skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What percentage of apps are spam? If it is a rather large percentage, it seems like Apple has an incentive to keep them around so that they can advertise they have x thousands of apps. But maybe it is not that large.
This is a Turing Tarpit; the only infinitely customizable blog platform is "PHP" (or your choice of other actual language). And as your customization possibility space increases, the customization inevitably starts to look like a language. Because it is.

That's why nobody's "solved" this problem in the last ten years; you can't have programming language flexibility without programming language complexity.
While working on the new interface at Scribd, SICP was one of our test documents - it looks great in HTML!

http://www.scribd.com/documents/15556326/Structure-and-Inter...
In a manner of speaking, they COULD walk across water... by cheating: they used lily pads. Big ones. It was like wearing rafts. After that, it was just a matter of learning to choose the right lily pads, being careful, and keeping your balance.

Nothing supernatural or anything like that, just learning to take advantage of what nature has on offer :)
Time travel and teleportation are the hardest sci-fi dreams to achieve, in my opinion.

We need tesseract level API access before we can hope to use either of them.
I really hope this takes off. I've been wanting to get into making some 3D games for a while, and being able to do it in the browser would be awesome
Privacy and Publicity in the Context of Big Data
Here is where you change your application settings in Facebook
Don't target medical markets. Target weld inspection.
iPad Destroys Netbook Business
I'm pretty sure most of these figures refer to US only (and I wish they said so) and I still find them quite surprising.

There's no way that married couples in, say, China, or (an example I know better) Brazil, met via social media. Only about 1 in 4 people use Internet worldwide ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage ) and of those, about 50% use social media ( http://randomthougts101.blogspot.com/2009/06/social-media-ne... ), so, even if all of the social media users matched up, I doubt it would come up to 1 in 8 !!! (yes, I know I made some dubious assumptions along the way, but I hope you get the idea)

I also expect less than 10% of companies worldwide to use social media for recruitment currently, not to mention less than 1% of governments! (made up figures, but along the lines of what I'd expect)

BTW, from "real" figures, it seems about 12% of the population worldwide works in the public sector:

http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/un/un-...
Well, as far as I am concerned, if import foo is the same as instantiating foo, then reload is calling destructor then instantiation again. How is this worth comment? In a discussion of c++ singletons would you comment "Just dont call delete fooptr; fooptr = new foo();"?
I'm so looking forward to playing with that.
There is a lot going on under the hood, and we have put substantial work into optimization for things like scrolling through content. We know we can still do better, though, so expect to see things even more performant in the coming weeks!
Borders announces pre-orders for 150 USD Kobo e-reader
Judging by the job listings I typically see, the Austin software scene tilts heavily toward the enterprise. I'd love to see that change, though.
i don't think surface tension is doing anything for something the size of a human, or a stone for that matter. if it was surface tension, why does it care that something is moving?

it probably has more todo with the water you are displacing having enough inertia that it can't get out of your way fast enough. it stays there long enough to deflect your path upward, keeping you up.

you sink when you pierce the surface because of the massive drag you introduce. it slows you down very quickly so you sink.
You assume all risk for your actions at Burning Man. As it should be in the rest of the society, if it wasn't for our American lawsuit-loving natures, heh.
Chris describes this as an AI-systems class. He'll cover e.g. the theory behind expectation maximization (actually, a (good) TA did that lecture this year), but isn't afraid to talk about special casing stuff, and one reliable way to get extra credit is to implement the core algorithm correctly and then come up with performance-improving hacks based on insight into the quirks of English. This makes it a slightly unusual class; if you are actually interested in building a functional NLP product, this practicality is a good thing.
I had completely forgotten about the "Gaffophone"!

For those of you who don't know "Gaston Lagaffe" is an office dreamer who is part artist, part scientist and came up with this instrument which sounds good only to his ears and cause a lot of damages through the deep vibrations it creates.
Is that pretty much the essence of all of Tufte's work?

Not that infographics are bad per se, but that there are good and bad ways to graphically represent data, and you should know what they are.
I don't know anything about Swedish politics, so I wasn't referring to any party there, but thanks for the comprehensive summary!

I just meant that 4%, or some other limit, seems sensible to keep the BNP and other such parties out in the UK.
My bike is faster than a car in philly
This is a little annoying. Google had not said a word about O3D for months and they just announce now that they want to drop the plugin. I think a better idea would have been to use the plugin as a way to provide WebGL and o3d to older browsers until WebGL is widespread. Some of the O3D features are not even possible in WebGL.

EDIT: the google group thread explaining about this: http://groups.google.com/group/o3d-discuss/browse_thread/thr...

EDIT: Google reiterated that they prefer that Google Frame implements WebGL for IE instead of turning O3D into a complete HTML5 implementation to support api O3D/WebGL developers need.
It's basically a commercial for the water repellent shoes. Of course it is, those shoes are SOOO water repellent, you can actually walk on water with them!
I've noticed this kind of thing at many food establishments, most notably Jack-in-the-Box. They actually have a system which lets you order any meal exactly how you want it a-la-carte style, i.e. you can order 1 sourdough bun + 1 grilled chicken patty + 1 slice of cheese, and they charge you JUST for those items. It's amazing.

However, whenever I ordered a sandwich this way, the employee would almost always enter my order in as a Number 6, which actually, is a TOTALLY different sandwich and includes bacon, sauce, etc., none of which I requested. It is also, not surprisingly, much more expensive. At first I would have a long dialogue with the employee, explaining that I just wanted those items and that he could enter them individually into the computer (sometimes a manager would have to explain how). Eventually I figured out that if I just prefaced my order with, "I'm ordering these items a-la-carte.", most of the time I get what I want with little or no confusion.
"What about something like a low dose of Ritalin (low enough to just encourage focus, not force it) "

One, finding the right dosage is a trick all by itself; two, Ritalin does not force focus. It ups the level of dopamine available to the brain. An improved ability to focus may be one of the results, but (sadly) it's not so predictable.
Cory Doctorow Gets Phished
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You might want to check out the mini-displayport -> hdmi adapter from monoprice[1]. $8.55, and I've been using one without any problems for over a year.

(disclaimer: not at all affiliated with monoprice.)

[1] http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=104&c...
Has this ever been tested, and if so why can't this work in other situations?

I have been told (though not by any reliable source) that these kinds of disclaimers are not legal even if they are signed by the user.
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No. Rich does not mean upper class, and upper class does not mean rich.

I had to ask (and semi-assume) because, generally, "upper class" is based significantly on wealth and fame: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_upper_class

Your definition seems to cover a more conspiratorial and political superclass (perhaps in an old European sense of "upper class"), and while I believe an insidious old-boys network of sorts exists, it can't be confused with the typical rich "upper class" that isn't inaccessible to newcomers.
Thanks for that link!

It may not sound like a lot -- between 1 and 4 percent. But that's the equivalent of one great-great-great grandparent's DNA contribution.

That is quite a bit!

And from that same link:

Does this mean that Neandertals belong in our species, Homo sapiens?

Yes.
I linked to Schneier because the original is down. Google's got a copy:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:MLVTELI...
I wanted to snark "yes", but truthfully, the problem is that Wordpress' security has been average, not especially bad. The problem is that average is terrible. Most average products don't get hit with this level of scrutiny, but certainly the sort of errors that Wordpress makes with frightening regularity are made by numerous other commercial and open source projects as well.
Tech specs link: http://www.borders.com/online/store/MediaView_koboereaderspe...

1 GB, SD slot, USB, Bluetooth (good move). No specs about the screen, except for overall device measures in a small picture. Looks like a 5 inch Vizplex e-ink screen, which is normally 800x600 pixels. (Good for fiction, not advisable for technical documents.)
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Always Watching: Geek Rock/Dance Social Commentary
a rock/drum and bass song about biometrics, click tracking, online privacy, Phorm, governmental data loss, corruption and the surveillance state featuring CC licensed samples from http://freesound.org and permissive licensed BBC footage of Chris Anderson, John Battelle, Sherry Turkle and Lee Tien from the Digital Revolution rushes. We've made the raw video footage and audio stems available on BitTorrent under the CC Sampling Plus license here: http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/2226785/31654585/ to allow the conversation to continue.
The Black Dwarf looks exactly like a plastic 5" floppy storage box I once had. But it'll store a magnitude more data!
Wales Supports Purging Porn From Wikipedia
Nokia sues Apple over more iPad/iPhone tech (data compression, antenna design)
Reposting from another submission of this:
This is a little annoying. Google had not said a word about O3D for months and they just announce now that they want to drop the plugin. I think a better idea would have been to use the plugin as a way to provide WebGL and o3d to older browsers until WebGL is widespread. Some of the O3D features are not even possible in WebGL.

EDIT: the google group thread explaining about this: http://groups.google.com/group/o3d-discuss/browse_thread/thr....

EDIT: Google reiterated that they prefer that Google Frame implements WebGL for IE instead of turning O3D into a complete HTML5 implementation to support api O3D/WebGL developers need.
US adds 290,000 New Jobs in April
Is the recession over?!
This is true, but I believe the point isn't that pre-existing PS3 HPC clusters will be hampered, it's that no new ones will be created.
Understood, but I don't think people need infinite customizability. They need roughly Wordpress-level customizability, security, and relatively cheap hosting. Can no one really supply this?
This is the normal operation. The "undo" key is not supposed to be used unless something abnormal happens.
On the world's most wonderful programming language - SETL
"It would have required a minimum amount of effort to earmark a small run of pre-Slim hardware (or a certain batch of PS3 Slims) for HPC researchers."

Even a small amount of effort is more than most companies are willing to expend on a sales channel that loses money with every sale. Stupid Sony isn't going to lose as much money as last year. Keep this up and they may make a profit. What a blunder!
Naming time the "fourth dimension" is a misnomer, it's not a dimension in the usual sense of the. Hence the spacetime of relativity, formulated in Minkowski space, is different than standard 4-ED Euclidean space (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski_space).

As Einstein says, "Make things as simple as possible, but not any simpler." The time as fourth dimension thing, I think, is an example of a wrong analogy pushed to make it easy for people to understand what in effect is quite hard to grasp.
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From other posts I've surmised that pw0ncakes lives in an Edith Wharton "Age of Innocence" version of New York with the scenes and characters updated for modern readers.
Good luck. Have you used the Android store? I love Android, but the store could use a lot of work. I haven't used the apple store, so I can't compare, but they Android market is a mess.
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Digg.com is currently down, & I guess this may be because their recent staff cut. ;)

http://www.appscout.com/2010/05/digg_to_cut_staff_by_10_percen.php

Just kidding, but it seems that any X-digg worker has hacked the settings. ;)
Nobody sane would trust them to write the rules on which the market operates.
Google: Not Evil, But Jerks Nonetheless?
Ask HN: Questions to ask before taking on a startup job offer
Recently, I have got multiple job offers. I am just curious to find out what questions do you guys ask in picking a job. And any criteria that you have other than salaries.

Some of the questions I ask are:
1. How do you make money?
2. How much stock can I get?
3. Any paid vacations?
4. What are the performance criteria?
5. Is working remote an option?
6. Is the office dog friendly? (Since I have a small dog)
7. Can I continue to work on my personal projects (websites)?

The criteria that I take into account are:
1. Team (chemistry with the team, expertise of the team, direct access to mentors)
2. Culture (is it a fun place to work)
3. Technology (I only want to work on Rails projects and would like to learn about iPhone dev)
4. Growth (I want to work on companies that will benefit me in the long run as an entrepreneur. Specifically in the area of marketing, fund raising, pitching ideas etc. Also what can I expect to become down the road.)

Anything to add? Thanks in advance.
Sunlight labs blogdor is suiting my needs perfectly. I will be forking and adding my contributions in the near future.

http://github.com/sunlightlabs/django-blogdor
Likewise, I won't install okular. Evince is the only game in town.
Does anyone work on GNU SETL?

Does anyone here have source of GNU SETL?

I find it really interesting and useful, and for ages there has been no source available or news...
Certainly, I've fallen victim to the same assumption, even going so far as to read words that aren't there in my text simply because I expect them to be. But my question was directed specifically at spelling; what do you think of authors who don't even run spell check?

(If you run a paper, you might be interested to know that "their articles" implies ownership, and thus describing them as self-written isn't necessary.)
Also: it's impossible to move or rename the admin directory in Wordpress without modifying a bunch of its code. This IMO is grievously stupid, because attackers can (and do) throw injection attempts all day long at the admin bits of Wordpress sites.
Tell HN: I have to share this with you, reocities found its business model:
Reocities, the reborn version of geocities gets a lot of support messages from people that would like their content removed. Almost all of them are legit and of course I comply when they ask.

A business model for reocities has so far eluded me, but I think this user has just given me the answer to that:

"When my first husband and I were divorcing ten years ago, I edited our
Geocities page with some very personal and very angry text. I then
changed the password and put false information for the account's
secret questions in order to prevent my ex from "fixing" the page. I
promptly forgot the new password, and also lost access to the email
address associated with the account, and therefore the page remained
for ten years despite my best efforts at getting Yahoo to remove it.

I was overjoyed when GeoCities was taken down, and absolutely
horrified when I discovered that you have put my page back up. I have
a new life, a new name, a new husband, and I would give anything to
have that horrible period of my life erased from the web forever."

Sometimes you're looking in all the wrong places.
Man Burned at Burning Man Assumed Risk of Being Burned by Burning Man, Says Court

http://www.loweringthebar.net/2009/07/court-man-burned-at-bu...
Of course not. Just say traffic was lighter than expected, and produce something you brought to read - one's choice of reading material could be a positive factor as long as it's not just a prop.
Infrequent bugs are a feature, they keep users from having to upgrade their software, which is annoying. That's why I avoid Wordpress.

I've never looked at the WP codebase, but I'm just flabbergasted that a piece of blogging software that's been around this long has so many holes. Anyone who just wants to run a simple blog with minimum hassle on a VPS is terribly ill served by Wordpress.
>We store oil and we find more places to extract it.

We've already extracted the lion's share of the fast, cheap, easy-to-reach stuff. What remains is slower, more expensive and harder-to-reach. Case in point: the deepwater well that's spewing 2,500 bbl of oil a day into the Gulf right now.

>Furthermore, as consumption leads to higher prices, we will produce more efficient and productive ways to extract it.

So I keep hearing. I'm highly skeptical that we can improve technique fast enough to start pumping oil out of the Alberta Tarsands at the same rate that we've been pumping it out of Ghawar for the past forty years.

That's the real issue: whether some combination of conservation, new sources and new techniques can somehow manager to cover the escalating annual shortfall in conventional production, without painful demand destruction via price spikes.

My sense from studying this stuff of the past several years is that we're going to spend a long time behind the eight-ball, lurching from economic crisis to economic crisis while our real living standards are slowly ratcheted down.
I haven't; but Google's great strength is searching large datasets for useful results. I can't imagine them not figuring out how to make the Android store work well if they set their minds to it.
A humorous anecdote: I know a few people who have taken psych classes with Cialdini at ASU, and they've all said that his course was among the most boring they'd taken.
I love that we're living in a time where it's so easy to learn.

Well put, Derek. Me too.
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>the Washington Post and Funny Or Die

I bet the Washington Post just loves being lumped in with Funny Or Die as a content producer. :)
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My original comment might be a bit misleading. Its actually ok to use tagged relation in a market with a large barrier to entry because then its prohibitively expensive to create "spam" entries. This works for Netflix. The problem with the iTunes store here is the low barrier of entry for people to create crappy applications and get them listed.
I thought they'd use O3D together with NativeClient which is open source. I doubt Google would bother with some proprietary plugin, their entire OS is open source.

NativeClient would make plugins second nature to the web. They could be downloaded and installed as seamlessly as javascript frameworks.

But since they have no guarantee that NativeClient will be adopted as a standard, they're not putting all of their eggs in that basket. Apparently they can get the speed out of WebGL some other way.
Zynga Gunning Up (And Lawyering Up) For War Against Facebook With Zynga Live
"There's an old saying: To a small boy with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. As programmers, we call into the same trap all too often. We learn about some new technology or solution, and we immediately begin seeing places to apply it."

I got that quote from the post on patterns in Python, but believe it applies equally well here.
Just in case you don't want to install Silverlight like me, you could paste the url of the video directly into mplayer. For example, you could play the first lecture with:

mplayer mms://171.67.219.228/see/ainlpcs224n/cs224n-lecture01.wmv
I agree that it's not Hacker News, but it is intellectually engaging, and there are lessons to be learned ...

Conflict resolution, finding common ground, agreeing differences that exist, but don't have to matter, and the observation that today we can invest all of 3 minutes to discover stuff, then decide whether we want to know more.

When I was 22 I moved country, and I knew nothing about where I was going. Encyclopedias told me very, very little, and after days, literally days, in the library, I still knew almost nothing.

Today I can spend 5 minutes on the 'net and know more in that time than I could've found in days of diligent, comprehensive, but above all boring research.

Read with the intent of learning - not all lessons are obvious, and some are worth more for having found them, rather than being given them.
I'm totally in that "this is great" camp.

That said, can someone familiar with HTML5 explain, or provide a link, for the seemingly crazy source? Is this a result of the work-in-progress framework that creates these? Or is this really what it takes? Kinda looks like the source out of .doc --> .html conversion.
Yup, look forward to seeing the masterwork @ Film Forum, NYC.
Hehehe, this is evil. And now, you even know her new name! Even better business is possible now. :)

(I assume that you are joking.)
Weebly is solving this problem -- you just may not have noticed.

We have rich blogging features that are on par or better than most blog systems: create posts, edit your side bar, set catgories, human-readable (and adjustable) URLs, commenting, comment moderation (open/moderate/closed), close commenting after x days, post in the past, set time zones, post drafts, private drafts, etc.

Even better, a blog doesn't have to be the focus of your site -- it can be just a page. You can create other pages to put things like pictures, videos, photo galleries, slide shows, maps -- by just dragging and dropping them on. You can even create custom forms and surveys by dragging on the form elements (name, address, phone number, drop downs, etc)

While you can't upload PHP, you do have full customizability over your theme CSS and HTML.

To top it off, your site is hosted free of charge on our robust infrastructure that's machine and geographically redundant. We serve sites that hit the front page of Digg or the NYT every day and don't even see a blip in our traffic graphs :)
"Nokia, which took mobile phones to the Internet more than 10 years ago with its keyboard-based Communicator, was slow to move to the touch screens featured on the bestselling iPhone"

Sounds to me like they lost their innovative touch and are morphing into a troll.
How does this compare to Blogofile, http://www.blogofile.com/, a Python blog compiler that has a lot of blog features?
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Interesting. Knowing a little bit of English/Spanish you can guess the origin of most of the days of the week.

* Sunday/Domingo - Sun/?

* Monday/Lunes - Moon/Luna

* Tuesday/Martes - ?/Mars

* Wednesday/Miercoles - ?/Mercurio

* Thursday/Jueves - Thor/Jupiter

* Friday/Viernes - ?/Venus

* Saturday/Sabado - Saturn/?