skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title was so large I initially thought the article was only two lines long.
Speaking as a guy who writes in assembly too, I'm not sure that much can be gained by BM at least on modern out-of-order processors. The cost of comparing every byte is low, and to skip a few bytes can cost more in additional instructions which can slow the pipeline than it would be by just searching through every byte for the first one. Other speedups (mmap) sound reasonable.
Enthusiasts in Denmark to launch manned spacecraft with private funding
For my daughter, I spend about $100/mo on extracurricular activites, $25/mo (averaged over the year) on clothes, $50 once a year on school supplies, a $100 bike will last her for a couple years.

Yeah, how do those plebes manage to raise kids with their pathetic 5-figure salaries...
And more likely, in a close election the election can be stolen by a minimal change, which will probably go undetected.
Estee Lauder cites social media as a risk in their 10-K filing.
Fraudsters Drain PayPal Accounts Through iTunes
See also:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1626177

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1624552
Ah, precisely, the lab is not the human body. The fact that you can kill HIV with X in the lab is meaningless. Bleach does a quite adequate job of that. However, we care about in vivo efficacy, and that's qualitatively a different problem. For every thousand drugs that seem promising in isolation in a petri dish (e.g. killing cancer cells and not damaging human tissue) perhaps only a handful make it to human trials, and then not all of those prove effective (or completely safe).

If every new substance that killed HIV or cancer in the lab made the news then you would not have time to read about anything else, there are more than you could imagine. Substances at the "kills X in the lab" stage are generally only of concern to researchers, because the chances that they'll turn into a "cure" are extremely low.

Buying a lottery ticket isn't news. Winning the lottery is. This sort of thing is the former, not the latter.
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IBM makes world map 1000 times smaller than grain of sand
I'm sure the vast majority of the readers of this article have also not heard of a $10K, $100K or $700K microscope either which is why it's incongruous to have the price in the first sentence of the article without any context.

Here are many other microscopes the prices of which you may not have heard. Is it enlightening?

http://www.technicalsalessolutions.com/
Ask HN: Best Mattress?
I just graduated from college, and I know its important to get the right mattress, office chair and shoes. For the mattress, I'm looking to spend ~ $500. What are some good ones around that price?
CS Theory Stack Exchange now open to the public
http://roughly.beasts.org/ gives you another chance to check your calibration. Answer 30 questions from random general knowledge, estimating both the answer and your range of uncertainty. However, it gives you one score which is some kind of combination of your accuracy of estimation and of calibration; you'll have to separate those factors yourself from the full results.
Why hedge funds are less risky than banks
"Google should see Rapportive as a signal that something is missing in Gmail. Either they should provide more relevant ads, or they should copy (or buy) Rapportive."

That's ridiculous. How many people are using Rapportive? 0.00000001% of GMail users maybe?

Do you know how much cash those ads generate for Google? Nope. Didn't think so.
Show HN: prldr.com, preloading the internet, my weekend project.
Pecuniary externalities
You're right, though the result, as compared to others, looks the same. Apple releases what they announce. Not everyone does, as anyone who keeps an eye on the e-reader or tablet markets will be sadly aware.
And you made the front page, I think you nailed it :)
The last chance to avoid a global trade war
Koduco (YC S10) Is Bringing Old-School Fun To Multiplayer iPad Games
prldr.com let's you create lists of links and preloads those lists for you.

It's got a very basic API, so you can use it to create and update your own lists.

I can think of multiple use cases for it. For example: load your twitter feed, scrape the links and display them, load all your rss feeds and display them, open up all links off a frontpage, to preload them.

What do you think? What kind of things must I add to make it useful for you? You might just not like it, because of the iframe technique used, just ignore it then, it really is a very hackerish tool and not meant to be more than that.

It currently works best in Chrome/Safari.
Why you should be doing Product Discovery
The Mystery of the Tainted Cocaine by Brendan Kiley
I've tried this in Phoenix with some success. You do get people passing you, but this helps traffic on average. We also have lights at the freeway on ramps which smooth oncoming traffic, but people ignore them until a line forms. I almost got rear-ended once because someone intended to ignore it and I chose to obey it.

If you do this when traffic is not quite jammed, people are far more upset. It's best used when traffic is being forced to actually stop regularly. You will still get people to honk at you and whatnot, especially once a person or two passes you, but I've long since given up expecting most people to understand the things I do.
$3,000 USD per year for a kid? That seems low. I think the private middle school by my house costs something like $12K a year.
Using "obsessive co-founder" instead would have probably been fine. Still, you meant no harm. :)

If it's any consolation, I like the final iteration the most.
"WebMynd (also YC, incidentally) replaced Google.com adverts with content and Google never minded"

I expect Google never minded, since WebMynd never got enough installs to bother with. I expect Rapportive to be similar.
We're trying to make something people want. The traction we've achieved suggests that a lot of people do want more context and social information in their inbox. It also suggests that a lot of people don't want the ads Gmail serves.

If it becomes an issue, we'll probably add an option to get Rapportive to coexist with the ads rather than replacing them. Some people might even use it: we've had a couple of requests from people who want to monitor the Gmail ads they've purchased, or who use the ads as a way of keeping an eye on their competitors' marketing activities.

We are making Gmail more useful, and we think that's beneficial for Google.

The revenue from the ads is certainly not the only benefit Google derives from Gmail: others include paid inbox upgrades, driving adoption of Google Apps, and the world's biggest corpus for spam filtering. We're not depriving them of any of those benefits; if we can increase adoption or engagement with Gmail, then we actually reinforce them. We've even heard of people switching to Gmail because they want the Rapportive sidebar.

The ethics of hiding the Gmail ads rather depend on the facts of Google's business strategy, and those facts are probably not available to anyone commenting here. You assert that "the whole principle of gmail being free is that it is ad supported" - that's not a fact, it's just one of the possible strategies Google might be taking. Here's a fact: the most popular entry by far in the Google Chrome Extensions gallery - with 1.3 million installs, and 126k more each week - is AdBlock [1], which hides the Gmail ads. Google could trivially ban it from the gallery, but it's still there.

We don't have any ethical problems with what we're doing, but we understand if you feel software that blocks the ads is wrong, and if so you shouldn't install Rapportive until we solve that. In the meantime, don't forget to keep clicking on those ads ;)

[1] https://chrome.google.com/extensions/list/popular?hl=en

Update: added link to list of most popular Chrome extensions

Update 2: fix typo, add emphasis.
Have you come across Skyscanner (www.skyscanner.net)? I'm an engineer there, so am a little biased - but this is exactly the type of question we try to solve. Would be interested to hear if you have any feedback/queries!

i.e. http://www.skyscanner.net/flights-from/ams/1011/1011
Didn't vi come out in '76?
Right -- it's sort of a way for sales & marketing departments at service providers to force operations to improve uptime.
Algorithms from the Book
"But in this situation "scala" and "Scala" definitely should score similarly."

Not necessarily. I don't think it's a stretch to assume that those who capitalise Scala might be somewhat more geeky?
You need to add qualifiers to the discovery process, pick concepts that you can execute quickly and easily. As AmberShah suggests, start with the 'The four steps to Epiphany' this will help you frame the process.

Don't write a single line of code till you have crunched through the viability of the idea for making a return on both financial and personal (happiness) fronts.

Don't get attached to ideas, if you can't execute them with the resources you have move on.

Think lean in everything you do, remember walls are there for smashing through
Why should there be grant money set aside to cover peer review? Just ask yourself honestly and try to be unbiased, is that not a very selfish proposition?

This is only one article, amongst thousands of which we do not care of. We do not care of them because they have nothing to do with the field we have chosen to focus on, be that computer science, medicine, history, physics, law, or artificial intelligence. I would rather the money goes into research, than to provide some randomer with the pleasure of reading something they hardly can understand anyway.

I did not read the peer reviewed journal, I do not care to read it, I know little about medicine besides what I was taught in school. The terminology used is different, one word contains entire concepts, there is an entirely different way of thinking in that field, and frankly, it adds no value to me personally. If it did and I could afford it, I would buy it. £30 is what one spends on a Saturday night!

Now if we wished to live in a paranoid world where we do not trust the experts in their field and wish to validate everything our self, then that is a personal choice of perspective.

One can well choose to spend his entire life to learn of every field in this earth. Most people, if not the vast majority of people, if not 99% of people, sooner or later, focus on one field, and perhaps focus further on that field, especially if such field is medicine, or computer science, or law. That is how we work, that is the best system we have found of operating.

I personally do not see anything wrong with the way the system currently works, not wrong in such a way as to justify throwing it out entirely. If you are a doctor, you subscribe, if you are not, then buy the one article you want to read, if you do not want to buy it, then you do not need it.
If you really want to free research you should do this:

Investigate whether there is an inverse correlation between the freeness of the journal a paper is published in and its popularity (number of citations?). You should control for the reputation of the journal since that could throw off the results.

If you find such a correlation and get it publicized, perhaps that would encourage more researchers to submit to free journals.
I'm sorry, but there is no excuse whatsoever for that old bloated system for distribution to continue to exist. Sure, editors have value, sure, peer review should be rewarded. But trying to create artificial scarcity by bringing an outdated distribution model to the online world doesn't make sense. Any pdf is just a few hops away on most social networks anyway, so it's not like their paywalls are stopping anyone.
Wikipedia Age Challenges Scholars’ Sacred Peer Review
The Internet’s Best Shopping Experience - Gilt
I am sorry, perhaps you are allergic to monkeys, but I did mention them, and I did mention that bleach was not tried on monkeys and succeeded. Monkeys that is, not labs.
PacketShader: A GPU-accelerated 40 Gbps Software Router
"It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that these games are perfect for breaking the ice when you’re meeting someone for the first time, or to flirt with the cute girl who sits next to you in history class."

Is this how people break the ice and flirt these days, or am I now entering the stages of being an old-timer (23yrs. old)?
I assume that whoever voted this down didn't like the idea of someone profiting from this.

My thoughts were different: if a private reserve was made, there would be a supply for important uses like liquid helium superconductors, rather than party balloons.

Ostensibly, that's what the US reserve was for, but I guess we're selling it off for $1.50/m^3.
Product of the Trimester for me. I think the nicest feature, besides the speed (Yes I consider speed a feature), is the ability to preview the result on a panel. I love it when a company attacks one specific problem and does a great job at fixing it.
I was a PM for a couple years at an established startup.

The core of the PM job in a company with direct sales is:

* Talking to customers

* Translating customer-ese into MRD-ese

* Negotiating with developers to translate the MRD into (a) a release schedule and (b) a product roadmap, both of which are commitments you'll be giving customers

* Being able to make a pretty roadmap slide deck and present it to (a) internal management and (b) customers

* Translating slide-deck-ese to marketing-ese (notably, being able to write any concept from use-case through engineering decision to value proposition in terms of "feature/function/benefit") so that marcom can commission sales collateral

* Working with sales to figure out what collateral is actually needed, and helping arrange for it to be created

* Tag-teaming on sales calls, both as a way to (a) talk to customers (see above) and (b) help account managers out

* Coordinating product packaging and pricing (note careful choice of words; product pricing is the deadly radioactive core of the startup money generator and is unlikely to be trusted wholesale to a front-line PM)

I list these not because I can hope to help you do the job better or to explain how to do these things, but instead because your interviewing strategy is very straightforward: take each of these tasks and devise 2-3 questions for your interviewer for each of them. You now have a small arsenal of questions; use them to keep control of the interview, while seeming extremely engaged with the job of product management. The answers to some of these questions may also clue you in to what your prospective employer is looking for in a PM.

Good "starter" questions (have 2 more detailed questions as backup) include things like:

"What's the process by which feature requests are qualified and then transformed into committed dates for customers?"

"Do you have a beta program? If so, how does it work, and what's the primary value to the company --- is it a prospecting tool, what percentage of your features and change requests originate in beta, and how do you qualify participants?"

"What's your most effective piece of sales collateral, and who wrote it, product management, marketing/communications, or an outside contractor?"

You get the idea.
"...secure funding from both Y Combinator and a group of angles including Ron Conway."

Angles. Angles including Ron Conway.
Most of today's middle class is descended from the kings and nobility of the high middle ages. The peasantry just mostly died out, leaving no descendants.

Source?
" why do you believe that decreasing CPI-adjusted incomes are worth worrying about?"

I've said it at least three times already. Because it is highly probable that energy prices are going to increase significantly.

Btw, how do you measure quality of life. I always find it funny when people throw around that term relating to economics.
Apparently air works pretty well, too. http://www.sfaf.org/aids101/transmission.html
I really like how he is using his skills to research and try to better one of the strongest GNU tools...this guy is smart, quirky and full of balls.

Next stop awk!
As a Product manager, I like what Gmail's Todd Jackson said at SXSW about PM's: "You can either be a shit funnel or a shit umbrella..."
Any tips on finding a reliable, inexpensive car?
I don't recall what article about startup valuations it was, but it was posted here a few months ago, and one of the pieces of advice was: when valuing a fresh, new startup(< 10 employees), deduct -$200,000 for every product/project manager on the payroll who doesn't also hack code.
> We're trying to make something people want

That's not some kind of magic incantation that gives you the right to do as you please though.

> If it becomes an issue, we'll probably add an option to get Rapportive to coexist with the ads rather than replacing them.

Shouldn't that have been the default?

> Here's a fact: the most popular entry by far in the Google Chrome Extensions gallery - with 1.3 million installs, and 126k more each week - is AdBlock, which hides the Gmail ads.

Adblock does not target a specific site, it hides all the ads.

I'm afraid you're setting precedent here, that by doing this you are opening the doors to it being 'ok' to modifying content in-flight in ways that the creator of that content does not sanction and does not condone, directly targeting the bottom line of one specific site.

I'm sure you're doing it out of a good motivation but I simply can't find myself agreeing with this strategy, especially not when you admit that you have alternatives.

> We don't have any ethical problems with what we're doing,

Apparently :)

> but we understand if you feel software that blocks the ads is wrong

I'm fine with ad blocking in the general case, just can't see why you wouldn't have any ethical issues with this.

Anyway, enough said, I do hope you succeed and I do hope that at some point you might come to see things my way.

If someone pulled a 'rapportive' on you I'd be on your side just as strongly.
Your trying to make the population density a constant, my point is that it isn't a constant, but will likely increase going forward.
Yet another impressively constructed computer case.
So if Steve Jobs started a new company with no employees, you'd valuate it -$200,000?
WikiLeaks founder: Did the C.I.A. spread rumors he's a rapist?
You assume my money isn't where my mouth is because yours isn't. Your just insulting me because you don't have a counter argument. It's a shame that so many on this site are so young or poorly educated that they are voting up your name calling and voting down my argument.

I made a killing knowing the housing market was going to be in a bubble. Ni figured this out around 2001 so I got to work both sides-- the run pup and the fall. I make a handsome income betting on economic ignorance in the us, and so I should thank you for taking the other side of some very profitable trades.

I do so well that I don't have to work for others and can fund my own startup ideas at funding levels equivalent to small VC deals or large angel deals.

The reality is, civilizations and economists have figured out the science I am attempting to educate you on. Keynesianism is relatively new, which apparently is news to you.

The problem you have us that you reject the science of economics because it doesn't agree with your socialist religion. You probably don't even think of yourself as a socialist.

Ultimately your ignorance and resorting to personal attack instead of argument, and the ditto head voting in this thread prove my thesis.
Ask HN: Review my Webapp- HN/Reddit-style news with Real Names - Lonava.com
The trend of a community to become popular, and then become overrun with uncaring jerks seems inevitable.

There have been floods of people who have migrated from Digg->Reddit->HN, and even now find HN a bit more ascerbic than they'd like.

Over the last few weeks, I've put together a project to try to address this. My hypothesis is that people are less likely to be asses to one another if everyone uses real names. Using your real name a) reminds you that the person on the other side is flesh and blood, with feelings just like you, and b) makes your comments part of your googlable record.

Over the last few weekends I put together a webapp- Lonava.com

The site is a Reddit/HN/Digg like social discussion site- People can create channels (SubReddits) and post news stories. It's also importing stories from around the web, and you can paste an RSS feed and have it start pulling stories from any site you want. This gives a "default" place for certain stories, so if you want to see XKCD, you can subscribe to the XKCD chan, and not need to post every one of them manually.

It's a little rough, since I'm kinda of a crappy programmer, but I think it could be a fun site.

It's normally $5 to verify an account, since it costs me about $2.50 after the Credit Card and ID charges, but I've cut it to $1 for today.
I wanted to cut it to 5 cents, but when I tried that, banks were denying the charge, thinking it was fraudulent. If the $1 is a problem for anyone, Email support@lonava.com and I'll refund it for you.

My hopes that I could convince some HN'ers to sign up, verify, and let me know how to improve the site. I'm OK losing money for verification and CCN processing in exchange for getting some feedback.

I hope to advertise on Reddit Self Serve in the next week or two, but I want to find the rough spots first.

What should I improve? What should I change?
Am I doing too much with RSS import, and losing the soul of the site in the process?

Hacker News, How can I do better?

I don't expect to make any money with the site; It's a side project, but I'd like to make something people find useful.
Clickable version- http://Lonava.com
Depends on the person, I guess. When I mentioned to the Koduco guys that this seemed like it would be a pretty fun game to flirt/play with a date, they agreed.
I imagine that "Hey, want to play PongVaders?" will be quite irresistible.
Actually it is relevant because it is the rejection of the science if economics that kids to the inability to forecast. The housing bubble, for instance was easy to see coming....if you understand economics.
Heard near a Berkeley restroom:

"So, are you inferring the same grasp point as I am?"
Apparently:

> I think the 'pain' comes when there are issues with the c
> library that lxml binds to.

Scores 80.99/100

I think that the algorithm needs more work....

Also:

> I count 8:
> Avatar (2009) - Yep
> Titanic (1997) - Yep
> The Dark Knight (2008) - Yep
> Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) - Yep
> Shrek 2 (2004) - Nope
> E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) - Nope
> Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) - Yep
> Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) - Yep
> Spider-Man (2002) - Yep
> Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) - Yep

Scored 74.45/100
Garden Gnomes Sorting Flower Pots
Speaking as both a reviewer and victim of peer review, having only 3-4 reviews for a paper seems to introduce a significant element of luck, so getting more reviews sounds like a good idea. Also, making submissions public can help locate reviewers with very specific expertise (although those people are often competitors).
There are only seven microscopes there which are more expensive.

This is journalism of course, but there is no need to discredit everything simply because you can word it in such a way as to make it sound stupid.

Personally, once the sum for the microscope was mentioned I was able to judge that the research is quite serious, has the latest technology and advantages of the latest technology and thus give me more confidence in their findings. Is it such a bad thing to use facts to make a story credible?
It's a neat tool, but I don't know how often I'd use it. Pre-loading the info is neat for twitter, but the additional second or two it takes to copy/paste the info into your app seems like it'd be longer than just waiting for all the pages to load.

Middle-clicking and background opening them in new-tabs is easy enough for me.