skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, but I'm not convinced the examples support the argument. English uses 'is' to refer to a permanent characteristic or a temporary state, depending on context. Other languages have two separate words (e.g. Spanish with 'estar' & 'es'). If the context is unclear, or you want to introduce clarity, say 'John is being grumpy' - rather than 'John is grumpy' - if you want to convey that John's surly mood is temporary or uncharacteristic. Avoiding the word 'is' often just makes communication needlessly long-winded.

Wave theory vs Particle theory is another matter - both are models that have acknowledged drawbacks, neither 'is'.

I do agree with the meta-point that trained clarity of expression can induce clarity of thought & is therefore worthwhile.
I like this site. I feel that having to type in the prefixes might be a blocker for the normal crowd. Have you tried some different UIs to make picking the service happen?
in for 2
Two lessons meet and have a baby: what you want is a Maserati problem but not a wash my Ferrari problem.
Is the main focus of your site transferring money between users? If not, why not just use paypal or some other 3rd party service? If it is, you are opening a whole can of worms with regards to the legality of your service. You should consult a lawyer about it, but I'm guessing you won't be able to come up with a cheap solution to the problem.
Call me sexist, but once my eyes hit 'her claim' your story all made sense.

I have known many women who espouse things like this, whether it is right or not, whether it flies in the face of reality or not, because things don't line up with how they want the world to be. They'd rather pretend than go with what works. Sadly, it almost always seems to pertain to something truly serious that puts life or limb at risk.

Broken bones are better than dead.
Study finds TV viewing, video game play contribute to kids’ attention problems
With regard to b) support for languages other than AppleScript, ruby and python support is likely to work through Apple's Scripting Bridge.

Most AppleScript aware applications can be made to support ruby and python through this bridge:

http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Cocoa/C...
Google's "Life in a day"
From http://www.hkbn.net/2010/eng/en_service1_1a5.html Click on Terms and Conditions

21	Subscriber shall not run any server type application in providing any type of service to others in any way through the Broadband Service. Such server type application includes, but not
limited to, email server, web server, ftp server, dhcp server, proxy, usenet news, multi-user interactive forums, irq and/or multi-user game host.
23.	Only one public IP address is assigned dynamically to each Subscriber by HKBN for his/her connection to the public Internet. Such public IP address will be changed from time to time and
the Subscriber is restricted from getting more than one public IP address by any other means.
24.	Subscriber shall not connect any fixed IP device to HKBN’s Network
25.	Subscriber shall not use any unofficial system (other than HKBN’s authorized login system) to connect to HKBN’s Network.

PS. I keep two servers in my closet. But don't tell my ISP
I built a Twitter client that filters out everything in your feed except for Tweets including urls or photos. It's pretty good way of just finding the interesting stuff in your Twitter feed.

http://blurl.me
Thanks, that is great feedback. Maybe so much is web-based now that backups aren't really relevant.

Is there any pain associated with restoring your dev environment? How long would it take you to get your text editor reinstalled, color scheme set back up, system preferences back, etc.?
I guess you could equate them by saying investing in government bonds is like betting on a team paying $1.01 to win. The odds are vastly in your favour to gain from the investment but it's not certain.
Arrington has guts! I heard he was a lawyer in his previous life
not to mention how bad bookmarks are on FF (and Opera) compared to Chrome.
Organize a cooperative with your neighbors to purchase the capital equipment and sustain the costs to operate it. The initial "risk" will be shared and the members will derive a superior benefit by making profit and advertising costs (however minimal) unnecessary, and by allowing anyone willing and competent in the neighborhood to carry out tech support and installations.
Anyone that's ever read the most awesome Illuminatus! trilogy will know that Robert Anton Wilson is most definitely a fan of mind hacks. Fnord.
By my memory (I googled for it and can't find it) the dynamic language exemption was because in their opinion using their API from a dynamic language was not really linking, and hence didn't need copyright permission. But the license doesn't say anything at all about that.

Now that the people who interpreted the license don't have control, and Oracle's lawyers do, I would not be entirely confident that the past interpretation of the license will necessarily be the future interpretation. The fact that I can't easily find anything documenting the old interpretation on Oracle's site does not give me comfort on this score.
Harvard MBA Students Raise Money for Fashion Startup
You can cookie the user and suggest that they have been served their daily ration of HN. :)
That is cool. Now if you could do that with every book shop...
Now that is a brilliant idea! A friend once had a project proposal to do that for team management (transferring football manager simulators to real life, essentially) but it never got funded.
English-prime, of course, relates well to common scientific jargon. Things never are until you can say with precision and confidence that they are. Instead they "might" or "may" and are always qualified by lists of assumptions. Even the structure of scientific papers is carefully wrought so that background and assumptions play an important role in the opening, then methods, then uninterpreted results, then beliefs and interpretations in order of increasing scope (and decreasing likelihood).

It's amazingly tiresome, but it's a culture designed to — used properly — prevent you from thinking yourself into a corner or over-stretching your evidence. I wouldn't be surprised if it also inspired creativity and diminished functional fixedness as well.
That's the danger of brainwashing...
I think you'd gain a lot by:

1) Show the last 200 searches that people had made (or the most popular for the past day, week, etc.)

2) Instead of directly linking to Amazon upon clicking a book/product, perhaps you should fly out some hidden details for the item (not ajax if feasible).

3) You could also have a "Search by Author" and "Search by Topic" link that is provided when you click a book that provides more results with content.

4) Maybe allow people to create book shelves that they can explain the grouping of a set of books and why they go well together (etc!).

5) One last idea: Provide a list beneath that has a tiny bit more info - as they scroll left/right in the top list, have the bottom scroll up/down to show the range that is visible. This would help with you only linking/showing 20 or so results at a time if you let the list (text) show 100 or more.
Imagining myself as a restaurant owner, I'm confused as to how this would integrate with my existing website. Does it replace it? How do people get to the mobile version?

I suspect you have plans to move to the desktop web, too -- seems like it'd be great for restaurant owners to have a one-stop shop for all of their website needs.

Restaurant websites are definitely all over the place in terms of quality and accessibility -- seems like a solid market. Best of luck.
So do it for fun, and stop treating it like something that needs justification. If it's not fun, figure out why, and either start having fun or stop doing it.
I like that idea and use DDG's bang feature all the time.
not knowing how the producers of the RSS feeds would fee

If I understand what you are saying then I don't think there would be any. It sounds like a neat project, where can we take a look?
This is a very slow site. Is there a mirror for this?
I've noted in my personal experiences interacting with people at work that the best engineers tended to speak in English Prime a lot -- at least when something important was at stake, such as troubleshooting some problem with a piece of software used by the business.
Ask HN: Basic Personal Finance/Accounting Application
Hey guys,

A friend and I are trying to put together a very basic finance/accounting app, where anyone will be able to easily record their expenses and income. We were looking for an existing app for personal use, but couldn't really find anything that's very simple in features and usability. We found ledger (http://wiki.github.com/jwiegley/ledger/) to be the closest, but want something that's Web-based. We are looking to build the app exclusively for "tiny enterprises" (i.e. personal use, households, single person businesses, small businesses and early startups).

The most basic feature will be the ability to record (or upload a CSV with) income transactions and expense transactions; and generate a simple summary report at any time.

We'll really appreciate any ideas and suggestions which we can address in our product, mainly:

1. Do you have a use for such an application (basic accounting, no frills, no extra features)? If so, what one feature would you like to have and what one feature you wouldn't want in the app?

2. Should we base it on single-entry or double-entry accounting? Or maybe something altogether different.

3. What sort of report(s) do you envision, if you were to use such an app?

4. How do we deal with data security? Many individuals and small businesses may not be comfortable with us storing their transactional data.

5. If you were to use such an app, where will you primarily access/use it for its full worth - desktop/laptop, smartphone, tablet?

Any guidance, tips or frank opinions are welcome! Thanks in advance.
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Link bait title,

It's a dual license product. That price is only if you want to buy a commercial license distribute it with proprietary software to third parties. Their open source license allows you to use it on your server or in open source projects under a GPLish license.

BDB doesn't get near enough love as far as I'm concerned. It's crazy fast, and it's been around for two decades and it can scale to 256 Terabytes.

ref: http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/berkeley-...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_DB
Pulling live ebay auctions to match with regular price comparison. It seems that the most effective way to improve conversions on a price comparison site seems to be just to put relevant links to merchant sites front and centre on the landing page, the majority of people coming from Google don't care what fancy value add features you have created.

Freelance work btw, I don't run a affiliate marketing site myself.
Wow, I used berkeley db pre-oracle acquisition a few jobs back -- we got an awesome support contract for 10k a year and deployed it on hundreds of servers -- and people like Keith Bostic replied to support emails when we found bugs!

I guess this is the final nail in the coffin for Berkeley DB, even though Tokyo Cabernet doesn't offer all the same features, the combination of Tokyo and better distributed systems like Cassandra/MongoDB are certainly pushing down into the market in which I would want to use BDB.
> which sounds pretty straightforward to an untrained reader.

Precisely why 3 was before 4. 4 is only an option if you know you're capable of it, and know why. If you think you are, you're wrong.
http://www.thisistheonlyone.com

Made a site in college to sell a T-shirt for $1,000,000. Didn't work. But I did make $40 off an MIT professor who bet me I wouldn't try it.
See also

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clause_(logic)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicate_(grammar)
There are a number of disadvantages to being a solo-founder; however, as long as you are cognizant about it, you can take steps to compensate.

The real question you want to ask yourself is why you're going the solo-route. As a solo founder myself, I'm fine with the tradeoffs because it affords me certain other liberties. Do some soul searching and get in synch with yourself.

One of the compensating measures I have is a Braintrust with other solo founders. It's a pretty good place to bounce ideas off of other people in similar situations. Let me know if you are interested in joining.
Here is the background of the Wakemate staff, yes they are qualified to build a sleep aid device: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WakeMate Craig has a PhD from HST, it doesn't get much more qualified than that.
Lebron Hello's World
King James groks "Hello World". Cool.
IIRC, Yahoo did not use the newer versions of BDB because even running it on their own servers came with a huge (multimillion-dollar) license cost. They stayed with some eldritch version for this reason. Perhaps the new Oracle regime is less onerous.

The page you link to is carefully worded:

"The following are not redistribution: Building an application for use internal to your organization, deployed and managed on your company servers."

This does not appear to include using BDB on your public-facing web application.
CSS Expressions. Aka Dynamic Properties.

Recently deprecated http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537634(VS.85).aspx

Ironically now showing up in other browsers own extensions.

Reasons for failure:

* distrust of Microsoft inventions in the browser

* incomplete implementation strategy based on javascript instead of custom expression parser

* security issues because of using javascript instead of a custom expression parser
It's hard to say. It's undesirable content may have played a role in its rise to fame. Definitely bad publicity, but still publicity. And while most would not admit it, it may have attracted female viewers to the site.

There was a post in IAMA months ago on Reddit where a chatroulette exhibitionist mentioned that a quarter of the women would watch him for up to 10 minutes, often encouraging him.

Sometimes success derives from the freedom that lets undesirable things happen. In the process of stopping those undesirable things, the freedom that brought success may be extinguished.

Success in the complicated social network of the internet is complicated, and it is too difficult at least for me to make a solid guess on what will happen.
Embiggen your vocabulary. It's a pity the full OED isn't free, it's a beautiful resource.
Almost everything I care about is managed via git. That includes editor and shell configs and ~/bin -- restoring my own dev environment is so easy, I just randomly do it on different computers.

Every time I make a change worth saving and want to share it, I push it to gerrit, which means there are now two copies (one on my laptop and one "in the cloud" on my gerrit server).

Every time a change is reviewed, verified, and blessed as part of our code base, the reviewer or verifier pushes a button to submit the change, it's automatically sent up to github, github fires webhooks that automatically replicate the data down to a machine in the office, another copy on our build master (also in the office), and then, shortly after, another copy on every build slave.

Internally, files are stored via nfs or smb onto a solaris box that takes snapshots every 15m. Those snapshots are not stored externally.

The biggest part of our data, though, is made up of vm images. Big files that change a lot. Restoring them hurts, but anything that loads up IO on that box makes vmware think the NFS server isn't responding and it unmounts and remounts it (it even does this when nothing's using it -- though the NFS server itself works fine for other clients during this time).

I wouldn't mind a backup procedure there, but it'd have to not break that.

(sorry to not use your form... the further down I got, the less it applied to me)
I was a lifeguard in my youth. I am an incredibly good swimmer.

I just went white water rafting with a bunch of friends in Malaysia - and on the boat were 2 other folks that were not great swimmers. We were in pretty good rapids, and the odds were for us flipping at some point. We were all wearing lifejackets, but in the rapids at times it feels like you aren't floating much at all.

The first patch of rapids another boat flipped and a bunch of people clutched on to each other basically climbing the ladder on each other - we quickly got to them but they all had swallowed a lot of water.

I gave a big speech about how if someone is drowning their instinct is to grab you and pull you under - so make sure when helping others you can safely just grab them.

A few rapids later we flipped. I quickly grabbed on to the raft and was doing fine - until I saw one of the poor swimmers floating face down drinking a lot of water and heading towards more rapids. I swam over and grabbed on to her, flipped her on her back and told her to relax we were going to be fine. Then we hit some more rough water and all of a sudden she was pushing down on my shoulders and I was under water for about a minute as we passed through rapids and she was struggling to stay on top of me. I outweighed her by 50 pounds and still struggled to get out from under her while being tossed around in the water. I was comfortable for the first 30 seconds or so, but at that point I started to get the whole "Damnit, I am drowning" feeling. I finally separated myself from her, threw up a few times, and then held the top of her lifejacket from a behind.

My long winded story is intended to say one thing. If someone is drowning, their natural instinct will be to climb on top of you to get above water. It doesn't matter how much bigger you are - how much better of a swimmer. Even if you are really experienced it can still be difficult to rescue a drowning swimmer.
Greenplum gets harvested by EMC
The BerkeleyDB engineers are still very responsive on forums, even if you pay them absolutely nothing. They are still able to maintain a "Sleepycat" culture and it's amazing how well involved their engineers remain with the customers. That being said, the current prices (for a support contract) do seem unreasonable: what if I'd just like support, but not a commercial license?

Distributed systems can be built upon BDB, we've had very good luck with using BerkeleyDB-Je in Voldemort. Many services within Yahoo and Amazon use custom distributed systems built upon BerkeleyDB. BerkeleyDB's own distribution, however, seems to just not be the right model for most people (HA "floating master" with Paxos elections). We (as did Amazon in the original Dynamo paper) found it easier to build their own replication, using BDB as one of the storage options.

Tokyo Tyrant is great if your data fits into memory. If it doesn't, performance declines without any grace (compare with BerkeleyDB where the performance remains reasonable with a 5:1 data:RAM ratio and surprisingly usable even with a 10:1 ratio).

That being said, there are some interesting alternative models e.g., Basho's bitcask, but it solves a different problem (purely K/V lookups vs. a B+Tree or -- with BDB-Je -- a log structured B+Tree).

I really wish there was a C/C++ based (at least until the Azul GC enhancements or the G1 collector become mainstream, making it possible to have a cache of over 10-15gb without pauses) log-structured B+Tree implementation... perhaps I'll get bored and write a toy one one day.
Same here, and I suspect your upvotes are from others who can sink.

One of the ways I have fun in the water is to breathe a good amount of my lungs out, and sit on the bottom as long as I can. Sit, not hold-by-swimming. It's an incredibly effective way of learning how to control your heartrate & panic response to holding your breath, because it's hardly possible without control, and then it's pretty darned easy.
My body fat percentage is somewhat lower than yours, but my experience is similar. Actually, I have to swim moderately vigorously to keep my face out of the water, even with full lungs. A pool activity I enjoy is laying on the floor with swim goggles, watching the water surface from below.
Yeah, I think we need to make this more clear on our features page. Thanks!
I've had the falling off the wagon problem recently. The way I dealt with it was setting weekly goals and holding myself to them. It's been a big improvement for the last month.
One benefit of this kind of work is that the two dead ends don't end up as pieces of code you have to maintain thereafter.
Reminds me of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammalian_diving_reflex
linkspam? why not link the article directly?
Yeah, but you get a lot for those fifty-eight thousand: you get classic Oracle support, which is priceless in many ways.

For one thing, Oracle has always been good at imposing completely arbitrary 1000-column limits on databases that are probably scalable to far more. So with a really scalable database like Berkeley DB, just imagine what they can do!
*feel.

Should be how they would feel about it.

Its somewhat discontinued. I may spin it up again someday, as everything is there minus the database with data. If I ever do, I will post it on HN for people to have a look.

EDIT - I will have a go at spinning it up tonight actually. It should be pretty easy to do in theory.
Interesting idea... my initial thought is that restaurants generally like to have nice customized menu designs. But then again, maybe not, maybe they'd rather just be able to input all of their data and get back a simple, usable design without much effort.
On the other hand you needed those 2 dead ends in order to establish that one way, and only one way, is the right one.

You cannot expect yourself to be that foresightet.
Even better, in reconstructed Proto-Indo-European there are several different verbs which merged to become the conjugations of "to be" in English. That's why the forms are so irregular. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_copula
If you are in the middle of a lake and not a fairly well trained swimmer - it is really dangerous advice to try to drag them to shore and avoid their grasp. The swimmer could easily grab on to you and drown you both.

Don't underestimate a drowning swimmers ability to grab and hold you under the water - they are fighting for their life. It sounds ridiculous, but I have seen a small child do so to a large adult many times.
I think his talent for language design is undisputed. But his talent for writing easily equals his talent in programming, e.g., I never came across any work of Wirth that was not well written and contained interesting insights. A couple of years back, I came across the very interesting paper "Good Ideas, Through the Looking Glass" (2005) http://www.cs.inf.ethz.ch/~wirth/Articles/GoodIdeas_origFig.... which is probably not as Wirth-esque as his books, but still an interesting review of what happend in our discipline, looking back.
I don't think so. If by team you mean co-founders, then no; as a single founder I spend 0 time and effort on recruiting co-founders. If by team you mean other employees, then optimistically, sure, but again, it's not something I'm spending any time on now.