skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been one of the devs working on the API portion of http://www.winthetrophy.com; it's finally been opened to the public. For examples of bet bots, check out http://github.com/belucid/WinTheTrophy-BetBots . My particular bet bot is hosted on heroku ( http://andrews-wtt-betbot.heroku.com/ ); the source code is here: http://github.com/ph0rque/long_odds_bot .
No, I agree, even Mail and Safari could go into the app store.
This has nothing to do with caste system. India doesn't have the social safety net like the west, so people tend to be more conservative, for example if you get injured at work , you are screwed for rest of your life , no disability benefits like in the west .
Believe it or not I went half my life without knowing what my caste is, no one cares about caste at least in the cities .
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And there's more to the angle brackets than enclosing typenames. I'm thinking stream operators, for which a shorter angle bracket seems more appropriate. Like the rest, though.
Ask HN: Article about pricing an online service at 1.4 * 1.4 of original cost
A little while ago there was a post here where the author argued that since the standard retail markup of some item is 140% of its production cost, online services should be priced at 140% of 140%. The details of the argument now escape me, and I have been unable to track it down via google or my HN saved items. Anyone know what I am talking about?
Poi is similar. I think there's a continuum that connects several circus arts — as you go from juggling to poi/flag swinging to meteors to short staff to long staff, you lose freedom of motion in exchange for more regular patterns. It's hard to learn one of the circus arts without learning about all of them.
there are already some universities in the states and canada that require its users to have anti-virus software installed before they can use the campus wireless network. i'm not sure how they handle mac users.
Correction, check into Hg then beyond compare, done.
What always fascinates me is that this rigid track extends beyond careers and to the family life. According to my Indian colleagues, the social structure sets expectation on the type of wife, age you are married, age you start having kids.
So, Guido had a misconception about something, was educated about it, is now smarter than before - and freely admitting it.

Seems like quite a normal thing to me (it's called "learning"), so what's the big deal here?

Is Guido not allowed to make mistakes?
Good start - I wasn't aware of the Litmus environment. The Animoto example is great, I love telling that story to people just starting to look into cloud computing.

To add to the large-environment roll call, here are the persistent server counts of some 100% cloud-hosted companies:

- Bizo: 100+ instances (I work here)

- Reddit: 100(?) instances ("256 Virtual CPUs" http://us.pycon.org/2010/conference/schedule/event/148/) - HNer jedberg runs this

- ShareThis: 250 instances (I worked here)

Longest-running instance I've had is at two years and still going strong.
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Are you a customer if you've consumed in the past? The iPhone 2G and 3G still have all the functionality they were sold and advertised to have. Any future OS updates are above and beyond that. Before the iPhone was released in 2007 I don't remember any significant OS updates being common on SmartPhones sold in the US. Usually you had to resort to hacked ROMs lifted from newer devices.
Ask HN: How to ace exams?
In terms of high school as well as university exams, what are some tips in tricks in order to ace (not perfect, but do exceptionally well) exams with minimal study time?

I assume the best way would be to study a little bit over a long term prior to the exam, but how would one go about successfully cramming the few days before, especially when the exam is focused on problem solving (not just memorization and BSing, more math problems).

PS In case you can't tell, I have a math exam tomorrow, and have barely studied (it's high school so it doesn't matter that much).
At the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Macs get on the network without any checking. So if you spoof your useragent you can bypass the check.
Either technologies elevate us to singularity status, or the government causing systemic collapse and we're back where we started, or worse, nuclear annihilation.

Well, I'd kind of agree with that last part .... it's race.

But keep in mind that what we have to do is navigate the very dangerous in-between-times that are coming ... keep in mind that novels can make the process of decay and collapse seem OK. The reality can much more horrific. Ever research the things that happened at the end of WWII. Whole nations (Poland, say) uproot and moved, with a fair portion of the people DEAD as a result. The end of the Roman empire wasn't pretty and people much less dependent on really large scale structures like food distribution networks then (food ... survival, as gp said).

I mean, unlike in a novel, the US government has not become less controlling as it has become more corrupt. Just the opposite...
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I guess they are different to normal sandboxed apps downloaded from the app store, since they have higher access to the iPhone (reading emails, controlling settings), and can multitask (email, ipod).

They may in fact not be apps at all, but just part of the system, with access via the icons. They are just made to look like apps. They may have hooks that mean they can never be deleted (like new mail), but only hidden, since there code is needed.
e^(pi*j)=1
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I think there is room to acknowledge the strengths of one product and another. You don't have to tear down ASP.NET for Django to "win." I like Python, I don't have to see MSFT headquarters burn to the ground so that I can also use Python.

I'm an advocate for technology I like. I like postgres, python, and nginx, but that doesn't mean ASP.NET is crap.
My most successful weight loss was on a low carb, Atkins-like diet. It's not something I could see doing for a lifetime; I like fruit and good bread too much.

The article contends that graphing your weight on a daily basis is a good motivator, and I agree with this as well. Doesn't have to be a computer graph either, a piece of graph paper posted on the bathroom wall by the scale does just fine.
How do you get around bias in peer review? Journals use blind reviews so that reviewers feel free to express their real opinions without the risk of damaging their professional relationships. Increasingly, double-blind review is being used as well. This additionally removes the famous author bias.

I understand that when double blind reviewing was added to the area of AI research, the distribution of who got things published changed dramatically. I don't see how a circle of trust will help with that. The other part of the problem is getting people who are willing to do thorough reviews.

Time is money, and with the massive pressures to publish, it has become somewhat common in CS for professors to hand off reviews to students who may not be qualified. Or alternately, reviews can be too short or not thorough enough. This is really illustrated well in conferences, which ironically are often valued more than journals. The extreme number of submissions coupled with a very limited assessment time and strict page limits leads to some horrible reviews that help no one. Even bad reviews should be useful in the sense that they should point out what is wrong or how to improve the work.
subtitled; As Kevin Drum says, they prefer monopolies like the ones Visa and MasterCard enjoy

That's not a monopoly.
Are you being facetious? The whole point of the article is that Visa and MasterCard are "manipulating" the market so the government has to step in to regulate it some more because clearly the free-market isn't working.
The evasion is that the only way to actually manipulate the market is through government policy.
Reminds me of this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1121775
Seems like the obvious solution. Along with being able to distribute updates to these apps independent of complete OS updates.
Build muscle
As far as I know I have never been infected and I've been running Windows without antivirus for the last five years.
"If you don't have to work, it's probably a better experience."

My hypothesis is that a founder of a startup can do this and still manage to run a company. In a few months, I will likely draw some conclusions.
If someone knows how to spoof a useragent, they probably don't need virus protection anyways.
"'Asshole' is just never going to fly here" (Adam Moss/NYTimes)
Jeff Bezos delivers graduation speech at Princeton University
Implementing it in the fall at Villanova
http://www.villanovan.com/software-to-monitor-network-1.1342...
"It's interesting how almost every aspect of life in India is eventually spun and attributed to the caste system - kind of like Godwin's law."

Yes. Usually by people who have no direct experience of India. But then many people in India with no direct experience of America believe it is an immoral nihilistic society of "uncultured" pleasure seeking barbarians (rich too ;-)) .
I am the author of this article. Do you not think the commenters are the ones being incredibly hostile?

Here they are on my blog convinced that I am wrong, and when I don't agree, they start calling me epithets like "naive", "stupid", or labeling it as "funny". Let me give you a selection of some of their latest behavior.

- "Then you type some absolutely incoherent stuff about python objects and their state as if anyone still doubted your knowledge level in these matters."

- "And to top it off we get to see a raving “I’m never wrong” lunatic on the Internet."

- "You’re _such_ a dick"

Anyway I don't expect to get a lot of support here since everyone here loves exotic functional languages like Erlang. But I am still not budging from my position.
I dont think you have any idea of how harsh treatments can be. I went through radiations and invasive surgery to treat cancer. I am already wondering how much more I will be willing to endure and permanently loose if the cancer spread. I am scared to not even have a peaceful and descent way out if things get too tough. I am under 30.
As a single and not so young hacker that does not cook, I found it refreshing. Most cookbooks suggest food that takes a lot of prep, is bad for you, and or is just bland. This looks like a great jumping off point to actually cooking more than I eat out even though I can afford to eat out.
Hi. Future doctor here. I agree with both of you (I don't think it's paradoxical to do so). To augment your point, consider that if doctors are left to regulate themselves, you run into the additional problems of self regulation (or lack thereof, for both thoughtful and malicious reasons but generally to bad effect).

Patients, even in the information age, cannot yet synthesize enough information to generally be intelligent, independent consumers of medical care. There is too much bogosity that has to be filtered out, and most people aren't good at that. (What??? Drug X killed 1 person once??? Well I'm not taking it! [Nevermind that Drug X has saved hundreds of thousands of lives.]) I don't think I'm being elitist, because physicians suffer the same problems, though perhaps to a lesser degree. While they might be more informed consumers of health care generally, a cardiologist probably doesn't have any strong, evidence-based opinions of which is the best treatment for their cancer. (I mean, besides fearing doxorubicin.) Their training in understanding the primary literature is probably their only advantage (and their training in outdated chemotherapeutic agents from medical school is probably their major disadvantage).
One month, I will probably set a budget of what my old rent was and test this.
As an "ABCD", i.e. American-born child of Indian immigrants, I can assure you that the pressure is distinctly different. Middle class Indians have a pretty rigid set of expectations for their kids, and there's hardly any room for individual expression. Everyone is expected to go for the prestigious-but-safe occupations of doctor, lawyer, or engineer (in that order). Meanwhile in American society we tolerate, and even encourage, experimentation and "following one's dream". Yes, everyone's still generally expected to get married, have kids, buy a house, etc... but there's usually no threat of being disowned for choosing to become an artist, or even teacher.
A great font i've been using is envy code r.

http://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-cod...
Why don't you try it?

Epoll for Haskell was heavily experimental and failed to compile when I wrote the article. Enabling epoll in Erlang changed the results by ~1%.
And end up a penny short. Oh, the disappointment.
EDIT: Could someone please explain the downmods?

Hacker News has a very strong functional language fanbase which you could see last year by the number of Erlang articles, which has then promptly moved onto NodeJS.
gotta keep something to strive for.
> I would guess that there's a big divide between urban and rural area

Bingo! 100% correct. Look at West Africa. Rural areas have a very low incidence of obesity/diabetes/HTN (though I think their rate of hyperlipidemia is about normal, which makes mechanistic sense). Urban areas have rapidly increasing rates of those diseases.

I agree that public health campaigns, though helpful for raising awareness, are unlikely to succeed (at least, to a degree that you and I would consider successful).

It's all about the money (economic advantages), which is why the tobacco tax appears to have worked so well. (Or, who knows, maybe it just takes 20 years of public health campaigns; I guess I can't honestly say for sure.)
The "Benevolent Dictator" of a major language is still learning some basics of language design 18 years into starting that language. I'd more more okay with it if Guido didn't have such a strong grasp on the language's future.
I am not sure I have ever seen it on sale anywhere cheap... (this is in the UK so it may be de rigueur over there)

I haven't in the US.

one of my hacker friends is quite useless in the kitchen because he can't understand the concept of "roll with it" and reads the recipe like a program

Maybe try getting him to work without a recipe? Plenty of dishes allow a lot of wiggle room (or "___ to taste"). Most of my cooking at this point is based on trying to guess which basic ingredients have tastes that fit well together (with a fair bit of experimentation, e.g. this is the first time I've used strawberries in a marinade). It's also fun to try to reverse-engineer someone else's cooking (though I'm having trouble duplicating the texture of some curry sauces I've had).
Run the following command to add Cisco IPSEC to ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install network-manager-vpnc
class Node {
// May not be a real situation for a Node class,
// but makes a point.
Node getLeft() {
return left;
}
}

// No more checks against NULL. In fact code becomes simpler for
// the user of the library.
node.getLeft().getLeft().getValue();

I don't think the class definition is much too complicated, except for the declaration of the EMPTY field. What we need is a non-mutable, class-wide, default object, not null. We don't need to explicitly declare this object, if the language does that for us and make it accessible through a keyword - say 'default':

if (n.left != default) {
traverse(n.left);
}
I feel like there's a lot more talk of "following one's dream" than there is actually approval of people who do so, outside of normal tolerances. Many of my friends at university were forced into engineering/pre-med by their parents. Also. outside of the Bay Area, telling people you want to do a startup gets responses of extreme confusion and discouragement.
Yes but the underlying problem here is the your non-technical person on a Mac does need some sort of education or anti-virus. It's further building onto the illusions that Mac OS is invulnerable to viruses and spyware.
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In Paypal, under History ~ Download History, you can download your paypal transactions to many different file types, including Quicken (.qif), Quickbooks (.iif), comma-delimited, etc.

Alternatively you could use the Instant Payment Notification feature of Paypal to have them send your web app your transaction information, and your web app could possibly... I dunno do something with it to get it into quickbooks. A lot harder to set up but could possibly be totally automated, whereas downloading your history to a quickbooks import file would have to be done manually and periodically.
I would find some stats about how people now use Google opposed to the phone book, a little about SEO and bring some screen shots.

I assume they are at least open to the idea so it should not be a hard sell.
Welding variables effects
Searching on Google with SSL
1. sign up for twitter, be excited I get my first name.
2. have no time to play on twitter
Zynga runs over 12,000 EC2 nodes total. A single app like FarmVille, which runs entirely on EC2, will be a few thousand. It's safe to guess we're Amazon's biggest customer.
It would be much more helpful to tell me why I'm wrong instead of down voting me...
We already have all of the IPN data in a database. Unfortunately, it looks like using the QuickBooks API might be the best way to go.

I'm still shocked that this functionality isn't included out of the box.
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I use Monofur on my terminal and Anonymous Pro for my editor (distributed under the Open Font License)

Anonymous Pro includes embedded bitmaps for specific sizes.
Worked as a residential network coordinator at the University of New Brunswick. I can confirm this to be accurate. I can also confirm that it does not help things ONE bit.
Sorry, but sin(pi/2 + X) == cos(x) would make more sense to me -- a cos is half a cycle ahead of sin, so the pi/2 term just works with that.
I'm always impressed by people who know how to code, and also have a good understanding of the subtleties of typography. Bravo!
It is literally Microsoft's best contribution to fonts ever.
I had some issues with google charts trying to show all the results in one. All of the charts use the same scale, but does require some inconvenient scrolling.
"As an "ABCD", i.e. American-born child of Indian immigrants, "

the expansion of ABCD is "American Born Confused Desi" Where Desi == "Indian" :-)
I think to some extent individuals that continue the process of learning into adulthood naturally become adverse to stating anything in completely concrete terms. Presumably part of this is from painful past experience, but also as one's depth of knowledge grows so does the realisation of just how much there is to know - even in a supposedly finite domain!
You really should use Sparkle for the OS X release. VLC is one of the few apps that doesn't use it and the built in updating mechanism in VLC never works anyway.
your non-technical person on a Mac does need some sort of education or anti-virus

Education yes, antivirus no. There are roughly zero active Mac viruses; the real threat is phishing.
Mindlessly setting up CMS' and things are nice, at the beginning, we all need change. The real fun in coding lies in solving challenges, not repeating the same solution over and over again. A lot of times programming is just a medium for solving problems, and it's the thinking that is fun. People enjoy _programming_ not plugging libraries and CMS modules together.
MIT licensed code doesn't restrict the licenses of derivative works. Because of this it can be incorporated into a GPL codebase without affecting the licensing of the GPL codebase.
Apple’s Small Problem: iOS 4 And iPhone 4 One-Up The iPad
The thing is that some SDK functions are dependent on those apps and thus need to exist somehow. Because a third-party app can use the SDK to send an email from inside the app, Mail needs to be around. Same thing with Maps, Safari, Photos… (and of course, the App Store)

On the other hand, you're correct, Stocks, Weather, Calculator, etc. are completely independent, thus could be deleted without causing trouble, but I wouldn't be surprised if the decision went down to the simplest one (at least for now): no default app gets deleted, period.

If you don't like having the extra system apps, (I don't for some of them), to quote Steve Jobs on an unrelated topic: "not that big of a deal".
For what it's worth, if you jailbreak your iOS device, there's a few ways of hiding apps from your home screen (both Categories and SBSettings do it, and I'm decently sure the Winterboard settings do it too).
>> Is there some missing feature or just sad that he can't be one of the cool kids?
> HN has degraded a lot recently. I see many comments containing ad hominems that are getting upvoted.

The cool kids part was a reference back to the title of the talk. On a different note I've found way more ad hominems in your post than the parent post.
Maybe. From experience though if you don't spend that much time working on the product, you have a skewed view of the work. I think it's better to have someone who spends 90-100% of their time coding advise you on such priorities. It also shows your engineers that you know they can do the job and you trust them.

Of course, this assumes you have engineers that you know can do the job and you trust.
Last I checked something with their .flv support was bad. It might have been the splitter or something. With a lot of .flv's you couldn't seek to anywhere in the file.
Agreed. That's why diabetes treatment sucks so badly (yes, better than nothing). The PPAR agonists seem promising, in theory. In practice they don't seem quite so awesome. I'm still hopeful; GWAS has offered us some new targets that should be exploited in the near future.
> Creating a way to compare doctors' performance would be a big undertaking requiring some kind of unified, centralized push for standardization -- almost certainly by the government.

I find this a dubious claim. We have entire thriving industries of third parties who evaluate complex products and services. I don't see how medicine is any different in that respect, from, say, finance or engineering.
Definitely. Studies have shown that discussion with a physician is effective (just not very much). But better than nothing. I just don't want to depend on physicians talking people out of eating too much as being the only solution; this is simply not effective enough given the severity of the problem.
Does that opt-out have to do with location though? The info page doesn't mention this when it explains how iAds will tailor advertisements to users. It does say "Apple and its partners use cookies and other technologies in mobile advertising services." Are you implying that 'other technologies' could mean geotagging?
Best use of animated gif in an interview, ever.
> Patients, even in the information age, cannot yet synthesize enough information to generally be intelligent, independent consumers of medical care

Most people don't know anything about cars, nor are even able to comprehend the complexity of your average vehicle, yet through trusted 3rd-party sources manage to find and purchase these extremely complex machines in a mostly-free market. Maybe as a future doctor you can explain why trusted third-party certifications would not emerge to protect the public if the government stepped out of the process? (I am genuinely curious)