skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly - his point is that he doesn't care how map is implemented but really it should be a matter of not caring how recursion/tco is implemented so long as it does not blow the stack.
In the past couple minutes I watched Conan's page while his "following" list went from about 11 to 2 and then back to just Sarah.

Page refreshes were very slow. The elves are busy.
I'm writing a monitor for an emulator I'm working on, so your first example is what I am doing.

I was wanting for something that lets me add commands, with aliasing, and arguments (maybe with optional regex validation) - e.g. breakpoint add $BEEF, etc. Writing a DSL is one solution and will probably end up being the way I go once I take a second iteration at this. Right now I'm just using regex parsing, but I only have a few commands I need to worry about now.

cmdparse is frustratingly close but makes a few assumptions that you want to parse ARGV or something that looks like it.
I can't speak on behalf of the grandparent poster but my gripes are not at all with the N1 hardware itself -- in fact the N1 is quite possibly the best put together phone I've owned. My issues are with Android and how it still feels rough around the edges.

1) Lack of an integrated mail tool. I really don't care so much about POP/IMAP folder integration but why do I need two email apps, one for Gmail and one for IMAP. The stock IMAP client sucks for that matter and I've had a lot better luck with Jesse Vincent's K9Mail fork off the core mail app.

2) The pull down notification bar seems clunky. On one hand it's nice to see at a glance all the things that happened on my phone while I wasn't using it. However when "you have unread mail" or "missed call" is mixed in with "XYZ song is playing" it gets sort of muddled.

3) Deleting an app is quite possibly the most unintuitive thing on the whole phone. If you're used to just hitting an "X" on the home screen from the iPhone you're in for a disappointment.

None of these are dealbreakers for me and in general I am still very satisfied with my N1. However it seems to me that Android is still very much a platform for hackers. For example, Android has a running process list with an option to kill tasks on the phone. Not so on the iPhone, because the OS developers clearly decided their users shouldn't even have to think about this.
I ignored the title and read the actual content (you generally need to tell me to RTFT, not RTFA :) ). I see what you mean now.

About the virus plague -- yes, I was hit by Blaster on XP too, but MS seems to have really started getting security around 2003. The only explanation for your product having more malware than your nearest competitor's, even though your product is objectively more secure, is that the amount of malware is a function of market share.

I agree with you about the downsides of using proprietary formats. However, the power of a general-purpose computing platform like Windows, Mac OS X or Linux is that you can choose to lock or not lock yourself exactly as much as you want to, so I consider it a non-issue. Given that the platform gives you the freedom to not lock yourself into it, to my mind technical specifics and personal preferences for tools become the deciding factor. I really like the Visual Studio debugger and C# as a language.
Yeah, good points. I think they can make the screen a bit smaller than the current iPhone, but keep the 320x480 resolution. This way apps will still be usable. But they can also remove space from the top and bottom of the phone and make it a lot thinner. Overall, I think they can really shrink the iPhone significantly. This could appeal to lots of people. Especially, now the iPad is out and people don't mind having a smaller iPhone to compliment their iPad.
DryadLINQ - allows you to program large clusters in .Net
DryadLINQ is a simple, powerful, and elegant programming environment for writing large-scale data parallel applications running on large PC clusters.
Nice job...
For editing remote files, I find that sshfs is extremely useful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSHFS
Of this I can agree.

Maybe a brief detainment, just enough for an investigation to be processed to ensure he doesn't have the materials/intent to actually perform an act of violence, and once it's been concluded that he's innocent, send him on his way with an apology and one of those super-sized lolipops.

I'm all about due process, but I'm all about people exercising discretion at the same time. But otherwise, I agree with you.
The Daily Mail, and news publications like it, rarely let the facts get in a way of telling a good story. Their aim is to provoke a strong emotional reaction, so they will search out the extremes of society, and present it to their readers as if it were the norm.
Haha, no need to embarrass :)
I guess they can always change it to DDG down the road. Has a nice, more serious ring to it.
Yeah, block them, then they won't be able to follow you. Although if your timeline is not private they can still read your feed at twitter.com/yourname
Man that HN etiquette can feel limiting at times.
ConsumerReports on:Social Media "State of the NET"
Well if they always do as told, they are the perfect clients.

"Now buy this thing, plz".
For the sake of pointing out the obvious, Twitter already is mostly useless. Anything the previous poster can do to destroy the remainder, I'm all in favor of.
I don't see a distinction between "bigger market" and "how many users actually buy digital content". I think these are the same thing.
I thought the daily mail was like the UK version of the national enquirer?
Yes same stated profit, but they pay half their revenues to their employees. Otherwise their profit would be far higher.
Web 3.0, The Movie [video]
Hmm. Perhaps one of these would make a decent starting point?

http://antony.lesuisse.org/software/ajaxterm/

http://anyterm.org/

http://testape.com/webtty_sample.php
What’s better for startups: partnerships or incorporation?
No, they don't. The clip-on attack can electronically stuff the EVM by rewriting the internal EEPROM, bypassing the EVMs' rate-limiting feature.
Ask HN: So did anyone notice they are following less people now?
Now that our following / followers lists are back. Anyone notice a decrease in your following lists? Or if you used the exploit, did your followers list decrease?
Honestly, government benefits aren't bad, they just need to be smarter. The issue here is that the benefits cut off completely, when they should instead lessen then cutoff to stop the moral hazard problem.

Additionally, the fact that payroll taxes are charged against people making so little likely hurts the issue even more. A moralistic system of everyone paying their due is ironically making some people not work, where if the first 25k everyone made was tax free from payroll taxes, then lots of work would be a lot more appealing for those on the lower end of the scale.
To clarify, I don't have a problem editing remote files - I use TRAMP right now (haven't tried sshfs, but it looks interesting thanks!).

The problem I'm trying to solve is that right now I need to install Emacs on any computer I want to do work on. I'd like to be able to jump onto a random friend's laptop and open Emacs without any setup cost.
American Law Should Be 'Based On The God Of The Bible And The Ten Commandments'
http://lmddgtfy.com/?q=let+me+google+this+for+you&v=
>For example, Android has a running process list with an option to kill tasks on the phone.

Android does not have this. There are third party applications that do task management, however the word "placebo" applies to most advocates of them, and user task management should never be necessary. If the system needs resources it dehydrates tasks and terminates them, and this is a cardinal foundation of the platform.

The new iPhone multitasking system works in a very similar manner to how Android has always worked, it should be mentioned.

>Lack of an integrated mail tool. I really don't care so much about POP/IMAP folder integration but why do I need two email apps, one for Gmail and one for IMAP.

Because the gmail app has different features and functions?

> Deleting an app is quite possibly the most unintuitive thing on the whole phone.

Now this is just weird. The most obviously way to uninstall an app is to simply go into downloads (where you installed it) and pick uninstall. The second to go into applications in settings and uninstall.

Your gripes are seemingly that you've been mentally debilitated by using the iPhone, and now you use everything relative to how the iPhone works.
Property tax is a percent of property value or at least it is every where I have ever lived. Last I checked housing was ahead of inflation pretty uniformly until recently.
Laziness and security by obscurity.
Yeah! BALLS TO THE WALL!

This is such an odd bug. I guess it goes to show that nobody knows what strange code which should have been removed four years ago lurks in the heart of Twitter.
Except viewing in the sunlight.
To Ruby or not to Ruby?
Follow and Block make sense as commands you can send through a message. But Accept? Why would you ever be able to control an action on someone else's account? It's rather odd that this exists at all.
Dunno what the National Enquirer is, but the Daily Mail is awful. I can't imagine anyone who appreciates the intellectual integrity of Hacker News would like to read the Mail.
That's really a whole other debate that has little to do with Brown stepping down.
Even if this is old content, this is incredibly helpful. Shows that I need to read more on LINQ. This improved some of my queries in some spot checks that I'm doing.

Thanks!
Will anyone turn this into a web service?
Sharing the link is really hard (at least for me, maybe I'm doing it wrong?). When I type something and click search, it takes me straight to the page I'd want to send someone, and I can't really select the url (because of whatever's moving the pointer?). So, do I just have to figure out the url scheme and write it out myself? lmgtfy just gives you the url to send someone.
Religious schools are frequently subsidized by the sponsoring religious group, and Catholic schools tend to employ a lot of nuns, who cost the school very little.
But apparently years of higher education hasn't stopped you from thinking that making babies for money is the same as not working for money. To compare the two in this context is ludicrous. I wish you would stop thinking such destructive thoughts about people who don't have your "years of higher education".
LOL @ "social media coaches" following other "social media coaches". Loved it.
The other week my 4th or 5th - lost track - iPhone got wet and useless and it would've cost $200 to replace, so I finally got fed up with how expensive a habit it'd become and instead bought a $30 Nokia.

In the few weeks I've been using it, I've been amazed by how often I kick into "iPhone mode" whenever I have a moments pause while waiting in line or stopped in traffic.

Whether or not that's good or bad, I don't know, but I certainly remember 10 years ago being able to stand in line for a few minutes without jonesing for a hit of infotainment.
Facebook, Privacy, Public Opinion and Pitchforks
Your second link has nothing to do with front running. Your first link just reveals Hellen Brown is full of crap.

In the old days, market makers could potentially front run by physically ignoring the proper market ordering (i.e., in a physical trading pit), perhaps when the broker ahead of them in the queue is distracted with another trade. This is completely impossible in an electronic exchange. There is no "front run this trade" message in either FIX or OUCH (the wire protocols used for trading).
My switch was an interesting one.

My hopes and expectations for Android on the N1 were about here (holds hand 12 inches off of desk).

After two days with it I honestly had a headache. It just didn't work the way I thought it would, after having spent the better part of 3 years on iPod Touch and iPhone. Maybe the headache was my brain creating new neural pathways? Regardless, my opinion was here (hand 6 inches off of desk).

This was my trough of disillusionment. I even cheated. I turned on my now-SIM-less iPhone and checked my twitter feed. I felt dirty. Used.

Then something clicked. First I was finding things I could do with Android that I couldn't do with iPhone. Things like downloading 20mb+ podcasts without connecting to my Mac. Things like finding apps like AppBrain that create meaningful recommendations for me. Things like putting widgets on the screen instead of just icons. And the ease of multitasking? Sigh. My impression of this platform is now here (hand 24 inches above desk).

This is not to say there aren't issues. My battery life is terrible and I'm actively experimenting with ways to change this. Overall the Android platform is "scruffier" than iPhone, and by that I mean moving from one app to the next can be jarring from a usability perspective.

But that's part of what I like about Android. If the iPhone is like the suburbs, rows and rows of consistent housing and 2.2 children, Android is like living downtown where the action is. Sure it's dangerous. And now I wouldn't want to have my wife and kids down there after hours. They have iPhones and iPods. Safer that way.

But I'm not going back the burbs. In fact, I gave my iPhone away to a buddy who had his stolen. I don't miss it.

If Apple delivers something equally as compelling to my inner geek, great, I'll get one. Until then, I have never been happier with my phone.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/150397-flash-trading-goldman...
I can confirm billions of files/keys. I went the quick/dirty route to parallelize the DELETEs and just let the OS manage the async I/O for me at the proc level. Each instance spun up 150 Ruby procs that issued the DELETEs (tight, serial, while-loop style), and ran them in parallel.

I spent quite a bit of time working w/ the S3 team at Amazon to try and come up with a better model, but we all agreed on my approach (mind you, it could likely be done more efficiently) as option 'a', and option 'b' was to delete the account and just let Amazon reap the data.
Unfortunately, "click this link plz" is more often a result of a five second attention span, and it takes longer than that to take out a credit card.
Hackers destroying pagerank nooooo
I love Aquamacs, but man... FOSS projects sure have a hell of a time with good (visual) design.
for me it's about speed.
you can do almost every task you need as a programmer way faster with vim, than with a conventional editor.
if you have some programming experience you can change its behaviour to exactly the way you like it.
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Best_Vim_Tips
if you really like doing things with the keyboard, vim will be the right thing for you...
It doesn't actually move your cursor, just an image of a cursor. You should be able to copy & paste the URL out of your address bar as it is animating; you're right that just showing the URL after the user clicks 'Search' might be more user friendly, though.
Something to keep in mind: the MBA wasn't intended for entrepreneurs...way back when it originally was created it was designed for major corporations, like GE and GM, who needed professional managers. Business schools and MBAs are designed to produce them.

I'm not going to say that an MBA is useless, but it serves a specific purpose...and that purpose is not to foster creativity and entrepreneurship.

Like Dave has suggested in the past, there's a need for some sort of EBA--entrepreneur business school. Steve Blank also talks about this idea...his point of view is that the E-School (as opposed to B-School) should be attached to the engineering department (as opposed to the business department).

Here's a link to Steve Blank: http://steveblank.com/2010/05/10/entrepreneurial-finishing-s...
chartbeat.com
Oooo approaching 2012 ;) Louisiana oil spill. Massive Twitter bug. Sticky finger Dow collapse. Facebook losing it's privacy mojo.

And to top it off, one line of code I checked in late last night prevented 200 new users from signing up on my freshly minted site.
There is a great collection of Vim screencasts at: http://vimcasts.org/

Peeepcode has a "Meet Emacs" screencast available for about $9 as well here: https://peepcode.com/products/meet-emacs

It's not quite the site you describe, but I've learned quite a bit watching Vimcasts.
Well, I don't hold those views, but think markets have some limitations and that regulation is an important task in any economy - in fact I've taken a good amount of flak on HN for my support of the current reform bill winding its way through Congress.

I take issue with chracterizing it as a bank bailout when it isn't, just because of simple inaccuracy. Nor do I think you can just say all debt is held by the wealthy. Government bonds are often held by other governments, pension funds, mutuals on behalf of their citizens/members. It's not as simple as a bunch of MBAs and tycoons lighting their cigars with banknotes.
Can someone explain how this proportional representation would work? It sounds like how some school/city boards are elected in the US but over multiple seats. I just don't have a good image in my head. Is it meant to be a national election then? Is a majority possible?

//I admit the experience I have seen with city boards with this type of thing has not been good.
Exactly, and if support for flash dwindles, then developers will move to other platforms that "most people can experience well".
You're killing the signal-to-noise ratio.
Ferreting out abuse often has a higher cost than just ignoring it (and sometimes abuse is worth fixing, but not all abuse is worth fixing). For instance:

If abusers are 4% of the system, if it costs more than 4% of the cost of all the benefits given, you actually waste money seeking abusers. Additionally, the abuse detection measures also have false positives, or long paperwork times, which filters out some legitimate users of the system.

This is a big issue with Social Security disability in the US, where things have to go through an abuse detection step, however this takes over a year almost in many states (SS Disability is oddly a per state run activity). By that time, the actually disabled have usually had their personal finances destroyed, or have worked in spite of severe danger to their health, both of which only up the end cost to the taxpayers.

An alternative (or even complementary measure) to strict abuse detection is graduated benefit reduction. (EDIT: By graduated benefit reduction, I mean, at the time you get a job, you do not lose all your benefits, you instead lose only a portion of them, say, 50%). That way moral hazard doesn't occur, as they get part of the benefit while working in a crappy job, thereby working is more attractive, but it still decreases the cost to the taxpayer, as highly qualified people may fill McJobs while looking for those in their real professions, and then not drawing the whole benefit.

We have a big issue with non-graduated benefits in the US, where it is the rational thing to do to accept benefits and not work with the incentive structure in some areas. If we change the incentive structure to promote work, overwhelmingly large number of current abusers would stop doing so and would take the work option.

Unemployment insurance in the US works for people who will make several times the unemployment amount when they get a new job. It's only the people who will make close to the dole amount after getting a job have issues with thinking it is a good alternative. As an economic rational actor, the people not taking the job may be making the correct choice with the unsophisticated system we have.

Graduated benefit reduction can work lots of places: Food stamps, section 8 subsidies, unemployment, social security, social security disability, re-education grants, etc.
Pentagon Turns to Brain Implants to Repair Damaged Minds
Not exact product, but same range of products: portable mp3 players.
I think she's daft as a brush, but question the relevance of this to HN.
I'm confused by how these are destructive thoughts. Unappealing, perhaps, and in that sense enough of the right sort of education will teach you not to have these thoughts. But that has no effect on the veracity of the claim.

I think the ultimate claim is that if you create a system that can potentially be gamed, people will find whatever way they can to game it. It is possible also that they will game it incorrectly.

To cement your suggestion: yes, there are poor women that do this. Making the existence of such actions unspeakable trades solving the problem for perpetuating a socially acceptable lie about it. I don't see how this is better.

And the other socially disadvantaged will game systems built for their benefit as well. People don't suddenly grow a heart and a conscience and become flawlessly altruistic because they were a victim of something. It is just a possible they develop the opposite attitude: society screwed then, and now they're going to return the favor. Will they necessarily? No.

But I'm not going to give the benefit of the doubt just because they'd claim to be a victim of something. I don't know if they've actually been a victim; they may have foist this upon themselves, in which case I am contributing to massive amounts of moral hazard. They may be down on their luck, but think that the current system we have for dealing with that sucks, because it incentivizes the wrong things and treats them as more of a victim than they think it should. For what it is worth, I am in that latter bucket right now. The entire UI system and such is just so condescendingly paternalistic; I feel like I've suddenly become a grade school student again.

They may have been a victim, but we also don't presume that someone was a victim of assault just because they are bruised. We don't hand them whatever entitlement they think we, in due guilt-worthy acquiescent behavior, owe them as penance. And we certainly don't make speaking about the self-inflicted ways one might become bruised taboo.

It's just not that simple. You can't assume that everyone who is disadvantaged is a hapless and wholly undeserving victim of horrible circumstances; there's just too much in that assumption that can be wrong, and being wrong means you make the real problems worse.
> If we have to assume no privacy around the data on the site

Where did you draw that conclusion? If you accidentally send the wrong data to the wrong person you've violated your own privacy due to your own mistake.

That's a lot different than you specifying that someone shouldn't get a certain piece of information, but that person gets it anyway because the software erroneously allows them to see it.

It's also a lot different than allowing third parties access to your private data.
better yet, who did it and then messaged one of the people they made follow them. if i had known earlier i sincerely would have made bill gates follow me and just sent a dm with a quick+ sincere "thank you".
OkCupid is testing a new tool to help you pick your best picture
Intercepting flash orders is front running. I don't see how you could even be confused about this issue. That is why the SEC wants to ban it, and some exchanges have removed the feature. This corrupt business practice creates artificial information disparity which wouldn't normally exist.

I'm undecided about whether I think front running is fair

This is a red flag that no one here should be asking you for moral advice.
WIGIG Alliance Publishes Multi-Gigabit Wireless Specification
Easy Package Creation with CheckInstall
I specifically prefaced my comment by saying "regardless of the whole Apple/Flash issue".

However, i'll bite. Why would I be gullible for believing that HTML 5 (and by extention, the APIs such as canvas and offline storage) is newer than Flash? Acording to Wikipedia, the first working draft of HTML 5 was published in 2008. Flash has been around for a lot longer than this.
If you want the real setting for "The Wire", read " The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood" by David Simon and Ed Burns.

The depiction of one of today's most derelict inner-city neighborhoods is heartbreaking and disconcerting.