skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About being overwhelmed:

Occasionally I look down at what I'm doing and look at all the 'mathy' symbols and know I'd have ran away screaming before. Occasionally I look ahead a bit and still have to fight the same impulse. Math can be ruthlessly cumulative, but steady progress, even if slow, eventually yields results.

One thing you can do is take a placement test at a community college to see what math class they'd place you in. Even if you don't take classes, it might help you know where you are at.
Only if they know you've jailbroken. If you have any problems requiring you to take it in, make sure you wipe your phone back to a "clean" OS image.
What does this have to do with hacking, tech, or startups?
Why was this posted on HN?
Prediction: this will be a complete farce and probably even impede market correction of the problem.

Also; I thought 3.3.1 wasn't in force yet? We still have no practical examples of where Apple will enforce this. Surely that is important before talking about action?
This is awesome. I've been hoping to find a curated bio/med related news site. This looks like it is just that. I would echo the other commenters and suggest toning down on the use of bold type.
Cydia or the other jailbreak market (can't recall the name).

Those certainly aren't remotely equivalent options, but my point was just that 3.3.1 is about Terms of Use for the App Store, not an attempt to legally stifle an existing secondary market as with car parts and ink cartridges.

It's thus a qualitatively different situation.

More relevant precedent might be found by looking at other situations where service providers have added terms to limit allowed devices/tools.
I can't see the price of Win7 license being an issue on a $550 PC. Normally the pay-back for including anti-virus and other trialware is more than the OEM windows license.

I suspect this is a negotiating point with Redmond.
If MS is serious about remaining relevent in the smartphone & table era - the price of a Win7 license might well be negative.
Based on the description in this blog post, this proof shows that the game is NP-hard. They have not indicated that they proved that it was NP-complete.
To many smaller merchants, outsourcing may not be an option. I'd suggest reading and understanding the PCI-DSS. While it may be a bit over-written and mundane, its good knowledge that can save a small, medium, or even large sized business owner a lot of Money.

Get more information on PCI-DSS here: https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org
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Ask HN: Facebook alternative - would you start one?
With all the attention on Facebook and their privacy, or lack thereof. I'm wondering if anyone is considering creating their own social network to correct the perceived negatives of Facebook and other existing platforms.
Are you a very fast reader, or did you buy them to read later? I suspect people will buy books as they finish reading them... hence, comparing books sold on iPad/Kindle isn't indicative of anything.
Download and install better touch tool (http://blog.boastr.net/) and you will quickly change your opinion about the Magic Mouse. It has made the Magic Mouse hands-down THE best mouse I have ever used. Combining multi-touch with a mouse surface is an incredible innovation, and I'm surprised more people haven't recognized this.
Conversation with friend from Seattle:

Him: "It's funny that San Franciscans say they live in the Northwest."
Me: "Really? What do people in Seattle call the area San Francisco is in?"
Him: "The tropics."
Please read the guidelines for the answer:

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It’s official: young entrepreneurship is sexy.
Good platforms get updated instantly and aren't using too many unofficial APIs. If something so awful happens on an upgrade that it breaks such a middle layer, it will also break many native apps which will also need upgrades.

Also, applications written for cross-platform development tools are higher-level and for complying with any new interfaces you may have it's just a matter of rewriting some bindings. In case the change is so radical that it needs architectural changes (like from Carbon to Cocoa), you can always force tool vendors to update their platforms by pulling out Carbon completely (how could they do that if some of their own apps are still on Carbon?)

In fact I would bet that applications on stuff like MonoTouch would've gotten upgraded from Carbon to Cocoa a lot faster than native apps were.

Really, you're setting up a strawman argument.
Introducing FlockDB, Twitter's Graph Database
Wait a second, if this is getting popular because of the recession, why is it more expensive than Whole Foods?
If it's that easy to create a separate site, it'll be easier to reach the relevant audience with distinctive branding and naming and without the clutter of peripheral sites with limited interest.

I emailed a few medically-minded friends, but if I'd said, "Here's a section on this site which might interest you," vs, "Here's a site that might interest you," it seems less relevant.
I really hate the political correctness of business relationships. It forces people to read between the lines to try to figure out what is really going on.

The author seems to feel there is little upside to being straightforward with people and alot of potential downside. I think if you're truthful without being a jerk about it people will generally appreciate it. Those who don't are probably not the kind of people who whose opinions will greatly hurt your reputation anyways. Shouldn't better communication always lead to better chances of success?
I don't think anyone (by anyone I mean techies or people specifically interested in this, read: tiny minority of their user base) really cares about this. People that do won't rush to join yet another social network and give them more personal info in the hopes that they'd be better with it than Facebook.

I actually think Facebook is doing the public a service by being up front with the lack of privacy you have on the internet. Do not ever, ever assume that you can hand over your private information to a corporation operating under US privacy laws and hope that they'll treat it respectfully (by some conservative definition of respectfully).

Social networks, by their very nature are about sharing personal information, and anyone thinking otherwise should ask Facebook for a refund.
Here's a comment about that comparison from an x264 dev:

"We talked about that on IRC, both with x264 and Theora people: all considered it one of the worst articles they had ever seen.

They screwed up aspect ratio, luma levels, BT.601 vs BT.709, and so many other things in their comparison that you might as well throw the entire thing out. Plus they used an incredibly bad H.264 encoder. It’s practically a checklist of how to be completely incompetent idiots."

http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=292#comment-2768

You couldn't have picked a worse test, out of the many that have been done over the last year or so.

The fundamental mistake he's made (though there's a whole catalog of them) is that the bitrate for Theora is constant, while the H.264 is variable so H.264 saves up bits from the easy parts for the hard parts while Theora is set up as if it was live streaming and so it just uses the same bandwidth for both the easy and hard bits.

The original article that the two clips are from is here, you can see responses from Xiph and others pointing out what he's doing wrong, though it reads strangely as he had to rewrite it twice due to feedback before he gave up:

http://www.streaminglearningcenter.com/articles/ogg-vs-h264-...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting
These were annual figures. I figured out that average Kindle ownership time is about a year assuming growing sales.
There are better articles to complain about. Like the one about a recall on children's Tylenol or how many iPads have been sold.
It's almost a tradition now that startup = sweatshop. That's the problem -- I have zero tolerance for sweatshops, even though I have nothing against startups.

Too many people equate hours with value; reality is that if you're working burnout hours, you're writing bugs (not code) and creating more work for yourself rather than knocking things off of your to do list.

There are going to be times when you'll work extra hours if you care about what you're doing, so that's a given. But if you get to a point where you're consistently working ridiculous hours, your SO should drag you away from the computer, slap you silly, and tell you to stop and think about what you're doing, because you're obviously doing it wrong.

I've worked for several startups... not once have I encountered a situation where working long hours helped to get the job done, but I have frequently experienced the opposite. In every sweatshop project I've been in, whether a startup or not, I dreaded the first checkout, because invariably I'd spend a large chunk of my day fixing a lot of broken code.
Embeddable Tweets tomorrow?
I am speaking in general. I don't know Ruby, so I am not going to use that in any code examples.
If his start-up is his first priority now, it probably always will be, even on the off chance that it's successful.
BeOS is believed to have gone to of Palm in the hardware/software split. That means ACCESS owns Be.
You may want to be careful in saying this. It's generally frowned upon for people to compare HN to reddit or Digg without ample justification (which a single duplicate submission isn't).
“The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil.” Sheikh Yamani, Saudi Oil Minister, 1962-1986
In the case of uptime I'd use an inverse logarithmic plot of the amount of downtime.
990 days ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243

105 days ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1060176
They announced in January, at the iPad unveiling, that it was unlocked.
Assuming generics are availble. In plenty of countries generics are confiscated on import because the 'brands' have sued the manufacturers of the generics.

For instance:

http://www.thepharmaletter.com/file/46800/eu-commissioner-de...

In lots of countries they simply are not available at all.
I almost posted something to this effect a moment ago.

If 2/5 of the articles you submit hit the front page, it shows you have good discretion and a good understanding of this community.

I'd be willing to bet that a huge percentage of the articles coming from smallish/new websites are submitted by a proxy of the author.

Same practice, just hidden. I prefer your approach.
I think theres space for creating a social network for private groups of friends - rather than competing head on with facebook.
Yeah, favicon is coming! I was so concerned with making the apple webclip icon that i completely forgot about the favicon. :P
Couldn't you concievably develop with Mono, though?
ACM-style programming competition, but with support for Lisp, Haskell and others
Ok, command line interfaces are certainly no problem for anyone reading HN but calling them easy seems slightly, uhm, naive.

Also, manpages are awful if all you want to do is encode easily (they also aren’t such a nice read) and their only other documentation – the examples pages – is chuck full with broken links.
Kindle 2 costs $260 new. The cheapest iPad is $500. Want 3G, like the Kindle has? $630, plus $15/month.

It does one thing, and it does it well: reading books.
A combination of subsidies and taxes could align incentives well in advance without resorting to outright rationing.
> All of my kids' medicines were affected (9 bottles, 4 different kinds), and a friend found the same.

9 bottles and 4 different kinds of medication for your children ? Wow, they must be very ill then, I'm really sorry to hear that. Good luck with that!
I have a lot of free book but a lot of paid ones too.

I bought everything written by Terry Pratchett via Amazon and maybe 30 books from O'Reilly direct from them.
I'm afraid not, but here's a funny Amazon.com review that roughly shows where they fit into string theory: "The string theorists were scammed!" http://www.amazon.com/review/R2H7GVX4BUQQ68/ref=cm_cr_rdp_pe...
What I'm working on will have the side effect, I hope, of moving into a competing social network but with clearer privacy constraints.
All the reports I'm reading say you only see EDGE on it when using T-Mobile
> Microsoft force you to use .Net (of some form) and their APIs because that fits their business model

You can always develop in Java with your favorite tools and transform the generated bytecode to .NET using IKVM. You can have your own abstraction on top of XNA and SDL, so you don't have to change anything when porting a game from the JVM to the XBox.

Nothing stops you from developing cross-platform apps, and in fact major games publishers are doing just that ... any game that's running on both the XBox and on Playstation 3 is using a intermediate layer.

Yeah, it's costly to distribute object code compiled from C/C++ or your tools of choice, but you have that option.

So wtf specifics are you talking about?
More reading to do :) Thanks again!
This reminds me of undergrad discussions of Heidegger, if you are reaching for authenticity, then you are always already inauthentic by definition.
It's interesting that BI quotes our community. I've never seen that for Reddit or Digg in any "serious" publication.
Tidsredovisning
sweet. reminds me of this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1315642
I was just working with it last night, it definitely has many missing features. I was most interested in modifying their color scheme to something more to my taste.

I am using it to make my own editor for dynamically modifying my own frontend/backend built using Node.js.

As well I'm working on a patch for SuperStylin(Which needs a CSSSyntax):

http://johnboxall.github.com/superstylin/

I know for sure that the following is broken:

1) No CSSSyntax

2) The theming system is broken and there is only one theme that is hard-coded (At least in the embedded version as far as I can tell), I got around this by just modifying the hard-coded values to my tastes.

If anyone has quick questions, just ask.
Is there a genetic component to Aspergers?
try Mathoverlow, probably...
27 books per kindle looks kind of unrealistic. I have own kindle for last 6 months and I have bought only 3 books and few free ones. I have also bought few printed editions because they are not available on kindle.
XMonad on OSX
I haven't played this game but it looks like the certificate is just the solved level-- verifying that a cleared path exists can definitely be done in time polynomial with the level size.
Absolutely. Especially in the sense that a religious person listening to someone pray is probably praying along by agreeing with them in thought.
I don't mean to be harsh, but your article made me think that you were more interested in making strident, overly assertive statements than in having a conversation.
Your broker just buys a CDS on you, and then when you default, they get their money and whatever stock you bought. And since most people don't default, the bank that issued the CDS makes money too.

Playing numbers games helps everyone grow their capital. You just have to do it intelligently.
Linux File Security Training at the ACLU
I'm looking into Flask at the moment for some small projects I have in mind. While it's very much a young project, it looks very promising in the long term and already has good documentation.

The framework is very easy to learn and Pythonic, and has good foundations (Werkzeug and Jinja2). It definitely fits into the problem space where Django would be too much overhead, and could well become a viable alternative to Pylons.
Can you convince him to put the project on github?
Sounds a lot like California.
It's good for the mind with a clutter free desk :) Trying to make it so everywhere I work.
Auditory mirror cells, perhaps?
really excited about this, having dealt with slony-1 built-in replication is a welcome feature.
The similarities between cults and Apple (with Jobs at the helm) is pretty well studied and written about. The good news is that people who buy Apple products actually get something of value for their money -- so it's far less sinister.
The solution is to block tcr.tynt.com: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1299066
Maybe, but I've downloaded about 30 books since Christmas. Many were free; I only paid money for 12.
That's not the WebOS source code, that's their hacked version of ALSA (etc.)
Does this cause any problems if you have foreign key constraints? I remember running into that problem a couple years ago when restoring a pg_dump.
I think it will be SF for a very very long time, possibly for ever.

The challenges involved in this are such that I really find it hard to believe that there are people that think this is 'just around the corner'.
Zoom all the way in. The quality is so bad, you can downsample it by the factor of 2 (or maybe even 4) without any detail loss, (which reduces the number of pixels by the factor of 4, or 16 respectively). So it's really a 3-10 gigapixel panorama.

Also notice ugly vertical stripes in the sky area. I'm not sure what caused that.
I've been waiting for this to happen for a while and I'm both excited and scared.

No longer are photos anonymous just because they are in a place that doesn't have you name attached. This is just the beginning of this technology.
Or, people just like their phones to make noise. That's my guess.
Come on. You can take issue with the methodology of the study, but at least have a little basic respect.

Essentially the conclusion was that not everything can be explained through simply dividing by hours worked,

Which is exactly what you'd expect if there were a pay gap.

but there are a variety of possible explanations including both discrimination, career choice and work/family balance.

Fair enough, there are multiple causes. But if you look at the factors they account for (and which therefore fail to explain the missing 20 cents on the dollar, see pages 2 and 9), many of them are closely tied to work/family balance and career choices: experience, occupation, marital status, hours worked per year, etc. Few, if any, are proxies for discrimination or other social phenomena out of any particular woman's immediate control.
I usually buy books in batches of 3-5, or even more if I'm perusing the free books.
I got 45k visitors to my personal blog in the first month, and over 200 comments on my first post. But I didn't really think to blog about how I did it. Consider this my how-to post:

1. I wrote something interesting and original.

2. I told some people about it and posted on HN.

3. They told some people about it and posted it on Reddit.

4. They told some people about it and posted it on StumbleUpon.
Apple is now the 3rd largest company in the US by market cap, behind Exxon and Microsoft.

Given the scrutiny and convictions that Microsoft has undergone as a technology company, Apple is now a natural candidate for inquiry by government.

The underdog label is gone.
Reddit has been quoted numerous times; the last one I remember was some FoxNews story.
Agreed mostly, but I would argue that hitting the front page is more luck than quality (at least 60/40 in favor of luck, timing, etc).
Apple iPad tops one million sales in 28 days
Naw, not those medications. Basic baby loadout is: Tylenol (teething, bad colds), Benedryl (mostly "oops, guess he's allergic to that!"), Motrin (my wife appreciates that Tylenol and Motrin are processed by different parts of the body and switches between them so as not to overload one of them; perhaps excessively cautious, especially as we don't use a lot anyhow, but hey....), and gas-suppressant (Mylecon).

I do not know how parents lived before gas suppressant. Well, I do, actually, and I am glad that we have these things. So much "colic" of the past is actually covered by one of these three basic medicines. (Though by no means all of it.)

And, that's four. Make sure you have a supply of at least all three kinds on hand at all times, because you do not know when you will be quizzed at 3am. If you're not sure what's up, the gas suppressant seems pretty harmless (directions are roughly "Use at will not more than 20 times a day", and we've never even come close to that), followed up by one of the pain suppressants. (It may seem terrible to just squirt pain suppressant down someones throat if you're not sure that's the problem, but remember we're dealing with people who are absolutely incapable of telling you what's up... you have to guess. Also, no, we are not hiding chronic problems. It's pretty much always been teething, which our child has taken harder than some, though not particularly hard. A couple unpleasant days, then a couple of clear weeks, is the usual pattern for our kid. And honestly, side effects for occasional usage of Tylenol or Motrin are basically nil.)

(Basically, what all these parenthetical are boiling down to are "If you don't have kids, I'm not interested in your theories" and "You don't have enough evidence to decide whether I'm overmedicating based on this post, so stuff it, and also see my first point." What you ought to be seeing here is someone who is actually concerned and thinking about the issues and has a lot more data about the local situation than you do. And not you specifically, jacquesm, just people in general who are always so quick to judge based on two quick paragraphs with nowhere near the necessary data to actually judge....)
Looks like someone out techcrunched techcrunch. Same citations of questionable sources, same wild speculations.
The lack of rounding on the query time on noostr is driving my OCD crazy, LOL

(but otherwise the code is pretty decent)
Are you talking about the headline or the article? Because the article appeared to me to be rather nuanced and not at all strident.
Agreed. We pay ~$24 a week for our CSA share (which is generally plenty for our family of four, and often includes other stuff like eggs or cheese each week). During the winter, I pay at least that much in produce at the local co-op.
Every single submission they posted relates to the HN community in some way. I would hardly call that spam. Since when did we start penalizing people for creating original content rather than submitting/re-posting other people's content?
I always get annoyed when people stretch the definition of religion, because it's seldom useful, and usually used to equivocate.
"Our intent is to encourage innovation, discussion, and design with the right of the window title bar. We have some ideas, and others are already springing up in the community."

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-themes/...

I think it was mentioned in other places too but I can't find it now.
> There were a few faltering attempts with Windows Mobile

In 2003 I had a iPaq PDA with Pocket PC 2002. It had a marketplace ... some of my apps where sold by the local HP distributer and I was quite happy ;)

These devices where not mainstream because of poor hardware capabilities, and because of the lack of public Wifi / 3G networks, but still I was amazed by how much it can help me organize.

Apple makes cool products and its timing was perfect. That's about it.
Cool, California doesn't need the tax revenue anyway.
Worry about SEO? Better worry about your project
A BMW is 3x the price of a Toyota but has the same number of wheels and pedals. It doesn't go too much faster either.

When you look at a spec sheet or list of bullet-point features, and can't seem to see the attractiveness of a good-selling product, you are probably missing the forest for the trees.

[edit] Also, a futon is a bed and a couch - two use cases for the price of one! Yet it hasn't exactly taken over beds altogether. There's something to be said for devices that excel at a single primary task.
OK, so given that I said I generally don't think it's beneficial but it is in Cucumber's particular case, why would you ask me how it's beneficial in general?