skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the imagery of this article. I recall one of the attractions of the 90's Web was the unpredictable nature of every link - since the bulk of interesting pages were personal and semi-autobiographial, it was a voyeuristic trip into the lives of random people.

For me, it got less easy to do that when the Web shifted towards larger, consolidated sites with more community behind them. The insane rants and confessionals of the old homepages were overwhelmed in a sea of vague, repetitive one-line comments, heavily edited Wikipedia pages, and advertisements for various products I don't really need. It became comforting and familiar to go to an aggregator of some kind and see "random" new links that were usually, in fact, overly predictable and based on a trend or meme.

Occasionally, I still make an effort to go out and find something genuinely new. It's hard to know where to start, but I usually succeed with a little effort, so I know the old Web is still there.
I have been reading the R base library code, mainly to understand the graphics functions. I'm amazed how simple and ordinary it looks. I have never worked on a big software project and it's exciting for me to see how something powerful is built from small chunks here and there.

Last year I spent some time reading the arc source code. It was a lot of fun. I didn't know any Lisp, so the recursions and macros were hard for me to get my head around, but it was amazing to realise that this site is built on some small core concepts which can be grokked if you spare the time.

I loved Douglas Crockford's book Javascript: The Good Parts. Again, I couldn't understand all of it but it gave me a good feel for well-written Javascript code.
I too am at Sydney Uni. Would be keen for a meetup!
Customs is not after you arrive in all cases (Canada and the Caribbean have "pre-inspection" centers at most airports).
http://github.com/kohana

I learnt a few things from the Kohana source. How not to use regular expressions for validating certain strings (URLs) for one. filter_var can do this and a lot faster too.

I suggest anyone who's interested in PHP to take a look.
Attention Deficit Products
are you in the states? if so this could be a DMCA issue vs copyright...
Strictly speaking, his brain is descended from a population that crash-landed on the computer some two million years ago so it's an open question whether it's even part of the matrix.
If you get a chance, do read his book Last Chance to See (with Mark Carwardine). Easily the most entertaining book of ecotourism I've read.
If there's one thing in here that I wish I could drill into every programmer's head, it's that abstractions are longer-lived than details. So few programmers seem to understand how important abstractions are.
Tornado web server. It's extremely good code solving hard problems with a great attention to detail and in a minimal way. Highly recommended.
Presumably because you're a citizen, they can't actually refuse you entry because they missed their morning coffee. Those of us who work legally in the US, but aren't citizens, have a different experience. Sometimes I feel like reminding them, that I too pay for their salary.
To repeat what others have said: there is no porn in the Android Marketplace. There is a 3rd party adult appstore. There are also some "girlie" apps like swimsuit model calendars or whatever. Saying "Folks who want porn can buy and [sic] Android phone" is not Jobs defending the iPhone but attacking the Android platform.
I've been reading some BSD userland source (awk, sed, trek, and OpenBSD's netcat) parts of Lua and OCaml's VMs, Redis, and Joy. Awk and Lua's source are particularly good, IMHO.

The code that had the biggest impact on me lately was the original J interpreter, though: http://nsl.com/papers/origins.htm . It looks like some sort of crazy brainfuck-ish thing, but it's not a joke. I highly recommend printing it out and trying to get in Arthur Whitney's head. (But if you run it, it will probably just segfault. It's rather cavalier with nonportable function pointer casting. It's prototype code from 20 years ago. If you want a working version, look at J (http://jsoftware.com) or Q (http://kx.com).)
Why Twitter is not interesting to me anymore?
Actually I think it would be fascinating to view the voting records of everybody. Maybe in a log file and then numerous people could analyse the data. I'm sure some interesting patterns would emerge. Nice to go over it in 5 or 10 years time when some of the factual disagreements have been settled.
Been looking at the MongoDB functions for the past few days. Interesting to see what has changed in them from previous releases.
In the state of CA, you're breaking the law if you don't turn found property into the police.

You're also breaking the law in every state if you purchase or otherwise receive stolen goods.

You can't get around the law by smearing somebody on your blog.
Iphone 4g prototype is not a fake
The difference is, the Android appstore isn't the only source of apps.
How to Implement Perl 6 in Ten Years
To be fair; Jobs is commenting about Android - not the Android Marketplace. It feels a distinct difference.

(I wasn't commenting on that anyway tbh)
Yeah. In porn, people are having fun!

But seriously, the mentality that porn is dirty is misguided, especially alongside the death and destruction that are pushed in the gaming industry.
Hey! thanks for the tip. I didn't know about Duby.

Any link to get started running Duby on Android? Would be helpful to many hungry wannabe-android guys.

I thought I'll take a light year to learn Android dev. But Duby seems to bring some hope.
Meet all your child processes and kill them
Wouldn't want Steve to Think Different, would we?
How Adidas and Puma were born [2005]
Talk about synchronicity...I started meditating regularly for the past four weeks at multiple intervals for about 15-20 minutes per day (average about 1 hour total per day). The results have been astounding, especially when it comes to my perception of time: all of a sudden, I have more of it. A day seems like a day instead of a few hours, and all of a sudden, a week is a long period of time.

I believe this is due to increased levels of concentration (as indicated by the article).
Distributed Replicated Storage Across 4 Nodes With GlusterFS On Mandriva 2010.0
And for a bit of reference:

* Original Perlmonks thread from where this post originates: http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=835419

* Pugs is a Perl6 implementation written in Haskell: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pugs
Better JavaScript Minification
That's interesting. I haven't had a problem looking at porn on the Web using the iPhone. Okay, the screen's a bit small so it's pointless, but still. WTF would we want to pay for it when the Web has so much for free?
ISendr: Our New On-Demand Peer to Peer File Transfer Webapp
We've used this little webapp at work to move files around for a while now and just released it to the wild. Would appreciate any feedback!
I suppose it depends on what you do for entertainment, but I found my cost of living about the same when I lived in Texas overall as in California. Housing was cheaper, but entertainment cost a lot more. Most of my entertainment in CA is free or cheap---lots of nice coastline, state parks, etc.---but in TX I spent a lot of money at bars, movie theatres, etc., because the weather makes outdoors activities less appealing, and there wasn't much within driving distance of Houston anyway. I also flew places more for short-ish trips, while in CA I can drive all up and down the coast.

It might have made a bigger difference if more of the rest of my spending was on stuff that actually varied in price geographically. But computer stuff and books cost the same everywhere; sadly TX's better purchasing power per dollar doesn't actually get you a $1000 laptop for $800, or a $50 book for $40!
The post is from 1993
Tumblr raises another $5 million from Union Square and Spark
UK Government and IT suppliers in 'old boys club', alleges Indian offshorer
Most TV news programs are also not serious journalism organizations, unfortunately. Also worth noting that when they do checkbook journalism, they're usually quite sneak about it. For example, paying someone under the pretense of buying rights to their photographs or paying their travel expenses. That's because even they know it's wrong to pay sources/subjects outright.
Why Perl 6 is different
Speaking of speculation, I've heard some that this was a planned move by Apple to overshadow the HTC launch.
Design Patterns: Faceted Navigation
Nexus One isn't the only phone running android. The other popular ones I've heard of are Motorola Droid (the GSM version is called Cliq/MileStone i think so) and HTC Hero.

Also there's a low-end Android phone by HTC called HTC Tattoo. But I would say no to it since you get what you pay for. Not many apps run on it coz of the type of screen it has.

Also no to Sony's Xperia X10 coz it runs Android 1.6 although it's a new phone.

HTC Desire is awesome. Also it has the same specs as Nexus One minus the Google logo. It also addresses some N1 problems :)

I would suggest that you investigate if the manufacturer is the kind that would support you by offering OS updates if a later version of Android releases. HTC seems to be one. I dunno abt Motorola.

Get something that runs the snapdragon processor coz there's a very high possibility that these phones will get updates to a new OS version coz it's capable of running them better.

A tip - develop using the emulator first and then buy a phone :)

P.S: I'm getting a Desire later this month when it releases in my country.
It's a weekend event, 12:00 Saturday to 15:00 Sunday, so accommodation will be included in the standard delegate rate. For that we need numbers, and we need some payment in advance. We are also providing lunch on the Saturday, so we need numbers for that.

For those who want to register as a day delegate we will take money on the door, but it would be nice to know how many we have to cater for.

EDIT: typos
Apple Demands Prototype iPhone Back
Did you know that 50% of Douglas Adams fans do not realize that they constitute half of this guy's fans population?
So what you want is Twitter to do exactly the same as the news feed of Facebook (which while it isn't perfect, it's the best social interaction framework I ever used).
As you say market size is not a problem here. And I will admit, Jobs would rather piss off a few in exchange for a iPhone directed app.
lispbuilder-sdl

Hacked together a game while doing laundry the other day with it. Read the source later to get an idea of what was going on under the hood. It's good stuff.
UI components don't but touch makes all the difference in the world. Most flash/java games for mobile are button oriented. I, for one, find ports painful.
Introducing BrB, extremely fast interface for doing distributed ruby
The Trustworthiness of Beards
I have not read this book but the list of tips seemed to be bit too much. I am really a fan of all simplicity and tips from getting real book.

But someone who has read both books can explain it better.
"Participants were randomly assigned in approximately equivalent numbers to one of two groups, one of which received the meditation training while the other group listened for equivalent periods of time to a book (J.R.R. Tolkein's The Hobbit) being read aloud."

So does this mean that meditation helps cognition, or listening to "The Hobbit" hurts cognition?
This teapot just happens to be the right size, in the right place, for these tempests.
How is the SAT relevant? They should be looking at the GRE exclusively. This is one of the biggest problems with the US education system (and education in general.) The assumption is made that certain people cannot learn based on the fact that they know nothing.

Having been to a private liberal arts college, the environment is extremely rigorous. You can get the same sort of thing at state schools, but you have to be in the honors programs. I'd be interested to see if there are honors-track programs at the larger public schools that show the same "grade inflation." But because the public school is self-contained, the effect, that students in some classes consistently receive higher GPAs, is hidden.
Another interesting experiment would be to have a group, instead of meditating, listen to, for example, a lecture about a topic that interests them.

I wonder if the control group had heard The Hobbit before.
Oh come on.

I have your answer: because this is a nice controversial title to post a blog under.

Answering your specific points:

1) Timezones: there's people posting on Twitter 24/7, yet this is perhaps your only half-valid point... Yes, if you're in a different part of the world twitter might be hard. But there are plenty of people in your part of the world on Twitter - try following more of them, or accept that people in a different part of the world will be less likely to post in your timezone.

2) Tweetie and the Twitter website both support this. Click on "in reply to" in your Twitter feed.

3) That's what ReTweets are for.
Authenticating via Github with Guestlist
I have read through dmenu a few times the past couple days.
I use Python as my primary scripting language but I spent some time looking at Perl 6 in the context of Parrot and it really has a lot of good ideas that post mentions:

- multi-methods
- rules (builtin parsing capability)
- macros
- and a whole bunch of other good stuff.

I really made me want to use Perl6 and Parrot. That said the only reason I couldn't what perhaps the same reason I use Python over Perl5. I somehow couldn't get myself to go with such a _rich_ syntax. But if Perl5 is your thing then Perl6 is something that you will definitely like.
To answer you other question, yes their is nothing precluding you from using both. I know off the top of my head that Java has JAX-WS and JAX-RS which provide SOAP and REST endpoints respectively. Most languages and frameworks will have something similar.
Gizmodo paid for iPhone 4G: so are they receivers of stolen? goods?
Reddit's source code : http://code.reddit.com/

I'm far from being done and don't intend to read all of it, it isn't easy because it's huge !
How to blog better
I take it that might be a joke, but it's not the case for me.

When the timer runs out it doesn't lock me out until I navigate away from the page, and it even allows a POST so I can submit the comment.
Ah! I figured out something from the technomacy blog post. The last part says:

Adapting the build process to Duby was surprisingly easy. You redeclare the compile task to call the Duby compiler instead of javac, tell it to output its bytecode in the right directory, and the rest of it just falls into place.

link: http://github.com/technomancy/Garrett/blob/master/build.xml#...
With twitter annotations around the corner these (valid) concerns should be addressed
maxklein said it best:

Do you really think Apple wants porn apps in their Top 25 Grossing, Paid, and Free lists?

"I'm an app store developer, and if Apple opens the doors, let me tell you what will happen :
First of all, there will be hardcore porn immediately. Boob apps will flood the store, because that's what makes money."

http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=1110804
Nokia 2690 Review and Price in India
New power sources could be made using magnesium
Will the new iPhone actually make video calling popular?
This is my all-time favourite reply to a mundane fan question: http://www.douglasadams.com/cgi-bin/mboard/info/dnathread.cg...
The Ten Types of Hair on Early-Stage Deals to Avoid
avoiding the dreaded state of "hairiness"
Teen Texting Soars; Will Social Skills Suffer?
Oh I see, so this is a reasonably big event. Isn't there an event management company that can help you out? Someone like eventbrite?
Actually, its http://github.com/xantus/mojo-websocket-examples/blob/master...
I have read through the modifications made to the Linux kernel by the Xenomai project ( http://www.xenomai.org/ ) lately. Its interesting to read up on how they work together with Linux in a symbiotic way.
Gave me some insight into how they created a dual kernel system.
Just to put some numbers on this:

There are 1.5 million search results for Lindblad on Google, and there are at least three completely different companies using the name on the first two pages alone, not to mention numerous individuals with the name. That anyone could claim to own the name in a global sense is absurd.

I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice.
The industry as a whole errs too much on the side of syntax as the focus of the community. Syntax should fade out of the way. It should be infrastructure, not features. Libraries are the proper object of focus. Libraries can be modified, forked, debugged without dividing a language community. Doing that to a programming language syntax weakens and divides such communities. In contrast, those actions on libraries actually strengthen programming language communities.
Recover Deleted Files
iCare Data Recovery is software which is simple in use with the most powerful file recovery software search, capable of searching and finding files and photos missed.
Heh. I was excited to see it as well. I originally thought you had posted it when I saw it.
I highly recommend reading through Lamson. Zed Shaw's rants may rub me the wrong way on occasion, but he's a seriously good coder. Lamson is fantastically well-written and documented.
In _Excellence Without a Soul_, Harry Lewis, a former dean of Harvard College (and comp sci prof) gives the grade inflation theories a drubbing.
There's a big difference between making a mistake, and having that mistake sprayed across the internet for all to see.

Less and less difference. This is an outlier at the moment, but having your entire life, mistakes and all, laid out for anyone to view... that's just going to be normal.
Lemonade Stand Operator A/B Tests His Attire - Suits FTW
I may have missed the point, but it seems to me that the gist of the post is, "Perl 6 is different because it's the same as Lisp".
We're hoping for between 80 and 150, so it's not that big, but it's more than just an informal afternoon gathering.

I'd not heard of EventBrite - thanks - but I've been unable to find an equivalent in the UK. I'd be reluctant to go via a USA company, simply for simplicity. There's probably no reason for that opinion though, and I'll certainly be suggesting it to the other organisers as something to consider.
Building a Global Experience Language for the BBC
Yet another cable fault cripples Middle East Internet
20 Million Views for $5K
Edit: Apparently it was 5 thousand, not 10.
What kind of Apple Mac did Arthur Dent have?
Do Big Banks Control the US Government?
pretty clear evidence it was an innocent mistake.

This is an important point.
Find superior Samples of Business Term Papers
Students usually write business term papers at the end of the course in business. It is not easy to write a term paper that is why you should better start to work on your assignment beforehand.
I've read yc news for about a year now and this is the 1st post I've upvoted.
Nice app.
In my experience in a startup people have no labels/titles associated to them.
They are the directors and they have to take out the trash too.
Tthe author claims he has much experience in the "startup organization domain" but he misses the point of hard, smart work on turning an idea into business regardless of the labels each member has.
Why I stepped away from Facebook development
If this works well, this might cause more legal fields to work with computer languages, enable more legal automation , and could be really disruptive to the legal profession.
It had to be completely arbitrary for the story. If there was some deep hidden meaning, it wouldn't have been nearly as funny. Even if the number meant something to Adams, it was important that it was meaningless and random in the story, so I'm guessing he'd never let on.

Its the same kind of humor as "a duck!" weighing more than a witch. There's no "ooohhhh" of deep understanding, just a delightful WTF!?
Home Pages Suck
In college, we had an assignment where we had to update an interpreter to always output 42 when it say 6 * 9.
"Push me. Wait... you can't" -- Designing task flow for everyday things
Few suggestions.
- Would like to see the tx speed.
- Long file names look wrong in the UI.
- Would like to see file size in GB/MB/KB instead of just bytes.
Hopefully Fog Creek is putting some cash towards Mercurial development.
honestly, who is he to dictate what we oughta do and dont
Tuesday is young, they will still be above baseline.
Thanks for that. Though I'll note that it's a bit cruel mousing over the "full text" buttons, seeing a "You have access to the full text for this item" balooon/tooltip, and, upon clicking on the Preface, getting a 'Log In' page ...

Anyways, Amazon seems to have it, and Google Books lets one have a peak, at http://books.google.com/books?id=LDmWrvPrOvUC&dq

More to the point, Book Depository, while listing that 2000 book as out of stock, does have an interesting looking 2009 Computable Foundations for Economics, by K. Vela Velupillai at http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9780415355674/Computabl...
Testing Random Numbers
Code Complete 2nd edition
I like the occasional wikipedia article on HN. They are often illuminating and amusing.
Gruber is right.
His specific answer comes from his correct knowledge.
I know he is correct because he's specific.

It isn't circular, is it? I'm mixing G's belief in his correctness and this poster's belief in G's correctness.
I'm also not sure if that will help Perl 6.
Intercepting pass-the-hash attacks
The problem with (most) porn is that they really aren't having fun. All they are doing is working through a list of positions.
Aren't a lot of the work, effort and expertise in legal fields(including learning) , is about legalese and knowing a lot of laws and cases ?

If at least some of the hard work around being a lawyer and being a judge could be codified in a computer and automated , lawyers and judges could be better in the other , harder parts of the legal profession ?
Apt-get wife | Humor
I'm curious: are you a regular HN user who decided to create a throw-away login or a person who stumbled across this page and decided to comment?
>>Has it really worked well in PCs?

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

90-10 in favour of windows.
Vezina Trophy Finalists Announced
I can't believe how many of you are so wrong about this. Gizmodo is in business to make money. They just made a lot of it and their article revealing the hardware, which i'm waiting for, will make more.

The engineer is newsworthy. He contributes to the facts of the story. If you want to be angry with someone how about the person who found the phone?

The person who knew the name of the owner and still sold the phone to the tabloid. The person who had to click two virtual buttons to be talking to someone who knew the owner and and could get the phone back to him. The person who could have Facebook messaged the owner and returned the phone. But he didn't. He sold a piece of obviously lost property to a tabloid.

He probably could have gotten a much nicer reward from apple anyway considering their market cap these days.
He's also going to be going to jail.

Watch.
Been reading the OpenCV Python extension samples and writing a couple small apps.
Agreed. I have wanted to ask quite a few questions here, but a lot of times a look on searchyc has found the answers. I found it especially useful for finding books about certain subjects.
name is very web2.0. So it's using the flash p2p functionality like chatroulette?

Like it a lot, there are tons of applications for this.
CPM = $0.50
Fastest exchange matching engine
Speed guide to NoSQL
Amazon fights demand for customer records
Which is why content sites can't survive on anything but rich media ads right now.