skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is wrong with the word? He clearly is an expert in math. Is your objection that it's redundant?
Programmers should be required to have been "server guys" because they would have a better appreciation for building in logging, management, and other troubleshooting aids. The sysadmin doesn't have the benefit of the debugger when something goes wrong in production. The more information you make available (on demand or as a matter of course) the fast production issues will be resolved.
Run a web server?
Number two sounds like a non-sequitur. Do you have a source for that? No doubt they say it to increase the appeal of donating, but I have never heard that it's specifically to make it appear cost-free. It's not like car dealerships offer "cash back rewards" so you think you're getting a car for free.
the common way using the web puts the spoke into the wheel

Wheels fall apart if you take the spokes out. Pretty sure this was not the analogy you were looking for.
As far as I know the use of the term "Open Source" intelligence in the military has no link to Open Source software.
And I didn't know it was acceptable to fake user generated content o.O

Reddit got started this way. The founders submitted a bunch of links under random names so the site looked larger than it is. Then real people started submitting, because "hey look at all of these people submitting stuff!"
Render two chicks at the same time?
See also patio11's own IAMA Salaryman:
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9g79p/i_am_a_japanese_...
Woody Allen might have been on to something.
Sleeper: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070707/quotes?qt0231370
There were even fewer options when I wanted to go this route 2 years ago, so I just went with a standard payment processor (BMT Micro) and charge one-time payments for users to pre-pay for time. e.g. $19.99 for 3 months or $59.99 for a year.

If you want to get from zero to charging ASAP, this might be worth considering. You could probably be integrated in a day or so. They are mainly geared toward downloadable software vendors, but I just use the "serial code" field as an Activation Code that the user enters into their profile page.

BMT Micro's royalty rate is around 10%, have awesome customer service, and just added a recurring option. The main downside is limited control over the template. I would also look into FastSpring since they are newer and seem to have more flexibility with the store configuration.
Calculate pi to 48 places.
write an essay about using that sun t2000s shipped with 64 cores years ago.... well at least its x86 now so you can run more... proprietary binaries?
Here's hoping your intuition turns out to be false. WebSockets should be really easy to implement compared to, say, Canvas.
Particularly interesting article in light of the recent attempts to ban salt in restaurants in NYC (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/11/new-york-restaur...). The more government gets involved with health care, the more attempts we'll have by fascists like the Democrat Ortiz to control people. Perhaps the state should focus on avoiding bankruptcy, rather than limiting the salt intake of adults.
We don't gain a greater capacity for self-control, though, do we? It appears to me that what happens is that at some point, a thing that once required an exercise of self-control to resist no longer does. It is as though the weight has been lifted, not that our strength has increased.

The chronic adaptation, in other words, is habit. The process of intentionally breaking old habits and establishing new ones seems to always be particularly taxing, but maintaining an established habit, regardless of what it is, is easy. (Ignoring external factors, of course.)

With that in mind, it would be good advice to conserve the limited resource, or at least acknowledge it's variable availability and adjust your expectations of your own abilities in accordance. I'm certain there are many among the ambitious folk of HN who have taken on too many new and exciting challenges at once only to find that they turn into new and exciting chores that we can't even force ourselves to do, instead turning to the things that don't require self-control instead.

We call that procrastination and treat it like a challenge to overcome, too, but if it's a symptom of depleted self-control (and not a weak self-control "muscle"), then we'd be better served by being miserly about how we spend it than by taxing it unnecessarily. In that sense, there is a meta-adaptation in how you consciously manage your attention.
Smart phone users already have to switch between their computers and their phones. At the very worst, combining them would mean using two incompatible UIs as we do already, but your data would all be in the same place and you would save money. Any integration of the two UIs would be the icing on the cake.
I was happy with Spreedly too. Yes, getting the merchant account is majorly annoying (went with FirstData).

The fastest and cheapest way to set it up is Paypal subscriptions - I have done this many times using their IPN notification system. But I'm afraid to do it again because they keep screwing over websites (google it for the horror stories), so while I'm tempted - it's probably better to go the Spreedly/Chargify route at this point.
..and he's posted an apology (of sorts): http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2010/03/20/things-ive-lear...
Sun wanted to sell you theirs for $$$$. Now that AMD and Intel are at it, we'll have 8-12 cores for $200 in a few years. Things did seem to slow down a bit on the multi-core front. I was beginning to wonder what happened.
I think he was looking for "mathematician".
I'm not saying it necessarily is a simple mapping, but I think it's easier for people to misunderstand the relationship since both are effectively "point based".

Can an XP based system be any different than those teachers who say upfront that each quiz or test or question or whathaveyou is worth X number of points? If you need a certain number of XP to pass the class, and you don't gain enough at a critical juncture in the course, do you get a chance to make it up? Doing away with the time component of class based instruction, where exams are administered at given, set times, and you just need to prove that you know the material come the last day of class, would be an XP based system. I've had teachers do that before. Really, expecting students to make specific progress at a specific rate over the semester, as codified in regular exams, is a way to avoid having to deal with teaching different things at different times to a group of students, in the name of efficiency.
It sounds like that it's just this airport that has this policy. That isn't very secure.
The <video> tag includes the ability to add multiple <source>s, for fallback. In the tag itself.
What Avatar Can Teach Us About Humanity?
link http://www.mynetworkfolders.com
Don't miss http://recurly.com. They have the best payment gateway support and the most flexible pricing model of them all.
fyi there's a greasemonkey script that does this, i think - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1201518 - although i haven't used it myself.

(i realise this isn't the same as changing the site, since you don't get a change in mass behaviour, but if you wanted to see what it was like...)
More than a bit of a stretch; from Wikipedia:

"Bezos showed intense and varied scientific interests at an early age. He rigged an electric alarm to keep his younger siblings out of his room and maintain his privacy. He converted his parents' garage into a laboratory for his science projects. [...] While in high school, he attended the Student Science Training Program at the University of Florida.... He entered Princeton University, planning to study physics, but soon returned to his love of computers and graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in computer science and electrical engineering."

His first set of jobs were also in CS, networking, etc.

I think it's no accident that Amazon is the leading cloud computing provider.
PayPal never steals all of your money. The worst that can happen is a 180 day freeze before funds are turned over to you, which is exactly the same way all payment processors handle risk issues. That's how long Visa/MC tells MAPs to hold the funds because that's the standard time limit on customers performing chargebacks, which becomes the basis of the policies set by the 3rd party processors that are in contract with MAPs to do the actual card charging.
I'm starting to be more and more convinced that "overspecialization" is a non-existent beast. I've never met a specialist that was unable to pick up necessary knowledge and skills because they were too specialized. In fact being a specialist would allow them to use analogies and metaphors from their own discipline to get a much better understanding of new topics.
Jsawk is like awk, but for JSON
Hence my comment about him being obviously technically inclined. He has the skills of both a technical guy and a business guy; my point was that with Amazon he was playing the non-technical role, in spite of his technical qualifications.
A couple of UI things:

1) Can you make it so I can click anywhere on the box instead of just the company title?

2) Putting the item I selected at the top of the list is OK, but unexpected. I would expect these links to go to a profile page or directly to the website.

Example: http://www.kingapi.com/billing?selected=cheddargetter

3) Make real links to the website, instead of doing the Javascript redirect. Otherwise I can't open the links in a new tab or see the target in the status bar.

Otherwise, the site is nice. I like the presentation and the list of services is high quality.
I think I've seen a dozen or more over the past couple of years. Enough that it's a persistant irritant, but not so much to make it a major problem.
I need 42 to find the answer to the Ultimate Question,

the 43rd to satisfy the nerd,

the 44th to find north,

the 45th to bust a myth,

and the 46th idles because nothing rhymes with it

... and well, you finish it.
One of the commenters makes a better point:

"Also, why bother replacing the contents of the bottle? A bottle of duty free booze is a rag and a lighter away from being a Molotov cocktail."
Contributing to Open Source projects
You can get this thing for $200. Not quite as small, but it has a 1.6 GHz Atom and it will handle streaming of HD video.

http://amzn.com/B002O3W44Q

If I were Apple, I'd be releasing an upgraded Apple TV using the tech that went into the iPad. (But trade off a bunch of speed for efficfiency.) Otherwise things like the Acer AspireRevo are going to eat away at sales of the Mac Mini and Apple TV.
Well ... we're getting to the point of quibbling; I just wanted to show he was more than "generally technically-inclined".
In all seriousness, what does "tax deductible" mean to you?
probably the same thing I do with my 8 core mac pro- under utilize it...
"We don't gain a greater capacity for self-control, though, do we? It appears to me that what happens is that at some point, a thing that once required an exercise of self-control to resist no longer does."

I find that I do gain ability in self-control. As you mention, the same task becomes effortless, but also, new ones become easier to confront. Practicing self-control has, for me, led to it becoming easier in general.
Hey, thanks to all who have mentioned Chargify. We definitely appreciate it!

The issue of long-term viability is a valid one... I would ask the same thing when evaluating vendors, and, in fact, I used the same logic in choosing to join Chargify last Fall.

I really like my co-founders' 6-year history running Grasshopper.com, and they architected things right - based on roughly 10 million telephony transactions that their existing system rates each month.

And, for what it's worth, my first company is still selling Basic Stamp computers 23 years after we founded it, and Engine Yard is growing every month.

I can speak for all 3 founders of Chargify when I say that we enjoy building utilitarian businesses that deliver good value over a long time.

Thanks!

--- Lance
I would have them sit idle most of the time, since most of my tasks are usually IO bound.
If you have a Mac and an iPhone, it's all OS X. Just have the system start up the "Desktop" window/UI management system when you dock the phone. Lots of Linux users are familiar with the same machine, with the same OS having 2, 3 or a dozen different window managers.

People are already used to having one set of UI conventions on their phone and another on their laptop/desktop. Doesn't seem to jar too many from where I'm sitting.
For some reason, this idea came into my mind: that the existence of this kind of contests proves either the marketing departments have really trouble figuring out how to promote many-core processors, or there is no real demand for these monsters except a few niches.
Though it should be noted that Canvas looks like it's also going to be MIA.
for those interested...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solution_of_the_Poincaré_conjec...
All they have to do is denounce those people that tried to steal Perelman's proof and claim it as partially their own.

Obviously he has a very strict standards for honesty, and will not accept anything from the mathematics community, unless he perceives them as honest.

I think mathematicians do not think they need to do anything because they think it is very clear by now who solved the Poincare conjecture and who did not, and there is no need to embarrass a very influential mathematician over the whole deal. But Perelman does not see it this way, and wants to be vindicated explicitly.
Developer discloses non-html5 IE7 browser in the new Windows Phone 7 Series
I do not drink. Most of the engineers in my company go straight home to their wives and children when they leave the office. (Our salesmen appear to have the more traditional salaryman attitude.)
The initial co-founders and I have had the idea for a while, done the research, and have gotten a fairly large amount of feedback from relevant people/users before yesterday.
IMO, it's largely based around the following highly subjective calculation:

((value you will add to client's bottom line) +
(your relevant experience & portfolio) +
(speed and accuracy of delivery) +
(kudos)) *
(budget & urgency of project delivery) *
(industry)
= rate per hour

You can't really get to a figure from what i've said above, but i just wanted to illustrate a number of factors that can go into a rate that's attractive and workable to both parties.

Age doesn't matter, but (relevant) experience does.
Email. My address is trivially discoverable.
http://www.bingocardcreator.com/stats/sales-by-month
I hear models eat pork rinds as a snack during fashion shows.
As an OS developer trying to solve the I/O bottlenecks on 8 cores, probably cry...

Seriously though? I don't know -- maybe get a bunch of RAM and virtualize 32 machines for some distributed systems research.
I would agree about Apple making sure of a "positive user experience". By changing the price you piss off those who bought too high. People who feel cheated do not make good repeat customers. And in this case I would have gotten rid of the problem the same way Apple did.
Ask HN: What is a startup exactly?
My definition of a startup is a company that exist in a new and fairly volatile vertical. Startups are primarily defined by an innovative product, service or business model with an emphasis on scalability. What is everyone else's definition?
Go on...?
I'd see if I could view flash banner ads efficiently.
Too bad the article didn't go all the way into computation-land, so I can't readily believe the "finitariness" of the insights contained there. For example, is the function E() actually implementable in Haskell? If it isn't, the whole premise kind of collapses... One way to make sense of this question would be to skip the red herring of constructibility and define reals as lazy streams of bits, then try to write actual code and stuff. (But how in the flying hell do you implement a rationality predicate on reals-as-streams?) There are probably other, non-equivalent ways. This stuff isn't trivial at all.

For a more enlightening perspective on such topics, see the blog "Mathematics and Computation", especially those articles:

http://math.andrej.com/2007/09/28/seemingly-impossible-funct...

http://math.andrej.com/2008/02/06/representations-of-uncompu...
The article says 5 billion monthly visits.
That doesn't mean anything really: he's not confirming or denying and there isn't much to read into.
Just 16 cores short of having one per chessboard square, like the pioneering parallel chess machine Hitech...

https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/HiTech?f=print

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.126...
The English Wikipedia has a particular philosophy regarding notability / citation (It's actually much more liberal than the German Wikipedia) that some people find contrary to their personal desires for a more "free/open" Encyclopedia. I've often wondered why they don't just fork wikipedia and go build their own and see if it is more successful.

What a lot of people fail to realize, is that there are actually _two_ common use "Sum of human knowledge" indexes. Wikipedia is just one. The other one is usually in the upper right hand of your browser. Put high quality content out there, organize it, and link to it, and it will be found.

The dwm people (and I'm a huge fan of keeping dwm in wikipedia, I really do think it's quite a notable WM) were never, ever in risk of people not being able to find excellent reference material on their WM - and isn't that, at the end of the day, what really counts?
The most important class I ever took was theatre - Part 2.
This explains the whole story:

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/08/28/060828fa_fact2?c...

Note that this has been strongly disputed by certain parties mentioned in the article that do not come off that well, but the New Yorker stands by the reporting and has not issued corrections.
lotteries aren't gambling. you will always lose for absolutely any reasonable definition of the word always.
I like the idea to have a place to catalog API-based solutions. It would be interesting to have folks vote for popular APIs.
Ask HN: What is Not a startup?
Is a game development shop a startup? Is a pillow store a startup? are web development firms startups too? It seems everyone is labeling themselves as one. What types of companies should or shouldn't be called a startup?
"Makes the donation essentially cost free to the donor via tax deduction."

You what now? Either the US tax system works in some very weird way or that doesn't make any sense.
It sounds to me like they have made no formal announcement and employees are forbidden from saying anything that hasn't been formally announced. Neither a yes nor a no. If they are working on an implementation, they will probably wait as long as possible before committing to it in public.
My point is that musicals fill the niche operas used to fill. Technical details are of interest to me personally but not relevant to my point. I really, really hate labeling a type of music by the physical techniques used to generate the sound, I think it's a terrible way to think about the scene. (Though I aggressively concede that I seem to be in the minority on that view.) To me, your point is basically equivalent to saying that classical-style music with saxophones in the orchestra just isn't classical music anymore; I am sure you would disagree with that characterization and I'm not saying it's objectively true, but it's not part of how I think about musical classification.
Actually, it's really easy to write, if you want to. I haven't had any need in my big JSON project (everything ends up pretty hierarchial so any query like "give me all the object attributes that are 'xyz'" isn't useful), but if I needed one it would be easy to write. A good learning exercise for recursion, if you're not familiar with it.
Is there some reason to assume that all mathematicians are experts?
Is there a way to view vote history, or are people actually watching the number of votes their comments get?
I'm a Linux Syadmin. I build large student computer laboratories, build, configure, and maintain servers, with bits of desktop support thrown in there. I'm not a strong programmer. Sure, I've made a few iPhone applications and do a little bit of bash scripting, but I don't have the time in my job to maintain the skills that an excellent programmer would have. When I've spent a few weeks programming I get better, but when we don't have time to maintain that skill, I can lose it pretty quickly.

I've worked with some amazing python programmers and without using it day in and out there's no way I could have the in depth knowledge of all the python libraries like they do, so compared to them I'm pretty useless.
> In all seriousness, what does "tax deductible" mean to you?

I think that it means that I get to deduct it from my taxable income, just like my mortgage. It's a deduction (unless I'm subject to one of the various phaseouts or am better off with the standard deduction).

Do you think that people think that the $5k standard deduction reduces their taxes by $5k? (I forget the exact amount because I itemize.) If not, why do you think that they're confused by the phrase "tax deduction"?

There's a huge difference between a tax deduction and a tax credit. I suspect that most people who pay taxes understand it.
What I think burns people about the deleting isn't that the info can't be found, but that WP is, in effect, judging what's important and what's not. Considering the amount of crap in WP that's not deleted, it's kind of insulting to say "you're less important than this."

Click random article a few times. I just did 3 times. The first article was good (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_Yih), the second two are kind of ridiculous (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesley_Elliott and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_Century_Fox).
> 2.) Every charity makes it a point to spell out that donations are tax deductible. The reason is to make the donation appear cost-free.

If they do, they're engaging in fraud because deductions aren't credits.

Seriously - what is the basis for your claim as to their intent?
It means I can deduct it from my income. You are confusing it with a tax credit.

If you think there are legions of taxpayers who don't get this, you are mistaken.
Ask HN: How does a Jr. to Mid-Level programmer find work?
I'm a senior Computer Engineering student and I have 2 years of experience working as a Software Developer, mostly J2EE. I've been looking for work for a couple of months and it seems to me that most of the work out there is for Sr. Level/Ninja/Guru people and I'm finding it hard to find a new place for me to grow with. Has anybody here been in a similar situation? How did you do it?
>You see, whenever an object increases in size linearly, its mass increases exponentially.

Polynomially? I see your exponential equation below, but it doesn't make sense (and I have no idea where it came from; what's a "mass differential equation"?) - quadrupling in height should be a volume (and therefore mass) multiplier of 4^3, or 64. That does put us past 7000 pounds, as you say.

There are hundreds of other physical reasons such size changes are unworkable, many of them much more fundamental than this. Conservation of mass would seem the obvious place to start..
I bet he now can't help but spend more than five hours per week on it

It is a very open question how much I'm going to be working after I go "full time", but I've rarely seen myself do great things after ~20 and that would leave me with plenty of time to catch up on living, so I think I might try that on for size. But hey, if I decide to do more or less in any given week, there won't be anybody to tell me not to.