skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Btw I don't think there's evidence that Apple has given up on the desktop. Only that their last few big product releases have been in the iPhone/iPad space. Like any company (and perhaps more so than Microsoft) they have a finite number of internal staff, especially in key roles and with key talents (eg. 1 Jobs, 1 Ive), and I'd bet that there would be some internal decision to focus and do something like a product/release sprint. Plus, there's probably a lot more room for innovation in the phone/tablet space than in the desktop space, so it seems reasonable to want to strike while the iron is hot. If you can link to some quote where Jobs has said something equivalent to "we're giving up on the desktop space", I'll retract my argument.
You would probably enjoy watching WWDC 2010 Session 205, "Simplifying Networking Using Bonjour". Bonjour is a service discovery protocol built in-part with small headless devices in mind which is something you might find interesting in and of itself, but there's also a brief introduction to a small Bonjour enabled wall-wart which allows for power to be controlled and monitored remotely as well.

http://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2010/
How about a C version? Always feel that using scheme/lisp/etc is cheating a bit :)
Google update on China
Define 'great deal'? How many records are we talking about?
Thanks for posting this. I registered with Amazon for email notifications when this was to be released, but they didn't send me anything.

It works great on my HTC Incredible so far, including Whispersync with my Kindle 2. I wish it supported search and included a dictionary like my Kindle 2 does, but since even Kindle For PC doesn't have these features yet I suppose I'll have to wait.

My one big UI gripe so far is that the phone's back button isn't used for navigation like the back button on the Kindle hardware; instead it takes you straight to the welcome screen. The navigation feature analogous to the hardware Kindle's back button is bizarrely exposed as a separate choice through the application menu.
Can't read it here from within mainland China.
Ironically, one example of the dangers of bright people staying in the academy for too long (on twelve different levels). Which is not to knock academia. Or Plato. Or this paper, exactly.

But I feel kind of sorry for this guy. Throughout my undergraduate years, I was very into this kind of thing. Because of the Indiana Jones aspect, as someone mentioned.

Unfortunately, it's so easy to misinterpret patterns. There are many more dialogues -- which I assume don't fit the model of 35 characters a page or whatever he's going for. And there are many dialogues where these supposed synchronous 'concepts' aren't apparent.

Some day if scholarship got a lot more scientific, there'd be control groups and actual statistical verification.

In the meantime, cognitive dissonance is hard once you go down the numeracy rabbit hole. Aristotle thought Plato was somewhat Pythagorean because...Plato went and stayed with a bunch of Pythagoreans in Syracuse for a while.

If anything, 'stichometry' is much more something a monk would do (in the manner of the Divine Comedy, etc., at the least it seems more Hellenistic and less Classical). And maybe we do get some of the dialogues abridged and ordered to meet the pages that they copied. Also, 'one or two percent accuracy' (top of page 10) when you're counting lines doesn't sound that convincing.

But maybe I'm wrong. It'd be much more convincing if the text could be presented visually and the structure clearly was broken up that way.... And you could show, for instance, that when you break things up with 34 characters or 33 characters, you get no interesting patterns. But when you align things perfectly, a preponderance of patterns suddenly emerges. I don't get the sense that there is a 'preponderence' or whatever. But maybe.
The thing about Microsoft, speaking as a fan of Linux and Mac, is that it doesn't really matter if they get their shit together. Mac and Linux already exist, and they can beat Windows in the premium/shiny and cheap/utility departments, respectively. Those two right there are going to satisfy a lot of people's needs. About the two biggest factors in Microsoft's favor remaining are (1) selling home consumer PC's to folks who want/need something cheaper than a Mac, and (2) legacy application inertia. iPad and Linux desktops can somewhat attack (1), and the advantage of (2) will slowly wear away over time I think as more and more ppl/bizs find acceptable replacements on Mac, iPad or Linux.
This is indeed a namespace thing, every posterous blog uses the same global namespace. They said this will be changed.

See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1443020
The market cap is much more instructive to have in the title - price per share by itself carries no information.
I think that used to be a requirement for Google News inclusion, but I heard they dropped it.
1. Stop smoking drinking.
2. Have fun. Programming is about having fun with ur "robots".
3. Plenty of physical activity to compensate mental activity.
4. Wake up at 6 AM.
5. Live now. no plans. Just catch the moment.
Cassandra's out. It's whole design is for work loads with lots of writes mixed in.
History has taught you to be worried about people knowing genes (or clusters of genes) which correlate with intelligence, to various degrees?
Hold off on the "he is not a scientist" line... the Caltech Physics Ph.D. (a theorist, not some namby-pamby experimentalist) does give Michael the street cred to rant about such things.

Now if only he used his powers for good instead of evil...
Powershell, isn't bash, but it's pretty kick ass.

Instead of piping text from one command to the other, you pipe entire objects back and forth. A lot of bash commands are aliased to Powershell commandlets out of the box. And, as of Powershell 2.0, you have remote scripting similar to SSH.

I choose to do Python Web development on Windows, and I spend my whole day on the PS command line, and I'm really pleased.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell
Also crashes safari on iPhone. What gives?
Hmm. I agree with what you say here, but for the opposite reasons.

That is:

I think any OS will deteriorate over time with use. The question is how the OS deals with this fact. The Windows method of memory management and defragging is... passable, but not nearly flexible or versatile for modern machines. For one thing, it's horrendous at dealing with boot configurations. And that reminds the user that Windows (up to 7!) doesn't appear to have any sort of actual boot configurator that even a hard-core geek could use.

What's more, while I see where you're going, and I agree with the thrust, I actually disagree with you that "Push Button Reset is great for geeks." It's the opposite of great for us; what we'd like to do is be able to manage clean reinstalls, and most of all to be able to partition hard disks to our liking. Considering that Windows 7 offers less partitioning options and capabilities than Windows 95 did (seriously, think about that for a moment) and that Vista was the first in a decade even to allow partitioning, we're far from a Windows which affords actual control over the machine or the media that goes into it.

That's really the thing here to me, as a geek. What does Windows 8 have to offer me to impress me and make me happy as a user? The ability to partition seamlessly; the ability to force a partitioning over errors if I want to; the ability to reinstall seamlessly as many times as I need to, to burn reinstallation software as many times as I need to; the ability to easily and directly configure boot parameters, and to make a boot sturdy and permanent for all users on a machine running multiple partitions with differing encryption levels; finally, direct manipulation of inodes/indexes. These are all things which are still, so far as I can tell, flatly impossible within the context of Windows; and where any of them is possible, it's only with the help of expensive software. Whereas a person with a free, burned copy of Knoppix on a disk can do all of them in five minutes with any computer she choose.

I'm not even saying Windows is evil here, or anything like it. It's just that it doesn't in any way meet what I need out of an operating system; there is no control over even the slightest thing, like indexing or bad-sector flags or defragging or partitioning or anything. And I sometimes wonder how Windows developers convince themselves that they're producing a powerful system.

Maybe some of them can answer this; I know they're reasonably intelligent. Do any of you know why Windows won't offer these things? And what we're supposed to do in a world where more and more operating systems do?
Only because you pulled out the OED did I feel it might be acceptable to point out that in the sentence "Pi is wrong", "wrong" is an adjective, not an adverb.

More to the point, in the online OED as I see it, definitions 1 and 2 deal with physical shape, 3 and 4 deal with moral character, and interestingly, my 5) differs from yours, being given as follows :

5. a. Not in conformity with some standard, rule, or principle; deviating from that which is correct or proper; contrary to, at variance with, what one approves or regards as right.
b. Not in consonance with facts or truth; incorrect, false, mistaken.
c. Of belief, etc.: Partaking of or based on error; erroneous.
d. Of a painting: having an erroneous attribution.

Given that it's not until we get to 6 and 7 that we find definitions regarding quality of 'state or order' or 'appropriate' and 'suitable', I think readers are quite justified in finding the OP's use of "wrong" to be at least very freely used -- which was, of course, part of the whole point.
Ever since we launched Google.cn, our search engine for mainland Chinese users, we have done our best to increase access to information while abiding by Chinese law. This has not always been an easy balance to strike, especially since our January announcement that we were no longer willing to censor results on Google.cn.

We currently automatically redirect everyone using Google.cn to Google.com.hk, our Hong Kong search engine. This redirect, which offers unfiltered search in simplified Chinese, has been working well for our users and for Google. However, it’s clear from conversations we have had with Chinese government officials that they find the redirect unacceptable—and that if we continue redirecting users our Internet Content Provider license will not be renewed (it’s up for renewal on June 30). Without an ICP license, we can’t operate a commercial website like Google.cn—so Google would effectively go dark in China.

That’s a prospect dreaded by many of our Chinese users, who have been vocal about their desire to keep Google.cn alive. We have therefore been looking at possible alternatives, and instead of automatically redirecting all our users, we have started taking a small percentage of them to a landing page on Google.cn that links to Google.com.hk—where users can conduct web search or continue to use Google.cn services like music and text translate, which we can provide locally without filtering. This approach ensures we stay true to our commitment not to censor our results on Google.cn and gives users access to all of our services from one page.

Over the next few days we’ll end the redirect entirely, taking all our Chinese users to our new landing page—and today we re-submitted our ICP license renewal application based on this approach.

As a company we aspire to make information available to users everywhere, including China. It’s why we have worked so hard to keep Google.cn alive, as well as to continue our research and development work in China. This new approach is consistent with our commitment not to self censor and, we believe, with local law. We are therefore hopeful that our license will be renewed on this basis so we can continue to offer our Chinese users services via Google.cn.
interesting story: I lived in Los Angeles from the age of 19 to now age 26. My mother died this past november. Before this had happened, I was living my life in Los Angeles. I had big ambitions and I knew where they were taking me. Work was in abundance, during which I had been working for myself for three years developing websites, and working on my startups. It was picture perfect in ways that work would come to me.

Now, I live in Sherman Texas, A very small town where I grew up and once dreamed of big things, expensive things which would become mine to keep. The loss of my mother was very difficult, yet I have now opened a new candy store, and leased a large office loft downtown. I've gone through every penny in the transition. One of the most important things that I realize now is that- things in life do not last, whether it be riches of material wealth, love, spirit, or my own motivation. One thing can I can be certain of is my own mindset, temporary defeat, and a loss of hope- or the ultimate poverty.

I currently have a broke down car that beeps as I drive it as if it were a time bomb, too much office space, and an inheritance of real-estate that has become a burden in expenses that I can no longer keep up with. Every new project that comes my way somehow disappears before my eyes (I've never had this much trouble closing a deal).

If you are poor, look up, you're still alive. This life is a series of challenges, breath a fire that ignites your soul. Live to have hope, and continue dreaming. The difference between the rich and the poor is ones drive to act upon a dream, and fight without a moment of doubt.

The poor now, and the poor tomorrow are two different people, the ones who lift their own spirit, and the ones who drown in their spirit of misery.
Now much is explained.
I think the point he is trying to make is that the current tax laws favor big businesses because, let's face it, the government is run by those businesses.
Without getting into too much detail, I had previously worked at Google (which was a great experience, I recommend everyone does that at some point). I eventually found myself back in my hometown (Philadelphia) for a bit and my girlfriend and I decided we wanted to check out what was going on in Seattle.

I had a bunch of offers but mostly looked at Amazon and Microsoft. I chose Microsoft because they are doing some amazing things internally right now. They also have some ridiculous talent (and their hiring changes over the past few years have only made it better). There is nothing better than working with other brilliant engineers.

In the end though, it was just about interesting work. Microsoft has acknowledged that they need to step up their game, and convinced me to come along for the ride. I've been there for 10 months now and so far they've stayed true to their word. It is a lot of fun there. I wasn't sure how it'd compare to Google, but Microsoft has surpassed my expectations. The only thing I miss is the free food.

It was never about what operating system or programming language, Microsoft offered me the most interesting challenge. So I took it.
Fast-Tracking: Alternatives to College
Cool app.

Perhaps a tiered plan based on usage? Or number of users?
Clearly, the close arrows don't matter as much as the humans do.
"Apple of My Eye" - an iPhone 4 film
As an engineer, I don't think preserving URLs is a minor issue.
I suspect this is a question more appropriate for Clickpass (http://www.clickpass.com/) than anything else
Much as I like the Roadster, I'm extremely pessimistic about Tesla's chances. Established auto companies with much deeper pockets would have trouble bringing the Model S to market. Tesla hasn't been very successful selling the Roadster, a car whose $100k price tag ensures it's selling to a demographic that doesn't care about service, warranty, or battery-replacement costs. The Model S will be an order of magnitude more difficult to sell, even assuming they meet their own overly-optimistic development schedule.
Booking DSA theory test appointment
Once you have a valid provisional driving licence you can book your driving theory test. Waiting times vary from region to region, but the target is that 95 per cent of driving test candidates receive an appointment date within two weeks of their preferred date.
If "key value" is important, have you considered Redis? If things like Cassandra and HBase are the Lisp or Haskell of the database world, Redis is the assembler - it's crazy fast but you need to take care of your own underlying data structures (beyond strings, lists, and two types of set).
I'd say drop the "predictions" angle, and focus on this:

"We wanted a simple system to keep an balance, as well as take buy/sell trades as realistic as possible."

I'd love a system that would let me test ideas on historical ticker data (last 5 years would be a good start).

In my mind, it works like this: You start with a fixed amount of virtual money, and you set the date to some specific day in the past. Then, you can buy and sell at whatever the market price was at that particular point in time. Once you're happy with your portfolio, you can advance the clock a few minutes, hours, or weeks, and see how you would have done.

Essentially, I want the ability to quickly test trading strategies that would normally occur over a much longer period of time.

Add in some screening tools, etc, and you have something I've been wishing for for many years.
It wouldn't be a coupon site. Just a database. I don't know how you could make money off this.
Somewhat bucking the trend, I'd say it's a reason to at least consider what effects the existing competition has. May not be a reason to abandon it, but if, for example, you were considering offering freemium webmail, it'd be worth considering to what extent existing offerings like Gmail and Hotmail affect the landscape. Do they put so much downward pressure on prices that you can't realistically hope to charge enough to be profitable? Is there scope for offering better enough services, to at least some non-zero-sized niche of potential customers, to overcome that? Etc. I think you definitely can't assume they don't exist: if you just make a Gmail, even a somewhat better Gmail, you will have a lot of trouble competing with Google on Google's terms, and against their cash pile.
In which Google attempts to comply with the letter, but certainly not the spirit, of a directive from a communist dictatorship.
Any commercial site operating in China needs an Internet Content Provider license? How does that affect the Hacker-News-reading types who would want to hack together a website and start making money from it? How difficult/expensive/slow is it to get an ICP?
You assert the opposite of my claim, but do you have any evidence? "Fiduciary duty" is an actual legal term; there are some actions or non-actions which violate a corporate officer's fiduciary duty, and some which don't. Failure to set up a tax shelter, even when it would be possible to do so and it would save the company money, is not a breach of fiduciary duty. I'd welcome any evidence otherwise, but I suspect you'll have trouble finding any, because I did research this at one point, and as far as I know, no corporate officer in U.S. history has ever been found to be in breach of fiduciary duty for not setting up tax-sheltering subsidiaries.

I can imagine a scenario where something like that might happen, but I think it would have to be fairly egregious, probably more something like deliberately setting up a new tax structure to increase a company's taxes (maybe because you know the mayor and want to help him out with his budget or something).
Which law of nature is against the theoretical possibility, though? Not saying that it is possible, but I certainly don't know enough about physics to prove it myself. Afaik water is actually still a bit of a mystery to science. Admittedly, last I read about the water puzzle was in a book that is 15 years old, by Douglas Hofstadter (of Gödel - Escher - Bach fame). Perhaps physics has progressed since then.
For the people out there who live in Emacs - Give Emacs + Wanderlust a try. It has a nice imap implementation, you can prefetch the mail, work offline, have multiple imap accounts etc.

Previously I was using Mutt + offlineimap
I think any OS will deteriorate over time with use.

Why?
> And, as of Powershell 2.0, you have remote scripting similar to SSH.

What, instead of actually using the ubiquitous, widely installed SSH? Some things don't seem to change.
I'm really surprised that nobody has mentioned App-V yet. I guess it's because of HN's bias towards developers rather than computing infrastructure types.

App-V encapsulates pretty much any Windows application. It prevents it from screwing up the system. It would be a good foundation for this app store - and it doesn't require that every app ever written is redone. It dummies out the registry and file system paths. The basics of this technology were used in Vista (and now Win7) to allow them to make major changes to filesystem structure without breaking compatibility with older apps. Microsoft bought this technology from Softricity years ago - http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/appv/default.mspx.

If you want to see what this could be like - look at http://spoon.net/browsers/ if you have a Windows PC. Stream apps from the Internet to run locally in an isolated execution environment. (BTW: Spoon doesn't run on App-V, it is an alternative).
1) It doesn't have to be completely flat, just fairly close to it. A "bee sting" is perhaps too mild a way of describing the problems of a poor person. Is it easier to understand what Karelis is talking about if you imagine a poor person who, instead of four bee stings, has three out-of-wedlock children, ignorance of contraception, a third-grade education, and a drug habit? Solving any one, or any two, or three, of these problems, still wouldn't be enough to lift them out of poverty, which seems like a pretty obvious point.

2) I suppose this might be seen as biting the bullet and admitting to an indefensible point, but I do not find it hard to imagine that if I were poor and desperate, and some asshole came and took my last $50, and I had absolutely nothing, nothing else with no hope of being able to improve things, I wouldn't care. I was already fucked anyway.
Because if you like solving problems, the problem, not the technology, is the most important thing. Seattle's a pretty nice town too.

At least, that's my answer.
Ask HN: Best "facebook styled" chat bar for your website?
http://www.bowob.com seems to replicate the look the best, but it doesn't seem that stable or customizable

http://www.cometchat.com looks decent

http://bar.meebo.com requires people to sign in with their IM accounts - I want people to simply be chatting because they're logged into my site (they are logged in with full names)

I heard facebook was going to realize the "facebook chat bar" as a widget/social plugin - any word on this?

Any help would be much appreciate - thank you!
Singapore Offers Tax Break for Angel Investors
Sleep well and you will do well. Consult your phisician for proper sleep hygiene and follow the advice closely without ifs and buts.
Android 2.2 Software Update for Nexus One phones
> There is a business line of business that requires backward compatibility back to 1990, and theres a consumer line that doesnt care much about it.

What are you talking about?

One of the things I like about Windows is that I can still run CorelDraw9 on it, for which I payed a lot of money when I bought.

Surely you could point to the success OS X has for consumers (which breaks compatibility every 2 years), but its tiny market share speaks for itself.
thank you for answering that!
Plays nice with screen and tmux.
Apple's desktop is slick enough that they could probably give up on it for a couple of years, and they'd still be ahead of everyone else.
He never said it was. He said that it affects a small number of users (because most of Posterous users are starting fresh, not moving from a blog that they actually care about) and that it's complex.
So who is cross posting who? ;) There's an identical article at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1470427 posted right around the same time