skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Does anyone give a shit about your dumb idea?" should be a bumper sticker/everyday growl reminder/alarm sound/first question of the YC app.

The graphic from the homepage of www.ABtest.com is also pretty self-explanatory about A/B.
If you like Buddhabrot, a friend of mine used MapReduce to create a high-res image of Buddhabrot's cousin: Nebulabrot. Kinda fun.

How it was done: http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2008/01/databases_are_hamme...

Images: http://www.danvk.org/wp/2007-04-06/nebulabrot/
The Top Non-Bloat Non-Annoying Extensions in Google Chrome
The busy beaver function doesn't run on a computer. We only know Σ(n) for n < 5. I think you are missing out on something extremely interesting—that there are limits on what computers can compute, even given unbounded resources and time.
For the consumer.
1. Consider listing your startup on http://fairsoftware.net, that's the site dedicated to finding co-founders (I'm the founder).

2. Your project sounds interesting. My advice, if you want to find a co-founder, is to have evidence that customers are lining up to use your service. If that's the case, it's 10X more motivating for the developer.
Interesting article; I wonder if it's been hacked itself? The text of the article seems to finish at page 3, even though the page-count links at the bottom of each page show 4 pages. I clicked on the "Next" link at the bottom of page 3, and Avast! detected a threat. I didn't keep going.
I gave you a decent example of your point, but I'm still not sure the point is good in the general case. GM was a bad investment and a bad bunch of cars.
Michael Porter on Strategy and the Internet (circa 2001)
Several factors: aging of the inmate population (and higher probability of chronic illness, but people imprisoned under 3 strikes cannot b released on medical parole); higher cost of care in general, for the same reason that health insurance costs have risen; and large payouts for wrongful-death lawsuits due to medical negligence, and subsequent overhaul of prison care. Medical and pharmaceutical services are usually provided by specialty companies that sell both clinical and security expertise. Being a prison doctor pays about $250k/year. Most of the expense goes on a very small percentage of the prisoners, as end-of-life care is the most expensive kind.

http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-05-19/news/20904260_1_sick-i...
There were a number of talks in that vein. Rich Hickey's talk about his experimental "pod" feature in Clojure for safe scoped mutation, Joe Pamer's talk about making F# suitable as a first-class .NET language, and Jonathan Shapiro's talk about the correctness constraints guiding BitC's design all focused more on problem domains and the features necessary to fill those domains than superficial language features.
Actually, the incumbency rate for the House of Representatives has been well over 90%, due to corporate financing, redrawing districts, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_stagnation_in_the...

As for Germany, it seems there's a lot more political choice, even at the top levels. Due to a greater diversity of parties, which more accurately reflects people's opinions than the US's two-party system. In my view, the US isn't particularly democratic, and anyway all of these nations have top-down "democracies."
Will power? Priorities?

Likewise, maybe the annoyance of managing large numbers of tabs is a good thing. It's a reminder that maybe you're getting carried away and need to adjust your focus.

What does these three(will power, priorities, focus) help you with information organization?
With this thing i actually can, for example, map a plan of a learning trial and resources therefor into a priotized tree structure. Thats to nice. Any external management of that gets obsolete.

A step further this could be the exobrain on steroids. Other people are using personal wikis for such things, for example. Here you get graphs(later probably even mindmaps) with screencaps for free (while wiki users need tools for graphing into images or the like). Also, writing little conclusions on nodes you've covered aren't impossible.

Don't think about the possible problems, think about the possibilities and advantages. With your points(will power, priorities, focus) you can then easiliý archieve the latter two.

Just to admit, I've thought about something similiar for Google Chrome for a while now. My thougts just weren't gone so far, until now. But basically I was thinking and sketching in the same direction. :)
CoffeeScript's creators / users (which is this one?) have been a source for some of the best code annotations I've ever seen. Here's hoping they keep up the epic work!
Here in Germany, I haven't found a bank that has any email functionality or a post-2001 web interface.

Maybe the reason why it takes 3 days to transfer funds to another account really is incompetence rather than greed.
I have an answer, but it will be rejected by most hackers as just a crazy idea sprouted by a crazy ideologue loonies like me.
This didn't mention that check constraints are completely ignored. That one bit me pretty hard the last time I tried to use MySQL.

For whatever reason, app developers kept getting longitude and latitude backwards. I wrote a check constraint that prevented that from being possible (in many cases), so if an app was doing it backwards, the DB would reject it.

I ended up losing data (in dev -- which really meant I lost 45 minutes in having to restore it) in testing this. Then I read the docs. I expect things to do what I tell them too frequently.
It seems pretty logical to me that one can't have good days without occasionally having bad days.

A flaw in American culture seems to be that negative feelings simply aren't acceptable: to anybody. Looking for reasons to be unhappy would be silly, but negative feelings do have to be safely processed and diffused.

The alternative is the observed rise in mental disorder and use of anti-depressants.
I haven't really worked with Joomla since forever but it was a pain in the neck when it came to fine grained user privileges and content types .. I want to try out Wordpress as a CMS in the near future..
Cassandra for Dummies in two lines
[Keyspace] [CF] [Key] [Column]
[Keyspace] [CF] [Key] [SuperColumn][SubColumn]
The one thing that annoys me about the web is all the reruns.
Well, about five seconds with Google and the information I provided ("Cambridge Computer Lab tech start-up") would get you the 100+ companies mentioned here: http://www.camring.ucam.org/cl/page?sp=12

Another obvious search ("Cambridge business park companies") would find you places like this: http://www.stjohns.co.uk/tenants/
Making the world's fastest VP8 decoder
Sure. I was being facetious. Lowering incarceration rates in the US is probably a hard problem which would need all kinds of shifts.
I think Tab Candy can combine these two concepts somewhat effectively, however, Mozilla should focus on speed, reliability, and accessibility. It's much more difficult to appease the average browser with hard facts compared to pretty videos and features, I suppose.

Thats just not what Aza Raskin is working on..
And no, I'm not one of the guys who has switched to chrome for performnace.. Damn I'am.
Lehman's bonds went to 0 because all of its assets went out the door with its derivatives. If the derivatives had had the same status as other debts, including said bonds, those bonds would have been worth >0.
This is of course completely subjective, but, from the top of my head:

Painful user interface. No good package management system. Instability and unreasonable hardware requirements for even simple tasks. Missing good command line tools and light-weight methods of remote administration, development and testing.
What Is Your Minimum Viable Market? | Jason L. Baptiste
I was physically in those communities, but, thanks to my parents, in a different culture.

There are often multiple cultures in a single area.
Uh, I massively dislike working with a fat bunch of windows. How can the title of one Firefox window as tab group can be as expressive as a group of tabs you've persisted in Tab Candy with your own label?

Indeed I do. One of these days I'll get around to adding an extension that allows me to queue links without opening them in tabs.

If you don't know any, i like Read it Later(http://readitlaterlist.com/).
Anything better out there?
db.get('flights', 'KLM-5034')(function(flight, meta) {
...
});

Is this a typo? Shouldn't it be:

db.get('flights', 'KLM-5034', function(flight, meta) {
...
});
> Yes, the reason I was saying that is that many of influential bloggers and companies are in the states and meeting them in person is best way to get their attention.

I respectfully suggest that you are vastly overestimating the importance of "influential bloggers".
Thanks for the tip - I will checkout the site.

In terms of getting traction - I agree.
We have the usual friends and family ready to go.
But the site needs to work properly first.

Edit: you don't seem to have python listed as a search option
> You think the teachers' union is more powerful than any single company? that is a joke. If teachers had the power of the top dogs in the finance, pharma, defense or energy industries (to take a few obvious examples) have they'd all make 7 figures.

Half of CA's budget goes to education, by constitutional amendment.

What industry approaches that?
Thats the point. It's alpha state. I see endless possibilities and extreme nice information organization at the horizon.
It's open source. Developers should be listening if you tell them. Also it's alpha. And at least, what about a nice, little extension? ;)
There's a footer that says I agree to your Terms of Use by using the site, but there's no link to your Terms of Use to speak of (at least on the main page).
Web Designer
What kind of transfer paper that can I buy in USA
Aching Hunger
> It's entirely a cultural difference. It's the good old British "tall poppy syndrome"

You think telling a start-up with no revenue, no plans for generating revenue, and no obvious link from their offering to a revenue generation model that they aren't worth a multi-million investment is merely resentment of others' success? That's not so much a cultural difference as living on a different planet. :-)
Well, I never read proofs on the first pass. I mean, I read each expression, but I don't bother trying to assimilate them into a coherent thought until I've finished any plain-English associated text.

And even that I'll sometimes wait to properly comprehend for a second pass.
A better question, I think, is "how does something become infectious"?

An idea alone is not going to sway the masses. An idea with proper execution and backing might. Think of it like education- a great follow along would be Plato's cave. You can bring one person into the idea-out into the world- but when they go back the majority still cannot understand what they are saying. Because of this you must convince small portions of the population either by education or force so that they may spread this new knowledge.

How do you spread said idea? By using human nature as a weapon. A powerful weapon would be confirmation basis. Get the powerful to back your idea- with money, fancy words, anything- and you can get most people to follow along. The weak depend on the powerful for survival- this could be reversed, but not likely to ever happen(see uprising).

Even if you are able to infect people with your ideologies you now have the problem of, what if this idea was the wrong? Infections ideas, just as viri in nature, are hard to cure once there is an epidemic.

So your idea does not need to be infectious or catchy or even right, it
just needs to be adopted. Once you establish a user base you can then
use that base to your advantage in order to spread your idea.

Interesting reads. Some have nothing really to do with what I said, just allow for a better understanding of what I mean. I am all for bad ideas, because without them how would we know the good ones?

[1] http://www.prisonexp.org/
[2] http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_...
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
[4] opr.princeton.edu/papers/opr0901.pdf
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_momentum
[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_momentum
[7] http://www.entrepreneur.com/tradejournals/article/194270145....
[8] http://core.ecu.edu/psyc/wuenschk/stathelp/Dichot-Not.doc
They haven't exactly reinvented desktop windows, it is just that the browser is turning into a full-fledged desktop.

Lol. I just imagined Chrome OS delivering all the niceness, smashing all other OS'es.
Your title should read "Ask HN: <fill in question here>". You also need to provide more detail in your question. Resubmit if this is a serious inquiry.
Before throwing our hands up in despair we should consider that some simple reforms of the prosecution system in the U.S. would make a huge difference. There are a lot of shakedowns going on in the U.S. system (it's hard to call it a justice system at this point). But a wide-ranging list of abuses of power feature prosecutors actively participating. Prosecutors in the U.S. have a lot of incentives for corruption and very few safeguards.

The problem is in the U.S. a lot of objectively unethical activities and policies are not considered unethical. A lot of horrendous official behavior passes by without people call it what it is: Corruption.

Of course it's not just prosecutors, it's amazing sometimes to see judges, lawyers, and many other public officials participating in cases in which they clearly have stake in the outcome without people calling it out with the C-word. My conjecture is just that reforming the prosecutorial system would have a big effect on the quality of the overall system and may not be as hard as some other approaches.

Regardless I've been in despair about this for a long time myself, but more recently I've started coming to believe that shifting the ethical goal posts in this country just by using a small list of very simple and objective guidelines and focusing on key centers of corruption.

Ethics are not universal, or at least are not proven to be universal. They are a social construction. It's clear, as others have said, that it's society that needs to change. How about starting by more of us being jerks in the level and ferocity with which we decry unethical behavior large and small and place our highest priority for social and political activism within the U.S. (and many other places) on that.
In fact, I would love to see an operating system with a window manager that had more of Tab Candy's features. (GNOME hacker Jeff Waugh agrees: http://twitter.com/jdub/status/19052579869)

Damn. Thats so awesome to read.

Thank you.
> Mozilla should focus on speed, reliability, and accessibility.

You'll be happy to know that our Firefox 4 Vision document contains several pages of plans for speed and stability and usability, and just one line about Tab Candy:

http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2010/05/10/firefox-4-vision-fas...
Is that the same in the state’s legislative bodies? I don’t know how relevant federal legislative bodies are in this discussion since criminal law is mainly a responsibility of the individual states, not the federal government.

America is a huge country, it’s not exactly surprising that you get all those effects you have on the federal level. That, at least to me, seems to be somewhat softened by a particular strong brand of federalism (in the European sense, meaning strong and independent local and state governments).
Can technology save James Bond?
I don't think it's a trick at all, and I wish I knew about it years ago. The web is like that: tons of crap that's easy to find and lots of gems that you find, then lose, then maybe find again. (Sort of like visiting a really good used bookstore: you need to browse and hope to get lucky.)

Some of the styles are not to my taste, but three or four of them are clean and simple and easy to read. They provide someone with no CSS a head-start. They provide someone with little design skills a head-start. How is this bad? (As for linking to a CSS file: the good thing here is that the authors explicitly offer them up for re-use. It's a bit underhanded to just find a website you like and "borrow" its CSS wholesale.)
LG is having trouble keeping up with demand for iPad displays
Instapaper (http://www.instapaper.com/) is another option.
The fourth page is a commented listing of the exploit. Supposedly, it can trigger some antivirus programs.
No, db.get() returns an anonymous function that takes a callback. The advantage to this type of api vs the one you mentioned, is db.get() can get more or fewer arguments, and callback is always last.

db.get() is a bad example, I'm not sure why you'd want to pass anything other than bucket/key to get an object. In this exact case, I imagine it's just for consistency with the rest of the API.
Sounds interesting and good luck! Do you really need a co-founder? IMO, if at this stage you're paying someone a "reasonable hourly rate" they aren't really a co-founder but rather employee #1.

I know it's popular right now to have co-founders, but I'd say just stick with it and go for it. If you have clear tasks and the revenue (or funds) to support bringing on employees the do so but otherwise put your head down and stick with it!
noel, I tried sending you an email .. at least, whatever your private WHOIS email said your address was. Your noel churchill .com web site has been compromised - there's an malicious injected <script> tag on your page.
From their FAQ:

* Google Chrome: version 4.249.4+
* Mozilla Firefox: version: 3.5+
* Apple Safari: version 3.1+
* Opera: version 10.5+
* Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 6+

The Google Font API is not currently
supported on iPhone, iPad, iPod, or Android
Your SSL certificate is shown as untrusted by Chrome... May want to take a look because it makes for a pretty nasty error page and that's not what you want visitors to see first.
I'd like to pay an hourly rate in order to make sure it's a good match on both ends. Ultimately for us to succeed having a technical co founder is going to be critical. In order to pivot and make data driven changes speed is critical.
I can't decide if this is a productivity tool or a distraction.
Pirate ISP founder Gustav Nipe Interview Video
PirateISP founder interviewed at Hacknight.
Analyzing The Facebook Contract: Is Mark Zuckerberg Screwed?
Both re2 and Python are NFA based. The difference, I believe, is that re2 doesn't support backtracking, which changes the worst-case time from linear growth to exponential growth on the input length. (For the snobs, that means that re2 regexes are regular expressions. Python's aren't.)
This is not a bad thought, but it runs afoul of Apple's strange choices. If you view the "Custom" install of Xcode, there are five parts:

1. Essentials (1.75GB)

2. System tools (56.8MB)

3. UNIX Dev Support (563.7MB)

4. Documentation (Zero KB - sic! More seriously, it's a download at next boot, hence zero KB of stuff is installed immediately from the disc. Why they don't report the size of the later download, I don't know.)

5. Mac OS X 10.4 Support (Zero KB - again, sic!)

By default, 1-4 are selected and 5 is deselected. But here's where it gets interesting: you can only deselect 2-5 manually. 1 is a must. Care to guess where Xcode lives?

Here's how Apple describes "Essentials":

> Installs Xcode, Interface Builder, Instruments, Dashcode, Quartz Composer, GCC 4.0.1, GCC 4.2.1, llvm-gcc 4.2.1, GDB, and other developer tools. Also installs the Mac OS X 10.5 and Mac OS X 10.6 SDKs. All content is placed inside a location chosen by the user (default is /Developer on the boot volume).

I feel like John Belushi in the old "All I wanted was a pony, but nooooooooo" skit.
This is the end of a long road that started with the the combined popularity of RSS readers, Readability, Instapaper, Safari Reader, and all those cookie-cutter blog templates.
Among other context splitting, I make regular use of virtual desktops. So there are rarely more than one or two browser windows on one desktop, and anything beyond the primary window has a short lifespan.

Read it Later looks perfect; thanks for the tip. Last I bothered to look, I couldn't find a thing.
It's interesting and nice to see that they are working hard and applying Actual Computer Science to solve a problem which really just enhances privacy for end users, and which they aren't legally forced to do, or contractually compelled to do -- it's not like their customers the advertisers would necessarily be asking for this feature!
That sharing banner that pops up across the left side of the page is hella annoying to the point where I couldn't even give the content more than a glance. Until they post another article though you can read a version without the spam banner on their front page at http://startupi.st/, or you can use Readability or "reader" in Safari.
Personally I like Haskell. As for reasons to choose it over Haskell, I find it to be a bit simpler and easier to get things done. Mutable state takes less work. For places where you might drop down to C for bit twiddly speed it is easier to replace C with OCaml than Haskell. You can still do lazy in OCaml though you have to choose it. It is a part of the standard library. Being an eager language it's evaluation model is easier to understand.

OCaml vs Scheme is harder for me to answer I haven't used Scheme that much. Static typing if you like that sort of thing.
When I first heard of this attack I'm pretty sure the solution to that is a high-gain antenna. I don't know how often that actually works, but it's theoretically supposed to.
Ask HN: Best host for static HTML microsites?
So I know my way around web development, and I have a meticulously crafted lighttpd.conf running on a few tiny VPSes.

Problem: stuff goes down occasionally, severs require a reboot, and while it's great for hardcore wordpress optimization (which I do on my main blog), I've increasingly found myself modifying my powerful lighttpd.conf script to add yet another 3-page static html microsite.

Can anyone recommend a cheap, painless way to host a bunch of low-traffic static HTML across a dozen or so domains?

* Zero-configuration deployment of new sites. It would be great if I could just put some files in a folder called "example.com" and do a git push.

* Configurable subdomain support. S3 won't cut it.

* Reliable / no waking up to do a reboot at 3am

* Cheap: same cost or less as what I'm paying now for the VPS.
Part of my point is that not everything is worth doing (or worth doing much), and making those things easier to do just makes it easier to do things not worth doing.

"What does these three(will power, priorities, focus) help you with information organization?"

Maybe the things being organized aren't the things you should be focusing on. Perhaps your focus should be elsewhere, your priorities different.

If not, then yes, better tools for organization are a win. I'm just glad there is friction to doing certain things that are often just not that important, like endless Web surfing.
The same author (Bogost) had an article a bit ago about how Foursquare is similar to and different from frequent-flyer programs, that I found interesting: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/4269/persuasive_games_...
Great points. A lot of the "work" I've been subconsciously putting off. Guess I can't anymore :).
So why does adobe reader allow for the execution of javascript from pdf files?
Yea - sounds like we have to formalize our partnership a bit more (we've only got the LLC set up). Thanks.
Re my other comment: Also ran into the odd sign-in required, so I decided to just host the article myself:

http://www.neurogami.com/articles/10_minutes_to_your_first_R...
I think the recursive descent ones are also worth favoring when you want to have more informative error messages
This is a large hackathon that happens every 6-8 weeks or so: http://superhappydevhouse.org/