skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who invented the microprocessor?

where did these industries get started software, personal computer, internet, airline, car, etc.

Americans were the ones that created these industries and created new technologies, new needs, and new jobs. We are wealthier that other countries not just because of WWII, but because of innovation and our ability to create new industries that creates jobs and wealth.

IE, personal computers create so many jobs that no one would have thought would have existed 80 years ago.

Americans are the ones that are the forerunners of innovation. We've have created so much.
This article has its amount of religious bias and wishful thinking. The author tries to establish his base on a fact that SQL is all about relational algebra and it's the right paradigm to query your data. While I agree with the latter, the author (and lots of other people) seems to forget that SQL is a dumbed-down-aimed-to-mediocre-programmers contraption inspired by relational algebra, but not really properly relational! It's really far from what Codd had in mind. If you read the history of early SQL dialects and DB2 vs Oracle competition it's clear that SQL was marketed as a language everyone can program in (thus the stupid imitation of a natural language) -- we know in XXI century that this is a bs...

I'd say that SQL is a COBOL of relational algebra...
Interesting how we develop code to be more intelligent and to identify objects, when humans have such a hard time recognizing patterns (as shown in the video).
Chinese Factories Now Compete to Woo Laborers
Amusingly enough, I too have a self-built AMD dual-core but with 8GB ram, Debian stable lenny (using the stock gnome) and a 24" WUXGA (1920×1200) monitor.
Ask HN: Does listing media coverage on a landing page help?
I see lots of startups with their media coverage on their landing page (links to a NY Times post about them, etc). To me it feels like clutter, but for some, I'm sure it makes the startup appear more credible. Has anyone measured if listing media coverage on your company's landing page improves conversions?
It's a virtual college they're talking about. You take the courses from your living room or whatever. You don't actually go to the college. So yes, there IS room.
This code is now stored on GitHub: http://github.com/pkrumins/hacker-top

It might be newer than the downloadable version in this article.
>buying laundry detergent online and having it shipped overnight....I don't have to carry it home

Am I the only one that is absolutely amazed that this is even possible? I mean...if you described this to somebody 100 years ago, they would have thought it was a form of magic.

"There is a box on my desk. It shows me pictures of things I can buy. If i press on one of the pictures, that item shows up at my door while I'm at work the next day and the money is automatically given to the person I bought it from by my bank."
Not all standards are popular. Microsoft's OOXML, for example, is technically an ECMA and ISO standard but I wouldn't call it exactly popular (even though it's widely used due to Office's market position). Because being a standard does not always imply popularity, the statement is not a tautology.
Will you still be happy with this kind of job in 20 or 30 years?
How Do You Define "Startup"?
Remember all those scandals where politicians sent sexy texts to people they weren't supposed to? Video looks a lot better on the evening news.

Cue first FaceTime scandal in 3, 2...
Abstraction in the Cloud
Apple has been there and done that:
http://www.applefritter.com/node/4963
No.

Standard just meant that it worked in lots of different places. It didn't mean that it was the only option, first option, or best option. But, by being standard, it became a lowest common denominator that people largely stuck to.

The links at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_language include many of the competitors to SQL. In particular look at Datalog, ERROL, ISBL, and QUEL.
Implied social norms like these are the worst thing about Twitter, which is a "community" in only the most incidental and half-assed sense. I don't want to "push it forward" or spread the love or whatever else it is this guy wants me to do.

The issue here is exactly the same as the issue with posting your own content to social news sites. If what you have to say has value, posting it adds value to the service. There's nothing more to it than that.

Not following hundreds of people, not "retweeting" other people's comments, not replying to people, and sending mundane messages (by who's definition?) doesn't make you a narcissist. It makes you someone who is using Twitter primarily to publish and not so much to listen. Sorry, drama queens, there's not much more meaning you can layer on to it than that.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1509603
Presumably the same psychological force that compels you to write comments like this, Aaron?
The ultimate narcissist is the fool who thinks that twitter "should" be used how he wants to use it, rather than how the user wants to use it.
Its actually a little more complicated than that:

http://www.packetstan.com/2010/07/special-look-face-time-par...
"NoSQL" is generally understood to mean "Not Only SQL", not "SQL is evil, begone foul beast".
fwiw, most email servers actually support the +notation
Google's Schmidt undaunted by Apple or Facebook
Crowdsourcing the search for aliens
That may be the case in the US, but in most other major markets, the iPhone is no longer exclusive to one carrier. The entire US population makes up at most 10% of the global market. Subtract AT&T itself, and you are left with about 6%. Hardly significant.
Aye. Just wanted to let you know I did read your comment. Just a few days later :)
7:30pm at Jupiter, if we feel the need to pull out Laptops && seek WiFi we can move across the street to the Brower Center http://www.browercenter.org where we'll have beer and snacks ready to break out.
DuckDuckGo is a pretty well done site. I don't know if DDG is doing anything revolutionary with their software stack, but the stack is working well enough that one guy is essentially providing a useful alternative to Google. Consider the amount of brilliant engineers working on Google search, and you have to be a touch impressed.

Of course, this extremely light weight development means he can have enough success to live on without worrying about monetizing as effectively as Google. Since he doesn't track searches as much as Google and thus cannot provide advertisers the same amount of targeting, this is important.

I look forward to tracking the site's evolution!
I know what you mean about clever consultantware. Sometimes it seems like clever beats out practical in the ruby world.
IMHO, one of the big things the Android Market is missing is Gift Cards. Gift Cards make it easy to spend money (after all, once you've received the card, what else can you with it?). They also make it much easier for teenagers to buy apps, a demographic who likes to spend money, but seldom has ready ability to charge to credit cards.
Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model in F# - ecounysis
I'll be moving to Pittsburgh to attend CMU grad school (interaction design) this fall. I'd never been there before being accepted but overall I've been really impressed with the city every time I visit.

Its a pretty little city sitting between three rivers and each of its many boroughs have their own style and lots of little shops and restaurants to discover. That along with the super cheap cost to live there make it a very compelling place to live once you get to know it.
OpenMP: A Portable Solution for Threading (Dr Dobbs)
It's much easier to add encryption to an unencrypted channel than it is to interoperate with a fully encrypted one. As a user you might be more interested in encryption as soon as possible, but to the average HN reader an unencrypted standards-based stack is good news!
Thanks for all the comments and feedback. I'd like to add a couple of things to help clarify:

1. I'm not arguing for Apple moving their entire manufacturing base to the US. What I'm suggesting is a US facility to (as noted in the piece) produce limited run goods. Indeed, I explicitly suggest that it be a "technology incubator."

2. I don't mention China once in the piece, and there's a reason for that. This isn't about arguing against one place, just arguing for Apple (or another, similar manufacturer) giving a piece of the game to a US facility.

Maybe it's feasible, maybe it's not. My argument is only that it would be a win for Apple in terms of PR and brand image, and it would be a win for wherever they did it. I'm admittedly not coming at this from a pure tech/logistics angle.

As for the "wishful thinking" comment, I'll cop to that.

But like I said, thanks for the feedback. Good thoughts.

Neal
But going public hasn't been as enticing an option during the recession...Google went public in 2004, a year that saw 218 IPOs. Last year saw 63 initial public offerings of stock -- not exactly a welcoming market.

Any discussion of public offerings that omits Sarbanes-Oxley is incomplete and irresponsible. The decline in IPOs has more to do with SOX compliance than the economy, especially for nimble tech start-ups.

There are many valid reasons for Pittsburgh failing to keep start-ups, but failing to IPO certainly isn't one of them.
Google Chrome Frame.
The Maxivision movie projector system, called "400% better" by Ebert.
SQL always seemed to me to be the way it is in order to lend itself to optimisation at the database end. It is easy to look at any SQL query (that doesn't use subselects) and see how the DB engine can efficiently execute it by walking down the appropriate indexes.

Try doing that with an ORM or a key/value store.
I don't believe that there really are all of these developers around who lack knowledge of SQL.

I learned SQL while I was learning to program. My very first (real?) program was a php hit counter that wrote to a hits.txt on the server. My second one was a guestbook that used mysql. My third one was a basic hierarchical forum. I wasn't a wizard, I was just a kid reading a book, bored at the Pennsylvania Farm Show.

Thus, I have spent my fair share of time working with sql queries in php code. Guess what? The SQL queries weren't very hard at all.

However, SQL Queries had almost nothing to do with actual using SQL itself. 90% of the code written in such a project is guaranteed to be cruft code surrounding the sql queries. Special cases abound. The difference between "column = $val" and "column is null" is so painful that I just can't imagine going through that anymore.

And that's just the first example! What does "" mean if you save it in a db column? Should you save it as a null value, or as a string with zero characters?

I just don't care about this at all, and you'd have to be a damned fool to think that I would ever willingly go back to doing that bollocks.

I already have my in-memory data structure laid out. ORM lets me keep from worrying about it it again (at least not nearly to the detail I would with SQL). With an ORM, 90% of the database code that I used to have to deal with is simply a non issue.
The Ebert quote is from http://www.newsweek.com/2010/04/30/why-i-hate-3-d-and-you-sh...
uTorrent Opens Up Apps, Starts Developer Challenge
How is this racist? I'm surprised that in 2010 accusing (or even stigmatizing) other people of racism based on vague assumptions is still acceptable. It's such a "90's" thing to do, really.

I'm concerned about manufacturing in Third World countries, some of them supposedly being socialists, where workers in practice have no rights whatsoever and often work in terrible conditions and about regimes that partially base their power on the popularity gained within their middle classes by the economic advantages of practically making their lower classes do slave labour for western companies (as well as their own ones). I feel disgusted for owning products made in conditions like that.

Obviously there are exceptions as there are some well developed countries with fair societies outside the Western World as well and obviously I have no problems with purchasing products made in Japan, for example. But that wasn't my point.
It's not even the right size. 690 pixels tall instead of 768.
Yeah, and I think this is a perfect example of a valid retweet for HN. Most aren't, but this is from the source and includes the discount code.
How about these much-needed additional data sets?

How many apps are being purchased per user? Are Android users spending an average of $.50 on one app, while iPhone users are spending an overage of $.50 per app on 10 apps?

What percentage of iPhone apps are free? Versus Android?

Without these additional data points, the average expenditure per user is meaningless.
Because the writers at these blogs are expected to produce tons and tons of content per day, and thoughtful, insightful content is not something that can be produced in 15 slapdash minutes.
Think about the environmental impact of having toothpaste shipped to your house on a UPS truck vs. picking one up at the store while doing your groceries.

I like the idea of Amazon Prime but I would feel bad just ordering some paper towels or toothpaste because I can.
Yes, it works exactly as advertised, and my humble little macbook doesn't seem to have any problems processing with it.

The text is a little fuzzy, though, because the UV16 only goes up to 1680x1050 in widescreen format, while my monitor is 1080p. But apparently EVGA recently came out with the UV19 which says it supports 1920x1200, and Buy.com has it cheaper than I paid for the UV16, so I'm strongly considering upgrading.
Here's a similar conclusion based on analysis of very different data: http://www.fool.com/investing/high-growth/2010/05/27/deciphe...
Meaningful Dissertation Questions For Meaningful Dissertation
A dissertation must find answers to a problem or settle an issue. One or more questions on the issue have to be formulated at the beginning of the dissertation project. These questions must be clear and answerable if you are to write a meaningful thesis.
This is sweet. I am already a paying Prime member. I just signed up for the Student Prime and got a refund of $50+ for the remainder of my plan. I'm now signed up as a student Prime member.
He means that costco is a business too.

But their desires are not being granted.

Meaning that his "pro-business" argument is wrong, since it's pro one business and against a different one. So his entire premise is false.
Hierarchical Visualizations in R & the Javascript InfoVis Toolkit
Review my website: Big Blue Saw
I've been working on this business for 4.5 years now, off and on with contract jobs.

I'd really appreciate the trained eyes of HN taking a look at the website to tell me what they think: http://www.bigbluesaw.com/ . In particular, I want to make sure that the website is easy an pleasant to use, and that there are as few barriers as possible to ordering. Let me know what you think.
Mac Interface Design
It seems increasingly unlikely that the kind of person who is interested in real estate ownership, for the purposes of living in it, is not the same kind of person who values the flexibility and uncertainty of startup culture, two of the things that are attractive about Silicon Valley and the Bay Area.
Municipal broadband haters in NC dealt a blow
New York Times Paywall is only for Windows?
Ok, I have recent run across quite the oddity. There are a bunch of links to the New York Times Website on Hacker News lately (thanks donohoe) and whenever I try and click on them on my windows laptop (chrome) I get stopped by a paywall login thing. However, when I try this with my Ubuntu Netbook, It just opens up articles without bothering to make me sign up. Anybody have an explanation for this odd behavior or notice it also?
Actually, although I don't think it's a real competitor, the Bed, Bath & Beyond ad had it listed for $169 with a $20 mail in rebate. Use one of the many 20% off any single item coupons that they mail you, and you can buy this for $135.20, plus the mail in rebate you end up with it for only around $115.20.

When the price is under $100, which should be soon, it might be a fun little hacker toy to put in interesting places, like glued to the front of the fridge, in the back of the headrest in your car, etc.
Can you elaborate the issues an ORM has in dealing with indexes? An ORM can be made aware of indexes via, e.g., annotations or other declarative syntax, and prefer those when joining and filtering, and will probably be more consistent about it than a human developer.
Implicit waiver of rights is a difficult concept. I bet that if Facebook cratered, the 84% ownership would come back to bite him.
What would alien code look like? Perhaps like Piet:
http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html
http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/samples.html
I know many graduate students that buy homes during their stay in Pittsburgh rather than renting, and simply sell when they leave. Often, those homes end up in the hands of other graduate students.
Computational capacity of the universe
Agreed. That's the first thing I thought of, too.
It's not plainly true at all. You write as if there's a rigorous, agreed-upon notion of "object". Not so. As such, it can be as vague as you need it to be.
I believe that the current attack in the US combines the aforementioned technology with a small camera mounted on the top of the ATM to capture a user's pin number.
Winning the inverted lottery
Sam Odio is a baller.
SimpleGeo HQ moving from Boulder, CO to San Francisco, CA
This book is one of the worst pieces of business writing I've ever read. Not that I've read a ton, but read this instead: http://www.amazon.com/Maverick-Success-Behind-Unusual-Workpl...

Good to Great features abstract bullshit with virtually no concrete practices. If you're not a details person, by all means read good to great and use a divining rod to try to steer your company to success.
This was the problem. A naive approach to the scope of the work that goes into this all.
And for extra credit: Universal Limits on Computation

http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0404510
I have two Ubuntu boxes I'm using today, one Hardy, one Lucid. I'm getting the usual paywall/regwwall pattern:

If it's a same-day article, I can click through. If it's older, I have to login, or do the search-through-google-news-trick, which lets you click-through w/out paywall/regwall.

I'm using Chromium and Iceape.
I wonder how much of a talent drain Google has been? I know several folks there, and apparently they have been hiring steadily over the last year or so.

EDIT: I think the demographics have something to do with it. As another commenter pointed out, there are tons of young families here, and I suspect that these folks are more than happy to find a good job and stay there, rather than live the start-up life. Granted, the talent pool is smaller than, say, Silicon Valley, but that's not say the area is mostly devoid of good talent. Much of the talent may simply want to stay put.
I'd like to see data supporting that 80%. We had AT&T phones through work at my last job, and we'd use our personal Verizon phones because of poor signal quality and dropped calls during service calls.
This is fantastic. What would street view look like?
The whole concept of online shopping gets greener as it grows - most people live driving distance away from the stores they regularly visit. The difference is between a tightly packed, highly route and fuel-optimized delivery system... or everyone's single-occupancy vehicle on the road zipping between strip malls.

It's wasteful if the UPS truck isn't being sufficiently utilized, it's downright awesome if it is.
However, would you like to go to a university that is just a glorified forum that is taught by people that might no the subjects, but not necessarily a professor?

Isn't that kinda how it is now? At least the part about your teachers being TAs and not professors.... At least a forum has some level of interaction.
I'm in Atlanta. Though this may be legit, it smells like a scam to me: "pay us money and we'll consider funding your business."

Since you're a blogger, you may be able to get a "press pass", though.
"The birth of ORM lies in the fact that SQL is ugly and intimidating"

The notion that people steer away from SQL because it is intimidating is absurdly ignorant.

The communities that embrace ORMs and NoSQL are the ones who are learning and creating new things all the time. No one's first language is Ruby, they didn't learn node.js in college, they didn't take an (N)Hibernate certification course. They learn in their free time!

Meanwhile, if you were good in SQL 12 years ago then you still are today!

Smarter people than me have written on these subjects, but for me, the answer is simple. As Fowler says, the most pervasive smell in software is duplication. If I litter my code with all the CRUD SQL (even worse with sprocs that contain column sizes) then my software is quite brittle.
I think you are misunderstanding the article; it's not that object models for data are bad, it's that mapping them to a relational store is inefficient and pointless.

The point against ORMs is not that they have inferior APIs -- in fact I say how bad SQL is. The point is that they wrap quite nice APIs around an inappropriate data store. If you have an object-like in-memory data structure, why not use an object store and have it in your data as well? The relational nature of your store is working against you.

If your ORM exists to keep 90% of the database code hidden, why not dispense with the RDBMS entirely and lose that useless 90%?
It says they take PayPal, so I don't see why you wouldn't be able to use that.
I go to Notre Dame and we have Google Apps. Our emails however look normal with a @nd.edu domain and the sign up worked for me.
And I practically refuse to buy things from third-parties that are not Prime-eligible (i.e., sellers who don't use Fulfillment by Amazon)... it's a deviously smart tactic that will get sellers to fall in line into Amazon's own selling ecosystem.
Or radio communication "...yeah, and your voice travels through the air until it reaches whoever you're talking to..."
Interesting how odd that headline would have seemed just 5 or 6 years ago.
I guess you're right. If you're writing about a topic that your audience is also well-informed about, odds are that you're wasting their time regurgitating such factoids as "iPhone only comes in one form factor" and "there are 50 different Android phones". I'm guessing anyone reading VentureBeat knows that, it's not exactly USA Today's audience. It's a plague on the internet, not just with paid bloggers but even people who are writing for their own sites who feel the need to tell you things you already know for paragraphs on end before getting to the point.

In fact, if your headline had included the phrase "AdMob chief says", all the information in the article would be contained in your headline.
Angelina Jolie Thigh Tattoo
that's the "build it and they will come" approach. sorry, the real world doesn't work like that for 99% of companies.

you will get further with an average product and a shit-ton of money to spend on marketing, than having a great product and zero money to spend on marketing.

we like to hear stories about the latter, and it does happen, but those companies are outliers. you can't bank on it happening.

bottom line is, it costs money to acquire customers. if you want more customers than your competition, a safe starting point is having tons more cash than them.
I didn't mean that ORMs have problems with indexes; just with efficiency: because you can tell the SQL engine what you want done instead of having to bring the data to the code (in particular when iteration can be folded into the query).
My college's email addresses for students are all .net addresses. Only faculty get .edu addresses. I went to Berklee. I just emailed customer support about it to see if it would still work.
Well his approach annoyed me so I'm gonna stay away and not worry about what he has to say. Whatever he says will permeate through the internet quickly enough so keeping people waiting till next week is not really a competitive advantage.