too early, or raise new money in a market or at price they think is wrong. They would justify this by saying they are risking the capital in the business and would see this as reasonable.

* Tag-along: if anyone sells any equity they have the right to sell a proportionate amount at that price. There are typically some 'permitted transfers' e.g. VCs transferring equity between their internal funds. This basically comes out of them not wanting anyone else to get an exit (and a payday before they do).
Ask HN: Buzzword for *.d directories?
Does anybody know buzzword for configuration directories AKA .d-directories, which is suitable for googling?
What this year’s Oscar race can teach us about business…
Just curious, but does that implementation use the native websocket if possible, and then falls back on Flash if needed? I am interested in such a framework.
BBC blocks open source video players
Yes, I meant to look at runit some last night, but it was unavailable. It does look pretty good.
What Went Wrong at Veoh?
Entrepreneurship in Japan
I've recently become a little nervous about the way that people are leaping for Node.js when there are proved libraries in pretty much every other language that are basically Node.js, plus five to ten years refinement and testing, plus numerous other plugin libraries that have been created, refined, and tested too.

If playing with the latest prettyshiny is your goal, have at it and have fun. But for getting real work done on real sites I have a hard time believing it's the best choice.

(If it seems simpler than the existing tech, that's the usual way of things. New tech like this is always simpler. It will eventually be discovered by the Node.js community that the complications present in EventMachine or Twisted or other competition is in fact not there because the developers are stupid, but because they learned the hard way it's necessary complication, for the most part, if you want the stuff to actually work, and in another couple of years, Node.js will end up being just as complicated and for the exact same reasons. If you don't mind not working in JS, you can skip to the end of this process if you pick up one of the other libraries that are already mature.)
I think this is a big mistake there is no need for any more government action, until there is a serious problem it'd be best to let evolve on it's one. From the article, here's a quick rebuttal to a few points: (* is there point, -- is rebuttal)

* If users do not trust that their credit card numbers and private information are safe on the Internet, they won’t use it.

-- If users do not trust the system a new one will be rapidly developed to ensure their trust; there is too much money involved for this to exist as problem. Hell it could be as simple as credit cards being issued with a token that generates valid numbers for given amounts -- one time use, and limit on how much they can charge. If you don't get they item then you chargeback.

* If content providers do not trust that their content will be protected, they will threaten to stop putting it online.

- They may threaten to stop putting it online, but it will only hurt them. This is backwards thinking -- they're trying told hold back progress. This seems like a way for them to force draconian drm on the populace.

* If large enterprises don’t have confidence that their network will not be breached over the Internet, they will disconnect their network and limit access to business partners and customers.

-- This is probably the most responsible thing for them todo. Security is hard, and if they cannot secure their network I don't see how that is anyone else's problem. Of course prosecuting the criminals is the responsibility of the government.

* If foreign governments do not trust the Internet governance systems, they will threaten to balkanize the Domain Name System which will jeopardize the worldwide reach of the Internet.

-- Anyone can run DNS servers so this is not a problem. In fact we might see new protocols/applications to manage mutli-dns system. Once again this is non issue, if the machine has an ip address then it doesn't matter how you look it up. Hell, we could make phone books full of them.

* Those are just some examples but I think this issue of trust applies to every actor on the Internet.

-- Those are pretty poor examples of how the government might try to wedge itself into the internet and destroy something awesome.
Here's another HN post that actually has the NTIA release on this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1157482

This is very bad.
An 85-Year-Old Sculptor vs. The Government
I'm not sure this actually refutes a relationship between offshoring and manufacturing employment. It's possible it's purely a result of automation getting better, and would have happened identically with no major shifts of trade. But given that the increase in offshoring makes labor-intensive industries much cheaper to locate elsewhere, it's also possible that market forces have accelerated the U.S.'s shift to less-labor-intensive industries. That is, we haven't just automated existing industries as technology has gotten better, but have actively stopped manufacturing certain things that are hard to automate, even though there's still demand for them, because we can't compete with cheap labor. We then put our resources into manufacturing easier-to-automate things instead, which keeps total output high.

If you break down the total manufacturing data and look at labor-intensive sub-sectors, you don't see the same upward trend in output. US textile manufacturing, for example, has totally collapsed, not just in employment but also in output.
I suppose that one of the advantages of NodeJS is that it can learn from the successes/mistakes of the others. Without having 5-10 years of cruft, baggage and backward-compatibility to worry about.

I take your point though. I only know EventMachine a little, and I've never used Twisted. And there's other solutions too. Pick the right tool for the job.
"World War 2 more than anything else forced the government to cut spending and pay off debt"

Yer what? US debt-to-GDP ratio in WWII was at an all-time record high, because they were busy paying for the whole war thing. War is extremely expensive. See this graph: http://www.preemptivekarma.com/archives/National-Debt-GDP.gi...
We gotta be really careful about how we do it. Were I single and not willingly in the scenario where I am going the extra mile to have and provide for a family (that best-case scenario for society), I might very well decide to just take your "basic income" and call it a day, but if society is going to have that "basic income" it's only going to happen if people like you and me and anybody else hanging around on HN don't rationally choose to take the option, if given. (I hate to pander to the audience, but the HN community really is set up around being a community of producers, so I'm not just trying to pander here.) And forcing me to work to provide for those others, the easiest obvious answer, would be slavery, full stop. There's enormous moral hazard in that idea. It also makes it very easy for a person born into a family who has chosen that option to not be around any person who can teach them the culture or the mental toolkit necessary to make the transition to producer, which would make "being poor" a one-way ticket for a family, on average. (Arguably a problem we already have in the inner cities, which in a way gets worse the more comfortable the "basic income" becomes.)

Mind you, I don't disagree. As a futurist looking out across the next thirty years I too see an increasing number of people who through essentially no fault of their own will basically have no marketable skills; they'll have skills, just not marketable ones. Somehow we've got to deal with it. But it's going to be enormously tricky; all the easy answers are wrong. All the politically acceptable answers both liberal and conservative are also wrong. I don't have a clue what the right answer is, either.
If you suffer a power loss and/or MongoDB exits uncleanly then you will need to repair your database.... it involves MongoDB going through every single document and rebuilding it. When you have databases at the size of ours, this would take hours.

- that seems really scary
This is really helpful for a lean startup. Helps pull some load away from servers and you get all the benefits of a CDN and caching.
Core Data isn't an ORM, even if EOF originally was.
Yeah, you definitely want the gun. But "the outcome is not at all certain" is another way of saying "you're not safe at that range, not even with a gun".
Not only that, should this catch on, you can bet your ass that people will give you crap translations on purpose by throwing in various vulgarities.

Then we go to next step: You hire someone to proof-read. Well, at this point you've already lost -- either you do it cheaply within the community (who all chuckle at what gets delivered) or you go to a professional...

Credits to the early adopters, though. They might actually get some value. But this will not last more than a month or two -- at least not (as you say) at this price level..

As time goes by you will just get more and more Babelfish translations. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if 50% of what he got now was in fact that.
It's very real. Countries across Europe are passing similar laws, pressured heavily by US copyright lobbies. It's no surprise that the US is finally following suit.

Ironically, these very laws are driving internet users to purchase anonymous VPNs to completely protect their privacy - preventing ISPs and government agencies from knowing anything at all concerning their online use. So, yes, it's real, but the ultimate outcome may be greater privacy.
I want that and a stackoverflow for the same. Thanks!
At least the programmer got the function name right.

I'm saving this for an example of how not to comment code.
Clever.

On a semi-related note, does anyone know if there is a mathematical function that describes the shape of the inside of a curling wave? I see what I think is the same shape in basically every surfing shot of someone "shooting the tube", and have always wondered if there was an elegant (or even any) formula that describes that shape.
Count me in if you make it. Happy to help moderate too - contact details in my profile.
Is it really faster? I always assumed that the additional client side DNS lookup would eliminate the increased bandwidth advantage that the CDNs have. Anybody know if anyone has A/B tested this?
That's a really bad problem to have :( Do you know what's causing them?
I had remarkable success sourcing translations similarly from Mechanical Turk, also for a fraction of the cost of normal translations. I think translation prices are artificially high, because the translations companies became entrenched before the internet connected everyone.

I managed to get translations done for about .025/word, and then get the translation edited at the same price. This is total of .05/word, which is way way less than the average translation company that can charge anywhere from .25-.75/word.

And, you ask, how do I know these are good translations? Well, besides checking out the work with people I trusted, I also know they are good because my iPhone app went from unknown to top 20 ranked in many countries - I had big improvements in downloads, rankings, and revenue. The translations more than paid for themselves in the first couple of days.

The most successful so far was the Chinese. My app is now the 2nd most downloaded free navigation app in China, and it's top 10 paid. Before translation, we never had a single sale.

EDIT: I went ahead and posted some charts and graphs from my own experience: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1157824
SO for medicine would be super interesting. If done correctly, it could be a really useful resource for physicians/biologists/etc.