skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I typically don't like tools like this. They hide too much of what is going on.
That's a good point. But I also wouldn't call Facebook my all encompassing social identity. I don't update my status with everything I tweet; I don't even sync up Foursquare and Facebook because I don't want everyone on Facebook knowing where I've checked in (and I don't think I'm alone because 20% of Foursquare users sync up with Facebook). Many people just find it annoying, but the bigger reason is that I'm not really that 'close' with all my Facebook Friends. If I post a check-in to facebook, I'd only want a fraction of the people to know.

I haven't gotten the rollout yet but hopefully Facebook realizes this and makes Places something you can use with some of your friends, and not all of them.
$75. I assume this is the going rate for a .ly domain?
Have you considered setting up a torrent of all the data thus far and then hosting only recent data? Then every month or so you can just create a new torrent with the data for that month and you will only be hosting a small amount of data at one time.
Here you are:

http://dpaste.com/231226/
I agree. Also 8secs time on page? Seems to be just a link confirmation.

Anyway, lets see how this develops.
I was waiting for this to arrive. Sadly, they haven't yet optimized the graphics for iPhone 4's retina display, so it has a blurry, pixelated sheen.
Apple vs. Motorola: Who Can Lock It Down
Apple has been fighting hard against the jailbreak community for years now. Every update Apple dishes out feels like its a direct punch to the kidney to those wishing to install third-party applications to their device. Another heavyweight, Motorola, is taking large steps to lock down their new devices as well.
I use Libyan Spider (http://libyanspider.com) and they've been great.
Oh Spamhaus, everybody who's ever had the joy of operating an SMTP agent loves them.
That sounds quite good! So most of the parallelism is on the view processing layer? Is the postgres setup parallelised as well?
Can someone give a quick backstory to this?
Running `git flow init` in an existing repository will ask you which branches you want to use as master- and development branches. So, yes. :)
The Expository Essay
An expository essay has a definite purpose of writing, describes a thing or a process. It can analyze people, events and objects and can provide facts and notions that can be supported by proofs. It also can be an article that argues about a factual claim.
How To Disable Facebook Places
I work at Yahoo! and we've been blacklisted as well by Spamhaus. I wouldn't say it's entirely inappropriate because of the sheer volume of email that can pass through our (or in this case Gmail's) system.

Personally, I've tried to reach out to Google regarding security issues on blogspot which were affecting our property. There was an XSS vulnerability and we were getting thousands of posts on our blog linking to blogspot which would in turn redirect the user to some pharma site.

It's been months and they haven't really made any progress other than put me in contact with various people who don't respond to email.

If that's how they deal with an open XSS I can only imagine how fast they move to deal with spam like this.

Disclaimer: This isn't a post bashing Google and praising Yahoo - just the only experiences I've had to contribute to this post :).
Mcdonalds' price points
why are mcdonalds' egg mcmuffins 2x the price of their hamburgers?
You can try using Amazon S3 (storage) + CoralCDN (distribution). Just use S3's permission system to restrict access other than through CoralCDN and you should have cheap and reliable storage that won't drive your bill crazy.
He works at Google; his PhD thesis was on "Audio system for technical readings" which won the ACM Best Doctoral Dissertation award in 1994. (EDIT: He was one of the winners---David Karger was the other one.)

http://awards.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=4110221&srt=all...
After reading this, I was a little creeped out: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jul/23/foursquare

But my general policy with posting online content is if you put it online, don't be surprised when people find out. I think the ad agencies tracking 4sq check-ins is key to monetizing location based services, and I'm all for it because it just makes sense. When/if this happens, 4sq and others will hopefully be transparent about it, so users know what they're getting into.

But if you don't want people/companies to know where you shop, don't check in. Simple as that.
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RPG simply grow out from pen-and-paper RPGs, which are basically collaborative storytelling.

> Moreover, there seems to be way too much stuff to collect. And if keeping the right stuff is important, it's not at all clear what the tradeoffs are.

I'd like to know what kind of RPGs you're talking about here. In most good RPGs (e.g. the great days of Black Isle & al), packratting is very much optional. Packratting tends to be a characteristic of A-RPG more than "Western" (aka "true") RPGs.

> The quests tend to be rather similar and are not much fun.

> There's also too much grinding.

Same question as above, a good RPG is a crafted experience, and a well crafted experience is terrific. Would you per chance be talking about MMORPGs?

> but they are not as fundamental as chess. There's too much to learn and it's not obvious why people would find them fun.

Chess and go and other such games are simplifications of war from a general's point of view. They're played by people who want to battle strategically without shedding blood. RTS are "realifications" of those, standing closer to actual wars. That's why they're fun: you build yourself, you set up strategy and tactics, you try to understand your opponent's and react to that, ...
It's probably worth pointing out that this project has no relation to Infer.NET (I don't think so, anyway), another machine learning library from Microsoft Research and written in F#.
If what you did is legal and you are legally able to share it, archive.org would be a good choice I guess.
Maybe you should simplify your message. I had problems grasping why this might be useful to me.
How customer review formatting impacts conversion rate. . .
No, they have $25 options as well.
Btw, if you don't want people to disconnect, plan breaks regularly.
I've been in 3h+ meetings, given no break, and sooner or later someone disconnects.
Strange is a word that doesn't mean very much. (My grandfather uses it a lot: for him, any food that's not obviously salty or sweet is simply "strange.")

There are few things in culture that are natural or fundamental. Except for brief periods of "cultural purification" such as the Akhnaten period in Ancient Egypt and 20th century Western modernism, civilizations seem to have a tendency towards more complex artistic forms that will appear strange and arbitrary to an observer who doesn't understand the context.

For example, I can't follow Japanese Noh theatre, but it's not inherently any more "difficult" than some piece in London's West End -- both require a huge amount of cultural background to be understood.
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People put up with Twitter and Foursqure updates because you choose whom to follow. Facebook relationships are reciprocal so I'll get flooded with Facebook places updates from my aunts going to church even though I'd never actively choose to follow them on a site like Twitter.

It reminds me of the Achewood blog post where Roast Beef relates a conversation with Ray where Ray thinks McDonalds starting to sell fancy coffee will put Starbucks out of business. http://rbeef.blogspot.com/2008/01/mcdonalds-vs-starbucks-vs-...
Not necessarily - I think it has the potential to be a very good move for Intel.

I thought about my last post more, and I can think of a few applications where it could give Intel some huge advantages.

Something that came to mind: We all agree that AV software eats CPU cycles. What's to say Intel can't just start putting custom hardware that is designed solely to offload signature checking onto a separate chip? With the increasing sizes of detection databases (anomalies, threats, etc), eventually it will get to a point where the typical CPU cannot feasibly cross-reference known threats AND perform proactive checking in a fast enough environment to make it useful.

Not to mention network detection via the same means. Pretty soon you will be seeing motherboards or at least CPUs that have other dedicated hardware to checking signature sets on an extremely fast basis versus having to try and mix other, non-security-related cycles with what I'll call "user" cycles.
For *.com.ly though, which isn't necessarily what I'm looking for.
Isn't IE 9 going to come with full SVG support? Or did I dream that?

Anyway my point was only that SVG will solve this problem soon (say a year or so).
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The US had lax copyright early on. It makes sense for a net importer of IP. It's a great way to catch up. But what about the originators of the industrial revolution? Would they have done even better without copyright? I don't know, but the industrial boom in Germany isn't evidence of it.

An interesting present day case is the ACM charging for academic papers. Some papers are available from the author's website for free, but some are not. Although the fee is affordable (around $20-30), do publications that are free lead to better propagation and thus more/better research?

I think it's very hard to judge this, because I think what happens in practice is that unknown academics give away their papers - it helps them to get known. Whereas the ones that you have to pay for are the massively famous ones with (eg) 700+ citations. Their knowledge is already out there in the community, and their reputation probably further promotes their research much more than the small fee retards it. In addition to this, you're probably better off reading a free review/summary/interpretation of the famous work than reading it in the original - so the ideas keep promulgating.
Its my understanding LibyanSpider is the only place you can register them.

And its a firm $75 if you want the premium foo.ly domain (rather than foo.com.ly for $25

Still lots of good domains cos it is new and the price point is high enough to discourage speculation.
try http://cardgate.com/
That's because those languages haven't changed or only been extended.
I like the idea. But make sure to differ from what AppEngine offers or you have a very strong opponent.
Good suggestion. gzip reduced one file from 2332528640 to 129440511
Secret knock lock
Regardless of the criticisms, if you need another beta tester, you'll find my email in your sqlite database. ;-)

Seriously though, best of luck, and godspeed.
How  To Download Torrents Anonymously
Don't you think it would be a nice feature to show previous similar posts when a user is about to submit an Ask HN post? I think Stackoverflow does smething like that.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/05/15/why-a-tale-of-a-p...
One shot, once a minute catches a Tit.
It is arguable that this has only become true in the past ten years. For a long time lack of IP controls was a big barrier to international trade for China.
Hotpotato: an async Java HTTP client lib oriented for high performance.
Yeah, and if it were not to happen they'll write: "Here is how Foursquare resisted the Facebook juggernaut", and there extra profit. grin

You can't even think they are naive: that a small company has beaten a larger one seem to happen quite (more) often in the tech world.
After _why disappeared, everyone decided to pick up his projects. I watched as people stood up left and right, saying "I'll take over hpricot," "I'll work on Shoes," "I've got Camping," and I thought, man, this would be a great time to step up and really give back. My only real open source contributions were my own projects, that nobody really uses. I could never seem to find anything useful to contribute elsewhere.

My favorite project of _why's was Hackety Hack. I _was_ that kid who learned to program with GW-BASIC when I was seven, and the world is totally different now. So I checked out who had stood up to work on Hackety... and nobody did.

As the day progressed, I expected someone to. It was _why's masterpiece, after all. Lots of the other libraries he wrote are part of Hackety. I didn't want the responsibility of taking charge of such a well-known project, since I'm just a nobody. I figured that someone better than me would step up, and then I could just help them.

But nobody did.

Finally, after lots of thinking about it, I gave a small little "I will." Bam. I'm in charge. Sweet! ...

Oh God, this is scary! This is a huge responsibility. What if I do poorly? Everybody on the internet will see. Can I really do this? I haven't even been coding in Ruby all that long!

Then, to complicate things, I had some personal stuff come up, and I couldn't really find the time in my schedule to actually write some code. There were also upstream issues; Hackety needed Shoes 3, which was in development still, and really unstable and an absolute motherfucker to compile. So I got frustrated when I even did try to work on it.

By Christmas last year, I had made some small modifications, and released it as 0.9, hoping to get some people interested to give me some support. But that didn't really happen. So, I trucked along, doing little bits here and there.

Finally, I had a serious breakthrough with my Shoes development. I got it to work with Snow Leopard. That's a whole other story. But the momentum and high off of doing that got me to put a bunch more work into Hackety, and I made some decent progress. Also, around this time, I got an email from Fela, who wanted to work on Ruby Summer of Code. And he wanted to do it with Hackety. Between he, myself, the Shoes team, and some of my friends, we've made really great strides with the project over the summer, and I couldn't be happier. 1.0-final should be out within a month, once we polish up some more things, and sort out a few issues. I still occasionally grapple with "not being _why", if that makes any sense. It's hard to be respectful of a legacy and yet make something your own at the same time.

That wasn't really quick, but there you go.
There's a psuedo-branch in master, which is "everything since the latest commit that has been pushed out". (This is my own terminology, so don't go Googling for it.) This is the branch that becomes "real" once pushed to the public, and that's when you can no longer rewrite the history without hurting things.

If you are disciplined, it's ok to build on master, but once you realize you need a branch (3 or 4 commits in), it's really easy to deal with. You branch from master, re-checkout master, and git reset --hard back to the public psuedobranch. And it is as if you had a branch all along.

I play the same game with git svn sometimes, except the psuedobranch is the "stuff that has not yet been committed to SVN" and it's a lot more clear where the cutoff is. I won't pretend this is perfect, but it does work.

(The problem I have with branching off for absolutely everything is that I find it easy to end up with too many branches to remember what's what. Granted, I'm the team lead and I may be more prone to that than a team member with more defined tasks.)
D and Go are the two languages poised to take over the roles of C and C++. They both have very fast compilers and numerous other advantages compared with C and/or C++. I've looked at both of them quite carefully, and decided that D works better for me (an important factor for me though was that D2 recently stabilized with the publication a couple months ago of Andrei Alexandrescu's excellent new book "The D programming language"). There's an interesting recent thread debating the merits of the two languages at the golang-nuts mailing list.
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Intel's McAfee Buy: 3 Things it Could Mean - PCWorld
My own pro-tip (just because it isn't stated explicitly elsewhere): be very careful to limit your audience. Even inviting one extra person can "break" a meeting. Coincidentally, it also costs more $ in lost productivity.

If you're ever wondering whether a meeting is worthwhile, do a back-of-napkin calculation to balance the reason for the meeting versus the actual cost of the meeting ("Hmmm... I have 10 people here who probably avg cost $75/hr. Is this meeting really worth $500?").
A probability based processor
I think that would be really cool. However, my understanding (completely from the outside) is that this site is deliberately minimal. I have no inside knowledge, but it seems that the number of features is as small as can be had without making the site effectively unusable.

You could set up another site to accept submissions, and have that site do the checks, return sensible previous submissions if found, and it not found, then push the submission through to here. Sub-optimal, but a cool hack.

I don't have the abilities for that. Maybe someone else has.
Lots of meetings should have at least a minimal "G-PP-AA" sync-up discussion on the agenda:

* Goal(s) being pursued in the project or relationship - it's amazing how often there's a disconnect on this subject.

* Progress since last update.

* Problems encountered.

* Action plan(s) for the future (near-term or otherwise).

* Assumptions on which these plans rest.

This G-PP-AA discussion could be occur multiple times in a meeting for different agenda items or sub-items.
Maybe McAfee has a patent portfolio that Intel fancies some use for?
I'm assuming there are a lot of people from the US on HN. Wasn't it illegal (until recently - a quick google brings back this: http://www.buyusa.gov/egypt/en/businesslibya.html) to trade with Libya? Would that not include services such as domain names?

Just asking
It is not unusual to get 2x performance with icc vs gcc. But of course, their priorities are different. Sun's SPARC compilers are (were?) also excellent. The benefits of targetting only one architecture and developing the compiler in close collaboration with the hardware designers.

gcc is "free" but is it free enough to double the bill for hardware? Benchmark and find out...
If you blacklist the mechanism by which tens of percentage points worth of Internet users send mail, you are not part of the solution to spam.
Seems like it might be biting off a bit more than they can chew.

Given the choice between the service Spamhaus' list provides, and being able to receive mail from what's undoubtedly one of the largest webmail providers in the world (the biggest?), a lot of people are going to can Spamhaus.

I'd hope that Google will react by doing something about the spam, but they could much more easily do nothing, put out some recommendation that people stop using Spamhaus, and a lot of people will be forced to do just that (or Spamhaus will blink and un-blacklist Google). They're the 800-pound gorilla in this particular match; Spamhaus isn't a lightweight but I wouldn't put any money on them in that fight.
Thanks for picking it up and running with it, even when you hit some unexpected hurdles along the way. Sounds like you're doing a perfectly fine job of keeping the project alive.

And, BTW: "80% of success is showing up." - Woody Allen
You accept when you find a Turing machine that outputs something which turns out to be the polynomial-time verifiable certificate for the NP problem.

You never reject, because the requirement was only to accept in polynomial time. (If you prefer, you could reject in exponential time by exhaustive search, of course.)

For another description see here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%3DNP#Polynomial-time_algorith...
It also doesn't cover correlation/causation. Did the book boom cause their industrialization, or did the mass industrialization cause the book boom?
Does RAM actually take that much power? I'm curious because when battery life for mobile devices is discussed, usually back-lighting and CPU are the only thing anyone talks about.
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A News Reader Wish List
Python bindings for QtMobility released
> If that were the case he would have never written it in the first place.

Or written it with some license that stipulates it cannot be used in either closed source or any open source applications, only for 'educational' use. Worse, he could have tried to do it retroactively.

I doubt he had that intention.
An Analysis on Seed Funding in 2010 (Part 2 of 2)
I'm interested in doing a talk/show on my clojure refactoring mode (for emacs). Is the speaker list already finalized?
Thank you. Someone just linked me to this video, I think the first few minutes describe perfectly how I feel right about now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hidvElQ0xE
http://twitter.com/raganwald/status/21568690272
I'd use http://libyanspider.com. When I was looking to register they were the only non-super-sketchy registrar.
In this case Spamhaus accidentally blocked gmail because they used the entire ip block of the original email's images.

it seems that spammers were using docs.google.com to post some documents, which are stored in the same /24 as gmail. Spamhaus decided to blacklist the whole subnet.
This is kinda bad news for Loopt if anything. I was sure facebook would check out Loopt towards sqrt(4^2) before the competition does.
Ask HN: Where to put your money?
Like a lot of entrepreneurs who are revenue positive, we have excess cash on hand. Given the crazy markets, we don't really want to hold equities and probably not most debt either (treasuries or otherwise). Where is everyone putting their money? Anyone tried foreign currencies (like Canada's or Brazil's)? How about gold? And how do you even make such investments? I know there are a lot of scammy companies out there peddling gold and currencies and would like a recommendation on who's trustworthy.
Couple things:

Great project, but it's obviously dev'd for the mobile platform. Downloading the Unity project thing makes for too much friction already. I'm on a PC, in Linux, and I'm not going to do that, to do what is essentially a favor for you.

I think a great potential here would be to include some sort of financial incentive to those people willing to invest up to $1,000 into the project.

Why not let them share profits?

Also, your gaming dev credits are awesome. Put those further up front. Make that much more bold. I see that people will get to work with you, explain more about how great an experience that would be. Either way, love what you're doing, more power to you for putting yourself out there. It's difficult, but worth it!
On the other hand, if a dev is that unfamiliar with jQuery code, they shouldn't maintaining jQuery code.

Using $(function(){}); serves as a nice warning to this effect.
Good news for AMD and ARM that Intel is getting diluted with irrelevant stuff!
Previous submissions on the same subject:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1617639 <- identical

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1614085 <- identical, with comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1611663 <- different

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1610900 <- very different
Our workflow goes through gerrit. It's simple and I really like it that way.

I don't know that this could be added to it and not make it entirely more complicated.
Yes, and I don't think it's easy for women to have children at 60 or 10, however it's still possible. Biologically it's probably optimal to have children in the 16 - 22, socially 25 - 35 is probably ideal. However, I was simply pointing out that the limits of biology are well outside the shift in optimal range we are talking about.
Finally, a link I can send to all the people who ask me why I paid the same price for "Heavy Rain" that I would pay for a game like "Dragon Age: Origins".
PaintbrushJS - A lightweight browser-based image processing library