skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the suggestion, I just added quick and dirty permalinks.
Just throw in a couple of 'Are you sure you want proceed?' confirmation messages and it's set.
Doesn't myspace do this?
Ok with the component of the managing partners being angels with experience in the whole sale process as a given in the equation, my number 2 recommendation would be to try to:

Not necessarily focus on emerging markets exclusively. You can build a global product, for a US+Euro market from Latin America. Example: Zoho is mostly built in India, Ustream is mostly built in Hungary, there is no good reason why there could not be a 37signals built in Guadalajara, or a Salesforce in La Paz, a good number of SaaS apps are not built in SV or the US.

Instead of doing an SMS system for Mexico, or a Yelp for Tampico, build a SaaS, that does not depend on Advertising, or multiple rounds of funding to earn revenues.

Finally, it helps to have some sort of Business Development in the U.S. in essence, a hybrid model.

I think funding those types of business models can provide the best outcome overall, because they can be very profitable without depending on round after round of financing from SV.
It's an expected value thing. If the event is catastrophic enough (the Ur-Quan notice our radio signals and enslave humanity, or global warming destroys the ecosystem and we all die) then we should try to avoid it, even if the likelihood is very small.
Site crashed Chrome on Mac twice in a row. First time I've had to Force Quit Chrome.
What would that entail? I don’t think deleting all your submissions or all your comments is something that you should be able to do. That’s very disruptive and, well, HN never pretended that what you submit or write here would not be public. (That, to me, is the big problem with Facebook.)

Someone could, however, find out who is behind your username and that might be a problem. One thing HN maybe should allow you to do in such a case would be to replace all instances of your username next to your submissions or comments with “deleted”. No perfect – others replying to you might mention your username – but close enough.
Men's World Raw Powerlifting Records:
http://www.powerliftingwatch.com/records/raw/world
Women:
http://www.powerliftingwatch.com/records/raw/women-world

Yours Truly: 198lbs and stronger than any woman at that weight, but weaker than record holding SHW women.
If you can only reach them via radio, while they can reach you by starships, you're doomed all the same, being the first to reach the other side.

The problem is, they may have already been reached by us, it's just that we don't know yet.
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"I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet. Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonise whatever planets they can reach."

Gahd, to hear Stephen Hawking regurgitating the most vapid of pop culture[1] is extremely disappointing. I don't disagree with his point, and it's nice to hear him say it, but come on, he's arguably the greatest physicist of our time. Feed us some sort of argument on par with the Fermi paradox. Or at least something more than just 'this could happen, or that could happen.' Failing that, if you think us normals can't comprehend complexities, at least regurgitate Greg Egan.

[1] ID4 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116629

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Here's what I think. Despite the optimism of early sci-fi authors I see no reason to assume any alien we meet will be friendly, or indeed anything but ruthlessly self-centered. When we meet aliens we want to see them before they see us. We want to find out where they live and never let them find out where we live. This is a game of 'True names' on a cosmic scale, where our true name is our location in space. To play this game you need to ante up with the technology to spread your eggs far from the gravity well of origin. That's the bare minimum.

To think in terms of 'single-cellular life, multi-cellular life, and intelligence' does humanity's space program a huge disservice. It helps us remain fat and complacent in the sense that we're at the top of the food chain.
Intelligence isn't a state to be reached; it is a continuance of evolution. And there's an unknown number of rungs for us to climb to break out of our niche, starting with basic space travel.

That's what I think; have at it. But at least it's more thought provoking than Hawking.
Interesting. Having read the PDF I think this could do well. I did think that it was unfairly skewed toward Macs. I know Zed mentioned in the PDF that later versions would be more Windows/Linux friendly - I guess there's just a need to try to keep things as agnostic as possible to minimise the effort. I'd be happy to help with the Windows side where I can if there's alternative stuff that needs writing for what is likely to be the majority of users.

It might also be worth considering using PyGame later on if there's an interest in creating more visual programs. I know that it's important to maintain the interest of people, that's why a lot of the awesome 80s type and run books would include graphical programs. Again, I'm happy to contribute where I can.
Chapter 10.2 -- "False or True" should be "True" I think..
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Ctrl+e and ctrl+a work like home and end in Terminal.app.

Also, if you haven't already tried tmux, it's worth looking at. I find it fits my way of working much, much better than screen. It has both horizontal and vertical splits and more intuitive "tabs."
He didn't say he was specifically trying to learn Ruby.
Maybe she thought it was a fruit farm.
Surely that's the surface rathrr than the subtext of my commemt :) But yeah, it is only a qualified guess on my part, as Wozniak is not known for vindictive behavior.
As far as I know you can use either when referring to the "levee" usage, but for the lesbian slang you need dyke. Where ambiguity exists, infer from context.

I think the slang term "dyke" is a bit out of date anyway?
What does Pittsburgh have to do with search engines?
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Unless I misunderstood this, it affects you even if you only transfer the information to a 3rd party:

17.04: Every person that owns or licenses personal information about a resident of the
Commonwealth and electronically stores or transmits such information...

Also many online shops allow you to save the info in case you want to reuse it in the future.
As a user of adwords I always feel bad clicking on an sponsored link in Google knowing I'm not going to buy anything.
Effective ML
I run Win7 on my main laptop and use that for a fair amount of development with PyDev. I use dedicated separate VMs for PHP (LAMP), certain specific Django projects and several scratch/playground VMs running Xubuntu or Arch. We use a VPS for certain dev and testing functions.

Our penetration testing VMWare Images run XP and Xubuntu respectively but are due for a refresh.
So apparently the smart money finds out what I'm betting on and bets the other way. :-)
Don't you think that Facebook would keep all of your information in its files, even if not publicly viewable, for its own legal protection if you tried something like that?
I'm skeptical anything too extreme will take off right away, particularly since battery life is such a big problem for 3G-enabled devices at the moment. I haven't read up on 4G, so I'm not familiar with the power requirements, but I can't imagine it'll be much better. I'm taking a "wait and see" stance.
Destroys Chrome on Linux also.
http://gizmodo.com/5506939/the-50-wolfram-alpha-iphone-app-i...

It's been for some time. Great app.
•The disuse of SQL as the query API. (Examples of APIs used include JSON, BSON, REST, RPC, etc.).

JOSN has a standard way to indicate which objects to select, along with ordering, grouping, and aggregation?
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Even having pg nuke you from HN isn't enough. Your comments get indexed and archived all over the place: searchyc, backtype, ubervu, ridddlr, etc.

Here's a sampling of where I wound up: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Hacker+News%22+%2Bgroaner
Try ballroom dance. You may be able to find a social dance or a group lesson. It's a good skill to have, and usually good fun, too.
I actually submitted this because I thought it was amusing how naive Hawking's view was. Personally I think Terence McKenna's take on aliens is much more likely to be correct, that if they exist they are probably 'not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.' His favorite example was the idea of non-material non-local aliens made from pure information, likely inspired by his DMT experience.
Yeah but back then it took one guy 6 months of bit fiddling in assembly/C to develop that kind of game. Now we have art departments, story board artists, script editors, a legion of QA, and of course, the developers. Any time you take some development process that layered, eventually, the performance at all costs people get pushed to the side. Although, I do agree with the spirit of the article.
Oh :(. I was hoping it was a system where you could "like" a URL or something, and after enough "likes", it'd show other stuff that you may like.
This is really a fantastically important principle. When we put into perspective what modern machines should be capable of, it's really quite disappointing what they end up doing.

Recently I was arguing with one of my company's engineers when I noticed that selecting a few tens of thousands of things on-screen took 1-2 seconds. He responded that there's a lot going on there. I responded that I'm selecting a few tens of thousands of things on-screen on a machine that's capable of billions of CPU operations per second and trillions if I count in the GPU. What I'm doing isn't even a rounding error when compared against those staggering numbers. It should be so fast that those things are selected before I even move my finger from the mouse button. But it's not, I can actually count seconds before something happens...and I know that we aren't doing billions of things in the meantime.

All this talk of canvas demo this, and browser app that fails to bring into focus that the things we are fawning over, simple graphics and interactivity on a postcard sized rendering window running on a multi-core multi-GIGAHERTZ machine with assisting co-processors for everything from floating point to window rendering, doing things that we were all doing on machines with dozens of Mhz not even 15 years ago, obviates how tall the software stack is between the hardware and the user.

It's not that my engineer's code was bad, far from it, it's just that it was lazy. He was relying on libraries built on top of libraries built on top of libraries on down the line. Basically it's turtles all the way down, and we're all building on top of that giant turtle pile when we could be tearing away at relativistic speeds around a pulsar.

I actually get a little depressed when I think about it.
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This is actually really bad for Apple. For people that don't know what this is all about, but know who Adobe and Apple are (my parents), it may appear that the iPhone is becoming a failing platform and Adobe is jumping ship (actual conversation I just had about this).
I don't know about the rest of America, but they were pretty well known in Cambridge, where I first discovered them.
It can be implemented for facebook but not for facebooks apps or for scraped and cached information. However the article wasn't about removing your content from the web completely. It was about removing your content from facebook.
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Creepy because that's an lot of information facebook lets you look up about people pretty easily using their api. Not necessarily objecting but it is a little creepy when you think about it.
I upvoted the submission. I upvote anything that gets over a hundred words out of me.

Two of my favorite explanations for the fermi paradox:

a) The space of possible ways to perceive the universe is far larger than we can imagine. If this is true, the good scenario is that we never see each other. The bad scenario is that they can perceive us, but we can't perceive them. ('Perceive' could mean 'detect', or 'have an optimized visual cortex to recognize'.)

b) They turn inward: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1224741

But I suspect the most likely reason is just that they've all learned to be silent. Not because there's an uber-predator, but just because that's the nash equilibrium.
It fails to mention the 802.11n support to be added.
10 years ago people were still using Chime. Then Jmol arrived and instead of having to install a proprietary browser plugin, we could wait 30 seconds for the JVM to load. Now we just need some more 3D acceleration for Canvas and we can eliminate that wait as well.

It's a bit slow, but still progress.
Would you like some run-time meta programming? if it didn't take too long to explain, I would slap you with some CLOS-fu.

Imagine a language with a programmable object system. Programmable representation of methods and classes. Programmable evaluation order. Programmable persistence, sharing, and initialization.

http://lispm.dyndns.org/documentation/amop/toc.html

Wherever you see the word "Protocol" in that index, it means there are hooks in place to let you override the defaults.

Common Lisp is so malleable, every programmer is almost forced to become a language architect. You will spend a great deal of your time searching for the most aesthetically pleasing way to do something, instead of the easiest.

The best part is your ability to step into macro expansion one step at a time. You will never be confronted with a pile of machine generated low-level rubbish. Macroexpand-1 each form, repeatedly, and you get to see the onion unfold in slow-mo.
That is false security of the type much beloved by engineers. It fails for all sorts of cases, such as people who are less literate than you are (ask me about the time our outsourcing team Hit Next To Continue without being able to read the Japanese trac interface they were using -- better yet, don't ask), vindictive ex-girlfriends, dormroom pranks, etc, etc, etc, etc.
I'm a little bit confused, if I opted out of this program, how does it still know who I am when I go to this site?
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Mac sales up 33%, Windows sales up 35% -- wouldn't it be more obvious to conclude the PC market in general is coming back? Then again I probably wouldn't have clicked on a story titled "Computer sales improving" Kudos ZDNet.
Facebook is just gathering as much information as they can so they can give it to advertisers. I don't quite understand why people have to share some of the stuff they do on facebook and find that far creepier.
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I am not quite sure why everyone is reporting this number as if it were some miraculous revival of MS. Windows 7 doesn't suck. Lots of people have been waiting, and waiting, and waaaaaaaaaaaiting to upgrade from XP. A lot of them gave up hope and moved to Macs; those users aren't going to be coming back. What MS might have done is stop the bleeding in the desktop OS market. It will take a couple more quarters to see if this is the case. I recently ordered 25 upgrades for sales and marketing people in my company and this sort of SMB activity may also make up a large portion of this growth in "consumer" licenses (Vista sucked so bad we were willing to maintain an EOL version of Windows and even "upgrade" boxes to XP that were shipped to us with Vista.)

In terms of how this fits into the general economic picture, I am waiting to see evidence of this activity as being an upgrade _to_ a Windows 7 machine vs upgrades of existing computers to a new rev of Windows. If non-Apple PC sales show a similar increase then this claim may be valid, but if Apple growth continues to outpace other hardware vendors you will be seeing evidence that this is more of an upgrade in place than any real growth of the Windows ecosystem.

["Interesting" may be one word to describe Windows Phone (or whatever they are calling it this month) but most reviews and reports do not seem share your belief that it is in any way indicative of MS finally "bringing things together"...]
Two things...one is that one can't just shop around for the most favorable jurisdiction. The other is that although you insist taking the thing to a bar was not a reasonable effort at secrecy, you also argue that it was quite effectively camoflagued for that specific purpose.

Sounds like a reasonable measure to preserve secrecy to me.
Slightly low, but not hugely so for his income bracket, since the top two income quintiles typically give about 2% of their income to charity: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2009/05/19/68456/americas-poor-ar...
I second gedit, just installed it on my Mac, and it doesn't look like complete ass. (It does however use GTK for file open dialogs etc. so that might put other people off?)
PHP interfaces and optional parameters
menu > settings > songbook no-fail mode: on

menu > songbook > flight of the bumblebee

tap, tap, tap, tap...
Excellent. Time to spend another $2 of my $15 giftcard.

Really, I haven't had this much fun buying software since I was 12 years old, and used to spend 5 quid on a speccy game every week or couple of weeks.
Incidentally, the only usable Perl threads are implemented on top of coroutines:

http://search.cpan.org/~mlehmann/Coro-5.22/Coro.pm

Just don't read the rant about why call/cc is useless.
Using a programming language is perfectly reasonable. The thing I have a problem with is the scam of graphing calculators in high school calculus classes: basically in the interest of guaranteeing a revenue stream for Texas Instruments, curriculum has been filled with obtuse impossible-to-symbolically-reason-about equations, which have little relevance to any of the important concepts being taught. Only a trivially small percentage of the students will ever be placed in a situation where they need to regularly use that graphing calculator or similar tools in the future (basically just engineers). The Soviet high-school-age math curriculum of a few decades ago is in my opinion (and admittedly quite limited personal experience) vastly superior to what we do in the US. Much better to aim for understanding of underlying mechanisms, and make people do real proofs (and not the bullshit proofs of “geometry” courses), instead of just punching (effectively) arithmetic into calculators.

I think banning calculators from all elementary/secondary math education would be a tremendous benefit because (a) it would improve familiarity with basic number relationships, and (b) it would force problem authors to keep the numbers reasonable, and push problems toward higher levels of abstraction, rather than simply tacking on extra digits after the decimal point. Most importantly, anyone who understands the mathematical structures and relationships involved can learn how to compute with a calculator or similar tool in about a week. Someone who only knows how to punch things into a calculator but doesn’t have a solid grasp of what it means is in a very tough spot as soon as anything slightly out-of-the-ordinary pops up.
Aren't there positive outlier possibilities, as well?

Perhaps only contact will offer hope of asteroid or gamma ray burst defense, or escaping Earth before destroying ourselves.
I find it amusing that people see a "start-up" as a goal.

The article refers to how these gents "...think they have a better way to build a start-up". The goal is to build a _profitable business_. One doesn't seek to build a startup; rather, the start-up phase in any business is hopefully short-lived. It's usually a painful time, full of uncertainty and lots of pressure. When the business succeeds -- yes, _then_ nostalgia for those early days is appropriate and well-placed.

So often, though, folks become enamored of the romanticized image of a Silicon Valley start-up scene. It's a Cargo Cult mentality. Fascinating.
I didn't have any problem with Chromium 5.0.342.9 on Arch.
Each widget is a Facebook iframe. Facebook knows who you are. The site doesn't.
Everybody knows about Markov's work in this sense. The reason it worked so well was not just Google's application of Markov probability distributions, but their integration with the then predominant search strategy of vector space models for page retrieval. The key insight Brin and Page had was to incorporate Markov's work as a scoring metric along with the results from a vector space search (it's all matrices anyways) and then generalize that to include other metrics to help weight pages to the top that are more likely to be what people are looking for.

PageRank != Markov processes only, it's not even just Markov + Vector retrieval, if it was they'd be good to go and their staff of search quality engineers would be in the single digits. But Google has a large number of engineers who's sole purpose is to find ways of tweaking that basic weighting formula, using the user's query (and a handful of other metrics like custom search preferences, language, etc.) to float up good pages and sink down bad pages. I wouldn't be surprised if even Kleinberg's HITS hasn't made it into the formula in some way.
I believe it's been fixed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWPsM2EdXPw&feature=playe...
I completely agree. Apple lost almost nothing (1 phone) and got millions of dollars in free PR. My understanding is this was covered on a variety of comedy shows, all the morning shows, all over the Internet from tech sites to mainstream news sites. All over the world. They should give Mr. Powell a bonus. He actually managed to eclipse Apple's normal media hype frenzy with what is, basically, a very positive story. (there's going to be a new iPhone and it's so amazingly great people are trying to steal it before we can even release it! In 2 months you can buy one too!)
Should work reasonably well now.
Agreed, basic research is worlds different than business.
Firefox nightlies run quite well, ~35fps on MacBook Pro 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo. No stuttering.

Edit: 60fps for one molecule, 35 for two.
There's grant money to be had for anything that can be defined as a sufficiently important problem. 'Internet addiction' gets funded in Korea, and we throw fat money at anything which even sounds drug-related.

The increasing ubiquity of digital socialization is interesting of course, but then so is every new thing...TV, rock music, probably radio back in the day.
The single button can be located somewhere unlikely to be accidentally clicked. You can keep the 14 day timespan so that undoes are possible. Your concern over accidental clicks is valid as is your classification of are you sure dialogs as false security. But an undo alleviates that concern and is the proper way to handle them. Making it difficult to do that task is not the right way to handle it.

It should still be a button not a painful complicated set of steps.
Sorry, but when someone refers to "one of the world's most dazzling piano players", here is what comes to mind:

http://fatkiddiary.com/liberace.jpg

That guy used Candelabras to attract attention, this new one uses an iPad.

My point is, so this legitimizes the iPad as being something super-special?
Here he recapitulates the plot of 'Independence Day' with remarkable precision, down to the roving band of aliens in giant ships that hop from planet to planet, stripping each of its resources.
I doubt the business would appreciate you blacking out their Banksy:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1549107/Banksys-30000...
Good list, many are applicable to general hackery and not just ML. "Avoid boilerplate" == DRY/Don't-Repeat-Yourself.

OT: I really enjoy jane street posts. They got me started with ocaml, just because I didn't understand half of what they were writing about.