skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! We'll fix that.

So far, we only allow faxing to the US. But, if there is interest, we plan on expanding to other countries.
You must’ve checked the demo page while I was updating it. Just added support for direct child text nodes, as per Shelley Powers’s comment: http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/html5-details-jquery#comment-4

If it still doesn’t work, there are bugs indeed. But it should work ;)
Or possibly clever counterweighting under the floor, if you have the floor space. Old-school mechanical linkage might not work very well (too complicated to get right, probably), but a few sensors and actuators could do the job very well, or I suppose as much as it offends my computer nature a manual level somewhere could work too. (But soooo much less cool.) I don't think this could solve the entire problem, you'd still have to consider weight distribution, but it would free you up a bit. Trying to do something like this involves enough constraints as it is, anything you can do to relax them will help.
My screenshots are really boring. There's no eye-candy. You know how Emacs looks like, now just imagine it full-screen without the window-decoration and I even removed the menu-bar and scroll-bar from Emacs. My terminals also have the scroll-bar removed.

I use the smart-borders, so that my windows only get 1-pixel borders when they are not in full-screen.

I have focus-follows-mouse and mouse-follows-focus. The left Windows-key acts as the modmask-key, i.e. the main key to activate Xmonad stuff. Alt is the default, but that interferes with Emacs.

I like that there's nothing to distract me while coding, and that I use all of my screen real estate for the task at hand, instead of menus, task-bars and the like. Especially the lack of a task-bar is an advantage in my opinion, as I am not tempted too much by my browser while working on code in Emacs.

Floating windows like print dialogs annoy me sometimes. Especially when they steal focus. I should be less lazy and fix those.
There's a very similar service called Babylon, http://translator.babylon.com/. I'd be interested to hear your take on the differences between the two projects. At first glance, I see 2: (a) they don't yet have an API, and (b) they require qualifications and experience for their translators, whereas you choose them based on a test.

Anything else I'm missing?

[I do occasional translations for Babylon, and have been pretty impressed by the company and the people behind it. But I'll probably sign up for myGengo too, and at least see how it compares]
I, too, would guess that they want some sort of complete solution. It’s still somewhat surprising that we haven’t seen any Wifi syncing for such a long time. Wireless sync has been a rumored “next” feature ever since Apple brought out their first iPod.

And there is some stuff they could sync, even if they don’t want to move gigs through the air. Stuff like new playlists, play counts, calendars, notes, addresses. Heck, even the occasional new music track or podcast up to a certain file size limit. They wouldn’t even need to clutter the interface, showing a little “Connect to your Mac for full sync” status message would be enough.
Has anyone actually looked at these? Most of them have typos (ie: ameratrade instead of ameritrade).

I don't think this is the top 50k search terms, maybe it's the top 50k when there was a google suggest or something?

I refuse to believe "visaa" ranks higher than "visa" and that "ameratrade" was #1.
Pretty cool to see Dropbox's Tell HN post on there.
The systems they use for controlling the doors of trains and buses seem quite forgiving. (At least in western Europe. Turkish door closers seem more determined.)
You're asking if we like him or hate him :)

Because a friend would say he's humble and funny, and an enemy would say he's deceptive and ignorant.

Then again, I don't personally know him...
Facts and ideas can't be copyrighted, but their expression and structure can.

http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html

This is definitely a copyright violation, and I am shocked and enraged that this was voted so highly on HN and not flagged.

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1. The standard "Recipes and collection of recipes" argument. This is a collection of recipes.

2. I am not shocked that there is a copyright violation. I am shocked that such an egregious violation has been voted so highly on HN. We are all digital workers on HN, and such disregard for digital work is (still) shocking.
>Most of the time you want PNG for drawn images. JPEG is only for photos taken with a camera.

You clarified this in your next line, however the above summary, particularly the comment on JPEGs, is wrong.

PNGs are appropriate for areas with common colors, and where clarity is critical - most logos, charts, web comics, etc.

JP(e)G is appropriate for photorealistic images, where there are significant varations, such as, of course, photos, rendered images, photorealistic images, and so on.

I am kind of shocked that anyone is having this discussion right now. This is like circa 1995 that these sorts of discussions were cutting edge (though it was GIF versus JPEG)
> * well not my only issue, I would also like to easily hide and restore windows

The usual solution is designating one of your virtual desktops as a `dump' for windows you don't want to have around at the moment. You could also have a look at how the tabbed layout works, and repurpose that.
A static c++ brainf*k compiler using c++0x features in 200 nearly readable lines
Will write that down. Thank you.
The like and worse happens in the US all the time. Some migrant workers live in higher densities.
You can use virtual machines (e.g. Sun's VirtualBox) to make the transitions easier. You don't even need to reboot then.
Malware Attacks are on the Rise
Perhaps it sounds heretical, but how hard would it be to shift all the funding schools receive for sports into academics? Also, where exactly does the funding for sports at major Universities come from?
> There are certain kinds of mutually exclusive features that make certain kinds of problems easier or harder.

Right. The fundamental problem with the whole "blub" argument is that there isn't one linear continuum of language power. There are problems for which Erlang's supervision hierarchy and distribution primitives or Prolog's backtracking are a killer feature. This doesn't mean they're "More Powerful than Lisp", just better suited to certain kinds of problems because they committed to some very specific trade-offs.

But, these same trade-offs have far-reaching implications for the language semantics, so you can't just use macros to graft them on after the fact. You can embed a mini-Prolog in Lisp, sure, but adding fully native logic variables (as in Prolog or Oz) would be far from trivial.
Or have it open for them by the European Comission.
Yeah, for sure. For me, there are a few free fax services out there, but they always came off as super sketchy. So, I'd debate for a second, then drive to kinkos and pay 5 bucks :)
Sync as implemented by iTunes right now is a really simple concept. If you start talking about partial syncs, you significantly up the complexity. And for what? Avoiding plugging your iPod/iPhone/iPad in to sync while charging.

The real elephant in the room is the need for a PC master to sync from when using an iPad.
Submitted iPhone App Hacks iTunes To Allow Wireless Sync
Yes, but everything you describe can be done with CSS as well: loading custom fonts, background colors, even gradients.
Even a somewhat limited space optimization would benefit small apartment dwellers tremendously. Just do one mode switch for entertainment/office and another for bedroom/bath.

I bet such a scheme could be mass produced.
This is worth a try for a lot of reasons. If not for logos, then for buttons on your site. When I switched to painted buttons vs images in my downloadable desktop software, I (1) saved a lot of space on downloads, and (2) saved a TON of time whenever I wanted to add a new button or change the color scheme, or gradient, or shadow, etc. Re-creating each button (even just creating a new one) was a total pain in the ass compared to simply instantiating a new button or playing with the paint method.

I haven't tried it in html5 yet, but if I use buttons on the page I will definitely give this a shot.
That it is labelled "Call-by-value edition" is probably why.

Y[^f.(^x.f (x x)) (^x.f (x x))] and Z[^f. (^x. f (^y. x x y)) (^x. f (^y. x x y))] appear to expand correctly, but I haven't had my coffee yet...
My New Standing Desk
If they smoke weed there, I am in.
Ah how times have changed. Two of those top stories were submitted by me (albeit, not very interesting ones). I haven't submitted a front page story in ages.
Speaking generally, more cache is better. Most workloads will like an extra 6MB in the L3 more than an extra 1.5MB (total) in the L2.
HDTV Not Impressive?
Introducing 'The Day Series' -- The musings of a failed founder
LazyBotz: Building 3d robots in fluxus
It would, until you have to pronounce a sound you have trouble making.
Main Street Marketing Machines 
Don't Buy Main Street Marketing Machines Until You Read This Review and Main Street Marketing Machines Bonus + Apple iPad.
For the intel the L2 cache (and the L1 of course) are shared for both the hyperthreads, so each hyperthread would get even less than 256K. On AMD, however each thread gets the full 512K. The L3 latency is much larger than the L2 (~40 cycles IIRC) so the smaller L2 would limit the performance of a cache hungry (but not too hungry: see next paragraph) application.

One place where the larger L3 is a win is on low parallelism, memory hungry loads -- they have a much larger L3 all to themselves.
"If everyone knows that what is happening is wrong, then why doesn't anyone fix it?"

This question is hogging me for the past couple of years or so. I find it impossible to answer.
Problems with CAP, and Yahoo’s little known NoSQL system
The world doesn't owe you happiness
A comment regarding the usage of DES has already been brought up so I figure I'll address that issue here.

Unfortunately it's difficult to use any variant of blowfish as I was unable to easily convert the encrypted string into a UTF-8 compatible key to be used as a valid INPUT element name. There's a reason behind the madness of using DES.

PHP and JavaScript both have functioning single-DES encryption implementations which is why I went this route. I had anticipated using a more secure method of two-way encryption but I found it was increasingly difficult to handle all scenarios of unicode chars. The main intention of encrypting the form fields was to obfuscate the field names from bots so they could not auto-populate fields with names like "name" and "email".

With that being said, I may have gone a little overboard here by adding the encryption to the spam prevention library...
On per-chip performance, if price is disregarded, Intel still wins, but AMD has since long given better performance per $, and is a far better choice for the average consumer not keeping their machine at a constant 100% cpu use, not requiring the best available performance for something akin to a single work-horse type machine.
It's not a list of search volume, it's a list of the top keywords ordered by cpc price in adsense. Some (most?) likely have little to no search volume at all.
Apple might also want to go the cloudy road (which would pretty much solve sync, though probably not real soon when it comes to music and videos which just take up to much space). The only problem with that is that Apple sucks at doing that. Buy Dropbox already! :)
How 30 seconds dropped my bounce rate by 78%
Attacking CAP seems to be a recent theme - Stonebraker did this a few weeks back (http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/83396-errors-in-database...)

Abadi's take seemed more interesting to me since it isn't rubbishing CAP as such, but noting that C, A & P are not symmetrical and also that there is a fourth consideration - latency - that most discussions of this topic do not take into account even though it is clearly a design factor in some existing NoSQL databases.
> hardware purchases and the like don't count

Odd, we got to put the entire amount of the Tesla grid that we put together towards the SRED credits. Having said that I just filled out the paper work and handed it to the lawyers and accountants, perhaps they took it off afterwords?
The strange tale of how Nintendo's Mario got his name.
Enraged? Your reaction doesn't fit the crime, as is so often the case with copyright.
Price is just one factor. What about performance and power consumption?
shrug So you know FB doesn't solicit funds or provide them, but you expected proof that FB was literally a ponzi scheme in the article?

Libel is written defamation, as opposed to slander which is for transitory statements.

I disagree that it's clearly defamation.
Exactly what I was thinking.
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For greenfax.com, did you charge your account with $25? I can see why they made it that high. Otherwise the transaction fees really eat into revenues.

Popfax: 5.49/month for unlimited receiving. That's not bad.

What would we be the model that would sway you to combine the service into one? Is it mainly a money proposition or could we add value in another way (Apple computer style ) that would make some extra money worth it?
I don't understand how "orlando culinary institute" can have 3 different slots in the top 50. They seem to be spelled the same.
Except for a few, elite sports schools the funding for sports comes, in large part, from student fees and the general academic fund. Athletics is a highly corrupting influence on the university.

EDIT: It would be very hard to shift funding from sports to academics because it's a cultural thing now. People are much more readily accepting of spending x million dollars to build a new stadium than to build a new research facility.
Made me chuckle - I'd forgotten that we were "Startup News" back then too. Posts of interest for me include:

- The original DropBox post

- Paul Graham's business plan for ViaWeb

- People back then complaining of addiction to YC News :)

Other frontpage versions at http://web.archive.org/web/*/news.ycombinator.com
Sports is a profit center for the schools, which is why they get so much focus.
Are there seriously still enough people out there who don't know the differences between PNG, GIF, and JPEG that this article makes it to the front page of HN?
If you ever are in a place where $/sq ft is a metric you look at when shopping for real estate, those expensive remodels become smart economic tradeoffs. For instance, if you're looking at a range of $300/sq ft, then getting rid of an entertainment center gives you 6 extra sq ft and you have $1800 to put towards a flat screen TV.
I once wrote a variation of Larry Wall's file renamer (http://snipplr.com/view/2677/rename--larry-walls-filename-fi...) and called it 'rn'.

It's now called 'rename.pl'.
After thinking about this more, I think you're wrong. There are at least two purposes to voting. One is to help find better comments, because points are associated with the comments.

But the other purpose is to provide karma to the posters. Otherwise there would be no accumulation of points associated with posters and shown next to your name when you're logged in.
Will all those "like" buttons make Facebook bigger than Google?
Interesting. Do you by any chance have links to some newbie resources? Maybe it's worth reading up on some sort of lisp. Clojure maybe?
Speaking generally, lower latency to main memory is better than more cache.

On a generation of one platform I dealt with, main memory latency and bandwidth (faster processor design, on-board memory controller, RDRAM) were on par with the L3 cache from the previous platform generation.

The cache shrank, and the performance increased.
The halfway "best of both worlds" is impossible to attain, in my opinion. As far as I understand it, dynamic typing (meaning, extensive usage of runtime type information) has unmatched flexibility. Static typing (meaning, extensive analysis of syntactic types at compile time) completely prevent large classes of errors.

If you want a middle ground, you may lose some of the flexibility, and you still won't be able to prove as much as a full static type system. In the end, the "best of both world" could rapidly become the worst of both worlds.

As I see it, we have to compromise. When you design a type system, you want to maximize 3 virtues: flexibility, simplicity, and error sensitiveness. Alas, of these 3, you can only have 2. Dynamic type systems typically are simple and flexible, but hardly prove anything (which explain why unit tests are so useful). Advanced type systems like Haskell's are quite flexible and prevent many errors, but they are complex. Others, like Java's, are simpler but not as flexible (nor as error proof). And of course you have horrible type systems, like C++'s, which lacks all 3 virtues.
Also discussed here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1294800
Simple trick to make smaller PNG files: Posterize your image to 64 before compressing
Sony to stop making floppy disks
I'm interested in almost every item on the hn front page from 3 years ago. Now I'm usually interested in only about 25% of them. I wonder what's changed, me or hn?
The more things change the more they stay the same?

MSFT: Always one step behind
I am addicted to YC News
Why to Not Start a Startup
Also, where exactly does the funding for sports at major Universities come from?

I'm not totally sure (so please correct me if I'm wrong), but here are my best guesses:

- Money for sports complexes, stadiums, etc. mostly comes from donors who want to help make their alma mater more competitive and/or get something named after themselves.

- Conferences and the NCAA pay schools with money from sponsorships, TV contacts, etc.

- Schools are willing to spend some money on sports because it brings exposure to schools. For example, I'd be willing to bet that Butler's applicant pool is much larger next year due to their recent success in the NCAA tournament.
Sports appear to help a university have an overall positive reputation with the general public,

http://www.gallup.com/poll/9109/Harvard-Number-One-Universit...

so it may be that even in the Ivy League, which is on top of just a few sports, the sports generate more applicant interest in the universities, and thus help them recruit stronger (both physically and mentally) students.
Motorola dumping Google's core location for Skyhook on Android phones
Quite a lot more emphasis on startups. I like the current mix of news more (I wasn't here back then), but the original crew apparently doesn't like it that much (I've seen complains about us new readers turning this into the new Slashdot/Reddit/whatever)
The relevant blog post: http://zaa.ch/past/2010/4/25/lambda_calculus_evaluator/

There's a pretty good summary of the lambda calculus in Pierce's _Types and Programming Languages_ (among others).
Interesting to see the points inflation: where would you now find a 3 hours old story with 14 points? Certainly not at the top of front page!
The same place funding for professional sports comes from--ticket sales, sponsorship, TV deals, etc. The reason a university pays the football coach more than the president is because the football coach can bring in more money. (So can the players, incidentally, but there are NCAA regulations--in other words, a cartel agreement--that you don't actually pay the players, aside from giving them a generous scholarship.)

At schools where sports are profitable, the profits are indeed taken in by the university and used for academics, facilities, etc.
You just need to step back and look at the incentives. The vast majority of college students are there to be "certified impressive", and socialized to cooperate in the workforce, NOT to learn. If learning were the goal, the system would look radically different. As it stands, students get their certification, employers get their pre-socialized workforce.

The situation will change when the basic proficiency level of the average student makes them untenable to hire. Unfortunately for those of us who would like to see the system improve, the required level seems to be dropping as technology allows corporations to automate a lot of tasks, and make other tasks nearly fool proof (think customer service flow charts).

For those roles that require actual acumen and responsibility, training for those will continue as it has since time immemorial: passed directly from family member or family friend to eager young adults, which is a primary force creating and maintaining class boundaries.
That's why RSS is frozen. No developer should (or can) code against a moving
target. RSS has been in the same place for a long time and look at all that has
developed around it. If we kept changing our minds about how it worked,
eventually it would have amounted to nothing. But no one had the power to make
those changes, despite how much people complained -- so it stayed put.
This is what works.

Lies, bullshit, projection, and blatant hypocrisy is par for the course with Dave Winer. He repeatedly edited the 'frozen' spec documents incompatibly without changing the version number. A good introduction: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/02/04/incompatible-rss

He's one of the worst spec writers of all time, responsible for other epic fuckups like OPML, XML-RPC, and SOAP.
Thanks for the feedback. Does that come with a unique phone number as well?

I'm curious, if you could change something to make onesuite into an awesome fax service, what would it be?
Firebird RDBMS worldwide conferences
Right, but to some degree it seems self-perpetuating: the schools get big because they get money for sports, which causes to them to get bigger, so they put more money into sports, etc.

My question is, I guess, why aren't schools founded around the idea of education? It's the same feeling I have towards fraternities and sororities. I find it incredible that most people tout school as a place to learn, and yet it's quite obvious that a lot of people attend for any reason but that.