skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like the idea of introducing classical mechanics and methods of numerical solution alongside one another. I do feel that physics at the undergraduate level fetishizes pencil and paper to the detriment of understanding how complex a classical system really can be.

I am also ecstatic about the choice of not-Fortran for representing the algorithms.

Makes me tempted to try and write a "Structure and Interpretation of Neutron Transport"
> Today most people don't think it's that remarkable that you can cram a bunch of flowery crap into something, or make it super-intricate and fragile and still transport it.

jQuery
A Simple Movie Search App w/ jQuery UI
Lesson: take control of your domain. When someone leaves the team, change the auth keys / passwords to servers / facebook / twitter accounts, etc.
I was thinking along those lines too, but your solution is a bit too invasive.

Instead, what if we analyzed the peripheral data generated by a person and ask them to tag something to it in the app? There's this project called stereomood (see: http://www.stereomood.com/) that's doing something similar. The thing is that people tend to do certain groups of behaviors in certain moods.

So, if you can associate the two and then ask for confirmation or a response along those lines. You can subtly check on them without influencing them. If we ask them a question in these lines then we tend to get false feedback. Even if they aren't feeling that way we might trigger a response and make them feel that way subconsciously. Or, even worse we might become an annoyance and that person might stop replying properly to us. Bad data is to expected but it must be minimized.

Even cooler would be to mine this data further and create a profile of the person. So, that their psychiatrist/psychologist/counselor can better help them. After all there's only so much you can say in the span of an hour.

I wouldn't be surprised that a startup comes up trying to do just that.
Agreed, we did spend some time thinking about this stuff and writing down these points, but figured traction and proven work speaks for itself. If you check out blog.embed.ly, we love to broadcast any site that is using us. Always appreciate the feedback.
indeed, usability is an art!
Someone should write a Sci Fi story about a research facility where every possible resource is dedicated to exploring strings of bits of pi. In the process they could discover a lot of things like

1)We are living in an illusion and are simulated (not like matrix, as in a real program) on the computer of a geeky alien in his basement (or equivalent in his world).

2)A method is discovered to capture bit strings which are part of real world and thus creates a computer which knows all the secrets.

3)That we are not the makers of our own destinies. Pi holds our past present and future.

Man this is exciting exploration into science fiction.
Appendix D

http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncgTOC.html
A decent terminal under windows (great hack)
Fine but some of you biking zealots (bikees? bikees) need to realize that some people can't or don't want to ride a bike to work. The article wasn't completely about bikes, you're forgetting that there are options other than cars and bikes. The task for new developments is to build up a good system of public transportation. I think we should see that long before we see everyone biking to work.

(Btw I actually run to work.)
Different stages maybe kote. At a really early stage when you don't have too much to show, not many strangers will want to listen. You'll need friends at that point.
Ask HN: Anyone needing help with their project?
I'm just looking for a way to to start contributing to already existing projects. But, if you have an idea and would like to start a new project, sure thing. I prefer desktop apps and I code mainly in Java and Python.
To be fair, this would be true of base-10 pi as well..
patio11,

I think I've been down this road with you before (I think years ago, amazing how long I've been on this site): I don't think the majority of Google's revenue come from online transactions. Most come from services where each individual customer is worth more.

The keywords with the highest clickrates are often things like 'plumber,' 'removals,' 'mortgage broker 'or 'divorce lawyer,' yellow pages type of material.

An online shop (for example) might make an average sale of $50 with a $20 margin & a 2% conversion rate (fairly generous numbers). They can spend $0.40 on clicks and break even. An migration agent will probably get 20% conversion rate (to phone calls) & 1/3 of those will become jobs (7%). A client is worth about $1k. If they are willing to spend 10-20% on acquisition, that means they can (and do) spend $10 if necessary.

So, I wouldn't be surprised if Google sees this as:
GDP of a nation
* x percentage of revenue reinvested in customer acquisition
* x percentage of customer acquisition done on Google.
Hilarious. :)

This is an "illusion" of sorts that works by ignoring contextual information. Sure, all that stuff is in pi, but it takes intelligence for someone to extract the right number of bits starting at the right position and decide to put that in a certain context where it makes sense (SSN, executable machine code, JPEG, etc.).

For example, the UTF-8 representation of this comment is somewhere in pi, but you can't say that the full information of this comment is in pi. Part of the information lies outside of pi, in the person who finds that part of pi and chooses to decode it as UTF-8.
Ditto PHP, finished my last commit about 15 seconds ago
Strange but true entertainment biz protip: after a performance, run to the nearest restroom, hide in a stall, and listen to the chit chat.
I like this definition. It is short and zesty and feels true. However I don't think it is a sufficient condition for something to be enterprise software. Some tools for software developers or other highly skilled employees are too expensive to be bought by the employees themselves, but I still don't consider it enterprise software.

I think for it to be real enterprise software it must also be dictated from the powers that be that the minions should use it, wether they like it or not.
In Carl Sagan's 'Contact', "Ellie, acting upon a suggestion by the senders of the message, works on a program which computes the digits of π to record lengths and in different bases. Very, very far from the decimal point (1020) and in base 11, it finds that a special pattern does exist when the numbers stop varying randomly and start producing 1s and 0s in a very long string. The string's length is the product of 11 prime numbers. The 1s and 0s when organized as a square of specific dimensions form a rasterized circle."
You could almost embed these in a QR Code.
I LOVE this book. I've had a hard copy for years. I always felt kind of lonely, though - it's such a niche topic that I had trouble finding anyone else interested enough to actually work through it :) So it's great to see it on the front page of HN.

Its software, scmutils, includes an emacs-like editor and execution environment called Edwin. Here's an oooold blog post I wrote about using GNU Emacs with scmutils instead:
http://ai.redsymbol.net/2007/06/using-gnu-emacs-with-scmutil...
Sagan does something like this in Contact (the book).
Let's not forget the footnote in Apple's success, HP. Woz was working for HP, and HP had to pass on the rights for their cute toy of a computer. If they hadn't, I wouldn't be typing this on an Apple Mac. Arguably, their success was HP's failure to pivot.

Whereoscope already has strong competition from the phone companies themselves, who realize this is a big deal. Verizon charges 9.99/month for, AT&T's is also 9.99/month, with the first month free. Sprint throws in 100 text messages with their 9.99/month charge. That said, there is room to be had, especially if they have patentable IP, similar to co-existence of Tivo and Comcast.
Ok, self-evident is the wrong word. Properly expressed, what they describe and conclude is exactly what I have experienced all my life. If I stay up all night, or close to all night, the following night I will sleep for 10+ hours. The following night after, another 10+ and the 3rd night 8-9. Not by choice, I just can't be woken by my alarms.

This pattern repeats almost without fail.
It could be fun if someone made an analysis of the more interesting strings that can be extracted from the currently calculated trillions of digits of pi.

I wonder if we can even extract a full sentence that makes sense out of the current digits that we have.
>It's survivor bias.

I really think it's as simple as that. When you read about a successful startup, they invariably mention the troubles they had scaling. So you immediately think "how can I avoid scaling troubles?", when you should be thinking "how can I build a site that will have scaling troubles?"
Because they were the first, and the first to do it really well. It's extremely difficult for companies to compete against that if they can't offer anything new.

Marketing tells you that you need to be the first at something for brand recognition. Once a term has been ingrained into society how do you compete with that? You could ask my mom, who never uses computer, if she knows anywhere to auction off an item 'on the computer' and she'd likely say eBay. You can't simply go head-to-head. You can't simply add more features. You have to accept being #2. Most people probably can't think of a way to spin another auction site, well enough, so they don't bother.
there is quite a bunch of people that do it in soccer games all over the world, specially latin america
"please offer the sale on Steam!"

As in the sale price. It's still $19.99 on steam.
Why didn't they just roll their own Bump technology? Can't be that hard to do, and now they're dependent on Bump.
For me, this question really doesn't answer much about my coding habits. A more relevant question would be "what's your coding velocity and acceleration". Yes, it requires calculus to answer that question, but it contains far more information.

The choices would be: "High, and increasing", "High, and steady", "High and decreasing", "Moderate and increasing", "Moderate and steady", ... etc.

Right now I'm at the terrifying "peak" of: "high, and decreasing" or "moderate, and decreasing". I'm getting drained, and it sucks. I feel burnout on the horizon.
Depending on how much code is in this book I may be interested in porting it to work with Racket. I am very interested in investigating Lisps and Lisplikes for numerical work, so I'd be happy to work through it in parallel with you, if you're still looking for a partner.
I definitely don't want to code in Java all my life. I am in the middle of a project, and I don't want to change language until it is finished. Fortunatelly there are languages which compile to the JVM, and I can use existing Java libraries from them. The only thing I want to figure out is performance. I need a language which is almost as fast as Java. I am planning to learn Scala, Clojure or something like that. If the performance will also be ok, I will probably change.
Since you didn't cite a source, I looked it up. Not true:

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/about/information/shuttl...
GridCentric (fork() for VMs) + Hudson = Elastic Build System
I'm not sure that that is a valid side-by-side, python by no means is a success because of Django but I'm fairly sure that lots of people would have never used Ruby if it weren't for rails.
But public version control is a solved problem. If Blizzard didn't demand perpetual control of user-generated content distribution, the community would ultimately build a better and more open distribution model with off-the-shelf tools.

Blizzard's intention isn't really to make things easier for the users; it's to create a walled-garden ecosystem for user-generated content, so they can monetize modders' work for themselves, which is pretty sleazy.
It is interesting how for such a Christian nation, America has such a harsh penal system -- one would expect all those Christians to just let the criminals be punished in the afterlife.

It's not really that surprising. If I'm not wrong, the range of offenses in America included "sins" like idolatry, blasphemy and witchcraft. Society reflects on what gets a man into prison. Religious judgment has had something to say and it's not always "turn the other cheek"

Believing that a christian nation wouldn't be able to have such a harsh penal system is naive at its best.
And if you look at the Born Digital website they're based in Enfield. If they're the designer, then they're only local if he's running for the Greater London Assembly. Last I checked we didn't have a congress.

I think you've fingered the wrong firm here. Looking at the site, the proprietor of Born Digital Web Design (http://www.borndigitalwebdesign.com/about-us/) is Tim Fox, whereas this guy is meant to be called Perk Evans (http://www.clevelandbanner.com/view/full_story/8998094/artic...). The whois matching is just Domains By Proxy.
http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=scala+developer%2C+clojure...

ouch.
Front End Tech Talk by Facebook Engineering
I just realized that--if expanded to enough digits--the alphabet clock contains every possible finite English sentence (without punctuation or spaces). And this happens at every moment.

http://alphabetclock.com
With out a contract the effort he put in is his. Therefore he owns the copyrights, sites, etc, for all the work he created. Therefore a bill is quite appropriate if the campaign wishes to continue using his creation.
you're in no position to tell me what i say! it's simply awkard to use a license like that. also you, yourself, admitted the conflict of client vs server licensing. why this is so? because they want widest usage. they release open source software not because they love developers but because they have to. returning to the point apache or gpl projects have strong commercial backing from big companies to start-ups and knowing this i'm asking there must be a real reason why they did choose agpl over gpl or apache. btw, it's their choice i respect that as well.
Could the material in this book be reasonably accessible to somebody who has no calculus experience?
Scott Guthrie's weblog:
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/
I wonder why Techstars and companies get so little coverage, Comments and Upvotes on HN.
Blown Calls That Technology Could Have Stopped
> Sun showed very well that giving away everything is not the path to happy shareholders.

Well, Google has shown that giving away everything does lead to happy shareholders. Google only sells one thing: ads. (Okay, they sell a bit of hardware here and there to large enterprises, but they don't make a ton of money from that from what I understand).

I don't know how much revenue Google gets from Android activations nor do I know how much they will get from Chrome OS. I assume that they get a bit from each sale, but I'd bet that amount is very small compared to the ad clicks once the user starts searching on the device.
Wow, that's the most I've ever seen anyone upvoted for completely inaccurate and misrepresented information. First, that's a real time view of each of the two regions. You don't think that the values may have been different during the day for Europe and the night for the US? More than that, you can't establish a viable trend from a single data point.

Even if you did have the average high summer humidity index for Europe and the US (personally, after having lived in the swamp that is Maryland & Virginia, I'd take a look at them), you still need to overlay the temperature index. 100 relative humidity in Oslo doesn't mean a whole lot when it's a balmy 21C, right?
Neither here nor there, but Vancouver is in Canada, and working somewhere that you are not a citizen is still a lot harder than it needs to be. Of course the grandparent could still consider Waterloo.
Not sure about that. My landlord can't accept rent via PayPal without paying a huge fee, and that's when I've funded my transfer via ACH. He doesn't have a merchant account, just an individual account.
This reminds me of a python script me and some friends wrote that would generate all the possible images of a given arbitrary size :)
Carl Sagan: Contact. Ellie found an 11 dimensional image of a circle.
I should have noted that I was using an iPad. On Safari on the desktop I'm not seeing the issue. Very odd!
That's wrong. He volunteered. It's not like you can bill the Salvation Army for the clothes you donated.
The unstated question Yegge is answering in that essay (http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/04/lisp-is-not-acceptab...) is "Should Industry™ choose lisp", and his answer is no.

The unstated question Tim Daly is answering is "Can you, as a lisper, complete projects for Industry™", and the answer is yes.

The two essays are answering two different questions, and they're both "right".
Reddit Ad by the Numbers for B2B Services
This is an elaboration on Dave's earlier post here: http://blog.gridcentriclabs.com/2010/07/elastic-build-system...
Right now... Just make sure it falls back gracefully on browsers without support, unlike the demo.
I can't tell you guys how happy this makes me, it is the kind of programming that I really think should be done more often because it really makes you a better programmer to be able to work within such a restrictive environment.

Some of the demos are absolutely stunning for their size. I'm more and more convinced that javascript will be the dominant 'starter' language for new programmers in the future and these small programs are just the right size for enthusiastic kids to pry apart and learn from.
No, not at all. The first equation is an integral.
You make a pretty good argument against a priori restrictions in general. E.g. who knows how amazing our cities would be today if urban development hadn't been forced into a static, prescriptive zoning paradigm for the past 70 years?

Too many people think about freedom in terms of individuals' rights in isolation, but its important to recognize that freedom alone encourages the kind of broad variation from which real, substantive improvement emerges, and is the true driver of human progress.

It's extremely important to make this point in any and every context in which it's relevant.
Big government the real threat to Internet
Jailbreak Your iOS 4 Device to Protect Against Its PDF Exploit
The matchup is pretty incredible. Ghandi was originally talking about civil rights, but it clearly overlaps in business too.
This sort of discussion often leads to someone wondering why it can't be used as a compression scheme, especially when you can calculate hexadecimal digits of pi without calculating any of the previous digits.

The first problem with that is finding the desired content somewhere in the number. You can't just Google it. In fact, I know of no way to search for it except for brute force (i.e. continue to calculate pi until such time as you find it). Because the odds are so low for any reasonably sized file, this is going to take a long time. Even if you measure using a scale where one unit is the current age of the universe, you would find the scale to be too small.

Even if someone solves that problem, the other problem is file size. You have to store offset and length. The length for most files would be reasonable, the problem is the offset. In all probability, that number is larger than your original file. Much larger. There are exceptions, of course, but not enough of them to help.

That said, I wonder how long it will be before some mathematician starts writing theorems about the "set of illegal numbers" like the 09F9 number and the rest.
You just ruined my evil plans to rule the world

Yes, the plans involved Pi.
Microsoft Zoom.it (Bitly for Hi-res images)
The pants transform is effective here as well ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1580410 ) except you apply it to the words in all caps.

6. PANTS in the face of temporary defeats

is particularly trenchant and evocative.
By embedding so much info company wide in SecDB aren't their risk people in a better position to make their case?

Still, that wouldn't matter if GS wasn't inclined to listen to them, but the whole Slang/SecDB system is indicative of a company culture that's serious about these sorts of things.
Classical mechanics bears approximately the same relationship to calculus that calculus does to first-year algebra. You have to have a very good grasp of calculus to appreciate, or even survive, classical mechanics.
Cool... but here's how my evil military trained mind works.

1. "Ball" has core of C4, surrounded by wire, etc. (i.e. it's a grenade with a bigger bang)

2. Add increased range.

3. Add ability to "bounce" (for stairs, etc)

4. Add firing mechanism.

You now have a movable, controllable grenade. Ideal use: Room clearance. Turn ball on, roll into target room, bounce to waist height, activate.

You could easily modify this with CS gas or such for lower lethality options.
I think this tells you all you need to know about BornDigital:

<meta name="Generator" content="iWeb 3.0.1" />
The pre-reqs for the accompanying class include both single and multi-variable Calculus, as well as differential equations.

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-01-single-variable...

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-02-multivariable-c...

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-03-differential-eq...

It's a long road, but a very rewarding one. Good luck.
I'd love to see some built that is not for profit in this day and age. Not to be overly negative. Perhaps it should be build what you want, not what earns the most.
That doesn't sound so bad really. A photo is just a photo, they made 'proof' pretty painless and it's easy to see why they would do a double take if a non-company nobody is selling $4,000 in books.
Unbiased review of Enso zenPad 4 ( from customer )
A license without people who know how to make it tick isn't worth much. Maybe the hard-core Slang/SecDB technical support and development staff just aren't numerous enough to split into two viable groups?
I was there (check the profile). "Power to the People" was entirely a marketing/PR construct.
No, you want to compare that proportion with the proportion of amateur filmmakers who never went to school and became great filmmakers. In other words, does film school increase your chances?
That headline is a bit ambiguous when Bump isn't capitalized.

For a moment, I thought that it was a bug where if you bumped the wrong button on the phone accidentally, you could send money accidentally and wondered if we had a new Antennagate type of problem.
Popularity is a totally orthogonal issue. In any case, like Scala and Clojure, both languages are now reasonable choices for new development or study.
Two Envelopes Problem
Q&A sites don't need a lot of users to be effective. Any group of 500 people can probably answer a question that you have, unless it's very arcane. User engagement is much more important.
We're only talking about govt wrt zoning.

A "non-standard project" that is seeking funding by definition meets the relevant zoning because no one borrows money to build something that zoning forbids.

When a lender says offers different terms for different zoning-legal projects, that's the market.
Microsoft begins adding single-sign on support to its Azure cloud
Ah, but it's all relative, :)

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=scala+developer%2C+clojure...
Some companies have done the unthinkable and actually run some numbers... Eliminating 1,000 pirated copies tended to result in 1 additional sale. You turn 10,000 copies into 1,009.

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=17350
Well, the Zerg do have suicide units....
Deflation - Are lower prices scarier than higher ones?
Yes, also true, and a very good point.

This is why in the past we had three types of use: unrestricted use, fair use, and restricted (copyrighted) use. Now we only have fair use and restricted use.
The company that spent millions making the game intends to make money off it? The horror!
On “Responsive Web Design” and the mobile context