skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've fixed the cookie/remember token issues in Chapter 9. See especially

http://www.railstutorial.org/chapters/sign-in-sign-out#sideb...

and the material surrounding

http://www.railstutorial.org/chapters/sign-in-sign-out#code:...
Good Inexpensive Knife Sets
I tried watching Timecrimes, but just couldn't make it through. Found it to be horrible.

Maybe there were some interesting ideas, but it just felt so clunky and amateurish.
"Microsoft" represents hundreds of different places to work, and I'm pretty sure Google does too. Different teams at large employers can be worlds apart. The corporate culture that they all have in common is a thinner stripe than most people think, especially when it comes to how you really feel about your day-to-day work and your ability to get things done.
Yeah, that is what stuck out from this article, I had to take the majority of those courses 10 years ago to get my Bachelors.

A WWW Programming course to get your Master's? In Perl? In 2009?
How in the world did this get 172 points?

After this I almost stopped paying attention: "It's my philosophy that it's better to accept a few invalid addresses than reject any valid ones, so I'm shooting for 0 false-positives and as few false-negatives as possible."

But then I looked at the regexps and they miss an absolutely trivial fact: valid email addresses can end in a dot. "jemfinch@supybot.com." is just as valid (more so, in fact) than "jemfinch@supybot.com".
Not sure what tilts me more, reading reddit comments or reading that reddit comments are supposed to be excellent.

That place has been a sewer for years and I hate that it was ruined.
CACM Aricle: The Resurgence of Parallelism
Once I got the basic configuration and initial stuff down, the mail server's uptime has been ... hmm. Pretty damn close to 100% I think. I think there was an outage a bit back, but that one was my fault. I dicked up one of the databases or something.

On the flip side, I never have to worry about missing email. Like, for example, the time (yesterday) that I tried to send code samples from a WP exploit that did a neat job of turning the web server into an IRC-controlled zombie via a fun little Perl script. The person I was sending them to had a Gmail address.

Guess who never received the files? (And wasn't notified, either...)
A Tour Through the Visualization Zoo
Elasticsearch is definitely the hotness. I use it with riak to index json. Riak search is coming but elasticsearch is here now. The http interface to elasticsearch (and riak) makes it dead simple to get data into and out of the index.

Keep up the good work kimchy!
Netflix and the Future of the Entertainment Business
What is the room for optimization? About one second per frame on my ipad defeats the whole point
Ah, that is the result of the Readability, http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ algorithm, it is a bit greedy and chopped off some of the content.

If there are better algorithms/tools for scraping content please let me know.
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I dont know my mom and my dad said just do what makes me happy. Reinventing yourself is easier said that done. My entire identity is based on being a .com wiz kid.
I've tried twice to submit something. It's not appearing in "Newest Code" or anywhere else.

I'm attempting to use an existing gist. Perhaps that's the problem?

http://gist.github.com/417955
The Earth Is Not Flat: An Analysis of a Sunset Photo
I define a "good idea" as something that is possible to realize; practical and realistic. If it's not practical business decision, it's probably not a good idea.
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As a blogger, the fact of the matter is, all I ever use Digg for is skimming to see if they have any cool videos to post. I don't even use Reddit for that anymore. I feel like their communities aren't super-welcoming like HN is, and have avoided them.

I think that Kevin realizes that to reach a broader audience the site needs to have value for people who don't choose to be active members of the community (or want their own little niches). Facebook does some of this, but it's too closed-off (unless you're on a fan page). Twitter does some of this, but it's too broad in some ways. If anything, it kinda takes the best elements from each.

Digg has a lot of problems with the way its audience has grown, and as a result, it's become overly-influenced by one core group of people: Young guys. Jezebel actually called them out on this recently:

http://jezebel.com/5531991/boys-will-be-boys-the-problem-wit...

If you want to win the influence game, you have to have more than just guys and more than just Justin Bieber fans. And the fact of the matter is, you can still have a huge audience on Twitter even without ever touching the trending topics. The current Digg, you have to roll the dice the right way. Reddit, you have to also keep your fingers crossed.

And to win the publishers over, you have to a) not treat them as if they're jerks for wanting to build traffic b) not waste their time. This design does both.

I'm going to use this once it goes up, because it doesn't feel like the deck is stacked against my little blog ( http://shortformblog.com/ for the curious).
boy, do we need tax simplification. all of this micromanagement of our lives isn't sustainable.

I doubt if anybody could determine the total cost to the economy. Of course, costs aren't anything lawmakers are concerned with.
Any time someone makes such a statement, I can't help but think of this:

http://xkcd.com/192/
She lost me at "welcome". Come to think of i'd actually use most of what she'd ban.
"Fair enough, but there's nothing overtly weaponizable about communication technology."

Um, what? DARPA was funding it for a reason. How do you kill someone with a network packet? Quite simply. The packet contains "Hey, sarge, go here and kill those guys." Without modern communication you don't have a modern military.
This is a bigger deal in the government, especially the DoD, where there might be an Internet website, a NIPRnet website, a SIPRnet website, a JWICS website, etc.
So, sometimes it's appropriate - for most companies, probably redundant.
Hmm. A solid idea, but it's important to contrast it with a less desirable, but superficially similar methodology, namely "Development Driven Development":

1. First, develop some code

2. Think about whether it solved the problem

3. If not, repeat until it does

...which I fear is a rather more common variant.
As I said previously, Nero's complaint appears to be that the original MPEG-2 patents have expired and thus they shouldn't have to license anything, but since MPEG LA keeps adding patents to the pool they have to keep paying as long as these additional patents are valid. So the problem is not the number of patents per se, but the fact that the MPEG-2 pool still has any (unexpired) patents in it at all.
GitSharp, git for .NET and Mono
Bottom line is that evaluating a startups product based on it's similarities to macro-level competitors is a bad idea. It's about what clicks with the companies own customers.

Digg will launch the product and find out quite quickly whether or not these social features works well with its users.

It's possible the development of these features was based off of significant data drawn from testing existing social features with its userbase.
And what is on BigDog's back? A pack of six of these buggers and support infrastructure for them (larger battery, for instance, or a generator). Localized air surveillance and potentially semiautonomous to boot.

And I mention this because that's just the direct application of these two devices with no (significant) new research necessary.

While the news is flooding with doom and gloom (and with some justification), times are getting interesting real quicklike where few people are looking.
Anyone interested in reading more about this should check out this paper that was fairly central in advancing the debate over the last four years. It's an interesting read, and highlights some of the challenges with matching tax policy to desired outcomes. http://victorfleischer.com/archives/80

Also, this is an interesting blog archive from when the author of that paper was a regular contributor, as the debate picked up in 2006-2007: http://www.theconglomerate.org/taxation/page/3/
Do what makes you happy. The best advice, indeed. Just don't give up.
"How I Saved My Company" -- new NYTimes video series
I disagree on the less signal part of your comment. To me, it looks like more and more signal. Since search, we've seen maps, mail, reader, chrome, android, app engine, big table, google docs, wave, google voice, a google branded phone, google fibre to the home for those lucky enough, prediction api, charts, dns services, @font-face directory, google home page, and others many others.

Sure, some of those have been buyouts. But overall that is a lot of signal as far as I'm concerned.
Hey David,

You obviously know a lot more on this topic... but where exactly does it say in that section that TLDs are prohibited from receiving emails?

From my reading, it seems to suggest the opposite, e.g. "In the case of a top-level domain used by itself in an email address, a single string is used without any dots."

I've re-read that section many times and forgive me if I missed it — it's late! =)

People have been posting conflicting responses throughout this thread suggesting that TLDs can/cannot receive emails, and I'd really like to know which should be valid... thanks!
This is supposed to be a positive aspect of defense R&D spending?
I was wondering when this would be mentioned. Nobody seemed to care, really, while it was going on...

One more thing. The water pressure at 5,000 feet is over a ton per square inch - yet that oil is POURING out of that whole - shows you what kind of pressure the oil is under.

With the Top Kill thing they are pumping mud down the pipe to stop the oil.

With an eight inch pipe the pressure would be 4 squared time pi times the 1.17 tons PSI to get 58.8 tons in total - you need that much mud in the pipe to just break even - and you have to pump it in that hard just to get it in at all...
Robotics research in Japan is primarily aimed at defending against giant space monster invasion. Oh wait, I guess that falls under defense.
"Ask Twitter": incentive driven responses for social networks
I like /pics. Different strokes for different folks.
There's no excuse for a modern mail client, regardless of how it's implemented, to take 30 seconds just to open the display that's used for composing an email. Yes, that's how slow GMail is for some of us.
Or the resistance will "jailbreak" some of these and turn them against their evil masters.
Steiner Tree Problem
I agree they are annoying. I guess I'm just less annoyed than you are. Cmd-a Cmd-c Tab Cmd-v has a very negligible impact on the amount of keystrokes I make in a day. Typing my address again doesn't even make a real difference now that I think about it, 3 seconds or so.

Have you ever abandoned a sign-up because of the e-mail confirmation?
I've been surprised at the number of forms that tell me my email address, which has a single-letter local part, is invalid.
I retired from reddit 7months ago, but let me direct you to code.reddit.com where I encourage you to contribute :)
Rdfquery - RDF, RDFa, and Microformat jQuery plugin
Watching that video gave me one of those moments when you think you are seeing the future. Something from science fiction suddenly brought into the real world. Amazing achievement from an engineering standpoint. Kudos to the guys who made it happen!
awesome. the first out-of-control robot swarm is gonna be so freakin scary.
Not only that...but basing your opinion on the 'proper direction' of the product on just a video shown of some of the features, will likely lead to a misjudgment.

Then further insinuating about the motives of creator of the product is, quite frankly, reckless.

If you have inside information, or have used it extensively, then feel free...but not just based off of one video.
you'd be all paranoid too if godzilla kept invading.
And from what I hear, it's quite easy to move around teams at Google until you find one that suits you.
Russian Man Single-Handedly Builds Underground Subway System
its time a bounty was offered for getting this job done. BP has failed. They ought to be made to offer $100 million bounty to whoever shuts down that well first.

surely there is someone out there that knows how to do this or who has the will to forge a new solution. an underwater "Red Adair", if you will.
That's a great idea and I'm going to do just that. I looked at the Jan 2011 50 strike which has an Open Interest of 10k (largest of all the other strike prices) for a current ask of 2.14 a contract. The implied volatility isn't too high (35%) as well so the premium for buying those calls don't have too much time value volatility baked in.

Plugged in some estimates if bought now and sold on August 1st with the same IV (implied volatility) at different price points assuming it goes back to it's normal trading range of 50 - 60. Profit per contract (% gain in parentheses - divided by current ask price of 214) at different stock prices for BP.

50: 187 (87%)
55: 479 (224%)
60: 852 (400%)

The risk of losing the entire premium of 214 per contract by Jan 2011 doesn't seem to likely and the risk/reward ratio seems to be favorable.
In another life, we'd have made usercreated reddits a better solution for the curse of popularity.

People weren't making "friends" on digg for much else than spreading their content, so I suspect most of the networks in place aren't adding much value to me as a reader. V4 makes the process all the more transparent - publishers plugging in RSS feeds that autodigg each post is a far cry from a reader powered frontpage. And to be fair, of those first 10 redditors you miss, over half of them were me ;)

There's still a void between random links my facebook friends like and random links tweeters (?) I follow like that solves the signal/noise problem. Someone will fill it - I'd love for it to be newslily. Just promise you'll gank from Steve's commenting system, it really is top notch (in my biased opinion).
When you submit an item it should start out upvoted by you; otherwise if you don't realize you can upvote your own submission you start at 0 instead of 1.
It is actually pretty easy, you look for developers that understand minimum viable product and can explain their development methodology to produce software in such a manner.
How to write software
WPL Code Released to CodePlex
He's indeed CEO now, but the message to the VCs is that this appears to be a deliberate desparation move to find a suitor (remember we're post series C now) by bolting on the hot new things of the last year -- as opposed to the innovation that got digg to their titan status of years ago.
2011 Honda Pilot Review and Prices
There is a way to test to see if someone can get stuff done, but that usually entails hiring someone for a predetermined time (6 mos, a year, 2 years) and then evaluating whether they meet your standards at the end of that time period. If they do, they stay on. If someone really wants to work for your organization, I can guarantee that they'll do everything in their power to get stuff done during this time period.
For this demo CPU usage was about double the native Flash plug-in on Safari 4.0.5. Probably good enough for a good chunk of Flash content on the web?
Surprisingly good story. I really liked how he put humanity in both positions of being technologically/morally superior and then inferior.
> I don't work for MS, but I must admit I'm impressed with Bing.

That's not surprising, given the person running Bing is Qi Lu. There's a reason they brought in an outsider: they just couldn't afford to screw this attempt up.

I've had the enormous privilege of working in his organization at Yahoo (I still have no idea how I was able to fool my interview panel into hiring me straight out of college and into that group).

That experience gave me an extremely highly bar in terms of choosing engineering organizations to work for. There's only a couple of non-startup companies I am willing to work at after this experience: most everyone else - including non-search parts of Yahoo - just does not get how to run an online service and are unwilling to listen to a young punk like me :-)
You certainly know him better than me, Owen. I don't profess to know Kevin at all. In fact, I'd be interested to read your "open letter to alexis: stfu, here's the real explanation for digg4"
Sculptris 1.0 video
They're not his competitor, he left Reddit months ago.
Fix Your Credit Report - Information You Should Know
You might want to take a look at Divvy: http://mizage.com/divvy/

It's similar to SizeUp and Cinch, but allows for quite a few more options. You can assign one window 33% of the screen and another 66% of the screen, and tons more. And you can make presets.

Seems like the perfect option for 30" monitors. You lucky dog...
Perhaps. But I've really moved beyond it, and anything I say is probably not going to be constructive (and I guess my comment fits that criticiscm). At least until I get a green card and get to be something other than an employee in this country. Because I'd really like to do rather than say.

As someone who used to work at a newspaper and harangue the business editor about how corrupt the editorial process was, long before digg, I occasionally get angry. Probably for similar reasons to your post.

Cmon green card...
Great post! Totally agree.

I dreamt up an idea for a site based on many of these concepts (with some slight variations) only a week or two back. I've been so excited that I've been furiously hacking together a prototype ever since. I think Kevin's really on to something here. Of course, as you said, execution will be key -- I'm confident that I can do it better...
Real Artists Ship.

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Real_Artists_Ship...
Roberto Ierusalimschy of Lua fame often uses this example of how PEGs (parsing expression grammars) can be much easier than regexps for some tasks.

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2009-10/msg00817.html
Hmm... User-created diggs (like we have on reddit, but better articulated & designed - I say this as the closest thing reddit had to a designer, I'm no designer). I have no idea about headcount, so I won't speculate there, only to say that reddit's ratio of 1 non tech for every 5 technical worked well for us.

And i'd make that digg mascot more prominent, maybe change it around for holidays, too.
Ah. And I was wondering why I didn't see it anywhere. One more reason to run AdBlock and NoScript.
Exactly the reason why I felt OK publishing it. I'm still a redditor of course, but breadpig is my only ... uhh.. horse in this race.
bdevil1....well, given your enthusiasm, when you launch would you like to come on my podcast and talk about it?

I am doing a podcast about various ideas/projects/stuff that HN members are working on.

Or, you can even come on before and give a sneak peek too - if you would like. I think the community would love to hear more about your story.

I put up the first episode and am pivoting based on the feedback I got from the HN community: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1379942

If you are interested, email me: marc {at} ideatin {dot} com

Thanks.
Your problems with Reddit can be easily remedied by subscribing to only the sub-reddits that you care about.
I thought it was pretty cool to go to the club and check it out. I thought it was pretty uncool to disparage the possibility of danger, especially given that people who do in fact follow up on human trafficking for a living were taking the matter seriously.

I have nothing against rationality, and I agree that Metafilter can take on some serious pile-on momentum, but really - if my 18-year-old daughter had been in the progress of doing something as colossally stupid as this in Moscow, and a bunch of online Russians headed it off at the pass, I would not at all be pleased if one of them went to the club and said, "Hey, this is a perfectly cool club and I didn't see any actual sex slaves in residence, so you should all get over yourselves."

Going to the club, though, especially after they were all, "OMFG don't mess with the mafia, bingo!" - that bit, I really liked. I mean, it's a club; if they regularly offed their clientele it wouldn't stay open long.
Wow! It worked amazingly well on my old macbook/firefox. Actually, it worked better than flash, which drops the aby audio longer that 30seconds.
Indeed it does. Essentially, V8 is optimized for embedding in Chrome and doesn't work that well embedded in a web server.
Tell PG: My old YC application is cached and wont let me apply
I started filling out an application for the last batch of companies, but the timing was wrong so I didn't finish it.

But now, when I click on the apply link, it says:
"Sorry, this application is no longer editable"

I think that is because the application was never submitted and is cached as an old application.

Can you fix that for me please?

Thanks.
If that is true, then this is something to aspire to, "If one man can build an entire subway system, imagine what I can do with <x>".
I wonder- is it the asking itself that's illegal, or is the ban on asking simply a convenient and easy to enforce proxy for the real legal issue (using a job candidate's personal situation or background in a discriminatory fashion)?

If it's the asking that's issue, then, sure, Facebook/Twitter/whatever is fair game (although I'd be curious to learn what a judge would say on the matter). If it's the discrimination itself, however, then I'd expect the same rules (i.e., don't touch it with a ten-foot pole) to apply.

Personally, if I were doing hiring, I'd go out of my way to remain as ignorant as possible of any candidate's personal status, simply as a "covering my ass" tactic. That would (of course) include avoiding the standard verboten interview questions, but I would take it a step further and actively avoid looking them up on Facebook or whatever. If I avoid ever learning whether or not they have kids, I can't be accused of not hiring them on account of of their family obligations.
Creative minds 'mimic schizophrenia'
Don't know where the problem is, but there seems to be no code listings on the site right now. I saw three code posts a few hours ago... ??

EDIT: Now I see two posts, but neither is one of the three that I saw earlier.

EDIT 2: And now one of those two posts is gone.
Hrmm....that was quick PG...literally 5 minutes.

Thanks much.

Edit: Actually...sorry, false alarm. I still can't access the actual application :( Still need help!
Well, Gordon only supports Flash 1 and 2; most actual Flash on the Internet probably uses some features introduced in the following eight versions. I can't find any specs on which Flash versions Smokescreen supports, but I would bet that StrongBad Emails aren't old enough to work in Flash 1 or 2.
I didn't do anything.

It's getting kind of late to apply for this summer though...
I agree. It seems as if she's taking whatever she's experienced in Microsoft (which is one company) and applying that to any other company with multidisciplinary teams and a large bureaucratic layer.

She should, at least, give working in Google a chance (maybe a couple years or so?) before writing something like this.
I don't see a need for a co-host. I used to produce a half-hour weekly program in a similar interview format. Changing hosts mid-stream would have seemed artificial and disturbing.
Evernote CEO calls BS on “the best product doesn’t always win”
Fair enough. Can you still fix it for me though ? :)