skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, further research and messing around: It looks like multiple-language highlighting (a single document with HTML, PHP, and CSS) is not really available.

I looked in the forum to try and see if I could figure out how to maybe add it myself - but I see a whole lot of posts looking for help with no answers - and I didn't find anything that helps me figure out how to get started maybe adding this functionality.

I poked around in the various files included with the program, and I don't see where the definitions are... Meh.

It's a pity - this looks fantastic, but it won't work for me.
He goes into the research a bit more in the Google talk and you see where he pulls the magic "15% improvement" from. Also he has a book (which I haven't read) called Traffic so he might explain it more or cite studies there.

I agree though that it doesn't really work in all situations. Tom uses the example of two lanes merging into one for roadworks. Maybe some situations where it doesn't work are an example of poor road design by traffic engineers?
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I hope that when he posts a picture of a sandwich he posts an update to Twitter, Facebook, etc, and I hope he posts updates to these services in a selective manner.

I like being able to follow people on Twitter because it gives me a convenient way to see snippets of info about what's going on in their lives. I think he should continue to provide that for the the people that want it, even if the hub of the information is once again his blog.
I agree in the situation where all other drives on the road are equally intelligent and paying attention when they drive.

Sadly, in the area I drive in, many drivers are constantly paying more attention to their phone than the road. Those drivers cause all of the traffic problems I see. They likely contribute to many of the accidents as well. They will end up leaving huge gaps in front of them at the expense of traffic behind them even when traffic ahead of them is moving smoothly and quickly.

The cost of letting cell phone drivers in front of you can be many minutes to your commute per each driver. Add a few minutes for each traffic light or merge lane that you will spend behind the inattentive drivers.

In a 5 mile commute, following the flow of inattentive drivers can add 45 minutes to my drive. Attentive driving and following the flow of other "aggressive" drivers can make it a 10 minute drive total.

So what I have actually found helps, in a real world scenario, not a fictional one where all drivers are equal, is trying to identify and cooperate with other "aggressive" drivers helps the group of aggressive drivers get through traffic efficiently and gives the cell-phone drivers plenty of time to concentrate on their conversations.
> =) <3 :D =p

Working order? Your breasts are sagging, you're wearing a diaper and standing in a bedpan, but I think the most disturbing thing is that you have two navels :/
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I would love seeing fewer drivers in cars already reading on their way to work. Educating human drivers may be just as good as replacing them.
It definitely took me a while after moving away from Dallas to change some of my driving habits.

I still definitely change lanes more than most drivers around here - although I do my best not to cut anyone off, and I actually let drivers in here... something definitely not done often in Dallas.

It also helps that I went from a 90 minute commute (each way) to usually a 10-15 minute commute here (depending on where I've worked). Smaller towns do have some benefits...
This is the main reason I always hear that people are 'forced' to stay on FB, even if they don't like it: so they can still get invited to parties.
I was toying with an idea very similar to this. If you are looking for some ideas or a partner let me know.
I understand, I've read various texts of Eastern philosophy and I enjoy the benefits of being able to let go at times, but I was really hoping for a different argument than this one and the similar one given by Ardit.

I can imagine a world without pain, and a world without death (at least a world where people live a lot longer than 75 years, I won't argue for some physics that lets us live forever), and if I were a member of that world instead of this one, nothing you two have said would convince me to say "Yeah, pain and death are great, I want some of that. I need some of that!" Similar arguments have also been made for trying Meth and the like, that you just have to experience it! No thanks. I also don't buy the whole "You need pain to experience happiness", but I haven't formulated an eloquent knockdown argument against that yet. While it's true pain and pleasure are related through endorphins, my idea of happiness isn't constant orgasm. I've wondered if these arguments for pain could simply be using an overly broad definition of pain that includes any struggle or conflict, any challenge or exercise... Being for death, especially if you're an atheist, is just ludicrous.

Anyway, I can also imagine being very not-bored in such a different world that knows no pain nor death for very many years, longer than any lifetime any human has yet had. I can imagine that in that world where life is valued oh-so-high, that people are constantly at work to increase it, to let people live even just one more day. I can imagine learning for the sake of learning and creating for the sake of creating, I can imagine doing those things for other ends as well, some selfish, some not.

The brain pattern making up "you" is fairly unique, and it's such a sad shame, a true shame, that so many patterns have already been annihilated even before a mere 75 years have passed. There may be nothing out there that says your matter's state is worth preserving, but there is definitely something in here. In human brains. Unfortunately our brains were built by the ancestral environment, not by any benevolent being, and thus we have certain problems such as this contradiction of sometimes believing death and pain are things acceptable, even good, yet nonetheless having a very strong aversion to death and pain. I think the aversion is the saner part of our minds.
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Sounds great! Good luck, guys!
I don't think it's because people in big orgs are not open to change.

I believe that big companies would love to be able to change but they're hampered by their own layers of processes and procedures (created to protect the existing/old ways of doing things).

I think Netflix's slide deck on culture explains why this happens quite succinctly. http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664 (see slides 40-51)
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I can understand where they are coming from, but the problem with speed has never convinced me too much to be honest.

Don't get me wrong: I believe Ruby has still a lot of room for optimisations, and it's nice to see developers putting effort to push it a bit on that front.

But eventually you'll always be able to complain that Ruby is not blazing fast. If you do need that so much, maybe a different language would be better: Scala maybe, or C/C++ or Java. (can't speak for Clojure and the others).

A good programmer needs a good set of tools. Matz (Ruby's creator) tried to make Ruby as nice to code in as possible, and personally it's great for that. I keep going back to Ruby whenever I need to write glue code for my main number crunching stuff (which is in Fortran normally).

I think that's Ruby's niche to be honest. RoR was a fortuitous event, but if the Ruby community would one day put speed before convenience, that will be the day Ruby's raison d'etre would be lost. As for the RoR community I think RoR open the eyes to a lot of people, but if you are a web programmer, and you need speed so badly, there's now (or so I hear) similar frameworks on other systems. Why not use Lift (for Scala) for example?
The university I work at just reorganized the administrative structure to put institutional research at it's core. Involved in that mission is data mining, statistics and assessment efforts. We (the IR folk) have been pushing data for years and it's just recently been grabbing the proper attention at the decision making/VP/COO administrator level.

I perceive the ability to perform predictive modeling on large data sets being increasingly valuable. E.G., A basic example would be to score how likely a particular student from a set of 4000 high school seniors in a county will be to enroll at one university and achieve a degree.

If you agree: learn R, SAS, SPSS and SQL.
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My comment was in response to _harry and was asking how you do that with "list" on Facebook. My comment had nothing to do with how your system works. Just clarifying
When combined with Places, Pages becomes a significantly more compelling platform. For business owners it becomes a more vibrant and useful set of data. For consumers, it becomes more real time and as a result more social. For developers, it becomes a more interesting data set to build upon. This excerpt from GigaOM (http://gigaom.com/2010/08/20/facebook-places-the-real-target...) was telling:

We’re hearing that Facebook is pouring resources into pitching the Places feature as a tool for local businesses in dozens of markets, by approaching individual store-owners and business people and selling them on the idea of setting up a Places page for their location. According to Facebook’s description of the new feature, anyone can create a page for a place, but businesses can claim their page — by responding to a phone call from a Facebook representative, or by uploading some kind of official documentation that proves they have the right to that location.
MySpace band pages were the rage a few years ago. Times change. The MySpace pages at least provided value for both sides--you could hear the music and the bands could let you know about shows. Most business pages I've seen on Facebook are one sided in that the fan gets nothing out of it other than letting all their friends know what corporation they are a "fan" of.
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Ask HN: Do you think failing in business can be a good experience?
Its a serious questions, I have found through my own experiences that failing actually is good, since it gives you a lot more knowledge/experience for your next business/startup.

What's your opinion?
That's a really clever thing, to take an existing and very catchy acronym, then to tack on a new meaning. There has to be a better use for that trick!

If you could somehow get rid of the feeling of 'I've been tricked' after landing on the page it might even go somewhere. The bounce rate of that page must be a record.
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20 years after they were a startup, they made $400M in profit on revenue of $3.2B last year. I'm not saying those are sexy numnbers, but they're not exactly shabby, either.
Hey, I would come to this.
Ask HN: When moving to a new city how do you make friends?
If you move to a new place where you don't know anyone how do you go about finding and developing new friends? How did you go about having them accept you into their existing social circle?
I think if you could get a good ratio of guys to girls, the yes. It's a very interesting concept and I think Chatroullette only scratched the surface. I will say one thing though, I have never used Chat roullette or any other service because I find talking to someone live to be somewhat stressful. Can you record videos that are not live and watch videos that are prerecorded? I thought I saw that you could, but it wouldn't let me watch any videos til I created one myself.
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Is that in Safari?

I'm running it in chrome (on windows) on a not-great machine and it's taking 23-25% of one of the two cores.
He also has a lot of APPL stock
I actually think Facebook has a decent grip of this spam problem. Your news feed doesn't show you all the events that happen, only a limited set. They figure out which people you interact with more, which updates get more attention, etc and only show you the ones that they think matters to you.

Their goal is to capture as much data as possible (updates, likes, places, pages) and to find the connections between things. With enough data and number crunching, they can figure out if you're interested in xbox or Mafia Wars updates or now and adjust accordingly.
For status updates, to the left of the share button there's a dropdown menu where you can customize who can see it.

If you're trying to write on someone else's wall, but only want certain people to view it, you're better off sending a message instead. You can send a message to a list by just typing in the name of the list in the 'to' field.

You can customize who can see any album in the edit album info tab, and selecting the privacy dropdown and clicking customize.
Boxee does a good job with that. They've got apps with mostly map back to a particular website they're getting their streaming video from, but for TV shows and TV show like content, all the titles show up in a list of all TV shows. You can search and sort the list, or you can mark a particular series to be part of your "queue". Then new episodes of that series will always automatically appear in your "queue".
Except that by doing this you can (in theory) make traffic actually move faster, so there will ultimately be less passing.
Some people might (like me) want to find out more of what this thing is... A warning about the camera and mic might fend some people off.

Just a thought.
Sparing that, why not use fseek() and do a binary search to get to where you wanted to go? Even better, save the prior offset somewhere and jump there immediately on T+1?
Dubai City Tour 
Dubai is a bustling city with an individual charm of its own. A century ago, it was a tranquil town whose gypsum huts housed Bedouin traders and pearl divers. Dubai’s evolution has been dramatic, today the merchants have gone international and the extensive skyscrapers stand beside the mosques and wind towers of Old Dubai.<p>Our tour takes you to the mystical past from the glorious present. This route starts with a stop at the magnificent Jumeirah Mosque. We then go to the famous palm Jumeirah the trip continues to the Sheikh-Zayed road where we watch the sparkling science-fiction skyscrapers standing alongside the Dubai World Trade Center. En route we pass by the majestic Sheikh Palace followed by a short break by the creek.survived over the centuries and a brief stop in Deira. The journey then continues towards the Bastakiyah area in Bur Dubai.<p>A ride by the authentic abra-local water taxi- that has survived over the centuries will be offered. where we stop for a while to admire the old wind-tower houses built by wealthy merchants. Close by, stands the ancient Al Fahidi Fort,now housing the Dubai Museum .
In the real world, where I have tried this, this doesn't turn out to be a real problem. It happens a little (not as much as you'd think, since traffic is jammed to the left and right of you) but by and large I'm consistently able to keep several car lengths open in front of me, even as people merge in from adjacent lanes.
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Would this be able to rival the picture quality of HD satellite tv etc?

I'd also be concerned that (in the UK at least) far too many people haven't got a decent enough broadband connection to support this kind of streaming. If the uptake is big then it'll hammer the networks, surely. Try downloading something at 6pm on a weekday using one of the big ISPs. Imagine half the country streaming HD video at once.
Trying to drive competitively in a traffic jam is always unsafe. Actually, at least around Seattle I haven't noticed traffic "constantly" going around me as I do this. By making it easier for people to merge into the lane in front of me I'm actually making it a lot safer for them.
Cool podcast. I'm liking this trend of publishing content aimed a non-newbie programmers.

This is going into my RSS feeds.
for an excellent example of a trie implementation, the haskell bytestring trie datastructure is really nice to look at. Its docs can be found at http://hackage.haskell.org/package/bytestring-trie and the very readable sourcecode at http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/bytestring-trie/...

edit: note that its not strictly a trie, but can be used as one, in general its more like it does a trie-like key value lookup.

edit: it is also worth noting that its pretty fast, counting reading data in from the file system and other overhead, loading 1.5 million key - value pairs of realworld production data into the trie, and then making my first query, in under 30 seconds. And thats without even doing the sort of preprocessing that can make it much much faster! (namely, lexigraphically sorting the strings I'm using as keys before doing the k-v insertions)
Chernobyl Study Explores Adaptability in DNA
On one hand, you do need to remember that Godin is not your average writer. He already has a huge following, a very popular blog, and he specializes in creating buzz.

Having said that, this is great news and I suspect (like in music) we will see more authors cut out the (middle man) publishers.
I don't think you should optimize for space or speed at each others expense without figuring out if the trade-off is worth it.

Space and speed will always be conflicting goals during optimizations (unless you're very lucky), and for practical use the sweet spot is usually somewhere in between the two extremes.

To blindly optimize for speed will result in very wasteful behaviour when it comes to memory usage, to blindly optimize for space will result in terrible performance.

Smart software realizes when the space is available and free for the taking and will use it to find an increase in speed, it will also realize when space is at a premium and economize on it's usage.

On another note, accessing all that memory costs cycles and is almost certainly going to trash your cache, chances are that if you manage to reduce your memory footprint eventually you'll find that instead of losing speed you're gaining speed.

Open Office started up with a blank word processor document uses 83 Megs of RAM, something tells me that could be a whole lot less without sacrificing functionality or speed.
That's not what I thought upon my first 10 seconds on the site. Don't make an assumption about user behavior and leave it untested.
How about forcing you to interact with the ad before you are allowed to move on to the show?
That's how I read it at first too. I think it's partly the result of a gramatical ambiguity:

"(a central computer system used to monitor technical problems) in the aircraft was infected with malware"

vs.

"a central computer system used to monitor (technical problems in the aircraft) was infected with malware"
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What a gorgeous way to put a book on the web!
my apologies for that to you, sir.
Really nice app for OS X: http://pomodoro.ugolandini.com/
This is interesting. I wonder if you could use the a similar algorithm for mapping sentences. That is, construct a ternary DAG and keep inserting words (rather than letters) into the trie.
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> One counter-example I can think of is that of Judy trees - http://judy.sourceforge.net/ which uses more instructions to try to keep the data in cache for as long as possible.

It's not a counter-example. The cost of running a program includes the cost to access memory as well as the cost of executing instructions. It also includes the cost to access disk/flash.
I agree with respect to the proposed stodgy environment, but I find it strange to suggest that lurkers are, a priori, somehow less loyal than chatterboxes. To me loyalty and a willingness to post are orthogonal to each other, for the most loyal reader I can imagine is someone who comes every day to check for something new and expects nothing out of the exchange beyond what they read, and one can also easily imagine drive-by commenters who never return again, or - worse still - those who persist and actively drag down the forums in myriad ways.

I wonder what it is about the web that makes people forget and/or denigrate the silent majority. It seems to be something unique about the web, mind you, because no one would imagine that the handful of cranks who write weekly letters to a newspaper's editor are, ipso facto, its longest-running subscribers - except, perhaps, the cranks themselves. Maybe I've just answered my own question there.
S&P 500 today is not made up of the same companies as back in 1971. The 6% annual growth excludes any companies didn't do well and were delisted or got wiped out (100% loss of investment).
Got any other recommendations?
Hmmm... I have an HTC Desire and it doesnt seem crippled or bloated with money greedy apps.
We have seen this at KU - but now it's changing due to receding budgets. The culture has moved away from creating some project and sorta 'guessing' that they work using anecdotal evidence and student surveys since there simply isn't the money to keep continuing on the programs. As an entire organization, we've had to focus our efforts on proving that spending money in such a way is worth it in the long run.

The Institutional Research department(s) here have a long standing track record of trust because they work so closely with the faculty, I'm not sure that the same environment exists in the private sector. In fact, I could be pressed to say - if the trust between Faculty and the IR statistician/data miners didn't previously exist that we would be focusing elsewhere.
Out of curiosity, how do you manage to make an IDE, Open Office and a browser eat through 12 gigs of RAM?
This discussion is even more interesting in the context of natural sciences, since no scientific law is ever proven. What were the odds, in 1850, that Newton's laws would be "disproved"?

From Jaynes' The Logic of Science

It depends entirely on this: Against which specific alternatives are we testing Newton's theory?

For example, if you ask a scientist, "How well did the Zilch experiment support the Wilson theory?" you may get an answer like this: "Well, if you had asked me last week I would have said that it supports the Wilson theory very handsomely; Zilch's experimental points lie much closer to
Wilson's predictions than to Watson's. But just yesterday I learned that this fellow Wolfson has a new theory based on more plausible assumptions, and his curve goes right through the experimental points. So now I'm afraid I have to say that the Zilch experiment pretty well demolishes the Wilson theory."

I think that the first ~6 chapters of the book should be required reading for anyone in the natural sciences. An early drafts can be found here: http://www-biba.inrialpes.fr/Jaynes/prob.html
Why managers should act like venture capitalists
SETI 'should look for artificial intelligence'
I've been thinking about needing a late-night, hacker space in Brooklyn for a couple years now -- any HNers in Brooklyn interested in setting something up?

EDIT: If there is interest, we can organize off HN at http://www.meetup.com/Nightowls/21183/
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Hey, my Google Alerts just picked this up. I know it's three days late, I just wanted to say thanks for mentioning Hackety. :) It's much appreciated.
I married my co-founder. Five years later, when we were both working at GE Capital, we started a side business that grew rapidly. Having my wife as a co-founder was the best of all worlds...I wanted to not only share my life with her, but all the minor and major ups and downs of the startup too.

(Now that we're preparing for our 3rd child -- due in 2months -- I'm not sure which has more ups and downs, kids or the startup!)