skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember that this is for Cassandra. Cassandra only allows you to sort records by the primary key, so if you want to sort by date, the time has to be part of the primary key while also being unique. So vanilla UUID doesn't work. Some UUIDs can take a time argument, but as the post says, they couldn't use UUIDs anyway, because they are all 128-bit and Twitter is limited for historical reasons to 64.
Career? You do know that if you have a pilot's license you can just go rent a Cessna for $100 an hour, right? (And a pilot's license is not that hard to get. It's like a driver's license; except that when I got a driver's license, I had to have 100 hours of driving logged before I could take the test. For a pilot's license, it's like 40 hours.)
The comments here scare me. Why is everyone afraid of the government or breaking some rules? The worst that could happen to you is a few days in prison. Suck it up, serve the sentence, and know that you've changed the world in a positive way. I'm glad that everyone is not so spineless, otherwise we wouldn't even know there was an oil spill...
And would that ever get into a mainline Flash Player release?
I could try a pyglet port if anyone asks me really really nicely. I promise I have the chops.
They donate to politicians, who have passed laws allowing them to do whatever they feel like doing. Balance of power? Hahahaha.
Steve Jobs: People Are Voting Against Flash By Buying An iPad Every 3 Seconds
I'm very curious what Mr. Jobs thinks about this. Was the likelihood of this (and the lack of legal recourse) considered before manufacturing iPads in China? How much does it bother Apple? Are they far enough on their next products that it's not a big deal?
He spent so much time trying to beat them that he finally decided to join them.
what do bacteria turn oil into? CO2? In that case will there be big algae blooms in the next phase of this spill?
I think that he meant easy in the sense of crafting effective legislation (usually a herculean task) and not in the sense of getting that legislation passed.
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"[F]ollowing some simple rules can help. Steps like providing intuitive names to methods and classes, moving closely related functionalities to a common class, or moving unrelated stuff out into appropriate classes, goes a long way towards helping to maintain a healthy code-base"

Well, you know, duh.

A reason there are such problems with code is not that developers don't quite know what they should be doing (though that is sometimes the case), but that many things that are easy to state in words are far from easy to do in practice.

What, exactly, is "intuitive"? Intuitive to whom? How exactly do you decide when things are closely related? By what measure?
Wait-a-sec, what about the kids over at Crisis Commons (http://oreil.ly/dm1OW0) and Grassroots Mapping(http://bit.ly/99sLWo) considered community journalists, and doing their best to work around the resources issue?
Wow, thanks for the info, this is superb!

My setup will be 1 speaker, 4 panelists. Not sure about the lighting situation there, its inside (MacArthur Park Restaurant in Palo Alto). Don't care about the high-end quality, it'll go straight to youTube/vimeo/etc. This isn't corporate by any means, its a Georgia Tech alumni get together (first of its kind in this exact format). Attendance will probably be b/w 20-30 people. The reason I wanted it taped was that it would be a great initial way to get folks attending come fall when we start doing these once every couple months. Plus it could be an invaluable resource for undergrads. However at a cost nearing $500 (considering it'll be out of my pocket), its too high. I was thinking around $200, but I guess that depends on all the small details.

Again, thanks for the info, this will definitely come in use in the near future.
Question: is it available in the USA?
they look fuzzy compared to native resolution apps.

apple has also, by denying the problem, failed to provide good APIs for multiresolution. android as faced and addressed the problem from the get-go and has a better solution.
You can get $2 off using the coupon code: DADGRAD
Also add:

* Balloons! http://bit.ly/99sLWo
Google VP: Chrome OS Release in Q4
Ask HN: Anyone excited about SC2 Galaxy Map Editor?
I am pumped about StarCraft 2.

But I'm actually most excited by its Galaxy Map Editor because it enables me to make the game I've always wanted to play: a fast-paced, team-oriented tactical RTS. The scripting language will impose limitations, but I'm happy to compromise for access to the physics, matchmaking, and general polish.

Will anyone else be hacking on the Galaxy Editor? Leave a comment or get in touch @jayruy twitter, we can form a mailing list if there is demand.

Also happy to share/discuss my design document: the quick pitch is a cross between StarCraft 3v3, WoW EoTS, and Team Fortress Capture/Hold. It is nothing like DoTA.
haskell may have been difficult to install years ago, but with the new setup, it was a breeze. I had everything working on my mac in minutes.
Ask HN: Database for sports betting lines and results
Are there any databases that have where betting lines started, where they ended and the result of the match? I'm interested in doing some analysis on it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I am too. I've been subscribed to CfA's Atom feed since I first heard about the program, and was excited enough about it to submit it along to HN once I saw it had launched earlier today.

The $35k stipend definitely makes me pause, but I'm going to give the application my all and then ask some hard questions of the review board if I'm lucky enough to be accepted.

I doubt I'd apply if my city wasn't included, but Seattle was accepted, and I'd love to make a positive impact on my municipal government.
not for the iPad.
It’s not about the features
I'm 24 and would absolutely do it, assuming I could bring a wife.
The idea in the presentation that reinforced my own bias: RAM is the new disk. However, the details they presented make it look worse than I imagined, as memory / FSB speeds are apparently grossly overstated.

Now, toss in VMs like Java and .NET walking the heap looking for garbage to take out. Sounds like a cache-miss disaster, to me.

My opinion:
http://roboprogs.com/devel/2009.07.html#2009_07_30
I liked a lot of these.
I'd guess BP is paying someone off.
I bet he's annoyed out of principle that they copied Apple, but I doubt he considers the "iped", or any China based knockoff a serious threat. At all.

An Android based tablet from a real competitor (like say, HTC, or the impending WebOS based one from HP) is certainly more in Apple's crosshairs.
You know what really reached out and poked me in the eye? The "Don Stewart (who failed his PhD)" part. I've been fooling with Haskell in my free time, occasionally, and I've never used it professionally yet. So when I saw this post, I jumped in eagerly, hoping to learn more. When I got to that little ad hominem, I lost the will to treat the post seriously.
CO2, yes (and water), but algae blooms are not caused by CO2, they are caused by nitrogen or phosphorous.
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SomeONE? Maybe you didn't notice but the coast guard is not one person.

I find it hard to believe they could pay off enough, or high enough, level people for that to be possible.
well, anything without a vm would be preferred for performance optimization on the hardware, much like anything without needing to be compiled gives one the most control. overall i think you are studying the right things. for me lately, vm's have been okay. the jit compiler is impressive, and llvm & pypy are interesting things too
I've spent an hour or so trying to get pygame working on OS 10.6. I'm using Python 2.6.1, though I've tried it with 2.5 and 3 as well.

I've tried their binaries, their source (including using the SDL.Framework which was suggesting in the SuperUser link another commenter posted.)

If someone would like to port this to something a little more usable, I'd be obliged. If not, I'll be spending a bit of late June doing that.
"The question of whether allowing nonpracticing entities to litigate is promoting innovation or taxing innovation is a big question"

No, it's not a big question.
The Internet cannot be built around a plugin from one company. We are much better off taking the one step back then moving two steps forward. Soon there will be at least five good browsers that support Html5/css3. If we can get canvas support in ie9, html5 usage is going to exploded.
Ask YC: pre-load html pages so they load "instantaneously"?
You can pre-load images that you expect to show on the next page the user sees, so they'll be cached. I'm wondering, would it be practical, if a user is paging through a set of pages by clicking next next next, to preload the next page while the user is watching the current page, so that when they click next it's cached and it appears to load pretty much instantaneously? A text page zipped up is like what, 15, 20kb, so it's not really a traffic hit. And you save the server response time + page generating time, user won't have to wait for that.

Thoughts? Crazy talk?
Jon Harrop alert! Unabashed USENET troll and cookery awaits.

Flag, ignore, run ..
Steve Jobs On Android
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Put your email in your profile! :)

I bet I'm not the only one who's excited and would love to contact you about this!
The superuser link worked perfectly for me. I wonder if we could do some sort of py2app type thing.
The near-term prospects for fixing what is seriously broken with the patent system are very slight. I did a post just the other day on the so-called Patent Reform Act of 2010 and entitled it, "Looking for radical patent reform - look again" (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1365788).

The piece I cite to above is basically a law professor's proposal and hence academic only at this point. It could theoretically work but there is probably little or no impetus behind it.

Didn't mean to suggest that the process of reform would be easy. It clearly won't (Bilski might bring some needed sanity to the area of software patents but congressional action is likely to be merely cosmetic along the lines of the Patent Reform Act of 2010 cited above). The entrenched interests are very strong here.
You could try to put into the code the conditions that would cause you to change your strategy. Then when all those conditions are in place you send a signal to all cells to change strategy.

Your code then looks at the strategy variable to see which code path to execute.
So they are... clearly I didn't get past the fold on Kickstarter. Maybe this is why?

$750 PLEDGED OF $5,000 GOAL
19 DAYS TO GO
THIS PROJECT WILL ONLY BE FUNDED IF AT LEAST $5,000
IS PLEDGED BY MONDAY JUN 21, 6:18PM EDT

Why use kickstarter instead of PayPal/traditional payment gateway? The theme of the site suggests that a project will not begin until it has achieved a funding goal. Will grassrootsmapping see any of the $750 they have raised so far before the 21st? And do they get anything if they don't reach $5k?
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Might've been an instance of a not-paid-off coast guard douche getting all authoritative on some reporters. Reporters then write story blaming the coast guard.

Or who knows. It's probably not a conspiracy though.
People are voting for flash by not buying one more iPad every 2 seconds.

Really, you can't take a sold iPad as a vote against flash, besides there could be any number of people that have not bought it for the exact same reason.

From a computer manufacturer you'd expect better logic.
Sorry, but how on earth do you know pre-iPhone HD apps look fuzzy on the iPhone HD?

iPhone apps on the iPad look fuzzy because (A) it does not use nearest-neighbor scaling, and (B) the screen is way larger, with a much lower PPI. It would be surprising if the iPhone HD doesn't use nearest-neighbor scaling.

And Apple hasn't denied a problem because it hasn't created one.
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I'm curious. Even being a knock-off, it must be quite some work to get it to look and feel (if not function) like an iPad, no? It looks identical on the outside. The home screen, the icons. I'm actually amazed at how they are able to create apps and devices so strikingly similar, and that too so quickly.
Consistency, Availability, Partition Tolerance: pick any two.
Excellent video explaining GADTs in Haskell
Excellent points.

I might take a bit of exception with the 'focus on what you're good at', with the reply that some people may simply be really good generalists. Besides understanding tech, you generally need to have good people skills. Between good social skills and having a good graps on the tech to serve your clients, you may not need to become a domain expert on DNS, or email spam filters, or CSS3, or JavaScript, or any number of tech skills (or business domain skills). Sometimes being able to parse out a client's problem and bring in the appropriate freelance skills when necessary may be the best skill you have.

That said, you have to know yourself. If you're really passionate about search, go become a Lucene expert and become the 'go to search guy' in your area (or perhaps even in a vertical).

Isolation can hurt - I have regular phone calls with a distributed group of guys who are all in similar (yet different) career stages as me, and we bounce ideas off each other, critique, offer support and skills when needed, and so on. Hearing real people on a phone helps much more than solely email or forums.

phatbyte - I'd like to pick your brain a bit more - mgkimsal@gmail.com please if you're so inclined. Thanks.
In response to your comment, I added the date to the title.
#5 - I actually started developing this one, called KinCMS (stupid, but descriptive), but got a job before finishing it - and thus, never got back to it. I never let it go, either, and some of it's code formed the basis of Noostr recently. I guess I should get it working and launched, eh?

#6 - Again, something I had started and had working for my own servers a few years ago, but never expanded or monetized. I don't think I have my old source code anymore though...
What's the address of this Epicenter?
According to #haskell, he did not fail his PhD.

The more general trend is frightening. People apparently think that it's acceptable to judge a programming language based on the personal life of an advocate. I see this a lot; "perl6 sucks because audreyt used to be a boy" and "perl sucks because larry wall goes to church". Now we have "haskell sucks because of something about dons' phd".

WTF?
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#2 Like it, but it feels somehow like it'd be a though one.

#4 I think vox.com does that. Whatever happened to vox btw? Is it just hanging in there, bringing in some ad revenue?

#5 I was thinking about this yesterday. Definitely a need. Photos + stories are huge, think family sitting around picture albums.

#6: yea, totally. I always thought site monitoring where you can send it events from your backend or js. Google analytics has events, but can't send it from backend (ie. signups, ...)
I'm not trying to "stick it". It's just an alternative to flash when the plugin is not available to you.
Ironically I'm tackling 3(http://flow.cloudomatic.com) and 5(http://www.genevine.com) right now.

I like 2 a lot as well.
Only read this post because I remember Josh's participation in the CMU bboards. Batmail, good times...
There is an implication of a very interesting math problem just waiting to be investigated. Unique IDs are a natural fit for something like a hash function, but now consider the "roughly sortable" requirement -- how about a homomorphic hash (invent one!), or a hash with a weak/predictable avalanche property.

Of course, that is probably too much for twitter who just needs to Get It Done, but I find such things interesting to think about.
If Microsoft goes Google
I wonder how hard it will be to hire haskell programmers in 5 years. I know a number of current undergrads, myself included, who would rather use Haskell than Java, but settle for (Java, C, etc.) work because Haskell shops don't seem to recruit interns much.

(Incidentally, if anyone's hiring haskell interns, consider this a shameless self-plug)
ps #6: is there a reliable solution to track respone times (latency) over time? I want to enter, say, 10 urls, preferably some with a cookie (loggedin), and see from various locations how fast they are (including js, images, ...). I'd pay 10$/month for this. I don't need any other features, just good, easy and reliable latency/speed measuring, so that I can work on improving it and actually see results (or not).
Interesting, they have their own custom epoch, the "twepoch":

// Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:50:14.000 GMT
val twepoch = 1142974214000L

According to the README they can fit 69 years worth of timestamps in 41 bits with the custom epoch, since they don't care about any times that happened before Twitter launched.
All I can say is, build the world you want to live in. Success will come later.
That's not irony, that's synchronicity ;)
Thanks for all the suggestions. I've implemented it:

$("a.magcloud").click(function() {
mpmetrics.track('purchase', {'issue': '#1'});
self.delay(500);
return true;
});
The website design is so beautiful and visually striking that even if I don't have a strong need for Kaleidoscope, it really makes me want to try it.
I don't like flash on the web, but I do occasionally run across a site that requires flash for navigation. I thought an extension would be interesting. Also, I have an ad blocker.
Typo fixed :)
You could just fake the id later. Why ruin your architecture because your users are lazy?
Any chance u'd make a better delicious joshu?
Ponder HN: if the Earth suddenly went arwy, how would we build an Internet?
To be clear as to the extent of Earth's "supposed" damage: think "Worldwide Burning of Alexandria (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_alexandria#Destruction_of_the_Library)". How could we cope with a sudden breakdown in infrastructure and still hold the Internet together?
I'm thinking that it would involve a lot of wifi hopping. I was looking to discuss some other hackerish ways.

Thinking about it more, what about:

* A lot of dedicated space on computers for p2p/reversion control gracefully degrading storage. To preserve knowledge.

* An ability to utilize any computer with a unified OS.

* Power and battery systems: UPS and a preservation of laptops and netbooks? Perhaps some mobile phones (though the iPhone doesn't come to mind, for obvious reasons).

* Mailing beacons? A way to Old Pentium II boxes with some puppy Linux and a wireless antenna?

* A change in culture: growing a hacker ethic in children and getting people to pass on their knowledge, rather than use it for profit (or limit the growth of such use to 3rd-world nations; etc).
At our company, we call this the "cowboy way". Sometimes you shoot from the hip. We know the limits though. I'm frequently frustrated by architecture astronauts, but sometimes they're good to have around. The key is balancing the astronauts and the cowboys. Neither camp is 100% right.
The poor logic originates from the techcrunch headline... Not what Steve Jobs said.

>“People seem to be liking the iPad,” Jobs said to laughs and applause. “We’ve sold one every three seconds since we launched it,” he added.
#5: the demand seems to be there. Assuming this is a freemium, then the challenge will be to acquire enough customers. You would assume that after the initial drop-off, the data gathered would be very valuable and people would want to keep paying... So after building the basic tech, it becomes a marketing play? I'd love to hear more thoughts on this, or perhaps good sites, because if I found a good one I'd use it. (Not sure what defines good here though.)
Hopefully it's working now. The site is hosted on WPWebHost (a company I founded and sold) and they seemed to have a slight hitch few hours ago.
They ever-so-slightly hinted that it may be because of the massive demand for media coverage the coast guard has received. I don't really know though - I've seen some pretty damaging pictures, but I suppose not as bad as the pictures could be.
You can try saying that you committed to your past employers to keep your salary confidential, and you need to honor that.
HTML5 rendering on iPad's webkit is an absolute disaster. So perhaps they are voting against HTML5 rendering in acceptable framerates.
I'd lose interest in living on a barren red rock after a few days. Lonely, cold, harsh, and no Internet access.
Check the title here:

> Steve Jobs: People Are Voting Against Flash By Buying An iPad Every 3 Seconds

If they attribute that to Steve Jobs then he has either said it or TC is completely out to lunch on this one.
There was at least one report (I think it was here on HN) that said Apple had planned to have a replacement service up by now, but they ran into trouble negotiating licenses. The report said that Lala's licenses were not transferrable on an acquisition.

Non-transferrable licenses are quite believable, if the record companies considered Lala an experiment to test the waters. They'd put safeguards in to make sure that the licenses didn't end up at some place like Apple, so they (the record companies) can decide the pace of growth of this kind of service.

Note that if you check the date of the acquisition, and the date of the close of the service, it's something very close to six months, which sounds like the kind of grace period that would be plausible to allow for shut down of the non-transferable licenses.
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I took his comment to mean Flash for the iPad market (aka, casual computer users) is a non-factor.

So either people aren't aware of that limit(lack of knowledge perhaps) or, they are aware and it doesn't matter - either way he's right, Flash is just not a major factor for the Ipad's target market.

edit: typo
I've heard this 'base' package argument before, but still don't understand it. What true benefit does having the kernel maintainer also maintain ls and userland utilities?

The ports system is just an install time package optimization. For most users I don't see it having a benefit over pre-compiled binaries supplied by the distro. Sure it's nice to tune your system to it's optimal and build against current libs instead of updating, but I don't see how it's "that much greater" than .debs or .rpms which is the attitude that I see BSDers take. I've used Gentoo, a little FreeBSD and never felt like it was that much different than .debs.

I like that BSD is out there doing it's thing. I've even used it from time to time, but I always come back to Linux.

Linux just feels more open to ideas, more open to anyone playing around and crazy having ideas that end up working even though we laughed at them when we first heard. Whereas BSD seems more like a walled garden with the inner circle of kernel committees and secret rites. Linux always felt like it was moving forward, taking the pragmatic approach, and BSD was being dragged into future implementing things when they had to. Just my opinion.
I think what makes the iPad the iPad is the AppStore enviroment - the software vendors, the suport, etc.

But take all that away and for $105, this does look like an uber awesome Linux hacking device! I would really love to get my hands on one. Even better if they beef it up and get some decent hardware in it.
Windows and Security: Setting the Record Straight
You can't even make that claim without knowing how many people did not buy an iPad because it does not support flash.
Interestingly, the original signal would still be there, and perhaps vulnerable to statistical analysis?
See also http://escherdroste.math.leidenuniv.nl/