skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Oh, and what about for people that the size is big enough for a 55" tv but not for a 25" tv?

Or a 13". And what about people who need glasses to read, but don't normally wear them to watch TV?
How do these companies monetize their lists? (Please forgive me if this is common knowledge.)
#3 made me LOL

Is there an exchange for senators? Do they have ticker symbols?

I forgot about liability caps. Those are huge.
God that's elegant. S-expressions for the win.

No, no, remember: all other languages need a chance to incrementally catch back up to Lisp. :)
There's a way to bundle your app with an embedded mobileprovision file, so that building a beta amounts to double clicking a file with an iTunes icon and hitting Sync. Makes adding an app feel like adding a song to their library and to their iPhone would; much easier to explain than "drag this seemingly random file over to your iphone..."
Best of luck to them. I love their software and use it myself (via identi.ca), but I hope they have bigger plans than selling Twitter to companies if they're planning on recouping much of that venture funding.
1) Brooklyn or Jersey City is completely doable. I can be at the WTC in 10 minutes from JC. It's where I've met a bunch of Wall Street traders and programmers. I'm paying slightly more than you were and I have a 2500 sq. ft. loft (no broker).
2) Yes, that's Manhattan. Although I lived in a 5 floor walk up in Morningside Heights for $1000/month, 2 person share. About a 15 minute ride to Wall Street on the express train.
6) Ever been around NYU? Tons of places.
8) 23rd between Broadway and 6th is a Home Depot. But then again, you don't go above 14th.
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guess this is last months, the actual broadcast will be at 9pm after the event is over. No idea why
Or even 20%. Think about it, if 1 out of every 5 people really dislikes a law, do you actually think it is likely to be a good law?
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I think Apple doesn’t have to be quite as restrictive. They could allow developers to do some general purpose multitasking and take steps limit its use.

They might only allow general purpose multitasking if it’s off by default and the user has to explicitly opt-in. They might add something in their settings app where you can turn turn general purpose multitasking on and off for each individual app which uses it. They might reject all apps which use general purpose multitasking when the dedicated methods would do, too. They might reject all apps which use general purpose multitasking without providing any functionality to the user. They might require all apps which use this general purpose multitasking to have some gracious failure mode if memory really gets low and the app has to be quit. (I’m not so sure about this last one. You would have to notify the user because otherwise the experience would be terrible, i.e. suddenly and without any apparent reason or warning Pastebot would stop to work. But adding a modal dialog would also lead to a terrible experience, they would have to make it more subtle which in turn can be easily overlooked. How does Android handle this?)
The US was unusually stable, as countries in history go, over the previous 100 years. Even so, the nature of the stock market, the kinds of things traded in it, and the regulations pertaining to them, have changed fairly significantly since 1910. I believe a preferred share is still more or less the same thing now that it was then, but that they're used for fairly different things.

In any case, you should leave the judgment of whether your writing is still worth reading when it's ten, thirty, or a hundred years old to your readers, rather than trying to make the judgment yourself.
How do you solve global problems like climate change with a local government? It seems to me that whenever there is a tragedy of the commons, the more independent actors there are in the negotiations, the more it will be exploited. When there are two entities negotiating, they can commit to something and hold eachother to it. You can't do that with 50 entities negotiating.
The popularity of the jailbreaks suggests that apple might be underestimating the intelligence of their own users.
MacOSX down for the 4th month, iPad cannibalization?
Apple maybe on a roller coaster ride with its mobile powerhouse the iPhone 4 as well as the iPad selling record numbers but for its Mac division things aren’t looking up, for the fourth consecutive month MacOSX has been down. Mac OS X usage share dropped, down to 5.06% (from 5.16% in July). Meanwhile the iPad usages since its international launch is on the rise. Can this be the first signs of iPad cannibalization?
A comment on Reddit says that the book will be finished up by publication time and that the content will be the same as for the Web version.

Hooray!
A post is coming on this topic soon.. But based on what I have seen the short answer is direct advertising, ecommerce, or paid subscription.
I used to vertically align things into columns in Ruby. It's easy to maintain when you're editing individual lines, but it can easily be messed up with a find-and-replace in file. At that point, it becomes harder to read with some lines off, and a pain to maintain the alignment.
Ask HN: AlertPay?
I just received a direct advertising opportunity but they insisted they pay me through AlertPay. It looks legit but I was curious if any other HNers had any experience with them, should I avoid them, is it a scam, or anything?
> "remote code exploit now in the wild"

it's not just remote code exploit...it's privilege escalation, and that's no joke
Except for the stone buildings that are still around. You have to look for them, though.
Q2 2010 recap...the momentum continues
thanks! repro'd and ticket filed for each
Shrinking the size and authority of the government sounds great in the light of disincentivizing certain behaviors, but I believe you're applying game mechanics prematurely here. I (liberals in general mostly) actually don't WANT a smaller government, I want a better regulated one that in many cases has MORE power (ie: banking regulation). The solution is not to join the Tea Party and tear down the federal government, it's to fix the government by providing a better feedback mechanism, and restore the regulations that Regan etc. destroyed.

Governance at local levels sounds great, but unfortunately there are things that need to be regulated federally.

Perhaps a compromise we can agree on is that the separation of authority is where the core issue lies, and some of that authority certainly needs to be pushed down to the local level, but some certainly needs federal regulation (again, Finance, lookin at you).
Sorry, are you saying the generation that created the baby boomers didn't adequately provide a large enough work base for the social programs they wanted to access?

They call the offspring generation the boomers after all. The "greatest" did a perfect job in understanding what they were doing in that respect.

Their children, however, are the ones who use their own strength to ensure lucrative benefit programs for themselves on the backs of their offspring in the Gen X/Y bracket.
I would love to see an American (even a rich one) navigate (for example) China's business atmosphere and not end up stymied.

I'm often reminded, when someone claims to have the "secret" to some other country's vast "untapped" market, to an interview with Jack Welch when he was still at the helm of General Electric.

Much earlier on, he knew of China's burgeoning economy, and wanted GE to be at the forefront of it, marketing products bearing their service mark on all manner of product. They decided to start with light bulbs, and picked out a plot of land in an industrial area of Northern china and started making them. Within just a few years, China went from the typical 4-5 light bulb companies or factories (which Welch indicates is the norm for any market regardless of population) to 2,700. Every mayor of every town in the nearby area decided to poach one worker from GE's factory, replicate the manufacturing process, secured funding from Central Bank for machines to make bulbs from the US, and set to work competing directly against GE.

Somehow, I don't think China is any kind of market for anyone but the Chinese. Call me crazy.
Wrong. He may not have completely understood the ramifications of his actions when he joined the military. In the real world, if you steal confidential data, you get fired and get a new job. In the military world, you die.

The magnitude of difference is so incomprehensible that no reasonable person could be expected to anticipate these consequences in advance. Setting up a system that catches people by surprise and leads to death is a violation of human rights.

Killing someone is always a violation of their rights.
For a daily commute when you're expected to arrive at 7am. I could barely make it on time from Delancey and Essex.
The link is in the open letter: http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/29/twitpic-posterous-lawyers/
(I'm one of the PiCloud devs)

PiCloud (http://www.picloud.com) is not a web hosting service. Rather, it is a highly scalable compute service.

(In other words, you can't host a website on PiCloud. But your site can run all of its background tasks on PiCloud).
Also is the supply of B vitamins in meat. Children have died on some strict vegan diets (eg, macrobiotic).
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I think his point is more that you've got this bottleneck of corruption in the way congress is structured, and it doesn't really matter if you shift their responsibilities around - still shit in shit out, what you need is a deeper change.
To what end does a university president raise money? Erm, well, it differs, but in general they are raising money for either new projects or the general endowment. Income from the endowment is typically used to support a wide variety of areas, many of which directly contribute to "providing a quality education to the university's students" -- scholarships, maintenance, staff, and so forth.
mob4hire?
Dictating a method of payment is usually the first sign of a scam. Usually, people make it easy for you to give them money.

That said I'm not saying anything about AlertPay or the opportunity you have before you. Just making a general observation.
So named because if it wasn't for them we'd all be speaking German or Japanese right now. Or, depending upon your ethnic status, exterminated, or used for bayonet practice.

My dad (who personally is as conservative as they come, though with fond memories of FDR) is of the tail end of this generation--he enlisted just in time to go to Okinawa. He always tells me people living today don't fully understand what WWII was really like. It wasn't like Vietnam or Iraq where everyone at home carries on as normal while the troops are on the front lines--everyone was in the war effort, whether it's boys too young to enlist working in shipyards churning out a ship every day or two, or old men in Bend, Oregon meeting at the bar and planning how to defend the town in case the Japanese landed, to the rationing. And that's America--not Britain where they had bombs and rockets raining on their heads, and where the success or failure of the RAF could dictate whether your family survived the night. Total war means the entire population is involved, and WWII was the last total war the English speaking world ever fought. Keeping all of that in mind, I'm willing to forgive a lot from the WWII generation.
This is poorly framed and trollish. I never said Linux sucks; I also conceded the fact that my choice in hardware was a poor one and surely contributed to my negative experience.
The issue is high fructose corn syrup (made from corn) versus sugar. According to Lessig, the price of sugar (high relative to corn) and the price of corn (low relative to sugar) are both a result of market tampering. See 2.17 into the video. (And in both cases, again according to Lessig the tampering was straightforwardly paid for by lobbying, which is apparently a very good investment. That is, it works very well.)
So the Oracle was right all along: there never has been any privacy
I am not holding him to ridiculous standards. It's obvious he won't maintain Mongrel forever. What I am confronting him is with the fact that he may be able to navigate any arbitrarily clever construct he invents, but that future maintainers who inherit Mongrel may not be as capable.

Again, it's his project and he's free to do whatever he feels like with it. Heck... I am not even a user. I offered him advice he is free to disregard. The fact my cleverness has been biting me ever since my 6502 days (quite likely before Zed was born) is a problem I sort of learned to deal with long ago - but it still comes to bite me from time to time.
There are still a lot of projects with web sites (or on SourceForge), bug trackers, and mailing lists. Pick something you can do now (bug submissions, helping on mailing lists) and branch out (patches, etc) as time allows. Projects are always looking for help.
Open letter to the media about the misuse of the term "hacker"
sorry guys, I guess this isn't live yet (no idea why)
Both North Korea and Iran are actively pursuing ICBM programs. What kind of "base wealth" do you imagine these countries have?
Ha!

I was hoping to unveil that post in a separate thread, but since you've discovered it, I'll reply.

Yeah, we got paid less than they did. A lot less. At least at the high levels. At the low levels, we made more than they did, but that's only because the trader analysts were errand boys.

As for the switch to startup-ness, I'll just say it's a certain messianic desire to create something totally new (as well as at least claim that I own it...however small it might be).

You're totally right about the 2nd tier firm thing. I know lots of guys who did that, and they're happy with it.
So what happens when 20% of the population want, for example, anti-discrimination laws repealed? You will always be able to find enough idiots to reach 20% - hell, polls that say "Are you alive?" always manage a few percent in the "don't know" box. Look at dirt poor people voting against inheritance taxes. Some shiny media personality will always be able to garner 20%.
There's a lot of ways they could go, definitely. But they're trying to keep it as simple as they can, from the user's perspective anyway. The best feature of the three multitasking styles they allow is that I don't have to think about it, which can't be said about the Pastebot solution, nor really any of your options either.
Lasers were thought to be a laboratory curiosity when they were invented. On the other hand, you have a ton of academics who are convinced that the "semantic web" is the next big thing.

Part of the problem with science is that it's an activity where it's very hard to have any useful metric. Even experts in the field have a tough time deciding whether a given research direction is going to be fruitful. They're often wrong.

So far the best thing we've figured out for science resembles the Underpants Gnomes' business plan:

1) Fund lots of science.

2) ????

3) Profit!

The ???? part is "pray that some of it is useful and that some of that gets into the hands of people who will use it."
He wants to limit donations to citizens (thus excluding corporations). You can make all the analogies you like about time, celebrity and money, but none of that is as distorting as corporate-funded lobbying.

Corporate money completely subverts the basic principle of "one person, one vote." By pouring vast sums of money into lobbying, corporations have influence all out of proportion to that principle.
This story and an oft-used TOS clause like this one should make you think: "Further, you acknowledge and agree that INSERT COMPANY is free to preserve and disclose any and all Personal Information to law enforcement agencies or others if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary"
Good read, and right to the point.

Our idea is great but our first presentation was loaded down with “buzzword-laden socialist hippie kumbaya bullshit” and we failed to explain the core business value proposition on the first slide.

If you want my money, I need to know what you can do for me, and how.
Did you just disagree with Patio11? :)

I couldn't resist.
Really, you think cafes have come to the city only since 2008?

I lived there from 2000-2004 and this point wrung completely hollow for me. If you don't think NYC has "cafes" then you are not in NYC.
Why do we worship at the altar of technology?
Thanks for reading.

At its heart, it's actually a love letter to New York. In a sort of toughlove sort of way.
The same way one learns about anything. Learn it, do it, teach it.

Learn it by reading a book on it, or taking a class.

Do it by putting into place the practices you just learned about, actually doing the user tests and see what people think about it.

Teach it by showing others, explaining things will force you to learn them deeper.

One place you can start is here:
http://52weeksofux.com
The Agnostic Cartographer
Actually, if you read further into the article it seems to suggest that, yes, in fact there was a time when hominids had large canines, and we evolved into our current tooth structure.

Interesting link.
So, here are the numbers from one of the webservers that I instrumented to log the active-to-total ratio over a couple of hours.

The webserver is custom job called yawwws (yet-another-www-server) that is used to serve up a variety of bits and pieces for a high traffic website, typically the requests are very short in nature (a 500 byte request followed by a < 10K answer).

After about two hours of running the active-to-total ratio varied between 10% to 40% for 5 minute intervals, with the majority of the 5 minute buckets around the 30% mark. I'm actually quite surprised at the spread.

The bigger portion of the time seems to be spent waiting for the clients to send the request, most if not all of the output data should fit in the TCP output buffers, so that actually skews the results upwards, for longer running requests sending more data to the clients the active-to-total ratios would probably be a bit lower.

So 10% to 40% of all the sockets were active at any given time, the rest was idle, waiting for data to be received or for buffer space to be freed up so data could be written.

In this situation epoll would be faster than poll because epoll only sends the user process those fds that it actually has to deal with rather than all of them, so the loop that takes the output of the system call will have less iterations.

So, as I wrote before, I think the typical web server is, when it is dealing with the client facing side more often than not waiting for the client to do something, and it seems that on my server that hasn't changed since I last looked at it.

This server runs with keepalive off. Switching it on will most likely make the active-to-total ratio dramatically lower but I don't feel like pissing off a large number of users just to see how bad it could get. There is a good chance that my socket pool will turn out to be too small to do this without damage.

Chances are that for different workloads the percentages will vary but this setup is fairly typical (single threaded server, all requests served from memory) so I wouldn't expect to see too much variation on different sites, and if there is variation I'd expect it to go down rather than up.

If I get a chance I'll re-run the test on some other websites to see if the numbers come out comparable or are wildly different.
I down voted your comment because you missed the point entirely. I did not buy a netbook, it was a laptop; I also didn't compare one to the other, I was relating personal experiences that lead up to my choosing OS X. I did state that I feel Linux is not desktop ready, but that sentiment comes from - not only my experience - but the experience of many.

Matter of fact, I have my girlfriend's netbook (this one was "designed" for GNU/Linux) running GNU/Linux; she hates it. Why? Because when she closes the lid it shuts down. When the battery is about dead, it just kills power, it doesn't gracefully sleep (or even warn her). There are countless other complaints that are completely valid.

That is why GNU/Linux is not ready for the desktop. Sure, I could cope with those issues, but I work in the command line every day and I'm also a programmer.

I will defend GNU/Linux any day for its philosophy, culture, software, and massive influence; but I will not defend it as a desktop operating system, it simply isn't refined enough for that.
Debutantes from Bryn Mawr want to date successful traders.

So what?

Do the desires of a certain tiny demographic skew how you feel about a city of 10 million people?
exactly, very well put!
I need a MacBook Pro (or, web development on the cheap)
Not necessarily, PayPal, for instance, may not be viable in some countries.
"You just need to use it." Sums up the experience well.
That's funny. If you took a look at startups, you'd find that 99% of them are me-too crap. Badly designed websites for Yet Another Social Networking Gimmick, bad mobile apps, outlandish bad business ideas, etc.

1% of them ever truly go anywhere. 0.1% of them change the world.

My point is that anytime you randomly sample a field of work of any kind, you're going to get an exponential distribution of quality with a few hits and a long tail. All papers are not the Church-Turing thesis, and all startups are not Google or Apple.

A lot of academia-bashing amounts to criticism of academia for having the same sorts of failings that are present in equal measure in all other societal institutions public or private. Things like: elitism, know-nothing overpaid leadership, poor quality control, loss of focus, abusive labor practices, perverse incentives, poor success ratios for new ventures, etc.
Those slides were dovetailing with the presenter's dialog. Many of us design a talk to be a talk, not simply a rehash of what's in the slides. This presenter did that with at least some effect.
Android 2.2 (Froyo)coming for Droid shortly
I think the only way to solve this is in a deep and fundamental way is to strip congress of the power to make decisions that benefit corporations.

I realize that this sort of libertarianism is often viewed as "immature" or primitive. But ultimately I don't see how you can have, one the one hand, a congress powerful enough to do healthcare and financial reform, and on the other hand, be surprised when the same congress is successfully courted by financial interests. It seems to be an inevitable result.
But that's more aiming towards freelance type work, while it seems like this is more of for people to find full-time jobs.

As for this being different, I don't think it is supposed to be. But I guess we will find out once it actually launches.
I jailbroke my wife's phone (3G) a couple of days ago, the process was a breeze. I have to say the OS feels a bit sluggish now but that may have been caused by the update to 4.0.1.
The guy used to work at GS. Although not everyone can be forced into a stereotype based on their function and where they work, you still have to keep that in mind; since it does tend to affect who you hang out with, where you live, and what you do after hours.
Oh, you mean do what I'm already doing? Measuring and developing ideas then testing them?

It helps if you're going to comment that you actually read the words I use, not the ones you have in your head that make you sound like you're super smart.