skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look at the smile on that kid.
In my country (Uruguay) we have proportional representation by region - each region has a number of allotted representatives, and they are assigned with proportional representation. So they have knowledge of issues in the (broad) area.
I tried to resist the urge to say that monkeys don't wear shoes because I'm sure I'll quickly get downmodded, but failed.
You have to push the right arrow key, it's a slide show. Sorry for not having better instructions, it's based off of the http://apirocks.com/html5/html5.html#slide1 presentation. The reason mouse clicks can't be used is because that would interfere with the JavaScript examples later on in the presentation.
Project Natal faces competition from Omek Interactive
And..?

BNP are not extremists. They're not blowing up Brussel to get UK out of EU.

It's democracy and free speech after all.
Ask HN: Free Programming eBooks
Let's create a library of free programming ebooks. If you know of any link please submit it for the whole community to enjoy. If anyone wants to create a site with all the links that's ok too.

Rules:
- free ebooks
- no amazon links, no referals
- preferably html, epub, pdf, latex
- all programming languages are important
- patterns, methodologies, design, etc
Yeah... it was kind of creepy discovering I was the only "fan" of an obscure book which has a description that I wrote and I picture I scanned.
I get a "download now" button on my iPad =(

edit: Works great on iPad. Copy/paste doesn't work for text, but that might be an iPad issue.
Here's my problem with the design: With the old one, my eyes could act like magnets, being quickly attracted to either the left or right side, sliding up and down either side when viewing search results / ads. Now I have to do this balancing act, putting in quite a bit of effort to keep my eyes on the center column. Whereas I previously just let the magnetic forces direct my attention with the old design, I now have to resist the pull from both sides to keep center focused, making it extremely uncomfortable. Part of me thinks this new design probably yielded more ad revenue because now people can more easily succumb to the pull from the right. It's a lot less polarized than before.
I'll start:

http://www.diveintopython3.org/

http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/html/
Never is a very long time in politics :/

If Lib Dems had gained seats, or at least not lost so many of their own seats, they would have had a much bigger chance of getting reform.
http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisptext.html

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX
I assume s/the/The/g ??
Those were just the company founders. The development is the part where you actually invent things.
It actually seems like standard procedure. They reset the market after 9/11, too. Basically, it seems like any time something really unusual happens, it's an excuse to go outside the rules. Back when I was involved in digital gold currencies, this kind of thing seemed pretty standard across the board: banks would just reverse transactions, freeze accounts, etc, any time there was anything unusual, and it seemed like our whole business was unusual, so we were in constant fear that money we'd received and disbursed would suddenly be unreceived after the fact. It was a nightmare, though; you got that part right.

My take away from my experience in that industry was that you can't actually trust banks or other financial institutions to follow the rules; the best thing you can do is to make sure you're lost in the crowd. Don't stand out, and you won't get hammered down. These trades and this whole episode stood out, so of course they're going to retroactively change it to the detriment of anyone for whom it was a good thing.
I have no iPad, but Opera 10.52 (Windows) has a similar behaviour: The first three frames are there (with images), the rest of the sheets are blank.
Works really well here on FF3.6. This is REALLY awesome!
Now I don't feel so bad about having only 300 followers. And, case in point, I wrote exactly one tweet about hockey (wasn't even a good one) and now am followed by some Hockey website. I suspect they won't ever be RTing my standard fare of tech tweets.
So, what is your personal take on this? Is this the first time the wmf has made a syndication deal?
Tip: use left/right arrow keys to move
Climbers, boulderers, mountain bikers, etc. all talk like this.
Bowman is more describing why he doesn't like working there; he really doesn't make a claim that Google is making poor design choices from a business standpoint. He criticizes the use of data (aka, you know, evidence) as a crutch without giving a single example, theoretical or otherwise, of how reliance on data rather than the gut instinct of a good designer leads to a bad outcome.
Plain water is not a dilatant.

Skipping a stone or snowmobile is not the same forces in effect as stepping on water at less than 12mph with the tiny surface area of a human foot.

There is something very suspect with this whole video.
The problem is that Facebook is scraping data from Wikipedia, your email provider, and probably other locations, but pursuing criminal charges for a startup that scrapes data from them as "criminal computer trespass".
I am a doctor, and I work in the very relevant field of child psychiatry. Autism is a pediatric diagnosis because, like mental retardation, it is usually first identified in young children. Similar to mental retardation, the impact is life long. It does not go away by itself.
i'd thought the sans fonts would be the noble gasses.

i think a much better representation would be sans as metals, serifs as organics and transition from very spartan to very ornate. Helvetica and Times new roman as the top row. stuff built as postscript/pdf in the second row. not sure where to go after that.

certainly a disconnected wingding series as a separate row on the bottom.

A Knuth column would be fun.
Playing it safe on Facebook: What you need to do
That is extremely cool. I always found Scribd really frustrating to use - the disconnect between my normal browser use and the embedded Flash reader felt about the same as the disconnect caused by viewing the same file in Acrobat Reader, so I didn't really see the point of it.

If browsers take this onboard as a common HTML5 scenario to be optimised, and it becomes a viable, quick and plugin-free way of reading any document online, I will be very happy :)

Kudos to the Scribd team for the mighty effort this must have taken to implement.
In-memory Databases Do Not Excuse Fat, Bloated Applications
Non-Newtonian fluid on a speaker [video]
Standard trading systems have stoploss orders (sell if price < X), which don't have an option for a lowest price at which to sell.
We can't consume it faster than we can get it out of the ground. This is the main reason the oil price rose steadily through the 2000s and spiked in 2008: spare capacity shrank as demand rose against a maxed out supply until it disappeared entirely in 2007/08. The price super-spike was the market destroying excess demand the only short-term way it knows how.
Looks like there is something underwater in this video. Also note that the wave of his path is straight.

http://liquidmountaineering.blogspot.com/2010/04/running-on-...
Ask HN: Questions to ask a Hiring Startup
I'm going to interview for a startup next week for the first time. I'm currently employed by a Fortune 500 company and i've never worked for a startup before.

I've been told that it's acceptable to ask about their burn rate (assuming they get no more $ how long will they stay in buisness if they don't turn a profit), is this an acceptable question? Are there any other questions you would ask?
Inspired by this thread allegedly about running on water, I went an looked again at the "running on a non-Newtonian fluid" videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2XQ97XHjVw

That led me to this one, very similar to the clip from "The Big Bang Theory"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1327309

We've agreed here at work to try this as a reward when the current project is finished. We're also going to try to make the "Cornstarch Monster".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scbPKjU8Ssg
Because they are treated differently on the market.

Market orders (sell at any price) are handled first, and then, limit orders are. You can only guarantee one thing: either execution, or a price level. And when you're dealing with stop losses, you want to guarantee the execution in most cases.
"It just pollutes the web with content that is available in a better form elsewhere." - A lot of this already happens with aggregator sites, blog posts,auto-generated link bait sites etc. so this is nothing really new , so FB is only adding to the noise.
The scary part i suppose is the scale of it. If FB does this for everything and it gets searched/cached by the search-engines , we are going to have to start looking at results from the 5th page onwards.
Capricorn was actually spun off from the Internet Archive project to develop the storage tech needed to, well, archive the Internet.
The pages make other parts of Facebook more useful. Before these pages, you had to Google people's interests to find out what they were if you didn't already know, and if the results were ambiguous, you'd have to do something crazy like actually ask the person directly. Now interests are well-defined.

Sure, the solution they picked gives them ulterior SEO benefits, but to compare it to Mahalo and suggest that it's useless doesn't make any sense.
I've always wanted this product too. That may actually be workable, simple solution. If you see an interesting technology that you want to track, just subscribe to its wikipedia article's RSS.
Reminds me of the Google Chrome cartoon: http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/
Even the colors, characters and "objects with faces". Not necessarily a bad thing, just curious.
Press 'regular site' and select the presentation in the upper right corner.
I'd like to take this one step further and actually hold people who make big claims accountable. So part of the proposed website could have members actually contact the scientists (or journalists) every 5 years and find out if they're meeting they're predictions and if not, why not.
Impressive work, Matthew! And I'm pleased it led me to your "Prosper" db front-end: looking forward to following its development. ...and to your use of "unlicense'd" (did i get right number/type of quotes?).
> we are going to have to start looking at results from the 5th page onwards.

Yes, that is exactly what I meant by pollution.
Legal action only makes sense when there is some substantial amount of money on the line. Only punters waste their time suing someone over the theft of a proposal. If the proposal contained so much work that it could lead to lawsuit, the author should have provide a summary version with an option to receive a full version upon payment.

This kind of thing happens all the time when you put your best work on the line. I've always felt that you're better of putting in the effort up front and get left at the alter from time to time than you are to withhold the effort. It's a matter of enlightened self-interest. At some point, you will find a client who is tired of all the crap vendors they've worked with in the past and will pay you for what you're worth.
It's not true for every market that customer reviews are prominently featured at the sole point of sale and can immediately reflect reaction to prices set directly by the developer. That combination is pretty unique to the app store right now.
This is exactly how I feel. I have Adblock, but there is still a very strong pull to the left column that's distracting as I'm searching.
On certain exchanges, cancellations happen constantly. It's complex, but it's part of day-to-day operations and after a while it stops feeling unusual.
The common theme in almost all of these are:

1) implicit integer promotion causes hard to find errors
2) operator precedence is non-intuitive (just use parens anyways!)
People are just starting a witchhunt of sorts against facebook. Maybe a very small site/spammer would scrape wikipedia, but someone like FB obviously knows they would have a shitstorm rain down upon them if they "scraped" it.

Someone also said: "It just pollutes the web with content that is available in a better form elsewhere."

The thing is, we may know this, but I'm pretty sure the vast majority of people find it convenient that they landed on a page they might be interested in with useful information.
How to Prepare a Photography Essay
If writing is not something simple for you, then today is your lucky day! You have been asked to hand in a photography essay. It is a series or set of photographs which can either be “telling a story” or evoking a certain emotion in the viewer. Photography essays can include text as well
OK, but how big is a "region"? My constituency is the town I live in.

The point of the UK system is that a local level you are voting for the individual person you want to represent you. Sure they are usually a member of a party, but they don't necessarily have to have a history of toeing the party line. This does create some dilemmas (e.g. if you like your local Labour candidate but hate Gordon Brown, which seems to be a common theme). But on the whole, the local link is important. The candidate from any local area is likely to be just like the citizens who live there. That's how to get true representation.
These folks just went from my list of websites I dread visiting to "damn, that is some sweet technology".
California courts have made it easier to solicit customers of former employer
You're right, the video's explanation is totally wrong.

The proper information is here:

http://holosonics.com/technology.html
First person that types tl;dr gets a pie in the face
The problem wasn't really the filesystem I think. The card actualyl threw the disks out of the array and then refused to put them back in somehow.
Thank you for your kind words, yes I believe that all of your quotes match up nicely. I can't take all the credit, this is based heavily on the apirocks HTML5 slideshow and on the amazing work Paul Irish did on the jQuery 1.4 Hawtness series, standing on the shoulders of giants.
It's hardware RAID running on a single cheap controller. Use case is network-access only, so speed was not a concern for this build.
Would you mind writing up a tutorial. I am interesting in ZFS under FreeBSD, I have 8-Release downloaded and ready to go. Still working on getting the hardware up and running for it though.

Are you using 64-bit? I heard ZFS loves 64-bit.
Bit over/underflow?

Or Sotheby's was expected to reap a huge windfall due to all the traders and shareholders losing their shirts on $0/share stocks and having to auction off their estates?
Nokia Sues Apple Over Patents Again. This Time Over iPhone And iPad 3G
Apple is now Nintendo’s biggest problem
If you visit the page when not in a logged in state, you get a modal every 5 seconds or so telling you to log in.

But who wouldn't be logged in to Facebook 24 hours a day?
Funny. I've used an ARC-1260 in a 10x500gb raid-6 array for several years and it has never gone down. I've RMAd probably 4 drives to WD under warranty.

I've also had 2 software 5x1tb raid-5 arrays for about 2 years and they've never even lost a drive. Apparently WD improved their RE drives between the 500gb and 1tb versions, the difference in failure rate is huge.
Initially I was expecting the purchase of opinion through the long-played Flash vs. HTML5 gang/mob, "Down with Flash" signs high in the air, binary opinionated nonsense that is so common.

Respect paid to Flash for its use when it was needed.
Anyone have any insight on pricing for a couple 2 TB nodes? I hate talking to salesmen just to get a ballpark price.
The technical part of it is distributed but "my inbox" is entirely under my control.
At the very bottom:

View document source. Generated on: 2003-02-28 11:59 UTC.

I was thinking I'd seen this before -- a long time ago. How much still applies?
Seems like the first time was in April 2009 (http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Orange_an...).

Personally, I think this is a good idea. Granted, there get to be conflict of interest problems when more deals like this go down. But other than providing access to the data-feed Wikimedia seems like it doesn't have many options for revenue. Advertising and donations come to mind, and they already do the latter.

Personally I think AdSense on Wikipedia pages would both be effective (in the same way that AdSense on Google search results are useful--people go to these pages with an intent to find something), but it would also open up a can of worms. I like that Google occasionally gives Wikipedia money so it doesn't have to do that. :-)

Of course, I'm sure someone who has thought about it more could find ways to monetize Wikipedia. What if Wikipedia became so important that people would pay to edit the pages? There are corporations who would love to have the final word, and they could, so long as they paid for it, perhaps?

What I'd like to see is the importance of Wikipedia as a repository of human knowledge recognized on an international level (like the UN, perhaps) and then institutionalized the way the IMF is. A guarantee that Wikipedia will always be there, funded by the nations of the world, would be great.
Nice job, though I shudder to think about the vibration noise made by 8 hard-mounted drives in an aluminum enclosure... I'd be surprised if it didn't sound like a mouse stuck in a coke can full of nuts (the threaded, metal kind, that is... ;-)
Why not use the Raid Edition drives if you're at it? Supposedly better mtbf, longer warranty, and the to-me-unquantifiably-better TLER feature.
> If facebook is dying I'd like to see some proof

Me too. I think almost all of the claims of "X dying" are wishful thinking.
I don't know what a dilantant is, but in order for a human to maintain a high speed, he is pushing -- nay, driving -- his feet into the running surface. Water does not provide this level of resistance for something with a high psi such as a human foot.
Well, I didn't think those things were funny. They were just forced and random.
It's all about airflow. Those GP drives don't use more than 5W each so as long as you have good airflow around all of them it won't be a problem.
AH. Thank you!
I was wondering the same thing, given python 2.6 and 3.1, and leafing through the GoF book lately. Exploring that line of inquiry would make for a good article (or two, or more).
Interesting. I sort of assumed Python had singletons natively, because I'm so used to using them in Ruby.

This guy doesn't do it here, but you can make singletons relatively painless in Python by using decorators.
Unconventional thinkers or recklessly dangerous minds?
The only thing you can do with a bread maker is make bread. With an ipad, you can connect with your social network, read, play tons of games, watch almost anything, just be constantly online. And maybe, someday, we'll be able to use it to make bread as well.
New Ubuntu (Lucid Lynx) eats more power than Windows 7
Certainly not restricted entirely to sciences - my Mom got her BS around 1969; when she applied to law school, the secretary actually threw out her application because "Honey, if you want to meet lawyers [ie, to marry], just hang out in the law library, you don't actually have to go to the school." (She ended up getting an MLS instead, and loves being a librarian, so at least there's a happy ending to it)
New search engine launched www.timmp.com
Apparently indexes 130bn pages. Press releases all dated April 01, so April fools? Picked up on this as Metro newspaper (London UK) ran a piece on it a couple of days ago, saying that it had been founded by an 18 year-old who got $6mm funding for it. Can't find any reference to it on TC or elsewhere in blogosphere.
Don't feel too guilty. Many of us have the same problem!
Thanks for your elaborate answer.

The reason I'm curious is because I think that wikipedia is one of the best things ever to come out of the web, at least a fragment of the web seems to have realized its true potential.

It bothers me that wikipedia has to make these Faustian bargains in order to stay alive, and I agree fully with you that wikipedia ought to receive some funding from governments, as long as it does not come with 'strings attached'. I see wikipedia and facebook just about as opposite poles on the line of what the web could be like if we all cooperated with each other versus if we try to see how much we can screw each other over.

What worries me mostly is that by making more and more commercial ties that wikipedia will lose its independence, and will be beholden to those that fund it, and possibly no longer able to see clearly.

I think I'd have less of a problem with an adsense block on wikipedias pages than with these syndication deals, the fact that they could happen anyway (without benefits) doesn't really diminish that in my view.
Wow, you're right. Does that happen throughout Facebook's site? I can't imagine that's great for usability even if most users buckle under the constant pressure.
If they say no to payment, I'd consider going to their competitors and offering to sell them the proposal as a spec as well. It may also be worth publishing it on your website.
Looks like decorators were after the article was written:

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0318/

E.g. 2/28/2003 vs 6/5/2003
Facebook is more like AOL: aimed at the non-hard-core users. "Hackers" represent a tiny fraction of computer users, maximizing market share and maximizing stock value would mean catering to everyone except the "elite." Furthermore, as FB tends to cater to the popular crowd, I'll refer you to a PG essay on the impedance mismatch between the populars and the nerds:
http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
Learn to Create your own Facebook site
slide 10+ have their content missing
doesn't solve fundamental powerpointitis problem
The thing is I like the idea of building community/social pages around content like this. I had a similar idea a while back.

But I really don't like how Facebook have done it... auto generating all those pages.. and even then they are pretty static pages (no social interaction etc. worth noting).

No real net gain...
Depends what you consider "inventing". The Estonian technical co-founders of Skype were working together with Janus and Niklas already during Kazaa times, and were co-founding shareholders and behind the whole Skype architecture from day one. I would not call that outsourcing. Of course they don't mind you calling them whatever you like, as they got their 200 mUSD part :)
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> It just pollutes the web

That's a very apt description of 90% of Facebook.

I really don't need to receive reports about how my friend's farms are going.
Doesn't look like there's enough space for ventilation. Unless I'm missing something, heat could be a serious problem with this setup.
Great stuff. I forked it on GitHub and added support for [tab] cause it messed up the whole thing. Now it advances to the next slide.
This fascinates me because I see google as something that basically every single person I know uses. They don't need any more convincing. Who does google need to convince anymore? I understand there's competition, but they are already good enough in the looks department to become a basic web-use instinct. Why change?
Expect your trades will get reversed at the end of the day and you will not make any money.
But no one gets an alpine start to run across water.
Wow. Oddly enough this sounds like someone announcing a horse race.
The author of the article misses the fact that In-memory Databases are not the same as NoSQL. In fact, I have used a SQL In-Memory Database (or Main-memory Database) called CSQL, which is a SQL database.
ActiveRecord's Callbacks Ruined My Life
Coder Journeys From Wall Street to Prison
Show HN: My weekend project - CuteAdoptablePets.com
Just deployed my weekend project. It's a mashup of Petfinder results with Google Maps.

Let me know if you have any comments, questions, suggestions, etc. Thanks!
Clickable: http://cuteadoptablepets.com