skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only problem with this is that the optimal solution is a quick and immediate clean up -- any technology or a solution developed now will arrive too late to prevent the likely massive death of ocean life and ensuing repercussions through the food chain.

Sadly, the only way I see this being useful is if someone has a magic solution they've been sitting on and just not using.

Though I'm cynical enough to think that maybe BP will say "oh look, money" and clean it up and collect the prize.
One thing I've noticed is that when people first become open minded and try marijuana, despite everything they've been told by authority figures, they don't necessarily try anything more dangerous because their peers know it's bad. Since it tends to be an inherently social activity (in most cases you are convinced by peers to try it), you will inevitably discuss further experimentation. When enough people mention the risks of hard drugs, you'll tend to stay away from them.
Suggestions:

- PostOffice

- StampCollection

- JunkMail
Preannouncing Seph - Immutable Ioke/Clojure-like JVM language
What on earth is a 'third language'? I was under the impression that anything that's not your native tongue is your 'second language', isn't that true?
It seems as Monocle is somewhat equivalent to Swirl (http://code.naeseth.com/swirl/), though Swirl is Tornado specific
Facebook Tops Google in Directing Web Traffic
Thirteen percent of Web traffic to major web portals such as Yahoo, MSN and AOL came from Facebook. Ebay was in second place, with 7.61 percent. And Google, which has made its fortune as a Web door porter-cum-concierge, placed third with 7 percent. (MySpace took fourth place, with just under two percent.)
Rationally Speaking: a podcast on rationality and skepticism
One of the processes I fall back on when I'm stuck, creatively-speaking, is sketching according to LATCH.

LATCH is Wurman's idea that information can only be organized in five (six) ways: by location, alphabetically, by time, by category and hierarchically (also randomly).

I take all of the information I have to present, and I sketch out as many ways to lay out, structure or present that information in each of those six ways. Give yourself five minutes for each one, and try and do six to eight layouts for each. Discuss the pros and cons of each one and keep iterating on specific designs in the same manner.

Maybe you'll discover that all the layouts and structures are sub-optimal, and a feed-style layout is the best way to present the information, but you'll probably have made tweaks to it and it won't be organized precisely the same way, with the same visual and structural weights, by the time you're done.
The limitations of photojournalism and the ethics of artistic representation
And a mandatory Safari 5.0.1 update to make it work correctly...
Are You Too Old To Start Being An Entrepreneur?
Intel demos chips to support 50 Gbit/s data transfer
Things I learned at Wieden and Kennedy
A fast evolving tax situation. With the new laws regarding pfas, a lot of my friends have been trying to restructure. Ro used to have a great structure called the microenterprise. I don't know what's happened to it.
A tool that lets you intercept methods in Java
Yeah it bugs me too. Then again, "I'll have a water" will fall out of my mouth sometimes.
Are they just pulling these numbers out of the air?
Let me rephrase, what goes into the calculation when they estimate the value of a company like LinkedIn?

Sure in the article they say 70 million users + a healthy economy. But $2 billion ? I think I've heard estimates all ranging from $5 to $15 billion for facebook. That's 500 million users.

So the secret formula is:

500 million users / 70 million users = 7

15 / 7 = 2.1 or about 2 billion if you like.

What really determines the value?

1) Amount of users, and loyal users.

2) Amount of cash they are generating

3) Amount of cash they have tucked away

4) Growth

5) If anyone wants to buy them

Any other factors?
I would presume that someone's 'third language' is the third language that he learned. However, according to Wikipedia, you are right that someone's second language is any language they learned after their first, not just the second language they learned.
Http://www.fbi.gov/page2/july10/fingerprints_072610.html
But what about my .mueseum domains?
Thanks I think this will be a good start for me. I'll start first collate all the data I have and then put them in different filters.
Big-O notation is a theoretical tool, it's somewhat useful in practice but it won't necessarily tell you which of two algorithms is faster. It doesn't tell you about cache performance, memory requirements, or even if there's a large coefficient on that n * log(n) term.
Running a marathon is hard - really hard. Most people need month to train for a marathon and only run maybe 70% of the distance during training. A designated city marathon offers a lot of benefits that you don't get when running alone:

- Blocked streets, no need to wait for traffic lights etc.
- They are at a specific date in the future which helps
you by setting a deadline to get in shape
- Spectators to cheer you on
- No matter how fast/slow you are, there are hundreds of
people around you, running at the same speed

I don't know about you, but even people who run regularly are physically not able to run a marathon tomorrow or next week. So how many people are in your area who are able to run a marathon and are just as fast as you are?

OTOH: What about a site to set up "running groups". You specify a track/expected time and how often and when the group is running (monthly, twice a week etc.). This way you give people a way to organize groups, let them communicate if they are unable to show up, talk outside of a running context etc.

You might want to look into similar sites. Off the top of my head I know of runmap.net and mapmyrun.com but there are probably a lot more like this.
Data Centers at Warp Speed
Well I'm not optimistic enough to think that this will be the last oil spoil to ever occur, so even though it may not help with this spill hopefully it would be useful in the future.

BP wouldn't be collecting the prize for money either considering the small fraction of the cost that the prize would be.
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/10/blueprint.html on LATCH
Strategy: Rule of 3 Admins to Save Your Sanity
> I hope Apple gets Safari Reader integrated on the iOS devices one day, Readability isn't quite as good

Do you mean you used Readability and it didn't help? In that case, won't Safari Reader be the same since it's just Readability plugged into Safari by Apple?
To break the terabyte barrier for the Indy Minute Sort, the computer science researchers built a system made up of 52 computer nodes. Each node is a commodity server with two quad-core processors, 24 gigabytes (GB) memory and sixteen 500 GB disks — all inter-connected by a Cisco Nexus 5020 switch.

That's some pretty impressive hardware. Must've been pretty fun. Not something just anyone gets to work on. :)
You need a better title - "FINGERPRINT TECHNOLOGY:
Making Two Systems Work as One"
That's the one! Now someone needs to port it to Linux...
Aw, nuts! The server product I am working on actually does the same thing. If the program is unable to output log messages to the console (for example if the user has selected some text), Für Elise will play on the PC-speaker, since we don't have another way to scream about errors.

With this, we might actually misdiagnose complaints from our customers..! Who would have thought?
Was I looking at the wrong screenshots, or something? Why are they comparing a calendar view with a list view?
Don't break his rosy dreams.
Yes, there's also the fact that it's easier for your regular users to type highscore.co than highscoreapp.com - it's also easier to scan an see what it says highscoreapp almost looks like an anagram when you glance at it.
North Korea's official website: A case of very &lt;strong&gt; web design
Rise of the renting class
Nature Cleans Up Fast with the BP Oil Spill
Start your own Social Bookmarking site with Hotaru CMS
Updated graph on gym usage by hour: http://simplyryan.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/gymhour.png
Strange Loop's Entire Lineup released
As an alternative - I work site based requiring me on site 15 days at a time, 6 days off. Accommodation and food provided. As a salaried employee I am given a 40% uplift for this. I have heard of cases where this can be as great as 60%. However, the detail is in the numbers - when on site you are usually required to work 12hr days. 50% more hours, 40% more pay. Go figure.
Solving the 800-year mystery of Pisa's Leaning Tower
Mixing Python with Node.js via an SCGI module
These are not new shares being issued, so, correct me if I'm wrong, but any liquidation preferences that are attached to this purchase would be at the original valuation, not the new one.
Most decent home theater stuff tends to be on the high-side of the price curve, especially when you get into speciality stuff like this.

For what is most likely a $20BOM, yes it's expensive. Compared to other multi-function remotes, and especially when compared to other IR devices that enable you to interact with them programmatically, it's cheap.
Peak hours would be 100 queries a second minimum. Static content is served by 2 different servers (1 img, 1 html). I did not know of the slow query log parameters (but will enable it now).

When starting we were pulling too many rows, but we quickly realized that and lowered scripts that display too much content that is not needed, we are also using proper indexes.
This has hollywood movie script written all over it! Scylla from Prison Break anyone?
Why bother matching balanced parens? just match everything until nonencoded space.

These are valid urls, no?

example.com/(
example.com/dkjflkj)sdkfj(/.
example.com/.
example.com//////:
example.com/anycharacters_in_any_order_as_long_as_certain_ones_are_encoded

There's no way to tell if trailing punctuation is part of valid url or not. You can assume trailing punc is not and chop it off. Which should be correct 99.999 of the time. Similar with surrounding braces,brackets,parens. If you see one at start assume the one at end is not part of url.
Maybe the author is right for routine tasks, but there are times (usually when I have some issue I need resolved) when I really want to talk to a human being, and I will get really angry if I can't.
'Support Details' fills system info for remote support
Linux lovers more likely to loathe the iPad
Request PG: Please share your essay on acquisition advice
I am a single founder running my start-up for last 3 years now. Of late, there has been a lot of interest from our competitors in acquiring us.
I expect the deal to be in $2-3 million range. Unfortunately, I don't have any investors or advisory board to help me with this process.
I've been reading about it on HN archives and other forums. Unfortunately, there isn't much credible information in public domain.

PG - I was wondering if you could publish your essay (mentioned - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=59682). It'll be of great help.
Hacking... trees?
Are you using some funky compiz plugins ? What distro are you using ? When did you last update your drivers ? What laptop are you using and what card does it have ?
Here is how to bring Data Mining to the mainstream:

1. Put big data (static or streaming) on the cloud (AWS, Google Base, ...)

2. Create beautiful/simple exploration and query interface

3. Fix query semantic ("cluster these objects", "find most similar picture", "continue sequence"), while working on better and better algorithms at the backend

Examples of this approach:
http://wolframalpha.com, http://viewer.opencalais.com, http://labs.google.com/sets
Perhaps runmap.net and mapmyrun.com, along with realtime platforms like Twitter could be leveraged as part of RandomRunner's service?
At this point I'm going to assume you didn't actually read the article, because the article mentions this.

From the article:

Look for: “Your site will look great in modern browsers and degrade gracefully while retaining functionality on older browsers.”
Avoid: “All of my sites look perfect in all browsers, back to NSCA Mosaic”
Valuation is hard, especially for startups. People view Facebook, for example, as an "option" on whatever smart business can be built out of 500 million address books and the world's largest photo-sharing service. FB can tax companies like Zynga in order to extract most of the economic profit those folks make.

In this case, though, it's a lot simpler.

(Value of shares purchased) / (Percentage of shares purchased) = Market value of 100% of shares.

It's the same way you'd calculate the market value of, e.g., Google. Share price times shares outstanding. In Google's case, the market is more 'efficient' in the sense that it's easier to buy and sell, and there's more information. But private company stocks offer a different kind of efficiency: the amount of research, compared to the size of transactions, is far higher. Ask a typical economist, and that's inefficiency; but ask Warren Buffett, and it's not.
I know why I use self-service machines for purchasing tickets and checking in at airports: repeatability and speed. I've memorized my interaction sequence with the German rail ticket machines to the point where I can get a ticket in 25 seconds. No desk service is that fast. Also, I don't have to deal with potential human unpredictability and communicating what I want. My interaction with the machine is already in muscle memory, and I don't feel rude when specifying things with extreme precision. Getting a specific seat on a plane is a multi-step operation at a checkin counter. Some clerks ask you if you want an aisle or window seat, but sometimes act offended when I ask for seat 3C. Some don't ask at all, and print out the boarding card before I can complain (not that it's a big deal where I sit, but it's a factor). Poking the 3C box on the self-service machine allows me to disregard the mood the clerk is in and get what I want. I feel more in control, and don't feel like I'm being a difficult customer. When I first moved here, I had a major language problem, so having machines with a language switch helped me a lot. But even now that I speak the language fluently, I still prefer automated experiences. The article has a point, there are a number of people in my life I care about, but bank tellers and checkin clerks are not important to me. I'll be nice to them when I encounter them, but I much prefer not having to interact with them. After all, they are entering the same stuff into the machine as I would, ideally.
Ask HN: Any recommendations for a Apache log analyser?
I'm looking for a log analyser for Apache possibly free or commercial if it's good .. i'd love to hear some suggestions from folks on here ..

thanks
The Phony Scalability of “Local,” and “Long-Tail”
"Still, school administrators can do more than they’re doing.

They can pay their best teachers more, as Pittsburgh soon will, and give them the support they deserve. Administrators can fire more of their worst teachers, as Michelle Rhee, the Washington schools chancellor, did last week."

There is a gigantic elephant in that room with "NEA" painted on its hide.
Honest question: why hasn't anyone come up with a system for "context-free" expressions?
The Scots have adapted to harsh modern environments containing hazards like the deep fat fryer, but what of more recent technological hazards? (And Hollywood!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FFRoYhTJQQ
Very minor nitpick:

> Non-physicists have no chance in hell to understand arxiv papers

You mean "archive physics papers": mathematicians are usually non-physicists and sometimes understand the arxiv math papers. I used the arxiv for months before I found out it had physics papers too (and that in fact it was started for physics papers).
This would be far more indicative if it were scaled to organizational size. Some of the top places are great places, but they're also huge places.
I use ATM's instead of walking inside because it's typically faster. I search websites for info before contacting because:

(a) I will usually get more information in a shorter amount of time.

(b) I don't have to navigate a phone menu system.

(c) I won't have to wait forever on the phone while listening to bad music.

(d) I don't like sales pitches and pressure tactics that often accompany simple price inquiries.

One idea for wannabe entrepreneurs - look for sectors where the existing competition doesn't list price on their sites. You could probably garner a good deal of business from those who hate the contact.

p.s., How do I do formatted lists on HN?
this seems to be simply a ranking of organisations by the number of citations.

there are a number of factors missed:

1. what's the earliest publication of each organisation?

2. what's the real world impact of the publications? (citations are not real world impact.)

3. what was the significance of an organisation's contribution to a publication? for example, there might be many authors, where only one author did the actual work.

4. it should be normalized by the size of the organisation.

5. CS is multidisciplinary: plenty of people in CS publish in other domains such as biology, mathematics, statistics.

i couldn't work out if they counted self-citations or not.
I think this shows the skewed distribution of geolocation users, as compared to the population. I can't find the link right now, but there was a story posted recently about a survey finding less then 10% of the population had ever heard of geolocation services such as foursquare.
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I've had that experience too, and the end result is that I only talk to companies on the phone when there is an issue I cannot resolve myself. Usually this is a problem I want solved, or an error they made. I guess I'm now somewhat conditioned to expect a negative experience (since I'm usually unhappy about something when I call). Customer service at pretty much every institution I've had to call to resolve an issue has been a pain, further reinforcing the notion that if I have to talk to a corporate human, I'm going to be unhappy as a result.
What do you mean by 'recover' here?
1. Retain a _good_ securities and corporate lawyer.

2. If you want to have an "independent" valuation done, use a local boutique investment banker. Your lawyer or accountant should be able to recommend someone to help with a "fair value opinion." This may be overkill, but since we don't know large the potential deal is, I thought I'd mention it.

3. Be aware that if they buy/license your product, the proceeds will be recognized as income by both the federal and state tax authorities at both the corporate and personal levels. You could end up giving the government as much as 50% of the gross proceeds (35% corporate plus 15% CA personal income tax). If you are a single product company, it is much more preferable to sell 100% of your stock to them. An acquisition of 100% of your corporate stock means that you should only end up paying 15% long-term capital gains taxes.
Exactly, the instant chat systems that some vendors have on their sites can be very useful when you have specific queries.
Very true. But as long as the NEA and the unions are the only ones who stick up for teachers while everyone else wants to cut their salaries and assign them more work in the name of "eliminating government waste" (while leaving earmarks and military funding untouched, of course..)

Anyways as long as they're the only one that actually sticks up for teachers then they'll have a place in the world. You just have to smack them around once in a while when they're totally wrong about something, like their resistance to the Obama admin's effort's at merit pay.

EDIT: From the article, kindergarten being the most predictive grade is fascinating.
Lombok is awesome. However, it's probably impossible to introduce into an environment that's even remotely enterprisey. The main problem with Lombok is that its future is very uncertain: Lombok works by replacing parts of the Java AST with their own modified classes. They gain access to the AST by (ab)using the ability to hook up your own annotation preprocessor. However, the (API of the) AST is unstable and no guarantees about it are given whatsoever. That means Lombok may break with every minor release of the java compiler, which means it will be hard to justify introducing it. I certainly didn't dare introducing it with any of my clients, back when I was still writing Java. If someone else has to deal with the code later on, and perhaps a decade from now: forget about it, until this kind of AST access is standardized and supported by Oracle.
"A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, or you can continue to see if the script will complete.

Script: http://aloha-editor.com/aloha/aloha/aloha.js:16

Not off to a good start
Or at least if they included a column with # citations / publication.
(oh, just realized that it was you, max, who asked that q. ;) )
Yes, my experience was very similar. The nice thing about the schedule was that going to bed and waking up were very easy and natural, so it was easy to switch to the schedule. I went off of it when I went back to school and couldn't make it work. I would have liked to have the girlfriend excuse. :)

One really nice aspect of the system is that I was fully awake on Friday/Saturday night. I was learning how to dance at the time, being awake made that a lot easier.

On another note: this was a schedule I followed when I was in my early twenties. Now that I'm in my late 30's, following a conventional schedule is a LOT easier -- I'd never be able do this now.
How the business judgment rule helps shield board members from liability
Actually, I'd say games are getting cheaper. In the mid-80s, it wasn't uncommon to see $50-$60 dollar Nintendo games, and inflation has cut the value of a dollar approximately in half since then. Today's equivalent of SMB3 would be a $120 game.
What about recovery equipment and techniques engineered, fabricated, and tested before a BOP fails at great depth? (Not while 50,000 barrels a day are spewing into the ocean.)

I say make all petroleum companies pony up some serious cash and form an independent company to research and develop these techniques and maintain the equipment to be ready for such a future event.
Heh, that line stood out. Imagine: "Venture capital will be eliminated because more companies will be started on the Internet, where costs are next to nothing."
Require Ruby libraries without cluttering your Namespace
I'm a someone who "likes"[1] going in to the office.

However, commuting is expensive[2] and, more importantly to someone with significant introversion, interacting so closely with people in person all day is mentally exhausting.

To me, that's about $10/hr. I don't place much value in having the freedom to live anywhere I want, since I already do. The added freedom to travel is appealing but heavily moderated by the need to ensure a suitable workspace with reliable, high-enough bandwidth connectivity wherever I go.

[1] Finds value in the structure and face-to-face communication

[2] Especially if one includes time. A 45-mile one-way driving commute would need about $10k/yr in salary to offset the after-tax out-of-pocket expenses. If that's from the South Bay to San Francisco, it's an hour each way, adding 23.5% to the time away from home (assuming a half hour lunch). Caltrain is a bit better, but, unless one lives and works at a station, it will cost more than just the $2500/yr in monthly tickets. One can work on the train, but there's still at least 15-30 minutes at each end getting between home/work and the train seat, at best a 12% savings in workday length.
Open source hack aids mobile phone snooping
I don't normally comment on HN, but I might come along tonight.
As much as I respect Ola Bini's projects, I have to ask: what reason would one have to use Seph instead of Clojure? They seem to have the same design goals (homoiconicity, immutability)