skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But this also means, from a supporter's perspective, that football is unsatisfying because there is a dearth of scoring (one lucky kick undoes 90 minutes of effort from the opposition), and this does not reflect the nature of the match. Also, draws are common, even when there is a clear imbalance between the skill/ability of the teams. I've heard it concluded that the reason football fans are seen to be more 'thuggish' (media hype aside) is that the game often does not satisfy the primal urge to defeat someone/something.

True, the 'one lucky kick' possibility also means that your team wins when it really shouldn't have. Is this really satisfying to a supporter?

(I've also heard it concluded that the glut of scoring makes basketball less appealing for similar reasons, but I haven't followed it enough to determine whether this is true).
copy-paste broken in ff36 on snow leopard.
It doesn't matter that he's wrong. What matters is that the media has gotten a hold of this, and isn't going to let go any time soon.

Facebook is rapidly losing control of the narrative. They need to do some PR damage control quickly, or they're going to see this kind of fearmongering metastasize into something truly harmful to their business.

Just wait until a 'facebook allows sexual predators to stalk your children' story pops up and goes viral. I give it a week, two at the outside.
There is also a fairly useful debug module named epdb from the guys at rpath. It opens up a port and lets you netcat to it and debug remotely. This is great for running things in a virt and being able to actually cut and paste to the debug session.

http://bitbucket.org/rpathsync/epdb
Took about fifteen hours, with far too much of it spent cleaning up the HTML. Hell is other people's code.

Written in Vim with Sass and a tiny grid framework I built. Check out the Sass source if you like: http://nylira.com/p/wikipedia/css/sass/screen.sass

Deployed with Github, just for the practice.

I have far too much time on my hands.
Hmm hopefully will see lots of good videos come out of this! (being a southern hemisphere type has its disadvantages).
I am still a huge fan of the ubiquity project. Still love being able to invoke what is basically quicksilver in my browser.
The math behind Google
I don't know a ton about Facebook privacy, but by the time I was a few paragraphs in, it became obvious that this guy knows way less than me.
Moving a Wordpress blog to pure Clojure (& a 250% performance increase)
My only real point was that 300 dollars wasn't ever really in my budget but I go to college on scholarships and other such things so I'm probably different than many.

The engineering tools, especially what you get with many of the student editions are equivalent to programs sold for well over 3x and more than the price of commercial design suites but something that many of the engineering businesses have come to understand is that having students use their products gives them an advantage for when companies choose products. As well as the price difference between engineering software and design software many of the student editions come with large amounts of expensive add-ons for free and this is more than equivalent to a design suite.

The thing about photoshop and the other design items is that they are the de facto standard so instead of treating students as students they instead choose to lower to a still high price and expect students to buy rather than pirate.
These guys predict Brazil vs Serbia in the final, w/ Brazil winning. Based on GDP, population, & other demographics.

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/infographical-mor...
Funny, I've been hearing this for at least 15 years now.
Quick update: I've been contacted by 24 Companies in the last 6 hours and I've been impressed with the quality of services. HNers are working on some really cool projects! I'm working on personally getting back with each company, so don't feel bad if I haven't gotten to yours yet (I will by tomorrow at the latest).

Thanks for the encouraging responses, and keep up the great work HNers!
as far as 'not working', one bizarre thing I noticed lately in Facebook is that stuff that you delete on your wall doesn't get removed from the 'news feed' that everybody else sees.
So for example, there is no way to silently 'like' or comment on a post or somebody's picture. Even though you delete the corresponding entry on your wall, it still remains on the news feed...
Ask HN: Presentation Software?
Ideally I wanted some wiki format -> HTML5 sweet animation generator, that also could output a PDF.

I looked at the ancient S5:
http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/

But even Eric Meyers is back to using Keynote now:
http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2010/05/07/web-2-0-talk-html5-vs-flash/

What do you use for presentations at Conferences?
Stupid: A Metalanguage For Cryptography
Is anyone else kind of disappointed when they see dilbert.com listed as the URL for a story, but there's no Dilbert cartoon on the page?!
If you steal someone's money, but don't spend it, you still stole it.

Don't be ridiculous.

The victim is the artist who should have received compensation for your acquisition of the material.

How is someone victimized by the presence of a particular arrangement of magnetic dipoles on my hard-disk platter? The only way an artist can lose anything they're rightfully entitled to is if someone experiences what they've created without paying for it.

Guns made murder easier, but not more legal -- or more moral.

You've clearly thought this issue through, I can tell.
I know JJ - he is a die-hard Vim fan! :)
RescueTime (YC 08) CEO to step down
City Introduces Recycle Bins that Sing You a Song
I was really astonished by this when I moved to the US from Canada. Canada gives you a plastic card while after 7 years, my SSN card has pretty much turned into a disintegrating pile of paper dust.
News Start-ups Struggle to Put a “Price on Words”
That's because people are spoiled :P The service is free, meanwhile Facebook is a for-profit corporation so its responsibilities to the investors come first
Airbnb hiring 3 back-end engineers
Airbnb hiring 3 front-end engineers
" this article makes my head hurt, probably because privacy settings can just get complicated." [emphasis mine]

I think the point is that if the privacy settings are so complicated that even computer literate people have difficulty understanding them, then fb is duplicitous in the sense that this just isn't (and shouldn't!) be so complicated and they are exploiting users' misunderstanding to their own benefit. Assuming, of course, that fb having more information to share and target ads against is to their benefit, which I think is true.

If fb wanted to make this right, they could start by giving you a simple set of settings, including one which reverted to the privacy settings of 2 or 3 years ago.
Airbnb hiring 2 UI designers
Airbnb hiring SEM specialist
Airbnb hiring engineering interns
Simplicity Makes the Difference that Makes the Difference (2004)
And this is despite the fact that on average, experts can't beat a monkey with a dartboard when it comes to picking stocks. Every study has shown this to be true.

If that is true (and I've certainly heard it repeated often enough), then why is the Harvard endowment managed by a private group of experts? Similarly for just about every large endowment, pension fund, and similar pool of money. If those experts aren't able to either offer improved returns or reduced risk vs. random stock selection (or buying an index fund etc.), then I suspect that the boards of these large institutions wouldn't be paying the money managers' fees.
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Did you know fires kills more Americans than all natural disasters combined?
There will be a point in time where they either don't have the same dominance in search or that it will become increasingly irrelevant. Given the money that they are making they can afford to stick an arm into everything just to see if there is a big business there, all the while helping the core business with more data.

Much better strategy I thing rather than the exploiting cash cows until they dry up, which a lot of business does.
“If you want to build a ship don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” — Antoine-Marie-Roger de Saint-Exupery

didn't wanna click thru :-)
This is actually very old behaviour. I used to have a couple of test accounts from when I was developing a silly FB app; I remember being curious about this exact thing and testing it. Deleting a story from your own personal feed/wall has never suppressed it from appearing in the general news feed of others.
That's likely true. We're separating out storage engines and allowing people to write their own. Your engine doesn't need locks. The more stuff we can do in the core without them, the closer we get to your dream.

Lock-free hash tables without GC are kind of hard, but not possible. I'd certainly welcome a lock-free engine if you're working on one. :)
Ha! That's cool.

And I suppose the iPhone will also work with Bluetooth keyboards when OS 4 is released. I can't wait to tell my mom that her cellphone supports emacs keyboard shortcuts.
That's cool, only thing left now; in the tutorial, change the color scheme (from black on darkgray) to something a little more legible, and make the examples clickable, so I don't have to retype them in the repl.
I'm keeping a list of REPs and REPLs: http://joel.franusic.com/Online-REPs-and-REPLs - looks like there are 4 for Haskell.
As another commenter noted, this article is partly nonsensical, and to the extent that it is coherent, it is wrong.

There have been at least half a dozen articles on Hacker News recently with exaggerated or incorrect claims about Facebook and privacy. I wrote about this "mob behavior" here: http://33bits.org/2010/05/10/facebook-privacy-public-opinion...

It is interesting that the discontent about Facebook has reached such levels that anything at all can kick up an outrage. It is also depressing that this is the top story on Hacker News. It is what I would have expected from Digg or Reddit.
Agree with your sentiment. But what we really need is a substitute for facebook. Until that comes, folks who want to socialize will continue to use facebook.
ideone.com has an API. Would be cool to see those two together.
One danger in any quotes about autism statistics is that sometimes folks use autism as shorthand for "autism spectrum disorders", which includes much more mild things like Asperger's syndrome. Plus, one could argue that some of the things they classify as "bad" within that "range" are actually good things. For example, I've noticed that the rise in so called autism or ASD roughly correlates with the rise of the Internet and web usage. Perhaps something about the web and our increased use of it has brought out a much more nerdy aspect of many people's brains, a wider swath of people than previously had engaged in nerd/geek/Asperger's-like behaviors and thought processes. That could explain the "cause" rather than some dramatic increase in some biological/chemical factor. Maybe it's just a social/intellectual shift.
Well? What's cooking webwright? :-)
Dow 28,000,000 - The Unbelievable Expectations of California's Pension System
incidentally I've only heard it being committed on left wing supporters.

I don't know why that is, because I've heard of plenty of harassment and vandalism against conservative supporters (or were they opposed?) of California's Prop 8 as well, but it didn't get much media coverage. I don't believe one can say that either liberals or conservatives are more "enlightened" overall, at least in matters of raw politics.
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On a side note, while I enjoy the hacker discussions at HN, I thoroughly enjoy articles such as these that can contribute to my emotional health.

I have a tendency to get hung up on relationship issues (both with others and how I treat myself) and through years of therapy, recent meditations, and taking a vow to be emotionally transparent (I try never to lie about what my thoughts are to anyone that asks regardless of possible repercussions), I think I am healing slowly.. I've also made some recent breakthroughs with a couple of books that I have read that have lead to improvements in my quality of life.

As as my mental health improves I'm beginning to have intermittent days of creative bursts. And I feel king of my own little world once again.
It's about expectations. Facebook started out with expectations that it is a place where you can share things among your friends but not the Internet at large. Now the game is changing.

"You have opted into their service and you are paying with your information." -- The typical user probably doesn't see it this way. It's borderline unethical for the payment to be something the paying party is unaware of.
Ask HN:How to get affiliates for my business
Our business provides online car related services. Right now I am creating an affiliate program where I want websites related to vehicles to be our affiliates. I can't find any such website. Additionally, how can I collect,say about 50 affiliates, for our business. How can I achieve this without joining networks like LinkShare or Commision Junction? If you have the slightest idea please let me know.
I had a very similar experience to what fookyong had with FusionAds. We were running 2 parallel one-week "blasts" for our MacGraPhoto (http://www.macgraphoto.com) bundle of graphical Mac software exactly 6 months ago.

FusionAds seemed to be very fit for this because of their focus on design and graphic professionals. It was also the biggest one source of advertising for us.

The process and their support were very good. Unfortunately we've had extremely little return from the ads. At least in terms of direct sales. I think the gross income didn't cover 10% of the budget of ads and after split of the revenue it's negligible.

I don't know if it had any effect in raising awareness or interest from bloggers/news agencies as its hard to measure and we also did a press-release and advertised and were reviewed on other sites.

So for this campaign of us it turned out to be quite non-helpful. We lost money with it. Of course this doesn't have to happen to you if you have a different product or market.

Coincidentally, today is exactly the date where the PayPal money from my campaign should have been unfreezed if not for my blog post 6 months ago, which was #1 on HN back then. Thanks guys. I think your support helped to make PayPal their move and unfreeze the money on short notice.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1000829
It's a crazy world where a company like microsoft with almost 100000 employees and $58 billion on yearly revenue is dying. Whereas something like Twitter which may have just become profitable with about 150 employees is the future.

I guess it depends how you define dying, dying as in no longer being the most influential player in all of computing, probably. Dying as in a failing business with in eventually go bankrupt or sell, not a chance from where I'm sitting.
Nice. Also a discussion on Rainbows! would be very useful. Something that would cover in what cases its different types of concurrency can work, etc.
I don't think there was much to be confused about there. He wanted something to show up unexpectedly, so he made it happen by interpreting everything wrong.
My understanding is that the Harvard endowment is about the worst example you could've picked, unless there's a sarcastic subtext to your post that I'm overlooking.
good article.

I have extensive experience with this topic, having once held a grudge against my dad for over 15 years.

My dad stopped living with us when I was 15 due to problems with my mom. He still visited all the time and they actually got back together later.

And I understood all the circumstances, even back then. But for some reason, I was very angry with him about it. And I was not alone; I have siblings that are still angry with him now, over thirty years later.

It was very painful for both of us. Every time I'd go home, there'd be constant tension. If he answered the phone when I called, I asked for Mom right away.

I can't recall the catalyst but 10 or 15 years ago, I decided to let this anger go. Things normalized and the tension evaporated. I even told my dad that I loved him. We even started hugging.

I guess I realized that he was never going to do whatever it was I thought he should to make up for his failures.

Ironically, it was only after this that we had conversations about why other siblings were angry. I suggested that he apologize to them. And he did!

After this, he called me up and said that he realized that he had not apologized to me and he did so.

I can't help but think that if I hadn't let this go, I would have never gotten this apology.

Today, my dad is in a nursing home and slowly losing all ability to experience the world. But he is at peace, finally, with what is happening and with me. Something I never thought I'd see.
He says, "My happiest times are on small, fast-moving teams. It's very hard to get that feeling at larger companies. Spinning up something new is definitely on my list of possibilities."

Perhaps RescueTime has gotten too large for him.
I built a similar app for a different audience long ago. I would like to work with you on this. Tried to email you. But didn't find an email on your profile.

You can mine on my profile.
If there is a positive correlation between higher socioeconomic status (especially in the last 10-20 years) and a higher autism diagnosis rate, I have a theory to explain it. My pet theory is that as the rise of the Internet and Web has placed higher economic demand for people with certain kinds of mental skills and thought processes (programmers, computer hardware designers, etc.), and that class of people has generally risen in wealth, and also in marriage suitability (more money, success, greater attraction to women, etc.) that then causes those kinds of people to be more likely to have kids, and thus you see a spike in kids who inherited those mental traits from their parents -- I'm guessing mostly from the father, assuming my theory is right.

It could be a combination of that effect plus the rise in widespread Internet usage, and the massive increase in "geek out" behavior that has caused in the general population (surfing the web, clicking on every little link, web forums, text messaging, etc. all the kinds of things that a hyper-focused nerdy or Asperger's like person would be more likely to engage in).
The person who submitted this link isn't the author of TryClojure.

http://tryclj.licenser.net/ and http://www.try-clojure.org/ both point to the same IP. And both domains are registered to Heinz Gies - who I assume is the original author of TryClojure.
I'm curious what a native port of Emacs on an iPad actually contributes over an Screen/SSH session on a "real" machine with "real" compilers and tool-chains.

To get it running, you'd need (a) the ability to modify, redistribute, compile, and install arbitrary code (including GPL'd code), and (b) the ability to run interpreters and virtual machines (emacs lisp).

So emacs itself is just a bellwether for the things he really wants in a computer.
Remember the Milk turns off support for Todo from Appigo
company does some pr. blogger fakes outrage to draw visitors. bored bitter nerds read it and do nothing.
Good point. The whole reason for using the keyboard is to avoid the 'cache miss' of moving your hand to the mouse. But on the ipad, the keyboard and screen are all the same, so it might actually be more efficient to use gestures
All of us at RescueTime want to wish Tony the best of luck!

We will still be seeing Tony on a regular basis as he continues working on some special RescueTime projects, so hopefully we'll get the early scoops ;)
Good luck Tony!

I <3 http://rescuetime.com
It's a weird situation. You're not legally liable for the debt incurred by the thief even if you don't bother to prove anything (although they will still hassle you by phone), but your credit is destroyed.
Funnily enough. Yours isn't there either.

Can you email me at: marcamillion {at} gmail.com please.

Thanks.
2010 NBA Playoffs --Celtics-Magic, Game 2
2010 NBA Playoffs,Dwight Howard Flagrant Foul on Paul Pierce, Celtics-Magic, Game 2, 5-19-10
Chinese “education”
Bootstrapping my Web Based Video Phone Site
Woro-woro: To all my hackernews friends :
Today (19 Mei 2010), I launch my web based video phone site at:

http://www.calltunnel.com

You can make a video phone call just by visiting this website from anywhere.

At very least the base functionality is now on:
1. video phone call
2. automatic translation between two different language (52 of them)
3. mail your friend from the site directly (make sure your friend is online)
4. suggest a better translation
5. mail your conversation to your email address

I've tested with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Google Chrome.
So far all runs well.

My plan after this :
1. learn how to promote this site, perhaps using adword to create a champaigne
2. learn how to create a nice blog to help the site.

I hope 6 months for preview state is maintainable for me.

To all my hackernews friends: wish me luck !
China's Education Games
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/67651/

BarTab. I normally have a ton of tabs open (Anywhere between 15 and 45) Without BarTab, Firefox starts noticeably chugging, but with BarTab I can unload most of the tabs from memory.
This is quite an achievement. I really long for a day my startup can turn into a company which does not need me in order to succeed. That would be a major personal victory for me!

Seems like Tony's achieved it. Congrats!
Is there evidence that there was any effort on the part of Newzbin or its users to focus the site's resources on illegal material? My impression of the service was that it indexed a large swath of Usenet impartially. Compare this to The Pirate Bay, whose users ask it to track illegal content more often than not. Unless you have evidence that Newzbin specifically targeted illegal material, he is equating Usenet with pirated media.
ipdb lets you use pdb in a ipython shell which makes it much more powerful.
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ipdb
Wolfram Alpha Turns 1: An Interview with Stephen Wolfram
Depends, I have several profiles for doing different things. These are the ones that survived so far, so they must be the ones that are important("can't live without" is a strong phrase)

- Normal use: Adblock Plus, DownThemAll, Flashblock, Greasemonkey, Session Manager, TreeStyleTabs and User Agent Switcher.

- Development: Firebug, Httpfox, User Agent Switcher, Web Developer and YSlow

I separate them because of performance reasons and because the dev profile needs to be cleared frequently and so on..
don't miss the animation in the middle showing how "Al Jazeera" in Naskh (printed Arabic form) gets transformed into their logo.
Anyone want to speculate on why Django gets so much attention on HN, but Drupal doesn't? I realize they're not exactly the same thing, but the last DrupalCon was in SF, and live video of the keynotes didn't garner a single upvote.
Wow, that article is not well written, I was re-reading things trying to understand what he's on about.
If you rank drugs based on potency, alcohol and tobacco are above marijuana and just below heroin and cocaine. Drugs like MDMA and LSD rank even lower. I find that the level of regulation has a lot more to do with the existence of moral panics throughout history targeted at particular drugs, paired with class and racial distinctions (i.e. the legal distinction between powder cocaine and crack).
Since you are looking for open source projects you can study the source of: Rails itself, Highline (JEG), Choice, Shooes (GUI).
There are some forums where people exchange affiliate programs. You can try posting your affiliate programs there.
Keynote can output PDFs.

You may also want to check out 280 Slides: http://280slides.com/