skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The world is definitely in need of more programming tools in general that reduce cognitive load while keeping details accessible. Personally, I think that's going to come in the form of a programming language that's completely different from everything that's come before, something that's more than just lines of plain text. Perhaps something along the lines of StarLogo TNG, which lets you write games by fitting puzzle pieces together, but much more polished and general-purpose:

http://education.mit.edu/starlogo-tng/
I own them all, and I am perpetually at different stages of working through each of them. :-) I work in the way I explained in the intro - when I don't know something, I step back and go learn the background I need to move forward.
Frameworks like Sammy take the approach of treating states as URIs. I'm not sure it's strictly necessary to abandon browser history functionality.

http://code.quirkey.com/sammy/
Yep. And where it is included it's a deity that is easily transposed on to many religions -- a Diest's diety. The God of Nature.

"All men are endowed by their Creator", etc.

Random Googling brought me to this site: http://www.adherents.com/gov/Founding_Fathers_Religion.html

Perhaps because these men were determined that differences in religion would not be a big deal, they were easily able to have prayer before each meeting without anybody getting offended. I'm pretty sure that the idea of _no_ religion in any kind of government event wouldn't have worked at all for these guys, though. Paine was "out there" and fiercely advocated it -- but he was the exception rather than the rule, and France was the worse for it, probably.
Discovering Urbit: Functional programming from scratch
China warns Google to comply with censorship laws
I'm young and guess what: I've seen web shops where the checkout process is broken. When that happens, I go to the competition rather than taking time to report the error.
Its demise was the introduction of the involuntary church tithe which forced the free farmers to pay the chieftain. This create a capture audience, allow cheftains to concentrate their power, and create a less competitive market for law and abritation.

A "federal" authority would concentrate and centralize power and create the same situation exactly the opposite of what we want.
At first I thought this was just SPAM. But, I watched the entire video and found it quite intriguing.

After it ended, I watched the first few minutes again... and sure enough, I saw the same stuff once I knew what to look for.
> 4. His inner loop looks like it uses way more instructions than are reasonably called for although, to be sure, to be certain of that I'd have to know what requirements he's constrained to satisfy. When running out of the DFA cache, my implementation could (at least when last measured) get by on something like 12 or 20 instructions per character in the string being searched.

With SSE 4.2's text-processing instructions, regex matching could become essentially hardware-accelerated.

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/03/18/intel_sse_4_text_twe...

I'd be really interested to see benchmarks on Nehalem of regexes compiled into the SSE-accelerated text-processing instructions.
That's an interesting point of view. I didn't really put much thought into security, because nothing in this app contains secure information really (besides perhaps the password to login).

It wasn't so much a matter of your security being an option, but rather a matter of the intended customer type. For instance, the only information that could realistically be considered to need security in this app is the specific leads you generate/contact. However, the only companies I've ever worked for or with that consider their leads to be top-secret are large corporations. Hence, the reason the subscription level that includes enhanced security is the "Corporate" account.

But I can see your side as well.
This was very nice to read. In my experience with articles for deletion, I've never seen the closing administrator's reasons laid out like this. I hope this happens more often than it used to.
The danger of flash mobs is alive in Philadelphia, PA - USA

2 flash mobs in 2-3 weeks. Felony charges brought up.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/03/04/national/main62671...

Just like the hysteria of flash mobs, I hope these incidents do not lead to any hysteria calling for draconian measures here. It will also be interesting to see if local law enforcement officially starts devoting man hours to monitor social networking sites in their respective locale.
Whatever dude.
I don't know about keeping the homeless off of public transit. I just don't want to have to smell them, or have my physical safety threatened by them. We're going to fail at treating the disease (failed healthcare), but at least we can look at treating some of the symptoms in order to increase diversity in our transportation system.
How to move $50B in bad debt off the balance sheet (Lehman report)
Funny, yes, but I honestly think they should consider this.
"They solicited the community for ideas for months."
Maybe soliciting for ideas visionary UX guru's would have worked out better for them.

UI design is a technical art-form not a popularity contest.
On another note, customer service is typically not happy when they claim that a certain error message is impossible and you reply with the section of source code that generated it.
Summary:

a) Guy hires designers to design a logo.

b) Guy feeds designers subliminal messaging on their cab ride to office.

c) Designers build nearly an exact copy of the logos / messaging that the guy implanted.

More about this guy here:

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

Definitely worth a look.
45k is a good chunk of change to have every year for free. That can pay the mortgage in most places pretty easily even in places that are really expensive you only need to work a little bit to cover the mortgage. Is insurance covered as well?
Thanks for that clarity and helping me arrive to that answer more quickly. I would have eventually got there when I started loading information about this history tonight.

Intriguing that this history isn't referenced more often.
I think he's just projecting his current income growth for the next 12 months, which sounds a little bit naive. :-)
IIRC, the theme itself has control over where the buttons on the window titlebar go. I know for sure that this is the case in Emerald, and I know that other window managers allow various themes to move around the position of the buttons at will. If they changed the underlying code to force all themes to use the same button position regardless of what they have it set to... that's a lot bigger of an issue than just changing the button position in the default theme.

Maybe someone running 10.04 Alpha 3 can confirm that this is being forced upon other themes. Another thought is that maybe most themes don't specify the button locations because they are used to the defaults being 'buttons on the right,' and this Ubuntu change messes with the global defaults rather than just applying the changes locally to the new default theme.
Redis weekly update #1 - Hashes and... many more
jezus. who has time for that shit. wp has been overrun by vogons.
I think the title used to say "enquiry."
Ignoring that young people live through stuff better. And ignoring that the comment I was replying to merely said that young people account for more injuries, not more often, much less more per mile.
Insuring the deposits is not a good-faith effort to prevent the robbery. It is a guarantee that the customer will not be affected by a robbery. The difference is that the insurance guarantee is 100% solid--regardless of what occurs to the bank, the customers can get back the money in their account.

Netflix's attempt to anonymize the data is not a guarantee that the data will remain secure. It is merely an attempt to secure it, not a guarantee that the customer will not lose control of their data. In your example, this is comparable to locking the vault, not to buying deposit insurance. Note that banks are required to get FDIC insurance regardless of how tightly they lock their vault.
This message is visible because either you have disabled JavaScript or you are attempting to view the SEHN website with an antiquated browser (Netscape or IE version 3 or less).

I'm using Opera 10.10, something's wrong with their site.

Back on topic, I've long (semi-facetiously) advocated for burial of waste paper. Every kilogram of paper made and buried is a kilogram of carbon routed from the atmosphere, through a tree farm, and into the ground! Of course this doesn't take into account what's necessary to create and transport the paper.
For me it was Apolo 8 Earthrise. http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_10...

For sheer horror there was a National Geographic story about pollution in Easter Europe somewhat later.
Not all browsers (in fact, maybe no browsers) send the hash tag to the server with the request.
Building a Kick Ass Team
As a developer I don't develop for the iPhone because I am unsure if it will a) be approved b) be rejected for some bs or c) be approved and sell

Now with apple being even more of a dictator about which apps are available I would expect more developers to stop developing for it.

While I agree there are some really crappy ones out there Simply removing them is not the right choice.

What apple needs to do is have apple approved apps. Allow all app to be sold in the app store but have a specific section that is only for these approved ones. Keep these "quality" apps here and everyone sift through the rest in the other sections if they so choose to.
Some great points in this article. Busy is relative, just as time is. Unlike time, it can't be used as a measurement like it so often is - What are you guys working on? "We're really busy." Errr... that happens way too often.
That is eight liters of pure alcohol. From the source of the wiki page Arun2009 linked to: http://apps.who.int/whosis/database/core/core_select_process...
marketers are NOT masters of persuasion. there's a selection effect at work that over time the companies best at this sort of thing have triumphed. sure, there's intelligent direction, but lots of effective marketing tools were discovered by accident.
"no binary compatibility between distributions"

That is a feature, because it gives Free software an advantage. Why make it easier for closed source developers?
I was expecting a rant as well. And I am actually a little skeptical about this letter, and not just because it lacks a signature. He never saw the final cut, yet is willing to make a grand, sweeping pronouncement about how important the movie will be.

The letter also says "My life and creative work are justified and completed by BLADE RUNNER". I doubt many respected authors would make such a pronouncement about a Hollywood adaptation and their own artistic legacy without seeing the final product, but this is even more unusual considering the adaptation barely followed the narrative in the original book.
Ok for where to start gently on PKD, try his short stories collections ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Collected_Stories_of_Philip... ). Some have been influential, eg. "Second Variety" and "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale".
Team America ruined any chance of me taking this guy seriously.
I missed the first one of these when it was originally posted, but it's a huge thread full of really interesting material:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1055042
I never heard of a bank that got robbed and passed the loss on to their customers. If a bank is robbed, they know exactly how much was the damage, and how much they will be in trouble when they have to repay their customers.

Netflix can't "repay" their users privacy, can they?
Hrm. Mild naming collision with Solr. I doubt they'd bother renaming the project at this point though.
If you're right handed and start with the pointer in the centre of the screen, the base of your hand resting on the desk and palm/fingers covering the mouse, it is more awkward trying to move the mouse to the right than to the left. Movement to the upper right corner seems to require arm muscles.
For me, the question is "what is busy?" I try to balance my time between working on things I have to do, working on things I want to do, doing things that are fun but not productive, and enjoying a little time simply doing nothing at all.
Because most users don't care whether software is open or closed source. They just want software that works.
It's not just the iPhone; the same thing happened in Safari 4 on the Mac. Once I got rid of it, there was an annoying 'sign up to see more than the first paragraph' which I gave up on.
The David Friedman cited here is the son of Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, and the father of Patri Friedman (former Google engineer, now director of the Peter Thiel-funded Seasteading Institute: http://seasteading.org/).

His book The Machinery of Freedom has a lot more about law without government, both historically and speculatively:
http://www.amazon.com/Machinery-Freedom-Guide-Radical-Capita...

His weblog is pretty good reading for HN fans too: http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/
misleading title. Nothing to do with iPad.
Ask HN: I'm visiting Silicon Valley. Where should I hang out, who should I meet?
i'm winding down work on my second startup on the east coast. i'm thinking of giving san francisco and silicon valley a try. i'll be out there for say 4 weeks very soon to see if i want to move there.<p>in cambridge i'm connected with various hacker spaces and technology activities, a great cooperative living space and excellent salamander wrestling, roller sports and climbing adventures.<p>i'd love to get started on similar connections out west:<ul><li>co-working and co-living spaces (hippy and/or technology centric)</li><li>-> is it ok to couch surf a few nights during my visit?</li>
<li>technology hangouts, events, groups</li><li>interesting people and companies (yes i am looking for a job)</li><li>outdoor fun invitations, be it climbing, slacklining, kiting or getting around on a bike or blades</li></ul><p>
if you have any recommendations or connections please let me know. my email and resume are in my profile.<p>thanks hn!
I'm wondering; with how vital software systems are in modern cars, for everything from fuel efficiency to emissions to drive by wire systems like this, whether anyone has started doing work on free software for car computer systems.
Death Rate Dropping From Cancer
It's been a while since the flurry of de-anonymizing data papers back in 07-08, but my takeaway impression was that you can't truly de-anonymize large datasets without destroying its utility.
I think this is one of those things where the answer is "it depends". I understand people can seem busy to look productive. But people can also be idle under the guise of being effective, when they are just not working hard. Would you consider the Wally character from Dilbert effective?
I wish I could mod you up more. I am a big foss fan boy (can see by my nick), but most people don't care about licensing, if the code is open or not, etc.

They want something that works and fit their needs. That's it.
Google Wave Keeps Rolling with New Extensions Gallery
You should read AfD discussions in the German Wikipedia one day – hours of fun …
> They don't want to have to change themes or window managers, they just want the buttons to live where they're expected.

By this reasoning no one on Windows would ever switch to OSX.
The Curious Case of RDF Graph Isomorphism
Wikipedia's deletion policies has lead to wiki forks of various kind such as the webcomic encyclopedia, Comixpedia. It was also one of the reason why I choose to create a niche encyclopedia just for open source games.

However, I choose to look at it as a benefit rather than a negative. A subject that is not well known is more likely to be vandalized over time then expanded by editors.

A specialized wiki that has a sense of ownership from its editor will be far more successful at preventing long-term vandalism and neglect.
This article highlights the iPhone app. Here is a links for the other versions:

http://www.broadband.gov/

(Although I haven't noticed the Android app).

I did test the iPhone app, worked as advertised. Of course this is all just a government wrapper for services like Speedtest.net.
"About 80% of the income comes from books, 20% from things like ads and affiliate links".

You may be disappointed that pmichael isn't showing you his bank balance. I'm not. He does tell you how he's making money...well, you have to have the background of knowing how money is made for these sorts of business activities, but most on HN seem clued in about ebooks and adsense. Its a good enough story as is.
This reminds me of a great quote by Eric Hoffer:

"The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a
full life and having no time. It is, rather, born of a vague fear
that we are wasting our life"
Kinda low quality and generic.
Amen to that! I wish more developers understood that people don't care about freedom, they just want the stuff they buy to work without major effort. 99.9% of people don't want to setup MythTV, they want a PVR that works
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Perfect timing! I just started implementing an redis model to mimic activerecord objects. I was using JSON, but this is way better.

Thank you.
Great book list.
I strongly recommend getting a strong gasp of linear algebra as matrices are the a great way to think of large data in a manageable way.

also, for folks who just want to their feet wet, oreilly's programming collective intelligence is a good start.
NoSQL Live: The Dynamo Derivatives (Cassandra, Voldemort, Riak)
The article suggests that they postponed their release because the performance feels sluggish compared to what we've seen of the iPad.
You're neglecting pointer acceleration, which applies for touchpads too.

If yours is anything like mine, try this: position your mouse to the far left of the screen; quickly swipe across the touch pad from left to right. Your pointer should reach the far right hand side of the screen. Now swipe ever so slowly from right to left, your pointer might get about a quarter of the way across the screen.

Once you consider acceleration (eg, the further you try to move, the faster you are moving when you get there), Fitt's law is more, not less, important on a big screen.
Why not just go with the one that is more useful to more people as the default and bury the option to switch deep in some 'advanced' config setting? You still have to make a design decision in choosing the default correctly since that is most crucial.
True, although I prefer if the real person has a real job title.
Oh I know, when I said "the reports from people" in my parent comment I really meant that. Even before today's news I thought the CA case was fishy, so your comment is preaching to the converted a bit :-) I strictly meant that the drivers report to have tried to apply the brakes as hard as they can in most (all?) of the cases.

On a side note, I recently had a stuck accelerator less than a week ago. (No it isn't a Toyota)
Since I drive a manual transmission, I just quickly clutched and shifted to neutral. The engine redlined a bit before I killed it, which isn't good, but no serious harm to anyone or machine as far as I can tell. I coasted to a stop and then pulled the gas pedal from the floor with my hand. The weird thing is, after your comment just now I was trying to remember whether I tried to apply the brakes and I don't remember. It is cliche, but it "happened so fast," haha.
I'm fascinated by North Korea. I think these pictures say a lot. The details are interesting... close-up shots, framed without showing much context. Practically everybody has a pad of paper. Intriguing stuff.
It's worth noting that Derren Brown is an entertainer / illusionist. For everything that you see in the video, there are likely a large number of things you're not seeing.

Instead of working his tricks under the illusion of them being "magic" he pins the workings on pop psychology - he may tell you that he's using subliminal messages posted along the route, and not mention a bunch of coloring books left in the room with similar pictures (for example).

It's a cool video, for sure; but the results are most likely not derived from "subliminal messages".
Can you give expert advice if you aren't an expert?
Actually, I'm not missing any software on Linux. I do keep a Windows VM, but it's only for some crappy software that came with my universal remote, and for testing my own programs on Windows.

Further, a large fraction of open code gets written by paid devs working at IBM and the like. These companies don't think this is a waste of time.
Sorry if I sounded offended, I actually did miss that link, and I up voted your comment when I read it.
It won't happen more often because a page like that is a massive timesink. I'd bet that Flyguy649 has spent at a minimum 3 or 4 hours reviewing comments, doing some searches, writing this up, and so on.

(It's easy to be cynical and say "good! If admins have to invest 3 or 4 hours on each article they delete, then Wikipedia will be better for't", but really, most articles on AfD deserve to be deleted and asking 3 or 4 hours of each admin per AfD is a good way to destroy Wikipedia.)
I wish Phil would have come out and said whether he liked it or not, sheesh! ;)
Interesting to see some real-life perspective on this issue. Seems the trade-off is cost vs convenience.
http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=%22shmat+oak08netflix+pdf%2...
For me, I find that busy happens most when I link my activities to external schedules. When those external schedules force a few things to come together at once, I get busy because I definitely want to do them all, but I may not have enough time to do them all at a leisurely pace.

There is a saying for which I don't know the origin that goes, "a patient man never waits." I think this article gets a little confused about the difference between busy and hurried. Effective and productive use of time implies business. Ineffectiave and/or unproductive use of time leads to hurriedness.
There's not exactly compatibility between versions of Windows, either. Want your XP app to run on Win7? I hope you weren't planning to write to your install directory, since that will require a permissions change on Win7. That XP app is probably 32-bit, too, and if you are on 64-bit Win7 I hope the app isn't looking for "C:\Program Files" to find itself, since it's now in "C:\Program Files (x86)". Why is it still not working? Maybe one of the API calls works differently, better try running in XP compatibility mode.

Simple stuff works great in new versions of Windows, but my experience is that if you expect it to work, you'd better test it on every version of Windows, because there will be version specific bug on one of them.
How Musicians Are Using Social Media to Connect with Fans
'Time credit' - I like it. One thing that really bugs me is when you tell somebody about some entertaining or worthwhile pursuit of yours, and they reply saying 'It sounds interesting, but I don't have time for it unfortunately.' Thereby implying that you are lazy, and they are busy. Argh! Incidentally, has anyone ever conducted a study correlating number of emails sent within an organization and productivity? I've walked through large offices and seen nothing but Lotus Notes on peoples' screens (and I don't mean frivalous emails either, these are 'important' emails/memos).
Looks nice. Similar to Bestcovery: http://bestcovery.com/
Digital Identity: IS_A_PERSON
I also thought the name was referring to the element. One thing I think should be changed is the section that compares "Traditional Email Marketing" vs. "The Lead Nuke Way". I don't think most people are going to realize that you click to view the information for "The LeadNuke Way". And with how the headings are setup it looks like you are saying your service has Low Conversions, Wasted Effort, and Risk of Spamming.